Patriot Power Hour #266

[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.

[00:00:35] 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 June 12th, 2024. It's episode 266, Ben the Breaker of Banksters here with Future Dan. You got a little concern that episode 266 might become a lost episode.

[00:02:47] Fingers crossed that the tech is working tonight. I double checked it and it seemed to be working but there's a time or two in the past where I double checked it and it still didn't work. But we're going to presume it's working and if not say Levy.

[00:03:04] So next week is actually our season finale. This is the penultimate episode of spring 2024 before we do our usual news, blitz, news, analysis. What's been on your mind this past week? Well today Jerome Powell had a lot to say about our economy. Enlighten us.

[00:03:33] The one thing that I caught that was being pointed out in Twitter is at one point he did cast a little shade on government CPI numbers, which came out today. So for sitting Fed share to even entertain the possibility that they're being inflated

[00:03:52] this being an election year, he didn't add that part but there's your context. That's a little bit historical. He's got probably suffered attacks from Democrats for that one. Get a little grumpy maybe.

[00:04:06] When I'm at work, I try not to send grumpy emails but that seemed like a little bit of a grumpy statement. Like you're making my job harder here government. You can't keep it cracked together. So inflation did come in at quote-unquote only 3.3% year over year increase which is

[00:04:23] still a lot higher than the 2% but a little lower than expectations. So Powell said it's good news. We like to see inflation sort of backing off at least it's not 8, 9, 10% like it was a couple

[00:04:38] years ago but still he also threw a lot of caution and even a couple complaints about where we're headed there too. So in medieval times medicine and law were educated in Latin which made it hard to access that information if you weren't trained in Latin.

[00:05:03] It was a way of kind of like a gildish behavior in some senses. Fed speak today in the 21st century can sort of resemble that right and if you're not literate in some of the terms being used it can all go right past you.

[00:05:24] And there's no chance that we're going to dive into the wonkiest terminology of Fed speak that wouldn't be a service to our audience but I do have a sort of common sense mystery about inflation terminology and I thought that I'd save that and ask on air from our

[00:05:44] resident finance master's degree holder who clearly needed prerequisites and economics to hold such a lofty degree about some terms. So can I ask you some about some inflation terms? Pop quiz. I used to do well in these but no guarantees. What do they say?

[00:06:05] They say prior performance does not guarantee future performance but I'm ready. Let's go. Yeah. Dennis Hopper in that Keanu Reeves movie pop quiz hot shot. Here you go. All right. So we generally understand, you know, most people generally understand that, you know,

[00:06:23] inflation and there's many, many, many measures of it so you can get really nerdy about it fast but inflation when prices are higher than they used to be. And deflation is the opposite.

[00:06:37] Prices are less than they used to be but there's a term out there that deserves some analysis which is disinflation and then I got a bit of a mystery. Maybe I'm just exposing my, my ignorance but shouldn't there be disinflation if there's disinflation? So let's go to calculus.

[00:07:06] It's all about the first and second derivatives. Is the line increasing? If so, is it increasing at an increasing rate or at a decreasing rate? Is it leveling off or is it going parabolic?

[00:07:19] So really it's math, the actual language part of it is a little semantical I guess but you know, you can say is inflation accelerating or decelerating or is it disinflation or is deflation accelerating? That would mean a crash in prices in that kind of double negative speaker.

[00:07:38] You know, so it's a little, it is wonky but and then prices are going up a lot. You know, we can boil it down. So disinflation is a logical term. You just never hear it talked about because what kind of catastrophe would bring about

[00:07:55] a situation where prices were decreasing at a slower rate, right? But that would be dis-deinflation. One of the only ones I could think of and it's kind of funny because it's one of the only things like going down in price big time these days is big screen televisions

[00:08:14] and if there's a trade war then those lower prices at Walmart on your $400 4K 80 inch TV. So no longer be $400 probably won't even get them anymore for a while. If there is truly a trade war or war in the Pacific so that would be dis-deinflation.

[00:08:31] Maybe that's what we're looking for here. The dis-deinflation to be precise. Yeah, there you go. But what's driving the narrative today is disinflation. Disinflation is not as, it's not, the curve is not skyrocketing. It's leveling off. Yeah, it's cooling off a little. I like the word abating.

[00:08:58] It's abating. But for how long? How long does this hold and how fast before they have to cut? Yeah, if they were balancing the budget and things were getting pushed in the right direction with the economy as a whole then maybe they could continue this road and continue

[00:09:19] to get better. But they're doing a pretty good job of kind of sticking to it. If you asked me what I would do if I was in charge the last year so I would have just be like, I'm not going higher. I'm not going lower.

[00:09:32] I'm just holding tight and holding by the seat of my pants hoping because if they raise rates it will cause a lot of bank failures and if they lower rates in the short term it

[00:09:43] actually will be good for the economy quote unquote good, good for the markets and housing prices but very quickly that inflation would go back to 8, 10 plus percent. If not more, if they went back to 0% interest rates and a bunch of stimulus so but I

[00:10:01] still think they can't hold the line too much longer but they've done it pretty well. They definitely don't want to raise rates before the election and they probably don't want to raise them at all if possible so they're trying to wait to lower them.

[00:10:14] It's one of their last bullets in the chamber is one more rate cut, one more bailout or if they don't do that then you know that they crashed it on purpose. That's how I look at it. And what?

[00:10:31] Just the fall guy because somebody had to be the example for why the crash happened. If all of a sudden they're like oh we're going to do all this austerity and now we're it's there's no such thing as too big to fail.

[00:10:42] Like if they really change their tune of what they've always done then you know then you got to wonder why not this time but I doubt that's going to happen. I still think they will kick this as far down as they can and until the dollar is

[00:10:55] totally disintegrated and then replaced by something I guess we could talk about what that could be. So somewhere in the 100 series of Patriot Power episodes we did talk about how the Soviet Union organized their monetary system and financial system and central banking and I

[00:11:16] would say this that no matter what level of neo-Marxism, central planning that you want to subscribe to the Federal Reserve you can at least say it's not like the Soviet system because the chairman does have to get out in public and answer for why they're

[00:11:43] doing what they're doing. In this case they didn't raise, they didn't lower, they held firm and that wouldn't have been in the Soviet Union. So I don't know if you'd consider it a facade of accountability but I think history is going

[00:12:00] to judge Jay Powell and not just people from our perspective that centrally planned economies are doomed to failure in the first place. Everybody's looking at him and what he does this election year. That's a tough job for him, I hope they're paying him well then.

[00:12:17] Going to go down as the villain both in the easy money and the hard money crowds. That's a tough place to be but I guess he's the hero we didn't know we needed. Or he sails this thing long enough that perhaps advances in our official intelligence

[00:12:33] boom our economy right out of the problem. I like that, let's go with that. Alright folks, we're going to the first break. We will be back with the Patriot Power Hour News Blitz and at least a half hour of good analysis, talking through what's going on.

[00:12:55] Reminder next week is the finale or the season finale of Patriot Power Hour. We will actually be live on Tuesday next week, Tuesday the 18th not Wednesday. So season finale next Tuesday the 18th of June.

[00:13:15] So 267 will be the finale but stick with us and we'll knock out the rest of 266 right now. Be right back.

[00:14:04] Patriot Power Hour Interception. January 28th, 2020, Episode 81. So this coronavirus outbreak last week we were barely talking about it. Probably two pieces of news. It has exploded in importance. The type of genetic makeup of this thing does not resemble a bird or pig flu.

[00:14:37] A few days ago a Wuhan hospital doctor died from the virus. China has locked down millions. 14 cities in central China quarantined. 4,500 cases as of this afternoon. Catae just without symptoms. Up to eight days you can pass this along.

[00:15:02] Everyone should be aware that central China city of Wuhan has a SARS and Ebola lab and it has been suspected of leaking this virus. Remember previous discussions on Patriot Power Hour about CRISPR and genetic editing.

[00:15:18] What can be done digitally to any form of life these days at the genetic level? Well that's happening in the city where this outbreak started. Are the prepper broadcasting network?

[00:16:27] Patriot Power Hour News Blitz. 12th of June, 2024. Let's have at it an asteroid flew past Earth at less than 0.02 lunar distances. It's pretty darn close. 150th of the way between here and the moon. Asteroid that would have done some big damage went by. Closest flyby of the year.

[00:17:35] How much other natural or health news in this late spring? So let's move on to economics covered a little bit in the first segment. CPI of 3.3% year over year. Unemployment's relatively steady and somewhat low. Markets relatively flat over the last couple months. Now is at about 38,700.

[00:18:08] A few percent away from its all time high. Just above 40k. NASDAQ S&P doing decently. Oil under 80 bucks. Gold a little over 2300. Silver just under 30 bucks. I still think gold and silver are pretty good little purchases here. First we don't have much. And Bitcoin 68000.

[00:18:36] A little choppy on all those assets the last couple weeks but they've kind of found their level headed into the summer. None of these assets or prices I just talked about really changed much today after Powell spoke which can be rare sometimes. Let's go on.

[00:18:59] Geopolitics, national security, NATO plans for surging US troops into Europe in case Russia invades. Ukraine claims the first airstrike on Russian territory. I believe it was on Monday. And TREPID commander talked about that. Has blob reigns, rockets on Israel after strike kills commander.

[00:19:30] January 6th, Capitol Police chief says speakers staff blocked additional security. Eight suspected illegal alien terrorists arrested in New York, Philadelphia and LA. Decent amount of activity actually all around the world even at home in national security column relatively low level though. Prep on. Liberty free speech rounded out.

[00:20:14] Political advisor to POTUS 45 banning to be imprisoned for contempt of Congress reporting July 1st. State of Michigan raid ceases $90,000 of whole food grown by the nourish cooperative and Google API leaks.

[00:20:47] They reveal that the search giant rigs results for COVID election and other topics favoring handpicked narratives again leaks of the Google API pretty much the guts of Google and all the different machinations of Google and its data.

[00:21:07] And all of its branding in all the different ways Google is on the internet. There were leaks in the API.

[00:21:14] And that, you know those leaks came out and prove that the search giant is rigging results of all types of searches, recommended videos on all all that different type of stuff based on handpicked narratives.

[00:21:31] Future dance bad enough to leave those type of algorithms up to the AI that can kind of give over your consciousness to the community. Consciousness to the computer.

[00:21:42] But then to be programmed by the social engineers behind the AI. That's even worse. What do you think it's evidence and news censorship that we knew that private corporations liable to do and just it's not government sense censorship until it's the government doing it, but behind the scenes.

[00:22:04] It's fascism. I wanted to ask you, then on the heat map dashboard which is relatively low amount of headlines today of varying grades of, you know, severity.

[00:22:16] Pick the most surprising least surprising most dangerous and least dangerous and you could tell me on the time horizon how you're measuring that danger. I'm trying to find most surprising. Does any of this really surprise me? Let's see.

[00:22:36] One of them has to be beyond the others. We know that you're fairly jaded, of course.

[00:22:44] Surprising is I guess the ongoing war against the whole food and co-ops, Amish, Rob Mel, all the different articles. This is one specific situation here but generally that's pretty surprising like I don't know that I shouldn't be surprised but still a surprise that they will get down to that level to harass people

[00:23:15] and $90,000 of whole food on one hand that's a lot of money to a single farmer on the other hand I bet that sting or whatever it was by the state of Michigan cost tenfold that I bet it costs nearly a million dollars overall for the Intel personnel and all the equipment and everything going on.

[00:23:34] It's repression at a very local level. Yes. So surprising. About least surprising. Least surprising. Yeah. I would say least surprising is that Google's messing with the results because I, as someone who grew up with no internet until I was about 12,

[00:24:07] and I had to dial up internet for a few years. I've seen the growth and the changes of search engines and how raw they were back then and just how they've become more and more glossed over, whitewashed and then eventually just straight up manipulated censored over the years.

[00:24:23] I've witnessed that. Totally not surprising that's coming out. Most dangerous. I'm just super not feeling great about what's going on in Ukraine, Russia in particular so super dangerous and NATO does this. They have a lot of plans I'm sure and they do a lot of exercises for

[00:24:49] surging US troops and stopping at the fold of gap and all the there's all types of operations that NATO has on the books and ready to roll out. But still I feel like it's about as close as it's ever been in western Europe to becoming a full on ground war since freaking 1945.

[00:25:11] So that's I feel like the most dangerous to me. That's a feeling though maybe not fact. Least dangerous. Definitely not going to say the asteroid because that might be low probability but high risk.

[00:25:34] I'm not ask you know on the flip side of Ukraine and Russia me perhaps I'm overly concerned there I'm maybe a little under concerned or not as concerned with Israel, Iran, Middle East.

[00:25:48] They always just blow each other up. There's always problems it did heat up about a month ago right but okay they're killing each other some more there's still rockets going on this and that I'm not as concerned of that as like Ukraine and Russia so.

[00:26:07] So Dave was speaking about the Russian forces now exercising in Cuba. I did want to weigh in on that. Yes question everybody was and is actually in the title of the daily auto cash is do you feel.

[00:26:24] So actually I don't have it from me either do you feel better or do you feel safer or less safe knowing that there's a Russian forces in Cuba so what's your answer. So I don't know is the answer what's happening inside Ukraine is much greater concerned.

[00:26:45] But I'll say that you know Russia the Soviet Union. But did port calls with nuclear arm vessels all throughout the Cold War in Cuba and obviously we had the first Cuban missile crisis which was way closer to World War three than I think we are today.

[00:27:06] And finally these information operations planners in Russia and in the West have forces of action branches sequels just if this happens and we're going to do this and obviously Russian naval exercises in Cuba are also for domestic consumption inside of Russia.

[00:27:36] We got Finland putting Finland and or Sweden are exercising with with air forces in Romania for the first time since they dropped their neutrality stance.

[00:27:49] So what I think is going on is the Russian planners have all these you know demonstrations of force in the books and when they see provocative acts in their view from from NATO then then they're going to do this and they're going to do that.

[00:28:09] And it's going to be a constant demonstration of capability and from their strategic planning perspective it protects Russian interest to do this right. So I'm not going to go you know into some kind of panic mode about this happening in Cuba.

[00:28:31] Now I'll admit that you know armed with hypersonics whatever is in the Atlantic right now for the Russians is way more dangerous than it was in 1961. I think 6061 but still we had the ability to bomb ourselves into utter ruin back then and we do now faster. Historic results.

[00:28:58] Guarantee future results but I hope we don't blow each other away. Darn I had another thought on. Oh OK here we go. Here we go. Here we go. Senator Graham I don't have the clip.

[00:29:13] Senator Lindsey Graham South Carolina came out said Ukraine could easily be the richest country in Western Europe and that needs to be. Notice he didn't say Eastern Europe or Europe generally.

[00:29:28] He considers it part of Western Europe and he specifically stated we need to keep it out of Russia's hands.

[00:29:38] And because Russian China or Allied China will get access to all those resources in Ukraine but I almost think it's you know they that's one case that's true in some regards but also if Russia collapses upon itself which many in the West would like Russia to collapse.

[00:29:57] Some don't. Some have you know some realistic expectations and understand it collapse Russia probably cause more problems with a strong man or even stronger strong man than Putin coming through I would expect but if that happens then China might just move into the eastern portion of Russia.

[00:30:18] I mean they used to own part of like that northern Manchuria area and all the way up to Siberia there's tons of resources there Vladivostok all that if Russia totally fractured into 1520 provinces or had became you know failed state.

[00:30:35] Who's to say China want it come in take over half of Russia anyway so damn if you do damn if you don't I guess from a strategic point of view got any thoughts on that.

[00:30:45] I don't see the Russian state collapsing maybe the Putin presidency with a coup that's happened in Russian history but the entire collapse of their deep state. I don't see it happening and that that that military absolutely positively every single day has to consider the threat of China.

[00:31:13] They just they just do especially in the Far East right so China getting kind of this dominance or the Russian state is entirely collapsed and balkanized.

[00:31:26] And by the way what are the resources of Ukraine that that Lindsey Graham's talking about like it was considered the bread basket of Europe because of its wheat fields but those are heavily mined war zones right now so what what's in Ukraine exactly that everybody else who's a superpower doesn't already have.

[00:31:49] Maybe it's just as money laundering facilities I'm not exactly sure but I'll do a little research on that. You can offshore that somewhere I'm pretty sure. Yeah I don't know.

[00:32:07] Yeah I don't think they have a bunch of like rare resources like portions of Africa that's just what you know so Lindsey Graham said not saying it's true or not. No I don't don't say I'm a credible source for geopolitical thinking. Fair enough. Fair enough.

[00:32:26] What else you got? Yeah it's summertime so shouldn't be surprised there's more exercises near Ukraine and more warfare in Ukraine right it's the summer. So I just don't see anything changing from last week that basically think that that strategic balance is tipped.

[00:32:51] The couple things that I've seen is especially over the last month number one seems like Ukraine is down to its last able bodied men so really having to ramp up conscription in pretty much Shanghai throwing people in.

[00:33:11] Dual citizen people can't leave the country anymore and people being thrown you know thrown in after a week or two basic training just warm body on the front that's accelerated so that's you know sign of desperation. Also both sides are having a lot more of their infrastructure hit.

[00:33:31] We talked about Russia being struck in you know in Russia proper but they've had a lot of oil refineries blown up recently and meanwhile Ukraine's really had its power grid blown to hell a lot more in the last month than in the last couple of years even so.

[00:33:49] That's acceleration the F-16s are going to be used by Ukraine apparently they're not going to be housed in Ukraine so they're going to be in Poland or Romania I think.

[00:34:04] And the question is will Russia strike those airfields because they consider that part of the war or not and you know if let's say a sortie of F-16s. You even if they're Ukrainian pilots takes off from Poland strikes Russia proper.

[00:34:24] Russia hits with conventional weapons even that air airfield and Poland then where do we stand you think. No it's any any Russian strike on NATO territory would be a that's the line that I don't think Russia dares to cross.

[00:34:43] I just don't if you hear a headline about it watch because it's going to go two ways real fast.

[00:34:50] It's going to go to someone saying it was accident major UN you know meetings held and it will be a great big panic you know people will be running to the box stores buying you know 36 packs of toilet paper again and then it'll be you know smooth over or or it's it's that's it.

[00:35:12] You know 99 red balloons feels like the West and this just comes from no new sources that I check out all different types but never feels like the West has been ratcheting up not only the aid but also the.

[00:35:29] The advanced level of weaponry at first it was pretty basic now it's getting higher and higher now it's F-16s which Russia said hey we F-16s can carry tactical nuclear weapons and we're going to assume if we see one of those.

[00:35:44] That it may have a tactical nuke does that mean Russia going to launch all those nukes of F-16 and there's a territory near no but that's that's antagonizing to.

[00:35:55] You know our arm Ukraine but you know I'm not I'm no fan of Russia but it seems like poking the bear over and over might not be the best idea all the time.

[00:36:05] Well you know we've spoken a lot about over 10 windows and then this war is all kinds of you know windows getting stretched or you can use the boiling frog kind of metaphor where.

[00:36:19] You know we're going way past what during the Cold War would have been thought reasonable but there's there is some kind of limit and I'm going to stand by it that.

[00:36:30] You know nuclear powers can't fight each other because you know it is the end of both of them you can't use nukes a little bit and then the planners have realized this for decades so again I think there's going to be provocations.

[00:36:48] It's going to be and the European Europeans really have to justify to their populations Western Europeans the expenditure and and the war putting the readiness right so they'll be they'll be this they'll be that you know as we might cross some threshold where.

[00:37:06] Some European NATO troops are actually in Ukraine I don't think that that US troops are going there though not not publicly that that would be the you know Russians might actually get to the point where they would tolerate French advisors openly serving in Ukraine.

[00:37:23] But I'm not sure that you know what really matters is the material and troops on the ground how many US divisions are in Poland and Romania right now right and the Russians know how many we got and they know how to watch it's hard to not.

[00:37:41] Advertise like the movement of entire you know combat brigades like these things are almost always publicly announced.

[00:37:50] By by our military because you're not going to hide it right so I don't I don't see much more than some of the large exercises that happened throughout the Cold War is called reforger it was the movement of you know I believe that goal is to put two divisions into Europe and some limited time frame.

[00:38:10] In the event that the goal for the gap had been overrun right so but again the entire scenario was entirely what if because how could they run overrun any NATO territory without. It escalates straight up to. You know how hydrogen bombs getting used.

[00:38:31] Sure sure I don't think Russia would go outside Ukraine but can't guarantee that I agree that. Russian US forces directly fighting not going to last long at a conventional level probably escalate.

[00:38:50] The buffer between that was the Ukrainian people they're dying out and they're being pretty much decimated I think is the proper military term.

[00:39:02] And without them to fight the fight the maybe it'll end maybe they'll sue for peace or Russia will finally win that attrition battle and if the West doesn't put more boots on the ground then Russia.

[00:39:18] I mean they had like a 7 to 1 population advantage so they just keep grinding for two three four years we're on more you know we're about two years four months now you said this would grind out for multiple years but it seems like the.

[00:39:34] You know that grind is really taking its toll and I don't know how much longer it'll go and at that point will Russia sue for peace will Ukraine sue for peace it'll end hopefully but if not Russian might just say ha now you guys are screwed you don't have any able bodied men.

[00:39:47] You're gonna go all the way to Kiev.

[00:39:52] Well they tried that once and couldn't get there lost a lot of airborne troops trying decimation is you know not actually a term of art in military doctrine it's just reducing something to a tenth of its previous whole and there's no military.

[00:40:12] The Ukrainians aren't decimated if they were at. 60% of the strength that they started the war I think they'd be doing well if they could be brought to you know less than 50%.

[00:40:27] I think that they're in trouble and that might be where they're at right now but the military terminology I think you're seeking is attrition it's an attrition battle it was just like first World War the US Civil War right or places and times it was definitely that in World War two.

[00:40:46] And certainly it was the way we fought Vietnam is to a treat the enemy just try to you know and end its military you know it's ground infantry capacity and even if the Ukrainians were a treated on the ground this is a very high tech war.

[00:41:06] Occupying that space that they would evacuate towards their capital again it becomes a gigantic you know killing field for the drone strikes the the law during munitions right so enough law during munitions flowed into that country and the Russian army you know can't can't just walk in there.

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[00:43:41] So in a few words why are we not talking about the Hunter Biden conviction. We should be.

[00:43:52] If only because they were gas lighting us so much that it wasn't real laptop wasn't real the crack smoking and all these other things either weren't a big deal or he was in recovery or it was all fake conspiracy.

[00:44:06] Well no a lot of it came out to be true and now he's convicted. Is it really great is dangerous. I get where you're coming from maybe not but it is the rot of the country overall.

[00:44:23] It's sort of in the background it's very it's destabilizing that's for sure. The Trump the Trump conviction now the president son conviction total total you know new new territory for our constitutional Republic and I believe in the chat. Internal PP PBN communications message from Dave Jones asking.

[00:44:46] Our opinion on whether we still live in a constitutional Republic maybe I'll let you go first on that one. I look at the Bill of Rights as a big part of that we still have the Bill of Rights.

[00:45:00] I think mostly I got the first amendment still even though they censor what I say and what I find on the Internet still can do this show still have a fair amount of free speech first amendment mostly there but under attack big time second amendment. I exercise that.

[00:45:12] And they've tried to come after that big time but I think if anything we've defended the second amendment better than anything else almost the fair you know search and seizure warrants for the amendment and jury by trial and some of these other judicists.

[00:45:21] Bill of Rights some of those might be gone for certain people and certain certain circumstances I do feel like it's almost like a secret thing. I think that's the right thing to do.

[00:45:34] Search and seizure warrants for the amendment and jury by trial and some of these other judicial Bill of Rights. Some of those might be gone for certain people in certain certain circumstances I do feel like it's almost like a secret police secret gulag creeping up on us.

[00:45:55] So like holding on to some of the core tenants of Constitutional Republic from Bill of Rights. That's how I kind of judge it but all we got to do is lose one or two of those and the rest will probably follow.

[00:46:09] I guess the question for me is sort of it's it's it's asked in a binary way and it's always going to be some shade of truth in between right.

[00:46:19] So the Constitutional Republic as it as it should be in Patriot Power hours established position would be pre establishment of the Federal Reserve for the establishment of the FBI.

[00:46:35] It's certainly before the National Security Act in 1947 establishing all the rest of the deep state right so those acts are for either of our lifetimes so can we be at 100% cost?

[00:46:49] So the Constitutional Republic after you know certain things like the direct election of senators as opposed to by state. Legislatures you know so where are we and how far we how far we declining is definitely declining.

[00:47:07] There's no question about that and and tying it back to the first segment you know the rate of decline the deflation in our Constitutional Republic in this is. It's not deteriorating it's not dis the inflation of our Constitutional Republic in this how's that for some analysis.

[00:47:27] There you go. It's not only deteriorating is deteriorating worse each day than the day before at a quicker pace. Unfortunately I think that's that's true rough go I would you know from a scale of zero to 100 the country never hit 100 perfect Constitutional Republic. The Utopian government.

[00:47:53] What do you think the high point would be though now well no I bet it's different.

[00:48:00] No when when this Constitutional Republic was founded it was the 100 it was the first in history that was it for all of its imperfections after the the Arkles the Confederation were scrapped and the US Constitution was adopted.

[00:48:15] I think that's the 100 and how it's fallen since is just a matter of debate.

[00:48:22] Okay so you're doing like a more of a high watermark rather than a hypothetical best possible situation in world history 250 plus years ago that that's the 100 after the Federal Reserve was established in I believe 1913 big big cut out of that 100 was the 100 was definitely accomplished.

[00:48:47] It was I would this concept I'd like to have an unbiased doctor in history who studies this for 50 years kind of rate the different points like year by year. I'm sure that during the Civil War it wasn't a high point in our Constitutional Republic.

[00:49:10] I'm sure even during the Depression I guess that was after 1913 but you know it ebbs and flows certainly but this past she since 911 even let's just say just from 911 on it's been all downhill from there. I don't think it's had a bounce up.

[00:49:30] Someone say maybe the four years that Trump was in I think that's more of a flattening where it didn't get worse maybe maybe tidy improvement but at least most of it didn't get worse but then it fell right back off a cliff. It definitely spiked under Reagan.

[00:49:47] Okay I like to give you that I give you that I was only a little little child but I've seen a few of the deregulations and of course. Hey ended the Cold War at least for 20 years it's back for the vengeance this the sequel.

[00:50:04] We only got a couple minutes left. What else you got with us? Well we're still a Constitutional Republic it's just a matter of degree and I don't like the degree the direction that that trend line.

[00:50:16] I don't know what else we got we got these weeks after weeks been where I think episode 262, 3456 before tonight or tonight is 266. Got the same you know 10 to 12 headlines of varying degrees with not much necessarily directly tying the headlines to each other.

[00:50:39] We're kind of in this scattered low low level of news environment and of course it's an election year so any bad news that any side wants to keep is being protected very strongly right now but I think we're probably headed towards.

[00:50:58] A breakout of this pattern and that could that could mean you know significant events this summer so I don't think we'll be as quiet in the. Summer of 2024 season starting in July than we have been in the spring season.

[00:51:15] I don't think so either good time to keep on prepping folks I personally have invested more than $500 in storeable food. Some and a little bit more into other preps just the basic preps the traffic commander said again I think it's the same podcast on Monday.

[00:51:36] If I'm right that when you're not sure what to do or just get a little over flustered or whatnot just get back to the basics you know food water medical security so just keep stacking away.

[00:51:49] And getting good physical shape because if it's a pandemic you want to be able to fight it off. If it's a collapse of the power grid you want to be able to walk your ass around.

[00:51:58] If you got type two diabetes and are 300 pounds it might be a problem if you have to walk 20 miles right to get back home after an EMP so.

[00:52:08] So lost or short keep on prepping and every day it's not too crazy I think that's a good thing at least we got another day of reprieve and preps.

[00:52:18] One last headline I saw today that didn't get a chance to read that that maybe you didn't either and if we can't find it quickly might have to hold this but Trump spoke about Bitcoin today did you see his is. Understanding of making Bitcoin made in America.

[00:52:39] Yeah he wants all the rest of Bitcoin to ever be made to be made in America he said. What do you think?

[00:52:48] Does he know that does he know what it doesn't know what that means is a question if so and he's going to give you know massive tax breaks or even 0% capital gains treat like a currency not like a commodity.

[00:53:01] In the taxes then that's money where you know put his money where the mouse is so we'll see but if he doesn't you know otherwise it won't do anything. He's definitely making a play for the crypto crowd.

[00:53:15] Hey a lot of people make a play for the crypto crowd and unfortunately most of them are BS. Oh really hope but he's not. Who else really pulling Congress Senate or the House or a state level as they become an outspoken advocate for crypto currency.

[00:53:40] I can't think of anybody. I wasn't talking about politicians. I'm talking about all types of scammers and hucksters. Politicians are hucksters and scammers so do something about it. Do something with the tax code and I believe you until then they're just saying it. Yep.

[00:54:01] Alright we'll probably be revisiting this one. I got feeling Trump's going to keep hammering that one all the way to November. Hey man might be enough for me to vote for him. I don't know we'll find out. Great show future Dan. See you next week.

[00:54:17] We'll see you on episode 268 right. Episode 268 next Tuesday night back to double barrel Tuesdays for our finale. See you later Dan. Yes sir.