Patriot Power Hour #295 - Trump's Tariffs & War Against The Swamp

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[00:01:04] This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence. Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com February 13th, 2025, it is episode 295, closing in on episode 300. This is Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, here with Future Dan.

[00:01:32] Yeah, yeah, that was Brad Pitt yelling at you, what do you want? We are still learning amateur podcasting, getting the studio right. We hoped to be on an hour ago, but had to fight through some technical challenges. But great to be back with you. Yeah, I blame myself, I guess. I don't know. I used a different browser and everything was fixed, but that was like the last thing I tried, obviously, because it worked.

[00:01:56] And then one thing for Intrepid Commander, I don't know why, StreamYards defaults every time you go into the studio. It defaults to replaying your music every time. So if you ever forget to toggle off the replay, it'll happen. I had everything fixed, including that earlier, but obviously I had to restart my computer multiple times. Lost all the settings. But anyway, who gives a crap? We got so much going on. A lot of great news, a lot of, you know, dangerous news as well.

[00:02:27] We'll cover it all here on 295th episode of Patriot Power Hour. Yeah, what do you want to hit first? Well, we're going to do the news blitz in the second segment. What I want to do is really focus on the fact that we are now using video as a medium of reaching our audience, trying to connect with folks, trying to inform folks, trying to think through all this craziness going on for better and worse.

[00:02:53] So with that said, we are, of course, live. And anyone that's watching on the video will be able to see a few of the videos we're going to play. And those listening on the podcast archive, et cetera, you'll still be able to hear the audio. I'm pretty darn sure. That's very hopeful at least. And in the future, once we get a little bit more tightened up on the tech stuff, all that, we will be live more consistently so you can kind of join in and watch these videos.

[00:03:23] And of course, on Rumble, actually, on Rumble, you can always find the archived video, not just the audio where you find the podcast. So what you're telling me is the days of, you know, not to badmouth Spreaker. I'm not, you know, advocating for or against, but we used it, right? And it could at times, depending on the settings, because we're broadcasting not in the same location frequently,

[00:03:52] trying to tie it all in. We would have dead air, lost episodes. Are you telling me that with the move to StreamYard, that that phenomenon might not be happening to us anymore? I hope not. I can't guarantee anything. But I know for a fact that it was a, for whatever reason, Google Chrome fixed the issue.

[00:04:18] I was trying to use a different browser because I don't want to use Google, but freaking Google worked ironically. But it's all good. You want to start looking at some of these videos? Yeah, yeah, let's do that. I just wanted to say there was a couple hour long Patriot power hours that are lost in the ether. And there's a conversation between us. I want to assure everybody they were good shows. They just never got recorded.

[00:04:45] So despite our technical difficulties, tonight, I think we're moving to a better place. And yeah, video. We've never had this before. So I'm watching you. We're just going to explore X a little bit tonight. There's a lot of news that isn't going to be on the heat map dashboard because do you know why? Can you guess why? I know why, but I have the inside information. Plus we've done 295 plus episodes together.

[00:05:13] But tell the listeners why, what the difference is between, you know, dashboard news and other type of news. It's not dangerous. It's actually good news. You're saying maybe not dangerous news. Maybe the, the banksters and the infamous they capital T H E Y. Maybe they're getting punched in the nose figuratively and politically right now. And there's always good news.

[00:05:41] And we often don't focus on it, on a Patriot power. We also don't focus on the petty daily, you know, run of the mill political showing the hypocrisy of what another member of the other, you know, point of view said today. So, you know, try to try. We try to rise above the petty stuff. You know, if you want that, go, go watch cable news. Somebody's doing that right now on cable news. Certainly.

[00:06:10] Yeah. Yeah. So a new technique suggested right in the middle of our technical problem. So it made just a little bit more complex of a Patriot power hour tonight. But I said, you know, why don't I just DM you some posts? They're not tweets anymore. Posts that we could just talk about that. You know, again, they don't belong on the heat map dashboard and everything on the heat map dashboard on future danger goes to an archive.

[00:06:38] It's designed to be informative on that danger indicator. So we're just going to talk about some good news for once. We don't usually do this. We got about 14 pieces of good news. Then we're going to take a very short break and come back with the normal dashboard news blitz and then review some of those articles. And of course, be looking out. Never, never assume that we're out of the woods quite yet because we're not.

[00:07:08] But I'm looking forward to some good news. This will be fun. You ready? Let's get going. Yeah. So lots of intelligence assets who are leaving their transponders on for a large group of X users and other platforms to that watch where planes are flying.

[00:07:28] They're not hiding it that the U.S. military is putting the signal birds all up and down the border, down the Gulf of Mexico, into Mexican airspace. We reported on that last week. So Mexican drug cartels are seriously being targeted right now.

[00:07:48] Now, that was one of the, I guess it was a surprise or I didn't know that on inauguration day, Trump was going to designate Mexican cartels as terrorist organization. Maybe I missed the memo, but when he said that, one of the first things he said, I swear, after he got sworn in, I was like, hell yeah, that is a great way to start. And they're treating them like they're Al Qaeda with this, these type of air assets.

[00:08:16] And, you know, there's been some firefights and hitting them. I don't know if they've gone for the jugular quite yet or they're more preparing for a big strike all at once down the line. But definitely interesting to see here. It's leveraged. It's leveraged. And you better be sure, just, you know, behind closed doors, you know, you show the Mexican government what could be right now.

[00:08:43] This does lead us in a direction, though, that would activate a future danger, danger indicator. And that would be war unconstitutionally waged. There's nothing that's ever been passed by Congress that authorizes a current strike in Mexico. So if you believe in our Constitution, Congress would have to vote on this.

[00:09:06] But if there was a severe enough incident or, you know, enough building pressure publicly, Congress can pass a declaration of war. Or they would use other words these days. It would be an authorization of force. But constitutionally, that's the declaration of war. Another article here. HHS splurged more than $22 billion on grants for migrants, including cash for cars, home loans, and startups. There you go. Just something that is coming out.

[00:09:35] And that's some of the kind of news that Doge is bringing out that would build public support if, you know, things don't get controlled on the border, which everybody seems to think is happening. But I'm waiting for, like, more hard evidence. By the way, you can see this is posted at a little bit after noon today, Eastern. The posts I sent you, I put them in chronological order.

[00:10:02] So we're looking at a snapshot of positive news coming out since basically noon today. Now, Musk tweeted or retweeted something about how such large numbers, millions, billions, trillions are impossible for a human mind to truly comprehend. So instead, you should convert it into number of taxpayers or some other, you know, the entire life of a taxpayer, all that.

[00:10:30] What I've done in the past was convert this to an aircraft carrier. So now these were using, like, 2013 or 14 numbers. But Gerald R. Ford-class supercarrier was, like, $16 billion. The latest. Yeah. The latest carrier. Or up to date to the Nimitz.

[00:10:51] Like, the single most expensive object U.S. government or any government buys ever is, well, you know, space shuttles, certain spacecrafts are up there, too. But this nuclear aircraft carrier costs a lot of money. It was less than this. So this is more than an entire fully laden with all the fixings, nuclear aircraft carrier for grants and migrants.

[00:11:18] This is just one article of a lot of waste and spending. So just keep that in mind. I looked at that as positive news because, you know, RFK Jr. is in and that's $22 billion that could be cut pretty fast. Certainly. Yes. RFK did get confirmed today. Ron Paul. Man, Ron Paul is getting vindicated. Loving it. Got a smile on my face.

[00:11:47] But on this particular article, NATO and EU sidelined as Trump and Putin work for peace. Trump says he's meeting with Putin and really wants to end the war. What do you take on the current situation in Ukraine and Dr. Paul here? He's right. And the Europeans are freaking out about it. But they have no say in the matter, ultimately.

[00:12:13] And unless they, unless Zelensky, you know, goes with them and they try to fight the war, continue the war against Russia without our support, which they won't do. So, you know, real question for me is will Britain at least be brought in as a token?

[00:12:33] You know, are they going to have some kind of summit and peace treaty where United States, Russia and Ukraine are the primaries to the treaty event and to signing the treaty? And then there's secondaries. How will, you know, how are they going to, they're going to, they're going to have to placate the Europeans somehow. But for now, Trump's just leaving them out of the conversation and it's driving them wild.

[00:13:01] We have so much news and stuff to get to, but this is like a three, four minute video. So we're going to skip it for now. Yeah. Yeah. I didn't mean to watch the video down the line. We're going to watch the video to every episode as well. Might've just turned Patriot power hour into 90 minutes at this rate. Cause we're going to have a lot more content this way. Let's keep rolling though. Go ahead.

[00:13:25] Tell us about president Trump firing dozens of employees, department of education and small business administration. Well, hang on, hang on. I just said the posts, I didn't read all these. So that's okay. We have day jobs, unfortunately, but, but I'm not sure I need to go past that headline. Right. I mean, that's happening. Right. That's happening.

[00:13:46] I think, uh, I didn't catch a post for it, but I heard the news today that one of the lawsuits blocking the buyout, the federal worker buyout was, um, the union sued and judge said, you don't have standing. So, you know, more winning. I saw that. I have no idea if there's another appeal or another route for them to keep pushing.

[00:14:12] I'm certainly going to keep doing it, but it's pretty clear that, uh, Trump's in the right here, even to basic. Everything he's, everything he's announced is drawing lawsuits. Right. So the more that are launched is, is just to me, more opportunities for his legal team to start laying the groundwork for, you know, at this point, the Democrats would be stupid to,

[00:14:42] let it get to the Supreme court. Cause that could get, you know, you know, final decisions that blows them off forever. I don't know about forever. Maybe the rest of our lives though, which is, you know, decades, decades, it could get, things can get locked in place. We know that. So, uh, yeah, the firing of employees, the transgender surgeries, the impoundment, just, you know, choosing not to spend funds.

[00:15:11] They're going to, uh, I think Trump's team is probably looking back saying, yeah, more, more, go ahead. We knew this was coming. Yeah. Bring, bring all the suits you can. And we'll, you know, we'll, we'll find a way to get them, you know, appealed all the way to the Supreme court of the land.

[00:15:26] So I think that was part of the strategy of going after us aid first, because a lot of those NGOs and these nonprofits and dark money pools and stuff help facilitate and pay for those sorts of lawsuits. And at least fundraising for those lawsuits or other sort of fundraising and propaganda, blah, blah, blah. So kind of neutered that up front. And now if the big money wants to go after Trump, they're going to have to do it more out in the open.

[00:15:54] That's definitely one benefit of going after, uh, going after that NGO machine up front, you know, Dem Democrat, deep state money laundering to NGOs. Those, oh my God, that's going to get, this is only beginning of exposing it. We got a post coming up, uh, a Bernie Sanders reaction to it. It's serious. Yeah. I'm not laughing, but I am just because I'm just a little happy that finally this stuff's being exposed. So I knew this stuff.

[00:16:23] I know a lot of people out there knew this stuff was going on, but like to see it happen, to see the dagger every day being thrust deeper in exposing more, uh, so much damage has been done already. It'll take years and years just to go through it all. That's a, that's a good thing. Um, well, it's not good that much fraud and stuff happened, but at least it's being exposed. All right.

[00:16:49] Cash Patel deep state braces for cash Patel's possible Epstein files release in the next 10 days. So you and I were talking about Epstein list a little bit, and you appropriately said it's being used big time for leverage. I said, yes, I understand the 3d chess and he could totally use it long-term, maybe get more value out of it by leveraging against people. But on the other hand, I, if they actually just released it, it would just be so big.

[00:17:18] I think that might just be worth it. Just, just, I want them to just release it. They say, maybe it will be released in the next 10 days. What, what are you seeing here? Maybe partially released who Epstein ultimately is working for. I don't, I don't think that's coming out now. Uh, who was the client list who went there at that is, is multiple dagger strikes to the Democrat deep state.

[00:17:43] Um, my just gut reaction on, on this article is first, first thing I think of is I've, I don't think I've ever really listened to cash Patel. I've, I've, I've never spent the time to listen. He must have what it takes to convince Trump that he can do this job. Uh, it's, it's one of those personalities in politics that I don't even know him right now, but I'm pretty sure in a few weeks, I'm really going to have heard a lot from him after he gets his confirmation.

[00:18:10] Yeah. And, um, let's talk about the middle East, right? This, you know, the suspicion is that Epstein was a Mossad agent for, or MS M 16 British and Mossad agents. Maxwell too. Yeah. Maxwell's dad, I think. Uh, just lanes, uh, father, right. Right. Was exactly that. Um, let's look at the, uh, the, uh, Gaza Largo idea a week later, right?

[00:18:39] Trump, Trump had announced that last week what I'm seeing. And actually this is wasn't entirely unpredictable. Everybody, except for, I think one Gulf state foreign, you know, you know, you know, head of something spoke up and said, it's a plausible idea, but pretty much Trump has united the entire Arab world.

[00:19:01] And by the way, in Israel, you know, there's rabbi groups now coming out saying that, that genocide in Gaza, like cleansing Gaza of any Palestinians is unacceptable. So it, you know, if it, if it is 40 tests shaping up, you know, think about it. He got all the sides to reject his plan, right?

[00:19:27] That could, that's the type of thing that could just shake things loose, start to get some kind of agreements that actually, you know, lead to some kind of peace in, uh, in Gaza. I'll never say peace in the middle East. Cause I'm pretty sure there'll always be a war there somehow, but you know, at least get a resolution on what Gaza is right now. So he's almost like a, a mediator in a civil trial or two parties, huge disagreements. A mediator says, I want to see both of you.

[00:19:57] Usually a mediator is a retired judge or even a current judge sometimes. And they'll be like, I want to see both of you guys here, you know, 9 AM on Tuesday, both come with realistic offers. And this time Trump or the mediator put his offer out there to start. And it kind of, you know, sure Israel liked it, but the rest said, hell no, hell no. So now it's like, okay, well, you don't like that. We need to see your realistic counter. Yeah. I don't, I don't think Israel likes it. I don't, I don't think.

[00:20:25] No, because it take it all over. The only route to that is the history of that effectively. They seized it and they cleansed the land of, of, of Palestinians. And, and, and does, do they, do they want Gaza? Do they need Gaza? Is there any economic value in it? Do they really believe Trump could ever build that? I don't think they do. So it's a bad plan for them.

[00:20:49] Plus if Epstein was involved with Mossad, there's leverage there publicly standing right next to the Israeli PM, you know, saying everything great about Israel privately behind the doors. Trump gets his hands on evidence of that. We might see the Israeli government ready to make concessions that nobody else could ever make them make. Interesting. Probably a blind spot for me now.

[00:21:15] I'm no, I don't pay too much attention to Middle East, but I presume that Israel would have liked that to clear Gaza out of all their mortal enemies. But some, some, I mean, it's a body politic, right? There's, there's a spectrum of opinions on that sort of thing. Like there are in every country, right?

[00:21:36] So, you know, some, you know, very conservative edge of their political spectrum would like a greater Israel, but they have an opposite spectrum, right? And those are the people coming out to say, you know, today and saying, absolutely not. Absolutely not. Should we ever go down in history as having expelled, you know, entirely, right? You got to remember that, you know, what has happened in the West Bank, Palestinians haven't been expelled. It's just settlements have been built, right?

[00:22:05] So it's not like a, you know, absolute, you know, you know, march everybody away from the land, which is exactly what happened to the Jews in ancient history, right? I think twice. So we got about five more articles to hit and let's try to do it in about five minutes so we can go to the news blitz after a short break. I do want to welcome everybody who's joining us live for past double digit viewers out there.

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[00:23:01] And of course, PBN family.com, but let's try to do one art article per minute in the next five minutes. We'll hit go to break. We'll come back with the full news blitz. What do you say? Yeah. Yeah. Let's do that. Yeah. 75,000 federal employees have now accepted the buyout and this is the buyout that is purportedly halted.

[00:23:22] And while, while certain judges, you know, lay down injunctions and stays and whatever the right legal terminology is, but Mitchley is getting blocked by the courts. Meanwhile, the numbers keep going up. Like can't make this up. This is pretty clever. My understanding is at least half or somewhere around half. I won't say at least, but somewhere around half federal employees really aren't even eligible for the buyout.

[00:23:49] So they say there's 2 million federal employees, but my understanding is it's actually like a million are eligible. So it's not 4% of the workforce, 7.5 or 8% of the eligible, I guess, non-essential, non-military type. I don't know exactly, but, uh, yeah, it's, you know, upwards could be 10%. Now a good portion of that's early retirements. That's fine. You know, well wishes to those people. Bye-bye.

[00:24:17] It's not like we're going to prosecute the average Joe. It was just clocking in and doing minimal work. And some people in the fed federal government should do a lot of work. I don't know. Some do, but regardless, uh, don't let them say that this has not been successful. Cause it's actually more like eight and I think by the end, 10 plus percent will be voluntary resignation with a buyout, which I think that's pretty good. Good start.

[00:24:43] I wonder if part of that ineligible piece that you're talking about is the provisional employees. Cause they were demanding the CIA, uh, names of provisional employees. There's certain agencies with certain hiring situations where, you know, they're not even full employees yet. He, he, that's why they're, I don't know. Maybe they didn't get an offer. They're just going to get fired. Yeah, exactly. All right. Education department.

[00:25:13] Now the news last week was that this was the target this week, but I think that was a head fake. First, Linda McMahon had to get confirmed and she was. And, you know, so the, the, the real attack on the department of education, I think that's coming. I thought we felt like it was going to be this week, but there's news tonight of where Doge is coming up. Yeah.

[00:25:41] If the good news segment of Patriot power. All right. Yeah. Here it is. Go for it. Yeah. Uh, the tweets missing, but, uh, oh yeah, there it is. Yeah. Word has a Doge is entering the IRS headquarters in DC. Tonight. This is a PM. So just like a few hours ago, I've stood right by that sign multiple times in real life. So I've been there. They're flipping out future Dan. Yeah.

[00:26:10] IRS is getting their own in-person audit. I would flip out. If I had an agent come directly to my door for an audit, I would not be very happy. And, uh, apparently they're not happy Doge is in the house. I predict major contract cancellations in that agency. And the irony of this kind of, if that's the right word on, it's irony, but just the surrealness of this. Right.

[00:26:34] Let me, let me give you a little jump back in time when the IRS was suppressing nonprofits that were trying to register during Obama's presidency. Right. And Lois Lerner called up on the Hill like a stone wall, you know, refused to answer.

[00:26:53] And the IRS director at the time was an entire worm who went up before Congress and said that they were an independent agency, independent agency, independent agency. This whole facade of independent agencies, as if since the 1930s, Congress can create agencies that are not in the executive branch controlled by the president.

[00:27:16] And that's what all these lawsuits are coming down to is to reestablish, you know, the, the, the, the Democrats label it the unitary, uh, presidential executive power theory or something similar like that. So yeah, you know, IRS is going to take it on the chin very soon. I predict it's not a hard prediction to make. This is interesting. Yeah. Yeah. Go for it. This is interesting.

[00:27:44] So before this news, it was made known that the, uh, the new DOJ was going to drop charges against Adams.

[00:27:52] And even when he got charged last year, it seemed like, uh, it was, it seemed like political retribution for breaking ranks on the immigrant issue, which for his city, a big part about that was, uh, the Texas and Florida governors, you know, started trucking people to New York city, busing them, dropping them off right in the blue cities. So that made things bad for Adams.

[00:28:19] He started to, you know, make problems, you know, you know, admit, admit that's a problem for his city. He got indicted by the, you know, the Biden regime. Trump calls off the DOJ, but now look at this, he's going to cooperate. So ice is going to be getting into Rikers Island. So deals are being made. And these are the kinds of deals that are behind closed doors, you know, kind of, you know, you know, you do this for me.

[00:28:48] I do this for you. And, you know, none of it's documented this, this kind of news is absolutely driving Democrats wild tonight. And the more that flip, right? Like, let's just say, let's just consider mayor Adams is flipping to the good guys side by saying, yes, we will let ice go into Rikers, find illegals. And get there, get them out of here.

[00:29:14] But as opposed to other sanctuary cities and places where they would release them onto the street, it would take like 10 times the resources, much more dangerous to go and find these illegals after they were. So anyway, as more and more Mayor Adams start to work with Trump, more and more are going to capitulate as well, I think. So it might already be a route at this point. What do you think? It looks like a route tonight.

[00:29:44] All right. Here's this video. We've got to play this video. Yeah. All right. All right. And before we do, look at the tweet. You know, it's, it's, it's, you know, this account breaking 911 useful account. They're ahead of things. That's for sure. Not, not highly political either. Just that, you know, when stuff has happened, they put it out there, but here's a little dig on Democrats. Yeah. Sheer panic in his eyes as he knows the jig is up. Yeah. He, he looks scared here.

[00:30:17] Look at his eyes. This is good. You don't have to listen. Just look up. He looks disheveled. His head is red, right? Oh yeah. Bags under his eyes. He's, he's losing sleep, trying to come up with strategies to put a stop to what they're encountering or, you know, just figuring out. All right. This is going to come out. How do we react to it?

[00:30:42] This is going to come out, but they got so much corruption in there that they can't do all the, you know, the, the courses of action and branches and sequels that they're facing. That looks like an opponent. That's. That's in disarray. A route. Let's keep going. A couple more. Yeah. Sanctuary city is going to get exactly what they don't want. More collateral arrests, more non-criminal arrests, more arrests in the neighborhood. Exactly.

[00:31:11] More dangerous collateral damage, which we don't want. That's why it's, that's awesome news. It's the first time I had seen it today. That Rikers Island, man. That's so symbolic as well. So all across the country, Tom Holman, the warning to sanctuary cities. Let's be clear about what we're talking about here. The non-criminal arrest means they're looking for a criminal who's illegal and they are searching in places.

[00:31:39] Now there's 12 more people and they're illegal. They don't have status. So they weren't a target, but they are going to get picked up and deported. So that's like a, you know, a real like leveraged threat on blue cities. Again, putting the leadership of those, those municipalities in a bind, right? Those are their voters.

[00:32:08] They need that population. So, you know, those are the children of those people are the ones that they fully intend to brainwash in the schools. They got to have them and, and, and, you know, cooperate and let us have the, the criminals or we're going to take them all is kind of the message here. That's very smart.

[00:32:30] Just, yeah, that's the type of strategy and yeah, just finesse and just superiority across the board. I'm seeing from a lot, all, you know, whether it's economic, whether it's immigration and all, all across the board, that's just great. Great chess move. It's like, give us a, you know, one out of 10 of your, you know, of your community. That's the criminals. And we'll leave the other 90 alone.

[00:32:59] We're going to make it very difficult for you to get employed. So hopefully a few of you will just leave. You won't bring any more of your family over and those that remain. Hey, maybe eventually you can be part of the melting pot over time. Maybe not, but starting with the criminals and being like, we don't want to be violent. You're forcing us to come in there. And also, by the way, we're going to take grandma and your aunt and all of this. If we have to do it. Self-departation is going to be way higher than you expect.

[00:33:28] We're going to have to look at some of those numbers down the line. Absolutely. A couple more articles before we head to break in the news blitz. Yeah. Yeah. Nationwide injunction against Trump's birthright citizen executive order. Kind of talked about that. That's the fourth one lined up against just, just this 14th amendment issue. So, you know, there, you know, I, I, I have to believe they anticipated it, but going back

[00:33:55] a moment, you know, the finesse and tactical acumen that you're seeing out of this government is now you, you didn't think in your lifetime, you'd see government that could effectively do things like this. Did you? No, even three weeks ago, I didn't think it would be half this, maybe about half. This is what I expected at best. Yeah.

[00:34:18] And, uh, as a connoisseur of the video game form of recreation, I'd like to share with you something that I read, read on X earlier today about what's happening here. Right. Okay. So first time you get the game and you plan against the game and it has, you know, the campaign, like kind of work your way to the end. Right. Most many, many games have been built on you against the game to, you know, beat it, beat the game. Right.

[00:34:47] Beat the game, beat the last boss. Yeah. The bosses, the big, hard things to defeat along your way. Right. Somebody saying that, you know, this is like, uh, Trump's first term was coming up against all the bosses and losing and losing, but learning where they are and what they're doing and how to beat them. And, and, and, and the, this second term is like just starting over at the beginning and beating the game. And it wouldn't have been possible.

[00:35:16] And it wouldn't have been possible had he remained in office eight consecutive years that because of this, you know, highly rare event where, you know, second time in U S history, where we had a four-year term, four-year intermission and another four-year term. Is it even possible that for four years in the wilderness, he could surround himself. He, Donald Trump, what we're showing right now could surround himself with people who

[00:35:39] had strategies and, and, and the discipline with which they kept it all quiet since being elected in November. In fact, all the way through the campaign, keeping their mouth shut about what they're going to do. Right. They've launched shock and awe. And yeah, all these tweets, all these posts have been today since noon, everyone that we just went through. So this is just this afternoon. Holy cow. We need to start doing more than one show a week. Potentially. I don't know.

[00:36:08] Uh, last article ready for this. Just another 20 billion in grants out of the EPA that are going to be saved. It's, that's good. It's another aircraft carrier and all the jets on it and the training and pay for all the sailors and airmen. And the federal contractors that are Democrat aligned that did all this work. Bankruptcies are coming. They are, they are going bankrupt. They are going out of business.

[00:36:37] They are getting wiped out. There are so many niche firms out there that, that, that rely upon the very grants that we're looking on clean energy scam. Like they've been, they've been founded and they exist because they get these grants. They're going away. Going away very, very quickly. All right, folks. Honestly, since we had a little bit of a tech issues to start the show, I don't want to try to play an ad. I don't know if I have the right one ready to go anyway.

[00:37:06] It'll probably mess things up. So what I'm going to do future Dan is plug PBN family.com. What do you say? Yeah. Yeah. What do they call it? When the host just slips right into talking something commercial? Like they do have an exact, it's an embedded ad. That's what they call it. I guess that's what it is. I believe it's like embedded within the radio host. I'm pretty sure that's right. But anyway, I didn't make it a smooth transition, but I wanted to make sure it's obvious. It's not, it's an ad.

[00:37:38] But anyway, you all that are looking, first off, we got 14 watching live. Of course, thanks for joining us at Patriot Power Hour. Any comments, questions, thoughts, topics you want us to talk about, throw them in the comments, wherever you're watching this live. And those listening to us on podcasts, try to join us for a live show sometime. Anyway, what I'm showing here, PBN family.com. That's really all you need. PBN family.com.

[00:38:06] If you go there, you can find all the other stuff within the prep sphere. I think that's what they call it. Trip and commander in them. There's a member area where you can pay five bucks a month. And there's a lot of free resources. If you don't want to become a member or just want to test it out. But really PBN family.com is the way to go. There's very, uh, oops. Let me go back to the homepage.

[00:38:33] What I think is the best thing about becoming a member is the annual preparedness master schedule. I actually don't have it on this computer. Maybe I should bring my, well, I'd have to scrub it for a little bit of personal info type stuff. But my point is there's a master schedule that goes an entire year week by week. And it has things that maybe you only do once a year. And then there's things you do maybe once a month. And then sometimes there's even things you do daily or weekly, especially if you are more

[00:39:02] of a homesteader or deeper into the prepping process. So point is I need to get one or I have mine, but I need to display it. I can't right now. That's huge. Another huge thing is the homestead group calorie spreadsheet. If you're planning, and this is a little bit of a segue feature down, I don't know how much we want to announce or if really anything, but the ultimate preppers group calorie

[00:39:26] homestead spreadsheet, you can plan out how to really just store food for your family, how much to store, what type of calories, the macros, even the micros, whether it's the freeze dried storable food or you have freezers full of stuff with some generators or whatever to keep them cold, but at least for a while, put it all together. It's a really cool spreadsheet, really cool tool for you to be able to plan out your food

[00:39:54] preparedness, three, six, 12 plus months down the road. So future Dan, uh, I think PBN family and prep broadcasting network. We've been here more than five years now and, uh, really cool that we're still around and keep on thriving through Trump's presidency. Don't, I guess what I always tell myself is don't get complacent just because Trump's in office, you know? Well, there's threats from other directions all the time.

[00:40:24] The, the ultimate preppers group calorie homestead spreadsheet and the food storage calories per five gallon bucket pieces. Uh, I, I, I think we need to, you know, just come out in the open. We're thinking about our next installment of Azure Highland. Where are you and I and the intrepid commander and Dave Jones and others who let us know they want to participate, get with us. It's possible.

[00:40:53] We're going to do something along the lines. You know, it's going to be a new to the Azure Highland series because we're going to do it the spring and it's going to involve exercising dietary restrictions so that we are, you know, been through it, done that, had to cope, had to cope with, uh, you know, eating our preps. So working title, we can announce that later.

[00:41:23] Exactly what we have, you know, up in the air still very, very much in the, you know, early planning stages, but this spring, not a winter exercise this spring, you know, we're going to, we're going to do something special. That's, you know, maybe never been done on, on, on, on podcast and, and, and, uh, this kind of medium to, to do, you know, to communicate to the prepper community. So looking forward to that.

[00:41:52] You want to do the heat map? Let's do the heat map. All right. Let me pull her up. FutureDanger.com. I had it pulled up on a different thing, but let's just do it right here. Hey, that loaded very nicely. And wow, we do have a packed heat map. So we had a packed first half of the show with quote unquote good news, or at least news that's not threatening or dangerous. On the other hand, here we go with, this has got to be three dozen articles featured in.

[00:42:21] This is pretty packed and a lot of severity. You want to start running us through it? Yeah. Yeah, I do. So we've got three grade one happening now threat indicators. News blatantly censored, gold sores, and vaccine effects exposed. Those three in and of themselves aren't a crisis, right? But, you know, those, those among others are, you know, you know, can lead to trouble.

[00:42:49] News censorship though, it's just coming out now. It's really what's happening. USAID pushed a push blacklist of independent media while operating global propaganda network. And I'll tell you this. There's two other articles along these lines. I tried to post on future danger earlier than this article from zero edge. And for some reason, my website doesn't like those.

[00:43:14] It also gets really kind of screwy whenever I try to post anything about a war with China starting. So I'm going to do something different. I'm going to just jump all over the place tonight. Bamboo Eagle tankers flood airspace off California coast for China focused air combat exercise. I posted that one, but more recently under this president, first time the U.S. Navy sailed, not just one, two warships in the Taiwan Strait.

[00:43:42] Tried to put that into my indicator and my website just rejects it. Just isn't there. Yeah. They rebuild the future danger and some kind of look at whether it's been corrupted is by nefarious external actors in an order, but it's sort of hit or miss, right? I got that Bamboo Eagle article in there. So can't, can't, it's just a conspiracy right now. Jumping back to column one, elections aren't happening now, so they're not stolen right now.

[00:44:10] But this news has to get recorded somewhere because it's evidence or, you know, definitely, you know, weighs in on the historical conversation about the 2020 election. So the president is coming right out. When asked about USAID's role in the 2020 election interference, he says it could have, could have played a role. I think they probably tried, right? So he's kind of downplayed it, but you know, he's saying it, right? He's not saying it, but he's saying it. You know what I mean?

[00:44:40] And I'm sure you're going to want to get into this one. You don't really think of the Federal Reserve as an arm of the U.S. government that would be at risk of facing pressure for, you know, suppressing free speech.

[00:44:56] But some obscure manual that the Fed puts out had some very, you know, clear language that, you know, gave them the right to not just, you know, squelch your speech, but punish you for it. You know, don't give you access to banks if you're a reputational risk. So we'll have a look at that one after we conclude the heat map dashboard.

[00:45:24] Column 2 security, president orders secret service to provide information on his two would-be assassins. We're waiting to see if a false flag is exposed there. And news coming out just now of the Chinese spy balloon that flew across our country in 2023. Well, it was packed with American tech. I don't know if it was packed with American classified tech. It might have been commercial tech, but, you know, dual-use technologies are a real thing.

[00:45:52] And just another bit of, you know, evidence that, you know, we're under constant espionage threat for many countries, but especially China. And as predicted, Philadelphia loots and burns down itself after their football team won the Super Bowl. Still a riot. It didn't spread. It was a one-issue thing, one-city thing.

[00:46:22] But, you know, when rioting happens, we put it in the archive. We put it in the archive. Economically, more news than we usually have right now, Ben. That's because the indicator's trade severely declines is getting activated by these tariffs. So, on the grade scheme, this is topical news. Has trade severely declined? No. Or are we seeing headlines that might lead in that direction?

[00:46:50] Well, that's what a lot of people are worried about with tariffs. So, Trump opposes 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum. Signs a plan, I think, today for reciprocal tariffs on trading partners. So, you see the posted official memo about that. And on the White House's website, I found another fact sheet. So, that's the administration's point of view on tariffs. But, you know, just a decline in trade? Can we manage it?

[00:47:19] Would it be good for the country? Possible. Possible. Severely declined trade? Probably not good for any country. Gold soaring. You probably know the actual high that it's hit by now. But, you know, this headline tracked it at 2,900 per ounce. Inflation skyrocketing? Well, it's not skyrocketing. It's mid-grade. But annual inflation rate still at 3%. Producers' prices surge. Fastest pace in two years.

[00:47:48] A little bit of question mark whether this should trigger a different indicator, which is government statistics falsified. So, it seemed pretty clear that once Biden didn't control some of these statistical agencies, we might see oddities in the numbers. Food rationing. Food rationing. Everybody's talking about the price of eggs. Yeah. Well, we got egg rationing starting in stores.

[00:48:15] And they're blaming the avian flu for, you know, they're culling the flocks. So, eggs are at a premium now. I think I commented to you and Dave and James over the weekend. I don't think this is one of those commodities that is, you know, separated from supply and demand. So, I think supply will come roaring back. And we won't see eggs quite at the high price that they are now.

[00:48:44] But it's ridiculous right now. Federal government budget deficit hits record $840 billion in the first four months of 2025. Meaning the first four months of the fiscal year 2025, which started in October. And the interest on the debt right now is $1.2 trillion. So, people are waking up to this. You got a lot of Republicans in Congress that are all about Doge right now.

[00:49:14] They're not going to go against the Doge and if-seems right now. They know those numbers. Meanwhile, Bernie Sanders and his crew are screaming bloody murder. Call them for more vaccination effects exposed. Study finds 37 safety signals for COVID vaccines during pregnancy. And the CDC, as of tonight, still urges women to get the shots.

[00:49:40] However, Senate confirms RFK Jr. for health secretary. So, if you thought vaccine effects were exposed before, we're already grade one black on red. Wait until he has an opportunity to release information. We got out in Hawaii, Kilauea. You know, I think that number's wrong. I'm going to fix that right now. 330 feet in the air. Like 100 meters high. Not that high.

[00:50:10] That's a typo, man. Yeah. It's like the Empire State Building almost. Still. It's, you know, those hurricanes in Hawaii, or hurricanes, geez. Those volcanoes in Hawaii, typically not active like that. So, got to watch out. Unknown illness reported on a cruise ship sailing from Tampa. Never saw a follow-up from that. They probably figured out what it was. Probably nothing.

[00:50:39] It's one of those probably nothings. If there's one indicator on future danger that has the highest propensity for a headline that you can say, that's probably nothing. It's the pestilence falls. Anytime I see any news about unknown mystery illness, it goes here.

[00:51:00] But in early 2020, that paid off in terms of tracking the news correctly because the Wuhan flu was a mystery virus. And, you know, we all know what that led to. Argentinian stream mysteriously turns blood red. You know, that's just a kind of one of those biblical things. Like the rivers will run red. So, yeah. It happened. Probably nothing. And, yeah. Big earthquake in the Cayman Islands.

[00:51:30] Naturally, though. No major disasters happening anywhere right now. No, the one part of the heat map dashboard that no one controls. So, always prepare for that. That's a heat map dashboard. Oh, yeah, yeah. One more. Oh, it involves banks, too. So, you're probably going to want to talk about it. Banks are a breaker. Senator says, Doge reform at the FDIC threatens, quote, the soundness of the banking system.

[00:52:00] Is that a legitimate worry from a concerned elected official or a threat? We'll get into it, though. Maybe because we have the opportunity to do this with visuals now. It's a whole new world for Patriot Power Hour, really, when we can see things. Can you do me a favor and scroll out on the heat map a little bit? Yeah, all right, yeah. So, just look at the colors. Look at the order, right?

[00:52:29] Lots of topical news, but we have three things that are happening right now. Calm one's a little bit more lit up than it's been in a lot of weeks, but less headlines. Lots of natural, a lot more topical news coming back into the economy. But, of course, that always depends on when the government reports things, right? You know, inflation was reported this week.

[00:52:53] What's your kind of overarching view when you kind of take your eyes off of the specific indicators and look at kind of the color grades across the heat map? Does that match how you felt like the news environment, the threat environment was before you came on board this show tonight, Ben? Well, honestly, when I look at these, I don't feel particularly threatened.

[00:53:21] Not as much as I normally would by this many articles and this severity. But that's the micro. What about the macro? The overall look? It's very busy. Yeah. Yeah. That itself might be an indicator of something to come soon. And it seems like they're fairly... Well, a lot of them, all roads lead to Trump, I guess. One thing to say.

[00:53:50] But on the other hand, a lot of these also seem like independent things going on. Not as much connectivity between them all. Yeah. You have the tariffs, which we're going to talk a lot about the tariffs in a bit. You have the tariffs. You have gold and inflation. Maybe you could say those are somewhat related. But then the USAID and all these other...

[00:54:14] Doge in general is a whole other level and a whole other topic. But I guess some of these could be more of the system striking back is what we need to look out for. I don't see a system striking back right now. I haven't seen them either, really. A lot of these indicators are old news. Old events. 2023 Chinese balloon, right?

[00:54:39] But USAID funded in the past, right? What the Fed manual used to say, but it's getting changed now. It deserves being documented. That's the point of future managers is to document it the way it was to the best of our ability. But you're right. There's a lot of disconnection. We've seen during COVID where it bled straight across the heat map.

[00:55:05] The COVID and all those revelations, the emergency use, the quarantines, the lockdowns. That was directly causing the economy column to be full of black indicators, right? Yeah. This is a good term for it. Disjointed, disconnected, not unified. I think you touched on it a little bit.

[00:55:34] But one thing to really point out is I feel a lot of these are after effects of policies from the last few years. So a lot of these are news that either took place prior to January 20th, 2025 and or, you know, maybe even a decade plus ago. And it's really starting to bear fruit now in a negative way. So a lot of this is it like brand new breaking. It's more after effects, knock on effects. And we got a lot of this to deal with for many years.

[00:56:04] All the bad stuff that's taken place is going to have ripple effects, right? So this is I see a lot of this is ripples that we've already kind of talked about. And it's getting worse or except the economy happening. That's sort of the nature of the economic is that's that's pretty much happening now. There's no like really bad things happened in the past that are just coming out right now. Sometimes in the banking realm, we'll learn about things. But most of this is just like happening now.

[00:56:33] So economy is usually contemporary. But the liberty column, all that's in the past. And the security column, the looting is recently and bamboo eagle, the military exercises now. Now, you're right that Trump's assassins tried to assassinate a month ago. But look at the indicator. False flags expose the exposing of any false flags involved in that.

[00:57:01] You know, like I've said before, some people are like, hey, the truth is good. Getting out there is good in isolation. You're right. I agree with you. But when it gets connected to a bunch of other threat indicators, how destabilizing is that news? So I want to go through a few of these articles in more detail, but we won't belabor the point too much. I won't even get into the debanking rules, really.

[00:57:27] But yes, there was just like the IRS discriminated, just like a lot, almost every nook and cranny of the federal government discriminated against conservatives one way or another. Whether it's debanking or censorship or straight up audits and prosecution, et cetera, et cetera. So yes, the Federal Reserve.

[00:57:51] Well, pretty much Jerome Powell, who's the head chairman of the Fed right now, says he's going to rewrite. So pretty much bending the knee, rewriting the manual language on controversial commentary. So from Senator Loomis, who, by the way, is pro Bitcoin. So interesting for sure. I wonder about Powell. I really do.

[00:58:19] I wonder if he's there because of his demographic. Right. I'll say it. A white man to be the fall guy. Is he part of it? Is he part of why he's there is is that he'll be he'll be painted in history as, you know, the guy on the watch for the Federal Reserve when it all comes apart at the seams. He shouldn't get all the blame.

[00:58:46] But hey, if you're at the head of the head of the machine when it blows up, you're definitely going to get the blame and history. Is he a fall guy, though?

[00:58:58] Or do you put him in that same space as Bernanke, who went before Congress and was just a worm when it came to, you know, are we, you know, during the 2008 financial crisis in that era was U.S. Federal Reserve basically just floating billions upon billions to other central banks to keep them from falling apart. You know, outside of any control of Congress. Right.

[00:59:26] Everything that the Federal Reserve does as a, quote, semi-private arm of the federal government authorized by Congress. You know, the blurring that happened in 2013. I'm sorry. 1913 is, I think, you know, part of what Trump wants to get clarified. There's one executive. And that leaves me to my next point, not really about this article, but about Jerome Powell is, is he going to stand up to Trump?

[00:59:53] Is he going to try to assert that independence? And I personally believe the president can fire him and ultimately the Supreme Court would have to rule that that was constitutional because this is an executive agency.

[01:00:09] No matter what any twisted kind of, you know, 20th century, you know, thinking was that, you know, Congress could create independent semi-private entities. I don't, I don't think it's constitutionally sound. So Powell, he's more than a fall guy.

[01:00:33] Now, does he live up to the, the bankster himself, Bernanke, who inspired me to be the bankster breaker more than anyone prior, maybe equal to Jamie diamond. But Powell, I mean, he was in for during COVID and he's been in for five years. So I think he's more than a fall guy. He's a big player. Unless you think these guys are just front men for some areas folks.

[01:01:02] Let's just be fair. That's his term, right? I mean, he gets appointed for terms. So 2018, February 5th. So yeah, just hit his seventh year. Pretty long time to just be a fall guy. Got to be a real player. I think, I guess my point, he's not a patsy, so to speak. Like, I don't know if he'll fight. He said he won't.

[01:01:29] This is before Trump got into, you know, got into office inaugurated, but he did say he would not step down if Trump told him to. No. Push comes to shovel. That actually happened. That's not exactly, he said he wouldn't step down if he was asked. The question of, what are you going to say if you're fired has never been asked of this guy. Oh, well, that's where hopefully Doge and friends are finding stuff.

[01:01:59] If not in the Federal Reserve itself, which audit the Fed, let's do it, baby. But the IRS and Treasury are heavily involved with the Federal Reserve, so they can find stuff that implicates the Fed at those other agencies as well. So, with that, either you can do the backroom leverage like you talk about, or just up front, be like, look at all this fraud that Powell and Yellen and Bernanke had and covered up. And, you know, there's way more than just that. So, Powell needs to resign immediately.

[01:02:28] Well, Trump might do what he did to the Kennedy Center board. Just take it over himself. Fire them all and appoint him chair of the Federal Reserve. That would be pretty, wow, man. I can't say that's awesome, but I don't know. That would shake your paradigm, wouldn't it? I can't support that. I just could not. Why not? Why not?

[01:02:55] You want to put the country on the right direction, and you can't get it from this executive who, you know, has been raised his entire life, attending Princeton University and Georgetown University Law Center, that Federal Reserve, and many, many other agencies were separate and outside of the control of the president. And this president says, no, wait, I was elected. This is my branch. I'm going to run it. You're fired, and I run this now.

[01:03:24] I'd be all for that. If he's, you know, take it over so that you can stand it down, power it down, and stand up a better option, maybe. See, you're always going to the financial. You're always like, all right, then what to the numbers, right? I'm not doing that right now.

[01:03:45] I'm just saying gaining control of an insubordinate federal entity, federal executive entity, just in and of itself. Even if Trump was just chairman for a day and then appointed a new one, just to assert, you know, popularly elected control over this agency. That's what I'd like to see. Oh, that in itself, just to show that he can and that it always could have been done.

[01:04:14] Just flex on it. Yeah. Right. I like that for sure. Here's, well, we could talk about this if we want. We were talking about a little bit of a veiled threat or maybe just outright threat of the banking system. Yeah, yeah. The soundness of that collapsing. Is that a threat? Well, also, there's all types of threats from cyber attacks, and they'll blame it on Doge or other issues.

[01:04:43] If Trump took over the Federal Reserve and then somehow they dumped the market 20% in two days purposefully, maybe they would go down with the ship on that. Maybe they wouldn't. What are your thoughts there? I think they're in serious fear of Elon Musk and the they launching a cyber attack that could actually penetrate and do any harm to these systems. I'm not actually believing it. I'm not.

[01:05:13] I mean, I'm not believing it's possible. And I believe that if it was all conjured up to look as though Doge did it, but some insider let the networks be penetrated, that that would all come out eventually. But if you want to jump to that article in column three, look at what the center from Massachusetts is kind of hinting at here.

[01:05:40] This is the type of thing where they're laying the inoculation down out front, getting ahead of an issue, right? So that quote, threat to the safety and soundness of the banking system.

[01:05:54] If there is a plan and if there is a they that can bring down the banking system in late 2027, leaving the GOP with an economic disaster, losing Congress and the presidency to the Democrats and leaving Trump as the second Herbert Hoover who brought upon a Great Depression.

[01:06:22] History will come back and look at where Elizabeth Warren was so prescient about the matter. But to me, that that seems like a bankster threat. Certainly a bankster threat. I feel like it's a fairly realistic threat if they want to go score Scherth. But it sounds like you think they won't do that or even can't at this point or they would be found out so quickly. If it can be done.

[01:06:52] You know, go back to this, you know, Saul Alinsky book that Rahm Emanuel obviously studied when he said, you know, you can't let a crisis go to waste. Right. Right. And it's worse than that for the Democrats. They can't have a bank collapse this year or next year. Trump learned when he was waiting to restart the game and play it from the start again, that start signing national emergencies left and right.

[01:07:20] It gives the president enormous power by law. Congress, you know, put this into law to, you know, further empower the president during national emergencies. Imagine if the bank system collapsed, what that national emergency would look like, the powers that he would have. It has to be done when he has no time left to be the guy who fixed it. It has to be done. So, you know, just he's left holding the holding the bag.

[01:07:49] And I, and this is, you know, you know, to me history repeating itself because that's essentially what they did in George W. Bush, in my opinion, right at the end of his term, the whole thing came apart. Right. Now gold currently at $2,959 silver, $33, 27 cents. Yeah.

[01:08:13] Silver up almost four times more only, you know, it's not a huge percentage gain, but silver is gaining faster than gold, but silver still got a while to get to its all time high. Meanwhile, gold has already passed its all time high. What? 10 times in the last couple of few weeks. Like it just keeps making new highs, maybe a little bit of a dip. Yeah. Gold sets 10 record highs in early 2025 daily highs, closing highs.

[01:08:40] So 3000 is like very possible as early as tomorrow, definitely by next week or into March, 3000 plus dollar gold. We have that plus the tariffs. And that's actually the name of tonight's episode, Trump tariffs and your prepping plans.

[01:08:57] Well, hopefully you've already bought a lot of your preps that require steel, aluminum and imported goods because those tariffs are well, 25% on steel and aluminum and some reciprocal tariffs on trading partners. But at the same time, Trump trying to. That's not some, that's not some trading partners. That's a whole lot of trading partners that's in that plan. I hopefully has the infographic.

[01:09:26] I think it does. What really shows. Well. He's going to every country that doesn't have reciprocal tariffs. Yeah. They have it on us and we're putting them on them now. And from Trump's point of view, that's everybody. Everybody. Everybody's catching a tariff. If he, if he does now, now he's announced you're all subject to these tariffs, but let's negotiate.

[01:09:52] I will say that the value added tax system in Europe, right. Right. Is so complicated. That what the leverage that Trump's placing with those things, it isn't going to be confined to the economic sphere. It's it's that's leverage to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine as well. I believe. Because they cannot comply.

[01:10:18] There's no way that the European Union could actually just, you know, undo its value added tax system. And for those who don't know what that is, because we don't have that in the United States. Basically, I'm going to give it a shot, Ben. I'm going to try to define it. But please correct me if I, if I'm this state, but essentially throughout the chain of production to get to an end product. Value added tax means that each stage when something is.

[01:10:47] You know, integrated. You know, products, parts and pieces are brought together and integrated into steps. There's a tax. There's a value add. Every time you add value in the production process. The government's taxing that.

[01:11:02] And if you count the value added taxing of products in Europe, you know, making a reciprocal tax plan with Europe would be tantamount to wiping out their value added tax system, which is, you know, the gigantic part of how the, you know, those states fund themselves. So it's not going to happen. Did I describe a value added tax to your satisfaction?

[01:11:32] Pretty good. I would say if you think, just to break it down simply, if you feel like you get taxed two, three, four times over with sales tax and income tax and all these other taxes when you're trying to buy something. Well, in Europe, they have the value added tax, which is just another tax within that entire system at the stages of production.

[01:12:28] It's a sales tax.

[01:13:00] They have the luxury needs to negotiate with this and then there was covid okay i can believe that that definitely threw off the last year plus of his uh presidency let alone the election so less than a month into the second term this is how you beat the boss right well i i should have saved this image an infographic i

[01:13:27] saw earlier today it showed like the top 20 countries we do trade with and with a nice bar graph just showed the tax and tariffs that they had on us compared to what we have on them a lot of them we had zero on some we had you know 2.5 percent 5 percent 10 percent where they had like 30 50 100 percent on our goods but trump is in a lot of cases he's not even matching what they are

[01:13:57] at but it's still going from like a few percent to 20 percent but the other country still has like a 30 or 50 tax on us not in every case but my point is he's just bringing it up to a a reasonable comparison he's not even going over the top which he certainly reserves the right to that's part of the art of the deal negotiation i guess huh well he only has his right because congress wrote law

[01:14:23] has given the president this power these are taxes congress is supposed to set taxes by law but they basically delegated all this power to the executive branch that's why i think you see bernie sanders who has been in congress since that became law you know red in the face and freaking out because trump has figured out how to use powers that were he didn't understand how to do it

[01:14:52] last time i remember during the pandemic um it was actually um chuck schumer who suggested to trump that he use the industrial production act act to require u.s manufacturers to make ventilators and trump was like oh well i'll do that but clearly he didn't even know because he hadn't really studied on the powers that were there available to him that's that's just the entire irony you know for for for

[01:15:20] for covet to come and then for him to have that election stolen in 2020 gave him a chance to learn all this and now you know back with a vengeance is not even close to strong enough to describe what's happening so for real quick from my economic perspective what i would like to see let's just take this one

[01:15:41] example the eu imposes a 10 tariff on imported cars so a ford made in america sent to the eu 10 tariff meanwhile if you're in the u.s and you order a volkswagen from germany that you are you excuse me

[01:16:03] the 10 percent goes for the uh when you're buying that um when you're in germany buying the ford you're paying 10 so they're less likely to buy that ford and on the other hand we're not taxing their volkswagen at all so they're very happy that we don't have any barrier to our population very low barrier

[01:16:27] anyway it's been a long week being a long show i would like to see our tariff go from 2.5 percent to like five percent so we can get a little more money and then i'd like to see the eu's go from 10 to five percent so it's fair and even so there is a little bit of a tariff to make a little bit of money so they can lower taxes or at least close the deficit etc but also overall everybody's tariffs

[01:16:53] goes down a little bit and full circle 500 billion dollars in bilateral trade between india that's a good thing more trade less tariffs at least less tariffs on america and we will do more business with you that's what trump's plan is here it is we'll see where it gets him i still think a lot of

[01:17:16] this is more about other things especially the security arena bringing parties to the peace table in the middle east and in ukraine it's a big part of this on the egg front um well i think eggs are a perfect example and this is very preparedness focused

[01:17:39] of decentralized supply where if you raise your own hens or your neighbor does or you have a connection with a guy like nbc guy that i do well you're not as worried about costco or trader joe shutting things down now petroleum or gasoline you can't really just make that in your backyard

[01:18:01] and that's a little bit different it's a very centralized very capital intensive and time intensive etc but uh eggs on the other hand very easy to decentralize production and uh long story short i like that and that's what a prepper should always try to do when it's something that can be decentralized

[01:18:26] try to do that you know you i get you i get you i agree but i'm thinking about a different thing drawing a drawing a parallel about what you just said that you're probably not thinking about and i thought it's just the other day it's like if you're going to pick one food that functions in the as an ingredient other you know final foods you know kind of like oil gasoline fundamental cost

[01:18:55] driver okay of all the products that get anywhere right even you know jet fuel diesel whatever you know things get places because of fossil fuels right the you know there's some parallel there's eggs just as a driver in food like how many how many uh you know different foods in a grocery store contain egg very true yeah a lot of them and if you think about substitute it

[01:19:25] you can you think of a food an ingredient to food that is a bigger you know constituent of other end product foods than eggs i i don't think i can not something that's healthy relatively i mean you could just say like sugar and flour but it's different it's not like a whole food in of itself that doesn't require much processing and eggs are used in almost everything and there's not really a

[01:19:54] substitute right yeah i guess flour it's probably even more fundamental but yeah some of these basic ingredients see eggs sitting this high i still think that this is temporary you know the the time it takes to reconstitute flocks it's you know a matter of a month or two so supply will catch up with demand on this but it's definitely being used by democrats to tell their voters that it's trump's

[01:20:22] fault eggs cost a lot right now i mean that part of their strength is how economically illiterate their voters are it's pathetic that they don't understand it takes at least a couple months for things to work through the system let alone a couple weeks let alone a day or two i mean they were saying this like the day after he got inaugurated but whatever like you said it that's why they like

[01:20:45] their voters to be ignorant especially with regard to financials um i'm gonna get into this covid 37 safety signals the covid vax the vares system vaccine adverse event reporting system 37 types of adverse events when covid 19 vaccinations were administered during pregnancy so we're talking

[01:21:11] about pregnant women getting these injections yeah yeah not good not good um waiting for the results i mean it's it's demographic it's long term yeah this isn't good news at all adverse pregnancy events

[01:21:34] were reported 69.2 times more frequently after the shot relative to other vaccines keep that in mind too because gosh 10 years ago five years ago just before covid even people were talking about all types of vaccines being potentially harmful but the covid gene therapy mrna vaccine is just a whole nother level

[01:22:00] but but but 69.2 x i mean that's incredible how much higher that is now what's going to be interesting is rfk juniors in as health secretary health and human services secretary now gaining control of those agencies and the firings that are coming and who remains

[01:22:24] to run those agencies and and will rfk junior have enough time during this term to fund studies will he able be able to find scientists they'll take the funding he'll find some but most will probably be on the outside refusing to touch it but they'll find some what kind and this goes for fluoride this goes for

[01:22:52] microplastics this goes for like you know addictive drugs that you know this goes for the entire food supply with you know highly processed foods uh will there be time for the agencies who do do the studies they just for for years have been politically controlled say don't study vaccine effects can rfk junior

[01:23:18] convince congress that that is money well spent and can he turn it around so that this eight these agencies the national institute of health is refocused on that are there enough scientists out there that have a you know you know just you know that that aren't just absolute partisans that won't touch it we're gonna see we're gonna see that happening we're gonna find news about this and and it's gonna it's

[01:23:43] one of those things it's gonna span many indicators on future danger it's gonna hit into the constitutional legal aspects of wiping out those grants and firing those corrupt scientists but on the flip side you know how strongly can vaccine effects be further exposed how you know or fluoride effects or what some speculate is just a soft kill depopulation agenda trying to sterilize us and bring us to you know

[01:24:13] ill health earlier to to enrich multinational corporations and shorten our lifespans but yeah we got a health secretary tonight that's fully on board and it's trying to make a change can't wait to see what he's able to do all right i think that's the show for the night do you have any other articles we missed or any topics we've uh hit probably an all-time record number of tweets or i guess they're

[01:24:42] called posts now i guess we should hit tariffs and your prepping plans in a nutshell what do you see those tariffs caught you spoke about a little bit but how can you take contract create actions now before these tariffs start to set in to make final preps if you're trying to economize well you might have some time to still buy some of these imported goods without having to pay the

[01:25:08] tariffs if it's in stock now in the united states right it didn't have to pass customs so it doesn't have that exactly cost increase exactly so some theory now there is of course arbitrage so there's probably a lot of people trying to buy up certain things right now already have maybe may have been doing it over the last few months but my point is if you see something from one of these countries

[01:25:32] where that these tariffs are either going into place or going up if you see something that's important to your preparedness plans buy it on the other hand i was thinking not just financial kind of maybe your preps are going to be a little more expensive but it'll be a lot easier to identify what's made in the usa and uh maybe it's not a bad thing to have to pay a little bit more but

[01:25:57] it'll be made in the usa and if you do buy these things with uh tariffs at least you're you know funding the republic's comeback i don't know if i could even believe that so much but these tariffs could be an important role to preventing absolute destruction of the of the uh national debt and bringing that deficit down but i guess from a pre it's pretty much bad news if you're a prepper honestly

[01:26:25] is uh what i'm trying to say here but you still might have chance i have a chance in the next couple weeks i don't think it's gonna be more than that to buy things without the impact of these tariffs um but on the other hand hey you know if there's bad news at least there's a silver lining by made in america and if you end up paying some of these tariffs because you can only find some of your preps and whatnot made in china like electronics for example well you know whatever

[01:26:52] uh that's just how it goes at least that extra money is going directly to you not to china right well your country i mean that yeah just to be clear i was always a free trader believed in that but i've changed my mind over the years the scottish economist adam smith wrote in 1776 the wealth of nations influential point of view on why mercantilism held that wealth was fixed and finite

[01:27:21] and and and and there was a zero good sun some game and and and trump is a neo mercantileist right using these tariffs is is is that's what we say when we say mercantile it's it's it's it's running your economy at an optimum you know benefit to your people at the expense of your neighbors and keeping the trade you know as internal as possible always always seeking and maintaining trade advantage right

[01:27:50] and what smith wrote was free trade grows all nations but the problem is smith was writing about countries that didn't have the ability to do what china can do to you today right covet 19 one of many examples so in a constant espionage operation probably having corrupted big parts of the opposition

[01:28:13] party to trump as well as the deep state right what comes out for chinese espionage inside of the fbi the doj this even the cia i'm waiting to hear right you can't trade freely with an adversary like that right you can't and and let's talk about the europeans with their socialist welfare governments

[01:28:36] where they build all non-trade non-tariff barriers into the system so they have an advantage on paper and they you know they're still sucking us dry to support their you know highly authoritarian and socialistic systems you know if adam smith was here and looking at the world today i'm i'm pretty sure he'd write some caveats into the wealth of nations about how you can't trade with socialists

[01:29:05] successfully and i think that's something trump knows right now and those that use near slave labor that use all types of uh you know poison the environment whereas we have all these carbon taxes well not anymore i guess thankfully we're getting out of we're already out of the paris climate accordion all the other stuff we were never in it anyone else going after that carbon tax and other crap is not

[01:29:31] happening senate never ratified any treaty like that there you go those are just policies of uh a different administration and they're gone as fast as an election can make it happen this is this is a lot of news that we talked about tonight but a lot of good news the positive direction news i'm just waiting to see what what's this stash we all do topics all coming up from directions that we

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