We Keep Getting Fleeced, So We Learn To Opt Out

The fastest way to lose faith in a system is to watch it reward bad behavior and then demand your obedience. We start the morning with a little humor and a little “troll power,” but we quickly get serious about the trade war with Canada, how easy it is for media noise to drown out real leverage, and why branding fights like renaming lakes matter less than tariffs, supply chains, and who actually pays the bill.

From there, we dig into the stories politicians don’t want compared side by side: border security claims versus the loopholes that reclassify outcomes, the “super sponsor” child trafficking cases that force ugly resource triage, and the way numbers get massaged until the public stops believing any of it. We also get into the uncomfortable truth that trust is the real currency of government programs, and fraud doesn’t just waste money, it breaks the social contract for the people who genuinely need help.

Then we zoom out to the financial system. We talk about the federal budget, inflation, “infinite cash” rhetoric, Medicaid and Medicare fraud, and why states can be incentivized to look the other way. We also look at the power of modern enforcement: if Treasury can map networks and threaten to remove entities from the US dollar system overseas, those tools can be pointed inward someday, depending on who gets to define “crime.”

We close by making it personal and practical: what sovereignty looks like for regular people, why we treat Bitcoin, gold, and silver as weights and measures, and how a drained bank account turns theory into reality fast. If this hit a nerve, subscribe, share it with a friend who still trusts the numbers, and leave a review with the moment you realized the “feature” might actually be fraud.

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Welcome, Peasants And Morning Rituals

SPEAKER_06 0:30

We're getting screwed, ma'am. Every time we turn around, we're getting screwed. Well, the revolution's gonna be true podcasting for sure. It's the little guys, the little guys that take the money of everything. It's gonna be peasants, man. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those old movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around, but we're those people. We're those people. Good morning, peasants. Welcome to another episode of the peasants perspective. Thundering Oak is in the house. Morning, morning. We had a little delay this morning getting on because Rumble decided just to log us out. Like they didn't want us in here or something. I don't know. That was annoying. A little bit. Anyways, it happens. It happens. Technical difficulties. All right, let's jump right into it with a simultaneous sip. We don't have to delay. We don't have to have any chit chat. One of my favorite podcasts. Let's go ahead and chit chat after I've said one of my favorite podcasts back in the day was the Byron York Show. And he'd start out every thing with this is the no chit chat podcast. And then he'd read his script for like the No Chit Chat Podcast. Anyways, all right, simultaneous sip. Let's do that. I know why you're here. You're here for the simultaneous sip. All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice, a stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip, and it starts right now.

SPEAKER_22 2:11

We must stop the terror. I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.

SPEAKER_06 2:34

I think Trump's stand-up comedy is still better, but he wasn't too far off. He was he was quite fun to watch. Oh, Marty Diesel says, Good morning, Taylor and Ron. Good morning, good morning, Pony Boy. Good morning, Carlit. Good morning in the house. Carlito and Tiffany. Howdy, everyone. All right, I got a question for the chatters today. I woke up and my pinky and my ring finger are numb. And like my right side of my hand a little bit into my arm is numb. I thought, oh, I just slept on it funny. You know, it'll come back. I've been up for a little while now and uh still numb. Am I should I be worried about my heart or anything like that? Like, is this something I should be worried about?

SPEAKER_10 3:09

Are you over 40?

SPEAKER_06 3:11

40. Do you suffer from do you suffer from numbness

Lake Renames And Canada Tariffs

SPEAKER_06 3:15

in your fingers? I had this happen to me in prison. My feet went totally numb, and I totally associated it with bad shoes and too much walking. And I just figured it was something to do with that. And it's gone away. Took about six months of being home and it went away. Anyways, I sure hope this doesn't last like that because it is annoying, is all get out. Speaking of annoying, Donald Trump has decided to put some serious consideration into renaming the lake Lake Ontario into Lake of America. The United States is giving serious consideration to changing the name of Lake Ontario to Lake America, in that we don't expect to be doing much business with Ontario any longer. Thank you for your attention to this matter. I love that so much. I mean, why don't we have one of the great lakes named after America? You know? Uh Thundering Oak says, How's my shoulder? I think my shoulder's fine. I don't know. I mean, I don't have any lack of rotation or anything. Uh, put some Windex on there. Is that because I'm Greek? Is that because I'm Greek? Oh, that's funny. Frazier, nice to see you. Glad we made it. All right, so it sounds like this trade war with Canada is ongoing. We're into day number two now. And uh there was a fake news story apparently circulating that Donald Trump was somehow trying to pressure the Canadians to get rid of the French language. He said I would never interfere with Canadians speaking French. In fact, I have never even thought of doing such a stupid thing. This lie was made up by the weak and ineffective prime minister in an attempt to gain political support. He is totally lost from the people of Quebec. I love French Canadian. President Donald J. Trump. Trump is an absolute master at this because the trade war is primarily over alcohol, dairy, and there's one other thing. I can't remember what it was. Timber. But no, it wasn't timber. We don't sell really any timber up north, but it was dairy and alcohol and one other thing. And it I think cheese. Anyways, well, that's dairy. All right. Point is it was it's this trade war, as far as we're concerned, is gonna have very little impact. I mean, unless you're buying hockey sticks or certain ice skates or just a handful of things, for the most part, it's not going to affect Americans. It could be very devastating for Canadians, like it could be really devastating for them. But Trump doesn't just come after that stuff, he comes after the things that create a lot of noise in Canada, right? Like relaming renaming Lake Ontario. That who cares? It's just a name on a map, it's just words to write on a piece of paper. It's a body of water that needs to be navigated, and you know.

SPEAKER_10 5:53

I know that's why I said troll power.

SPEAKER_06 5:55

It's troll power, exactly. But yet people are going to suck up airtime. Mark Carney, what do you think about Trump renaming Lake Ontario to Lake America? And he's like, I you just shouldn't do that. The the traditions. Right.

SPEAKER_10 6:08

Meanwhile, America still doesn't care.

SPEAKER_06 6:10

America still doesn't care. Like the Gulf of America, Gulf of Mexico. We don't freaking care. Now, Trump's brilliant because he understands long-term branding. Where do you get your oil? Well, we get our oil out of the Gulf of America. Makes sense. So changing the name of Lake Ontario, I guess some ships are going to change their navigational beacon call-outs. I don't know. But the big thing is it's just noise, right? Tons of noise. Let's see, electricity is imported from Canada, I understand. Well, maybe. Uh John Attack is in Kansas to Wichita and then back to Boise, round trip. Kansas is the most boring state in the Union. I haven't been to North and South Dakota, but Canada was pretty bad. Kansas was pretty bad. Thundering Oak, our wood chips for our calf stalls comes from Canada. We actually haven't been able to get those for a while now. Well, fire up the chipper. Make your own. Come on. You got lots of trees in Michigan. You tell me you can't come up with some wood chips? I'm just, I mean,

Canada As A Backdoor For China

SPEAKER_06 7:05

I don't know. Maybe you have to get that great North wood chips. I don't. Yeah, fire up the chipper. Make your own. All right. Speaking of Canada, as JD Vance says, they play dirty. In fact, they have acted as a conduit to slip Chinese goods into America.

SPEAKER_03 7:22

Respectful of the process. But we know that Canada allows itself to be used as a backdoor for Chinese goods. They treat our Chinese goods more fairly than they do the goods that come from the people of Maine. It's insanity. And what we've said that Canada is a stop. Apply a basic principle of fairness to the trade that you're doing between North Dakota and Canada, between Maine and Canada. And what happened at the very end is they came in with a bunch of unreasonable last-minute demands. I frankly thought we had a deal. I think that we should have a deal, but I think that we need to send a message loud and clear to the Prime Minister of Canada. Stop taking advantage of the people of Maine. Stop taking advantage of America. It's over. We expect fairness in our trade policy.

SPEAKER_06 8:11

Yeah, I love the talking points. Woo. Okay. I I think again, I'm just I'm just on Team America. You know, like, all right, if we're going to rename Lake Ontario to Lake of America, let's do it. You know, let's drop those tariffs for milk going north. There's a there's a huge thing that happens, and we've seen this a million times. It's one of the challenges we have with trusting government and the numbers they give us, is they can manipulate numbers. Joe Biden gave a speech yesterday, and in this speech, he said that he gave Donald Trump the strongest economy in the world. Now, that might be true, just because America is the strongest economy in the world. So even though we're going through a recession or a depression, so is the rest of the world. We're always the tallest midget in the room. So on one hand, it's like eh that statement doesn't mean anything unless you drill down into it. The other thing was he said that the border was more secure, that the border that Donald Trump turned over to him, that he made it more secure when he left office. That is the most disingenuous thing, right? I mean, Trump's last day in office, he went to the Alamo and he said, of all the things that Joe Biden needs to do, this border needs to stay closed. And he opened it, right? We saw mass illegal migration. They were bum rushing the port the ports of entry. And what the Biden administration did was they manipulated the numbers such that by the time Biden left office, we were accepting and signing people up and letting them in legally through these asylum loopholes to the tune of 5,000 plus people per day. So, oh, they're not illegal, they're here under temporary asylum status. Yeah, but you're still flooding our streets with people and you're not really vetting them, right? So here's Joe Biden. We're around the world.

SPEAKER_07 9:57

Despite everything you read, everything you read, despite the fact that COVID drove migration to record levels all around the world. Oh, COVID. The day I left office, border crossing the United States were lower than the day that I entered that office and heritage from Trump. He is won't say that's just a fact. The day I left office, I handed Trump the strongest economy in the world. In the world. That's not hyperbole. That's a fact.

SPEAKER_06 10:35

That's not hyperbole. That's not hyperbole. We were the tallest midget in the

Border Claims Versus Reality Checks

SPEAKER_06 10:40

room. I promise. I promise. So that it's tough to watch. It is hard to watch. Yesterday we played the clip of Jennifer Welch, right? We're dealing with an adversary, and and the adversary is in the zeitgeist. It's an ideology. And there's a lot of people who adhere to the ideology that are true believers. I mean, they've got the Kool-Aid stains on their lips. I mean, but then there's people who just kind of grew up in an environment of vote blue no matter who, don't think about it, you know. Oh, I like, I, you know, I like to, you know, I like progressivism. Like they don't really know what it is they're voting for for that. They we see this with the man on the street interviews. People go out and they read some quotes. Oh, that's horrible. Trump said that. That was Bill Clinton. This was Barack Obama. It's like, oh, I didn't know that. I mean, people nowadays, a large enough number of people are just uninformed about anything. And so when Joe Biden goes out and says stuff like that, there's a lot of people, it's just it's just bias. You know, if Trump came out and said something that was arbitrarily not true, like Trump will say we've got the greatest economy in the world, and we all accept it as hyperbolic, but it is a true statement.

SPEAKER_10 11:49

How much uh what segment of the voting population do you think is like a union member who is voting away because that's the way the union told him to? And no matter who the guy standing up to the podium is.

SPEAKER_06 12:02

I bet you, you know, if if I had to guess, I bet you there's a fifth of actual voters, not ballots, right? Not ballots. I mean, what these ballots are doing, but as far as real people who care and take the time to vote, I bet you it's 15% vote for personal stakeholder interests, union interests. Um, there's some hot topic issue in their community, or maybe they've been touched by girls and or boys and girls' locker rooms. Like there's 15% are are their vote is for sale based on their stakehold in whatever they're interested in. I think there's probably a solid 60% of the country that just vote on party lines. They they trust the party that's Republican or Democrat, but I do think there's like 40% of Americans that are legitimately, maybe maybe yeah, 60, 35, 30 of Americans that are legitimately like paying attention. Does that make sense? Like a real swing vote based on a criteria. Um it's but it's hard to know. Like I think for the most part, you do have a 30, 30 split that's just party line, whatever. Um, and then and then yeah, as far as deep ideological voters, it's probably really small. Yeah, like you know, how many people are actually communists or actually you know socialists? How many people are actually Christian fundamentalists? It's a pretty small number. I think most of them are running for office. Most of the DSA is out canvassing as we speak. So

Child Trafficking Cases And Triage

SPEAKER_06 13:40

Biden said the border was closed, but Todd Blanche yesterday had a press conference that they've indicted a couple people who were involved in child trafficking for what sounds like mainly forced labor.

SPEAKER_05 13:51

Today we are announcing the indictments of three individuals: Maritza Kawik Koch, her brother, Carlos Augustin Kawick Koch, and Gladys Marina Kal Chen. This was out of the Northern District of Ohio. All three are illegal aliens from Guatemala who allegedly took part in a wide-raging conspiracy to smuggle more than a dozen children into the United States by scamming the system and exploiting the loopholes created by the last administration. This is one example, one indictment, but it is not unique. There are over 15,500 super sponsor cases that we have identified along with DHS. Today we are announcing the indictments. That's a lot of kids.

SPEAKER_06 14:42

They held a press conference for two people that got indicted, and there's 15,500 other cases of these super sponsors. This is the problem when it comes to accountability for things like Epstein and whatnot. Where does it fit in line? Which one's more urgent? This is what is so difficult about nobody that listens to this show doesn't want full accountability for Epstein and full accountability for everything. But where does it fit in the line of 15,500 other super sponsors who are bringing kids in? You know, these particular guys brought in a dozen kids. These are real kids right now that are minors right now that need assistance right now. These aren't victims that Jeffrey Epstein had in the late 90s or early 2000s, 20 years ago, that are now adults. You know what I mean? So it's very difficult because where do you put the resources? Do you put the resources to where the noise is, or do you put the resources to where there's actually suffering happen right this second? And it's a constant triage that the government always has to do. And this is why, this is why they only prosecuted, for example, financial fraud when it reached a million dollars of impact to the federal government. So as long as you kept your fraud under a million dollars year after year, you might be able to go on for decades like that. And then that's where we get to this cascade effect where it's like, we don't even know where to start. Well, what does that tell you?

SPEAKER_10 16:11

What does that tell you about the fraud?

SPEAKER_06 16:13

There's a lot that's a lot bigger. We're gonna get to some numbers in a little bit here. It's gonna be shocking, right? But this is the challenge. You've let it get so far out of control that it's like, hey, we've got these two guys, let's have a press conference, but there's 15,500 other cases. And all of those cases deserve what, 30 years in prison? I I mean, these are these are astronomical numbers. The J6ers almost broke the deal. I don't know, they almost broke, but you know, we really clogged up the court system in DC. They didn't have enough bandwidth to take other cases. Well, 15,000 cases on top of, you know, all of the immigration cases, on top of all of the Medicaid fraud cases and the Social Security cases, you may as well just reset the prison system right now. Like it's so big that it almost seems like there won't be accountability for every single person. How many J6 cases were there? 1,580. Right. So we're talking about 10x. 10x a factor of 10x. Yeah. A factor of 10x. So it makes you wonder how many of these people are just gonna get a slap on the wrist? How many of these people are just gonna get an acknowledgement and a cut of being cut off of funds? How many, how many of these people are simply going to be deported? We can't deal with it, right? It's very difficult. There's the noise, right? Lake on Ontario, we're gonna call it America. Let's go after these 30-year-old Epstein crimes, right? Versus, hey, we have 15,500 super sponsors that probably have kids right now that are in labor camps or are being sex trafficked right now, today, right now, this second. Where do you want us to put our resources? Very difficult question, man. And I don't want us not to put resources into either, but I also don't want to do, you know, I don't want to hire 45,000 new FBI agents. You know, I feel like we're in a bad spot here. Uh God's Army Bratt says, what is what

Socialism Meets The 7 Trillion Budget

SPEAKER_06 18:05

does she not name the NFL coach out of East Palatine Palestine? We'll get there. We'll get there, God's Army Bratt. All right. I what's this guy? Abdul El Saeed, Michigan senatorial candidate, was on with Jesse Waters yesterday. And and now he's a socialist, right? He's one of these DSA guys, and so he wants one of the first platforms items he's got, very, very popular. Free health care for all. Free health care for all. So he's talking to Jesse Waters, and Jesse Waters kind of pins him down on some budget numbers. Now keep in mind, this is a man who has no problem spending your money. No problem spending your money.

SPEAKER_08 18:43

Losing their healthcare with their job. Well, give me the total number while you're out here trying to talk about the broader national budget. I'm a lot more interested in the everyday budgets that Michiganders are thinking about. And that's exactly the budget that Donald Trump and Mike Rogers are blowing up right now. Well, I just don't see why you're so on the side of the billionaires, Jesse, rather than on the side of everyday Michiganders. No, because I don't want you guys to blow the country up.

SPEAKER_09 19:03

Do you know how much the federal budget is now? No, neither do I. Here's exactly the federal budget.

SPEAKER_08 19:09

You guys want to write B hexeth. You still answer your question. Do you know what the federal budget is? No, no, no, no, no, no. I just I just want to talk about this. Look, you want to talk about budgets? I'm happy to do that. The guy who used to work on your channel, I think he was like the sixth host on the five. He wanted to raise our military budget to $1.5 trillion. And you don't seem to be upset about that. What? So we can fight a war we don't know how to get out of to raise our gas prices $5 a gallon? That doesn't make sense to me, Jesse. If you want to talk about the things that we actually suspend on, I have a feeling that you don't even know how much money the government spends every year.

SPEAKER_09 19:41

Do you know? Look, the the question, Jesse, to me. So you don't know. Let me tell you what it is. It's $7 trillion a year. And your plan to take over the system. That's true.

SPEAKER_08 19:55

Here's the problem with it. So to exactly your point, do you know what I'm not very good at math? I don't think you're very good at math either, but go ahead. Clearly. But clearly, clearly, clearly you don't. Clearly. And you don't seem to care. But I don't think most Americans want to spend that much money on military escapades so that the folks stranded on the USS Abraham Lincoln can't even get a sausage for breakfast. I just think that we could do a lot better with our money, Jesse. And I think that's where you and I tend to disagree with that.

SPEAKER_09 20:21

Disagree with you, I think if you spend four trillion dollars, everything else is going to get really expensive. You're going to look back at Biden inflation and you're going to wish you were back there. Trust me.

SPEAKER_06 20:32

I've talked to the native guys in this.

SPEAKER_23 20:46

Your banks are safe. There's enough cash in the financial system, and there is an infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve. An infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve. An infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve.

SPEAKER_06 21:04

Who cares what the budget is? There's an infinite amount of cash. Oh, then who cares if they do a run on the bank? We'll just replay you. We'll get the robbers the money. We got money to spare. Oh man. Now, one of the things that I've noted throughout life is conservatives like to conserve things, like, you know, the old way of doing it. It's hilarious to me how now conservatives are super concerned about maintaining what in the 1990s was considered progressive punk rock. It's like when kid rock is your conservative beacon with Ted Nugit, this is not your grandma's conservative party that was fighting against hippies. You know what I mean? Like this is not Nixon's Republican Party anymore. This is the Trump Republican Party where we conserve your right to fly your freak flag and do whatever you want. But nonetheless, when it comes to fiscal stuff, conservatives still. Believe the budget matters. And it does. And it does. But

Poll Games And Who Owns Inflation

SPEAKER_06 22:05

because we are in this fiat world, right? And you can just unlimited print money. There is this element that whether Abdul Said is right or wrong, or whether Jesse's right or wrong, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because they can just print money. But conservatives do it in such a way that we, the little people, don't see massive price increases, right? I mean, this is what the progressives have done, the Democrats is every time they do these big policies, it expands the money supply. And then the conservatives just don't grow the money supply for a little bit, or they have a key landmark thing that they do. Well, because of that, the conservatives and the GOP are generally more trusted on the economy. Now, this is really interesting because there are polls coming out. Donald Trump posted this. He said, the radical left crazy Democrats, the radical left Democrats are going crazy with fake polls. They're putting them out at levels never before seen. They're called demoralization operations. We know this because that one media poll literally said we have no polling. We were just trying to see if we could, you know, get the voters to sway if we said that Professor Pratt was down by 20 points and they were just completely totally fabricational, it's a social experiment. Oh, nobody, you know, sorry if you were, you know, influenced by our poll. That was the point. Like they came out and admitted it as a we're gonna go move on to other psychological operations. Good luck. Okay. So this is happening. Yeah, this is happening. Don't say that. You might go to prison. Where they try to demoralize Republicans so they don't go out and vote, but the actual polls are tremendous. And the spirit in our country has never been higher. We're winning against everyone, including Iran, whose country is an economic and military death spiral. Thank you for your attention to this matter. So Trump says, hey, there's fake polls out there. Nah, not the first time we've heard that. But the thing is, is when you're listening to polls about the midterms, and Democrats are going to win, and Republicans are going to win. Obviously, you've got to see who are you listening to? Are these people that are just making predictions off the zeitgeist, or are they actually drilling down into polling in Maine and the polling in North Carolina and the polling in Alaska, right? Because obviously the elections are supposed to be local, assuming Venezuela and Smartmatic and Dominion and Serbia and China. All these people don't have their fingers in it. But there is one question that consistently in the polling runs contrary to the polling on the general ballot, red-blue ballot. And that is trust over the economy.

SPEAKER_02 24:26

Trump's economic net approval ratings negative that all of a sudden Democrats are trusted more. Uh-uh. They are not trusted more. Look at this. Party that well, isn't that interesting? Sometimes you get the slide off a little bit here, but there we go. We'll put that P right there. Party white non-college trust more on the economy. Look at this. It's Republicans, plus 16 points. Republicans are still trusted more on the economy. And this gets back to what I'm saying here. What is this? What is this? Hold on. It's not a gimme, give me this. It's not a question mark. It's an exclamation point. It's an exclamation point from Kate, my producer. Everyone sucks. Everyone sucks. Everybody sucks. That's what's going on here. Everybody sucks. And you can see this right here. Look at the inflation. Look at the inflation. Which party do white non-college voters trust more in inflation? Despite Trump's absolutely devastating decline, going down to what? What is that? A 60-point switcheroo. On inflation, the Republican Party is still trusted more by 16 points. So even if Trump isn't liked, it's not all of a sudden like the Democrats are all of a sudden trusted on that.

SPEAKER_06 25:33

And that's why I think a lot of people who might be, you know, in cahoots with their liberal friends and family are going to hold their nose and vote for Trump. They're going to hold their nose and vote for Trump. He closed the border. He got inflation tamped, although, you know, it might be going up here pretty soon. But either way, he got inflation tamped. He got investment coming back into the United States. Like, I think a lot of people are just going to go, eh, you know, you can't win them all. They're just going to plug, plug for it. Because at the end of the day, what affects most people is their economics, right? This is this is what uh who was it? Uh, it wasn't Bill Clinton. It was

Medicaid Expansion Fraud And Incentives

SPEAKER_06 26:10

one of his advisors, but you know, it's the economy stupid. Like that's the most important thing. And it's it's very true because when you're when you are involved in any of these programs, especially if you're a genuine, if you genuinely need these programs, you become very aware that there's something fishy about it, right? So there's this report that came out about Obama's uh the uh Obamacare fraud in the Medicaid expansion under Biden. And so this is stunning.

SPEAKER_18 26:48

Do not even meet the federal requirements to qualify. How did this happen and how do we know? Connor Hansen, live on Capitol Hill with more. Hi, Connor, good morning.

SPEAKER_15 26:56

Hi, Dana, good morning. Well, this study says some of those people actually make too much money to qualify for this Medicaid expansion program, and others are getting these benefits even though they're here in the country illegally. Now, this study was put together by the Paragon Health Institute, which is run by a former advisor to President Trump. He's alleging widespread fraud here. He says more than 9 million people, as you mentioned, close to half of those using the Medicaid expansion program under Obamacare should not qualify. The report given to Fox Business ahead of a hearing here on Capitol Hill says pandemic era policies supercharged the issues.

SPEAKER_14 27:36

We compared Medicaid expansion enrollment by state to the total number of people who would be eligible for that coverage have income below those thresholds by state and found a massive problem.

SPEAKER_15 27:53

According to the study, fraud in the program costs taxpayers $32 billion each year, and people who really do need regular Medicaid could be paying the price the most. The study says New York and California have some of the biggest problems, claiming up to 62% of people enrolled in California are not eligible, and the states might not even be incentivized to fix the issues.

SPEAKER_14 28:18

California actually gets nine times more funding for an expansion role than a traditional role. That is perverse.

SPEAKER_15 28:39

He told me one of his recommendations will be to have stronger verification for anybody trying to enroll in Medicaid. Dana.

SPEAKER_18 28:46

Sounds like something that's needed. Connor, thank you.

SPEAKER_06 28:49

Half, half in California, it's pretty much everybody. Those are huge numbers. Like, and what he said, this disenfranchising, it's discriminating against people who really need it.

SPEAKER_10 29:00

It's the fleecing of America, too.

SPEAKER_06 29:02

It's the fleecing of America. And there's all kinds of anecdotal stories, right? Dad loses his job, they go down to try to get benefits, they get denied because they tell him to go look for work. And then he looks around, he's like, So everybody else here, well, they're not married, so they come in as individuals. Oh, so they're gaming the I'm married, so I'm being punished for being married. Yeah, you are. Oh, okay. So if I were to divorce my wife and then she applies as a single woman, then I could do it. And then what about my my my non-minority status? Is that a problem too? Yeah, well, we give preference, you know, there's my, there's there's an equation there, the color of your skin. It's gonna depend on how much we it gets to the point of ludicrous, right? There's anecdotal stories all over the place of people who should be getting the social safety net while they rebuild, right? Get denied or get put through loops. And then it's seemingly, you know, when you see like the EBT fraud going on, you're like, how does that guy even have a one of those EBT cards? You know, it's it's stunning. Dr. Oz was on the news. This is this is from a little while ago, but he was talking about the fraud in Medicaid. So that is Obamacare. 50% plus of the people on it don't qualify for it, shouldn't be on it at all. Either they make too much or they're illegal aliens. They shouldn't be reaping the benefit of our of our social safety net that's paid for allegedly by our tax dollars. I say allegedly because we know the taxes just help the uphold the illusion that government is spending that money on taxes. Really, they're making new money. But what about Medicaid, right? I grew up absolutely convinced that Social Security will not be there for me when I go to retire. Right. And we we've seen these dates, like when Social Security goes bankrupt. At that point, the trust fund is done, and then they're gonna have to print new money or do a new program. Trump sees this. This is what the Trump accounts are. Trump accounts are replacing Social Security. Gen X and older millennials, you're screwed because you're gonna be at the tail end of Social Security as it's bankrupting, and then the generation behind us is gonna come up with these Trump accounts. We're screwed.

SPEAKER_10 31:05

Don't worry about it, Taylor. I'm used to the feeling.

SPEAKER_06 31:08

We're used to getting hosed, right? Gen X. So you can see the writing on the wall that they know it's gonna fail. So I grew up knowing that. And Medicaid is the same problem. It's it spends more than they bring in, and the trust fund's gonna run out at some point, and then that's gonna they're gonna have to generate the big print to refund it. Well, Mima Oz believes that we can double the lifespan of the trust fund just by getting rid of the fraud.

SPEAKER_25 31:34

An abuse issue is is important. I'll just put it in the context of what you just gave me. The insolvency of the Medicare Trust Fund, which is gonna happen in the six or seven years, it'll last twice as long. Think about that.

Medicare Fraud, Media Spin, And Trust

SPEAKER_06 31:54

Okay. He said the insolvency of the trust fund six or seven years. That's a blink, Ron. Five years ago we started this podcast. So in six or seven years, Medicaid is gonna run out. Are your eyes big enough? Are those of you that know people that are on Medicaid or are in that category? Has anybody let you know that you need to make preparations for five, five to six, six, seven years from now for the fund to be drained? Has anybody told you?

SPEAKER_10 32:21

Either that or get ready for COVID 2.0.

SPEAKER_06 32:24

Big kill's coming. We're getting the big print right now, and then we're gonna get the big kill because the fund's gonna be dry. They ain't gonna be able to pay for your elective stuff.

SPEAKER_25 32:36

Just take the fraud out of Medicare. Forget about everything else. Just this past year, we cut $42 billion of fraud for Medicare by never leaving the money out of the door. And that is those are the kinds of benefits. We're seeing dramatic changes in durable medical equipment fraud by a nationwide moratorium.

SPEAKER_12 32:52

$42 billion, the federal government paid $1.2 trillion on Medicare. That's just the beginning.

SPEAKER_25 32:56

That was last year. We hadn't even gotten the full speed. But let me just point one reality out. This is important. The fraud doesn't just steal money, it steals our trust. And we have states that are not working closely with us on these issues. And that's because in some cases, what's fraud to us objectively, is actually a feature for the states.

SPEAKER_12 33:16

But you're acknowledging that while important work is not sufficient to that massive financial problem. The even bigger benefit more needs to be done. Is there a plan to do so past the midterms in after January?

SPEAKER_25 33:27

I'll give you the plan we're already acting on. Without question, what's even bigger as an opportunity to save us money is the use of technology, including artificial intelligence.

SPEAKER_06 33:35

You know, I have to say, Margaret Brennan and there's a whole bunch of these other reporters that are on the legacy news channels. I actually have come to really respect them. I used to think that they were just talking heads that read talking points. No, no. These guys should get Oscars for some of the acting they're doing. Like what she did right here. Let's listen to this. Okay. Look at this turnabout. So he's like, we got a bunch of big, big fraud here. And look at how she does. This is acting. Okay. This is she clearly understands the point he's trying to make, and she wants to pivot. She wants to degrade his opinion.

SPEAKER_25 34:11

That was last year. We hadn't even gotten the full speed. But let me just point one reality out. This is important. Hold on. Changes in durable medical equipment's uh fraud by a nationwide moratorium.

SPEAKER_12 34:20

42 billion, the federal government paid 1.2 trillion.

SPEAKER_06 34:23

Yes. Okay, so she's contrasting. You know, you're saving 42 billion, the government paid out 1.2 trillion. That's a lot of freaking money to pay out, right? That should be the story. But what she's doing is she's minimizing that he went after fraud. You're going after drops in the bucket. That's what she's doing. This is skill. Like this is acting. This is like Tom Hanks quality acting here. She knows exactly what he's doing. She's incredibly smart, and she's it almost makes her come off dumb, but it's not on Medicare.

SPEAKER_25 34:56

That's just the beginning. That was last year. We hadn't even gotten the full speed. But let me just point one reality out. This is important. The fraud doesn't just steal money, it steals our trust. And we have okay.

SPEAKER_06 35:07

That's a point. Can does anybody disagree? When there's fraud, we lose trust. So her previous statement says 42 billion out of 1.5 trillion. Like, what are you what are you even on here for? Like, don't you have better things to do? Don't you know Donald Trump is trying to rename the Lake of Ontario to the Lake of America? Like, can you believe the injustice? You see what I'm saying? Like, like, why are you even wasting your time? You're a cabinet secretary. You should be playing golf and enjoying success at the pinnacle of your career. Like, why are you chasing after 45 billion dollars? That's nothing. That's what she's doing right there. And he's like, Well, hold on. Any fraud, lack of trust. Fair, can we all agree? Democrats, socialists, communists. Can we all agree? Fraud makes lack of trust. Look at how she deployed downplays that. See, Republicans think Democrats are good people just with misinformed or bad ideas. So he just said to us, what looks like fraud for them is a feature. But her whole response here is on the side of, yeah, we like the feature. So it doesn't look like fraud to us. Do you do you see that this is Oscar level? She knows exactly what he's saying, and that you should agree that all fraud is bad. And she might give it a wink and a nod, but she's downplayed the amount of fraud they've gone after. She's she's downplayed, and then she's downplayed this lack of trust thing. And he's still he conservatives. This is your virtue being weaponized. You assume that the on its face fraud everybody disagrees with. We assume that. We project that virtue that seeing the fraud creates lack of trust. They don't see it that way. They don't see it that way. They're okay with it being a feature. They're okay with the double standard. That's these little moments when we can look into these little clips. This is where you see everything you need to see.

SPEAKER_12 37:16

But you're acknowledging that while important work is not sufficient to that massive financial problem.

SPEAKER_06 37:22

Oh. So you're acknowledging while it's important work, it's really not contributing to the big picture, implying that he's wasting his time. As if going after 45 billion in fraud is the equivalent to wasting our time renaming the Lake of Ontario. Do you see what I'm doing? What's happening?

SPEAKER_10 37:43

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 37:45

This is masterful. What? I'm convinced these people are not stupid. They're not teleprompter readers. Look at how many paint pieces of paper she's got in front of her. She's well thought this out and counterpoints and narrative drip points. Even bigger, better.

SPEAKER_12 38:02

More needs to be done. Is there a plan to do so past the midterms in after January?

SPEAKER_25 38:05

Well, I'll give you the plan we're already acting on. Without question, what's even bigger is an opportunity to save us money is the use of technology, including our great.

SPEAKER_06 38:12

Go use it. Use of technology to go after it.

SPEAKER_10 38:15

You know, there's a reason why there's jokes about central casting, I think, you know.

SPEAKER_06 38:20

I think so. I I mean, sometimes there's the other there's the lizard-looking lady. I can't remember her name. I don't want to remember some of these people's names.

SPEAKER_10 38:29

Isn't it welcome or something like that? Are you sure?

SPEAKER_06 38:33

Are you sure? I mean, I'm just every time I see her, I just think I'm looking at like a leopard gecko. Okay, so so one of the things Mem Oz tails off there with going after fraud is we can use tools like AI. Okay. If we all agree that fraud is bad, AI is gonna sift out the fraud. I I absolutely believe this. Any power you give to government, they will abuse to the maximum extent possible. So let's see what power our

Treasury Sanctions Tools And Domestic Risk

SPEAKER_06 39:00

government has when it comes to going after fraud and financial crimes and locking down the banking system. Scott Bessant's going after Iran, right? Today is economic D-Day. This is the big one. So if these tools exist for Treasury to use against Iran, and Mehmet Oz is like, yeah, we're going to use these tools domestically in Medicaid, eventually they'll get to all the fraud, or it'll get to the point to where it's at their acceptable levels. And these tools can now be used against who? Everybody. War on drugs, war on private education homeschoolers, war on Christians, war on you name it, right? They can use it against everyone. So it's important for us to know what's possible because eventually, given the right sit situation, it can be weaponized against we the people, the peasants.

SPEAKER_17 39:57

Treasury has mapped every node, every facilitator, and every network that Iran has used to smuggle oil and evade sanctions. Beginning today, the actions of Treasury and other agencies will tighten the noose and block every potential source of revenue that funds the IRGC and the evil Iranian regime. We are enforcing a zero leakage approach. There will be no minimal breathing space for the regime to rebuild its capacity to inflict terror against America and the world. The final refuge of this regime is a mistaken conclusion of nations that still finance the Iranian threat in the hopes of evading it.

SPEAKER_06 40:45

So they've mapped every node, every bank, every channel that their money moves, and now they're putting on this massive pressure campaign. So this is him continuing on here.

SPEAKER_17 41:10

If they do not take action, we will do so unilaterally through Treasury authorities. For example, every branch of Bank Melee must be shuttered and dark. And let me be clear: any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed from the US dollar system. The clock just started ticking. Teams from Treasury, whoa.

SPEAKER_06 41:41

Mm-hmm. Now, the interesting thing about this is this is this is um Scott Bessant made a different comment where he said, I don't want to bl I g I gave people a warning warning because someone said, Well, D-Day was unannounced, so why are you announcing economic D-Day? He's like, because I don't want to crash the world financial system, acknowledging that his actions could crack the world financial system. They're literally canceling the dollar on anybody who helps Iran. Now, I I support this. I I get it, I'm in favor of this. Fix the problem, right? Iran is no bueno, but you're using some powerful tools to do this. I could see a speech, or I remember a speech that Joe Biden gave with the red background and the Marines standing there, where he said white nationalism and Christian extremists are the biggest threat to America. Greater than the Civil War. And I could see a future just Secretary of Treasury standing up saying we have to take all domestic violent extremists that prey off of the dollar, take them out of the banking system. I got a letter that said you can't bank anymore because you're a national security threat. So if you can use these tools against Iran, we can use them against the cartels, we can use them against the super, what is that, what was it called? Super sponsors that are taking kids across the border. Like they could use these tools to go after real crime. But eventually they get to define what crime is, right? Which is why it's so important, again, so important to be sovereign. What does that mean? It means take control of what you can take control of, right? We talk about this all the time. Bitcoin is the off-ramp. If you want to be in a position where you can't be sanctioned, and you need to understand like this isn't a a prediction, it's just reality. The pendulum of power swings from time to time. We played that Jennifer Welch yesterday. People of that ilk that are vying for power actually believe Christianity is a bigger threat to women than Islam and is a bigger. Threat to the United States. They actually believe that. Okay. So the pendulum of power could swing and these tools could get moved. So you've got you want to be in a position where you're insulated from the we're taking all of your money away. We're kicking you off the dollar. Well, you can't kick me off because I quit. Okay. That's that's what I want peasants to say. I'm not going to wait around for you to kick me off the dollar. I quit right now. And you need to go get go get you some Bitcoin, some gold, some silver, do something. Billionaire Bill Meyer just said on CNBC yesterday, he said it's already starting

Bitcoin As The Off Ramp

SPEAKER_06 44:35

to happen, and it's actually happening a little bit prematurely, that we had an AI bubble this summer, right? XAI went public or uh SpaceX went public, which is essentially an AI company. And then we had Google, Gemini. We had a huge capital raise for AI funds. And they've changed all the rules to allow normies, instead of being qualified investors, you could make like $2,500 minimum purchases. They did all kinds of stuff to basically suck in a bunch of capital. Well, the smart money is now rolling out of AI. This is exactly what they predicted. They said that all the big money was invested in AI pre-IPO. They went IPO, all the normies basically bought them out. Now they've sold off, and now they're moving into hard assets, including Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_04 45:17

I think crypto is just coming back after summer break, Scott. There's two things behind it, really. The AI trade is starting to lose a little bit of its luster as people become concerned around valuation and ROIs that may not be there on this huge amount of CapEx. So long-batted thinkers are shifting their focus elsewhere and now to crypto. And I think the real reason behind that shift, in addition to the concerns around valuation, are big liquidity interventions on behalf of governments around the globe in exchange in uh to counteract big structural issues. So if you look at what happened at the end of July, uh Japan intervened in convention in uh conjunction with the US to support the yen. And then last week you had a big announcement where Treasury said they were going to double their purchases of long-dated fixed income. And if you think about what that represents, it's again policymakers trying to pretend that big structural imbalances that have been building up for long periods of time are not happening. You look at the impetus for Bitcoin, it was the global financial crisis when policymakers locked arms and said, Oh, this crazy structural stuff breaking isn't happening. So again, it's happening again. People are shifting their policies at the margin and extrapolating that. And Bitcoin investors are going, okay, where does this end? It probably ends with more intervention. So I think that's what kicked this big liquidation off last week. It was the biggest short liquidation in uh crypto in the past five years. And the fundamental case is as good as ever, Scott. If you look at the budget deficit this year in the United States at 1.8 trillion, the entire market cap of Bitcoin is smaller than the dollars that have to be invented from just this year's behavior alone. So there's a big structural demand here and a big runway, I think, ahead of us. I mean, big, big runway, big, big, big runway.

SPEAKER_06 47:08

So we just analyzed, right? What does it mean to us little peasants? Scott Besson's going after Iran, and I'm already sounding the alarm 20 years early. They're coming for you. Patriot Act, they're coming for me. It took them 20 years, but they finally got me. Right. I'm telling you, they're coming for you. At some point, everybody is gonna have to capitulate, bend the knee to whoever owns the gold, or you're gonna have to own some gold. Carlito says Bitcoin needs to slow down a little bit and let us grab some at more decent prices. It ain't slowing down for nobody, buddy. It ain't slowing down for nobody. Dollar cost average end, go on to a Bitcoin standard.

Drained Bank Accounts And Why It Matters

SPEAKER_06 47:45

I'm grateful I did. I got all my all my bank accounts got wiped yesterday. Like they stole all of our money. We got we got, you know, dope. Dope. Yeah, exactly. Obviously, our data wasn't secure. And my debit card, my wife's debit card, my uh another debit card of mine that I that I use on a crypto account, all drained.

SPEAKER_13 48:07

Wow, drained.

SPEAKER_06 48:08

We were in the negative when we woke up yesterday morning, and we had a flat tire. It was awesome. So, how do we fix the flat tire when there's no money in the cows? We're desperately can do we even want to put money in there because we're literally watching it drain like minute by minute, like these little $35 charges at Knott's Berry Farm through Venmo.

SPEAKER_10 48:24

Just oh jeez.

SPEAKER_06 48:26

Thank goodness, white, we have Bitcoin. If we'd if it was been the old days when we just had it all sitting in the checking account, it'd have been kind of scary. So again, it can happen, it can come for you. If we the peasants are already concerned, imagine how nation states feel. This is why more and more nation states are starting to put Bitcoin on their balance sheet. This is why there's been a decade-long trend of gold increasing as a reserve asset for the same reason. They don't want to be beholden to Scott Bessant and his whims, or the next Treasury Secretary and their whims, or the next Federal Reserve chairman and his whims, right? They want to get off, they want to get sovereignty. And even banks, banks that have been around for a long time. Before there was a central banking system, like my favorite, Wells Fargo, who debanked me. Breaking $3 trillion banking diet. Wells Fargo just announced that they own over $1 billion worth of Bitcoin. They increased their Bitcoin holdings by more than 250% in the last few months. They know what's coming. Absolutely, because these guys are the front end of all the fraud. Uh so that again, there's no more proof than you need than stuff like that. These banks aren't gonna hold these assets if they didn't take them seriously. These banks wouldn't hold the assets if they could just be cut off. Why? They'd just hold treasury notes, they would just hold the other assets. So the fact that they're doing that gives them a level of sovereignty, which they want. And the upside is huge. So Carlito, it ain't gonna slow down for nobody. You guys, it's just you just gotta get in when you get in. It's really about changing the way you save, right? All of us should look at look at Bitcoin and gold

Bitcoin, Gold, And Saving Without Decay

SPEAKER_06 50:05

and silver as a weight and measure, right? It is not a tech stock. I don't actually care what the dollar denominated value is. What I care about is if I spend 10 today and I earn 12, that the two carries forward to tomorrow. That's all I care about, right? I just care that I can carry the remainder to the next day. You don't want the two to dissolve. I don't want the two to dissolve. Exactly. This is not a hard concept. I want to live within my means, whatever my income is. This is scalable. This is scalable to any budget. I want to earn more than I spend every day, and I want to take the remainder and pass it to tomorrow. And I want to spend less than I earn, and I want to add it together. And when I get years down the road, I want it to be the same number that I was carrying forward. With the dollar, you can't do that. You can't do that. I could save a dollar today, and in a couple years, I cannot purchase with that dollar what I could today. Thereby I have saved nothing. So with Bitcoin, gold, silver, these are weights and measures that are unchanged. If I save an ounce, I have an ounce. What it denominates in whatever the circulating currency in becomes irrelevant to me now. It's just, well, it's only worth what it's worth when I go to exchange it when I go to pass that value back into the market. But it'll still be worth that. It'll be worth whatever it is. It will be whatever it is. Right. And if the currency goes down, well, that's just because the dollar's stronger. I would love for a really strong dollar, right? I don't care. Then it actually the inverse works as well. When we think of it like a tech stock, like, oh, I'm up in dollars on my Bitcoin. Your Bitcoin hasn't changed. Your silver ounces haven't changed. That's that's the dollar losing value, right? It's not a tech stock, it's not based on ROI or net revenue

Ballots, USPS Rules, And Court Battles

SPEAKER_06 52:10

and you know, liabilities minus uh minus net value. Right.

SPEAKER_10 52:14

Those terms don't even make sense.

SPEAKER_06 52:15

Yeah, none of that applies. It's a store of value. So there was another decision yesterday or that came out that was heralded as a win for the Trump administration vis-a-vis the United States Postal Service having to do the registered mail, whatever they're doing with the ballots, right? Tracking or whatever. And the Supreme Court basically got rid of the initial injunction on Donald Trump's executive order over the mail and ballots. Shipwreck and crew, uh Shipley, who's a former attorney, defense attorney, represented a lot of J6ers. He said this. He said on the Supreme Court decision Wednesday, so there's a little bit of shenanigans in this. Their final rule will now be published on Wednesday, 826. Because the United States Postal Service is exempted from the Administrative Procedures Act, there is no 30-day waiting period before it becomes effective. It becomes effective on Wednesday. I expect new complaints to be filed on Thursday, and motions for temporary restraining order will be made and granted the same day by Judge Tolani in Massachusetts. She has already decided the entire exercise is ultra virus, and nothing in the Supreme Court's decision today addressed that. The majority said they do not dis they didn't they do not decide today the lawfulness of anything done as a result of the executive order. She will issue another temporary restraining order on Thursday, set a briefing schedule for two weeks on a motion for preliminary injunction. She'll take her time knowing the TRO is in place, then grant the injunction sometime in mid-September, and we will be right back to where we are today. The First Circuit is unlikely to reverse her, and I think Robertson Barrett's will join the three ribbles in saying it's too close to the November election to let the regulation go into effect this year. The only variable might that might change is if the DOJ seeks a cert before judgment and asks SCOTUS to decide the case right now, since ultra virus is a legal issue that has a very narrow application. The DOJ could ask SCOTUS to take it up without waiting for the first circuit, but I don't think they will do it. So we will know if the DOJ actually wants to fix the elections based on whether they do that or not, or whether they allow the game to go on. So they overturned it because it was too early on. There was no claimant, there was no damage. But now that the executive order is applied, now they're going to be able to claim damage and they'll just start the TRO process all over again. So the burden shifts to people like Mike Lindell, ran for governor of Minnesota, and surprise, surprise, shenanigans. So he has officially asked the he's asked for a cease and desist for the certification of this last election. Mike Lindell has wire transferred $825,000, primed and ready to cover the cost of the nation's largest recount effort in history. But the Minnesota Secretary of State at the last minute changed the scope of the recount in violation of Minnesota law. Oh, go figure. Oh, any surprises? Under Minnesota Statute Section 204 C35, subsection three of Minnesota law, the scope of the recount is the number of votes validly cast for the for the changed this what the heck validly cast for the office to be recounted. Earlier today, Secretary of State made clear to Mike Lindell that they changed the scope of the audit by limiting the recount to only two Republican candidates, Mike Lindell and Lisa Damuth. The rest of the candidates' votes would not be counted under their contingent plan, nor would the Democrat ballots be recounted. Even though the same ballot from was used for both gubernatorial primaries. Why is this important? In addition to being a violation of Minnesota law, the anomalies in the election night reporting identified by Mike Lindell's team show an algorithm that applies to all the candidates, not simply Lidell Debooth. So they've proved there that basically everybody just did the same thing. Like, no, there's there's no randomness in this count going on here. The actions taken by the Secretary of State put Mike Lindell in an untenable position. If Lindell officially kicks off the recount by submitting the $825,000 amount to pay for the recount in accordance with the legal scope defined by the Secretary of State, the recount will not be conducted in a lawful manner, nor would it address the election result anomalies cited by his team. If Lindell fights to obtain a lawful recount that involves the candidates for the governor's race, the Secretary of State claims he would lose his right to any recount because he would not meet the deadline for the payment for the unlawful recount. Lindell asked the state to waive the statutory payment deadline until the court could roll the parameters of the recount proposed by the Secretary of State. In order to address the issue, the account, the campaign is now taking immediate action. So he did end up wiring the money, and they've gone to court to try to get it to be able to be recounted the way it should be recounted. And what is it that they're afraid of? What is it that they're afraid of? Well, let's let's fly off from Minnesota and let's head over to Shasta, California. See, the elections, when it's run by the commies, as Spencer Prime would say, the commies, the soltuous commies, it's all the same. They've got 15 ways to cheat. Pick your way to cheat wherever you want, but it pretty much rhymes everywhere you go. Fake ballots, machine algorithms, you know, dead voters, mail-in ballots, you know, depending on the jurisdiction, they've got one way is better than the other, another way is better than the other. And just like the Medicaid fraud, what you and I think is on its surface fraud, they're like, no,

Recounts, Algorithms, And Counterfeit Ballots

SPEAKER_06 57:20

that's a feature. We wrote that in. I wanted to have busloads of kids come and vote, you know. That's how we get a representative. Yeah, like up in Alaska, you know, we got four, we got secure IDs. Dude, James O'Keefe literally got your brother's ballot, Lisa Murkowski, like without an ID. It's a problem. You know what I mean? In fact, not that you would ever encourage this because I believe it would be a criminal offense, but how interesting would it be to be, would it be to actually vote a senator's ballot? Fraudulently, of course. Just so that when they go vote, the person, you know, they bring the TV cameras. I'm going in to vote. Sorry, you already voted. Oh my goodness. How crazy would that be? Governor walks in to vote. Uh, here's your provisional ballot. Governor's like, excuse me? Well, you've already voted, sir. No, no, I didn't. Who do you vote for? Oh, we can't tell you that. What I didn't vote. Yeah. Why does someone do it? I mean, obviously, it's because I think it's like five years in prison if you do, if you get caught. And you probably would get caught on that one, right? But that's the thing. It's that easy. It would be that easy. Put the mirror, put their shame in their faces. That's what Lisa Murkowski's going through. Out in Shasta, California, why do why do they not want Mike Lindell to recount these ballots in an honest way up in Minnesota? You know why? Because Shasta did this already. They designed their whole election system to beat the machine fraud, and they discovered something very interesting.

SPEAKER_00 58:49

Break this exclusive story. But Clint, what's going on with these counterfeit ballots?

SPEAKER_21 58:56

Well, we uh I'm the county clerk there, which is also the register of voters, and we set a system in place basically to defeat the machines where we count every ballot on camera before it ever touches the machine so people can do comparison, make sure the machines can't flip the vote. But while doing that, a lot of the people that were doing the flipping kept calling me over saying, something's wrong here. This ballot is three times thicker than a regular ballot, or the printing at the top is funny, or it smells funny, or it they just looked really odd. We had rough ones as well. Because all ballots should be exactly the same. That's the whole purpose of it, so you can't really pick a ballot and find where where it came from. So we've found all of that. Now we can't do anything. No code allows me to actually look at it. So we just finished counting it, boxed it up right away, and we have contacted uh the FBI and VF. But they're obviously different. I mean, it's not even close. Like you don't need a forensic expert to actually go through. You go through the blindfold and you find half of them.

SPEAKER_18 1:00:04

So um where are the ballots being held now?

SPEAKER_21 1:00:09

They are being held at my office, which is kind of problematic because it's a really old building, and we have a lot of Antifa people. And uh one of the Antifa people that you know comes in every now and then once commented how easy it would be to burn that building down. And he's right, it's an old wooden building, so it can go up anytime. So we need to get those buildings pulled and analyzed. And if we can show that they're full counterfeit ballots, and some of them are really obvious, then uh I think we can put a stop to all of this craziness.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:46

Listen, Vanessa, I've interviewed his whistleblowers, and they are legitimate. There are affidavits, and these people know what they're talking about. They're election employees and some volunteers. And so what he's saying is breaking news, and it's very serious. We've called Homeland Security, we've called the FBI, and we've informed the feds because that's really who needs to come into California. Governor Gavin Newsome and Rob Bonta, the AG here, with their SOS, may try to confiscate the ballots before the feds come in, and that will be a major problem because they will destroy them. They don't want the truth to come out that these could be potentially counterfeit ballots.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:28

That's fun. You could be blind and you know these ballots are different. Hey, but it's not fraud, it's actually a feature of the system.

SPEAKER_10 1:01:37

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:38

If you if you if if if the ballot didn't come in the mail, you just print one off on card stock and bring it in, or whatever you wanted to. This is very interesting, right? Where the ballot they're literally sitting in his office and then TV's oh, we could burn this place down. Yeah, that we know there were chicken coop fires in Arizona, suspiciously, where they were storing ballots, which begs the question why are we storing ballots in chicken coops? Which they catch fire, you know, it's like the most ridiculous thing. Oh wow, that's a feature of the system. Okay, there's no law against that. No, not at all. It's like very weird. Uh, let's see here. So here we go.

Billionaires, Stings, And Unequal Justice

SPEAKER_06 1:02:15

New York Post. This is uh God's Army Brat mentioned this earlier. Embarrassing details. So this is the actual 49ers owner. Okay. Now there's a story. Robert Kraft, who's the owner of the Patriots, had the exact same thing happen to him in Florida when he went to a massage parlor for a rub and tug. Okay. Okay. Actually got caught in a sting. Nope. Owner of the Patriots went to a strip mall in Florida to get a very low-cost pleasure massage. Well, the embarrassing, the owners of the 49ers, Jed Yorks, went to a trailer park into a to see a prostitute for $140 and he was arrested. San Francisco 49ers owner, Jed York, whose family is worth an estified estimated $8.5 billion, was arrested Sunday at 9 35 a.m. a.m. He got bright and early for this one. Early bird gets the worm for trying to pay $140 for sex in an Ohio trailer park. Documents obtained by the California Post. Uh, even when New York was on the way, uh, yeah. So the thing was is he was taken into custody by an agent uh for Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Fork who task force who operated the sting operation. So this billionaire, the owners of the the actual owner of the San Francisco 49ers went to this trailer park. Okay. I don't know, man. Like, I don't know. He was sentenced to one day in jail and was given credit for time served. He was also ordered to pay $1,150 in fines.

SPEAKER_10 1:03:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:50

Um, he pled down, by the way. Basically, they they made this go away. Okay. But guess that billion dollars tied up in truss or something, you know, you're slumming around with $140 cash. Oh my goodness. All right. Now there was another another high-profile arrest, and this was it a United States airman who's actually a major in the Air Force, was arrested on uniform military code of justice violations, including a really rare charge, and this was for speaking out against the Trump administration. So tell me your thoughts on this.

SPEAKER_19 1:04:25

Official charges have been filed against Air Force Major Jason Watson. Major Watson has served in the U.S. military for 17 years. He's been detained twice in recent weeks after speaking out against President Trump. First, he was arrested on the steps of the U.S. Capitol when he called for Trump to be impeached over the Iran War and other issues in his uniform. Major Watson was detained a second time the day after he appeared on Out Front and again criticized the commander-in-chief.

Military Speech Limits And Article 88

SPEAKER_16 1:04:52

What is happening with President Trump is not normal. He has failed us. Uh and not only is he a failure as president, he is flagrantly violating the Constitution, breaking the law, engaged in rampant corruption, and is killing Americans.

SPEAKER_19 1:05:16

Major Watson has remained in custody since last Tuesday, even though charges were just filed today, so almost a full week later. Brian Todd is out front with that breaking news. So, Brian, we've got the official charges almost a week after he was arrested. And the official charges are rare. What can you tell us about them?

SPEAKER_24 1:05:34

Absolutely rare, uh, Aaron, especially that Article 88 charge, which I'll get to in just a moment. But just thought to run down what Aaron uh said to us uh about these new charges, new information. These are new criminal military charges against anti Trump active duty, we should say. He's an active duty Air Force major, uh Jason Watson. This is according to a charging document document which his attorney shared with CNN. He is charged with three violations of Article. For alleged contemptuous remarks about President Trump. He's also been charged with five violations of Article 92 for allegedly disobeying orders, and has been he's been charged with two violations of Article 133, that is, alleged conduct unbecoming an officer. Now, as we mentioned, Article 88 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Under that article, a commissioned officer who uses, quote, contemptuous words against the president, vice president, Congress, or other named officials could be punished by court martial. And again, as Aaron mentioned, these Article 88 violations are a very rare charge. Now, in this particular instance, he was charged with this because of his June interview for the Substack publication called Defenders of Our Republic. Also for his July first protest there that you see in the video in uniform at the steps of the U.S. Capitol, and for his August 17th interview with Aaron on CNN. Now, Watson was first arrested in July while protesting in uniform there on the steps of the Capitol. He was holding a sign which read, Impeach, Convict, Remove, referring to President Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance. He was then arrested last week after his interview with Aaron for uh criticizing President Trump again in that interview. He was placed in confinement uh both times. An Air Force spokesperson previously told CNN, quote, Major Watson's personal statements do not reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Air Force.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:30

Yeah, go figure it. So as an airman, and kind of the argument that people are putting out there is doesn't he have his First Amendment right? Can't he speak out? No, actually. Not when you're in military service.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:42

Like, yeah, when you're in military service, do you suspend some of those rights momentarily or not momentarily, for life?

SPEAKER_06 1:07:49

For life? Yeah. Oh, I did not know that. No, you're subject to the Uniform Military Code of Justice for life. So there's certain things that are active duty applied, but there's certain things that are applied even in retirement. You have to maintain certain standards. This was actually a big deal for January Sixers because they have double jeopardy in the military. So, like, you know, one of the inmates that I don't probably need to discuss his name, but he was very worried. He's like, you know, we're gonna get these civil charges, which is, you know, these these charges, but the uniform, because a lot of people were like military members were getting sedition charges. Well, the military will double around and put you to death. Oh they'll double you around and give you the death penalty for that. So if you get convicted in a civil court of sedition, the if you're if you're a veteran, they can come back around and that's it. Like it could be the end of you. So they were very concerned about that. And and in fact, I know of a few people who took plea deals with that kind of as a looming thing, like take your licks, take your punishment, capitulate so that you don't get on the military's radar to want to have to do something after the fact. So it was a it's a it was actually a very real concern for people. So yeah, some of those rights you weigh for life. Um, okay. So last thing, and this is another huge deal. Trump is fighting on a lot of fronts. Not only is he trying

Schools, Gender Ideology, And Parental Rights

SPEAKER_06 1:09:05

to rename Lake Ontario to Link America, but he's also making it a declared it's child abuse to tell a child that they're in the wrong body. He stopped it.

SPEAKER_01 1:09:16

Every public school in America is now on notice that if they tell a child that they're trapped in the wrong body, they are committing child abuse. Amen. And as we remove the far-left extremism from the classroom, we're taking historic action to ensure that every child in America has access to a first-class education. Yeah, great.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:39

Love it. I mean, I still think you should homeschool your kids because you know, as I explained yesterday, go watch yesterday's episode. But El Said, he doesn't think that way. He's all for sex change surgeries for minors, and he justifies it in really the most disingenuous way you can imagine.

SPEAKER_08 1:09:59

I just think the government shouldn't tell you what kind of healthcare you should have. And if you're a minor, you want to try on kids. Now, if you disagree with that, if you disagree with that, if you disagree that healthcare decisions need to be made by a doctor and their parents and a patient, then I just would think we agree to disagree. But you know, you want to put government inside. So, Abdul, you're a doctor, right? I am. So you think it's okay for a parent to select so to go single university? You think that's okay? I mean, do you so do you really want to have this conversation? Are you circumcised? Uh yeah, but I mean, uh, that's a personal question. Okay, doctor. You probably should want to move on. You probably should want to move on. Circumcision's different than castration. I think it's a it's a problem. It's a problem that you think that you get to decide what happens between a parent, a doctor, and a patient. And I'm just saying that yes, circumcision is surgery on a kid's dingling. So if you really want to bring that up, you can. I just think you guys are really selective about how much about these things.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:00

Abdul, Michigan's not going for that. That is sick stuff.

SPEAKER_06 1:11:06

They believe it. Well, I mean, we're already cast, you know, circumcising, so why not just take the berries too? This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous. It's child abuse, it's child abuse, it's child abuse. Again, do not let these people weaponize your virtue. Don't assume that they agree on it. Don't assume that you would go, well, circumcision, you know, it's kind of a hygienic choice, but blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Don't don't think that they will just agree with that's kind of a you know, not an argument. They'll go, well, that justifies taking the bears too. Well, hold on, hold on. Well, can't we just agree? It's not no, no, it's a choice between the doctor and the you know, parents. Yeah, but no voice in the matter.

SPEAKER_10 1:11:45

You know, as the patient, when I was circumcised, I don't remember having a choice or a voice in it. No. So, you know, when we start talking about whose choice is what, I mean the the lifelong impact is minor compared to castration.

SPEAKER_06 1:12:02

Yeah. The lifelong impact is minor compared to getting a massectomy when you're 14 or 15 years old, right? But these people don't see it that way. And it doesn't, it's not a okay, well, let's get rid of it all. Maybe that's the option. But the point is here, don't project your virtue, don't project your common sense, don't project the premise that we can all agree that fraud is bad onto these people. They don't feel that way. For some people, the fraud is the feature. The fraud is the feature. For some people, the genital mutilation is the feature. Remember, he's Muslim, and in many Muslim countries, they actively do female circumcision, which removes their things entirely. Right? For them, it's a feature. They want to restrict uh the pleasure of those things. It's a feature. Uh don't assume these people aren't okay using your virtue against you to get you to make retarded decisions,

Local Wins, Local Cover Ups, Local Power

SPEAKER_06 1:13:00

right? Retarded decisions. All right, let's switch over to KMJC. We got a local story today. Um, getting these things thrown at me fast and furious. So let me let me uh throw this up on the screen so you guys can follow along with me. I really love these reports, and uh, you know, I do read them. I obviously I don't read a ton of long stuff on here, but this deals with our county, Kitsap County. This is a very uh this is following up on a couple stories. So lots of good, some bad, and one really ugly story from KMJC's follow-up of some local political stories. So we break down the stories by having three good outcomes and one bad outcome, and that should really make you furious. The good one, story number one, Kitsap County's doing the right thing. In our previous story regarding the resignation and retirement of Kitsap County Sheriff, John Gesey, we made the prediction that Brandon Myers, the current Democrat candidate for Kitsap County Sheriff, would be selected to replace John Geese as interim sheriff and enjoy a political boost of that incumbent seat. Ron, can you put my face on the screen there?

SPEAKER_10 1:13:59

So Yeah, I did, but it's covering up the words.

SPEAKER_06 1:14:02

Oh, that's okay. That's okay. People can read it as it scrolls through. However, the Kidsap County Commissioner instead chose retired Lieutenant Ken Dickinson to serve as sheriff until after the election. That was the right call, and it takes the appearance of a stacked race off the table. We were wrong in our previous article about predicting Myers, who was a shoe-in for the appointment. We could make excuses, but that's not how we work. We commend the politicians doing the right thing and condemn when they do the wrong, no matter what their political leanings, and acknowledge when things are wrong. The benefit to the Democrats, if Myers win, he can say he won on his own merits. And to that, we give them credit. The good, story number two, the Sheridan Homeless site. Our second good news comes from our previous story regarding how Bremerton Housing Authority wants a zoning change on a property in Bremerton for a temporary homeless shelter. The Bremerton Planning Commission held a public meeting and heard from both sides for more than two hours. Advocacy groups came with the prepared stories. This is for the elderly and families. Crime does not go up near these facilities. Not having it will cause unnecessary deaths. These shelters have a proven record of getting the homeless back into society. Blah, blah, blah. The Sheridan Community Alliance brought a different argument. They argued most users of this kind of facility are single-aged men. Ages 20 to 55 with serious mental illness or addiction issues. They cited higher assault risk for women and children, statements from the Burlington police and Kittsap County Sheriff about crime around these sites, and data that most people who entered temporary shelter shelters do not exit into permanent housing. They just did, they did not just bring anecdotal stories and slogans, they brought the evidence. The staff at community development also also had their own concerns and recommended that the planning commission not approve the zone the rezoning request. To the end, in the end, the planning commission voted to recommend not approving the request. Now, before you get too excited, that vote does not kill the project. The city council can still approve it. Given how some members have already talked, they still might. A planning commission just makes it the the planning a planning commission, no, just makes that harder to hide. That's what happens when residents show up with more than just slogans. The good story number three is renaming 8th Street in downtown Bremerton, in Bremerton. Our third and last piece of good news, and this one may surprise you, there was a push to rename part of 8th Street in downtown Bremerton, Bishop Robertson Way, by the late Bishop Larry Robertson, a pastor and community builder a lot of people loved. Council sat through more than two hours of testimony, mostly from church members and organizations that worked with him. They wanted the full and legal change of the street. They were opposed to an honorary renaming. The council did something we don't we don't always see. They listened to the people and actually that actually live on that street. Residents that would have been impacted by the change would have had to change every address, banks, license, emergency records, wills, legal wills, and every digital service provider. They overwhelmingly sell that no, they said no in an email campaign to the council, and it ran heavily against the proposal. The council also said legal rename would cost the government agencies tens of thousands of dollars. Whereas when streets were renamed after Martin Luther King back in the day, there was much less impact on both the residents and the city. This is pretty significant, right? They want to rename it after a local community member. Everybody that lives on that street probably even knew who that pastor was. And it does create a lot of downstream effects. So in the end, they chose an honorary naming of the street. Bishop Robertson gets the honor. Residents get to keep their address. It was one of those decisions proponents won't like, but they can still get most of what they were seeking, the recognition. Several of the proponents did applaud and at the end, indicating that they accepted the outcome as satisfactory. We're usually first in line to criticize a council that ignores the room. However, we do feel that the council made the right decision in this particular situation. They sided with the people who have to live with the change. And that's what matters. We have to live here. Snip, snap, snip, snap. They're going to rename the streets every couple of years. And we're all having to go through time and you know all these things. Who knows what would happen to the ballots? I mean, if they change the address, the ballots will all just go to some round bin somewhere.

SPEAKER_10 1:18:17

Can you imagine if you lived on the street? I would just move.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:22

I'm out of here. I it ain't worth it. That's how representative government work is supposed to work. And that is so now that is where we get to the bad. This occurred in the other half of the same meeting.

SPEAKER_11 1:18:33

Oh no.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:34

A Sheridan community alliance leader was in the city offices when Councilmember Jennifer Chamberlain confronted her. She swore at her and tore into her in front of city staff. Initially, there was confusion about process. The parliamentarian said the public only gets to speak on discipline if there's a motion and a second. The city council, to its credit, did work out an arrangement to let people talk first. However, in so doing, they upwittingly tipped their hand because it provided an insight that was to follow and had already been predetermined. You see, unless they had already decided that they were not going to even make a motion to take action, censor, find, remove, then the natural assumption would be that public comment would take place. They were obviously caught off guard by the revelation that a motion and a second were needed for public discussion and by having to scramble for public speaking before a motion was heard, made it clear that their intent what their intentions were prior to the meeting starting. When considering the evidence in the complaint, the actual admission by Councilmember Chamberlain that the clearly written rules that were violated, the absolute minimum action that should have been taken was at least a motion and a second that Chamberlain be censured for that actions. That should have been the assumption. As such, their actions showed that they intended a public show and then take zero action. The public commentary was filled with comments that indicated outrage, indignation the public felt about Chamberlain's actions. Only Councilmember Anna Mockler moved to censure. Nobody seconded it. Not one. That means the rest of the council decided her conduct wasn't even worth a debate. Let that sink in. Then, after the motion was dead, they lined up to say how appalled they were. That's not accountability. That's a cover. All talk, no action. If that was not bad enough, it would even get worse. Chamberlain, even when confronted by the other council members, refused to even apologize to the individual. She regretted the situation, but steadfastly held that she was right for her behavior, in the right for her behavior. Anyone reading the complaint could see her actions were unprofessional, unethical, and out of order for a member of the city council. That she would be allowed to get away with both the action and her response is just mind-blowing. The jaw-dropping comment, however, came when Councilmember Denise Frey said she wouldn't second a measure because the last time the council censored anyone, it was for sexually harassing young women. Really? That's the bar? If that's the bar, the code of conduct is nothing more than a meaningless prop. This is why citizens mistrust government. When you put partisan politics above the rules that you created, you have earned that mistrust. We can't even trust you on a little thing like this. Why would we trust you on big things? Now, while the story was a bad outcome, we still need to get the ugly part of our get to the ugly part of our stories that we are following up on. We told you about the contention regarding Port Orcher Council member Heidi Fenton and her resignation of her council seat along with the blowup that followed. Here's the update. At that public meeting, the city council, seeing an overwhelming public support that Heidi Fenton had, indicated that they would be willing to have another public meeting to go over the details and give their evidence about the process. That meeting never happened. Again, all talk, no action. Instead, the council quietly conducted interviews, and on August 6th, they appointed Tiffany Mitchell to Fenton see. She was sworn in the next day. Move along, nothing to see here, move along. They did get a second legal opinion. Many in the public meeting demanded. However, the attorney that mayor uh that the mayor decided to hire, Hillary Evans, serves as city legal counsel for other Puget Sound cities. People at the meetings asked for something different, a litigation lawyer, someone who actually tries wrongful removal cases. That's not who they hired. It's important because they the an experienced employment litigator would start with different questions. Was the statement unequivocal? Was it made under threat in a closed session? Does Monroe actually fit? Did accepting a resignation inside executive section violate the Open Public Meetings Act? Evans' professional experience is the same as the Port Orchard attorney. In other words, someone to rubber stamp the decision. If this were really about protecting the city, they had two cleaner options. One, get an independent litigation opinion. Two, if a vacancy was real, let the Kitsup County Commissioners appoint the replacement so it doesn't look like the same council picking its own teammate. They did neither. Well, what's done is done. If Fenton Susan wins, Port Orchard taxpayers write a check. That is the part nobody on the dais will have to feel in their own wallet. That's the scorecard. Burmerton's Planning Commission heard the Sheraton neighborhood, recommended a no. Burmerton's council honored a bishop without wrecking people's addresses. That the same council couldn't second a censure for one of their when one of their own berated a constituent. Shocking. And Port Orchard filled a council seat with someone they wanted and threw out the people's choice. Whether you agree with her or not, she allegedly was elected. The good, the bad, the ugly. Elections have consequences. If you don't like what's going on in our local politicians, join the can with KMJC and work with us to fight for better government and communities, integrity, accountability, and representation. And of course, you can hear more stories like that at take backmycounty.com, KMJClocal, and of course, political remodel.com. We are absolutely dedicated to taking back our county and doing what it takes to make that happen. And some of that means highlighting these little stories that actually have a lot of impact, right? That little story about Eighth Street being renamed, that would have impacted a couple hundred to even a thousand plus of

Where To Follow And Final Thoughts

SPEAKER_06 1:24:20

our friends and families and neighbors who would have been inconvenienced by that. Right. And sometimes we all suck it up for the inconvenience. And sometimes it's nice when we have our voices heard and we don't have to go through those things. So thank you guys so much for joining us today. We will talk to you again tomorrow.

SPEAKER_20 1:25:04

I'm

Monty Python Government Reality Check

SPEAKER_20 1:25:05

twenty-seven. I did say something about the old woman. How did you get that? Hanging on to our stated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress. How do you do, good lady? I'm the king of the Britons. Whose castle is that? The Britons. We all are. We are all Britons. I am your king. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictator. Stop perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes. These good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narcissist syndicalist commune. We take it in turn to the 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. In the case of people, you're going to be quiet. The lady of the lake. Hilda Lost Excalibur from the bottom of the water. Signifying problems. Listen, strange women, not an imposed distributive thought is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the message, not from some philosophy or aquatic phenomenon. You can't expect to world supreme executive power. Just because some more retrous or just because some more.