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March 22, 2025 60 mins
In this powerful episode, investigative journalist and author Jim Simpson joins the show to expose the coordinated efforts to destabilize America—from Marxist ideologies and radical movements like BLM and Antifa, to the weaponization of environmentalism and economic sabotage. Drawing from his latest book, Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America, Jim connects the dots and shares how these threats intersect with the political war against Donald Trump and the America First movement. It’s a must-listen for anyone who wants to understand what’s really going on—and what we can do to fight back.

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(00:49):
into it today. Another big one. And look, we're seeing
a lot happen right now. Since President Trump's got in
the office. There's been a number of really great things
he's done, but he's really a against it and what
is it? Well, the manufactured crisis. Jim Simpson on Trump's
Battle against America's enemies. Today, we're going to dive deep

(01:11):
talk about some of the things you're seeing as recent
is now and in some of the things that we've
been seeing in the years leading up to this. Jim's
got a new book out. He's no stranger to this program,
the Glenn Back program and the folks at the Ottawa
County Republicans who he's been visited with several times. He's back.
We're going to talk about that here in just a
little bit as well. The new book, Manufactured Crisis, the

(01:32):
War to End America. What are we seeing, what has
that been, and what are the solutions for it all?
As we welcome Jim to the program today, Jim, thank
you so much for taking the time to be here
with us. This is, like I said, this is something
that has been going on in the background. You've been

(01:52):
an investigative journalist and author, former White House analysts. You
get decades of experience in government politics, national secus. You've
written numerous books and in fact, you know, I think
your your work on Karl Marx, and I think that's
where I first maybe got to know you and Glenn
covered all of these things that we see watching happen

(02:16):
out in front of our face, and we as Americans
kind of had that dog tilt look with our heads
kind of tilt to the side when the dog here's
a noise, say well, what is this? This is something
weird that's going because it's it's all anti common sense,
which is very, very, I think, perplexing peculiar for us.
But you've written extensively on all of these things, from

(02:36):
the rise in all of these movements, the Marxist socialist movements,
to the weaponization of environmentalism, economic sabotage, and some of
that we're watching right now play out with TESLA, which
has been interesting to see all of it, including BLM
and TIFA, all of this. It all comes back to
one place, and you do a fantastic job of really

(02:59):
walking us through that. So let's talk about it today.
Welcome Inn Jim, good to see it.

Speaker 3 (03:04):
Hey, justin, thanks for having me. Great to be with you. Yeah,
it's crazy what is going on, but really that's what
they want. Yes, that's the whole goal is to make
us crazy. The whole idea is to take the truth
and stand it on its head. And I mean this

(03:24):
is not a new strategy for the left, And when
I talk about the left, what I'm really talking about
is the communist movement, the worldwide communist movements, to be clear,
and the American version is just a subculture. It's a

(03:45):
component of that worldwide movement, and it is in alignment
with and following the communist Chinese and the what I
still call the Soviet Union, even though now we're all
supposed to call it Russia. But it's all part and

(04:06):
parcel of the same thing. And I just want to
read real quickly one excerpt from my book, because this
was something. This is a paraphrase of what Vladimir Lenin,
the first leader of the Soviet Union, said way back

(04:27):
in the early nineteen hundreds, and he said, deepen the contradictions,
that is, exaggerate, exacerbate existing crises, problems, social and ethnic
differences and disparities, opinions, discriptancies, rifts, etc. And if they
don't exist, create them, or if you can't create them,

(04:47):
convincingly claim that they exist and then deepen them and
in the process profit the most from them in any
way you can politically, ideologically, and especially for the left,
the most important financially to bankroll them and make them
wealthy at our expense and in the resulting chaos, blame
our enemies for the whole mayhem and finally come up

(05:11):
with solutions that will favor us, and it will be
the root of new future crises to be exploited in
the future, and so on until the targeted capitalist society
is destroyed completely to then build, under Bolshevik supervision and
control a socialist economy en route to communism. And that's

(05:33):
right where we are today.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
You know, it's funny because you'll go back in the
history to prove these things out. But one of the
funny things is, and I can't help but I'm just
looking at the cover of your book and I'm just
floored by this. But look at it. It literally is
a picture of what we're seeing right now. Like in
the middle looks like it could be some sort of
you know, electric vehicle, maybe even a tesla, And there's

(05:54):
fires burning everywhere. You got pubs on the streets, and Jim,
it's like prophetic. The book is crazy to see that,
it really is. It's what we're watching play out right now,
isn't it.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
Yeah, No, absolutely, And in the book I go through
pretty much every single crisis that they have inflicted on
us since the nineteen twenties.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
I mean, you know, the communists, we're targeting blacks in
the nineteen twenties. They saw that as the perfect way
to begin to divide us, or to exacerbate the differences
and the conflicts that already existed, and that was the

(06:42):
perfect place to start for them. I mean, most people
don't know that the National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People was created by white socialists. There was only
one black on the staff at all. His name was W. E. B. Dubus,
And as you all know, he's become you know, sort

(07:03):
of the icon of the left for the blacks. And
uh interestingly, he was the editor of their news magazine,
which guess what it was called The Crisis.

Speaker 2 (07:18):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (07:19):
Uh So he became a communist later on in his life,
and and even the NAACP threw him out because he
was making them look so bad, because he was so
obviously radical that uh uh, it really gave them a
bad image. They had the same idea in mind, but

(07:43):
but but they didn't want that to be so obvious.

Speaker 2 (07:47):
It really is interesting because as you you make that point,
and I think to myself, you know, this, this type
of UH strategy has been going on for a long
time now. And by the way, we get the same
criticism whenever you criticize or point any of these things out,
they immediately tried out the same tired thing. They call

(08:10):
you every ice used to say, They call you everyst
in the book. You're racist, your sexist, Yeah, fascists.

Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, well, you know it was interesting. I saw a
video the other night, a little short instagram where one
of Trump's advisors, or one guy that decided to throw
his weight behind him, was this leftist who was involved
with the Biden administration, and he was in a meeting

(08:43):
where they described when Harris won, what they were going
to do, and what they were going to do was
eliminate all small business and put a few chosen corporations
under the government to be totally controlled by the government.

(09:03):
And it would be the government and these corporations that
were essentially owned by the government. And what most people
don't know is that that is the exact definition of fascism.
That's what fascism is. That it was created by Benito Mussolini,

(09:26):
who was a communist but knew he couldn't get elected
as a communist in Italy back in the nineteen twenties.
So he created this new idea that well, okay, corporations
could stay in existence. They weren't going to confiscate everything. However,
they would put them all under government control. And so

(09:47):
it became a little bit less scary sounding than communism,
and so he was elected. Hitler followed suit and created
the National Socialist Party the Nazis, which was just the
same thing. And so what the left really is. I

(10:10):
mean that description is the perfect description of fascism, but
really at its heart it is all communism.

Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, this story goes back and again over time. As
you bring the facts, you bring the history to back
it up. I think it's so important for people to
understand because we're in a fight today. This war is
raging in our streets and of course in the media,
we're watching this every single day, but it has roots.
It goes back in the history of all of this.

(10:42):
Let's talk about it because I think maybe somebody listening
to this may for the first time really be coming
to GRIP. So that can you tie that the connection
there BLM and TIFA, some of these radical environmentalists. I
think it's never been more apparent in some of them
memes I've seen Jim that really point this out do

(11:03):
a fantastic job saying, you know, these folks, they were
all about these electric vehicles at one point, and now
all of a sudden they're burning these things. They're saying,
we got to save the planet, and now they're burning this.
So these memes do a fantastic job of pointing in
it was never about the environment. It was always about

(11:23):
control and vice versa with these other groups. It was
never about racism, you know, it was always about control.
Make that tie for us so that people can understand that.

Speaker 3 (11:35):
Yeah, No, it's always been about control and division. It's
always been about finding fractures in our society and then
exacerbating them and most importantly attacking our Judaeo Christian culture

(11:55):
and tearing it down, because you know, while Marx said
that religion is the opiate of the masses, the fact
of the matter was that they all recognized that our culture,
our strong Christian nation, and our Judeo Christian heritage were

(12:16):
the source of our strength. They were the inspiration for
the US Constitution, which was inspired by God in my mind,
and they knew that that was the best way to
destroy us. And in fact, in the nineteen twenties one
of Vladimir Lenin's close associates was a guy named Willie Munzenberg,

(12:41):
and he said, we must organize the intellectuals and use
them to make Western civilization stink, because only then, when
we have corrupted all its values and made life impossible,
can we impose the dictatorship of the proletariat. Of course,
meeting communism, and that is what he inspired what I'm

(13:05):
sure you know called Frankfort School, the school for Social
research in Frankfurt, Germany, which left Germany in nineteen thirty
three when Hitler took power and they were relocated at
Columbia University Teachers College in New York City, where they
created something called critical theory. And critical theory came out

(13:30):
of the mind of Marx when Mark says, we are
here too, we don't care about conditions of the current world,
which is kind of ironic because when he wrote the
Communist Manifesto was all about curing the ills of the
world and liberating the proletariat. But what he was really

(13:51):
talking about was a ruthless criticism of everything existing, and
so critical theory, which was first described in a nineteen
thirty seven article by the Critic by the Frankfurt School,
Communists described how they would criticize everything existing about our country,

(14:18):
and then they broke it down into ever smaller parts
so they could create divisions within divisions. So they created
critical race theory, critical legal theory, which is now the
primary source of legal education at institutions throughout the United States.

(14:43):
They have stopped teaching constitutional law. Instead they're teaching critical
legal theory. And I go into that in great depth
in the book. It's everywhere you look. They are looking
to create division, they are looking to create hatred. And

(15:04):
you know, and as I said in my marx book,
and as I can repeat here, you have to understand
something about them. You know, if you do what they like,
suddenly they love you. If you do what they don't like,
then suddenly they hate you. It is all tactical, you know.
The the true believers, if you will, which I would say,

(15:28):
are the Antifa BLM types. A lot of the people
in the media, a lot of the people, the professors
in universities, most of whom are Marxists. You know, they
believe the idea of Marxism, you know, the idea that
we should all be equal, and everybody should have an
equal share, and everybody will be happy. But the fact

(15:52):
of the matter is the true believers are what Lenin
called the useful idiots, who are the people that would
promote their cause and allow them to seize absolute power,
which is all they ever cared about, and of course
the wealth that goes with it. It's the same story

(16:12):
since Adam and Eve. You know, when Satan said you
shall be as gods. That's what they want and that's
what motivates them and the people. Ninety percent of the
people who were follow this leftist agitation and agenda don't

(16:34):
even know what they're really supporting, right, because they did,
they would be horrified. And this guy that listened to
what they were planning in the White House before the election,
he was asked, he was on with Joe Rogan, and
Joe Rogan said, so what did you do? He said,

(16:56):
I went out and became a Trump supporter because you knew. Yeah,
but what they were planning was absolutely insane.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Jim Simpson with us now and that other book that
he just mentioned, who was Karl Marx, The men and
the motives and the menace behind today is rampaging American
left another great one to pick up. Jim, I just
a couple things here, the critical theory and the criticism
of everything in society and the country and just just
everything in general. Always I've always noticed that everyone that

(17:31):
has criticism and everyone that has problems with where we
are today, it kind of feels like it really ties
into me with like Maslow's hierarchy of needs and that pyramid,
and the higher you go up. So I've always felt
like the better you have it, the more likely you
are and the more able you are to criticize things.

(17:55):
And to me, it's a it's an obvious failure because
if things weren't so good, you wouldn't be able to
take the time and the energy to find things that
you had problems with. So, you know, you at the bottom,
it's it's you know, safety and security and shelter and
food and water and clean air and all that. But

(18:17):
the higher up you go, you have the self realization
and all these things up at the top.

Speaker 3 (18:22):
All that stuff.

Speaker 2 (18:23):
Yeah, but if things were so bad, you wouldn't be
able to sit and have these conversations about I'm so
pressed no, because the fact is, if you were truly oppressed,
you wouldn't be able to have the conversation at all.

Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yeah, No, absolutely right, And that's that's the thing they
just don't get. And you know, that's the unfortunately, you know,
they stopped teaching about communism very early on because very
early on the communists recognized that control culture control of society.

(18:57):
They need to control the high ground in all the
institutions of culture. And of course that was the idea
of Antonio Gramsey, who wrote a three thousand word book
about it during his time in prison, an Italian communist

(19:17):
leader who was imprisoned in the nineteen twenties and thirties
and died in prison, and his book was in Italian,
so it wasn't really read that much until the sixties
when the Radical left the students for a Democratic Society,
the so called Red Diaper Babies got a hold of it,
but it didn't really get public distribution until it was

(19:45):
translated over twenty years by the head of the International
Gramcian Society, a Marxist who taught at Notre Dame University
and his name was if Buddha geg other former Transport
Transportation Secretary Pete boudageg so that's where we got that.

(20:10):
But the whole idea is to penetrate all the institutions
of society and then turn them against the society. And
that's what they've done, and they've been very successful at it, unfortunately,
and in fact, we're now seeing we saw how these
local judges, these district court judges are pronouncing nationwide injunctions

(20:38):
against the Trump administration entirely unconstitutional. And I hope Trump
ignores them or at least continues to ignore them. And
the Supreme Court, damn well better get on board in
dismissing that and saying that that's not that that does

(20:59):
not have any legal force. And I'm frankly frightened because
the recent article came out about Chief Justice Roberts, who
is apparently part of a secret society of judges, radical
left judges that meet regularly. And to me, that explains

(21:21):
what I've always believed about John Roberts was that he
has never been a conservative, He has never been even
a moderate. He was a plant. And so we are
where we are today, and it's a very bad situation.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
How do we stop that? And I know that one
Congressman has introduced articles of impeachment against Bosberg. This one
of the latest, but there's so many of them. What
can be done? And again, as you mentioned, it's so
obscene that you would even think that a district court
judge could have any sort of input. It all into

(22:02):
what the president is in with the executive office. Either
he's going to be able to execute or he's not.
You can't every step of the way be able to
step in and make these rulings and pronouncements. It's just
it's just insane.

Speaker 3 (22:15):
Well, it just shows how deeply entrenched the Communists have
become in our society. And I'm sorry I don't use
that word lightly, but people have to get used to
the seaword because you know, for decades it was it

(22:36):
was as bad as being called a racist to mention
the sea word because of the years of McCarthy and
how he was discredited inappropriately because he was right about
most of what he said, even though perhaps the way
he did it might not it might have been objectionable,
but he was right on virtually every point that we

(22:57):
were being penetrated. Our government was penetrated by communists, and
in fact FDR basically opened the door to them. And
we have so many examples of what happened as a
result of that. Most people are unaware. For example, that

(23:18):
Harry Dexter White, who was a Treasury Department guy, was
a Soviet agent. He wrote the letter that essentially forced
the Japanese to decide to attack us with a surprise
attack in Pearl Harbor, and his goal was to get

(23:43):
us involved in a war on two fronts to take
the pressure off the Soviet Union, which was being attacked
from the east by the Japanese while it had to
fight the Nazis in the west. So instead of having
a two front board and they now had a one
front war. That was one thing Harriet Expert White did,

(24:04):
and Truman, instead of having them arrested and tried for
treason and hanged like the Rosenbergs like he should have been,
he was sent off to create the International Monetary Fund.
He was the first president of the World Bank, which
has financed dictators throughout the world ever since. And there

(24:27):
are just so many other examples of that. I'm sorry.
The guy who wrote the UN Charter was the biggest,
most well known trader. Alger Hiss, a Communist Soviet agent

(24:51):
in the State Department. He wrote the UN Charter and
he wrote it specifically to give the Soviets and advantage,
and the Soviets considered the UN just an arm of
their foreign policy. Ever since, you're.

Speaker 2 (25:08):
A wealth and knowledge on these things. And I got
to tell you people just they I don't think we
First of all, we're not being taught this history in schools.

Speaker 3 (25:18):
We need to be.

Speaker 2 (25:19):
Unless you're Glenn back with the chalkboard. And I know,
I know you've been on Glenn's show multiple times to
talk about these things. People don't have the depth, but
we really do need to know these things. It's no
wonder we're not being taught about these things because they've
taken over in education so many of our institutions. In
fact we're watching right now is President Trump is in
this fight trying to take that apart and decentralize all

(25:43):
of these things. Can you talk a little bit about that,
the role there maybe in the Department of Education and
how things have played out.

Speaker 3 (25:50):
Oh yeah, well, Department of Education. In so many of
our agencies, the penetration is very deep. I mean I
saw it in the night teen eighties and nineties when
I was working at the White House Budget Office. Even then,
the Democrats had been in control for so much for

(26:13):
so long, since the nineteen thirties, they had virtually control
of the government, and the agencies weren't quite as leftist
as they are today, but they all did whatever the
Democrats wanted because that's how they would get favorable treatment

(26:35):
in the budgets every year. And I wrote the budgets.
I wrote the budgets for the Bureau of Alcohol to
back on firearms, the Custom Service before it became ice
Secret Service, and a number of other ones. And they
all bowed to the Democratic appropriators and gave them whatever

(26:58):
they wanted, because that's how they increased their budgets. So
of course, you know, you always follow the money, and
that's where you find all the bad stuff resides, and
how they get so deeply entrenched. And you know, it
was very funny Willie Munzenberg when he said we will

(27:20):
organize the intellectuals. They knew that the proletariat is so
called proletariat. The working class were not going to become
part of a communist revolution. They had no interest in that.
They were enjoying living in a prosperous society and raising

(27:40):
their children and doing going to work and doing the
things they had to do. No, Munzenberg said, we must
organize the intellectuals. And why the intellectuals. Well, the German
communist leader, a lady at the time, said, Willy knew
one thing about the intellectuals, and that was you didn't

(28:00):
have to pay them. All you had to do was
flatter them.

Speaker 2 (28:06):
And then the truth.

Speaker 3 (28:07):
Yeah, it's so true. And think about all these arrogant,
conceited leftist professors who think they know it all and
can't be told a darn thing. And all you need
to do is say, oh my, are you smart? Oh my,
you're so correct. They just oh, and you can become

(28:27):
part of the revolution while you're sitting comfortably in your
tenured positions, earning hundreds of thousands a year and you
don't have anything to worry about at all. But boy,
you could become part of the revolution. How exciting.

Speaker 2 (28:42):
Limousine liberals. Hey, we've got to talk about Cloward and Piven,
and now you've talked about them numerous times of Glenn
was one of the people who really started to bring
them out into the public. You've talked about them quite
a bit in the strategies that we're seeing play out.
So what is and do we still see that as

(29:05):
Dad's going to be able to stop some of these things,
but essentially the collapse and what the ideology was there?

Speaker 3 (29:12):
Right? Yeah, no, absolutely. Let me first say sort of
quickly answer the question. I didn't really answer the question
you asked before. You know. The Trump administration faces battles
on practically every front, and their job is going to
have to be what they started to do. First of all,

(29:32):
they're going to have to stop those those court injunctions,
that's ridiculous. But they have to get find the people
who are entrenched in these various bureaucracies and get them fired,
if not prosecuted. I would prefer to see them prosecuted,
but at least fired, and then put people in their place,

(29:53):
not merely at the top like they've done so far
with the directors and the deputy directors. So wonderful to
see Dan Bongino, for example, as a deputy director of
the FBI. He's kind of boy, is he going to
do a good job. But we have to get deep
into those agencies to find the people who are still

(30:18):
American patriots and give those people the power and take
away the power or get rid of the people who
are fighting us, and and that's a battle on every front,
and he's got to do that. I mean, they're trying
to do it, but they really I don't even know
that they know how how deep it is. Elon Musk

(30:42):
has been obviously surprised, and most people have been surprised.
But this is what communists do. This is exactly what
they do. They burn tesla's, they create riots in the street,
they block traffic, They do what whatever they can to
create chaos and to prevent us from doing what we

(31:06):
know needs to be done. So, getting back to the
question that you had about Cloward and Piven, they were
sixties radicals. They were both Columbia University professors, so they
were very familiar with critical theory. They were critical theorists themselves.

(31:29):
They were founding members of Democratics Socialists of America, which
is the largest communist organization in the country. It is
not democratic, it is not socialist. It is a hardcore
Trotskyite communist actually Maoist organization. But anyway, Cloward and Piven,

(31:53):
Richard Cloward Francis Fox Piven were a married couple and
in the sixties they wrote an article called The Weight
of the Poor, a strategy to end poverty. And by weight,
they didn't mean the you know, depressing bring down that
the poor feel and create. They're talking about the power

(32:17):
the weight as power of the poor that the poor
didn't know they had. And that article described how the
poor could be used to collapse the capitalist society. And
so their idea, and this is very important point I
make out in the book You Know Johnson created the

(32:40):
Great Society in nineteen sixty five. He wrote a vast
expansion of welfare and his goal was strictly political. He
wanted to get as many minorities into the Democratic Party
as he could by promising welfare. And it worked. By

(33:01):
the time nineteen sixty nine came around, the Democratic registration
of blacks went from about seventy percent to ninety five percent.
And Richard Cloward was the one who inspired the welfare

(33:25):
expansion under the Great Society. And they didn't they thought
welfare was the opiate of the masses. They didn't think
welfare was a good thing. But what did they do.
They created an organization that would pack people onto the

(33:45):
welfare rules with every benefit possible, and the purpose being
not to help the poor. The purpose was to create
so much weight in the bureaucracy through the expense of
all these welfare programs that it would collapse. And they
were partially successful in the seventies, pushing New York City

(34:09):
to virtual bankruptcy, but it wasn't a total success. Their idea,
they said, was to create a guaranteed annual income for
all Americans, which in today's dollars would be between forty
and eighty thousand dollars per family of four. Now think

(34:30):
about that, they're trying to pack the welfare roles with
so many beneficiaries that it would collapse. But now, which
would be more expensive that or a guaranteed annual income
for all Americans? Obviously we go back to the Bill

(34:53):
Lenin's idea where you create solutions, but the collutions create
additional crisis. And of course that was the real goal,
because it would be more expensive, and besides that all
the welfare programs in existence would not cease to exist.
This would be an add on, so that would collapse

(35:14):
to society. And you know today they've been very successful.
In the seventies, they were already advocating a fifteen dollar
minimum wage. Now we see that in many states, we
see twenty dollars minimum wages in twenties in many states,
and that's creating an economic collapse in those states, much

(35:35):
a lot of unemployment, a lot of people moving out
of those states. And they also have a number of
pilot programs for what they now call universal basic income,
which is the same thing guaranteed annual income. So the
whole idea was to create this massive financial crisis, and

(35:58):
how else would you do a better job than that. Well,
they started with the subprime mortgage crisis, where the Clinton
administration forced banks to accept mortgages from uncredit worthy customers
in the millions, the so called ninja and no job,

(36:21):
no income, no assets loans to people who couldn't afford
to pay them. But then the carrot that they provided
to the banks was that the government would underwrite the risk.

(36:42):
So it was privatizing the profits and socializing the risk.
That's what they did, and that created the subprime mortgage crisis,
which created a collapse of our economy in two thousand
and eight. It was not George W. Bush's fault. It
was a premeditated, planned crisis by the Clinton administration with

(37:06):
the help of organizations like Acorn, which was created by
Richard Cloward and Fancis Fox Piven. So we got there,
and then what better way? Even that didn't work, right,
our economy is so resilient it came back despite President Obama.

(37:31):
You know, we have a powerful economy and the free
market is the best form of economy that there is,
and it finds ways around all of these obstructions that
the communists try to put up. And so what was
a better idea? Open the borders. Bring in floods of people,

(37:54):
floods of people that will bury the welfare roles with
demands for public services, overwhelmed communities with all their various needs,
overwhelmed communities that now had to deal with people speaking
four hundred different languages languages are spoken in public school today,

(38:15):
possible situation. And at the same time, by bringing in
this mass group of immigrants from all over the world,
dilute our culture, so that the American dream and the
American way of life, our belief in the constitution and
the rule of law, it just gets watered down to

(38:38):
the point where we're just a people among a mass
of people from many different cultures, many of which are
at war with each other. So you have yet more
crises you know, through the Cloward pivot strategy of manufactured crisis,

(38:58):
which I wrote about and Glenn Beck used my materials
to create his series of shows on the program.

Speaker 2 (39:05):
And I wondered, Jim, when you said this, and even
when Glenn covered it, You've been saying for years, but
even when Glenn covered I think it was kind of
hard for people to maybe understand. But we've seen it
play out, and look, I hate that we've had to
go through this. I absolutely hate it. But I will

(39:26):
tell you this. It seems though, and maybe you could
comment on this, is it becoming easier for people to
understand and really grasp now now that they've actually seen
it up close and personal.

Speaker 3 (39:39):
Yeah? No, And that's the good thing. I mean, you know,
I think really seventy percent of the American people are
now on board, although they might not be so publicly,
although polls show that, or they're starting to show that.
You know, these are things you can't ignore because because

(40:00):
it's beginning to affect everybody personally. You know, when the
people send their kids to school and they find out
that behind their backs, the kids are being taught about transgenderism,
and how important it is to edify that and how important.

(40:21):
And they're not learning. They're not learning that the kids
are learning critical race theory, they're not learning that. The
kids are being basically indoctrinated into becoming global citizens, right
to become people who will follow the Marxists and ignore
and rebel against their own parents. And of course every

(40:46):
generation goes through that. I was a rebellious kid. I
was rebellious as well, and most of us, most generations
go through that when we're in our teens. You know,
hire a teenager while he still knows it all as
the bumper sticker goes. But as we grow up, we

(41:08):
begin to realize that our parents were right, and we
begin to fall in line, and we know it. Practically speaking,
we need work, we need jobs, We need to start
acting like normal, reasonable human beings. We all have a
rebellious period. But the difference is that from the sixties

(41:28):
forward we had radical leftists increasingly penetrating all of the
institutions of higher learning, all the secondary schools, and so
our children that rebellious nature was being used. And those

(41:49):
kids were, like the intellectuals, being flattered and told, yes,
you know better than your parents. Don't listen to them,
We know better than you see, we're all in agreement here.
And then they provide the backup through their educational teachings, like,

(42:10):
for example, with global warming. You know, think about that too.
Think about what that means to children when they hear
that if we don't fix global warming right now, our
world will die. And now it's like seven years, they're saying, and.

Speaker 2 (42:29):
Oh, we've missed their timelines. We should be gone by now.

Speaker 3 (42:34):
Many times over of course. Yeah, but each generation doesn't
see that. They just hear whatever their teachers are telling them,
and then they're told, you know, yeah, this makes you
smarter than everybody else. So why should you listen to
your parents? And mom and dad? Aren't you concerned? We're
going to our nation, our world's going to die in
ten years. If you don't stop driving cars driven by gasoline,

(42:58):
you don't start using electric vehicles, you know, we don't
become carbon neutral. And I have a whole section in
the book where I talk about how the goals of
carbon neutrality would if they were taken seriously. Let's say,
for the sake of argument, you take their argument seriously,

(43:19):
we need to cut our carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon neutral
would reduce temperature, assuming their arguments are true, would reduce
temperature by one fifth or one half of one degree fahrenheit,
in other words, nothing. But their argument is entirely fallacious,

(43:44):
and the whole point of it is to get us
to switch into using alternative sources of energy like wind
and solar. But all that really does is provide massive
trillions of dollars a bank roll for the left. That's

(44:05):
the real goal for them, to become wealthy at our expense.
They could care less. You know that windmills freeze and
five hundred people die in Texas because suddenly they didn't
have any power. Things like that happening all the time.
What it does to the environment, killing hundreds of thousands

(44:25):
of birds every year, wind power in the seas, killing
whales and disturbing sea life. They don't care about the environment.
All they care about is what's going on. And the
biggest joke about it, and I talk about this in
the book as well. You know, the Finnish Geological Society

(44:50):
wrote a thousand page book about what it would take
to become carbon neutral, and the fact of the matter
is there is not enough lithium. There are not enough
rare earth elements to provide the batteries necessary to run

(45:10):
an electric economy. There's not enough.

Speaker 2 (45:13):
Yeah, it's all. The whole thing is smoking mirrors. And
I think all eyes and people are waking up to it.
I think it really is. There's so much. I see
this and I and I think to myself, and so
many of us have been watching this for years, playing
out now and thinking the same things. This is a
lot of this is common sense? Why are so many

(45:35):
people falling for it? But I've got to ask you this,
because you've touched on it in your writing and of
course in our conversation here today. But how much of this? Yeah,
we hear politics, and we understand that some of the
weird things that are happening, and of course kind of
what's happening in the world is one thing. But how

(45:56):
much of this is a spiritual fight? I mean, coming
back to Ephesian six twelve and we wrestle out against
flesh and blood. How how much is that I'm hearing
that theme? And what you're talking about now?

Speaker 3 (46:10):
Well, you know, in the conclusion of my book, which
is the longest chapter, and it has literally hundreds hundreds
lists of things that we can do, we must do
to restore our nation, it's not. You know, people say, well,

(46:30):
what can we do, and what they want is a
simple one line answer, and my response is always, there
is no magic pill. There are hundreds of things we
have to do, but the very first thing that we
have to do is pray. Because the reason we are

(46:52):
where we are is because America as a nation has
lost its way, It has forgotten God, it has abandoned God.
And just like it's nothing new, the world has gone
through this cycle over and over again. You know, in

(47:12):
the Book of Judges, they talk about, you know, the
people every man did what was right in his own eyes,
and then everything around them collapsed. You know, they were
taken over, they were they were defeated in battle, until
finally they say, they come to their sense and say, sorry, God,
please help us. And then they're given a judge, a

(47:35):
leader who can restore them. And it gets restored for
twenty five or fifty years or so, and then they
forget all about it again and things go bad again.
And this is what's happened in our nation. And it
was propagated, it was initiated, it was promoted by the

(47:56):
communists in the twenties. But as we became more affluent,
we also felt like, well, maybe we just don't need
God so much. You know, we became more interested in
the benefits that our affluence provided. And it's kind of
a cyclical thing. But they initiated or at least promoted it.

(48:22):
But our own sin natures allowed that to continue to
the point where as a nation, now we are so
far away from God it is ridiculous. And you know,
God gave us free will. He gave us the choice.
He said, follow me and things will be good. He said,

(48:46):
choose your own way. Good luck with that right, And
here we are. Here we are. We've chosen our own path,
We've chosen to defy God, and here we are. So
this is absolutely at its heart spiritual battle. And the
forces of the left, the communist forces, they are satanic

(49:07):
because there is nothing nothing good about them. I call
them the evolutionary endpoint to human depravity. But human depravity
is a state that we fall into when we forget
about God. That's what happens. So it's very much a
spiritual battle. And in fact, I have my favorite, my

(49:31):
favorite psalm, Psalm forty six quoted in the conclusion as
long as and in addition to many other quotes initiating everything.
We have to pray, we have to ask God for
his help, but mostly we have to ask him for
his forgiveness. We have to seek forgiveness for how wayward

(49:54):
we have gone. And I think God has heard us,
and he gave us this one last chance with the
election of President Trump this year or last year.

Speaker 2 (50:05):
I am with you, and I think so many people.
It had to get so bad that enough people would
wake up, enough of us would turn, you know, and
in prayer and ask for Him to heal our land.
And here we are. We've got another shot.

Speaker 3 (50:24):
Yeah, yeah, go ahead.

Speaker 2 (50:27):
No, no, but it doesn't you know, to me again,
it doesn't take a rocket scientist to see this. I
mean just a millimeter or so off and this whole thing.
I mean, you talk about chaos, You talk about what
the enemy would have really wanted to see. I mean,
I forget about losing President Trump. That's that's horrible enough
in itself to think about, But what would that have

(50:48):
done to our nation? And CNN and everybody else is
there streaming it live in four k Can you imagine
watching that throughout the world? What people would have said
and done, What would have happened to this country. There's
no doubt about it that there was divine intervention. God's
hand was on him in our nation, and I think
in the election as well, to watch it all play out.

(51:08):
But this is just the beginning.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Yeah, no, that's absolutely right. And you know, in a
funny way, I'm actually sort of grateful for the Biden
administration's four years because they made everything's so bad. And
if Trump had been elected in twenty twenty, of course
things would have been better. But now now, given four

(51:32):
years of this absolutely deliberately destructive chaos that we've experienced,
now people's eyes are really much more open than they
would have been, and hopefully open enough that we can
reverse this horrible trend we were on and come back

(51:54):
to the great society that America has been in the
past and of benefit to the world, because the fact
of the matter is, you know, Obama complained that while
we were only three percent of the world's population, we
utilized over twenty percent of the world's oil, twenty percent

(52:17):
of the world's resources. That's a true statement. The other
side of that statement is we provide a market for
the entire world. Our economy supports the economy of the world.
And so, for example, in a great depression, when our

(52:40):
unemployment went down, our GDP went down twenty five percent.
World industrial production went down thirty percent. Now Obama wanted
to take us from consuming twenty percent of the world's
resources to three percent, that would have that flip that
onto the GDP going from twenty percent of the world

(53:05):
GDP down to three percent of the world GDP, which
is the other side of that equation. Member, I'm an economists,
that's the other side of the equation. That would be
a decline of eighty ninety percent of GDP in the
United States and throughout the world there would be a

(53:28):
similar economic collapse that would be like nothing anybody has
ever seen before. And the freakiest part is that the
communists notice, and they're okay with it, okay with seeing
that much destruction. And who else could be so willing

(53:50):
to destroy the world, to kill so many people except
a Satanist.

Speaker 2 (53:56):
The ends justify the means. They've got to break a
few eggs to make an how but that's the way
they look at it, and it's that's horrifying. I'm glad,
I'm glad you you you put that in those terms.
I'm glad that people can understand by the way they're
going to have questions. We know, pick up the book.
It's a read You're definitely not gonna want to miss. Uh.
It is it is out now, a manufactured crisis, the

(54:18):
War to End America Jim Simpson. You're going to look
it up as James Simpson. You'll be able to find
it online everywhere.

Speaker 3 (54:26):
But also u to go to my website Crisisnow dot
net and that picture. You can just click on that
picture and I'll take your right to my Amazon page.
Much easier than having to go to Amazon and search around.
But yeah, all those books, Yeah, that's that's uh.

Speaker 2 (54:46):
And that is if you want to come out in
person and actually get the book signed and have a
great conversation, you're not going to want to miss this
because these events are always great. Eve Redman and the
crew at Ottawa County Patriots do a fantastic job and
they've got an event coming up Tuesday night, the twenty fifth,

(55:08):
at six pm, six to nine. I think doors open
at five point thirty first four main conference room there
at the Howard Miller Community Center, fourteenth South Church Street
in Zealand. And. As I said, you can have questions
and comments about all of these great conversation with Jim
and the rest of the folks that are going to
be there as well, get your books signed and enjoy that.

(55:31):
Going to be a fantastic event as they always are.
But thank you Jim for taking the time with us.
If folks want to follow you online, maybe they want
to pick up the book. Obviously, Crisisnow dot net is
the website. Where else should they go to connect with
the end stay up today?

Speaker 3 (55:51):
Well, they can find me on x James M. Simpson
at James M. Simpson. I have an Instagram page, kind
of paltry. I'm still trying to figure out how to
work that, you know, I'm old school. A lot of
it's new social media stuff I don't get. I also
have a very good Facebook page with almost a maximum

(56:14):
amount of followers, and I do a lot of posting
on Facebook, and then occasionally I write for American Thinker
and other publications. Those are all listed or most of
them anyway, are listed on my website. There there's an
archive of articles going back to two thousand and five,

(56:36):
so that would be the best ways if they want
to write to me and instead of ordering from Amazon.
To get a book from me directly, they can message
me email me at Simpson dot Truth at gmail dot com,

(56:59):
Simpson and dot Truth at gmail dot com. I used
to have a blog site called Truth and Consequences. That's
where that Gmail came from. But anyway, and if they
write to me, I'll tell them they can send me
their address and I can tell them how to pay.

(57:22):
You know, I can take payment over the phone, or
they can send me in check or whatever. But contact
me that way if you want to get a book
mailed to you directly. Of course there's extra charges for that,
but you can do that too well.

Speaker 2 (57:38):
Put it all in the stack to in our show
notes so that folks can have that. James, thank you
for everything you do, Jim and and for fighting this.
But continue to stay in the fight because I think
this is a this is one that matters, and folks
are waking up. We are starting to see some of
that fruit and it's good news to see it.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
Yeah, sure is well. I thank you so much Justin
for having me on. And you know, that book is
more important now than it was even before the election,
because it spills out all the different things that they
are doing who's doing them, why they're doing them, where
and how and what we have to do to fix it,

(58:19):
and so thank you.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
I couldn't agree more. Still, lots of work yet to do.
We're just getting started beginning, that's right, Jim, Thank you
so much.

Speaker 3 (58:30):
God bless you too, Justin, thank you and thank your audience.

Speaker 2 (58:34):
Thank you for being here today. Don't forget to share.
Follow me everywhere at mister Justin Barkley on all the
platforms at Justin Barkley dot com. You get my good newsletter.
We can stay in touch no matter what happens with
big tech and social media. Let's continue to get these
stories out so that people can hear the truth. Why
does that matter? Well, when you do the truth, and
you can make the best decision for you and your families.

Speaker 3 (58:56):
And that's important.

Speaker 2 (58:57):
And no matter what happens, folks, I piece my home
doesn't come for my circumstances, certainly doesn't come from the
people that are in the White House in Washington, d C.
I piece, my hope, my joy, it's from some place altogether.

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Much better.

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