#511 Decentralization vs The Great Reset & Que the Foreign Hobgoblins

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Speaker 1 (00:02):
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Finally, I was curious how that was going to go

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.
I'm broadcasting from the road,literally on a road microphone,
my first time using this setupand it actually worked.
So I wasn't going to bearrogant and say I've got new
stuff and it's going to work,because the last few times we've
gone live there's beensomething.

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So it's okay.
We had a positive attitude.
We're traveling Beans and I arein sunny California.
We did the tinfoil hat podcastyesterday, had such an amazing
time with Sam Tripoli and JohnnyWoodard and XG, fun, fun
conversation.
I don't know when the episode'scoming out, but I imagine in
the next few days or so.
Always good to see those guys.
Anyway, I've got some storiesfor you today.

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I looked at the Drudge Report.
I pulled that up and all Icould think was it's something
that Sam and I talked aboutyesterday.
It's humbling to be in thisbusiness where you're trying to
give analysis without beingbiased and truly giving your

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best opinion, seeing what's next.
The point is, you listen to mebecause you want to find out
what's actually going on.
What do I think?
Track record of being somewhatright in right, it's somewhat
right.
Or, like my dad said um, how's,how's it feel?

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Um, how's it feel to lose allthat money being a contrarian.
It's basically what he asked melast week.
He said you're such acontrarian son, you just you, um
, you know you miss out on on alot of the popular movements and
stuff.
And that's true.
And to the best of my ability,I go into my subconscious, I try
to remove anything that wouldbe preconceived notions and just

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try to lay out what's happening.
And I tell you what I didn'tsee any of this coming.
We've looked at the headlines ofDrudge.
That happened swiftly, didn'tit?
And what's funny is the thingsthat I've mentioned before
Happened swiftly, didn't it?
And what's funny is the thingsthat I've mentioned before, like
the Steve Bannon-Epsteininterview.
I saw that that was like twoyears ago that I knew about it

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and I kept going hey, doesanybody else realize that Steve
Bannon did a sit-down interviewwith Jeffrey Epstein, like in
2019 or 2018?
And I said does anybody realizethat?
And it just went away.
And now it's the front page ofDrudge, and so this is how stuff
like this works.
I mean, you can be like, I'llcatalog it, put in the back of

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my mind, and now we've seen thiscomplete pole reversal of where
you know it was you.
We look at MAGA, you look atthese movements, where we're
going to put you know, we'regoing to get the Democrats on
the run.
They're all on Epstein Island,they're all on the Lolita
Express and we're going toexpose all these people.
And now it's the, that's theRepublicans versus the Democrats

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, and now the whole thing is apoll reversal where the
Democrats are subpoenaing theClintons.
That's the world in which welive, in folks.
And so I pulled up an article.
I thought see, this is where mymind goes.
I want to see who else thinkslike me.
So I went to LewRockwellcom.
There's an article up there Idefinitely want to read, because

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it talks about, like, what dodo now?
If you're the, if you're at thetop of the political hierarchy,
you know what usually happensnext when you have something
like this going on, which isthis, by the way.
It's catastrophic.
So it's just not mince words.
It reminds me of a scene in myfavorite movie I talked about
this yesterday on tinfoil hat,at least my favorite movie which

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is Oliver Stone's Nixon, andthere's this great scene where
Bob Haldeman, played by JamesWoods and Bob Haldeman was
Nixon's right-hand man, is go-toguy, and this is the 1960
campaign.
It's the first time that likedebates are televised and that's
when you see like Kennedy'slooking rested and Nixon's tired

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, cause he's been outcampaigning hard and all this
stuff and they, they have thisexchange where Nixon's part of
the security cabinet, he knowswhat they're trying to do to
Castro and Kennedy calls him outon it and he knows that Nixon
can't really respond because ifhe does, it violates national
security.

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And he knows that Nixon can'treally respond because if he
does, it violates nationalsecurity.
Had he responded toughly abouttaking out Castro, he would have
won, most likely because itmade him look kind of soft.
And as soon as he didn'trespond that way, bob Haldeman
looked at everybody else andgoes it's over, more coffee.
Like he just knew that thewhole thing was over.
He just wanted more coffee.

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So that's kind of how I feelMore coffee.
All that's kind of how I feelMore coffee.
All right, we're going to jumpinto some.
I want to get into someeconomics.
There's an article up onActivist Post I want to talk
about because I've been I'm justgoing to try to put as much
into this episode as possible.
I've been researching in usingAI and you know I'm not the

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first to jump on technology.
I'm certainly not the last, butthere's a lot of biases and
things that people talk about AIand what's going on with AI,
what's it going to replace?
And it's, you know, a doomsday,everything.
That's at least what we've beenprimed for, like my whole life
since I was a kid.
You know it's basically JohnConnor warning us, John Connor

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warning us not to make friendswith the AI from Terminator and
it's the Matrix and it'severything else At least that's
what we're primed for, which isweird because it manifested
itself anyway.
But I've been experimenting withAI a bit, asking it questions
and looking at deep dives on thefinancial part of things and

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where we go with stable coins,where we go with Bitcoin, where
we go with gold, and I've got,I've had some interesting
interactions.
I like it so far.
I like the, the, the intricacyof it, and I got an article I
want to talk about becauseapparently it's making people
dumber and it's so funny.
It's like why.
That's an open question of whythat is, especially given the

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amazing things that it can do.
But I guess the same thing withthe Internet.
People are dumber, it'sidiocracy and it really is
confounding, isn't it, that wehave all this information, we
have all this technology, wehave all this other stuff and
people are getting dumber.
But I definitely want to jumpinto that and I'll go to the
chat as well and I'll make sureI'm on my laptop.

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Today, beans is producing, soI'll definitely get to that.
All right, let's jump into ourfirst article of the day.
This is something I want to getinto.
Let's get into the economics ofthings first.
I saw this was up by MichaelSchneider and I know anybody out

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there.
Right now, it is getting weird.
The economy is getting weird.
The energy out there is weird.
Just dealing with other peopleright now Does anybody else have
the same thing?
Just dealing with other peopleis bizarre.
There's, there's an energy outthere that definitely is
different.
I want to put this up on thescreen though.
This.
This is a great article.

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Just breaking this.
Michael Snyder does this withthe Economic Collapse blog the
Economic Collapse blog and Iwant to put this up because it
really does do a decent synopsison the facts.
This is 10 economic facts thatnobody can deny.
If you ask a thousand differentAmericans about the state of
the US economy, you will get athousand different opinions.

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What is the truth.
I love that.
That's such a great question.
That's what Pontius Pilateasked you know before he turned
Jesus over to the mob.
What is truth?
In this article, I'm going toshare information with you that
is indisputable.
I like to examine things froman analytical point of view, and

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so I always want to know whatthe cold hard numbers are
telling me.
And the cold hard numbers aretelling me.
This is very troubling.
It says there are 10 economicfacts.
No one can deny Number one theconference board's index of
leading economic indicators fellmore than expected last month
and during the entire first halfof 2025, it declined at an even

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faster rate than it did duringthe second half of 2024.
The Conference Board LeadingEconomic Index, lei, for the US
declined by 0.3% in June 2025 to98.8% after no change in May.
After no change in May, revisedupward 0.1% originally reported

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.
As a result, the LEI fell by2.8% over the first half of 2025
, a substantially faster rate ofdecline than the 1.3%
contraction over the second halfof 2024.
The US LEI fell further in June, said Justyna Zabinska-Lemonica

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, senior manager of businesscycle indicators, for the second
month in a row.
The stock price rally was themain support of the LEI, but
this was not enough to offsetthe still very low consumer
expectations.
Weak new orders inmanufacturing and a third
consecutive month of risinginitial claims for unemployment
insurance.
Number two we just learned thesales of previously owned homes

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have fallen to their lowestlevel in nine months.
Sales of previously owned homesin the United States hit their
lowest rate in nine months,according to industry data
released Wednesday.
As home prices and mortgagerates weighed on the market,
existing home sales dropped 2.7%last month to a seasonally

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adjusted rate of 3.9 million,said the National Association of
Realtors.
I mean, that's the core of oureconomy, is what's built on.
is is not necessarily homes, butit's the prices those prices of
homes built in and the lendingthat goes around.

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Sorry, guys, we're getting aphone call here in the office
Number three.
It is being reported thatmillions of Americans are that
are on existing health insuranceplans will hit double-digit
rate hikes next year.
There's nothing I can do aboutthe phone, guys.
Consumers who buy healthinsurance through affordable

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care at Marketplace will likelyface double-digit rate hikes
next year.
Insurers plan on medium priceincreases of 15% for 2026 plans.
That's crazy too, because I'vegot Blue Cross for my company
and I get automatic drafts onthis thing and every month I
look at it.
It's like it just keepsincreasing and this is like

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catastrophic coverage for, youknow, family and core employees
and I mean I could rent a newspace, I could have another
Weiswolf for what I'm paying forthat and again, this is just
catastrophic coverage, like justmaking sure bare minimums in
case something bad happens.

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It's not even like the goldplan or whatever you want to
call it.
It's a good plan, but it isextremely expensive.
Many working-age consumers whoget their health insurance
through the workplace won't bespared either.
Benefits consultant Mercer saidmore than half of big employers

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expect to shift a larger shareof insurance costs to employees
and their family next year byraising deductible co-pays and
out-of-pocket requirements.
And that's just all.
Part of inflation too.
The cost of everything goes up.
The price of beef in the UnitedStates has risen 9% since

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January.
This is number four.
First it was eggs, eggs, nowit's beef.
The last time americans likelynoticed, uh, spiking prices at
the grocery store was when eggsreached record highs.
Since then, egg prices havefallen.
After the deadly avian fluoutbreak was contained in,
producers built back supplymanufacturer thing now.

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Now beef prices are hittingrecord highs almost 9% since
January, according to theDepartment of Agriculture and
retailing around $9.26 a pound.
June's Consumer Price Indexshowed steak and ground beef
prices are up 12.4% and 10.3%respectively over the last year.

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Well, transportation costs,feed costs and again just the
loss of purchasing power in thedollar.
And you're not making more.
You're on a treadmill becausewages don't match inflation.
That's the hidden tax andeverything costs more.
Number five more Americans thanever are using buy now, pay

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later loans to pay for groceries, and we've covered this here on
the show.
25% of buy now, pay later userssay they've used the loans to
buy groceries.
That's up from 14% just a yearago, and rising prices at the

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supermarket.
One third of Gen Z buy now, paylater users say they've done so
, making it the fourth mostcommon buy now, pay later
purchase of the age groupno-transcript.

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Number six the official rate ofinflation just increased at the
fastest pace that we have seenin five months.
Consumer prices in June postedthe biggest increase since the
beginning of the year and likelyto keep the Federal Reserve
from cutting interest rateslater this month.
But there are only scatteredsigns of tariff-related
inflation.
The consumer price index rose0.3% last month.

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The consumer price index rose0.3% last month, the government
said Tuesday, and it matchedWall Street's forecast.
It was the biggest rise sinceJanuary.
Well, again the issue with therates, and that's another thing
that I talked about today withTravis Knight over on the David
Knight Show.
That's the fight that we'rehaving.

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The reason that Trump is angrywith Jerome Powell or is
dissatisfied, or says that he'sscrewing it up big screw ups,
you know all this stuff isbecause Powell won't lower rates
, and to lower rates is toincrease the money supply.
It is to have all these massiveholders of US debt.

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I mean, when you raise interestrates, folks, what they do is
that it freezes a lot of themoney supply.
These big holders of US debtand treasuries will put it off
long-term to get a 4% or 5%return on that.
So they'll just freeze thatcurrency.
When rates are low there's noincentive to hold it.

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It will be put back into thesystem, which creates inflation
and, of course, the loss ofpurchasing power because the
dollars are more ubiquitous.
Number seven a recent surveyfound that 23% of Americans have
decided to delay retirement.
This figures up.

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Well, ben Shapiro will be happyhe shouldn't.
He should just say well, youcan't retire in 75.
Older Americans are kicking thecan down the road on retirement
over concerns about the economyand their own financial
readiness to step back from work.
That's according to a new surveyfrom F&G Annuities and Life,

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which polled 2,000 US adultsover 50 years old.
The life insurance andannuities company found that 23%
of those polled have alreadydecided to delay their
retirement as they grapple withthe question about their
financial readiness.
This is all part of thedeparture that this country made

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in 1971, folks, you have towork harder and harder at
finding investment vehicles,places to park your cash, and
when you have housing bubbles,when you have a declining real
estate market or you have adeclining stock market, you go
into a free fall territory whereyou're not keeping up with

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inflation, and that's why in the1970s we went off the gold

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standard.
But in the mid-1970s you seethe birth of things like the
401k and the outside of justbeing what your ancestors would
have done, which is buy a home,put some savings away, do things
and then you can plan on thatyou can't do that when you have
nothing back in your currency.

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Number eight according toanother recent survey, nearly
70% of Americans are feelinganxiety and depression because
of the state of their finances.
Nearly 7 in 10, 69% sayfinancial uncertainty has led to
them feelings of anxiety anddepression.
According to a recent surveyfrom Northwest Mutual, an 8

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percentage point increase from2023.
And, by the way, 2023 wasn'tgreat.
Percentage point increase from2023.
And, by the way, 2023 wasn'tgreat.
Now we forget what happened tous in 2020, 2021.

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Because of the rapidity, theacceleration of the news cycle
and the stream of history thatwe're on, we forget.
But there was massive blows tothe supply chain, to the
currency, the stability, the jobmarket, everything that was
taken away from the lockdownsand the non-essentials that were
in those businesses, thosehundreds of thousands of
businesses that were put out ofbusiness from those lockdowns.

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Number nine the percentage ofUS populations dealing with food
insecurity has almost doubledover the past four years.
In May, 15.6% of adults werefood insecure almost double the
rate in 2021.
Yes, how's that supply linedestruction paying off?

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And again, it's a double ratesince 2021.
Yeah, I remember distinctly,too, the Biden administration
coming out and saying see, we'vegot all these job openings.
There's millions of jobs thatthe Biden administration had
created and if you looked at themetrics, it was because they
were forcing and bullyingcorporations to lay people off

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who wouldn't get an injectionopenings.
It's the same thing with thesupply lines and, of course,
people going to bed hungry.
A lot of that.
They say trickle-down economics.
Well, that's exactly what Ihave.
It trickles down and it's atrickle-down depression as well.

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Number 10, freight-relatedcompanies all over the country
are conducting mass layoffs.
Another wave of closures andlayoffs has hit workers and
companies tied to commercialtransportation, manufacturing,
lumber production, distributionand logistics across the US.
Over the past several weeks,there are 4,137 jobs and cuts

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announced, according to mediareports and worker adjustment at
retraining notification.
This is the place that monitorsthe layoffs.
So this would not be happeningif the US economy was in good
shape.
When the economy is strong,lots of stuff is being shipped

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all over the place.
Sadly, a lot more layoffs areon the horizon.
In addition to facing anothermajor economic downturn, we have
also entered the AI revolution.
According to Robert Kiyosaki,ai is going to cause massive
unemployment.
Rich Dad, poor Dad.
Author Robert Kiyosaki has asobering take on one of today's

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hottest trends, and that'sartificial intelligence.
We're going to be talking aboutthat here in a minute too.
Biggest change in modernhistory, he declared on X on
July 1st.
Ai will cause many smartstudents to lose their jobs.
Ai will cause massiveunemployment.
Many still have student loandebt.
Kiyosaki isn't alone insounding the alarm.

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Dario Ade, ceo of Anthropic,the AI company behind the large
language model, claude, recentlywarned that AI would wipe out
half of all entry-levelwhite-collar jobs and push the
unemployment rate to as high as20%.
Thanks to AI and othertechnological advancements, our

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society is now in a period ofexponential transformation.
Many would argue that many ofthe changes that we're
witnessing are not for thebetter.
It's going to be verychallenging to make good
decisions in this environmentbecause many of the old rules no
longer apply.
Well, that's exactly the oldrules.

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You play by the old rules.
They're changing the rulesright in the middle of the games
, with what I talked aboutyesterday on tinfoil hats, where
I ended the interview.
Yesterday on tinfoil hats,where I ended the interview.
So very important to understandthe stream of history in which
we are in If you use the samemodels, if you look at the past,

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at least the last 70 years.
If you look at that since thisis the last you know since the
last end of the fourth turning,going in from 1944, 1945, if you
look at that and you try tobase the future off that, you
will fail because those modelsno longer work.

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Those who can adapt and look atthis, I think, with some cold
hard logic, you'll actually seethat there's more opportunity
than downside.
If you look at it through thatlens, this is going to take some
retooling and some newunderstandings of how things

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work.
By the way, I'm not immune toany of this.
I get up every day and I try tounderstand exactly the bedrock
of reality, aside from biasesand my own wants or how I want
to see things.
The monetary system, theeconomic system, is being reset.

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That's why they call it a greatreset.
This is part of the push for,and this is the friction between
history and what the elitesactually want.
And I say the elites, you cancall them the lizard people or
the globalist goblins, whateveryou want to call them.

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Okay, this is the people thatwould like to have top-down,
centralized control overeverything.
They want a certain outcome andthey want centralization
History.
On the other hand, the goodnews for all of us history is
decentralizing.
On the other hand, the goodnews for all of us, history is
decentralizing.
It's fragmenting.

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That goes across cultural lines.
It's been doing this for awhile now, for centuries
actually, since the ProtestantReformation, you know,
decentralizing the church.
The same thing with theAmerican Revolution
decentralizing away from theBritish Empire and imperialism

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in general.
And you know, the sun never seton the British Empire.
The Industrial Revolution andthe technological revolutions
have decentralized it.
But the goal of the parasiticruling class, if you look at the
New World Order, you understandthe Rockefeller-Rothschild
model, the trilateral commissionmodel, is centralization.

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So they're fighting against thestream of history that actually
is decentralizing.
Technologies like Bitcoin youcan argue with me that it's a
NSA plant or is created byintelligence, and maybe it was.
If it was created to to getpeople to accept a CBDC, then
it's a failure.

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So, but those things in theory.
You know, satoshi's white paperwas about decentralization.
It's about giving you theopportunity to bank on yourself
to have your own bit of wealth.
You can do the same thing withphysical gold and silver too.
You don't even need agovernment for money.
You don't need a gold andsilver or money.

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You don't need that.
Decentralization is a mindsettoo, and if you look at the
ethno-nationalism plays a bigrole in all of this too.
If you look at theethno-nationalism, it plays a
big role in all of this too.
Go to the culture model, ladiesand gents, and you'll see the
Hong Kongers and the Cataloniansin Spain.
It's happening all over theworld.

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The Scottish History istrending decentralized and the
ruling class.
That's the friction.
That's what you're seeing.
I think that's a good term forit.
All right, I'll take a look atthe chat.

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Harps says good day, it's goodto see you.
Harps says good day, it's goodto see you, harps.
On the chat, harps says firstOzzy, now Hulk Hogan is gone.
Is that true?
Hulk Hogan passed away.
I'll have to look that up.
Are we seeing that?

(28:43):
Let's see if we can get that inreal time.
Is that accurate?

(29:05):
I haven't seen that.
You have to send me a link ifthat's the case.
Yeah, hulk Hogan dead at 71.
Wow, that's unexpected.
That was pretty swift.
Sad, a sad day.
He was a what an icon.
I'm going to get over to thechat over on Rumble as well.
Thanks everybody for being here.
It's great to know I got mysupport group when I'm on the

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road and we are broadcastinglive over worldwide Christian
radio as well Shortwave goingaround the planet.
Appreciate all you guys.
Nights of the storm, do I getfree lollipops in the new Wise
Wolf?
Drive through, you do, and youget dog treats and I think we'll
have to do something about pupcups and other things.
Maybe we can sell some coffeeout of there as well.
It's good to see everybody overin the chat.

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Karen Carpenter says I detest AI.
It will also destroy the land,air and water.
Data centers are death to alocal area.
So many people sick near datacenters already.
Well, that's another weirdaspect of all this and I asked
yesterday when I was on thetinfoil hat podcast did they

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roll this out way early, as Imay have had ai for a long time,
and was this rolled out earlyjust to disrupt some kind of
timeline, because it seemed likewe had nothing, nothing.
And then just there's this modelof AI that's now ubiquitous and
everything and getting smarterand smarter.

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The argument used to hear theargument would be against
Bitcoin because they said look,it takes so much power and they
shut up about that as soon asBlackRock launched the Bitcoin
ETF, they shut up about theBitcoin and how much power it
drained, or whatever it doesdrain.
I mean it creates newopportunities for people to use

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power like they they have.
They've opened up oldhydroelectric dams and other
things.
I mean El Salvador is using a,a volcano and all I mean it's
crazy stuff and geothermicthings, and.
But they shut up about Bitcoinand I think in large part
because if you, if you keepfocusing on that, then you'll

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see how much energy and Karen'sright how much energy AI is
drawing out.
Let's see, I see birdhouse blues, birdhouse blues, always making
some great uh pics of me andbeans.
Uh, it says, feel the art orburn, appreciate that on

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birdhouse blues.
Okay, I'm going to uh continuedown our list of articles.
The studio setup well, I'm at avery good friend's house out in
california.
The studio setup Well, I'm at avery good friend's house out in

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California.
This is the green room and it'sa great setup.
I just kind of turned somethings around.
I got just my camera on mylaptop and I got a little Rode
microphone, so hopefullyeverything is five by five and
we can complete thistransmission.
Let's jump into this article onAI while we're on the subject.

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And I still want to get to thislast article that's up on Lou
Rockwell, but I may not havetime.
And if we don't have time forthat, then we'll jump over into
some financial stuff.
All right, put this up realquick.
Yeah, karen will like this.

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This is over on Activist Post.
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And this is from it's a reprintfrom Bruce Amberson Real Clear
Wire.
Artificial intelligence breedsmindless inhumanity.
I began studying AI in themid-1980s.
Usually for computer scientistsof that era, my interest was
entirely in information, not inmachines.
I became obsessed withunderstanding what it meant to

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live during the transition fromthe late industrial age to the
early information age.
What I learned is thatcomputers fundamentally alter
the economics of information.
We now have inexpensive accessto more information and higher
quality information than everbefore.
In theory, that should help ourindividuals reach better

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decisions, organizations deviseimproved strategies and
governments craft superiorpolicies.
But that's just a theory, doesit?
The answer is sometimes.
Unfortunately, the sometimesnot part of the equation is now
poised to unleash devastatingconsequences.
Consider the altered economicsof information.

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Scarcity creates value.
That's been true in all times,in all cultures and for all
resources.
If there's not enough of aresource to meet demand, it
increases value.
If demand is met and a surplusremains, value plummets.
Historically, information wasscarce.
Spies, lawyers, doctors,priests, scientists, scholars,

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accountants, teachers and othersspent years acquiring knowledge
, then commanded a premium fortheir services.
Today, information isoverabundant.
No one need know anythingbecause the trusty phone that
never leave our sides can answerany question that might come
our way.
Why waste your time learning,studying or internalizing

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information when you can justlook it up on demand, or
internalizing information whenyou can just look it up on
demand?
Having spent the last couple ofyears working in higher
education reform and inconversations with college
students, I've come toappreciate the power and the
danger of this question.
Today's students have weakergeneral backgrounds than we've
seen for many generations,because when information ceased

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being scarce, it lost all value.
You know it's funny.
I stop right here because I was.
I remember thinking.
I remember the moment that I Iknew I wanted to have be a
different kind of thinker, andit was.

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I walked out of a movie theaterin 1997.
I'd watched the Edge withAnthony Hopkins, alec Baldwin,
the Anthony Hopkins character inthat he plays a billionaire.
His name is Charles, he justknows things.
The whole point of the movie ishe's got in.

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The whole point of the movie isthis he's going to and he's
stranded in the wilderness.
He has to use his own wits andother things that he draws on
his own knowledge to try tosurvive this encounter, and
they're being stalked by a bear.
That's very metaphorical too.
It it's philosophical writtenby David Mamet, and I remember

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walking out of that theater andthinking I want to be like that,
I want to be able to have notjust the guy who can look
anything up, but the real wealthis somebody who, if you're
constantly learning and you'reconstantly improving, then you
can create a different kind ofreality, not just for yourself
but for everybody, for thosearound you, for everything,
because you have a.
Especially when you're younger,you have this massive capacity

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for learning.
It's just really hard to do andmy time in the military, being
forced to be without a lot ofthe technology that you get away
from, like cause books.
You know you have to kind ofbreak in your the way your mind

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works in order to take on a, alarge book or read a series of
books, especially if it'shistory or philosophy or
anything like that.
You have to break your mindinto it Like you'd break in a
boot and then eventually youbecome.
You have all these frames ofreference and your language
changes and the way that you seethings change.
But I remember that moment andthese younger people aren't

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going to have that and notreally it's going to take.
I mean, there'll be asuperpower for somebody.
If they do, the new superpowerwill be paying attention, taking
time to study yourself, and I'mgoing to talk about that, too,
in this article, because I'mhaving a different experience

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with AI.
Maybe it's just me.
It's important to recall howrecently this phenomenon began.
In 2011, an estimated one-thirdof Americans and one-quarter of
American teenagers hadsmartphones.
From there, adoption among theyoung grew faster than among the
general population.
Current estimates are that 90%of Americans and over 95% of

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teenagers teenagers havesmartphone access.
Even rules limiting classroomuse cannot overcome the cultural
shift.
Few of today's college studentsor recent grads have ever
operated without the ability toscout ahead or query a device
for information on a on asneeded basis.

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There's thus no reason for themto ever develop the discipline
or the practices that form thebasis for learning.
The deeper problem, however, isthat whilst instant lookup may
work well for facts, it's deadlyfor comprehension and worse for
moral thinking.
Oh, that's so true.

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A quick lookup can list everybattle of World War II, along
with casualty statistics andoutcome.
It cannot reveal the strategicor ethical deliberations driving
the belligerents as theyentered the battle, nor can
explain why Churchill fought forthe side of the good while

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Hitler fought for the side ofthe evil a question that most of
our most popular interviewersand podcasts have recently
brought to prominence.
Still less than three years old, are rushing to fill the gap.
They already offer explanationsand projections and, at times,

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include the motives underlyinggiven decisions.
They are beginning to push intomoral judgments.
Of course, like all search andpattern matching tools, these
systems can only extrapolatefrom what they find.
They thus tend to magnifywhatever is popular.
They're also prey for some ofthe most basic cognitive biases.

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They tend to overweigh therecent, the easily available,
the widely repeated and anythingthat confirms preconceived
models.
That's like groupthink, it'slike hive mind.
It's accepted in the hive mind.
So we're still AI still hasthis model right now, where it

(40:55):
is pulling from all theresources, but it hasn't quite
yet made that leap to where it'smaking the decisions for you,
and I think that's the issue.
People.
It to me it's like why are?
Why would libraries bedangerous?
Why you know more informationmaking people dumber?
Um, it'd be worth less.
That's an interesting argumentand it certainly happened.

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If you go out into the averageand just start talking to people
, it is a noticeable difference.
I go to the airport.
It's a noticeable differencethan 20 or 30 years ago, and I
remember, you know, having thetype of conversations that you
would have with someone, and youcan find some great ones, you

(41:38):
can find some good conversations, but there is something about
the ability not to think.
That's what Henry Ford said.
You know, thinking was thehardest job of all.
That's why so few people do it.
So the recent reports of Grok,regurgitating crude anti-Semitic

(41:59):
stereotypes and slogans,illustrate the technological
half of the problem.
The shocking wave ofterror-supporting actions
wracking college campuses anddrawing recent grads into many
of our cities illustrate thehuman half.
The abundance of informationhas destroyed its value, because

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information, facts and data arethe building blocks upon which
all understanding must rest.
We're raised a generationincapable of deep understanding,
because complex moral judgmentsbuild upon comprehension.
Young Americans are also shorton basic morality.
We are rapidly entering a worldin which widespread access to

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voluminous information isproducing worse, not better,
decisions and actions.
At all levels, we haveoutsourced knowledge,
comprehension and judgment tosterile devices easily biased to
magnify popular opinion.
We have bred a generation ofexquisitely credentialed, deeply

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immoral anti-intellectuals onthe brink of entering leadership
.
Wow, that's a damning synopsis,but unfortunately true.
And that's another thing.
You look back in history andthat's another thing is the, you
know.
You look back in history andone thing that always stands out

(43:26):
to me if you look at the, theintellectual capacity of of the
leaders, say, prior, you know,to war war one, these were
brilliant people and theyallowed that to happen.
Now you say allow that.
You know what was planned.
These are bankers wars, andthey fund both sides.

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Matter of fact, I brought upyesterday on tinfoil hat, I'm
like just for the record, youknow, anytime I get a chance to
tell people that you know, inworld war one, the head of the
United States central bank, thefederal reserve, was, was Paul
Warburg, and in, uh, germany,our mortal enemy, the head of
the central bank, the FederalReserve, was Paul Warburg, and
in Germany, our mortal enemy,the head of the central bank was
Max Warburg.
They were brothers, supposedlymortal enemies, with the same

(44:11):
family funding both sides.
When the ubiquity of instantlookup evolves beyond basic
facts into moral judgments,banal slogans and mindless
cruelty will come to rule ourlives.
Is there any way out of thismorass, perhaps the only one

(44:32):
that ancients discovered back,when information, understanding
and morality all retainedimmense value Faith.
He says faith in a higher power, because the path we're on,
we've set on is our own headinginto some very dark places.
Well, he's right about that,and so I think that you've

(44:59):
actually heard a term.
I remember I brought it up whenI was running for Congress.
I had my opening speech.
One of the terms that I used wascentral banking of the Federal
Reserve, mass immigration, wars,for democracies were gods that

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failed.
And you know we've put so muchemphasis on you know what the
future would look like andtechnology and all the rest.
But it's not a god and it willnever, it could never, actually
supplant that.
And in the technological mindand you see a lot of mind you
see a lot of people, you see alot of the folks out there, like

(45:46):
the tech guy Brian Johnson,who's using the ambrosia
technique where he's getting theblood from his son and he's
going to try to live forever.
These technocrats want to linkup to some hive mind, uplink
consciousness and live foreverand all that stuff.

(46:07):
Come on, you know it's and Ithink it's a focus on the
material.
Or you get Yoval Harari of theWorld Economic Forum that says
that man is a hackable animal.
These are tools and, like Isaid, I've been using AI to

(46:31):
converse with on matters of theglobal economy, finance, gold,
silver, the history of things,and it's a huge resource.
There's no reason why it wouldmake me dumber Now if I have it
run my business and I have itshow up for me and I have it

(46:52):
somehow run my show or dosomething where I'm not thinking
, because right now I have thisis unscripted.
I'm just, I got an article, I'mtalking to you, I'm live, I'm
talking to thousands of peoplearound the world.
This is great, it's a greatprivilege.
If I don't show up sharp, if Igo dull, then what's the point
of listening to me?
Am I?

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I go, I and I was presupposethat the world economy is about
500 trillion in assets.
And it came back and it saidyes, you're correct, it's about
500 trillion.
It started to show me themetrics and this is what you
know.
This is how much is in realestate, this is how much is in

(47:32):
bonds, this is how much is incurrency, and then it would give
me the.
Do you want me to want to see amodel of how that looks?
And do you want to see graphs?
And do you want?
Yes, right, and I want to seemore of that.
And then I go.
So presuppose that you have a$500 trillion economy and 20
trillion of that is in gold.
Does that make sense?

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Does it make sense that youhave 500 trillion and then the
money that's been money sincethe beginning of the dawn of
time is only worth 20 trillionat current rates and that the
future money, or the futuredigitized money, is 1.8 trillion
in a $500 trillion setting.

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Does that compute?
And it started telling me no.
It started coming back andtelling me why that actually
these things will increase.
It's things I've been saying.
It's reinforcing, but it'sshowing me graphs.
So I'm just having theseconversations with it and I
think it's interesting.
Or you can ask it about abusiness model.
It'll tell you why.

(48:34):
I ask it about emailing, justemail marketing.
This has been a conversation.
Do you think this is too much?
Do you think this is about theright and it would send me back
stuff and we go back and forthon it.
So, yeah, that's.
You're supposed to use it likeyou'd use a library.
You're supposed to go look andlearn more.
But these people again, this iswhat the author was saying on
this piece on over on activistpost was that people are getting

(48:58):
dumber and they're phoning itin.
I saw a meme the other day thatsaid you need to take care of
your health because somewhereout there that your future
doctor is using chat BGPT topass medical school.
Well, that's probably true.
Nothing replaces imagination, Ithink, and I need to do this.

(49:19):
I'm going to try to do thistoday.
Nation Like the, I think and Ineed to do this, I'm gonna try
to do this today was just sitfor 30 minutes with a legal pad.
It was Earl Nightingale.
My grandfather turned me on toEarl Nightingale.
You can go back and listen.
He's had some timeless stuff.
He was a Marine in world wartwo and had iconic voice and one

(49:39):
of the things he said is everyday, if you could just sit with
a legal pattern and withoutanything else not a phone, not
the magazine, not in a magazineI'm dating myself.
It's like, well, who has amagazine anymore?
But not anything like, not anewspaper, not anything open and
you just go and sit for 30minutes in the quiet and ideas

(50:01):
that come.
You know and Brian Tracy talksabout this too it's a superpower
that you will have.
You can go back and use thetechnology.
I don't have a problem withtechnology, but I think it's
like a weapon, you know.
It's like anything else thatcan like electricity, you know,

(50:22):
and somebody asked Thomas Edison.
A lady asked him whatelectricity was and he said
electricity is, madam, use it,it just is.
So it's up to us really at somelevel Ironically, it's the
theme from really at some level.
Um, ironically, it's the themefrom terminators.

(50:43):
There is no fate, but what wemake, all right.
Uh, where do you guys want togo from here?
We got a little about 10minutes left in the transmission
and, uh, I see Twisted is inthe chat.
Good to see you guys.

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All right, let's jump aroundhere.
I had two or three articles Istill wanted to get to.
It's going to be tough.
All right, we'll see if we cando this one.
You guys have to bear with me.
I had to close it out a littlebit earlier, but I want to put
this one on because it's kind ofa what next?

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This is a Lou Rockwell is howwe're going to close out.
Jacob G Hornberger, the Futureof Freedom Foundation, says Get
ready for a big foreign crisis,with President Trump's MAGA

(52:31):
supporters in full rebellionover his refusal to release all
the records relating to theJeffrey Epstein pedophilia
investigation.
Get ready for a big crisis inforeign affairs designed to
distract attention from theEpstein scandal.
It certainly wouldn't be thefirst time a ruler engaged in
such a strategy.
In fact, it's a time-honoredway to get people to set aside

(52:51):
their rebellion and insteadrally around the flag.
What did Samuel Johnson say?
That patriotism was the lastrefuge of the scoundrel, he says
.
Consider the immortal words ofJames Madison, the father of the
Constitution.
The means of defense againstforeign danger have always been

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the instruments of tyranny athome.
Among the Romans, it was thestanding maxim to excite a war
whenever a revolt wasapprehended.
Madison was saying that in theold Roman Empire, the populace
would periodically go intorebellion mode, rebelling
against things like exorbitanttaxation or monetary debasement

(53:35):
at the hands of their rulers.
Whenever that would happen, theemperor would simply instigate
a war against some scary foreignenemy, which would stir up both
fear and patriotism within thepopulace.
People would forget therebellion order to keep safe
from the new official enemy withwhich they were now at war.

(53:55):
Recall that at the end of theCold War, most Americans were
calling for a peace dividend.
Most Americans were calling fora peace dividend.
What they meant was that theywere protesting the enormously
high amount of money that wasstill being spent on the
national security establishment.
They were demanding a peacedividend that would entail a
massive reduction in nationalsecurity state spending, which

(54:16):
would have meant an equallymassive reduction in taxes.
But notice what happened.
As soon as the 9-11 attackstook place, most everyone put
their peace dividend demandsaside and, amidst a climate of
fear and patriotism, called onthe federal government to do
whatever was necessary to keepthem safe.
The demands for a peacedividend disappeared permanently

(54:38):
.
The national securityestablishment has been flooded
with taxpayer largesse eversince.
Let's not forget about whatbrought about the 9-11 attacks.
No, it wasn't hatred forAmerica's freedom and values, as
US officials maintain.
It was instead what Madisonsaid.

(54:59):
Faced with demands for a peacedividend, us officials had gone
into the Middle East on a spreeof death, destruction and
humiliation, which ultimatelygenerated so much anger and
hatred that it producedretaliation in the form of the
9-11 attacks.

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What might US officials do thistime to distract people away
from Jeffrey Epstein?
The Ukraine-Russia war providesan excellent opportunity to do
that.
All that needs to be done isfurnish Ukraine with long-range
missiles that are used to attackMoscow, st Petersburg or other
big Russian cities big Russiancities.

(55:44):
In that case, russia will betempted to strike at NATO
countries that are providingsuch missiles and obviously
using Ukraine as a proxy todestroy Russia.
What better way to create adivision away or diversion away
from Jeffrey Epstein thanproducing a prospect of an
all-out nuclear war between theUnited States and Russia?
It says of course there's alsoChina between the United States
and Russia.
It says of course there's alsoChina, especially given the

(56:05):
mindset of hatred for China hasbeen inculcated in the American
people in the recent past.
Ginning up a crisis withnuclear-armed China, say over
Taiwan, would be anotherexcellent way to cause people to
stop thinking about Epstein.
There is also, of course,nuclear-armed North Korea.
As we learned in the firstTrump administration, it's

(56:26):
fairly easy to stir up a crisiswith that communist regime, even
if North Korea might not beable to strike the US with its
nuclear missiles, it cancertainly strike South Korea and
Japan.
Would that prospect be enoughto get people's minds off?
Jeffrey Epstein?
I think so.
Needless to say, iran is alwaysavailable whenever a scary

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official enemy and a big foreignpolicy crisis is needed, all
that needs to be done is toproclaim that Iran is still
producing nuclear weapons andplans to use them against Israel
and the United States.
Voila, a big, scary officialenemy.
Big enough in foreign crises.
That would easily cause allthose MAGA people to forget

(57:11):
Jeffrey Epstein.
One thing is certain Given thefact that Epstein obviously had
very wealthy and very powerfulclients that Epstein obviously
had very wealthy and verypowerful clients and, more
important, given the verylikelihood that Epstein had
connections to either Israeli orUS intelligence, or both, there
is no reasonable possibilitythat Trump is going to order the
release of all federalinvestigative files in the

(57:34):
Epstein case.
Will his MAGA supporters simplyaccept the inevitable and give
up?
If they don't, then everyoneshould prepare himself for the
prospect of a big foreign crisisin the near future.
I'm glad we got through thatwhole thing.
I read that this morning and Ithought what a way to.

(57:58):
It's the Socratic method.
Ladies and gents, just askingquestions.
Is that enough to get you toforget about Jeffrey Epstein, as
Trump says, the man who neverdies?
He keeps coming back and allthis stuff recycles.
There's a.
It's a Russian doll.

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I don't know why it's a Russiandoll of a psyop within a psyop
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