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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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Local Wins, National Fights, And The Cost Of Corruption
Power concentrates when no one pushes back, and the bill always comes due. We start on the ground with local wins—mayor seats, council shifts, and the myths people believe about what city government can fix—then scale up to the hard truth: incentives at every level reward shortcuts, silence, and spectacle. From a council member allegedly stuffing ballots to ethics clouds at the Fed, we map the system that makes people feel like peasants while insiders play a different game.
We get candid about Trump’s second-term posture, lawfare concerns, and why expanding executive power is a trap no matter who holds it. That thread runs through everything else: the border crisis and missing minors, the slow pivot toward welfare checks, and the data connecting immigration, housing demand, and inflation. We unpack a 150-year study that challenges the old assumption that tariffs raise prices, explore how targeted trade policy can redirect investment home, and look at why retail giants are cutting holiday prices now.
The receipts don’t stop at policy. We examine congressional stock trades that mirror committee influence, healthcare’s upside-down pricing where cash beats insurance, and a patient-first funding model that could force real transparency. Add in the public split between Trump and Marjorie Taylor Greene, plus shifting media incentives, and you get a clearer picture of what drives outcomes: who holds power, who’s accountable, and whether the rules are simple enough to enforce.
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We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch the little movies? You see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around, but where are those people? Where are those people? Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. I feel like my TV angles, like I don't know, it feels weird on me.
SPEAKER_13:It's only weird when you look at it.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, that's probably. That's probably that's like, ooh, hey. So you had a you had a poor weekend. You were sick all weekend. Ugh.
SPEAKER_08:Yeah.
SPEAKER_09:I had a uh I had a crazy weekend. Not that there was anything crazy about it, per se, except the internet was crazy. Oh this is like a bonker's weekend. Uh we'll get into it a little bit. Uh good morning, pony boy. Welcome, welcome. Glad you're here. Give people a couple minutes to tag on in here. So I went to a men's group on Friday night in Everett. Got invited out to this thing. Gosh, it was awesome. There's probably like 15, 20 men that showed up. We were just in a coffee shop after it closed and uh then afterwards made our way over to Applebee's and have a little after talk. But the uh inside of this group, it's mostly Snohomish County guys, a couple guys out of King County, but they just recently uh won the mayor seat in Snohomish. And I think that's where they said they were in Snohomish, and also two of the council seats. And they ran four council members. There were four seats that up, and they tried to run them as a slate and had some pretty good success. How many councilmen do they have? Uh I don't know. But they're nine. I mean, this is a big difference, this is making a big difference. They said George Soros identified that going after the little towns and taking over the little towns was like totally possible. He said, you know, we're out here in like a conservative community and we have this far left board and mayor, and so they just decided to take it back. And uh now they're gonna work on the Republican Party of Snohomish County.
SPEAKER_13:On that same topic, I just saw a post this morning that said something to the effect that about half of the city council and the city manager for Baymridge Island just jettisoned. They're gone. Really? And the locals are ecstatic. Government shut down! Yeah, but but but hold on, get tempered here because all these people are saying so much nonsense. It's funny because they just don't understand local governance or anything, nothing, and so they just they just start, you know, talking about all their Christmas wishlist stuff that is just nonsense. It's like, well, finally we can stop growth in this county. It's like, yeah, maybe you don't really understand growth management, yeah, and you don't really understand what the growth is doing for you.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, yeah. Pretty sure you won't be in such a nice place if we're not growing. So, Scott Jennings on CNN, he wrote a new book called Common Sense about Donald Trump. We'll let him talk about that because kind of like what you're saying here, you know, the whole council, a lot of people don't know what's going on with civics. And I'll be frank, when Donald Trump came into office the first time, he was not surrounded by some good people. He did a lot better job this second time. Everyone, one rebel.
SPEAKER_01:Stormed Washington and fought for Western civilization. Here's a quote: the era of the scripted politician is over, and the ones who succeed in the future will authentically speak in their own minds instead of someone else's. Trump blazed the trail, and it will be fascinating to see if anyone in either party can ever approach replicating the connection he has with his people. What's the answer to that question?
SPEAKER_05:Well, I don't think you'll ever be able to replicate Donald Trump. Carrying the coalition forward uh, you know, will be left to others, but replicating this moment, replicating the last 10 years, replicating the authenticity, he has changed politics, he's changed media. And frankly, what the book is about is that he revolutionized governing. When he came into this Trump 2.0 term, he picked the right team, they had a plan. I mean, he really hit Washington before uh uh it got out of bed in the morning and he hasn't really stopped. Um, the book, I picked out a lot of topics where he just uh they knew what they wanted to do, they apologized to no one, they waited for no one, they don't respect old arrangements, and most people that I know that voted for him can't believe how much he's been able to get done.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, he's gotten a ton done. And this weekend, with between the Epstein thing last week and the Marjorie Taylor Green thing this weekend, there's a lot of people that are losing sight of what Trump has done. Yes, and myself included. Yeah, and I think a lot of that is because we don't realize what he's up against. Okay, all the things he has to fix and has said he would fix.
SPEAKER_13:If you want to think about what he's up against, all you have to do is look at a picture of Cash Patel's eyes.
SPEAKER_09:So this is a Fox News report, and this is about the missing kids, the 450,000 kids, unaccompanied minors that came across the border just in the last four years. So nothing is happening rapid, right? I think I think the last report I heard it was somewhere between 15 and 20,000 kids have been recovered. And now, after the big beautiful bill, the funding has been put in place, they've hired enough people. Now we're starting to get, you know, up till now it's been just get who you can grab, go after the hardcore illegals, go after the kids that you know have complaints on file or whatever. But now they're gonna do knock and knock and checks on all these kids.
SPEAKER_17:A brand new operation to conduct welfare checks on the 450,000 children that the Biden administration placed with unvetted sponsors, some of whom were sex traffickers, gang members, and abusers. The Trump administration has already located more than 24,400 children, and some of these stories are absolutely heartbreaking, like this one. A one-year-old unaccompanied minor crossed the border during the Obama administration. During her 11 years in America, she lived with a series of relatives and endured horrifying abuse. According to Fox's Brooke Taylor, she was found in the custody of two sisters who have now been arrested. The 12-year-old was found, quote, with injuries all over her body, extreme malnutrition, and an infected gash on her head and zip ties around her wrist. Among those who abused this innocent child were her one-time sponsor, a distant uncle, that she was placed with in 2024. Despite being an illegal immigrant with a criminal conviction, that sponsor, that alleged abuser, was given temporary protected status by the Biden administration. Why? Here is video that Brooke Taylor obtained of the Trump administration arresting that man just yesterday. This is just one of the nearly half a million children that the Trump administration is seeking to protect.
SPEAKER_09:And again, it comes down to most of the problems that we have in our country center around a couple key notes. Then causes you know bad policy because people start to self-serve. So here's an example of self-serving. This is in the banking, right? This is another chairman of the Federal Reserve. This is one of the governors, not Lisa Cook. Senator Tim Scott issued the following statement on the new reporting that a former Federal Reserve governor, I guess this is a former, violated the Fed's trading rules, underscoring the urgent need for meaningful reform and restored integrity at our central bank. And he said, every time the Federal Reserve faces an ethics scandal, it chips away at America's confidence in one of our most important institutions. The latest report makes clear that the Fed still doesn't have the guardrails or culture of accountability the American people expect. The next Fed chair must restore integrity, strengthen transparency, and end the pattern of insiders playing by their own rules. Reform isn't optional. It's essential if the Fed is going to fully regain the trust it has lost. Chairman Tim Scott. Now, you know, some people would say, why do you allow this to continue? Listen, if there's accusations being made on the public, I promise you, other national insiders, as in the banks in London and the big investing sheiks in Saudi Arabia and EUA know that these people are corrupt and know they can be bought. And that's the thing that we see over and over and over and over again, right?
SPEAKER_13:Is that why MBS is coming to America this week? Why is he coming?
SPEAKER_09:No, I said, is that why he's probably coming to buy some F-35s, to be completely honest. But this all stems from stuff like this. So this was just in this last election here a couple weeks ago, caught on video by someone running for mayor, stuffing ballots.
SPEAKER_12:All of a sudden, the lights turn on inside the truck. That's when you spot three men inside, including what appears to be council member Abu Musa in the back seat. The same council member who is seeking re-election right now. The video then shows the driver getting out and stuffing absentee ballots into the dropbox. The only problem? They don't all fit. He then starts whisking them in before reaching for two more stacks. The whole time looking around to see if anyone is watching. After about two minutes, the group drives away. And get this local four found that it happened again, only four days later. This time a different car pulling up with what appears to be the same council member in the passenger seat. He then starts handing bundles of ballots to the driver, dropping off three large stacks. City election results show Musa received 1,129 votes during the primary, making him the top contender for city council in November.
SPEAKER_09:Well, you got stacks so thick you can't shove them in the envelope. That's the kind, it's like didn't happen. You know, they're just the Democrats doesn't happen. Nope, that one guys, he's a Republican. So when you're up against that, right, when you've got an executive branch power that can be so powerful, when they the executive branch itself covers up for corruption for all three branches of government, and it's all the way down to the city councilman is stuffing ballots with impunity, right? It's one thing if you're running for like Senate and you think you have the FBI in your back pocket, but when you're running for city council, do you know how to how you know how brazen you have to be? You know what I mean? There's so many layers of authority above that that could take you out. What that tells me is they were taught to do it. And council members and people, even at the lowest little level in a primary, have been cheating forever, right? It's way more complicated than bringing a bus full of college kids from a different college town out to some rural county to vote. This is like you're not even going through the effort of bringing human bodies, you're bringing ballots.
SPEAKER_13:This is the way.
SPEAKER_09:This is the way. Now imagine a system that was set up to protect all these different types of corruption, right? Everything from the most nefarious stuff you can imagine, children being trafficked across the border, all the way down to just little contracts for this, that, or the other, right? This is why on MSNBC this weekend, on Morning Joe, I think this was Friday, Morning Joe, they were just terrified about the law fair because the office of the president has become so powerful. And you know, presidents don't just give up their power. And imagine knowing this. Trump's only been in office nine months, right? You guys have had this power. So everything you're complaining about just validates exactly why Trump's back in office and why the American people wanted him back there is because he's the only one we trust with this power.
SPEAKER_04:That is ruling as if it's never going to lose power. This is a movement that is ruling as if all of the precedents it sets will only apply to the other side. And that is an incredibly dangerous assumption. We're going to have an Again.
SPEAKER_09:Only apply to the other side. Only we can do law fair.
SPEAKER_04:Right.
SPEAKER_09:Oh my gosh, you know, you can't operate thinking it you only you are going to be the winner.
SPEAKER_04:Election in 2028. And if the Republicans succeed in allow in remaking the presidency, and and Republicans and Congress allow the remaking of the presidency, that's going to make every president we have from this point forward more dangerous than the president that preceded them, because they're just going to become more and more and more powerful. So we're at a moment here, I think, Joe, where the American constitutional order needs to reassert itself. And that constitutional order is supposed to put Congress first amongst the branches, not uncheckable. Congress can still be checked, but it's Article I for a reason. But right now it's as if it doesn't exist, as if it's handing everything over to a president. And as if they think that that president will always be hospitable to them, that that president is always going to be supporting them. No, when you set these precedents, when you allow a president to get this powerful, you can't control what comes after. It is so short-sighted, it's re and it's remarkably dangerous.
SPEAKER_09:It is so one of the things you have to recognize, and remember, we've reported on this. Patrick Byrne has mentioned it, others have mentioned it, is the Democrats are planning. If they ever come back in power, which they believe they will, they're gonna go full bore. They're gonna run the board. They're gonna run the board. No filibuster, pack the court, couple new states, Trump in jail, all his friends in jail, his family in jail, all his supporters in jail, probably get rid of. In fact, we're I don't know if we'll get to the city. Use all the new seats to control Congress and the fact that we're getting rid of the presidential pardon, right? It could get kind of rough. So, in a landscape where it's becoming increasingly zero sum, these guys are projecting, like, yeah, if we get power back, which is also explaining all the political attacks.
SPEAKER_30:So dangerous. And Jim Vandai, you know, once presidents get power, it's not like the next president voluntarily gives it up. So again, these are the extraordinarily dangerous precedents where where you have a president tweeting something, and a couple of hours later, an attorney general jumps to attention and says, Yes, I will now begin an investigation against a former president from another party.
SPEAKER_13:You're talking about Joe Biden's.
SPEAKER_02:I agree with the level of concern on all of those and the dangers of the precedent. I will say, if you want to have an optimal um optimistic take on it, the American people are watching this. They are making a judgment. Look at what happened in New Jersey. Look at what happened in Virginia, look at poll after poll about what's happening with Hispanic voters. It looks like in some of them you see a 20 to 30 swing, point swing away from Donald Trump. Look what happened in Indiana and Missouri, where they tried to bully the legislature to do redistricting, and a couple of Republicans stood up and said, hell no, we're not going to do it. Look at topic after topic that Trump ran on and then kind of legislated and governed differently, and you see them underwater by 20 to 30 points.
SPEAKER_30:Jim, I this is what I don't understand. Like every member of the House, every member of the Senate, they have to know their election is coming up in less than a year. And you you look at Mikey Sherrill, somebody who even Democrats had ran a terrible race. That's what they said. She won by like 12, 13 points. You look at Virginia, every single county broke against Trump, broke for Republicans. You look at Bucks County, Pennsylvania, historic local elections. Chris Matthews saying entire county commissions going Democratic, probably for the first time in a hundred years. You look at what happened in California. I mean, I can talk, we could go on and on and on about what's happening across the country.
SPEAKER_09:The Democrats are doing the classic, don't do what we do.
SPEAKER_13:I have a question, teacher. Yeah. What did they say? I don't I can't listen to these people anymore. I have no idea what you're talking about. I I mean, the whole time he was talking, I just kept thinking about the projection thing and the Democrats. And it's like everything you guys just said, if we applied it like nine months ago, it would be like a nightmare. Yeah. Dude, I they play dirty. Yeah. They play dirt. And oh, the other thing is, who was that other guy talking to? Who's act what's Axios?
SPEAKER_09:Axios. Axios is HBO's big news brand.
SPEAKER_13:Okay. Why are we listening to that guy?
SPEAKER_09:Oh, they're in the middle of a lot of news. Oh. Yeah, Axios is, I mean, I hate to say credible. They're right up there with the rest of the fake news, but if you're reading, if you're, you know, if you're ever reading a Wall Street Journal headline or a New York Times, then Axios is right in there.
SPEAKER_08:Okay.
SPEAKER_09:So let's look at Trump's Truth Social, because this weekend got a little weird. Seriously, it got a little weird. So I gotta scroll back a little bit here because we're gonna start with all the drama. Because boy, oh boy, didn't he drop some drama? We need more of. Yeah. So first and foremost, the first thing he did was he uh uh directed Pam Bondi to go ahead and start investigating, uh start investigating. Let me know when you're ready. All right, I gotta make sure. Yeah, he's got he's prolific. He tweets or truths so much. So he posted, let's see, where is it? Where is it? Where is it? He posts so much it gets lost. And then he follows up and posts something similar but different. Democrats want you to forget all about it. Okay, so he posted about Jeffrey Epstein. So the first thing he said was he said this. He said, now that the Democrats are using the Epstein hoax involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try to deflect from their disastrous shutdown and all of their other failures. The timing of it just prior to the shutdown, Trump drew a picture and sent it to Epstein for his birthday in 2000 something, right? And Trump was like, ah, we're shutting down. We're we gotta get the budget right, right? We go through the shutdown, and the whole time they're like, oh, we're gonna release these Epstein things. You're keeping the government shutdown, so you don't have to release these files. Immediately open the government. Tim Burkchart's like, unanimous consent, can we all do it? Democrats are like, nope, we're not. Parliamentarians, like, well, I have to have unanimous consent. So kind of called their bluff. Well, Trump just called their bluff too. Now that the Democrats are using the Epstein hoax involving Democrats, not Republicans, to try to deflect from their disastrous shutdown and all of their failures. I will be asking Attorney General Pam Bondy and the Department of Justice, together with our great patriots at the FBI, to investigate Jeffrey Epstein's involvement and relationship with Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reed Hoffman, JP Morgan, Chase, and many other people and institutions to determine what is going on with them and uh and him. This is another Russia, Russia, Russia scam with all the arrows pointing to the Democrats. Records show that these men and many others spent large portions of their life with Epstein and on his island. Stay tuned. So when this initial uh, you know, Epstein emails got released and all the Trump ones that he was involved in got released, it took a little while for people to kind of cipher through it.
SPEAKER_13:Is this the first mention of Bill Clinton from Trump?
SPEAKER_09:No, he's like Bill Clinton's gonna have a lot of trouble for being on the island during the debate. Like he's been calling it out for a long time. It's very difficult to believe that Trump has somehow not been on top of the Jeffrey Epstein stuff. Now, I think there's some fairness in the question: is he covering up for other politicians or things like that that are useful to him? That wouldn't surprise me at all. Um, I read through some of the emails that Jeffrey Epstein exchanged with his lawyers when he, you know, weeks before he died in prison. And Epstein didn't think that what he did was that serious. He was, again, every criminal downplays their crime, right? So he's downplaying his crime, and I hate to use the phrase he used, but essentially these girls were coming into his home and leaving on their own accord. They were not kidnapped, nobody was, you know, now that doesn't mean that wasn't happening, you know. It's just those are not the people that we're hearing from. Right. Right? He was basically saying you're essentially getting a massage parlor type service in my parlor. Okay. So we'll see. But a couple things about this. These documents are about to get released. The moment that a criminal probe gets opened up, all the documents that can be released will not be released. So this is some people are saying, oh, this is just another cover-up, and it's also going to the Southern District of New York, which is like where good cases go to die.
SPEAKER_07:Yeah.
SPEAKER_09:So what's happening here? Is this them covering up by putting this stuff into the criminal system? Does then does this then prevent disclosure?
SPEAKER_13:Does this mean Trump is getting absorbed by the smoke monster?
SPEAKER_09:Well, who knows? Who knows?
SPEAKER_13:Okay.
SPEAKER_09:I am at a point where I Democrats want you to forget all about the trust Trump in this regard.
SPEAKER_13:Well, we have to. I mean, we don't really have a choice, and I'm really hoping that we're not getting abused because of that.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, I I think Trump is trying to do what he's got to do. That's my opinion.
SPEAKER_13:And it's mine as well, especially if you look at the fruits of what he's been doing.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, he's and he has to pause.
SPEAKER_13:It's hard to see it if you don't look at the fruits.
SPEAKER_09:Keep in mind, this guy's accomplished a lot, considering there's still town council members out there stuffing ballots. You know, imagine what they've done at the federal level. Okay, so on top of that, this weekend, he finally came out and officially broke ranks with Marjorie Taylor Green in stunning fashion. So I want to get to this because this is absolutely incredible here. Again, his feed is while you're listening to that.
SPEAKER_13:Can you talk about what their primary beep has been this whole time? I mean, I just don't really get it.
SPEAKER_09:Between Marjorie Taylor Green and Donald Trump. So the issue has been over it seems like there's always been like base friction between them. Well, the well, the issue has been over Israel and foreign involvement, okay, and has been over um Epstein, and now she's touting the affordability, okay, which is very much kind of what the Democrats oh, that's the only way they're attacking us affordability. Well, Trump didn't cause the affordability crisis, and he can't lower the price of beef in two seconds, you know what I mean. So that's been an issue. And he's also she's she's she's done a lot of little things that have been kind of undermined him, kind of chopped him off at the legs. Probably the biggest one. A lot of people were circulating pictures of Marjorie Taylor Green at the press conference with Thomas Massey talking about Epstein and in the backgrounds, all these pictures of Trump with Epstein, Epstein's a pedo. And it's like, you know, if you're such a huge supporter, you probably shouldn't stand in front of it. Yeah, really bad look. So Trump said this. He said, I am withdrawing my support and endorsement of Congressman Marjorie Taylor Green of the great state of Georgia over the past few weeks, despite my creating record achievements for our country, including a total and complete victory on the shutdown, closed borders, low taxes, no men and women's sports, or transgender for everyone, ending DEI, stopping Biden's record setting inflation, biggest regulation cuts in history, stopping eight wars, rebuilding our military, being respected by every country in the world, as opposed to being the laughing stock that we were just 12 months ago, having trillions of dollars record setting invested in the USA and having created the hottest country anywhere in the world from being a dead country just 12 months ago and so much more. All right. All I see, wacky Marjorie, do is complain, complain, complain. It seemed to all began when I sent her a poll stating that she should not run for senator. There you have it. The personal desire, right? Personal ambition, or governor. She was at 12% and didn't have a chance, unless, of course, she had my endorsement, which she wasn't about to get. She was told many people, she has told many people that she is upset and I don't return her phone calls anymore. With 219 congressmen, men and women, 53 U.S. senators, 50, 24 cabinet members, almost 200 countries and otherwise normal life to lead. I can't take a ranting lunatics call every day. I understand that wonderful conservative people are thinking about primarying Marjorie in her district of Georgia. And they too are fed up with her and her antics. And if the right person runs, they will have my complete and unyielding support. She has gone far left, even doing the view with their low IQ Republican hating anchors. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Make America great again. Wow. Wow. Now Marjorie has really been pushing this. I'm not Make America Great Again as much as I'm America first and America always. That's great. Sounds good. Um, I would appreciate it if we would stop having to pay for wars overseas.
SPEAKER_13:So if we could get that resolved, that'd be great. I did hear her say one thing. She said something, and this is the first time I ever heard this. I heard my ha versus maha, and maha always has to be, you know, before my ha. And I was like, oh, okay, uh, yeah, that's makes sense.
SPEAKER_09:But make Israel great again is for making it. I was like, oh, okay. So then Trump goes on to say, Marjorie Trader Green is a disgrace to our Republican Party. She goes, he goes on to say, uh, he goes on to the labels. Indiana's decided they don't want to do redistricting because you know they don't want the Democrats to do it. They're doing it, Dork. That was the point, you ding-dong. They were gonna do it anyways. Um, so he he goes on, wacky Marjorie, traitor Brown. Remember, green turns to brown where there is rot involved. Wow, is working overtime to try and portray herself as a victim when in actuality she is the cause of all her own problems. The fact is, nobody cares about this traitor to our country. Now, in a world where we're getting ready to prosecute some traitors, this is big words being thrown around. Okay now, Lynn Wood, way back in the day, oh yeah, called out Marjorie Taylor Green early. Oh, really? Oh, yeah, he called her a communist, said she just wants to go play the game. She just wants to go play the game and be a part of it. That's all it is.
SPEAKER_13:Should have been paying closer attention.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah. So he goes on to just post thing after thing, link, uh, people talking about Marjorie, for example. Uh see if we can find he just posts other people, you know. Marjorie, we are ready to vote against you. You've turned on Trump, blah, blah, blah.
SPEAKER_13:So now she's wacky and a traitor.
SPEAKER_09:Marjorie Trader Brown. The green turns brown with rock. Now, this is the kind of stuff that she's been doing this last week. Making a lot of hits on MSNBC, CNN. And again, she's saying the things they want to hear. She's starting to get the play. It starts to make you go, hmm, she's making a move. She's trying to break off on her own. She's trying to get the independent vote, the moderate left, right? There's something working here. I would like to say humbly, I'm sorry if she's she's made her whole career on being super extreme.
SPEAKER_13:And now she's gonna apologize for being a part of the Republican Party. Is that what she's gonna say?
SPEAKER_09:Say that again.
SPEAKER_13:Is she gonna apologize for doing you know Republican Party work? Yeah, you're gonna basically hear that. Okay.
SPEAKER_09:But I wanted to make you were switching screens back and forth. You were like, oh, we're gonna listen to him here.
SPEAKER_15:Toxic uh politics. It's it's very bad for our country. Um, and I've it's been something I've thought about a lot, uh, especially since Charlie Kirk was assassinated, is that we I'm only responsible for myself and my own words and actions. And I am going, I am committed, and I've been working on this a lot lately to put down the knives and politics. I really just want to see people be kind to one another, and we need to figure out a new path forward that is focused on the American people because as Americans, no matter what side of the aisle we're on, we have far more in common than we have differences. And we need to be able to respect each other with our disagreements.
SPEAKER_09:Yes, we as peasants are long time. We have more in common than we have against, we have to live here, right?
SPEAKER_13:But can't we play like a hot clip of her just going crazy for hours?
SPEAKER_09:We could. In fact, I had a clip with her going crazy on Sharia Law, blah, blah, blah. And then she's like, Hamel and Ormore's great. She told people not to talk bad about the president. And then she's like, No one's ever talked to me about Sharia Law at a town hall. It's not really a threat to our nation. You're like, dude. So here's another one of her talking about Nancy Pelosi. And again, the paradigm she's now anchored in DC. She's been there for going on six years. Okay, she's been to the cocktail party, she survived the first two years on no committee assignments. She's she jammed up Nancy Pelosi. Cannot forget that. She did a good job. She defended the January 6ers. She took Trump and the MAGA movement on her back while Trump was out of power. Cannot forget that, right? But what you're going to see here is the Marjorie Taylor Green that we love and the Marjorie Taylor Green that we're starting to go, did the swamp get you? Okay. And nothing better than an example of Nancy Pelosi. Now, what I'm going to show you after this is going to prove what Lynn Wood accused her of. She just wants to get hers.
SPEAKER_15:That's how bad Nancy Pelosi is. I wish her well in her retirement. That's how bad Nancy Pelosi is. She's the most failed leader, the worst speaker of the House in American history. I'm very impressed at her ability to get things done. I wish we could get things done for our party, like Nancy Pelosi was able to deliver for her party. So I wish her well in her retirement. Is what treason is. Nancy Pelosi is guilty of treason, and we want her out of our government. It is destroying everyone that gets sucked into this great deception.
SPEAKER_09:So Dilly Mean thanks for that. That's the kind of stuff where we're like, what? Okay, well, here's the receipts. This comes from Laura Loomer. Marjorie Taylor Green is using her campaign fundraising to enrich her daughter, Marjorie Taylor Green, who has she has funneled over$113,000 in staff payroll from her campaign fund since March 2024. So just this year, even though her daughter lives out of state in Yokam, Texas, according to FEC Congress, and Major Taylor Green has paid her daughter Taylor Green Robinson$113,000 plus over the last 17 months under the description of staff payroll and$12,000 for fundraising commissions, even though her daughter lives in Texas in a house that she and her husband Silas Robinson closed on in April of 2024. Well, a lot of people work remotely. Yeah. How can MTG justify sending over a hundred and thirteen dollars of her campaign funds to her daughter who doesn't even live in Georgia? So she goes on to the median income in Georgia's congressional district is$71,000. Daughter's receiving a whole lot more than that. So she shows some of those receipts. And again, it's like, well, okay. But then, so not only do you have that, you also have the fact that her net worth has gone from 700,000 when she joined Congress to 23 million, I think, is the number I saw. She is. Yeah. Now again, you know, she wants deportations, deportations, deportations until it's not good for her.
SPEAKER_15:As a conservative and as a business owner in the construction industry and as a realist, I can say we have to do something about labor, and that needs to be a smarter plan than just rounding up every single person and deporting them just like that.
unknown:Right.
SPEAKER_15:So, and I'm gonna get pushback on that, but it's I'm I'm just living in reality from here on out.
SPEAKER_14:Yeah.
SPEAKER_15:And if I'm if anybody's mad at me for saying the truth, then I'm sorry.
SPEAKER_14:Marjorie Taylor Green, ladies and gentlemen, our next president. Sorry, JD Vance. Um Well, I mean, these people are saying it. I go to dinner parties. Yeah, I heard you I heard you on Joe Rogue.
SPEAKER_09:So that's a nice, safe place with Seth Dylan there, you know, to Tim Dillon. Tim Dylan, sorry, to to be like, oh, but hey, listen, you either deport them or you take them, right? So on, I now that I'm, you know, I mean, we got to do something about this labor. I'm in the construction industry.
SPEAKER_13:Uh her talking about getting rid of H1B. I exact.
SPEAKER_09:But then on the other hand, it's like, but we need this cheap labor. Do you see how you start to go, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Yeah. Now that you're in there and you have some vested interests, you got some stocks, you got your, you know, you want to make sure you got the cheap construction labor, you're getting those government bids, your daughter's on the dole, can't slow that down. You know, she just bought a house.
SPEAKER_13:Well, clearly she's either schizophrenic or bipolar or both. I just like, what the heck is going on?
SPEAKER_09:Or, or as uh Vince McMahon says, this is politics as usual.
SPEAKER_13:She's just finding herself and now she's gonna live in reality. Where the where were you living?
unknown:Yeah.
SPEAKER_09:One year ago, I went on record. This is Harrison Floyd. Who is Harrison Floyd? He was down in Georgia and he started the organization Blacks for Trump, and he got wrapped up in Trump's 2020 election uh indictment in Georgia under Fannie Willis. He was the only black man indicted, and he's also the only one that went to jail. He went to jail for 28 days while he tried to make bond on a non-violent paper crime with 30 other co-defendants that didn't go to jail, and he's just the black guy with blacks for Trump. But what did he know? He knew that they had been doing some election fraud. Well, over a year ago, he says I went on record about Marjorie Taylor Green. I said she was playing both sides, right? Because he's like, hey, you gotta pick a side here. Could not be trusted and considered running against her. Then all of a sudden, Fanny tried to revoke my bond. What do you think about MTG now? So he goes in and talks about that in that article. It is another one of those interesting things. I can't sit and be like, I don't like Marjorie. I think she's great. But I have thought in the last few weeks, why are you doing this? And now I'm like, oh, I think she's trying to survive what she perceives as might be some kind of thing. The other thing that I have to mention too, and this is uh important to understand, there's a difference between boomer MAGA and Gen Z, Gen Alpha, millennial MAGA. Gen Z, Gen Alpha, millennial MAGA are culturally MAGA, they're Christian, they're anti-Sharia law, anti-immigration, anti-anything foreign, right? And and they're very into the culture war as far as civilization. Boomer MAGA are economic populists, they want to preserve their home equity. They're totally okay with gay marriage. They they they lost that battle 15, 20 years ago. You know what I mean? They're a different lots of boomer magas are not extremely religious. That's a little bit of a difference there. Marjorie kind of blends towards this other side, except for when it comes to her businesses, I guess. I don't know. All right. Um, in other good news, Target, along with Walmart, is dropping their Christmas holiday prices.
SPEAKER_20:Target is dropping prices ahead of the holidays. The company announcing reduced costs on 3,000 food, beverage, and essential items starting this month. Target is also bringing back its Thanksgiving meal at its lowest price ever. The deal gives customers a complete dinner with all your holiday favorites for less than five dollars per person. Target is dropping out of town.
SPEAKER_09:Trump's winning. So that's good news. Yeah, Walmart says that they have a lower, lower food cost now. I heard someone critique, yeah, but that's two years ago I had 22 items in the basket. Now it only has 15. Maybe. I don't know. Who cares, man? We all care. Carlene says uh Trump has to go after the big four beef cartel. We have antitrust legislation via the Sherman Act. Yeah, it sounds like they're doing something on there. Scott Bessant was on TV this week, and I didn't pull the clip because it wasn't important enough. But apparently, these illegal migrants coming up from the south brought their cattle with them. Did you hear about this? No. Apparently, we've got the screw worm disease that's come into our cattle and our cattle supply, and it came with some migrants did bring cows across the border, apparently. I don't know. Migrating cows. Maybe they get more for the hanging weight. Part of me thought, you know, I don't know if they actually brought the cows, they might have brought the meat. You know what I mean? But either way, he said cattle across the border. Uh, but we're dealing with a screw, so there's a bunch of factors when it comes to beef. Sounds like they're doing what they can. I mean, it's kind of like the uh twin chicken prices went up. That was 100% because they had a flu, a bird flu and they cold the herd, kind of without telling everybody. And you know, it takes a little while to get those little birds populations back up. Uh so that happened. Target announced they're dropping prices. Simultaneously, the Fed came out with a new study. Oh, this is a brand new study. And for the last hundred plus years since the central bank was created, they've operated on the assumption that tariffs create higher prices and taxes. Turns out, after studying this and looking at 150 years of history all across the world, a sweeping new analysis of tariff policy spanning 150 years suggests that the economic establishment may have fundamentally misunderstood how tariffs affect prices and employment. A finding with profound implications for understanding President Donald Trump's trade policy and the proper response by the Federal Reserve. Researchers at the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco examined major tariff changes from 1870 through 2020 across the United States, the United Kingdom, and France. Their conclusion challenges the conventional wisdom that dominated economic policy in recent years when count countries raise tariffs, prices actually fall, not rise. Crazy. We find that a tariff hike raises unemployment and lowers inflation. The anchors regis Barnchon and Isaiah Singh wrote in their working paper released this month, this goes against the predictions of standard models whereby CPI inflation could go up in response to higher tariffs. The finding arrives at the policy charged at a politically charged moment, as the Trump administration has implemented tariff increasing averaging 18% on U.S. imports in 2025. Mainstream economists warned of a significant inflationary spiral. The Federal Reserve officials have repeatedly said they have hesitated to cut interest rates because they expect tariffs to push up prices. More recently, several Fed officials have said that they think the central bank should not cut interest rates further due to what they believed would be inflationary pressures. But the historical evidence suggests those concerns may have rested on shaky theoretical foundations not backed by evidence. I want to read that again. Well, it was backed by the Biden administration. That's what it was backed by your finances are being ruined based on shaky theoretical foundations not backed by evidence, as suggested by the San Francisco Fed after looking at 150 years of tariff policy. So they made all these monetary decisions, screwing you out of a house and my friends out of jobs, and you know what I mean? On shaky theoretical foundations and spiraling the entire economy. The terror tarifflation story was upside down. The researchers' approach was ingenious. Rather than trying to parse recent decades of limited tariff variation, they exploited massive swings of tariff policy across centuries, using these shifts as a natural experiment to understand cause and effect. The key insight came from an American political history throughout this 19th century and into the 1930s. Republicans and Democrats held fundamentally opposite views about tariffs. Republicans, representing industrial interests in the North, favored high tariffs for protection. Oh golly gee Welkers, wouldn't you figure? The people that are usually trusted with the economy, the people who build industry and actually raise the tide so all boats raise and eliminate the scourge of poverty, right? Our poor people are fat, not skinny. We have the opposite. We have we have this abundant poverty. You are not poor in resources, you are poor of mental thought. Okay. That's the problem in America. So they're like, oh, hey, turns out it works amazing. And guess what? Republicans have always favored tariffs because they understand how business actually works. If you're gonna say tariffs are a tax, fire your stockbroker, fire your real estate commissioner, fire the guy that's taking a fee, right? If it's not a direct value add on the product you're buying, it's a tax. Every license, everything is a tax if you're gonna go down that road. Right. Republicans understand this, business understands, understand this. There's no difference between a tax and a fee or a tax and a surcharge. It's an added tax. I pay taxes to not just the government, I pay taxes to the distributor, I pay taxes to does it make sense? It's just extra money. The key, okay, the partisan divide creates something economists rarely find, a quasi-random variation in policy. When recession hits, the political response to higher unemployment depends on which party was in power, not on any consistent economic logic. Republicans would raise tariffs to protect their constituents, Democrats would lower them for the same reason. Since recessions didn't, isn't that funny? You know, it's so funny.
SPEAKER_13:Oh man, that's so telling.
SPEAKER_09:Donald Trump accuses people like Thomas Massey of being a Republican or Democrat, blah, blah, blah. This is why the Democrats want the lower tariffs. Okay? The Democrats are concerned about cheap labor. They're plantation owners. Republicans have always been concerned about everybody, collectively. The idea that the Republicans are the country club party is silly. They're the business owner party, and the business owner wants to make sure he has employees and he'd like them to be happy.
SPEAKER_13:Well, they're the farmer party, too, you know.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, the farmer party too, exactly. So, so any Republican that gets out there and goes, tariffs are a tax. Oh, they're a Democrat. They're Democrat.
SPEAKER_13:Yeah.
SPEAKER_09:That's that's what it's that's what this is telling you. Like, that's the history of these two things. Since recessions did not favor one party over another, there was no general relation between the direction of the tariff changes and the state of the economy, the authors explained. They meant this could use straightforward statistical methods to isolate tariff effects without worrying that policymakers were adjusting tariffs in response to economic conditions. They also identified eight major tariff changes explicitly motivated by long-term political considerations rather than cyclical pressures, from the McKinley tariff of 1890 to the recent Trump tariffs of 2018 and analyzed those separately. Both approaches yielded the same unsurprising results. The inflation puzzle. Using a standard economic model, researchers estimated the effect of terrorist shocks on inflation and unemployment. A roughly four percentage point increase in average tariffs lowered inflation by about two percentage points, while raising unemployment by about one percentage point, they found the results held across different time periods. Whether examining the first wave of globalization before 1913, the interwar period, or the modern post-World War II era, the pattern remained consistent. Higher tariffs correlated with lower prices and weaker economic activity. The pattern contradicts standard economic theory, which predicts that tariffs would raise business costs and lead to higher consumer prices. Instead, the researchers observed tariffs increases associated with both lower inflation and higher unemployment. A combination the authors say is more consistent with a negative demand shock than a supply-side increase. These findings point toward shock, tariff shock acting through an aggregate demand channel, the authors conclude. However, the researchers did not identify the specific mechanism. They note that when tariffs appear to act as an aggregate demand shock, when tariffs increased, stock prices fell and market volatility spiked, which could reflect uncertainty, dampening economic sentiment. They also note that tariffs could depress asset prices, which could then depress demand. But they stop short of proving this is what actually happens. So basically, what we're saying here is the money shifts from the corporate balance sheet to the people. That's what happens. So if you're big business, big plantation, right? The Democrats have become that. You want the big stock price. If you're Main Street Republican, you want the big Main Street value. You don't care about the corporate value, other you know what I mean? Interesting. We provide suggested evidence that an aggregate demand channel can be at play, but an important avenue for future research is to understand the theater equal, blah, blah, blah. Anyways, it just goes on. Basically, these guys have had it wrong. Jeez, that was a long post. Yeah, sorry. 150 years, these guys have had it wrong. They've been guessing, right? And Trump this year turning things around. Now, some of these numbers, I start to wonder if he's pulling them out of thin air. But then people, well, when you add up all these deals and they're spread out over 10 years, what are the next 10 years going to look like if we have$20 trillion dumping into our economy? And here's the thing: if$20 trillion are committed, that means$20 billion trillion is going to be financed to get those projects started pretty quick.
SPEAKER_26:Investing in America,$20 trillion. No country's ever done anywhere even near that, like a fraction of that. Biden did less than a trillion in four years. I did$20 trillion. We're going to do over$17 trillion in eight months. By the time we end, we could do over$20 trillion. In China, no matter where you go, there's never been anything like it. We are building up something that's unbelievable. And a big part of that are the tariffs, because they don't want to have to pay the tariffs because it's so unsist that they come and build the pharmaceuticals and the chips and all of the things, they're coming into the United States and they're building them. It's a miracle what's happening. We are building the greatest country in the world, economically greater than we've ever been before. Investors awesome.
SPEAKER_09:Wow. So while Marjorie Taylor Green is over there, we need to lower prices of turkey. Trump's like, I'm making sure your kids can have a job. Right? This is the problem with where we get in these little pickles as a country, is you want micro solutions to your microeconomic problems in a macroeconomic way. You want someone to come in and give you benefits now, and you don't recognize that the the the game board has been set for your failure, right? You've got to make macro changes. Like getting investment to come into the United States instead of the United States constantly sending its investments outside the United States. 17 trillion? That's a lot. Biden didn't even get a trillion dollars of investment coming into the United States in four years. And in Trump's first calendar year, he's got that slated. What will it look like after two or three years? Could be huge. On top of that, talking about this inflation thing, we we played a clip last week where the Fed uh board governor or one of the chairmen, not the chairman, but one of the board governors, was talking about how the deportation is causing deflation, right? It's basically helping with the inflation issue because you're opening up housing supply, which means all the prices don't have to run.
SPEAKER_13:It lowers the demand side.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah. Now, Ed Dowd, who's someone we've played a couple times before, an economist that I respect and appreciate his input, is talking here about essentially how they are starting to see the real estate market kind of break open a little bit. Prices are starting to slump. Now, for boomers, that's like, stop, I don't want to hear that. But for people that are in the market trying to buy, that's like a necessity. And these guys, again, two economists, chit-chat and talk and shop, were unaware of the conditions that have been happening the last four years that might have caused artificial an artificial bubble in the real estate market.
SPEAKER_10:Now they're saying no, you were right. Uh, we're seeing uh things roll over quite quickly in the housing market, especially closer to the border.
SPEAKER_29:I think you were exactly right. And it it had was a I wasn't skeptical of it, but it just I had to think on it for a minute. It's like, hmm, I never thought about that mass wave of 20 million people flooding in, being given all kinds of support. But I was shocked to find in the case of Primalin that they were lending to people without social security numbers or any credit history. Um, that's how crazy it had gotten. I I didn't realize we'd gotten that far.
SPEAKER_09:Correct. And I'm sure we're gonna find that out uh also. So, in all of my analysis, I just assumed the rules were being followed and it wouldn't be a high rate of default. And I I I mean I couldn't imagine that someone could come across the border and then automatically be shoved into the housing market. You thought wrong. They've clearly had a preference for non-citizens. Yeah, clearly, you got a pulse because as a citizen, you ain't getting a home loan without a social security number and a credit history. But if you're non-citizen, oh, we waive all the requirements.
SPEAKER_10:Just go ahead and try to apply. Go ahead. Yeah. Housing market. There was probably some homes bought by illegals with no credit, nothing. Um, you gotta remember that you know, when you bring 20 million people in, I mean, we we it's a lot of people, and it's and it happens super fast. And they were all they were given all sorts of uh uh government goodies, and there was an ecosystem around this illegal, uh, logistical willful operation done by the government, and we were running 8% deficits. So we still don't have a handle on how much of our treasure was given to these people that then they turned around uh and put back into the economy in the form of grocery spending, goods spending. You know, if you came from Guatemala and you came and you were given uh, you know, um a social security number and some handouts and some SNAP benefits and some rental income, uh, any money you got, you immediately spent because you've never had money in your life. So the multiplier effect on a legal emergent is much higher than Joe Six Pack. And, you know, even with all that juice, and we've we've estimated you know, between what the government agencies did directly and the and what was washed through the NGOs, which is also we know about the NGOs, that's just a washing mechanism for fraud. Um we we we've estimated anywhere from 500 billion to one and a half trillion was was pumped into the economy during the Biden administration, and that what went straight into the you know into the corporate corporation's profit.
SPEAKER_09:We need that right. So the Biden administration juiced the economy by basically getting money into the hands of the legals and having them spend them at the local bodega, right? On top of the NGOs that funnel it in. So the spreadsheet looks really good. Meanwhile, you can't find a job, right? Right? So Trump's taking the opposite effect. Yeah, I'm gonna bring 21 trillion, but I'm not gonna print the money. It's already been printed, so it won't touch inflation. That's what people don't realize. What hurts inflation is when you buy a house, when you apply for a new credit card, when you pass a new bill with new money attached to it, right? It's new money. If you can recirculate old money, that's different. When someone gets a loan to buy a house, that money that they're buying the house with did not exist prior to them buying it. That's the dirty secret. Banks do not lend out money, they buy promissory notes.
SPEAKER_13:What does that new money do to all the existing money? It dilutes it. Oh dilutes it. What is that called? It's also called inflation.
SPEAKER_09:Come on, people, connect the dots. Now, Arthur Laffer of the Lafferty Curve talks about this about why high taxes make people quit working, right? So not only do taxes cause inflation, but they also cause disincentivization.
SPEAKER_28:Oh, okay. If you tax people who work and you pay people who don't work, do not be surprised if you have a lot of people not working. Yes. We tax speeders on the highways to get them to stop speeding. True? We tax cigarettes to get people to stop smoking. Why then do we tax people who earn income? Why do we tax people who employ other people? Why do we tax companies that make wonderful products at low cost and make lots of profits? Now we don't tax them to get them to stop earning income. We don't tax them to stop employing other people. We don't stop tax them to make lousy products of high costs. But don't for a moment think that the same consequences don't befall taxes on income, employment, and profits have the same effect as they do on speeders and on smokers.
SPEAKER_09:It disde incentivizes desire to increase your personal well-being because you get it for free, which is one of the reasons they had 29 states that replied to uh I think USDA as far as SNAP benefits to audit the roles, and that's where they found 500,000 people getting it twice, thousands of dead people on the rolls, as well as other fraud. Blue states refused to participate in the audit. So that's just from the red states. I will imagine the blue states like California, New York, Illinois are probably gonna make they're probably by themselves going to match all like there's probably 500,000 double recipients in California alone. Yes, right, most likely. So because of this, they were so stunned during the shutdown when they weren't paying Snap as they started to look at the program apparently for the first time that they thought, you know what? We're gonna make everybody apply again.
SPEAKER_19:That everyone who's on Snap is going to have to reapply.
SPEAKER_09:Now, this happened, of course, um, when the government shut down and there was, you know, the You mean Aunt uh Maria Visuela isn't going to automatically get her Snap benefits, she's gonna have to actually go provide her proof of citizenship to get it. Do you see what they just did here? They just knocked off hundreds of millions of people off snap, and they're like, oh, by the way, reapply. And you know that whole have to be a citizen thing?
SPEAKER_19:The snap benefits were in in in not getting out to the people.
SPEAKER_11:Or 42 million Americans.
SPEAKER_19:Or 42 million well, we thought America inside the country. People. And so uh Brooke Rollins, we had her on, and we had a great conversation with her where she said, hey, listen, this whole Snap benefits uh conversation around the shutdown has sort of pulled the curtain back, and people are seeing how many people are on Snap that aren't actually citizens, and they're going to have to reapply. Um, what do you make of this? I think it's very popular, especially if you go online and look at what people think. Um, I think it's a popular initiative to say these benefits are for Americans. Um, is she gonna be able to accomplish this? Is she gonna have some legal challenges to it? What are your thoughts? I'm sure.
SPEAKER_21:You know, everything that comes from the Trump administration, but I just track it and see how long it takes for it to land in the Supreme Court. So there are gonna be legal challenges. But the thing is, most of these programs with SNAP are administered by the states. And a lot of the states do have verification programs where people have to update every three to six months or, you know, really establish that they got some kind of need. But maybe she's proposing something at the federal level that would then have a federal component for, you know, applying and proving that you actually need this. Because I think all of us are compassionate Americans. Like we want our fellow Americans to get help when they need it. And we've all known people, if not our own families that have walked through these periods of needing this kind of help. But um, Secretary Rollins also said that she found there were 186,000 checks or SNAP benefits going out to people who were dead. So if that's accurate, that's just kind of the tip of the reapply. And there are other problems with the trouble, too.
SPEAKER_09:Reapply. All of you reapply. Again, this all ties back into what Elon Musk said about the Social Security database that they don't clean it up and it's it's a it's a free pass. If you if they ping the system and the Social Security shows as live, verified, boom, it's an open door to all of us.
SPEAKER_13:Is what he said.
SPEAKER_09:As a clearinghouse, yes. So this was another thing, you know, again, paying people not to work. Maybe a little refresh here and we'll get it going.
SPEAKER_03:Here we go. If you're getting approximately 85% of your needs met with food stamps, rent subsidy, Medicare insurance, or Medicaid insurance, if you're getting 85% of your needs met, and then somebody came to you and your player said, How would you like to work for 40 hours? And you're like, wait, work 40 hours to get 100%, or do nothing for 85%. So you're telling me I'm gonna work 40% 40 hours or 15 hours for only an additional 15% more than I currently have. And you know people said, I'll stick with 85. And what happened was now there was no way to get them out of that. And and so now it almost like imploded. So now you have people that are like, Why would I want to work for 15% more?
SPEAKER_09:I ran into this in prison. I'll never forget this black guy who was like, I ain't never worked a day in my life. Why would I work in here? I don't want to work, they can't make me work. I ain't never worked in my life. I ain't and he just going on and on about he's never had a job, he's never gonna get a job because they'll pay you. They'll pay you. He kept saying that, like, they'll pay you. Your job is to get benefits. In the past, we've played clips of a mother who didn't want her kid to go to school because then they wouldn't be able to get their double welfare benefits. I'll take care of you, I'll take care of you. Uh, I had a clip this morning that I forgot to save, so I couldn't play it today, but it was a guy calling his insurance company. So he went in to get medical care, they sent him the bill, and it was, you know,$900. And then they because he had no insurance, so he sent his insurance information and he got the bill again and he owed$1,500. And he was like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, I sent you my insurance. So he calls up the place, and this is where the video comes in. He's like, Well, sir, the cash price is$900, but then you have insurance, the price is$1,500, that's your copay. And he's like, Well, how much is the total price? I was like,$5,000. He's like, Well, can I pay the less amount, the cash? And they're like, No, you have insurance. He's like, Yeah, but I don't want to use it. And he's like, Well, you have to because you have insurance. So it's$1,500. He's like, but it's cheaper if I don't have insurance. So just take the insurance off. He's like, No, sir, we already know you have insurance. He's like, Oh, what if I cancel it? Well, you already had it when you got the coverage. And he's like, Oh, so I had to cancel my insurance before I got to the hospital to get the care. And he's like, so insurance is more expensive than the cash care. And the guy's like, maybe, sir, I don't know, but you have insurance is fifteen hundred dollars, right? And I'm like, that's the by the way, that's true. It's way cheaper to do a Christian health share or medical share share plan than any insurance product. Okay. It's stupid. We do that all the time because we're cash payers. It's like way cheaper to do cash pay than insurance, cheaper than your premiums. Like it's ridiculous. John Duffy from the Department of Transportation, for the first time ever, I saw a recruiting commercial for the merchant marines. Oh. And this was so cool, I had to play it because I was like, this is legit. So if anybody out there knows anybody like young that's looking for a legit career, even with a little bit of interest. Even with a little bit of interest, this is good.
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SPEAKER_09:That's pretty fun. Oh, that's fun. All right, let's go ahead and jump over to private, and we're gonna be talking about Jeffrey Epstein. I know everybody's favorite topic. Good boy. We're gonna be talking about Zelinski for just a moment. And uh yeah, we'll touch on a couple of the things like Seattle's commercial vacrancy rate.
SPEAKER_15:Holy cow.
SPEAKER_09:And uh yeah, so we'll be jumping over to private and we'll talk to the rest of you guys tomorrow. The Unoffendables, see you in a second. Okay, whoo, we are in private. All right, I think so. Along with this uh Jeffrey Epstein thing, Donald Trump's like release the info. Donald Trump's just not implicated in this, but they can create the perfect smear campaign out of it.
SPEAKER_13:Well, they keep trying, anyways.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, keep trying anyways. So Mike Benz, I listened to about an hour and a half long live stream that he did. By the way, his live streams are just him sitting at the computer like doing his research. He's like, I need a minute, he plays music, and I'm like, man, how does he get that? How do so many people tune in to watch him just scroll through uh X? But anyways, so Mike Benz was on with uh uh Stitchfield talking about this Epstein ding and what he kind of you know seems to be the real dog that's not barking. Story behind the story.
SPEAKER_08:Well, there's so much going on with it all at once. There's obviously this new document dump that came out with emails that were kind of posting your own L's in terms of what the Democrats are doing here. Uh, I'll read from one of them that I think is particularly fascinating for uh Democrats to try to dump at this point. This was the White House counsel for Barack Obama, Kathy Rumler, communicating in 2018 with Jeffrey Epstein. Here's a story from the New York Times that I thought you'd find interesting. The principled case for impeachment is clear. What is missing is courage. This is the this is Obama's lawyer, the White House counsel. Jeffrey Epstein responds, I think he makes the argument that it was his Trump's money, making it not illegal. This was the uh you know case about where they went after his accountants and uh in uh New York. Though he also said he only found out afterwards, and the fact, according to the indictment, was built as services rendered and grossed up. I'm sure his accountant has flipped on him anyway. This is what Jeffrey Epstein is saying. I did talk in detail to Starr yesterday regarding indictments and how Trump can make a deal, special counsel. Clinton's trash can yes, Starr gave me more. Yeah. And then and then Obama's lawyer responds to Jeffrey Epstein. This is August 2018, and they would angle for impeachment just one year later, of course, post Jeffrey Epstein getting indicted. Uh uh, Obama's lawyer, Kathy Rumler, writes, it makes no difference whether it's his money, issue is failure to disclose, plus the fact that he has lied is ASS off about it, makes it clear he knew it was illegal. And Jeffrey Epstein responds, You see, I know how dirty Donald is. My guess is that non-lawyers, New York biz people have no idea what it means to have your fixer flip. So this is Jeffrey Epstein working directly with Obama's lawyer to um insinuate that Jeffrey Epstein might flip on Trump, insinuating that he was somehow Trump's fixer. But what this actually shows is the Democrat Party coordinating with Jeffrey Epstein, kind of on the eve of his own second indictment, uh, to try to get Donald Trump indicted and impeached himself.
SPEAKER_09:Well, there's so much so Epstein, who was mortal enemies with Donald Trump, suspected him of turning him in, was working with Obama's fixer to coordinate the impeachment and send him places to look, right? Now, keep in mind, projection. This is incredibly important to understand. It's a psychology thing. You project onto others the things that you see in yourself. You can only see in another person something, a characteristic or a trait that you can identify in yourself. It takes one to know one. This is an absolute truth of psychology, right? This is why virtuous people sometimes get beat up before they realize they have to, you know, fight back. It's because there's they can't imagine somebody would just be violent or not use their words. You know, kids who grow up in abusive households are way more conscientious of the fact that someone could punch you, right, than someone who's never been punched. Yeah, right. It's this is common. So if you're a crook and you've been someone's fixer of work through fixers and you see Trump's fixer, alleged a fixer, Michael Cohen, getting hit, you're like, oh, they're gonna get all the crimes. Turns out Trump's fixer was doing things like getting rid of nuisance lawsuits, not actually participating in the intricate parts of the business, right? Because Trump wasn't crooked like that. Everyone else around him probably was, which is why every time they uncover a stone, they expose themselves because everybody's doing the same thing. In fact, I've got an email for people that participate at 1776live.us, I've got two different uh emails from Epstein talking about how the trust family or the Trump family uses a trust. That's why they can't get to their stop, right? And I've got a video of the same thing. Well, Trump's kids run his trust, but Trump knows that it benefits his trust business. So again, right, these guys think that everyone else is doing the same things they're doing. Here's John Solomon also reporting on these uh releases.
SPEAKER_25:Lots of news, particularly on the Jeffrey Epstein front. Yep. Congress has released a whole bunch more of uh emails. Uh, the Democrats tried to make hay, but it hasn't stuck to Donald Trump. You know where it's sticking? The Democrats. And today the story really significantly boomeranged around. Why is at first um a the Ghlaine Maxwell's uh lawyer accused Democrat Jamie Raskin of working with uh prison officials to leak confidential communications from his client? Uh those prison officials apparently have been disciplined, but that is all so let's pause on that for just a second.
SPEAKER_09:So Jamie Raskin got a hold of the prison officials and got them to dig into her protected emails between her and the attorney. Now it would be wrong if it got between her and her sister's emails because those are private. It's obviously monitored by the jail for your safety and protection of the prison, but it's not public record. You're not supposed to be able to just release that stuff. It's you're not. Like I was there. I expected, you know, I expected my emails to my wife wouldn't show up in the cover of the New York Times.
SPEAKER_13:Even though you knew they were being read.
SPEAKER_09:Even though I knew they were being read. The idea is it's being read because of law. Like, this is a this is a prison. You know what I mean? Like my communication is supposed to be like I have to be very unique about who can re send and receive. Like everybody has to be logged. So yeah, they're reading it, but they're reading it for my safety, not to be right releasing it. This is even worse because they got the privilege communications between her and the attorney.
SPEAKER_25:Beginning of it. Uh, just a few moments ago, Attorney General Pam Bondi announced that she is naming uh the acting U.S. attorney in New York City, Jay Clayton, to investigate Democrats' relationships with Jeffrey Epstein and whether any of them rose to the level of criminality. Why? Because so many of the emails today didn't involve Donald Trump or Republicans. That's right. It invited all involved all those Democrats. And this time around, the idea that Democrats would project on Republicans ain't gonna cut it. This Justice Department is gonna go full bore itself. That is a big, big decision uh in the uh weaponization era. And it's another of many signs that I think Cam Bondy is moving towards approving the notion that there was a grand conspiracy against Donald Trump and his followers and conservatives, and it needs to be treated as such, just like the mob was involved in a grand conspiracy or uh drug cartels are involved in a grand conspiracy. It looks like the Justice Department is moving closer and closer to that.
SPEAKER_09:It's my opinion that we're gonna find out all this Epstein shenanigans. Pam Bondi already came out and said, as far as like charging billionaires with sex crimes, we don't have that.
SPEAKER_07:Right?
SPEAKER_09:She already came out and said thousands of hours of naughty stuff, but nothing that's actionable that we can do. So if they're investigating these people, and this is what I mentioned, Mike Benz watching that long podcast or that long stream he did, he was adamant. This isn't about rub and tugs, because that's what Epstein is accused of, by the way. The more salacious things you hear about him turning into a uh a lizard, that's where it ends up, right? When you start talking about the deep satanic stuff, you end up with lizard people, and now we're having a discussion about are lizard people real or not, and it makes it very difficult to assess the abuse. Does that make sense? But the abuse that we can confirm was basically rub and tugs, okay, and other billionaires and rich people getting rub and tugs. Are there probably other things involved? Probably. Okay. But at the end of the day, he's saying it's the money laundering and the gun running that Epstein was really involved in. The money laundering and the gun running. The girls was the picadillo. And he goes on, and then uh Mike Benz goes on to go to all the countries where Jeff Jeff Epstein's doing business. What's the age of consent in Angola? 12. What's the age of consent in the Philippines? 12. So he's going over all these like, it's not illegal to go do those things there. Bring them home here. It is. So we're in this like gross zone. Okay. Having said that, don't forget, if you're a New England Patriots fan, Robert Kraft got caught in one of these massage parlors where everybody got arrested, including Robert Kraft, but he pled out of his, you know, but he he went to the hole in the wall. I just want you to understand this. Robert Kraft, the owner of the New England Patriots, went to a hole in the wall strip mall in Florida to get a Chinese woman's massage. Okay. You'd think someone with those kind of resources could do it in a nice hotel or something. I'm just saying. Trump also posted this on his Twitter, on his true social, excuse me. This is about insider trading. And the reason that this is significant is one of the people featured in this little clip here is Mark Williams Mullins, the Republican senator.
SPEAKER_11:We noticed representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz buying stock in a company called Biasat. And it really caught our eye because it was the first time we'd seen her buy the stock. It was the first time we'd seen any member by the stock. Okay, so Debbie Wasserman-Schultz sits on the Appropriations Committee and the Subcommittee on Military Construction. That's not a good look right off the bat. And then in December, it was announced that Biasat would be awarded part of like a$4 billion NASA contract, and the stock just drove. Looks like they got another big contract also with the Department of Defense right after the NASA contract. A couple years ago, we saw a representative Suzy Lee buy stock at a company called Shine Metal. Which is a German defense contract, which I mean that rank of one plus press because it's like it was a stock we had USC T members trading for. It's obviously very tied into US defense policy, so they're doing a lot of work with the army tank modernization. I bet there's big money in that. Suzy Lee sat on a committee on military construction. And since then the stocks are like, I think 250%. Last year we saw Senator Markway and Mullen buy stock at a company called VadgerMeter, which really caught our attention because Vajimeter makes automated water meters, and Senator Markway Mullen sits on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, and we learned that the EPA had recently passed a mandate basically encouraging cities to switch to automated water meters. Crazy.
SPEAKER_09:So water meters? I was just saying Taylor. We view it as a violation of our property rights. But our Republican senator from Oklahoma, you know, oh, we can't let this be hat, you know, we gotta defend Americans' property rights. Put that smart meter on there. I need to get my stock juiced.
SPEAKER_13:Yeah, you know how Pelosi made so much damn money. And you know, if you had the Pelosi, there's so many people that followed it. I mean, they had the Pelosi tracker website, right?
SPEAKER_06:Yeah.
SPEAKER_13:Well, has anybody bothered to add up all of the increase asset of these guys? Oh, yeah. Yeah. So does the total add up to our total inflated? That's a good question. Wouldn't that be interesting?
SPEAKER_09:Yeah. Yeah, that'd be interesting. I uh again, you just kind of are in this spot where it's like these guys don't think it's illegal and everybody does it. Because I'm a big club and you ain't in it.
SPEAKER_13:What I'm wondering is what um how much in inflation by percentage could we attribute just to the increase in the asset classes of just Congress people? I don't know. If you just took them all together and aggregated, are they responsible for 20% of our inflation?
SPEAKER_09:I think the you know what I mean? You know what? To juice their stocks, yeah, like specifically, yeah. I think the biggest concern, like, okay, yeah, we have to upgrade our tanks. Okay. Congressmen should be barred from participating in those stock purchases. But they needed the capital to increase the tanks, man. They had to get the capital from somewhere. You can't win. You can't win. Yeah, instead of letting Main Street buy, you let insiders buy, right? So this is Senator Cassidy, and he's talking about Donald Trump's proposal for insurance, instead of giving people insurance, paying the insurance companies to provide insurance, pay the people.
SPEAKER_23:The president is proposing that we take the$26 billion that would be going to insurance companies if we just do a straight-out extension. And by the way, 20% of that$26 billion, 20% will go for profit and administrative overhead. Give it directly to the American people in an account in which 100% of the money is used for them to purchase health care on their own terms. Now, now that makes them an informed consumer. It also helps address the need to have coverage for that deductible. And if they get that policy with a higher deductible, they can actually lower their premium. It's a sweet spot. Lower premiums, help with the deductible, uh, making the patient the informed consumer. The president and I are united. We should all be united about that.
SPEAKER_09:Well, the price that is a better plan than the way we have it. Because it it by providing it for the people, the people can price shop, which creates that check and balance on pricing. When you give it from the top, there's no check and balance on pricing. Like you said, 20% right off the top just goes to P.
SPEAKER_13:Which is exactly what we should be doing with Obamacare. Just get rid of that and go back to private insurance.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah. Now, this uh cash pay. It happened on a weekend, so it didn't get covered, but Zelensky is now the ninth largest landowner in the United States. What? Yeah, I know. He took all that money from being on Ukrainian TV in a really weird, unique language that only broadcasts to one country.
SPEAKER_13:And he forgot how to use that money to defend his own land, so he bought new landscape.
SPEAKER_09:He bought the largest, I believe it's the largest private ranch in America. What? It's in Wyoming. It's like 70,000 acres and it's kind of like a huge chunk of Wyoming. Yeah, he just bought it through a couple shell companies and stuff, but it's totally him. So now he's listed by Forbes as the ninth largest landowner, making, you know, our top 10 landowners. I think six of them are foreigners now. Well, his Ukraine, his Ukraine, Zelensky's associate, the crux of a Ukrainian corruption case, said to have fled to Israel. Legal proceedings expected to take place in abstention against entertainment tycoon. Oh, entertainment tycoon, kind of like, isn't that where Zelensky came from? Was entertainment? Uh Timur Mindik, who's accused of masterminding a hundred million dollar embezzlement plot at state companies. Before the revelation of a multimillion dollar embezzlement and kickback scandal involving Ukraine's state nuclear energy company, brought his name to the forefront. Timur Mindok was a shadowy presence, navigating deals and moving behind the scenes with unseen influence, known to many, yet rarely spoken of. So basically, they stole$100 million from the war effort and their nuclear stuff. Now, this harkens, when I read through it, to what Biden did with Poroshenko nationalizing Prevot Bank in order to launder barisma gas receipts through it and making it state paid. State could go get money from the IRF, IMF, to subsidize energy, and then Barisma could take their grift off the top of that huge state loan that the people would have to pay. Yeah. So another one of these things, and he's fled to Israel. Now it's hard for me to understand why Israel won't extradite these people. It's I don't know, man.
SPEAKER_13:It's it's protecting the skies.
SPEAKER_09:Seattle, uh, I went to downtown Seattle twice last week. Both times I happened to be on the phone with different Zoom conferences and things, and both times I noted Seattle's not very busy. Like you get you get into the downtown, and like I'm sitting in downtown, downtown, like downtown. I can see like three people walking on the street and they're all homeless. One guy's blowing leaves. He worked for the city with a supervisor next to him watching him blow leaves. So um Seattle's office vacancy rate is now 33%. It was around 8% before the pandemic, and the retail and dining core continues to struggle. 33%. So it was four, so two out of every 25 spaces was vacant.
SPEAKER_13:Good news, Taylor. We have a new mayor. She's socialist, she's gonna solve it all.
SPEAKER_09:I I know she's gonna bring business for sure. I mean, it's gonna pile in. So yeah, that's that's a big struggle. A lot of our inner cities are struggling with that. Um you know, be we should convert it to housing. Yeah, then you're gonna have all kinds of issues. I just saw uh Charleston, South Carolina has a population of about 900,000, and they just admitted that 150,000 of them are foreign-born. Oh, okay. This is devastating to our communities, man. Devastating. 150,000? That's 15 over what almost 20 percent. Yep. Somebody big number. Trump was asked about Marjorie Taylor Green outside of, I think this was Air Force One, and uh apparently Marjorie Taylor Green's getting death threats now that uh she's been called Marjorie Trader Brown.
SPEAKER_27:Her life is in danger? Who's that? Marjorie Taylor Green, she says. Marjorie Trader Green. Uh, I don't think her life is in danger. I don't think frankly, I don't think anybody cares about her.
SPEAKER_09:There was another tweet right before Donald Trump disassociated with Marjorie Taylor Green. He twoted up, he talked about Thomas Massey and how his wife's only been dead a year and he's already remarried. And uh a lot of people are like, that's too personal. But you know, it was like when we first started doing this podcast again, I pointed out Thomas Massey's been hanging around this woman who's bad news bears. Right? And turns out now they're married, she's kind of bad news bears, man. Jeez, it becomes kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy. This is something that I thought was interesting. This is Senator Lindsey Graham, who I've never particularly had any love for, but I understand he's an old bull in the Senate, controls a lot of pack money, and he's gonna be really hard to get out in South Carolina. And frankly, unlike Massey and Marjorie Taylor Green, he votes the way Donald Trump wants him to vote every time. Right? Donald Trump clearly has Lindsey Graham under his thumb, which is a good thing. Unfortunately, Lindsey Graham is kind of a dirbag. This is what him talking about January 6th. Given all we know about January 6th, could you imagine this?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, it was peaceful. I was there. If it had been up to me, I would have shot some of these people in the head. Let me tell you one. They took over your capital. I don't care what the cause was, they destroyed the place.
SPEAKER_09:Okay, so what if you find out the truth? Are you gonna shoot some of Antifa in the head? Are you gonna shoot some Capitol Police officers in the head? I don't know. This is uh Representative Slockin. She's a former CIA agent. And uh, you know, when I hear stuff like Lindsey Graham saying that before the whole story's told, before the investigation's been complete, that's why pardons exist.
SPEAKER_16:Leslie, I want to talk about the issue of presidential pardons. I've been in support of getting rid of a presidential pardon for either party. I don't think it makes sense in the modern world, and we just saw exactly why it's a problem last week. Last week, President Trump pardoned the CEO of a cryptocurrency company called Binance. Um, the head CEO of it, and his name was Zhao. He was already serving a sentence. And last week, President Trump gave him a presidential pardon very early on in his term. The timing of this pardon is what's suspicious. Um, this CEO of this cryptocurrency company had invested heavily in President Trump's family crypto venture. They sealed the deal for the CEO to heavily invest in the company back in May. And then five months later, he gets a pardon. So again, it just brings up this real whiff of pay-to-play that if you invest in the president's ventures, you're gonna get yourself a presidential pardon. That's why I think we should just get rid of the presidential pardon. I didn't like it when Democrats did it. I don't like it when Republicans do it. It's something that we should get rid of. It just does not work in a modern-day data.
SPEAKER_09:Okay, that sounds all fine, but have you considered the presidential pardon exists because the DOJ targeted him because he went into business with Trump?
SPEAKER_13:And if you really want to get rid of the presidential pardon, you're using the wrong examples. Gosh.
SPEAKER_09:Yeah, use Biden's for goodness exactly. But the point here is you have a horrible situation. The point of the presidential pardon is it's a check on bad legislation, bad executive branch policy. For example, the diesel mechanic who just got a pardon for going to prison because he deleted someone's exhaust features on an old diesel truck, right? It's that's bad executive policy making. It's a check on that. It's a check on an out-of-control judiciary, it's a check on the public mob. Don't get rid of it. Don't get rid of it. In fact, you know, even if they give out thousands of pardons, the likelihood of they need to it needs to exist.
SPEAKER_13:Well, even when they give them out, it I mean, let's think about it right now. All the pardons that Joe Biden gave out, I'm kind of happy that he did it. Because now you know exactly where you need to look.
SPEAKER_09:Exactly. I know exactly where he needs to look. He did all the heavy lifting for me. That's right. All right, guys, that's it for the show today. We appreciate you joining us. Those of you who stuck down to the bitter end, you unoffendables, we will talk to you guys again tomorrow.
SPEAKER_22:Like, mass, mass, sorry, what time? On thirty seven, on twenty seven, not all.
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