The Dollar Looks Strong Right Before It Breaks

They keep telling us things are getting better, but the numbers don’t match how life feels. We start with a simple pressure test: the same boiling water hardens an egg and softens a potato. That mindset carries into everything we touch next, from energy independence to the way fear gets used to push people into “solutions” that quietly shrink freedom. If reliable heat, cooling, and electricity are the basics of modern life, then energy policy is not abstract at all. 

We break down the New York natural gas pipeline news, the politics of permits, and why “clean energy” arguments often ignore the real-world supply chain behind batteries and critical minerals. We also talk nuclear power, who benefits when it stays misunderstood, and why prosperity tracks with energy usage even when that fact makes people uncomfortable. 

Then we turn to the darker plumbing of the system: pandemic fraud allegations involving local officials, the role of leverage and blackmail, and the growing concern around cyber threats. We react to reports of Chinese state-sponsored hacking and claims of encrypted infrastructure supporting extremist networks, and we ask what it means when government admits it needs private-sector help to secure critical systems. 

Finally, we zoom out to money and trust. De-dollarization, central bank gold buying, oil trade outside the US dollar, and the real purchasing-power story behind “paper millionaires” all point to the same question: how do we protect savings? We debate gold versus Bitcoin, explain why crypto-backed mortgages matter, and connect it back to election integrity and the ballots-versus-voters argument. If this conversation made you think, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review. What’s the biggest risk you think people are ignoring right now?

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Cold Open And Peasants Welcome

SPEAKER_02 0:28

We're getting screwed, ma'am. Every time we turn around, we're getting screwed. Oh, the revolution's gonna be true podcasting for sure. It's the only way to take it. It's the little guys, the little guys that take the blood 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. So glad to be with you here this morning. We're locked and loaded. All check boxes have been checked. We are ready to go. Got the opening video for the simultaneous sip. Okay. Sound switched over, huh? Team player. Team player. Yeah. I'm all ready to go. Verazier's already checking in. Good morning from Boise. Tombaste coming from Colorado. Good morning. Carlito and Tiffany, Texas. Good morning. Jonatka says, Happy Thursday, peasants, checking in from Boise, home, not Wichita. Although I'm pretty sure Dorothy would appreciate our potatoes. No place like home, no place like home. It's kind of funny. Everybody wants to get out of Kansas. Pony Boy, good morning, peasants. Kansas has just become my dumping ground for any criticism I have of anywhere. Let's go to Kansas.

SPEAKER_06 1:50

Both sides of my family are from Kansas.

SPEAKER_02 1:52

I know why they left. The place is boring, man. There's not a hill to be seen. I was actually surprised driving across Kansas. It's I thought it was going to be flat, flat, flat. And it's kind of just, you know, eight-foot rolling hills everywhere. And a lot of freaking windmills. They have absolutely destroyed any potential beauty you might see out there with windmills. Matiaso, good morning, Ron and Taylor. Glad you made it. Glad you made

Simultaneous Sip And Mindset Reset

SPEAKER_02 2:15

it. All right. I know why you guys show up bright and early. You show up for the simultaneous sip. And all you need for that is a is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank, or a chalice of 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. What's the core of the day?

SPEAKER_14 2:39

The same boiling water that makes an egg turn hard will make a potato soft. So you need to dictate your environment and don't let the environment dictate you.

SPEAKER_02 2:51

All right. All right. Like that. Are you a potato or an egg? That's the theme today. Are you a potato or an egg? Because the pot is starting to boil. So which way do you want to go? Oh, like that so much. Sometimes it is all about your perspective, whether something is good or bad. And uh it's interesting the way that the Hegelians, the people who like to use the Hegelian dialectic, they will get people to run away from something bad into something that's worse. Right? Pretty consistent that that happens. They'll use fear to manipulate to give up your rights. And it goes back to the old thing that Benjamin Franklin said, right? For those people that will give up liberty for security, deserve neither's neither security nor freedom. And that's often what we get.

Energy Independence And New York Gas

SPEAKER_02 3:34

Some big things have been happening since Trump's been in office. One of the things that Trump has really focused on is trying to make sure that America is energy independent. And what does energy independence look like? It looks like nobody dying in the winter because their houses are too cold, right? It means nobody dying in the summer because their houses are too hot. So you've got to provide electricity to heat those homes or resources to heat those homes, and you've got to provide electricity to cool homes. It right, it means that we can get to where we want to go with it with at a reasonable cost. So fuel prices need to be low enough so that people can move and travel, right? All these things are fundamental to we, the people's liberty, to choose our environment, right? To act upon it. And so Lee Zeldan said something yesterday that is pretty significant. Now, obviously, Lee Zeldin is from the state of New York, ran for governor up there. He was a representative from New York for a long time, and he's currently sitting as the EPA secretary. And as the EPA secretary, when you look at a state alike of New York, New York has been at war with fossil fuels for a number of years now. And they're sit right next to Pennsylvania. I mean, they could get really cheap fuel. They have a lot of uh fuel that they can get in New York, but you've got put in New York City, for example, they want to ban propane and natural gas stoves and heaters and all, you know, they want to move towards these kind of clanky renewable energies. The problem is they're not constant enough to provide heat for people consistently, right? There's issues with that, and so one of the easy solutions is natural gas. Well, Donald Trump, when he came into office, started making some phone calls, and he is going to have a natural gas pipeline from north part of New York all the way down into the southern part of New York to provide two million people with natural gas. This is in the state of New York. And Williams has had this vision to deliver natural gas to downstate New Yorkers. And the president directly started engaging with whomever he needed to. And not only have all of the permits uh for a project that was dead now been approved. And by the end of 2027, Williams will have finished their project to deliver natural gas to over two million more downstate New Yorkers. So 10 meters. So when you think about the stakeholders, who who was preventing the natural gas from getting down to uh uh what do you call it, south end New Yorkers, downstate New Yorkers? Who was preventing that? It was a conglomeration of environmentalists that didn't want pipelines. It was people who want to move away from fossil fuels and go all to renewables. It was the renewable energy companies themselves that get subsidized by the government and especially get subsidized through regulation. When people have no other choice but to buy your, you know, battery operated whatever, whatever, you're kind of stuck. Now, here's the thing: there's nothing that we purchase on the market today that is battery operated that doesn't touch slave labor. Would you agree with that? Like, is there really clean sources of lithium out there or coal batteries? I hadn't really thought about it. Huh? We don't want to think about it. That's the problem. We don't want to think about it. But the reality is you can't make any kind of argument about natural gas or oil being more damaging to civilization that you can't make the same argument about EV-powered stuff, right? It's the same thing. You're damaging somebody somewhere, you're stripping the environment of these resources. I would say oil production is a lot less environmentally damaging, aka it's coming from way below the ground where it doesn't ruin the view. Okay, and it seems to be renewable at this point. People are saying, Hey, we think oil might be renewable here. Like these old wells are pumping stuff out that we thought were dry. And it's not just because we have fracking technology, it's because we let them sit and they refilled. Okay, it's like an aquifer, it comes from somewhere, right? We really don't know. Uh, we do know where oil comes from and how to make oil, but we don't the the idea that all the oil we're pumping and putting in our vehicles and whatnot is coming from dinosaurs and vegetation from the Jurassic period, that is a lie. That's not true.

SPEAKER_06 7:50

Yeah, I just watched a report talking about that. That is total nonsense. Complete nonsense. Easily you can think about it this way very easily. We pump oil from 30,000 feet underground. There's no biological fossils down there.

SPEAKER_02 8:05

And that whole theory came up from the oil that would pump up in the swamps in Louisiana, right? You know, in the south, and it was like, oh, maybe there's just these swamps buried down. Right. That was that was all it was. It was just unhigh, like, well, that must be the backwoods logic. It must be decomposing organic material, right? That was it. There's no real science there. So, anyways, it's renewable. And so, why not use that resource? Well, it's just stakeholder interests, it's people profiting from other industries that are in competition, it's environmentalists that have a mind virus, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_06 8:36

I suspect that is this reason why we have not gone full nuclear.

SPEAKER_02 8:40

Yeah, absolutely. There's a lot of fear around nuclear, right? Because of the Chernobyl and also because of uh other potential meltdowns and stuff like that. You have the Namblet, not in my backyard, right? Sure, nuclear is great over there, not here. And there is a big misunderstanding around nuclear. You're right. There's a lot of fear around nuclear, right? Who pushes that fear?

SPEAKER_06 9:02

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 9:03

Actually, go back and look when the first campaigns came out. The oil industry was particularly clear against nuclear because it competed against their constant drip, drip, drip, needing to supply the power plants with oil and whatnot. So that all this stuff, when you just step back and see it, you're like, okay, these are natural organic entities that are competing for survival in this business world that we've created. That's natural. Now, the the issue is let's set back, make it fair, right? So the winner, the loser can't complain that the winner cheated, right? So let's make it fair, let's make regulations consistent. And of course, the people have an interest in this as well, because no matter what they do, the corporations, the governments, et cetera, et cetera, we have to live here. So if my objective as a father is to have a warm home for my children, then the government, to the extent that I'm unable to, you know, go cut down trees on my property because I live in a subdivision, because I work in a factory to contribute to the national GDP, blah, blah, blah, right? I'm a team player one. Okay. I'm nation-state team player one. Then I expect to be able to have an affordable way to heat my home. Natural gas is a solution for uh downstate New Yorkers. It's a solution for a lot of places. So the fact that Trump is cutting that red tape and within his administration, you're gonna see that supply open up. That's a huge deal. That's a hundred-year investment plus in downstate New York. It's really incredible. Another big piece of news happened just to be.

SPEAKER_06 10:28

Thomas Stay has a really good comment in the chat.

SPEAKER_02 10:30

Let's see here. There is a direct and positive correlation between a society's energy usage and human prosperity. 100%. Absolutely. That's right. We want to use more energy, right? And you know, I always think of I've become my dad. I walk around the house. Okay, seriously, I've become my dad. We only had a couple dogs growing up, but anytime my family would go out of town, and dad, of course, would stay back because he had to work or whatever. We'd come home and my dad would start showing us all the dog tricks that he taught the dog to do by, you know, feeding him little scraps of his dinner or whatever, you know. He had a little shihtzu, like jumping up on a chair and sitting. Like these are shih tsus that are so dumb they forget to go to the bathroom outside, right? And he had it doing tricks. And so my family was gone this last couple days. And so, what was I doing for my evenings? I was running around the house with sandwich turkey, getting my dog to dog to jump up on chairs and sit on the fireplace and roll over and do all these tricks. And I'm like, I've become my dad. And then on top of that, I walk around the house all the time, turning down the heater and turning off lights. I don't need this light on. There's wasted electricity. So prudence inside the household is always good. But yes, society should use a lot of electricity for sure, or a lot of power, a lot of energy. Tomase says, Dad, turn off the lights when you leave the room. Son, I'm improving society, dad.

SPEAKER_06 11:52

The contrarian. If he said that, I'd let it go.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

I'm just trying to make sure peak use demand is always there, dad. If they think we don't need the electricity, they won't produce it for us. That's right. Doug Wyatt said good morning, and so did Thundering Oak. Good morning, good morning.

Pandemic Fraud And Political Incentives

SPEAKER_02 12:10

Okay, another big piece of news out of Massachusetts. Another state representative was arrested yesterday. This is state representative Francisco Paulino, and he was arrested for pandemic fraud. The DOJ alleges the disgraced rep scammed taxpayers out of $700,000 in pandemic release funds for personal use, using it in real for real estate expenses, loan payments, and transfers to his campaign account. To make matters worse, Paulino also loaned out taxpayer dollars at a significantly higher interest rate than he was paying, just to line his own pockets. He faces an 11-count indictment, eight counts of wire fraud or aiding and abetting wire fraud and three counts of unlawful monetary transactions and money laundering.

SPEAKER_19 12:55

Good morning, everyone. This morning we arrested Massachusetts State Representative Francisco Paulino, who represents the 16th Essex District, which includes the cities of Lawrence and Methuan for pandemic unemployment, insurance fraud, pandemic loan fraud, and money laundering. He is charged in an 11-count indictment that was unsealed today. A grand jury in Boston also returned an 11-count indictment charging the sitting mayor of Lawrence, Brian DePena, with pandemic loan fraud and money laundering.

SPEAKER_02 13:30

So they didn't just get the representative, they got a mayor too. Six shooters going off everywhere. These are obviously low-level politicians in the big scheme of things, a state assemblyman or a state representative and a and a city mayor, but this is a big deal. Like, hey, do you know the barrier that they have to overcome to go after politicians that are sitting in office with these kinds of crimes? I mean, these are probably pretty locked stock and barrel, I would imagine.

SPEAKER_06 13:56

Yeah, I was thinking that the the letter that you read, you could just change the name and the same you know charges would apply to like thousands of these guys. And it felt like out of the thousands, they're like, well, we got to do a lottery because we gotta sacrifice somebody in one of the things. Somebody's gotta be the uh mascot. And this is the guy that was unlucky.

SPEAKER_02 14:18

So we can we by no means can allege that every elected politician is up to no good or up to fraud. By no means can we allege that, right? Yeah, well, but this is happening. Remember, Eric Swalwell was infiltrated by fang fang bang bang while he was a city council member in LA. Okay. This mayor taking money. If you don't think that that doesn't create a squeeze, like they know they've stolen money, they know they've laundered money, they know they took illegal COVID money, and they're just hoping they get away with it. Probably, probably, because they're looking around, going, everybody else does this. You see what I'm like this, so this is acceptable. It's the insider trading in Congress. You might go to Congress with the best of intentions, and after two years, and you're struggling on your congressional salary to pay for your townhouse in DC and your house in San Francisco.

SPEAKER_06 15:06

You start like Googling uh Pelosi tracker.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

Yeah, Pelosi Tracker. You know, what committees are most profitable? Never underestimate the instinct for self-preservation. There's not a lot of people that will willingly run themselves bankrupt. There's not a lot of people that will willingly run their lives at, you know, red line zero. Tim Burkhart seems to be one of those exceptions, right? Cheap house, Tennessee, sleeps in his office, makes skateboards, he's committed to the cost. There's a couple of people like this, but there's people like Marjorie Taylor Green who come in, says she won't, you know, profit from being in office, comes in worth about 2 million, small business owner, leaves worth about 30 million. Wow, that's a pretty good five years there. You know, stuff like that happens all the time. And we can't discount that this is out there. I've been watching this show Yellowstone, right? For a lot of some of our audience members, you've watched it. But it really kind of, you know, it's a great almost documentary on how local and state and these different jurisdictions and government and vet stakeholder interests all kind of intersect, right? And you've got it's just a really good show if you're just trying to go, okay, how what's going on here? Like, what does politics really look like behind the scenes? When you see multiple family members in multiple different offices, hey, have you ever considered they're protecting family interests by running for office? That they're not necessarily a family dedicated to the service of the public. You know what I mean? Like, why don't we draw some dots together? Let's do that conspiracy thing where we took pictures on the wall with yarn strings protecting everyone. And all of these different gangs and stuff, and you watch the show Yellowstone, and I'm gonna show you in real life a politician who used violence. Okay, and if you do it once, you think they're not gonna do it twice. I'm gonna show you that later in the show. And this is this is a really close-to-home one for us, Ron. Right. But there's always an element of muscle. Where do you get your muscle to advance your political agenda? Remember, not all politics is the uh secular equivalent of say religion, right? Politics doesn't send missionaries out door to door to products and mines, okay? Politics is gonna use uh any element of power, right? It's power. They're gonna use power to to uh incentivize your behavior, carrots and sticks. They're going to use power to physically block certain behavior, right? Power, how what however it can be used, power. And so every major political ideology ever has had an element of brown shirts, people who go out and do the work, right? Do the hard work of enforcement. When someone else gets a little bit too in their principles, how do you go break those principles? Okay, how do you go take advantage of things? Antifa has been the communist brown shirts for many, many years, right? And literally it's anti-fascist. The communists, who are authoritarian dictators, opposed a different form of authoritarian dictator, the fascists, and they were both believed in total control, they just didn't want the other person to do the controlling. Okay. So communism has been out there to fight fascism. Now, fascism's now misused to represent Christian nationalism as if they're the same thing, right? They're not, but ultimately, Antifa has always been the communist thug branch.

Antifa Encryption And Terror Connections

SPEAKER_02 18:27

Well, Antifa in America, and really internationally, has tried to play this whole we're not actually an organization and we're not centralized, and it's just a bunch of people that are committed to the cause and revolution forever, you know, that kind of stuff. Well, turns out that's not really the case. Antifa is actually so sophisticated that they had China providing them with high-tech encryption and computer.

SPEAKER_22 18:53

Now, the State Department targeting an overseas tech network accused of helping extremists hide in plain sight by providing encrypted tools to Antifa activists in Portland, Oregon, and overseas terror groups, including Hamas and Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Correspondent Alex Hogan reports live in Washington. All right.

SPEAKER_02 19:11

Let's just slow down. We don't want to let this pass us by. So you're telling me the Antifa members in Portland, Oregon are using the same encrypted networks that are being given to them by some tech company that's also providing Hamas with the same technology. Like, do you not see the connection here? The red-green alliance, this is it. This is it. They're talking, they're not just committed to the downfall of the empire, they're actually the resistance organized.

SPEAKER_06 19:43

I'm glad you stopped the clip because I was exactly what I was thinking. I was like, oh, so this is like Portland Hamas.

SPEAKER_02 19:50

Yes. Yes. This is what we're up against.

SPEAKER_06 19:55

I wonder if the local, you know, Antifa people would think of themselves differently if you called them the local Hamas group.

SPEAKER_02 20:05

No, they won't. You know, oh, okay. No, I don't think they will. I I think they don't care.

SPEAKER_21 20:10

Wow. On this big deal, Alex. Yeah, hi, Jackie. So the state and treasury departments designating Autisti, Inventati, or AI collective as a specially designated global terrorist, saying that this group provides digital infrastructure to violent Antifa cells in other far-left groups. So, according to the department, services include encrypted chats and email, web hosting, secure video conferencing, and streaming, which allow other groups to remain anonymous beyond the reach of the law. The department says the collective provided services to groups who carried out attacks on rail systems in European countries and here at home, groups that have carried out attacks on ICE or at a law enforcement training center in Atlanta, Georgia, for example. The Italy-based group says it started 20 years ago to provide internet support for social movements. According to the group's website, that includes individuals, collectives, communities, and groups whose political and social activities fit within this worldview and who share some fundamental principles. That includes anti-fascism, anti-racism, anti-sexism, anti-militarism. On top of that, one has to share our basic attitude towards money and the capitalistic world, a deep feeling of uneasiness and unrest. So this is the first designation of its kind since U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio convened leaders from around the world for a summit last month on the resurgence of political terrorism. The State Department says this group has a massive footprint, including 16,000 mailboxes, 1,500 websites, 5,500 mailing lists, and about 10,000 blogs. Jackie, fascinating. Alex Hogan, thank you.

SPEAKER_06 21:52

I thought it was just an idea.

SPEAKER_02 21:54

That's I thought they were just an idea. No, no, no. They are well funded. And notice it. You know, the list of things that they have to oppose anti-sexism, anti that that's basically just the world. That's any organized civilization. You can assign those labels, right? These are burn it down to the ground and let's rule the ashes, people. Period. End of story. They want totalitarian warlord dictator life control. They want to tell you what a good life looks like. Get in the breadline, mister, so you can all be equal. Right. This is exactly what we fear. And here it is, right there. Finally, Fox News. They finally confirmed it. Oh my gosh. You know? Oh, go figure. You know?

SPEAKER_06 22:35

The gaslighting is over.

SPEAKER_02 22:37

No, they'll keep it going. I'm sure. I'm sure it's not over. They'll keep it going. Now, another

China Hacking And Government IT Limits

SPEAKER_02 22:42

big thing happened. Now, remember a few days ago, I kind of referenced that the Washington state uh cyber infrastructure has all been penetrated. It's all been penetrated. Well, and you've heard different tech technocrats joke about the government would have to be good at IT. They suck at IT. The government sucks at IT, you guys. Our most sensitive databases this week were all breached, or at least they're letting us know they were breached.

SPEAKER_04 23:11

The Justice Department says it has shut down a key element of a Chinese state-sponsored hacking group. Court documents say that China-based group QTFY used sophisticated hacking tools to target NASA, the Federal Reserve, the Department of Energy, and other critical infrastructure networks. But now U.S. authorities are cracking down. Here to talk about it this morning for us is the Attorney General of the United States, Todd Blanche, he's the man in charge of this operation to shut it down.

SPEAKER_02 23:35

So on the same day, the same day they announced they found this tech group that was assisting Antifa and the communists and the far left and Hamas, the same day they decide to announce that there's another tech group that's hacking United States infrastructure. What are the odds that these two tech groups regularly communicate or are the same thing when you really boil it down? What are the odds that China has been pushing this around the world? Because what is China the at the top of the dog pile? Communists, right? They're at the top of the dog pile. Think about that just for a second. Okay. Everything in government that's sitting on a government server of any kind, in my opinion, is gone. It's already been downloaded somewhere on a hard drive. It's out there. Now, it's very possible that we've also hacked every other nation state as well. Okay. It's possible that there's really nothing secret here. Wow's us. Wow's us.

SPEAKER_04 24:36

Mr. Attorney General, great to see you. Thanks for joining us this morning. Um was reading through your release on this. So this Chinese sponsored group, QTFY, you guys discovered they had done malicious hacks against a bunch of U.S. government agencies, NASA, Federal Reserve, DOJ, the U.S. Senate. Um, you're seizing some of their domains and servers. Do you guys have any idea what were these hackers looking for? What were they trying to get?

SPEAKER_09 25:00

Well, this, yes, I mean, they were trying to infiltrate not only um our some of our key infrastructure, like you just described, but but hospital systems and healthcare centers. And this is something that's been happening for many years. And in this case, this was sponsored. This is state sponsored, and this is a a major national security issue for the United States. And so the the work that we did um over the past several months bringing this to a stop is is something that that that the FBI and and our great prosecutors in California have worked very hard on. The big part of this that I want people to understand is we're not only we not only stopped this, but we have we have shared with with the private sector the way that they were doing this, the way that these hackers were getting access and their codes. And so the goal there is to motivate and to use um some of the really smart people here in the private sector to stop it from happening again.

SPEAKER_02 25:53

Okay. John Attakis had posted earlier about the government has IT workers, but they get let go after the contract. And I propose that there's a chasm between a real cybersecurity expert and a quote unquote government cybersecurity expert, right? That there's a chasm there. There's a paycheck difference that prevents anybody who actually knows what they're doing from taking a government job. Todd Blanche just told you that. We shared it with the private partners, and we're hoping they help secure the government network. Please teach us, Obi-Wan. Teach us the ways to defend from the dark side. That's what's happening here, okay? The government cannot secure your data, they cannot do it. They are relying on private partners to put their people to work. Hey, they're hacking you guys too. Can we put the brain trust together? Okay. I'm telling you, yeah, by their own words, they condemn themselves. Okay. So why don't we have the best cyber guys? Oh, they work at Google. They pay them a billion dollars a year to do what they do. We're offering them $89,000 a year. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_09 26:59

It's not as Poughkeepsie by us doing this that they're gonna walk away and not try again. They're gonna reload and try to come at us again. And so, and so this is a fight that that we're gonna continue to have to have. But this is a great job done by by the FBI and and National Security Division here at Maine Justice and then the Southern District of California U.S. Attorney's Office.

SPEAKER_18 27:18

Would you like to see President Trump bring this up with President Xi when he's here in four weeks?

SPEAKER_09 27:23

Well, look, this is something that we have talked about with our counterparts in China for many, many years. And we know that it's happening, and they know that we know that it's happening, and it has to stop. And so I I'm not I'm not gonna tell President Trump what he needs to talk to the leadership about in China, but I will tell you this that not only are we using the FBI and the federal government, but we are now empowering the private sector to help us um identify the hacking techniques, and then when we identify them to stop them and then to share those techniques. Hold on, hold on. Let's go back to this. This is the part where we using the FBI and the federal government, but we are now empowering the private sector. We are now empowering the private sector, guys.

SPEAKER_02 28:05

They're they're treading. We've known this for years and years and years, but we couldn't stop it.

SPEAKER_06 28:09

So we're never gonna tell you about it. I thought you were gonna go back to the part where it was the we know that they know that we know that they know but we're now empowering the private sector.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

We need help. This is a cry for help. The NSA is not secure. China knows about the UFOs, you guys, more than we do. The Federal Reserve, they know how many dollars those mother effers have printed. And they've known for years. But they've known for years, and we know that they know that we know that we know that they know, please help. It's no coincidence that they broke the story on the Antifa in the communications on the same day as this. This is one thing here. It's two separate buckets the way the legacy media is presenting it, but these are absolutely connected stories. China's behind both of these, right? They were exfiltrating this data, feeding it back to whoever could use it to sow violence and bring down the system. So whether it was a journalist that got some hot take on some classified something that then created a firestorm of whatever, whether it was, you know, a uh a Wall Street broker that now had true inside information and could short markets and destroy businesses and entire, you know, sectors, like I don't know, the entire natural gas industry by knowing what the weak spots are. You know what I'm saying? Like this is incredibly power, uh, incredibly powerful. Can we understate how much information this is and what that creates vis-a-vis blackmail? Imagine China was able to infiltrate these databases, the NSA, and then they could target a weak Eric Swalwell and know exactly what his pinch points are, or maybe a mayor in Massachusetts, or maybe a congressman in in Massachusetts. They could go, hey, that 700,000 you stole from the COVID funds, you did that, but we know about it. Don't want don't want people to find out, block this bill. Don't want people to find out, do this. This explains the whole Mike Pence being so pro-China in this weird backdoor way. Right? Hey, Mike Pence, we know what you did in Indiana.

SPEAKER_09 30:20

It's out there to help us um identify the hacking techniques, and then when we identify them to stop them, and then to share those techniques with everybody else so that we know um when it's coming and how to stop it.

SPEAKER_04 30:33

What kind of digital fingerprints get left behind to the point where you guys are confident that it was China who was doing this?

SPEAKER_09 30:39

Well, we know there were two platforms, and there's a lot that there's a lot of work that we did behind the scenes to understand this was a paid service where where hackers could actually access the service. And so it was available to to a lot of a lot of um bad actors out there, not just China. But but at the end of the day, we know from our investigation this was state sponsored um by by China, and and they're a big part of of the of the problem, at least where it comes to this, to what we saw here. And and that's why we went to the court. We got court authorized um warrants that allowed us to to more or less redirect the servers and then and then shut them down. Justice Department says it is shut.

SPEAKER_02 31:17

I mean, at least they're telling us, we the people. So it's not just, you know, hey, the military top secret clearance database was hacked. Now we dude, this is a full infiltration. Everything important has been hacked.

SPEAKER_06 31:30

What I just heard was is that China's doing the same thing that the U.S. wants to do. They're trying to get the private sector to wage war.

SPEAKER_02 31:39

This is, you know, fascism is simply communism, but they allow the brands, the privately built businesses, to keep their brand. That's really all it is.

Regulation Pressure On Small Business

SPEAKER_02 31:50

You can keep the logo, you know, but we're gonna regulate you. We're gonna tell your board of directors what they can and can't do. That's not really any different than the way our system was set up. And it wasn't built this way. This was a Supreme Court decision in 1938, Erie vs. Tompkins, combined with the Trading with the Enemy Act emergency orders that created this environment where government regulated private businesses. There are no private businesses out there. As a small business owner, this is one of the most painful things you realize. You you break off from your employer. You're good at changing tires or whatever it is you're doing, right? You're good at fixing trucks. You know, people come to you all the time to fix your friend's diesel truck. And you, I'm just gonna open a shop. So you open a shop and you think, you know, I'm so good at this, I'm gonna get a license and I'm gonna work on, you know, trucks. I'm gonna make some real money. So you go get a license, and then next thing you know, the EPA is down your throat. And next thing you know, the Department of Transportation is down your throat. And then next thing you know, you know, some other chamber of commerce is down your throat. And then the the city wants you to have a local business license and pay local sales taxes, and then the county has a sales tax, and then the state has a sales tax, and then you've got labor and industries for any employees you hire and you gotta pay for their future sick leave, and it goes on and on. Pretty soon you're like, who's in charge here?

unknown 33:04

Right?

SPEAKER_02 33:04

I don't get to make any decisions about what I do with anything. Even if I make a profit at the end of the year, the IRS wants 47% of it. So I'm incentivized to go buy things to try to reduce my tax liability. I never get a chance to save money. Like every small business owner that finally gets to that point realizes there's a glass ceiling. You start hitting the government regulators that regulate your industry. Even a freaking hairdresser runs into this. Oh, I got to get a hairdresser license. Okay, well, now I got to get this and now I got to go do that. And you all of a sudden you're like, what is happening here? All I do is cut hair. It's like I need a pair of scissors and clippers. But yet, because I engage with the government in order to, you know, make more money or whatever the case is, you end up in a trap. This is happening all over. So that is fascism, right? It's not an unfair criticism to look at the United States government and say, that's kind of fascist. Yeah, you have central control of private industry. Communism is just central control of industry. They just remove the word private. There's no illusion that they own and control it. In our system, there's an illusion that we own and control it, unless you're the actual small business owner. Why do you think small business owners consistently vote for conservative candidates, even though they might be socially liberal? It's because they understand what they're up against regulatory regulation-wise all the time. All the time. But yet they're one, you know, if you have 10 employees that are all thinking they want some, you know, EBT debit cards and section of housing, they're gonna outvote the one guy who's actually paying their checks. When reality, if they'd all vote for the conservative, the business owner would make more money, he'd raise wages, get better employees. You know, it's a cycle. So with this cycle, right, our dollar is incredibly important. As peasants, it's easy to overlook financial markets. That's for the other guys, the smarter guys, the people that want to go chase that life. But the reality is the things that happen in the financial market, specifically when it comes to the dollar and the dollar reserve status and everything that represents, this affects every aspect of everybody's life in the United States of America, where we're where we are required to use dollars as legal tender. We don't have a choice. That's how you buy your eggs, that's how you buy your cheese, that's how you buy your milk. And so the dollar and the debate around money is incredibly important for we the people. One of the very first cabinet meetings that we had after the Constitution was ratified was Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson and a few of the others sitting around debating money and what the United States was going to do about money and credit, and if we had should have a central bank or not, if we should allow regional banks, how much regulation. This was the first topic that they talked about. The first public debate they had was over money. So money touches us all. This is Scott Bessant, our Secretary of Treasury, who's talking about money and he's talking about the dollar. And he's telling you in this little speech exactly what the future looks like. So, as peasants, this is your sign. You don't have to be some big Wall Street insider. In fact, some of those guys might be blind to this because they're trying to make money today. I'm looking at this saying, I want you to be able to raise your family and care about what you're you leave for your grandkids. So this is the big fat neon sign flashing. Here's your sign. You gotta make you gotta make accommodation in your life today because the big print is coming and it's gonna look good for a minute.

De-Dollarization And Sound Money Signals

SPEAKER_05 36:43

Sequencing is um right now, and maybe we'll talk about it later, is there is clearly a slow motion de-dollarization going on.

SPEAKER_02 36:54

Ah there's clearly a slow motion de dollarization. Let's see if Scott Bessant thinks he can beat that, right? The whole world is de dollarizing right now. More central banks hold gold in reserve than dollars for the first time in 50 years. Okay, so there's a slow motion de-dollarization happening.

SPEAKER_05 37:14

But could the initial stages be a dollar rally because companies, countries are paying back their dollar debt. So there's a dollar thirst before there's a dollar boycott.

SPEAKER_02 37:29

Well, you you can't see so as countries come off the dollar, there's a thirst for dollars to pay off the debt, but are they going to buy more debt? Do you see what he just said? The dollar will look stronger for a moment, but it's because other nations are gathering the dollars to pay off the debt, not refi it. There's a difference. They're getting out, they're getting out.

SPEAKER_25 37:52

In my sheet of questions, but as we move to investment themes, number one is de-dollarization. So have you already jumped in there? So how do you think about taking that idea, which uh I guess many people would say isn't controversial that the dollar loses not as Hegemon, its relative status? How do you think about the journey ahead? And how do you think about in as an investor when is the right time to build your positions?

SPEAKER_02 38:17

Okay. That guy just sounds pompous. It's just his voice. It's probably not even him.

SPEAKER_05 38:21

He sounds pompous. Again, you know, we look for stress in the system is uh we we just did a three-day off-site here in London, and you know, I came away thinking that we have these kind of meta-long arc ideas, and the real uh the uh challenge here is as you just said, the uh we're to implement them as actionable market ideas. You see things happening on the margin. This Shanghai gold exchange, very interesting. Uh we see uh India and China being able to pay for oil, which is the ultimate dollar the uh commodity, and the uh rupees and RB. So you've now moved the US out of the way.

SPEAKER_02 39:14

So and you know, I'll I'll tell you China and India are paying for oil not in dollars. China and India are paying for oil not in dollars.

SPEAKER_05 39:26

The the real wake-up call for me was last December, and we we were doing a call with one of our consultants, the the uh much older fellow grape thinker and French, and he said, you know, like I was used to okay, the US has sanctioned Venezuela, the US has sanctioned Russia, US has sanctioned Iran, and he said, you know, it is untenable that the US can extend its foreign policy to the French government via the dollar, and and just this huge multi-billion dollar fine on B and P is going to make a US ally want to think of a new way of doing business. So, you know, like you have you know, this new term, the global south, the ones out of the dollar system. Very interesting if the French Republic wants out of the dollar system.

SPEAKER_02 40:25

Ah, one of our key allies, one of our financial partners. Hey man, that dollar sucks. It's not very good. We can't have our own policy because we get regulated by who? See, this is the small business owner who reaches the glass ceiling and finds out who his real bosses are. Imagine being French and going, oh, I answer to the Federal Reserve and the United States Treasury Department too. I can't make any investments I want because you have said dollars can't go to anything that's not DEI or ESG or what, you know what I mean? Because it's going through our BlackRock partners and they're the ones that are actually funding your project. You have a lot of that obfuscation, right? The Fed is producing the money, but BlackRock gets first dip at it, and then BlackRock funds some private thing. That way BlackRock can own the downside. But then BlackRock puts in ESG and DEI policies and the French get affected, or the Treasury sanctions a state where there's a legitimate business deal happening from France and Venezuela that has nothing to do with narco-terrorists. And all of a sudden, you mean I can't do business? There's billions of dollars on the line. Maybe I just won't use dollars. India and China are already trading oil without using the dollar. I'm sure France is looking at that and envying their freedom, envying the fact that they won't be regulated by someone that they have nothing to do with.

SPEAKER_25 41:42

Yes, and the seizing Russians reserves is probably only accelerated that.

SPEAKER_05 41:48

Yeah, they haven't been seized. I'm told they're frozen, right? But uh my inclination is that they uh you know they will disappear.

SPEAKER_25 41:58

So all of this debt swirling around the system, one is as an investor, should be thinking about the preservation of purchasing power almost above all, and therefore currencies has always been uh you know a relative game. And I sometimes get some criticism from my partner, Will Campion, about the fact that you know I'm a long-term believer in gold and a distruster of the central banks. You have written about gold and has painted a scenario.

SPEAKER_05 42:22

Gold is a uh um not a fiat currency, there's a limited amount, it is recognized as a store of value, and you know, you are seeing that you can keep gold in your vault. You can move it back. That you know, the and you know, I I am adamantly anti-Russian, but the mistake the Russians made was the Russians got onto war footing in terms of their foreign exchange reserves, but they moved out of dollars into Euros, and they never believed that the Europeans would have the wherewithal, the inclination to follow the Americans. If the Russians had moved uh entirely into gold, price would be higher, but they would have all their reserves in Moscow. So I think a lot of the uh you know who who knows whether China's moving on to war footing vis-a-vis Taiwan. Chinese PBOC is the largest buyer of gold now. So, you know, could could we imagine you know, again, back to imagination, could we imagine some kind of a R and B that is exchangeable into gold, maybe at a premium?

SPEAKER_25 43:40

So I don't disagree with uh you know any of that, which is probably why I find myself constantly sort of you know rolling my eyes when people mention Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_05 43:48

Gold can be a risk off and a risk on asset. Bitcoin is a risk on asset.

SPEAKER_02 43:54

So Scott Besson is pro Bitcoin. Bitcoin's got some more volatility, the risk on. Gold can be Risk off. It's in your vault, it's kind of risk off, right? But it's also risk on, too. I mean, it's gold that plays both. The risk off is one of the characteristics that makes, in my opinion, Bitcoin a better asymmetrical bet for we, the people, because we can use it, right? Gold, if I hold 100 or 200 or 300 ounces in a vault, it's going to be very difficult for me to pledge it, use it for mortgages, use it, you know, and if I liquidate it, it's just much way more difficult for me. It's a little bit easier for the central banks. And as Scott Bessett says, it's a recognized store of value. I mean, it's been around for thousands of years. And Bitcoin is a new player on the table. This is Binance founder, CZ, who was talking about he believes that Bitcoin will overtake gold. Now, one of the things we've seen in the last week, right, because we saw all the commodities market rise, rise. We saw Bitcoin go up, we saw gold and silver go up, we saw um uh I guess Ethereum went up a little bit, but anyways, that's beside the point. Point is we saw them all go up. Gold has already dropped back down, and silver has already dropped back down. They didn't see nearly as big a percentage rise, but they've already settled back down to their pre-trade amount. There's a lot to that. The people who rushed to buy gold and silver, they didn't take delivery of it. They got paper, and paper's easy to liquidate. It also keeps the price suppressed. Bitcoin didn't do that. Bitcoin went up 20 plus percent. I think we're like 24% in the last week, and it's holding, right? It's holding. There's a big difference there. That means people who rush to the sound money are considering Bitcoin the longer term bet than the silver and the gold that they rush to, right? They're willing to jump out of those things more quickly, likely because the upside isn't there. Sure, it'll hold your value for a week or two while you figure out where to reinvest, but the upside isn't there. Bitcoin's got upside. So here he is talking about he believes that Bitcoin will overtake gold as reserves.

SPEAKER_12 45:51

For sure. I think Bitcoin will for sure become more important than gold. Yeah. I think today, uh, well, we gotta understand for large countries to change, it takes many years, right? So today they have a mechanism to value gold, um, to hold gold. Uh, there's a pop, there's a whole mechanism there. Um, for them to shift into Bitcoin will take some time, uh, or into crypto will take some time, but it will happen. So, and um uh Bitcoin is just a much better asset than gold. Um, I think Peter Schiff might not agree, but I've had that debate with him before. Um, but you know, Bitcoin is much more important.

SPEAKER_20 46:28

Thank you. Well, as we can see here, the majority of the people in this room believe or have been believing for a long time that Bitcoin will be bigger than gold. How could we all be wrong?

SPEAKER_12 46:43

Um I think there's a very okay. I think there's a very small chance uh something better than Bitcoin takes over, like another digital currency that's that grows faster than Bitcoin, uh, overtakes Bitcoin before Bitcoin takes over gold. Um that's a I think by everything that we're looking at today, uh the chance of that happening is quite small. I think Bitcoin will overtake gold pretty soon. Um there's only like a 10x difference right now. So who knows? In the next bull run, it could happen.

SPEAKER_02 47:14

Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 47:14

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 47:17

It makes sense. There's a thousand plus year history of gold backing currencies. There's a mechanism, there's an infrastructure around with that. Literally, there's a direct line of connection all the way back to the Wells Fargo's wagons of protecting and moving and settling transactions in gold. It's set in place. But it's become stagnant since 1971 because you weren't doing major world transactions in gold anymore. But now nations are starting to hoard it. Why? They're starting to hoard it as a reserve against the dollar. Listen, as a peasant, you want to get off the dollar before France does. Okay. If you wait until France gets off the dollar officially, you're going to be a little late to the party and your life isn't going to change a whole lot. You're only going to make the bread you earn today. But if you can see this coming over the horizon, it's an asymmetric bet. Right? Clearly, the United States, under Scott Bessant, understands there's this slow, gradual dedollarization. How long does it take? Five years, 10 years, 20 years, 30 years? Does it matter? Right? Does it matter? Because the whole way down, what's going to happen to sound money? Even if sound money stays flat, as the dollar drops, the sound money is going to look like it's worth more. Let me give you a prime example of this and just how how aggressive this is. I graduated from call it from call uh high school in 2002. I know I date myself there, guys. I feel old to most of the people I talk to, but to some of the people I hang around with the most, I'm a little young. Youngster. So in 2000, the average household net worth. Now, this is the average, this takes really rich people all the way to really poor people, throws it together. But believe it or not, the average household net worth was $400,000. Today, the average household net worth is $1.35 million. Sounds like a lot. Did you know that the average American is a millionaire, Ron? What? What? That seems impossible because when I grew up, millionaires had it made. And now, like Ron, I'm sitting across from a millionaire. I'm pointing at you. It's not liquid, right? But you own assets that are worth an excess of that. And how do you feel about that? You don't feel like a millionaire. Yeah, don't feel rich. Don't feel like rich. I know a lot of millionaires, a lot of them on paper, right? If you have a million liquid, your life is a little different than someone's got a million wrapped up in land or house, right? But the point is, is that is net worth. I mean, that's the conglomeration of subtract all your liabilities, add up all your assets. In 2000, the average American was worth $400,000. The average American in 2026, 1.35. That's up 3.4% in dollars. Wow, what a success story. America has raised all these people out of poverty. How incredible is that? We make more millionaires than any other nation on earth. That should be a bumper sticker slugging, right? Vote Bush. I make millionaires. However, if we assess this in gold, in 2000, that $400,000 was 1,430 ounces of gold. So let's say I became a millionaire or a $400,000, cashed out, bought gold, and just sat on it. Okay. Fast forward to 2026, that $1.35 million of net worth is only the equivalent of 295 ounces of gold. That's an 80% drop. Americans are 80% poorer in real terms than they were in 2000. But yet on paper denominated in dollars, they look like millionaires. And you wonder why a millionaire is upset about the price of steak and the price of eggs and the price of gas. Because they haven't advanced one iota. The average American, though his net worth looks bigger, his purchasing power has been massively diminished. 80% diminished. I feel that. You're not mad enough, says the end of this little caption here. That is a really big deal. Now, Donald Trump, Scott Bessant, and Co. are making structural changes to things. There's a lot. Clearly, these guys have a wall the size of the one in front of me here, and they mapped all these different things out. One of the things they're doing is they've got kids getting Trump accounts. So these Trump accounts can mature. They've there are they're changing lending and banking regulations around Fannie Mae so that people can pledge assets for down payments so they don't have to liquidate assets in order to make down payments and things like that. So yesterday, CNBC reported this, and this became official.

Crypto-Backed Mortgages And Collateral Future

SPEAKER_02 51:58

Coinbase, as well as another major lender, have offered down payment loans using Bitcoin and other assets as collateral.

SPEAKER_26 52:07

With yields, this is Fannie Mae prepares to accept crypto-backed mortgages. Diana Ulick has the details on what crypto-backed mortgages are. Diana.

SPEAKER_16 52:16

That's right, Tom. It's not the first crypto-backed mortgage, but it is the first to comply with Fannie Mae requirements for purchase. Better Home and Finance, together with Coinbase, are offering a new mortgage that would allow home buyers to use their crypto assets as collateral. It falls under Fannie Mae guidelines so it can be bought and securitized by Fanny like any other conforming mortgage. How does it work? It's a little tricky. The borrower takes out a regular mortgage with Better and then a second loan backed by either Bitcoin or US dollar coin and held in a Coinbase account. The second loan would fund the down payment on the first loan. That way the borrower doesn't have to sell their crypto. Both loans are held by Better, and the crypto assets, once pledged, cannot be traded. Even if the value of the crypto falls, nothing changes on the loans as long as the borrower keeps making the monthly payments.

SPEAKER_15 53:09

We have now finally created the infrastructure rails to enable any tokenized asset in America to be able to be pledged to help someone afford to buy a home. So it starts with Bitcoin, starts with USDC, but going forward, it can be Apple stock or Amazon stock or any publicly traded mutual fund, bond fund, something that you might hold in your IRA. You're going to be able to pledge that to buy a home.

SPEAKER_02 53:36

So there's two sides to this. You got these Trump accounts, and you're it's encouraging Americans to invest in equities, and then they're providing a way for you to then use that investment to leverage against a down payment without selling the investment. So then you get the upside on the investment, you make your payment on the down payment, then you own the real estate. This is good. Sounds like a win-win. This really adds a lot of tools for the people who are getting these loans to not be get foreclosed on. If you can't make your payment, the collateral will cover it. You end up not with the extra debt. Like there's a couple things in here that look nice for team player one, right? There's a couple things that look nice here. They're also making it so that this is going to stabilize real estate markets. It's going to produce less speculation because you're posting collateral. I predict because of this program in 10 or 20 years, you will not have those FHA loan programs with 2% down or no percent down. They're all going to require some collateral. The presumption that everybody's got a Trump account, you've got to have something in there you can pledge. Do you see what I'm saying? So this is really, and of course, it's all going to be blockchained. It's all going to be on these crypto rails. This is the infrastructure being set up. This is day one. What does it look like on day one when all home loans are going to require collateralized down payments or you know, collateral? This is what day one looks like. What's 10 years going to look like? You're not going to find these fiat loans that don't have something hard behind them. This is this is the United States domestic market de-dollarizing two hard assets. You want dollars? Pledge something hard. Pledge something real, including Bitcoin. On day one, Bitcoin is included in this.

SPEAKER_16 55:20

Now the downside is you are paying on two loans, which makes it a little bit more expensive. But Gart says since you're not selling the crypto, you're still benefiting from its appreciation, if it does appreciate, which offsets the higher cost. Other companies like Milo make crypto back mortgages, but without the fanny backing. So their interest rate would be higher. If you want more details on this, I know it's complicated. It's all up on cmc.com.

SPEAKER_02 55:45

It's really not that complicated. It's the way banking was done prior to the creation of the Federal Reserve. This also allows families to pool money, by the way, and then put those assets on reserve. You know, a kid can come to their parent and say, hey, will you pledge XYZ your Bitcoin or whatever for the down payment? And, you know, it this is powerful to give the normal peasant some financial tools to acquire assets and keep assets without liquidating them to transfer into other assets. Powerful tools. The downside is you're giving them custody of those assets, right? And the dollar is just going to devalue like crazy. Well, those loans actually might not be too bad to pay off. I don't know. But when Scott Bessant says there's going to be a demand for dollars as people pay off debt, and then there's going to be a drop in supply, you're going to there, you're going to want some hard collateral behind your stuff. It's there. Like it's kind of, I look at this as kind of in black and white. It's undisputable. Like this is happening. We're literally trying to soften our landing right now. And whether your individual landing is soft or not is depends on how quickly you do get on the magic carpet. Right? Bitcoin is the magic carpet. Like, jump on, quit, get off zero, you know, expose yourself to some of the upside.

Ballots Versus Voters And Election Trust

SPEAKER_02 57:01

I have said this a couple different times, but there's one political party that is hyper-focused on collecting ballots. And there's another political party that is hyper-focused on winning over the hearts and minds of voters. I sit in the meeting every month with the people trying to win over the hearts and minds of voters. They're trying to figure out why it is that people are buying into some of these crazy leftist things? What is there really anybody reasonable that wants a bunch of boys and girls' locker rooms? Is there anybody reasonable who actually wants to pay more for taxes? Like, do you really think that's the solution to the potholes in your neighborhood? You know, there's like these things where it's just like, do you really believe that? Now I understand. Some people just don't wake up, vote blue no matter who, and until the long arm of regulation or government oppression touches you, you kind of stay in your funk. I get that. But I've tuned into the Zoom meetings on the Democrat Party, and I'm fairly good at catching these little nuanced language things, these micro words people use. And if you listen to the Democrats in their little Zoom meeting, the same meeting I attend in person for the Republican Party, they don't talk about voters, they talk about ballots. Straight up. How do we get the ballots from the voters? How do we collect the ballots? Do we need to do ballot harvesting? Do we need to do it's ballots, ballots, ballots, ballots? How do we get the ballots? That's the focus. Now they're not openly talking about cheating. They're not openly talking about registering people so they can collect ballots at a P.O. box and, you know, fill them out. They're not talking about that. But their emphasis is on ballots. You go listen to the Republicans, and their emphasis is on voters and converting people to conservatism and, you know, get out the vote. They're encouraging people to get out the vote instead of pick up their ballot. There's a difference there. Okay. And so one political party is hyper focused on making sure there's enough ballots in circulation, right? And another party is more concerned about real voters using individual ballots. This debate between Scott Jennings and this little counterpart here on CNN yesterday was very revealing to just this very thing.

SPEAKER_03 59:04

Well, what what what people? You say they they don't want people to vote.

SPEAKER_02 59:08

What people Americans. They want limit voting evidence. So there's an inversion here. So when Scott Jennings says you don't want people to vote, the Democrats know that that means ballots, ballots, right? You're you're trying to limit the ballots. And of course, you connect ballots to people, but you're limiting the ballots. The Republicans don't want to limit ballots. That's not the concern. They just want to make sure citizens vote. Quantity versus quality. Yeah. So hear the sophistry here.

SPEAKER_13 59:36

They want conservatives voting. You heard the president of the United States.

SPEAKER_03 59:40

The president does better in higher turnout environments. You know that, right?

SPEAKER_13 59:42

The president of the United States actually said that they weren't going to win the midterm elections and therefore they need to do something about it. He has said that. This is exactly why he wants to pass the SAVE Act. I mean, we all know that whether it is voter ID laws, whether it is the limiting vote by mail, whether it is redistricting, every tactic that they have used has been to limit voting so that they can ultimately win in the midterm elections.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:08

Is it to limit voting or is it to limit ballots that aren't attached to real people?

SPEAKER_03 1:00:14

So A, Trump and his coalition do better in higher turnout environments.

SPEAKER_02 1:00:18

B, not Trump does better when people vote. Yeah, but we can't limit the number of ballots. Do you see the dividing line? They're almost talking past each other here because they're using the same words with completely different meanings.

SPEAKER_13 1:00:34

At this election, people there are people crossing over an independent. Not when he's on the ballot that are going.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:43

The point is if turnout were higher, his party would do better. She's arguing erroneously, without any evidence in a reckless fashion on this network that somehow the president of the United States is trying to stop people from voting.

SPEAKER_13 1:00:57

He is he's trying to limit voting. He's absolutely trying to limit voting. Have you asked the president this directly? Because he is trying to limit voting.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:05

The only people they care about are people who shouldn't be on the voter rolls, like illegal aliens or people who aren't eligible.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:12

So she's saying he's trying to limit voting, as in he's trying to limit ballots. There's zero concern on her end who the people are behind these voting, these ballots. There's zero concern. He's trying to limit voting, votes, ballots. And Scott Jennings is like, no, he's trying to restrict it to real people. Do you get it? They're hardly, they're almost talking past each other because Scott Jennings can't imagine that the Democrats just want ballots. So he's gonna pin it on people. Oh, you want illegal aliens to vote. Listen, the Democrats will concede the point. They do every day. There's already laws that say illegal aliens can't vote. Of course, we don't want them voting, but we do want their ballots. We'll vote for them.

SPEAKER_03 1:01:57

Clearly. Well to vote. And the problem with the mail-in ballots, which are inherently less secure than voting in person, is that in a lot of states, they don't clean up their voting rolls and they send out millions of mail-in ballots to people, whether they ask for them or not. And many addresses get multiple ballots, and there's a lot of live ballots out on the street. These states refuse to clean up their voter rolls. That's absolutely true. And you have to ask yourself, why would you want fraudulent registrations on your voter rolls? No one wants fraudulent.

SPEAKER_13 1:02:28

The reality is that you have a president of the United States who continues to go back to the 2020 election and say that the 2020 election was stolen. And so now we're all of a sudden here to believe that what Donald Trump wants is a secure election so that so many people can vote when he won't even take the results of the 2020 election, Scott. He wants the president of the United States, the president of the United States which is not municipal voting.

SPEAKER_03 1:02:52

He wants people who are legal, eligible American citizens to vote and not have their votes diluted by people who are ineligible or illegal. What was the number?

SPEAKER_02 1:02:59

21 million extra votes in 2020. Where'd those people come from?

SPEAKER_06 1:03:08

Accept it.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:09

Well, they just they just pulled their ballots out of their drawer they haven't used for decades, right? It's like, where'd these people show up? They didn't. The ballots did. The ballots did. That's why they want to prevent anything that would prevent the number of ballots. You know, they'll concede the point that illegals can't vote. They'll concede all these points, but at the end of the day, don't limit voting. Don't limit ballots, right? And the Republicans are like, how is this? I don't understand why these people don't want to just vote in person with ID. Like it's not that complicated. Now the low-level party members all think this is like, duh. You know, 75%, even in the Democrat Party, is like, yeah, of course we need to have citizen ID. A lot of blue dog democrats that have watched their interests be sold down the road.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:48

Yes, personally, I think we should go back to all in-person voting.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:51

Of course. Of course. Todd Blanche addressed this. I mean, he's he's absolutely assuring the American people they're on top of these elections.

SPEAKER_09 1:03:59

Yes, just like we've been ready. And this is what President Trump, this is what the American people expect President Trump and expect this country to be doing when it comes to election integrity and making sure that we are extraordinarily vigilant about who is voting and that they're eligible to vote. It is surprising and disappointing that instead of working with us, instead of working to make sure that we have free and fair elections, you have governors like the governor in California, you have these advocacy groups that are really just left-wing liberal groups that are immediately saying, oh no, we're gonna we're gonna sue again, notwithstanding the fact the Supreme Court has already issued its stay. And and yes, we will keep on fighting that. We want to make sure that that that every vote in this country is counted appropriately, and and that's what President Trump has has told the American people is gonna do, and we're certainly gonna back him up with that from the Department of Justice. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:48

Okay, let's do it. Maybe you can get your partners in the private sector to help you out with the voter security, which they need. So, in the same day that we found out China hacked everything, and the same day we find out that China was supporting the you know encrypted communication for Antifa and Hamas and Hezbollah, all together, all like they're big friends, you know, meeting up for the Christmas party. There was also this letter from the Homeland Security that was sent out to from the White House Transparency Task Force. This was August 24th, so a couple days ago. Recently, I'm just gonna read the highlighted portions from Catherine Heridge. Recently declassified records, including a 2024 ODI annual threat assessment, concluded that China remains the most active and persistent cyber threat to U.S. government, private sector, and critical infrastructure networks. Beijing's cyber espionage pursues, pursuits its industry export of surveillance, information, and communication technologies, increasing aggressive threats of aggressive cyber operations against the United States and the suppression of the free flow of information in cyberspace. Censorship, censorship is part of their strategy. Voting machines with components. Components manufactured by foreign adversaries. This is from the Department of Homeland Security, with manufactured by foreign adversaries, introduce a significant security risk. The vulnerabilities mean that malicious actors could potentially compromise the election infrastructure at any stage of the supply chain, even before the machines are successfully deployed. If a component is tampered with during manufacturing, it could serve as a point of entry for hackers, allowing for the possibility of synchronized attacks across multiple machines and jurisdictions. And unfortunately, because these things do network, they are not air gapped, you could compromise a single machine on the network and then through that machine access the whole network. The ways that they can hack this are Legion, right? When you hear about 11-year-olds that are given like two weeks of tech training that then successfully hack of an American voting machine. Hello, retards. Here's your sign. Goes on to continue. Representatives from each of those vendors have acknowledged that their voting machines have parts made in China. There's no debate about it now. Every vendor that makes the machines have acknowledged that that's the case, which means the supply chain is not secure. To receive full grant awards, so this is the consequence, states must demonstrate that they have conducted random post-manual counts of paper ballots to ensure that any errors or manipulation is detected. Okay, so they're saying if you want any money for your elections, any money, you have to do a post-election paper count. But yet they're blocking Mike Lindell from doing that up there. They blocked him in Arizona, right? Of course, if you could examine the ballots, you could figure out if something was funky. The problem is one of the political parties is going to guard their ballots with their lives because they know if you go to count those ballots, some of them showed up in the mail unfolded. Some of them showed up in the mail on cheaper printer paper. Some of them, like up in Wisconsin, got printed in the back room. 68,000 of them. So if you examine those ballots, even if the tabulation matches the machines, you have a problem with the ballots.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:12

Have you heard of the problems that Catherine Herod is dealing with? Um, you know, they want her to reveal her sources, and she's been like, No, we're not revealing sources, and they're like, Okay, well, we're gonna fine you, and it's like a thousand dollars a day. Yeah, that's contribution. She's been paying it for like five years now. Good for her.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:31

Good for her. Yeah, good for her. You know, she's on to something when they're going that far, just Washington State State Secretary of State. He's committed to defending your vote, Ron.

SPEAKER_11 1:08:43

We're gonna keep fighting this to the very end. And we feel confident about this lawsuit. Hi, everyone. It's Secretary of State Steve Hobbs. I know there's a lot of comments and concerns about the latest U.S. Supreme Court ruling. Great thing is the court did not make a ruling on the constitutionality of the case. They talked about the timing of the case. And now that the USPS, the United States Postal Service rule is out now, we can legally file against them. That's what we're doing now. Nothing has changed there. Don't want anyone to panic. We do have plans in case that fails. But the Attorney General's office and myself, we're gonna keep fighting this to the very end. And we feel confident about this particular uh lawsuit. If you have any questions, don't keep them to yourself. Just call or email my office. We'll be happy to answer them. Take care. We're gonna keep Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:31

Uh so basically, you're fighting to keep the voter rolls intact and not get scrubbed against DHS's illegal, uh, illegal person database. That's what they're fighting. They want to protect the ballots, not the voters. They are not protecting the voters. They're not saying, hey, we voluntarily scrub our list and and we just want to protect privacy, but we're scrubbing. They're not scrubbing the list at all, right? They're not doing that at all. We already know from the four states that was released in that report earlier, just four states alone had over a quarter million illegal aliens registered to vote.

SPEAKER_17 1:10:06

A couple of states, both um Arizona, in a case that's pending before the United States Supreme Court, and now Ohio, which tried to improve their own election integrity measures by requiring what we call in the election world depoc, documented proof of citizenship when you register to vote. Makes sense, right? Most Americans think that's required, but actually it isn't. You just check a box, and then that's how these thousands of people get on the voter rolls in different jurisdictions. We'd like to help states take them off, but guess what? 30 states, including some red states and mainly blue states, are blocking our efforts to do that. And so, to what end? I mean, do people want non-citizens voting in our federal elections? That's the natural result of not allowing checks and balances here. So, Ohio, in that case, the civil rights division went in and did a statement of interest in that case. That federal judge rejected it. Uh, now um the Ohio Secretary of State is going to appeal that. And, you know, we're going to take a look at supporting them on that because the National Voter Registration Act isn't just a blank check for anybody to get registered to vote, whether they're here legally or illegally. And we we don't have safeguards on who's entitled to vote. We don't have a um clean election that people can trust.

SPEAKER_02 1:11:19

A couple of states her boss, Todd Blanche, is on it. DHS is sort of kind of on it, and uh, she definitely wishes she could be more on top of this. What length would a politician go to cover up their crimes or the crimes of their benefactors? What length would they go? I mean, you watch the movies and it's punch punch, right? I mean, it's a you know, hands-laid, debt paid kind of thing going on. Well, in here in Washington, locally in North Kitsap County, my representative down to Olympia, her name is Tara Simmons. So Tara Simmons hasn't always been Tara Simmons, kind of like Barack Obama was not always Barack Obama. She started out as Tara Algwin, then she became Tara Lewis, and then she became Tara Simmons. Now, Tara Simmons just got fined $15,000 from the ethics board for a whole bunch of campaign and you know insider stuff. Very small fine for what she was doing. Okay. Very small fine. This is a classic, hey, you got caught red-handed, so we're gonna have to slap slap you on the wrist. But we don't want to destroy your political career because you're kind of an apparatchek, right? You kind of do what needs to be done. And I'm going to pose a I'm going to propose to you that Tara Simmons is capable of things that we don't give her credit for. When you look into her history, this is credit to uh Mike Adams, local, a local kind of independent journalist here. He goes, Tara Simmons is currently fighting for her political career in a re-election campaign that has forced her to spend over $100,000 in her primary. But before she was Tara Simmons, she was once Tara Lewis, the subject of a Seattle Weekly article attached, very interesting and very sad. So here's what happened. This is her, you know, name changes right here, but this is an article. One of Bennett's rejected clients, Tara Lewis, this is Tara Simmons, who sought a pardon on an assault conviction. I was shocked, Lewis says, of Greg Wire's decision. The 29-year-old Kitzep County resident completed an eight-month sentence five years ago, but without a pardon, she's prohibited by state regulations from using her registered nursing degree to work as a nurse in a hospital. She currently has a well-paying job as an insurance company consultant, advising members with health problems. Yet she says, I feel like I'm wasting my skills and my talents just helping people on the phone all day. It's too bad. Lewis has an earnest Midwestern look about her, with blue eyes and long curly hair, pulled back from her face. You'd never guess the twist and turn life has taken. Which she recalls on her lunch hour at a food court near her job in downtown Seattle. According to both her account and the voluminous case files she presented to the clemency board, she was molested by a stepbrother when she was 11. That's very tragic. She ran away a couple years later at 14, had a child going on welfare. She pulled herself together to a remarkable degree, eventually graduating cum lade from Pacific Lutherans University's nursing program. Congratulations. You really picked yourself up by the boost steps after that situation and running away, and you got yourself a college degree. That's wonderful. But there's an old saying, and I hate to say it, you can take the person out of the trailer park, but you can't take the trailer park out of the person. Her love life was a mess, however, and didn't get any better when she met a sailor stationed at Bremerton. Well, there's your first mistake. After some casual dating, the two repaired one night to Lewis's house. She says the sailor then raped her, triggering trauma lingering from her childhood abuse. Kitts Eff County prosecutors believed the sailor, however, so they sided with him. When he adamantly denied the charge, as officials were looking into another criminal matter, Lewis's revenge. Five days after their sexual encounter, Lewis asked the sailor to come to her house, whereupon a wayward kid she had taken in and a couple of his buddies stripped the fellow down to his underwear, spat on him, and beat him with bats and a beer bottle, leaving him with gashed head and broken hands. This Kitsap County is your politician. This is your politician that is not unwilling to use the brown shirts that are available to her to meet out her form of justice. Not an equal under the law, not a provide the evidence and let the facts go where they may. No, no, no, no, no. Hands laid, the debt is now paid. Right? Prosecutors charged Lewis, who didn't participate in the beating, with conspiracy to commit second-degree assault. The odd thing, and the linchpin of her argument to the clemency board, is that she ended up pleading guilty not to conspiracy, but to the second-degree assault, which is a higher charge. I never said she was smart. Okay. Kulati as it may be, she fled to a worse charge than she could have. Okay. Even if she'd gone through the conviction, she would have had a smaller charge. This is politics, ladies and gentlemen. She is a useful apparatus, and she's proven through her history that she'll even gather up some buddies to use bats and beer bottles to prove her point. She's proven recently that she'll steal money and commit financial fraud. But yet the Democrat Party is still going to put her up. And how are they going to elect her? Because I promise you, in North Kittsap County, it is not 50.1% of people that will vote for her. It's that seven, eight, nine, 10% of illegal ballots that get harvested mixed in with real ballots, they're going to put her over the top because she is capable of this. That's why. Right? Now, people can grow up, people can move on, they can make mistakes. But when you hear someone like Greg Bovino, this is a local example in my backyard, our backyard. This is Greg Bovino, who was the former Border Patrol chief for years and years and years, who was recently let go, right, because of some of the optics and whatever. And he was on Tucker Carlson's show, and he says something that really we have to comprehend, and it needs to send chills down our spine a little bit. Politics is a dirty, dirty game. And though we have the best system of all of them, there are still those individuals that infiltrate, that get infiltrated, that get blackmailed, and will do things. Greg Bovino thinks that this administration wants him dead.

SPEAKER_10 1:17:37

Tucker, this is the greatest issue and greatest threat that our nation has faced since its founding. The administration didn't want you to have security. Why? I I think to silence me. Because you like get you killed? Because that's what it sounds like. Do I think they want me dead at this point? Yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:17:55

Yeah. They will do whatever they have to do to maintain power. Brovino says there's a the government believes there's a hundred million illegal aliens living in the United States. And so when we talk about 20 million, 40 million, I mean these are half measures. A hundred million. 100 million. 100 million. Not 40 million, not 25 million. You know, we say these numbers on who came across the border in the last four years, but this has been happening for decades. 100 million people. 25% plus? Yep. Why do you think the Democrats don't want to proof citizenship? Wow. There could be it could be their entire voting base, Ron. Their entire voting base. Wow. If we have 350 million people in this country and 100 million of them are illegal, presume they came here not as children. That's a lot of real people running around.

SPEAKER_06 1:18:53

Well, we only had uh, you know, 160 million voters, you know, in 2020. I mean, if you add in the extra 20 million.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:04

If you got 100 million ballots floating around, yeah, right. I mean, how many ballots were printed? This is the thing. We found this out in like states like Wisconsin. You guys had a million extra ballots than you have adults. Like, this doesn't make sense. Your your your voter rolls are wrong.

SPEAKER_15 1:19:18

Well, you're allowing me, it's privacy.

SPEAKER_06 1:19:21

Well, it doesn't make sense unless you assume some weird facts.

SPEAKER_02 1:19:26

Exactly. Matt Van Swall tweeted this out, and Trump reposted it on his Truth Social. I don't think the GOP fully grasps how badly they are effing up right now. I'm talking with people who normally have zero interest in politics who are legitimately pissed off. They are not seeing the major reform they thought would happen and are really mad about it. No true accountability. Phil Kennedy, one of the former FBI agent whistleblowers, has been posting all these things that Trump posted. You know, I want you to investigate and arrest all the autopin people. Dot, dot, dot. We got to arrest these people. Dot, dot, dot. Like no action, like no accountability, no true mass deportations, no meaningful decrease in the deficit, lots of very long vacations and no work by the Senate, no bills being passed that reduce the government's involvement in their lives. I'm very worried the GOP is sleepwalking toward a midterm reckoning they don't see coming. Of course, they're trying to win the hearts and minds of the voters. They're just forgetting to secure the ballots. People are pissed off they voted for Trump into office, and then the GOP continues to slow walk every reform people want. Where are all the doge cuts that we were promised? Where is the Save Act? Why haven't we defunded the Taliban yet? Why are bills passing the House and then disappear into the Senate? Why are the GOP still funding left-wing NGOs that target and hate MAGA Republicans? Why are members of the GOP pushing for mass amnesty instead of mass deportations? People are waking up and they aren't happy about it. People believed they were voting for the Trump agenda, but instead many feel like they are getting the same old Washington. If Republicans in Congress don't start producing tangible results, they're going to discover the frustration has consequences. And by the time they realize how deep-seated that frustration is, it may already be too late. Because, Ron, the buses will be free. Period. They will be free. How we achieve those ends is up for debate, but they will be free. And if the GOP doesn't make them free because of affordability and all the different ways they could do it through conservative private business things, you're gonna have a problem. You're gonna have a problem. Let Amazon sponsor the bus system in New York. Let them have driving billboards. Let them show goodwill by offering free buses. Why does the government have to be involved at all? There are lots of businesses that would that would love to have a charitable loss leader of public transport or something. Like, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_06 1:21:43

Yeah, I just gave a guy a ride the other day. He was waiting for the bus, and I and I picked him up. I knew who he was, so I picked him up and I gave him a ride, and I asked him, you know, how much the bus fare was, because I thought it would be free. And he said, Oh, it's two bucks. It's like, two bucks. Really? That's what the bus fare still is around here. You know, we pay for our bus system here. I know. It's so absurd. It should be free for everybody.

SPEAKER_02 1:22:08

It should be free. Why charge the nominal amount, right? Yeah. Yeah, exactly. All right.

Gaza Breakthrough And Ukraine Endgame

SPEAKER_02 1:22:13

Other huge news though. Because remember, Donald Trump is fighting on all sides, and there is some massive progress. Big old progress over with Hamas.

SPEAKER_00 1:22:22

In May, I presented to the Council the 15 articles of the roadmap itself. And on the 30th of July, Hamas and the Palestinian factions accepted the roadmap for completing the implementation of the comprehensive plan for Gaza. President Trump has called it a breakthrough. Indeed, it is a historic breakthrough. For the first time, Hamas and the armed factions in Gaza have agreed to hand over their weapons and to transfer full governing authority, civilian and security to a transitional administration recognized by the United Nations. We now have the opportunity to dramatically improve life in a sustainable way for Palestinians in Gaza, to provide durable security for Israelis, and to move from a conflict that has destabilized the region to an environment that offers peace, prosperity, and economic opportunity for the entire Middle East.

SPEAKER_02 1:23:15

Oh, it's convenient that they found out that the encrypted technology that Antifa in Portland was using was the same as Hamas. And suddenly Hamas is like, we'll give up our arms. There are no conspiracies, but there are no coincidences. This stuff is just there. When you see it, you see it. There's a connection. Trump went after these networks, these far left wing, red-green alliance networks, starts turning over the rocks, the encrypted stuff, the hacking. All of a sudden, Hamas is at the table. They lost their ability to communicate and operate in silence outside of the spying eye, right? That clearly, this is what's going on. Another huge piece of progress has happened over in Crain. We are rapidly approaching a resolution there.

SPEAKER_01 1:24:03

That Ukraine, in their last wake on infrastructure war, when the Russians says, well, as our president mentioned, they open a Pandora box. So there is a winter season coming. There is no interceptors available to defend Ukrainian capital. And only by the special arrangement, Russia allowed that Ukrainians have their Independence Day celebration, 24th of August, without Russian attacks. So military-wise, this conflict is already lost. Ukraine has only two choices. Either they go and sign a proper peace deal, where they still has a certain compromises, uh, where Russia would accept, or they will sign full surrender, if not in the next month, well before the new year. There is no economy left, there is no energy left, Russia will keep blockading the Black Sea ports, and let West waste their last uh you know attempts to squeeze the money. They're promising Ukraine too much. They have to go and borrow from all over the world for this money to buy the weaponry sent to Ukraine and neglect their own social care, uh, health care, education. This is a recipe for the disaster for the European future. I hope that there is some wise heads in the European Union who will try to find some honorable exit from this conflict pretty soon. We know now from all the documents discovered when we occupied several cities in Ukraine that the plan of Ukrainians was to attack Russia on the 8th of March 2022. So Russia, just two weeks before that, you know, start our operation to prevent that attack on us. The President Putin said clearly, we will never allow repetition of the June 22 of 1941 when we've been attacked, surprisingly, by the German troops. And this is our position. So good, let the Secret Services or uh intelligence talk, let them discuss whatever proposal they come. But believe me, America's still holding the keys to this copy that can turn off the flow of intelligence and switch off the hourly communication. And if this too done, Ukrainian army are not able to fight even three hours, you know, to last after they would remove this support.

SPEAKER_02 1:26:53

So it sounds like we're basically at the last fumes of the Ukrainian regime, which explains why Pence was like, stop Korea, send your weapons, send your weapons. Trump's cut off all arms. He's making the Europeans buy it, and then if they want to give it to Ukraine, that's fine. How do you think the Europeans have loved that arrangement the last year?

SPEAKER_06 1:27:17

No.

SPEAKER_02 1:27:17

No. You mean we have to pay for it? Hold on. Everything is going towards de-dollarization, right? It's an asymmetrical bet. It's going to affect our lives. Our government is what the government is. Hopefully they can clean up the accountability. The best thing we can do is just not be involved with these people as much as possible. Be as sovereign as much as possible. So, yeah, guys, I've got a couple other clips that I that I could play, and I'm just going to summarize them for you. So, Scott uh uh is I think it's Scott Purnell. Uh Sean Purnell, excuse me. Sean Purnell, he was a senatorial candidate in Pennsylvania. So he now is one of the people at the Pentagon. So they've been looking into that Gabby, Abby, Abby Gate bombing. That happened during the Afghanistan pollout. Turns out that the United States military was deeply involved in a cover-up over all of that. They found documents literally hidden away in safes, never to be found, that expose them. He didn't say exactly what they exposed, but he essentially said, We're sorry, right? It's a pretty big deal. He says it became clear someone tried to hide them, is what was going on. Same thing was going on over at the FBI. It's almost like, you know, birds of a feather flock together, kind of thing. I mean, it's just the nature of what they've got going on. The other thing, too, that uh I was gonna play was a clip from Glenn Beck talking about Mark Carney. And I think this maybe for our audience, this is kind of self-evident. But Mark Carney is a central banker from Europe, right? And they put him when Trudeau left, they it's literally like, hey, you gotta move back to Canada and run the show. So Mark Carney is the front, the foremost representative of the globalist, which are all kind of incorporated under the London, and there's that huge ancient banking cabal, right? Which it just is. Like it's not a it's not a conspiracy thing. It's there's a banking cabal. It's called the British banking system, the imperial banking system. And we've been using it for the last since Bretton Woods, really. And the American system that was the Gilded Age was the opposite of that. So while Britain was kind of lagging, we had the Gilded Age, and we created a bunch of technology, and Britain kind of bought it and incorporated it, but they were really late to the game.

SPEAKER_06 1:29:24

In my opinion, Mark Carney is like if you're like one of these people who's like a super conspiracy guy and trying to figure out who's running the world, Mark Carney's probably like one or two levels away.

SPEAKER_02 1:29:35

Yeah, he's up there. So here's the deal uh Canada imports to the United States 75% of its gross domestic product. So these 50% tariffs, I mean, this is wipe a country off a map economically type stuff. With doing nothing other than just charging a tax at the border. Oh, it'll get passed on to the American consumer. You ain't that big, Canada. We got other options, right? I don't gotta buy your two by fours, I don't have to buy your milk, I don't have to buy your stupid cheese. So we got options. They don't. So the fact that Mark Carney is engaging in this trade war is basically like a last ditch effort to try to what's really happening is the globalists, in conjunction with the Democrats, in conjunction with the Chinese, they want to neuter Donald Trump at the midterms. They're doing everything they can, they're pulling out every stop they can, they're pulling a Terra Simmons on people in the back room to make sure that we don't get the Save America Act. They're going to try to take the House or the Senate or both in the midterms and try to impeach Donald Trump to prevent the continuation of this, you know, shoring up against dedollarization. The globalists would love to see the world de dollarized over the next decade or two, and then we end up looking like just another France, just another whatever nation, right? That has no real influence. Donald Trump doesn't see it that way. He's like, no, not only are we the world's leading economic country, but we also should lead the world in export of ideas. The idea of liberty, freedom, right? The exporting of that is what other countries, who though they might align with us economically, they reject it because we're the only country on the planet that has the first amendment. We're the only country on the planet that has the second amendment. They were the only country on the planet that will not regulate commercial inactivity. We're the only ones. They reject that because they are all heirs of kings and queens, right? They are not governments of the people by the people. They became governments of the people by the people after the world saw the example of 1776. The problem is they didn't have the brain trust of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, John Adams, and all these people who not only understood human nature but understood power itself and diffused it. These other countries set up shadows, like Brazil has a constitution that mirrors ours, except for the Bill of Rights. And that is what keeps them behind. Because you can't unleash the individual spirit. So Donald Trump understands that. That is why the American soldier signs up to fight, not because he wants to protect the dollar bill. He gets signed up for that reason. That is the moral imperative. The manipulation that comes downstream when people who have the virtue to defend liberty and fight for other people's right to have a different opinion, when that gets weaponized to defend the dollar, that's where you have things like 20-year wars in Afghanistan and 20-year wars in Iraq, and you know, these long-standing conflicts that never truly get resolved because isn't war profitable? So the fact that Donald Trump is ending things like the occupation and the war and the continuous conflict in ho in Gaza, he's bringing the Russian Ukraine war to a settlement. He's putting China up against the wall. I doubt China wants to invade Taiwan right now when they're just trying to figure out where they're gonna get their next shipment of oil. Right? But there's the inevitable. The world's de-dollarizing. Too much has been done. It's just a matter of time. Governments move slowly. So you're gonna see a rise in gold, you're gonna see a rise in sound assets, and the ultimate asymmetrical bet is Bitcoin. Okay, that summarizes the show. We will talk to you guys again tomorrow.

Closing Bits And Monty Python

SPEAKER_24 1:33:57

What the mic lift them come up to over there? I'm 37. I'm 37, I'm not old. Well, I can't just call you ma'am. You could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? I did say something about the old woman, but from behind, you look what objective is they automatically treat me like an inferior. Well, I am king. Oh king infinites. How'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers, by hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress, lovely full fancy. How'd you do? How do you do, good lady? I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the Britons. Who are the Britons? We all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. No, we had a king. We thought we're an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes. Oh, there you go. That's what it's all about. Only people will these good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're 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 civil majority in the case of purely internal affairs. Be quacked. But by a two-thirds majority in the case of meeting quack. I order you to be quacked. I'm your king. You don't vote for king? The lady of the lake. Her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water. Signifying by divine providence that I arth was to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds, distributing swords, is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some pharmacological aquatic ceremony. You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart for a saw that is. I mean, if I went around saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bitch loved the symmetry at me, they put me away. Shut up, shut up. Now we think the ballot is in the system.