Patriot Power Hour #264

[00:00:02] Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who would escape from Castro. And in the midst of his story, one of my friends turned to the other and said, we don't know how lucky we are.

[00:00:37] And the Cuban stopped and said, how lucky you are. I had some place to escape to. And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.

[00:00:55] This is the last stand on earth. The last stand on earth. You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour. This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence.

[00:02:22] Introducing your hosts, Ben the Breaker of Banksters and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com. Patriot Power Hour, we're live episode 264, May 29th, 2024, Ben the Breaker of Banksters here with Future Dan. Wow, Ben, what's going on in the news tonight?

[00:02:47] The baited breath, everyone's looking at what's going on with this Trump New York trial countdown. Nothing came through today but potentially a verdict tomorrow or Friday. Potentially hung jury. Who knows?

[00:03:00] People are watching that so that's the topic to your but we got a lot to go through on the news blitz, at least more than last week. So what about you? What have you been focusing on?

[00:03:12] So Trump's speaking louder and louder about using Bitcoin to solve national debt issues. I shot that over to you earlier this week. We're using the word pandering and I'm just wondering what candidate could say what where

[00:03:31] it doesn't fall into that may I say somewhat jaded category for you? Because he would never actually do it in a meaningful way. If he's going to change the reserve currency, United States to Bitcoin, then we're talking. He ain't going to do that.

[00:03:48] If he was going to put 10% of all assets of American assets into that. Oh wait, we don't have assets. All we have is debt. He's impotent to use Bitcoin to solve the national debt. I'm not saying having a friendly Bitcoin and really just overall business atmosphere

[00:04:06] isn't great and would help mitigate some of the damage from national debt for sure. Two years ago, Trump said he's King dollar. He's all about the dollar cryptos and Bitcoin. He wasn't trashing them.

[00:04:20] I wouldn't say like a Warren Buffett or Jamie Diamond or some, you know, IMF type folk. But he was also like, no, it's all about King dollar dollar dollar. And the Bitcoin Bitcoin is the antithesis of the dollar. So one of those has to break.

[00:04:35] Do I believe him? Or is it? I think he's just saying that because he's at the libertarian convention and said it a couple of days later, maybe he has had to come to Bitcoin. Jesus moment. And he thinks it is a legitimate way to diversify America's assets.

[00:04:52] And if so, that's awesome. I just, it's easy to say. I haven't seen any evidence he'd actually do it, but I need to look into it more. I think what we need to look into is could he do it? And how can he do it?

[00:05:06] The tax revenue is an asset, right? So if you're a private entity and you're looking at an asset balance sheet, help me out here, master's degree in finance. You know, incomes, maybe not technically an asset, but it's it could he take tax revenue?

[00:05:26] Could he order the treasury with the balance of tax revenues to purchase Bitcoin? I don't know the law. Sounds to me like something Congress would probably have to pass a law, right? And now we're talking, can he flip the Senate and the house and have

[00:05:44] a unified government that could do this anyways, right? Or maybe there's laws on the books that were passed a long time ago that he just simply reinterprets and makes purchases. Congress delegated a lot of that to the presidency over many, many generations.

[00:06:02] So he may, he may know that he can make purchases, large purchases. And he might be thinking that in order to save King dollar, he do something like that. Try to do what El Salvador did.

[00:06:20] I don't know if he'd be able to, but I also think you truly have to declare the country bankrupt and start from scratch financially. And then he could do it. So will he, because I mean our expenditures are at least twice as much as our revenue.

[00:06:38] So you can't save anything if you're spending twice as much as you take in, unless you say, hey, people that we owe, we're actually going to pay even less or not even pay you at all. And I like that Trump says, hey, because we are bankrupt folks, obviously.

[00:06:54] So if he says, hey, you know, China and some of these other creditors here at the very bottom of this list and you maybe won't get every penny, you know, scrubbed, but you're only going to get 20 cents on the dollar on your debt.

[00:07:07] And then that would balance the books. And then you from there, maybe we could invest a little bit in some gold and some Bitcoin and I like that. Is it going to do that? Maybe. Well, set aside the debt for a moment.

[00:07:21] He could order an intelligence agency questionable whether they obey him, but he could order an intelligence agency just use its funding to make massive purchases in Bitcoin to manipulate that market in the event that that somehow buoyed the dollar.

[00:07:39] No, if you felt like there might be some of this if by the U.S. acquiring a whole bunch of Bitcoin, a bunch of other countries and businesses jumped on board as well. And then the U.S., because they were the first mover or let's just say

[00:07:58] they were an early mover, you know, instead of having 50 billion in Bitcoin, now we got 500 billion worth of U.S. assets. That's great. But that's still 500 billion compared to multiple hundreds of trillions in liabilities. So it's kind of a perpetual motion machine at some point like, OK,

[00:08:17] we can put all of our money into Bitcoin and price would go up a lot. But that isn't going to solve the thing. But as part of an approach to make the markets free again, how about that? Make the markets free again, Bitcoin, gold,

[00:08:33] even the fricking capital markets. That's great. And if he is on board with making Bitcoin part of that as well, which he's saying it, but is he just pandering? My intuition is he's just saying that to get votes. But maybe it means it. Maybe it means.

[00:08:48] Make markets free again. That's a good one, Ben. That's an original view. There we go. Episode 264, 708 East. And I'm going to write that one down. So that's why it would make you a solid Trump voter and potential donor.

[00:09:09] The fee you became convinced that make markets free again was the agenda. That is that and not having reward three or the two most important to me. And I think he's relatively anti-war, which is great. The markets though, not so much. Maybe he's making a big turn.

[00:09:30] Maybe he's gotten educated in the last few years on stuff. And I know he's, he's definitely gave a lot of crap for all the debt spending and all the, how we got in this position. But he also says he wants, you know, 0% interest rates and,

[00:09:46] you know, he's friendly with the Fed. If the Fed does what he says otherwise, which is like, it's still within the system. But hey, I guess proofs in the pudding, it's moving in the right direction, saying the right things can or will he actually do it?

[00:10:01] Maybe I'll look into that a little more and report back here in a few weeks. How about that? Yeah, that's awesome. It sounds like though, there could be no president under current conditions that would ever challenge the legitimacy of the Fed.

[00:10:18] I mean, to get it while they're trying to get elected, but Trump's a one-term or he might, he might see that reforms necessary and, you know, Lord knows he could pivot on issues if he decides he needs to. So we'll see. Yeah, we will.

[00:10:39] They won't let him, of course they the banksters or whomever, but if and when more like when their system collapses instead of them rebuilding it in their ideal dystopian view, if Trump and others, I mean, even in

[00:10:50] best case scenario, Trump will be around as a president for four years and maybe a lot of a few more years after as like, you know, an advisor or whatever, but hell 10 years from now, Trump ain't gonna be around. So we need to find other leaders too.

[00:11:06] And so yeah, make markets free again. And I think that's the best way to get it done. I mean, I think that's the best way to get it done. I mean, I think that's the best way to get it done.

[00:11:17] I think we need to find other leaders too and so yeah, make markets free again. That's huge. Well, they can't stop Congress and a presidency. In fact, Congress and a presidency can abolish the Fed, audit the Fed entirely reform the Fed, can audit and reform every agency. Right.

[00:11:38] A unified government that was directed against this apparatus, this ad-rap, explain to me where power comes from. You know, it's authorized by law.

[00:11:51] Laws can be changed, but if people that can't change those laws or would change those laws can't because they're not in the positions of power, then there you go. And it would take far more than just a slim Republican majority. We know this.

[00:12:11] It would take a massive influx of new blood into Congress that was not beholden to those interests, but I don't discount that it can't all be flipped. And in crisis conditions, that kind of election, 2026, 2028, 2030, one of these years when it all goes unstable, that's the correction mechanism.

[00:12:36] It is possible to be severe austerity, right? That's what the Europeans call it. You know, a government that had forced into power to impose austerity on a system that has gone out of control.

[00:12:51] But you know, this would be the biggest example of that in world history if it could happen. Here's a great idea. This actually brings together at a long commute today and was listening.

[00:13:02] I think it's Kevin, Kevin O'Leary, the billionaire wrote, we need to have a petroleum or oil national fund like Norway did. We have huge oil reserve up in Alaska.

[00:13:15] If we fully explore, explored and pumped and sold that both domestically and internationally and put half for all of it into the golden Bitcoin, that is a way to fund it. Anyway, all these things need to be taken at once kind of in parallel.

[00:13:33] So it's a huge, huge, huge project. But you got to do a little bit of it all at once because doing all of it at any one time is tough without the other pieces also falling in place.

[00:13:48] So it's kind of like a, it's a wide front to fight if that makes sense. Yeah, well, I'm positive. I think we can do it. I think we can do it.

[00:13:56] Here, what we can't do is recover from World War III nuclear war, but we can recover from economic collapse.

[00:14:01] It'll just take a few years and you know if you think you got a million dollars in your 401k that might turn into 150,000 because we still have money and you won't be dead. So like we can recover. And you call yourself a host on the Prepper Broadcasting Network.

[00:14:16] Of course we can recover from nuclear war. Wouldn't be pr- Well, the one and only NBC guy who happened to be able to see recently in person.

[00:14:28] He had a whole master class on surviving nuclear war and he's talked about it on the show and he has other material out there. So you members out there if you haven't go search some of the archives but it is survival,

[00:14:39] but probably not if you're within a few mile radius of the fireball. But you know that's where prepping and strategic relocation if possible, if it's in your budget and wherewithal is definitely something to do. And that's what Prepper Broadcasting Network is here to help with.

[00:14:56] Find alternatives if hedging your financial bets is the least of your worries, at least you got something else to fall back on. I think your we though also meant the financial regime in place now. That wouldn't survive that scenario.

[00:15:12] But you know by that time, you know the people who are formally over focused on the money wouldn't be. National security would be the focus but in today's events if you look at Trump,

[00:15:29] I think you asked me last week whether a huge suffering trial by predisposed jury should be triggered. What I would say tonight is I'm glad I didn't add any of these headlines to that category because the jury might hang.

[00:15:48] And in which case, did he suffer a trial by predisposed jury? Obviously not. So we'll see if that happens. I believe late this afternoon the jury requested its instructions again. Because the jury at this point can communicate only with the judge.

[00:16:08] So by this time next week though, we could have jailed political opposition for the highest office in the land as a matter of fact. Well that's why we're here every single week. Good, bad and ugly. Dan was on two news lists. No scientific bearing by new-frightened interests.

[00:16:37] Verdict and Trump's first criminal case, 39% say that. This trial. Not too long ago two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who would escape from Castro.

[00:16:54] And in the midst of his story one of my friends turned to the other and said we don't know how lucky we are. And the Cuban stopped and said how lucky you are. I had some place to escape too.

[00:17:05] And in that sentence he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth. Anyway, I don't bet it to work. Guys, we're going to break. Coming back with the news list.

[00:17:17] This is the last stand on earth. The last stand on earth. You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour. The live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence.

[00:18:44] Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com. Folks, it's time for the news blitz episode 264 of Patriot Power Hour May 29th, 2024. Let's go with it. Starting with natural news and health. Pretty quiet this late May.

[00:19:16] A little bit of rumblings of avian flu and all this, but nothing's come out strongly. We do have bioengineering. Nature being re-engineered. Cows bioengineered to squirt insulin from their teats. Insulin. Insulin is very rare and expensive. Now cows are being bioengineered to produce insulin and milked for it.

[00:19:42] This is real. Economically, food inflation fears rekindled as crop index erases 2024 loss. Wheat jumps a nine month high on fears of dwindling global stockpiles. And don't forget, nine months ago it was not cheap at all.

[00:20:04] It's been quite high for quite some time, but it's surpassing the recent highs. Global stockpiles decreasing. Got to wonder Ukraine was a bread basket of Europe. Probably not anymore. New home sales tumble in April amid further downward revisions.

[00:20:27] And a lot of Americans, they feel comfortable in their retirement. There's actually 38 trillion in retirement assets out there, but actually if you do the math, that's nowhere near enough for all the folks that are looking to retire in the next 5, 10, 20 years.

[00:20:49] Many people are way behind. Some don't have anything saved. Geopolitically, White House moves toward lifting ban on Ukraine, striking targets deep inside Russia with US weapons. Trevor Commander talked about that today. Poland, the Green and NATO and other NATO countries really pushing to target

[00:21:13] where the supplies and troops are coming from in Russia because they are losing the battle in Ukraine now. US Special Forces operator kills undocumented Chechen outside his home in a possible spy incident. Again, Spec Ops, US Special Forces operator actually killed an undocumented Chechen outside his home.

[00:21:40] POTUS 45 warns enemies are building an army for attacks from within America. NBC guy Dave Jones and I were talking a little bit about asymmetrical attacks domestically too. Prep on Russia has launched a suspected space weapon. We've covered that topic a few times recently.

[00:22:07] They're accelerating their space weapons or at least showing what they got more. Former CIA officer pleads guilty to spying for the Chinese. China warns of Taiwan war as military drills in Circle Island, something I've said for many years.

[00:22:27] This will be a hard blockade that will ramp up from a soft blockade to a hard blockade and then the invasion if it happens. This is definitely a notch higher in the escalation of surrounding Taiwan for multiple days with massive military.

[00:22:46] It's been like, look we could choke you off if we wanted to. Here we go. We'll bring future Dan on this to talk about this article. I know he clowered and pivots big behind the clowered and pivot downfall of America.

[00:23:02] Future Dan that's the news blitz. Can you talk a little bit about clowered and pivot and what's going on with America sociologically? From a historical perspective, what this means? Well, clowered pivot is a intentional social welfare state growth until it collapses the entire system in a nutshell.

[00:23:27] The article just explains where we're at with clowered pivot and strategy advancing. Nothing that can't be stopped, I'll tell you, during austerity. Part of austerity would be to check the advance of the clowered pivot and strategy, but it's growing right now. It's definitely succeeding and peaking right now.

[00:23:51] Here's one thing. I won't get deep into it, but I have a side business, side hustle. Not profitable, but have a good time with it. Hopefully it'll be profitable someday.

[00:24:04] I work with a lot of, I'm 30 in my late 30s and I work with a lot of early to mid 20s.

[00:24:12] So pretty much a generation behind me and I've worked them a lot many, many hours and I feel like a lot of them still have really high work ethic and want to be successful but their priorities and their risk-reward calculations are off big time.

[00:24:33] So everyone will hustle to be a gamer or a YouTube guy or TikTok and they will work 50, 60, 70 hours just as hard as any of our forefathers worked to build this country. But they're working on freaking TikTok or video gaming.

[00:24:46] Hey man, some of them are very successful and make more money than me. A lot of them don't and are pissing their life away and don't get educated or care about important things. Not a lot of them are, you know, they do do the right things.

[00:24:59] But point is I think the work ethic is there but people aren't working for the right things. We need to kind of re-establish what's important to work for and unfortunately when society collapses,

[00:25:12] you either got one of two options to get your stuff together and pull yourself up bare bootstraps and all that or go to the welfare line and then you become more demotivated than ever. Not saying everybody who gets welfare is demotivated, etc.

[00:25:30] But yeah that's kind of the clower pivot and you know the youth are being funneled into that. But I still think they have a chance to get it back together but we'll see. I'm not sure working on things that are unproductive is counting the concept of work ethic.

[00:25:52] Well if they, if and when they can't get food anymore without busting their butt and working. I think they'll do it whereas other societies let's just say late Soviet Union, I feel like those people wouldn't even work for food hardly. They were so dejected and demoralized.

[00:26:10] I don't think we're that far down the road. I still feel like people want to hustle and want to make money and do things America's great at but instead of building a real business, manufacturing or something that contributes to society.

[00:26:23] A lot of that's misdirected these days and that's because we've in my opinion the 0% interest rates and all the malfeasance from top to bottom in society just screwed up the perception of what's important and what to work for. All you gotta do is make markets free again.

[00:26:45] It'll all come back. Hey and that's Trump and all and Congress and all of them just kind of need to make, if you build it they will come. If you just make room for it and set some basic guidelines and defenses against predators

[00:27:01] that want to come and take advantage of the system like basic regulations not 5,000 page ones that are passed overnight. Make that market free again and transparency and simplicity of operation is a big part of that. So we need that.

[00:27:17] I'd say a reform should strip away tens of thousands of pages of regulations, shall we say overnight and maybe err on the side of under regulating for some amount of time. Let's actually test to see if there's any consequence or negative result from returning

[00:27:41] to before the new deal in many, many industries. Just free it the hell up. It'll be freer than anywhere else in the world if you try. The Heritage Foundation has the Economic Freedom Index. It's published it for decades now.

[00:27:58] Bringing the United States to the top of that list could solve a lot of our problems really fast. Absolutely. It can be done. How bad do we want it? We're going to have to go through some pain as well.

[00:28:14] It won't be just magic and it's not going to be easy because we've financially sinned. We must repent but I think we could be forgiven and move on. I don't know. I don't know.

[00:28:26] We're generative AI, large language models being at the absolute forefront not just in the R&D of it but the practical application to it, to business plus what you were speaking about earlier about uses of strategic energy like oil. No. I don't think it's inevitable.

[00:28:51] Everything that has happened since the establishment of the Federal Reserve include tonight the 34 plus 34.6 trillion dollar federal government debt. That's not a black hole. We climb out of it. It would take popular branches of government firmly and controlled devoted to those ideas.

[00:29:13] Yes, that's something I wanted to touch on before we maybe hit on some other articles here at about the halfway point of the show is I don't want to copy China and then it invented but I kind of do with regard to a five year plan

[00:29:28] or multiple year plans where we got to stick to it because if we make these changes the first few months will be painful. If we just bail at the first sign of our 401K is going down while we're trying to get things back on track

[00:29:44] and it ain't going to work. If we're going to bail because quarterly earnings weren't the greatest for a couple quarters that ain't going to work. You got to look at it three, five, ten years down the road. Does anyone have the wherewithal for that let alone politicians?

[00:29:59] I think that we get together a bit. We'll see. Not the current set. It would be very unsafe to attempt what you're talking about. Yeah. The best you get with this constitution is a four year plan. And the Congress, we each Congress to get a two year plan.

[00:30:21] And string together a few of them. With each senator to get a six year plan so they may have the longevity to bring about these kinds of changes but not under this constitution are you going to get a five or ten? It's not there. It's not there.

[00:30:38] It's not designed for that. It's not an official agreement that for a five or ten more of a this is what we're doing. We can change it anytime, but we better not change better stick to the plan if we can. Yeah. All right. It's already breaking down.

[00:30:53] Well, the Democrats have a Democrats have a 40 year plan for you. If they get a electoral majority that they can count on for Penn Street elections. Doesn't matter who, right? You'll get you'll get the results of that plan. Right.

[00:31:10] But but the Constitution is designed for four, two and six year plans by different people staggered to really prevent any one like if you're going to have one outstanding unified consensus plan.

[00:31:26] You better have the people at the polls to want it year after year after year after year. So I don't know if Trump has or will release like a very detailed or hell just bullet points on his economic reforms and plan.

[00:31:44] I'm going to be really interested to see what he says drill, drill, drill. The same thing as last time. He'll just he'll just return to everything you had before and it was booming the economy and it wasn't some genius or some miraculous, you know, government management.

[00:32:01] He came in after Obama and just lifted the boot off to the neck of our economy. It's all he has to do again. All right. Well, make markets free again. How about the problem that are broken though? Right. Like jumping in an old race card.

[00:32:21] Some parts might start blowing out and that's where Trump getting Hoover one last time. Yeah. I mean, he's going to be his opponent's final revenge if they can't lock him in a cage between now and then. True.

[00:32:35] They knew everything was going to go down 50% but they were able to make it go down 70 or 80 just really cause super chaos and fear. And it kind of overshoots. It's a second great depression. Right. Right. I still think that would be.

[00:32:51] And then instead of fighting against it, they would be pushing it to take out Trump or any ideas that he espoused as well. Well, FDR obliterated his political opposition for many, many, many consecutive Congresses were just all Democrat.

[00:33:11] He went through eight Congresses in four terms and dominated most of them. That sure didn't help get us where we're at. Time's flying. I know you got to get out of here maybe 10 minutes, sir. So I really want to hit a couple of these articles. Let's hit it.

[00:33:36] Former CIA officer pleads guilty to spying for the Chinese regime. Mr. Ma worked for the CIA from 1982 to 89. Conspired with his blood relative, also a former CIA officer to provide classified U S national defense information to the Chinese regime. Future data.

[00:34:01] What's the status of espionage and even sabotage between China and America right now? Nothing is rampant. And this is just a small slimmer sliver of light of truth into what is completely cold from us, but it has to be rampant right now.

[00:34:23] Yes, they're talking about stuff from the 80s. What could be going on now that they know about or don't know about yet? This was actually kind of sussed out in 2019. So FBI undercover agents so FBI versus CIA turncoat.

[00:34:49] They believed it to be a Chinese intelligence officer, but it was actually FBI agent accepted 2000 and cash as a small token of appreciation.

[00:34:58] So I want to know who's given the, you know, $2 billion bribes, not the $2,000 bribes of future Dan because this goes from top to bottom and all of its criminal. But there's a bigger fish to bust than this guy. I think. Yeah.

[00:35:20] Down in North Carolina, special forces colonel gets into a gunfight kills a chetchen. Scoping out his house. So joint special operations command all special US special operations command, all those forces, all those service members, all those family members.

[00:35:43] They got to be on high alert right now about who's figuring out who they are and where they are.

[00:35:50] The entire establishment, you don't get like a fake name when you join the military and go move around and have an apartment, have you have your family, you're way on deployment long periods of time. I mean, that's what it's going to be coming to.

[00:36:07] I mean, when you just in the military, you're gonna have to hide your identity. And, and you know, back in the day, most troops lived on post that might be coming back. Might not be able to live adjacent to the military installation to be safe.

[00:36:22] You're gonna have to be inside the gate. That's serious degradation and, you know, our internal military situation. Yes. All right. Speaking of China, Taiwan's Defense Ministry said a total of 62 Chinese aircraft were detected around the island, as well as 27 naval and coast guard ships.

[00:36:51] So this is the largest number of aircraft and ships in a 24 hour window. Pretty much ever. And they were, they were circling it very obvious what they were trying to show there.

[00:37:07] If, if things escalate to the next level in Ukraine, whatever that might be, maybe you can even let us know what you think a next level escalation would look like. It'd be Kiev being taken as an example or NATO just straight up fighting.

[00:37:24] If something like that happens, do you think that makes China more likely to move on Taiwan? Oh yeah. Yeah, definitely. If other places go far more unstable, that risk is grows and grows on the Taiwan Strait. Just curious what super weapons have been invented.

[00:37:45] What is out there in our arsenal that would make a Taiwan invasion absolutely infeasible? And I'm thinking it's there. It's probably in space. And, you know, look at what we got in Ukraine, right?

[00:38:03] The Russian armies right on the border of NATO being beat back by the ISR capability. So invading an island, not an easy task. It never was, right? Because mainland China would have seized it if it ever could have in the fifties and sixties. Just couldn't do it.

[00:38:25] So I see that as relatively stable the way it is. But you're right. If other places degraded badly, you know, that's where the dominoes come in. It goes to the Koreas. It goes, you know, wild on all other kind of borders, Africa, South America, other places, India, Pakistan.

[00:38:48] You know, if there's a world war, it'll be different really from previous world wars. It could be described as a multi-pole world war with lots of no real necessary alignment between belligerence, right? If Pax Americana were taken away.

[00:39:13] So yeah, if Pax Britannica, then we had World War I, it resumed with the French and the British, you know, stabilizing most of the world. And then there was World War II and then it was us.

[00:39:27] And it really needs to continue to be Pax Americana unless you're hoping for collapse. Well, I'm hoping for collapse so we could rebuild quickly. The longer you wait for collapse, the worse it's going to get. But it depends how Mad Max you want to get as we've said.

[00:39:48] I don't want it to collapse so hard that we can't recover or that the clout and piven people are successful in brainwashing and totally breaking America forever. So yeah, I don't want it to collapse that bad. Well, there's financial collapse, but then there's total collapse.

[00:40:05] Yeah, I don't think anybody wants that second one. No, no. That's what you try to prep for to some degree. But again, how Mad Max and how many years would it go? Oh, one more thing real quick.

[00:40:22] Taiwan states that they're able to pretty much enact kill switches on their PC, semi conductor, manufacturing and all types of important computer technology and artificial intelligence, et cetera, et cetera. They say if China invades them, they're going to hit the kill switch. Whatever that means.

[00:40:49] They're trying to hold that ransom at least. Yeah, and the scheme of things that that would make sense for somebody on Wall Street to think that that's a strategic analysis. I'm not sure the Pentagon would consider that anything more than like a token

[00:41:07] demonstration of force in a kind of way. We have the ability to do this so we're holding you at risk if you think that you can loot Taiwan. But in the scheme of things, that's... It's not very good way. I get what you mean. Scuttling the ship.

[00:41:26] That doesn't mean you won because you had to scuttle your ship. Yeah, but in an invasion of Taiwan scenario, ships matter. Factories for non-war products. I mean, we don't have the... I'm not trying to say it. Our military can procure what it needs without Taiwan, right?

[00:41:54] There's no way that ships that are made in Taiwan are exclusively available there. We make them at a very high cost in a very secure manner elsewhere. But in a wartime scenario, losing your factories, losing your actual military and fighting, one's obviously more important. Yeah. All right.

[00:42:23] I know you got to roll out of here. Is there any other articles you really wanted to touch on or any topics you wanted to hit on? No. I'm looking forward to commercial and some thoughts from the Bankster Breaker. Heck yeah. All right, folks. Stick with us.

[00:42:39] We will go to a quick commercial future day. Another great show. I'll be back with a few minutes. I've got a couple of things to talk about. Nothing too crazy, but another good show, man. Yep. Talk to you next week. Good show, man. Who wants free ammo?

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[00:47:56] Alright, about 10 minutes to go in the show. Not much going on from an economic standpoint in the markets at least. Silver's pretty flat over the last week. 32 bucks but again that's up 40% in the last three months or so. So even though Silver and Gold, Gold's at 2338

[00:48:24] but again it was about $1800 to start the year somewhere around there. But they've been flat last week or two. Even gone down a little. Gold was above 2400. Maybe now's the time to buy folks. I always buy a little bit. Pretty much no matter what the price is.

[00:48:49] When Silver was 16 bucks an ounce I was buying some. When it was 20, I was buying some. When it was 25, I was buying some. It's hard to time the market. Now when it was lower I bought a little bit more usually.

[00:49:04] But that's that dollar cost average or daily cost average. Really DCA's dollar cost average. But do that with your Gold or Silver. Grammo as much as you can. Oil, pretty flat as well in the last week.

[00:49:23] I mean it was Memorial Day from here on out through the summer. Market trading is pretty benign. Not saying there may not be a major financial event this summer but I would expect it more in September, October.

[00:49:44] Even without the election but with the election extra extra as much. But yeah, oil is pretty flat. Dow was down a percent today. 400 points. But still it's pretty close to it's all time high. The volatility index is up a fair amount. It's all relative folks.

[00:50:11] The funny money is still flowing. The deficit spending continues. They continue to spike the punch bowl even though we're suffering from massive alcohol poisoning. We're continuing to drink. Somehow we're still alive. Yeah, but our liver is failing. One last economic item I wanted to touch on.

[00:50:36] Food inflation fears. I'm not going to be talking about food inflation, the news bullets but food inflation fears rekindled as crop index races 2024 loss. Hey, dollar cost average your food as well. I do this every time I go to the grocery store.

[00:50:54] Let's just say I spend $200 a week. It's a little less than that probably. But I could spend $150 and just get what I'm probably going to use in the next week or two.

[00:51:10] Or I could spend $200 or $50 more and stack away $50 worth of extra food or even things that are on sale that might be useful. Just random stuff. You know, supermarkets these days all got all types of random crap.

[00:51:29] Most of it you don't need but occasionally you'll find some of that clearance. Like hey, that's actually a good kitchen knife 80% off. I might be able to use that. There's some decent preps out there. You can find them occasionally but most of them focus on food here.

[00:51:48] So a few cans of beans, a few cans of, I really like canned fish. And cod liver, wild caught salmon, oysters. Not because I love the taste of all those especially the canned ones. I'm not a huge fan.

[00:52:11] Well cod liver and cod liver oil is not that bad. Cod liver is actually pretty good. The point is super healthy for you. It has all the omega-3's, all types of fat soluble vitamins that are so key. The way it's doing stuff hits the fan.

[00:52:27] You think you're going to be healthy and doing well in the post-apocalyptic scenario? If you're eating a cup of rice and a cup of beans and that's it every day, it's going to screw up your guts.

[00:52:40] Even that storeable food and trust me I got storeable food but if I ate that 2,500 calories of that every day for a month, oh my God. I don't even know what would happen to my insides. What would survive better than not eating?

[00:52:55] The point is think of some of these long term food preps and have some of that dollar cost averaging like with gold with all the different items I was talking about before. Because food is only going up. Food inflation fears rekindle.

[00:53:13] Crop index is bounced back pretty much the last couple months the world thought hey maybe food inflation is actually going to go down. Maybe we're not going to have massive starvation with millions of people in the world this year.

[00:53:28] Now they realized, actually never mind the stockpiles are going down. We're having a lot of issues with growing conditions and storms and a lot of problems worldwide that have added up to harvest being down and prices going up.

[00:53:49] So buy your food now as much as you can but don't forget you need some healthy additions to your diet. You can't fish, you can't in cod, liver and all the oysters, sardines. Like I said super healthy for you.

[00:54:12] Super hard to get those type of vitamins in omega 3's and stuff hits the fan situation. You can't go get your supplements. You're going to be really needing vitamin D. You're going to really be needing vitamin A.

[00:54:27] You're going to really be needing the omega 3's, the selenium, the zinc. That shit is kind of hard to find. It's not a rice and beans let me tell you that. So right now you might be eating rib eyes and all types of healthy good food.

[00:54:41] It's not going to be like that if prices go up by 2, 3, 5x. That alone you'll be eating cheaper and not eating as good of stuff more than likely, right? But I mean you know if this just in time system supply chain we have collapses

[00:55:00] getting any food could be tough at some point. We in America are lucky though. We have a lot of growing room, a lot of good soil and good weather across this country but depending on the region you're in and especially if you're in a city or suburb

[00:55:14] man you are very vulnerable. So stack away food and well of course water filters is prime. Like if I had someone said hey I got a brand new prepper, I got a thousand bucks. What should I do?

[00:55:33] I wouldn't tell him to put any money in gold and silver. I wouldn't tell him to put any money into Bitcoin. I'll say put about $300 into water filtration. Okay so that's about 6 to 8 high quality filters. That will last you a few years worth of water filters.

[00:55:55] At least you got water for a couple of years for one person. Put a few hundred dollars into that. A few hundred dollars into food. Mostly would be the rice and beans but I would be like put at least 50 bucks into some of these fish as well.

[00:56:11] Can't fish even if you hate it. You're going to need it. And you know next few hundred dollars probably ammo and a pistol. That's where folks you go to ammosquared.com. Full circle. You need some security. You need water. You need food.

[00:56:29] If you only had a thousand dollars to spend. Water, food, a little bit of security. And then you know it's relatively free that you can still do now. Try to get your ass into shape.

[00:56:41] I've been really busting my butt the last, well over the last few years I've transformed it done more and more. But definitely the last two months I've been eating healthier. And instead of going running or hiking once or twice a week I'm going three times a week.

[00:57:00] Even four. I don't want to go more than four because I feel like I'll injure myself because you got to recover. Don't over train.

[00:57:07] Point is I want to use this time now to get in shape so that when stuff hits the fan and I need to be hiking my ass out of somewhere I can do it. Don't want to lose too much weight though.

[00:57:18] Got to have a little bit of fat, a little extra calories on you but more hiking, eating healthier and I've almost gotten rid of all processed carbs. And that allows you to quickly switch your energy source from carbohydrates and glucose over to ketones.

[00:57:38] You might have heard of the ketone diet. And if you eat a lot of carbs and you eat many times a day it's really hard for you to switch over to fat burning.

[00:57:48] So at least for a couple days when you don't have much food you're going to be feeling pretty crappy. But if you get your body tuned like it was for our ancestors to going 24, 36, 48, 72 hours without any food on a semi-regular basis.

[00:58:08] And also you're eating pretty much vegetables, some fruit and a lot of meat and eggs. Very, very, very little sugar then your body is going to be used to that. I'm telling you you'll be able to ride out that starvation scenario a little bit easier so yeah.

[00:58:29] Final tip from the bregrar of banksters cut out as many carbs as you can maybe even look into that ketogenic diet. It allows you to use the hundreds of thousands of calories in your body. A lean person that's 160 pounds has more than 100,000 calories of body fat.

[00:58:50] So you can go multiple weeks without eating and just use your body fat. And except for a lack of minerals and vitamins and this is where that fish oil comes into that I was talking about.

[00:59:03] It helps with a lot of that. You can go many, many weeks without eating. Again, you got to get your electrolytes. That's the final tip. Make sure you get your electrolytes people. Get a stock up on some freaking electrolytes.

[00:59:19] Spend 10 bucks of that $1,000 budget because you're going to need salt and potassium and magnesium and a couple other trace electrolytes when you're just eating your rice and beans. You got to need those electrolytes especially man go on a 10 or 15 mile hike with your bug out bag

[00:59:39] and let me know if you get some crabs or not. Okay, you're going to be all jacked up especially not used to it. You're going to need electrolytes electrolytes electrolytes electrolytes.

[00:59:48] Alright folks that was my rant for the last 10 minutes of this episode hopefully you got something out of it. Episode 264 is in the books. It'll be June 2024 next time. Future Dan and I come at you next week. We're out of here. Have a good one.