Surviving America 36: 2025 Threat Assessment....Im Cold

[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. What a day it is to be with you PBN family.

[00:00:28] We got a lot. Well, we got too much. We got too much for a rainy day like this. Right off the top, June 6th, Poems for Men is out. Get your copy. You can pre-order, I think, now. Maybe? No, I think I gotta put the Kindle up. June 6th. Get it? You buy it June 6th, you wrap it June 12th, you hand it to dad the 14th, Father's Day. It's that simple. Making life easy for you.

[00:00:58] It's just a little book that contains all the answers. That's all it is. Just a wee little book, a little collection of poetry contains all the answers to life. Nothing big. No big deal. Let's have a look. So this was sent to me via several people yesterday. The Worldwide Threat Assessment by the United States Defense Intelligence Agency.

[00:01:23] Armed Services Subcommittee on Intelligence and Special Operations United States House of Representatives. They know what they're talking about. Okay? Now, look, I haven't looked over this thing very much. I do find it interesting. I got the table of time. I have to blow it up a little bit and shrink me down. Let's do that. There we go.

[00:01:48] I'm a little surprised that like the, the US Homeland and Southern border threats. See, we have a terrorism section and I'm very happy to see that ISIS affiliates in Afghanistan and Al Qaeda's affiliate in Yemen probably pose the greatest threat to the United States.

[00:02:06] That's a good, good. I haven't seen a picture of myself yet in this thing. I haven't scrolled through it all, but I haven't seen a picture of myself or anyone I know or like something along these lines, like a Gadsden flag. You remember the FBI put out that the most dangerous people in the world were people who had like Gadsden flags. Meanwhile, here in Virginia, it's a little legitimate license plate you can just buy. Right?

[00:02:37] Donald Trump has been talking about this Golden Dome about this, this sort of missile threat that I can't say I know exactly what he's talking about. I've watched a lot of nations shoot a lot of missiles over the last 10 years. They suck at it. Look, we're going to get into this thing. We're going to get into a lot of things.

[00:03:03] I got to bitch a little bit. I got to have a little bit of a bitch session because we're here in Virginia, here in Richmond. And if you remember back in January, we suffered a little something. We suffered a little water crisis. Okay? And it was a pain in the ass for a lot of people. It was one of those great sort of training exercises for us.

[00:03:30] I can't say that we were really affected by it whatsoever. Obviously, well prepared. But it looks as though we still don't know how to operate the Virginia water treatment plant or the Richmond water treatment plant. We still haven't quite figured out how to keep the filters from not clogging. How did you know this whole process is a bit of a struggle for our for those in charge here in the city.

[00:04:01] So there's a large collection of people who are once again on a boil water notice. There's a bunch of people north and south of the river who have water on their mind this morning. Now, taxes are up. Property taxes are up. The government here, born to brap in chat says anything that reads government is sus. They completely lost any credibility.

[00:04:29] Clown shoes. You know, it's hard to deny a comment like that when you're sitting here in a city that the water whole water system broke just six months ago, not even six months ago. And the mayor, the new mayor got on and said, we're going to make sure this doesn't happen again.

[00:04:50] Now, I've been in here since I've lived here since 2009. Yeah, 2009. Yeah, the time. Where's the time go? We never had this issue before. So somehow we knew how to run the water system from 2009 to 2025. We don't know how to do it anymore.

[00:05:15] I think I might know why. I think so long story short, you know, can I tell you something beautiful that happens in my house now? Well, the overarching preparedness paradigm is largely handled by yours truly in Casa Liberty, right? Like that's how it goes. No, duh. That should be a no, duh. Right.

[00:05:43] But there are things that crop up like this situation where all of a sudden it's like maybe we should get a little more water. Right. But what's begun to happen, especially since COVID is my one and only Lady Liberty. She just jumps in what she she becomes like supply chain. Like my wife becomes sort of like emergency supply chain.

[00:06:12] She ordered a bunch of water yesterday. We weren't like I said, we're not in the affected area. It's just so cool. You know that there's this input there now that you know what I mean? It's really weird, but your family does pay attention to you and they do morph based on your leadership in the household. No matter how cynical you want to get about it, it does happen.

[00:06:36] I think I have an idea, though, of why here in Virginia we're suffering the ills of basic governing. Like what the basics of why we hand you the taxes, because Virginia, particularly Richmond, they don't play around with taxes. They tax your house. They tax your car. They take your meals. They got so many taxes. They lie to you and they say they're all going to the kids. They're all going to the schools. Nobody can read, but they're all going to the schools.

[00:07:06] You know what I mean? It's not true. Plenty of kids can read. They just there's an alarming amount of them leaving high school who can't. Let's go with that. So I think I have I have figured out part of the reason. I think we had a priority problem here in the state of Virginia because I've been watching. See, we're queuing up a governor race here in the state. Right. Youngkin has been great. That's it. He's been a great governor.

[00:07:33] We had wreck it. Ralph Northam before him. Who tried to almost throw me in jail for a felony for owning an AR-15 back in 2019, 2020. That was cool. It actually was cool because it gave way to an amazing sort of just an awesome showing of people doing amazing things. But check out this situation here and you tell me what you hear.

[00:08:00] And cut taxes for seniors. Now I'm taking on Trump and Musk passing a new law to protect federal workers. As lieutenant governor, I'll go toe to toe to defend Social Security, Medicare and your wallet. So, President Trump, when you come for Virginia, you got to go through me.

[00:08:20] Now, every candidate, literally every candidate that has been on the television running for governor, Democratic, whether lieutenant governor or otherwise. Every candidate has this same message. I'm fighting Trump and Musk. I'm here to fight Trump and Musk. I'm going to take on Trump and I'm going to take on Musk.

[00:08:48] And it's all fun. It's all fun and games. I get it. You know what I mean? I see where you're going. But the big problem is we ain't got no water. We can't even run the water system. So we're in this situation where it's like. Can we get maybe get back to the basics here in Virginia?

[00:09:14] Let's maybe get ourselves back to the basics so we can figure out. How to keep the water on for the citizens. Then we can worry about, I don't know, building a new baseball stadium. Another big priority around here. We want to build this big, beautiful baseball stadium. Of course, we need more tax money for that. And yeah, we want to build this big, beautiful stadium. Nobody's out with water, but we need to get these things done.

[00:09:43] I think fundamentally what we've got going on in Virginia is just that. We've got an issue when it comes to priorities. I just pray that the people of Virginia are listening to these commercials and going, I don't need a governor who's here to take on Donald Trump. I'm not kidding you. There's like three, four different commercials running on regular television.

[00:10:12] Where men and women alike are saying the same exact thing in their ad. And it's, I'm here to fight Donald Trump and Elon Musk. I can't even wrap my head around the guys that are telling them this is the message. Like there are real people in the world living real lives that have real problems. And couldn't care less about some doofus governor who thinks they're going to fight.

[00:10:42] What does that even mean? It's awesome. It's awesome. So, bitch session over. Now, maybe not. I do have an article from the AP here today that might warrant some more crying on my end. Because I've heard this incessant warning about the rising temperatures of the planet Earth. And how brutal and a nightmarish a summer it's going to be.

[00:11:12] And it's, I'd say it's probably about 60 degrees out right now. I think we're going to have a high of like 64. It's May 28th in Virginia. This is not, this is like 10, 15, maybe 20 degrees below what's normal. I love it hot. You got to understand this stuff. It just is the worst for me. Anyhow. Let's share a screen.

[00:11:41] Let's, let's do a little bit of perusing. Because this is kind of cool. It does give you kind of a, an inside peak, right? The U.S. Homeland and Southern Border. Let me open the table of contents. Because it helps. So, the overview on this baby is we've got whole sections on various countries. I didn't even know Hezbollah was a thing. I thought they were called Hezbollah.

[00:12:11] Hezbollah or Herzbollah. Iran and its proxy forces. I saw, I don't want to get into it. These are interesting. So, we have the growing cooperation among U.S. competitors and adversaries. Military monetization and spending in China. Nuclear capabilities. I think space and counter space capabilities would probably be a cool thing to look at.

[00:12:42] WMD capabilities. Destabilization campaigns. Russia's global presence. How come there's not a China's global presence? Am I missing that? I feel like they're the real global presence we need to worry about. Looking over this thing, what I, what I really wondered is, because I actually wrote something akin to this. I did a way better job. Just on the U.S. Homeland and Southern Border for a client this year.

[00:13:10] And, uh, mine was way better. And I'm looking at this thing over and wondering, like, I'm no intelligence guy. I have no intelligence training. I have no, I've never been in the military. I have no cool credentials whatsoever. But I feel like when it comes to a missile threat or a terrorism threat, I could probably come up with something a little better.

[00:13:37] Both China and Russia are expanding their missile inventories and aggressively pursuing new systems, such as hypersonic glide vehicles engineered to complicate U.S. defenses in the event of a conflict. North Korea now has developed an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of ranging the continental United States. Reaching, ranging the continental United States. They can't even make it over Japan most of the time. But, I mean, we'll see. I understand.

[00:14:06] I like the terrorism. It's good to see that. It's good. It shouldn't say terrorism. It should say Islamic terrorism. But we're a little bit nervous about the I word in America. I'm interested to look at this because I wanted to see how much it's changed over the years now that we have new leadership. Many UX systems are inexpensive, widely available, and easy to operate. What's a UX system? Oh, these are the unmanned systems. Okay.

[00:14:39] As technology advances, the means by which unmanned systems potentially surveil and threaten the U.S. homeland will expand. More advanced. Swarms complicate the threat. Remember we heard all about that swarm thing? I don't think we're out of the woods on that. Really, when it comes to the unmanned systems and drones and all that, morning, Firewolf. Welcome in. When it comes to dealing with the unmanned systems and drones and all that kind of stuff,

[00:15:06] it does seem to me like the technology to stop that technology is what we need. Like, that's the solution. We've unboxed Pandora in terms of drones, right? Remember drones were novel and they looked crazy and silly and they were almost impossible to fly. Why?

[00:15:30] You will buy your kid a drone and you knew in your heart of hearts that you guys were going to play with it. First of all, you had about a two and a half minute flight time to begin with. And you knew in your heart of hearts that that thing was going in the tree no matter what. No matter if you had the controller, they had the controller, it doesn't matter. You just knew it was a matter of time. Either the battery is going to die or it's going to wind up in that willow oak over there. And that's it. That's drone time's over. Things have changed. And the drones ain't going nowhere.

[00:16:00] You know what I mean? They're doing gigantic light shows with them and stuff like that. So it all comes down to what the average person can have to stop a drone. And unfortunately, the technology is not quite there.

[00:16:14] However, I have to imagine that people like our very own Chin, if given the mission, could figure out some sort of frequency disruption that the average person could do to stop drones from getting close to their house or make them do something crazy. You know what I mean? I don't know enough about it, but I know people who know enough about it.

[00:16:42] However, in the same way that you stick an Alexa or something on your mantle and it pushes off some kind of, you know, whatever, Wi-Fi and so on. Firewolf, that was my exact, I mean, my exact thoughts when I saw missile threat at number one. Exact thoughts. I mean, exact thoughts.

[00:17:08] But I think we'll probably have a device that, or someone should create a device. If I had the money, I'd do it. Prototype a device that allows you to press a button or turn it on for a short period of time. And if there are drones in the area, they fall out of the sky dead. EMP, like I said, frequency driven, whatever. Something along those lines. Yeah, that's definitely, there's a deal being made on missiles and missile systems. No doubt about it. And that's why it's number one.

[00:17:37] Because you know, well, from, just look at what's happened in the United States this year. Right? How many missiles have we been hit by? Right? As opposed to terrorism and domestic terrorism. The other thing that I don't see is in the homeland and the border. We've got illegal immigration. We've got cartels and drug trafficking and all that. And that's great.

[00:18:02] But what we don't see is left or right wing extremism. And both are worth talking about in the U.S. homeland. Right? You're telling me that we had groups of people cheering on death of the president? And that's not a threat that should be put in here? Now we've got China. We've got Russia. We've got Iran, Latin America, terrorism, Africa.

[00:18:32] We ain't getting into Africa. I could care less about really South Asia, any of that. What is terrorism? Terrorism, ISIS, Al-Qaeda. See, terrorism has its own headline. That's why we should have a domestic one. This is near and dear to my heart because of our prepare the homeland situation that we've been talking about.

[00:18:58] I don't know what you mean, Firewall Forge, but I don't even think I should read that on air. Yeah, that's a big one. That's definitely a big one. We're going to have to figure out how to jam the drones. No doubt about it. Let's see. Let's see what we've been talking about in terms of ISIS and Al-Qaeda and their plans.

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[00:20:48] But if you're one of these people that's like, am I going to build it? I need to build. I need one for my kid's car. I need one for my wife's car. Whatever the situation is. Like, I didn't bring you Lima Tango survival because they were the first people to ever email me and say, hey, we sell survival bags and we want to sponsor the Prepper Broadcasting Network. Let's get serious here. I brought you Lima Tango survival because I got on the phone with the owner. I got a bag.

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[00:21:48] Because here's the thing. Anybody can build a backpack for you with all the best gear in it. You won't be able to afford it. Right? If you take like a 511 backpack filled with, you know, all the best water filtration and top tier clothes and all that kind of stuff. Sure. If you want to do that yourself, you can do that over time.

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[00:23:35] Make me little again. Make me young again. Where are we going? How do I get little again? What'd I do? There we go. So let's see what these guys have in store. This is not all we're going to do today. I just – I have a habit of naming a show and never talking about anything having to do with the name of the show. And I already went on a sort of a tirade earlier.

[00:23:56] The Islamic State of Iraq and Ash Shams and al-Qaeda's ability to threaten the U.S. and allies' interests probably is growing more dynamic and diffuse. All right. That's great. We know that. Who's here? Who's here? Who's in my backyard? The Islamic Center down the street is expanding. What are they expanding?

[00:24:20] The worst parts of me come out when I see the Islamic Center down the street expanding, digging up the woods, building a new outbuilding. I'm like, where's the rocket launcher going? That's so bad. That's so – it's so terrible. But when you're in prepping and stuff like that, you get – after a while, you can't avoid it. You get that sort of – what's the word I'm looking for? What's the word I'm looking for, Firewolf? I know you probably have it in the back of your head.

[00:24:50] It's like a situational awareness on overdrive. You know what I mean? And, you know, you have to beat it back. You have to remain calm, cool, and collected. But at the same time, my wife and I are sitting in the drive-thru at a Starbucks last week, right? And nothing's going on. They're doing some construction. Firewolf Forge says it's called paranoia, but we call it threat assessment. There you go. Perfect. I'll go with that diagnosis. Doc.

[00:25:20] Doc. And there's somebody across the street. There's a big area of trees ripped up. They've been digging. You know, they love to rip up shit and dig. They're digging in their building and some – you know, we need a new store. We need six new restaurants, 12 new stores, you know, somewhere to dump all people's money. And I look over and I see it's early. So it's like, I don't know, seven on the weekend. And – or maybe it was – no.

[00:25:50] It had to be weekend. So it was like seven on the weekend. And there's somebody over there, short hair, purple and blue with a camera and a satchel bag. And my wife's initial thought is like they work for the news or maybe they're a blogger. And mine is like, it's an eco-terrorist. I wonder what's in the bag. Like if you want to peek into my mind, you know what I mean, what I see. Because I can walk back from that.

[00:26:18] You can see the thing about it is you can always walk that back. If you don't get there, then you don't get there. You don't see the threat to begin with. But you can always walk a threat. You can always in your mind's eye go like, oh, that's a demon dressed up as a human. And walk it back to like, no. It's a 12-year-old kid. You're good. You know what I mean? It's one of those things, man. I was never like that before. Before all this prepping nonsense.

[00:26:46] Before all this fatherhood nonsense. I looked crazy. You know what I mean? I would look the craziest looking one in the room. Maybe I am still the craziest looking one in the room. My kids always joke about it. The mustache doesn't help. I'll tell you that much. You look like crazy dad. Put one of these mustaches on your face. Put the mustache on. Drink about seven cups too much coffee. You know, I start vibrating.

[00:27:19] Firewolf Forge says, what is it? It's normalcy biased. Yeah. I don't know. Who's in the right? Who's in the wrong? I don't really care. You know what I mean? I don't really care if you look at the way that I live and think it's crazy. Or if I look at the way that you live and think it's crazy. That's the beauty of life, baby. Maybe we can do what the hell we want to do for the most part. So they're highlighting attacks like the Taliban, the Moscow attack, the theater attack.

[00:27:47] In Africa, ISIS Somalia continues to serve as a key hub for operations in the Middle East. Okay. So this is just kind of an update on their operations. What's really interesting to me is why they exist. Now we can go into the whole government use and that kind of thing. But it's really weird that you can publish a report about ISIS Khorasan in Afghanistan and Pakistan. And Taliban and so forth. And you can talk about a variety of places where they exist.

[00:28:16] And you're telling me that ISIS Somalia is a key hub for ISIS operations globally. Why don't we blow them up? I mean, we did it already. In the Middle East, ISIS's freedom of movement is routinely contested. And the group has suffered leadership losses in Iraq and Syria. Can you imagine? It's just a constant war.

[00:28:45] Al-Shabaab in Somalia. I don't see anything about the key player in all this. This is what makes me nervous. What truly makes me nervous, guys, is I don't see anything in here about the key player, which is Osama bin Laden's son. Who the CIA swears is dead. But he's not dead. And he is...

[00:29:11] He's the leader of what is the Islamic Army. Which is not even mentioned in this either. Now, you publish a document out to the entire world. Maybe you don't want them to know that you know. That could be part of it. But at the same time, I don't know. Kind of is what it is. I'm bored. How about you? I think I'm bored of threat assessment.

[00:29:42] You guys know all this stuff. Don't you? What did we talk about in that glaring report that you don't know about? Really? What? Anything? I think everything in there. You kind of understood. So, what are we at? 30 minutes? All that said, I woke today to a beautiful day. I mean, phenomenal. Cold. Shouldn't be happening in May. But a wonderful day nonetheless.

[00:30:12] And I think what I'd like to do... Which one did I decide that we would do? Questions from the other side? The Halloween one? No. We read a Father's Rewards on air. This now is... I think we're going to do in blue meets green. Sirens. Sirens.

[00:30:41] I had a really weird sort of revelation about Odysseus' sirens the other day. It was weird. It was a weird one. You're looking at it. You're like, how can these lessons... This is the whole point of the book. This is the whole point of poems for men. Like, the lessons of long ago are 100% relevant today. It's still 100% relevant. It's true.

[00:31:11] The host writes books. Johnny Five, did I ask you to follow me around, dude? Calm down. The host writes books. I write books. It's a big year for books. There's another one coming at the end of the year. Big year for writing. You slowly write these books and then, like, in time, bunches of them get done. But anyway, I don't write boring political books, though. I don't write, you know, Sean Hannity books or whoever writes. Glenn Beck style books.

[00:31:41] Those kind of things. He wrote some good ones, though. Glenn Beck did. The one I'm talking about is the big tall guy. The no spin zone. I don't write books like that. These, like, elongated political diatribes that are the exact same book with, like, the leadership changed out. You know what I mean? Government bad. Government sucks. Government steals. Government this. This is how we fix it. Nobody will ever do it. The only guy who ever did it. The only guy who ever pulled it off.

[00:32:10] There's only one guy who ever pulled it off. Michael Savage wrote one of his books. And it had a list of things to do to save the country. And from as far as I can tell, Trump read the book, did most of the things. Kind of cool. There's a Russian tank coming down the street right now. I have no idea what it is.

[00:32:40] It's so loud. I can't believe you can't hear it. Could it be the trash man? I don't know. For fear that the dogs explode into a nuclear blast. We're going to end the show. I was going to read you a little something. I'll hop on. We'll do some readings.

[00:33:11] I think we've done quite enough on this rainy day in May. Hope you guys enjoyed the show. Support the sponsors. Subscribe and share and do all the good stuff. Spread the good word of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We need you. Okay? We need you. It's really that simple. You spread the word. You build the audience. More people in this country and abroad get prepared.

[00:33:36] And this is the method of stasis. Preparedness. Right? It's what it is. We can't shout from the hills that the government doesn't know what it's doing. But then we don't do anything about it. I'll talk to you guys soon. I appreciate you. See you tomorrow.