Patriot Power Hour #283 - Prelude to an Election

[00:02:31] Patriot Power Hour. We are live October 30th, 2024, 7.20pm Eastern on this Patriot Power Hour. How y'all doing? Ben the Breaker, Banks, here with Future Dan. Future Dan, less than a week till the election.

[00:02:46] Six days. We got 21 active indicators with over 30 headlines to get through. The news environment is heating up. It's multi-dimensional. It includes the election, but a whole lot more right now.

[00:03:08] Yes, we're seeing, and of course we'll go through the full dashboard on this October 30th edition of Patriot Power Hour.

[00:03:15] But it's not just election focused at all, although we do have a lot of that news we're going to cover tonight.

[00:03:22] But wide swath of news, all the four columns, several indicators, many, many headlines.

[00:03:29] Future Dan, we're planning this Saturday, actually though, to have an election special, Patriot Power Hour special.

[00:03:37] We did this about four years ago. Talk through that with our listeners. What's the difference between a normal show, quote unquote,

[00:03:45] kind of what we're going to do tonight, more news focused, compared to that broader form analysis we're going to look to do this weekend?

[00:03:53] Yeah, yeah. And the reason we didn't do it last week, as promised for loyal listeners, is we're starting to see headlines emerge.

[00:04:02] And we're going to cover them in the second segment of this episode that have new and greater detail on how elections are stolen in this country.

[00:04:14] So our thinking was, we're going to postpone. And by Saturday, we're going to have a pretty solid summary of all the reports,

[00:04:25] all the suspected techniques that are underway. And I think for most of our listeners and for most Americans, it's pretty obvious there's some margin of steal.

[00:04:37] And for 2024, the question is, for Trump, has he made it too big to rig?

[00:04:46] And what do you think that number is like 10 percent, five percent?

[00:04:51] You know, what's the the too big to rig just landslide? It's just too obvious.

[00:04:56] Obviously, it was like, let's say, 90 percent. I don't think they could rig 90 percent.

[00:05:01] But what's the upper level, you think? Or do you have any idea?

[00:05:06] Yeah. Look at the margins of Biden's victory in 2020 in certain states.

[00:05:11] We're talking tens of thousands of votes is all it takes.

[00:05:17] Do you feel like they were pressed up against the ceiling a bit like that was about as much as they could stretch it in 2020?

[00:05:23] Or do you think they're going to be able to come up with new ways or more effective ways to do it?

[00:05:30] On the other hand, the defense will be looking for some of the same plays.

[00:05:34] So if you take a football analogy, you know, both the offense and defense make some adjustments going into this new game.

[00:05:42] Well, I'll tell you what, the game's changed and Supreme Court ruled six to three today that Virginia can purge.

[00:05:51] Sixteen hundred registered voters that are confirmed noncitizens.

[00:05:57] So we won't talk about that in the second segment directly.

[00:06:02] It's not a headline on the heat map dashboard of future danger because it's not dangerous news.

[00:06:08] It's actually positive, safe news that.

[00:06:11] So what is pretty clear to me is the Republican establishment that was not entirely behind Trump through 2020 sat idle, unprepared for the steal that was coming.

[00:06:30] And basically, you know, everybody opposing the Democrats was flat footed when COVID arrived and the entire COVID.

[00:06:40] In fact, locked lockdowns, vaccinations, the whole nine yards that that was taking the country by storm.

[00:06:47] And a lot of, you know, middle of the road, non-conspiratorial minded, so-called moderate Republicans basically let it happen to this country.

[00:07:00] And they learned their lesson because there's there are governors and there are, you know, other Republicans in power across the states that are not letting the same techniques succeed.

[00:07:16] At least we're seeing some evidence or that right now.

[00:07:20] Question is, have the Democrats evolved?

[00:07:23] Is there all new ways to cheat this election this year?

[00:07:27] And I think by this time next week, we're going to have our answer.

[00:07:32] Well, we'll definitely be live next Wednesday with all the updates.

[00:07:36] And of course, here on PBN, many shows are going to be either live on Election Day or just around.

[00:07:45] And pretty much every topic of every show will be.

[00:07:49] I have a feeling about the election over the next week.

[00:07:52] So be sure to tune in to Intrepid Commander and the whole crew at PBN.

[00:07:56] And we'll be doing our own thing.

[00:07:58] And maybe even I might even call in, honestly, on election night.

[00:08:02] I know you may not feature Dan, but we always reserve the right to have our own special show or upload.

[00:08:09] If anything absolutely crazy occurs, if another attempt is made on Trump's life, if there's some sort of terror attack or cyber outage or they for any reason attempt to halt or postpone or disrupt the election in a swing state, etc.

[00:08:25] Like we'll be live.

[00:08:28] I pretty much guarantee you that.

[00:08:30] But we are planning all else considered to be live next Wednesday as well as this Saturday.

[00:08:37] I think we'll be doing our analysis live.

[00:08:39] We have the option to pre-record it, but I like going live.

[00:08:43] It's just a little extra pressure.

[00:08:45] Perform a little better when you know you're under a hot mic, in my opinion.

[00:08:49] So that's the plan, future Dan.

[00:08:51] What do you say?

[00:08:52] Well, my preference is during, you know, breaking news events, which obviously the election's one of those, to really pay attention to the news streams.

[00:09:06] Try not to comment on it while it's happening and understand it.

[00:09:12] Forming a memory of what I heard, what I saw, when I saw it, who was saying what, when, and perhaps hours later, who's the same people saying something else is critical to proper Patriot Power Hour analysis.

[00:09:30] So I probably won't be, you know, commenting on the election as it happens.

[00:09:34] I'm going to be watching the Twitter feed or X feed, watching my news streams.

[00:09:40] And if all goes well, tune in to CNN and MSNBC alternatively just for the schottenfreude.

[00:09:54] For those vaunted liberal tears.

[00:09:57] There you go.

[00:09:58] Well, I don't know.

[00:10:00] Seriously, though.

[00:10:03] What they're telling themselves, if it becomes absolutely clear that Harris is being defeated, you know, is fascinating.

[00:10:13] We're going to break, future Dan.

[00:10:14] I hate to cut you off, but right when I was hitting the break button, you started talking.

[00:10:19] My bad, brother.

[00:10:20] We'll be back.

[00:10:21] Stick with us.

[00:10:21] Patriot Power Hour.

[00:13:44] Future Danger allows the Patriot Power Hour audience to relentlessly sue news for the prepared.

[00:13:53] That's what we're doing.

[00:13:55] Got a very heated dashboard tonight.

[00:13:58] October 30th, 2024.

[00:14:01] Episode 283.

[00:14:02] Let's go.

[00:14:03] Palm 1.

[00:14:04] Surging prices of everyday items found to be excluded from the Consumer Price Index.

[00:14:10] Government statistics falsified.

[00:14:14] Grade 3 news.

[00:14:16] Grade 1 happening now.

[00:14:18] Yesterday, the president calls former president's supporters garbage.

[00:14:23] Political opponents officially vilified.

[00:14:26] Dangerous.

[00:14:28] Virginia appeals to the Supreme Court for permission to remove alleged non-citizens from the border rolls, and the Supreme Court upheld it.

[00:14:37] We were carrying that news at grade 2 on the indicator aliens vote, but not any longer, or at least not for 16,000 in Virginia.

[00:14:50] Vice presidential candidate says electoral college needs to go.

[00:14:57] That rates grade 2 under constitutional obsolescence discussed.

[00:15:05] Now let's hit the elections are stolen indicator.

[00:15:09] It's a grade 3.

[00:15:10] Isn't happening now, but there's a lot of news coming out that could point in that direction for next Tuesday.

[00:15:17] We got a report.

[00:15:19] Pennsylvania early voters were told.

[00:15:21] Computers were down.

[00:15:22] Polling sites closing early.

[00:15:24] More voters not being accepted.

[00:15:26] And mail ballots will not be counted.

[00:15:28] That headline has since been modified because early voting extended in Pennsylvania to November 1st because all those problems at polling stations.

[00:15:42] But why are there problems at those polling stations in a key swing state like Pennsylvania?

[00:15:48] Ballot drop box fires under investigation in Oregon and Washington.

[00:15:54] Democrat operative caught on undercover video explaining how 2020 election in Georgia was stolen.

[00:16:03] Box of ballots found on Florida Turnbike after reportedly falling off a truck.

[00:16:08] Nevada Supreme Court upholds counting.

[00:16:12] Absentee ballots without postmarks.

[00:16:14] Without postmarks.

[00:16:16] Michigan Secretary of State admits tonight there's a nationwide quote programming issue with Dominion voting machines.

[00:16:25] In this case, it's supposedly only about voting machines programmed to enable people with disabilities to vote.

[00:16:35] Does raise questions.

[00:16:37] Finally, in the indicator elections stolen.

[00:16:40] Colorado Secretary of State says voting machine passwords to their biosystems been leaked online.

[00:16:51] Moving on to news blatantly censored.

[00:16:55] Rogan stays silent about the COVID vax while interviewing Trump.

[00:17:02] Finally, Americans more dependent than ever on government handouts.

[00:17:07] New report states.

[00:17:09] Cloward Piven strategy advances.

[00:17:12] That's it for column one.

[00:17:14] Let's go overseas and look at what's going on.

[00:17:17] Russia nuclear forces exercise begins.

[00:17:20] Kremlin says four saboteurs allegedly including an American killed trying to infiltrate Russia.

[00:17:27] NATO estimates 600,000 Russian casualties.

[00:17:33] Dead and wounded.

[00:17:35] In the Ukraine war, found that under the potential for war with Russia starting.

[00:17:41] In the Middle East, Israel has openly attacked Iran with retaliatory airstrikes.

[00:17:48] Iran says that Israeli attack killed four Iranian soldiers, damaged radars.

[00:17:53] Israeli cabinet is now meeting a secret location after threats of Iranian retaliation.

[00:18:00] That's under the indicator Israeli-Iranian war starts.

[00:18:03] Grade two.

[00:18:05] One step below, fully actualized war.

[00:18:11] And Indian troops are ambushed by militants near the Pakistan border.

[00:18:16] Got to keep an eye on those places because India and Pakistan are nuclear-armed states.

[00:18:22] Tracking that under Indo-Pac war starts.

[00:18:24] Coming back home, Democrats are warning to brace for unrest.

[00:18:30] If Trump wins, file that under.

[00:18:33] Riots erupt.

[00:18:33] And black on red.

[00:18:36] Happening now.

[00:18:39] Foreign black ops suspected.

[00:18:42] Iran still trying to assassinate Mike Pompeo.

[00:18:46] State Department discloses to Congress in a non-public memo.

[00:18:52] And a New York Democrat congresswoman repeatedly met with Chinese communist intelligence personnel

[00:18:58] via a civic association she belonged to for years.

[00:19:05] That's it for security news.

[00:19:07] Moving to economics.

[00:19:09] Gold price hits.

[00:19:10] High after high.

[00:19:12] The headline we got here recorded the high yesterday at $2,776 per ounce.

[00:19:21] It's a few dollars higher than that tonight.

[00:19:24] We got an article here asking, is the dollar collapsing?

[00:19:27] Seven key indicators you can't ignore.

[00:19:29] I'm sure my partner on this show can't either.

[00:19:32] We'll get into that one.

[00:19:35] In the bond market, office real estate crisis hits.

[00:19:39] Even the safest bonds.

[00:19:42] Bankster breaker can break that one down too.

[00:19:45] And the states are, all 50 states in total are $811 billion in debt.

[00:19:53] Closing in on state debt level of $1 trillion in the United States of America.

[00:20:00] Column four.

[00:20:01] We still have natural threats to look out for.

[00:20:05] This headline kind of sums up the year America had.

[00:20:10] Mega storms mauled the United States this year.

[00:20:13] Record-breaking weather disasters.

[00:20:14] With 418 Americans killed, costing $24 billion.

[00:20:21] In space, asteroids flies past Earth at just .04 lunar distances.

[00:20:28] Third closest this year.

[00:20:32] In Europe, Spanish floods claim over 60 lives leave dozens missing.

[00:20:38] And tonight, off the coast of Oregon, shallow.

[00:20:42] Magnitude 6.0 earthquake hits.

[00:20:44] Yes, finally.

[00:20:47] New Zealand data shows.

[00:20:50] 188% increase in deaths of children after rollout of the COVID vax.

[00:20:58] That's the totality of threat indicators we're talking about on Patriot Power Hour tonight.

[00:21:04] Your reaction, Ben?

[00:21:06] Well, the reaction could take hours and hours to try to be succinct.

[00:21:11] Because we don't have hours and hours.

[00:21:13] But we will be talking about a lot of these topics for many weeks, months, and years to come.

[00:21:18] And have been talking about a lot of them.

[00:21:20] What I was thinking we do is put election to the side.

[00:21:24] And finish with that tonight.

[00:21:26] And keep that momentum going into Saturday and going into next week.

[00:21:29] And focus on a little bit more non-election.

[00:21:33] Now, a lot of these things can impact the election in politics generally.

[00:21:37] But kind of focus on that side of the equation.

[00:21:40] What do you think?

[00:21:41] Let's do it.

[00:21:42] What do you want to talk about?

[00:21:45] Well, let's just get the economics out of the way.

[00:21:48] Obviously, gold has hit an all-time high.

[00:21:50] 2,800.

[00:21:52] Could it keep cranking up all the way to 3,000 by end of the year?

[00:21:56] I had a...

[00:21:57] You know, you and I do prediction shows at the start of the year.

[00:22:00] I had a small chance it would hit 3,000.

[00:22:03] We'll see.

[00:22:04] We'll evaluate that at the end of the year.

[00:22:06] But all that matters.

[00:22:07] Gold, all-time high.

[00:22:08] Silver, not all-time high.

[00:22:09] But still up massively.

[00:22:11] It's like 34 bucks.

[00:22:13] So even since our last episode a couple weeks ago.

[00:22:16] Silver's up like $3, $4.

[00:22:19] Gold's up 50 bucks.

[00:22:21] It had a little dip, but it bounced back nicely.

[00:22:24] Bitcoin right now, 72,500.

[00:22:27] Bitcoin's probably up $7,000 since our last episode.

[00:22:31] 10%.

[00:22:32] So Bitcoin's ripping and roaring.

[00:22:34] And this is the funny thing.

[00:22:36] Kind of ended on that.

[00:22:37] We're seeing the dollar collapsing article and bond issues and all the debt of the states.

[00:22:44] But next week, on the day of the election and the day after, the Federal Reserve is meeting.

[00:22:50] And it's expected that they're going to lower rates just a tad, 25 basis points.

[00:22:55] Now, some predict they'll keep rates the same.

[00:22:59] Regardless, they already lowered rates just a couple months ago.

[00:23:03] And we have all-time high in real estate.

[00:23:06] Except for corporate real estate.

[00:23:08] Leave that to the side.

[00:23:10] But all-time high in gold.

[00:23:12] All-time high in Bitcoin.

[00:23:13] All-time high in stock market.

[00:23:14] All-time high in a lot of things.

[00:23:16] But they're going to keep lowering rates.

[00:23:18] Why would they do that?

[00:23:20] We'll talk about it.

[00:23:21] We always do talk about it.

[00:23:22] But that's what I'm seeing here.

[00:23:24] Your gold is ripping and roaring.

[00:23:26] Hopefully, you were stacking over the last decade or so.

[00:23:28] It's not too late, though.

[00:23:30] And remember, only buy physical.

[00:23:32] Don't buy that paper junk ETFs and stuff.

[00:23:36] So, any thoughts on the economics before we move on?

[00:23:41] Yeah.

[00:23:41] So, let's jump into the seven key indicators you can't ignore that the dollar is collapsing.

[00:23:51] All right.

[00:23:52] This is from Doug Casey's International Man site.

[00:23:55] I'm going to just brief them to you.

[00:23:58] Let me see what you think.

[00:24:00] Indicator one.

[00:24:01] Federal budget deficits.

[00:24:04] Actual projected federal deficits are enormous.

[00:24:10] Cumulative deficit over $22 trillion over the next 10 years.

[00:24:16] How does that make the dollar fall?

[00:24:20] Well, what is the dollar being compared against is a really important question.

[00:24:28] Because if you look at what's known as the dollar index, or if you look at other currencies like the euro and the yen and all world trade,

[00:24:40] the dollar is still doing quote-unquote well compared to those other trash coins.

[00:24:46] You know, in the Bitcoin world, they call it Bitcoin, then they call it, and I'll, you know, this is a PG-13 or PG, so the S-word coin.

[00:24:55] It's a S-word coin.

[00:24:58] Well, you know, compared to the Federal Reserve note, the euro and the yen is just total crud.

[00:25:07] So it makes the dollar look good.

[00:25:09] But when you compare it to real assets, especially when we're looking at gold, the momentum is just pushing, pushing, showing that, yes, the deficit is growing.

[00:25:20] More debt issuance is required.

[00:25:23] And the only way to keep the liquidity going is to print money.

[00:25:29] They can't stop spending and they can't stop borrowing.

[00:25:33] So federal budget deficits out of control, indicator number one.

[00:25:37] Indicator number two, the federal debt itself.

[00:25:41] In the U.S., government spending accounts for at least 37% of GDP.

[00:25:47] That's a problem.

[00:25:49] Indicator number three, the federal interest expense.

[00:25:52] You've been big on the federal interest expense.

[00:25:55] Maybe that's why they have to cut, even though all the possibly false, positive Department of Commerce and Department of Labor just before the election falsified data is not as good as it seems.

[00:26:13] Everybody has to, Fed has to pretend it's real right now.

[00:26:16] So if they cut, is it not because they have to cut due to the federal interest expense?

[00:26:24] Huge part of it.

[00:26:25] Just to remind everybody, the federal government, we have 30, what, 35 plus trillion, something like that now.

[00:26:35] Even the bankster breaker can't keep track of it.

[00:26:37] How trillion dollars in government debt over time.

[00:26:42] Well, you've got to pay an interest rate on that when interest rates aren't 0%.

[00:26:45] They used to be, so it wasn't that big a deal.

[00:26:47] But now, they raise rates, paying that interest on it.

[00:26:51] That interest is like the size of the military budget.

[00:26:55] So it's like having another military budget only to pay interest on the debt.

[00:27:00] So that's kind of what I always said was a total tipping level.

[00:27:04] And really, you're over your skis big time by that point.

[00:27:07] So more than $1 trillion in the last fiscal year to interest.

[00:27:15] So yeah, lowering it will help a little bit.

[00:27:18] And that is a big problem they have.

[00:27:20] I also think that real estate, especially commercial, is a huge problem.

[00:27:26] Especially some of these regional banks.

[00:27:27] And lowering, that's like a release valve or pressure release valve to some of these banks' balance sheets that are really crumbling.

[00:27:37] It seems like the whole world is the haves and haves-nots these days.

[00:27:41] And I think it's the same in real estate.

[00:27:43] In certain areas, real estate's still at all-time highs.

[00:27:47] It's still growing 3%, 5%, 10% a year.

[00:27:49] In certain suburbs of big cities and where their money is.

[00:27:53] But other areas are just like foreclosure land or just no activity going on.

[00:27:58] And in fact, in a lot of places, in Florida in particular, they are seeing 10%, 20%, 30% loss of value of homes in the last year.

[00:28:09] Not to mention insurance going up big time.

[00:28:13] So long story short, the cost of living is going up big time.

[00:28:18] And that's not helpful if you don't own a home, of course.

[00:28:21] But it's also just, yeah, not a very liquid market.

[00:28:25] So if things start collapsing, it could all come together on itself.

[00:28:28] So maybe the banksters see, hey, we got to have this pressure relief valve for all the reasons we just talked about.

[00:28:34] Maybe there's something political about it.

[00:28:37] All the, we believe, I believe at least, I'll let you talk for yourself, speak for yourself.

[00:28:41] At a minimum, the government data is massaged to look good for the Harris-Biden administration.

[00:28:52] We even saw 800,000 jobs retroactively removed.

[00:28:58] They're like, oops, we made a mistake.

[00:29:00] We put 800,000, too many jobs in there.

[00:29:03] Mistakes happen.

[00:29:04] Long story short, I just feel like, yeah, there's a little bit of manipulation.

[00:29:09] They've done everything they can to, in this window of time right now, make the economy as good as it can.

[00:29:18] Dressing that pig up, putting that lipstick on the pig.

[00:29:20] That pig is looking as good as it can right now.

[00:29:23] And right after the election, I expect the other shoe to drop, no matter who wins, honestly.

[00:29:29] Yeah, I agree entirely.

[00:29:30] By the way, the DOD budget this year is $886 billion.

[00:29:36] The federal interest debt expense annualized this year exceeds $1 trillion.

[00:29:41] So we're paying more on interest than we are for our military this year.

[00:29:47] Hey, I've talked about how I played video games as a kid.

[00:29:50] I played a lot of SimCity.

[00:29:52] If anyone played SimCity, I love that game.

[00:29:54] I played from the original one all the way up to the modern ones.

[00:29:59] And there's no way you'd get away with running your city with these sort of crazy deficits and crazy expenditures

[00:30:07] and borrowing all this with these interest rates with no ability to get it back.

[00:30:12] I know that, I mean, really, that begs the question, what is the U.S. dollar backed on?

[00:30:17] And it's really actually the military and our overall might.

[00:30:21] There used to be something called soft power.

[00:30:23] Unfortunately, a lot of that's eroding, so all we got left is hard power.

[00:30:28] And a good portion of that is leveraging people financially.

[00:30:31] And the BRICS and others are meeting and trying to get away from us.

[00:30:35] I don't think the BRICS are all going to agree and get along and have their own little utopia on the side at all.

[00:30:40] But they want to get away from us almost more than they want to, you know, freeload or take advantage of one another.

[00:30:49] So that's not good when they hate us more than each other.

[00:30:54] Nope, it's not good.

[00:30:55] It previews the fall of the U.S. dollar.

[00:31:00] Federal funds rate is what we're talking about here.

[00:31:02] Fed has pivoted back to monetary easing.

[00:31:05] They did it without defeating inflation, Ben.

[00:31:08] It's a problem.

[00:31:09] Indicator number five, money supply.

[00:31:13] Skyrocketing interest expense forces the Fed to implement interest cost control policies which inflate the money supply.

[00:31:20] It's a big sign that the dollar is falling.

[00:31:23] Any words on the money supply and what inflating it does?

[00:31:29] When I see these numbers, I know them, but I still look at them and I'm like, is that really it?

[00:31:36] Let me just read this.

[00:31:38] Since 2020, which is not that long ago, the U.S. money supply has grown by 37%.

[00:31:45] So over the entire history of America, they added more than one third more dollars in circulation for all intents and purposes in like four years.

[00:31:57] Of course, no wonder we had inflation.

[00:31:59] No wonder the inflation was about 37%.

[00:32:01] That actually seems like a realistic inflation level.

[00:32:04] They say, you know, the peak was 8% annualized and maybe there's been like 15% inflation over that time.

[00:32:11] I bet that's kind of what the governments would say cumulatively over that four-year period.

[00:32:15] I think it's more like that 37% right there.

[00:32:17] U.S. money supply skyrocketed 37%.

[00:32:20] That's what the bankster breaker says.

[00:32:23] Indicator number six, the Consumer Price Index, which Doug Casey labels the most politically manipulated statistic in all of government.

[00:32:33] That's why it was in that category on our newslets.

[00:32:37] TPI is misleading government propaganda, he writes.

[00:32:42] And as you mentioned earlier, they did a downward revision over a period of over a year, like 16 months.

[00:32:50] They just revised down 800,000 jobs.

[00:32:54] So just to be clear, the U.S. government, it can't actually count all the jobs.

[00:33:00] It just can't do it.

[00:33:02] So these are estimates from the Federal Reserve, of course.

[00:33:08] And yeah, probably enough said on inflation there.

[00:33:12] And then indicator number seven, your favorite.

[00:33:15] You talked about it a moment ago.

[00:33:17] The gold price skyrocketing.

[00:33:20] It's 33% up since January this year.

[00:33:24] Black on gold happening now.

[00:33:27] An indicator of danger.

[00:33:28] Even if you own it, it shouldn't skyrocket like this under normal conditions.

[00:33:36] But it is.

[00:33:37] Those are Doug Casey's seven indicators of the dollar is collapsing.

[00:33:44] Are there any you dispute?

[00:33:45] Are there any that you would include that he missed?

[00:33:49] Oh, that's a good question.

[00:33:50] I'd probably have to think on that.

[00:33:53] You know, gold, I would include silver and Bitcoin kind of in that same umbrella as what the gold price does as a sign that the dollar is coming apart.

[00:34:03] But the rest of them was, you know, it sounded like Bankster Breaker on Patriot Power Hour.

[00:34:09] So simpatico there, I suppose.

[00:34:12] It's just math and not that complicated finance and economics and common sense.

[00:34:20] Like, again, I bring it back to SimCity or even your own family budget.

[00:34:25] You know it's not sustainable.

[00:34:27] Now, again, the government doesn't have to follow the same rules.

[00:34:32] That's fine.

[00:34:33] We understand that.

[00:34:34] But they're over leveraged even more than they can even get away with by far.

[00:34:41] And they're going down that black hole of debt where they can't climb out.

[00:34:44] Here, maybe we can leave on this with regard to economics on this topic or question.

[00:34:51] Trump's been talking about getting Musk in there as a government efficiency.

[00:34:55] And I love that.

[00:34:56] That sounds good.

[00:34:57] And cutting a good portion of government spending.

[00:34:59] And I do support that.

[00:35:01] You know, it's devils in the details.

[00:35:03] But kind of on track with that.

[00:35:06] Definitely need to cut some spending to fix this.

[00:35:08] But I still think it's essentially mathematically impossible to climb out of this hole.

[00:35:14] But we can at least mitigate it and then maybe grow out of it.

[00:35:17] That's pretty tough.

[00:35:18] But anyway, some sort of default or revaluation will be needed no matter what, I think.

[00:35:24] But we can still make it a lot less painful if we try to mitigate it.

[00:35:30] So what do you think about Trump saying he, whether with Musk or with something else, balancing the budget or at least cutting the budget in half?

[00:35:39] Can we get the budget down to $500 billion instead of in the trillion dollar range, for example?

[00:35:44] What do you think?

[00:35:46] I mean, it sounds interesting.

[00:35:48] But what's the most Musk can do is publish some reports?

[00:35:51] This is Congress's role.

[00:35:53] It's pure and simple.

[00:35:54] Power of the purse strings.

[00:35:56] So the executive branch just executes based upon the budget Congress gives it.

[00:36:04] Always has.

[00:36:05] Hopefully always will.

[00:36:06] So I don't know.

[00:36:09] I don't know.

[00:36:10] It sounds good that people don't actually understand how the three branches of government operate.

[00:36:15] But if you do, we're going to have to see a shift in Congress.

[00:36:21] If it stays closely tied, the only way they pass budgets at the last minute is massive compromise and overspending.

[00:36:29] That's my take.

[00:36:30] I think that's well said.

[00:36:34] Of course, this would be predicated on Trump leading the charge and trying to rally Congress.

[00:36:40] But even if he did that, he may find too much resistance to overcome, even with a slight majority.

[00:36:45] Think about it.

[00:36:47] Everyone talks about the deep state with regard to the CIA, Department of Justice, or all these different alphabet agencies.

[00:36:55] But how about the Department of Education and Interior and all these others that are bloated?

[00:37:02] Those, that is a lot of inertia that it's going to be hard to move off.

[00:37:07] They will do everything they can to keep their budgets.

[00:37:10] I mean, they will fight to grow their budgets.

[00:37:14] But if you were going to strip out 50% of the federal government, you would find so much political resistance.

[00:37:20] That would be really hard, even if Trump and Congress were on board.

[00:37:25] They would find ways, I think, to try to stop that.

[00:37:29] But that's what politics is about, I guess.

[00:37:32] If Trump wins, we're going to be talking a lot about for the next four years about him fighting the institutions.

[00:37:37] Yeah.

[00:37:38] And bringing them to heel.

[00:37:40] So, you know, the government efficiency effort by Musk could be effective within the executive branch.

[00:37:48] But getting Congress to stop funding the inefficiency.

[00:37:55] Name for me a president in your lifetime who's rallied Congress.

[00:37:58] That's a unicorn right there.

[00:38:02] That's a good point.

[00:38:04] Good point.

[00:38:06] Well, talk about the percentages.

[00:38:08] Trump's definitely leading even further on the markets.

[00:38:11] But we talked about this a lot last episode.

[00:38:13] If you want to go back and listen to it, how just because the betting market says one thing doesn't mean the other.

[00:38:17] But it does look like there's even a decent chance that there's a full sweep of the House, Senate, and presidency.

[00:38:26] You think that would give, maybe not cut trillions out of the budget, but would that give Trump enough momentum to really get things done?

[00:38:33] Or do you still think it would just be massive quagmire day one?

[00:38:37] But it's still necessary to fight that quagmire to expose it in a way.

[00:38:41] But how would you see that going?

[00:38:44] Fast forward to late January 2025.

[00:38:47] If everything goes well, what is Trump up against?

[00:38:53] I mean, if he doesn't get a Senate with 60 votes and you can't do cloture to bring a bill to a vote, you get what we've always had.

[00:39:03] And it's designed to be that way.

[00:39:05] The Senate is designed to be the body that makes it hard to have radical change.

[00:39:12] And things have to get bad enough before one political party controls 60 votes in the Senate.

[00:39:19] And I don't see that happening.

[00:39:24] Yeah, that's not in the percentage.

[00:39:27] I don't even think that many senators are up for election.

[00:39:30] Let's go around to swing that far.

[00:39:33] I don't think there is.

[00:39:34] Maybe they won every single one, but they won't do that.

[00:39:36] Anyway, we've got to keep moving on.

[00:39:39] We've still got time, and we can go longer than an hour tonight for sure.

[00:39:42] But anything else you want to talk on economically?

[00:39:45] Go ahead.

[00:39:46] I do.

[00:39:46] I do.

[00:39:47] Yeah, office real estate crisis hits even the safest bonds.

[00:39:51] This is out of Bloomberg, re-reported by Newsmax Money.

[00:39:56] And it is not a good scene.

[00:40:00] Bond holders in commercial real estate getting stuck with losses of 20%, 30% or higher.

[00:40:08] Something that's not happened since the 2008 financial crisis.

[00:40:14] I thought this bit of news coming out right before the election was interesting.

[00:40:19] You know, predictive programming, telegraphing what's going to happen next.

[00:40:24] And I spoke about it in 2020, early in 2020.

[00:40:29] In fact, so early in 2020 that COVID hadn't even arrived in a way that we would later understand it.

[00:40:36] We knew about a mystery disease in China.

[00:40:38] We were definitely talking about it, but we didn't necessarily anticipate what was to come.

[00:40:44] But at the time, I spoke to you about making sure if Trump regains power to make him go down in history as the next Herbert Hoover.

[00:40:56] The president on watch when it all crashed.

[00:41:00] We got this little CRE bond problem article cropping up right now from Newsmax.

[00:41:09] Is this something that could trigger the next layman?

[00:41:13] I think he read my mind.

[00:41:16] We've done many podcasts together, so we're kind of well equipped to work together in that regard.

[00:41:23] But mark to market.

[00:41:25] Remember that term, mark to market?

[00:41:28] Are the banks actually valuing these assets at true levels?

[00:41:37] And without going deep into a documentary of 2008, and this has happened before as well, but 2008 really big time.

[00:41:46] They're hiding the value of, or in this fact, negative value of assets on the balance sheet.

[00:41:55] And especially with regard to derivatives and credit default swaps and all those financial instruments they come up with.

[00:42:03] If you do not have the proper input into the formula, i.e. the value, the proper value, then you can't price those correctly.

[00:42:15] So when there's a mismatch of the pricing, then everything's fine until it's not.

[00:42:22] And when it snaps, everything falls together.

[00:42:25] And it's that old house of cards.

[00:42:27] It's the chain reaction, dominoes, whatever you want to call it.

[00:42:31] But that's what I think is happening again.

[00:42:34] But instead of it being residential, mostly residential real estate, this is a lot more focused on commercial real estate.

[00:42:41] And in particular here, they're talking about what was rated as AAA bonds, meaning safe as federal bonds, U.S. Treasuries.

[00:42:53] The safest bonds you can get.

[00:42:56] Those aren't default right now.

[00:42:58] So people talk about the U.S. government going in default.

[00:43:03] Not going to happen.

[00:43:04] They can print their own.

[00:43:05] But these guys can't.

[00:43:08] These AAA bonds, they were making $1 million monthly interest payments, probably to pension funds or insurance companies.

[00:43:17] You know, the infrastructure that keeps the financial system together.

[00:43:21] Well, that spigot's been turned off because 1407 Broadway in the Garment District is totally empty.

[00:43:31] No one's in it.

[00:43:32] It's lost tons and tons of its value.

[00:43:35] I mean, there are buildings out there.

[00:43:37] And this is a marquee area.

[00:43:40] And they're talking about San Francisco and other urban cores.

[00:43:44] And, yeah, those are down 30%, 40%, 50%.

[00:43:46] But there's a lot of other areas like the exurbs and the suburbs of, you know, some of the Rust Belt or in other areas too.

[00:43:55] Florida, Texas, California, where we're seeing 60%, 70%, 80% drop in commercial real estate.

[00:44:04] Ranging from, yeah, office buildings but also malls and all types of stuff.

[00:44:09] And everybody knows about all the malls that have closed down or had to be repurposed.

[00:44:12] Even if they're getting 20 cents on the dollar compared to what they forecast when they sold the bond for that mall 10 years ago or five years ago, whatever.

[00:44:23] It's not enough.

[00:44:25] So, long story short, this is not being priced in, though.

[00:44:28] This is being manipulated and hidden.

[00:44:31] And because of that, all this pressure's building up.

[00:44:34] And when it snaps, everyone's going to fall together.

[00:44:38] And no one's learning their lesson.

[00:44:40] It's the same exact thing in 2008 except different details.

[00:44:44] But that's how I look at it.

[00:44:45] You see AAA debt going to default.

[00:44:48] And, yeah, if a little bit of this happens, you can deal with it.

[00:44:52] If only a couple percent of the bonds have this happen, sure.

[00:44:55] But if all of a sudden, you know, what's really happening, though, is almost all of them are having it happen.

[00:44:59] But they're being rolled over or pretty much the banksters are manipulating it.

[00:45:04] You know, I'll say that just without any evidence.

[00:45:07] I'll confide some evidence.

[00:45:08] But, yeah, that's my take on it.

[00:45:12] Yeah, the evidence is pending, isn't it?

[00:45:15] Hey, on another topic, moving off of economics, I think we definitely hit that topic, which probably not a lot of others are talking about right now.

[00:45:24] They're all consumed with the election.

[00:45:25] But we are multi-spectrum on Patriot Power Hour.

[00:45:29] So, jumping over to column one, calling this news blatantly censored.

[00:45:35] But the source, he's not one that usually makes a headline in this category.

[00:45:41] Joe Rogan talking to Trump.

[00:45:44] Three-hour sit-down with the former president and never mentioned a word about the vaccines that Trump rushed to market in record time.

[00:45:56] Right.

[00:45:57] I'm looking at an article from Armageddon Pros written by Ben Barty.

[00:46:02] And he's pretty harsh on the whole situation.

[00:46:09] And throws in a line here that, you know, I guess I never thought about it, but it seems pretty plausible.

[00:46:16] He writes,

[00:46:16] Trump is a notorious dermaphobe who bought in a long ago to the biomedical industry propaganda that men in white coats and Fortune 500 pharmaceutical corporations love humanity and want us all to live our best lives.

[00:46:31] So he's railing against Rogan staying quiet.

[00:46:35] We don't necessarily need to speculate why Rogan stayed quiet.

[00:46:39] He probably, you know, had a negotiated list of things that Trump would talk about and stayed within those boundaries.

[00:46:46] And, you know, obviously Trump doesn't want to mention Operation Warp Speed that brought about these vaccines.

[00:46:53] And to me, it's kind of, you know, tactical, right?

[00:46:58] He does not bring it up because the Democrats can't hit him with that criticism, right?

[00:47:04] Right.

[00:47:05] Only people that were deeply, deeply against these rushed genetic engineering so-called vaccines.

[00:47:14] And where else do we have to turn but to throw our support to Trump, right?

[00:47:20] But it is news censorship, especially since Rogan's, you know, talking about COVID-19 scam vaccines like on every other episode.

[00:47:32] He does.

[00:47:33] He's been very forthright with his opinion on that, to say the least.

[00:47:38] More than even me, probably, on this show.

[00:47:41] You know what?

[00:47:42] The, oh gosh, I had it at the cusp of my tongue, but I forgot now.

[00:47:50] The, I hate when it happens.

[00:47:53] Anyway, I listened to the full three hours and I thought it went pretty well.

[00:47:58] But I agree that it was something that was purposefully not spoken about.

[00:48:03] Now I recall RFK Jr.

[00:48:06] Also, you know, he could try to eviscerate Trump, but, you know, he doesn't poke him in the eye because he's like, all right, for the bigger picture, let's kind of let that lie.

[00:48:18] But I get where this, from Armageddon pros, what Ben's saying here.

[00:48:22] That's probably one of my bigger criticisms of Trump myself.

[00:48:27] But when RFK came on board, it was definitely anti-vax, probably even more anti-vax than me.

[00:48:33] I really just focus on the COVID ones.

[00:48:37] But I don't like it.

[00:48:40] I don't like that type of censorship or avoiding those tough topics, but I could understand why at this point in time, maybe you don't dig at it.

[00:48:50] Hopefully, if that's the case, Trump will, once he gets in, actually do something to, if not retroactively fix the problem.

[00:49:02] Make sure something like that doesn't happen again, you know?

[00:49:06] Well, the free speech absolutists, I'm always going to post when I see news censorship, and that counts.

[00:49:13] I'm just going to say it.

[00:49:14] That counts.

[00:49:15] I don't care where.

[00:49:16] I don't care who.

[00:49:17] I don't care when.

[00:49:18] When we're not getting the full truth, we're not having people who are otherwise talking out against problems that they see when they go silent for political expediency.

[00:49:29] It's censorship.

[00:49:32] Yeah.

[00:49:33] And it's purposeful, too.

[00:49:35] It wasn't just accidental.

[00:49:36] And I thought, you know, when I saw this pop up on Future Danger, I thought, oh, damn, that was a little bit of a blind spot myself.

[00:49:45] I noticed that it wasn't really spoken about, but I wasn't up in arms or like, huh, that's BS.

[00:49:51] So when I saw that on Future Danger, I even checked myself.

[00:49:53] Like, damn, even I maybe didn't hold it to a high enough standard is what it is, though.

[00:50:01] But I agree for sure.

[00:50:02] I don't like to see it.

[00:50:04] And I guess life is messy sometimes, but no real excuse.

[00:50:08] Hope we don't.

[00:50:09] I'd like to see him back on Rogan and like Rogan to grill him next time.

[00:50:12] But not this time, I guess.

[00:50:15] Yeah.

[00:50:16] I'd like to see if Trump's in office a second time, anything that's not going right being openly discussed rather than hidden for the sake of retaining power.

[00:50:28] Sure.

[00:50:28] Sure.

[00:50:28] And, well, while we're at it, don't want to go back to economics too much, but seeing this thing with Musk and all that's nice and dandy.

[00:50:37] But when Trump does get in, if he gets in, hopefully gets in, hopefully we are seeing reduction in spending.

[00:50:46] And I know it's Congress, but let's at least try, you know, at least make some efforts towards it.

[00:50:53] We'll see.

[00:50:55] He doesn't have to sign the bills.

[00:50:57] He's got, he can veto them, but that would shut down the government, right?

[00:51:02] That's true.

[00:51:03] So, all right.

[00:51:04] Anyway.

[00:51:05] All right.

[00:51:06] Where do you want to head to next?

[00:51:09] Well, we found it a lot of different subjects.

[00:51:12] I think the situation Ukraine is, and Russia is pretty, pretty much where we're at, but there is a headline that didn't really see.

[00:51:24] It doesn't really wedge in, you know, straightforwardly to the heat map, but North Korean troops are purportedly fighting now in, in Ukraine, which would be.

[00:51:35] The first North Koreans, at least, you know, in large numbers in a regular formation kind of context to get any combat experience since the armistice in Korea in the fifties.

[00:51:49] So, you know, we got North Korea getting battle-hardened troops, and I guarantee you South Korea is very, very concerned about this.

[00:52:01] That's how I looked at it.

[00:52:03] There's always many ways to look at something, but they certainly need warm bodies on the front line, does Russia and Ukraine.

[00:52:13] So, they're happy to have them.

[00:52:15] I'm sure that's part of the need for them.

[00:52:17] But I saw it more as training ground for North Korea, where they send those 50,000.

[00:52:22] I think it was 50,000, right?

[00:52:24] Or maybe, maybe not that many.

[00:52:26] Regardless, if only a third of them come home, but those third lasted a year there and are battle-hardened, that, you know, that'll be perfect for the North Korea regime as kind of, you know, they can send those guys out and either train up or just use that as a crack division or whatever.

[00:52:42] But it's, it's great training for them at, at the least, and helps Russia with a manpower issue.

[00:52:50] And they're not doing it for free.

[00:52:51] So, the regime in North Korea, no one can reasonably say that they care if any of their troops survive it.

[00:53:02] But the intel that they're getting from the Russians about how to counter Western weapons, how to jam, how to spoof, how to defeat unmanned aerial aircraft and the ISR, to the extent that Russia's been able to do that.

[00:53:19] But they've learned a lot.

[00:53:20] They've definitely learned a lot.

[00:53:22] And, you know, that, that, that would give the North Korean military, you know, you know, real world, real time, updated, state of the art capability that it otherwise lacks.

[00:53:38] Oh, yeah.

[00:53:39] Bring them a few decades into the future.

[00:53:42] They're probably still in the 70s at best.

[00:53:45] I mean, they, of course, have, have nukes.

[00:53:48] So, but nukes were around in the 70s, I suppose, too.

[00:53:54] What do you think?

[00:53:55] Not much, you know, China's been, been acting like China.

[00:53:59] Ukraine, certainly quagmire.

[00:54:01] A lot of, a lot of killing on both sides.

[00:54:04] I looked this up super quick.

[00:54:06] Actually, a couple things.

[00:54:08] A good old chat GPT.

[00:54:11] I wanted to see the World War II casualties because NATO estimated 600,000 casualties over the last, I guess, two and a half years, two years, two and a half years.

[00:54:24] And I wanted to look at World War II casualties to get a gauge.

[00:54:29] So, the Battle of Kharkov, or Kharkiv as they call it nowadays, had 250,000 Soviet casualties.

[00:54:38] And that was in a, like, a few weeks period, not, not a couple of years.

[00:54:43] But that was, that shows that 600,000 is a hell of a lot.

[00:54:46] Now, Stalingrad had between 1.2 and 1.8 million Soviet killed, wounded, or captured.

[00:54:56] So, population of Russia is probably two or three times bigger than World War II at this point.

[00:55:02] So, keeping it all measured, this is still a regional conflict.

[00:55:06] It's no Battle of Stalingrad or massive waves of killing.

[00:55:10] But over time, it has turned into a, and you call this out straight away.

[00:55:15] If anyone did, it was you, that it would be a civil war that went on two, three, five years,

[00:55:22] and there'd be just hundreds and hundreds of thousands on each side.

[00:55:25] And that's what we've seen.

[00:55:29] I'm just going to do a little chat CPT analysis myself.

[00:55:34] Population of Russia in 1940 versus now.

[00:55:39] 170 million then.

[00:55:41] 145 now.

[00:55:43] Holy cow.

[00:55:45] 170 million?

[00:55:46] I guess I was totally wrong.

[00:55:47] They lost so many.

[00:55:50] Holy cow.

[00:55:52] Yeah, no.

[00:55:52] Russia never had this, you know, never got back to the same population levels.

[00:55:57] Was that the Soviet Union and all the satellites too, or just Russia, Russia?

[00:56:04] According to this, it's Russia itself.

[00:56:07] Not the entire Soviet Union.

[00:56:08] So I totally missed one.

[00:56:10] Good one.

[00:56:11] Proportionally.

[00:56:12] But the proportional losses in World War II, far, far, far higher than what we're seeing

[00:56:19] in Ukraine now.

[00:56:20] But it does beg the question, you know, how much can Russia bleed?

[00:56:24] And, you know, if Trump cuts a deal to end that war, what in the world is going to happen with us versus the Western, you know, allies?

[00:56:36] Something that's also not on the heat map, but possibly should be is the British Labor Party is actually, you know, sending people into the United States to assist the Harris campaign.

[00:56:50] Complete, complete foreign interference in our election.

[00:56:55] And I think one of Trump's children has basically put out there that this is dangerous for, you know, future relationships with the United Kingdom if their father wins.

[00:57:09] And, um, as you've said, poly market, the betters market showing a pretty clear trend towards the anticipation that Trump's taking this.

[00:57:21] It's been growing now.

[00:57:24] Always remember when Hillary had like, I believe his New York Times, maybe, maybe another, another, uh, paper had like a 98% chance Hillary was going to win.

[00:57:37] That wasn't the betting odds, but percentages are percentages.

[00:57:41] I don't trust them till the fat lady sings, till they certify the election properly, in other words.

[00:57:48] Um, but it's been growing.

[00:57:50] If you just look at a trend and really the divergence point, whether it was because of the vice presidential debate started good momentum for Vance and Trump,

[00:58:01] or really showed Walls as a dumbass, just like Kamala, or both, or if it was just happenstance that it was that time that, that, that people started to realize Kamala was a joke.

[00:58:13] Regardless, since then it went from like a 50-50 race to about a 65-35 race.

[00:58:19] 65% chance Trump will win.

[00:58:21] So it's gone from 50-50 to 65-35.

[00:58:24] Huge, huge jump just in the past month.

[00:58:27] And, and really one of the biggest jumps to start it off was like the day or two after that vice presidential debate.

[00:58:34] But there's also been a really big growth in the last week.

[00:58:36] So it's like widening even at a faster rate almost.

[00:58:41] Yeah, definitely.

[00:58:43] I'm looking at realclearpolitics.com.

[00:58:46] Precisely their subsidiary site, Real Clear Polling.

[00:58:49] Okay.

[00:58:50] It's got the, uh, 20, 2024 electoral college map.

[00:58:54] And there's, there's one with toss-up states where the polls are within the margin of error.

[00:58:59] And then the no toss-up states.

[00:59:02] So just taking the average of polls and, and, and, and eliminating the no toss-ups.

[00:59:08] With no toss-ups, Trump's Vance, they're, they're winning 287 electoral votes.

[00:59:16] That, that would be, landslide is overused term, but everybody will use it.

[00:59:21] But it's, that'd be up quite a margin if that holds.

[00:59:28] It's, anything can still happen in the next few days.

[00:59:30] Although early voting is happening.

[00:59:32] People can vote.

[00:59:34] Obviously, uh, beforehand.

[00:59:36] Man, I want to fact check your fact check real quick.

[00:59:42] I just had to do this just because I didn't want to be off that bad.

[00:59:45] I felt like a dumbass.

[00:59:46] Hopefully, this will solve it.

[00:59:49] I asked Chad GPT.

[00:59:52] Population of the Soviet Union in 1940 was approximately 168 million, which is pretty close to what you had.

[00:59:58] And then I asked, what was the population of all former Soviet states in 2020?

[01:00:04] It said 286 million.

[01:00:07] So Russia proper maybe went down.

[01:00:10] But like, all the satellite countries in like Kazakhstan and Georgia and stuff, I don't know.

[01:00:18] Those all have grown a lot.

[01:00:19] But anyway, still, hasn't grown as much as I thought.

[01:00:22] They lost such a large percentage of their population.

[01:00:25] Took a generation or two to even get back on track.

[01:00:29] But this election, I'm just assuming, unfortunately, you know, I'm, how do I say?

[01:00:35] You know, hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

[01:00:38] That's why I'm a prepper.

[01:00:38] That's why I'm on PBN.

[01:00:39] How about it?

[01:00:42] Exactly.

[01:00:42] With toss-ups, 108 toss-up electoral votes.

[01:00:47] And going back to Russia, I was pretty sure they had a declining birth rate for at least a couple decades.

[01:00:52] So that's part of the, you know, returning the preeminence of Russia to the world stage that has been political power in Russia for Putin is things like, you know, by the end of the Soviet Union, you know, and into the years of trying to privatize and the corruption that was automatic.

[01:01:19] Like, Russia's, Russia declined in population.

[01:01:23] But going back to the electoral college map, 108 toss-ups, Trump Vance, 219 safe electoral votes right now.

[01:01:34] Harris-Waltz, only 211 safe electoral votes.

[01:01:39] So if I jump back to 2020, right, Biden-Harris won by 306 to 233, right?

[01:01:53] So, you know, this is not looking good for the Democrats right now.

[01:01:58] So, it's not looking good, but we've got to be still, stay prepared.

[01:02:04] But I feel like Harris has fumbled it so bad on so many things.

[01:02:07] Yeah, obviously this garbage thing blew up in her face, but it's not the one and only, not just gaffe, but just pathetic thing.

[01:02:17] Now, Trump was in a garbage truck today.

[01:02:20] That was a nice moment.

[01:02:22] He had a little Trump garbage truck.

[01:02:25] He held a press conference for him.

[01:02:27] He did the McDonald's stunt last week.

[01:02:29] Like, that is appealing to the average American.

[01:02:31] Literally, like, that genius politicking by Mr. Trump there.

[01:02:37] And Harris can't even come close to that.

[01:02:39] You know, everyone, they've got Beyonce or all the celebrities.

[01:02:43] Most people that are awake and most people that are awake know that the celebrities are fake as hell.

[01:02:50] So, I don't think that's influencing anybody, all that spend on Beyonce or Taylor Swift or any of these others.

[01:02:59] I don't think any swing voters will really be, you know, by those sellouts.

[01:03:04] Who knows?

[01:03:05] Who knows?

[01:03:06] We're going to find out, I guess, by this time next week.

[01:03:08] Maybe not.

[01:03:10] Swing voters we're looking for right now, toss-up states.

[01:03:13] New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota is actually in the toss-up category right now.

[01:03:24] Nevada and Arizona.

[01:03:26] Those are the states that are, the polls are too close for real clear politics to, you know, make a claim on.

[01:03:35] But when you move it to the, if they, if you press, you know, they have the no toss-ups map.

[01:03:40] With the no toss-ups map, a lot of those states are going Trump right now.

[01:03:47] Very interesting.

[01:03:48] Very interesting.

[01:03:51] We've got only a few minutes to go.

[01:03:54] Anything else you want to hit on the dashboard or the election and or?

[01:03:58] Feel free to preview what we're going to talk about on Saturday.

[01:04:03] I don't want to preview what we're going to talk about on Saturday because it's a special and it's going to be special.

[01:04:10] And it's a moving target, right?

[01:04:12] What exactly we're going to talk about might definitely depend on the types of headlines we're seeing in elections are stolen.

[01:04:21] I know you've done a little bit of analysis of our previous special in 2020.

[01:04:27] That's going to be fun to go over.

[01:04:29] We also got the indicator elections are stolen on future danger.com where we can, we can walk back through time.

[01:04:37] And even, even in the midterm 2022, we got, you know, indicate indications of how it's done, how it's actually done.

[01:04:47] And I've said it before.

[01:04:49] I'll say it again.

[01:04:50] There are foreign adversaries that have, you know, have decided that influencing our elections is of their strategic interest.

[01:05:00] I'm talking about the People's Republic of China.

[01:05:03] We hit a headline today about a politician in New York, a congresswoman who's been met with intel officials from China, you know, wittingly or unwittingly.

[01:05:16] Who knows?

[01:05:17] Who cares?

[01:05:17] You know, and, and, and, and other politicians that have risen to power.

[01:05:21] And obviously lots of allegations that the vice presidential candidate for the Democrats, Tim Waltz was basically brought to where he is.

[01:05:32] Well, brought to power as a governor because that's what China does now is, is, is, is find Democrats and raise them up and enable them.

[01:05:41] And, and, and, and, and, and war gaming on a constant basis, investigating the people, the technology, the laws, the practices under the laws of all 50 states.

[01:06:10] To absolutely corrupt and undermine our elections.

[01:06:14] This is a communist totalitarian regime.

[01:06:18] Always has been.

[01:06:19] And I never thought free trade with a totalitarian communist tyranny was ever going to amount in anything positive for the United States of America.

[01:06:32] Now we've made them rich, and they got the capability to pick apart our election process and teach one of our political parties how to cheat it.

[01:06:47] I'm making the call.

[01:06:49] That's what happened in 2020.

[01:06:51] That's what's happening right now.

[01:06:53] Will they succeed?

[01:06:54] I don't know.

[01:06:55] So we, alluding to that analysis, put 10 of our episodes from 2020 surrounding the election.

[01:07:05] So four or five episodes before and four or five after, culminating with January 6th special in mid-January 2021, just a couple days after, I think.

[01:07:19] Put that through AI, and we're going to review some of that.

[01:07:22] Maybe they have a couple clips, audio clips for us to listen to.

[01:07:26] And I think going back to the very beginning of this episode where you said you like to formulate a memory and really focus and analyze these flashbulb moments like an election or like assassination attempt or 9-11, et cetera, so you can use your human intelligence, not just rely on the digital intelligence out there, which is helpful.

[01:07:50] But I like that.

[01:07:51] And I think you and I will both trigger some thoughts or memories or, oh, yeah, I forgot about that when we go through this AI analysis and some clips from four years ago.

[01:08:04] And I think the listeners will, too.

[01:08:06] And it'll be perfect to get you primed and ready for next week.

[01:08:09] I can tell you this much.

[01:08:13] All Trump would need to do about this issue with China is put the right generals in charge of the Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Army Counterintelligence Operation, known as the Intelligence and Security Command, INSCOM, Navy Criminal Investigative Services, Air Force, Office of Special Investigations, Marine Corps Intelligence.

[01:08:40] And there are more, including the National Security Agency.

[01:08:47] And Special Operations Command has really powerful counterintelligence capability.

[01:08:53] And put them to work because you can't trust the FBI.

[01:08:58] The FBI is going to have to be purged if he wins.

[01:09:00] So in the meantime, turn it over to those agencies.

[01:09:04] There's patriots that you can put in charge.

[01:09:07] And first and foremost, look within to find the moles, find the infiltrators there, and then start working outwards.

[01:09:16] We got reports that didn't even make it as a headline of a Chinese graduate student has now been caught casting fake ballots.

[01:09:23] I mean, how many Chinese intelligence actors are in the United States right now casting false ballots?

[01:09:33] Probably more than you want to acknowledge.

[01:09:38] Right.

[01:09:40] Right.

[01:09:41] So for the first time in our history in 2020, we had an election just obviously negatively influenced by a foreign power.

[01:09:53] Can we stop that?

[01:09:55] Do enough Americans know in their gut that that happened and are going to say, you know,

[01:09:59] no matter how much that certain things about Donald Trump, his personality or his policies that you oppose,

[01:10:09] can we can we go after, you know, you know, the infiltration of the other political party in this country by a foreign power?

[01:10:18] Is it possible?

[01:10:20] Does our system allow for that?

[01:10:21] It's a real, real challenge.

[01:10:23] Right.

[01:10:24] And when you hear Democrats screaming about the, you know, the threat to democracy of a Trump presidency,

[01:10:33] I bet my mortgage that that was thought up in Beijing.

[01:10:37] That actual slogan.

[01:10:39] Wow.

[01:10:40] Probably was used.

[01:10:42] It's just they replaced, you know, it's a threat to the state, to threat to the democracy.

[01:10:48] They're like, ah, sounds great.

[01:10:49] Let's rebrand it.

[01:10:51] Ship it on east.

[01:10:54] Another reason why TikTok should be entirely banned.

[01:10:57] The owner of TikTok is now the richest man in China.

[01:11:02] In any event, we really hit a lot of events, current events.

[01:11:08] I think we're current on the current events, Ben.

[01:11:11] We barely even talked about Israel and Iran, but a little action there.

[01:11:15] Hasn't started World War III nuclear conflagration, thank God.

[01:11:18] So, keep an eye on that.

[01:11:21] But, yeah, there's even more we didn't hit on probably, but, I mean, we hit on as much as we possibly could

[01:11:26] and a lot of key info, and that's what we're always looking to do.

[01:11:30] I think the dangerous stuff's covered tonight, and we're going to keep watching it.

[01:11:35] Yeah.

[01:11:35] I could talk an hour about New Zealand data shows, 188% spike in deaths of children,

[01:11:40] but maybe another day, folks.

[01:11:43] Good show, sir.

[01:11:45] Our other day will be Saturday.

[01:11:47] Have we picked the time?

[01:11:50] No, we haven't.

[01:11:51] For our election special?

[01:11:53] I am.

[01:11:53] We could talk off air or now, but I'm generally free all afternoon and early evening.

[01:12:01] Yeah, that's a good window of opportunity.

[01:12:04] So, for loyal listeners of the Patriot Power Hour, A, we really appreciate your support and your listening,

[01:12:11] and, B, get ready because we're going to be breaking down all the latest headlines and rumors,

[01:12:17] watching social media, seeing what's being said out there, even if there's not a headline yet.

[01:12:22] What the current breaking situation on the potential for a stolen election again this year.

[01:12:30] We'll be talking about it Saturday after night, noon, or evening.

[01:12:34] Stand by for more details.

[01:12:38] Catch you guys later.

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