Patriot Power Hour #311 - Epstein; Big Beautiful Bill; BTC All Time High $112K & More

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[00:01:13] 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 Patriot Power Hour live once more, episode 311, July 9th, 2025, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, here with Future Dan.

[00:01:41] What's going on, Future Dan? Future Dan, you may be muted still. Yeah, I'm here, Ben, and thank you to our audience for tuning in again. We're back from a break. We had a lot of intense news in June. Some of it remains intense and other indicators have cooled right off.

[00:02:04] It's been quite the whirlwind the last four to six weeks. As you said, a lot of the indicators that were absolutely SHTF level, in particular, I'm thinking Iran as well as the No Kings protests. Those have not absolutely gone away, but have quieted down some.

[00:02:26] Meanwhile, we do have a lot of, I'm not going to say brand new news, but a lot of topics, headlines, indicators that we haven't talked about, at least for several weeks, that have started to pop back up. So, I would say just at a first glance, this is kind of an average news blitz in terms of frequency, severity. So, we'll get to that in the next 10 or 15 minutes, but, you know, not going to bury the lead.

[00:02:56] Epstein, just in the last couple days. Well, Justice Department has said there really is not a client list. Trump has tried to move past this, even get a little frustrated and angry with a reporter asking questions. And, you talked about this with me off air as well as some on air.

[00:03:23] The question of, is Trump using this information as part of a greater play? And it seems more and more likely that's the case, because I don't really know anybody out there that doesn't believe there's evidence on high-ranking people, government, academia, business, and otherwise, that should be on that list. And they have that sort of evidence.

[00:03:49] But I remember you saying, hey, first off, Trump's not on the list, because they would have used that against him 10, 12 years ago, whatever. But number two, he may be leveraging that in other ways. What's your take on that with, essentially, the case is closed, according to the Trump administration, as of a couple days ago? Either Bondi and Patel and Trump have the goods on the, quote,

[00:04:18] Western intelligence agency that backed Epstein, or multiple agencies, actually. British, Israel, possibly our own CIA involved, right? He's got the goods, and it is leverage. Or the Biden administration destroyed whatever was left of the evidence, and there's none to be had.

[00:04:44] Or the evidence has been destroyed, but those other Western intelligence agencies can't be entirely sure of that. Therefore, there's still leverage. Seems like one of those three is going on to me. L2 Survive, what's happening? L2 Survive in the chat, saying your mic's a little hot, turn it down a little bit.

[00:05:11] I'd say, future Dan, you probably just don't speak as close to the mic at the point. It wasn't too bad. I didn't say it. Thank you. Mine is quieter than yours, probably, though. I need to boost mine. But what's going on, L2 Survive? Appreciate that. I'm always like, we don't have a producer. It's just future Dan and I. So we're always like, fingers crossed, is the audio on point or not? So, I don't know.

[00:05:38] I could talk about Epstein for hours, but we've already talked about him so much, whether it was in 2019 when he hanged himself. And even before then, I was doing podcasts back. I think my first was in 2013. And I'm not saying in 2013 I was talking about Epstein, but certainly even a few years before he hung himself. So, yeah, man. It's pretty bad stuff.

[00:06:08] I don't like to see it, even if it's part of some grand strategy and leverage and stuff. I just, man, I wish they would just put it out there, burn everybody, even if it would really call into question the integrity of the entire institutions of all branches of government at this point, U.S. and international. Yeah, it is bad. We lose a lot of leverage, too. But, yeah, I think it should come out, though. So, I don't know.

[00:06:37] Again, we could talk about it forever. I'm not going to talk too much more about it. But anything else you wanted to say or where do you expect this to go? I think I remember Trump in previous campaigns. He clearly emphasized it in his first run for president and his attempt at re-election in 2020 that he wants to be the president that brings peace to the Middle East, you know?

[00:07:07] And if he can, I suppose if he had to look at it like a trade on a spreadsheet, what can I say? I'm a finance guy. Probably not the best way to look at it, but maybe it is. If you get, we're not really seeing peace in Ukraine, but if we got peace in Ukraine,

[00:07:26] peace in the Middle East, trade deals, a closed border, and fixing a lot of other problems here at home, all that went in the positive section of the spreadsheet. And the only negative was, well, a lot of banksters and government bigwigs that are a bunch of pervs and horrible people got away with it. Is that an even trade or, you know, it's a sacrifice willing to be done?

[00:07:57] I don't know. There's some sort of balance, equilibrium there where you have to say it's worth it. Like if it was that or literally World War III, everybody's dead. Of course, Epstein list, let's bury that. Let's stop World War III if you had to look at that extreme. But I don't know what the actual equations are and stuff, but my point is it's definitely lowering my overall evaluation of the administration because they made it sound like they were going to bust some people.

[00:08:26] It was on the desk ready to be reviewed, and now they're like, nope. Epstein didn't kill himself. Just like, come on, man. All right. Or that could change tomorrow, right? If the evidence is there and this administration is now in possession of it, it's definitely a tool to wield. And I've talked to you a long time about the potential of 2020 being very dangerous

[00:08:54] because if financial powers and foreign actors, state and non-state, decided to bring about some kind of calamity, that would cast Trump's legacy, everything he tried to do, as a long-term failure, make him a hoover, herald in the second New Deal, which will be orders of magnitude worse than the first New Deal,

[00:09:23] which was terrible for us, then having something like this in the back pocket, that he could just toss that hand grenade on the table if anybody tries to pull that shit on Trump. And by the way, he could also succeed in his term, and if his successor loses to the Democrats,

[00:09:50] he could throw that hand grenade on the table going out the door. Hey, I would like to see that, right? Get everything. Use this for a few months as a stalling tactic, get other things done, and then expose everybody. I don't know. I don't want to believe in such 3D chess, 4D chess, but I don't know. A lot of other things are going in the right direction, so. I mean, what would you do? He ain't giving up yet.

[00:10:19] What would you do if you had that power, you had that leverage, and you had those objectives? I would expose it. I would, I think, man, because. Yeah, but what would you gain from that? It wouldn't necessarily, it could blow up your agenda while you're still in power for everything else. And coming back to the peace in the Middle East, you know,

[00:10:42] if, you know, younger people don't necessarily view the, you know, the Middle East the way Trump's generation did, but in Trump's generation, in the 70s in particular, after Israel had fought the 67 war, 73 war, you know, all big wars, right? The goal to bring. That was a highly sought after goal, right?

[00:11:10] You know, Carter wanted to do it. Bought Egypt and Israel to the table. Egypt and Israel haven't fought since, by the way. So, you know, that's kind of the perspective. It's like Trump, Trump's probably looking at the Epstein thing and saying this, this is bad, but it's leverage. And if I can get, you know, a sustainable peace in the Middle East by using it to control Israel, potentially, right?

[00:11:39] You know, because, you know, a release of that information could collapse in that house government, right? So, it's serious leverage. So, you know, one of those kind of, you know, if you want to bring it to economics, you know, there's sunk cost, right? The cost to our country by what was done to us, it is what it is. But you could use that to, you know, for an upside.

[00:12:10] I wouldn't be surprised. That's not 4D chess. Seems pretty obvious to me. Right at the beginning, you know, the AG came out and said, we got the information. We're going to release the list. Now, suddenly, it's a 180-degree U-turn. That's suspicious. I think they got the goods and they're using them to bring about greater effects.

[00:12:34] That's a very plausible, rational use of that information from the perspective of the White House, I think. And then, I guess the question is, who's the tail? Who's the dog? Is the White House holding people to account or is it the other way around? We're hoping that if there is the goods, as you call it, that it's being used against Israel,

[00:13:03] against the royal family, against the bankster organizations, against the Bill Gates of the world, maybe this has prevented another COVID equivalent of being released, man-made, because of it. Maybe not. Maybe Trump's, you know, being held hostage himself, but he almost got his head blown off. I would hope he wouldn't be scared of anything. That's why he's not releasing it. He doesn't look like they don't have anything on him.

[00:13:31] How could they possibly have not used it, right? So, you and I have talked many times on Patriot Power. They are in an entirely different sphere. You know, looking back at, you know, the limited warfare we saw between India and Pakistan, we had to talk about mutually assured destruction. We did it again and talked about it, whether or not Iran had nukes and doesn't look like they did.

[00:14:00] And, you know, that's why Israel went ahead and did what they did. There was no mutually assured destruction. So, I think that that's valid. And part of that entire concept, right, is that you can't strike without a devastating counterstrike, which renders the option of the first strike, you know, illogical. You're not going to do it, right?

[00:14:24] So, in those strategic thinking, you know, kind of, you know, modes of framing thought, there's this concept of, you know, holding your opponent at risk, right? Right. And if you play chess, you know that you use pieces to hold other pieces at risk, right? Those pieces can't move because if they do, you can take them, they're at risk by positioning.

[00:14:51] And having the ability to expose the world that Britain and Israel and the CIA collaborated for their leaders to be filmed in acts of pedophilia for whatever reason that would stabilize or integrate or confirm alliance, whatever.

[00:15:15] However, just having that fact and be able to hold everybody else at risk with that information, it seems like that could be going on right now. Really does. Really does. L2 Survive says, the only way all this makes sense is if Trump's blackmailing these CEOs and heads of state to do his bidding or get outed. Now, I haven't heard one person actually say they believe this.

[00:15:45] So, it's more everybody has some strategy behind it. I haven't heard it. If anybody out there actually believes that Epstein killed himself and this is not some leverage strategy, let us know. But I just want to point that out. He might have killed himself very easily, right? If he's an intelligence operative and hit the end of the wall, the old bite the cyanide tooth type of thing. But it doesn't mean he wasn't an agent and hadn't done what he had done.

[00:16:15] I wouldn't use the word blackmail. Anybody that is caught up in that is already liable, right? So, blackmailing would be like taking the information and telling them directly, I'm going to do the X, Y, and Z if you don't. Or I'm going to release this if you don't do things for me. Right? I don't think Trump's doing that. They know. All he's doing is just, you know, and he does 180 degree U-turns. Look at what he says about tariffs, right?

[00:16:42] He's got all the world in absolute fear and turmoil because they don't know what he's going to say next. Which is obviously a deliberate strategy, right? Same thing with this. Today, there are no tapes. There are no black books. There is no evidence. If people know, people who are at risk from that know that that's not true, then they're just sitting there fearing, you know, Trump doing the crazy Ivan and pulling a 180.

[00:17:13] And that could explain why Bondi and Patel and Bongino were saying, hey, we're going to break this. We're investigating it. We got it ready to go. Just give us a few months. And now they totally reversed courses because it was kind of, it made people look at it even more. Like right now, there's a huge flurry. True. And now it's even like more people are like, what? Now it's a total scam. I'm really pissed. I'm really looking at it all across the board, not just, you know, MAGA either.

[00:17:43] So, yeah, that could be that 3D chess type of stuff. These people are smart. So they do play chess with this stuff. There's limits to it. Sometimes it's the simple answer, not this complex, crazy Q stuff. I'm not saying this is Q stuff. But that could explain why they were so gung-ho a few months ago and totally reversed course. Who knows? This is not the last time we're going to talk about this. I guarantee you. Yeah.

[00:18:13] I don't think so either. I don't think so either. All right. Let's see. How about we go to a break and do the news blitz? What do you say? Let's do it. All right. Let's get that rolling. We'll be right back, folks. Got a couple ads for you to check out. The streamers are just kind of tweaking out. Let's see if I can fix this. There we go. We'll be right back, folks. Stick with us.

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[00:20:08] All right, we're back with the News Blitz. Episode 311, July 9th, 2025. Let's go for it straight away. Zoom in here a little bit. Let's simply go left to right. In the first column, Liberty. Former Texas Democrat Party county chair indicted for ballot harvesting.

[00:20:39] Fifteen Democrats indicted in Frio County, Texas for vote harvesting. Another article deeper into that. Epstein questions remain after DOJ denies conspiracies, outrage grows. We talked about that in great detail. We'll go look at the long-range history of that maybe a little later.

[00:21:09] National security. Well, domestic security as well. More rioting at Portland ICE Detention Center. As mob tries to storm holding cells. Unlawful assembly declared in LA as rioters class with National Guard. Attempted murder charges brought against Tenantifa for planning an ambush on ICE officers in Texas.

[00:21:36] Democrat lawmakers say their base is preparing for violence. 200 Marines headed to Florida to assist ICE. It's a little bit of a pickup. Not that same level as middle of June. But definitely picking back up a little bit. Both Marines and National Guard. And of course that ambush on the ICE officers.

[00:22:07] A man was killed opening fire on officers at the Border Patrol facility. Economically, not a ton of news. And usually there isn't in the month of July. President sends tariff letters threatening 70% levies. Sparks fear of delayed trade deals.

[00:22:33] Came out and said, and future Dan sent this to me before I had seen it earlier this week. Bricks nations should get a 10% tariff minimum. You join Bricks, you get a 10% tariff. Potentially on top of other tariffs. I said, let's start with 20% from the economic markets.

[00:23:02] Well, economics and markets are not the same thing. Let me rephrase that. But the markets, gold above 3,300. Still pretty high. A little off of the all-time high, but still holding steady. Well above 3,000. Silver has been going up. I mean, we were last on air a couple weeks ago.

[00:23:28] And just in the last couple weeks, we've seen, let's see, let's go back three months. Yeah, back, we had 30 bucks back in April. And around Memorial Day, it was 33 bucks. I guess we've been around the $36 for a little longer than I thought. Time's flown. What can I say? Summer goes fast. But near that multi-year high, probably decade high.

[00:23:57] And the all-time highest silver is within spinning distance. It's like $43 or something. And it was not there for very long. So 10%, 20% increase in silver could occur pretty quick. And boom, all-time high in silver, all-time hole in gold. And, of course, good old fashioned Bitcoin hit an all-time high today. It did retrace a little bit, but just above $112,000.

[00:24:28] It's currently at $111,000. And change up $2,400 today. Ether and some of the other altcoins are up as well. I call those scam coins, for lack of a better term. And let's finish off with health. Natural news.

[00:24:51] The biggest and really the worst story of the week, if not in terms of the heat map, in terms of the horrible aspect, at least. Texas flood death toll above 100. I believe at least a couple hundred are still missing. Maybe more than a couple hundred. So, there's also been flooding in other parts of the country.

[00:25:19] But that Texas flood was intense over the weekend. We have some earthquakes. Hundreds of them. Small, but still hundreds of them in Japan. We have an earthquake swarm beneath Mount Rainier in Washington State. There's a new COVID variant called Razor Throat.

[00:25:50] 21 states reporting that. Measles cases reach 33-year record high. Is it the lack of vaccinations? Or is it 10% of our population being imported within the last decade as illegals? Maybe that could be the reason. I'm not sure. Dutch lab breeds 100% fatal mutant bird flu that spreads between mammals. Yeah. Read that again.

[00:26:17] A Dutch lab breeds, intentionally, 100% fatal mutant bird flu that's jumped to mammals, that can spread between mammals. Yeah. Speaking of other lab-grown, I'm going to call it abomination. Could be some good use for some of this technology. But lab-grown sperm and egg is just a few years away. I don't know.

[00:26:44] Maybe in a surrogate way that actually could be helpful, but it also sounds quite dystopian. And that is the news for the day. Future Dan, I'll try to get our audio synced up. I think I'm going to try to turn you down a little bit because your connection is actually stronger than mine. But anyway, that's the news blitz for you, sir. Yeah. That's our news environment. Pretty disjointed, except for calm, too.

[00:27:13] Security-related incidents are clearly all tied to deportation and the rioting and violence in reaction to it. So everything else is kind of just all over the place. Lots of integrators we've seen activated and deactivated over time.

[00:27:35] So hard to characterize this week's heat map dashboard other than to say that, you know, column two has integrity from the perspective of being from the same basis, the deportation and violence in reaction to it. Right.

[00:27:59] It hasn't the same high watermark of middle of June, but Marines being sent out to Florida and National Guard potentially. And then the – again, it's not gone away, and I feel like the No Kings and all the Antifa type of riots have flopped, and hopefully they'll continue to have flopped. But they're still trying to spark some fires and get some people killed,

[00:28:28] some useful idiots killed so they could have some sort of martyrs or something to egg other things on. So hopefully that will not happen. Hopefully the police officers, ICE officers will stay safe, also not be antagonized, but they got to defend themselves. So, yeah, that's a tough situation. ICE is doing things that I didn't even consider them likely to do.

[00:28:54] Some of the issues that we're having in Los Angeles right now stem from the fact that – and I didn't know this, but MS-13, the Salvadoran violent gang, actually was founded or has deep roots in MacArthur Park, Los Angeles. It's considered MS-13's mecca.

[00:29:20] And, you know, putting on a strategic thinking hat, ICE is deliberately going into the heart of that zone as a demonstration of force. Mounted police and armored vehicles, they took over the park. And that's not necessarily, you know, a direct effort, right?

[00:29:46] They're not actually apprehending a large amount of locals, right? You know, so in a purely utilitarian viewpoint, that's not completely effective in contribution to the deportation effort. But indirectly, symbolically, psychologically, information warfare level, it's a major blow to that gang.

[00:30:17] Yeah, it's like capturing their standard or taking their base. Sure, they can scatter like roaches and keep doing gang-banger horrible things, but you take their – I guess you called it their mecca equivalent, their home base there, a place where the OGs, you know, put it together. That's about as disrespectful as you can get in gang culture, so that's good.

[00:30:43] They may only understand that type of power struggle or flex of power, right? And you don't ever see a federal law enforcement agency, you know, thinking in those terms. So, you know, it's interesting. I'm not sure if it ultimately would be effective, but, you know, if you're inside of that gang in that area, you know, you can complain about it,

[00:31:10] but you can't stop it, you're just subjugated to being, you know, like when we captured Baghdad, right? You could be the insurgent, but you don't have the capital anymore. And you won't last very long. You might be able to take a couple guys with you or cause some problems, but eventually you're going to get stomped out, and others might be like, oh, man, I'm not going over the trench next.

[00:31:37] I just saw what happened to that guy, so I'm just going to lay low or self-deport back to El Salvador. Maybe they don't want to go there because they get thrown in jail just as quick or faster by Bukele these days. But, hey, this stuff's needed. I am very much against police states, but this is, you know, they were waging war on our streets. This is kind of fighting back, defending.

[00:32:04] Don't want this to turn into some brown shirt in a police state, but I don't think it's there at this point, and this is needed. Let's talk about that. Let's talk about that. This is being done to non-citizen, alien, violent organizations inside of our borders. Right? And it's not even being done by the armed forces. I mean, it could be if Trump declared an insurrection, right,

[00:32:34] suspended posse comitatus, and he could do that. Right? But he hasn't. He's using ICE to do the job that ICE is designed to do. And would this carry over to a Democrat administration and become a force that we would expect that party to use against our citizens?

[00:33:03] Let me argue that that's not necessarily easy to do, right? Because ICE has to be, you know, manned by people who believe in what they're doing. Right? So ICE wouldn't be the police arm that would come and raid your house four years from now if Democrats, you know, took power. That would be the FBI.

[00:33:29] And the FBI is being dismantled internally as well right now. But, you know, it begs the bigger question. And this has always been part of the, you know, thinking that I've done about, you know, could there be a police state that could ever do that to the U.S. citizenry? And I'm not sure it's true because that police state would have to be, you know, the personnel within it would have to be believing in what they're doing.

[00:33:57] And I'm not sure any of these organizations could ever grow big enough to successfully suppress the United States because I don't think they would have people that could effectively carry out that mission. And that's a key reason why, in my opinion, besides just the voting block, the muscle of the legals coming in unfettered and imagine if Harris had won or just continues another decade,

[00:34:28] then they would be able to get illegals to potentially join that civilian force that Obama talked about 15 years ago. Time flies, I guess, is about that long ago. I don't think they could. I don't think that the caliber of people that are coming across the border, you know, would be an effective police state force.

[00:34:52] It would have to come from native-born Americans that really, really were neo-Bolshevik in nature. Look at Anapha. Look at what these people are out on the streets. They're violent, but they're not effective and they're not well organized. The fact of the matter is there's no body of military-age, able-bodied men in this country

[00:35:18] that would serve in our military or in these federal law enforcement agencies in numbers great enough to suppress our country. Not today. Not even in the next generation. I just don't see where that manpower would come from. You could get small federal forces or rump U.S. Army with true believers in suppressing the U.S. citizenry,

[00:35:47] but it would be small and ineffective. Certainly, I agree, the professional soldiers or police officers would not be coming as illegals over here, number one. Number two, that's been cut off and some are being pushed back. Number three, I think it's a great point.

[00:36:09] Every leftist that seems to be militant or wants to be militant is a pathetic excuse of a man, for lack of better terms. Can't fight. Apparently can't shoot. Not that I want them to be able to ambush, but they can't seem to ambush very well. If you got the jump on somebody, it shouldn't be that hard to do a little bit of damage, I would think. But that is good news.

[00:36:35] Now, I would say what I'm worried about is more than four years, more like that 20, 30, 50 year. That's a long way, I know. But you won't need that many with the robot surveillance and potential all the other grid in place. You might not need millions of thugs, jackbooted thugs. It's just tens of thousands, right? China needs them.

[00:37:03] That totalitarian state in China wouldn't exist without the People's Liberation Army and massive amounts of people that are, you know, it would take that. It would take a cultural revolution. It would take something that would block patriots from joining any of these organizations. And it would take a civil war to result in a force that would have that power and that indoctrination. Right now, you're seeing lots of people joining the military.

[00:37:33] You're seeing lots of people joining ICE and being all for the mission. And you're seeing highly effective organizations at work. U.S. Air Force, what they did to hit those bunkers or those facilities in Iran, yeah, it was unopposed. They didn't have to fly contested airspace. Israel took care of that. But, you know, no one else could do that. No other air force in the world could do that. Right?

[00:38:03] A lot of power there and a lot of power there, you know, manned by patriots that wouldn't be there if the organizations weren't, you know, doing things that are in the interest of the country. So this whole, like, fear the police state thing, it all comes down to, you know, fear who's manning the forces.

[00:38:23] And, you know, Obama talked about having his, you know, civilian force to do such things in some vague way that scared everybody. Never emerged. It never happened. Thankfully. But I agree. The robot takeover. We've talked about they don't have the energy pack ability to run these robot armies, so to speak.

[00:38:53] But, yeah, 20, 30, 50 years from now, I'm definitely concerned of police state. I don't think it's gone away. Watch news out of DARPA. Right? Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. And a lot of their contracts are classified. But a lot of what they, you know, publicly are seeking to, you know, gain military edge on is, you know, out there in the public as companies get to bid and try to, you know, win work to, you know, explore.

[00:39:22] Really advanced technology. And DARPA has been looking at how to put more electricity into some object that will store it, a battery, in a denser way so that you can get ground vehicles to be, you know, autonomous ground vehicles to actually be militarily effective.

[00:39:43] Not just, you know, robot dogs dancing down, you know, Constitution Avenue on the Army's 250th anniversary as a kind of as a display. Like, those things aren't ready for action in any serious way. They don't have enough electricity. They can't go long enough. Right?

[00:40:03] So you're going to need, like, a material, like, technology readiness level one, basic physics kind of, like, breakthrough before you're ever going to have the electricity necessary to run around with ground robots. Air is more forgiving. Drones in the air, obviously, they're up there. They're out there. They exist. We've, you know, we're leading the world in that technology, no doubt. Right?

[00:40:30] But on the ground, like, something that would actually replace ground forces, it's not scientifically feasible right now. Nope. Well, circling back, they are not citizens, so I'm not particularly concerned at this point that this will morph into anything right now.

[00:40:56] And like you said, who's the boots on the ground that would enforce it at this point? I don't really think any of them would come and take other patriots. In fact, half the military and police and ICE, or probably more, would lay down their arms for the corrupt government and join the resistance if it came to that, I would hope and expect. So, yeah. The FBI has been a dangerous organization in the last 10 years under Democrats.

[00:41:24] And under Trump the first time. But, you know, that kind of organization inside of the FBI is getting dismantled. Hiring freezes is the biggest way. They're doing hiring freezes and forcing people out with early retirement. And the Supreme Court just upheld Trump's power to do this. So, you know, which we expected.

[00:41:53] So, there's going to be a wrecking ball taken to the pockets of, you know, proto-tyranny that were being set up by Biden and, before him, Obama. So, if that party gains power again, they're going to have to be rebuilding for a while. So, it's not on the news blitz because it happened more than a week ago or just about a week ago.

[00:42:22] And maybe it's not necessarily dangerous. But the big, beautiful bill passed and was signed. Going to add a lot of debt over time. But it does have a lot of good things to it. A lot of pork as well. It's a mixed bag. I don't like all the spending involved, though. But what's your take on that bill that did pass since our last broadcast?

[00:42:48] The most powerful economic idea that I've ever learned and has been, you know, utterly rejected by mainstream economists but never effectively disputed is Art Laffer's curve. The Laffer curve. Right?

[00:43:08] So, you know, if you pull back on the level of taxation and promote economic activity, ultimately, you can increase revenue to the U.S. Treasury with lower tax rates. It's worked every single time it's been tried. Yeah, the bill increases the debt. Okay? I'm looking at what it does to the GDP.

[00:43:37] If the GDP is a blowout, which it has every chance of being for the next eight, nine quarters, ten quarters, whatever is left effectively in Trump's term, I'm not sure we're having the same conversation at that point in time. The revenues, and I'm not even talking about the tariffs on top of that.

[00:44:07] But if it adds, I guess going back to the spreadsheet or the accounting point of view, if every dollar of additional debt is matched with a dollar of growth and it's just net zero, then that's actually a good thing. Because there's enough good stuff. A dollar of tax revenue because there was ten dollars of growth.

[00:44:38] Yeah. Okay. I guess, I mean, I didn't do my homework on this, so I don't know the exact numbers. Let's just say it adds three trillion dollars of debt over five years. Well, if it grows the GDP by three trillion dollars over that five years, then it's, you know, that should be fine.

[00:44:57] I guess you're saying it will grow the tax revenue, so it actually has to grow the GDP ten times the rate to then tax down to balance that. So I get what you mean there. The point is, when you hear about these bills, and if you ever listen to Democrats or all the organizations and, you know, the news that supports Democrats, they always look at it as a static model. Right?

[00:45:25] And it's always wrong. Right? When you promote economic growth, you get more tax revenue, and it does help to balance budgets. So, yeah.

[00:45:39] I would go as far to say that, you know, even if there's a slight paper loss, it still could be worth it if those investments are made wisely in real capital and real production that may bear fruits 10, 20, 30 years down the road, so you can't really capture an immediate GDP. You know what I mean? Like, I'm all about that. We don't have to absolutely balance it. We can run a little bit of a deficit. But there's a lot of porky pig in there, and I just want to see less spending.

[00:46:08] I really want to see less taxes, but I really want to see less spending, too. But I can understand in the short term here, got a jump start. The dead patient. The economy was really in crappy shape this time last year, and really hasn't been in awesome shape since COVID. It just got injected with trillions and trillions of fake cash. So, I get it. I get it.

[00:46:29] I'm much more with this, I guess, in terms of sacrificing it to boost the GDP than I am, for example, the Epstein leverage perspective. But I'm still not a fan of all the deficit spending, all the BS. You know, they're spending, like, tens of millions of dollars to move some old space shuttle to a new museum. It's already in a perfectly good museum. You're going to spend, like, $30 or $40 million on that shit?

[00:46:58] That's, like, 20 times more than I'll ever pay in my life. That's 20 of me lifetime payments to move a museum piece like this. I don't know, man. Just saying. Yeah, I get you. I get you.

[00:47:13] But the way that the federal government's been structured, especially since the New Deal, FDR, you know, it's – you can cut it, but if you cut it too much, you're going to lose political power. You're going to directly affect enough voters' lives in a negative way that you'll lose power.

[00:47:36] With the margin that the Republicans have in Congress, this literally is the best bill that could get passed. You know, if the Republicans picked up 20 seats in the House and four or five more in the Senate, I think you'd get a bill that addressed the deficit much more seriously. But it's just not where the power is balanced right now. It's not. That's why you all had to take care of yourself.

[00:48:06] So prep and prepare for ongoing inflation. Hopefully it'll be under double digits annually. I'm not expecting a massive inflation from this, but the dollar will continue to lose value slowly but surely. Bitcoin will keep hitting all-time highs. So will gold and silver. Probably real estate too. Some real estate in certain areas is starting to roll over a little bit, but there's still a lot of expensive real estate out there. And land, quality land is not dropping in value anytime soon.

[00:48:36] So there's ways to at least try to take this into your own hands. I think the proof will be in the pudding. I mean, I'm really interested to see what the inflation and the GDP numbers look like in the next six to 18 months. Pretty much up to the midterms, right? So that's probably when it would peak in terms of positives. So that is potentially beneficial for the midterms for sure.

[00:49:04] What do you think of Musk filing for the America Party? Well, here's another one where I... This is a great show of sacrificing my ideals for pragmatic action, I suppose. Where I totally would love to have a third party come in and just trounce the Republicans and massively trounce Democrats. Because there's a lot of stuff.

[00:49:32] And well, Musk is talking about a lot of those things in his America Party, right? But the reality would be... It would just hand the Democrats wins, I'm pretty sure. Because, you know, for... I would assume I'm not a pollster. You know, every five... Let's just say ten people that go and join the America Party. A couple independents, maybe. Or people that never voted or hated voting, right? And they're going to give it another chance.

[00:50:02] And then maybe a couple Democrats. Democrats, but there'll be like five or six MAGA types. So my point is, it'll really take away from the Republicans. And it'll give the Democrats a chance for victory, I think. What do you think? If they... And I think he said this. He's a pretty smart guy. They're going to target certain seats.

[00:50:28] And if they can target certain seats and pick up, you know, a block of maybe 20, you know, in the House, right? Now that block has power, right? If he could ever achieve enough seats in Congress so that nothing could pass without the American Party going along with it,

[00:50:54] we'd start to see kind of some of the factions that we saw, you know, going back to the Civil War, right? And earlier in our public's history, when the parties weren't as thoroughly just, you know, two-party system. We don't have a two-party system by law by any means, right? So it's feasible. But when you have first-past-the-post plurality wins, right?

[00:51:22] Most votes win to get a seat. And that's mostly the case in most jurisdictions in the United States. Some places, you know, Louisiana and others, you have to have a runoff, you know, so that the winner is a majority of the votes. But mostly not. But when you have a system like that, it does have a lot of advantages compared to parliamentary systems elsewhere in the world. It gravitates to two parties.

[00:51:49] That's just, you know, kind of a political science kind of axiom. You know, it's not really anybody's fault. It's kind of, this was a while ago, but I do specifically remember in the poli-sci course, our professor just explaining why it was essentially a law of nature, a political science nature at least, for it to just remain at two parties.

[00:52:17] And that's not, it's always evolving and moving. So there's almost, there's very often a third party that comes and goes for a very short period. But it's really those two main objects, those main parties, kind of in a physics point of view, a two-body system with maybe a third coming in occasionally and disrupting the gravity forces and then getting flung right off or absorbing into them. Usually it absorbs into one or the other, and that becomes the dominant one.

[00:52:47] And poli-sci is somewhat interesting, but I was like, okay, if you say so, you're saying we got better than the Europeans. I like it. But on the other hand, I'm sick of the Republicans. I think MAGA is one of the best things that could have happened to the Republican Party, but there's still a bunch of scum and enablers of the Democrats that are in this party, which Musk certainly is not happy with them. So support that.

[00:53:11] I don't know if I'll be supporting the America Party, but the targeted aspect, I like that, meaning this is the slippery slope, doubling the details, but going after certain Republicans that are of the old guard, are the neocons, and the type of Republicans we don't like. I like that. That'd be awesome. We got primaries.

[00:53:35] The parties have primaries, and for the longest time, those were, you know, tiny amount of voters participated in primaries. We got the mechanism. Go live in Britain. Go be a British subject. You don't have primaries. Your left-right parties choose who will be the candidate in your district. Take it or leave it. You never get to vote for them. We got primaries everywhere.

[00:54:01] The right way to, you know, undo the status quo is get involved in the primaries. And Trump's definitely, he's learned this. He knows this. We got Tillis out of the Senate in North Carolina that voted against the bill and also is resigning his seat because he's never going to survive the primary. Going after Massey, too, but Massey might still survive the primary, at least from what I read, he might have a chance.

[00:54:30] I don't want that type of civil war going on, but. It's not civil war. It's like. Political civil war. It's actually the, you know, it's actually the best political system in the world. If people participate and get out there and, you know, know when your primaries are, know who the candidates are, donate to them, campaign for them, you know, participate. You can get people into Congress that, you know, can win a primary.

[00:54:57] That, you know, undo what you see that you don't like there. You got to participate. You decide your own level of involvement, Brad Pitt said at the beginning of this episode. There you go. Well, I'll be looking to see if there's any America candidates in my areas to support.

[00:55:20] I don't know how many he's planning to run or just looking for 20 seats or all in. I guess going to start somewhere, though. All right. What else we got? We're almost up to an hour. Any other articles? You wanted to have a look at the Black Ops Suspected Archive. You hinted at maybe we did a little bit of a dive there.

[00:55:47] Now, you know, heads up, you know, that indicator covers the Epstein events, but a whole lot more. Like, it's mostly about, you know, blatantly obvious espionage by China inside the United States. I was actually looking at the powerful pedophiles exposed indicator. Okay, okay. That one, too. But Black Ops is also used, though. You're right. I should probably look at that one, too.

[00:56:12] I was actually going to just see when the earliest Epstein return was. Oh, that's interesting. Future danger. And it's actually way back in 2017. Claim. DHS Insider says, Weiner. That is his name. Remember? Weiner, the Democrat in New York. He was married to freaking that, you know, Hillary Clinton's little girlfriend who just married George Soros' son, by the way. So, anyway. Yeah.

[00:56:41] Epstein videos will bring mass pedo arrests back in February 17, 2017. More than eight years ago. Almost eight and a half years ago. You were covering this on Future Danger. And, yeah. There are a lot of other examples with or without Epstein. Unfortunately, this is a pretty packed indicator. Every year has a dozen or more articles and more and more Epstein as you get higher up. But, yeah.

[00:57:11] The first article in this indicator, February 20, 2017, was an Epstein article. Powerful pedophiles exposed. You know, if you just say it out loud, you're inclined to think, Hey, that's a good thing. And in one sense, it is, right? It's kind of like gold soaring. Well, if you own gold, gold soaring is a good thing.

[00:57:36] But it is definitely a sign of a, you know, of a badly damaged republic that, you know, maybe Trump made the decision that exposing this would be just too destabilizing to our country and to other countries. Just, you know, just it's really not in our interest to bring it out because, you know, things might spiral out of control from there.

[00:58:03] It's got to be one of the, if it is what everyone talks about, it is global leaders of all types fully compromised in horrible, horrible ways. That's got to be as damaging, potentially disastrous civilization as learning there's aliens or a meteor is going to hit us in 30 years they haven't told us about. It is, I can see why it could upset the fabric of civilization. But on the other hand, I want these scum to be called out for the record books.

[00:58:32] But it's not over yet, I guess. And we all know without knowing. So maybe it's an emperor without clothes thing where we all know it. And maybe, again, that's why DOJ in March was saying they're going to release it. Now they've done the 180 to really get people, you know, amped up. Kind of that Streisand effect. I hope it's something like that. I hope they're not compromised. I hope not.

[00:58:58] You know, they could bring out little drops of news leak, you know, every other month for throughout Trump's presidency. Each one designed to keep all of this in the consciousness of America and just as a threat to those that are guilty to know this. You know, you can be exposed at any single second. All right.

[00:59:26] Any other articles or thoughts for the night? Future Day. Yeah, I think they probably set up whatever tapes that they had that, you know, you can't actually, you know, bring a successful court case. Right? It's something about it is set up in a way that, you know, you could go and arrest everybody on those tapes and everybody in the flight logs and you could prosecute them. But what would happen if you lost most of those cases?

[00:59:56] Most of those cases, right? Yeah. Look at the Diddy got away with like almost everything except one of the more minor charges. People are saying Diddy and Epstein both got off on the same, same week. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But good point though, for sure. I've seen didn't get off. He went to jail. I guess his clients or alleged client list that doesn't exist. They got it.

[01:00:25] They got away with it. What's coming up next? You doing any prepping? You doing anything for your own preparedness? Well, guess what? Spoiler alert. I don't know exactly. I don't. I guess I'll go ahead and announce it. Why the heck not? The Intrepid Commander and I are going to be doing some hiking and doing some other challenges. I don't know.

[01:00:54] I don't want to get too much into it. I think he's going to announce it. I don't know if he has. I haven't been able to listen to the network in the last day or two. I don't think he announced it or posted it, but expect some content this weekend. And then Intrepid Commander and I are going to be out and about in the woods and we'll end up at the, at the Jones stead. How about that? What's what, what are you trying to accomplish in the most basic form? Well, that's the thing. I don't know if I can tell or not, but I might as well.

[01:01:23] We're trying to, uh, I don't think it is. And, uh, maybe it is. It's attorney-client privilege. It has to do with sponsorship and money. So. Okay. Okay. That part, that part. Let's, let's tease it, but not get into it. But some, some share of this is just keeping up your, your, your, your physical capabilities and your, your, your ability to bug in, bug out, get on the road, move. Right. Exactly.

[01:01:52] And since ration of ruin, I've definitely enjoyed eating again and put a few pounds on, not a lot, but just nice, uh, physical challenge, burn 10,000 calories. Keep the little, uh, you know, keep a little toughness in you to use it or lose it type of thing. And hopefully we got a lot of fun things we're going to do for content on PBN as well.

[01:02:18] But yeah, just, you know, it's not a Osir Highland, so to speak, but it's sort of a physical challenge equivalent to that in a way. So there you go. You're hardening the systems. Yeah. Deep pussifying. How about that? I'll take it. Yes. So I'm looking forward to that.

[01:02:44] The lack of sleep is always the one that kills me, but it doesn't actually like when I'm in the moment, the lack of sleep doesn't kill me as much as, uh, I think it will. Usually we'll see, but, uh, not expecting much sleep this weekend, either. So I'm wondering if you're paying attention enough to conventional conservative news to

[01:03:08] have noticed the, how, how an anti-fed attitude is pretty mainstream in the GOP right now. Right. Trump has normalized that the entire idea that the federal reserve should be an independent, you know, quasi executive branch agency that, that gets to do whatever it wants under its

[01:03:37] own, you know, governance is directly threatened on a daily basis from the very top, the president to many of his economic surrogates who get questions, whether they're going to be the next bed chair and they all smile and then bash the fed to, you know, you know, calling into

[01:04:01] question the spending of at fed headquarters in DC, like the, you know, the elite food and art collections and renovations of deaths, you know, lovely, you know, building top terrorists. I mean, they are under attack by, uh, you know, if, if there's a uni party, there's only one wing attack in it right now. And it's the, you know, staunchly conservative base.

[01:04:29] And you'd never would have heard that under previous Republican presidents in your life. No. And it's something that's a little surreal, but I love it. Whenever I see anything talking trash about the fed on anywhere really, but of course on the Fox news of the world or other, you know, more mainstream radio, for example, YouTube, glad to hear it.

[01:04:54] Um, I don't want all that momentum and fervor to just be squandered on, Hey, if we just change the chip, the fed chairman and they lower rates to 0%, everything's hunky dory. It's all cool. And that's kind of how I'll see them doing it is like, okay, we're gonna get rid of Powell. We're gonna lower rates to zero. And the fed is cool again. And the fed is making us all rich on our 401k again. I don't want that type.

[01:05:20] Hopefully a lot of people are more aware and awake than that nowadays, but a lot of people will go along with that narrative. Do you agree that the dual mandate should be governed by federal policy at all? Controlling inflation and controlling unemployment or employment by setting a rate that other

[01:05:47] banks run off of, is that your fundamental criticism that that structure shouldn't exist at all? Or has your criticism lied in the fact that it was an unelected, unaccountable, quasi-governmental organization that was, that was, that was running it out, out of control of any properly elected official? Yeah. I think you hit on it more there.

[01:06:17] If this is just a consortium of banks that under their own free will decided to work together and float their own interbank lending and set their own rates amongst each other, you know, that can still be a cartel and have a lot of problems. But the fact that they're doing that with the legal tender of the United States of America is the bullshit. They're not just doing it with their own. They're doing it with our money, with the reserve currency of the world.

[01:06:44] And that's, you know, that's what I love. I love Bitcoin about is people can go start their own coin of any type and there are some successes and there's reasons to use something else. But I don't have to worry about that if I stick with Bitcoin. So it's the tie into the government and it's the fact that, you know, the legal tender that

[01:07:10] I have to pay taxes in that I, you know, essentially have to receive that currency from my employer. Some employers will pay you and other currencies or even Bitcoin, but good luck with that. Not many. Exactly. So it's just like, it's forced. So it's not free market. These banks are working together and they're trying real hard to set the right rates to grow and make their stockholders happy. And there's some risks to that, but that would be much more palatable if it wasn't literally

[01:07:40] the U.S. dollar that they were doing it with and the only source, like they have the monopoly on that. There's not like 20 competing interest rates in America from different banks and consortiums. But a decentralized blockchain is free market. That's why it's so volatile up and down, but it's not being suppressed or pumped or both pump and dump. So going back to the dual mandate.

[01:08:05] So you, you reject the idea that a federal entity or any, any aspect of the state should attempt to manage rates to, you know, with, with the intent of holding inflation low or increasing employment. You just, you think that should all be done by the private sector.

[01:08:30] Well, that comes back to from the demand side, I suppose would be a new deal type of thing. So do we need transfer payments to the poor? Do we need government projects and infrastructure or should it all be privatized and all that? Um, need some government spending, but it's become a huge crutch and a massive part of the economy

[01:08:57] in the last a hundred years government is so large part of it now. And I don't know, Musk said a constitutional amendment where Congress had to have a balanced budget or maybe like a 1% death deficit or 2%, something that's manageable, a little more manageable, some sort of guardrails. Maybe that's helpful. Maybe not. Um, that's, it's funny that you attribute that to Musk.

[01:09:23] Uh, the, the balance budget amendment idea started during Reagan's presidency and was really pushed by George HW Bush and they couldn't get it anywhere close to, you know, becoming a constitutional amendment. Oh, I could see that being essentially impossible. Almost as impossible as getting Congress to just have the honor system to not exceed a certain deficit.

[01:09:53] No, it's possible. You just have to have enough people voting for enough representatives, especially at the state level, because never forget, it's never happened, but a convention of the states could occur. You don't have to have Congress to change the constitution. So, um, it just, it just, it take a big enough national will. That's why it's your power hours out here talking about these issues that lay dormant, that become the status quo. No one ever questions. No one ever challenges.

[01:10:23] I shouldn't say no one. There's lots of patriots questioning and challenging Ron Paul foremost in some of these regards for a long, long time. Just not enough people, not enough people that really tilt it. But, you know, the, the, this entire country, this entire structure, our federalized system, 50 states, four territories, the ability to self-govern, the ability to, you know, it just, it takes awareness and it takes will.

[01:10:52] And if you had the awareness and you had the will, anything's possible. I like it. That is exactly what we're doing. I liken it to, uh, earlier in the show, you were talking about need a general technology improvement in material science and battery technology need just that general level of technology needs to go up before more specific project based technology. I guess same thing with the patriotism and understanding of the citizenry.

[01:11:20] If they don't meet a minimal levels of certain education and motivation, certain things just can't get unlocked for lack of a better term. You can't unlock the next, you know, evolution or level up or whatever. Yeah. So that's what we're doing on Patriot Power this summer, summer season, 2025.

[01:11:42] We're, we're, we're setting the stage to help all this level up to a freer, fairer, more, uh, secure American Republic. Great stuff. Great show. Peter Dan will be back next week and, uh, expect some content from Intrepid Commander and I. All right. Yeah. Looking forward to that, Ben. Thank you all to our audience for listening to Patriot Power episode 311.

[01:12:13] Catch you next week.