Patriot Power Hour #262

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[00:02:31] Patriot power hour. It's episode

[00:02:34] 262 May 15th 2024 Ben the breaker of banksters here with future Dan

[00:02:40] We're on 262 and

[00:02:43] I haven't seen a week where we had so much natural news most of the headlines we're gonna get into a

[00:02:50] Deadly natural occurrences and they're abroad

[00:02:55] Other than that there is there's news at home. What's striking your

[00:03:01] Interest right at the top episode 262 bed

[00:03:05] Domestically, it's all about the economy to me

[00:03:08] Internationally, there's a lot of other stuff going on. We'll talk about that whether that's Ukraine China, etc. Middle East the home

[00:03:16] It's all about

[00:03:17] The economy and I am biased as the breaker of banksters

[00:03:22] But essentially today we saw that uh, the Federal Reserve is hinting that they're gonna lower rates again and would be there

[00:03:30] with quantitative easing and more bailouts if there is any sort of

[00:03:34] crisis so we saw more than a dollar gain in silver 30 bucks in gold and

[00:03:42] more than

[00:03:44] $4,500 just today and Bitcoin

[00:03:47] Increase so the printing machine is warming back up if it ever cooled down

[00:03:53] All the different Treasury bonds and the yield on the government debt going down meaning they expect interest rates to go down

[00:04:02] but

[00:04:03] They've been

[00:04:05] Hein and Hahn and Hemming and Haidt and all the feds speak in the world and who really knows what's going on

[00:04:11] I just think keep prepping the economy is definitely not getting better

[00:04:16] In the long run I can tell you that

[00:04:19] So CPI the super price index came in running

[00:04:24] 3.4 percent

[00:04:26] year over year and

[00:04:28] The stock market went up for the rest of the day as well. So that's where you that's where we're at

[00:04:35] Not as bad I suppose but conversely yesterday just one day ago

[00:04:41] We saw producer prices US producer prices accelerating at one of the highest clips in

[00:04:49] the past year and definitely much higher than average and

[00:04:53] way above expectations as

[00:04:56] Any one finance 101 person could tell you

[00:05:01] The markets already price it in if the expectations are there but when expectations are missed or

[00:05:06] Or

[00:05:07] Whether whether that misses higher or low it can change things and even though the inflation is still high

[00:05:15] The market at least today thought hey

[00:05:17] maybe it's not as bad as we were thinking and

[00:05:20] Maybe the Fed will be able to cut rates a little bit and maybe

[00:05:25] And we can keep this party going a little longer and that set off

[00:05:30] Some financial gain for those who are prepared for it. Yeah, how close to tottering?

[00:05:38] Spitting apart. Do you think we are right now compared to? Oh, I don't know last week. Oh

[00:05:45] It's super hard to tell week to week because what's really the depths of the banking system

[00:05:51] We're not privy to and a lot of times you're not privy to to way after a crash or a liquidity

[00:05:57] Event or a bank failure so there could be a huge bank that's failing right now

[00:06:03] They're having emergency talks with the Fed that we don't even know about that may never manifest because they're able to patch it up

[00:06:08] Or might manifest next week out of nowhere. I think

[00:06:13] We're not in a better situation than we were last week. Have we degraded by a precipitate?

[00:06:19] You know by by a large amount hard to tell hard to tell

[00:06:23] I think what I've always looked at we talked about a lot last week is is debt relative to GDP or

[00:06:30] debt relative to what you actually

[00:06:32] Produce your actual revenue and

[00:06:37] We're seeing the interest well first off the deficits are huge

[00:06:41] National debt and consumer debt are just massive and with these high interest rates. I mean

[00:06:47] When the interest on the debt is more than the entire defense budget, and it continues to grow

[00:06:53] Faster than the defense budget that is actual national security level, so I think we're at red alert already

[00:07:00] And the defense budget is not getting smaller year-over-year. That's for sure. Yeah, right exactly

[00:07:09] Yep, we got news abroad. We got news at home got economic news natural news

[00:07:16] but

[00:07:18] everybody else gonna be talking about the fact that there right now will be a

[00:07:23] Biden Trump debate again in June

[00:07:27] That is taking up all the airwaves all the internet all the television everything

[00:07:33] All the papers I'm sure tomorrow whatever people don't read the papers anymore

[00:07:37] But I think the average person is more worried about record household debt

[00:07:42] Jumping delinquencies massive amount of bankruptcies and foreclosures on the horizon

[00:07:48] James Walton the trepid commander right here on pepper broadcast network a

[00:07:52] Few days ago talked about prepping to excess and that's definitely the same financially if you are making more money now

[00:08:00] Then you're spending

[00:08:03] Good save that invest in that whether in preps and your skills and health first and foremost

[00:08:10] and

[00:08:12] Hold on tight. Don't don't piss it away

[00:08:13] You know

[00:08:14] I want to go buy a new truck really bad

[00:08:16] And I'm not doing it because I'd rather just hold on to it cuz who knows is

[00:08:20] Let's get through this election through the year at least maybe even through the inauguration next year

[00:08:25] before any of those big purchases and and splurging a little bit and

[00:08:30] I think that's smart for everybody prep to excess

[00:08:34] financially or otherwise

[00:08:37] Yeah, I think you said that federal government right now. They're they're prepping for their success in a second Trump term and

[00:08:46] That means hardwiring

[00:08:48] Funding streams and and getting money appropriate

[00:08:51] putting into place, you know people to just

[00:08:55] Absolutely defy him if he makes it to the presidency

[00:08:58] If he if he makes it to the bait at the end of June and is not in jail by then

[00:09:05] So there's a lot of context. I think the average

[00:09:10] Prepper broadcasting network listener is more focused on the things you've mentioned

[00:09:16] But the average American tonight, no, they're talking about

[00:09:19] Biden and what kind of train wreck that's liable to be I mean, it's gonna be historical. I

[00:09:27] Would love it I would love Trump to clean this clock live on TV

[00:09:30] I'll give it like a coin flip at best of occurring just the debate let alone anything beyond then but

[00:09:38] Let's have it. Let's do it

[00:09:40] one mono a mono I

[00:09:43] I

[00:09:44] Think there's no audience. That's part of the terms, right?

[00:09:48] So yeah, I'm wondering if the terms are they they don't even appear in the same room. They're like

[00:09:54] In video clips with response calls

[00:10:00] The first presidential teams debate

[00:10:03] Teams or something so cringe but so likely apparently I don't know I

[00:10:10] Would I look forward forward to it I don't even know if I didn't would make it that far

[00:10:15] There's still a lot of folks out there. I think he could be replaced at the DNC and like August

[00:10:20] I think that's so close to the election

[00:10:22] But I know that it feels like they're turning against him

[00:10:26] He's only getting older every day like all of us

[00:10:28] But it affects someone of his age and dementia a lot more than everybody else. So anyway

[00:10:34] We'll see that's still like a month and a half from now, there's a lot that could change between now in that debate

[00:10:41] The Democrats do have delegates and primaries that could go to a convention and just vote against him. That is true

[00:10:51] That'd be amazing to watch

[00:10:53] political party in the West

[00:10:56] remove its own leader

[00:10:58] By you know, just a party apparatus the delegates not you know everyday voters

[00:11:05] Because he did win all the primaries to my knowledge, I don't think he had a any opposition in a single state

[00:11:12] That would be so undemocratic to witness that

[00:11:17] That'd be a turning point I'm not sure

[00:11:20] He would go out that way. He might pass away between here and the election

[00:11:24] He's certainly old enough and other presidents have that age of life

[00:11:28] So

[00:11:30] Yeah, or have to step down because he had to stay in the hospital for a few weeks and he couldn't even hide it

[00:11:35] You know, it wasn't like he was able to I'm just saying like I

[00:11:39] I'd rather him not be a martyr and be hurt or injured or sickly

[00:11:43] I'd rather him just get whooped fair and square. But uh, you know, this is a pretty high chance that

[00:11:50] His health could fail between now and the election now an inauguration even now in the

[00:11:55] June debate that set up are they gonna do two of them or just one didn't they maybe say there's

[00:11:59] I thought they announced two and the first ones in June. Okay. All right

[00:12:06] Yeah, they put entertainment entertainment at least and I hope that Trump would whoop them. But uh, yeah, it's not that

[00:12:14] Yeah, and and the prospect that that party could do that just jettison their sitting president as

[00:12:22] candidate in the

[00:12:24] In their convention the same summer that they possibly jailed their political opponent, right? I mean

[00:12:32] Think about that dystopia. There's gonna be

[00:12:35] Gone a shadow of a doubt

[00:12:37] You know a one party system rising in this country if that happens

[00:12:44] And left right in the center would be able to watch it with their own eyes

[00:12:47] A lot of people would bury their head in the sand

[00:12:50] But a lot of people would wake up or continue waking up seeing that

[00:12:56] Yeah, we got a couple minutes till break what else on your radar before we go to break it yeah we go to

[00:13:04] That that kind of waking up is

[00:13:07] destabilizing right

[00:13:08] So that with that background in context in the popular, you know election

[00:13:16] Starts to you know have second third-order effects in other parts of news that are that

[00:13:22] You know are getting much more serious. So there's no indicator talk about

[00:13:26] the controversial

[00:13:28] Presidential debate on future danger in and of itself. It's good thing. There's a debate but

[00:13:35] Okay, it's gonna be shaking up this whole country the next month especially from goes to jail

[00:13:42] it's gonna be

[00:13:45] Amazing to watch whether the judiciary can

[00:13:48] Do something to you know put an end to this or they just let it ride and the country's gonna boil

[00:13:57] Probably purposefully. They could get a lot of other things done and blame a lot of people get a lot of in-fighting going on

[00:14:04] With that I think

[00:14:06] Biden would have to step down himself or be so like I said medically incapacitated that it couldn't be denied

[00:14:11] I don't think they will literally

[00:14:14] You know trying to remove him when he's kicking and screaming trying to stay and that would be such a bad look

[00:14:23] Literally passes away

[00:14:27] So in firm or hospitalized can't make appearances and just has throw it in or he says hey

[00:14:32] I need to step down

[00:14:35] Anyway folks, we're going to

[00:14:37] On the Patriot power hour with the news blitz and a lot more analysis is right stick with us

[00:14:43] I have come into the maze in war and I

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[00:15:00] Finger up for Ragnarok

[00:15:13] Patriot power hour interception

[00:15:19] February 25th 2020 episode 85

[00:15:24] Why?

[00:15:26] Can low interest rates be bad?

[00:15:29] In layman's terms think of it as adrenaline if you're running on adrenaline at all times

[00:15:35] That is really taxing the system and really it could kill you

[00:15:40] Sometimes you need adrenaline if there's a medical emergency that can keep the patient alive, right?

[00:15:45] Bam right in the heart like Pulp Fiction

[00:15:47] But guess what? You can't be having that all the time. We're not just seeing emergency measures. We're seeing

[00:15:55] unprecedented

[00:15:56] emergency measures

[00:15:58] Very low interest rates for prolonged period of time

[00:16:02] They simply lead to bad and poor allocation of capital slash resources

[00:16:09] Malinvestment those investors whether it's your pension fund whether it's 401k

[00:16:15] Whether it's

[00:16:17] Foreigners who buy a lot of our debt by the way all those folks

[00:16:21] They want to get a return and guess what when inflation is actually higher

[00:16:26] Even though they say inflation rates low it's not this low and the lower these rates go just means inflation is

[00:16:33] much and much higher

[00:16:35] Where does that end just as ends in the total unfortunately the total destruction in an exponential fashion of any mathematical

[00:16:43] model

[00:16:44] other prepper broadcasting network

[00:17:12] Render no trigger fingers go

[00:17:34] Shot like a rocket up into the sky nothing can stop me tonight

[00:17:37] Top of the news blitz episode 262 May 15th 2024

[00:18:15] Let's start with the wide variety of natural news late last weekend you may have heard it here on PBN a

[00:18:25] lot of alerts of

[00:18:28] extreme solar storms

[00:18:30] coronal mass ejections etc

[00:18:33] Luckily, we didn't sustain a kill shot that took out tons of satellites or even power grids

[00:18:39] They did survive, but this is the first one in 20 years. I mean this extreme of a solar storm in 20 years

[00:18:49] US did suffer some radio blackouts after being hit

[00:18:53] Thankfully nothing too crazy, but there were and other natural news or unfortunately have been some deaths and

[00:19:00] big time

[00:19:02] destruction

[00:19:04] Thousands of homes destroyed over 300 dead as flash floods ravaged northern Afghanistan

[00:19:11] Huge floods in Brazil

[00:19:15] Deadly dust storm in India

[00:19:18] Kills eight and moon by all types of negative health effects. I'm sure as well

[00:19:27] asteroid to fly past Earth at a very close distance of

[00:19:31] 0.06 lunar distances

[00:19:34] super close

[00:19:36] relatively speaking a

[00:19:40] Couple earthquakes in Mexico Chiapas region, so

[00:19:49] It's that time of the year at least in the northern hemisphere lots of activities spring

[00:19:54] storms and whatnot

[00:20:00] Economics we touched on some of this in the

[00:20:05] Intro today's show but producer prices accelerating at fastest rate in 12 months

[00:20:14] Fed chair admits inflation higher than expected

[00:20:18] on the other hand today's CPI came in at a

[00:20:22] not

[00:20:24] Trust me inflation is not going down

[00:20:26] But it wasn't as high as potentially expected meaning the Fed may have a little bit of wiggle room. We'll see

[00:20:32] Meanwhile

[00:20:34] Commission to address federal governments 34 trillion dollars in debt

[00:20:39] Well, it's dead in Congress. Maybe when it gets to 40 trillion low rally and

[00:20:44] But I don't think so, but it's it's it's dead for now

[00:20:51] record household debt

[00:20:53] Jump into lequencies signal worsening financial distress

[00:20:57] hard cars the houses the businesses

[00:21:01] To yes governments

[00:21:04] lots of

[00:21:06] delinquencies

[00:21:08] biggest NATO exercise since Cold War is going on swift response and

[00:21:18] in

[00:21:19] Kharkov

[00:21:21] Which had two huge battles in World War two between the Nazis and the Russians?

[00:21:27] Well, that's the front lines again

[00:21:30] Ukrainian frontlines though are collapsing

[00:21:32] Some Ukrainian military men really pissed that their defenses were not

[00:21:40] Fortified enough the German or it's the Germans the Russians were able to plow through their front lines

[00:21:46] Taking a lot of land in eastern Ukraine after Orthodox Easter just a week ago

[00:21:52] Any sort of ceasefire was over?

[00:21:57] Potus 46 calls illegals crossing the border

[00:22:01] Hispanic voters

[00:22:03] Also was bragging about how they're joining the labor force

[00:22:07] and

[00:22:08] Finally, they are model citizens. So

[00:22:12] aliens vote

[00:22:14] Is what that one's under future Dan. There's the news blitz

[00:22:18] Yeah, so we got a

[00:22:23] politician in Slovakia

[00:22:25] assassinated tonight as well or

[00:22:28] assassination so that situation in

[00:22:31] Ukraine and Eastern Europe is more volatile tonight that has been

[00:22:36] It's about this, you know other moments in the first year of the war, but it's

[00:22:42] we're getting a crescendo in the Ukraine theater of combat and

[00:22:47] The

[00:22:49] Slovakian

[00:22:51] president

[00:22:52] super prime minister

[00:22:54] expected to live

[00:22:56] Last I read about 45 minutes ago

[00:22:58] but was in very critical condition and was

[00:23:03] Let's just say it wasn't Putin that did this we won't think anything could happen with cloak and dagger

[00:23:09] but this guy was if anything pro-russia and

[00:23:13] Anti NATO and said he would not allow or he would veto

[00:23:19] Ukraine

[00:23:21] entering NATO

[00:23:23] Guess Slovakia is in a feature Dan did not know that

[00:23:27] Yeah, yeah all the all the states are in NATO now

[00:23:32] In NATO now with Finland and Sweden joining except for

[00:23:38] Switzerland of course, so

[00:23:40] There you go

[00:23:44] Minister of a NATO country that actually was sort of pro-russian

[00:23:49] Shot in broad daylight today

[00:23:53] Yeah, yeah by 71 year old apparently things are getting unstable

[00:23:57] Loosely all around the fringes every scene in our

[00:24:01] Society and our you know world geopolitics is you know

[00:24:07] Shearing off. It seems like

[00:24:10] Slowly though, right in little bits at a time

[00:24:12] We're not even talking about most of the same topics that we talked about last week on page your power hour

[00:24:20] That's a theme week to week month to month and almost year to year

[00:24:24] I feel like with Patriot power hour in this whole situation and

[00:24:29] I want to make it more of just a circle that continued

[00:24:32] You know concentric circle or maybe a spiral that continues to spiral but all I keep picturing is going down the toilet

[00:24:38] I'm sorry, but it's where it's you know

[00:24:41] Each loop is a little bit worse than the last one

[00:24:45] But there can be reprieves and you can also think of it as a wave, right?

[00:24:49] There's peaks and valleys, but each peak is high

[00:24:52] And things are really oscillating in an unstable fashion at this point and

[00:24:59] Things can really just shake apart. There's just so much new technology going on

[00:25:03] I don't feel like the banksters or whomever is in charge of the financial system

[00:25:09] Really understands what's going on it could really control if they ever could first off

[00:25:14] But geopolitically and health system as well, and then you compound that yeah

[00:25:18] We talk about all different topics each month

[00:25:20] But in the end we do continue to build these stories on all these topics and all

[00:25:25] Pretty much all of them are going in the wrong direction

[00:25:29] Well, one of them we always come back to and it can be categorized tonight as

[00:25:34] One trillion in debt every hundred days that that's our current rate and we talked about that last week

[00:25:41] That's crazy, and we're not even under a super emergency

[00:25:45] My gosh, hey, we do have a chat from Sloan

[00:25:48] It's going on Sloan if the Dems pull Biden who do you think they put forward?

[00:25:54] President and VP. Thanks Sloan for the comment question feature Dan

[00:25:59] Do you have any thoughts who they might who they might put in for Biden whether they pull him or whether he's?

[00:26:06] Unable to make it

[00:26:09] Clinton

[00:26:10] Really?

[00:26:14] Hillary

[00:26:16] That's the only one I can think of I don't know what her health is she was she was collapsing

[00:26:21] She was fainting in the first run against Trump. So her health wasn't you know

[00:26:26] Actually Biden manages to you know, even when he falls down he gets up

[00:26:31] So he manages to walk around and still mumble, you know in person in person in public

[00:26:36] I don't know if she's fit to do that. But

[00:26:39] The first one it comes to my mind

[00:26:41] So first one it comes to my mind

[00:26:44] It had to be someone with star power. I think they could have just put in some middling

[00:26:50] Middling person, I don't think Michelle Obama says she wouldn't run but who knows who else could it be besides Michelle?

[00:27:03] Good question Sloan I

[00:27:05] Not even

[00:27:07] Well, try Harris they might just have to be

[00:27:10] To do that whether that's Harris as the president or keep her as VP and put someone else's VP

[00:27:17] They you know knew some aka American psycho

[00:27:21] he

[00:27:22] He has kind of a look of one, but I don't know. That's great question. Sloan something we need to

[00:27:28] Maybe maybe focus on a little bit

[00:27:32] Of course if that happens

[00:27:35] We'll be covering it here on not just PBN but PPH

[00:27:40] Yes, something else cropped up in the news that isn't on the dashboard that you read because

[00:27:46] In and of itself. It's not, you know dangerous

[00:27:49] but

[00:27:51] maybe symptomatic of

[00:27:53] The malaise on Wall Street if nothing else

[00:27:58] Game stock has

[00:28:00] Spiked again. The apes are back roaring kitty

[00:28:05] Came out of retirement. Have you been able to take a look at that?

[00:28:10] little sideshow and

[00:28:12] Tell us what it is

[00:28:14] There any there there this time?

[00:28:18] Here's what is there

[00:28:21] Halting trading 38 times in one day because game stop and AMC were just ripping and roaring going

[00:28:29] unbelievably high to say that we have any sort of free market or

[00:28:35] Close to free market when they can halt it 38 times

[00:28:40] But guess what? They almost only halted on the way up

[00:28:43] They sure don't halt it on the way down and we've seen this meme trade

[00:28:47] Which I think is bogus and I don't participate in but it's kind of funny to see and it's good to see some

[00:28:53] hedge funds eat crap, but it's kind of a distraction, but it is a symptom of

[00:28:59] just how

[00:29:02] Skit so the system has been but these guys are kind of calling the bluff of these

[00:29:07] of these

[00:29:10] No hedge fund guys that are getting burned by this short squeeze and

[00:29:15] The funny thing is a lot of these people that are participating pretty much what's happening is all these

[00:29:20] hedge funds

[00:29:22] all of them, but several are

[00:29:25] short the stock game stop and

[00:29:29] AMC and this occurred a couple years ago as well

[00:29:34] What happened is a grass grassroots movement

[00:29:38] Through Twitter through reddit and through wall Wall Street bets and the apes and all this other craziness

[00:29:46] The grassroots people said I'm gonna spend 20 bucks. I'm gonna spend 50 bucks

[00:29:51] I'm gonna spend 500 bucks of my own money to buy these stocks and when those prices go up

[00:29:58] It's actually gonna cost those

[00:30:00] Wallstreet firms that were short

[00:30:02] It's gonna cost them millions and then billions of dollars and losses when the price goes up for really no reason

[00:30:09] There's no reason anyone would buy all this crap

[00:30:12] But these a lot of them kids a lot of them my age

[00:30:14] But a lot of over like 25 30 just throwing in like 20 bucks 50 bucks 500 bucks and in the aggregate a few thousand

[00:30:23] 10,000 50,000 of these people

[00:30:26] Kind of power the people screwing it up. But in the end, you're not gonna win this game

[00:30:30] You're gonna lose that money. So it's kind of uh, you know, that's cool. You'll lose all that money

[00:30:34] I think you could use that money to fight the system and prepare a little bit more efficiently

[00:30:41] But I like to see it it's good gumption

[00:30:43] Hopefully some of these kids that got into it or will be inspired by it will look deeper into the system, you know

[00:30:50] so what you're saying is there's never gonna be a

[00:30:54] moment where GameStop or

[00:30:57] You know AMC is

[00:31:00] profitable enough to not

[00:31:02] attract the attention shorts

[00:31:04] that those things are always gonna get short because their business models are unviable and

[00:31:09] But if you if the answer that is yes, then

[00:31:13] Are these are those two stocks or at least GameStop stock?

[00:31:17] gonna be the one place where no hedge fund dares short because

[00:31:23] Just out of spite just for sport. There's this massive group people that'll just do this again

[00:31:30] Yes, and

[00:31:32] I'm not a historian

[00:31:35] Historian but I swear there will be books and there actually is already a Netflix movie about

[00:31:40] the first GameStop

[00:31:43] Shenanigans couple years ago. I swear I haven't seen it, but I saw it. Oh, I didn't actually watch it

[00:31:49] but I saw like preview for it or whatever, but

[00:31:52] They're gonna lose money and GameStop was down 18% today and

[00:31:58] It is though gotta be kind of a worry for some of those hedge funds out there that hey

[00:32:03] What's the next one? But I still think AMC and GameStop in particular were kind of unique circumstances that

[00:32:09] lent themselves

[00:32:11] To this in the first place

[00:32:13] They were essentially bankrupt going through restructuring and or just you know during COVID

[00:32:19] No one went to movies and also no one hardly buys

[00:32:24] physical movies or video games anymore like GameStop relied upon or

[00:32:29] GameStop almost all of its margin came from buying

[00:32:32] used games and

[00:32:35] Systems and electronics from people for you know pennies on the dollar and then reselling it

[00:32:40] But a lot of that business went away let alone during kovat

[00:32:44] So all the hedge funds decided to short the hell out of it easy money. This thing's going to zero or near zero

[00:32:51] Let's just pile on and make a quick easy buck, right?

[00:32:54] It's like it's like Mike Tyson when he's like a 50 to 1 favorite, right?

[00:32:58] But he got knocked out he got knocked out and and they got you know kind of weren't ready

[00:33:03] Maybe they took a little too easy

[00:33:05] So I don't expect the apes or the kitty or all that stuff to be able to overturn the entire stock market

[00:33:13] but it they have shown like once again the power of people rallying like that, but I think that's again put better in gold

[00:33:21] silver Bitcoin and and prepping yourself because

[00:33:26] eventually the house wins and

[00:33:28] All that money put into it those hedge funds or if not those exact hedge funds others come in and profit off of it

[00:33:35] Some of these hedge funds might lose a billion dollars or even go out of business

[00:33:39] but one of their buddies or even one of the rivals will come in and eventually get all that money out of it and

[00:33:44] And you're gonna be left with no money, and it was funny, and it kind of proved a point, but did it

[00:33:49] I don't know

[00:33:51] The meme stonk momentum crowd

[00:33:55] You're discounting the apes tonight, we'll see they've they've they've stood you know

[00:34:02] You know firm and and wrecked havoc before that that's a little you know

[00:34:08] Distortion on the margins of the economy one could say interesting story. We'll see where it goes

[00:34:13] Two other places we could go last week

[00:34:16] Trump came straight out and said if you for crypto you're for Trump want to get your take on that and

[00:34:24] Then

[00:34:25] We were looking ahead at

[00:34:28] Extreme solar flares which have happened and have continued to happen

[00:34:33] Without any noticeable degradation of anything in society. Why don't you take on that one, too?

[00:34:41] With Trump

[00:34:44] My personal view is every crypto except Bitcoin is a security so it's essentially a

[00:34:52] Financial instrument and some of them might be legit a lot of them aren't but

[00:34:58] The government has purview to regulate securities so Trump

[00:35:03] First off sees business opportunity in it

[00:35:06] It sees tax revenue and even though he won't say that out loud. I'm sure right and he sees hey

[00:35:11] Maybe we can make some money office. Maybe this crypto thing you know I don't know anything about it, but it sounds good a

[00:35:17] Couple years ago though he said about Bitcoin that Bitcoin is very bad that it's the threat against King dollar and

[00:35:26] That there's no room for a competition to the dollar so either in the last couple of years. He's

[00:35:31] Changed his mind or maybe he's just thinking of crypto generally as

[00:35:37] business and smart contracts, and there's a lot of interesting cool stuff with

[00:35:41] Blockchain and stuff but none of it except for in my opinion Bitcoin can challenge

[00:35:47] the US dollar and other national currencies and be kind of a currency of the people and

[00:35:56] Something that can't be taken from you is certainly not as easily as your bank account 401k

[00:36:01] I don't think he would be he's pro that still though. I think he would be like oh no

[00:36:05] I don't mean that though King dollar all the way we need to lower interest rates to zero percent as well

[00:36:10] I think he's a big fan of low interest rates. I don't know maybe he's turned though

[00:36:15] Maybe he's learning I'd like to hear him say something about that in the debate or and down the line though

[00:36:22] Absolutely he might be doing that too. What about the solar flares?

[00:36:26] Solar flares keep prime that question a little bit more or once more

[00:36:32] It was much anticipated this time last week, and we've had the flares

[00:36:37] They are you know record-setting in terms of you know decades though

[00:36:43] The most severe that the earth has had recorded hitting us in at least two decades

[00:36:49] But the there hasn't been a damage that one would fear what's your thoughts?

[00:36:56] Very happy very glad I do have Faraday cage as well as a silent pocket

[00:37:02] squared away with some basic electronics and

[00:37:06] other stuff protected

[00:37:10] Doesn't mean I would be prepared for

[00:37:13] Massive power outage continent wide or worldwide like some were thinking had a five or ten percent chance of occurring

[00:37:21] I don't know if those

[00:37:23] That threat was overblown or if we just got super lucky

[00:37:27] I do believe it wasn't you know wasn't as direct a hit as people thought it would be

[00:37:34] I'm taking it as a near miss and like okay, maybe I need to double my Faraday cage capacity. Maybe I need to

[00:37:40] You know make sure my preps are a little bit more in gear one thing

[00:37:44] I'm planning to do this a and Sloan just chatted what's going on Sloan?

[00:37:48] Sean says we need to do a summer Gotham get out

[00:37:50] And this is actually perfect for I was just about to go into is this summer

[00:37:54] I'm gonna do at my home and where I live

[00:37:58] at least

[00:37:59] 72 hour no power challenge

[00:38:03] Just kind of get in that rhythm just to work out some of the kinks of my no power

[00:38:10] Plans so I can't figure of a crap example right now, but just like

[00:38:16] Getting like making sure my candles are all good and you know making sure my water

[00:38:21] Filters are squared away, and that's already is but there's way more than just

[00:38:25] Lighting and and water when the powers are for setting to ours

[00:38:29] Anyway, so I'm like that but also like Sloan said a Gotham get out

[00:38:32] Maybe we could parlay that into it or Sloan wants us to a Gotham get out this summer though. I like that

[00:38:38] Well put the two together you'd get a three-day Gotham get out move about

[00:38:43] You know five to eight miles per day to different sites and you certainly wouldn't have electricity while you did that

[00:38:50] I don't think that's a good idea because in my opinion

[00:38:53] I'm able to I feel like I'm able to just power through a 24 36 hour no sleep no food

[00:39:01] 15 mile hike I could do that without

[00:39:05] Too much trouble, but it's the next day could I do another 10 miles and then the next day

[00:39:10] I do another 10 miles like that's a

[00:39:14] different level when you start to deal with blisters lack of sleep lack of motivation as much and

[00:39:19] The weather will definitely get you after a while so anyway

[00:39:22] I like we got to think about it some sort of Gotham get out

[00:39:27] This summer into the fall. I'm all about it if you are we'll start to think about it Sloan

[00:39:33] So I live in Arizona. I'm talking like a hundred and fifteen degree weather

[00:39:38] That's oh, that's that that could give real dangerous real quick. Yeah, I'd be all for helping organize one

[00:39:47] I'm not sure I'm necessarily needing to compete in two in the same year, but

[00:39:52] You know judge walking along with people wanted to do that we got to get with the

[00:39:56] Jeopardy commander and and Dave Jones and see if that's feasible, but I like the idea

[00:40:01] I just want to weigh in on the solar flares the way I kind of conceive of them, and I'm not a

[00:40:08] you know

[00:40:09] astrophysicist, and I'm not well studied on this particular aspect of solar flares, but

[00:40:16] You know my understanding limited though it may be is

[00:40:20] Makes me think of them similar to earthquakes and

[00:40:24] What I feel like what happened this week was

[00:40:27] Somewhat equivalent to a you know five point something earthquake

[00:40:33] which

[00:40:34] Could possibly you know do some damage, but typically not much

[00:40:39] So the scale that they've got for the flares. You know

[00:40:43] Explares now this class of flair was it considered a

[00:40:48] Like 20 year record or so

[00:40:51] But it's not it's pretty mild I think against modern infrastructure

[00:40:57] but if one of these solar flares came at us, and it was the equivalent of a

[00:41:04] 7.5 earthquake you know the Richter scale scales up by

[00:41:09] multiples of a thousand so

[00:41:11] Something like that could come off of the Sun

[00:41:14] So

[00:41:15] something like that could come off of the Sun and

[00:41:19] Absolutely do the damage

[00:41:21] That could could be wrought

[00:41:24] But it's gonna be a

[00:41:26] Exceedingly is rare

[00:41:29] Event if anybody's alive when it happens there's nothing else matters in

[00:41:34] You know since since electronics right before electronics

[00:41:38] They probably happened and no one much notice. Oh look at the we got the Abora

[00:41:44] Abort

[00:41:45] Aurora borealis down in Florida, but whatever you know it didn't affect anything that happens again at

[00:41:53] You know Richter 8 scale kind of solar flare

[00:41:58] I'm not even sure that's a parable for you. Just got to know how to live like our ancestors did the good news is

[00:42:05] Think about how much of the country a hundred years ago wasn't electrified like you can live

[00:42:11] You can make it it was certainly done before will be easy no

[00:42:17] Will it cause hardship? Yes, well people that are

[00:42:21] are able to live because the air conditioning and

[00:42:25] respirators and other medical treatments being jeopardy absolutely

[00:42:29] right, but it won't be a civilization ender and and

[00:42:35] We've already had you know for 60 years 70 years

[00:42:40] militaries

[00:42:41] Shielded for this sort of thing so it doesn't it doesn't pose a threat to the military a

[00:42:47] Lot of great points satellites, but

[00:42:51] It might wreck satellites, but even even those can be put back up fairly quickly

[00:42:57] One of the first trails

[00:42:58] I was gonna go down is even if let's just say the GPS system was down for 30 days that would cost

[00:43:03] Tens if not hundreds of billions and dollars and damage that would be much larger than the Baltimore port or a lot of these other

[00:43:11] She's it wouldn't be absolutely devastating, but that could be an actual black swan

[00:43:15] That would be enough to tip over the economy. You know that and kick this house of cards down for one

[00:43:22] with regard to

[00:43:24] Living like our ancestors. I think that's a big part of what

[00:43:28] Pepper broadcasting networks about it some of the shows teach you how to live like that and then just overall ethos of

[00:43:36] Self reliance is a big part of of that. I would personally be much more worried about other humans for the first

[00:43:44] Several months, but that's people looting or just super desperate

[00:43:49] I'm not just gonna just like shoot anyone that shows up my door by any means

[00:43:52] But I would be able to survive many months without

[00:43:57] Electricity by myself. It's just the other people that may not be able to could become problems

[00:44:03] I'm hoping those type of people would burn themselves out within a couple months and then

[00:44:08] Everyone who's left that was preppers kid can try to rebuild but but yeah get out of the cities folks

[00:44:14] At least we're in America. I think we're pretty damn blessed because we got a lot of great land

[00:44:19] Root crops grow well around here pretty good weather depending where you live

[00:44:23] So I mean there's places you can go ride this out without too many people around you, you know

[00:44:30] So that's what I'm planning to try to do. We'll see

[00:44:34] Yeah, unless you have

[00:44:37] You know rely on electricity to stay alive like your health is in that condition and there's people like that obviously but

[00:44:45] Otherwise, it's just are you ready to accept that?

[00:44:48] Quality of life that

[00:44:50] In many ways, you know moves back a hundred years

[00:44:54] Right a dark age

[00:44:56] That's what that would be

[00:44:58] It would it would Sloan says keep up the amazing work guys. I do not listen to much BS media

[00:45:04] But I always listen to PPH on PBN. That's awesome Sloan. Thanks for the chat really appreciate it. That's really cool

[00:45:11] We are live actually everybody each

[00:45:14] Wednesday 7 p.m. Eastern

[00:45:16] I know the good majority of our folks listening on archive

[00:45:19] But if you want to chat interact with us live during our shows be like Sloan. Thanks Sloan. That's awesome

[00:45:27] Yeah, thank you

[00:45:29] So gotta be a few headlines you wanted to click on and make sure we had our say before this episode

[00:45:37] 262 concludes tonight Ben

[00:45:40] Alright

[00:45:42] Latest on the slow on the Prime Minister Slovakian Prime Minister

[00:45:48] Robert Fico, I don't think it's FICO like a FICO score. He's expected to survive

[00:45:56] Sky news says he's very pro-russian. They had to throw that in there

[00:46:03] But what there was a couple let's see

[00:46:06] A

[00:46:11] Million Russians are massing against Ukraine right now. That's that that that's serious news

[00:46:18] I

[00:46:19] think the ISR

[00:46:21] kill chain air kill chain is gonna

[00:46:24] Really just be a matter of how many of that five hundred thousand can Russia run into the you know

[00:46:32] artillery and aerial bombardment before

[00:46:35] You know, they'll get terrain this summer but it's gonna be just bloody war on the East Front

[00:46:42] June July I'm calling that now. I

[00:46:46] Think it'd be the bloodiest summer. I feel like at this rate. They say that the the fighting is

[00:46:53] Equal to as severe as it's ever been and as you said there are half a million

[00:46:59] Russians in reserve meanwhile Ukraine saying they're really pretty much out of men

[00:47:03] They're getting reinforced by Western

[00:47:07] Equipment

[00:47:09] material

[00:47:10] rockets artillery drones ISR and all that

[00:47:16] But if you don't have the flesh and blood on the on the battlefield

[00:47:20] the Russian

[00:47:22] Look keep marching. They've already lost well like half a million casualties

[00:47:26] I would say a Russians just some numbers I've seen something even higher and they would lose another

[00:47:33] Half million if they was able to get the job done in the next few months if they really wanted to I think so

[00:47:40] They're not

[00:47:42] They're not posturing like they're backing off by putting another half million on the border and intensifying

[00:47:48] This attack. I don't think it's a faint doesn't seem like it

[00:47:52] It's gonna be a lot of private military companies in Ukraine pretty soon

[00:47:59] Gonna pay me enough Bitcoin to go there. I'll tell you that

[00:48:03] But some people you know mercenaries or bloodlust or believe in the cause and want to go get

[00:48:11] Go and join terminator drone warfare in Ukraine go for it

[00:48:18] But yeah China rapidly developing space weapons and nukes and kamikaze satellites and robots and drones as well so

[00:48:28] Everyone's watching what's going on in Ukraine and

[00:48:31] developing their own

[00:48:33] defensive and offensive capabilities as such

[00:48:38] watch the Twitter feed for the Ministry defense of Taiwan and

[00:48:44] They always announce any incursions in their air defense identification zone

[00:48:49] which the mainland China regularly violates daily I

[00:48:54] Think I saw a tweet

[00:48:58] Indicating because they count the number of aircraft at the same time and ships

[00:49:03] That are that are encroaching I saw some large numbers like a day before yesterday

[00:49:09] We should put into context in Europe though

[00:49:12] the biggest NATO exercise since the Cold War is

[00:49:17] Going on right now

[00:49:20] Swift response they call it

[00:49:23] So this was a stage land stall that started over the weekend

[00:49:29] in

[00:49:30] Where's that Estonia?

[00:49:33] Baltics

[00:49:35] Biggest NATO military exercise since the Cold War

[00:49:39] Yeah, could be going down soon no reason to not prep at this point I could tell you that

[00:49:46] So on the you know that actual border with Russia and Belarus a

[00:49:53] Large amounts of NATO troops does you know put at risk?

[00:49:57] The Russian ability to how far into Ukraine can they go?

[00:50:02] Before they risk, you know one or more year at least European countries

[00:50:07] You know

[00:50:08] responding but again

[00:50:11] Everybody's under each other's nuclear umbrellas. How does that work? How does it you know?

[00:50:18] Start and not stop. They don't know so the stalemate

[00:50:22] Persists and the meat grinder that is Ukraine

[00:50:25] It does it does

[00:50:28] There's actually

[00:50:33] I'm sorry. I missed a couple articles

[00:50:36] the news blitz that Chinese one about

[00:50:39] space warfare, but did I cover the

[00:50:43] CDC reports 41% more imported malaria cases in three southern border cities in

[00:50:51] 2023 I don't think so

[00:50:53] Yeah, we should get into that it's just it's just clear as day it's it's it's the

[00:50:59] illegal

[00:51:00] Migrants right that's they're directly measuring them. So, you know, the diseases are coming here like

[00:51:08] It hasn't been for anybody any Americans lifetime

[00:51:13] 41% more imported malaria cases

[00:51:18] 41% more imported malaria cases

[00:51:22] In 23 compared to 22 and it's not like there weren't that many in 22. So just massive

[00:51:29] 41% is huge. Have you got a 40%?

[00:51:33] Raise at work, but you'd be pretty happy

[00:51:35] Well if your malaria cases are going up 41% in one year in southern border cities

[00:51:42] and if also

[00:51:44] Many folks are making it through the border without being stopped or caught

[00:51:49] And you would presume the average population would also have the same preponderance of malaria just not being caught by the cdc

[00:51:58] That means that and a lot of other diseases could be going in

[00:52:02] I don't know. I think if uh, you're sick with malaria anywhere in the world

[00:52:08] Your best chance of living is go to the u.s southern border and get caught by

[00:52:12] The biden administration and hope to get treatment

[00:52:17] Hey, maybe i'll give you that

[00:52:20] I'm sure there's a summit like okay. I made it here. Hey take me. I just I don't want to die

[00:52:26] But i'm sure there's a lot that got through

[00:52:30] Yep, it can't go on. It's just it's just something's got to break with that going on something that um

[00:52:36] Would be an interesting analysis maybe for episode 263 a little teaser here

[00:52:42] At some point it's going to be uh worthwhile, I think

[00:52:47] For you and I to break down

[00:52:50] All the arms sales in the world right now who's selling arms to who?

[00:52:55] Who's exporting?

[00:52:57] Who's importing?

[00:52:59] And what quantities?

[00:53:01] because

[00:53:02] If you look at that analysis there we we have

[00:53:06] They say it's a multi-polar world and it is obviously much more than during you know

[00:53:11] The time the soviet union and the cold war

[00:53:15] however

[00:53:16] It you know, it's really two sides and and all the sides that will arm

[00:53:22] And will support russia

[00:53:24] That that's an interesting block right there, right?

[00:53:27] Because we have relationships with a lot of those countries same could be said for for israel

[00:53:33] So maybe that's something. Um geopolitically that we really talk about where's the

[00:53:38] What's getting built and who's buying it and who's selling it?

[00:53:43] Do you think we could find reliable info outside of the west like how much?

[00:53:48] Chad and russia are purchasing

[00:53:52] There are there are public estimates there's open source intel enough enough to begin speculating

[00:53:58] It's the same thing we face when we use federal reserve numbers, frankly

[00:54:03] You know you take the number

[00:54:05] And you understand that there's some variance in it and and how much faith you have that

[00:54:10] the variance is small

[00:54:12] or large

[00:54:14] but

[00:54:15] Taking official numbers at at face value and discussing what those implications are

[00:54:20] something that we should aspire to because it's really gonna

[00:54:25] It's going to talk about the hard reality of who's with who?

[00:54:28] And who's against who no matter what the political?

[00:54:32] Uh, you know popular that you know

[00:54:36] uh, you know discussions in those countries are

[00:54:40] It's it's where you know show show us the money right show us who's arming who?

[00:54:45] Tell tells you more perhaps than what any of those governments publicly say

[00:54:49] I like it especially trade amongst governments with regard to you know

[00:54:54] national security equipment

[00:54:57] military spending

[00:54:59] Etc so

[00:55:01] I know with regard to oil and a lot of other natural resources

[00:55:06] In the last few years

[00:55:07] Russia and china have been pushed together a little bit more

[00:55:11] They're definitely trading with each other a lot more there in terms of military equipment. I don't know because they are

[00:55:19] natural enemies in my opinion

[00:55:21] They they're not natural allies at least but if if they get pushed

[00:55:26] To collaborating a lot more on new weapon systems or manufacturing

[00:55:31] Massive amounts of currently established. That's something I don't want to go down a huge tangent

[00:55:36] but that's something that I find really interesting is

[00:55:38] all the

[00:55:40] badass american equipment from the 80s

[00:55:42] That was really designed in the 70s

[00:55:45] f-16s and the abres all that are

[00:55:49] Really?

[00:55:50] Still the platforms that are being used nowadays. They just are tricked out with equipment

[00:55:54] So soviets are somewhat similar or I mean

[00:55:57] Kind of a Freudian slip the russians are using soviet ish

[00:56:00] Equipment, of course north korea and china use a lot of soviet hand me downs

[00:56:04] But maybe it's gonna go the other way now where china

[00:56:07] Designs in conjunction with russia some of these systems. I don't know. What do you think you think they will

[00:56:13] Collaborate with each other in that regard

[00:56:16] If you're a major power producing arms, how do you not use ukraine as a testbed?

[00:56:21] That's true too for sure

[00:56:24] Especially these drones. That's a huge

[00:56:26] whole new thing

[00:56:29] Ammunition smart munitions, there's a lot of chinese tech that clearly is going to be

[00:56:35] You know available to the russians

[00:56:37] With the caveat that you know, the the results of those weapons are

[00:56:42] You know well measured and well under you know studied

[00:56:46] I don't know if those countries are

[00:56:48] I don't know if those countries are naturally

[00:56:51] Enemies or allies and they're both great powers, right? They're both different poles in the world political system

[00:56:58] and

[00:56:59] certainly from

[00:57:01] you know

[00:57:02] The 1950 when the communist took china through the the mid 60s. They were allied

[00:57:08] and

[00:57:10] We could see a phase of that again

[00:57:13] They could easily ally for some period of time as they confront the west

[00:57:19] and iran they

[00:57:21] Iran has fair amount of people fair amount of money and technology. So it'd be kind of a nice third

[00:57:28] Third wheel there

[00:57:31] Good stuff, we only got about a minute left anything else you want to get off your chest before we end this episode of patriot power hour

[00:57:38] North korea is in on that game too

[00:57:41] Yep. Yeah, so

[00:57:43] Um who who's who's in the west is is and isn't you know arming israel?

[00:57:49] Or the middle eastern states at this point they're the gulf states

[00:57:54] uh, we're gonna we're gonna make that a project I think and uh,

[00:57:57] You know try to try to turn it into

[00:57:59] What what what does that mean to look out for?

[00:58:03] When you hear different breaking news that's surprising know the background on who's supporting who first

[00:58:09] I really like it. I think that's smart

[00:58:11] I think you and I combined could really really do that analysis quite well

[00:58:16] We're not the rand corporation over here, but we could do something

[00:58:20] Good stuff future dan. I can we can read what they wrote on our radio show

[00:58:25] Exactly exactly. Well shout out again to slone coming in listening live a little bit of chat

[00:58:32] Hopefully next week. Uh, we'll get another chatter feel free to come through but we'll be live next week

[00:58:39] Wednesday the 22nd of may god willing future dan

[00:58:44] And we'll cover all the news and events between now and then and keep up the analysis, sir

[00:58:51] Honored doing the show with you ben. Thank you all our listeners for tuning in

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