Patriot Power Hour #310 - War Unconstitutionally Waged

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[00:01:17] Ben, the editor of FutureDanger.com. Patriot Power Hour, we're back. We are live June 24th, 2025. It's episode 310 of Patriot Power Hour here on the last episode of the first half of 2025. Wow, time does fly and wow, we got a lot of news.

[00:01:37] Future Dan, let's start with war unconstitutionally waged question mark. We got a lot on the news blitz. That's one of the indicators. That's in the SHTF. A lot's happened in the last week. Let's talk about it to start the night. Yeah, you don't like unconstitutional war at all, do you?

[00:01:59] Nope. That's probably one. Besides the Fed and the banksters, that's and maybe, maybe, maybe COVID and the COVID shot and all that stuff. But otherwise, war unconstitutionally waged is one of my, I'm not even going to say pet peeves. Like, it's just, it's a strong, strong thing I feel. Something I've evolved on a lot.

[00:02:25] And I want to do everything possible to avoid unconstitutional war, specifically all war, but unconstitutional. Yes, that's something I hate. And since World War II, we haven't, strictly speaking, had a declaration of war. So your whole lifetime, my whole lifetime, this function of our U.S. Constitution, it seems to have gotten broke.

[00:02:56] And I would go so far to say that it's degenerating. Every decade, it's getting worse. So we're looking right here at a list of operations, lethal U.S. military actions, specifically, since World War II.

[00:03:12] Since World War II. A congressional declaration of war was not passed for any of these. So Korean War, 1950 to 1953. Operation Ajax in Iran, 1953.

[00:03:26] Vietnam, Cambodia, Grenada, Libya in 1986, Panama, 89-90, first Persian Gulf War, Somalia, Bosnia, Yugoslavia, Kosovo, post 9-11, Afghanistan and Iraq.

[00:03:46] Arab Spring, Libya in 2011, overthrow Syria 2017-18. And then now the U.S. strikes on nuclear sites in Iran. So none of these have had, there has been some sort of legal, gosh, authorization, but not a declaration of war on these, future Dan. Can you kind of run us through the very high level of what that means?

[00:04:14] It means it was a custom that was common in the world before World War II. And it's not now. And there were authorization of use of military force. George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush. They tended to do that for all their military deployments engagements. Setting aside entirely, you know, using the U.N. system, which is dead.

[00:04:40] 2025, it's U.N. Security Council. That system, after World War II, completely broken. It's gone. It's dead. So besides the Bushes getting authorizations of military force, most of those were no resolution from Congress, except for Vietnam, where there was the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which was really, really vague.

[00:05:05] But these unconstitutional, undeclared wars, it's clearly the new norm for 75 years. We'll talk more of the history, but fast forward to what's happened in the last week. Everybody that's listening, I'm sure is well aware, but for posterity, for the archive, we just saw a couple days ago, Saturday. Today's Tuesday, June 24, 2025.

[00:05:32] So right around the summer solstice, Saturday, the 21st, bunker busters dropped by American B-2s in Iran. Reports are the nuclear sites were devastated. Now, has all the nuclear material been destroyed, the actual bombs? I would probably say no, but maybe we'll talk about that down the line. Why was I so pissed about this? Especially yesterday morning, I was going off. I was making a fool of myself in the back channels, probably, but I don't know. I was pissed.

[00:06:02] And I was pissed because I was seeing a massive schism being generated, being formed in MAGA, where, and I don't even know how to say what percent versus what percent. But a good portion, and I was leaning towards this side, but a good portion are saying, Trump, you are just making the worst mistake ever. At a minimum, it's going to derail your political, domestic plans, screw us in the midterms, and cost trillions of dollars.

[00:06:31] At worst, it could escalate war through Pakistan, through Russia, all that. And the other percent of MAGA is doubling down saying, trust in Trump or else you're a traitor. I'm not saying anyone on our network is saying that per se. But I saw a lot of it. And I'm like, no, last thing we need to do is divide each other on this. That was a big, big part of it.

[00:06:55] And you said a check, a check and a balance is impeachment and or, I'm not saying impeachment needs to be done, but removing through the election every two or four years. And I don't want that to happen. I think this would only hurt the chances to continue success in 2026 and 2028. You're not going to get new voters. So just politically, I think it's dumb. Economically, it's bad.

[00:07:25] And whether it's 4D chess or not, I mean, I hate all these tyrannies. We were talking about this before the show. All these tyrannies that I just named off, they're all scumbag governments that all, I would dare say, deserved what they got. But that's a slippery slope. So, yeah, there's my rant on it for now. Yeah, well, naval and air and space strikes are a lot different than what the founders thought of as war, right?

[00:07:55] Back in the day, war meant, always meant boots on the ground, right? And naval, you could skirmish, I guess, but Barbary pirates and all that. But war back then meant the army's going to war, right, on foreign soil. Now, when you can fly B2s this way, that way, which way are they coming? There they go. Two weeks to wait. Oh, wait, we did it. You know, very, very different world.

[00:08:25] And so what I look at, you know, when we can look at the Constitution and say that's clearly unconstitutional. Congress did not declare war in Iran. You know, I would equate the U.S. Constitution like a software app. And it was a revolutionary software app. And it's been running for, well, you know, 250 years since independence, plus the war, plus the time it took to get past the Articles and Confederation.

[00:08:55] You know, we're getting on to 250 years of this Constitution, 200 whatever right now. So it's a really good app. But there's parts of it that have failed. Tenth Amendment has not succeeded in preventing powers not authorized the federal government to remain with the states. Certainly, certainly not. Especially after the New Deal.

[00:09:19] The New Deal's use of the Commerce Clause has expanded powers in the federal government that would never have been there if the Tenth Amendment was upheld. But it was never challenged. It was never stopped. We got the Federal Reserve. We got, you know, a lot of other bad things all in the last century. Because that part of the Constitution, it was buggy. It wasn't a feature. It was a bug. It didn't work. Fourth Amendment.

[00:09:49] You know, to be secure in your papers and your effects. How in the world does that coincide with an income tax, right? It doesn't. So, in that case, they had to pass a constitutional amendment to authorize the income tax. But it eviscerated financial dimensions of the Fourth Amendment.

[00:10:11] And, obviously, with the surveillance technocracy that we have, Fourth Amendment is a shadow of what it once was. And there are many other examples of our Constitution that have not, you know, stood the test of time. And whether that can ever be changed or whether it should be changed, I don't know.

[00:10:33] But tonight, Episode 310, Patriot Power Hour, with what happened this past weekend, the situation doesn't look terribly dangerous to me right now. I feel like it's not super dangerous to me, myself, but for turning the overall Titanic of the United States in the right direction. I see it as just a quagmire.

[00:11:01] And it seems like, in the last 24 hours, Trump realized he might have, you know, he needs to not back off, but not go any further, at least. I would say I would 100%, maybe not 100%, but pretty much I'm fine with shooting, you know, using U.S. resources to shoot down missiles that are trying to hit in Israel. And, obviously, any that are trying to hit U.S. assets. Bring it to that next level.

[00:11:31] B-2 strike. If that's all that ever happened, let's just stop there. I'm not happy about it, but let's just stop, stop, stop. It seemed like, and it's not over yet, seemed like Trump was expecting to go another step or two for regime change. I'm not saying dropping in Rangers or Marines or anything, but essentially like a Ukraine level hundreds of billions of dollars a year to fight and take over Iran now.

[00:11:57] Now, maybe that's not even necessary because Iran's going to topple much easier than Ukraine-Russia quagmire. But, anyway, this morning, after the ceasefire, which seems to be tentatively holding, I'm not expecting it to hold forever, but as of last night, Trump said his 12-day war is over. Everyone should abide by the ceasefire. He was quite pissed this morning because Israel's poking Iran in the eye.

[00:12:23] And, you know, it seems so far, though, the ceasefire is tentatively holding. Do you expect it will? Do you expect this to be over? Do you expect a total regime change in Tehran in the next month? Ben, that's the Middle East. I'm not going to predict what happens there next other than there's a limited amount of time before there's more war in the Middle East. And I'm just basing that off of history, right?

[00:12:52] It's from ancient days to today, it's been where war constantly occurs. So how long this piece holds, I don't know. Could be a generation. Could be doing it back at it while we're broadcasting now. It's the Middle East. That's more like, yeah, over under one year. I'd say less than 50% chance it holds a year for sure.

[00:13:20] Maybe less than 50% chance it lasts a week. I hope it does. Yeah. Well, we can start going. Go ahead. Go ahead. Yeah. I put together Future Danger in 2013-14 timeframe by just accumulating all the threats to the nation that, you know, I could think of. And I listened to lots and lots and lots of sources, right? Studied it. Came up with 492.

[00:13:50] Retired one this past week, which was International Atomic Energy Inspectors expelled from Iran. Because that would have been a precursor potentially. In 2015, it seemed like that could be a precursor to a war with Iran.

[00:14:06] And the Israel-Iranian war starting was always an indicator because, you know, in 2015, when Future Danger went live, we've been hearing about, you know, the Iranian regime pursuing nuclear weapons for 15 years. In hindsight, it's debatable whether it's a danger indicator to the United States.

[00:14:29] And there is no indicator of us being at war with Iran because of the sheer overmatch, which has always been present. We have, you know, war with China starting. War with Russia starting. The Korean War restarting. And several other involving China and Japan, China and Taiwan, right? Pakistan, India having a nuclear war, right?

[00:14:57] Highly, highly dangerous to everybody. But us at war with Iran never was an indicator. Now I'm looking at, you know, just the start of a 12-day war that possibly ended yesterday. And thinking that that indicator, it's a, you know, in the big scheme of things on Future Danger, it's somewhat of a second tier or third tier indicator.

[00:15:23] In and of itself, it's nothing compared to the stock market crashing, right? So, you know, not all indicators are the same. And this one, turns out, may not have been as dangerous as some had thought before. I got an example right here. Another indicator that's SHTF that I could argue is much worse, much more dangerous for the average American.

[00:15:50] Miscarriage and pregnancy loss rates 43% higher than expected after COVID vaccine. That might be a more imminent, clear, and present danger to your family. Maybe, maybe not. But I get what you mean. And Israeli-Iranian war is fully fleshed out insofar as the indicator. Does that spiral into some sort of terror attack or market crash? I believe that these markets have been cool, calm, and collected, all considered.

[00:16:18] So they may not feel as threatened as you. I mean, they may be with you insofar as they agree it's not as dangerous. Because a lot of people are like, oh, oil is going to open up over $100 on Monday. Gold should go to $5,000. Definitely did not happen.

[00:16:36] I can tell you that the amount of retired general officers that have consulting firms that would be accessible by most of the powers of money in New York, they can be consulted, and the overmatch that our military has is quite reassuring. So war with the big peer powers, always got to watch out for it.

[00:17:05] But I don't think China is more encouraged to invade Taiwan after what they saw last weekend. Do you? I don't think there are more, no. There are probably less. But by how much? And maybe one more question for you. Then let's go to break, and we'll come back real fast and hit the news blitz. I was concerned, not panicked, not a panicking, as Trump said,

[00:17:30] but I was concerned when Pakistan and China and Russia all at least came out and said, it doesn't mean they're really going to do it, but they're like, oh, we're going to back up Iran. Hell, we could give them nuclear material potentially. And Trump fired back and said, our submarine-launched missiles are way ahead of yours. And he's already said in the last month or two, we have super advanced weapons that you and I have talked about,

[00:17:57] spaces and otherwise, maybe even those Tic Tacs, unmanned vehicles and stuff like that. Were you concerned at all when you saw China, Pakistan, Russia saying, we don't like this? Or is that just expected, just what they had to say? It was a pretty weak response, but some of the nuclear threats that Trump, they're veiled threats, but he's putting them out there are serious. They're big time. And I think the opponents have to respect it.

[00:18:26] About the B-2 bomber, right? That stealth bomber was entirely classified prototype 40 years ago. 40 years ago. It was the state of the art of that capability 40 years ago. But it's still, you know, state of the art because that's what happens with weapon systems. If you get a really advanced weapon system that serves its purpose, it might last decades and decades, if not a century.

[00:18:56] Some weapons we have are getting on to that age and are still effective. B-52. Rebuilt over and over, but still works. So what's been classified in the last 40 years? It's not like we've stood still, right? It's not like you think that the Bush-Cheney administration didn't embark on a lot of black money projects

[00:19:25] to stay way, way ahead of everybody else, right? And those programs have a life of their own, right? Deep state, you know, just take the word deep off it. The state, right? The military is part of the state. And these institutions, they have a constant, you know, imperative, which is to maintain military overmatch. Right?

[00:19:50] These are all classified programs, so only a few in Congress know about them, and they make it through the budgets. But the tools of war, you know, I think we got some seriously overmatching weapon systems right now to be able to do what we did. Hard to believe. It's been a quarter of a century since the Bush administration, right? So, yeah, I think what happened between 1950 and 1975, the advancement.

[00:20:19] Think about from 1925 to 1950. Maybe that's, you know, the most advancement in the military ever. But that's crazy, right? Yeah, from biplanes to jets, right? So, and ICBMs. So, you know, some of that technology that Iran is using is closer to what the Nazis hit Britain with than some of the, especially intelligence, surveillance, and reconstitutes assets I think we have. Sure.

[00:20:49] I think we know where everything is all the time in those countries, and there's little they can do to stop us knowing. And I was going to say, at least half, I would expect, or more of the developments in the last quarter century were cyber space and communications and intelligence. And gosh, they probably have little mosquito drones that can fly into, like, super secret bunkers and stuff, you know? They probably were watching me right now.

[00:21:18] The Chinese supposedly have a mosquito drone. I heard from people 2008 that we already had microtechnology that could do that. And I don't know if that's true or not, but yeah. When I generated my Bitcoin cold wallet, I did everything I could to physically block any satellite looking in or anything. But if there's a little smart dust right next to me, maybe it's all.

[00:21:44] But anyway, folks, if you ever generate a Bitcoin wallet, do it offline. Don't ever use a machine that touches it. A little plug for the ghost laptop, a ghost phone. I'm looking forward to checking that out with the Trevon Commander. Anyway, let's go to break real quick because we've got to hit this news blitz. What do you say? Yeah, let's do it, man. All right. Food storage and preservation are at the heart of self-reliance. Our sponsor, Pack Fresh USA, features made-in-America products.

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[00:23:34] But going to be doing a little bit of hiking with the Trepit Commander this summer, testing out those Lima Tango Survival. Future Dan, are you in position? Are you able to read the News Blitz or do you prefer me to right now? Why don't you let me hear it from you? It really helps me consider the totality when you can read it for us, Ben. All right. Deal. Let's make it happen.

[00:24:00] Let's start with the Liberty Column and the indicator, which is episode 310 of Patriot Power Hour, named after war unconstitutionally waged. We have the U.S. joining Israeli war with Iran, striking nuke sites, as we noted. Claim that the president approved Iran attack plans withholding that order to see if they were abandoned. Well, we know what happened with that midnight hammer.

[00:24:29] And as we talked about at length, not constitutional. No one's really arguing that it is constitutional. In other Liberty News, the DOJ demands Colorado Secretary of State preserve the 2020 and 2024 records for the election. President calls for special counsel to investigate 2020 election as Texas launches separate inquiry into 2024. State level investigations. Investigations.

[00:24:58] Meanwhile, judge is defying a ruling that allowed, or the ruling allowed third country deportations, deporting folks to a country other than their home country. That's in the news. National security. We have Senate probing withheld FBI records on alleged Chinese election interference.

[00:25:27] China's preparing to hack and crash the Western power grids. Both of these under foreign ops suspected, black ops suspected, SHTF level. Again, Senate probing withheld FBI records on alleged Chinese election interference. China interfering with American election. China is also preparing to hack and crash Western power grids. Don't leave that behind when you're only, hopefully not, but some are only looking at this.

[00:25:57] Israeli-Iranian war starts. We have a list of key events on futuredanger.com if you want to go through them all. They're in the archive for analysis down the road as well. So, riots. I'm not seeing absolutely insane riots in the last week, which is good news. And this is actually not only new, but trending on futuredanger. L.A. district attorney is charging 30 anti-ICE rioters.

[00:26:24] So, the DA in L.A. is actually charging those rioters. 30 of them. Not that many, but some. Lost in the fold of all this Iranian stuff. Again, it should not be. Alleged Minnesota assassin says governor wanted him to kill Senator. FBI boosts monitoring of possible Iran-backed cells here at home.

[00:26:51] DHS issues nationwide terror alert. Pam Bondi today said on the highest of alerts as well. The U.S. air base, there was a potential evacuation. Obviously, notices went out. But the U.S. has shifted military jets and ships to the Middle East. Big-time carrier groups, fueling tankers.

[00:27:20] And, yes, more B-2 bombers besides what dropped the bombs. Some have been, six of them have been deployed to Guam. So, right now, three carrier strike groups near the Middle East. Trump declaring national emergencies faster than any other. Well, we are under a state of emergency, so it may be appropriate.

[00:27:47] Economically, it is June 24th. Usually a quiet time of the year financially. And we haven't seen too much craziness in the markets. Again, even considering what we saw. Oil went up 10% and dropped 8%. All within a couple trading days. We do have some sign. Multiple signs, I think.

[00:28:14] But this key gauge signals a waning demand for dollars. Less of a demand. Home prices plunged in April. Biggest drop since December 2022. And there's a couple metrics that are where the housing market is starting to see as much distress as it did back in 2007, 2008. Now, it's only a couple data points. But if it continues on this trend, it could be big problems.

[00:28:44] Trump really, really, really wants those interest rates lowered. Otherwise, we might see these home prices come down 10%, 20%, 30% or more in certain markets. But biggest drop since December 2022 is a fact. Grid goes down. So, the power pool is a little bit. Southwest power pool issues energy emergency alert due to high demand during heat wave.

[00:29:10] High 90s, even up to 100 in mid-Atlantic region. Power blackout hits parts of New York City. Department of Energy declares that southeast grid emergency. So, Southwest power pool having problems. The southeast grid emergency in the last couple days. And mid-Atlantic. Mostly North Carolina and South Carolina, though. Look like.

[00:29:37] But that's the economic news. Bitcoin also went down $8,000. But has regained almost all of that in the last 36 hours. It's hit a low of about $98,000. It's at about $106,000 now. There you go. No one said it wasn't volatile. And gold as well. Still above $3,300.

[00:30:07] Finally, health-related news. Miscarriage and pregnancy loss rates. 43% higher than expected after COVID vaccine. First, mouse with two biological fathers has its own babies. I don't even know. If I want to read that. But we'll go check it out. This is under nature is re-engineered. Yes. First mouse with two biological fathers. Has its own babies. Oh, man. It's a grand. Two proud grandfathers.

[00:30:38] Record breaking heat. Grips central and eastern U.S. As a heat dome intensifies. Might break a little bit in the next day or two. But there you go, future Dan. That's the news blitz. Yeah, pretty calm. And columns three and four. But obviously, we seem to be winding down on a poly crisis in column two. Yep. The riots of No King's Day did not escalate the next weekend.

[00:31:07] And then again the next weekend. Like I said, it would be coming up. Not saying they won't try for more of that. But kind of petered out a little bit. What were your thoughts on that? Were you expected? Or do you think we're not out of the woods yet still early in the summer? Oh, it could come back at any moment. But, you know, this stuff ebbs and flows. I'm kind of wondering where the next flow will be.

[00:31:32] What's lurking around the corner as a cool grade zero not happening indicator that we're going to be talking about on episode 311 next week? Do you see anything lurking nearby? That's a great question because we've had so much activity on every episode of the Patriot Power Hour the last couple months minimum

[00:31:57] that every week there's at least one indicator that was totally inactive the week before and is it red or even SHTF the next week. So I'm not saying we need to make a game out of it, but could I pick a couple of these? Hmm. Yeah, what about hardcore Israeli intelligence? Intelligence faction in service or former service or non-state actor

[00:32:25] aligned false flag with those Iranian sleeper cells? I think it's worth considering that's out there. That's possible. Certainly is. And I would not even consider that a conspiracy since DHS and going back to the Bush administration, but certainly even the current administration admits that there are cells.

[00:32:53] And they named cities, a lot of cities, big cities for sure, but even like in the middle Missouri, right? So they had your L.A., Chicago's, D.C.'s, New York's, but they also had Missouri, Orlando, Florida, like a terror attack on Walt Disney. It would be quite horrible. So that's, besides thermonuclear war, which I think is way less likely than a terror attack that's staged by some faction,

[00:33:23] whether it's Mossad or whether it's the banksters that need to cover their tracks because something else is starting to break in the market. I still think that Trump's going to do everything possible to keep the market moving along. And if that's having a new Federal Reserve chairman by proxy over the next year before, what's his name, Powell can get out of there. But something that's, I don't even see that.

[00:33:52] That's something that I wouldn't expect to happen. I'm not saying I was expecting these terrorist strikes from Iran, but that seems very reasonable or some reason to prep and be prepared for something like that in your own hometown. Not much of a sleeper cell if people know who's in the cell. I'm not buying that that's a threat. I'm just not. But Jerome Powell did say something interesting.

[00:34:20] I caught it today testifying before the House. He testifies before the Senate tomorrow, apparently, too. He was asked, I think, by a Democrat member of the committee, what are the qualifications to be the chairman of the Federal Reserve and trying to get Jerome Powell to say that Trump's not qualified and doesn't have the power to appoint himself.

[00:34:50] So he was pressed and he said, you know, he just stood up. You know, Fed independence. You want to talk about Fed independence? He stood up to the congressman and said, that's not a question for me. Like, as quick as he could, that's not a question for me. Like, no, not answering that. And then the congressman pressed on it. And then Powell told him, you know, it takes an appointment from the president and a confirmation by the Senate. Then he said something really interesting. And he put this out there.

[00:35:21] And I presume a U.S. citizen. Yeah. But that's apparently not in the law. Should that do a deep dive with Grok and or chat GPT and just ask as many questions as we could and tease that out if we can. Yeah, that'll come up someday when some future administration that's far more globalist than the one we have now

[00:35:50] appoints a dual national to the chair of the Federal Reserve. Hopefully that doesn't happen anytime soon. But these interest rates are pretty high. And a lot of other countries are lowering their interest rates again. While we're not. That's what Trump likes to say. Look, Europe and all these others are getting it. But we're not. Trump or Powell's a moron.

[00:36:19] He has a couple of catchy phrases for talking trash about Powell. I see it both ways. Short term, if we really do want to turn things around, we've got to lower the interest burden so that we could. We're not paying a quarter of our tax to servicing the interest debt. We could do that if we lower interest rates to near zero. But. The inflation would be sick. Inflation would be sick. The moral hazard is just incredible.

[00:36:49] And I've been railing against near zero or zero or even negative interest rate policy for, you know, like 15 years. So it's really hard for me to stomach even saying that. But in terms of an emergency, short term, to try to turn things around, to try to turn the economy around. We can't be choked with massive interest rates, massive interest payments. I get where he's coming from. But, yeah, it's rough. You stick it to the price stability.

[00:37:17] He clearly is more worried about runaway inflation again. Yeah. And inflation, the runaway is the right way to put it. It's really tough to put a cap on it once it starts going. He also got pressured by members of the committee about, you know, the dollar dominance, you know, the fall of the dollar.

[00:37:45] And he said that's a we problem. And what he really meant to say is it's a you problem. He was talking to Congress. So definitely, you know, the Federal Reserve, it is what it is. But the chairman is there defending its interests within the dual mandate. And he said something interesting, right? The Fed is not goal independent, right? It's got the dual mandate.

[00:38:12] It doesn't do anything else besides that, right? But it has instrument independence. How it achieves its goals is what the technocrat banks are, you know, modern monetary theorists, you know, how they do it is what they're going to defend to the last, that prerogative. So, sure, the different swaps and the different overnight raids, repo, reverse repo.

[00:38:40] We've talked a little bit about that stuff. And there's a lot of other ways they can take, well, essentially it's liquidity, put liquidity in the system or take it out. And, look, they are some smart people. But at the high level, I don't think it's a just system. And I know they are skimming off the top for people that aren't even in America. A lot of the shareholders of the Federal Reserve are actually in Europe.

[00:39:09] Just want to point that out. And there's a couple in Japan, too. So, yeah, the Fed. Hey, if I could say something, I would agree that it is Congress. Some of this is on Congress. A good portion of it is. It is a con. You know, as Powell said, that's a you question. I can agree with him on that for some of this. It is a congressional question in terms of get your crap together. We don't need a balanced budget.

[00:39:37] Can we do something, though, that equivalent of what Musk was saying? Can we at least keep our deficit down to only a couple percent of GDP or 1% of GDP so we can at least stop the bleeding? Maybe not pay it back, but stop the bleeding. So, yeah. I'm about to go look at some highlights. I was working all day long. I knew he was testifying. I know he's in tomorrow. I need to go check out some of that Fed speak tonight if I can stomach it.

[00:40:06] Others asked him about means to gain greater oversight on how the Fed makes its decisions. Okay. Not using the words audit the Fed, but the answer from the chairman is that he'd be interested in having that conversation behind closed doors. He won't do it. He won't do it in front of the committee. Sure. But I think the next evolution in the United States of America, if we are making America great again,

[00:40:36] is that the best history could say about the Federal Reserve is that it became an institution that outlived its usefulness and eventually was audited and then ended. Right? And monetary policy, it's executive power. It's what it is. Right? Right? So, the U.S. Treasury and a central bank under political control is really the only thing that makes sense.

[00:41:05] Unless you want to devise a system that went without central banking in the United States. And how we evolved to that, I think now we're talking lifetimes. But in our lifetime, end the Fed, you know, in a peaceful way, in an evolutionary way towards something better. That should be a goal, American Patriots. Don't you think? I like that. Let's do it the right way. A little bit of a roll-off period. You know?

[00:41:36] Definitely peacefully. And we need a solution for what's better, for sure. So, that actually, part of with Iran, but also just everything geopolitically, but also with the Fed, is I'm worried of false revolutions or, you know, false, pretty much the Patriots like us,

[00:42:02] thinking that we accomplished it only for a worse dictator or a worse central bank scheme, like CBDCs slipping in either right away or five or ten years down the road. So, I probably need to come up and talk solutions more. I have some ideas for those solutions, but for every minute I complain about central banking, I should have a minute of solutions maybe. That would be a good idea. Completely privatize credit.

[00:42:32] Free the markets. Let everybody behave in their own self-interest in a way that they suffer the consequences when they aren't wise. Something along those lines would make sense to me. And with the technology we have now compared to 1913, just that fact alone means how could it possibly the Fed still serve its purpose in that way? Just reform.

[00:43:00] Reform, let alone end the Fed, is natural. It should be embraced. I'll say this, when I started Patriot Power Hour, my original show back in 2013, and I had a website a couple years before that, no one was really grilling the Fed chairman. I mean, they did bring Bernanke in here and there back in the day yelling a little bit.

[00:43:23] But they were, you know, I feel like both sides of the aisles, but especially the right, is more aware that, number one, the Fed's private. Number two, it maybe, it doesn't have to operate the way it is because maybe, you know, maybe it should be looked at to either be audited, ended, reformed over a decade or two. So at least people are starting to look at it instead of just not even knowing the heck it is.

[00:43:51] Anything chartered by Congress is quasi-private. It's not private. But there's private entities that earn income off of this, let alone the moral hazard of insider trading. So that is bad. It's not a net neutral or kind of some of its parts is zero. It's skewed. It was the distributed banking cartel.

[00:44:21] Yeah, that's a good one. Distributed banking cartel, yes. Chartered by Congress. Yeah. Which is not good. But I guess I get what you mean. It's not fully private because it was authorized public, you know, through the government, which is obviously public. But, yeah. So, I guess we still got a little bit of time. Any other, well, we keep talking about central banking all day.

[00:44:51] But any other topics or articles you want to hit on? What do you make of that Minnesota assassin situation? What do you think really happened there? Well, it's almost too good to be true, meaning, oh, it's so obvious that it's sort of like set up or something that it probably is not.

[00:45:22] But this was the Minnesota assassin who killed, what, two state representatives in Minnesota and had a hit list of many others. He got the speaker and the spouses. He got the speaker and her husband. And shot another elected representative but did not kill them and their spouse.

[00:45:44] And the new news or the update in the last week wrote a letter to the FBI that Tim Walls, the governor, obviously, of Minnesota, also wanted him, the assassin, to assassinate a senator. Amy, I'm horrible with names, Klobuchar, but I've seen that name. Obviously, senator from Minnesota, you know, national senator, U.S. senator.

[00:46:11] But that's not like a smoking gun where I'm like, see, all the Democrats are involved. I'm like, I don't know. Almost too obvious is someone trying to just burn walls here. It's just crazy ramblings here. Maybe this is some sort of 3D chess. I just don't believe that Tim Walls actually has ordered this assassination, I guess, when it all comes down to it. He's not a shot caller like that. That's just my goal. Gut feeling.

[00:46:41] It boils down to, you know, elected representatives of any kind, any party, any circumstance doing nearly anything except for committing, you know, in the act of committing a crime where they had to be, you know, confronted and killed, which has never happened. Right. You know, it's dangerous. It's destabilizing to our country.

[00:47:04] And it seems, again, gut feeling is this is some sort of botched domestic terrorism or something to be blamed on MAGA, Trump, patriots. Because initially that whole story had fallen on its face. But you almost saw like the 24 hour after a 24 hour news cycle where they're like, oh, now he's a huge Trump supporter.

[00:47:33] His wife was a prepper. They even said that. But then they also I found it suspicious they had the no Kings posters like right in the car, which is opposite of Trump. So I don't know if this is just some sort of. Well, I almost said a bad word, but some sort of mind, you know, what to try to get people off track just to or something, some sort of espionage gone wrong or espionage assassination cloak and dagger gone wrong. What's your take on it?

[00:48:03] High level. I don't know what to make of it, I guess. I don't either. But he's alive. He's going to testify or he's going to be in court. He may not testify on his own behalf or he might. So wait for the trial. Wait for the trial.

[00:48:19] But if we saw more murders of elected officials, state, local representatives, let alone, you know, constitutional officers, members of Congress, even unelected officials, judges. That's when, you know, nothing that's happening in the Middle East compares to how dangerous that is at home. Yeah. And that came right on the heels, the actual shooting right on the heels of the no king.

[00:48:48] So that was supposed to be some sort of flashpoint and they had another couple events. Could be a whole different situation right now. I'm not saying that won't happen again, but I feel like it was something that was botched or there's totally multifaceted to this and we're missing big parts of the data. So we'll pay attention here. And as more of the info comes out in the next months and years, we'll definitely, definitely be reporting here on Patriot Power Hour.

[00:49:16] Now, once upon a time, we took a season break. So summer season or I think summer. For debut of Patriot Power Hour, I think this is it, right? We're into summer now. Yeah. I would say if we had followed our traditional, you know, next week, we'd probably be off before the July, but we could have easily been off this week instead. But we're grinding through. So you can either say this is the bye week right now, but we're working through it.

[00:49:44] Or you could say this is the start of summer. I think maybe we should try to have an official start to the summer next week, especially because it'll be, what, July 1st. So it's literally halfway mark of the year. We can spend a little bit of time reviewing, you know, January through June and review some of our predictions. We've done that in the past and then make some predictions for the second half of the year. You want to try to do that next week? Yeah, I think technically we're in the summer.

[00:50:13] At least where I am, it feels like summer. But next week for a season debut, yeah, maybe some predictions we made at the beginning of the year. Maybe time to revisit. I still have them written down, I believe, hopefully. Worst case, I'll go back to our first episode of the year where we went through it.

[00:50:37] And by the way, I've not leveraged this for the show yet, but I have about 40 of our shows fully uploaded and scanned transcripts analyzed through AI, through something called Otter.AI. That's really supposed to be used for, like, Zoom meetings and your work and stuff.

[00:50:59] But anyway, I'm going to try to build a few clips of the last six months, see if we can have a couple clips and maybe even bring back us talking about some of those 2025 predictions back in January. So we'll see. I don't want to over-promise under-deliver because it does take some work. But I've already got a lot of that stuff in that AI, and maybe I can play it live on air, but I should probably just make a clip and upload it. So I'm producing here on air.

[00:51:29] But anyway, looking forward to that next week. We still got a few minutes, though. Anything else you want to hit on? Actually, real quick, real quick. Got a comment. Oh, it's James Walton. Oh, snap. The boys are live. What's happening, Intrepid Commander? Yeah. Future Dan, what's happening? Anything else you want to touch on tonight? Trump's at a NATO summit right now. What do you think's next in Ukraine?

[00:52:00] I did see some reports that Ukraine was taking back a little bit of land and had a counterattack going. But conversely, in the last, I believe it's almost the last two years, but definitely in the last year, they've lost a fair amount of front lines. Not a lot of land. You know, they lose 20 square kilometers a week. That's not very much. But on a battlefield, highly contested, that is a lot. Trench warfare, essentially.

[00:52:31] I'd like to just stop that war. So, okay, if we had to go blow up some shit in Iran, fine, let's stop doing that. No more of that. Can we just agree on that? And then can we also try to, I don't know, we've got to do something to get Russia to stop, but also get Ukraine to stop. Because I feel like Ukraine's similar to Israel where, yeah, they've gotten the crap blown out of them. They've had casualties. They got, at least Ukraine certainly got invaded.

[00:53:00] But they'll take ceasefire opportunities to rearm and then sucker punch Russia, vice versa. Same with Israel and Iran. Those quagmires gone on for generations, if not freaking millennia. So, I'd like to just stop. Stop that war. I don't know if that's in the cards, though. What are you thinking here with this NATO meeting? Well, I think everybody involved knows that, you know, when Trump starts laying down deadlines and expectations,

[00:53:28] they've got to be careful of what he's saying, right? I mean, it's pretty obvious that, you know, 61 days after sending a letter to the Ayatollah, you know, what happened. Whether that kind of sheer, real politic power has an impact in Ukraine, I don't know.

[00:53:52] The Ukrainian government is going to have to pay attention to what he says is happening next, I think. Much less power relative to Russia and probably what happened in Russia as the Russian population extremely anti-US right now. So, you know, will Putin accept the territories he's already taken is what it comes down to. Yep.

[00:54:22] Well, let's hope so. Let's hope both sides could compromise. You know, a good compromise means neither side's happy. I don't know if either of those sides mature enough to compromise, though. But I don't know if I would compromise if I was either of them, to be honest, though. So, yeah, humans. Gotta love it. Anything else for the night? Hey, I'm ready to go emergency broadcast anytime you are, but I'm really glad we didn't have to in the last week.

[00:54:52] Thank you to the audience for listening to Patriot Power Hour. We really appreciate it. One thing you can count on is next week, two weeks, four weeks from now, we'll be talking about other dangers to the United States of America. And the United States of America first. You know it. FutureDanger.com. Pay attention in real time and at least once every week. We'll be here to recap the news, talk about it. Episode 310 in the books. Another good one, sir. Good show.

[00:55:21] Talk to you next week, Ben.