Patriot Power Hour #335 - Steel vs Silver & RED HOT News Dashboard

Network. 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 Future danger dot com. We're live Patriot Power Hour, January thirty, first, twenty twenty six, Episode three three five. It's a Saturday. Had a semi plumbing emergency. Therefore I was not able to go live on Thursday, but a few days later had to knock it out. Future Dan. This is our fifth episode of January twenty twenty six. We had to get it in before the end of the month. Now, was that a plumbing semi emergency or a semi plumbing emergency? It's not just plumbing, so mostly a semi emergency. I would say mostly plumbing semi emergency. I gotcha. Yes, Saturday. We don't do them often, but happy to be here today. We are, and there's just so much news going on from left right in center. As always if you're watching live, we got the Future Danger heat map up the dashboard and for those radio listeners, we're going to go through that dashboard. But first Future Day and we got a hit on the craziness of gold and silver this past week, Hell where we since we last wrought air that was Thursday. That would be I guess nine days ago or so. We were just so close to gold cracking five grand, close to silver hitting one hundred bucks. Well a day or two later we saw silver ripped one hundred and twenty bucks, gold hit above fifty five hundred. But guess what yesterday and a little bit the day before, you know, flash forward a week later. Thirty plus percent drawed down in silver in one day, most of it just like within one hour, like unbelievable, unprecedented volatility up and dat with gold and silver. It is the weekend, so we're kind of, you know, waiting to see what happens future Dan, But holy cow, it's been a crazy month. Yeah, it's really putting metals in focus for me. I totally want to talk about that. It's probably, you know, gonna be the main theme in this show. We're gonna talk gold, silver, metal, money, what it means, done it before. But very historic events in the last even twenty four hours to get into and. It felt like it was historic every week leading up to this, I mean even mid to late last year, we started hitting all time highs on silver and gold and I was like, holy cow, silver fifty bucks, silver, sixty bucks, gold, three grand, gold thirty five hundred. That seemed like almost emergency broadcast level. We've hit this new paradigm. But the way I look at it is it's things are just broken and can't even really trust the price which is almost scarier, and there's just so many other I guess, is it the tail or, is it the dog? Is it just a distraction from actual economic output? Gold, silver, and even bitcoin. Bitcoin's getting the crap kicked out of it actually today down to like seventy five grand. So just hey, I'd never get too high or get too low with my prices of these because you know, I'm using this for long term purposes. But man, golden sil are literally trading like like a meme coin. So new metal paradigm, I think is the right way to, you know, look at this. But mine, you're not gonna totally agree with. We're gonna, we're gonna we're gonna end up disagreeing on this show. I think, all right, we don't do that enough, honestly, So a little bit of debt. It's probably a little bit of a little bit of debate on like what's what's bullying really mean? What are we talking about here in twenty twenty six? For real? Where's it? Where's it fit into the of all of our realities? That's where I want to go. Well, do we want to say that for the second half of the show, hit it now? Hit the dashboard. First. We did not pre plan the cadence per se, not that we usually do, like the free flow, but what are you thinking? Certainly should cover the actual events in the last few days, you know, in detail. So maybe he mapped dashboard talk about the general news environment. But we've got to come back to what. What Golden slow are doing or what they're doing and what it means. All right, let's do it. Then we'll end with the economic news all the dashboard, but otherwise let's hit all the other super important news that cannot be lost. Of course, I'm a little bias and tunnel vision to gold and silver sometimes, so I purposefully try to focus on some of these others more. Anyway, here we go, let's begin. We'll start in the security column domestic and international. Arizona AG suggests residents may gun down massed ice agents under state law. Pretty much they're allowed to. That's what they're suggesting. The Arizona ag Democrat politicians and staffers orchestrating anti ICE protest and the doxne of agents. President blames Minnesota governor and Minneapolis mayor for inciting violence. The VP says unrested engineered chaos. FBI investigates Minneapolis Democrats signal chats organizing revolt against fed Gov deportations. Those signal chats, everyone feels like they they're safe behind there. They often will let things slip. Well, that was all important under the Those were all under the insurrection declared. We're talking about ice, immigration, border security, et cetera. And they're important, but I'm telling you some of the next ones are even more important. In fact, a lot of SHTF level or near that grade news. Let's keep the theme of riots right now. SHTF level urgent updates as high as you can get on future Danger dashboard. Federal officers attacked and tackled by violent Minneapolis riders. The heat is being turned up. Tire puncturing caltrops. Those spikes that they put on the ground to stop cavalry back in the day being used to sabotage ice vehicles. So throwing those caltrops Ice riders Lacey's Mini Minnesota Hotel. Staff of the hotel injured, beat up, So riots erupting happening now. Also armed citizen protests happening now. Anti ICE protesters show up armed in Minneapolis. Now, Foreign blacks ops suspected also threatening here on the homeland, but not necessarily because the civil unrest, although he could say that is part of it, of course, and that's where we're looking at today. Sometimes foreign black ops is more sabotaged by China or stealing things, etc. But this is more of how foreign influences into this a loophole and birthright citizenship. Let's adversaries build undetectable spy networks that are able to vote where immigration is weaponized. That kind of is what I'm getting at. Director of National Intelligence Tulsa Gabbard joins the FBI raiate in Fulton County. Shady election stuff going on there. It's election hub Democrats, alarmed trailer park operator next to Whitman Air Force Base, allegedly tied to Chinese intel. It's shut down and global network funds, Anti ICE protest, that dark money nonprofits, they're still out there. USAID cut off at the knees. Still, these global networks and different funds and stuff funding the protests, those were all SAHDF happening now. Espionage and of course so in descent, et cetera. This is all within the security column, mostly domestic, but we do have US Lincoln USS Lincoln carrier group arriving off of Iran. Some folks think this weekend into the next prime time for I ran to get hit again in China. Two Chinese general's latest victims of regime military purge. One of them is supposed to be the main confidant of Ji Well. He allegedly leaked nuke intel to the US and he's out. Was there a coup in China? With all the news information we got to go through today, I definitely want to hit this topic. So we'll do our best to remember to come back. But was there a coup in China military or otherwise or a counter coup? Maybe? And that I believe is it for the security column, one of the most packed security columns we've ever had. Let's go to natural News. Most of the country did have pretty big winter storms one hundred plus fatalities, lots of people lost power, not as many as thought though, So that's good, but still nearly a million, seven hundred plus thousand confirmed early on and more thereafter. Of course, a lot of travel delays, but hopefully it's over. Big freeze out east and Midwest, but no more storms come through right now. It seems EPA to review health effects of fluoride and drinking water. Scientists use AI to create a virus never seen before. Oh, looks like I may have had a little glitch on my end. I lost the future Daja dashboard. We'll try to cut back to us as possible, but future dailies bring you back on. We were about halfway maybe two thirds done with the dashboard. Let's hit on a couple of those items right now while I try to get this reloaded up. Yeah, the Peter Schwitzer book coming out about election integrity, some of the stats that he's put together. So the Chinese elite, the Communist Party membership, the elite, send their children to the United States or you know, come to the United States, have the children gain full citizenship, and then return completely educated, completely brought up in the elite level of the Chinese Communist Party, and then as eighteen year old adults can return to the United States and vote. The elites in China have had ten straight years of one hundred thousand children born this way. There's a million of these Chinese elite children able to operate that way in the United States. And there's also reports of some Chinese just having surrogate mothers spawning like one hundred children, right, just for this purpose. It's absolute, massive, in your face national security crisis. And this book's coming out ahead of Supreme Court decisions on this matter, right, Like, this is really serious, dangerous situation to our you know, fundamental political power in the United States. Right, Like, how many hundreds of thousands are or tens of thousands of those Chinese US citizens of you know, of Chinese communist elite descent, you can show up the United States and swing elections, swing the electoral vote. Right, It's not a surprise to me that Pulsey Gabbard's on our way to Paul County, Georgia with the FBI. Right, that's the national security Like, like, whose names are on those ballots? How many of these names, Matt, These very people who are now identified as you know absolutely you know, people of interest in in in spying, Right, these are Chinese spies, and they can vote in our elections. They can you know, move money in our country freely. They can businesses and nonprofits all that stuff. They are us systems because of our woofully outdated laws on birthright, ship, citizenship. Got to keep an eye on that. So I've I think I talked about this last week really keeping tabs on Supreme Court because I think it's going to be more important than ever this year coming up potentially, So that's that's huge. Well, future unable to get my system to work right now, So I'll let you know if we're able to get the dashboard back up. But we had so many articles to run through. Let's just stick with the Minnesota and Minneapolis and ice. What have you been seeing in the last week especially, Uh. It seems like a Dayton you know, and they've obviously brought reduced the number of ice in Minnesota. Lit'sten. You know. The question is are they gonna repeat the same tactics or they got surge right back in. Are they gonna you know, you know, distribute ice into smaller units for a while and come back and merge like what happens next? The Democrats think they you know, see blood you know, in the water for Republicans, but most of the polling still shows that, you know, criminal illegal aliens. Vast majority of Americans want them out. Yeah, they're doing everything they can from a propaganda effort, and at best it's like a neutral in my opinion. They're not some low information and just easily propagandized believers of the Democrats. I think this is a concentra should camp Nazi foot soldiers cracking heads, but most reasonable people understand it's not like that at all. And the real reason is because we left let five million plus immigrants in illegally not even close to the proper way in the last four years, and before that five to ten million led in just in this century. So it's a tough situation. I hate the police state, but this is from everything I've seen. Almost all this is court ordered warrants and ice defending themselves. You know, if there's some thug that goes out there and shoots someone totally doesn't deserve it, I would be one of the first to call it out. I've not seen evidence like that. Yeah, this recent police shooting, its parts of it don't make sense to me. I've seen the video of someone coming in behind the Ice agents that were, you know, actually in contact trying to arrest pretty some guy reaching in and trying to grab the pistol off of the off of the hip, taking taking away the firearm from the suspect on the ground, right. And some people say this online. You know, there's no serious like mainstream news sources even trying to analyze this right now publicly. But I'm taking a guest here, I'm speculating some some ice officer tried to do that, thought they were doing the right thing. But this guy's pistol, like, you have no idea what kind of trigger it has on it. Remember going up and seeing Dave's pistol, Like he keeps a hair trigger on some of his weapons, right, and this guy might have too. And that ice officer probably grabbed a weapon, started to run with it. It discharged, and then all the other officers thought that there was a suspect discharged weapon, they stood up and shot him. That that could be what happened. That's kind of what I see. Well in the back channels a little bit, Well we've talked about on this show certainly, but in the back channels recently, what's going to happen in the summer. Are they saving it for by they? I mean, I don't even know Antifa, the organizations funded by foreign and domestic interest to try to disrupt this country and defraud the constitution and bill wrights? Are are they awaiting for the summer? Do you expect the worst summer rioting they don't have this century. They're completely in reaction mode, which is but which was ultimately what Trump showed him by you know, just pulling ice out of Minnesota. Is it temporary? You know, you know, there's no anything can happen next. They're completely in reaction mode as opposed to Trump's first term. Right when uh, you had the uh you know, George Floyd Riots and and and and and that that Trump had no initiative. He was completely in reaction mode. Didn't understand how to use the Insurrecttion Act, didn't understand that he needed to have appointed people, you know, for the offices that would execute him, you know, invoking the Insurrection Act. So he learned all that first time around, he had no initiative. First time he has all the initiative. Now he's definitely gotten better in every way since his first term. So glad to see that. All right, we'll just have to presume the dashboard has done for now. So if you had any articles you remember offhand that we didn't get to or any any other topics otherwise. I mentioned to get in gold and silver, but I want to hit everything else first before we go down that rabbit hole. Yeah, they're inventing viruses openly. It's dangerous. They're you know, floride's been water for decades. They're going to have a tragedy when they prove it was always dangerous. Gonna produce a lot of distrust that that will swing in a dangerously opposite direction. I expect, uh the riding in Minnesota, that could be somewhere else Tomorrow's again, wherever Rice Ice goes. They're going to get the riots now without a doubt. You know that there's a certain part of anti Ice that's emboldened by what's happening in the last week. So it's definitely not at the end of that. And abroad, you know, will will there be strikes In Iran? I think they want to have an achievement that that results in the collapse of the Iranian regime. So it's it's like having options always available, and it's probably clandestinely and evolving landscape, but without without an opportunity to really you know, you can't take a shot now at just you know, toppling a regime and then fail after you did it to Venezuela. Right, if you're going to do it, you're only gonna do it if you're sure. We're highly sure you can do it twice, and just dropping bombs might certainly not do that. It's a lot of human intelligence. So I'm kind of wondering how good is the CIA at that sort of thing right now in Iran? And then economically right, uh, now, I guess is the time to turn the focus to metals. What in the world is causing thirty percent drops and silver and in somewhat equal amounts of gold prices. That's just and it's just on a comics right, that's just on the on exchange rate spot prices. That's is obviously a bigger off off, you know, non traded, non directly electronically traded. You know, as to gold, what's the paper markets doing? They're not crashing, are they? You know, where's the money going there? How could silver be? You know, that drop that precipiously in that short amount of time. Oh, I'm trying to understand what you. Right, let's do it great questions. I don't know if I have all the answers, but I got some ideas, and I've been building up an intelligence model using AI in my own brain. So hopefully I got some some good answers for you. Ready for this? I am all right? First and foremost, I am sharing my screen. We have the chart of silver. I want to start by differentiating between silver and gold. The main reason why is gold almost only a monetary signal and purposes for monetary purposes, whereas silver, as we talked about at NOUSM, is at least as much of an industrial demand, probably more industrial demand than monetary actually, and that will only continue with more AI data centers, infrastructure all that. So, there is definitely some monetary aspect to silver, but majority is industrial for high tech, whereas gold it's like ninety plus percent monetary. There is certainly some industrial applications. Gold is super super useful in its purposes, but silver is much more industrial. So that said, silver has had the craziest run up and collapse, but it already it always has compared to gold. Called that the beta in finance terms, just how does it react compared to another correlated asset. And if gold goes up, silver goes up. If it goes down, they both go down. And usually if gold goes up a few percent, then silver probably went up seven or eight percent. It's usually two x maybe three x even, And that's what we've seen this year. Just again today, January thirty first, twenty twenty six. On New Year's Eve, silver was seventy dollars. Within just three weeks it was one hundred and twenty dollars. Now as we sit right now, it's about eighty five bucks. So it's still up from seventy bucks to eighty five bucks in the month of January, which if it just did that only it would be pretty incredible, super noteworthy. But the fact that it went all the way up to one to twenty and then dropped all the way down again in just about a week, even most of that happened yesterday, Friday the thirtieth, incredible doubt this is all paper related. So let's just focus on silver. Now, we've talked the difference between gold and silver a little bit. We'll come back to gold, but silver there's the physical market and that's actually getting real silver. And then there's the paper market, and these crazy, crazy swings both up and down are mostly paper related. And I can go into more details about that we will, but wanted to pause there and see what kind of questions or thoughts you had. Yeah, so still I get drop in one day. I'm kind of stuck on that. It's the bigger they are, the harder they fall. It went up that same amount in about four days. It's way easier to drop, right. What takes you a few days to go up at a crazy amount, you can lose it all in one day. Is kind of my explanation. Now, there was a couple other reasons. One reason is the CMI, as you mentioned, the largest at least American exchange, mostly paper. You can't get physical there, but almost all paper trading. They raised the margin requirement midweek this past week. What does that mean. It means you need a little bit more collateral, at a little higher quality collateral to make trades, and that kind of that's a break that they're putting the brakes on the system. So that's a little bit of it. But another part is definitely what occurred Friday morning. Well, really this week. The Fed of course kind of burying the lead with Powell and the FED this past week. But on Friday morning, Trump came and said, Hey, I got a new guy, which we've already talked a little bit about him, worsh And he said, warsh It not Walsh. I've always wanted to call him Walsh. The question is he going to be really bad for gold and silver? Is he going to save the dollar? Is he going to Some folks are thinking, yeah, that's a that's gonna make a huge difference. But I honestly think this is a bunch of noise and the more of this oscillation up and down, that's dangerous. It's not good for anybody. So that's sort of my answer there. Okay, so you want to take a tangent and talk about the the happenings of the FED holding interest rates equal, you know, steady, and on what Wednesday followed by the new pick on Friday? Would what's there to be said for a walk from your perspective, I guess I have to. Do a deeper dive. But uh, just because he's Trump's pick doesn't make me h look kindly upon him. I mean, Powell is put in from Trump. This is the question. So Trump speaking out of both sides of his mouth, which he does on purpose most of the time, and I think he's doing it here too. He says he wants a strong dollar, but he also wants a week dollar so that we can export more. Right, So he wants the cut rates, which would weeken the dollar. He wants interest rates really low, which a weeken the dollar. But he also keeps saying he loves king dollar. He wants dollar to be the reserve currency, and Worsh is apparently very pro dollar. He'll keep the dollar strong, but that goes against Trump wants to cut interest rates. So how do you do both? I don't know. That's fed speak. That's where I'm just like a I'll believe it if I see it, go for it. But I'm not expecting much of a difference. I'm expecting two trillion dollar deficits and ongoing federal reserve chaos. You know, maybe he'll do what Trump says the own cut rates. So that's kind of the practical output, I guess. So. I heard some things said about Orsh that were interesting to me today, and it had to do with the the repo desk. Okay, and that the very fact that you know, because the systemically significant banks, the twenty four forty eight whatever, the elite large banks that are designated as such, don't have to lend their cash reserves to the public because they could just throw the money back through the repail window overnight, right and have one hundred chance of just you know, having you know, just making free money, just printing money, right, just like defend itself could just deem into existence by FIAT this money exists, and then lend it to those same banks. And that orshes very much against this, wants to see the the overnight window be basically you know, mad made highly unavailable prepared to what Bernaki opened up in two thousand and eight and force that investment back into the United States. But do you think that's plausible. If you do, you think that's the right thing to do, or you think that, you know, despite it being you know, ideally a good idea, in reality, it's not going to matter. There's a massive moral hazard with banksters being able to park their money overnight and get absolute risk free return when hell, most small banks can't necessarily do that, but definitely not regular people. So that in of itself is a problem. I like that from a idealistic point of view. Well that actually that in of itself is very minor, right, it's quite minor. But attacking it there is an easy win, I think, and then you can pry open other fraudulent and suspect gray area, you know, where it's just essentially insider trading and preferred status. The government gives to the FED and their primary banks, and that's just BS. So there you go. The government gives to the FED, or the FED gives to the banks, because the FED essentially has sovereignty like Congress earned thirteen years ago. Congress and the president it's tigned to law. That just abrogated that kind of sovereignty to a an appointed you know, Senate confirmed and appoint essentially appointed Senate confirmed, Like there is that much you know, political control over it, but not much. Right there you go. I was for some reason, I was arguing I'd be half of the FED as if they had government legitimacy. But you're right, that's uh where they were blessed and allowed to do this. And I guess we'll see the Supreme Court what they say about if that's independence or semi independence. But yeah, I don't know. I'm obviously quite pessimistic about Warsh. I do need to do some research to try to be open minded. See what he says in the coming months, because it'll be in May when he's replaces Powell. It seems so he'll be let's just say, he'll be under the microscope with myself but many others. So what he says the next few months. He is pro bitcoin crypto, that's good, but again that's minor to me. Sure, I want my bitcoin to go up a value, but I'm way more worried about the entire financial collapse of the Western world. Right. Well, on that note, if you steer away from the collapse of the fiat system in the Western world, then I think bitcoin's value should be lower, right. I mean, it's valuable because it's super liquid and free of a government system that looks like it's about to fall off the edge. But the system isn't approaching the Jennymoores actually headed in a different direction. You know, Bitcoin's price ought to be lower, right. Could be. I don't know if we've hit the other direction. Maybe we've turned the sails. I've never sailed, But let's just pretend We're on a big ass boat, the Nina, the PTA of the Santa Maria, one of them. You could adjust the sails. It takes a little while for the ship to actually turned, and then when it starts moving, it takes a really long time to actually do a ninety or one hundred eighty degree turn. Maybe we could say the sails have been maneuvered or whatever and they've adjusted the rigging. But I don't know. We're not really moving quite yet. But it's better than not doing anything, I guess. Yeah, maybe we're attacking something like that. Back to metal. A lot of good things are going on, but it's you know, it's gonna take a while. It's gonna take persistence. You know, it's gonna take many years to get out of the situation if we do everything correctly. So, but yeah, back to metals. But I think Dave Jones is listening. I know he expressed great interest in this special Saturday Patriot Power Hour. Episode three thirty five. You know, he's sort of asking the question, you know, is are things so unstable that we're looking at World war and is what you're seeing and bullion metal prices, you know, indicative of that. I'm I'm just not thinking that way. I'm just I don't approach it that way. I gotta see war indicators start to heat up for me to worry about war, because I'm not sure. I don't. I don't necessarily agree that gold and silver have as the power. Really, I don't think they're as powerful as assets or objects in the entire world, you know, the way power flows. I just I've never believed it, it's been true. I just see no evidence that the rest of the financial system is watering on the edge of collapse, despite you know, having you know, basically gold and silver being repriced to where they probably should have been for years. Yeah, there was price suppression, but again, I don't see necessarily a linkage of just a fundamental destabilization of the world of finance. Where's your view on this tonight. If it just stopped where it did right now, gold just stays at five grand, silver just stays at one hundred, and inflation unemployment aren't going crazy, then we could just call it a repricing. There could be a little friction issues with that. A lot of high tech might cost more, a little supply chain, but would get through it, innovate through it. There'll be a pain ass but I'm not expected to stop at one hundred bucks or five thousand for gold. So it's when you get to like two hundred bucks for silver, ten grand for gold war it's really gonna put a lot of pressure because because this is a lot bigger than like this, subprime mortgage is one way I look at it. So that's more of like in the subprime mortgage. Now, I can't do my search right now because Chat, GPT and Google are going a little slow. But I know for fact, subprime mortgage was a small portion of the entire residential real estate market, right, It's like ten percent, or let's just call it ten percent. Maybe maybe it was less, maybe it's more. Ten percent of residential mortgages in two thousand and seven thousand and eight were subprime. But because they were, so I'm just gonna call it fraudulent, it blew up everything else. And without seven hundred billion dollars bailout with TARP and then all the quantitative easing for the next decade, if that did not happen, then that small portion of real estate would practically blown up the entire financial system. So that's where I'm saying gold and silver trillion dollar dollar markets, multiple trillion dollar market cap, but there's still much smaller than the total value of all real estate or all stocks and bonds. So in that regard, yes, but it doesn't mean, you know, it can't cost so many waves that it cascades into other assets. That's that's the issue. If it breaks containment, right, if all these if some hedge fund or bank, even a medium size just blows up and because of that they're forced to liquidate all of their NVIDIAs stock and that starts a cascade and then equity market and then before you know it, like it doesn't even matter what golden silver does, everything else is cascading. Not saying that's going to happen. But that's the more. You big risk of it. It's more for you about you don't know and don't trust that any faction on Wall Street has you know, used incredible leverage to buy deriven of something that gets its way back to bullion. Not that bullion is secretly the you know, the admitted secretly by the banks as being you know what what the not a pet rock? Right, You're just saying by you know, maybe not even you know, almost by accident, some bank gets sideways on the metals trade, and it's just the domino that brings an otherwise system down. Yes, because definitely since twenty eleven, but especially in the last let's just call the twenty fifteen to twenty twenty range, but really even a little bit longer, it was pretty much free money for these banks to short and hedge funds and other market makers, et cetera, to short and play games with the paper silver. It was almost like free money like we're talking about with the Fed, because they were able to keep it all under wraps, and in my opinion, they were suppressing it a lot when silver was twelve dollars an ounce, when silver was fifteen twenty dollars an ounce. For the last decade, they could pretty much keep kicking it while it was down and make a little extra change on it. But theory here that may not last forever. And if you keep piling on and maybe you ignore some signals that hey, maybe maybe we're over our skis or maybe this time it's not gonna work. If you ignore that, you could really start to get into a nasty cycle where you double down or like, okay, well, it's pretty much a gambler chasing his losses in a way, So don't have any inside information, you know, Is there a Michael Burry out there do it big short style that knows all the true facts of what's going on in the paper silver market. Maybe maybe not. I think there is a ticking time bomb. We'll see if it could be extinguished or not. I feel like the banksters are trying to keep silver out one hundred or under and keep gold under five grand and they'll be safe. But I don't know if that's going to happen. So part of your suspicion is because there's been price suppression in the past, in your opinion, that it must continue now. And the reason that the banks did it was to protect a fiat system from which they benefited, and if they have to eternally be opposed to bullion as opposed to a scenario where maybe they don't care anymore and the prices of the metal are just settling to maybe there was price suppression, but now it's no one's trying to do that now and it's just settling up where it naturally should be. With other governments obviously holding massive vaults of bullion, we know China and Russia do it right. So it's just kind of understand which as seems more logical to you. I think the gold is more of the repriced, revalued, could have some you know, could make some people we'll go bust, but not as not as crazy. What's changed as silver is what I'm trying to say. What's really changed is physical silver. It's more like oil in terms of a strategic resource. So if this was going on in the oil market, it was going up to one hundred and fifty bucks a barrel, then drop into eighty bucks a barrel, all within the same day. I mean, people would be shitting bricks. And I think silver is starting to turn into oil. Not in the same magnitude, but if all of high tech infrastructure requires silver in some regards, so as things become more and more high tech, you're gonna need it more and more silver. There's a huge silver deficit, the amount of silver they mine every year, the actual demand is much higher, and that's happened for the last five years straight. So silver, physical silver is becoming more and more of an actual strategic asset used in everything from satellites to solar panels, electrical infrastructure. I chips weapons. They say that I forgot what it was. It's like sixteen ounces or about a pound of silver in the Tomahawk missile. So they'll always have their silver for the military. But that'll only stop people like US preppers from getting a little piece ourselves. Yeah, that's where we're gonna have to break on that, because silver and gold they're soft metals, and the and they're they're they define soft power. And what do I mean by soft power? Diplomatic economic, uh, information, uh, international, jurisprudence, treaty, law, everything you think in the power structure of the post World War two era, all those dimensions of power, they aren't hard power. It's hard power, is military power, and it's it's an order of magnitude more powerful than anything in the soft power world. Include the soft metals gold and silver historically have been you know, important to human society, but really only for the people who had to steal so that they could you knows, that's the gold and silver. And to make this as salient as I can, this is this is where I'm going to debate you, okay, And I'm going to use a I'm going to use a sort of some a few metaphors here and one example, so for me, you know Plato's cave, right, we can't see the source of the light. We see the light reflection, right, gold and silver. That's the light you see on the side of the cave, the fire. The cause for that light being there is the hard metals, right, And in twenty twenty five, that's things like depleted uranium, enriched uranium for the bombs, steel, right, tungsten, aluminum for all kinds of weapons systems that fly, right, zinc to demagnify ships, titanium for submarine holes. Those metals much much important to the world if you're from a perspective of looking at the world for the hard power that's there, the soft power, and the soft power proponents that really rose in the nineties under the Clinton administration and really tried to elevate all those other dimensions of national power, the soft power to be on par with the with the hard power. I've always been opposed to that school thought, and that's why I just have never been able to look at gold and silver like you do. I just I just don't think ultimately they're as important as as the types of things that that that that that fight and win modern war, or more importantly, prevent modern war from breaking out, because we have absolutely the best hard metal modern military the world's ever seen. It's it's only under that environment that gold and silver can have meaning for anybody. And so as an example of this, I would argue to you right now, if I drove a dump truck full of a ton of gold bricks into your into your driveway, backed up, and dumped that bed of gold right in your yard, it drove away. What are you gonna have to do immediately about that situation? If you want to continue to possess what I just gave. You, definitely hide it, separate it, deed it hard power. You're gonna need steel, You're gonna need lead. You're gonna need steel and lead and either in forms of firearms in the hands of people. Right You're gonna have to build bolts made of steel that are protected by men with weapons that express, you know, at least contain the threat of hard power. So think about it. You know, the guys that swept through and took Maduro out of Caracas dealt the force, none of them are carrying any gold. That's real power. I like the the fire versus the light. I can see you got to have the fire to have any light from playto's cave. And I mean that's pretty well said. I My overall response is silver has one foot in now into the hard metals, even though it's the soft metal technically, because first off, any and all high tech weapons systems that the US has right now will be fully I would say fully defunct and have to be refreshed in twenty five years. You know, some of these some of these platforms like the Bee fifty two can last for fifty or seventy years, but they're totally restripping and redoing electronics every ten to twenty thirty years. So that's where the silver comes in. So yeah, we have a badass military, but the demand for the silver, at least to refresh go forward for the next ten to twenty thirty years is at least one foot in to the strategic metals. I would say, yeah, It's just it's my philosophy on things. I mean, I thinks, really get to crisis stage, should should gold and silver bee party or perhaps the I agree, but maybe there's maybe there's a limit to where it wouldn't make sense right Like now you're making yourself a target. If you can't defend it, it might not be great to have it, right. So gold and silver are only pieces of the whole, and I argue there's lots more powerful pieces to it with hard, hard metals. It all comes back to the hard metals, you know, the weapons and the armor. And we've been designed like this for you know, a long time, a long time. I think the news came out from from Egypt this week that you know, somebody's doing erosion science finally on the corners and base of the Great Pyramids, and the weathering certainly looks like they've stood there twenty, if not forty thousand years. Yeah, like world history's going to be getting changed with our chaeolog She's gonna have to admit things soon. And we're a great, great, great period of time. You know, gold and silver, that was always part of it. But whatever metals a society had that can form weapons, it was always the core of power. So I think we're good in that department. I'm not sure how good we are in the silver paper market right now, but I think we're good in the other departments. Yeah, silver paper market is craziness. I as a sci fi fan, cannot wait until humanity goes and captured a small asteroid and we have all those metals we would ever need. I still think we're at least fifty maybe eighty years from that, so maybe by the time I die, Probably not until then. Silver you're gonna need it, But I like what you said. If you can't defend it, someone's just gonna take your silver or gold. By the way, I got the dashboard backup. Do we want to run through any last articles or did you have anything else you wanted to cover on the silver gold? Yeah? So stream yards of leaving me without a view of what you're showing right now, so I'll have to let you lead the way. If there's any articles I don't think you covered, callum one, do we have anything there? That's pretty much what I did miss and so let's run with it. Virginia to ban modern firearms. If you're a Prepper Broadcasting network listener, which probably are if you're listening to us, guess what the One and Only James and the Intrepid Commander is all over this. Virginia considering tougher gun laws and public safety push. Yeah, be on the lookout. James will be exposing the new governor, et cetera. We have Islaye Maxwell citing dozens of men and an alleged Epstein secret settlement. Co conspirators were never charged. DJ released three million pages of Epstein files, including hundreds of thousands of photos. We did talk little bit about FBI rating Ground zero Fulton. I think that's just right when it happened. Quota says Iran wants to deal as that US Armada arrives. We talked about the USS Abraham Lincoln one. We've already gone through this article. But the fact that the EPA's reviewing the health effects of fluoride. We're also seeing vaccine and cell phone radiation studies, all reported here on Patriot Power Hour in the last year. It's all good news. Here's an important article actually back in the health column that I missed. If v excuse me, iv F company in vitro fertilization, let's couples pick the best embryo and discard the rest that is SHTF level under eugenics are renewed. Don't have too many articles under the eugenics indicator. But here you go again in vitro for the station company, lets couples pick the best embryo and discard the rest a future date. I think that might be everything. I'm looking to see if I missed anything else. I want to hear your take on what we just I just went over. But also the Chinese coup or happened with the general all that too. Yeah, so that Chinese situation could be anything. But if she's going to announce that one of the top generals is, you know, out of power, the way to do it would be just to put out a note that says he was accused of wreaking nuclear secrets to the Americans. Right, He's done after that. So China's a little bit unstable. At the beginning of the year, you and I put percentage chances that we'd see regime chains in Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, and North Korea. We didn't even do China, right, But that is a very unstable situation on the Cuba front. It's not on the heat map dashboard, but looks like we're gonna essentially tear if any countries that enable Cuba to get oil, which could easily collapse that regime, and you know, matter of weeks. Hey, I'll say that if they boy, if they embargoed or boycotted silver that one that collapsed them, but or yeah, that'll collapse him. So that serves your argument, Well, yeah. What else is interesting to you there? I'm ready to talk about any. Of it, obody. I feel like we've gone through most stuff. We haven't mentioned government shut down. Do we have the latest on that this Saturday. I've been you know, kind of following it the past couple days that they did not have a resolution. Do we know when the next vote is? Or past last night after the House left Washington, d C. So the House has to come back and pass the same exact same bills, which is what everybody expects to happen. But it's going to be like a seventy hour partial shutdown because you know, there's other parts of the government that are fully funded. Right. We got very used to form a lot of years these you know, pork barrel omnibust one bill at the last minute, right, you know, you know, just just monstrosities. And the Republicans said, and you know, when they got controlled the House, they're going to go back to regular order. So I think there's like twelve spending bills and now they're severable and they're negotiated separately. So regular order was returned to our budgeting process. And there's other things that you have to understand. I think on Musk ran into some of this and was surprised how it worked when he got there with Doge. But there's things like, for example, the part of the Defense War what have you, has what's known as Defense Working Capital Fund. Right, so there's parts of the the military that are like permanently funded, Like no one in Washington, d C Is going to consider you know, those funds don't always go through, right, those are like hard power, you know, fiat On computer systems. It's always going to continue to happen no matter what else is happening on the outside. Congress could say there's no money for it doesn't matter. There's going to be the Defense Capital Working Fund that says money there, so that things can just happen. The idea would be, you know, eventually that they would you know, reconcile that when funding came through, But no one really believes that it's connected to anything that Congress actually funds anymore. Right, So it's like there's always we're always going to believe, you know, we're all going to act like we have the money to make submarines continue to sail, because they are going to continue to sail regardless of what the money situation is. Right, our power, Right. So what what they've done over the years is most of the Department of Home Security is also funded off of the Defense Working Capital Fund. So really all the you know, policing functions, military functions of the government run just basically you know, to infinity, right. The only the only thing that would bring about the crafts of those institutions is just people walked away, because at some point people might not be getting paid. Right, But this shutdown is apparently going to be a seventy hour thing, and I think the Department of Home Security funding is both home for two weeks so the Democrats can try to bring about reforms in DHS, which I imagine the Trump administration will just you know, you know, agree to until they they just say they're not bound by him anymore. So I think that's what's happening. Best I could tell. Yep, I missed that entire indicator during my news blitz. That's okay, But there was multiple articles about government funding package and said it blocked as negotiations continue then, of course more up to date news that the Senate deal awaits. The House vote from last night and looking here, vote was seventy one to twenty nine. Only five Republicans voted against, including the one and only Rand Paul but Ted Cruz, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, and Rick Scott also voted against it. But seventy one to twenty nine, and that's kind of a blowout. But those are all big names that voted against it. Interestingly enough, well it's not settled, like all of them want some other thing in there that is for you know, one particular issue that they care about. Ran Paul is always going to vote against. Any budget have a you know, a. Reduction right. Exactly, more of a signaling vote or something. I'm sure there's some political science proper term for it. All right, Uh, what I wanted to make sure we didn't miss as well. I mean, this is very wide but deep news blitz today. We had a lot of news blitz is like this in dustions, but today we can't underlook it. The fifth one this month. We did five Patriot Power hours in January twenty twenty six, and all five have been you know, markedly hotter. Heat maps than any other January we've ever done. Absolutely, and it's all the columns. It's not just one column or two columns only either, it's literally all four. All right, one more, I want to get to the FBI raids ground zero Fulton County Election office in twenty twenty voter fraud. Now this is more like it. I've been a little antsy and like this should have happened to day one, but I know it takes time for stuff to occur and people to get in line, and true, you know, actually have the right strategy. You've told me many times. Would you rather wait a little longer but get it done right? Or let these fools off on a technicality? All right, fine, get it. We got to pick up the pace. But this is great to see FBI looking at a twenty twenty voter election fraud in Fulton County. Future, Dan, what's your thoughts here? Well, that'd be great in of itself, But you know, Gabbard's there because you know what kind of strategic voting box you know run by China or other countries that you know definitely have you know, dual citizens influencing our elections. And I think what whatever she finds and however that's framed, that's gonna get filed with the Supreme Court when they look at birthright citizenship and what does that mean compared to you know, illegal aliens or visitor aliens, aliens on you know, the visitor visas you're here for a week. How could your i'll possibly be subject to the law of the United States if you're on a visitor of visa or a week let alone. You know, you just managed to get across the Rio grand before you had a baby, right extremely, you know, consequential times in that regard. If Supreme Court fails us on this, we're we're we're staring down the prospects of the Democrat Party being reinforced with Chinese voting for a century. This has already happened in Canada, and I'll really just look at what's happening with Europe as well. But I don't care about that. I get what's happening here. And the margin is so finn with all the fraud and everything that's happened in the last twenty years, with election fraud, not to mention illegals that can vote in certain areas and mail in and COVID takedown of the Trump election bid, re election bid. Put that all together, and there is almost no margin for error. So literally one hundred thousand Chinese, like we were talking about earlier in the show, that could sway, especially with it's in very strategic locations like Fulton County, Georgia and a couple others. So, yeah, this is very important. That's why it is. It is about national intelligence and national defense, not just a left right issue, you know what I mean. Yeah, there's things working against Democrats favor though, of course, right, I mean not exactly considered the party of families, right, you know, not necessarily replacing their own voters, you know, with large you know, families with offspring. So the numbers start to get brutal for them in certain parts of the country too, and they know it, right, So what you know, these these ice patrols that are sweeping illegal criminals and and coming coming across enough other illegal aliens and deporting them that you know, will provoke riots because regardless of whether you view view that that that side of of the United States populous as you know, you know, underlings tricked by evil overlords, or they're all just basically aware at the various levels I don't know. It doesn't matter. They know that deportation operations is a is a direct threat to their long term political power, which is why you know there's they're gonna be. They're gonna be essentially at Trump's you know, you know Trump and know them when they decide where to do deportation rates. They're really controlling the narrative. It's gonna be. It's gonna be a right honed and probably would I would say greater than fifty percent odds that we're getting an insurrection invocation before the midterms. He could have already done it right at a certain point. It would have been pretty easy to say that when the local police don't bring any you know, help to an ongoing riot in the street, that's insurrection. Trump would have been right. He would have ultimately won those cases just that alone. Well, we're here at the hour mark. I think we've hit pretty much everything we needed to tonight. We're planning to be back next Thursday, though, so we're staying with a Thursday cadence. As long as I don't have any semi plumbing, semi emergencies, fet your dad, anything else you want to hit on before we roll. How would you prep better for plumbing emergencies now you've recently had the opportunity to go through. Hmm, that's a great question. Or just don't replace the saint during regularly scheduled Patriot power our times. Uh well, I would actually say that my preps were effective because I was unable to use water fixtures for about a day. But I, you know, had plenty of storable water water filters. Had no worries about that. I'm more worried about drainage and leaks and rot. You know, don't have your bug out cabin rot from underneath. Luckily mine is not that bad, So plumbing is important though, Like you know, we talked about no electricity, but tried no plumbing. That's worse. Well, I'll leave you with that imaginary ton of gold bars in your front yard. Maybe you think about how to organize around that in the long term. But I just wanted to have the silver versus steel, or the gold versus steel, the bullying versus steel, and the uranium conversation. So I'm glad you entertained that with me today. Oh yeah, that was a good one. It makes sense to me, trust me. Like you're right, it's a second or third order money is not the base need of humanity. Fire and food, shelter and making sure you don't killed by the neighboring tribe like definitely more important always. I think preppers, you're probably talking for a lot of the audience out there that it's a little sick of us talking a little too much about finance, even though it's important. You make great points. Well, I'm sure we will cover this topic a little bit more because I don't think this is over yet. So when you're buying more silver, what price, Sandle, are you looking at? I don't know. I think I have. I'm pretty much fully saturated with gold, silver, and bitcoin. I'm looking to. Price if it's all now, Yeah, there's gotta be some pickup price. You won't be able to resist picking some up What that what's that handle? It had to go back down to twenty five or thirty bucks? Probably? Is that right? Then you're back in okay. Yeah, I mean I bought a fair amount less than that, so it's always good to get more. But I don't know. I got a lot of preps and other things that I could diversify it. But you know, there's always a price. I'll say that for bitcoin, gold and silvery. You never have too much. I could say that. Alrighty Episode three three five. Thank you to the audience for listening on the special Saturday episode. It was a pleasure. Better yes, sir, see you next week.