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- welcome back to the Aaron Day Show. Just let me get this configured properly here. Welcome back to the Aaron Day Show. This is season three, episode eight. It's been a while since I've been back with the full production setup. As you probably know, or may not know, if this is your first time listening, I've been traveling everywhere. Last three weeks and was in Mexico and Puerto Vallarta during the exciting cartel situation. And so I was doing podcasts from Mexico. I did one last week with Ray Youssef. One week I actually hosted a couple of episodes of the Shannon Joy Show. But we haven't done a kind of a typical format podcast in about a month. And so it was actually somewhat complicated for me to relearn the setup and how all of this stuff works. It was actually kind of a frustrating day putting this stuff together. But in any event, very glad to be back. Very important topic tonight, which is... The title of this is Your Money, Your Data, Your Blood All Stolen. But in essence, I'm going to lay out why I'm running for U.S. Senate from New Hampshire tonight. And this has been building. Certainly, I announced that I was exploring it. But now it's time to actually move forward. And I think it's been the culmination of a few things brewing over the last few weeks, topped off by this latest announcement. beginning of what i think is probably world war iii but also the continued war on crypto and as i mentioned i hope you caught the episode last week we didn't have time to do graphics or anything or i didn't have my setup for this but we were the first interview for ray yusef and race ray yusef was actually the sixth ever guest the air and day show and i have uh i've spent time with ray uh we've been at a couple of events together moneratopia so on and so forth and a big fan of the work that he has been doing at no one's which has been basically creating a peer-to-peer marketplace for the global south and essentially what happened was we were both at moneratopia and in fact he was supposed to speak Right before me, the schedule shifted. So he ended up being the first speaker of the day. And what I was told and what he mentioned is he finished up his speech and then five feds approached him with badges and they basically deported him. from Mexico. He actually got deported from Mexico, which is a new one, to the United States and was indicted. And now he's facing very much the same charges that Ian Freeman is in prison for. So a lot of this, you know, They'll call it money laundering, but essentially operating without a money transmitter license. And so therefore, as a result of that, he's guilty of any of the crimes that anybody who used his exchange called Paxful, which was a U.S.-based exchange. He's on the hook for all of that. So we've unfortunately had to add yet another prisoner. to the uh crypto pow list so we'll talk about that tonight this is if you've followed the show this has been a big theme it wasn't supposed to be a big theme i i started out warning people about cbdc's warning people about biden's executive order and then this is actually probably turned it half the time into a show where we're promoting uh awareness around people who were recently incarcerated recently arrested bringing on lawyers bringing on various people to promote these cases, which is a direct extension of the work that I've been doing and what I was hoping never wouldn't happen. And I was hoping that, you know, potentially be able to warn people, but warning people wouldn't really do anything about it because kind of the fix was in anyway. But Trump won and the war on crypto was supposed to be over. And as you will see tonight, it's actually rapidly expanded. It's much worse now than it was under Biden. The only thing is a lot of people don't know what's going on and they're believing the propaganda and actually reading any of the bills. So we'll get into all of that soon. The episodes before that, we did one on and this has been very popular, you know, the whole Epstein involvement with the hijacking of Bitcoin. And I want to appreciate everyone who has. Reached out to other podcasts and other venues where you thought this would be a good story. I can't... I'm doing podcasts, you know, literally half the day at this point. I've been on with James Corbett. Again, the Shannon Joy Show a couple of times. I've done just a long list of podcasts with more along the way. I'm going to be doing an interview tomorrow with Brett Weinstein. I have Alex Newman coming up next week. And so... The podcasts keep getting bigger. I know the interview I did with Corbett had two hundred thousand views just my reposting it on my on my channel. That's not including all of James's channels. And so this is actually been huge. And, you know, I've been talking about this for three and a half years, Epstein's involvement. With CBDCs and then, you know, I assumed his involvement, you know, with the Bitcoin Foundation and everything else. But essentially the Epstein files are the gift that keep on giving because they just prove that. Beyond a shadow of a doubt, not only his involvement with Bitcoin, but the more that we're digging into this, you know, other crypto projects, even going all the way back to two thousand and nine, their emails where he's talking about meeting with the PayPal guys to work on a new currency that is not PayPal. So, you know, who knows what all of that is about and where that led. But but he had his fingers in all of the pies and, you know, seemed to have a Larry Summers referred to him as the money guy. So this story keeps getting out there and largely based on my Brownstone article. So a lot of the travel that I've been doing, I've been giving talks on this. So I was at Mineratopia where Ray was essentially arrested. And I gave my talk. And the basic basis of the talk is essentially the creature from Epstein's Island. And in fact, I'm very seriously considering... writing a book with that title based on uh all the research that that i've done and that others have done uh but putting that all together and and to me it's kind of you know the idea would be a hybrid between the creature from jackal island and you know the big short because you know some of the articles that i write are very detailed and they go into some of the technical or legal aspects of legislation or whatever is going on or technocracy. But I think that when you actually look at the characters that are involved in the narrative and the story about what happened, and it's not just with Bitcoin, it is the whole intersection of what happened to bitcoin and then the emergence of stable coins and then cbdc projects and then now how that fast forward moves into what we're dealing with today with the genius act and the clarity act and i think that you know there's a way to tell that story that's really compelling it's kind of like the big And, you know, in that movie, they they use some interesting techniques and ways to describe some of the technical things that are going on in a way that was more easily accessible and entertaining. And I think this is an important story that would be effectively told in that way. And these are very. I'd call them colorful, but I don't want to be too complimentary of them. I don't know what the right adjective would be for Jeffrey Epstein and Brock Pierce and Howard Lutnick. But I think... this whole situation can be explained in a way that people will understand and when they do understand they will come to appreciate the gravity of of the situation that we're dealing with right now with digital programmable currencies and digital programmable assets and so so that was essentially my my talk at mineratopia and then we had anarchopoco which was a great event uh it i loved porto viarte it was very Beautiful resort, so on and so forth. It was great until the last day with the situation with the cartel explosions and everything else. I think I might have mentioned this last week, but I'll just give the quick summary view of it is we woke up. In the morning, we were heading to breakfast, and there were these three plumes of smoke outside. And we went to ask the maids and the people that worked at the hotel what was going on, and literally no one would answer us. They didn't just say they didn't know. They were kind of like ignoring us in a way, not even responding at all, almost as if they'd been given a directive that says, hey, don't tell people what's going on. We don't want them to panic or whatever. And I looked at it and I'm like, well, it looks like maybe a building is on fire. It never occurred to me that, you know, it could be retaliation due to the assassination of the head of the cartel or anything. So so we went to breakfast and, you know, the smoke actually started to become bothersome. From where we were, I mean, we were eating outside and then we got a cabana and then I'm sitting there on the iPad in the cabana and I see Dan Dix, who's an investigative journalist who happened to be part of the Anarchapoco program. And he's like, hey, you know, there's all this cartel activity. And, you know, he's showing images of cars on fire in the road and all these roadblocks and everything else. And so, you know, we went inside and started to kind of track down what was going on. But what was interesting is, you know, there was no information when we searched the news for this. Yeah, I mean, I went to Google and I even went to AI and I'm like, hey, what's going on here to try to find out what was going on with the smoke and everything else. There was no official information. There was no... Memo released by the hotel. So I mean we had no idea what was going on This is truly an example of where you know investigative journalism Where it's people that you actually personally know seems to be about the only way to get actual valid advice at this point and so So it was scary for about five hours. There were these things online where the cartels, if their demands aren't met by five o'clock, they're going to go into homes and hotels and start killing people and everything else. I don't even know if that was actually true. And then that all died down. And so I don't really know what actually happened or what the real... I think we don't know the true story. What was interesting about it is that there was no... There was no police involvement. There were no sirens for the entire day. So this retribution took place, and there wasn't any law enforcement involved. It's almost like it was allowed to happen for like eight hours, which if you were going to do this big operation to take out the head of a cartel, surely you would anticipate – that you know something that there would be a response right i mean this would be a kind of a standard thing so we still don't know what happened uh the us government was not helpful at all all they said was you know have a you know stay in shelter in place kind of motive uh memo and so the thing is this the timing on this was this was like peak And this is a major spring break destination. So the fact that there was no response, it was just the whole thing felt weird. But we ended up just hanging out and we couldn't fly back into Boston anyway because there was three feet of snow. So it worked out great. And, you know, once the scary part passed. and the people at the hotel were phenomenal um there was this post that went viral of this guy claiming that you know i'm a marriott bonvoy and they wouldn't let me do a late checkout or whatever and people were kind of roasting him when we were at that same resort and i will say that the the people that worked there actually stayed in the hotel and i actually got some information i interviewed with ernie hancock yesterday and he said that yeah apparently there were You know, you know, the hotel staff, the women were sleeping, you know, three or four women to a room. And you had, you know, because they couldn't get back to their families. And so they they kept the whole thing running the whole time. So, I mean, it was I can't say enough good things about them. And, you know, if it weren't for the cartel thing, you know, I'd potentially go back depending upon. you know, the circumstances. Because generally speaking, again, it's a safe place. So that's what happened there. And So coming up, as far as events, I was supposed to be in Portugal at the Parallel Society Conference this week. But honestly, after losing yet another week, I'm like way behind. I mean, I'm still I was struggling just to get the podcast put together. And I've got articles and a whole bunch of other and all of these projects and websites and everything. plus now running for U.S. Senate. So we decided we needed to kind of stay back. So the next event that we have, and hopefully nothing else happens between here and there, is the Libertarian National Convention, May the twenty first through the twenty fifth. And on that, I will say I'm running, it looks like as it stands now, as an independent, not a libertarian. But nevertheless, I'm going to be participating in this conference um they have a crypto area there's a crypto corner as part of the the thing so i'm going to go there and uh talk about the daylight ecosystem and privacy coins but there's some other interesting things happening and we'll we'll be doing we'll probably do a dedicated episode on this and maybe if he's around uh dan o'neill might pop in tonight, but we're going to do another enemies of the state event like we did in two thousand and four. And you may recall, you know, in two thousand and four, we were trying to raise awareness for Ross Ulbrich, Ian Freeman, Roger Ver. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. And this was at the Libertarian National Convention. In fact, it was the night before Trump came out and announced that he was going to commute Ross Ulbricht's sentence, which of course he then later turned into a full pardon. And so it was a great event. And unfortunately, it's even more needed now. We're going to have a much larger, I don't even know what the full list, if we even solidified the whole list, but I think they're probably going to be like if there were five enemies of the state last time and there may be ten or a dozen this time. So while I'm grateful that that Ross was pardoned, the the overall situation is bleak and it's not even just crypto. I mean, you know, Julian Assange still hasn't been pardoned. Edward Snowden still hasn't been pardoned. There are other whistleblowers. There are actually categories as we're going through and looking at this. And so I'm going to encourage you to attend that event. Uh, it's, it's probably going to be the best part of the whole convention. And there's a great teamwork. The whole team that worked on it last time is working on it again. Um, like they're spending a lot of time working on the layout, the vibe of the, uh, venue, making sure that there's the best audio and that there's a good vibe for people to be able to actually interact and talk and so forth. And so I think this is a great event. You know, maybe even, you know, Ray might even be there chatting with him about that as well. So more details to follow. And I know there's some other events going on and I'm not going to state what they are today. I don't have permission from the person that's running those or any specific dates, but there are going to be a lot of other events that are going on along with the convention that I think are very exciting and that promote very important causes. And so just consider putting this on your radar. It is in Grand Rapids, Michigan. um which you know i i don't know what to say about grand rapids other than it's better than dc um which is where the conference was last time so i mean i can say that it looks like the venue is uh it's a great venue and it's certainly less expensive the rooms are less expensive so this might be a great opportunity for for people to hang out um you know don't have to be part of the libertarian party to uh attend this i i'm not going to any of the you know whatever it is that they do with these libertarian things sit around and argue about bylaws or whatever for six hours a day or whatever i'm not doing any of that i'm going just for the uh the crypto stuff to hang out with with cool pro-liberty people, and then these other events. And so stay tuned for more on that. And I'm sure there's a lot that I've forgotten about. So much has happened in the last three or four weeks that it's mind-boggling. People... You know, for the last three and a half years, I dropped everything that I was doing to warn people about first CBDCs. And then as I learned more about CBDCs, I learned that CBDCs were a function of technocracy. And it's been very difficult to get people to understand or focus on this. And in part, because you don't really want to believe it. I think a lot of people are still in the category of, you know, hey, government is just incompetent. and maybe we can go in and vote and fix it, so on and so forth. Although I think maybe the Epstein files may be the biggest development and the biggest catalyst that we could ever have because if you go through and research them, depending on whatever your area and topic is, I mean, what you're able to learn from these Epstein files is how the world actually works. I mean, they always say follow the money, but usually you can't follow the money because the money is in offshore accounts, offshore trusts, people are working through multiple other organizations. in different countries and so you never know whose money is where and you usually have no capacity to see any of that these the epstein files actually give us specific information on this like we know epstein invested in coinbase through this vehicle through brock pierce because there's an email and so as people are starting to put all this together what it's showing is that the political system and the world doesn't work from the bottom up. There is no grassroots aspect to this. It really is a shadowy group of people that are pulling the strings behind the scenes and everything else is theater. Politics is absolutely theater. And so I hope more people learn that because once you realize that, you know, there's a small number of bad actors that are kind of pulling the strings, it's not as daunting. It's not a... the universe and the world isn't split fifty-fifty on any issue. It's like five hundred or a thousand people versus eight billion people. It just so happens that those one thousand people have controlled the election process, they've controlled money, they have controlled the media and so forth. And so they've been able to manufacture that there's a fifty-fifty division and that's worked to their advantage. So all along what I've been saying now for a couple of years as I've learned more about technocracy and then done these technocracy roundtables with Patrick Wood and Courtney Turner and others is that the real battle that we have right now is it's freedom versus technocracy. It isn't Republicans versus Democrats. It isn't U.S. versus China or U.S. versus Iran or Ukraine versus Russia. All of that, those are all – uh surface level activities what's really going on here is that we're fighting it's freedom versus technocracy and in free will is what's at stake now i'm sure a lot of you have heard me talk about this before so i'm going to i'm going to cut through some of this a little bit more quickly but technocracy is a political ideology it is not As some people mistake it, it's not the application of technology to solve a problem. There is technology involved with technocracy, but technocracy is a political ideology. And the political ideology is nothing like what we think we have, whether we have it or not. Anyway, there are no rights. There's no constitution. There are no property rights. There are no individual rights. The idea behind the system is, We are too stupid to make decisions for ourselves. Scientists and engineers are the only people that can effectively solve problems. And elites put them into a position to make decisions for everyone. And the biggest element of technocracy is that the price system that we have for the economy, based on supply and demand, is replaced with an energy credit based system. And this whole idea of technocracy, I mean, the idea started even before that, but there was a formal organization called Technocracy Inc. And it started in the early nineteen thirties. And you can see pictures here. They would actually wear gray suits. They had technocracy gray as a color. GM would actually paint cars that specific shade. of gray and it really turned into a whole movement. They had a little bit of infighting, but then it was picked back up again in nineteen seventy three with the Trilateral Commission, with David Rockefeller and Brzezinski. And that became the basis for what we now know is the UN Agenda twenty thirty or the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals. So it's critical for everyone to understand that what we're dealing with here, this is an actual political ideology. It's been in development for almost a hundred years, and it's really only now through a combination of infiltration of governments, basically, at the high level, which is what the Trilateral Commission is all about. It's about placing people at senior levels in government in multiple countries, in the U.S., in Europe, and in Asia. uh both at the highest level and then at cabinet positions as well and over fifty years of doing that what's happened is we we they've been managed to put in place trade agreements and other things that have eroded national sovereignty but that have paid the way for technocracy so getting the legal stuff out of the way now they have digital currencies now there's ai surveillance now there's the ability to implement social credit systems so we're in the late stages of this And one of the things that I've been saying since the election is that this last election, people claim that whatever it was about, it's now baffling to me when you look at what Trump has done. And I definitely see it on my feed. People are not buying it anymore. At some point, you've got to look at it. It's like, all right, the guy's kind of reversed course on everything that he said he was going to do. There's no kind of... The benefit of the doubt phase of this is over. But essentially... I've warned people from the beginning that the election was really ended up being technocracy with resistance versus technocracy without resistance. Before the election, people were concerned about Klaus Schwab and UN Agenda, twenty thirty and Bill Gates and everything else. And so when Trump won, people thought all of that is gone. The globalists lost. Even I saw yesterday, I don't try to watch his show anymore, but I saw a clip where even Alex Jones is now like, yeah, I can't really support Trump anymore. And but you look at what has actually happened is Trump and it's not Trump who's done it. The PayPal mafia and the people like Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, and others that have kind of weaseled their way into his administration have basically pushed the Klaus Schwab agenda, but without resistance. Nobody fought the technocracy, whereas they were before the election when it was the other side. And this technocracy is not well understood at all. In fact, libertarians are a lot of – there's a whole section of libertarians that are completely snowed over by this. So you see on the right here Yuval Noah Harari who people would share memes about who would say things like the era of free will is over and we need to create a new religion and so on and so forth. And people were outraged by this. But then comes this guy, Curtis Yarvin. And, you know, and everybody, a lot of libertarians or right libertarians like, oh, wow, this guy's based because he comes out and he says a whole bunch of stuff. He's like, well, you know, we're going to implement rage, which is retirement, all government employees and, you know, starts pushing this thing that, you know. There are genetic differences in intelligence and starts pushing some of these other ideas. And we need to segregate people in society. And there needs to be a backlog. We need to own the libs. And we need to take control of media and education and all these other areas, the citadel, as he calls them. And I don't disagree with a lot of – I disagree with some of what he said on its face. But the idea of retire all government employees certainly sounds great. I believe that the maximum role of government should be life, liberty, and protection of property and so forth. But the problem is that what he's proposing is retire the employees but not actually reduce – the role of government. So he's actually pushing technocracy, which is the same thing that Yuval Noah Harari is. So as an example, people bought Doge. And I got a lot of flack early on. I said, Doge, this is not about saving money. This is about implementing technocracy. Because Elon Musk is a technocrat. His grandfather was the head of the technocrat party. musk has written still writes on an ongoing basis about universal basic income energy credits that mars will be a technocracy there's like i you know i've done several podcasts where it's like here is elon musk these are his tweets these are his videos And so I said, he's not coming in to try to cut costs. I mean, that might be a part of that might happen, at least in the short term. But what he's trying to do is bring AI and put in technocratic control into government. And that's exactly what he did. And that is all that Doge did. You know, note, do you remember how absurd? Think about the things people believed a year ago. People thought Doge was going to come in and save two trillion dollars. People thought that we were going to balance the budget. People thought that we were going to never need to increase the debt ceiling again. They thought we were going to audit Fort Knox. They thought we were going to audit the Federal Reserve. Doge, remember, at some point people were talking about Ron Paul being involved. There was all of this stuff that people talked about. We were going to end all of the wars and everything else. Literally none of it happened. Zero. Zero. But what I'm saying is this wasn't that these guys fought the deep state and lost. I believe this is the plan all along. What Doge did do was connect Palantir to federal government databases. And so there are a bunch of libertarians like, oh, yeah, this is going to make government more efficient. They don't understand that that technocracy is an ideology, not the application of technology to make government smaller and more efficient. They're completely missing that. Curtis Yarvin is actually promoting technocracy, which is the opposite of freedom, because in the end, if you have a system. where scientists and engineers make decisions for people, controlled by digital currency, surveilled by AI, you've lost free will because you don't get to make any decisions in your life. That is what UN Agenda, is. Seventeen sustainable development goals. Here's how we're gonna regulate the land, the air, the sea. This is where the pronoun stuff comes from. Fifteen minute cities, all of that. And so some of these libertarians have convinced themselves, well, it's a meritocracy and we should have the smartest people doing this. And I will tell you that nobody there is no merit to somebody else being able to usurp your free will. And that has somehow gotten lost. And I'm not saying it's all libertarians. It's definitely not all libertarians. But there's a whole sect of this that thinks that they're going to reform society based on this and that somehow they're meritorious. And what I will say is people like Yarvin and Yuval Noah Harari have profound emotional problems. And so these are people that actually hate humanity and hate themselves. And so they're actually trying to then lash out against other people and control people. And they're using technology and then dressing it up as meritocracy. It's but it is anti-free will. It is about as anti-actual liberty as you can get. So along with this, so now here we are, Trump is in and people are talking about, well, we saved the world, we stopped globalism and all this other stuff. Well, we still have Ninety eight percent of the world, global GDP through one hundred and thirty four different countries working on CBDCs. They've accelerated that digital IDs. Three point six billion people globally have digital IDs. There is a massive concerted global effort to get everybody on digital IDs by twenty twenty seven, including. in the United States. So this is important for people to understand here, because I see a lot of people pointing fingers at, oh, look at the UK, look at all these other countries that are doing this. But we have digital ID here, real ID, which it took twenty years to actually get real ID through it. There was a bill that started in two thousand and five and states pushed back and everybody pushed back. And it wasn't until like the first one hundred and twenty days of the Trump administration where Kristi Noem eventually implemented it. And so now we have a digital I.D. in fifteen states and the plan is for it to be digital in all fifty states by twenty twenty seven. And today, if you don't have a digital ID, I mean a real ID, you have to pay forty five dollars each way for an airline ticket. Now, you can still use a passport for now. But the point is, this is something that people resisted for twenty years. This is something that Republicans resisted for twenty years. And then all of a sudden Trump gets in and it gets implemented in one hundred and twenty days and there's been zero backlash. This is why I say technocracy without resistance. This is actually Frightening. Then on the AI surveillance front, this is another area that has popped up. And by the way, I think this Iran thing and everything else, I'll give you my theory on what's going on with this and why I think clarity is kind of their final piece to push out technocracy. But one of the first press conferences Trump had was announcing a five hundred billion dollar deal with Larry Ellison from Oracle and OpenAI and SoftBank and others to do this Operation Stargate. Well, if you dig into what that is, it's a AI surveillance system. And they claim that it's about protecting our national interests from an AI national security perspective. But this is absurd. Oracle provides AI surveillance to China. Oracle is a global company. SoftBank, who's one of the large investors in this, is a Japanese company. OpenAI works globally. The idea that what they're doing is they're selling technocracy because the technocracy is being driven by these large corporations and they're marketing it as being patriotic. There's nothing patriotic at all. But this is literally the first announcement than Trump made, and this includes, by the way, collecting a whole bunch of information from hospitals. Like Palantir is part of this as well, and they are interconnected with hospitals, and they're interconnected with DHS information, and now through Doge to these other federal databases. Palantir runs the entire database for the NHS. All of the citizens of the UK are gonna have their health data, in a palantir database so this is part of what's what's going on here which by the way is completely the opposite of of medical freedom which i'm not going to go into the details on this you can watch other podcasts that i did or i'll talk about it more later so i'm looking at Now, talking about running for US Senate in New Hampshire, as I said, this is not a normal, you know, most politicians are like, here's a thirty second sound bite. Here's all this other stuff. There's nothing about this campaign that is going to be normal. And I know how to do normal campaigns. I've run super PACs. I've run organizations that recruited candidates. I've been a candidate. And none of it works. And we're not going to vote our way out. So I'm not going to dumb anything down or try to play within the boundaries of here's a thirty second sound bite. Here are a bunch of mailers. Here are a bunch of yard signs. Here I'm going to do some polling to find out what you're interested in. And then I'm going to lie to you and tell you I'm going to do it. And if I can get enough people to do that, then I can get elected and then I can do whatever my agenda is or whatever the people that are funding my campaign. I don't care about any of that. In fact, the last thing I ever wanted to be was a candidate. I was the behind the scenes guy running the organizations and building the infrastructure and trying to recruit people. I'll explain how I even got to be a candidate at all as part of this conversation. But I moved to New Hampshire as part of the Free State Project in two thousand and nine. And one of the things that I learned and I already had some experience with this because my stepmother was heavily involved. in politics she was the co-chair of the rnc so she was the second highest ranked person in the republican party she actually was trump's ambassador to costa rica and i saw her work her way through the political machine for like thirty years so i got to see kind of up close what was going on and so what i already knew getting into politics is that this stuff does not work from grassroots from the bottom up and this is a big misconception that people have in the free state project and a lot of the people in the free state project they have great intentions but a lot of the people that started out getting involved in politics had a theory about how things work And that just became the way people do things. It's like, well, we're just going to deal with the state stuff. We're going to ignore Washington, D.C. because, you know, screw Washington, D.C. essentially became kind of the mantra. And it's like, we're just going to work on stuff at the state level. Well, it turns out that the federal government has a massive amount of sway and leverage through financial ties. and that most of those financial ties, deals and relationships have been brokered through two political families in the state, the Shaheen family on the Democrat side and the Sununu family on the right. And so there are a lot of big decisions made on major pieces of legislation at the state level that are directed by these people who are trying to further their own federal political careers. And so if if you sit there and you think, well, I'm just going to work my way up. And as I'll show you that that actually doesn't work and it hasn't worked in New Hampshire. I'm not saying there has there aren't a lot of good things that have happened. But the way that I would frame what's going on in New Hampshire is we are the freest plantation in the slave colony. So, you know, if and, you know, this will probably make some people pretty angry. But generally speaking, you know, I'll accept the idea that. New Hampshire generally ranks first in the nation for freedom. However, when I say the freest plantation in the slave colony, let me tell you what I mean. And I've done several podcasts on this. America is not the freest country in the world, objectively. And usually when I say this, somebody is like, well, if you don't like it here, leave or go to Somalia or whatever. This is ridiculous. My background is as a serial entrepreneur. I started my first company when I was nineteen. The one thing that you have to do in business or in life in general is you have to confront reality and look at the facts of what is going on. And if you avoid problems, you're going to fail. and so simply sitting there and saying well we're the freest country in the world so on and so forth is actually propaganda and it's completely false it's objectively false i've played on numerous podcasts this segment from the tv show called newsroom with jeff daniels which he did in and you know he he was asked his character was asked uh you know why is america the greatest nation on earth and he says it's not and he lists off all of these statistics about u.s rankings relative to other countries well i actually found that clip to be very interesting and so i wanted to run an update on well how is the univ how is the country fared since he went and did this viral clip in and we've gotten worse on almost every metric and the thing is we are so propagandized that most americans don't even realize this so when i say some of these things people actually They resist the information, but it's objectively true. We rank tenth, dead last in terms of wealthy nations, in terms of health care outcomes. Dead last. We rank thirty-eighth globally. I mean, people will tell you, politicians will tell you we have the best health care in the world. There is absolutely no objective data to support any of that. We rank fifty-seventh in press freedom. So people are like, well, we have the First Amendment. Isn't this great? We rank fifty-seventh. You should, again, research these yourself. See who's ahead of us on these lists. It will blow your mind. Math education, twenty six. Happiness, twenty fourth. Life expectancy, thirtieth. And then I did, I think, a whole episode on this. When it comes to technology, we. Lag China. China is ahead of us in fifty seven out of sixty four technology categories. And I will argue probably within the next ninety days that'll go to fifty eight. I think China will overtake the U.S. in AI within the next six months. Most people have no idea. Most people have this concept of China being a backwater country. Go to YouTube. And this isn't just some random report. Actually, go to YouTube. Type China robotics, China electric cars, China quantum computing, so on and so forth. I mean, this is in YouTube, which is itself censored, right? It's not like you're going to a... chinese thing chinese you know social media site to to to look at their propaganda we are definitively we've lost and and just ten years ago twenty years ago these numbers were completely reversed we were ahead in all these categories so While we've been sleeping, the rest of the world has passed us by, and we don't know that. We don't recognize that. So when I say that we're not the best, I say from the standpoint of if we are actually interested in being the freest, we would have to acknowledge that we're not. And then we'd actually have to look at and try to understand the source and the root of what's going on. Here's where we are, number one. We're number one in military spending, which... I think now that we are jumping headfirst into World War III, people are acutely aware of this. I think that we've spent three point six billion dollars already. We're spending a billion dollars a day in this in this war, a billion dollars a day. We already had a trillion dollar budget. The other area that we're number one is in incarceration rate. More of our citizens are in prison per capita than anywhere in the world and medical bankruptcy. Every minute somebody in the United States files for bankruptcy because of medical costs. There's nothing like that anywhere in the world. These are the facts. So again, when I say that New Hampshire is the freest plantation in the slave colony, this is it. We're the best state within this situation. And so the reason that this is important, and so some of this is not going to be necessarily of interest if you're not in New Hampshire, but I actually think that there are some universal things out of this that apply to other states or may apply to the way you think about where you live or even what our strategies can be moving forward, because I'm going to explain why I'm running and what the whole point of it is through this. But, you know, there are a lot of wins and you hear a lot about the wins in New Hampshire. We have constitutional carry. We have no income tax. We have no state income tax, no sales tax. We have great school choice. We have a bunch of free staters that are elected. Sorry. And we rank number one in a lot of these ratings for economic freedom. But what's happened, even since I've been here, and no one likes to talk about this, is we've had major, massive losses of sovereignty. to the federal government. So understand the big threat here is technocracy. If technocracy marches on, and one of the things when I first got here, everybody was all excited about how we were pushing back on Real ID. This was one of the big success stories of the Free State Project. And then we caved, but no one talked about it, right? Like, you know, people like to put forward their best, what, you know, what they're winning on. Nobody talks about the losses. Well, the losses are pretty significant. The losses are real ID. The losses are, you know, actually this is inaccurate. I think there were a hundred and eighteen executive orders under COVID under Governor Chris Sununu. tie attached to seven billion dollars worth of funding that had a whole bunch of implications that i'll talk about my main issue in new hampshire in politics and the reason i got into this was fighting obamacare in all of its forms in fighting obamacare medicaid expansion and as you'll see i fought this and that's why i actually ran for u.s senate and i'll explain what happened there And, you know, I would argue I was successful with my strategy, but it was lost on the people that remained involved in politics. They didn't I don't think still understand what it was about or what what you could do with this. And so what's happened is. The federal government has expanded its role in the New Hampshire health care system to the point where we have a we have you can't even call what we have a market based system. Our entire system is tied to not only expanded Medicaid, but all of these other funding scams that involve the federal government. So as a result, we have a very small number of hospitals. New hospitals and new innovative solutions can't get through like a cancer treatment centers of America. And we are completely dependent upon the federal government. Now, as if you're part of the Free State Project and your goal is to create this libertarian enclave, you're going to have a hard time doing it if you are completely tied to the federal government for health care and the federal government is surveilling everything that you do. I mean, I'm putting it very candidly. You have to deal with those problems. You're not going to win your freedom by getting rid of inspection stickers, which is a great thing, and I'm very grateful for it, but it's not a good trade-off for Real ID. Being able to do hair braiding without a license is not a trade-off for having Obamacare expanded. And it's not a trade-off. Now, thirty-three percent of our budget is controlled by Washington, D.C. We're not going to be able to be free. We're not going to be able to escape the technocracy if that is the case. So I... We'll try to simplify this, but got involved in twenty twelve in a big way in politics after Romney lost the presidential election. There was a group of faction leaders within the Republican Party that met to say, hey, listen, we don't like this losing to Obama situation again. What are we going to do about it? How do we unify? How do we stop the division? And so all of these. faction leaders agreed, and it was the number one thing in the party platform for the NHGOP, was the opposition to Obamacare in all of its forms. And so within like eight weeks of everybody agreeing that we were going to oppose Obamacare in all of its forms, the Republican-controlled Senate actually drafted a bill to expand Medicaid through Obamacare. And I'm like scratching my head. I'm like, I got heavily involved in it. I was dealing with the president of the Senate. I was dealing with the majority leader. I was trying to bring in other consultants, people like Cato, Michael Tanner from the Cato Institute, brought in documentation. He was willing to fly out. They had no interest in receiving the information. I then went to town and county Republican committee meetings across the state, getting resolutions passed. Most of them, almost all of them, unanimous resolutions from these town and county committees saying we are opposed to what the Senate is doing. They pushed it anyway. So I was running a couple of organizations, Start, Start three sixty, which was a super PAC, the Republican Liberty Caucus. And we primaried like five or six or maybe eight, eight of these state senators. I think we picked off one or two. Not enough to. reverse the vote, but, you know, it was enough to start to have some kind of impact. And so then, like all of these things, the way that the Republicans tried to sell it was, well, you know, it's temporary. And we put this thing in here. And if the government doesn't agree to this waiver, and if the government doesn't cover at least ninety percent of the cost of this expanded thing, then then it automatically goes away, so on and so forth. And I wrote all these articles. I'm like, this is not how all this works. None of this is going to end up working like this. And so then two years was about up and the bill was up for reauthorization. And so I realized, you know, we can't stop this through the primaries. Nobody wants this. The House of Representatives didn't want it. The Republicans in the House were in the minority at the time. None of the rank and file wanted it. And I'm still scratching my head. Why is this happening? Well, I found out. What was happening? The reason this was happening was John H. Sununu, again, going back to what I was saying about this, politics runs from the top down. And if you don't appreciate that, you are going to find yourself wasting your time. John H. Sununu had the belief that. Unless New Hampshire reauthorized Medicaid expansion, Kelly Ayotte would lose her US Senate seat. At the time she was our Republican US Senator. So my view on this was, again, I was of the opinion, I'm still of the opinion that I'm concerned about the Free State Project. I'm concerned about New Hampshire. I came to New Hampshire, I still am in New Hampshire for the idea that New Hampshire can be the bastion of liberty, but I tend to follow, as you know, information to the source. I try to figure out how things work. I try to figure out how, the money flows how the power flows and everything else and so i literally found out john h sununu was pushing this and john h sununu was even involved in picking uh and directing the consultants that drafted the bill itself and i won't go into the detail i've written extensive articles like ten years old but the information is still valid all well sourced on what happened and so i said well listen If you're gonna mess up our state, if you are going to add this multi-billion dollar entitlement, if you're gonna destroy healthcare, if you're gonna go against the number one thing in the party platform, then I will just recruit an entire slate of candidates to run as independents, because I know I can't beat you in a rigged primary, and we'll cost you all of your seats. We'll cost you the US Senate seat, and we'll cost you the two congressional seats. So that was my strategy. And I was successful at that. and and i will and doing that it didn't have the effect unfortunately of getting obamacare medicaid expansion repealed in fact just to say what's interesting is because i walked away from politics at this point because i'm like these people are not serious about addressing these problems some of the people that i supported who are now heavily involved in politics. There's this guy, Kevin Avard, who is a state Senator. I was the largest donor to his campaign. He signed a pledge. All of these candidates that we supported back in, in, signed a pledge that they were against Obamacare and Medicaid expansion. Well, Kevin Avard last session was one of the co-sponsors to make Obamacare Medicaid expansion permanent. So people that are involved in politics, they don't zoom out and look at what's going on. They get involved in these little battles over whatever their little pet projects are, but they don't take a step back to look at, are we actually improving liberty or not? And there are many such cases as all of the people that I supported in twenty fourteen on opposition to this issue, co-sponsored in the Senate, making the bill permanent. And so. So unfortunately, while my tactic worked, then their whole write off of it is, oh, well, he must be a Democrat because he did this. I mean, like literally these people don't understand anything about what's going on. The state Senate is kind of a cult. And I'm not going to go into all of the details on this now, but certainly at various points. I might talk about this, but let's talk about what the impact was. The reason that I fought so hard on this Obamacare issue is because it affects everyone. And by the way, it ended up having ramifications that extended way into COVID. and that continue to compound today. It has completely ruined market-based healthcare in this country. And we were told at the time that no more than fifty thousand people would be added to this expanded Medicaid. Well, guess what the number is? At peak, ninety five thousand seven hundred and fifty two people were on this expanded Medicaid program, almost twice the amount within like seven years. Now, of course, that was going to happen. And of course, I wrote that that was going to happen. But this is something that we're talking about billions of dollars that is a major impact. And no one wants to talk about it. No one wants to acknowledge it. Well, if you're not going to deal with federal government encroachment in health care, if you're not going to deal with real ID, you're going to have a hell of a time being the fre