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#556 Decoding The Clown World Economy And Media · The Arterburn Radio Transmission Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: Years ago, I was listening to a seminar from Jim Rohn, who I followed for uh a long time.
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  SPEAKER_00: And he's one of the great authors on financial success and entrepreneurship.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um was a legend.
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  SPEAKER_00: Anyway, he had a a great saying.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's like, if you learn another language, you'll make an you know another million dollars, like every language that you learn.
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  SPEAKER_00: And this is like you know denominated in like uh late 1980s money.
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  SPEAKER_00: So it could be tens of millions of dollars now that you would make if you learned another language.
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  SPEAKER_00: But I think that I've uh come to understand a new language, something that um has entered upon the uh public lexicon over the past uh couple of decades.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think that I now speak clown.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think I don't I maybe I can understand it, but I can't speak it.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe I can't write it, uh, but I can read it.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'm I'm beginning to think so much of the uh current simulation is written and produced in clown, ladies and gentlemen.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'll get to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I've got a couple of headlines.
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  SPEAKER_00: We'll just this some one of them I talked with David Knight about this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: And uh the other one, I just I can't even I don't know how to distill it anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: I feel like it's a family guy cutaway.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you ever watch uh the cartoon Family Guy, when they're talking about like if you're watching SNL and they start calling out new names or they're doing an award show or something, and you don't know who the hell are any of these people.
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  SPEAKER_00: I don't know who the people are, and I find um the underlying uh tragic comedy in all of it is something that we need to pay attention to as the acid of modernity eats away at uh our tradition and understanding of what rational reality is.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the official broadcast of the apocalypse, folks.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's 9-10 2026.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, nothing will interrupt the transmission as long as we have beans.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I did notice it's uh it is 9-10, so we're on the eve of uh the 9-11 anniversary, and of course, now that's uh Charlie Kirk, you know, the 910 uh 2025.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you know, I I it's interesting, I didn't see anything in the the big news aggregations that cover Charlie.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had to actually go search for it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought it would be a bigger deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm sure that it actually is, it just didn't make any of because of the attention span and uh all the other just insane things that are going on.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh, it didn't hit the the main line like it should, but uh I'll talk a little bit about uh Charlie Kirk.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's an uh article up on USA Today uh about Gen Z and Charlie.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I wanted to talk about it for a minute.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then of course I uh it's an almost, you know, um let's see, how many we we 20 we're 25 years on uh from 9-11.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I want to play um just like we did last year.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think every year I play a little clip.
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  SPEAKER_00: If it's close to 9-11, we'll play Bill Cooper uh from that June 2001 broadcast, which if you don't have heard it, uh if this is your first time, you're gonna want to pay attention to something that uh William Milton Cooper said um prior to 9-11 2001.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's it it does ring true and truer it gets at each year that passes, and new things that we uh see come to light.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um anyway, it's important.
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  SPEAKER_00: So we'll get to that.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's start with to speak clown.
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  SPEAKER_00: You first and I it's funny because I went back and looked, I'm like, you know, these people at CERN uh it maybe the the headron collider, maybe there is something to that that they messed up like the fabric of space-time in 2012.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm just it's gotten so dumb, but I'll start with what I covered uh with uh David Knight this morning.
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  SPEAKER_00: There was a a truth social post that came out from President Trump uh over the um Labor Day holiday.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I and I I took a rare break.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I wasn't even I wasn't even plugged in that much.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I I remember when I I got I just looked at the news aggregation and I followed the links and I go, now what are we doing?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I so I I look at it.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's probably why I'm getting the uh 11s in my in my my brow because I'm always doing like I'm squinting, looking at words, like is that is he write that?
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  SPEAKER_00: So let's go over what this actually this was a post from Trump, and I I I'm just gonna put it on the screen.
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  SPEAKER_00: It didn't get as much play as it should.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had to go search for it uh this morning when I came in, and it's it's from the independent.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh they actually uh in UK, they actually figured out how just dumb this was.
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  SPEAKER_00: So let me stop the screen, put this one up.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let's let's look at this headline together just so you can get more fluent and clown.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh again.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is the independent.uk.
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump threatens to stop trade with other countries if the U.S.
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  SPEAKER_00: doesn't lower its own interest rate.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that that's what made me read it four times.
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  SPEAKER_00: I go, what is this now?
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  SPEAKER_00: President Donald Trump threatened to halt trade with every country that runs a surplus with the United States unless the Federal Reserve cuts interest rates, tying together two things that are not connected by any mechanism of American economic policy.
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  SPEAKER_00: In a 183-word post on True Social published after the Bureau of Labor Statistics released a better than expected jobs report, Trump wrote in all capital letters, lower the rate, or I'll stop trading with countries with which we have a deficit.
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  SPEAKER_00: Again, uh interest rates are set by uh the Federal Reserve, which, I mean, technically, uh well, on paper, it the Federal Reserve is a quote unquote American institution, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh it's actually a banking consortium and cartel that was set up in 1913 by the world's uh richest people to control the American money supply.
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  SPEAKER_00: But besides that, it's supposed to be at least on paper, and the president, which his nomination of Warsh uh to uh take over for Jerome Powell was just implemented.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is again, you you you have to get it's like a couple weeks ago I was talking about that headline from the uh the influencer that was working for the Pentagon that leaked a a story that was they were supposed to get an inside scoop, so they got like you have to dumb yourself down to understand what the hell the headlines are anymore.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like you have to you have to bring yourself into a state of dumbness, thank you, to draw draw in your ability to speak or to understand, and then try to go into the vernacular of clown.
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  SPEAKER_00: The president does not set interest rates, and the central bank's federal or open market committee does not set trade policy.
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  SPEAKER_00: These two are handled by different institutions under different statutes, and the Fed's rate decisions are made without reference to the bilateral trade ballots.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, you know, I just had to bring this up to start off with, uh, and we don't need to read the whole thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but you you get where I'm I'm going with this.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the line we've crossed some sort of boundary where the head of the I mean, in the in the realm of economy, we're the strongest economy in the world.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, and uh the strongest military, all this stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like the leader of the free world is is threatening like some sort of quasi sanctions on ourselves for not setting policy that we internally control.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that doesn't, I mean again, I I and maybe that's why it bypassed so much of the mainstream, just how insane that is.
• 10:20
  SPEAKER_00: But that's where we are.
• 10:21
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we live in the uh the clown world order, and it's becoming ever more apparent.
• 10:28
  SPEAKER_00: And you know, you have to start wondering uh at a certain level, and I think David Knight is right about this, is that you know, this is part of the inside job.
• 10:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we're all building seven now, and it's the American economy, the American system, the American Empire, as my friend Charlie Robinson wrote the book, The Controlled Demolition of the American Empire.
• 10:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is what you're watching, folks.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, this can only be explained away.
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  SPEAKER_00: This isn't just stupidity.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is some sort of, again, uh, the charges are being set to usher in a new system.
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  SPEAKER_00: What is that?
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  SPEAKER_00: You know, and you have these types of threats.
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  SPEAKER_00: This the only thing that I would hurt would be the American people.
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  SPEAKER_00: And just like the fact that we've pushed oil over$100 a barrel, unnecessarily, with with this isn't about demand.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is about uh the loss of supply.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is about the trickling supply, the uncertainty, the FUDs, the fear, uncertainty, and doubt that's permeated the world economic system.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you see, I'm gonna uh see if I can get to it today.
• 11:33
  SPEAKER_00: There's an article up from Natural News on um Chinese uh you know petroleum purchases.
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  SPEAKER_00: The world is is moving rapidly away from the the American system or our leadership because of these type of moves.
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  SPEAKER_00: But what happens when oil reaches over$100 a barrel?
• 11:52
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you just had diesel, uh, is it all-time high.
• 11:56
  SPEAKER_00: So this is unprecedented uh waters that were in everything runs on diesel, folks.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, my truck does.
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  SPEAKER_00: Um, but you understand, like that's how goods and services get everywhere.
• 12:06
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that's every time that goes up, the cost of transportation goes up, the cost of goods go up.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's why you have the Fed talking about raising rates uh this month, which the whole point of why Warsh was nominated by Trump, who puts in all caps, all this crazy stuff, is they want lower interest rates.
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  SPEAKER_00: They want a weaker dollar.
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  SPEAKER_00: But the inflation has gotten so bad, not because, not well, not just because of the expansion of the money supply, you understand.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like we've expanded the money supply at an unprecedented rate.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you go look at the metrics, 80% of all the dollars ever created in the history of the United States were created between 2020 and 2022.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like in a 24-month span, we created 80% of all the dollars ever.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that's just a metric that existed then.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now you've got a lot of different types of intervention.
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  SPEAKER_00: You've got Scott Bessent uh buying$10 billion worth of bonds, like long-term bonds, the Treasury's injecting QE into the system, regardless of the Federal Reserve, but you have this unprecedented uh currency creation going on at the same time that oil is going over$100 a barrel.
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  SPEAKER_00: So you've got these two centrifugal forces that are meeting together and creating it's a perfect storm.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I don't think these are uh coincidences.
• 13:35
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think I'm not a coincidence theorist.
• 13:37
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think that uh I don't think that uh this wasn't thought through.
• 13:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I'm starting to understand, like if you want to have an off-ramp to a different system, you have to get rid of the the old one.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's where you get the term build back better.
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  SPEAKER_00: Remember that?
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh what's funny enough, uh my friend Jason Lowe found that.
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  SPEAKER_00: That was in a in a UN document uh that the Biden administration picked up.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then the Trump administration, the Trump people started doing build back better.
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  SPEAKER_00: But that you in order to build something back better, you have to destroy it first.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like that's the whole purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: But you don't build something back if it's not gone.
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  SPEAKER_00: So that that is what the great reset is.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're looking at the underlying metrics, we talk a little bit about financials.
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  SPEAKER_00: See, I'm watching, you know, not the short-term stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: I mean, the short-term stuff is vulture capitalism.
• 14:27
  SPEAKER_00: It's like we're gonna uh base a short-term trade off of whether interest rates lower or whether they stay the same or whether they raise them or whatever.
• 14:35
  SPEAKER_00: You know, this it's not, it's making something out of nothing, right?
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  SPEAKER_00: Which is it's basically alchemy, like economic alchemy.
• 14:43
  SPEAKER_00: And it has nothing to do with creating value or or having a business or serving the uh the needs of the public or whatever that, whatever the old economy used to be, you know, when we lived in a sane universe.
• 14:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's the the point of all of this is short-term stuff.
• 14:59
  SPEAKER_00: But the other rest of the world is looking at long-term things.
• 15:03
  SPEAKER_00: And that's what I wanted to bring to your attention.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look at like headlines that I saw this morning.
• 15:07
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, Russia moved a hundred tons of gold into Hong Kong.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you have right now the Treasury Secretary, Bessant, is talking about a financial D-Day.
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  SPEAKER_00: Like we're going to sanction all these countries to do business with Iran.
• 15:21
  SPEAKER_00: Gold is a sanctionable item, cryptocurrency is a sanctionable item, all this stuff, you know, because we are our foreign policy is based off of what a foreign nation, not ourselves, uh, want, right?
• 15:34
  SPEAKER_00: Uh Israel needs chaos in the Middle East, and um and we're serving it up for them.
• 15:38
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that's they've they've uh own our politicians, they own the uh the American system as it is right now.
• 15:45
  SPEAKER_00: So that's what we're doing.
• 15:46
  SPEAKER_00: We're doing some sort of you know uh foreign policy move based on what Israel wants, and that's driving the price of crude up.
• 15:54
  SPEAKER_00: So a lot of these things are serving themselves, but those two things colliding, the expansion of the money supply and the increase in the price of crude are unsustainable things, folks.
• 16:06
  SPEAKER_00: And so the rest of the world, if you look at you know, uh the Netherlands, the moving their gold out of the US, France is moving its gold, watch that kind of stuff.
• 16:16
  SPEAKER_00: The new infrastructure, the financial infrastructure that's being set up, watch that really closely.
• 16:22
  SPEAKER_00: That'll have uh more of an impact on you than any of this political stuff.
• 16:27
  SPEAKER_00: And speaking of the political stuff, I this part of the part of the clown stuff that I wanted to talk about.
• 16:34
  SPEAKER_00: So if you just go to the I'll pull this up.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you go to the headlines of Drudge, and and again, uh I feel like I'm in a family guy cutaway because I I don't know who these people are.
• 16:45
  SPEAKER_00: Like I I used to know politics disinterests me so much because of the pageantry of it.
• 16:53
  SPEAKER_00: Um it's like who's your favorite wrestler?
• 16:56
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like I don't I just don't get into it, especially it's got the left-right paradigm because that's the that's where you know free thinking goes to die, is inside of that skewed system.
• 17:10
  SPEAKER_00: But let's let's just take a look real quick at uh what was on Drudge that I want to I'm just gonna talk about it for a little part of the speaking clown.
• 17:19
  SPEAKER_00: I want to put this up and then I want to tell you what the headline underneath it was.
• 17:25
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 17:26
  SPEAKER_00: This was this was uh a link on Drudge uh going to uh media.
• 17:33
  SPEAKER_00: This is a republic the Republican convention shows images of an underwear clad Heisen Piker.
• 17:40
  SPEAKER_00: Again, don't know who the hell that is, uh, who responds, what the F, right?
• 17:44
  SPEAKER_00: So this is he's being put up uh that he's a left-wing blogger.
• 17:49
  SPEAKER_00: Uh President Donald Trump's Republican midterm convention flashed a photo of a left-wing streamer.
• 17:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I guess they're streamers now.
• 17:56
  SPEAKER_00: I'm old, so it's like the blogger.
• 17:58
  SPEAKER_00: It's like nobody uses that term.
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  SPEAKER_00: Uh Hyson Piker, uh posing in his underwear on the big screen Wednesday night, prompting a uh flabbergasted reaction from Piker as he watched the moment unfold online.
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  SPEAKER_00: So this streamer is watching the convention, and Wednesday marked the start of Trump's two-day midterm convention in Dallas, Texas, the first ever event of its kind, which got off to a rocky start with long lines outside in a 95-degree heat, reports of attendees requiring medical attention, and swathes of empty seats inside the American Airlines Center.
• 18:36
  SPEAKER_00: Now we're a long, long way from when I went and saw Trump at the American Airlines Center in September of 2015, and I was able to get uh tickets uh from a friend of mine who uh we both knew Katrina Pearson, who was his national spokesperson, and I got like front row seats.
• 18:57
  SPEAKER_00: And I I it was a it was historic.
• 19:00
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, what he and it's looking back, I mean, it's a it was a brilliant con because he was talking about things that really mattered, you know, like trade deficits and bringing jobs back and stupid wars and you know, all the stuff.
• 19:14
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it was just red meat being thrown to people that were starved to hear uh that come out of a major candidate, you know, like anybody, because that was not what you were supposed to talk about in the Republican Party.
• 19:27
  SPEAKER_00: You weren't supposed to talk about stupid wars and people losing their jobs to NAFTA and stuff like that.
• 19:32
  SPEAKER_00: You weren't supposed to talk about, you know, uh bombing people um and like give a wink and a nod to having some sort of sane immigration policy.
• 19:42
  SPEAKER_00: It was a different time.
• 19:44
  SPEAKER_00: And I remember I was like, all these cameras, and I couldn't find any images of myself.
• 19:48
  SPEAKER_00: And then my I was having dinner one night about three weeks later, and my aunt called me and she's like, You're on 60 minutes.
• 19:56
  SPEAKER_00: I was on the B-roll because we walked up, you know, because Trump was coming across the line, and he had a great shot of me and uh one of my good friends uh there on that that infamous 60 minutes reel.
• 20:09
  SPEAKER_00: But yeah, it's a long way.
• 20:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's empty seats now, and uh this is how we've descended.
• 20:17
  SPEAKER_00: If you this is why I want to pull this off real quick.
• 20:20
  SPEAKER_00: Just besides that, like that little blurp, just how dumb that is, and I don't know who the these people are, and I don't know, like you've got people just entrenched about the Democrats can take Texas, you know, we can have uh Blexit or whatever they call it, and you know, the Republicans are digging in for again Paxton or whatever, right?
• 20:42
  SPEAKER_00: If you look at the headline just below where this linked on Drudge is that uh one of the uh consequences of having the Republican convention in Dallas was that the local uh grinder apps shut down.
• 21:01
  SPEAKER_00: Uh just do just do them if you know what that is.
• 21:06
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, grinder crashes in Dallas apart after a huge surge in activity.
• 21:13
  SPEAKER_00: You know, that's where we are, folks.
• 21:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um and that's as deep as I want to go into uh into politics because it's a road to nowhere.
• 21:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's talk about macro and big ideas and the the the constitutional uh consequences of continuing uh down the road uh that we're headed on right now, which is uh let's let's pull this up and then I'm let's do this story and I'll I want to get to the chat and uh we'll cover as many other headlines as I can.
• 21:48
  SPEAKER_00: I also want to thank uh Ashley for taking over last week.
• 21:52
  SPEAKER_00: She did a magnificent job.
• 21:54
  SPEAKER_00: I'll be on her show this evening.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: Crash.
• 22:00
  SPEAKER_00: It was a grinder crash, and you can put two things together, folks.
• 22:03
  SPEAKER_00: And just if you don't know what that is, I mean, don't Google it, I guess.
• 22:07
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe ask a friend.
• 22:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, what is that?
• 22:09
  SPEAKER_00: That website?
• 22:10
  SPEAKER_00: What does it match people up?
• 22:12
  SPEAKER_00: What kind of people match up on that?
• 22:13
  SPEAKER_00: And I guess that correlates to a lot more Republicans uh entering the town.
• 22:20
  SPEAKER_00: All right, let me put this up on the screen.
• 22:23
  SPEAKER_00: Uh this is zero hedge.
• 22:29
  SPEAKER_00: Iran war until 2029.
• 22:32
  SPEAKER_00: Vance Rubio privately warned Trump it could drag through to the end of his term.
• 22:39
  SPEAKER_00: President Trump on Wednesday told reporters to expect more U.S.
• 22:42
  SPEAKER_00: attacks on Iranian tankers as the war over the Hormuz Strait continues to escalate in piecemeal, tit for tat fashion.
• 22:52
  SPEAKER_00: The attacks are made by us, quote.
• 22:56
  SPEAKER_00: We've knocked out nine of their ships.
• 22:58
  SPEAKER_00: I would say that the attacks are caused by us, and you're going to see a lot more.
• 23:02
  SPEAKER_00: The president told reporters on Wednesday, adding that many of the Iranian tankers are dunzo.
• 23:09
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, just we are we are in idiocracy.
• 23:15
  SPEAKER_00: Where is, you know, it's times like this that you miss President Camacho, you know, like he did have a he did have a strong sense of right and wrong, you know.
• 23:26
  SPEAKER_00: Once he understood that not sure could really fix the plants and not water them Brondo, you know, I mean you have to give it to him.
• 23:36
  SPEAKER_00: The region has now seen over six months of war since Trump launched an operation that he and the White House officials at the first suggested would be just days, and then insisted repeatedly would be a four to six week campaign.
• 23:52
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, I remember those uh the Hausian days of just, you know, well, we'll be home by Christmas.
• 23:58
  SPEAKER_00: Uh that was uh Afghanistan, the longest war in American history.
• 24:03
  SPEAKER_00: It's like you knock out the Taliban, and then you're like, oh, well, oh, we installed them.
• 24:07
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, wait, how long are we gonna be here?
• 24:10
  SPEAKER_00: What is this for?
• 24:12
  SPEAKER_00: And then we leave them billions of dollars and all the weapons and all the cash.
• 24:15
  SPEAKER_00: Oh, okay, I get it.
• 24:18
  SPEAKER_00: All along the White House has kept moving the goalpost amid a lack of overall strategic vision and a failure to articulate what exactly enough of a victory would establish a military exit.
• 24:32
  SPEAKER_00: Speaking of drastically moving the goalposts, the below was another key media exchange with Trump on Wednesday.
• 24:39
  SPEAKER_00: Question: Do you expect negotiations with Iran to restart at some point?
• 24:43
  SPEAKER_00: Trump, uh, we're looking for it.
• 24:46
  SPEAKER_00: To be honest with you, this war will end immediately after our election.
• 24:52
  SPEAKER_00: What?
• 24:54
  SPEAKER_00: The Wall Street Journal has issued a report saying Trump's top advisors are now warning him that Iran conflict could last through the rest of his term.
• 25:03
  SPEAKER_00: Well, you know, uh, folks, I covered this before uh that it happened before it happened.
• 25:11
  SPEAKER_00: And if you were watching just kind of like the lead up to the Iraq war, except even more pronounced, um, we had a deal.
• 25:19
  SPEAKER_00: We had a deal before this with the Iranians.
• 25:22
  SPEAKER_00: And I again, when you have to go into this position where it sounds like you're defending Iran or you're defending Russia or communist China, I mean, that's just how dumb it's gotten.
• 25:32
  SPEAKER_00: Like you have to put this on the line and say, well, there was like an amazing deal being reached in Paris uh by our negotiators in Iran, and we were just we never planned on wanting a deal.
• 25:45
  SPEAKER_00: It had to be hit.
• 25:47
  SPEAKER_00: And so this is you know part of the failure of the defense establishment because it's so infected with neocons, which are really Luciferian actors, you know, like they're they love, they bow down and worship the god of revolution, like they think everything is it's about what man can do, you know, and and uh providing godlike um policy.
• 26:17
  SPEAKER_00: You know, they again this is what they want, democratize mankind, things that you'd never hear from the American founders.
• 26:23
  SPEAKER_00: But this is the the perpetual revolutionaries.
• 26:27
  SPEAKER_00: They always think that um, you know, if we just take out the the Ayatollah, if we just hit you know their leadership, which galvanized the population even further, it's interesting that they don't learn any lessons from history.
• 26:41
  SPEAKER_00: Um they have no historical sense, and that's where you get the the term about neocons and the Zionists, is that they're often clever but never wise.
• 26:53
  SPEAKER_00: Or uh Orwell's term, the uh streamline men who think in slogans and talk in bullets.
• 27:03
  SPEAKER_00: All right, let's uh let's go to the chat, and then we'll I think we'll get into some constitutionality on on war, how it how it comes back to us.
• 27:16
  SPEAKER_00: Dark Alley Entertainment.
• 27:19
  SPEAKER_00: I know who that is.
• 27:22
  SPEAKER_00: Are you back, sir?
• 27:23
  SPEAKER_00: It's been a long time.
• 27:25
  SPEAKER_00: I have a good memory, at least I think so.
• 27:27
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and then there's Ashley's in the chat.
• 27:30
  SPEAKER_00: Hey Tony, it's good to see you.
• 27:32
  SPEAKER_00: Harps in the YouTube chat.
• 27:35
  SPEAKER_00: Good to see you too.
• 27:39
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
• 27:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, maybe we can discuss tonight, but what is really going on with oil?
• 27:45
  SPEAKER_00: This is from Ashley.
• 27:47
  SPEAKER_00: A friend said that his uh stocks are up.
• 27:50
  SPEAKER_00: Franco showed that an Al Jazeera article that shows we have less oil flow now than we did in the 70s.
• 27:56
  SPEAKER_00: That's very true.
• 27:59
  SPEAKER_00: Uh in that crisis.
• 28:01
  SPEAKER_00: So why don't we have restrictions now?
• 28:03
  SPEAKER_00: Are they uh actually getting oil from Venezuela?
• 28:06
  SPEAKER_00: I don't think so.
• 28:07
  SPEAKER_00: And I th the problem, too, actually, is the um we have an aging uh refiner, refinery structure, and it's about the type of oil.
• 28:18
  SPEAKER_00: Like I don't I think the problem with the Venezuelan oil is the type of crude, and uh I I could I have a life, I can call someone who's an expert on this that I've known for 30 plus years, uh, that knows everything about this.
• 28:33
  SPEAKER_00: There's a reason why we can't refine it.
• 28:34
  SPEAKER_00: We're set up for that type of crude that comes out of uh Saudi Arabia, Middle East, which is about 26% of the world's oil supply, right?
• 28:44
  SPEAKER_00: Um and the rest, you know, is you get it from Venezuela, you get from Russia, Mexico, the United States.
• 28:49
  SPEAKER_00: And um, the issue is is refineries.
• 28:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like if you look at um you have the t-shirt man in Ukraine hitting uh Russian oil refineries that make fuel and make diesel uh with their drones, you know, because we have to keep that war going.
• 29:08
  SPEAKER_00: Um, you know, why why would you want to not be on the precipice of a nuclear holocaust or World War III?
• 29:16
  SPEAKER_00: Um so we have to keep that war going for appearances, you know, um, because all of the stuff happened in the Crimea was uh part of the Orange Revolution and the CIA coup that we you know overthrew the democratically elected leader of Ukraine in 2014, all that stuff.
• 29:32
  SPEAKER_00: But it's unfortunate that I have I remember that because then all the headlines uh appear exactly as they are, which are lies.
• 29:39
  SPEAKER_00: And uh so we have to follow this line of logic.
• 29:41
  SPEAKER_00: So keep that open.
• 29:42
  SPEAKER_00: It's about refineries and a lot of the types of oil that come out at different, we're not we don't have the the refinery uh infrastructure because we don't work on that here in this country.
• 29:55
  SPEAKER_00: It's kind of like we don't work on uh we don't have a a water problem, we have a salt problem.
• 30:01
  SPEAKER_00: You know, people you know, places that are low on irrigation or uh, you know, the water supply is is screwed up or whatever.
• 30:09
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we we have a we're surrounded by oceans, you know, we should be able to desalinize that water and that could create jobs and all sorts.
• 30:16
  SPEAKER_00: And we didn't do that, you know.
• 30:18
  SPEAKER_00: Uh and I think there's probably a reason for that.
• 30:20
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't work on that infrastructure.
• 30:22
  SPEAKER_00: So it's really about refineries uh that were not set up for this.
• 30:26
  SPEAKER_00: So when you cause a supply disruption on top of the, you know, again, it would be years before like Venezuelan oil would be able to offset anything.
• 30:38
  SPEAKER_00: You'd have to start extracting it, you have to get it on the global market.
• 30:42
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but right now the all bets are off because fear, uncertainty, and doubt, the markets love certainty.
• 30:49
  SPEAKER_00: They don't like to see, well, what if, or maybe, or you know, there has to be an underlying feeling of certitude in the markets themselves, and that's why they respond the way that they do now, which you're gonna probably see$120 barrel oil, maybe higher.
• 31:06
  SPEAKER_00: Because when we left the negotiation table and assassinated the Iranian leaders with uh our uh handlers uh in Israel when we did that, um Iran said all bet basically they just said, we'll we'll figure out what we're gonna do next.
• 31:25
  SPEAKER_00: We got all the time.
• 31:27
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we're running out of missiles.
• 31:30
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we've got this big, bloated, over-leveraged infrastructure that we have, it's bureaucratic, layer upon layer, mostly because of fiat currency.
• 31:40
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, when you don't worry about budgets anymore because there is no fiscal constraint and you live in that world, there's no exactitude, things fall apart.
• 31:48
  SPEAKER_00: All right, the center doesn't hold.
• 31:51
  SPEAKER_00: So you have Iran that just needs to hold on.
• 31:54
  SPEAKER_00: And the longer they hold on, the greater leverage that they have.
• 31:58
  SPEAKER_00: Bottom line.
• 32:00
  SPEAKER_00: So uh in what interest of theirs would it be to keep oil low, which has been the whole point.
• 32:07
  SPEAKER_00: Like that's how we won the Cold War.
• 32:10
  SPEAKER_00: First, we set up the petrodollar in 1974 with Henry Kissinger.
• 32:16
  SPEAKER_00: We went off the gold standard 71.
• 32:18
  SPEAKER_00: So we needed to tie it to something, and that was part of the deal Kissinger set up, was that the Saudis and OPEC would denominate and only transact uh oil or crude in dollars.
• 32:32
  SPEAKER_00: And that's where you get the term the petrol dollar, you know, petroleum dollar.
• 32:35
  SPEAKER_00: And that was linked for that time.
• 32:38
  SPEAKER_00: And we had that that ran until 2024 when we somehow like just let it lapse, which you can see now the world uh, and we've used uh all of our leverage, you know, in the past, we've used that.
• 32:55
  SPEAKER_00: Well, Reagan did that with the Soviets, like their prime export was energy.
• 33:00
  SPEAKER_00: So we just got the Saudis to keep that output high.
• 33:03
  SPEAKER_00: But we don't have that leverage anymore.
• 33:06
  SPEAKER_00: It's not just denominated in dollars, it's denominated in the Chinese Yuan or other current uh currencies.
• 33:12
  SPEAKER_00: You can see what Russia did after the sanctions in 22.
• 33:15
  SPEAKER_00: And um they said, and I remember the finance minister from Russia saying that dollars don't mean anything to us, they're candy wrappers.
• 33:23
  SPEAKER_00: And that's like in that's like toilet paper in Russian speak.
• 33:27
  SPEAKER_00: So they were making a statement back in 2022 that we put even more sanctions on them.
• 33:33
  SPEAKER_00: So the world's moving away from that system.
• 33:36
  SPEAKER_00: So what does Iran care if oil is at$120,$150,$200 a barrel?
• 33:42
  SPEAKER_00: As a matter of fact, it's better for them.
• 33:46
  SPEAKER_00: And they're going to be able to sell their oil, one way or the other.
• 33:50
  SPEAKER_00: Or they'll have other countries come in and drill and they'll partner with them.
• 33:54
  SPEAKER_00: So you're talking about nothing but upside for the Iranians and nothing but downside because we chose this.
• 34:03
  SPEAKER_00: And it wasn't about anything strategic, and it's not about nukes because you could make the case.
• 34:08
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I mean, the Chinese got nukes in 1964, right?
• 34:13
  SPEAKER_00: What about North Korea?
• 34:14
  SPEAKER_00: What about Pakistan?
• 34:15
  SPEAKER_00: What about India?
• 34:16
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like what what about, you know, just about any uh country that is didn't sign the nuclear non-proliferation treaty, but Iran did.
• 34:26
  SPEAKER_00: And so we're we're focused on Iran for all the Fox News surface level reasons, which are absolutely bunk.
• 34:35
  SPEAKER_00: And if you follow uh this show or smart shows, uh then you'll know exactly why we're uh dealing with that.
• 34:42
  SPEAKER_00: And the consequences are dire.
• 34:45
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 34:46
  SPEAKER_00: Let me see what else I can get into on the chat here.
• 34:52
  SPEAKER_00: And uh yeah, Venezuelan crude is more viscous with a higher sulfur content.
• 34:59
  SPEAKER_00: Correct.
• 35:00
  SPEAKER_00: And our refineries are not set up for that.
• 35:02
  SPEAKER_00: Not yet.
• 35:03
  SPEAKER_00: We should that would be like priority number one.
• 35:06
  SPEAKER_00: Like, wouldn't you want to have a better way to refine or more refining opportunities?
• 35:11
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, all that stuff.
• 35:13
  SPEAKER_00: We didn't work on the deals, uh, folks.
• 35:18
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
• 35:21
  SPEAKER_00: I'll go over on Rumble.
• 35:22
  SPEAKER_00: I don't forget you guys.
• 35:24
  SPEAKER_00: Don't think that I do.
• 35:27
  SPEAKER_00: Let's see.
• 35:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh we got harps over in the uh rumble chat, uh, Nostra 321.
• 35:35
  SPEAKER_00: I'll make sure I'm not missing anybody.
• 35:38
  SPEAKER_00: No voter IDs over there in the rumble chat.
• 35:43
  SPEAKER_00: It's interesting.
• 35:44
  SPEAKER_00: Sometimes the rumble chat or the either one will be like really busy and the other one's not.
• 35:50
  SPEAKER_00: But I I haven't uh integrated it all into StreamYard yet, but I will, I promise.
• 35:57
  SPEAKER_00: We'll have them all in one spot.
• 36:00
  unknown: All right.
• 36:01
  SPEAKER_00: Let's uh let's see what else we can get into.
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: You know what?
• 36:04
  SPEAKER_00: Let's let's uh let's play that Bill Cooper uh and we'll talk about war after that.
• 36:11
  SPEAKER_00: That's why we'll end the show.
• 36:13
  SPEAKER_00: Let's do it that way.
• 36:14
  SPEAKER_00: Uh let me put up this clip from YouTube.
• 36:18
  SPEAKER_00: If you haven't heard, this is Bill Cooper, June of 2001, broadcasting from his house in Eager, Arizona over WWCR, which we're currently on.
• 36:31
  SPEAKER_02: Put this up here.
• 36:32
  SPEAKER_02: Let me find this link.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_02: Great clip.
• 36:37
  SPEAKER_02: All right, here we go.
• 36:43
  SPEAKER_04: Can you believe what you have been seeing on CNN today, ladies and gentlemen?
• 36:47
  SPEAKER_04: Can you believe it?
• 36:50
  SPEAKER_04: Supposedly a CNN reporter found Osama bin Laden, took a television camera crew with him, went into Osama bin Laden's hideout, interviewed him and his top leadership, his top lieutenants and colonels and generals in their hideout.
• 37:17
  SPEAKER_04: This is a CNN reporter with a camera crew.
• 37:20
  SPEAKER_04: And he came out and told everybody within three weeks, Osama bin Laden is gonna attack the United States and Israel.
• 37:29
  SPEAKER_04: Now, don't you think that's kind of strange, folks?
• 37:34
  SPEAKER_04: You see, because the largest intelligence apparatus in the world, with the biggest budget in the history of the world, has been looking for Osama bin Laden for years and years and years and can't find him.
• 37:50
  SPEAKER_04: A reporter from CNN and his little camera crew got in to Osama bin Laden's secret hideout and conducted an interview.
• 38:02
  SPEAKER_04: You don't believe me, tune into CNN.
• 38:04
  SPEAKER_04: They're probably running it right now as I'm speaking.
• 38:08
  SPEAKER_04: And if you believe it, you are one of the stupidest jerks that ever lived on the face of this earth.
• 38:15
  SPEAKER_04: Whatever is going to happen that they're gonna blame on Osama bin Laden, don't you even believe it.
• 38:21
  SPEAKER_04: When in hell are all you people going to wake up?
• 38:28
  SPEAKER_00: You know, when I first heard that, uh, and um I was in the military during the time.
• 38:34
  SPEAKER_00: Actually, I was over in the in Europe in Sophia, Bulgaria competing on behalf of the United States.
• 38:41
  SPEAKER_00: I was a military member, but I was on the U.S.
• 38:43
  SPEAKER_00: powerlifting team at the World Championships when this was going on.
• 38:46
  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, I'd miss the Bill Cooper broadcast.
• 38:49
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't get to him until years later.
• 38:51
  SPEAKER_00: I think if you and even if you were part of it, you just knew something, something was terribly wrong with the story.
• 38:58
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe you push that in the back of your mind, especially if you're in the military at the time, like uh just something something energetically feels off.
• 39:05
  SPEAKER_00: It always felt off.
• 39:06
  SPEAKER_00: And the more years later, as I delve further and further into it, and I studied um people like Bill Cooper, uh, and really he was the only person who just saw this for what it was.
• 39:20
  SPEAKER_00: And uh even he broadcasted like the whole day on 9-11, and even like before anybody else, like he was saying this is that's control demolition.
• 39:29
  SPEAKER_00: You know, this he just had he was tapped into the wavelength of of what it must be and I know that I've read about his life, it was a pretty dark place to live in, but he saw it.
• 39:39
  SPEAKER_00: He was a prognosticator of of that evil and what happened on 9-11.
• 39:45
  SPEAKER_00: Now we're 25 years in, and it really did set the stage for you know the type of civilization or lack thereof that we live in today.
• 39:56
  SPEAKER_00: And then I think um, in a weird extension, uh Charlie Kirk, what happened to Charlie Kirk was part of that.
• 40:05
  SPEAKER_00: And maybe we'll never know exactly how it was, but there's something uh you have the same feeling.
• 40:12
  SPEAKER_00: Yeah, I had the same feeling about Stephen Paddock and uh Las Vegas, you know, in 2017, just how strange that was.
• 40:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh how it didn't make sense.
• 40:24
  SPEAKER_00: And it's the same thing with Charlie Kirk.
• 40:25
  SPEAKER_00: And then, you know, 9-11, like the official explanations are intellectually bankrupt.
• 40:31
  SPEAKER_00: Um, but yeah, if you go back and listen to some, this like this clip from Bill Cooper, and what you'll find, and even stranger as I've dug further and down the years, like the interview that he's talking about, strangely enough, you can't find it.
• 40:46
  SPEAKER_00: It's it's scrubbed.
• 40:47
  SPEAKER_00: You can't find the interview that he's talking about.
• 40:50
  SPEAKER_00: There's a 1998 interview that they had with CNN and Osama bin Laden, but the 2001 from June, you can't find it.
• 41:00
  SPEAKER_00: There's not a transcript of it.
• 41:02
  SPEAKER_00: There's only mentions and uh broken links to it, but I've looked.
• 41:07
  SPEAKER_00: And so that's something that's really interesting as well.
• 41:09
  SPEAKER_00: There's a lot of stuff that happened, you can tell, you know, through the like the foreknowledge, and not on just the insider trading, but you had uh, and I was in um, like I said, Sofia, Bulgaria with my dad, and I remember the the uh the story that was on CNN International the day before.
• 41:32
  SPEAKER_00: And most people don't remember this, but the day before there was a camera crew who got in with the leader of the Northern Alliance, which was the um main opposition to the Taliban in Afghanistan, and they did a quote-unquote suicide bomb and killed the leader of the Northern Alliance.
• 41:53
  SPEAKER_00: Now, what would that have meant if the Northern Alliance was still intact, right, and post-9-11, and we wanted to take over Afghan, we'd have to deal with the Northern Alliance.
• 42:06
  SPEAKER_00: So it's almost like they were setting up a complete power vacuum.
• 42:11
  SPEAKER_00: And that's something that, you know, I was 21, but I can remember uh that I felt like there was some significance to the story.
• 42:20
  SPEAKER_00: I don't, I don't know why.
• 42:21
  SPEAKER_00: I stopped and watched it, and there was been no reason for me to watch this since 910, 2001.
• 42:28
  SPEAKER_00: But I stopped and watched it, and I just put it in my memory bank, and then years I go, oh, that's right.
• 42:34
  SPEAKER_00: There was a camera crew that went in and killed the leader of the Northern Alliance, the main opposition to the Taliban.
• 42:39
  SPEAKER_00: So it's you know, having a memory.
• 42:42
  SPEAKER_00: Uh well, that's Will Durant said that insanity was the loss of memory.
• 42:46
  SPEAKER_00: I don't know.
• 42:47
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe you can I think you go insane by remembering stuff.
• 42:50
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's twofold.
• 42:52
  SPEAKER_00: All right, we got about uh 18 minutes.
• 42:55
  SPEAKER_00: Let me see how far I can get into this uh Judge Napolitano article.
• 43:02
  SPEAKER_00: Let me find I've got so many tabs open, folks.
• 43:06
  SPEAKER_00: Let me see if I can find it.
• 43:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh it was a there we go.
• 43:11
  SPEAKER_00: It's antiwar.com.
• 43:16
  SPEAKER_00: Let me put this up on the screen.
• 43:20
  SPEAKER_00: I I like Judge Napolitano's articles.
• 43:23
  SPEAKER_00: And this is he was also put on um Lou Rockwell, but antiwar.com, which I I do this is so important to have this kind of news now.
• 43:32
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I I give a a monthly donation to anti-war and just uh just again, uh anything that uh is gonna actually bypass the mainstream narrative and give me some information that is not based off of the needs uh of the war machine, uh I find very useful.
• 43:51
  SPEAKER_00: Uh when it when war comes home, it's a constitutional warning uh by Andrew Napolitano.
• 43:59
  SPEAKER_00: A The failed war does not end when the drones stop flying.
• 44:05
  SPEAKER_00: It creates new danger.
• 44:07
  SPEAKER_00: A government that refuses to admit defeat, and a president who, having failed abroad, seeks muscular victories elsewhere.
• 44:16
  SPEAKER_00: The war against Iran is a case study in the limits of military power, the dangers of presidential overreach, and the enduring wisdom of the Constitution's separation of powers when it was all when it when it was unauthorized, unconstitutional, illegal, strategically incoherent by the standards by which wars must be judged, a geopolitical failure.
• 44:45
  SPEAKER_00: The American people were told that force would achieve clear objectives.
• 44:49
  SPEAKER_00: Iran would be compelled to surrender.
• 44:52
  SPEAKER_00: Somehow, American security would be enhanced, the region would become more stable.
• 44:58
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, the United States expended enormous resources, consumed scarce munitions, deepened regional instability, and failed to produce the political outcome President Donald Trump promised.
• 45:11
  SPEAKER_00: Senior military officials just last week warned him that extending large-scale operation risks exhausting critical military capabilities and weakening America's ability to respond elsewhere.
• 45:27
  SPEAKER_00: Well, and just a side note here, too, you know, and I th and Ashley's covered this and covered this on the last show.
• 45:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, we've moved, uh we've got uh resources from the Pacific.
• 45:39
  SPEAKER_00: We've had to move in to replace these overextended resources that were already overextended in the Middle East and leaving our flanks open in the Pacific for, and again, not that this, you know, in a in a world where uh the main goal should be trade routes and negotiations and uh the sovereignty of borders instead of expanding empire, that probably wouldn't mean much.
• 46:05
  SPEAKER_00: But the way that the chess board is set up, uh, it's very crucial that we have presence right in the Pacific.
• 46:13
  SPEAKER_00: And with Scott Bessant, the Treasury Secretary, making this financial D-Day, as I discussed with David Knight, um, all that gold flowing into these places like Hong Kong or Shanghai and Hong Kong really, because they're making these uh bullion uh storage exchange facilities, which I thought was like the most important story of the last two or three years.
• 46:36
  SPEAKER_00: What are you gonna do?
• 46:37
  SPEAKER_00: Are you gonna go to war with China?
• 46:40
  SPEAKER_00: Because that gold flows in from you know these countries uh sidestepping sanctions.
• 46:49
  SPEAKER_00: It does seem that a lot of this uh weaponized incompetence that we're doing now setting the stage for something much larger, even on top of our arrogance.
• 47:02
  SPEAKER_00: The United States can destroy buildings, eliminate targets, deploy aircraft, ships, missiles, drones, and troops anywhere on the planet, but war is not a video game in which the destruction of enemy assets automatically produces political surrender.
• 47:17
  SPEAKER_00: War is a contest of wills, societies, cultures, and endurance.
• 47:23
  SPEAKER_00: And here is the constitutional question that should have been asked before the first bomb was dropped.
• 47:29
  SPEAKER_00: Who gave the president the authority to begin this war?
• 47:32
  SPEAKER_00: Because the Constitution did not.
• 47:35
  SPEAKER_00: Article I, Section 8 gives Congress, not the president, the power to declare war.
• 47:40
  SPEAKER_00: The framers deliberately rejected the British model in which kings could drag nations into conflicts based on personal judgment, ambition, or political convenience.
• 47:51
  SPEAKER_00: James Madison warned that the executive branch was the branch of power most interested in war, and therefore the Constitution placed the decision to enter war outside the president's constitutional reach.
• 48:05
  SPEAKER_00: The president is commander-in-chief.
• 48:08
  SPEAKER_00: He commands forces after lawful congressional decisions have been made.
• 48:12
  SPEAKER_00: He does not possess the power to transform his title into a personal authority to begin wars.
• 48:19
  SPEAKER_00: Well, we've muddied that.
• 48:21
  SPEAKER_00: You know, and it really the last declared war was World War II.
• 48:25
  SPEAKER_00: Um, and you could get into what Pat Buchanan called World War II, which is really uh a quote from Churchill, uh, which was the unnecessary war.
• 48:35
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, it's called the Good War and all that now by historians.
• 48:39
  SPEAKER_00: But if you look at them, and we didn't have to do that war either.
• 48:42
  SPEAKER_00: We certainly didn't have to do World War I, but we declared them.
• 48:46
  SPEAKER_00: And it was the aftermath of the national security state in 1947 when you got the you know, post-Roswell, which I think had something to do with it.
• 48:56
  SPEAKER_00: But you had the birth of the CIA, the NSA, the Air Force, all this stuff uh that was uh in that uh NSC document 68, National Security Council.
• 49:07
  SPEAKER_00: That began the National Security State in 1947.
• 49:10
  SPEAKER_00: Then you came Korea, and uh President Truman uh had MacArthur go to Korea and all this stuff, and uh that created a uh a riff between the military uh and the executive and all the rest of the policies that were previous.
• 49:27
  SPEAKER_00: You know, we were uh opening up a wider war, and Truman wanted it closed, and uh the whole thing became uh a police action.
• 49:36
  SPEAKER_00: That was what the one of the reporters asked of President Truman.
• 49:40
  SPEAKER_00: So post-World War II, we haven't declared war.
• 49:45
  SPEAKER_00: And it gets, you know, the waters get pretty muddy.
• 49:48
  SPEAKER_00: You know, you have uh the Gulf of Tonkin, which gave President Johnson the War Powers Act and the ability to conduct a war that wasn't, you know, a declared war.
• 49:59
  SPEAKER_00: And we just haven't done a declared war since.
• 50:02
  SPEAKER_00: And Congress over time has become less and less relevant.
• 50:08
  SPEAKER_00: We have uh the executive has assumed all of those powers, and so it's really just a formality to have Congress anymore.
• 50:15
  SPEAKER_00: But constitutionally, we're way past that.
• 50:21
  SPEAKER_00: The principle has been repeatedly recognized by the Supreme Court in such cases as Youngstown Sheet and Tube versus Sawyer.
• 50:28
  SPEAKER_00: The court rejected the idea that President Harry Truman had unlimited power simply because he claimed national security.
• 50:35
  SPEAKER_00: Justice Robert Jackson's famous concurrence warned that executive power is most dangerous when it operates in a quote zone of twilight.
• 50:44
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't that interesting?
• 50:45
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know where that comes from.
• 50:47
  SPEAKER_00: Ah, that's where Serling got that.
• 50:50
  SPEAKER_00: Where presidents attempt to expand authority beyond constitutional boundaries and without congressional concurrence.
• 50:58
  SPEAKER_00: The Iran war belongs precisely in that twilight where executive ambition collides with constitutional restraint.
• 51:06
  SPEAKER_00: The administration may argue that modern threats require flexibility.
• 51:10
  SPEAKER_00: That argument has been made by presidents of both parties for decades, but flexibility is not the same as unlimited authority.
• 51:19
  SPEAKER_00: The Constitution was written for difficult moments, not easy ones.
• 51:23
  SPEAKER_00: It was designed to restrain presidents even when they believed they had compelling reason to act.
• 51:30
  SPEAKER_00: The military failure abroad has created a political dilemma at home.
• 51:34
  SPEAKER_00: A president who promised victory must now confront the reality that victory was never achieved.
• 51:41
  SPEAKER_00: Well Yeah, I'm of two minds here with this.
• 51:49
  SPEAKER_00: Again, I I tend to lean towards the James Forrestal prediction that he gave Joe McCarthy.
• 51:57
  SPEAKER_00: You know, like if if they were simply stupid, then every once in a while they'd err in our favor, but they never do.
• 52:02
  SPEAKER_00: So that's why you would uh link every policy, as Franklin Roosevelt said.
• 52:10
  SPEAKER_00: You know, if something happens in politics, you can bet it was planned.
• 52:14
  SPEAKER_00: So this seems to be, you know, some sort of uh just like the beginning assessment of the clown world that I gave you, where the president threatened himself.
• 52:25
  SPEAKER_00: We threatened, we threaten the American economy with sanctions on ourselves if we if we don't lower rates.
• 52:34
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, that's that's how we've devolved.
• 52:37
  SPEAKER_00: So who knows how much of this is on we they had to have known with the sophisticated simulations they can run anyway in war games, uh, just how volatile the Strait of Hormoose was going to be.
• 52:49
  SPEAKER_00: And again, I tell that story all the time.
• 52:52
  SPEAKER_00: Like, you know, I remember talking with my dad about that in the 90s.
• 52:57
  SPEAKER_00: Like, I knew that, right?
• 52:59
  SPEAKER_00: What was going to happen to the strait if you got into this war with Iran?
• 53:03
  SPEAKER_00: Um but the judge is right here.
• 53:06
  SPEAKER_00: You know, the if we have any chance of surviving as a people, like we'd you have to have a a renaissance of sorts and go back to uh the intent and understanding of what the constitution meant.
• 53:22
  SPEAKER_00: Like what if we don't have an understanding of that, if there is no restraint, then nothing matters, right?
• 53:28
  SPEAKER_00: This is you create nihilism, it's chaos, right?
• 53:32
  SPEAKER_00: Which I think is always always the point of any of those like um stretches for power.
• 53:39
  SPEAKER_00: Like they always want to overdo tradition and overthrow that.
• 53:44
  SPEAKER_00: But that's why you have to have like the old Roman thing, like who watches the watchers?
• 53:49
  SPEAKER_00: You have to have layers of vigilance in all of this.
• 53:56
  SPEAKER_00: But it should be recorded and understood that we oppose it.
• 54:02
  SPEAKER_00: Like this is opposed by those who understand the Constitution.
• 54:05
  SPEAKER_00: I mean, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
• 54:11
  SPEAKER_00: I didn't unswear it.
• 54:14
  SPEAKER_00: Isn't there a point to swearing oaths?
• 54:20
  SPEAKER_00: The yeah, the military failure abroad has created a political dilemma at home.
• 54:27
  SPEAKER_00: The danger is what happens next.
• 54:29
  SPEAKER_00: History teaches that political leaders who suffer humiliation abroad often seek to demonstrations of strength elsewhere.
• 54:38
  SPEAKER_00: Foreign policy failure can produce domestic overreach.
• 54:42
  SPEAKER_00: Leaders who cannot achieve the desired result overseas may attempt to prove their power through actions at home.
• 54:49
  SPEAKER_00: This is where the war comes home.
• 54:52
  SPEAKER_00: The president, frustrated by military limitations, may turn toward radical immigration enforcement, Supreme Court prohibited tariffs, statutory prohibited domestic deployments of military forces, stealing foreign-owned oil, and assertions of executive authority that collide with free speech and free association.
• 55:16
  SPEAKER_00: But the Constitution does not permit a president to substitute disappointments for law.
• 55:23
  SPEAKER_00: The executive branch cannot simply identify alleged criminals in speedboats or elsewhere, declare them enemies, and impose punishment without trial.
• 55:32
  SPEAKER_00: That is a system the American Revolution rejected.
• 55:38
  SPEAKER_00: Well, I can tell you folks, as um we wind down the show, the judge is right here, and he just mentioned something that I I predicted when it happened uh would come back.
• 55:50
  SPEAKER_00: And that was those Venezuelan boats, uh, when we like the lead up to when we uh kidnapped Maduro, you know, when we reversed Iced and got Maduro, right?
• 56:03
  SPEAKER_00: I said and I saw the videos and I thought this will come back, and it's going to.
• 56:09
  SPEAKER_00: You just you can't karmically, whatever that is, like we and you hit those boats, right?
• 56:15
  SPEAKER_00: We're just machine gunning people.
• 56:18
  SPEAKER_00: Um there's a headline today on Drudge, and I started to think like this is gonna be like we're talking about stuff that's six months out, nine months out.
• 56:29
  SPEAKER_00: Um the does the Department of War itself will be under siege by the new crop of Democrats.
• 56:39
  SPEAKER_00: Uh the Republicans have done, not to get into politics, but uh I mean, anybody that with a nose for this is like if even if even if 80% of it's real, like they have done just a disastrous job at governing.
• 56:52
  SPEAKER_00: And those empty seats at the American Airlines Center, I mean, that's where people are.
• 56:58
  SPEAKER_00: You got it's it's hard to be excited about anything politically when you're paying record prices for diesel.
• 57:04
  SPEAKER_02: Okay.
• 57:05
  SPEAKER_00: And you didn't have to.
• 57:07
  SPEAKER_00: I remember those stickers that have Joe Biden, you know, pointing at the gas price like uh I did this, you know.
• 57:14
  SPEAKER_00: And I thought, well, that's I like a good stick it to you.
• 57:18
  SPEAKER_00: Then you saw the ones come out where Trump did it.
• 57:21
  SPEAKER_00: Now nobody does it anymore because they can't afford the stickers.
• 57:25
  SPEAKER_00: Okay.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_00: All right.
• 57:28
  SPEAKER_00: Uh let's see, we got a couple minutes left.
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• 57:46
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• 57:48
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• 57:54
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• 58:02
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• 58:10
  SPEAKER_00: It took that long.
• 58:12
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I didn't think I was ever gonna get it, uh, but I kept trying, which is I think the story of my life.
• 58:17
  SPEAKER_00: Um, I never gave up.
• 58:19
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• 58:21
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• 58:22
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• 58:33
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• 58:38
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• 58:45
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• 58:53
  SPEAKER_00: It's magic.
• 58:54
  SPEAKER_00: And I put it in the mail.
• 58:55
  SPEAKER_00: I don't keep it.
• 58:57
  SPEAKER_00: I want you to have it.
• 58:58
  SPEAKER_00: I don't want your medals, I want you to have them.
• 59:00
  SPEAKER_00: And they're not paper, they are real uh stores of value in a world where um less and less makes sense.
• 59:09
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I know that uh maybe the price of gold doesn't truly reflect everything.
• 59:13
  SPEAKER_00: Maybe it's not a hundred percent free market.
• 59:16
  SPEAKER_00: I give you that.
• 59:17
  SPEAKER_00: Same thing with silver.
• 59:18
  SPEAKER_00: I think they should probably be a lot higher in price, same thing for Bitcoin.
• 59:22
  SPEAKER_00: Uh, but they do give you the best chance uh at sheltering your hard work and all your energy against uh the clown world order.
• 59:30
  SPEAKER_00: So I'm assuming I'm assuming the AI will pick this out and something clown will be in the uh will be in the uh the title of the podcast.
• 59:41
  SPEAKER_00: All right, folks.
• 59:42
  SPEAKER_00: So I appreciate you from Beans the Brave, myself, the crew here in uh in Denison.
• 59:48
  SPEAKER_00: Uh I may or may not, I will be, um, in Nashville this weekend.
• 59:53
  SPEAKER_00: So check out the word war debate.
• 59:55
  SPEAKER_00: Uh my good friend Sam Tripoli, uh Charlie Robinson's hosting.
• 59:59
  SPEAKER_00: You're gonna want to check that out.
• 1:00:01
  SPEAKER_00: I'll put some pictures up um and keep everybody keep everybody in the loop.
• 1:00:06
  SPEAKER_00: So you guys uh take care of each other.
• 1:00:09
  SPEAKER_00: End of transmission.