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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.
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Whose Gang Is Bigger? Trump's Show of Force in American Cities
When federal troops march through DC streets and America struggles with its identity, who really holds the power? In this raw, thought-provoking episode, we dive deep into what "My gang is bigger than your gang" really means in American politics.
We examine the stark reality of crime in Washington DC, concentrated in just 10 square miles with one of the highest murder rates in the country. As Trump deploys federal forces to tackle this crisis, we ask the uncomfortable question: Is this authoritarian overreach or necessary intervention when local governments fail?
A brilliant breakdown from comedian Ronnie Chung helps us understand the true roots of the MAGA movement. He articulates how the American dream betrayed a generation when promised outcomes of hard work and education failed to materialize, leaving people without the vocabulary to express their economic pain. This powerful insight helps explain why complex social and economic grievances often emerge as simplified political battle cries.
We uncover the disturbing circular economy of government spending, where billions flow through NGOs and foreign aid programs only to potentially cycle back to political operators through complex mechanisms. This money trail might explain everything from campaign financing to why interest rates remain stubbornly high despite hurting average Americans.
Steve Bannon's assessment that Republicans have functioned as "controlled opposition" for decades frames Trump as a necessary "blunt force instrument" against a system resistant to meaningful change. Meanwhile, new evidence emerges about how officials like James Comey strategically leaked classified information to shape political narratives.
Whether you lean left or right, this episode challenges you to see beyond partisan divisions to recognize how financial and political systems extract value from working Americans while maintaining power structures. Join us for this unflinching look at who really controls America's future.
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Speaker 2:And when they went to the queen to tell her Ruth Bunchik had no bread, do you know what she said? Let them eat cake, let them eat cake we're getting screwed, man.
Speaker 4: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 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. Every day, it's a blessing. Yes, ron, you're getting pretty good at like just coming in here and getting it going. Man, I always thought I would be. I thought I'd be the one that walks in and the mic just starts talking. We have a good time here. Last night we had our big 17 1776. We had our trust creation class, which was really fun, and, uh, we had a good group there.
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Speaker 4:Someone had a uh comment. They're like building the airplane as we fly it. Then she's afterwards, she messaged me and she's like I see that sometimes on peasants perspective and I'm like, yeah, we're pretty much like, okay, we're plugging the computers in.
Speaker 6:We've got no wings yet, but we're taking off.
Speaker 4:Anyways, it's so fun. I was also telling someone yesterday. I was like, yeah, we got, we got money last month. It was like it's almost unbelievable. Like we, we didn't break even. I actually started doing the math on all the hosting stuff, but yeah, don't start that.
Speaker 6:We're getting close.
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Speaker 4:But oh yeah, now I can hear don't start that we're getting close, that I can see there's the delay which you know is expected. But uh, it kind of cracks me up a little bit because I'm like, well, that's why the comments take like three minutes to come, like, hey, somebody in the comments me and then it will come like five minutes later after I've looked it up. Yes, ponyboy, good morning peasants, weedem boys and good morning Farazier and Jonatakis. I know who that is. That's my papa. Okay, so in today's episode we are going to start out with a little piece I like to call my gang is bigger than your gang. Okay, this, this is uh. Yesterday in dc the boys rolled in troops are now moving down wilshire. They're headed towards central la right now you can see lots of reinforcements.
Speaker 4:I'm sorry. It's huge. It's huge bro Troops.
Speaker 6:This is very big. I don't know how big that is, but to him it's huge.
Speaker 4:Wow. Okay, so that was LA, but the same thing is going on in DC. Right, the troops are moving in okay so last night this, uh last night this was filmed by some dc residents isn't this just like a tuesday night?
Speaker 4:well, no, apparently this part of the neighborhood they don't come to. Oh, that's what the guys. That's what the guy is saying in here. This is the commentary on this. One is feds and unmarked cars are conducting stops along georgia avenue northwest tonight, which is farther north than I've seen them go in washington dc so far filmed as an anonymously submitted traffic stop in georgia, but just a random traffic stop. So this was the downtown dc area where there's like food and stuff like that. They're just out walking the streets. Apparently they've been doing this all over dc.
Speaker 6:They've just been the hell look at this guy.
Speaker 4:So when I was going back and forth to DC for trial, try to find some food, some sketchy parts around there and that's just a 10 square mile town, like so. A lot of times when we look at crime statistics and stuff like that, it's hard for us to understand All those crime statistics are not in like LA, where it's a small town, in Phoenix, where it's this huge house in the desert or a place in the desert, or even Utah, where it expands for miles and miles Salt Lake City does, right, no, dc, when you're talking crime stats, we're not talking Baltimore, we're not talking Arlington, you're talking about 10 square miles and you've got the highest murder rate almost in the world. If I'm not mistaken, it might be in the world in a 10 square mile area, right, and the population is only like 800000 people. It's an incredible amount of crime in a very small area. So, yeah, this, these guys just walk in the streets. You know people out just having their meals, and my gang's bigger than your gang. There's.
Speaker 4:There's a narrative that the mainstream media is starting to push about Trump being an authoritarian. Right, it was an authoritarian. He came in, he got rid of USA ID, he's firing people. He's an authoritarian. He's authoritarian. Now, for some of us, we're like serve your right, dum-dums, you know, like we want everybody fired, but for a lot of people, this is like traumatizing. This is scary, this is, this is. This is bad, and so, of course, you know, people like us, we want to look at it with clear eyes. Janine pierrot, judge janine pierrot, who's nowC attorney, she posted this little thing she said in the last 18 months these are all people under 18 who've been shot and killed in DC. Keep in mind 10 square mile area. I drove farther than 10 miles to get here today. Yeah, a lot farther. You did too. Ok, 10 square miles in the last 18 months. These are the people that have been killed. There's another page, yes, and, of course, what color are they? Well, all of them are black Jeez.
Speaker 4:So this DC crime thing, remember how I've mentioned. It's a segregated society. There's the. That's where the blacks live, this is where the whites live. These people all work on Capitol Hill or work for law firms or lobbyists. Those people are opening doors and swinging hammers and flipping burgers and valeting cars. You have the service industry, which is this entire community, and then you have the law community, government, community, and it's it's, you know, the white people that make a lot of money. They are like oh, we should have some DE dei policies and have some black people here. What can we hire them to do? Oh, we can hire them to be security, or we can hire them you know what I'm saying. So they get diversification by basically hiring down, and you know what?
Speaker 4:I'm saying yeah, and well, but that's the population that's there. I know dc had slaves right. Like you go, we go read history and it's like well up in that area, that's where all you know, it's like that's still the area.
Speaker 4:Yeah I guess, it's rough, it's bad man anyways. So, uh, this is scott jennings on cnn. It was an extreme problem of crime and the reason this is significant is this panel. This is in dc. These guys have their little studio. They're probably, you know, 300 yards from the Capitol here. I don't know where their studio is, but it's all close there 300 yards from a murder.
Speaker 4:Well, no, probably three miles from a murder. Ok, these guys are on the little Capitol Hill side of town. Ok, that's the point. Here you got 10 square miles, three square miles of what you think of as DC, the Capitol mall area and that little tight Smithsonian and the bridge and the you know, all the good views of the Potomac and all that stuff.
Speaker 4:And then you've got the rest of the rest crime ridden. That's where I went right up to the Potomac. I could look across the river to Maryland, my cell, my cell window, my four inch window, you know, ensconced in concrete, I could look out across the potomac. I was up in the corner of dc and, uh, you know the inmates, they're all black, they're all black. I remember, like when I was down in in, uh, when I was down in solitary, that floor, that that it was kind of like a dual tier thing. Anyways, there were three white inmates. We were all january sixers. Everyone else on the whole block was black and I kept thinking how is it possible in dc that this is intake, like people? You know, this is where people are coming in, I can see who who's coming in. I'm in solitary, we're all in solitary, but you know, like, how is there no other white inmates? I don't know. Ok, so this is Scott Jennings, and the reason I'm saying that is it's significant because, scott Jennings, these guys are in DC, scott.
Speaker 13:Well, the polling that you should the buffering Combining people, the buffering combining people who thought extremely, uh, the crime is an extreme problem or crime is a moderate problem was 91 percent. So that is I totally so 91 percent of people who live in a jurisdiction think it's a moderate or an extreme problem. This is not a figment of anyone's imagination. This is not mass hysteria. This isn't some collective hallucination. It's real. People who live there know they aren't safe, and so I don't know, chuck, why anybody would care, whether it's a police officer Arthur, to your point or a National Guardsman or a park police, who also were out patrolling, apparently. I don't know why they would care. If there are more eyes and ears on the street, that makes them feel like if somebody is going to do something criminal or violent or untoward, there may be a greater chance that someone sees it. And so it's a 30-day project. Last night there were 23 arrests, and they also picked up some illegal guns, which the mayor was just talking about and the police chief was just talking about.
Speaker 13:Why don't we give them 30 days, see the results and then maybe the residents of dc and the leadership, he can say well, this worked, this didn't, here's how we could tweak it and do better. It's a 30 day by the way I.
Speaker 14:I find it interesting, and probably it's a good thing, that republicans now are talking about illegal guns on the streets, because prior to or other the gun laws in dc are part of the problem.
Speaker 4:It's good good people who don't want to get in trouble can't carry a gun. There's scott jennings in a different take saying similar things.
Speaker 13:There's an obvious difference between dc and any other city in america. You know, a few months ago I was in union station and saw a body hit the floor at the bottom of the escalator in union station because there was a murder right in front of me up on the second floor. I was going to get a tie and I heard the shots and saw the body hit the floor. So I've been listening all day long to people trying to make some argument that Washington DC is a safe place. It's not a safe place and we can argue about statistics and numbers. There's a police commander right now on suspension because there's some allegation that the statistics have been altered, but we can argue about that all day long. Nobody in their right mind who lives there or visits there on a regular basis would tell you that Washington DC is safe and everybody who goes there knows it.
Speaker 4:I feel the same way about Seattle. Last week I had to go to Seattle on Friday downtown. It's been basically the whole day there. This place is crazy, you know. I mean every big city's kind of crowded and every big city's got a little extra trash. Every big city's got a few homeless people running around, but in seattle it's kind of ridiculous, you know, and I don't even know. I actually think they've made a significant effort to try to clean it up, which is still pretty egregious that it's as bad as it still is yeah, you know I don't go to seattle anymore.
Speaker 6:Um, I know that they've cleaned it up and it's. It is supposedly vastly better than it has been in years prior, but still not interesting to me yeah.
Speaker 4:So we've got to watch this. I've said it for many years I don't care if the boot is coming from the right foot or the left foot. It's still a boot on my neck. When I see the images and I think it's funny. You know, my gang's bigger than your gang. It's basically Trump using the power of the stick to get some you know performance and nobody can argue. Crime's up, let's fix it. Crime's up, let's fix it. Ok, we've got a federal federal takeover. Oh, I thought I was a republican. I don't like federal takeovers. Hold on. I thought small limited government. Wait, let dc burn men, let it go. They can't manage themselves.
Speaker 4:They'll figure it out you know, what I mean like that's my attitude and trump's like no, we're gonna fix it.
Speaker 4:Now, there he is. Home rule there. You know dc is set up the way it's okay, you're doing it in dc, you're not doing it in Baltimore. It makes me feel a little better. But you did just try this in LA. But wait, it was only over. Ok, they were attacking federal property. Ok, there's a lot of federal property in places. You know a pretty broad mandate. So there is.
Speaker 4:There is definitely some concern about gearing up on domestic streets, right, because then you know the flavor of the day. Trump's going after crime. Trump's got a real thing about straight down the line. Look, a gun crime is gun crime, drugs are drugs. It doesn't matter your political affiliation. You did a thing. But other administrations in recent years didn't quite see it that way, right, they kind of were politics is more important than actual crime. You're a dissident, go to jail. You know they round like I think january sixers are. Just you can only look at those videos of fbi walking through the streets. If you're january sixer, if you're just completely in delusion, I get cold sweats in a way, because I'm like those are the guys who came after us, like they're on patrol, it's not like they just got hired in the last six months.
Speaker 4:These guys have been around a while and these are the guys that worked at the organization that targeted me and my family and now I'm like, oh go, fix my crime problem. You made me an outlaw. I have a hard time being on your team. You know what I mean. Anyways, to lighten things up here, this is a really funny comedian, ronnie Chung, and he's talking about basically how in America we have real problems, right, and he just kind of lays out here and maybe this is why the show works. It's maybe got some vocabulary that some people don't have, but he explains the MAGA movement and this is one of the better explanations I've really seen. Ron, I think you'll enjoy this.
Speaker 11:I would probably start that conversation with what we do agree with, right. There'll be a logical place to start a difficult conversation, for example, maga Make America.
Speaker 4:We're going to refresh this because it's funny. We got to make sure you get it. Okay, he's saying so how do you start talking to someone who's MAGA? Oh no, I got it. How do you start?
Speaker 11:talking to someone who's MAGA we start that conversation with what we do agree with, right. That would be a logical place to start a difficult conversation. For example, maga, make America Great. Again, they have a point. America is not doing so great right now. Our kids' math scores are down. Our children's science scores are down. When judged according to international metrics, healthcare systems are not doing so great. Wealth gap disparities are increasing exponentially.
Speaker 11:There was an implied promise to a generation of Americans that if you do certain things, work hard, go to college, be a good person, you would have certain outcomes.
Speaker 11:And those outcomes didn't materialize for majority of people because baby boomers and trans and decision-making positions lowered the capital gains tax so that their network essentially compounds year after year. And post-World War II, US leadership traded the domestic manufacturing industry for national security by making the US dollar the default international trade currency, which gave America the ability to impose economic sanctions on foreign countries through a US financial banking system but consequently increased the value of the US dollar astronomically, which made it impossible for anyone to manufacture anything in America, although the logic at the time was that Americans were supposed to upskill en masse away from the menial manufacturing jobs. Everyone hears too much of what dumbasses say in school. So we just traded domestic manufacturing to Asia and the rest of the world at the expense of working-class families. But if you don't read enough, it comes out as let's go, brenda, and it's like you have a point, but you don't have the vocabulary to describe your reality.
Speaker 4:I would probably start that conversation it comes out as let's go brendan. And inside of that is and the domestic manufacturing was traded off to china. Which the logic? I thought that was so funny, and how does it express itself?
Speaker 6:let's go brendan so I don't know if that uh audience felt like they were getting their money's worth there.
Speaker 4:No, I think that's hilarious. So you know, you think about the crime in DC and if you're just like make it stop and you see troops walking through the street, you're like let's go, brandon. That's the only thing. You know, how did we get here? We got here because everybody didn't do their jobs.
Speaker 6:It's so true. Let the dictator do his job.
Speaker 4:The parallels between Donald Trump and Julius Caesar are interesting. Julius Caesar dealt with a lot of the same bloated Roman government and he had to come in from the outside and be like no, we have to fix it. Steve Bannon talks about how we got here. So the expression of MAa is let's go right in that you're talking about a generation of trending. The exponential wage gap has been increasing. You know what I mean.
Speaker 4:It's like oh yeah there was a, there was a promise made to a generation of people that if you go to school, go to college, get good grades, be a good person, that certain outcomes and those outcomes didn't materialize well.
Speaker 6:That's why, if you're my age, you don't believe any of these promises. That's why our entire generation knows that social security benefits do will not exist for us. You know what I mean I talked to every yes.
Speaker 4:The baby boomers are so concerned with it and I'm like I never expect to see a dime. No, they've been you. It's bankrupt like get your benefits, I know you pay yeah, yeah, get them all you can for me, but I'm way beyond thinking I'm ever going to get anything back from these guys. Yeah, you know what I mean. You can't even build a park in my county. What do you think I'm gonna expect medicaid in 30 years, if, if if I get social security, it'll be enough to cover a cheese sandwich oh, my goodness, and everything they proposed to us 401ks, worse than pensions, pensions all those went bankrupt.
Speaker 4:Yeah, you know what? The best thing to do is a shoebox of gold you know what I mean and five acres of land there's your. There's your retirement plan, all right. So steve bannon is is is explaining how we got here. He's one of these people with enough vocabulary to explain it all and exactly what trump is doing to fix it. And you know, the republican party has been part of the problem in the usaid.
Speaker 18:Let's let's be honest. Eli crane and these guys tried to zero it out in the appropriations process two years ago all night fights on the house floor. And who saved it? The Republican establishment saved it and didn't even have the balls to look into where the money was going. The money was going to all these NGOs that were supporting the invasion of the country, all these NGOs throughout the world and the United States that were suppressing conservative voices. That was brought to you by the controlled opposition Republicans. This is the reason you've got to differentiate between Republicans and the MAGA movement.
Speaker 18:The Republican Party is one of the reasons the country's in this situation. You mentioned Bill Barr and these guys. We've won since Nixon. You know we've won as many times as we've lost. We've been in control as much as the Democrats have.
Speaker 18:How did the country get into this crisis? Because the Republican Party is like the Washington generals to the to the Democrats Harlem Globetrotters. They're just controlled opposition. It's all performative. They never really did anything. They just kind of went along with the system. That's the difference in Trump. Trump is direct action down a vertical to actually make fundamental change, and that's why the system is reacting. The system's traumatized. I understand that he's a blunt force instrument. He's going to give the system a punch and it's going to be traumatized. That's kind of the purpose of the exercise and that's why he's relentless. He will not back off. That's different than these country club Republicans who have essentially gone along with this for 40 or 50 years and got the country in this jam. This is why the MAGA movement detests rhinos, detests country club Republicans. We hate them more than we hate radical Democrats.
Speaker 4:It's my concern that as we go, blunt force trauma things which listen when people make arguments to me about, well, the constitution like man, like we're a little bit past that.
Speaker 4:We're past that at this point it's like, okay, we're looking for results. I mean, we're all idolizing Kelly down in El Salvador. I mean, I'm pretty sure he's going to change title of president to dictator, you know, something like that. Uh, but yeah, we're at the point where it's like, no, we need results. Like this is how you have new regimes. This is how we got the new deal with bloated government spending. Like this is how you got the 14th amendment in the district of columbia and reconstruction. You came to conflict. Someone's got to win, someone's got to lose. Guys like ban had been saying that for a long time. Trump understands that. That I'll tell you. John Brennan understood it. Someone's got to win, someone's got to lose. Right, this is. This is a zero sum game here on their end of things.
Speaker 6:Yeah, he was shooting away.
Speaker 4:I mean there's always someone in charge, Always some second hand are looking for my extra grain. There's always, you know, there's always someone that's looking for my, my extra crop to go and they're trying to pitch me something. You know I'm going to go protect the hill and Dale and Valley over there Give me your potatoes, okay, okay, why do I want to go over to the hill?
Speaker 4:and Dale? You know, henry yesterday was reading a little Henry David throw, he talks about the hill. Over the hill and Dale, fight little soldiers. What are they doing? No idea. Fight little soldiers, little. What are they doing? No idea. I'm gonna go fight my brother, you know. Okay, into the chat.
Speaker 6:well, I'm really glad that he mentioned the uh, rhinos, the, you know, the, what the country club republicans and the republican party in general, because this is a problem that you know. When I talk to my family or whoever they, they always are like well you know, the Republicans are going to fix it. Yeah, no, this is a huge problem and I don't trust any of these people.
Speaker 4:No, no Into the chats. Frazier, nice morning. To start today, pray the rosary daily. Happy Wednesday.
Speaker 4:Yes, ponyboy, in Austin people were smoking weed next to the cops on the street. I know, man, and there are people in prison that were like I think they have commuted and or pardoned everybody with marijuana charges in the federal system, unless you had like violent charges with it. But, bro, a lot of people lost a lot of time. I mean, could you imagine someone in the 1970s being like seeing a video of someone's openly smoking weed next to a cop? Today, when someone has lived in a bad, in bad, they get used to bad and small adjustment can be seen as not bad. Yeah, it's the frog and boiling water example, which I think has been disproven. That doesn't really happen. They will jump out at a certain temperature. But either way, the example sets in for kids, right? Yeah, uh, you know, in a community with no murder, one murder a year gets normalized pretty quick, you know. And then two? And then what do they say? One, one, one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic.
Speaker 6:Yeah absolutely.
Speaker 4:That's one of the things I do appreciate about Donald Trump. When it comes to the Ukraine war, he's constantly bringing back dying people.
Speaker 4:It's not just math Carlitz. Good morning from Houston, texas. Yes, yes, yes. And then same thing. Good morning y'all down in uh on youtube tiffany and carlito, sapphire patriot. Good morning peasants. Yes, good morning everybody. You guys are great, okay. Um, so steve bannon mentioned un, or the un, and he mentioned USAID. At the beginning he said USAID. You know, those guys wanted, they were going to abolish it a couple of years ago in legislation and they had all night long debating. It was like the long knives came out over this obscure one percent of the budget for an aid thing which we, everybody knew wasn't giving foreign aid Like. Well, not that hard to figure out, it's an intelligence op. Well, they're.
Speaker 6:All the politicians sure had a good idea.
Speaker 4:They were not drilling wells in Africa. That was not what was going on. They weren't fighting over it. We're not preventing AIDS in South Africa. That was not what USA ultimately was doing. Usa was going to a lot of Catholic charities to help immigration at the border and etc. Etc. Etc. Well, tim burkhart's been talking a lot about how this money would go out and it would get funneled back through these ngos. There's two tie-ins that I'm going to make here with this idea of politicians sending money out right and then it coming back, both through corrupt means like what he's going to describe, as well as through more traditional financial means. But it becomes a dagger to us, the people. Let me, let me so so is this like karmic?
Speaker 4:well, no, I'll, just I'll explain how the carrots and sticks are set up in such a way that it it's hurting us, okay, preventing us from doing the obvious thing of lowering interest rates in my not the only thing. But we'll, I'll show you. So he's going to talk about UN and NGO funding.
Speaker 5:That's the deal with the bad gum NGOs, non-government organizations. They get a heck of a lot of your money, though, and here's how it works. They're not non-government, because you and I fund it. We borrow the money to send to them. Afghanistan, for instance, where we had the bill to defund the Taliban it's in the Senate now, and the the bill to defund the taliban it's in the senate now. But and the other side? Oh man, they pitched a bit when we added ngos. We're cutting them off.
Speaker 5:Because here's what happens you got these billionaires who hate our guts whenever, destroy everything we stand for. They'll put a million dollars in some group that has some fancy name feed the children. I don't know, maybe that's not an accurate one, but anyway you get the picture. And so they'll put a million dollars in there, which is nothing to them. Pennies on their dollars. And so they, they, they apply for this federal money. And then they the unelected bureaucrat in Washington says, oh, they got a million dollars and they're legit. And so then they literally have put billions upon billions of dollars in this thing.
Speaker 5:Afghanistan alone, over a thousand non-government organizations are working out there, and you add the UN stuff, and we think it could be multiples of thousands of organizations working out of there All this bogus stuff. I mean, do you really believe we're spending $10 million on a dadgum drag show? Where's the money go? Right back in the pockets of politicians, probably some in washington. That's it is so. There's a paper trail. Somebody's going to find out about it, but we know it probably goes into dark money campaigns fighting good republicans as well, and uh, anyway, it's got to stop. And thank you, donald trump and jd vance.
Speaker 4:Dadgummit, dadgummit so like my granddad so a couple weeks ago we heard about how act blue board members were refinancing houses worth about 200 000 with 20 million dollar refinance mortgages whoa, and it was all of them, not one, not two, not a couple people on the lower level part of act blue. All of them, not one, not two, not a couple of people on the lower level part of Act Blue, all of their board. And once they figured out one board member had it. They said let's do a little title search on these other board members, not just the personal residences. You know their rentals so. So money goes out, comes back and all of a sudden you've got Democrats that normally wouldn't be able to campaign. I mean, some of these people have wild ideas you know what I mean and they can't fill 30 people in a room.
Speaker 6:But they're flush with cash now.
Speaker 4:But they're flush with cash. They've got these donors, wow. Small dollar donors too, don't you see? Look at them. They must be legitimate. Yeah, must be legitimate?
Speaker 6:yeah, it must be legitimate, because they can raise some serious coin.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and the republicans going along with it. Some of them are getting money too, and then, on top of that right, large amounts of money, billions of dollars, go out. Ron, do you think you could, you know, live off maybe two percent interest on a billion dollars? Uh, I could try you probably be okay. Probably be okay. Probably maintain your standard of living.
Speaker 6:I mean right. I mean I might have to like switch over to, like you know, fancy cokers yeah.
Speaker 4:So imagine a situation where the government gave you a bunch of capital and you could take that capital and you know, once you understand how to do this on a big level and that it's possible, then it's just a matter of shell companies and funneling right.
Speaker 4:You'll have some slippage, but it wasn't your money in the first place. So what if a bunch of brokers make their cut? Eventually you funnel it back to some institution that can buy, I don't know, something like treasury notes that are kicking off four or five, six percent interest and you've got the money to buy those notes for free, and now you've got the expansion on the interest and you can just kind of live off that. So imagine a scenario where you're a politician and you're funneling money through NGOs and, yeah, some of it comes back into campaign coffers and stuff like that, but some of it just gets straight up invested. Well, okay, yeah. So imagine that scenario, as we listened to Thomas Massey explain to Theo Vaughn. So imagine that scenario as we listen to Thomas Massey explain to Theo Vaughn exactly who owns our debt.
Speaker 17:Who do we owe the money to? Some of it is owed to institutional investors like the big banks in the United States. Some of it is owed to sovereign wealth funds like China, japan, other countries that buy our debt for us. It's, and here's. Here's the problem right now, and here's the problem Right now. They're telling us we don't want to buy your debt at 2% or 3% or 4%, we want at least 5% return.
Speaker 17:And so everybody thinks the Federal Reserve is setting interest rates. You know, there's all this discussion Will the Fed raise the rate? Will the Fed lower the rate? The reality right now is the Fed can't do much, because if they lower the rate to, let's say, 4 percent. That and try to tell people to buy our debt at 4 percent, the people who normally buy our debt, those foreign countries and those institutional investors, are saying you're not a good investment at 4 percent, we want 5 percent.
Speaker 17:And that's that's a big problem. Because just to put it in perspective, you know, let's, let's round this number. Just to put it in perspective, you know, let's, let's round this number. If it were $30 trillion and we were paying 5%, that's that's. That is $16,000 per family. I've already done the math. I'm not doing all that in my head right now, but it's $16,000 per family of interest that we are paying, got it? So when you pay your taxes for your family, the first sixteen thousand dollars goes to nothing, except for the interest that's paid to those foreign countries and to the big bankers.
Speaker 4:OK, and what if those foreign companies and sovereign wealth funds and bankers were just plowing back the money that they were getting through the NGO funnel into things like Treasury notes to get that four or five percent and now they can hold the, the us hostage? Right now I don't know the percentages, for all I know if that is even happening, it's minuscule, or it could be the whole freaking market. Do you know? Do you know that qatar's sovereign wealth fund isn't completely compromised of of legislatively enacted allocations to ngos through things like usa id, epa, etc. Etc. I mean these gold bars that the epa was 78 billion dollars shoveled out the back. What? And it didn't all make it back. To act blue, only a billion dollars made it into kamala harris's campaign. What about the other 69 billion? Do you think those maybe got invested in t-bills and uh is holding jerome powell hostage saying, hey, we won't, we won't buy them at four percent, so you can't drop rates. Do you see what I'm saying?
Speaker 4:yeah and jerome's. Like I got the president threatening to fire me and these guys are over here threatening to essentially not buy my notes. My notes have to be marketable or else the whole thing falls apart, because then everybody will find out. There's no gold anywhere in this whole equation man, he's in a tough spot.
Speaker 4:yeah, I'm not giving him any credit for nothing, but I'm just saying, once you start opening the door to corruption, once you start opening the door to usaid funneling money to corrupt actors, when you've got $20 million going to Pakistan for gender study awareness class and it's like no, no, there's no way you dumped $20 million to something like that in Pakistan. They wouldn't have it. I've met a.
Speaker 4:Pakistani, he wouldn't have it not happening. Where's the $20 million? How much you know? Again, he wouldn't have it not happening. Where's the 20 million dollars? How much you know? Again, we're talking scale. Yeah, we're talking people who don't think they'll be prosecuted. We're talking people so brazen that they'll finance a house with a 20 million dollar mortgage that has a 200000 dollar or 200000 dollar tax assessment.
Speaker 4:There's that like in our face about it. How do we know that these foreign sovereign wealth funds aren't compromised with primary american dollars? How do we know that when donald trump gets these settlements from these law companies that he's gone after, like I don't? I mean, I know he's perkins coo, he's still in the fight, you know. But all these eli curl, I don't know. There was a whole bunch of them that came and it's like we're donating a billion dollars to causes that the president wants. We're donating 600 billion, 600 million dollars in causes that the president wants. Where did they get this money? Don't you make disbursements to your partners? You just got that. That's, that should be the whole thing. Like you just go bankrupt 600600 million to causes that the president directs. Do you know how unreasonable of a settlement that sounds like? Where do these guys? Who pays them? How big are your contracts?
Speaker 6:I don't know, but that's a lot of money.
Speaker 4:That's not ambulance chasing money.
Speaker 6:No.
Speaker 4:Do you think they're in the game? Do you think Trump is basically basically like that's how you're refunding the money? Because I, you know, if I blow this whole thing up, the bond market blows up, everything blows up. So give it back and give it to these guys who should have gotten the help.
Speaker 6:There's definitely some money laundering going on. Dude when.
Speaker 4:I heard that a law firm was going to pay a billion dollars. Yeah, and I'm like Immediately suspect. How big is this law firm Right? Who are your clients? What are you litigating? What are the settlements you're getting? I don't understand this. What, what clients? What are you litigating? What are the settlements you're getting? I don't understand this.
Speaker 4:Like what? What? Who's nothing to see here, taylor, they're just gonna kick it over. Wow, madam ma'am, good morning, okay. Yeah, so I don't know. I am this is me off and left field. I'm just looking at this information and once you open the door, it's like, yeah, henry David Thoreau talks about, we load the gun and then we hand it to our government and we have Please point this at my head it's completely, it's total insanity. So, in the meantime, excellent things are happening because, just like Trump, going into DC and being like my gang is bigger than your gang Right, cleaning up some riffraff.
Speaker 6:All right, tell me something.
Speaker 4:Tell me one. Tell me one. Here's a good one. This is going to affect people in our world. The EPA and the Small Business Administration have teamed up and they have fixed a serious problem caused by a bunch of stupid regulations.
Speaker 20:Welcome back the EPA announcing a fix to diesel exhaust fluid, guidance aimed at helping America's farmers, truckers and equipment operators. Joining me now, live from the Iowa State Fair, is EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and US Small Business Administrator Kelly Loeffler. Great to have you both here.
Speaker 4:OK, I always got to comment on this. There's certain people I always want to make you aware of. Kelly Loeffler was an owner in an NBA team. Her husband is the president of the New York Stock Exchange Whoa, ok.
Speaker 4:She became a senator when there was a vacancy in Arizona in Georgia, excuse me and served for two years as senator and then went to run for reelection. She lost her seat because it was a special election just after Trump's election, like January 3rd of 2021. And because of all the allegations of voting fraud no, it was like January 10th, it was after January 6th Because of all the allegations of voting fraud, a lot of Georgians sat out. Georgia was one of the hot spots for all these things. Ruby Freeman, ok.
Speaker 4:And so Kelly Loeffler you'd think would have fought harder. She sat in the background, she didn't make any definitive statements and then, for me, glaringly, on January 6th, she was one of the Republicans that stood up in the Senate at night and was like Donald Trump's done, it's over, it's unbelievable. He was going to do this. I was going to vote to send Voting to confirm Joe Biden. So Donald Trump has been magnanimous love, probably because he wants to have some connections to the New York stock exchange to grant her a seat inside of the cabinet as the small business administrator, which, admittedly, they probably know a little something about business. Okay, so she's probably qualified for that position. I'm not saying she's not, but I always am like, hmm, I know who you really are. Yes, I know who you really are Tainted. Yes, I know who you really are. Lee Zeldin, on the other hand, seems like a warrior.
Speaker 20:Thank you so much for being here, and, lee, I want to kick things off with you. Tell us about the fluid. What is the issue and what are you trying to fix?
Speaker 3:maria, as I travel the country, I've been hearing from truck drivers and farmers complaining about death, asking, demanding, pleading for a fix. What happened about a decade and a half ago in putting this new DEF system into place the diesel exhaust fluid system, the combat nitrous oxide is that in order to create an inducement, in order to get people to comply, there'd be this massive deratement in the engine. So all of a sudden, whether it is because you don't have fluid in or just the system's not working, within four hours your vehicle, your engine's now going down to five miles per hour. So think heavy duty trucks, off-road equipment, motor cut have you been in a vehicle that does this?
Speaker 6:uh no, but I've been in vehicles that use def and it is a pain in the ass.
Speaker 4:It is a pain in that butt my current truck that I drove here this morning stripped out before they made it illegal. Strip it out, hey, the whole system out gone. Uh, you criminal? No, it was done before the deadline and I didn't do it either, so it's not my problem, okay, but either way, I just. I just happen to know who doesn't matter they're doing away with those regulations.
Speaker 4:If you ran out of def, your car would throttle down to five miles an hour. So it's like it was horrible Farm equipment tractors, excavators which is going to limp mode. They call it limp mode and you get into limp mode. I mean it's literally you might idle for miles to go and you and there's no reason you can't drive, the computers won't let it go over and there's no reason they were inducing you to fill up the DF by putting you in limp mode. They'd make you think you're. I'd watch people physically abuse their truck. They'd go to jail if the way they treated their truck when it would go into limp mode if it was their spouse or significant other.
Speaker 4:You know, I watch them break steering wheels and put cracks and dashes, just banging on the thing, so angry that it's in lip mode. All policy and regulation, no reality Coaches, no practicality.
Speaker 3:Heavy-duty pickups. They, out of nowhere, were going at five miles per hour, basically shut off Farmers. They're pulling their hair out and for so long pleading for a solution, but unfortunately that hasn't been coming Well. Today, working closely with SBA Administrator Kelly Leffler, we are so excited to be able to make this announcement to get these manufacturers finally to fix these derailments. The farmers are going to be thrilled. The truck drivers are going to be thrilled. Couldn't happen soon enough.
Speaker 20:Because, kelly, I mean, the bottom line is it's small business who's really being impacted, Right as we just said, farms, trucking companies, construction companies have been dealing with this for years.
Speaker 14:You're absolutely right, maria, and I want to congratulate Administrator Zeldin for getting this big win for farmers. I grew up on a family farm. This has been a tremendous burden on the farming community, on truckers, to have to deal with this massive green new scam, regulation and what's happening today is just another step in Trump, the Trump agenda and deregulation and having fair trade and cutting taxes. This is real results for the American people and for American farmers and this is long overdue and I'm so grateful to President Trump for his leadership for farm families, for truckers, for hardworking Americans that rely on these heavy duty equipment for truck trucks, for tractors, and really solving this massive problem that's going to result in seven hundred and twenty seven million million every single year in savings for farm families. It's a huge deal.
Speaker 4:Welcome back to EPA. I hope they make it to where you can get rid of the DEF system. It's one thing if you want to maintain it on your vehicle, but it's a huge power loss. It's a whole extra expense. It's such a pain in the butt. Meanwhile, donald Trump the trump, the dictator, authoritarian, whose gang is bigger than your gang, maduro, is getting call, is settling scores all around the world. Here's newt gingrich talking about a call he got recently.
Speaker 8:I happened to get a call sunday night from cambodian leaders who are nominating president trump for the Nobel Peace Prize and they are ecstatic at the role he played in stopping a potential war between Thailand and Cambodia. And every time you turn around he's doing something which is entirely amazing. So I think the stage is being set in 2026 between a very successful, hardworking American president who represents American values, focuses on American interests, and a Democratic Party dominated by big government socialism with radical values. And that's a choice, I think, between a Trump boom and Democratic gloom, and my guess is this will be the biggest off-year election since Franklin Roosevelt in 1934. I happen to get a call.
Speaker 6:So a reference that is lost on most people. So Trump's, he's so old.
Speaker 4:Trump's agenda is uniform. He's clearly nuanced. For people like me who've kind of watched his every move for a decade Now, he's very nuanced in how he acts. He's. He's by no means a chaotic. He's a blunt force instrument because he can be, but he's by no means backed into a corner and and only has one card of tricks, but the carrot and the stick. There's times when you use the carrot, there's time you use the stick. Right now in dc he's using a stick.
Speaker 4:He's a show he's doing show of force. He's gonna arrest a lot of people and then he's gonna pull back and be like how's that feel? How'd that feel? Did it hurt? A couple people leave the communities? Are the streets safe? Can you walk out at night? Did we get them all? Anybody left? You see what I'm saying?
Speaker 4:Like you want to try it again, coming in a huge show of force for parents that lose their tempers. This is the flip the beds. Get the kids figured out the point. You got to clean your room, otherwise it looks like this. It's like you want? You want thugs. I'll show you thugs. My thugs are bigger than your thugs. Do you see what I'm saying? That's what he's doing. He's like my gang's bigger than your gang, so we want peace like traditionally. This is what gangs this is what was explained to me in prison the whole point of a gang is to protect the innocent and the people who can't can't help themselves, that are being picked on by the government or by something. That's how a gang starts, and then pretty soon, the gang of course starts if you're not under our protection sounds like you're describing our government.
Speaker 6:That's what it's just a big gang my gang's bigger than your gang exactly.
Speaker 4:It's a big gang and this gang protects you from that gang and it's just a big gang.
Speaker 4:Okay, so trump's method is the same. So what has he done internationally? I would suspect the navys have been really busy. I would suspect a lot of these problems that these countries have had that are like really long problems. I would suspect whole CIA outposts have just been defunded and cut loose and all of a sudden the tension is going away, or he's probably letting some fight it out real quick and then he's like do you really want to finish this? You know pakistan and india. Do you really want to escalate this thing? Do you really want dogfights in the sky?
Speaker 6:what do you think about the mention of the nobel peace prize?
Speaker 4:he's been nominated so many times. I don't know that anybody else has ever been nominated as much. I'm curious. Should we ask grok, the smartest among us, what do you think about the? Prize period oh, I think it's stupid yeah yeah, I think it's retarded.
Speaker 4:Yeah, how excited like when, when, listen, you get barack obama the nobel peace prize and he's quoted as saying I don't know why I got this, I haven't done anything. I got elected I've. You know, I was a community organizer in chicago that nobody's really aware of what I organized, and I was a senator for two years. He organized his president run nobel peace prize, you know? No, I'm sorry, like it doesn't mean anything to me. I know, I wonder, I wonder what trump thinks about it.
Speaker 4:I don't think he respects it much. I think he wishes that it meant something. I think he wishes that pulitzer prize, prizes, meant something. But these accolades become meaningless when they the moment, moment. Corruption touches, corruption touches them. It's just, yeah, exactly. Funnels to nothing. No titles, no tiaras, no nobility. Right yeah, your actions. Speak for yourself. You know what, you know what's significant? No, nobody's dying.
Speaker 6:Nobel peace prize is almost to me like, you know, um, um trophies for everybody. You know it's kind of like that it's not the same thing, because not everybody gets the Nobel peace prize, but it has that same value.
Speaker 4:On one hand, someone like Mahatma Gandhi could be given. Probably was, I don't even know. I think he, I think he was probably got a Nobel peace prize. He did incredible things. He did really incredible things. It was that. For whatever that prize represents, I want it to represent that I want people who make change on the scale of mahatma gandhi to receive those awards.
Speaker 6:The only problem is that he's standing alongside a bunch of other people that didn't really do that, like greta thornburg what?
Speaker 4:like greta thornburg, yeah, no, no, I don't know. I don't know if she has. I don't think she has one. I'm pretty certain she doesn't. She's so brave, but she, she's like. That's the conversation. Well, greta thornberg, she's just such an activist for climate change. She should be nominated for a nobel peace prize.
Speaker 6:Same breath yeah, you see them so yeah that poor little girl's been abused.
Speaker 4:In my opinion, you know, donald trump gets the abraham accords and, uh, barack obama got the peace price. But barack obama, under his regime, destabilized libya, basically let the rise of isis and the caliphate. You know, yeah, that's why he got it. No, exactly, he got it preemptively, you know, because barack obama had to set the conditions for donald trump to come in and actually bring peace right. You know, we had to show hey, it's bad enough, right, you guys all fighting, maybe you should sign a treaty. Jeez, donald trump did use his pen yesterday, removing all censorship and social media in the usa, which isn't really true, but what he's done is he's pulled back to a section 230 protection.
Speaker 22:Therefore, today, I'm signing executive order to protect and uphold the free speech and rights of the American people. Currently, social media giants like Twitter receive an unprecedented liability shield based on the theory that they're a neutral platform, which they're not. I'm not an editor with a viewpoint. My executive order calls for new regulations under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act to make it that social media companies that engage in censoring or any political conduct will not be able to keep their liability shield. That's a big deal. They have a shield. They can do what they want. They have a shield. They're not going to have that shield. My executive order further instructs the Federal Trade Commission FTC to prohibit social media companies from engaging in any deceptive acts or practices affecting commerce. This authority resides in Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission.
Speaker 6:OK, so basically, how long before we get censored, how long before we get?
Speaker 4:censored. Basically, what he's saying is, if they have censorship for political reasons and he's already made it to where in the government. If you're talking to these social media companies, it's like it better be about a child pornography account, better not be about anything political at all. They want no censorship. So I don't know, man.
Speaker 6:Like I kind of can't wait to get a strike. Can we sue somebody? Yeah, I don't know. Like I kind of can't wait to get a strike, can we sue somebody.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I don't know. Like I think it's good Right the two 30 protection is really tricky Cause like it is. Okay, you know, somebody comes into the chats and says something crazy I have. Now what if I miss it and don't delete it? Am I now responsible for what people in the chats are saying? That's why you have the protection. Like well, I didn't say it, I just. I'm just here hosting a show.
Speaker 6:No, you can't police that.
Speaker 4:Rumble has no business. Rumble's not here. I don't know who Rumble is. I've never met him. Stream there seem to be a pretty decent platform. Their streaming technology is top notch. Love it makes perfect sense, but at the same time they can't be responsible for what I'm saying.
Speaker 6:No, I clicked a box.
Speaker 4:It's all free speech. You know, I read it. It was like rights reserved. But yeah, okay, we are not going to private chat yet, but when we do, I just want to tease out for those that stick around on rumble and our premium subscribers, we are going to be listening to a john oliver breakdown on chuck schumer. It is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
Speaker 4:This is the left attacking the left so you gotta hear it right, you, you guys are gonna have. I have a sweet spot in my heart for john oliver. We have a different world views, of course, but he's another one of these. Like, the reason he can attack the left is he still does have some common sense. When I was in prison, I had to take a course where the entire course, this was the whole thing to get credits for you know good time credits, and you got to be enrolled in classes. It was a finance class.
Speaker 3:It was a fight.
Speaker 4:They determined needs. I had no needs, by the way. This was the. Do you want the big prison story or want the little story about joe?
Speaker 6:holliver um, I think I want the big one, because I'm not understanding what you're talking about now. What are you talking about? Your needs and the financial class?
Speaker 4:you go to prison. They have what's called the first step act, and part of the first step act is they do an assessment on you and when you take that assessment, they determine what your needs are, and it's an it's based on multiple factors. There's a survey you take and then there's a and you have needs.
Speaker 6:Are we talking about?
Speaker 4:needs for education for example, if you have kids, they say you have a parenting need so you take a parenting class. If you have financial struggles, you have a couple financing classes you can take. If you have anger management, there's some anger management classes. If you have addiction, then they have a 12-step program okay, so they have you take between your pre-sentence report.
Speaker 6:I thought you were like I need me some toiletries, I need me some clothes, these, are.
Speaker 4:these are these are classes they're going to ask you to take in order to qualify for the time credits for first step act.
Speaker 6:Okay.
Speaker 4:So I was in a weird situation because I didn't agree to anything, I didn't sign any paperwork anywhere. Where they did make me sign on threat of solitary confinement, I would cross out, because they make you sign paperwork that says voluntarily. They literally make you sign a piece of paper that says you voluntarily came into prison, and then you know what?
Speaker 6:Nope, I would like to leave anytime.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I am not here voluntarily. Well, what happens if I don't sign this paperwork? Well then you go into the hole and you don't get commissary, and you don't get phone privileges and blah blah. So I could just serve seven years here without ever getting a phone call. Well, that's why you have to say you're here voluntarily. Yeah, so anyways. Uh, so, I, I, it is the. It's the belly of the beast, it's the bowels of the system. You know what I mean. And all of a sudden, when you hear things like everything's voluntary, it's like, oh no, it's voluntary under voluntarily sign that paper get inside the cow.
Speaker 6:What are you guys starting that fire for?
Speaker 4:yeah, oh my gosh. So anyways, you're supposed to take a survey. Well, I delayed taking the survey until they were like listen, if you don't take the survey, you're going to the hole. So I don't. I would make them get to the point where they were like we have to take physically coercive action in order for you to continue. But I was completely non-violent. No, I didn't disagree or argue with anything, but I put everything off until they came and were like if you don't do it, by this moment you know. So I didn't forced compliance forced compliance, yes.
Speaker 4:So when I took the survey, I answered all the questions accurately and everybody was telling, no, you got to lie on the survey because you need a bunch of you need a bunch of needs like you want to take all these classes. Well, I ask inquiring, inquiring questions. I was like I feel like we called it prisoncom, which is rumor mill. I feel like prisoncom. You guys all want to pretend to be more F ups than you actually are, which is already pretty bad, because you think that the BOP wants to. You know, put you through these classes and then correct your behavior and you'll get credit for that. I don't see it that way, because the way I read the rules, I just have to be programming, so they're forcing you to take those classes. I get to elect what classes I take because I don't have needs, but as long as I'm programming, I get the time credits anyways. So I can take the easy classes and the non dumb classes, right, and I don't anyway.
Speaker 4:So when I did the survey, when I went and met with the case manager, he was like you have no needs. The only need I had was because I was over 40. I had to take a uh aging with your or uh healthy aging body class or something like that. This is over 40 which the pakistani taught. That was from al-qaeda. He was the future for that and we just signed in on day one, and then he signed us in all the other days because all it was was watching a uh anatomy video about the anatomy of your body so we watched the first 15 minutes and he goes.
Speaker 4:I think that's enough for today. It was an hour class and everybody had signed in and he's like I'll sign you guys all in next class. So we didn't even have to go to class. The scam is in already. Oh, totally. But you know, they get paid like 500 per head to be enrolled in the class. The bop is making money. They don't really.
Speaker 4:You know, they're not really about your outcomes, like you're never getting out of here, so this more money laundering totally such a scam so I had no needs. So because I had no needs and because the pre the because I never cooperated with the government in any way, they technically didn't know I had kids, like my wife had to sign in as a visitor and I had to put her on my visitor list. She wasn't just like normally your spouse is granted just automatic visitor visitor rights, not mine. I had to get her background checked and approved and everything for her to come visit. Because because my my pretrial sentencing said I had no dependents, no, no wife, no kids. And I looked at the guy I was like you know that's not true, but you're trying to get me to accept that. You know, you're trying to get me to negotiate here by saying correct this, correct that, because I'm engaged. I won't engage with you.
Speaker 4:So I just let them file the report saying that I owned a car when I was 13 and that I owned property that I know I'm not totally unaware of and that I have guns. By by the way, did you know I have an sks, something? They had guns listed on there that were registered to me, but I don't own those guns. I've never owned anything that's russian, ever, okay, not happening and they had that. I had no dependence. It's clearly an effort to try to get me to, in my opinion, that or they're just retarded, which is also on the table. You know what I mean? The credit, the credit report companies don't think I owned a car when I was 13, but these guys actually had a make and model car that was registered to me when I was in like seventh grade I'm like you, really.
Speaker 6:They're just trying to get you to play the game yes, trying to get you play the game.
Speaker 4:So I had no needs. So I go to. I go to the ceo that's in charge of transgenders and special needs people, so he's the case manager over the real weirdos. And, uh, this guy has a ukraine flag tattooed on his arm and he has an amnesty international tattoo. Really cool guy, one of the best ceos, in fact. A real story in the bill. If I could make him the the director of the bop, it'd be a better place. Wow, kind of a bleeding heart. Good guy.
Speaker 4:Okay, started out as a rough and tough co, you know, bashing people's heads. In one night he was working in 10 building, which is the psych ward, and a guy had smeared crap all over the walls and thrown crap on the windows. And when he came in he was like, oh my gosh, so they were about to like pepper spray him and restrain him and all this stuff. And like, in this moment of clarity, he's like dude, what is going on with you today? Guy was screaming. He goes they didn't feed me today. What? Yeah, the guards didn't feed me today. So he goes back to the bubble. He's like did you guys give him his food? And there's a tray of food him today? No, he hasn't ate today. So what's his? And he's in solitary. So what's his action? Smear poop on the wall. Try to get some attention right, cause they'll probably feed me in the next place they take me, because at this point you've given up on the idea that you're ever getting out of the wall, the room. You know what I mean. So he was like, oh my gosh. So he went down to the kitchen, some food right anyways. That got him really cross with the staff and almost got fired over it. But he was just getting his degree and he ended up simultaneously watched a documentary called the im. That made him have a different paradigm change. And so he ended up saying I'm going to stay in the bop, and not only that, I'm going to go to the administrative side and actually make a difference. And to the extent that he could, he could.
Speaker 4:He was always watching out for people's good time credits, making sure they got enrolled in the right classes, because the BOP is notorious for like telling you you have a need, but not telling you that the class is starting. So then when you miss the class, you you lose. The way it works is you lose all of your good time backwards. So it's not like they just hit pause on your learning time you lose it all. So it's not like they just hit pause on your earning time you lose it all. So guys would.
Speaker 4:Guys would miss like a drug class that they didn't know they had to take because they didn't have a drug problem, but it showed up on their needs reports because other inmates had told them you need to fake your needs and so they didn't think they had a drug need because it shows up on like page four. We had this happen to a J6 or he had a drug and he missed a class and he was supposed to go home. They told him an out date and then all of a sudden they pulled the out date and you're like, oh no, you're here for another nine months Because you just lost all your good time. He had to get legislators involved to try to get it and when they let him out they didn't even tell him they fixed the problem. They just finally sent Instead of just like the two weeks hey, you have another place to go. So I signed up for this class and the only thing it was was a John Oliver episode on scams from Nigeria, and that was the finance.
Speaker 4:The BOP has approved that class for credits to earn good time, and all you're doing is watching a Saturday or a John Oliver episode. Okay, that's all it was. We're going to watch a John Oliver episode Pretty good, that's all it was. We're going to watch a John Oliver episode Pretty good. Is this the same thing you watched in prison? No, it's a different one, but it's better. This one is political and it's hilarious. It's about Chuck Schumer, which is again the left attacking the left. I'm all about it, all right. Serious topic.
Speaker 4:Now thank you.
Speaker 6:Thank you for listening to my long rambling story about how the prison it's stupid. I'm gathering sometimes, and this was the, this was the. What was his position? The transgender?
Speaker 4:It was. It was, he was the case. The special program needs Adult, special program needs administrator or something like that. And the special program needs included transgenders, people, elderly, so in elderly in prison is over 55, so over 55. And then one other group, you know whatever was calculated in there. So he was the case manager for like special cases, okay, but he offered the most first step act classes and so he would end up, you know like we would go in and talk to him and he would calculate our time and then we'd go back to our case managers and be like, well, this guy over here says we can get out this time, and our case manager would get so mad at him.
Speaker 4:They had emails back and forth being like, stop telling these people when they can go home. They're holding holding us to their you know they're holding us to the law and we don't like it. We're lazy. I honestly believe what happens a lot of times with those case managers is they just let the manila envelope sit on their desk too long, like where I was at. You're entitled to up to 18 months of halfway house based on second chance. 12 months is pretty standard. A lot of prisons because it's all based on the prison, they're the ones who file the paperwork A lot of prisons will give you eight to 12 months, just no questions asked. Like you're just getting eight to 12 months halfway house. So what that means is, if you have a 10 year sentence at nine years and two months, you've got eight months of halfway house. They transition you out, okay.
Speaker 6:Let me guess though Does that halfway house?
Speaker 4:experience affect their bottom line? Oh yeah, no, they're making more money in the halfway house because you cost less and they take half your paycheck when you're working in a halfway, when you're in a halfway house. So it's still part of the whole making money scheme. But the idea is I'm out of prison, I get a cell phone, I can go out to eat, I can see my family, like you can't stay with them, but they can come visit you all day long, you know. So it's a, it's a totally. You're out like you're transitioning. You're still got a bunch of.
Speaker 6:So you're physically out or you're mentally out, or both you're physically out, mentally, that's your problem.
Speaker 4:Yeah, right, but you're still. You're still in a halfway house. I mean, there's a warden, there's, you have to check. You got to be in there at 9 pm, like, but you're living in an apartment, you can cook food, you know there's, there's something to it, so and they're all different. Of course, some halfway houses are probably horrible, but it's not prison. That's the thing. It's not prison, so it's really. Inmates just want to know when can I get out of here? And so when they would? Yeah, so halfway house get out of here and so when they would.
Speaker 6:Yeah, so halfway house.
Speaker 4:Okay, that's for the private show right, yeah, okay, what else are you gonna show? I'm just, I'm sorry, taylor, the there's the logic in prison makes perfect sense, but it's band-aids upon band-aids upon band-aids upon band-aids, with laziness like I honestly think where the prison I was at would give you six months at the most halfway house and ever frustrated people would transfer there from other prisons and they'd be like I should be going home like in a month or two, and then they'd be told oh no, you're here another year and I thought I was. I was eligible for 18 months halfway house. No, we only give six here it's's devastating.
Speaker 4:Devastate. I've watched men cry, you know, just thinking about the fact that I told my daughter I would make her graduation.
Speaker 6:Right.
Speaker 4:I haven't seen her since she was five years old and I was going to see her high school graduation finally.
Speaker 4:And now it'll be another broken another broken promise that your whole life you've just been one illusion of a man, right. And why? And the case managers? Why? Why can the prison in arkansas do 18 months? Why can the that prison over there do 18 months? Why can those guys? Why do we do six? You know why? Because our case managers would let those files sit on their desk a little too long and they'd miss the deadlines to get you in. And then they'd be like, oh, I'll get to it. So now, since that deadline passed, I have another month. And then it would sit there and then another month would pass and pretty soon somebody that like had to go home because now they're six months old.
Speaker 4:I gotta dig his pile out, get this applied, for that's all it was. They just had to put it in the computer. There's no reason why we couldn't have full halfway house again. It's incompetence, corruption, laziness. I'll tell you one thing thing Brett Weinstein really lays out the carrots and the sticks when it came to this MMR vaccine protocol and how significant it is that they canceled all these, because we might have been staring down a real scary situation.
Speaker 10:I'm not saying that this is true, but I'm saying at the level of a viable hypothesis. Think about pharma's predicament. Viable hypothesis, Think about pharma's predicament. Pharma had a technology that allows it to play a new game that was going to be profitable at a brand new level. It had a technology that was going to allow it to type a sequence into a computer and go directly to a so-called vaccine. That means all pharma needed in order to inaugurate a brand new profit stream was the name of a disease that was credibly scary.
Speaker 14:And you have the fastest drug development protocol on record.
Speaker 10:Right, and you can skip right past all the safety stuff, because all you got to do is fake the safety data once. You've got to just get your contractors to rig up an rct that suggests that your platform is safe, and then, from then on, it's well, the platform is safe, is the antigen safe? Is platform is safe? Is the antigen safe? So it's going to be boom, boom, boom right. Injectable after injectable is going to be flying through the fda. Everything's going to be fast tracked, which means that a whole range of pathogens that could not be addressed in this way before they could only be addressed symptomatically, you know, with traditional drugs, but they couldn't be addressed with something that could credibly claim to prevent their spread those things were suddenly going to be in range. Every cold was now going to be something for which you could get a shot to prevent it, and so this all becomes a question of perception.
Speaker 4:Could you imagine living in a world where every single scary disease they could kick out an MMR vaccine? Like some people, I really think. Like people describe tattooing as an addiction. You know, you get. I don't know if it's the pain or whatever it is it's an addiction. I think some people got kind of hooked to this going to get my booster shot thing. Have you ever talked to someone that's had six shots? Oh yeah, it's weird, isn't it? Yeah, it's weird it is weird.
Speaker 4:I understand two, I understand four, I understand the two and then the two boosters. But when you're like at six, people were like, well, I thought I'd just throw a little Moderna in there. My Pfizer, what A little potpourri. Yeah, I thought you know, if one's good, two's better, two companies Like what? Meanwhile they look flush, their eyes are falling out. There's a couple of people I knew that started to look pretty sickly, but then I've seen them again and they've recovered. So, whatever you know, maybe they were just going through something. President Trump, I thought this was an interesting clip and I actually don't know exactly when this clip was, so I couldn't find exactly when it's kind of was presented like it was recent. But I just thought this was really interesting because we're dealing, we're hearing about a lot of leaks.
Speaker 22:The leaks are real. You know what they said, you saw it and the leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake. So one thing that I felt it was very important to do and I hope we can correct it, because there's nobody I have more respect for well, maybe a little bit, but than reporters, than good reporters. It's very important to me and especially in this position, it's very important. I don't mind bad stories. I can handle a bad story better than anybody, as long as it's true. And you know, over a course of time I'll make mistakes and you'll write badly, and I'm okay with that. But I'm not okay when it is fake. I mean, I watch cnn. It's so much anger and hatred and just the hatred. I don't watch it anymore because it's very good. He's saying no, it's okay jim, it's okay, jim, you'll have your chance. But I don't remember. The leaks are real.
Speaker 4:You know what they say. When I listen to that I'm like this sounds like a reasonable person. I'll make mistakes. You guys can write about them. I'm fine with that, right, I feel the same way. You can criticize me, I'm really open to it. I'm comfortable in my own skin. But the lies, the lies are lies. And so the reason that clip is relevant is because here John Solomon yesterday broke another huge story. These are coming out like drumbeats.
Speaker 4:There were multiple releases yesterday and I didn't have enough time to go through them, enough to understand them to bring them onto the show. So hopefully they'll make their rounds. But we're starting to see the data dump. Every day there's a new release. There's another one today on how many times the FBI was blocked from continuing to investigate the Clinton Foundation, how many times the FBI was blocked from continuing to investigate the Clinton Foundation. So every day this is like a cascade of this information. Where we had the conspiracy wall, we had the outline all together, hillary Clinton paid for the Steele dossier. But now we're starting to fill in the context. James Comey is trying to protect his own reputation. He's directing the New York Times to write specific articles to change the narrative, the paper of record stuff like that. So that's what John Solomon broke yesterday. Is James Comey actually proactively treasonously leaking?
Speaker 25:That's the story for you first here on the show tonight, before we even put a story up on just the news. It turns out it wasn't the only suspected leak that the FBI came across. Only suspected leak that the FBI came across. In fact, it identified about a dozen stories in the legacy medium that drafted and created the Russia collusion narrative, which we now know to be fully debunked. That contained national secrets information that was classified all the way up to the highest level, the stuff that only presidents and FBI directors get to see.
Speaker 25:Tonight we're going to tell you about another person that they had concerns about. He was FBI Director James Comey's media mole that's what they used to call him inside the FBI. He worked around the FBI press office as a private citizen working as a special government employee. He was a Columbia Law professor named Daniel Richmond. And when the FBI finally confronted him and said, hey, what were you doing? Talking to the media, he admitted his job was to make, to improve or polish the image of James Comey from some of the negative coverage he was getting and to set the narrative, to basically shape the narrative on Russia collusion and other stories in Washington. And when they confronted him and said, hey, you met with James Comey. You got some classified information. You then talked to a reporter very soon after who reported some of that classified information. He said this is going to turn out to be one of the great denials in all of Washington's history. There's a lot of Washington speak. This one will be remembered as a famous one.
Speaker 25:I don't think I leaked. If you give me a discount, basically saying I deny doing that with a discount. In other words, you have to give me a little discount on my truthfulness when I deny that I didn't leak that information. With that information, the FBI and the Justice Department decided, like they did with Adam Schiff, not to pursue any further criminal investigation. They didn't bring people before a grand jury. They didn't ask Congressman Schiff now Senator Schiff to come before a grand jury. They didn't ask Congressman Schiff now Senator Schiff to come before a grand jury. They basically left it at these sort of wily interviews and intriguing pieces of evidence that certainly pointed to a large number of leaks. We're going to make all these documents available over the next several nights on just the news dot com. Be sure to check out 830 again tonight We'll have the new dump and you got a little bit of taste of it early here today I like that.
Speaker 4:I didn't do it with a discount. Basically, that is a very lawyerly way and you have to get in the dictionary for discount. It's a very lawyerly way of basically being I'm lying to you, but it's okay, because I'm telling you the truth about lying to you, yeah.
Speaker 6:It's an admission.
Speaker 4:It's an inversion. It's I didn't leak it, but you'll have to understand. There's a discount there, as in I'm lying to you, but it's okay, because I'm telling you the highlight you need. That's the what I want you to understand. But I'm not lying to you by telling you a lie, because I'm telling you that I'm lying in that same sentence.
Speaker 4:It's like what now the sophistry right. It's unbelievable. This is eric swalwell. This is from 2019. This is eric's uh, yeah, I think it's 2019. This is eric swalwell having a actually pretty decent, hard-hitting interview. And again, just to remind people how serious these people were about their allegations about Trump and Russia Sometimes on the right it's easy for us to be gaslighted where they're like well, we didn't actually say Trump was colluding with Russia. We were just saying Russia was meddling in the election. Oh OK.
Speaker 4:And then Donald Trump just didn't want to pursue that. And who wouldn't want to pursue their enemies? So if he's not their enemy, he must be a friend.
Speaker 23:That's the logic they were using, but they were a little more overt than that.
Speaker 7:Draw the line and not accuse the president united states without any evidence of being an agent of russia. Yeah, he's betrayed our country and I don't I don't say that lightly. I worked as a prosecutor for seven years and I betraying the country.
Speaker 23:By the way, we want evidence before you say that. But you said an agent of russia yeah, he, he works on their behalf.
Speaker 7:he, since he met with uh v in Helsinki in July, where he took the interpreter's notes, hasn't told any US official what they discussed. He has taken us out of Syria, which is a top priority of Russia. He sought to diminish or pull out the US from NATO and he's easing sanctions on Vladimir Putin's friends who are under investigation.
Speaker 23:But he didn't pass sanctions against Russia. He has armed Ukraine, he has killed 200 Russians in Syria. I mean, those aren't the actions of an agent of Russia either.
Speaker 7:He signed, I think you know, begrudgingly sanctions against Russia after Congress and people expressed concern and he got backed into it. But as soon as he could he has pulled those away. And so what? Makes him an agent of. Russia. After it was revealed that the Russians were attacking our democracy, he went to a press conference and said Russia, keep doing it.
Speaker 23:We're familiar with that sequence of events as a prosecutor. But as a prosecutor that wouldn't be evidence in court. I mean, as a prosecutor you know the difference between hard evidence and circumstantial evidence.
Speaker 7:I think an admission by a defendant is the most powerful evidence. And saying, saying asking somebody to continue to commit a crime after they've already committed a crime. I mean that is eagerness to collude, I don't know what else to call it. And then I think you have consciousness of guilt by all of these follow-up, cover-up actions. Again, people only tell someone else to lie, people only lie themselves, people only obstruct justice if they're afraid of what the underlying truth would reveal.
Speaker 23:And I'm not hearing the evidence that he's an agent of Russia.
Speaker 7:Yeah, I think it's pretty clear. It's almost hiding in plain sight. You saw somebody standing next to more of this.
Speaker 4:It's hiding in plain sight. It's right there.
Speaker 6:Geez.
Speaker 4:They were pretty serious about this and they were. You know he's wrestling his words quite a bit to no, no, he's acting on Russia's behalf, like I mean all these like totally Republican agenda items, like minimizing expenses with NATO and getting them to pay their fair share, you know things that? No, that's that's. That's that's helping Russia by by getting NATO to build up. That's helping Russia because NATO is not going to pay and so that's going to weaken their, their political plus. What are we talking about?
Speaker 4:right well, he armed ukraine and he just killed 200 russians. Russian agent that's what russia would want him to do, is to make it look like he's against them obviously obviously we really are dealing with smoke monsters here, aren't we? Okay, this was a CNN clip. This is a. This is a guy talking about Trump's threat to take over major cities. And again, just misinformation.
Speaker 19:It's great to have you here, sir, because you hear that warning there.
Speaker 4:No, excuse me, let me make sure I didn't just. Oh yes, that's right, here we go.
Speaker 19:The mayor of what she believes could happen and we do hear do hear the president saying other us major cities could be next year. I wonder if that's a pledge that you take seriously tonight.
Speaker 21:Well, sadly we do, because I think the bottom line is that President Trump doesn't like public safety. He's a convicted criminal himself. He pardons people who are criminals and do pretty dastardly things like cause the deaths of five different law enforcement officers during January 6th sick.
Speaker 4:Um, we have a fund to make bronze statues of these officers that died on january 6. We just need a name, maybe a small thumbnail picture from their instagram or facebook. We just want to know any of them. So, five this is a philadelphia district attorney. This guy goes into court every day under threat of perjury, with rules of ethics guiding him, and he's prosecuting people that I met in philadelphia because I was in prison prison in Philadelphia downtown. That's where the prison is. It's downtown like in a skyscraper. I was on the 13th floor. Okay, I got put in lockdown there. And, uh, this is the Philadelphia district attorney prosecuting some people that I met that claim that they're innocent and he's lying. He's lying. Five people, five cops, did not die that day at all. Nor can you really reasonably connect any deaths after that fact to january 6, unless you're just, you know, calling a suicide connected to some news event yeah, we played a clip yesterday, was it, or the day before, where somebody made a claim that was like hundreds of people died 170 officers were injured?
Speaker 4:yeah, there was, I mean. But you know, injury starts to be kind of uh, stretched, you know what injury. And then you've got ones like finon, who's in a hospital bed with a broken rib. Didn't happen, didn't I mean? Yeah, he went to the hospital, got got everything put on but video, you, I got injured after the fact.
Speaker 21:Yeah, man, I'm good, I'm good, I'm good and all of a sudden, by midnight, you're laying in a hospital bed like I don't know something my kid puts on band-aids all the time, just for fun anyways, I'm just saying, this guy's a district attorney, you know so there is no indication that this man is in favor of law-abiding behavior, of public safety, but he is in favor of power, he is in favor of fascism, he is in favor of ending democracy, and what he's trying to do here is not normal, as wanda sykes, one of my faves, would say.
Speaker 21:It's not normal to act like you can go into a city that is having tremendous progress, 30 year low in crime, and call it an emergency and bring in a bunch of troops who aren't even trained for this kind of work. He may think he's going to try it in other places, but the fact is, legally he has much less of a right to do any of this in other cities, and he better not try it in philly these guys are leaning on the law and meanwhile the people are like we're about to grab our pitchforks and poke you in the ass.
Speaker 6:Yeah, for real.
Speaker 4:Because if crime is that high at a certain point their gang becomes bigger than your gang. I mean, is that not the problem we have with the cartels? I mean, are their gangs not bigger than some of these state governments can't deal with them and that the feds turn a blind eye? You think? You think the idaho state truples can handle the trend de agua? I know, in aurora, colorado, I mean, it's just a couple apartment buildings that are taken over by a foreign gang. Are you here yourself, martha? In america, how many? How many apartments is okay? How many communities need to be run by foreign cartels?
Speaker 6:are they still holding those?
Speaker 4:I believe they got that cleaned up okay, but I'm not certain again. Sometimes these things come and go in the news cycle yeah, come and go seattle, yep okay. Charlie kirk breaks down the animosity between kash patel and adam schiff and kash patel are arch enemies.
Speaker 16:Why? Well, adam schiff was the one that was the driving legislative force behind Russiagate. Adam Schiff was the one that went on TV and said that there was credible evidence that Donald Trump was a compromised Russian agent. Then Kash Patel was the staffer for Devin Nunes, former prosecutor. Without him, we never would have known about the FISA warrant abuse and we never would have gotten to the bottom of Russia gate. So Adam Schiff knows who Cash Patel is, because Cash Patel revealed Adam Schiff to be a pathological snake liar and Adam Schiff should be worried. Us Senators will not be exempt from this kind of racketeering operation.
Speaker 4:Menendez is in jail. He's in prison right now. George santos is in prison right now. Senators will not be exempt play cut 262 this is someone we cannot trust.
Speaker 12:this is someone who lacks the character to do this job, someone who lacks the integrity to do this job, and no one is a bigger or more dangerous sycophant than Kash Patel. This political hack does not deserve to be in this building. Our Republican colleagues, intimidated by this president and threats of primary challenges from the MAGA world, may vote to confirm him, but, as my colleagues have said, they will have to live with that vote, be accountable for that vote.
Speaker 16:I mean, do you want to see why we're drawing 2,000 kids at a liberal campus? This is what they have. This is their team. You got Danang Dick Blumenthal, you got the retired professor, the beret man, peter Welch, and you got Adam Schiff, who very well might be a criminal Might be. Elon Musk responded to our tweet saying Adam Schiff is a criminal. He's done some very dark deeds, yeah.
Speaker 27:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6:I don't think you need to hedge anything there. He's a criminal.
Speaker 4:Well, I don't know, man. I mean really, let's get as official as we can get now. Keep in mind I was condemned from this podium too right like matthew graves got up on the third anniversary of january well, I guess and played a video of me in his speech from. I don't know if it was this podium, but it was the doj. Either way, I have been slandered by a top government official behind one of these podiums.
Speaker 6:All right, let's go through the process and find out.
Speaker 4:Let's go through the process and find out how Adam Schiff and his perspective. I know some people hate when I take the contrarian point of view. I'm just trying to point out here this stuff matters, but it doesn't either. Okay, the only thing that matters. They could slander me all they want. I would have been happy for them to do it. It's when they put on the bracelets, the handcuffs, the things got serious. So slander all you want. That's just politics, right.
Speaker 27:So I want to see bracelets and has already said he wants to see adam schiff held accountable for the countless lies he told the american people in relation to the russia gate scandal. I brought tulsi Gabbard out to this podium to talk to you about all of that and this administration is taking accountability very seriously. As for this new FBI whistleblower report, I understand Kash Patel last night declassified a 302 FBI document showing that a whistleblower who is a Democrat, a career intelligence officer who worked for Democrats on the House Intel Committee for more than a decade, repeatedly warned the FBI in 2017 that then Rep Adam Schiff had approved leaking classified information to
Speaker 26:senior then-President Donald.
Speaker 27:Trump over the Russiagate scandal. This is obviously a bombshell whistleblower report. Hopefully more people in this room will cover it as such, and I have a quote from the FBI director for all of you. He has said this For years, certain officials used their positions to selectively leak classified information to shape political narratives. It was all done with one purpose to weaponize intelligence and law enforcement for political gain. Those abuses eroded public trust in our institutions. Enforcement for political gain those abuses eroded public trust in our institutions. The FBI will now lead the charge with our partners at DOJ, and Congress will have the chance to uncover how political power may have been weaponized and to restore accountability. That's what the administration is focused on, and hopefully we'll see some more media reports on this whistleblower allegation. If this were reversed, if this were, if this were allegations against the president or any of these cabinet officials, I'm sure everyone in this room would cover it as such.
Speaker 6:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:So I make the point. I've been slandered behind that podium. Adam Schiff now can come out and go. Oh, it's not serious. They say political things behind the podium all the time. Do you see what I'm saying?
Speaker 6:Yeah.
Speaker 4:And so a lot of people are looking at this. Was this just? This is retaliation, or is it justice? Do you know how to spot the difference? I think it's justice. I'm clearly in that camp, okay, but you know, another person that should really be worried is Letitia James. So the guys that have been doing digging into her, this is what they have to say. Oh, and I muted it for good measure. Hold on, I know what I did here, maybe. Ah, I thought I I muted the whole tab because it started playing and I couldn't hit stop. Boo.
Speaker 4:How do I?
Speaker 9:All right hold on.
Speaker 4:Sorry, guys Just get a freshie. Can't get it? Okay, yeah, I can do that. Can't get it? Okay, yeah, I can do that.
Speaker 6:This should work, uh-oh.
Speaker 4:There we go I'm muted to the tab, and then I can't unmute the tab when it's All right, here we go.
Speaker 28:Letitia James is in central. Single financial disclosure to New York State as far back as 2019 contains false information, with her signature on it. Every single mortgage on her property in Brooklyn from when she purchased it contains false information the Virginia property. When she claims, like the power of attorney that she signed was a mistake. You know, whatever Implicates her the situation that she has is she put pen to paper. I didn't, donald Trump didn't. Maga didn't do it, you didn't do it. She owns this fraud. She did it Every single financial disclosure to New York State.
Speaker 4:She came after Donald Trump over what amounted to a whole handful of ticky, tacky, nonsense stuff, nonsense, nonsense stuff. Banks that said we weren't injured, we weren't harmed. She came after him, but yet she herself committed mortgage fraud in an epic case of boomerang, you know, and an epic case of projection. I accuse others of doing that, which I myself am doing. Matt taibbi had a conversation with chris cuomo and he's changed his opinion on whether he's we're going to see indictments or not.
Speaker 9:I think there are going to be indictments. I was very skeptical on that question, even a couple of weeks ago, but I have heard repeatedly from these folks that they understand that this is not a hearts and minds contest and that they are not doing this for show, and if they don't end up in a courtroom that they will, this will be a massive political failure for them. So I do think that there will be significant indictments. I just don't know what for I mean I? I think that's a very important question to ask right now. We know the grand jury has been convened, but they haven't really given us a strong indication about what crimes they might be investigating it has to be that.
Speaker 1:I mean, that's what we've seen with all of these things. I mean even the durham thing that just came up. You know the cases that he made right. The guy pleaded guilty to fuck him with an email, and then the other two guys it was you lied to us and they lost both cases. Um, so you know, that's what it always comes down to.
Speaker 9:So that's a good point, but what I've, what I've heard from these folks, is that they understand how, that, the optics of that and what that looks like to voters, and they are going to try for, I think, something more substantive, even if it comes up short.
Speaker 1:Do you that the clintons wind up being exposed to prosecution?
Speaker 9:I keep being told that I'm not under. I'm not sure I understand how that uh can be the case, but I keep being told that hillary clinton is actually a target in these investigations. Um, clinton is actually a target in these investigations. It may turn out that something having to do with her original email situation will be wrapped into some kind of conspiracy case, but I don't know what it is and I don't see it, so I would. I mean, this is where this is me, the careful reporter, saying I would caution people not to think that there's anything there yet before we see it.
Speaker 4:You know, for, like the Boyle brothers, who know about the Bill and Clinton Bill and Clinton Clinton Bill and Hillary Clinton Foundation, or whatever it's called Clinton Foundation, financial crimes are everywhere but they're hard to prove. They're hard to prove because the numbers go and then they split and they split and there's an invoice. But this invoice was fake, but it looks like a real invoice. You see what I'm saying. So into a jury, they're like. But I like hillary, I'm with her. You know what I mean. And so that's like, yeah, how they're going to tie them in, it's obvious. They've got problems, obvious.
Speaker 4:Okay, we're going to jump over to premium and we are going to watch this john oliver clip it hilarious. We're also going to reveal clandestine has an interesting little thought here, because one of the things Trump did is he sent a letter to the Smithsonian saying they're going to come in and review not only all of their books but also all of their artifacts and the tunnels. So for the Q official out there, the tunnels Trump's going into the tunnels on the same day that he militarizes dc. Oh my gosh, military tribunals might be coming. So we'll be talking about that. On the other side, in premium, we'll save the fun hysterics for that. So with that, we'll talk to the rest of you guys again tomorrow. Rumble people. We'll talk to you a little bit longer in just a minute.
Speaker 2: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. What I object to is that you automatically treat me like an inferior. 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 is. There's some lovely filth down here, oh.
Speaker 15:How do you do? How do you do, 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.
Speaker 2:I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You, 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 the gang. That's what it's all about.
Speaker 15:If only people would Please please good people, I am in haste who lives?
Speaker 2:in that castle? No-one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What Then? Who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you? We're an anarcho-syndicalist commune.
Speaker 2: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, be quiet. I order you to be quiet. Order. Who does he think he is?
Speaker 2:I'm your king? Well, I didn't vote for you. You don't vote for kings. Well, I can become king. Then the lady of the lake, her arm clad in the purest, shimmering semite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying, by divine providence, that Ithur 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. But 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? 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? Hey, that's what I'm on about. Do you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?
Speaker 4:and we're back. All right, welcome to the party. The after show. Okay, so I talked about the smithsonian before we left, so this is from the white house letter to the smithsonian internal review of smithsonian exhibits and materials.
Speaker 4:As we prepare to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our nation's founding, it is more important than ever that our national museums reflect the unity and progress and enduring value that define american story. In the spirit and in accordance with the executive order 14253, restoring truth and sanity to American history Truth and sanity to American history we will be leading a comprehensive internal review of selected Smithsonian museums and exhibits. This initiative aims to ensure alignment with the president's directive to celebrate American exceptionalism, remove divisive or partisan narratives and restore confidence in our shared cultural institutions. This review is a constructive and collaborative effort, one rooted in the Smithsonian vital mission and its extraordinary contributions. Our goal is not to interfere with the day-to-day operations of the curators or staff, but rather support a broader vision of excellence that highlights historically accurate, uplifting and inclusive portales of the American heritage. Get ready, buddies, we're opening your books over there at the.
Speaker 4:Kennedy center we found $ ready. Buddies, we're opening your books over there. The kennedy center we found 26 million dollars in phantom income. What do you think? The missonian's laundering? Huh right. And then on top of that, this is clandestine again. Who's you know kind of one of these accounts that gets a lot of good stuff? The white house just sent a letter to the smithsonian notifying them that there will be a comprehensive internal review of their entire operation to include inspection of their collections. This comes the day after trump took federal control of DC, took control of Metropolitan Police for 30 days and deployed the National Guard to DC.
Speaker 4:The Smithsonian Museums have an infamous underground tunnel system connecting a vast network of museums underneath the National Mall. Yeah, I'm going full tinfoil hat. Trump just deployed the National Guard to DC and the next day he says he's going to search the Smithsonian Tunnels. Maybe I'm just reading too much into this, but my non-senses are tingling. Ask Grok to Google search for it.
Speaker 4:The Smithsonian tunnels and tunnels under DC are no secret or some kooky conspiracy theory. They exist and are widely known. They are supposedly used to transfer artifacts, staff supplies etc. Between facilities. Grok's answer is yes. There are tunnels between the Smithsonian buildings and the Washington DC, primarily used for utility and logistical purposes. These tunnels connect various Smithsonian museums, such as those along the National Mall, to facilitate the movement and staff, supplies and artifacts between facilities without disrupting public spaces. For example, the Arts and Industries Building, the Smithsonian Institute Building, the Castle and other nearby structures are linked by underground passageways, but the house utilities like heating, cooling and electrical systems, as well as storage and mass areas.
Speaker 4:Then, just to add an additional layer of weirdness to this whole thing, the Smithsonian Insignia is literally a Masonic sun, the same sun designed as also found on Epstein's island in the form of a massive sundial. Maybe just a coincidence, but spooky nonetheless. Huh, that's deep tinfoil hat stuff there, but clandestine. You know, it's funny to me how many of the Q things are like actually happening. But the narrative now is different. Yeah, like you know, on january 7th we were all like trump, trump's in charge of dc. They've brought the military to dc and it's going to be mass arrest for treason and trump flies off in.
Speaker 6:Uh, and what was the frog's name?
Speaker 4:pepe, pepe yeah pepe went deep underground. He went to hibernation. All right, now for the long tease. John oliver, clip on. Uh, chuck schumer. I'm gonna go ahead and refresh this, just in case.
Speaker 26:So again, this is the left attacking the left, but it is freaking hilarious I actually wanted to talk less about chuck schumer himself and more about two of his favorite people, joe and Eileen Bailey. They're a couple that, throughout Schumer's career, he has talked about a lot.
Speaker 24:They're a middle class couple in Massapequa, which is a suburb on Long Island, joe and Eileen Bailey. This middle class couple they bought into Reagan Republicanism in 1980. Joe and Eileen are worried about losing their jobs or their friends' jobs. The Baileys really don't believe in trickle down. They don't believe in a whole lot of government spending but they believe in tax breaks for kids to go to college. He's an insurance adjuster and lives in the New York suburbs. By New York standards he makes $50,000 a year. If he lived in the middle of the country he'd make $40,000. Wife works in a medical office.
Speaker 26:She makes about 20. She might make 15 elsewhere and you know, this is all. I have guided my political life through the Bailey's. The Bailey's have guided Chuck Schumer's political life, which is a little weird given they don't exist. Seriously, he invented them. Schumer first introduced the world to the Bailey's in his 2007 book Positively. American winning back the middle class majority one family at a time. American winning back the middle class majority one family at a time. In it he mentions the Baileys an astonishing 265 times in 264 pages, but he'd apparently been talking about them for years before the book was published. One of his former spokespeople said he's always asking what would the Baileys think? And, to be fair, schumer acknowledges that some may find this a little weird.
Speaker 24:If you ask my staff, I've been talking about and talking to the Baileys for 15 years. I have conversations with them. One of my staffers once said I had imaginary friends to the press Got me in some trouble. But these people are real and I respect them and I really love them and I care about them.
Speaker 26:OK, sure, but they're literally not real, chuck. But even if you can understand the potential utility of creating a prototypical voter in your head, this goes way beyond that, because Schumer's given the Baileys an unnecessarily detailed backstory. For instance, he said Joe takes off his cap and sings along with the national anthem before the occasional Islanders game. Ok, and when their daughter Megan oh yeah, they've got kids, by the way told Eileen a friend, was caught cheating on a quiz, eileen was appalled because lying is not tolerated in the house ever. Also, eileen apparently helps with the clothing drive at her church and her father had a prostate cancer scare a few years ago. Again, this is a made-up family. None of these people exist. But wait, I'm still not done.
Speaker 26:Apparently, joe Bailey would never have a goatee. They watch Sex and the City and Desperate Housewives, though Joe pretends not to like either show. They think most baseball players probably take steroids and if they were to ever go out to a Chinese restaurant, they would order Kung Pao Chicken. That is a JRR Tolkien level of gratuitous backstory, and I don't say that lightly. But the Baileys do seem to have a lot of sway over Schumer's politics, as he brought them up when discussing everything from the 2008 financial crisis to cyber security, which he framed as protecting the security the Baileys feel when they go online to buy birthday presents and to hear Schumer tell it. The Baileys' views can be complicated.
Speaker 24:The Baileys are not anti-immigration, but they are anti-illegal immigration. They really dislike the Enron executives who stole money, but they hate the people who burn the flag even more. They are pro-choice. They understand that a fundamental decision like that should be made by the individual, but they're glad their church isn't.
Speaker 26:Really, are you sure about that? And the more you hear about the Baileys, the more it feels like they represent a very particular slice of the electorate. Schumer said that they supported the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements because they understood that morality was on the side of the protesters. But starting in the late 60s, when those protesters cursed the returning veterans and Stokely Carmichael advocated armed resistance against the white ruling class, the Bailey's were lost, which fun fact is both a misleading history of the civil rights movement and what people who never supported it tend to say. And yet Schumer will insist the Bailey's concerns are widespread and that they could just as easily have been the Ramirez's of Portchester, the Kim's of Elk Grove, california, or the Salims of Dearborn, michigan. But crucially, for all he talks about how much he loves the Baileys, they don't seem to return that love Because in 2021, he explained how the Baileys had voted in the past few presidential elections.
Speaker 24:They voted for Clinton and then they voted for Bush. They're not a member of one party or another, they're independent. Did they vote for Donald Trump trump? Both of them did in 2016.
Speaker 26:joe bailey still did in 2020 with miss skippings, but she didn't the baileys voted for trump and just this march a reporter actually got an update on their voting history.
Speaker 22:You said the Bailey's voted for Trump in 2016. They split Trump Biden in 2020. I'm wondering who they voted for in 2024. Probably voted for.
Speaker 24:Trump Probably voted for Trump. But if you ask them why, I think they'd say above all crime.
Speaker 26:OK. So to recap, of the six votes the Baileys had across the last three presidential elections, five went to Donald Trump, most recently because of crime, which, for what it's worth, was down in every category last year, with violent crime at its lowest rate in 20 years. They also think the civil rights movement went too far and aren't against immigration, just illegal immigration. And this is the couple who, in Chuck Schumer's own words, have guided his political life. And at this point it might be worth asking is that a good idea?
Speaker 26:Because the truth is, schumer's devotion to his imaginary friends may help explain why he and the Democratic Party have been so underwhelming in recent years. Because he seems to be focusing a huge amount on the interests of the Baileys from Long Island, while forgetting other voters actually exist. And look, I'm not saying that he shouldn't think about how his messaging plays with suburban middle class voters with pretty right off centre views, although they're not theoretically winnable in the future. What I am saying is, by tailoring your policies so heavily to them, you are pulling yourself to the right and in doing so could be alienating not only the rest of your base but new voters looking for a party that speaks for them. So, senator Schumer, at least when it comes to formulating policy. It might be time to break up with the Bailey's, which really shouldn't be that hard to do, given that, politically, it seems they've already broken up with you.
Speaker 4:His imaginary voters are voting for the opposite and they're made up. This has been fact-checked. The Bailey's don't exist. He's made a prototypical, a prototype of a voter, and he's been doing it for 20 years. I talk to invisible people. They've even leaked that I have invisible.
Speaker 6:They're very real though my staff thinks I'm crazy, you are crazy, I think it's hilarious.
Speaker 4:He's like, which probably won't be that hard because they've pretty much already broken up with you.
Speaker 6:Yeah, they voted for trump why would he imagine that that's so funny?
Speaker 4:he mentions him 264 times in 260 or 265 times in 264 pages the whole book's about the baileys, they're totally made up the baileys on long island.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh. It's so funny anyways, that that was fun. I thought I'd share that with you as a longer clip, so I wanted to play it in the private, but it just made me laugh. When you look at some of these characters, I mean they're just that. They're characters, man, they're just a figment of reality. The Baileys of Long Island. All right, folks, we're going to talk to you again tomorrow. Thanks for coming. Don't forget to check left behind, withoutorg and all that kind of stuff. And tomorrow I think we're even going to take a crack at running our first ad. So talk to you guys again tomorrow.
Speaker 2: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. 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.
Speaker 2:There's some lovely filth down here oh.
Speaker 15:How do you do? How do you do, 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.
Speaker 2: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?
Speaker 2: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 2: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 2: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?
