Surviving America 025: Time for a Reality Check

[00:00:00] Society in every state is a blessing. The government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already arrived.

[00:00:22] What is up everybody? Surviving America, we are here. We are here and we are poised for a serious reality check this morning folks. I don't know necessarily how to put it better than... And look, I may be preaching to the choir to some good degree today but we all gotta get our asses in gear.

[00:00:52] Like... Every... It's really weird. There is a... Like a... A blockage... In the... In the threat analysis of what is happening all around the world. Today's show is gonna be a bit of a reality check for those of you who fundamentally believe that Donald Trump is here to save the day. And that Doge is gonna fix everything and that...

[00:01:22] You know, the appointments of various people to various organizations is going to say... I told you at the beginning of this presidency that this is a moment for you to become powerful. Right? Like... Great! What we have going on, the rooting out of the corruption, you know, all the things. Great! Worth celebrating. Next Monday I'll take my annual...

[00:01:50] I'll pop my annual Guinness. Okay? And... And drink down and... And... I haven't really... Had a celebratory drink... Well, that's not true. I think I did have a red wine or something to celebrate Donald Trump getting in but... Because it is a... It is a change for the better for the United States. Um... But we all have to really get serious about... Second and third order of effects. You...

[00:02:18] Everyone here has to understand that there's a massive coalition of people who are gonna do everything they can to see this guy fail. And now they have Robin, you know, like it was... It's one thing when you had Batman up there. Now you have Robin and Elon Musk and it's like... The rogues gallery of... Of... Lizard overlords are coming together to see these people fail. Fundamental. Let me get a little... Let me get a little currency out here for you.

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[00:04:26] We're in a market shake-up, funny money's taking a dip, the economic situation is looking dire on the heels of not just what Biden has done, but a lot of the shaky-uppy things that Donald Trump is doing right now. You know what I mean? There's repercussions. No matter how much you like what's going on, there's going to be repercussions. And do you know who's going to feel repercussions?

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[00:05:38] So, in a head nod to one Michael Klein, and many of you have no idea who Michael Klein is, but one of the best prepper podcasters of the ball, man. Really? I mean, his show was called Reality Check here on PBN years ago, and he did a great job. But today I said to my, you know, this is what it is. This is what time it is. It's time for a reality check.

[00:06:06] A lot of times I do these as a State of the Union, something along those lines, right? A State of the PBN Union. I'm seeing, see, I get to see the prepping world from a bunch of different angles. This is why shows like this happen. I see the prepping world from, you know, what's happening in terms of how much prepper content's coming out, how it's being received. But I also see it from the side of my sponsors. I also see it from the side of my freelance writing clients.

[00:06:35] I write a bunch of articles for prepper websites all over the internet. And I just see the same thing happening that happened in 2016 right now. There are people coming to me less for jobs. There are people coming to me with big concerns about traffic in their website. And there are companies making less sales and all this kind of stuff. And it's just, hey, look, this is what happened. 2016, Donald Trump got in.

[00:07:04] We saw the Trump slump, which we call it here in the prepper world. The Trump slump hit. People took their foot off the gas. And in four years, what happened? Right? And in four years, what happened? 2020 hits. We have a really the greatest disaster of my lifetime occurred. The greatest worldwide disaster of my lifetime that we're still recovering from occurred.

[00:07:33] So we took foot off gas. We we relaxed. We said Trump's here. He's going to make everything all better and so on. And so now I'm not saying it was within his realm of, you know, ability to even deal with that. But I'm just trying to tell you, you know, I'm just trying to tell you that it may not be pandemic. It may be something else. I think personally, you want my thoughts on it? I think we have a collection. I think we have a hailstorm to go through as a nation.

[00:08:00] And I don't think even I don't even know if Donald Trump is the cause of it all. But I think we're we have a hailstorm to go through as a nation that we have to contend with inflation. That's not an easy fix. Right. We have to contend with the enemies of the United States. We have to contend with the enemies that we are making. And now we have to contend with the strange relationship dynamics all around the world that are going to follow the Israel situation that are going to follow the Ukraine situation.

[00:08:31] While we're talking about the Ukraine situation, I think we should get into this real quick. This is a big one. You know, we. We've made I. I hesitate to call them enemies. But maybe. You know, it wasn't a week.

[00:08:50] It wasn't a week before I started talking about the United States or the United Kingdom rather being the world's first radical Muslim nuclear power and how the United States would have to intervene at some point. I think that's going to happen unless there is a just an Anglo explosion. Right. I don't I don't in the UK. I don't see how that doesn't happen. It seems like a full scale scale takeover. Starmer knows it's a full scale takeover.

[00:09:20] So I feel like he's basically said, let's play with other problems. Let's attack Vladimir Putin. Let's let I don't know. I got a story from the one and only. Are you feeling lucky over there from our chat room? Where did I where to do with that story? So I thought he would be the perfect guy to to highlight today. Give me a second here.

[00:09:49] Let me guess I'll be logged out of everything. And I'm from Newsmax. Not bad. So in the in past, we've done chins up news. I get news from chin. Our great comms guy podcast host here at PBN. We call it chins up news. Here's here's a news flash. If you send me news and I happen upon it at the right time, at the right moment, it was almost Jay Ferg news. It was almost Phoenix news today.

[00:10:18] She came in just a moment late, but she came in with something so timely for today's show. There's no way she could have known. But just right on the money. So let's get into a little. Are you feeling credit for the X hack dark? So if you weren't aware Monday that the X was hacked.

[00:10:46] Dark storm is this pro hacker or pro Hamas group. I don't know if they're as much pro Hamas as they are anti Israel. The some of the things that were interesting coming out of this attack were Musk's remarks about the fact that there were massive amounts of resources used in the attack. He said there were tons of resources used in the attack, and he said it was a coordinated effort. It wasn't a little a little thing. Right.

[00:11:13] Musk suggested that, quote, a large coordinated group and or country is involved in the massive hack in a series of posts on X. We get attacked every day, but this was done with a lot of resources. There's another interesting wrinkle in all this, too, and it is IP. He said the hackers had IP addresses originating in the Ukraine area. So like I said, I'm not it's not that we're making enemies.

[00:11:41] It's that we are disrupting relationships. Let's go with that. I don't think it's all bad either. I think that the disruption is the disruptions in NATO and Europe and their military stance are essential. Make no mistake about it. I don't want to see anything become a like wimpy kind of existence where we say yes to everyone like we have for so long. I'm not saying that shaking things up is a bad thing.

[00:12:10] What I'm saying is it's not time to party like we are shaking things up and we are attacking massive amounts of power directly. Serious amounts of power directly, and there will be repercussions and it ain't going to be to Elon Musk and Donald Trump. They're not going to you know, maybe they get assassinated eventually, but it ain't going to be to those guys. It's going to be to you.

[00:12:36] You the person Rambo Rogan Joe Joe rate Phoenix survival over there and Instagram is quiet on the rumble side. I didn't understand why I stroll into Instagram and boom there. I don't know where you guys are. Okay, makes perfect sense now. Makes perfect sense. I send the audience just like it. I don't know how they tolerate me to be honest with you. I send them all over the all over the world to follow the show.

[00:13:03] We were happy with our little YouTube arrangement, but they weren't necessarily happy with us. So fundamentally, the question is, let's just take it down to the very simplistic, you know, like, do you think that we're going to still start? We're going to stir up the whole government. The most corrupt parts of the government, and there will be no consequences. There'll be no malice, right? There'll be no malicious intent. Do you think we're going to store store?

[00:13:31] Why can't I get this in out of my mouth today? We're going to stir up markets all over the world with things like tariffs, and there's not going to be consequences. I'm going to show you some consequences right here and now from our friends over at the Gray Man Brief. I think some of the, you know, I'm wondering, I don't understand the stock market. I don't want to ever understand the stock market. I feel like you take a hit to your soul the deeper you get into understanding the stock market.

[00:14:01] But the economic, I can't do it today. Too much coffee, not enough coffee. I don't know what it is. The economy brief from the Gray Man Brief said that the stock market continues to see a downturn. On March 10, U.S. stock markets experienced declines across major indices. The NASDAQ composite fell 4%, dropping 728 points. I don't know what the hell that means.

[00:14:26] Making its third largest point loss ever surpassed only by declines during early COVID-19 pandemic. Oh, we were just talking about things aligning interesting things that could happen. Hmm. How many people are willing to destroy everything to see, to be able to sit back and say, I told you so. I told you he wasn't the right guy. I told you he was going to fail. I told you he was going to destroy this country. I knew it.

[00:14:53] The Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 2.1%. So, you know, all in all stocks decline led by tech and energy, which is also very interesting, right? Stocks decline led by tech and energy to Tesla, Nvidia, and Apple see significant losses. Tariff war blamed. We know that the Tesla losses are not based on tariffs.

[00:15:16] If Tesla stocks are leading the one of the leading reasons for the decline in the stock market, and we're going to sit here and try to pretend that that's because of the tariff wars. No. This is exactly what I'm warning you about.

[00:15:31] I'm warning you about the fact that people all over this country and all over the world will say, boycott, malicious intent, whatever it is we have to do to shut this whole operation down because we do not want to see these people have success whatsoever. Jorate says when he gets his visa and comes over from Portugal, he's going to shave my beard to commemorate. I don't know.

[00:15:59] I missed the earlier conversation, and I'm just now noticing that I can't move up and down. Step Survival, welcome in. Got a lot of great viewers over there at Instagram today. Thanks for joining us on the live. X looking good, too. Thanks for joining us on the live.

[00:16:24] So, yeah, if you think you're going to stir the pot and all this stuff's going to have no effect, man, you know, you're going to push around powerful world leaders and there's going to be no effect. You're going to attack the drug cartels in Mexico that, you know, seems to me to be one in the same or at least partially, and there's going to be no effect.

[00:16:47] You heard the story, I hope, about the 74-year-old rancher traveling to and from Mexico from Brownsville, Texas. Him and his buddy and his buddy's wife were blown up by an IED right over the border. Well, 200 miles over the Mexico border on a road that leads to the United States. It leads to Brownsville, Texas. So there's a lot you can take away from that.

[00:17:16] You start a full fledged war with the drug cartels. You think they're going to keep their IEDs in Mexico? There are very real consequences coming. There are very real consequences here already. It has nothing to do with how much, how many MAGA hats you own. It has nothing to do with that. It has everything to do with the reality check that if you're going to take a nation like the United States and say, well, we're not going to take shit from people anymore.

[00:17:45] We've taken shit for a long, long time, and we're not going to take it anymore. Anytime an entity, a person, a business, anything does that, there's repercussions, and there will be repercussions. There are repercussions. Most recently, we have Iran in our crosshairs, right? Iran is the nexus of all radical Islamic terrorism and maybe not all of it, but a good portion of it.

[00:18:13] And, you know, if you think that that stuff is going to happen without any issue, it's a whole nother thing, right? All right. Jorate, go to the membership side, my man. We did a great cure recipe yesterday. I really like the way the Instagram stream looks, man. It's nice. Looks very good. Gypsy love in mud. It's a cool name.

[00:18:42] So, I was doing some research for a paper that I'm writing for somebody that you know. Maybe I'll tell you once it's done. I had no idea that in 2020, just five years ago, the Islamic State released an entire training manual. I think it was a four or five page manual to their maggots out there in the world.

[00:19:08] All about how to use arson and wildfires to create chaos in the United States. Coinkidink? What do you think? It's coincidence. Do you think it was intentional fires? You think some of these were intentional fires? Or do you think that it was all climate change? What do you think? What it was? I mean, what's your best guess? Right.

[00:19:36] So, look, our message is always the same. It's been the same. It'll always be the same. You know, the preparedness, self-reliance, independence, homesteading, all these things are a vehicle for a better life. Overall. Right. A better life overall. You talk about anxiety and mental health and depression, those kinds of things. Yeah. You know what's happening in the world. Everybody's too damn informed. Everybody is too damn informed.

[00:20:05] And if you think that, like, all of that information going in your head, oh, we got tariffs and we got this and we got that and we got wildfires and people are dying and being displaced. And then there's Ukraine and there's Israel and there's God. You think all that stuff goes in your head and doesn't have an effect. If you if you don't if you think that you don't stop to wonder for a second, hey, what would my life be like if I were in that situation? I got one egg from the chicken coop this morning. One was crushed. I don't know.

[00:20:34] I'm not sure, but I walked back with one egg and with the one egg in my hand, I was walking and I was thinking about if it were hard boiled and cut into quarters. Right. Like hard boiled and cut into quarters. And that was our protein for the day. You know what I mean? Like. I've just opened my mind up to those sort of weird post apocalyptic thought projects, but.

[00:21:01] I think it's important for you to understand that underneath it all the worries about work, the worries about whatever, you know, like your mind is working on those problems and those potentialities also. Oh, the stock market's crashing. My 401k is going down. What in the world? Right. Joy, it says you would be amazed to know who supported the creation of that manual. I think I probably know it was funded and printed and so forth by the United States government.

[00:21:32] Probably. Phoenix survival. I'm making a batch of pickled eggs, man. I'll tell you what. What would a jar of pickled eggs go for these days anyway? It's like 500 bucks. It's like they're going to put the pickled eggs and the eggs themselves in the cheese case where they put the black truffles at holiday time. If things keep up.

[00:22:01] Like I said, the signs are all around you. You know what I mean? And I just don't want people to sit back and relax. I don't want people to live in fear either. I want you to live with a purpose of power and agency. You know what I mean? I want you to live with that purpose and say we're going to take Donald Trump's taking drastic steps or whatever. We're going to take drastic steps ourselves.

[00:22:27] We're going to take big, bold risks and take drastic steps and become even more powerful an entity here at home. Because if all Americans did that, man, it would be amazing. It would be astounding. Enjoy your lunch, Joy. Thanks for joining us over at Instagram. I appreciate you. So over at the economic collapse blog dot com.

[00:22:51] Let's let's share this baby out real quick because this is an interesting one. Again, I'm calling it the reality check show. It's not the Trump's shown up and screwed stuff up show. No, it's it's understanding what he's inherited and what.

[00:23:13] What also his decisions and executive orders and so on are going to do to the rest of the world and tip more most importantly to you, because there will be effect. Over the economic collapse blog dot com. Michael Snyder posts. They are accusing Trump of manufacturing a recession. But what really is going on? And this is. This is all about kind of well, it's it's about one arm of what it is I'm talking about, right?

[00:23:43] Is it just a coincidence that a large number of talking heads in the corporate media have all suddenly decided to start blaming Donald Trump for a risk for causing a recession? Remember, you couldn't even say the R word under Biden. Right. We it was like laughable. CNBC host Jim Cramer went off on President Donald Trump for fueling recession fears and cratering the stock market, noting, noting, competitive markets are crushing us and accusing Trump of potentially manufacturing a recession or worse.

[00:24:14] Following more than fourteen hundred days of Joe Biden, U.S. households are absolutely drowning in debt. We learned that the average credit card debt load during the fourth quarter of last year was the highest we've seen since the great recession of 2008. Americans inflation adjusted debt burdens are starting to grow further beyond pandemic levels on a per household basis. That's wild, right? That's wild.

[00:24:40] The average household's credit debt surpassed ten thousand dollars adjusted for inflation for the first time since oh nine. Wow. Wow. Miss payments on auto loans by American car owners rose to the highest level in three decades earlier this year. The percentage of borrowers with subprime car loans who are at at least 60 days past due on their loans increased by two six point five six percent January.

[00:25:10] This is this speaks to the consequences, right? From January twenty three to January twenty five, the rate at which people earning one hundred and fifty grand or more a year are 60 to eighty nine days behind on their overall debts has more than doubled. That's bananas to me. That is that is crazy to me. That I mean.

[00:25:36] To me, that's living a bit too close, a bit too close to your. To being out of your means, you know what I mean? It did you want to you know, the costs went up of living and things like that. You want to blame it on Joe Biden, but I I don't think you should live that close to the razor's edge either where you could be making that kind of money, which is good money and and. And not be able to pay your debts. Right. Silly.

[00:26:06] Airlines are cutting their first quarter profit and sales estimates warning that a weaker economic backdrop is weighing on travel demand. Kohl's, the Wisconsin based store with over eleven hundred locations, lowered its sale expectations for twenty twenty five. These are things, you know what I mean? This is not like. Maybe some of it has to do with Donald Trump, but. To be honest with you, these are things that happen.

[00:26:31] Because there's really smart people doing really good work, you know what I mean? Like. They're not doing this stuff, and the Coles guy didn't come out and say like, well, I drank a coffee this morning, you know, and I think that we're in a situation where things are changing and we better cut our sales expectations for twenty twenty five. And it's all trends. It's all graphs. It's all. It's all. It's all understanding, you know, the cyclical nature of the economy and things like that.

[00:27:00] And a lot of people are buckling up for. They're buckling up for tough times. That's what that's what businesses are doing. I hope you are, too. I hope that you are, too. I hope that you understand the economic is an issue. I hope that you understand that that. That there's essentially a war here in the United States waiting to be unleashed.

[00:27:28] It pops up from time to time and from place to place. We have been discussing it in our newsletter. If you want to join the newsletter, go to PBN family dot com. We've been discussing the homeland attack. That's been outlined pretty well on several podcasts now, probably most notably Sean Ryan. And. You know, I we're creating a lot of enemies and we're going and they're necessary.

[00:27:58] Don't get me wrong. You know, like you can't let the Islamic army build up and take over Europe and, you know, run rough shot into the United States. You can't allow the drug cartels to take over Mexico completely. Right. These things can't be a lot to happen. But again. Goes back to consequence. Who's going to feel it? You know who is going to feel it? We know who felt it down there on the southern border. We know we know who's feeling it. You know who's feeling it right now.

[00:28:29] If it if it spreads. And it will spread. You know, they're very clear about the Taliban, Al Qaeda. They're very clear about their goals. It's just because they're not in the headline news, just because Russia and Ukraine is in the headline news and, you know, all that kind of stuff. Don't mean it's not happening. Right. Right. One thing that you'll never hear from the mainstream media. Listen to this one.

[00:28:53] This was probably the most epic timing of the week by one Phoenix survival. You can check. She's in our chat over there at Instagram. If you're on Instagram, you've got to follow her. She does a show here at the Prepper Broadcasting Network. She has a rumble of her own. Like, pay attention. But the timing was so epic here from Reuters on March 8th. So this story is what, four days old?

[00:29:22] You haven't heard it on CNN. You've heard. You know, you're not going to hear this kind of stuff. China hits back at Canada with fresh agriculture tariffs. Hmm. I thought they were allies now because they both hate Donald Trump. How about that? I thought they were going at each other's, to each other's birthday parties over. Canada put levies on China's EVs, other goods late last year.

[00:29:51] Late last year. What was missing from the puzzle late last year? New China tariffs take effect March 20th. So Beijing announced tariffs on over $2.6 billion worth of Canadian agriculture and food products on Saturday, retaliating against levies Ottawa introduced in October and opening a new front in a trade war largely driven by U.S. President Donald Trump's tariff threats. Interesting. So even Reuters gets it wrong. Right? Right.

[00:30:21] Even Reuters literally says this took place. Canada put levies on China's EVs and other goods late last year. And in just the second paragraph, no, the first paragraph, they say that this is largely driven by Donald Trump's tariff threats. I doubt it. Phoenix Survival says China is not OK with bad practices, even if they don't like us. Yeah, they're there.

[00:30:50] They're the household of bad practices. No doubt about it. China. Ads. China will apply a 100 percent tariff to just over one billion of Canadian rapeseed oil, oil cakes and pea imports and a 25 percent duty on one point six billion dollars worth of Canadian aquatic products and pork. The timing may serve as a warning shot, said Dan Wang, China director at Eurasia Group in Singapore.

[00:31:19] By striking now, China reminds Canada of the cost of aligning too closely with American trade policy. I don't know if I buy that. Canada's getting it, too, from the United States. Right? It is what it is. Again, my original point, consequences. Be prepared. Don't don't pretend like this thing is all wrapped up and in the bag. And that's fundamentally my message for today. So I'm not going to drone on.

[00:31:47] I don't have anything in my back pocket in terms of other. Yeah. I came with this singular message for surviving America today because I think it's very important. Everything that we've done over all these years. Keep it up. Keep it up. I think the most important thing and probably the most valuable thing you can do is spread the word. I was talking to the prep and Patriot last night on the phone.

[00:32:14] Some of you know, you know, if you're a member, if you're a if you're a close with the prepper broadcasting network. Then you'll you'll know. But he talked about a small signal group that he had created and. Was just linking a lot of people into prepping, you know, a lot of sort of starter preps and starter thoughts and that kind of stuff and how the group is slowly grown. A lot of people from work, a lot of people from community, that kind of thing.

[00:32:45] That kind of thing. This is the kind of power that. Is what we need right now. You know what I mean? It's like. It's not. It's not necessarily about downloads and views, particularly if you're living the real life like it's about the people around you and what they believe and what they stand to do and what you can what you can. How you can inform them in a way that inspires them to start doing the things that you're doing.

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