Hantavirus Headlines And The Next Lockdown Script

A tiny cluster of cases becomes worldwide breaking news, and suddenly everyone is rehearsing 2020 again. We talk through the hantavirus headlines, what quarantines mean when you have dozens of countries involved, and why public health messaging now lands on a foundation of broken trust. We also react to Trump’s comments about the World Health Organization and Wuhan, plus the bigger question: when institutions get it wrong, who pays the price and who gets promoted? 

From there we move into the uncomfortable territory of accountability and enforcement. Trump reposts calls to arrest Obama, John Brennan goes on TV and hints at a “legion” inside DOJ, the CIA, and the courts pushing back, and we ask what that says about who actually runs the system day to day. We also weigh the incentives that keep scandals quiet, including NDAs, payoffs, and why “transparency” is the only thing that prevents investigations from turning into leverage. 

We then zoom out to the power game happening beneath the noise: energy routes shifting away from chokepoints, China’s dependence on imported oil and calories, trade deals and tariffs, and why the census and election integrity fights are really fights over representation and long-term control. Finally, we bring it home with local reality: Seattle’s tax environment, businesses hopping to Bellevue, housing inventory spikes, and what a budget crunch looks like when the tax base starts packing up. 

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Transcript

Welcome Peasants, Merch, And Momentum

SPEAKER_06 0:06

And when they went for the green the table with a comfy handle bread, do you know what's the red?

SPEAKER_18 0:21

Every time we turn around, we're getting screwed. The revolution's gonna be true guests for sure. It's the little guys, the little guys that take the money of everything. It's gonna be peasants, ma'am. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those old movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. So glad to have you guys with us today. And guess what? It's Taco Tuesday! Spray the Rosary Daily. Thanks for reminding us. I had tacos last night, though, so I slept a little rough. Slept a little rough. Yeah, the sometimes you have deep visions and dreams or bad chili. All right. For Razor, wonderful morning in Boise, Idaho. I'm kind of jonesing to go to Idaho here a little bit. Need to go get some warm air.

SPEAKER_20 1:27

Get some scorcho sauce.

SPEAKER_18 1:28

Yeah, we've got that. We're at that part of the season where we have about 45 minutes of nice weather. It's like sweater weather in the morning, sweater weather at night, but then there's like 45 minutes in the afternoon where you start to break a sweat because we crack 73 degrees, which is like a heat wave here. Anyways, Pony Boy, good morning. And I have a great announcement. Pony Boy, run away with the competition. So, Pony Boy, I'll be connecting with you later and I'll be rebating you 10% of the total tips. I kind of think we should like just run that as a monthly promotion or something. I don't know. We'll have to think of something great. Maybe we need to get some merch. That's that might be the impetus for us to finally get some merch. See, today I've got my Bitcoin merch on, my freedom sweater and my Bitcoin hat. We need to get a peasant's perspective hat and peasants' perspective do that. So we're gonna have to use your tips to get the merch. So please feel free to get the tips going, the tip chart going, so we can do that. The Razor says, Great job, PB3255. Exactly. Pony Boy 3255. Oh, you just abbreviated. What you couldn't type out the whole pony boy.

SPEAKER_20 2:38

And what do people want for merch? Hats, shirts? I don't know.

SPEAKER_18 2:41

Hats, shirts. We need space race team player one. We need to get Carlitz on that as quick as we can. Oh, Pony Boy says I don't want anything back. Well, we'll I'll send you a thank you card or something like that.

SPEAKER_20 2:51

Not even a sipping chalice.

SPEAKER_18 2:52

Not even a sipping chalice. Exactly. Oh, you guys are great. Happy finals, goals. Yeah, Carlito. I thought uh we were gonna get Tiffany to do a um uh Epsy chat page or something with some peasants merch. We'll talk about that. We'll talk about that. Carlitz, good morning, all so glad you guys are here today. You should start merch mugs and shirts. Yeah, I know. We need to do something. We've got to do something. All right, all right. It's fun. We have you guys who join us every single morning, and anybody who's listening after the fact, please consider waking up early and joining us live on Rumble or YouTube both. Um, we have a decent amount of people that watch the show on X, but we don't get any live feedback, so you can't comment in the chats and stuff like that. So if you would like, you know, jump on over to Rumble and take a look at it. Yeah, we don't know that you're even there. Yeah, well, we know you're there because we can extrapolate the math on our little live feed thing. Facebook F you. I don't even know if we need to start on Facebook. I think you're sucking up bandwidth. I'm not even sure if we have anything going on over there. I don't even know if they still stream stuff. In fact, I went over there and it looked like they were like turning it all into like shorts or something. I don't know. It's like it's like streaming multi-hour stories or something, anyways. All right, I know why you guys all show up every single morning. Oh, what I was saying was we have our audience has actually grown quite a bit when you total up the daily listeners. Yeah, I mean, like significantly, Ron. Significantly. We've been triple digits with triple digits, yeah. Well, we've been in triple digits for a while, but the way I gauge the metrics is on unique views on Rumble, and we've definitely gotten to a point where we consistently are in triple digits unique views, which hey, listen, this show has had nothing put into it but some lights and cameras and like stuff. A little bit of blood sweat. Yeah, a lot of blood sweat. Your wife's tears. Yeah, not certain she really wants us to be a target anymore. So, anyways, I really, really love it. And uh, we do this, it is a passion project. We really do are passionate about what we're doing here. You just mentioned this morning, you know, watching another podcast where someone was bringing up Venezuela and the elections, and the other host was like, Are you kidding me? This is incredible. We're like, bro, talk about this for I went to prison over this nonsense. Like, I wish you would have known five years ago you could have helped keep me out of prison. You know what I mean? We are so on the cutting edge of freedom on all of this. You know what's gonna be hilarious is in like six years from now, when Bitcoin's at 750 grand, and you finally have someone like some mainstream host going, so tell me about Bitcoin. It just seems like all the banks now want you to put Bitcoin down for a down payment on the house. And is it too late to get into Bitcoin? And we're gonna be over here like, oh my gosh, we thought we missed a boat in 2026.

SPEAKER_20 5:33

And you're gonna be like, Taylor's gonna be like, it's never too late, get in.

SPEAKER_18 5:37

It's never too late, get in. Is it too late to get into Bitcoin? No, no, ride the volatility, ride the roller coaster. No, it is uh I I really do feel like my whole life, and you know, this is just one of those things you'd have to walk in my shoes, but I have always been a step ahead of the curve. Going back from my mission, coming back to how I conducted myself in business as an entrepreneur in my 20s. It makes a lot of people think you're crazy. Yeah, other people in my generation couldn't buy houses. Like literally, a lot of my friends are still renting, and you know, people slightly younger than me. And I I saw a job, I graduated college the first year of the Great Recession, right? So I had the job market was ripped out from under me. There were no jobs to apply for. So I learned how to be an entrepreneur. I got debanked. So guess what? I know how to live my life without using the financial system. You know, like there's all these little things where I've just been a little step ahead, and like you said, Ron, let people think I'm crazy until I'm totally and completely validated. I mean, we were the ones in 2020 banging on the drum about it came from a lab, not from a wet market. And we were one of the few voices out there talking about that. It was we got banned off Spotify, our entire library. Oof in one moment.

SPEAKER_20 7:00

I don't know about your family, but my family was like, what are you doing? Shut up.

The Sip, Iran Strikes, And Oil Routes

SPEAKER_18 7:04

Yeah, and now it's like totally vindicated. Today Donald Trump vindicates it from the Oval Office. It's like, ah, finally, yeah, Ferraser, Venezuela, the 51st state. Yeah, well. Buenos Dias. I'd move. I'd go. They're probably gonna be really anti-communist for about 20 or 30 years. Same thing with Cuba. When we when we incorporate Cuba, it's gonna be like Miami South, you know, Key West South. It's gonna be super capitalist, they're gonna hate anything to do with collectivism. It'll be really interesting. Okay, so I know why you came. It's for the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or a mug, a glass, a tankard, a chalice, a stein, a vessel of any kind, and fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the parallel simultaneous sip. It starts right now, and we're gonna enjoy a little bit of Donald Trump in the Oval Office yesterday.

SPEAKER_27 8:02

Okay, we have it in our say.

SPEAKER_18 8:09

What? He was talking about Space Force. Taken out Iran.

SPEAKER_08 8:21

Speaking of Venezuela, tonight's sources confirmed to Fox News is Brett Baer reporting from the Wall Street Journal that forces from the United Arab Emirates are carrying out military strikes inside Iran. Fox is told that the UAE forces are directly engaged inside the Islamic Republic and have been for several days. This comes after Iran launched dozens of missiles and drones at the UAE during the conflict.

Hantavirus Panic And Lockdown Muscle Memory

SPEAKER_18 8:46

Yeah, so turns out UAE, they're not suing for peace. They were begging the United States for targeting data. And they've been they've been now doing quite a bit to engage with Iran to try to open up the strait. It's UAE, right? And then you've got Iran up on top. So UAE is like, man, you're starting to hurt business a little bit. So they're getting into it. That's good news. You know, you like to see it when another nation actually takes up the fight, especially someone in the neighborhood. The allegation in the beginning was that uh, you know, we were gonna have to go alone and boots on the ground. I just I I'm just calling it right now. I don't think we're putting boots on the ground. I think Trump would rather just blockade that straight from now to the end of time than put boots on the ground. So as long as snowboys die, at some point the war ends, and we're gonna talk about the redirection and reflowing of oil because oil's under$100 a gallon right now, so it's trending downward because other nations are figuring out that Houston's open for business, baby. Gulf of America, fill her up. Yeah, baby. On another front, we have a huge important election this year that has massive impact for the Democrats' uh grasp at power. So, of course, right on schedule.

SPEAKER_32 9:55

So, new this morning, we are learning that the number of hantavirus cases has increased to as many as nine, but because the incubation period can be up to eight weeks, according to doctors, the director general of the World Health Organization says they fully expect to see that number increase even more. Although he did reassure that there are steps being taken to try to contain this virus.

SPEAKER_12 10:16

At the moment, there is no sign that we are seeing the start of a larger outbreak. But of course, the situation could change. And given the long incubation period of the virus, it's possible we might see more cases in the coming weeks.

SPEAKER_32 10:35

Here at home, 18 passengers have returned to the U.S., one tested positive, one showing symptoms in Georgia, and 16 passengers are currently isolating in Nebraska. They're among the more than 100 people who were on board the recently evacuated MB Hondias ship. While the Hontavirus typically spread from rodents, this strain is moved to the past from human to human aboard the ship. Three passengers have died since April 11th. The White House says it's monitoring this closely.

SPEAKER_27 11:03

We think we're in very good shape. We're very careful. And Nebraska has done a fantastic job. They have a uh a place there that those doctors are unbelievable.

SPEAKER_32 11:13

Right now, Georgia, Texas, Virginia, Arizona, California, New York, Maryland, and Nebraska are all monitoring people for potential symptoms. And the World Health Organization advised to these passengers they need to be quarantining or isolating for 42 days. Of course, they can't really enforce that. So it will be up to each country. Again, there's more than 20 countries in how they will all respond to these passengers who are now returning home.

SPEAKER_18 11:38

We got 20 countries involved trying to enforce a 42-day quarantine. We're screwed, man. I mean, just get your lockdown prep stuff ready. You know, get your new uh Xboxes and PlayStations because they're gonna be in high demand later this summer.

SPEAKER_20 11:53

Load up uh toilet paper and diapers.

SPEAKER_18 11:56

Toilet paper and diapers. I'm telling you, every all signs point to they're gonna try to run this. They are gonna try to run this op.

SPEAKER_20 12:05

And how are we gonna respond? I don't know.

SPEAKER_18 12:07

Well, it okay.

SPEAKER_20 12:09

Are you gonna put on your face diaper?

SPEAKER_18 12:12

There's an institutional response to this where it's like you have to take it seriously. We pulled out of the World Health Organization, but you've got this cruise ship, and as long as the news is talking about it, even Dr. Corey Pierre yesterday was like, I mean, now I'm talking about Hontavirus, which means it's working, right? Like we're talking about it, which even if we're talking about it in a dismissive fashion, it gins up legitimacy around what it is and it's spreading. Right. This is become a worldwide news story, and it's a less than a dozen people. And it's the same people who locked us down, chased us around with needles, told you to close your businesses, and lied out their asses, and lied out their minds, manipulated data, covered it up. Same exact people. Now we've got RFK in charge of HHS, and you've got Dr. Meme Oz. RFK less so, but Dr. Meme Oz, he's is kind of an institutionalist. And so here they are, and this is one of those things where Donald Trump's inclination is to get out in front of this stuff, to like over-respond when it's tiny so you can fix it quickly. The problem is then that kind of legitimizes the response at all. And that's what I'm concerned here. That's what I'm concerned about. Is instead of quarantine these people in a hotel room somewhere, you've got them in like CDC biolabs.

SPEAKER_37 13:44

So the country may not have to pay to give it something that country.

SPEAKER_18 13:49

You know, you'd think for how much money the United States spends on all the different things, they could get the freaking reporters a microphone inside the White House. Yeah. It's the I cannot believe uh Donald Trump, the showman, would allow it for clips like this to go out. But I mean, just we're sitting here going, what is she saying? It uh that makes no sense to me.

SPEAKER_27 14:15

Well, I think we take care of that, Doc. And you want to answer that? It's just not true.

SPEAKER_13 14:18

Uh J. Bartharia is uh taking this task on Secretary Kennedy is involved with them. He can speak perhaps even better than the best in the room. But uh the country's prepared the CDC's focused side of things. Uh and the agency is uh is well aware of the opportunities to actually treat this problem, not just trying to prevent it in the future, but treat it in happens that sector.

SPEAKER_22 14:37

I mean, we've had uh a CDC team so I had to table, and I was speaking with the University of Nebraska since the second day of the outbreak. I was speaking with the governor of the village of Nebraska. Seventeen Asians.

SPEAKER_18 15:21

Well, he they've got him in these biocontainment centers now, and he's got some in Atlanta at the CDC, some in Nebraska, some facility. And Okay. Okay. I mean, it's one of those remember that train wreck in Palestine, Ohio that contaminated the water and polluted the air, and everybody started getting sick? Where was the response for that?

SPEAKER_20 15:44

You know, it's like instead it was like flee the area, you know, block people die of Hontavirus all the time. You know, Gene Hackman's wife slash whatever, she died of Honta virus.

SPEAKER_18 15:56

Oh, perfect timing, too. So her husband dies, right? And is if I'm I think I got the story right. Her husband dies in the house, right? And then she dies shortly afterwards with a Hontavirus, so they die of different things, right? So, but what a great news story that I saw one of these montage videos where it was like Gene Hackman and all this stuff, and Gene Hackman was in a movie about the Hontavirus, and like the whole thing, it just feels wildly scripted, scripted. As Pony Boy says here, boycott the sequel. Okay, boycott the sequel. Yes, boycott the sequel. I know one thing, I will not be going to any protests in the sequel, okay? I am not leaving my freaking house anywhere.

SPEAKER_20 16:43

Aside from weirdness around, you know, Gene Hackman, you know, people do get hontavirus and people do die from it, but I don't recall that we've ever had to like you know cordon off portions of America.

SPEAKER_18 16:57

Well, hontivirus is not contagious person to person, except for this one Andy strain, which is the strain on the boat. Sure. Yeah, I know. You know, the same strain that went missing from a lab in Australia. We don't know, we don't know where they went. We don't know where they went.

SPEAKER_20 17:12

Right. It also stinks of the first thing I thought was this is not transmission person to person. My wife goes, No, it's not, it's totally not person to person. And uh I was like, ooh, uh gain of function, anybody?

SPEAKER_18 17:27

Yes, yes, Ron. Okay, let me let me pause and make sure I clarify this. There was viruses that went missing in a lab in Australia that included the Andes and strain of Hontavirus, which is contagious person to person. Of course. This is the strain, it's now been confirmed that is on the cruise boat and it has an incu longer incubation period, which means now you've got contact tracing that would need to be done, and this thing is now in the wild. So this is not gonna stop if it's legitimate, you know what I mean? If like like do they got any wet markets on this boat? This is the like we have the World Cup coming up, and this is going to be the spreader event. Oh, yeah, right now, and it's gonna start popping up all over the place. Yeah, exactly. And so it's like if this is legitimately the hauntivirus going around, not like COVID, where it was like half of it was just a cold and bad testing.

SPEAKER_20 18:28

No, hontivirus is deadly serious, it's deadly.

SPEAKER_18 18:32

The thing with COVID was everything else mimicked it. The flu, the cold, like that's because that's what it was. It was a cold, it was a cold, yeah. So with this, it's like, okay, so if this is legitimately a deadly hantivirus, yeah, and it's setting up like this.

SPEAKER_20 18:50

It could be real impact.

Trump On WHO, Wuhan, And Credibility

SPEAKER_18 18:52

COVID was a dry run for the midterms in 2026. Is that what I'm supposed to believe here? That's yeah. Oh man. So Trump addressed the COVID virus coming out of China versus the lab versus the wet market. He has an interesting take on this.

SPEAKER_37 19:12

I think Ryan. Do you get uh the drawing from the WHO?

SPEAKER_27 19:18

No, I'm glad. So we were paying the World Health Organization five hundred million dollars a year. Look, it's a lot of money, but in the overall scope, it's not that much, but it's a lot of money. And we weren't being treated well, and they were making the wrong diagnosis. I was the one that said it came from Wuhan. They didn't say that, they refused to say that because they were totally owned by child. So I was saying it came from Wuhan. They didn't want to say that. Now it's turned out I think it's been conclusive that it came from Wuhan, but I said that on the first day because I saw satellite pictures with body bags all over Wuhan, literally all over Wuhan. So I said that they lied to me or they didn't know. So we were paying for let's say 350 million people, we were paying 500 million dollars a year to the world health funds. That's a lot of money. What the hell are they gonna do with that kind of money? China was paying 39 million dollars a year for 1.4 billion people. So I said, you know, you got your story wrong because we should be paying about 10 million dollars, not 500 million. And they were willing to negotiate it, but it was so popular when I pulled out they gave us all wrong information on COVID, they were totally wrong. And I looked today and I saw the same doctor that was there. He's a good politician. I don't know how the hell he kept his shelf, but he was there telling us about this. Now, the one thing with this one is that it's much harder to catch. And we've had it for a long time, it's been around for a long time. People are very familiar with it. So uh, you know, I hope it's fine. All I can do is everything that a president can do, which is somewhat which is actually somewhat limited, but but uh it seems like it is not uh easy to spread. It back, it's in certain ways very hard to spread. It's been we've we've lived with it for years, many years, and we think we're in very good shape. We're very careful. And Nebraska has done a fantastic job. They have a a uh a place there that those doctors are unbelievable.

SPEAKER_18 21:30

You know, it's gotta be so hard for the people that have to stand behind them. They're there for a specific thing that's happening, and then they gotta stand there and like, do I want to stand here while he's going off on COVID? Like Caden Britt is back there just trying to maintain her composure the whole time, huh? Is that the chick with the permigrant? Yeah, the she's the senator from Alabama, right here, the purple dress, which matches Donald Trump's tie very well. You wonder if they coordinated on this one. Anyways, uh, she's the one who gave the Republican response to the state. Of the union when Biden had the red the red wall behind him and everything. And I was like, oh, there were some parts that were good, but I was just like, weak, weak. So I this I don't want to talk about Hontavirus from the world. I know, let's just move on. It's you know, when he says we've lived it for a long time, that's the assumption that it's just coming off the rat droppings and it's you know that to human and no human-to-human spread. When you introduce the concept of gain of function, that it could become more transmissible, human to human, all of a sudden it's just like Fox News just has to run one story saying this strain is more viral because XYZ, or you know, it's proves that it's very contagious. And all of a sudden, the mind virus contagion will step in, and we're gonna have our governor and our health director here in Washington telling us to lock down, and that's going to be the reason why Seattle's dying and people are fleeing the state, not because of their policies.

SPEAKER_20 23:10

Sometime between now and eight weeks, you're gonna get a news flash that's gonna go dung dung. Guess what? Everybody stay in your house. What?

Obama Arrest Posts And DOJ Resistance Claims

SPEAKER_18 23:18

Yeah, exactly. Boycott the sequel, boycott the sequel. All right, President Trump just called for Barack Hussein Obama to be arrested. So last night for the 78th time. So last night, Donald Trump reposted on his truth social a cat turd post, arrest Obama the traitor, and boom, 20 CIA and FBI agents dropped a political nuke on Obama by confirming that Barack Obama and a former CIA director fabricated the Russia hoax, which was locked away in a CIA vault for nearly a decade to discredit President Trump's election by manipulating intelligence. And that came from Ban Trump Army. Okay, and uh Donald Trump reposted those, so it's gotta be like totally legit, right? He also reposted this, he also reposted actually Donald Trump reposting some of these accounts like that really does like popularize them. All right, I wish he would retweet our show. Repos our show. All right, so this is also one he reposted. This is coming from You Wish You Were For You Wish You Were For Us or US, I don't know. They never quote applied the law in a fair and equal way, quote, did they? When the hell are they going to indict her at Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche? We see Comey, he got arrested. We don't see Brennan, we don't see Hillary, we don't see Obama. It's time we see some justice. And then Donald Trump reposted this, okay, and basically said, When the hell are you going to indict her, Todd Blanche? Now I have a sneaky suspicion that Todd Blanche is a little bit more attentive to Donald Trump's wants and desires than Pam Bondi was. Whereas Todd Blanche completely serves at the will of the president. In fact, he was literally paid by the hour by the president prior to coming into government. So then this post from Shelly 2021 how much evidence of treason does the at Justice Department need before making some arrests? Do better DOJ at Todd Blanche, to which Donald Trump posted, they are working hard. Yeah, General Flynn's always calling for hell to be raised on these people.

SPEAKER_20 25:41

I mean do something.

SPEAKER_18 25:43

Yeah. I mean, I guess now, while Donald Trump is reposting accounts you've never heard of, calling for justice and to arrest the traitor Obama. Yeah, uh, the reason that that isn't more popular is because of that fact. Donald Trump is retweeting posts of people you've never heard of. However, you've got MS Now, who has a constituency, a audience that is really DC centric. A lot of people in DC watch DC now. This is this is the news channel for the kind of country club golf people, and they kind of have that hoity toity feel. So John Brennan is a contributor over there, and he, of course, went on MS now yesterday to respond to Donald Trump, and he reveals something that should be very concerning to all of us.

SPEAKER_30 26:50

Um what still exists in the system to slow that down?

SPEAKER_19 26:55

I think as Liz mentioned, there's still a legion of professionals uh in the law enforcement environment, the Department of Justice, as well as the CIA and other places, the ones who are refusing to follow politically motivated prosecutions, those who are refusing to support any type of political activities on the part of the Trump administration that are inconsistent with the authorities, the responsibilities of the intelligence community, law enforcement community, and Department of Justice. So we have to rely on these individuals to stand up to their professional responsibilities and also to the courts, to the judges, to those judges who in fact took an oath of allegiance to the law, not to a political party, not to a person. And you know, I like to think that there are still some members of Congress. Certainly, you know, I'm looking for the Republicans who at one point had spoken out against Donald Trump and have spoken in support of the law, but they seem to have just totally caved. And I think, as has been said, you know, what has happened to our institutions is really uh going to have long-standing damage uh to these institutions, to our system of justice.

Sponsors, Then Back To Broken Incentives

SPEAKER_18 28:03

So basically, Brennan is saying there that there is a actual active resistance within the DOJ and the judiciary. They took an oath to the law. They took an oath to the law, Ron. The law says don't violate and arrest lawbreakers. What do we got for us? We got a we got coffee?

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SPEAKER_18 29:14

Woo!

SPEAKER_20 29:15

Awesome.

SPEAKER_18 29:17

We got to do more ads. So Brennan gets on and says there's resistance within the DOJ and the judiciary who don't want to participate in these allegedly political prosecutions. Where were these people the last 10 years to not want to participate in political prosecutions? Which seemed to be everything the DOJ was doing all those years. One of the things that, in a in fairness to tip our hat to Cash Patel, the FBI has clearly been reoriented and redirected to go after regular crime. The murder rate across the country is the lowest it's been in 30, 40, 50 years. Overall crime rate has dropped dramatically, cartel crime rate has dropped dramatically. I mean, it's actually pretty impressive the redirection into fighting normal everyday crime. So that's good. It also begs the question what the f have these other guys been doing all these years? Wow. They were literally spending time spying on Congress, putting on a tackis in prison, you know, completely total waste of resources. But at the same time, it's like we don't really believe that they've actually cleaned house of the actors who were willing to go and spend their time going after politicians and normal everyday Americans instead of going after the top 10 most wanted list. Why are those still people employed? Or are they just all completely order takers? And what is John Vernon referring to? Who are these political actors that are still hanging around? Can Donald Trump pop are they real?

SPEAKER_20 30:50

Are they just in his imagination?

SPEAKER_18 30:52

Or are they just in his imagination? I don't know. But one thing that did happen yesterday was the Senate finally confirmed another 100 judges to the bench. So that's a pretty big deal. I mean, 100 judges, that's that's pretty significant. Why did it take almost two years? Do you know how many recess appointments Donald Trump has gotten? Zero. He's the first president in the history of ever to have zero recess appointments. That means leader thune is obstructing Trump. Like from a historical standpoint, you've taken vacations and you've held the Senate in session with a few skeleton crew hanging around, opening up the session for one minute and gaveling it closed, instead of at least allowing Trump a two-week time frame to sneak in Todd Blanche's attorney general or something like that.

SPEAKER_11 31:43

Right.

Massey Allegations, Payoffs, And Principles

SPEAKER_18 31:44

That's the obstruction that John Brennan is talking about. And there's other obstruction too. Yesterday we mentioned Thomas Massey. Well, this morning when I woke up, there was an absolute bombshell of a deposition against Thomas Massey. So this woman right here, um, this woman right here is Cynthia. Oh shoot, no, I don't have her name. Her name is Cynthia. Cynthia Wood. And her after Thomas Massey, a few weeks after Thomas Massey's first wife passed away, they engaged in a relationship. Okay. And it was a romance. She started to travel to DC. They took a trip to South Africa together. You know, he was constantly, come be with me, come be with me, come be with me. At some point, he asked her to be involved in sexual degeneracy. And she didn't want to do that. That was too much for her. Strike one. Okay. So here's Thomas Massey talking about Epstein and the list and blah, blah, blah. And it's like, bro, your house ain't in order. Okay. In the process of all of this, because he wanted her, she's from Florida. He wanted her to be closer to him. He got her a job at Victoria Spark's office. Okay. Who's Victoria Spark? She's a representative out of Indiana who Thomas Massey often teams up with to go into skiffs and look at information and stuff like that. Again, I'm super conflicted with Thomas Massey because clearly, you know, he reveals things that are deep state oriented that kind of make you go, huh? But then it starts makes me wonder, is he an op? You know what I mean? Like, is he an op? Is that stuff not happening? But he gens up all this libertarian hate for 702 and stuff like that. I don't know. So, anyways, after he asks her to get involved in some level of degeneracy, she says, no, that's not going to work out for me, and distances herself from him. Well, Victoria Sparks apparently is involved in some of this degeneracy, and she criticizes Cynthia for things like going to church. And so she ultimately fires Cynthia. So Cynthia does what you do, and she goes to file an official complaint for retaliatory termination.

SPEAKER_25 33:56

Okay.

SPEAKER_18 33:57

So it's all on the record. She provides evidence and all the corresponding data and stuff like that. So at this point, you can kind of take it as hey, she's legitimately brought a claim. Okay. Now Cynthia Sparks. So when this happens, Thomas Massey calls her up and offers her$5,000 cash. And that's where the clip we're going to play picks up. He offers her$5,000 cash from his cow money.

SPEAKER_26 34:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_31 34:26

Yeah.

SPEAKER_26 34:26

Identify witnesses.

SPEAKER_31 34:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_26 34:28

Did you comply with all those requirements?

SPEAKER_31 34:30

I did.

SPEAKER_26 34:33

And in the course of filling out those documents, did you by any chance list Thomas Massey? I did a potential witness?

SPEAKER_31 34:39

I did, yes.

SPEAKER_26 34:41

How'd he react to that?

SPEAKER_31 34:43

Well, out of courtesy when I started the process, I called him up to let him know. Um and he was very angry. And he um he said, You're just you're just one person that you can't make a difference, that you need to just walk away. And then he had five thousand dollars that he said that he would give me if I could just walk away. I didn't take it though.

SPEAKER_26 35:13

Did he offer you a check?

SPEAKER_31 35:15

No, i i it he has cash, so so it's part of his cow money, right? It's his non-traceable money.

SPEAKER_26 35:25

Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_31 35:30

Yeah, because he he's got cows, he sells cows and he gets cash and he keeps it kinda.

SPEAKER_26 35:38

He doesn't report it.

SPEAKER_18 35:39

I gotta say, there's something that's really disturbing about talking about selling cattle, cows, farmer to farmer at a local level, that it's it's kind of being said, he has drug money, right? It just it's so disturbing that that becomes a part of the scandal, right? Like, you mean he sold fresh chicken eggs to his neighbors and didn't report the cash earned? It's like you guys, you guys, you do make me want to be libertarian. You know what I mean? Like, like if a guy can't sell his cows for cash and it not be a scandal, like where have we devolved as a country? But nonetheless, let's continue on.

SPEAKER_26 36:28

No. Yeah, no, so how do you read it?

SPEAKER_31 36:33

He was very angry at that conversation.

SPEAKER_26 36:42

Have you pursued both the ethics complaint and the claim under the employee and both of them still ended? Yes.

SPEAKER_24 37:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_26 37:28

Yes. Has there been any resolution of either one of those proceedings today?

SPEAKER_31 37:34

No.

SPEAKER_26 37:38

Have they made any efforts to resolve this with you?

SPEAKER_31 37:42

Yes. So so I have an offer at the House for approval, but um settlement.

SPEAKER_26 37:50

You have an offer of what?

SPEAKER_31 37:51

Settlement for sixty thousand dollars um to settle the case and for the retaliatory discharge in the Congressional Accountability Act violation um with the Office of Victoria Sparks. But if I do that, then I have to sign an NDA. Um, and so I can't, I I can't do that.

SPEAKER_18 38:14

She her entire she ran, she was like on a school board or a county council, and her whole thing was transparency and accountability. So she's saying, Listen, I I can't do it. I can't sign an NDA that then dissolves accountability from Victoria Sparks and Thomas Massey for what they've done in this whole thing. I mean, just the firing alone, let alone the degeneracy, that's a side story. Do you get it yet?

SPEAKER_20 38:40

I mean, I do.

SPEAKER_18 38:43

So here you've got MTG, who, by the way, has now moved out of the country to Costa Rica. She sold her house in Rome, Georgia, and now lives in Costa Rica in a five million dollar mansion with her new husband or whatever. Okay. All right. Man, that was a good five years in Congress. What a run. Right. You've got Thomas Massey, who, by all apparent, you know, MIT engineer, homestead, great life, runs for Congress, feels corrupted. Now he's got a settlement, an NDA, a payoff, Victoria Sparks from Indiana. She's a Ukrainian immigrant. Now she's got a payoff. Nancy Mace, who's embroiled in her own congressional scandals, is leading the charge for exposing the people who take payoffs. But Nancy Mace and Thomas Massey and Luna and uh you know Boebert are all kind of barf. Now, this uh John Doyle who this this expose he did on Massey was great. And you know, it's hard. I don't want to like come out hard. Again, I'm conflicted with Massey. I really appreciate some of the exposure of some of the stuff he's done centered around January 6th, because no one else is doing it, right? So on one hand, I'm like, yeah, sure, engage in degenerate acts. Please expose the J6 fraud. You know, like I don't know. What am I what am I supposed to do here? Someone's gotta go do it. Okay, but at the same time, again, it comes down to the principles thing. So here's John Doyle talking about when Donald Trump posted that video that at the very little end of the video, it played a new video which shook depicted Barack Obama and Michelle Obama as apes. Do you remember this? Yes, it was like it was like literally like somebody recorded a reel, and the next reel was a different video. So it's like a treason video, arrest Barack Obama the greater, and then the video's over. It was monkeys. So when that happened, when that happened, again, when you see people violate their core tenets and their core principles, we can forgive Massey. We can't forgive, we cannot forgive Massey for being an open border person and stuff like that. But we can understand it. We can understand you're so libertarian and you're so strong on your principles that you're like, listen, I don't want gun control for anybody, even if it means trans people having guns. I don't want gun, I don't want government enforcement of XYZ, even if that means having the open border. I want free trade, free trade, free trade. I don't want tariffs over there, I don't want tariffs over here. It denies reality, right? It denies reality when we have open borders and no tariffs, and other countries do it, because you can't control the policies of other countries. So it denies reality, but at least we understand your principled stance. And just like a communist, a libertarian can say, Well, the whole world didn't go libertarian, so we'll never know if it actually works. You know what I'm saying? So here's John Doyle just just again pointing out how Thomas Massey totally missed the mark here.

SPEAKER_09 41:54

If you recall a few months ago in February, President Trump posted a video on Truth Social that included a crude Lion King animation featuring prominent Democrat politicians as various um African safari animals. Thomas Massey was later invited onto CNN where he gave some of his thoughts. Take a look.

SPEAKER_02 42:11

But first, I want to get your reaction to the news about how the president then deleted this racist video depicting the Obama as apes. He has refused to apologize. Do you think he should apologize to the Obamas?

SPEAKER_15 42:25

He should absolutely apologize. He's gone too far. I mean, he's attacked my wife recently online, and I do think there are limits. If for a while it's kind of funny, but once you pass certain certain guardrails, like attacking a man's spouse or getting into racist tropes, I think it's somebody at the White House, maybe Susie Wiles, needs to go to the president and just ask him for his phone and maybe ask him just to show him the tweet before he sends it out.

SPEAKER_09 42:54

Literally the gayest thing I've ever seen in my life. If you're a libertarian and you unironically use the word racist, you unironically use the phrase racist tropes. You need to have your libertarian card taken from you and lowered into the wood chipper. We need to pause all the Epstein guys. Hold on, hold on, let me cut in here real quick. And take your libertarian card and throw it into the wood chipper. Libertarians, like the true libertarians, the real libertarians, these are the people who would do apologetics about why the Civil Rights Act needs to be repealed. These are the people who would make arguments saying, uh, yeah, it is racist, and actually I have a right to be racist. You don't have you're not entitled to do business with me. You're not entitled to have proximity to me or access to me economically. Like these are the kinds of libertarians that, you know, I grew up kind of reading and listening to, and now you've got this. It's it's an abomination. It's an embarrassment. The true libertarians who have all pretty much gravitated to MAGA because they decided they would actually like to win once things started getting a little uh tumultuous in the Obama era. The real libertarians would never go on CNN and talk about racist tropes going too far.

SPEAKER_18 43:58

I actually really like that. Like, it is one of those, like, wait, hold on a second. You're a libertarian when it comes to allowing trans to have guns with mental illness, but when it comes to a microsecond of a clip at the end of a very impactful video that's just gone too far. I think that was such a good observation there. Oh man. Okay, so here is John Fetterman on with Bill Mayer, who Donald Trump has encouraged us not to promote Bill Mayer. He still is he still has a little TDS, although he's trying. And uh one of the things John Fetterman, everyone John Fetterman talks about here is this Trump is always pushing the envelope, right? And the TDS infected left and the rhino Republicans, the massies of the world that take that moment to go, he's just gone too far. He has to stop. He has to stop. Trump doesn't slow down long enough for you guys to land a punch. Okay. He just is moving and moving, and he'll he'll he'll he'll do a jab, and we'll right where the inner of your counterswing, he's over here jabbing again and jabbing again. He doesn't slow down enough for you guys to land a punch. And so what happens is we have the worst thing that do you remember Rob Reiner when he died when his son killed him? And you had people coming out, he's gone too far. I'll never vote for him. You know, never ever again. Biggest news that have we talked about it? Does anybody care? No, no, everything that Trump does, it's like the biggest thing, and then it's like it's only the biggest thing for 10 minutes. I saw this meme where it was like first-time Trump voters and they're on a roller coaster and they're like, hold it on for dear life, and it was third-time Trump voters that are like we so here's John Fetterman and Bill Mayer talking about that.

SPEAKER_05 45:46

We did the uh move in Venezuela, which has look that one you have to say worked pretty good.

Why Trump’s Chaos Cycle Works

SPEAKER_28 45:54

Yeah, well, you remember the people lost their shit over Venezuela. Yeah, no one talks about Venezuela anymore. And and and that's my point. No, people people also, I'm sorry, let me say this that you know the we're not talking about Gaza anymore, and people forgot, like, yeah, we you know ended the Gaza war, brought the everyone back home as well, too. And this idea that uh what is the freak out of the day, you know, we're not talking about these things, we've all moved on, and I guarantee by the time this drops, there will be one or two more that you know, part of this conversation.

SPEAKER_05 46:31

But yeah, but Venezuela was uh look, I mean, when it does come up in conversation, it usually comes up now when people say, and this could be true, they say, well, Trump saw how well Venezuela worked. He thought he could do it in Iran. Yeah, maybe that affected his thinking somewhat. Iran is not Venezuela, okay? I mean, um, you know, Bar Barzini is not Tartaglia, sorry. It's gonna be a lot harder. But Venezuela kind of worked. I mean, nobody died on our side. It was very clean. Um, uh, the idea in that country where you could get rid of this really bad dictator and bringing some bring in somebody who wasn't um from the opposition exactly, but someone who was like, okay, you know what, that guy was kind of an asshole. Let's work together. Uh that's a great plan, as opposed to Joe Biden put 25 big stacks stacks on on him.

SPEAKER_28 47:29

You know, in January before he left the office, he put a$25 million you know bounty on it. Really? Yes, you can you can verify that. And it's like essentially, that's like, you know, some hitman, there's$25 million for you. Yeah. You know, so we did it in a way, and now they you know, we have him. He's gonna be on trial for in public, held accountable for the atrocities that he committed against his nation. Right.

SPEAKER_05 47:56

And that's why I said, why is that a bad thing? It's not a bad thing. And and the and the uh bank shot off of Venezuela was Cuba, yeah. Because Cuba is propped up a lot by Venezuela, they're very close. In fact, all of uh all of Madero's security guard were Cubans, obviously they didn't do so good. Um, but Cuba needs the Venezuelan oil. So, yes, uh Cuba is starving now for oil, uh, and we're doing that to them.

SPEAKER_18 48:26

We Fetterman is like a breath of fresh air, he's still a super Democrat. He's not gonna switch parties, and frankly, he's probably gonna lose his seat next year or in two years when he when he runs again because the Democrats can't stand him. Because he says stuff like that. Don't you know that Trump can't be right about anything? And Fetterman's like, the Trump's not making bad moves. He's winning. Like, what's wrong with him winning? He's winning for the country. I mean, Biden put a hit out on Maduro and Trump took him up on the offer. Why are you guys upset?

SPEAKER_20 48:59

Can Fetterman just uh change parties at this point and stay in, or no?

SPEAKER_18 49:03

Uh he could accept he's a communist.

SPEAKER_20 49:06

Oh.

Mark Kelly, Classified Briefings, And Spin

SPEAKER_18 49:06

I mean, that's that's the problem. Ultimately, at the end of the day, he's a communist. Okay. He probably could change parties and be accepted with open arms, and then we'd be all upset with him because he'd drag our party right. The the Republicans do not need to work with the left, right? If Fetterman wants to come over, he's going to have to abandon some beliefs. Like you could you can go all the way to the abortion issues, you can go to some of his other, you know, collectivist issues and things like he's got some really far-left viewpoints, but he's he's what I would describe as the old traditional blue dog democrat that got sucked into the radical left. Okay, and every now and then he identifies, oh, that radical left thing, I don't like that. You know, I'm not I'm not for that. And it every now and then he'll point one of those things out, but for the most part, he goes along to get along in his party.

unknown 49:52

All right.

SPEAKER_18 49:53

Okay, so this is Mark Kelly. And remember, he's part of the Seditious Six.

SPEAKER_25 49:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 49:58

When we were on break, I was trying to I was trying to find, I was trying to find the old debate between Mark Kelly and I can't remember her name right now, but she was an Arizona senator that ran against him. And Mark Kelly, when he went to the space station, because if you remember, he was an astronaut, he took with him a Chinese Communist Party flag, like a CCP flag. And he said, you know, are you questioning my loyalty to America? And who was running against him says, I'm not questioning your loyalty, I'm questioning your judgment. Right? Like, why would you do that? And Mark Kelly had gone and done training in China and stuff like that, and he also had a significant interest in the hot air balloon company that is the one that had that hot air balloon supply balloon that floated across the United States that everybody watched and they're like, So shoot it down. Shoot it down after it collects all the data. Stupid, man. Unbelievable. And uh, so Mark Kelly got out, he went into a classified briefing with the Pentagon, and then came out and did a press conference and let the world know what our stockpile situation looked like.

SPEAKER_38 51:10

Every single day that the Trump administration takes on Mark Kelly is a good day for the Kelly potential presidential campaign. He goes up in stock, not just in money, but also people paying attention to this.

SPEAKER_16 51:20

I'm glad we have an admission of what's going on here. Mark Kelly's partisan interests are what's most important. This man is a United States senator. He's getting classified briefings from the Pentagon, and then he goes on television and tells our enemies around the world in great specificity which weapon systems are depleted, which need to be restocked. Setting aside the legal issues, which I'm with Molly, I'm not a lawyer either, and I don't know what the future of that holds. Did he ever stop to ask himself what is in the best interests of the United States of America and not just my own political future? Because it's obvious that he did not. A sitting senator going on television and telegraphing to our enemies and our threats around the world, what we may or may not have, it's extraordinarily irresponsible. Well, let's not let that get in the way of a presidential campaign.

SPEAKER_35 52:05

Well, I mean, Scott, but to Molly's point, could you not say, I mean, if Heggseth was legitimately interested, most interested in national security, he easily could have lost this investigation and not said anything about it, right?

SPEAKER_16 52:16

Well, I mean, it's it's already out in the open when Kelly goes on television.

SPEAKER_35 52:19

But he's now elevated what Kelly said, right? I think everybody heard it.

SPEAKER_16 52:23

It was on the phone.

SPEAKER_35 52:24

And if the defense secretary is in fact acknowledging and saying, well, he revealed classified information here, he is confirming publicly what Molly said he is doing.

SPEAKER_16 52:31

So the the options here would be to ignore it or to lie about it?

SPEAKER_35 52:34

No, the option would be to investigate and not tell the press.

SPEAKER_18 52:37

Look, oh, oh, wait, there's another group that does that. There's another party that does it. No transparency. Investigate it, don't tell the press, but go hit up the politician and be like, hey, hey, if you play ball, this could go away. But when you tell the press, now you're accountable to the investigation. Do you get it? Right? Transparency is the solution here. If you announce that you're doing an investigation, then at least the people can follow up. When you keep it completely in the dark, I understand not releasing details of the investigation, but when you keep it completely in the dark when the crime was committed in the open, it first of all makes it seem like nobody's doing anything about it. Yes. And second of all, it provides a really, really easy opportunity for the investigators to blackmail the investigated. Hey, we can keep it quiet if you play ball, if you do XYZ.

SPEAKER_16 53:36

Right? I mean, look, Mark Kelly went on television and said, I got a classified briefing, and here's what I was told.

SPEAKER_35 53:41

I'm just saying it sounds like they're both doing the same thing, right? Everyone's playing politics here. Is I mean, if you're going to buy into your argument that, hey, this is a senator, right, who's running for president, and that's what we're acknowledging he's doing. Like, is Hegseth not doing the same thing?

SPEAKER_16 53:53

Uh look, this all started because a senator received classified information and chose to disclose it for the good of his own partisan interests, not for the good of the country. I don't know that there's any other blame to be laid here.

A Chinese Spy Mayor In California

SPEAKER_18 54:04

That's seems clear to me. Scott Jennings makes a lot of sense. He's kind of arguing. So the solution is to lie and then lie some more. It reminds me of when John Kirk Kirk Kirakal went on the other CIA ex-CIA agent's name, and he's like, I went to prison for uh I went to prison because the CIA illegally murdered people. And the guy's like, no, you went to prison for revealing that the CIA illegally and it was like, What? Did you just hear the words that came out of your mouth? You went to prison because the CIA broke the law and you exposed them. I exposed a lawbreaker. Yeah, you can't do that. It's like, what? Uh what? So Pony Boy had mentioned earlier, which is the only reason I didn't read it. Arcadia mayor, so Arcadia, California, Elon Wang, admits acting as a Chinese spy, a mayor of a California city was a Chinese spy, Rob. What are the odds? Mark Kelly, a sitting U.S. senator, took a Chinese flag with him to space. Allegedly, space. I know. NASA buys 99.1% of the world's helium. It makes you wonder. I know. Maybe he took it to space. Maybe he took it to Moscow and hang around for a couple months. Either way, he took a Chinese flag with him wherever he went. But Narcadia Mayor Ellen Wang admits to acting as a Chinese spy, running a fake news website with her ex-lover in shocking plea deal. This is from uh New York Post, Joe Bum, and Ben Chapman. A California mayor to acting as an illegal foreign agent of China, resigning from her position in a shocking federal plea deal, unsealed money, Monday. So she just took the plea deal and then resigned from office. Ellen Wang agreed with prosecutors that she worked with the People's Republic of China to boost propaganda with a fake news website on U.S. soil between 2020 and 2022. What was going on in 2020 to 2022? COVID? Interesting. She was elected to the city council in Arcadia. City Councilor. City Council was a spy. Was a Chinese People's Republic of China operative on the city council and eventually became mayor. A city where San Gabriel Valley within LA County in November 2022. Wang, 58, worked with her then fiancé, Yao Ning Mike Sun, on a website called the U.S. News Center, which claimed to be a news source for Chinese Americans according to documents. But in reality, the pair were carrying out Beijing's orders through the site. Wang and Sun executed directives from the Chinese government, posted propaganda designed to boost China, all while reporting back to their masters with screenshots showing how many people viewed the stories according to the plea agreement. In one case, Wang Spymaster had ordered her to post pre-written news articles, including a PRC official written essay in the Los Angeles Times, the plea deal state. So they got it published in the Los Angeles Times. You know, a lot of people think those newspapers are pretty legitimate, you know, like there's some type of importance and weight to put to the New York Times, Seattle Times, New York Times, right? There is no genocide in Xinjiang. There is no such thing as forced labor or in any production activity, including cotton production. Spreading such a rumor is to defame China, destroy Xinjiang's safety and stability, wrote Wang's master according to the PLEMAR agreement. Wang complied with her handler and wrote back, Thank you so fast, thank you, everyone. In another case, Wang's PRC boss commended her on her page views received when a certain piece of propaganda Wang wrote back, thank you, leader. Wang pleaded guilty to the federal charge in her arraignment in downtown Los Angeles on Monday. She faces a maximum of 10 years in prison. LA's top federal prosecutor Bill Isel said that this is not the first time China had been caught trying to exert its influence on the United States.

SPEAKER_20 57:56

And I'm guessing that China thinks that this is uh an acceptable loss.

SPEAKER_18 58:01

Of course. But meanwhile, I was in prison with John Rowe, who's serving a 10-year sentence for basically being entrapped by the government as a Russian spy. But yet you have real spies like this. Same sentence, by the way, 10 years. Same time frame, 10 years.

SPEAKER_20 58:19

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_18 58:19

Yeah. Miss Wing is just the latest to act as an agent for the PRC, and it should terrify Americans. Yes, it should. That she was able to rise to the highest levels of local office in her city. You should look at your local officers with great suspicion. Karen Bass, Cuba operative, which means China operative because China runs the communist shit show around the world. This Wang, City Council in Arcadia, eventually mayor, spy, running fake news, writes a letter back to a Chinese Communist Party. Thank you, leader. Wait, I thought your boss were the people of Arcadia. Makes you also question the integrity of the election to get there in the first place, doesn't it? Makes you wonder about that Joe Biden guy, you know, the one whose son and John K John Kerry's son-in-law took$1.5 billion from China. Makes you kind of really wonder about some of that stuff, doesn't it? Under the plea agreement, Wang admitted she acted under the control of the Chinese officials to promote propaganda in the U.S. So yeah. Big deal. Big deal there. Meanwhile, Donald Trump is about to touch down in China this week. He should be there tomorrow. And Doug Bergham says Donald Trump is coming as a strongman this time. He's got the upper hand.

SPEAKER_03 59:36

Well, yeah, he buys 80% of Iran's oil, and China is the most energy-dependent country in the world, just the opposite of the U.S., uh, which is the most energy dominant country in the world. Uh China importing 11.5 million barrels of oil a day uh just to keep their economy going. Uh and their strategic stockpile is dwindling. Uh, and their their exam, their economy is faltering. They're super dependent on imported energy, and China also imports calories every day. They don't raise enough food to feed everybody in that country. So President Trump is going in uh to, you know, with we've got uh energy security and food security in America. China has neither of those things. He's in a great position negotiations.

SPEAKER_18 1:00:18

So with the president's there's Winnie the Pooh shaking hands with Oops, dang it, now we're gonna be shadow banned. They're not supposed to call the our fearless chairman uh Qi Winnie the Pooh. Do you remember after Biden lost the election or won the election? I'm sorry, I get confused with how that happened in 2020. Do you remember after Biden won or lost the election and we started referring to Chairman Chi as the uh what do we call him? Chairman Xi is beautiful and bright or something like that.

SPEAKER_20 1:00:47

I started referring to Chairman Shi as our beautiful leader or something.

SPEAKER_18 1:00:51

Yeah, in fact, in my criminal complaint from the DOJ against me, they included one of those captions where I said, you know, our uh Chairman Xi is wonderful and great, or something like that. And it was referring to censorship. They made it in the charging documents. I was like, dude, the irony of the FBI. They had to read that, and I don't know what they were thinking. I it was it was parody at the highest level. So Donald Trump is heading to China where he's got a pretty good position. You know that China has now become food dependent on the US. And for the most part, we've kind of cut off their ability to buy new farmland. They still own a lot of farmland around here, which of course, everything China does is dual use. Everything China does is dual use.

SPEAKER_20 1:01:32

Well, yeah, they get to farm it, they also have proximity, they also get to spy on our bases.

SPEAKER_18 1:01:36

This is a big deal. China owns quite a bit of farmland around Fort Lewis McCord and up in the Bellingham area next to some of our military installations, and so you know they got the dual use going on, but they're dependent on us for food. Now they've been dependent on Iran for oil, except that has kind of changed a little bit. So Donald Trump was addressing this situation with the oil, and it has to do with countries around the world have just complete decided to completely ditch the Strait of Hormuz. Even if even if it opened up, it may never recover to the level of oil that was being produced at one point.

SPEAKER_27 1:02:13

It would become very big on the filling station, or a big filling station. And what's happening is this person when people heard about losing hormones, they said, oh there's a genius and find another location. And some of those people I spoke to companies in countries, some of those people are gonna continue to go to Texas, they like it better. They said it's an extra 45 minutes, they like it better. And it's sort of amazing, you know. So a lot of people thought, oil, we go to 250 or 300. It's not. I mean today it's at less than a hundred. Think of that. Now when this ends, you're gonna see a drop like a rock. Or a big filling station.

SPEAKER_18 1:03:10

That's it. And so the U.S. has become the filling station, Ron. Now, I always think of the filling station in downtown Kingdom. Shout out to them. It's a local bar and grill. But apparently the United States has become the filling station. And I think that is pretty significant. Countries like Japan, South Korea, and a handful of other countries that were getting oil out of the Strait of Hormouths, coming not from Iran necessarily, but from Saudi Arabia and even Iraq. Kuwait is tucked up in there. Um I think that them redirecting their oil purchases to the United States is a net good for America for sure. John Attack says, I was part of a business deal with the number one education company in Taiwan, Taiwan, and they were 50% owned by China. It was clear that China was not in the negotiations. They that China was not in the negotiations, they were part of the deal. Yeah. No, and anything China owns is CCP oriented. And you know, we've become dependent on them for a lot of stuff. You know, some rare earth mineral production, yeah, a lot of our computer supplies and things like that. So Donald Trump, one of the first orders of business, Donald, I I heard uh I think it was Cynthia Hughes who was talking about the significance of the four years that Trump was out of office. That if we'd have had back-to-back Donald Trump, it would have been more fighting the deep state, it would have been more of kind of the same old, same old. He would have never really affected a lot of things. I mean, he wanted to, but because he went four years in the wilderness, obviously he was persecuted, indicted, they tried to keep him from coming back. But that four years is where they were able to step back and make very strategic plans to really put the chessboard out after having seen it up close and personal as the president. What do those backroom meetings look like with Putin? What are his motivations? What do those negotiations with Chairman Xi in private look like? What are their motivations? There's one thing when you're constantly surrounded by intel officers and pundits and you know top bureaucrats that have their own vested interests. But what is it? What is it when you sit down with a world leader man-to-man and you negotiate things of massive consequence who then have to turn around and answer to their political, you know, home front? Like that's one of the things you hear about. Like Chairman She is up against hardliners and soft liners. Putin has hardliners and soft liners in the party, and he's got to try to balance the domestic politics. But what is it that he really wants man-to-man? What is he willing to concede? There's a movie or it's a document, it's a show on Netflix called House of Carts. And there's a scene in there where the fictional leader of Russia, who's a Putin like caricature, meets with I can't I honestly can't remember if he meets with Carrie Underwood or Frank Underwood. I think it might be Carrie Underwood in the in a stairwell in some White House meeting because there's no cameras, no security. It's like they can meet in a stairwell. And it and in the story, it's over Syria. And he goes, the Putin character goes, let's be good imperialists like we really are, and let's carve up Syria. And just that little vignette in that movie, it's like, is that what it's really like? Do Putin and she or Trump, when they sit down, is it really all of the political noise that we hear? Or does it really just boil down to Trump goes, the Western Hemisphere is ours? Do what you want over there. Is that really what it boils down to? Does the United States care what's happening to the Uyghur Muslims or the Fulong Gong? Do we care at all? You see what I'm saying? Or are we just gonna go, listen, we get Venezuela, we get the Panama Canal, I don't give a crap what you do with the Strait of Hormuz. Our only thing is Iran can't have a nuke.

SPEAKER_20 1:06:53

I don't know, but you know, for example, I never even heard of the Uyghur Muslims until I was on this podcast. So the fact that I've never heard of them before means that we have no policy for them. So I don't know.

SPEAKER_18 1:07:08

Well we do. Our State Department's declared it a genocide, but you know, we just buy way too much stuff from people do anything about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_20 1:07:15

Yes.

Trade Wins, Tariffs, And Census Power

SPEAKER_18 1:07:16

And I'm not I'm not 100% certain we have an obligation to do anything other than financial sanctions about genocide because otherwise you run around the world chasing dragons. Literally. I remember when we got involved in Iraq, I was like, I don't, so is is Zimbabwe next? Because Robert Mugab is just as bad as Saddam Hussein. Nope, didn't do anything about Zimbabwe. So this is Ambassador Jamison Greer. He's the United States trade representative, and he rattles off again. Donald Trump in those four years in the wilderness was able to figure out what kind of trade deals, the levers and the sticks, the carrots and the sticks that were necessary to really bolster America, bring jobs home, redollarize the economy. All this stuff is what he was able to do. And we've actually reached quite the tipping point where America has selling again and manufacturing.

SPEAKER_34 1:08:05

We spent the past year uh obviously using tariffs to protect American production, and that gets a lot of the news. But a little bit of the untold story are these deals. Uh, we've had dozens of countries come to us and pledge to lower their tariffs and non-tariff barriers to U.S. exports. A lot of them have already done that, dropping those tariffs. Uh, you know, just a couple of examples. Uh the United States exports of corn went up by 25% last year, right? That's that's a huge amount. And if you look at January, February, and March of this year, US exports were over$300 billion in each month. That was that those are the highest figures in 250 years of American history, uh, each month beating the record of the previous one. Uh, this doesn't happen organically. This is something that comes from all the deals that President Trump has been striking. So we're seeing the Americans who build stuff, who grow stuff, who make stuff, they're they're not only serving the American market now, they're getting more overseas, and that means more jobs here. And so we spent the past year.

SPEAKER_18 1:09:03

That is huge deals. More exports, 300 billion, than in our 250-year history. That is a big, big deal. Every business owner will tell you that's the old the office line. Do you have any new territory, any new leads, any new people? Like this market's burnt out. Everybody knows about our product, and if they're gonna buy it, they've bought it. We need new areas, so that is huge. And it went through the list of countries that have dropped their trade barriers, so now we can sell a Chevy in Indonesia or Singapore or wherever it was, whereas before we couldn't. So, you know, they're shoving them down our throats, and then we took cheap Toyotas from Japan or whatever, and it competed. Well, now we can actually go compete with these other car markets and corn and all these other things in other markets, and having that much in exports is a big, big deal. It also means they typically have to have the dollar to buy it from us, which increases the value of the dollar, which you know is a good thing. You know, hardcore Bitcoiners, they just assume watch the dollar catch on fire. But I I don't I'd like to maintain the value of the dollar to some degree. Now, we talked about Keir Starmer yesterday potentially resigning from office. Well, it turns out he didn't want to resign, uh, but he gave a very low energy speech saying, I'm sticking around and now I've got to take responsibility and do the hard job of earning back the trust of the people. But but he did go out of his way to blame the loss of all the labor seats at the councils around the country. He he did point the finger at somebody. Uh the election results last week were tough.

SPEAKER_24 1:10:50

Very tough. We lost some brilliant Labour representatives. And he should have I get it. I feel it.

SPEAKER_17 1:11:05

And I take responsibility. But it's not just about taking responsibility for the result. It's about taking responsibility to explain how. As a political and electoral force, we will be better and do better in the months and years ahead.

SPEAKER_18 1:11:28

He's about to tell us how they lost all these seats. Hold on. Exactly. He's about to explain how they lost all these seats. Get ready. This is a lobber.

SPEAKER_17 1:11:39

We are not just facing a dangerous time. A dangerous opponent. Very dangerous opponent. This hurts not just because Labour has done badly, but because if we don't get this right, our country will go down in a very dark part. So just as I take responsibility for the result, I also take responsibility for delivering the change that we promised for a stronger and fairer Britain that we must build. I take responsibility for navigating us for a world that is more dangerous than at any time in my life. And I take responsibility for not walking away, not plunging our country into chaos as the tourists did time and again, chaos that did lasting damage to this country. A Labour government would never be forgiven for inflicting that on our country again.

SPEAKER_18 1:12:53

In the longer speech, in the full speech, he blames the far-right extremist misinformation, disinformation. And my response to Jen on the Peasants Per Pense Pod Living Room, which by the way, a lot of you guys that are regular chatters on here, you need to get in on the living room. So you need to reach out to me on Telegram and I'll add you on the living room. Um, so reach out to me and I can add you on the living room. So, anyways, he blames basically the far right, right? Or the right wingers, and they're dangerous. This will take us down a very dark path. We might actually have law and order, we might actually like help defend America as they have defended us for years and years. Like, there's so many things that would just be dark and horrible for the communists to ever have to do. So he takes full responsibility, right, for the knife attacks in Britain, for the unchecked immigration of immigrants into Britain, to the fact that there's Sharia law courts in Britain. Here's the response: they're gonna double down on censorship. They're gonna double down on censorship, they're gonna try to silence their opposition because clearly they cannot win in the marketplace of ideas. Another person who can't win in the marketplace of ideas who shares, again, it's not that Keir Starmer and Karen Bass have ever talked or have anything in uh you know common between the two of them, but they both share the same fundamental ideology. It's this collectivist ideology, it's this idea that you can enforce fairness, it's this idea that the the rich should pay for the poor, which ultimately results in everybody paying the elite bureaucrats and politicians, right? And the money never really comes back to benefit people. Yesterday I spoke at the Republican Women's Club, and um, you know, I'm just so not impressed with politicians like at all. I've I've just been very unimpressed by most of the ones I've met. Well, they let you down all the time. Yeah, and here's this guy running for Republican Party, and he's talking about spending money on social services and pre-K paying for pre-K education.

SPEAKER_20 1:14:59

And I'm like cancel all that.

LA Rebuild Delays And Local Takeover Plans

SPEAKER_18 1:15:01

Yeah, well, you don't want to cancel it because the low income. I'm like, why are they low income? Yeah, like it never goes to the root cause, it's always band-aid, band-aid, band-aid. Exactly. Anyways, it just made me. I still donated 20 bucks to the guy that's he's better than his opposition. But either way, I'm just like, ugh, you've got to go to take takebackmycounty.com. I've been saying take backyourcounty.com. Turns out that's not the correct website. Takebackmycounty.com. And you need to sign up to be a part of the political action organization that's going to do that. We are going to take our counties back. And also you can go to politicalremodel.com and download the manuscript so you can get on board with the plan. We are really starting to push this. There's we're we're doing the deal like with the bamboo where you plant the seeds and the shoots grow and the roots grow. And then when it takes off, it's going to take off like a rocket. That's what's happening right now. We're kind of building that foundation so that when we go with it, we go hot and heavy and hard. So take back mycounty.com, go check it out, as well as politicalremodel.com. Both are necessary because without it, we are going to get more and more of this. So obviously, one of the big news stories last year was the Palisades fire in California. Totally devastated LA, Hollywood, that whole area. Tons of stuff being burnt down. I mean, it was just a horrible, horrible fire. And there's all kinds of suspicions that Karen Bass maybe knew it was coming. She warned that one guy about the winds. The guy's like, no, we we had a phone call talking about fire and winds days before she went on her trip to Africa. Why the mayor of LA had to go on a trip to Africa, we may never know. You know, it's kind of like, why would she have to go get training in Cuba? I don't know. Why we'll never know. We're just gonna have to assume that she wasn't a good jungle fighter and decided to become a become a political street fighter. Well, she was asked in this interview, when are we finally going to allow people to build back? Ron, how long has it been? A year? It's been almost a year now since those.

SPEAKER_20 1:17:01

Over a year.

SPEAKER_18 1:17:02

Yeah, and we still haven't started the process of building back. So he goes, Well, like, how long until we can?

SPEAKER_14 1:17:09

So, what's a realistic time frame uh for people to actually start rebuilding and actually get home?

SPEAKER_00 1:17:15

Well, you know, I'm hoping that the rebuilding and the planning process can actually start now. But you know that's going to be individuals. People are in a variety of different circumstances. We have seniors who might have paid off their mortgage years ago and are living on, you know, fixed incomes. We have people that want to rebuild exactly as they built before, other people who might want to make changes, which then the process would be a little longer for. So what I understand is three years would probably be the fastest, but probably it would be more like five. So it really depends on the individual circumstances. So what's a realistic time frame?

SPEAKER_20 1:17:54

You want to work at Kittsap County? You would fit right in.

SPEAKER_18 1:17:57

Dude, it's been over a year. Half of the city should have been rebuilt by now. Oh, three or five. But starting right, we can right now we can start. We can start to take applications.

SPEAKER_20 1:18:09

No, no, no, no. She said we can start the planning. The planning now. That's just thinking about it.

SPEAKER_18 1:18:15

In realistically, three to five years. Right. So you're gonna be out of your house for six years before you can rebuild.

SPEAKER_20 1:18:22

We're gonna be dead before then.

SPEAKER_18 1:18:23

Dude, some people have older, own their house free and clear on a fixed income, they can't afford to rebuild. Was that because you had insurance getting canceled? Right. Was that part of the whole policies that made it so insurance companies are like peace, we're out? Right. So the people who paid off their house, did the whole thing, saved their equity in their home, got their insurance canceled because of your dumb policy decisions. And so they'll never build back, is what you're saying. Yes. And if you just want to build back as is for years, if you want to actually build back something different than what you had, you know, have an extra bedroom or a closet somewhere differently or different architectural style. Yeah, that I mean five years more.

SPEAKER_20 1:19:05

Good job evicting the entire neighborhood. Thank you.

SPEAKER_18 1:19:08

Yeah, exactly. And by the way, the number one buyer are a New Zealand shell company with Chinese money. Because, you know, we need we need a real Chinese mayor of LA, even Acadia up there. You know, so spin that one however you want to do it. Now, Spencer Pratt, who's running for mayor over there, he's just like, listen, I'm not a politician.

SPEAKER_01 1:19:27

I keep trying to tell everyone that, you know, they try to put me in a box. I didn't run for to be a political party. I didn't run to be a politician. I ran because I experienced what city leadership failure at the ultimate level is. That's why I stepped up. That's what cuts through. So the media and everyone wants to jump on and be like, oh, Spencer's our guy. No, I'm the citizen. I am the angry taxpayer. You can be a Democrat and love me. You can be a Republican, love me. The only people that don't love me are communists and socialists, and I don't want them to love me. I keep trying to.

SPEAKER_18 1:19:59

And that's all there is to it. If you hate communists and Democrats, we're gonna get along, or excuse me, communists and socialists who go by the name Democrat, we're gonna get along just fine. Right? We're gonna get along just fine. I can deal with John Fetterman all day long, right? Uh we're just angry. We're just frustrated at the fact that it takes forever to build. Ron, what do we got?

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unknown 1:21:25

Phew.

SPEAKER_18 1:21:26

Awesome! Rumble wallet. I'm obviously a big fan of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in general, but specifically Bitcoin. Yeah, great. Okay, so like I said, Donald Trump is moving hardcore on a lot of different issues, and there were some pretty significant things that happened over the last, well, 30 years, but really when the census happened, there was a critical small little thing that the Supreme Court passed on based on some procedural issues, not necessarily on the merits of the case, which really cost the Republicans hard. This is the Heritage Foundation. Uh, this is oh, what's her name? Of course, I don't have a name here, but she's she's speaking at the Heritage Foundation about the census and how it affects the districting around the country.

SPEAKER_29 1:22:15

And Trump's first term, he sought to have the citizenship question re-added to the census. Of course, the left sued. It went up to the Supreme Court, uh, and the court tossed it more on procedural grounds rather than substantive grounds. So we did not have the citizenship question on the census in 2020. And the Census Bureau admitted that they had errors in 2020, and oops, most of them benefited blue states. So President Trump, I think, is trying to push on multiple fronts. He's trying to get um, you know, citizenship put back into it. There's talk of doing a new census instead of waiting for uh 2030. Um, there are efforts that states could do in terms of doing their own census to at least give a more accurate picture of uh headcount and breakdown of citizens versus non-citizens and the goodness that comes from that in terms of election integrity. The Save America Act is an important part of it because it's it's two parts. One is when you register to vote, you have to prove you're a US citizen. And then on top of that, when you go to vote, then you have to show your ID. We need that first part because so many states will issue driver's licenses to illegal aliens and other non-citizens. And so proving that citizenship is an important part of the election integrity.

SPEAKER_18 1:23:40

Yeah, it seems it seems so obvious, doesn't it, Rob? Yeah, sure. It seems so obvious, but it was I have their name in my head. Wilbur Ross was in charge of the last census, and he just totally backed down, man. He just completely backed down. He backed down to the big ag who didn't want illegal aliens to be chased around. We need the farmers and the almond pickers and the strawberry pickers. And so Wilbur Bross essentially the allegation is kind of that he rigged it a little bit so that the Supreme Court wouldn't decide on it and just basically allowed the census to go on and just count every every able-bodied person rather than counting U.S. citizens or at least segregating the count.

SPEAKER_20 1:24:24

I think it'd be interesting to do a census out of uh out of the schedule, and then that way there would be a record of, hey, why did this year it didn't go the normal you know, schedule? And then people would go, Oh, let's check out the footnote.

SPEAKER_18 1:24:40

Oh could you imagine a census that came back and told us what that we shrank? The former Border Patrol chief said that he said there's a hundred million illegal aliens in the country. Yeah, could you imagine a census that gave those results?

SPEAKER_20 1:24:55

I could.

SPEAKER_18 1:24:56

I mean, we talk about 20 million, 30 million, 40 million. It gets pretty astronomical. Imagine if it's a third of the country is not a U.S. citizen.

SPEAKER_20 1:25:05

That's why I think it would be interesting to have a census, you know, done now, and then have that footnote, and then you could go into the footnote and go, Well, let's see what's going on. Oh, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_18 1:25:19

Every time Ron talks, he forgets to change his camera over to him, and then I just sit here.

SPEAKER_20 1:25:23

You just say, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_18 1:25:26

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that'd be pretty it'd be pretty interesting. Uh, when I when I read when we read that, 100 million people is what his estimate was. Yeah, that's that's jaw-dropping. First of all, do we have 350 million people here or do we have 450 million people?

SPEAKER_20 1:25:42

Well, I don't know. I mean, it's the same question for like China. Do they really have one point whatever? Right. We don't know. We're playing in a weird sandbox.

SPEAKER_18 1:25:52

Now they have proven through satellite imagery and things like that when they go to build dams in the caucuses and stuff, that the population, the rural population was much larger than they ever anticipated. Yeah, it's just hard to go count out in the sticks.

SPEAKER_20 1:26:05

Well, and then you get into the cities, and some of those cities are just ghost towns, so there's nobody even there.

SPEAKER_18 1:26:12

Yeah. You'd think it would be easy to count how many people are using a cell phone right now, right? Right. You think that you think that you could almost do the census by in like eight minutes? How many pings? Yeah, how many pings? How many pings are other out there? Okay. So the other thing, too, is obviously over in Virginia, the Supreme Court in Virginia, did you leave it on you?

SPEAKER_20 1:26:31

So that's I was just thinking that was a really bad unintended racial joke.

SPEAKER_22 1:26:36

Oh pings.

SPEAKER_20 1:26:40

You're horrible, Ron. I know, but we used to have Mr. Ping here in town, and Mr. Ping was the best, you know, ping golf.

SPEAKER_18 1:26:46

Oh, yeah, yeah. So the in in Virginia, the Democrats tried to ram through a redistricting that would have changed the legislature or the voting delegation to DC nine to one. And the Virginia Supreme Court overturned that based on the fact that they violated multiple levels of the Constitution in order to even get it on the ballot. And they have also affirmed that they're not going to allow basically, it reverts back to the old map, so it's a more fair and balanced map. Prior to the Democrats playing around with that, the Virginia um districting was done by a bipartisan commission. Excuse me. And it was considered the gold standard of districting uh of congressional maps. And so after this happened, Hakeem Jeffries had a conference call with different people in Virginia, and this conference call got leaked. They are scheming to set an age limit of 53 years old for the Virginia Supreme Court. The youngest Supreme Court justice, by the way, is 53 years old to completely wipe them out and replace. All of them in one shot. You're going to set an age limit of fifty three years old. How old are you, Ron? I'd rather not say, but I'm not sure if you're too old to be on the Virginia Supreme Court.

SPEAKER_20 1:28:17

I think I might be.

SPEAKER_18 1:28:18

What the fuck? Fifty three years old. I feel like I'm in my prime. This if you don't think communist and socialist and progressives and leftist liberals and democrats at large do not hate you and hate our constitution and hate the quote unquote norms and the laws, they will do anything they can within their political capacity, and I'm talking power, within their power to screw you over to keep their own power for whatever purpose they want.

SPEAKER_33 1:28:56

A leaked account of a call between Virginia House members and minority leader Hakeem Jeffries. Here's a part of it. Quote, the most dramatic idea they discussed, which would involve an unusual gambit to replace the entire state Supreme Court with a goal of reinstating their gerrymandered map through mixed reactions on the call. Oh boy, that leaked? So they can't even all agree on this. The desperate move. Seven justices sit on Virginia Supreme Court with staggered terms stretching years into the future. Lowering the retirement age would force vacancies, opening the door to refill the bench. The headline for Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley's op-ed is this angry left plots to purge Virginia's high court. He was on Fox last hour.

SPEAKER_10 1:29:48

These radical ideas are nothing new, but I think the public needs to understand that many of these same voices have been saying publicly that they will pack the Supreme Court as well.

SPEAKER_18 1:30:00

As soon as Republicans react the call between out of their butts and realize that the left counts on you having your virtue weaponized. But the idea that he won the election, oh, he won, right? He won. Like the left wants to weaponize the virtue of conservatives and republicans into just bending over and taking it by the norms and forcing you to play by the rules that they themselves refuse to play by.

SPEAKER_04 1:31:14

Wade, the war in court, measures on crime that made it easier to protect criminals than to protect victims of crime. And Republicans say we need to jerry-rig the Supreme Court. They didn't go out and say we need to expand or pack the Supreme Court. They worked within the system to change the way things worked. That's what you have to do here. The Democrats, and there are now attempts to erase the existence of a Virginia Supreme Court, show that they refuse to work within the system. Republicans proved we will listen to a court ruling. Democrats are showing they won't.

SPEAKER_18 1:31:47

And that's what it boils down to. Even when it's not in our favor, we go, okay, buckle up. Let's go grassroots, let's get it going. And then, you know, what's the definition of insanity? It's conservatism. It's doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Because why? The Democrats will not play by the rules. They'll change the rules, they'll open investigations and then not tell you about it until they sidle up to you at some bar and go, wouldn't it be inconvenient if the world knew about XYZ? Wink, wink. Wink, wink, wink. You know, the Democrats will literally get behind a communist mayor in California and be like, well, you know, what's good for China is good for me. Okay. We've got to wake up. We've got to wake up. Because when it boils down to it, Sydney Sweeney in one of her one of her shows called it best. Okay. She called it best.

SPEAKER_19 1:32:41

Like if a man today were to say that he wants a girlfriend that can cook or clean, he might as well be screaming the N-word.

unknown 1:32:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_27 1:32:49

Well, you sound like a Democrat.

SPEAKER_19 1:32:52

I'm not retarded.

SPEAKER_18 1:32:56

Because Democrats, if a man just wants a normal wife, oh, it might as well be the N-word. Hey, you sound like a Democrat. Yeah, not a not a retard. We're not retards here, folks. Okay, it's time for us to jump over into private. We're going to be talking a little bit about local news, Seattle, dealing with uh Katie Wilson. So we're talking about Katie Wilson and how their Seattle policies are really running businesses out of Seattle. Not even necessarily out of King County. They're businesses just jumping the lake over to Bellevue. You know, it's like that bad in Seattle. They got other options over there, even within the county. So we will talk to the rest of you guys again tomorrow. Don't forget to go to politicalremodel.com, take back my county.com. Also, go over to 1776live.us if you haven't registered already to go join us for our Ignite presentation on Thursday night at 4 30 p.m. We'd greatly appreciate it. You've got some links down in the show notes. Don't forget to click on those, specifically River. Every time you sign up for River and make a buy, you get a referral fee from us. I found that out. It's not us that gets paid. You get we get paid the same. So when you use River to buy your Bitcoin, we both get a referral for it. Sweet. Definitely go get go use River. You get some free Bitcoin out of the deal. All right, guys, we will talk to you again tomorrow. And the some of you will see over on private. Okay, so Ari Hoffman posted this. Uh uh Katie Wilson sat down with the Seattle Channel. Which channel is this here? Oh, it doesn't even matter. She sat down to do a little interview and she's talking about taxes. Now, prior to being mayor, she sat on the city council and was an integral part of a tax hike then, which now we're getting the results of. And she's proud of it, Ron. Can you believe it? She's proud of it.

SPEAKER_21 1:34:46

Robert asked on Facebook, is she going to say bye to more millionaires, billionaires, and corporations as that tax-based revenue leaves the state? I think people have concerns about this, as popular as it is on the ballot for people to say tax the rich. I think there's some businesses that are saying, wait a minute, and maybe they're speaking with their pocketbooks, moving out of here, things of that nature. How do you respond to that?

SPEAKER_23 1:35:04

So I'm I'm really proud of the work that I did and that Ali did and that many others did to pass the jumpstart payroll expense tax back in 2020. And as as uh Director Panusci mentioned, um, you know, without that um major progressive revenue source, which yes, is a tax on large corporations, um, you know, with high with a high paid workforce, um, we would have been in a world of hurt during the pandemic. And this is also what has been floating the city budget, you know, basically for the last five years. Um, so I'm really proud of that work. Um, and um I do think it's a problem, and I've stated this publicly many times, um, when Seattle's um kind of business environment, tax environment gets very out of step with our neighboring jurisdictions, including Bellevue, right? And so that is something that, you know, as we're looking at addressing this structural budget deficit, we're gonna be taking into account, right? And when we look at our revenue options, yes, one option is to dial up jumpstart, right? And no options are off the table because we don't have any great options, right? Um, but um also, like I don't think it's good that um, you know, it is less expensive to do business in Bellevue than in Seattle. And so we're gonna be taking that into consideration.

SPEAKER_21 1:36:14

Talk about some of the different types of revenue ideas. Civil war.

SPEAKER_18 1:36:18

I don't know if it's the war of the lake. It's not okay. There's dude, they're gonna start launching missiles over to Bellevue. They're going for it. They're going for it.

SPEAKER_21 1:36:30

Not, but we got that jumpstart tax, the payroll expense tax. Is there a wealth tax in the offing? Is there a capital gains tax, perhaps, which I know the state has and the Supreme Court has upheld? What what what's what are you considering there, I guess?

SPEAKER_23 1:36:42

Yeah, I mean, I think part of the challenge of of the moment that we're in is that there is not a silver bullet, right? Um, there is not some major uh progressive revenue, untapped progressive revenue source that you know we know is practically implementable on this timeline, you know, legally airtight, um, that we can just pass and it's gonna plug this budget hole. Like that does not exist. Um, there are options, and uh, we are, you know, our team is hard at work studying those options. I think capital gains tax is absolutely on the table.

SPEAKER_18 1:37:14

Robert asked on Facebook. You could you could reduce spending. Yeah, you could reduce spending. Like, you know, 119 million or billion dollars, some ridiculous number to homelessness. Could just say we haven't reduced homelessness and stop spending money on it.

SPEAKER_20 1:37:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_18 1:37:30

Like that could be that simple. Yeah. Like you could just stop spending money.

SPEAKER_20 1:37:34

You could fund a little league. How about that? Yeah, I mean, do something real.

Seattle Housing Reality And Budget Warnings

SPEAKER_18 1:37:39

So across across Washington, but most specifically, the Seattle market has had a real estate problem. Here is uh Charlie. Is it Charlie Hager? Here's Charlie Hager. He talks about the real estate. We mentioned this yesterday. Charlie Harger. Charlie Harager. We mentioned this yesterday with the report on real estate, how real estate inventory has jacked up. And he goes into some greater detail here.

SPEAKER_36 1:38:04

There are 8,630 homes listed for sale across the Seattle Metro right now. In a normal April, that would be about 4,600. Nick Gurley runs a real estate analytics firm called Reventure. He posted that data on X yesterday. Inventory has nearly doubled. King County values are already down 2.5% year over year. Typical Seattle Metro home is still right around a million dollars. If you want to break that down, the monthly mortgage payment on that runs somewhere between$7,000 and$8,000 a month. So that's$84,000 to$96,000 a year just on the mortgage. The median household income around here is about$112,000 before taxes. After deductions, take home somewhere between$85,000 and$90,000 a year. So the mortgage on a typical home eats virtually everything that household brings in. So it isn't regular people cashing in on a hot market. Regular people still can't afford to buy. Some are downsizing, some are leaving the state entirely, headed to Austin, Nashville, anywhere the math works. This state built its tax base on tech paychecks. We don't have a traditional income tax. We fund our sales through a sales tax, the BO tax, capital gains tax, among other things, and of course the new millionaire income tax that just got signed. All of this depends on healthy, active, high-earning workforces. So when a software engineer making$200,000 leaves Seattle for Nashville, Washington State loses the sales tax on everything they buy. We lose the revenue tied to their employer. We lose capital gains when they cash out their stock somewhere else. You multiply that across thousands of departures, and the math gets ugly fast. Now, layer on what every American feeling American family is feeling right now. Inflation that won't quit, grocery bills that doubled never came back down, Iran war and higher gas prices. Washington families are dealing with all of that on top of property taxes that keep climbing, Climate Commitment Act surcharge that stack on top of one of the highest gas tax rates in the country. So that's the picture. Tech paychecks shrinking, inflation eating savings, gas prices climbing again, mortgage math that does not work for normal earners. And Olympia spent years adding programs, expanding commitments, telling voters that the revenue would be there. McLary, Medicaid, Homeless Services, Transit, Climate Commitment Act. Every one of those was written assuming the tech economy would keep producing the tax base to pay for it. Well, that assumption is getting stress tested in real time. Moody's just gave the state a negative outlook. State ranks dead last in the country for financial reserves. Last. We've been running on fumes while making long-term promises that depend on the good times rolling forever. And when a state's credit outlook drops, the state pays higher interest on the bonds that fund roads, schools, public projects. Same road, same school. Just costs more. Washington has told itself for years we're different. That the tech economy insulates us, that the revenue base is deep enough to absorb whatever comes next. Now we've doubled the state budget, stacked obligation on obligation, and we're sitting last in the country in financial reserves. The cushion is gone. The tax base is packing up. Washington has seen downturns before, Boeing in the 70s, dot com in 2001, the 2008 collapse. We got through all of them with a fraction of today's spending, none of today's long-term commitments, and none of today's programs. This is what the front edge of a recession looks like in a state that prepared for the opposite.

SPEAKER_20 1:42:18

Accurate.

Final Push To Get Involved

SPEAKER_18 1:42:19

That's accurate. Yeah, completely. All right, guys, that's it for us today. It's not all gloom and doom. Listen, we our choices matter. It matters what we do. And the biggest thing is just get involved. Get involved. This is a fun, entertaining show, but it's all for naught. We're not just wanting to scream into the microphone a bunch of useless stuff, right? We have to make a difference. I'm doing my part. I go to the meetings, I run, put my name on the ballot to become a PCO. Do your part. Go get involved. Take back my county.com, political remodel.com. You can change any city. It can be done. All right, talk to you guys. Oh, we got a raid to head out to, so go check out Nosa Adventura Live. Go for it, Ron. And we'll talk to you guys again tomorrow. Bye.

SPEAKER_07 1:43:42

I didn't think you were called Dennis. I did say something about the old woman from behind. The old man treat me like an imperialist. Have you got that, eh? Hanging on to updated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. Is there ever gonna be any progress? How'd you do? How do you do, good lady? Um king of the Britons. Whose castle is that? The Britons. The Britons! We all we are all Britons. And I am your king. No, we are the king. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. Self-perpetuating autocracy amongst the working classes. That's what it's all about. These good people. I'm in haste. Who lives in that castle? Who lives in that castle? Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narco-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 Pi and Turner. Oh, the you should be quacked. The lady of the lake. Um clad in the purest shimmering stemite. Hill the loft Excalibur from the bottom of the water. Signifying property. That is what I'm talking about. Listen, strange women not an imponus. Distributive thoughts is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some philosophical aquatic families. You can't expect to wheel supreme executive power just because some watery chart from a thought.