Patriot Power Hour #345

Well you should I put this on your actions item. Listen, would you decide your love love involvement? We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour, the newest show of the Prepper broad Casting 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. Patriot Power Hour episode three hundred and forty five Been The Breaker Banksters here April thirtieth, twenty twenty six, Future Dan last day April we were able to get another show in. We did, and since the last time we aired, somebody tried to kill the president again. The FED has met and the stalemate and Iran has continued. Yeah, we got a lot of news on the dashboard, but when you talk about those major themes, there hasn't been well the assassination attempt to the side at least, but with Iran, not much has changed. Nothing's really improved or gotten too much worse. Oil is above a hunter today and uh, with regard to the debt, with regard to all these other things, you know, we'll talk about it, but I don't know. We can start with the FED if we need to. Do we need to, I guess I am apathetic to these days. Yeah, you've capitulated on the FED. Have you the most descent ever in that Austere appointed body of American politics political economy, most ascent ever? And it's the last J. Powell chairman brief But then they held then they held rate steady. So what do you think, Well, they. Trump once rates at zero percent. He said it multiple times over his last twelve years. Can't do it because that would blow inflate inflation way above the three point five percent that's coming in that right now, which is fairly high. So, you know, the capitulation to the Fed, I'm just sick of it. Trump. We'll see what he actually does with a new placement or a new person in there. But he ain't revolutionizing the system. He's not auditing Fort Knox, he's not stopping the national debt. He's not reforming Medicare, he's not cutting spending. He's Doze. Yes, Doze was somewhat successful. Stopped a lot of us AID fraud and a lot of other fraud, which is good. But I don't know. The Fed ain't going nowhere at this rate. He's a supply sider though, you know, growth the economy. What do you think about tariffs and fuel costs and the AI boom and the and just the prospects of growth this year? See you and we believe it. I guess the AI boom it's having a lot of positive impact. But there's a lot of uh circular logic where you know, all these companies keep making deals with one another. If one of these companies fails, then the other ones are going to be really stuck holding the bag. But there I feel like it'll be similar to the dot com bust where a lot go bankrupt, but those who survived just revolutionize the entire economy make trillions of dollars. So AI is for real, but there is a little frothiness and I don't you know, that's fine, that's innovation, but I don't know if that's going to grow us out of here with with the inflation continuing to pick up, not just maintain. Well, you know there's the AI companies, the AI investment and AI bubble on Wall Street. That's you know, set that aside just straight up productivity just or improved quality of anything that you know demands the and word, which is most of business, right, and. My experience, most business is fairly unproductive. So hopefully all that unproductive stuff will be taken over by AI, or it will just be more efficient at doing unproductive, wasteful tasks, which you know, I expect that, like any AI done by the government will just be additional waste that they'll be able to perpetrate with AI, So it goes both ways. I would agree with you entirely in that statement. Before doge, well, what's those doing these days? Why are they holding press conferences monthly showing you know, they're fifty billion dollars that they saved that month. Maybe they're doing it and I'm not paying close enough attention, but like that should be the top five priority, and it's not. Well, I think it was pretty clear about this time last year that they yeah, no, they still had more left to go by by last July, oh not April, but July, they hit the limit of advance on what can be done within the executive branch itself, right then with a with a with a margin like with the president's parties margin, and the House and Senate so thin. I mean, that's that's just kind of reality. Yeah, it looks like it's gonna get way worse after midterms, so no, hope, then this is a miracle. But midterms not trending well, looks like I don't know, I'm not a politico, but very unlikely it'll be a better situation one year from now to make change, is my guess. But it just depends on the the majorities in both houses, right. And they're pretty lame anyway. Even with the majority, probably won't even act. Yeah, So I don't know. You look back when there was big majorities parties passed. You know, we we we had things happen in the nineties under Gingrich and of course you know Obamacare after Layman Brothers fell apart right at the end of Bush's term and everything swung hard to all all all all the popular branches controlled by Democrats, big legislation could get passed when you got like a thirty seat margin in the in the House of Representatives and you know, you're you're up at five senators in one party. But I'm not saying it's going to swing either way. I think it's still going to be really close after the midterms, and the Supreme Court basically nearly struck down a nineteen sixties voting rights Act, you know, on the basis of you know, clearly jerry mandered you know, racial preference districts. So that came from a decision for something Louisiana had done. That that that's gonna cause all of these redistrict redistricting efforts, all the the redistricting wars of twenty twenty five, twenty twenty six, like you know, and then there's still deportation underway and court cases to actually, you know, for for the federal government to see the voter rules of the Democrat states and start to identify all the names that are dead, all the names are illegal, all the names that are convicts, all the names that their vote, their vote can't count. Right, So this election, midterm environment for how elections are run, it's gonna be it's gonna be way different. And the summer's coming. We might have insurrection and the Insurrection Act this summer, so you know, be I would make no bets about how this election turns out. Right now, Well, I think it's time to get into the news blitz and yeah, yeah, I am at a forty six hour of a fast so I'm cranky, are you? But I'll do my best. Yes, gotta get my quarterly fast in. Okay, take it under cranky, but I'll try to focus pretty good shape, I think mentally, we'll see all right, here we go, let's see. I think a matter of time before you have not particulated on the FED. Yeah, it's going to be a temporary. It's just annoying. Like, I don't know, I think the opportunity to end the FED and wipe out this myth of FED independence is closer than ever. There's the whole idea that you couldn't audit the FED, is this idea that the FEDS is fourth branch of garment. It's untouchable. Nobody's you know, gone after the FED, like like Trump, I can't. I'm actually surprised you're not, you know, kind of pleased about that. Just feel like he wants to use it for his own purposes and just instead of like doing it for the right reasons, he just wants to control the ring of Mordor himself or whatever the hell the ring you know, go to Mordor, I guess, but no, the lord of the rings there, Like I want it so I can be the rich You know I could go down in history is saving everything myself. Anyway, Let's start with the news, but I'll try to go fast. US Navy to extend Iran blockade, Supreme Court to review geo fencing and pivotal Fourth Amendment cases are both happening now. SHTF level that geo fencing will definitely take a look at that. That's it, though, I mean two extremely impactful articles put only two in the liberty column for security domestic and international. Purported Pentagon email floats suspending Spain from NATO. German Chancellor says Iran is humiliating the US as talk Stall sentcom to deploy dark Eagles, which are hypersonics, and we reported on it last week, was on its way, but it's now arrived. A third US aircraft carrier in the Middle East. Huge news Saturday Night, White House Press correspondence dinner. Crazy guy just runs right through security with shooting at people. He was taken down, President evacuated, shots fired, shooter in custody. Cole Allen, thirty year old California former teacher, tweets and other evidence suggesting radicalization fueled by Democrat messaging. Of course, there's the thoughts of is this a false flag? False flag conspiracy swirl around the assassination continuing on FBI probs, theft of fifteen agricultural spray drones in Jersey as Iran war heightened bioterror fears. Get some of these spray drones put some chlorine gas in it or something probably not good economically. Well, this actually soured my mood as much as my fast is that the federal government debt at one hundred percent of GDP, and I would say it's actually way higher. Inflation locked in at three point five percent, oil above one hundred dollars today, gas highest level in four years. FED could not lower interest rates because of this. But there's a lot of descent, which we'll talk about, some of the highest descent in the voting of the FED in decades, America's bond market privilege disappearing as federal government debt soares Yeah, we have quite the privilege here, and it's been squandered for the last couple decades and running its course. From a strategic production point of view, above and beyond the economy, the free market economy, that is, defense production act on grid, infrastructure, equipment and supply chain capacity. Presidential determination also related to economy federally seesed at a mid level indicator tonight, budget airlines pits Trump administration on a bailout or relief plan two point five billion, So watching that closely, more centralization of power potentially, and news and nature. There's a six point one earthquake in northern Japan, fairly large earthquake, swarm around Area fifty one, tornadoes and Texas, a little bit of volcanoes going on. We talked last week about wildfires down in the southeast like in Georgia, Florida, floods and Yemen. So you know, there's always natural disasters. We'll report on them if we see big trends or big knock on effects, but nothing too out of control right now. Has been a bit of a drought though in the sixty percent drought, wheat crops wither, herds thin, and I wanted to save last for the least, no last, but not least. I've tried to say, under life spans unnaturally extended, rich and powerful, one to live forever. What if they could thought experiment or a little bit of a research as well into that. New therapy based on natural rejuvenation discovery has the potential to reverse aging future Dan, that's the news blitz And Uh, I've been told that if i can live into the year twenty fifty, then I'll live into the year twenty one p fifty due to the life extension that will be around. So if I can make it another like twenty years, then they say I can live another one hundred years after that. I don't know if I believe them, But what's your thoughts on where we ended tonight's news blitz Rejuvenate Nation life extension all that. Not everybody will get to have that, So doing that is super. Dangerous, super dangerous, one hundred percent where I'm not going to take any experimental geep therapies, neuro therapies. I mean at this point I barely take asprand so it is what it is. I try to live healthy lifestyle. That's my life extension. But if it proved to be true and then it was safe and it worked, and you were not allowed to have it, then what would you think. I'd be pretty pissed. If they don't let you have it, then it probably works. If they try to push it on you or give it to you for quote unquote free, then maybe there's a catch. That's interesting because we thought of it from exact, say, opposite directions. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, but if it was denied, in fact, it'll automatically be denied as a sore of political power, so that the disenfranchise have you know, something to you know, gain power and exert force. And that's exactly what the ritual do. They'll take it, they'll make it so they can only have it, and then they will propagate it this message to the poor that the poor are there for brief amounts of short, brutish hobbsey and lives to service the you know, you know, basically, you know, an aristocracy back on earth. You know, it's dangerous because not everybody's going to have it, not not everybody will be able to take it, even if it were widely available. And of course, who's going to get rich providing it? All good answers. They were writing about this like one hundred plus years ago, and of course then it turned into some eugenics and beyond that, well we can go down the rabbit hole conspiracy theories depopulated. But yeah, I could understand where they're like, hey, we can't have eight billion people living to two hundred years old, Like what about their kids and their kids as kids like before you know, we're gonna have hundreds of billions. That's why Elon Musk says we got to like go to the stars asapp we could actually have that many people if we left the planet. This is over like several centuries, not several decades. So I you know, i'd I'd rather talk about that stuff than some of the news we got going here. But I got to kind of ground to myself, and we got a lot right in front of us right now. Yeah, we do. I'm ready to react to any of the stories or the indicators in general with their recent histories that you want to direct us too. Well, let's just start with the first call. I'm here. Liberty war unconstitutionally waged shows up again this week, as well as unreasonable search and seizure normalized, which has shown it's here. I pict your power hour over the last decade, but maybe not as much recently. But both these articles one US Navy to extend the blockade and two the Geo fencing Fourth Amendment case. Maybe you could tag on with the Jerry manderin Supreme Court case. I know it's not dangerous. It's not why it's on here, but go for it. Yeah, here's a metaphor for you, Like if if the US Constitution and all of it's you know, you know, articles and and tenants, all the all the points of it were the exterior of a rubber tire and that wheel was just just stomped on the brakes and you were screeching to all the surface that's getting you know, rubbed off in the in the in the in the process is the Fourth Amendment and the war powers, the whole concept of war powers, just two examples in Calumn one tonight that point to where, you know, no matter how great we look back at, you know, the accomplishments of the founders, there was you know, situations and environments that they the Constitution wasn't designed for. And there you go. You know, that's why those are the abused parts of the Constitution. Fourth Amendment is probably the worst part of it. You know, just you know, you still have a right to not be surveilled if you're at your house, on your property, you know, you know, just don't use electronics, don't broadcast on a radio wave like you and I are right now. Otherwise, you know, you don't. Your Fourth Amendment rights aren't all there. And war powers, right, we've talked about it for weeks since this Iran operation at Puri, Right, but I'm I would have supported a yes vote for declaring war, by the way, but we didn't do that. And War Powers Act of the Vietnam are Uh, no president since it's been passed has agreed it's constitutional. So you know, the entire conversation. If Trump has this much more time under the War Powers Act, that's bstimate that law was never constitutional. And I listened just the other day to you know, a clip of Roosevelt declaring or going to Congress to ask for the declaration of war against Japan, Right, haven't We haven't done it since, so that part of the constitution is broken. Well. With that said, gas is at its highest level in four years, even more than when Russia went into Ukraine. Or that's pretty much what's paired up to. Uh, haven't had a resolution in Iran, but you know, we got another carrier in there. Apparently ground forces are still hanging out ready to go in at a moment's notice. Is this still kind of a bluff or posturing? I mean that came out and said, hey, we could siege them for four months and they'll fall. So is this just a siege or are they going to actually go in? What are you thinking here? It's a siege and it's an active order to blockade and it's working. And what I never understood about, you know, the whole petroleum situation, and I'm sure people did well ahead of time, is, you know, make it so the Iranians have to shut off their pumps because they have no storage left, which is apparently pretty close to being true. The Iranians are storing you know, petroleum crude and what's called junk storage like barrels and train you know, just places that unrefined crud isn't supposed to go, but they have nowhere else to put it. And from what I understand is if they have to shut off their wells, those wells will get backed up by groundwater and the engineering require to recover that. It's like I Ran will be out of the petroleum industry for a long time, very soon unless unless all that's turned back on, and pretty clear Trump knowses. I can only imagine has been knocked off live for quite a while already. No, no, no, no, they're pumping. No, no, they're pumping. They're pumping. They're they're discussing loading up trains and shipping it to China. They're filling tankers that are parked offshore that aren't going anywhere, and they're literally just scrapping together anything that will hold crude oil to try to not have this everything turned off. They have not turned off yet, but they're getting to the point where they're they're just gonna be pumping crude onto the ground if they don't. If they if they will have nowhere else to put it. And at that point they have to shut their off. Right Yep, I suppose I misspoke maybe a little bit. I meant more like eighty or ninety percent of their oil that they'd be able to normally produce store transport cell it's probably already been cut off. I would expect. Maybe they're still pumping it, but you know that's super inefficient that by putting it on trains and stuff already reduces the efficiency by a half hour or more. So they're definitely getting strangled stranglehold there. Yeah, And obviously Trump's gonna come out in a short amount of time and say that was a strategy all along. I just didn't tell all you fools that kept saying I didn't have a strategy because speaking out loud would have hindered the strategy. So is that what we're going to expect. Somewhere between now and four months, they'll just fold, literally fold because they got you know, I got, like a chokehold from a fighter, just goes unconscious eventually, even if they still want to tap out. So I wonder if there's covert action going on to kill whatever elements of the Iranian regime won't cooperate because it's fractured, right, mosaic, it's there's no central power right now, right if that's happening solely, but surely and and then and any members of the regime that are willing to cooperate solely or surely are being incentivized to do that, right, I mean, that's what you're looking at. So I don't think there needs to be a full on assault, although advertising to the rest of the world that the third carrier arrived and the Dark Eagles are about to be put you know, experimental hypersonics brought to the battlefield for the first time at least you know, you know, in an unclassified way, right, I mean, it's it's all part of the information campaign. Well, Spain gonna be kicked out of NATO is cooperating too much? Now that needs trash. What do you think we we I've said before, the US is NATO, but we don't have power to expel other members unilaterally. So the Pentagon paper basically suggested that, you know, I think we're going to stop acting like Spain is in NATO, but technically we can't expel members. Just put them on the kid's table and just ignore them. But they still get to hang out. I guess that's a good question if NATO treaty is even written to, you know, address how members can exit it, because it's never been thought of, right, Maybe there's maybe there's an article in there how you would do that, but it would I'm obviously all the members that signed out probably had some mechanism, like it had to be a majority of members to expel somebody. You know, Honestly, Turkey has been borderline ally for many decades. At times somebody must have considered what would it mean Since the end of the Cold War, Stan, end of the Soviet Union, Before the end of the Soviet Union. No one was thinking about this at all, but since the end of the Soviet unions right now, somebody probably thought about expelling Turkey at certain points. Well, what do you think about let's just keep rolling down through this. The Trump assassination attempt or what happened at the Correspondence dinner. You know that happened since our last time we were on air. Yeah, And I'd like to ask you, what credence do you give any conspiracy theory that this was at a minimum a liehob let it happen on purpose? Mm So conspiracy on Trump's end, right on their side, because there's still a non zero chance, better than zero chance that is some sort of conspiracy on the Democrat side, even though it kind of blows up in their face, I guess, but uh, I don't know, non zero chance? Why not? Why not have they know this idiot's gonna do this? But not very high but chance. I mean, I can't believe this stuff doesn't happen more often. That's why Trump has not really been out in public as much, because, I mean, pretty easy to just run through security. You're not gonna get to the ballroom. Though I can't believe they didn't get shot down a lot quicker than that. I think people were just surprised so much. But these people are paid professionals. I don't know why they're not paying more attention to front of the security. But I don't know. Have you ever heard of the word shikane? Yeah, uh huh, yeah, I think I first heard that on like racing, but I know that's actually for like a roadblock. Right, Yeah, it's a serpentine kind of roadblocking. Definitely think that they didn't like checkpoint operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Something that prevents you know that, you know, anybody approaching the checkpoint from doing what this pool did last Saturday night, So get ready for that when you know it'll it'll now become the new mandatory way of running checkpoints. But it's also you know, pretty much every airport you go to makes you walk through that kind of maze to get to you know, TSA is already doing it at airport, So I'm surprised that they set it up at this hotel and let him have a running start like that, but just one of those security gaps like yeah, I remember he did that. Now, well, that's never going to happen again. It's like the It's like the guy who hijacked up what was the name of the guy, dB Cooper took that took the airplane right and and hijacked it and demanded the cash and then jumped out of the back and all that, you know, dB Cooper issues. Some have speculated that was the c I A running an op in the United States to force the change necessary because it because it was obvious that we were vulnerable. Definitely interested there U. I don't have it queued up by any means, but Press Secretary goes on pretty quickly thereafter, probably the day after I'm not sure exactly, but just talks about how we need DHS so much funding, we need all this. I'm like, oh my god, he sound like the Bush administration now. And that's the breaking news tonight. Uh, the longest and strangest government shutdown ended this afternoon, right. So we got that. And then the next words out of their mouth is this is why we need the ballroom, which maybe is true. So I mean, never let a good crisis go to waste, as Rob Emmanuel says, so same thing for Trump administration. But I'm like, huh, if you wanted to stoke the flames of people with conspiracy minded It's, yeah, we need more money for DHS, and we need more money for the secret ballroom with a bunker underneath it. I don't see what the resistance of the ballroom is. I mean, Nixon put a bowling alley in and I think Obama, Obama tore it out and put a basketball court in place, right like this isn't now. Right? Well, I mean I don't think that they let it happen, let it have it on purpose just to get a ball room. But you'll you'll never recognize the White House again when Trump's done with it the second term though. Because he gonna do the arc de Trump though, Do. I think that'll ever get built? I don't know. I don't know. Oh, that would have to be authorized by Congress and funded. Just the very ground that it sits on is the district, so it would have to be like approved. So I mean, eventually Democrats get back a power tear down like a Roberty Lee statue or something, So yeah, maybe maybe that'll make me support it. Then maybe i'd actually want it then. If that's the case, all right, anything else on the Trump assassination. I don't know, like I don't hardly believe anything one hundred percent, but it's just it's pretty pretty simple to see just some dumbass doing that, Like I would never do that, but you know, it'd be easy to kind of do what he did. Just just somebody speculating that there was a conspiracy. That's now part of the American political culture. It's always going. To be there. And last I read there was a Secret Service agent shot and there was a round fired apparently from you know, Alan's shotgun, but it isn't still like necessarily known that he shot somebody. So there's all kinds of little, you know, who shot JFK kind of in the moment kind of weirdness, And I think that's always going to be part of it. When I was a little kid, I remember when Reagan was shot and people the next day speculating that somebody shot Reagan out of the window, not just Hinkley from the street. Right. And Hinckley, by the way, did manage to note that the that the Hilton and Washington d C is unsecured, that of course the same hotel Reagan was walking out when Hinkley shot him. Right, ain't that crazy? Well, I think it's good everyone. You know, some people at least question everything. Doesn't mean everything's questionable or ends up eating conspiracy. But you know, I shouldn't just believe everything you're told, that's for sure. Yeah, I agree with that. There's some weird stuff. I heard three different and they're a little bit of fogy warn there. Maybe there's this info just to throw people off the trail, or to spin up conspiracy theorists, to kind of throw the toy over there to distract them from something else. But they said, yeah, first this person came in and shot a guy in the body, arm or still, and they're like, oh, the phone stopped it. Then they said, yeah, we shot this the subject and they said, no, we didn't shoot them, and so the tons of conflicting but I don't know, crime scenes always have conflicting witness statements anyway. Yeah, and he was moving fast. You've seen the video. He's fast as shit. I could have believed someone didn't take him out quicker, but they were just like so surprised. I guess. Yeah, it's just one of those things. Nobody ever did for it, and now it's been done. And be sure that it's going to be almost impossible to ever do that again when you're going through metal detectors near the president, for sure. For sure. All right, let's see what else we got here in the security column. One more the fifteen agricultural spray drones in New Jersey. Let's read more about this. See if it's legit or just fear mongering. What's your initial take? It doesn't. All you need to know is that they've been stolen. So that's you know, after nine to eleven. It's like immediately got to think the worst afterwards. So how you know we're looking at this article for those that are watching live. They carry a forty tank and cover about thirty six foot swath around waypoints, so it's kind of like a thirty six foot wide and it just keeps going and going. Or you can make a pattern of it so you can go hit certain areas and move on to another area. And you know, I have had one of those vacuum robots. It's kind of like that. You can program it to do certain things. Right. I'm not sure how many exact square miles or acres it can cover per se, but it seems like it's a lot. And if they did in a very populated area, it'd be very very bad. Yeah. Yeah, this is just the fact that those are so uncontrolled. Probably gonna be another one of those examples of someone seriously needs to lock down that technology. Right, how much re engineering would it take to you know, change that that aircraft to carry napalm and and to be able to light things right like the like not not really an effective weapon of war, right, forest fires by by flying a sixty liter tanking a palm around. It be be hard to put it into effect in like a theater like Ukraine. And I say this because I'm pretty sure those two sides would have been spilling napalm on the other a couple of years ago if it was made military sense. But just as a terror weapon, that is absolutely frightening what that could do to a densely populated city just fly through it and just imagine flying over, like just straight down one block in New York and getting every building seriously on fire on the roof. Yeah. No, those those things are have to be better controlled weapons. This is not something that is you know, a Second Amendment right to bear napalm drones. Not to say the least, but that kind of goes in with that geo fencing we were talking about early, but geofence is more cell phone data. But they also have geofencing for drones like can you enter certain areas and can you film in certain areas? So it's not the exact same thing, but you know, geofencing of drones is imported. I would expect if our intelligence systems as legit as it should be, they got some sort of way to prevent that from happening, but maybe not at what exactly, Like if those drones are could be detected fairly easily and disabled either with a kill switch or just shot down if they were approaching you know, New York for example, or major city. I don't know. They got all types of trackers in my car, I know that, so hopefully they can track these drones that are way more expensive than my car. Well they could track it and watch it go do all of its terror. Because these cities aren't outfitted with any kind of weapon system to bring them down. Well, the military better be on ready to go. I mean, what are we paying them for DHS? What are you doing? Can't take out some drones? I mean, how can they not track them? They can track everything else in this world. Well, you mixed up a couple of things there that probably deserve separation. Homeland security is not the military. This would seem to be a very appropriate National Guard mission. National Guard Guard probably would never get funded by Congress until something terrible happened like this, and all the federal police agencies are gonna want to have it instead of the National Guard and the National Guard, the Army National Guard, right that this would be from the ground, they're gonna they're not gonna want to They're gonna they're gonna throw it away and say, well that that's not what the National Guard if activated to be federal troops and go to war, they're not gonna have to worry about this, So our people don't need to be trained in this. So make it a DHS function, and then DHS is gonna have limited funds, and then they're gonna have to partner with you know, like New York Police Department or you know, Washington Metropolitan Police. So you get into you know, one of one of the you know, resoundingly successful features of our republic is federalization, right, and you know, power centers split up. Then you get into a problem like this you the exact problem that unifying the approach is hard because we're federal. Well it's been twenty five years since nine eleven, so if they can't figure that out by now, that's pretty sad. What I'm pretty much getting at is if there is a bioterror attack with these drones or any other drones, I'm calling false flag immediately. It's not Iran doing it. I don't know. Russians putting some of these into effect out west to start massive forest fires makes sense to me if they needed that to be affecting the US news cycle and draining our resources. Peer enemies could do this to us. You just got to control those kinds of aircraft. They can't. Can't, can't. You know, that's just we're not. We all live in a world where you can just freely have things that can spray from above. It's it's dangerous. Oh yeah, all right. Economically, oh man, well, as we stand right now, gas pretty high, oil one hundred and six dollars. Something we don't talk we haven't talked too much about on this show though, is it's not just like a quarter of the world's oil supply, but lots of other stuff from the helium for semiconductor manufacturing to the fertilizer. Lots other stuff goes through there. And it's not just about prices, it's about lack of availability and you know, shutting things down. So that's a huge headwind. Trump was seemingly on the right track. The economy was picking up, inflation mostly tepid a lot. You know, let's just call it twenty twenty five. The inflation that we'd seen in Biden had abated. It hadn't gone backwards necessarily, but on some things it had, in particular fuel. But that's all over with for now. But do you think that's temporary? And you know, if we do finish up with Iran in the next month or two, they can get gas back under three bucks a gallon nationwide by midterms. Guess what not not to be rude, And I know you're in the middle of fast you're a little cranky anyways, but I don't care what. What what matters to me is the Chinese strategic petroleum reserves are getting drawn down day after day after day. The Chinese military is getting weaker day after day after day. The Chinese military is witnessing technology and capability that they don't have and and some full of The New York Times wrote about how, you know, the US military edge has been demonstrated to be you know, lost in what just stupid Democrat talk, just just getting stupid democrats to kind of have something to say that is it's fun because it's absolutely in the face of truth, right, that kind of stuff now that they know what time it is in Beijing, in Moscow, So yeah, I mean, we're exporting an incredible amount of oil right now. The United States of America is exporting it, right, helium right we now will just collect a helium that used to just leak out of the earth in the United States because it had been cheaper just to let I don't know, UAE in Kuwait collected and I'm also seeing UAE leave Opek. I'm watching OPEK break up right now, right because Venezuela is not in OPEC in any functional way right now, UAE is walking out. Russia has been essentially you know, you know, unable to really coordinate with the rest of OPIC since it attacked Ukraine. We talk about NATO dissolving, We're watching OPEC dissolved. And if OPEK dissolves, the Petro dollar continues for the rest of our lives. Yeah, I guess that's the only move on the chessboard, because otherwise Petro dollars dead in twenty years. So war it is. Makes sense. So I've always been back behind the military. So I mean, what's is the main reason to stop China from going into Taiwan. I guess that's how we could justify it being worthwhile, because if it's just a dick measuring contest, like, look what we could do. We're way better. We got way more overmatch than you imagined. Okay, Like, is that really worth it? Maybe maybe not. I've said it before. If it stops the nuclear war or even an invasion of Taiwan, I guess it's worth it. You know, you rush, it's almost too late with Ukraine, but stops them from going too crazy. Maybe I don't know. I don't know the real data points and facts of what's going on, but man, it's every day billions and billions more dollars down the drain, so better have a good justification. I don't know. If it's down the drain, i'd be a lot cheaper than the long long run. Might there might be some opportunity cost calculus here, right, So Trump looked at it like this needs happened in my presidency. Or think about the cost of bringing about mutually assured destruction and guaranteeing it in the Middle East if the ar Anian regime had nuclear weapons, right, So there's a lot way to measure these things. Can justify there's a one percent chance of that that it's worth destroying them. I guess possibly. I mean the math works out it's infinitely horrible, so you almost have one percent of infinite as infinite. I mean that's Israeli thoughts right there. That's why they're going after it. But they're the ones under the biggest target, so I could understand that too. I don't know. I think it's mostly bogus, but I get where you're coming from. If it's it's more of a show to everyone else. Here's our cool tech, it's good at research, experiment, and I ran a bunch of assholes. So, I mean the leadership deserved this beat down for sure, just I don't know was it worth it. I guess we'll see in the future. Maybe in fifty years we can actually know if it was or not. Yeah, I mean, if Trumpet truly solves it with the regime truly falls if it fundamentally changes the world order it the outcome, I don't. I can't see how it would be more expensive to US shifting oil production to make the United States a net exporter of fossil fuel energy for the next several decades. I think that could be very, very good for our economy. I'd rather you advance the twenty first century technology instead of nineteenth cents your technology. But I get what you mean. I think the combustion engine is a human marvel that hasn't been barely ever been rivaled. And not understanding that and and demonizing combustion engines is I just never understood it. No, it's they're pretty legit. It's all about the energy is that it's stored in in oil and gasoline. It's just so much more energy dense than everything except for uranium, which we should be going all in on on that. Now. I know we have some progress in that regard, but yeah, I don't know. More of the same. Where we're gonna be twenty years from now, then okay, we're gonna have to do it all over again and just keep cycling every twenty thirty years for the oil. The war for the oil continues. I don't know if OPEC fell apart. Sadi's sad. He's the OPEC guys. They're supposed to be our friends, but I guess they're not. No one's really the friends over there. Well, that's the cartel, always was a cartel. Trump's breaking up all kinds of cartels. Except the banksters. I mean, I'm waiting to see one bankster go to jail. But uh maybe next year. Yeah, well, JPL might be hanging around on the Board of Governors because he doesn't want the Komi treatment. Kobe was arrested like what yesterday. Yeah, I should have been arrested a year ago on way worse charges of sedition instead of just some bs about of some seashells that it always more than a veiled threat. But there's so much worse at him and Hillary and the rest of them should go down for. They have to. They have to do it in a way that sticks, though, and then think about stick. They're going to drop it in three months. No, they got the what was it North Carolina was the grand jury? They they went and found someplace that would convict. We'll see, we'll see I'm not. I'm just going to say that it's not going to happen, but I hope I'm wrong. A conviction that's overturned somehow a technicality, that's my bet right here. What would polymarket give me for that? Hey, let's talk about the Defense Production Act being used to force the production of electronic components in the United States. I didn't realize the percent of just all the hardware that that you need to run you know, modern electricity to you know, houses and businesses, and it's just everywhere, you know, all the components that were that have been you know, offshore in several decades. So that's Defence Production Act. It's the economy being federally seized. And it's sort of that has the same paradox to me as the Iran War. Paradoxically, I'm in favor of fighting Iran, but against not doing it without a constitutional declaration of war. And I am torn like it's come to this, we have to use Defensive Production Act to force companies in the United States to make the infrastructure that during a major conflict with EMP weapons, we would be in dire straits if we can't replace that hardware. So it's the command economy, it's the command of wartime economy. Trump's running in a lot of regards. Yet I have to agree that it's less dangerous to do these things. I would agree another thing that what have they been doing the last twenty five years, because i mean, freaking new Gingrids came out with something like twenty years ago about Howard emp very susceptible transformers take eighteen months, and they're all overseas and there's hardly in backup deployment available blah blah blah blah blah. So I'm hopeful that some of that has been short up in the last couple of decades. But Trump's saying, no, it need more, which at the sound at the risk it sounded like a COMMI centralized planner. I'm all for this when it comes to infrastructure, electrical, and you know, transportation in particular, like that is not something the free market necessarily, especially redundancy and stuff that's not necessarily profitable to a company but needs to get done. So in that regard, I'm more favorable for sure on this and Iran war like actually get behind this. It could be attacked by an enemy, if it could be attacked by enemy and have a a significant effect on you know, on our ability to defend from that, because you know, most of the United States after an EMP attack with its infrastructure would be you know, be a tough situation to defend ourselves, right, we would do it, and it would be costly and and I tolly believe you know, if we were under attack like that, you know that our arm services would prevail, but it would be hard going for a long long time, and and and it would be big losses. So you know, if it could be attacked by the enemy, you know, I wish we could have agricultural drones that could be freely sold with minimum regulation, maximum innovation, maximum profitability. Let the free market prevail. But then the damn thing can be turned into a cam bio weapon. So you can't have that. For sure. It's definitely uh, I mean, we'd be way too easy if it was binary. Yes, no, black white, all that. It's not that easy. Let's see economically what else? Oh see, this is actually what put me a little angry earlier today. Like I said, I'm fasting, but US debt tops one hundred percent of GDP where they getting their numbers at This is some BS numbers. We're way. Honestly, I pulled that right before the show. I haven't had time to investigation. It's not your fall is Wall Street Journal. It's on the top of freaking Drudge report. They say, yep, publicly held debt thirty one point two trillion, and the annual GDP is essentially that same amount. But everything I've seen US national debt is thirty nine going on forty trillion, which is way higher than thirty one trillion. I mean, ask yourself, would you rather be thirty nine years old or thirty one? Does it make a difference? Probably a little bit. So they caveat by saying publicly held debt. This is still a whitewash by Wall Street Journal. And you know, the depths is spending is ridiculous and continues to grow as well. So but perhaps you should just give credit that someone at the Wall Street General found it, found out maybe a somewhat you know, misleading way, but is just at least keeping this in the conversation, putting this before you know, Congress, putting it out there before the midterms, making it part of the discussion, and bringing attention to how dangerous the national debt is. Or shall I say, the federal government debt. And I would have thought that you were, you know, at least supportive of the attempt to you know, keep keep it, keep it all aware of our debt. It's a bridge too far for Wall Street Journal. But I gave you that. They at least put it out there because it makes Trump look bad, so that's why they did it. And sometimes truth comes out because of that, So that's good. I mean, that's why I gotta have the tension between the two parties. Sometimes they have to use the truth to hurt the other guy when it comes down to it, right, So, but I don't know. People don't care until it's too late about the debt, honestly, and anyone over the age of forty, definitely over the age of fifty. All they care about is that none of their benefits are cut. And everybody under that is just like I've screwed. I'm gonna pay all this money in taxes and Social Security and never get it back, and that's gonna happen someday. It's just like at this point, it's musical chairs. Though it's in everybody's self interest to kick the can down as long as it can till it explodes and hopefully you know you're dead by then before it blows up. Hopefully it happened in the year twenty sixty, not the year twenty thirty. Yeah, you know, outliving the problem is. You know, I wouldn't say everybody, but many people are guilty of that, just knowing that they're gonna outlive the problem and therefore they don't have to address it. And there's there's the reasons, there's other reasons. But you know, having a constitutional amendment that put age caps on you know, members of all branches of government right mandatory retirement ages so that you know, you know, just the average age of the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, and the President is lowered. You know, could could could be a good thing, but it would take constitutional amendment. And again that's nothing that the founders ever thought about because when the founders founded the country, when they lived at to the ages they do now, right, so they never thought it was possible and they never they never planned for the Constitution has some built in things that aren't quite right with the modern world. Now, what the founders envisioned is that we would amend it intelligently along the way. So you could start, you know, advocating for the next constitutional amendment to help in that regard make it. I don't know what age would you send it that in all those bodies. Mm hmm, I would might have to be limited to uh one term. So two years for a representative, six years for a senator. That's it. Never get a run again for that office. You could be a rep for two years, a Senator for six, and a president for four and that's it. That's what I would do. That's one way, But it takes away the freedom of a people in a particular jurisdiction who like their representative and know that they're good to bring them back to office. Right, So you're limiting a freedom there. But if you make the argument based upon cognitive don't decline because we have the science now the things that people aren't able to be able to they aren't able to do mentally after certain ages, right, and and that you know, you know, our our our Congress right now is just got some you know, people dying in office. They're so old. Right, So you just we have minimums. Can't be in the House or the Senate or the president without meeting the minimum. Why not just have maximums. It's tough to say. I guess seventy five might be a good maximum. Then if I had to pick one an age. Yeah, I think people over in that, just especially in the presidency in a world where you might have to command strategic forces at a moment's notice, that's probably would be prudent. But we got you know, we can't. We can barely you know, pass budget bills to fund the Department Home and Security, let alone you know, bring about you know, new amendments in the competition. It's going to be it's gonna have to pick just a massive swing in one or the other directions to have majorities that could do that sort of thing. Yep, we'll find out if that could happen. Not, I don't think anytime soon, even after the mid it will be a grid lock no matter who comes out. Ekes out a little bit on top, like we were talking about before we went on air, We've been on about an hour. We got a few minutes left. We haven't even touched the fourth column very much. But was there anything else we want to hit on before we hit some nature and health to finish out. No, let's go there and the area of fifty one news sort of you know, brought you down a beat on your blitzkreeg, I might say, but that right, there could be the nuclear weapons testing resuming. Yeah, I don't know, by missing the beat or well, I just like to it or something. I don't know if it was resignation or chagrin or just just interesting talking about Area fifty one. I don't know. I was thinking the same thing, like, it probably is freaking if not nuke tests and then some underground pulsion or power generation, or it could just be some random ass earthquakes. But I don't know. I think it's worth keeping track of these things and the aggregate looking for trends, but hard to really pin this on something, right, of course, not so. Yeah, And then there's always the layer of you know, what are the states communicating to each other behind closed doors? You know what when asked by the Russians of the Chinese, what was that, we you know, have an answer for them. They don't want to hear. That's. Uh. Well, we've talked a little bit about disclosure and what's going to get released, and there's been a little hints from Trump and the administration. I haven't seen so much yet we've talked about you know, unidentified or what unmanned vehicles or the tic TACs, tiktoks whatever, tic TACs not tiktoks. Run it out of steam here anyway? Are we going to see more substantive developments there now that we're talking about conspiracies in Area fifty one? What's going on? I don't think it's expiracy. They were doing something on the ground. I don't know. I don't know, but my first inclination is it's a tough story for you know, weapon systems we have that we want to you know, let our peers know we have that are they're super weapons developing secret And Trump's basically said, we got stuff that you wouldn't believe. So who knows. We actually came full of. Exactly depends how valuable what an information campaign is going on at the time. Well, and that's why it's hard for me to even really comment on anything. I forced myself to on a radio show, but I don't like to make comments as I know ninety percent of the lay of the land of the topic, and I don't know ten percent of lay of the land on Area fifty one said, there's so much subterfuge and decades and billions of dollars behind it hard to really know. Uh A, narts. Speculate here and there, use your imagination. Then you'll make a hypothesis, and over time test the hypothesis. You might be right on some of these things. You don't have to be read in on secret programs to see all the signs that there are secret programs and what they're meant for and what they're meant to accomplish. We got so many declassify from the Cold War. Now that we know how governments that are you know, you know, highly security focused, hitted against peer adversaries, how they behave and when you get you know, Reagan showing up in office or Trump showing up in office, you know, and putting a priority on it, it's pretty obvious that it's going to happen. And you know, what we learn or don't learn, is it all going to be part of the plan of the people that you don't have the responsibility for employing that power. Well, got a lot of faith that they'll do the right thing. But it's always been like that. Was that I don't think I said that part. No, there's yes and all it all comes from the polical you know, the politically elected leadership. If if they're in control and can you know, govern it, that's one thing. If they aren't in control of it, then I have no trust that it necessarily mistakes won't happen. Yeah, I guess I misspoke. I mean, like our fate is in their hands, not that I have faith in them, So we better you know, kind of implicitly we have faith in them because we have no other choice. Like you have faith in your captain as you're in a wooden sailing ship going across the freaking ocean. You might not like him, we might suck, but you better have faith in him. I guess, like we're all at the same boat. I hate to say it, but that's its way to look at it too. That's been you know. If it wasn't true before, yeah'vent of nuclear weapons, it was permanently true after that, exactly. That's what I mean in terms of like the military and the scientist and the deep state or whatever you want to call them, better be looking out for us, or I guess we will have a nuclear war, but you know, hopefully that hopefully not have faith in them. In the system self, preserving at least how about that? Yeah, yeah, absolutely, anydators you know, other other angles on the news that we really really ought to cover in this is episode. If I'm not mista aching, what else what else should we cover? Three four five? We literally went left to right, up to down. I don't there's really not too much that we missed. The drought. You know, the US has been seeing some drought, and one of the big things people complain about with the data centers, besides electrical cost going up, is water. You know, it depends where you live if the drought affects you. But there's already a lot of places out west that had a lot of water issues. But as we saw down in the southeast, wildfire is due to some drought conditions there. So you know, wildfire season's coming, I guess. So, yeah, riding too, and they go together. So we're we're in the last cold month of twenty twenty six, at least until November. And the protests, the uh, you know, just the move by the Department of Justice, rulings by the Supreme Court. 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