Tue Episode #2126: The Trump Soros Connection

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Speaker 1 (00:30):
You know, a world of deceits, Telling the truth is
a revolutionary act.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
It's the David Knight Show. As the clock strikes thirteen,
it's Tuesday, the twenty eighth of October. You're our lord,
twenty twenty five. We're going to start today. What we're
going to do first is Argentina, because you know, Argentina
is first. Argentina is far more important than America. And

(00:59):
so I'm going to begin there with the election that happened,
and then we're going to take a look at what
is this going to be our next Vietnam, our next
Gulf of Tonkin Venezuela. Maybe we should call it Vinnie
Nam or something. We'll take a look at that and
what our peace president is doing. And then we've got

(01:19):
some new examples of AI slop, but this time in
the real world with very real consequences and courts with
the police, with false identification and swatting students. That's AI
swatting students. We'll be right back. Stay with us. Well,

(02:11):
I guess the MAGA people will be doing the happy
dance along with Trump and his Soros secretary Scott Bessant
about Argentina's mid term vote, a major comeback. Javier Malai's
party received for votes with ninety two percent of the
ballots counted. And that's all that matters, right, It doesn't
matter what happens to our ranchers, our farmers. The important

(02:34):
thing is that Javier Malai is who's a part of
the club, won his election. That's what everything is geared toward.
So they won the vote on Sunday, a result they'll
give them a strong foothold in Congress for continuing to
pursue the so called free market policies. Let me just say,
you know, I was hopeful when he first came on

(02:56):
the scene. Interviewed a guy who knew him, who was
a hard core libertarian economists wrote a book about something,
street Wise economic stew member Travis.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
I remember the interview is a sharp guy.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
It's a good book. And anyway, I got to say
that if you had export taxes on products that you're
selling to people, and if you have to have a
bailout from the US government, that's not libertarian economics. Okay,
let's just drop that label once and for all with

(03:31):
Howvier Mali. Besides that, the guy is a corrupt sob
just like Trump. I think missing is his connection to
Jeffrey Epstein, which we haven't determined yet. Probably not because
he came along after Epstein. Malai said in a victory speech.
They have the backing of one hundred and one members
of the Lowerhouse and twenty senators. The results should push

(03:52):
him comfortably past the one third of the seats that
he needs in the Lowerhouse to protect his veto power,
as well as a bay to pursue legislative priorities like tax,
labor and pension reforms as he seeks to overhaul the
nation's beleaguered economy. So he was not up for election.
It's just basically, well night, He's going to be able

(04:14):
to get policies through. His win will also vindicate the
extraordinary support from the Soros secretary Bessant, who did a
twenty billion dollar currency swap line agreement for the beleaguered
payso down more than thirty percent so far this year. Yeah,
it's not. It's not a golden investment, is it. The

(04:37):
president and his party have faced three corruption scandals this year,
as it said, he's corrupt. Well. Argentina's slow economy and
frustration with high unemployment helped push Malaia's approval to the
lowest level of his term ahead of the election. Well still,
when he was doing this, he was when the money

(05:00):
was released to him, he was, you know when they
got the he's doing the YMCA Trump thing right there,
he is. He's happy dancing because you know, that's what
looks like when you get forty billion dollars handed to
you by a Soros lieutenant. That's right.

Speaker 4 (05:18):
But yeah, he's not going to see the soybean farmers
in the US.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Yeah, that's right. They're not doing that. They're not. They're asking,
you know, why do we have this going to somebody else?
But the cattlemen have a beef with Argentina.

Speaker 5 (05:32):
Way out west. Brian Diaganall, a third generation Arizona rancher
and president of the Arizona Cattle Growers Association, is working
his hurt.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
This is Paul works.

Speaker 2 (05:48):
But we're at one corral of many on the ranch.

Speaker 5 (05:51):
Today's job, with some help from family and friends, is branding,
then vaccine, eating his calves.

Speaker 3 (05:58):
We just try and ease in there and neck one
and then next gal.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
Healing, vaccinating, rewarding work. Marne Mention has always been a
family business, has been.

Speaker 5 (06:09):
For years, but lately harder to make a living doing it.

Speaker 1 (06:12):
So this has been quite a week in the cattle business.

Speaker 5 (06:15):
Partly because thirty thousand feet above Brian Daganow's ranch, President
Trump said, this.

Speaker 6 (06:21):
Beef price is the only price we have, this highest beef,
and we'll get that down now.

Speaker 4 (06:25):
One of the things we're thinking about doing is a
beef from Argentina.

Speaker 2 (06:29):
Those words weren't enough to show the only thing, this
highest beef, right, the only thing.

Speaker 5 (06:33):
Sharply, you know, Fatures like daganof felt the hit immediately.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
Yeah, how we am. Ali's celebrating. He's just he can't
stop dancing and running and Cherry James. He's got tens
of billions of dollars. Reason ranchers are trup voters. But yeah,
this is this is something that we have to we
have to call him on and say, no, we don't agree.

Speaker 5 (06:58):
Beef prices have risen by almost a dollar of pounds
since February, but for American ranchers that's meant finally seeing
some solid profit after years of thin margins.

Speaker 2 (07:08):
We don't think the government should be manipulating markets.

Speaker 5 (07:11):
What Diaganol does believe is with more profits in time,
the free market, not imports will lower prices.

Speaker 7 (07:18):
We need to be able to make a living ranching,
and that will build.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
The market will correct itself and there'll be more cattle.

Speaker 8 (07:26):
If there's a profit to be made.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
Yeah, maybe we should leave the market do its thing.
You've got a Republican president, we've got a so called
libertarian president, but they don't seem to have any faith
in the market. It's all about crony capitalism. Corney capitalism
is not capitalism. It's corruption, which Javir Malay and Trump
know all about. And I got to say that the

(07:51):
ranchers and the farmers need to come to terms with this.
They got to figure out whether they are cowboys or cows,
where they're going to be human or herds, and they
need to get off of this maga herd mentality. As
he said, ninety percent of the ranchers love Trump. Once
you wake up before you lose everything, once you wake

(08:12):
up before we lose our food supply as well. So
I you, mali on X think Trump. Thank you President
Trump for trusting the Argentine people. You're a great friend
of the Argentine Republic, just not so much the people
in Arizona or Arkansas. Our nations should never have stopped

(08:33):
being allies. Our people went to live and want to
live in freedom. Count on me to fight for Western civilization,
which has succeeded in lifting more than nine percent of
the world's population out of poverty. Well, Western civilization is
a great part of that is the idea of a
free market and competition, not about the government picking winners

(08:55):
and losers, and most egregiously picking four foreign winners and
American losers, which seems to be the Trump administration's specialty
Israel and Argentina first. And then there's a quote in
this article, a meme showing a picture of Javier Malaya
says the only thing socialism produces is poverty. Well, again,

(09:20):
what do form bailouts produce? We've got form bailouts instead
of free markets. What does that produce? What about central
planning and central planning that plans for other countries to
succeed at our expense? This is the election made a
lot of money for the US, said Trump. I bet

(09:42):
it did. I bet it made a lot of money
for the Trump mafia family as well, probably for Soro's
vessant Soro secretary. Isn't that interesting that you know? They
again Soros is connected everything. He's running Andy Fi, he's
running the King's protes anything, folks, He's running the Treasury,

(10:04):
So US is running the treasury. Wake up? Do you
think that Bessett and Trump some of these people made
some money on the side, and I think they probably did.
Trump said, well, if he doesn't win, this is before
the election. We're not going to waste our time because
his opponent's philosophy has no chance of making Argentina great again,

(10:27):
and you have no chance of making America great again
with your policies. Trump. But here's the other issue. How
do we justify interfering in other country's elections, propping up
one party over the other. And we're supposed to be
apoplectic when it's done to us. Why is that okay

(10:50):
when we do it to other countries as well? Well.
Argentina's stocks are up forty percent, as Goldman Sachs says,
the trade has just started. It's a great day for
Wall Street, it's a great day for the Soros Secretary
of the Treasury, and it's a great day for Trump Incorporated.
Not such a great day for American farmers, ranchers, and consumers.

(11:12):
Not so great. And taxpayers, I should say good luck.
Trump's bid for emergency help from the Supreme Court was
pointed out on MSNBC and of all people, Joe Scarborough,
it's kind of interesting. He was right about this. For
Joe Scarborough's point was, he said, it's when you look

(11:35):
at Trump and his tariffs against Canada over the ad
that was there. He said, it's going to be kind
of interesting as his lawyers go to the Supreme Court
very soon, and it may be happening this week. I
don't know what the timing is, but it's imminent, so
much so that Trump said they're just running that ad

(11:55):
because they want to interfere with the Supreme Court decision.
As if the Supreme Court is sitting there watching the
World Series. I'm sure that all the judges are doing that,
don't you think. And saw that commercial, but nevertheless he
said they just want to interfere with the Supreme Court's decisions. Well,

(12:17):
Trump did that himself. This is another one of these
Strissland effects, right. We need to rename that effect the
Trump effect instead of tricing it. So he's going to
have his lawyers argue before the Supreme Court that his
arbitrary capricious, dictatorial setting of teriff rates is due to

(12:41):
an emergency and he needs to be able to have
that power, and that there's some kind of an emergency
going on, that the trade deficit is an emergency. And
yet he just demonstrated what is really behind these terif rates.
It has nothing to do with economics, It has nothing
to do with emergencies, and has everything to do with ego. Yeah,

(13:02):
that e It's not economics, it's not emergency, it's ego.
And so that was the point that they were making
on MSNBC. They said, the fact is that he's going
to He's doing this, he says, because it's a national emergency.
Yet it couldn't be clearer that he's doing it because

(13:22):
his feelings were hurt because he put together a this
ad in the province of Ontario. Yeah. In other words,
what he just showed was that it is machiavellian politics
at its worst, not economics. So good luck even going

(13:43):
before the Supreme Court and arguing that these tariffs are
based on emergencies. They said, everything is an emergency with
Donald Trump. And you know an emergency because an ad
that quotes Ronald Reagan accurately and his views on tariffs.
That's supposed to be an emergency. Well, no, he kind
of painted himself into a corner there, And yet I

(14:07):
was surprised yesterday. It took a little while, but the
conservative press started to respond to this sid of thing.
I guess they had to maybe let it cool off
a little bit, or maybe have some meetings about how
are we going to spend this so we don't offend
Trump and his maga core that is our base. And
so here's WorldNet Daily that I've lost all respect for,

(14:28):
along with Breitbart, Info Wars a lot of them. This
is an article that they did. This is Trump having
another temper tantrum, saying that there should be a ban
on fake ads that show that his polling is at
low levels. His approval rate is at thirty seven percent.
He said, that's a fake poll and you shouldn't be

(14:48):
allowed to say that. He despises free speech, especially the
free press. He wants bans on fake ads. And here's
WorldNet Daily supporting him and this and actually pulling in
the Terriff ad from Canada as a support saying, yeah,
look they did this fake ad in Canada. I mean,

(15:09):
how how can you lose all of your integrity all
in one shot. You know. Wn D used to not
be like this, and Breitbart used to not be like this,
but they have become like this. Now. What they're doing, folks,
is they are selling the rope of censorship. They'll be

(15:30):
used to hang them. And I'm going to I don't
like censorship, and I like to see people shut down,
but I'm going to say I told you so when
it happens to Breitbart, when it happens to WND. SO.
Doug Ford, who was the premier, is the Premier of
Ontario who put together that ad. They asked him about

(15:52):
what's going he said, the Republicans. I've spoken to some Republicans.
They know what Ronald Reagan was about, he said, but
they're terrified of Trump. Maybe we need to say that
the GOP is tariff eyed. They are scared. They're scared
of him and his tariffs. They are terrified.

Speaker 3 (16:13):
Senators or governors told you that they to Bryan's point,
that they liked the ad. I mean, we know the Democrats.

Speaker 2 (16:19):
Liked the ad.

Speaker 9 (16:19):
Yeah, absolutely, they liked any Republicans. No, I haven't talked
to him, but I'll tell you what they have told me.
They totally disagree with the president, all three levels. I
talked to senators, congress people, and governors. They all told
me they totally disagree, but they're too scared of President Trump.
When was the last time a Republican governor was scared
of a Republican president. They're they're scared of ramifications, which

(16:44):
is really really sad.

Speaker 2 (16:47):
It is it is he rules my temper, tantrums and
terrifying people, so.

Speaker 3 (16:55):
He's not even making them scared of good things. Like
if I was president, I would have the governors quaking
in their boots. I would have Congress in tears and shambles,
the Supreme Court weeping. The sound would be audible for miles.
Not so with Trump.

Speaker 2 (17:10):
No, what would you be doing to have him so
afraid of you?

Speaker 3 (17:14):
We'd be We'd be bringing the Marines in to shut
down every abortion clinic. Penny governor that tries to stop
it would be getting drug out like, oh, you want
to legalize murder? No, I don't think that makes you
fit for office, rendition Guantanamo.

Speaker 2 (17:29):
So again, he wants a ban on any commercials that
talk about polls that he disagrees with. As a matter
of fact, he's got a lawsuit. That is yet another
law their lawsuit against someone who If you remember, in
the very end of the election in Iowa, there was
a polster there and she came out with a pole

(17:50):
and I remember covering it and said, this poll is
a real outlier compared to what everybody else is doing.
And she was grossly wrong. You know. She showed La
La making a surge, and so it got a lot
of attention because everybody pointed to her and said, all
the other poles are saying this, but you're saying that.
And so she got a lot of attention. And then

(18:11):
it turned out that it was a gigantic win for Trump.
He did much better there than any present has since
you know, Reagan. And so she immediately quit as polster.
She had blown her reputation. She wasn't going to be
paid attention.

Speaker 3 (18:28):
That's honestly more honorable than most people.

Speaker 2 (18:31):
That's right, you know, But that's the way it out
of work. That's the way it not to work. The
free market on a people will look at this and say,
you people, I remember, I remember that poll that you
did out of there. People can handle the truth, and
people can't handle who is accurate and who.

Speaker 3 (18:47):
Isn't this nostradamus guy really needs to follow her example.
I've been hearing him for years.

Speaker 2 (18:51):
But she spoken in quadrains like Q.

Speaker 4 (18:54):
And the thing is, if they make it so that
only the approved poles can go full, you'll only see
the outlier poll. You won't be able to have a
whole bunch of holes and see which one of these
is the standout, which one of these is most likely wrong.
You'll only have the approved number, which will most likely
be whatever they want it to be.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
That's right, Yeah, the answer just like with guns, all right,
just like the Second Amendment. The answer to a bad
guy with guns is good guys with guns, And the
answer to a bad guy with information is good information
from a lot of other people. It's debate. Is the
answer to all of it not shutting it down with censorship.
But this is the desperate despot don and his ego

(19:35):
at work here, and they're cheering him at WND. And
just to remind you, this is the the ad in question.

Speaker 10 (19:46):
When someone says, let's impose tariffs on foreign imports, it
looks like they're doing the patriotic thing by protecting American
products and jobs, and sometimes for a short where it
works but only for a short time. But over the
long run, such trade barriers hurt every American worker and consumer.

(20:08):
High tariffs inevitably leave to retaliation by foreign countries and
the triggering of fierce trade wars. Then the worst happens.
Market shrink and collapse, businesses and industry shutdown, and millions.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Of people lose their jobs. Throughout the world.

Speaker 10 (20:26):
There's a growing realization that the way to prosperity for
all nations is rejecting protectionist legislation and promoting fair and
free competition. America's jobs and growth are at stake.

Speaker 2 (20:43):
And again I played that yesterday, and yesterday I read
from the transcript and of course what is being told
by Trump and by WND and shamefully by the Reagan
Library at South They said, well, they edited this stuff
and we're looking at our legal options here. You don't
have any legal options. This was a public radio address

(21:07):
and a transcript of what Ronald Reagan said as president.
You don't own that you don't have any legal rights.
And it was not deceptive. I didn't read all of
what was there because it was take you about five
or six minutes to read it all. They're doing a
one minute commercial, and when you heard him talking about
the consequences of what happens in the long term with tariffs,

(21:30):
he had gone through a long discourse about what his
opinion was about what happened with a Smoot Holly Terr
Effact and it's impact on the Great Depression. He also
went into another section where he talked about how the
Democrats were opposing him, and the Democrats wanted to be protectionists,
you know, like the Democrat Trump, and so he said, no,

(21:52):
we're going to oppose that as well. And so he
had these long discourses, which yes, we're edited out, and
yet if you put them in, it bolsters the case
that he was for free trade, which we all know
he was. Anybody who was around knows where Ronald Reagan
was on this. And that's the issue. That's the issue
more than whether or not he's right or Trump is right.

(22:15):
The issue is that Trump is a liar. He's a
thin skinned liar, and he's afraid to have a debate
with anybody, including a dead president. That's how bad he is.
And so's the crux of the issue is not even
free trade versus protectionism. The crux of the issue is

(22:38):
Trump's character, which he doesn't have, and this clearly shows it.
And it's also his reaction in terms of as I
said before, take that to the Supreme Court and tell
them it's not an emergency. It's his ego that is
involved here with these tariffs. This guy has no clue

(22:59):
about economic but it's simply his ego that is there.
And so that's what we can clearly see. Unfortunately, WorldNet
Daily says, just last week we reported Trump pull the
plug on trade negotiations with Canada, where the economy relies
in significant ways in the US, or what he called
a fake ad that appeared to be trying to influence

(23:20):
US Supreme Court's looming decisions on tariffs. Yeah, it will,
but not in the way that Trump wants it to
influence them. Further, the Canadian ad may actually misrepresent President
Ronald Reagan's whose words it uses. Now you are fought
out lying wn D. Shame on you. I mean Joseph

(23:42):
farah Is, he's had a stroke and his wife has
taken it over. And it's just pathetic to see what
has happened with this so called news outlet here. They
have absolutely no integrity. You can look up the transcript.
Even in the thing here they embed the radio ad.
If you look at that radio ad and you take
the five minutes, which most people won't to look at it,

(24:05):
or if you were live during Reagan's presidency, you know
that Trump is lying. That the World Daily people are lying,
and you know the Reagan Library people are lying. Why
because the Reagan Library and World net Daily are tariff
eyed of Donald Trump. You know, the Reagan Library has
been where they've had presidential debates when you had presidents

(24:26):
who would debate. Trump is afraid to debate, and the
Democrats lawfair against him allowed him to skip all the
debates in twenty twenty four. He was not harmed by
that stuff. He's writing himself a check for two hundred
thirty million dollars, and yet he'll just look at that
as the cost of campaigns because it was the Democrat

(24:47):
law fair that won the election for him. It was
a Democrat lawfair that kept him from having to debate
any Republicans. And you know what we're not seeing any
compensation for are the j six people that he abanned
and who spent four years in jail in hell. Not
a penny for them. But he writes himself a two

(25:08):
hundred and thirty million dollar check. That's your dear leader,
that you guys are cheering, not me. I will never
cheer this guy. So they said, the Ronald Reagan Foundation
just announced that Canada has fraudulently used an advertisement. Well
that's Trump actually talking about that. Again. There was no fraud.

(25:31):
It was an accurate representation of what Reagan had to
say as a matter of fact. And Doug Ford had
this to say as well.

Speaker 9 (25:43):
And we've seen, you know, the employment numbers that manufacturing
jobs down in the US have dropped a month after month,
total seventy eight thousand jobs for five consecutive months. That's
what tariffs do. They hurt the American people. And all
you have to do his look on clips from Ronald
Reagan over and over and over again. I've seen more

(26:04):
Ronald Reagan clips and you can shake a stick at
He was a free trader. I had a mentor named
Brian Malrooney. I talked too frequently. I've had conversations with Caroline,
his daughter, our President of the Treasury. And I'll tell
you one thing. President Reagan was anything but loving tariffs.

(26:26):
As Donald Trump said, he loved her. He hated tariffs,
by the way, and all you have to do is
look at the clips. When you see the Reagan Republicans
standing up for non tariffs against the MAGA group, there's
a split now in the Republican Party. And when Democrats,
you know, Reagan Democrats, are standing up, there's a split.

(26:49):
So the best dud that ever ran.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
I.

Speaker 2 (26:54):
Don't know if they're still running it or not. It
made no sense at all to poet after Trump had
temper tantrum and decide he's going to punish Canada, they
should double down and bought more spots. And because it's
absolutely accurate, and that's the key. I don't agree with
Doug Ford on anything. I know. This guy is a
radical leftist. And you know, it's not about the economics

(27:16):
of this. It's about the integrity or the lack of
integrity of Donald Trump and of the Reagan Library people,
and of the media that is out there selling this
lie telling you that it was deceptive. You can read
it for yourself. If you know anything about Reagan, you
know that it was true to what he had to say.
The Reagan Library wants to make sure they don't burn

(27:37):
their bridges with Trump's party because it's not the Republican
Party anymore. They want to make sure they can host
these debates in the future. That's their key to relevance,
and so they're going to be sick offense to him,
just like Mike Johnson. Well, the court has cleared the
path for a Trump lawsuit over what he said was
brazen election interference by the media. Poll that I mentioned earlier,

(28:01):
the one out of Iowa, the Des Moines Register. The
polster was n Seltzer. She claimed that Harris held a
three point edge over Trump in Iowa forty seven to
forty four just before the election. And so he says,
because you said the wrong thing here, I want to
sue you. It was a stunning reversal from shortly before

(28:25):
when Trump was confirmed to have a four point lead.
And again it was an outlier poll. The question is
whether she got it wrong or whether she was just
a liar instead of an outlier. In reality, Trump crushed
Harris by more than thirteen points in Iowa, his widest
margin in Iowa yet, the biggest Republican president will win

(28:46):
there since Reagan. And he's not satisfied with that. He's
a sore winner. You people who are sore losers typically,
but Trump is such a pathological narcissist that he is
a sore loser. I tell you it's going to be
when you look up Donald Trump, when you look up

(29:08):
narcissists and the dictionary in the future, you're going to
see Donald Trump's picture there. Suspicious shifts, sample sizes, skewed
toward urban areas, questionable waiting that favored younger and minority respondents.
And yes, we knew all that, we talked about that
when it happened. This isn't something we found out much later.
And we know that both sides do this. You have

(29:30):
Republican polling organizations and you have Democrat polling organizations, and
they lean into their candidate and they make very subtle
changes in it you like, I don't know, kind of
like Pfizer does, right. Pfeiser manipulates their studies to show
that their product is the best and that it's safe

(29:52):
and that it's effective. If Trump wants to get upset
about fraud, forget about this polster An election that you
want to take a look at the fraud that you've
been a part of, that you've paid for, that you
robbed the American taxpayers to make these vaccines and then
used it to kill them. That's what he should be
looking at. But he's not. It's going to simply be

(30:14):
about his ego. He doesn't care a whit about your life,
about your business and job that he killed in twenty twenty.
He doesn't care about any of that stuff. He only
cares about his ego and the fact that somebody criticized
him during the election. Hey, pal, big Don, if you
can't handle the criticism, if you can't handle the heat,
get out of the kitchen. I think it was Harry

(30:35):
Truman that said that. But if he can't handle the critics,
if he can't handle the push polls, he needs to
get out of politics. And he is getting out of politics.
He's getting into dictatorship areas, or he's getting into So
she quit after that election, and the report said her
polls have always tended to favor whoever she personally supports,

(31:00):
just like the pharmaceutical studies. And we knew that going in,
and people factored that in when she was the only
one saying this, just let the market take care of it.
But desperate Don can't do that. He has to do
something like a despot when his feelings are hurt. So
the WHO and the EU are launching an AI system

(31:23):
to monitor social media and misinformation in real time. See,
Donald Trump is exactly on board with people like Ursula
fond of Lying, and the EU and Starmer and all
the rest of these people. They constantly want to monitor
everything that you say and do and punish you for

(31:44):
your opinions. And so does Trump. That's why I say
this is what's so dangerous about him. It's not just
his ego. I mean we see it very clearly with
his ego, but he's going to weigh in on all
this stuff as well. I mean, that's why the techno
bros picked somebody like him. All this so called monitoring
of so called fake news. What is fake news? That's

(32:06):
anything they disagree with. What is hate speech? It's any
speech that they hate, any opinions that they don't want heard.
It's always He's always on the same page with these
depopulationist globalists who want to censor and control everything that
we're doing. And he's going to be pushing through the
digital ID and the digital cash to do all of

(32:27):
this stuff as well. So a study of wine tariffs
shows that consumers will pick up part of Trump's tab.
This is a study from Duke's Department of Economics found
that consumers ultimately paid more than the tariff costs on
European wines. During Trump's earlier tariffs that began in twenty

(32:48):
nineteen and they were not removed until twenty twenty one,
Americans paid higher costs than the federal government collected in
tariff revenue. How about that? It is even worse than
a tax. The good news is that consumer prices for
imported wines rose less than the increase in the tariff.

(33:08):
But the bad news is that our estimate suggests that
consumer cost increases exceeded the tariff revenue received by the
US government. So they didn't pass along all of the
tariff necessarily to them. But they go through the how
this actually worked, which I won't get into the weeds
about that, but the bottom line is that they, like

(33:30):
anything else, once inflation starts, guess what you know, once
it starts to get established and everybody's starting to raise prices,
while you decide, well, I can raise mind just a
little bit more, and so they raised the price of
the tariffs. Actually, even the cost of wine went up
even more than if they'd passed the tariffs on one

(33:52):
hundred percent. What was interesting about it was they said
there was a significant delay in terms of how long
it took them them to put these things out. Of Course,
you know, the first instinct for businesses, since they have
to compete, price, of course, is one of the things
that they have to compete on, and so their first
instinct is to try to swallow the price increase and

(34:13):
not put themselves at a competitive disadvantage. But you can
only do that for so long and you go out
of business. It's just like conservatives used to understand that
you can't tax corporations. Corporations will pass the taxes on
eventually or they will go out of business, and that's
what's happening here. So what they found was that there

(34:33):
was a significant delay. It's kind of like the way
the vaccines work, right. They don't kill you right away
or it'd be too obvious. And so they started to
see a lag in the and the cost of that,
and then it went up even more than the tax,
and then when the tax ended, they saw a significant
lag before the price came down as well. And we've

(34:56):
all kind of seen that type of thing. So Trump
and the White House have said that arras won't raise
consumer prices. It's a tax, it's inflationary, and they're lying.
Yet again, Trump has hit every US trading partner with
arras of at least ten percent, with some countries facing
rates above thirty percent. In addition to those import duties,

(35:18):
Trump has terrats on imported steel, copper, aluminum, automobiles, and autoparts,
among others. He says he wants to bring back manufacturing
jobs lost to low wage countries, and yet he's taxing
the things that we use to make stuff with that
we don't have made in the United States. So he

(35:39):
says he wants to bring back manufacturing, he wants to
shift the income tax burden away from Americans, and he
wants to pay down the US debt. So think about that.
And we said this at the very beginning as well.
This is Orwellian economics. It's not Caynesian, it's not Austrian,
it's Orwellian as it involves double think. You have to

(36:02):
believe that your high tariffs are going to pay down
the debt and eliminate the income tax, and yet at
the same time it's going to onshore manufacturing. Well, if
it Onshore is manufacturing, Guess what, you don't have any
tariff revenue anymore, and so you can't have both of these.
You can't have your cake and eat it too. And

(36:24):
of course you can have your Marie Antoinette ballroom. I
guess that's what they should call it. People were saying them, Yeah,
that's what the Republican needs. The Republican party itself needs
more balls. They don't need a ballroom, but they need
more balls. The the the uh. It's just crazy to

(36:45):
see this happening.

Speaker 3 (36:46):
We live in a time where some Democrat women have
more balls than Republican men.

Speaker 2 (36:51):
Yeah, what is a woman? Yeah. Researchers also found evidence
of tariff engineering, meaning that that was small changes to
the product or its label in order to lower import duties.
They said a lot of wines that previously classified as
less than fourteen percent alcohol became classified as above fourteen

(37:11):
percent alcohol in order to avoid paying the tariffs. Because
this is on wine, not on hard liquor, researchers noticed
a much longer lag time than they had expected for
the higher prices to reach consumers. They also found that
the higher product prices lasted longer after the government removed
the terraffs, it takes almost a year until you see

(37:32):
the significant change and retail price that affects the consumers.
Remember Trump announced these things and then didn't put them
into effect for several months later if he did in
fact put them in fact, So.

Speaker 3 (37:43):
It's almost like something this large, with this much momentum,
takes a very long time for things to take effect.

Speaker 2 (37:50):
Yeah, and in both directions.

Speaker 3 (37:52):
Yeah, this is exactly what you would expect to see.
The things go on and gradually over time people notice
it and has to adjusted for it.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
That's right, that's right. Yeah, it took about three months
until the importer renegotiated prices with the exporter then also
to raise prices to the US, And they didn't go
down right away when the terrafs go away. In fact,
they stayed elevated for another year after the terraffs removed,
So they were slower to come off than they were

(38:23):
to come on. So we're going to still have to
wait and see what is happening with inflation. But again,
as Massy, I played the clip yesterday, Massy was talking
about food prices and he said, I said, back in
twenty twenty, you know, if you're going to call your herd.
Because of what Trump did with the lockdown, people could

(38:43):
not get their product to market. So I can't keep
feeding these cattle. I'm just going to kill them now.
And if you're not planting an apple tree that takes
several years to grow to fruition, then we're going to
see these problems down the road. And he said, this
is exactly what I said five years ago. And it's

(39:04):
now these Trump's lockdown and the inflation and food prices
and other things that have happened to it. These are
chickens that are still coming home to roost, and not
all of them have come home to roost yet. The
lockdown was a massive tragedy. Most of the time people
talk about the failure of lockdown on the top all
those kids that didn't get to go to school and

(39:24):
get abused. So but that's that's not the real issue.
The real issue is what he did economically to us
with the lockdown. I think it's a good thing for
kids not to go to school.

Speaker 3 (39:36):
Yeah, that was the silver lining and.

Speaker 2 (39:37):
All of that. That's right. Yeah, the kids didn't go
to school, but the parents got to go to the
classroom to see what was actually happening in it, and
that was a good thing. Well, he got a couple
of comments here, let's get.

Speaker 3 (39:47):
That's right, The Nights of the Storm. That's Jason Barker,
Angry Tiger, Karen Carpenter, and of course others as well. Yes,
you can go check them out at Nights of Thestorm
dot com. That's where they have the schedule. It lists
this broadcasts and all the other friendly broadcasts and the
times a're on, so you can find these shows that
you want to watch. They're worth checking out. Angry Tiger's

(40:08):
own show, Tiger and Snake Report is worth checking out.
Guard Goldsmith's show Liberty Conspiracy is worth checking out. They're
all listed on Knights of the Storm dot com.

Speaker 2 (40:16):
And several others, Yes, quite a few others.

Speaker 3 (40:18):
Yes, go check out Knights of the Storm dot com
and Knights of the Storm says here's a novel idea.
We can stop all the fake ads if we all
just have a digital slash Internet ID that's where it's
all headed. Wouldn't that be handy?

Speaker 2 (40:30):
Yeah? And look at how Trump is so exercise about this.
I mean went after CBS for the same thing. You
deceptively edited that La La Harris interview, and they didn't.
They put up the full interview before and so you know,
the whole thing that got him down that line was
the fact that their their trailer for their promotion for

(40:53):
it was different than what they actually aired. Wait a minute,
you edited something, Yeah, pal, that's the way things work.
Have somebody explain it to you. Maybe somebody in your
administration could explain to you that when you got a
ten minute clip and you've got a one minute spot,
you're going to edit some stuff. Now. That can be
done honestly, or it can be done deceptively. Just because

(41:14):
something is edited doesn't mean that it's fake. That's the
fake assumption that Trump begins with in his lawsuits and
the rest of this stuff.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
That's the thing is Editing can be used to completely
and utterly butcher context. It can make It can be
used to make people say things they never intended by
stripping context, by taking pieces and reordering them.

Speaker 2 (41:36):
That's right, However, they did not do that.

Speaker 3 (41:39):
Yeah, you can also completely retain context, because it's a
general rule when people are speaking, they tend to reiterate,
they tend to go retread the same ground multiple times,
and you can just cut out the middlemen. You get
the beginning, you get the end, and as a general rule,
it retains the same context. And that's just how works.

(42:01):
Editing is not inherently deceptive. No Marky Mark in New Jersey,
thank you very much, says I watched a House of
Dynamite this morning, and it left the viewers hanging. We
never saw off the New k Chicago, nor do we
see pots decision. It was unsatisfying, but.

Speaker 2 (42:15):
I think the application is clearly there when I watched it.
You know, he was had that back and forth. The
guy had the nuclear football and he gave him the
targets and he starts reading off numbers. I think that
was indicating that it was going to be a full
scale escalation. And then the last scene was this massive
traffic jam of all these bureaucrats coming out of Washington

(42:36):
going to Raven Rock and again Raven Rock. I've talked
about that book many times. Raven Rock the plan to
save themselves and to let the rest of us die,
and that book began with a big hole. Travis, and
you guys remember that I've told the story. You tell
the story because you were in the car with Karen.

Speaker 3 (42:54):
Yeah. So there's a place in North Carolina called Big
Hole Road. It's a sort of large bunker installation originally
owned by AT and T or maybe it was originally
by the government. Now and by one way or the other,
two sides of the same coin, they're joined. Itquates to
the same thing.

Speaker 2 (43:12):
Yeah, right, But.

Speaker 3 (43:14):
You know, it was kind of a local urban legend, like, oh,
you go down this little road and all of a sudden,
there's guard towers and there's military guys, and we're.

Speaker 2 (43:23):
Just like and they all said that it's been shut
down a long time ago. Yeah. And the other thing
that was interesting is in the town of Pittsburgh, they
had all these mayors and including the one who was
the current mayor there, they had all worked for AT
and T at Big Hole.

Speaker 3 (43:36):
Surprise, surprise.

Speaker 11 (43:37):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:38):
And this novel begins with Nixon as he's flying to
California and he's resigned and he's passing the nuclear football
off to someone else, and so they talk about Big
Hole and how that's a part of it at the
very beginning of the book and said, look at this.
So you guys go to Big Hole.

Speaker 3 (43:58):
Yeah, So we just go down the road and all
of a sudden, you know, just over the speakers. Turn around,
turn around, there's you know, some guy up in a
little guard tower. There's barricades and things. It is not
shut down the government. They oh, we're not doing anything here. No,
there's no step. Yeah, there's guys in guard towers, there's
guys with guns patrolling the perimeter.

Speaker 2 (44:21):
Whatever.

Speaker 3 (44:21):
They've still got going on there, at least they had
back over a decade ago now, but who knows. I
doubt they would turn that over to just anyone. They've got,
whatever they've got.

Speaker 2 (44:33):
They're still guarding this thing. It's this underground facility and
it's there to stand in nuclear attack. And that's his point.
He talks about that one, and then how they passed
off the communications to one that's in Charlotte, and but
then the big one is in Raven Rock where they're
all going to go. And you know, they believe that
they're gonna pull off this Doctor Strangelove type of thing,

(44:56):
and they probably will at some point in time.

Speaker 3 (44:59):
The strangest thing about Big Hole is how innocuous it is.
It's just this little road off of this other little road.
That is, you know, nothing of importance is over there,
and you know, you just turn down. It doesn't look
like anything. Then all of a sudden, the trees kind
of break and it's just guard tower fencing guys with guns.

(45:19):
Just how many of these places are scattered around the
country that the general population doesn't know about. But you know,
the locals of this one town goes, oh, yeah, that's
the military base. You don't go down there. If you do,
they'll point the guns at you can tell you go away.

Speaker 4 (45:32):
Well, mostly just ignored or dismissed by people. You know,
there was jokes of oh yeah, that's where they're dissecting
the aliens. Area fifty one is just a distraction from
Big Hole, et cetera, et cetera. You know, no one
really thought there was anything There's everyone if you pushed
them on, oh yeah, that's just a deactivated military Yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:51):
It's not there. It's been shut down long ago. Yeah,
that type of thing. If there was ever anything there,
it's been shut down. Well actually know, And so Karen
was curious. Sure, as she takes the kids with her
turn around. I love those, really funny But anyway, that's
a big hole and raven Rock and all the rest
of that stuff. Yeah, Unfortunately, I think I think that

(46:14):
that movie, even though it was it did like some
we go through this critical juncture there, and you'd see
it from the perspective of one group of people. Then
they jump back in time and you see from the
perspective of another group of people leading up to that
critical moment. And so they did that like three or
four different times. They jump back, and you know, you

(46:37):
see it as people are viewing it from their perspective,
which is you may like that, you may not. I
thought it was kind of an interesting.

Speaker 3 (46:44):
Your mileage may vary.

Speaker 2 (46:45):
Yeah, it can be a little bit difficult to follow.

Speaker 3 (46:48):
But anyway, got some comments from lou Gi for Liberty
that I'm seeing. Says, I'm in Chatham County and I've
been to Big Hole Road. We were told it was
a telecommunications uplink. I've always felt it was part of
continuity of government.

Speaker 2 (46:58):
Yeah, that's what it is.

Speaker 3 (46:59):
Yeah, yeah, says he sneaked up to it at night before.
He says, the damn thing is like ten stories deep. Yeah,
it's just a giant from what I From what I remember,
the thing is a giant concrete cylinder bunker that has
just been sunk into the ground and just no one
really knows what's in it. It's never been admitted that Also.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
A thing that was interesting about how said dynamite. When
it begins, they're in this very very busy room and
they're processing the fact that there's a missile that has
been launched headed to the United States and how they're
going to try to intercept it and so forth. And
then you have a military guy come in to the
woman who's running everything. She's got a headset. She's giving

(47:44):
orders to everybody, said you need to come with me
right now. We're going to go to a secure location.
Said I'm not leaving these people here, and so they
start pulling out one by one key people that are there,
and then the people are left behind are like what.
That's kind of a microcosm of the way the whole
government looks at the nuclear war thing. Right, you're not essential.

(48:07):
Remember that none of us were essential in twenty twenty,
and you better believe we're not going to be considered
to be essential when their calculations about nuclear war are
brought into the picture. Either.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
The one thing in nuclear apocalypse will definitely need is bureaucrats.

Speaker 2 (48:21):
So that's the thing they're they're gonna have bureaucrats that
can't do anything. And though.

Speaker 3 (48:31):
You survived the fallout, you've scrimped and saved and managed
to make it someplace, and you just encounter a horde
of bureaucrats coming out of a government bunker. Truly a nightmare.

Speaker 4 (48:41):
I mean, they do have plans in place for collecting
taxes after a nuclear bomb goes off. They've got to
implement those somehow, that's right.

Speaker 3 (48:51):
My question is, all right, so you know, nuclear apocalypse happens,
you guys all get down into the bunkers. What keeps
the toughest guy with the tough biggest gun for immediately going?
All right? So, I know we kind of voted you
into power, but that was before all this happened. So
you clean the toilets now, just I don't think we

(49:12):
really need your skill set anymore.

Speaker 2 (49:15):
Well, that's why you need to see the movie Civil War,
which we watched this weekend. And we saw the movie
Civil War. That's a kind of a reckoning moment there
the president kind of American. Yeah, the president gets a
reckoning moment. But yeah, it was for the most part
that movie. I was almost ready to turn it off
because it was just this you know, almost post apocalyptic

(49:40):
America where it's just you know, pockets of sanity versus
total chaos, and you know, people just going around killing
people because they want to. And I think that's a
pretty accurate idea of what will happen in a civil war.
But then he got to the point where there were
in Washington, It's like, okay, I want to see this.

(50:04):
There was a great book about the Civil War that
picked up at Gettysburg that was written by a battlefield
to her guide and it was called If the South
Had Wanted at Gettysburg, And the cover, which really caught
my eye was an astronaut on the moon planting a
Confederate flag.

Speaker 3 (50:20):
A better time, a brighter timeline.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
But it was actually a very interesting premise because he
changes just like one thing. It's like an alternative history thing,
and you realize just how close things were, and you know,
just slightly change it and then left everything else where.
It was the horrific weather that happened the next day
that allowed Lee to escape with the remnants of his

(50:46):
army without being pursued, and the fact that they had
if they had won there, they had a clear path
to come in on the north side of Washington where
there was no protection whatsoever, and it would have been
a real pivot moment at that point. But so when
I watched the Civil War, maybe to take me back

(51:06):
to that particular, that particular novel. Anyway, I like historical fiction,
that his alternative especially, so I don't like the way
things really turned out.

Speaker 3 (51:18):
So perhaps what if we're going to just change one thing?

Speaker 2 (51:22):
Yeah, it could it be better?

Speaker 3 (51:23):
Yeah, you see a commedy from Nibru twenty twenty nine,
says Emperor Trump's legacy movie was released in two thousand
and nine and starring Vigo Mortensen, titled The Road Let's
Hope not. That movie is terribly depressing. Yeah, it's another
Cormack McCarthy story. And that's all he wrote. That's all
the Cormack McCarthy, as far as I'm aware, never wrote

(51:43):
any feel good stories. The Nights of the Storm wait
for it. Trump will find a way to get people
to go along with it. And yeah, digital id for
the Internet.

Speaker 2 (51:56):
Yeah you read that second one there.

Speaker 3 (51:58):
Yeah, Doug to double O seven. This is such an
offensive ad. No wonder Trump was livid sarcasm. Yeah, so
Bogus Reagan is basically the previous false idol of Republicans,
the previous demigod of the right. Trump is worse though.

Speaker 2 (52:12):
Yeah, for years when they would have debates, when the
front runner was not afraid of debates, everybody would say,
but Ronald Reagan this, and Ronald Reagan that. Remember going
back to twenty sixteen debates where there's a large field
of Republicans and all of them were wrapping themselves and
Ronald Reagan, and you better believe that they're all going
to be doing that with Trump when he's gone, they'll

(52:33):
be doing the same thing. I got really sick of hearing,
but Ronald Reagan did this? You know what would Reagan? Do?
You know? That type of thing never stopped.

Speaker 3 (52:41):
Yeah, we also have so Bogus has a big part
of this is just to have Trump doing or reacting
to something outrageous every other day to distract from the
big picture. He does a good job of the real
Octo spook. They're in business to make money, not pay money.
American citizens pay all of it.

Speaker 2 (52:57):
Yeah. As a matter of fact, we got a story
coming up where AI is being They're going to start
to incorporate AI in terms of writing story scripts for WWE.
That may be the best use case of it yet.
But interestingly enough, Trump is pulling in pulled in people
from the WWE into his administration because that's what the

(53:18):
Trump administration is. It's all about creating this fake narrative
and getting people all hyped up and heroes and heels.
That's what it's all about. He learned that lesson really
well with his close ties to the McMahon's. Lena McMahon
is the head of the Department of Education. If that
whole thing about getting rid of the Department of Education,

(53:40):
if that isn't a professional wrestling narrative, I don't know
what is. They're not going to do anything about that.
They're still going to hand out the money. And if
you hand out the money, you're still controlling the education.
Whoever funds it is going to control it, and they're
going to keep in the funding aspect of it. So again,
it's going to Each successive administry is going to have

(54:00):
different things that they're going to bribe and blackmail people
to do through the money. And Trump is going to
preserve all of that, whether he has a large bureaucracy
there or not.

Speaker 3 (54:12):
You could at least do something fun like make a
WWE wrestler, the press secretary or something like that. That's right,
reporting live from the press room. Paul the Undertaker is
just at Don Lemon with a steel chair.

Speaker 2 (54:23):
Well, he's going to have for the fourth of jo
He's going to have a big ultimate fighting contest. Yeah,
I don't care.

Speaker 3 (54:29):
I don't want to watch him. The UFC fighters feed
up each other. I want to watch the Undertaker take
Don Lemon to task. That's a way, come on, UFC.
I don't want to watch two chechens wrestle each other.
Who cares NBRU twenty twenty nine. Throughout history, tariffs have
always been an instrument of the wealthy to further increase
the aristocracies wealth Audi mrr magavators amaze me. They hate

(54:50):
everything about Operation Warp Speed, but love the guy who
green lighted it.

Speaker 2 (54:54):
Audi Audi, don't you know it wasn't Trump. It was
the bad Democrat governors who did it all. That's why
I've heard so.

Speaker 3 (55:02):
Many those nasty Democrats.

Speaker 4 (55:05):
About that WWE AI. It's the not Sure AI. It's
so smart, it's gonna come up with everything we got
to say. I called not Sure. He says that we
got to put electrolytes in the plant food idiocracy.

Speaker 3 (55:21):
Yeah, classic Brandon Bennett. Big hole is where they should
have their no Kings protest. They could secret them all away,
squirrel them all deep into the bowels of the earth. Real,
Jason Barker at Steve Evs. That's where they keep all
their stolen cash. Brandon Minette says, stolen cash and children. Yeah, guys,

(55:43):
Donald Trump is down in the tunnels fistfighting the lizard
people for his stolen children.

Speaker 4 (55:49):
Nuclear war is it would kill just about everyone except
for the people that maybe shouldn't survive it.

Speaker 2 (55:57):
Well, they are not going to be capable of taking themselves,
that's for sure. We're gonna take a quick break, folks,
and we will be right back.

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(58:39):
it looks like they were practicing or setting up to
do a false flag attack. I mean, the CIA wouldn't
do that, would they know. Trump has not even made
a secret of the fact that he's got CIA in places,
not made a secret of the fact that he's got
a massive build up of a military force there as well.

(58:59):
So will it be another Gulf of Tonkin incident? It's
kind of interesting, you know, when we look at the
Golf of Tonkin. Did you get that to Yeah, we
got a clip here. Let me play this from the
Fog of War and just to give you an idea
of what happened. Errol Morris was a film documentarian and
before he got into doing film documentaries, he used to

(59:21):
be an investigator and interrogator and he really knows how
to read people and how to interview them. I mean,
he's just amazing. He had a documentary called The Thin
Blue Line and it was about he didn't start out
to do this documentary, start out to do a documentary
about the death penalty and people on death row. And

(59:43):
one of the people that he talked to, he became
convinced that the guy was innocent and that the police
had grabbed this guy and railroaded him simply because they
have to be seen to immediately solve the issue if
a police officer is killed. So a cop been killed,
so immediately got to grab their guy and say we

(01:00:03):
got the perp and he's guilty, and they railroaded him
to give him the death penalty. And so Errol Morris
started interviewing people. He started getting interested in this case
and he figured out who the guy was that really
did it, and he actually got the guy to confess
to doing the murder. And one of the things that

(01:00:24):
he would do this is twenty thirty years ago, he
would set up a teleprompter and he would use it
so that people were doing like a zoom conference call
or something, and by taking himself out of the room,
and they were no longer talking to him, they were
kind of talking to a TV, which you know, people
have a different attitude about it then than they do now,

(01:00:46):
and so it gave it this level of separation and
abstraction and it kind of disarmed them along with his
excellent skills of being an investigator an interrogator himself. He
called it the enterotron, and he said it really took
people's guard down when instead of talking to him directly,
he might just be in the next room, but he

(01:01:07):
was talking to them through the teleprompter, through the monitor.
And so he did that with Robert mcnamair, who basically
was the architect and engineer of the Vietnam War before
he was then sent off to the IMF fund and
began enslaving developing countries with debt to the IMF. But anyway,

(01:01:28):
he talked to Robert mcnamare for about two or three
days and put this documentary together, and as part of it,
I thought it was very interesting the Gulf of Tonkin incident,
and mcnamaar essentially admitted that they made it up.

Speaker 11 (01:01:49):
On August second, the destroyer Maddox reported it was attacked
by a North Vietnamese patrol book. It was an act
of aggression against his We were in international waters. I
sent officials from the Defence Warment out and we recovered
pieces of North eatnamse shells that were clearly identified as
North the shells from the deck of the Mattox.

Speaker 2 (01:02:10):
So it was I guess, I said, made it in
North Vietnam.

Speaker 11 (01:02:13):
But in any event, we didn't respond.

Speaker 2 (01:02:19):
How they wind up getting fragments and not being shot,
I don't understand. But it gets worse.

Speaker 11 (01:02:26):
Later the Mattocks and the Turner Joy Too destroyers reported
they were attacked.

Speaker 10 (01:02:33):
How are these torpedoes coming from?

Speaker 2 (01:02:35):
But we don't know.

Speaker 11 (01:02:36):
Presumably from these unidentified craft. There were sonar soundings, torpedoes
had been protected, other indications of attack.

Speaker 2 (01:02:46):
From patrol boats.

Speaker 11 (01:02:48):
We spent about ten hours that day trying to find
out what in the hell had happened. At one point
the commander of the ship said, we're not certain of
the attack. Another point they said, yes, we're absolutely, and
then finally late in the day, Admiral Sharp said, yes,
we're certain it happened. So I reported this to Johnson,
and as a result, there were bombing attacks on targets

(01:03:14):
in North Vietnam.

Speaker 2 (01:03:16):
A bombing attack that was so severe you weren't certain
for ten hours of debate, that's whether it actually happened,
let alone who did it.

Speaker 11 (01:03:30):
Johnson said, we may have to escalate. I'm not going
to do it without congressional authority, and he put forward
a resolution, the language of which gave complete authority to
the president to take the nation to war, the Tonkin
Gulf Resolution.

Speaker 2 (01:03:48):
Unlike Trump, Now, let me, Trump is worse than I'll be.
Jay's fourth attack.

Speaker 15 (01:03:58):
Well, apparently at nine torpedoes in the water all this Yeah, No,
I don't wait, am not. I'm not so sure about
this number of engaged, right, We'd have to check it
out here, he said, Many of the reported contacts of

(01:04:22):
torpedoes fired appear doubtful. Freak weather effects on radar and
over eager storm and may have accounted for many reports. Okay, well,
I was coming to that's the best I can give
you today. Sorry, it doesn't appear now that a lot
of these torpedo attacks were from the sawm man. You see,

(01:04:45):
and they get keyed up to things like this, everything
they hear on the sonar is a torpedo.

Speaker 4 (01:04:50):
You're pretty sure there was a torpedo attack then, Oh,
no doubt about that.

Speaker 2 (01:04:55):
I think, I think no doubt.

Speaker 11 (01:04:58):
I think it was just confusion, and events afterwards showed
that our judgment that we'd been attacked that day was wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:05:11):
It didn't happen. Yeah, nine torpedoes, they all missed. And
somehow I'm look at that and it's like, did North
Korea have submarines that were shooting torpedoes or are they
coming off of some boats? But they never identified the
boats that were shooting the torpedoes, And I don't think

(01:05:33):
that they had submarines.

Speaker 4 (01:05:34):
What it's our judgment that day was wrong. It turns
out we mistakenly thought that we had been shot by
torpedoes and that gave us the excuse to do everything
that we had wanted to do before that. Oops, our mistake. Sorry, guys, Yeah,
you know.

Speaker 2 (01:05:48):
And he tries to talk about that incident earlier. He said, yeah,
there was some shrapnel from some shells and it was
definitely North Korea. It must have said that, you know,
made in North Korea on the shells something. They were
not hit with anything, and they claimed that they were
hit with that earlier. One of them claimed that this
was the incident that got us into the Gulf of Tonkin.

(01:06:11):
A war that is based on lies and false flags, folks.
That's what we've had from the American government and the
Pentagon so many times in the last sixty years or so.
So the Maduro regime said Sunday that Venezuela has captured
a group of alleged mercenaries with ties to the USCIA.

(01:06:33):
They accused Washington and Trinidad and Tobago of coordinating military
exercises intended to provoke an armed confrontation in the Caribbean.
The government there said the arrest revealed what it described
as a false flag operation planned from waters bordering Trinidad
and Tobago or from Trinidadian or Venezuelan territory to generate

(01:06:58):
a full scale military confrontation against Venezuela. In other words,
when you go back and look at the Gulf of
Tonken incident. It's not necessary to actually take out an
American ship or do any damage or even hit it.
You can just have a situation where they allege that
they were fired upon without result, and that is sufficient

(01:07:21):
for us to go to war. Now, on the other hand,
we can blow up one fishing ship after the other,
one drug ship, even if it is a drug ship.
It's still murder on the high seas by Trump. And
that's perfectly fine. That's the asymmetric rules of war. But
then there's another kind of asymmetric war when they actually

(01:07:42):
get on the ground. Those are the kind of asymmetric
wars that we always lose. The announcement comes amid fast
growing build up of US forces in the Caribbean, launched
by Trump to combat he says, drug cartels. That's the
fundamental lie right there. The administration signaled that might soon
Aris ground incursions into Venezuela to target the so called

(01:08:04):
Cartel of the Sun, a narco trafficking organization in the
imagination of Trump. The Venezuelan government did not release any
evidence or details about this. And of course, you know,
again when we look at let's go to Trump instead
of to LBJ. When you look at candidate Trump, he
told us that the Iraq war was based on lies

(01:08:26):
about weapons of mass destruction. That part was true, but
then he took the person who ran the torture, the
person who sold the lies, to the White House, Gina
Haskell of the CIA, and he made her his head
of the CIA, as effective head of the CIA. At
the beginning, he had Pompeo who was the official head,

(01:08:48):
but she was number two. Then Pompeo moved to Secretary
of State and she moved in to be the truly
official one who was running the CIA. So he says
that we get into a war based on lies, and
then he puts the person who lied about it in
charge of the CIA. Classic Donald Trump telling you what

(01:09:09):
they're doing and how corrupt it is, and then doubling
down on what they were doing in the corruption. The
alleged arrests, such as the number of suspects, their nationalities,
when and where they were detained, has not been released.
Caracas also linked the alleged plot to military drills that
claims are being carried out this week by Trinidad and
Tobago under the coordination, financing, and control of the US

(01:09:34):
Southern Command, calling them a hostile provocation and a grave
threat to the peace of the Caribbean. Statement released by
Trinidad and Tobago's Prime minister. By the way, the prime
Minister's name is Kamlah Yeah. By Kamala Yeah. The KAMMLA

(01:09:57):
to act I said that the statement accused the Venezuelan
statement accused that country, trend Ad and Tobago of acting
as a military colony subordinated to US hege hegemonic interests.
The Miami Herald could not independently confirm the arrest of
any group or existence of coordinated operations involving the CIA

(01:10:20):
or the Dooral based US Southern Command, which oversees military
operations in Latin America. The Caracas people compared the supposed
plan to the historical events such as the USS Main
explosion in Cuba in eighteen ninety eight, which we know
was a false flag, as well as the Gulf of Tonkin.
And so this may or may not be real. I mean,

(01:10:43):
since the CIA and the US government and the Pentagon
have a history of staging false flag events and using
them as a pretext of war, they might be just
referring back to that history. Knowing that people would believe
that's likely something that the US would do. I do
believe it is likely the US will do it. I
don't know if they have done it yet, but I
think that they're likely to do it at some point

(01:11:05):
in time. The government said the alleged provocation follows the
same pattern and accused Washington of seeking a pretext war
for war in the region. And again, the US keeps
doing it. Why because it works. It works every time
with the American public. Following the Trump administration's decision to

(01:11:26):
amass the largest US military presence the Caribbean has seen
in decades in order to supposedly combat drug cartel operations
in the region, well, I'm sure that they'll be able
to win this imaginary drug war because it doesn't exist
in the first place. So Trump will be able to
declare victory with that. Next to is going to be
taking on the little Green men and UFOs and beat

(01:11:48):
them as well. The build up of US forces continues.
Over the past two months, the Pentagon has deployed close
to ten thousand troops, most of them based in Puerto Rico,
along with a contingent of Marines aboard amphibious assault ships.
The US Navy has positioned at least ten warships and
a submarine in the Caribbean as part of the expanded force.

(01:12:11):
So those marines and the ten thousand troops, they'll be
sent eventually to go kill and die for Trump's lies.
That's what's really going to happen here, just as people
were sent into Vietnam to kill and to die for
the lives of LBJ and Robert McNamara. Trump has indicated

(01:12:31):
that the US is now considering ground operations, while his
administration has quietly granted the CIA new powers to conduct
covert activities in the South American country. They don't even
try to hide it anymore. They used to be ashamed
of this stuff, and they should be ashamed. So a

(01:12:52):
senior US Republican says that Maduro's days are numbered. And
of course this would be Rick Scott, a Republican from Florida,
who is their Rubio from Florida, and Rick Scott from Florida.
They're both looking at this as a way to come

(01:13:13):
after Cuba as well, because there is a connection between
Venezuela and Cuba. There's no connection between Venezuela and fentanyl
at all, but there is a connection that they're not
talking about between Venezuela and Cuba. Venezuela, even though they
have not been able to capitalize and to operate on
this massive reserve of oil. They have more oil than

(01:13:35):
Saudi Arabia, but they can't get it out of the
ground because they're communists and they don't know how it works.
It's going to be like the bureaucrats who survive at
raven Rock. They're not going to get anything. Wait a minute,
can't gardy crops, can't get any oil out of the ground,
and can't refine it, and so forth. But so Venezuela
is getting a little bit of oil to Cuba and

(01:13:59):
they want to cut that off. They want to isolate
Cuba next. And that's one of the reasons why Rubio
has been so hell bent on Venezuela. It's a way
to attack Cuba, you know, kind of like Ukraine and Russia,
that type of thing. And so Rick Scott is also
from Florida, and he is also going to be heavily
influenced by the Conservative Republicans, which is Cubans in Florida

(01:14:24):
for the most part, conservative and Republican. I grew up
in Florida, and I knew a lot of Cubans. I
was in bands with a lot of Cubans and had
great trumpet players. They do have an obossession with Castro,
and look, I understand I don't like Castro either, but
maybe this is going to be Maybe this administration be
the one they can finally pull off the Bay of pigs.

(01:14:46):
It takes the administration of pigs to do it, I guess,
and they've got just the personnel I think, to pull
off the Bay of Pigs. So this is Rick Scott,
who is on the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committee.
He said Maduro's days are numbered, whether it's internal or external.
I think something's going to happen to him, right, he

(01:15:09):
should head to Russia or to China. And then we
had another senator who chimed in over the weekend. This
is Senator Langford, who is not from an area that
is heavily influenced by Cubans, and he had this to say.

Speaker 16 (01:15:22):
The administration needs to give insight into Congress.

Speaker 2 (01:15:25):
That's part of it.

Speaker 16 (01:15:26):
If this was happening with this level of insight under
the Biden administration, I'd be apoplectic, and I would say Hey, listen,
I serve on the Intelligence Committee. He serves as a
senior Democrat on Defense. This is typical consultation. It's not permission,
but it is Hey, I want to let you know
this is happening, and here are the details of what's happening,
and here's why and what, and here's what we know.

Speaker 2 (01:15:49):
Here's what we know about.

Speaker 8 (01:15:50):
Each one of these incidents that has occurred.

Speaker 16 (01:15:53):
In the people that are there, that's important. We're all
elected officials, We're in a co equal branch of government,
and we've got.

Speaker 8 (01:16:00):
To be able to have that kind of coordination.

Speaker 3 (01:16:02):
Now, we need to be able to engage on drugs.

Speaker 16 (01:16:05):
I have Oklahomans that are dying from methamphetamine, from cocaine,
from fentanyl, and from different drugs that are laced with
fentanyl on it and mixing it in. That's happening in
my state, as it's happening all around the country. We
tried a lot of different approaches to be able to
stop it. The President has turned the volume up to
eleven and said, no, we're going to stop drugs coming
into our country that are killing folks.

Speaker 8 (01:16:26):
So he's putting tariffs.

Speaker 16 (01:16:27):
On countries that are allowing the precursors to be able
to come over into North America.

Speaker 2 (01:16:31):
You know, I can.

Speaker 16 (01:16:32):
Direct action against those folks to deliver the drugs that
are killing Americans.

Speaker 2 (01:16:37):
Weally appropriate to do.

Speaker 16 (01:16:38):
What we're missing is the communication, the coordination, and the
ability to be able to say, let's talk out loud
about this.

Speaker 2 (01:16:44):
We're not his opponent on this.

Speaker 16 (01:16:46):
We're an ally in this to be able to solve it,
but we need to be able to have a voice
on it as a coequals?

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Are there other that's a coequal branch? Okay, you think
your co equal branch when you've abdicated the necessity of
congressional deliberation before we go to war, you say you're coequal? Pathetic? Yeah,
you know, we want to stop the drugs. I want
to stop the drugs. So let's do it by force.
That's worked so well for fifty plus years. Let's continue

(01:17:13):
to do more force. Let's turn it up to eleven.
And then meanwhile, we don't even know who to shoot at. Right,
we're going to attack countries that aren't bringing the drugs in.
Why is that? Why don't we go to the countries
that are bringing the drugs in? Well, because they're working
with the CIA, which is also a part of this.

(01:17:36):
So you know, you're only going to go to Panama
when the CIA's partner decides that he's going to go
a different route, then we got to take that guy out.
They're just another drug gang, the CIA and Pentagon, the
rest of them, as far as I'm concerned, they're just
another drug gang. So you've got Rick Scott saying that

(01:17:59):
Maduro is an illegitimate murderist dictator. Well that may be true,
but that's definitely true of Trump is a murderist dictator,
and there's no question about it. He even brags about it.
So this is an article from drop site News inside
Marco Rubio's push for regime change in Venezuela. There is

(01:18:21):
no fentinyl coming from the country, according to US Intelligence.
Even this is another Trump lie for war. He said
that again. You know when you go back and look
at the Iraq war. He promotes the people who sell
these types of lies. And so US Intelligence has assessed
that little to none of the fentinyl traffic to the

(01:18:42):
United States is being produced in Venezuela, despite recent claims
from the Trump administration, and again Ram Paul laid this
whole thing out, So there's no fentinyl coming in from Venezuela.
According to the people who are doing this, Not only that,
but these ships that they're blowing up couldn't make it.
They don't have sufficient fuel to make the trip to

(01:19:04):
the US. They're not coming here at all. But as
they blow up these ships, the murderous little dictator Don
is saying, look, we've stopped it from sea. Now we've
got to go to land in order to stop it.
You stopped something that wasn't happening. There's no way these
ships could actually make it to the United States.

Speaker 17 (01:19:25):
You, Senator Paul, what do you need to hear in
a briefing?

Speaker 9 (01:19:28):
What questions do you have?

Speaker 6 (01:19:31):
You know, it's not so much about a briefing, but
we haven't had a briefing. To be clear, We've got
no information. I've been invited to no briefing. But a
briefing is not enough to overcome the Constitution. The Constitution
says that when you go to war, Congress has to
vote on it, and during a war then there's a
lower rules for engagement. People do sometimes get killed without
due process, but the drug war, or the war or

(01:19:53):
the crime war has typically been something we do through
law enforcement, and so far they have alleged that these
people are drug dealers. No one said their name, no
one said what evidence, no one said whether they're armed,
and we've had no evidence presented. So at this point
I would call them extra judicial killings. And this is
akin to what China does to a rand does with

(01:20:14):
drug dealers. They summarily execute people without presenting evids to
the public.

Speaker 3 (01:20:18):
So it's wrong, are you yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:20:22):
And so officials who talked to drop site News noted
that many of the boats targeted for strikes by the
Trump administration do not even have the requisite gasoline or
motor capacity to reach US waters, and of course that
is what Rampaul has also said. These officials are retired
intelligence officials as well who talk to drop site News.

(01:20:44):
The claim is backed by recent comments made by Senator Rampaul,
who similarly noted that zero fentanyl is produced in Venezuela.
But despite all this, in the lack of any intelligence
leaking Venezuela with fentanyl production, the Trump administration has made
the alleged Venezuela and drug trafficking the cause of war

(01:21:06):
and it's drive to overthrow the government of Maduro. Trump
referred to the possible ground action, claiming at a press
conference that the quote sea drugs coming in are five
percent of what they were a year ago. So they're
coming in by land, and so we're going to have
to attack the land next. So he is saying that

(01:21:27):
he stopped the flow of drugs by sea, which we're
never coming here by sea, and so now he's going
to go to land to stop the drugs that are
not coming here by land. Next.

Speaker 4 (01:21:40):
We just keep winning.

Speaker 2 (01:21:42):
Yeah, you're tired of winning, and I'm tired of wars. Actually.
The two sources familiar with discussions of the White House
note that Secretary of State Marco Rubio, a longtime proponent
of regime change in Venezuela, has been the driving force
behind the aggressive military and rhetorical posture toward the Maduro regime.
I guess we should call this, if it happens, we

(01:22:02):
should call it Little Marco's War. He's also in charge
of the remnants, excuse me, of the U. S a
i D. The US Agency for International Development. This is
the CIA propaganda people. This is where Barack Obama's mama
used to work. The Obama mama used to work at

(01:22:26):
the U s a I D. His her parents, his
grandparents on her side were some of the founding members
of the CIA, coming over from the OSS. So US
A I D has redirected millions of dollars and money
previously allocated for pro democracy measures in Venezuela and surrounding

(01:22:47):
countries in a thinly veiled effort to prep the region
for war. So they come in and they do the
propaganda type of stuff like Tucker Carlson's dad did with
Voice of America, except U. S a I D is
even more directly involved with the CIA. And you remember
when Doage was going through and there was a fight
between Elon Musk and Marco Rubio. Rubio was absolutely apoplectic

(01:23:15):
that they were shutting down usaid he wanted this dirty
little propaganda liars. He wanted to keep them around. Rubio
cycled through multiple arguments for regime change in Venezuela during
the early months of the administration, largely based around human
rights and election concerns, which were unconvincing to Trump. After

(01:23:35):
assuming a position on the National Security Council in the spring,
Rubio then presented a new argument to Trump that Maduro
was a narco terrorist drug trafficker. There you go. So
this absurd lie about fentanyl coming from Venezuela came from

(01:23:56):
Little Marco. I wonder if he's the one who told
Trump that fentanyl was coming in from Canada as well. Yeah,
Robert Baron Trump said in the last October though, that
he wanted the oil. Remember that when he was running
for office, he said, yeah, venezuel we could have taken
the oil. We got to take the oil. Same thing
he said about Syria as well. Well. Trump enables so

(01:24:19):
far to carry out attacks on Mexican cartels, strikes seen
as politically untenable. Yeah, because you know, the CIA is
mixed in with these guys. So we don't want to
attack the guys who are working with us. Only if
they stop working with us, will we do that. Rubio
effectively steered his gaze to Maduro, said, Hey, you want
to you want to go shoot somebody in the streets

(01:24:41):
like your hero Rodrigo Duterte. Well, we can do that
in Venezuela. They're doing drugs as well. Oh really, okay? Sure.
Rubio's policy was most recently at a crossroads after Marduro
offered to turn over the oil resources to the US
in exchange for cessation of hostilities, again trying to buy

(01:25:04):
off these You know, Maduro is not stupid. He knows
what's going on. He knows that it's not about the drugs.
He's not doing them. He knows it's about the oil
that they want. So he says, here, I'll give you
some oil. How about that. Can we just not have
a war. But Trump acknowledged the offer in a recent appearance,
saying Maduro offered everything. You know why, because he doesn't

(01:25:25):
want to f around with the US. He's a thug, gangster,
he's a casino mafia owner. Trump rejected the offer after
being swayed by arguments from Rubio that the best way
to secure Venezuela's oil reserves was to facilitate regime change
and to make a better deal with a new government. Yeah,

(01:25:46):
we don't want to have him paying us. We can
put our own guy in there, and we'll get even
more oil at a better price, or no price at all.
A recent US government assessment of Venezuela and oil exports
to China found nearly half a million barrels a day,
a small fraction of the country's total capacity, which Trump
is turning down in the immediate term. So he's going

(01:26:07):
to go for the whole thing. He's the mafia boss, says, hey,
it's nice business. You got there to be ashamed of.
Something happened to it, right, Yeah, I'll give you a
cut of it. I think I'll just take the whole
thing and I'll kill you in the process. Foreign policy
under Trump has come to be dominated by a group
known inside the administration as the Gang of Five. And

(01:26:28):
let me just say here, what a disgusting, pathetic display
it was of Alex Jones and Patrick Byrne to cheer
an American war in Venezuela for the oil. I'm disgusted
with them. Yeah. People just own this corruption anymore. They
own the lies, they own the wars, and they're absolutely

(01:26:49):
unashamed about it. So the Gang of Five, consisting of Rubyo,
Stephen Miller, Susie Wiles, the Chief of Staff, Steve Whitcoff,
Trump's all around envoy, and former real estate partner, that's
what he. I guess, yeah, I guess we look at it.
I guess all geopolitics is about real estate, right, It's

(01:27:09):
about scouting out what you want. The only difference is
is that when you're president, you don't have to pay
for anything. You have taxpayers to pay for the bombs
and missiles that kill people so that you can steal
their land. So I guess that's what Whitcough is there for,
just like he was there in Israel and then Vice
President Jade Vance. Warhawk's secretary Pete Hegseth, in a bid

(01:27:32):
for internal relevance, has eagerly executed Rubio's strategy, regularly striking
boats that he claims without evidence or carrying drugs and
then burning the passengers alive. How exactly Rubio is spending
the pro democracy funds from the USAID from which Buckets
is not made clear in federal disclosures, but a flurry

(01:27:55):
of contracts and neighboring countries indicates a surge of military
preparation and Colombia. Much of the US backed resistance to Maduro,
including the disastrous Operation Gideon coup attempt in May of
twenty twenty, has been based out of Colombia and Guyana.
In late September, the US State Department's International Law Enforcement

(01:28:18):
Arm signed a two year, four point eight billion dollar
Colombia Virtual Shooting Range quote unquote contract with Airs on
a based Vertra inc. There are also two foreign military
sales through the US Coast Guard, and so the you

(01:28:38):
know we talked about Colombia. Isn't that interesting that we
would partner with a company the country that is actually
sending drugs to the US, because again, the CIA is
at the center of all this. We could see that
in Afghanistan, you know, they took over the fields that
the Taliban was shutting down. They had it. Less than
ten percent of the world supply was coming out of Afghanistan,

(01:29:01):
and we jumped it up to the high nineties a
record amount every year was a bigger bumper crop. And
we had US troops guarding the fields for them, and
presumably the CIA getting the opioids and being able to
distribute them. While the contracts indicate millions being poured into Colombia,
the wave of funding could now be undermined by President

(01:29:23):
Petro's recent condemnation of the lethal US airstrike on a
fishing boat in Colombian waters. On October the third, Maduro's
vice president accused Exxon of funding a military assault in
the region. So they're accusing Exxon of doing military assaults

(01:29:46):
as well. The interesting thing is that Exxon's competitor, which
is also headquartered out of Houston. Chevron is a partner
of the Venezuelan government. This is very much like Smedley
Butler saying, you know, we're going to war for the
United Fruit Company. Here we are. This is something of

(01:30:09):
a war between Exxon and Chevron, and these are so
Chevron's allied with Venezuelan government and Maduro and Exon is
opposing them from the outside. It reminds me of that
Terry Gillhan movie. I was at time Bandits where they
had you had skyscrapers that they used, they were moving,

(01:30:31):
you know, they were selling them like ships, like they
were sailing ships, and they had basically a hostile corporate takeover.
He represented as these pirates that were sailing the skyscrapers
through the streets of a city and shooting at each other.
I mean, that's basically what we've got going on here,

(01:30:52):
corporations getting involved in all of this. The US government
has attempted to overthrow the socialist government of Venezuela for decades,
including through the USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives. Oh, that's
a nice euphemism for a coup. A Transition Initiative. The
US's quasi overt international political action arm, the National Endowment

(01:31:17):
for Democracy, the Need another CIA thing, has the challenging
task of funding nonprofits and journalists in a manner which
on the one hand advances US foreign policy goals and
on the other allows grantees to still claim independence. Even
Trump's first administration reportedly expressed frustration with a covert democracy

(01:31:37):
promotion campaign by the CIA against Venezuelan President Maduro in
twenty nineteen being indistinguishable from its overt counterparts. So again,
this is the same stuff being recycled. So you can
imagine that whether or not it's true, they would suspect
that this there's going to be some kind of a

(01:32:00):
false flag right the Gulf of Tonkin. Well, the Trump
administration has gutted the majority of USAID's political action programs
during its first few months in office. So again, this
is the gang that can't shoot straight. Trump wants to
literally go to war to stop drugs, even though force
has not worked, so he doesn't know which country to attack,

(01:32:24):
and so he's now cut off the propagandists and the
people that are there to start the coups. He shut
them down largely earlier as well. So I don't think
this whole thing is going to go too well. But
there is a large aircraft carrier group, the USS gerald Ford,
that is slowly moving its way from the See where

(01:32:46):
is it. It's in the Mediterranean, I think, and it's
now headed to the Caribbean. And so this is one
of these deals. Kind of reminds me of the Falkland
Wars where they had this slow moving armada coming from
the UK going down to the Falkland Islands in Argentina.
And so we'll see what happens. Admiral Halsey, you remember,

(01:33:08):
had a three year job and he quit one year
into it, evidently because he was not happy with what
was going on with the Southern Command. So the gerald
Ford has been deployed in the Mediterranean this yeah, and
it is off of the coast of Croatia and the
Adriatic Sea. So now it's on its way to the Caribbean.
And I guess when he gets there, I guess this
whole thing will commence. Well, we're going to take a

(01:33:30):
quick break and we'll read the comments when we come back.
I just want to say that I just really find
it disgusting to see that they can keep playing the
same games over and over again. But again, we can
have you fool most of the people most of the time,
evidently because they were able to do it with Donald Trump.

(01:33:50):
We're going to take a quick break and we'll be
right back.

Speaker 7 (01:35:28):
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Speaker 2 (01:35:49):
Well, marky Mark, thank you. He says, I was a
sonar man in the US Navy, and I've heard torpedoes
in the water. There is nothing that sounds like them.
Once you've heard a torpedo, you never forget it sound. Well, again,
these were assessments that are being made by the superior
officers there, and I imagine that they were trying to
come up with an excuse for why they might have

(01:36:12):
lied or given conflicting information. Well, I think the guy
is on sonar were just freaking out about what was
happening there. That probably wasn't the case at all. They're
probably just floundering around trying to find some flimsy excuse
to say they'd been attacked. I seriously don't think that
they were attacked then or the incident a couple of
days earlier than that, And so I think it was

(01:36:34):
just lies being told by the people who were in
command and by the civilian leadership in order to start
a war, a war that was based on not just
based on a false flag, but based on the total
historical ignorance about the relationship between China and Vietnam for

(01:36:55):
over a thousand years they'd been in conflict with each other,
and then also based on another foundational lie about the
Domino theory and what was going to happen if we
lost in Vietnam, all of Southeast Asia was going to
fall to the Chinese communists, And of course none of
that happened, and so we it's been very clearly shown

(01:37:15):
that the whole thing was an invented lie. Well, before
we move on, I want to talk about what's going
on with gold and silver, which I think is kind
of interesting. London is facing a one hundred and fifty
million ounce silver shortfall. This was on Friday amid the
Comex drain, said an insider. Now think about how much

(01:37:38):
that is in terms of weight, that's about four point
seven tons of silver, and in terms of you know,
fifty dollars an ounce, that's about seven and a half
billion dollars. That well, we can't fill that order. It's
supposedly here, but we can't find the physical silver that
is there. A massive physical drain of silk from Comx

(01:38:01):
warehouses is accelerating. This is on Friday, signaling profound stress
in the global delivery system, even as a fundamental structural
change is redefining Goal's role as an asset, said a
former billion bank executive, Bob Gottlieb. On Thursday, and an
exclusive interview, he revealed that twenty nine million ounces of

(01:38:25):
silver had been physically removed from Comicx warehouses in just
the last two weeks. He also issued a stark warning
about the opaque platinum market, suggesting the situation there may
be even more dire physical. The physical exodus comes after
a turbulent week that saw Goal plunge nearly five and

(01:38:45):
a half percent and silver dropping seven and a half
percent on the same day. The most acute stress is
in the physical silver market, centering on a dramatic reversal
of flows between the world's two most important trading hubs,
the Comics in New York, which is a primary US
futures exchange, and the London market the world's largest center

(01:39:07):
for physical trading. The London vaults were depleted of the
readily available metal or their free floating stock by a
perfect storm of demand. We talked about that last week.
Part of the demand was coming from India. It went
from three hundred and five million down to maybe one
hundred and twenty five million ounces, and that has created

(01:39:28):
this entire tightness. The shortage in London has now caused
a violent reversal. The premium for spotsilver in London has
made it highly profitable for banks to take physical metal
from the comics and ship it back across the Atlantic.
So we went from five hundred and thirty million ounces
to five hundred and one million today, So that's roughly

(01:39:48):
twenty nine million ounces of silver that's been shipped out
of the US. Gottlieb said, I believe we need another
one hundred and one hundred and fifty million ounces physically
in London for the market to normalize. The physical pressure
is accumulating as gold is undergoing what gottlab calls a
different kind of rally driven by a structural change, and

(01:40:11):
how gold is viewed by the world's largest financial players.
He said, the entire central bank world is diversifying away
from the dollar, and they're doing that via gold. They're
using a gold rather than the dollar. And he said,
the interesting thing is that when you look at the
European Central Bank, they just announced that they're number two
holding in their reserves is gold, surpassing the euro. They

(01:40:35):
hold more gold than they hold even of their own currency.
And of course these things we've talked about with Tony
Ardubuan of Wisewelf Gold, and just this shortage and the
massive amount of shortage that came up towards the end
of the week last week is a very very unusual thing.
Gold made up about twenty percent of global official reserves

(01:40:56):
at the end of twenty twenty four, surpassing the euro's
sixteen percent share. Gottlieb characterized the weak's dramatic price crash
as an extremely healthy event designed to purge speculative access
from the newer investors that he calls week longs, so
somebody hold it for about a week and sell it.
A former designation of silver as a critical mineral could

(01:41:20):
have dramatic consequences for the market. The most likely outcome
would be tariffs. We're back to teriffs again. A more extreme,
though less likely outcome could see the government move to
restrict exports or to secure domestic inventories, effectively nationalizing a
portion of the silver supply for strategic purposes like defence,

(01:41:42):
AI and the energy sector. Gottlieb argued that the imposing
restrictions would ultimately be a disservice to the US because,
unlike with automobiles, terrafs will not produce one ounce more
of silver in the United States, as over seventy five
percent of silver is mined as a by product of
other metals. Well, the other part of this is that

(01:42:04):
this whole idea that tariffs help manufacturing just doesn't apply
in today's economy. They have spent decades creating a supply
chain that stretches across the entire world, and when you
cut those lines of the supply chain, guess what. The
manufacturers in the US don't have anything that they can
work with. And even worse, as Trump plays this dance

(01:42:28):
that he's so proud of his genius negotiation tactics of
jacking up the terraffs and then dropping them and then
jacking them up again. When he does it that way,
they not only can't get the stuff that they want,
but they don't buy it because they're afraid to buy
it at the higher price. And so everything is freezing.

(01:42:50):
And this is the absolute worse aspect of all of it,
is the chaos and the uncertainty. So the now jumped
three hundre points over a possible China trade deal on
rare earth. This is the way that operates. This is
a rumor and speculation on Wall Street, also known as gambling.

(01:43:14):
These people are placing their bets that Donald Trump is
going to bring it home and get a favorable deal
with the Chinese. I'm not putting any money on that anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:43:25):
They've got money to burn. That's on them.

Speaker 2 (01:43:27):
Yes, Soro's Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessant, so that
he would likely erase Trump's threatened on tariffs on China
and delay Beijing's strict export controls on rare earth. By
the way, here's a trivia question for you. There have
been two Trump cabinet members in his two administrations, and

(01:43:49):
the first one there was one, and now the second
one there's one who openly supported Hillary Clinton. Who were
they well, the first one. First administration, the cabinet member
that had openly supported Hillary Clinton was wilbah Ross, the
guy who was allied with the Rothschilds and had a

(01:44:10):
very long history of having financial strings all over the
puppet Donald Trump. And the second administration, the person that's
in the cabinet position who had been an open strong
supporter of Hillary Clinton is the Soros. Secretary of the Treasury,
Scott Bessant. Just thought i'd pass that along to you.

(01:44:34):
You can make of that what you wish. Gold and
silver have been hammered by a better risk appetite and
weak long liquidation. So again this is all about the
speculation on Wall Street, the gambling that is happening there
based on what is being done by the Trump administration

(01:44:56):
and the Soros guy. The Federal Reserve on Wednesday afternoon
and is expected to deliver a second straight twenty five
basis point rate cut to support a shaky job market,
but may face some opposition from officials who are anxious
over inflation. Again, as Gerald Celenti said from the very beginning,

(01:45:16):
Trump has been very, very good in his first administration
for gold. Why because he doesn't care about inflation and
he doesn't care about debt, and so that makes the
case for gold because Trump's policies everybody knows are very
destructive for the long term. If you don't care about

(01:45:38):
debt and you don't care about inflation, and Trump doesn't
care about either of those things, it does not bode
well for the American dollar or for the US economy.
So people will move into the safe haven of gold
and silver. So a company called Metals Focus, in their
analysts thinks that we'll see five thousand dollars gold and

(01:45:58):
sixty dollars silver six As this uncertainty is going to persist.
The gold market continues to see extreme volatility, with prices
unable to hold initial support and four thousand dollars an ounce. However,
one research firm says that Goal's rally is far from
over and expects prices to reach five thousand dollars by

(01:46:21):
next year. In this annual Precious Metals Investment Focus report,
analysts that Metals Focus said that ongoing economic uncertainty remains
the biggest factor supporting Goal prices throughout the new year. Now,
this is a company that is of course selling medals. However,
you have Jamie Demon who said he's not interested in

(01:46:43):
buying gold or silver. Not interested in buying gold, but
he said he thought the gold would go to five
thousand or maybe ten thousand in the short term. And
so again, all of this is not based on charts
or anything like that. It's based on the fundamental problems
with the US economy and the US government. In line

(01:47:04):
with developments throughout twenty twenty five, ongoing uncertainty surrounding US
trade policy and its impact on the global economy is
expected to remain a key driver of sentiment towards gold.
So as bad as Trump's indecision arbitrary, capricious decisions on
terraces are for the economy, it's a good thing for gold.

(01:47:27):
At the same time, the analysts also expect investment demand
among retail investors to remain strong or as further easing
by the Federal Reserve, and an elevated inflationary environment is
expected to lower the precious metals opportunity costs as a
non yielding asset. Trade tensions, inflation risks, and fragile confidence

(01:47:48):
should sustain safe haven demand, while fiscal strains and doubts
over the fads and dependence curbed the dollar's appeal. Even
if interest rate cuts are less aggressive than the markets expect,
lower real yields, geopolitical tension and ongoing official sector buying
should drive fresh record price highs, said the Endless. It

(01:48:13):
is a firm that is based out of the UK.
They said they expect gold prices to average round forty
five hundred and sixty dollars announced next year, up thirty
three percent from the average year to date price. Such
a bullish outlook reflects our view that despite rising investment flows,
current investor allegations to gold are still significantly lower than

(01:48:34):
levels seen during the two thousand and eight financial crisis.
This suggests considerable scope for further inflows, particularly among investors
with medium to long term horizon. So spot gold last
traded at thirty nine to seventy five an ounce, down
more than three percent for the day that was yesterday.
Silver is starting the week with spot prices trading at

(01:48:55):
forty six twenty eight announce, down more than four percent
on the day. But again, they're looking at the long
term and they see nothing but uncertainty chaos. Where they're
talking about the economic markets, whether the geopolitical markets or
the US dollar.

Speaker 3 (01:49:12):
It seems to be a good time to invest like
a dragon with you know, gold, silver, land, hard assets.
Maybe find thyself a fair maiden.

Speaker 2 (01:49:23):
Good time to always take a time to have a
fair maiden exactly.

Speaker 3 (01:49:27):
Think of like what would a dragon do, and maybe
go that route.

Speaker 2 (01:49:30):
Yeah, the only thing that's predictable about Trump's behavior is unpredictability,
and that's why it's good to have safe haven investments
like this. We all know that he's fully on board
with digital money. And the other thing about this is
that the physical money is a way for you to
block the blockchain at least to mute some of its effects.

(01:49:55):
If you've got some kind of an exit strategy for that,
so goal price correction it may last for months. Critical
mineral review could restart silver short squeeze as another analysis here. Now,
I'll just say I look at all this stuff and
I think, well, gold is on sale again like it
was right after the election, and that lasted for a

(01:50:17):
few months and then it took off, and I think
we're going to see the same thing. That's my personal opinion.
I'm not an expert in all this stuff, but I
look at what Trump is doing, and I know that
he's not an expert so I'm basing this is Trump
is good for gold. He loves gold. He puts it

(01:50:38):
all over his buildings and then his offices, and then
his ballrooms and all the rest of his stuff, and
he is showering the economy, building up demand for gold
and the economy as opposed to the Fiat dollars that
he has as well.

Speaker 3 (01:50:52):
It's a post about the ballroom the other day. Apparently
they just three D printed a really really cheap model,
didn't do any checking on it, and the architecture on
it just looks terrible. If this is what they're actually
going with, it's going to be awful. But more than
likely they just didn't care and ran with a cheap,

(01:51:13):
shoddy architectural rendering. Has it got stairs that lead to nowhere?
There's windows that are impacting each other, and people just
pointing out, just you, if you were really going to
make a ballroom, could have at least, you know, gone
all the way done it.

Speaker 2 (01:51:29):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (01:51:29):
Nice, it's going to be the Winchester Ballroom.

Speaker 3 (01:51:32):
Yeah, but it's still just it looks cheap.

Speaker 2 (01:51:36):
Well, I think he wants to get it in place
really quickly. I think he wants to have it in
place next year, So I think this is a big
rush to get this thing done, and we know that
he hasn't really gone through and scoped out any of
the stuff that he's doing. I mean, just take a
look at what's going with the farms. He already knew
what happened the first time he did is he didn't

(01:51:56):
make any plans for that. So I'd imagine that the
ballroom is going to be put together slapshod and quickly
without any thought or planning, just like his tariffs were.

Speaker 3 (01:52:06):
I'm pretty sure the developer he chose for it has
some questionable problem with in his past as well. Probably
I wonder how he got that contract.

Speaker 4 (01:52:16):
The war Speed ballroom. Gotta get it through and then
we'll find out what's in it.

Speaker 2 (01:52:20):
Yeah, that's right. You've gotta build it to find out
what's in it. And uh and of course the a
lot of people. I wonder if a lot of people
might not want to bid on that, since he's got
a reputation of not paying contractors. So see what happens
with that. We got some comments before we take.

Speaker 3 (01:52:36):
A break, that's right. Pausanovante, seventeen seventy six. Most overdoses
are caused by fentanyl. Venezuela isn't the source. Yeah, most
fentanyl I believe is manufactured in China, Fuzzy Mateo.

Speaker 2 (01:52:50):
It was a good bit in Mexico as well. Yeah,
but you know, we're not allowed to go to Mexico.
Evidently they got to deal with the.

Speaker 3 (01:52:56):
CIA, Fuzzy Matello, and this led to the deaths of
over fifty eight thousand Americans all for a lie.

Speaker 2 (01:53:03):
Well, just look at the opioid stuff as well. Right,
at the same time we had this sopioid epidemic and
people were dying left and right from opioid overdoses. You
had the US government was guarding the poppy fields and
taking the poppy crop up to record levels in Afghanistan.
If they wanted to do some interdiction, they were there

(01:53:26):
with the military in Argentina. I'm not in Afghanistan. That
other country starts with Ay.

Speaker 3 (01:53:33):
There's a few of those. Yeah, that's right, Pezonovante, seventeen
seventy six. As Gerald Slente says, we ain't there for
the broccoli.

Speaker 2 (01:53:41):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (01:53:43):
We do love broccoli, though, don't frag me bro Then
about ten years later and tens of thousands of American casualties. Later,
the USA withdrew, accomplishing nothing and billions wasted lives, wasted
lives destroyed. Assume we talked about Vietnam. Yeah, Pezzonovante seventeen
seventy six. Con Gris has not declared war in Venezuela
as for Article one, Section eight, and they're not going to.

(01:54:05):
So don't hold your breath. Brandon Bennett, my wife told
me Katy Perry is dating Castro's son.

Speaker 2 (01:54:13):
Oh yeah, Justin Trudeau. Yeah, we don't get into that
kind of stuff.

Speaker 3 (01:54:20):
I forget Katy Perry exists, and I forget Justin Trudeau exists.
That's how I like to live my life.

Speaker 2 (01:54:24):
That's right. But you know, going back to Congress not
declaring war, just look at how timid these guys are.
You know, we would like to Langford kind of stands
up to and sayd you know, we need to have
some kind of vote on that. They need to talk
to us. I mean, you know, we're a co equal branch.
We're not saying that you have to come to us
for permission. We just like to know what's going on.

(01:54:47):
How pathetic and week is that? Right? But he's a
Republican he's afraid to criticize Trump.

Speaker 3 (01:54:53):
Yeah, briefly, the Justin Trudeau Castro sonthing, that's one where
I actually might put a little bit of stock in it.
Like he looks so shockingly similar when you look at
the facial structure, the height, the fact that his biological father,
like the height doesn't match up. It's all, there's all
kinds of different weird things going on there. Like, I

(01:55:14):
give that one.

Speaker 2 (01:55:15):
See there's no rest all the Pierre Trudeau.

Speaker 3 (01:55:17):
Now, I give that one some credence. Like we'll never
know for certain unless we were to somehow get Castro's
DNA and Trudeau's DNA, but that one, I would not
be surprised if it's true. I give it fifty to fifty.
Don't frag me, bro. The CIA is the biggest drug dealer.
Their suppliers include big pharma and organized crime. Ye Bezanovonte
seventeen seventy six. Con Gris has abdicated its power and

(01:55:41):
has shirked its duty. Well, I mean, why would you
want to actually do your job when you could just
show up and get paid for doing nothing. Yep, bride
b mac CIA equals cartels in America Christian const social
conservative China buys the vast majority of Venezuela's oil exports,
often accounting for approximate only eighty five to ninety percent

(01:56:02):
of it.

Speaker 2 (01:56:02):
Yeah, so again, you know they're looking at this not
only just because they want the oil, but they're looking
at it as a way to deny oil to China,
to Cuba and that type of thing. I just got
to warn people about saying, yeah, there, I support that.
Then just don't get caught up in this kind of
machiavellian geopolitics. That's not a just cause for war. They

(01:56:25):
really people get killed, and we need to reclaim our
moral foundation because a lot of this it's just going
to get worse and it's going to impact us on
a personal level within our country. If we have no
moral foundation we have gone to. We don't declare war
because they don't want to make a case for war,
because we don't have a justified case for any of

(01:56:49):
these wars, and we keep doing them anyway.

Speaker 3 (01:56:52):
No amount of GDP increase is worth a single death
in any other country to me, not a single one.
I don't care if it's a one hundred and fifty
year old man. That's about to die on his own,
pushing him out the door.

Speaker 2 (01:57:06):
That's what Smedley Butler said. You know, he said, we
went to war for these big corporations. I mean, that's gonna,
you know, make the trickle down theory that we're going
to have corporations are going to get rich, the therefore
we're going to get rid of.

Speaker 3 (01:57:17):
How much is trickling down from Mark Zuckerberg or Jeff Bezos. Nothing? Nothing.
They will pave over the world for there for one
more Amazon warehouse. They would clear cut the rainforest, they
would pave over Yellowstone.

Speaker 4 (01:57:32):
I think the trickles down from the damned billionaires.

Speaker 2 (01:57:35):
I think what's trickling down on us is you know,
you see that the decal of Calvin on the back
of trucks all the time, trickling down on something. I
think that's what is trickling down on us. I think
it's a pissing contest from these guys to see who
can do the most damage to us. We're going to
take a quick break, we'll be right back.

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Well, welcome back, folks. Before we get back into the news,
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speaking of support, the well is running dry on the
SNAP Benefits, says the US Department of Agriculture that oversees
the food supplements program, and I guess the response is
they're looking forward to November first, which is this Saturday.
They are seeing that their funds, their SNAP funds are

(02:01:48):
running out. So I guess their response is, oh, Snap,
as they're looking at this, it'll affect forty one million
people if the shutdown persists, so they will go without
food stamps next month if Congress does not vote to
reopen the government. In times as the US Department of Agriculture,
and again, you have to kind of wonder if these

(02:02:10):
people are going to run this thing right up to Thanksgiving.
You know, for people not being able to get the
food stamps right at Thanksgiving, that's going to be a
real political football. I think at that point in time
we'll see what happens. But also has a lot of
economic consequences for some of the biggest retailers. Walmart in

(02:02:31):
particular gets about twenty five percent of the I think
it's twenty five percent of the SNAP funds or twenty
five percent of the revenue I think is what they're
going to lose. That's a pretty big chunk coming from Walmart.
And this time there will be no benefits issued as
of November the first. While the federal government fully funds

(02:02:53):
the program, states contribute part of the costs of administering SNAP.
So the USDA stated that it can't use agency emergency
funds to keep the SNAP program running if Congress doesn't
vote to pass a funding agreement. SNAP contingency funds are
only available to supplement regular monthly benefits when amounts have

(02:03:14):
been appropriated for but are insufficient to cover benefits. They
said the contingency fund is not available to support twenty
twenty six regular benefits because the appropriation for regular benefits
no longer exists. So the memo was met with criticism
from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which is again,

(02:03:37):
when you look at this, you have to ask yourself,
what are these politicians thinking. I mean, they're going to
be They all think that they're going to be able
to hit the other side with this as a political weapon,
but in reality, it's just going to make a lot
of people mad. I think both sides are trying to
push us into a position of conflict, of chaos and
civil wars. My opinion about all this stuff when you've

(02:04:00):
got a government that just conjures money out of thin
air and they play this game and say, oh, we
don't have I don't have any authority to do that.
But they've got authority to bomb Venezuela, and they've got
authority to give money for bombs to Israel and to
do the same thing for Ukraine. They don't have to
have any votes on this, but they just can't seem

(02:04:21):
to figure out how they can do anything here in America.
And so again I'm not supporting the welfare state. I'm
just saying this is the current state of affairs, and
there has to be if you're going to change something,
there has to be some kind of an orderly transition.
That's true of what you're talking about. Tax policy or

(02:04:42):
tariff policies, or immigration policies or welfare policies. You need
to go through an orderly transition if you're going to
make a change. If you're not going to do that,
if you're going to create chaos and unrest and conflict,
then you're not really serious about making change. You're trying

(02:05:02):
to make a different kind of change, I think. So
they point out that the agency is contradicting. It's now
deleted September thirtieth Laps of Funding Plan page, which can
still be found on archived version of the USDA website. So,
in other words, this is something that the Trump administration

(02:05:23):
is coming in and saying, well, now, we said that
we had a way to keep this going before, but
now we've just discovered that we can't print any money
to give you. Yeah, right, The Snap retail system may
diallow purchases beginning November first, even if you have funds
in your account. So the Arkansas Department of Human Services

(02:05:45):
officials from Oklahoma reiterated that concern. You've had the governor
of Virginia Youngkin saying that there's going to be something
of an emergency. He was the first one to start
saying something about that. Other states, such as Hawaii said
that Snap benefits already loaded onto Electronic Benefits Transfer cards
to EBT from October or previous months will be able

(02:06:08):
to be used. Walmart again accounts for roughly a quarter
of Snap shoppers total spending, so it's not a quarter
of their income, but it's a quarter of the Snap program.
I was a little bit fuzzy about that earlier. So
about twenty five percent of all of the Snap shoppers.
Given the estimated one hundred billion dollars spent by the

(02:06:32):
government on the program annually, roughly eight point three billion
dollars monthly. This wild imply about a loss of about
two billion dollars for Walmart if the benefits are withheld
for the entire month of November. And again you can
imagine the fuss that's going to be had if they
cut off food stamps for Thanksgiving. That's going to be

(02:06:53):
a gift wrapped bomb for the Democrats if ever, there
was snap. Benefits make about eight percent of all retail
spending on groceries. Even a short interruption of the spinning
could lead to layoffs or other painful adjustments in the sector.
And I've seen several clips on social media of poor

(02:07:14):
people or people on welfare saying, well, if they cut
this thing off, I'm just going to go down and
steal stuff. I mean, this could kick off massive looting
in some of these stores. We'll have to wait and
see what happens. Certainly out in the Democrat places where
they don't like the punish shoplifting to start with.

Speaker 3 (02:07:32):
Yeah, that's the thing.

Speaker 4 (02:07:33):
Is having it be this bad where it's eight percent
of grocery shopping is horrible. It shouldn't have gotten to
that point, but they just cutting it off cold turkey
right before Thanksgiving. Cold Turkey is going to be very horrific.
It's kind of like the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yeah we
should have but.

Speaker 2 (02:07:55):
Yeah, we should have done it in an orderly way.
Instead it was total chaos. It's like everything that they do,
the tariffs, you name it, and so I guess we're
going to go cold turkey on the food stamps. Oh snap.

Speaker 3 (02:08:09):
Thing. It's like, whatever violence we have seen because of
whatever contrived social issue there is at the moment, whether
it's some you know, you know, thug getting killed by
the police or something else, you have not seen people
truly desperate.

Speaker 2 (02:08:26):
Yeah, that's right.

Speaker 3 (02:08:27):
If you think people have been violent and angry over
you know, social issues, wait until they are hungry.

Speaker 2 (02:08:36):
Yeah, that's what.

Speaker 3 (02:08:37):
That's the things that somebody It's.

Speaker 2 (02:08:40):
Just like what I was saying about the tariff stuff.
You've created a dependency in terms of American manufacturers. You've
created a dependency on these distributed supply chains, and all
of a sudden, you're just going to break the chain.
They've created pendency on this food stamp program, and now
they're just going to cut it off immediately. It's just

(02:09:00):
one thing after that You've got to ask yourself, you know,
as one person's that if it was a mistake. Every
once in a while they do the right thing. But
you've got to ask yourself if this isn't a planned
system to try to set up a foundation for civil war,
the share of families with children. You just want to
say something else.

Speaker 4 (02:09:20):
I was just saying that. I was thinking of that
with the whole beef thing. You know, the guy is
saying that if you just let this go, the market
well correct itself because more people will want to be
farm or ranchers and have cattle if it's profitable. But
instead they're going to make it not profitable, so that
we are creating a dependency on beef from Argentina.

Speaker 2 (02:09:41):
Really good point. Yeah, that's right, That's what Joel Sullivan
was saying. He said, I've been telling people to get
off of these six crops that are heavily subsidized by
the US Department of Agriculture, because then basically you become
dependent on them and they can destroy you and for
their geopolitics, you know, things like what was it, ice
and corn and soybeans and wheat, and you know things

(02:10:03):
like that. Sugar I think was another one, and so
he said, I've been telling them raised beef. You know,
look at you can do this type of stuff. So
people could go into that, they could change what they're doing.
And yet, as Lance pointed out, they would rather have
these farmers dependent on these six primary crops. And that's
the same thing with the entire welfare system. Everything they're

(02:10:24):
doing is to create dependency. For the longest time. You
could look at the transportation policies where they would always
penalize private cars and try to continually push you into
government owned mass transit of some sort. They would put
financial penalties on operating a car, the gasoline, the this

(02:10:46):
of that, tolls, and then they would take that money
and they would not use it to repair roads. They
would use it they pour it into public transportation. And
so it's pretty clear that they wanted to control all transportation.
Now what they want to do is shut down everything,
so they're not even interested in doing that anymore. Share
of families with children who experience food insecurity on food

(02:11:09):
stamps has continued to rise consistently since twenty twenty one.
SNAP benefits for these families are more than three and
a half million people who are out of poverty, including
more than half one point four million children. So even
a brief interruption of these benefits will push all these

(02:11:31):
economically vulnerable families and children into greater hardships during a
time of rising food and economic insecurity, set an analyst,
and again, it's not a question of whether we ought
to have a welfare state, but how do we get
people off of welfare? How do we do it in
an orderly way rather than just cutting them off abruptly.
Then there's the air traffic controllers. You know, the last

(02:11:53):
time we had a very long shutdown, it was brought
to a halt by the air traffic controllers. They started
calling in sick because after thirty days they weren't getting
any money and they said, we can't continue to operate
for free. Well we're starting to see that again right now.
Sean Duffy has warned that he's seeing the burn from
these air traffic controllers who are very concerned about how

(02:12:15):
they're going to feed their family. I mean, these people
who are working, they're not getting food stamps or welfare.
They're working, and some of them are starting to do
second jobs as uber drivers or something like that so
they can get a paycheck because the government is not
paying them. He says twenty two staffing triggers in one
day is a sign that air traffic controllers are wearing thin.

(02:12:38):
He said he can't stop the frustration of the air
traffic controllers who face higher than normal stress levels as
they continue to work without pay twenty six days in
the federal government set. That's such a stressful job anyway,
always makes me, always makes it think of the comedy
movie Airplane. You know, we had Lloyd Bridges, who was
I think he was so stressed out. He was norton

(02:13:00):
coke or something like that.

Speaker 3 (02:13:01):
They'd come back progressively. He does weirder and weirder drugs.

Speaker 2 (02:13:06):
Yeah, and his hair is like sticking straight up. And
that's what I think of when I think of air
traffic control. I would not want to have that job.
You talk about a job that's incredibly stressful to start with.
Now they got the stress of figuring out how they're
going to feed themselves and their families, he said. You
can see the stress. These people often live paycheck to paycheck,

(02:13:26):
he said. He said, they're concerned about gas in their car,
they're concerned about childcare, they're concerned about mortgages. I'm seeing
the stress come for the controllers. Just yesterday we had
twenty two staffing triggers, one of the highest that we've
seen in the system since the shut down began. I'm
not even sure what a staffing trigger is. Yeah, is

(02:13:49):
this somebody who's sitting out of the air traffic controllery
thing and all of a sudden they just freak out.
Like Lloyd Bridges, I don't know what a staffing trigger is.

Speaker 3 (02:13:57):
I mean, they've got like a gun right next to them,
and just catch them looking at it more fondly every
once in a while.

Speaker 2 (02:14:02):
Yeah, he says, they're taking second jobs. They're out there
looking thing thinking, can I drive an uber? Can I
find another source of income to make ends meet? Until
the Democrats stop with their radical push for illegal immigrants
and actually open up the government, Well again, I don't.
I'm not going to get into this partisan nonsense. I'm

(02:14:23):
just fed up with both of these parties. I'm not
a member of either one of them, are not registered
in either party, haven't been for a long time. We
have more people calling in sick, more people not showing
up for work. I was in one of the towers
and they were celebrating the fact that the airlines had
sent them lunch and had sent them dinner. I don't
want air traffic controllers going to a food bank. On Tuesday,

(02:14:47):
thirteen thousand, air traffic controllers will get a zero dollar
paycheck because Democrats are holding the government hostage. He says,
I don't want our controllers going to food bank. That's unacceptable. Well, again,
they're not going to step up and do the big
boys stuff. They're going to use this as a partisan war.
And so Maria Bartiromo asked him in the interview, is

(02:15:10):
it even safe to fly right now? He said, I
need my controllers focused on the airspace and not about
their finances at home. And so his bottom line is
is that he's saying that it is safe to fly,
but it's going to involve delays, is what he's saying.

(02:15:31):
FAA staffing shortages slam fifty airports over the weekend as
air traffic controllers are set to miss their first full paycheck.
And again, as I said before, the prior to this,
the longest shutdown was ended when the air traffic controller
is just called in sick to work. So with a
shutdown now and it's twenty sixth day, stress points in

(02:15:54):
Washington are beginning to show as federal workers appear to
be on the brink of missing a second paycheck due
to hit bank accounts at the end of the week,
and that includes air traffic controllers. With the Thanksgiving holiday
quickly approaching, Congress is likely to be under steadily increasing
pressure to resolve those delays before millions of travelers are

(02:16:14):
seriously affected. So Thanksgiving is coming, the busiest day of
the air for travel, and so this is going to
impact the airports. And then you've got the people who
run food stamps. It's going to impact their food for Thanksgiving.
Things are just crazy right now. On Sunday, more than
one and four American Airlines flights were delayed. According to monitors,

(02:16:40):
it's safe to fly, but the air traffic controllers staffing
shortages strain the system and cause flights to be spaced out,
slowing down everything. In some cases, flights may be delayed
or even canceled, said Airlines for America. And again, this
is that's why Marjorie Tayler Green one of the reasons

(02:17:02):
why she says she's fed up with a two party system.
I certainly have been for a long time.

Speaker 17 (02:17:07):
I'm so disgusted with Washington, d C. I hate politics.
The two party system is extremely broken. It is failing
all of us. And when I look at you know,
here goes another one hundred billion dollars to Ukraine or
thirty billion dollars to Israel, but yet nobody can afford

(02:17:28):
health insurance premiums. And then I'm getting yelled at by
Republican my Republican colleagues for saying that out loud. I'm
like this, this is insane.

Speaker 2 (02:17:38):
M h yeah, don't acknowledge problems that are real. I'm
dare you. That's going to help the Democrats, you know, well,
you know what would help the Republicans is if you'd
actually do something positive or even do what you said
you were going to do. Well, let's cover some of
these comments and we'll take a quick break.

Speaker 3 (02:17:55):
That's right, Audi, m r R. Thank you, Thank you,
Addie appreciate it's very generals us, says David. Thanks for
the shout out of my Rumble podcast. Everything is a lie,
damnit yesterday.

Speaker 8 (02:18:05):
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Speaker 3 (02:18:05):
You can find that on Rumble now. Everything is a lie, damn.

Speaker 2 (02:18:09):
It, and it is and it is. You're right about.

Speaker 3 (02:18:13):
That, bride b Mac says the ball room as in
the demon ball Yeah, ball or bail, Yeah twenty nine.
At least half those SNAP funds go to illegals.

Speaker 2 (02:18:28):
That's probably true. That's right. That's not talking about the
welfare magnet. Right. They come here, they get food stamps,
they get free rent and all the rest of the stuff.
It's like, hey, I can't pay that one hundred and
thirty dollars fine for not having identity papers. Oh that's right.
We'll have everybody get digital identity papers and we'll give
you a phone too. How about that. Then you can
put your digital ID app on the phone.

Speaker 3 (02:18:50):
We'll be able to track you problem solution, We'll be
able to track everything you do everywhere you go. Yep,
Dustin d Helm. Trump will save Snap with a fully
digitized that requires a real ID to collect. It'll be
forced to use a token is system to collect all
of government benefits going forward.

Speaker 2 (02:19:07):
Yeah, that's probably right. You know he will do it
or somebody. Well, that's Bill Gates's idea. And Bill Gates
and Trump are real close, now, you know, just like
he's there's only one degree of separation between Trump and sorrows,
and that degree of separationist Scott Bessant our Treasury secretary.
But that's what Bill Gates did in India with the

(02:19:28):
Adhar system. All benefits are going to require a digital ID.
So we'll come in with a poor first.

Speaker 3 (02:19:35):
You must redeem the digital id original bab. But Trump
sends what billions to Argentina. Boy, if this doesn't show
the Trump is how he cares so much for US citizens.

Speaker 2 (02:19:45):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (02:19:46):
You'd think forty billion dollars for hobby.

Speaker 2 (02:19:48):
I'm alive. But he can't pay for the snap stuff
that's there. No, can't pay the air traffic controllers either.
And like we've talked about, just we're not for welfare.

Speaker 3 (02:20:00):
If you cut this off cold Turkey, it is going
to cause massive problems. It's going to cause violence and anger,
and people are going to get hurt and die. Epstein Island.
We can fund foreign wars like Israel and Ukraine, though, well,
you've always got money for war. There's always a little
bit more money in the wartime. Piggybank, Bronx stopper one

(02:20:23):
one one. They use the benefits to keep people locked
in and can't afford to go anywhere else. Well, if
I vote for something different or someone different, they'll cut
off my benefits and then what am I gonna do?
So goy, it's going to kick off more than looting.
The people favoring this don't think very deeply.

Speaker 2 (02:20:41):
I think that's exactly what they want though, Yeah, it is,
It is what they want. They just want to stir
the pot and you know, create chaos. That's one thing
they do a really good job of.

Speaker 3 (02:20:54):
Yeah, Audi, Mr r we're not going to quote unquote
war with Venezuela. Our military one again is going to
attack a country that is no threat whatsoever to plunder
its natural resources and we'll probably pull off a coup.

Speaker 2 (02:21:06):
That's right. That's why it makes me so completely disgusted
to see Alex Shones and this overstocked billionaire Patrick Byrne
talk about how we need to do that. You know, Yeah,
we can have a win. That's great. You can go
kick some country that doesn't you know, focused all of
its natural resources on killing people like we have. Yeah,

(02:21:29):
that's how contemptible. Well, we're going to take a quick break, folks,
and we will be right back. H you're listening to

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Speaker 2 (02:24:04):
Yes, yeah, I go for the natural products. Don't get
a Dorito's bag because you might have artificial intelligence flag
you for a swat team attack, which is what happened
to a student at one of the schools. The AI
mistook a Dorito's bag for a gun and called the
cops on a teenager. And so they have spent millions

(02:24:26):
of dollars in a lot of different school systems to
have AI constantly surveilling the kids and calling the cops
on them, and this is probably a worst case scenario,
but I remember some of the early systems. I remember
when they were talking about it. They had a situation
where the cops were called on a person who had

(02:24:48):
a flat tire. The AI sees this guy walk over
to a car, circle it around, you know, kind of
hang out there for a while, and then he disappears
down low and it can't see that he's working on
the tire from the angle that is at, so it
assumes that he is stealing the car and calls the
cops on him. And you know, that's the kind of

(02:25:09):
thing that today, with the way the cops operate, could
get you killed. An AI powered gun detection system in
Baltimore County High school's camera system mistook a bag of
Dorito chips as a weapon called the cops on a
sixteen year old student, TAKEI Allen was enjoying the snack

(02:25:29):
while sitting outside at the high school after a football practice.
Twenty minutes later, he was visited by a small army
of heavily armed police officers. And again, this is just
escalating the absurdity of these SWAT teams everywhere swatted by AI,
and I can imagine the AI is like, sorry, Dave,

(02:25:51):
you can't eat. Dorito's like that't have to call the cops.
It was eight cop cars they came pulling up for us.
He said, At first, I know where they were going
until they started walking toward me with guns and saying
get on the ground. And I was like what They
made me get on my knees. They put my hands
behind my back and they cuffed me. Then they searched

(02:26:13):
me and they figured out that I didn't have anything. Again,
if this guy had run, he could have been killed
by these people. They were hyped up, you know, eight
police cars and they put him on the ground and
cuff him for that. I remember when you had a
situation like that that happened in Austin. There was a
bank robbery and a guy walks up to go into

(02:26:33):
the bank and he sees all the cops and he's like, oh,
never mind, I'm gonna leave, and which is basically what
I would do.

Speaker 3 (02:26:41):
All right, I'm not getting any business done here today.

Speaker 2 (02:26:43):
I wouldn't want to go into the situation like that.
So he leaves and the cops run out to get him.
And he's a black guy and he's not too trusting
of the cops to start with, so he starts running.
He hadn't done anything wrong. The cop chased him and
chased him down into an under a bridge and they

(02:27:03):
got into a fight and he killed the guy. And uh,
I remember when art Oscevedo, the Austin police chief, came
there to info wars and uh, Jakari Jackson confronted him
on that, and rightfully, so Alex was really upset. Alex
likes to suck up to all the powers that be.
He got really upset with Jakari for talking to art
Oscevedo because art Osceveda was saying it was justified. It

(02:27:25):
was not justified, not at all. It was the right
thing to do. To stand up to him. The guy says,
I was just holding a Dourto's bag. It was two
hands and one finger out. They said it looked like
a gun. Maybe he's doing this pew pew the chips
made like a finger gun or something like that. I

(02:27:46):
guess they don't do the Doritos Super Bowl ads anymore.
I guess I don't know. It used to be there
was a time when you guys are teenagers and the
church were going to at the time they had some
people that had done a Dorito's commercial had won I
think twice, they did one once and that year they had.

Speaker 3 (02:28:06):
I think they won once, placed once or something like that.

Speaker 2 (02:28:08):
Well, they got into their ad was on. You know,
they would have several of them that would make the
cut and they would put them on I think, and uh,
you know, decide which one was the best one. So
I think that year they had already won once one before,
but then they were going to put another one. Anyway,
maybe somebody could do a Dorito Super Bowl ad. The

(02:28:30):
Doritos are so much in demand that you'll have the
police put your in handcuffs. They'd rather have it than doughnuts,
I guess, But give us the.

Speaker 3 (02:28:42):
Labors are too bold.

Speaker 2 (02:28:43):
Yeah, the problematic privacy concerns of monitoring students with flawed
AI technologies not just students, It's going to be all
of us, uh, and the outsized role that law enforcement
plays and public schools, and I would say also in
all of our lives.

Speaker 4 (02:29:00):
See, this is going to make us so much safer
to have AIS randomly hallucinating swatting children.

Speaker 2 (02:29:07):
That's right, or any of us. Maybe that's what's going
on in Venezuela. Maybe it's not drugs, and we know
it's not drugs they're smuggling. Maybe they're smuggling doritos. They're
pulling up people who are smuggling doritos down there.

Speaker 4 (02:29:20):
Our AI has assured us that there were drugs on
those boats.

Speaker 2 (02:29:24):
Gun identification software has unable to prevent deadly shootings, such
as the one at Antioch High School and suburban Nashville
earlier this year. As a matter of fact, I think
in that particular case, they had a million dollar gun
surveillance system there behind didn't work. Other systems focused on
gun detection have previously been accused of furthering racial biases,

(02:29:46):
raising the possibility that black students like this one could
be facing AI facilitated discrimination while spending time at school.
The Baltimore Public School System bought this system. It's called
Omni Alert, a gun detection technology. They bought it just
last year. It can scan surveillance footage and alert police

(02:30:09):
to potential weapons in real time. It's a really dangerous thing,
So I guess they must have gotten the nutrition program
next right, next thing you'll do is alert them when
somebody's eating some unhealthy snack. Foods like Dorito's, and you'll
have the food police show up. What's that last?

Speaker 4 (02:30:33):
It'll alert police to potential weapons as well as Dorito's.

Speaker 2 (02:30:37):
In real time, Omni's tech analyzes image frames from seven
thousand school cameras for suspicious activity. How about that, I'll
w interfall seven thousand. Those are one school, it's probably
their whole school system. Still, how many schools are there
to have seven thousand cameras? Because the image closely resembled

(02:31:02):
a gun being held, the Omni Alert spokesman said, even
as we look at it now with full awareness that
it is not a gun, still looks like that to
most people.

Speaker 4 (02:31:12):
Yeah, that bag of red toritos, I just look so similar.

Speaker 2 (02:31:17):
They won't even admit that they made a mistake. I
don't know, it looks like a gun. To me. It
looks could kill I guess that would be it. This
is going to be the company's response.

Speaker 3 (02:31:26):
Then I want to see a screenshot. Yeah, show me
the screen shot and I'll decide for myself too.

Speaker 4 (02:31:31):
Is a gun? Anyone could have made that mistake. These
things look identical people.

Speaker 2 (02:31:36):
This is a particular case, I think guys where they
need to have the AIB actually Indians. They would do
a much better job. If they were to have Indians,
you could train them on what a douredo bag looks
like and they'd be able to recognize that. I think
Omni Alert maintained that it functioned as intended to prioritize
safety and awareness through rapid human verification. Yeah.

Speaker 4 (02:31:59):
No, that was a intention to call the cops on
this kid. For doritos. Those were very suspicious tourrito's. They
might have been flaming hot to readers.

Speaker 2 (02:32:06):
That's right. I think it functioned as intended, just like
the PCR stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:32:10):
What do you mean, this works perfectly. We also have
it trained to call the FBI if it catches you
with a little debbie, so you know.

Speaker 2 (02:32:18):
Allen said that he had never received an apology from
the school either. They told me it was protocol. In
other words, that's the way the system works. He says,
I was expecting at least somebody to talk to me
about it, but they didn't know. This kid is sixteen.
He says, I don't feel like going out there anymore.
If I ate another bag of chips or drink something,

(02:32:38):
I feel like they're going to come again. I would
just get out of that school. There is no threat
for eight guns to be pointed at A sixteen year old,
said his grandfather to the Baltimore Paper. Well, his grandfather
is absolutely right. Sam Altman now has the power to
quote crash. The global economy warrants a financial analyst. So

(02:33:02):
I wonder will he do it on purpose and short
it so he can make even more money. I mean,
these guys are about nothing other than money. Open AI's
valuation is significantly higher than its revenue, raising concerns about
its ability to pay off of its debt. The company
behind chat GPT open ai might be the world's most

(02:33:22):
valuable private company on paper in terms of their stock price,
but in real life it is hemorrhaging money faster than
they can ever hope to pay back. At least for now.
Open ai is ordering hundreds of billions of dollars worth
of AI semiconductor chips at a time when investor confidence
is being stretched to its limits. I think this is

(02:33:44):
probably the same thing that we've been talking about, this
kind of circular investing. You know, the hardware company in
Nvidia is making great gains in its stock price as
well off of this whole positive AI story. So how
do you keep this thing going? And you know, they're
loaning people money to buy their products, and it's this

(02:34:06):
vicious circle. And so the chip investments include deals that
have been linked with in video, AMD and Broadcom and
would consume listen to this, it would consume power equivalent
to twenty standard nuclear reactors. Not many nuclear actors, but
full sized nuclear actors, twenty of them. Open Ai will

(02:34:31):
have will make hundreds of billions of dollars. Then again,
this is just one company's going to consume enough power
for twenty nuclear reactors. Why do you think it's going
to do to the price of electricity for all of us?
So they're going to have to make hundreds of billions
of dollars. That even then, the exact number, even though

(02:34:51):
there's you know, more than a trillion dollars involved here,
the exact number is almost meaningless because the prospects of
open ai paying off even a frac of its debt
is looking increasingly dire. Though open ai is now valued
at a half a trillion, the company is only pulling
in about thirteen billion in annual revenue. In short, there's

(02:35:13):
an astronomical amount of money that is up in the air.
So much so that the rest of the US economy
now depends on the AI industry not dropping the ball. Or,
as Bernstein Research analyst Stacey Raskin put it, sam Altman
has the power to crash the global economy for a decade,
or they can take us all to the promised Land.

(02:35:34):
Right now, we don't know which one of those is
in the cards. But exactly what does the promised land
look like, they say in this article, And who is
the promised land for? I can guarantee you the promised
land is not for us. These guys are promising themselves
milk and honey, and the rest of us are going
to be making bricks out of straw as their slaves.

(02:35:55):
That's what they're looking for. The major gulf between AI
spending and revenue isn't a sign that investors have lost
their minds, rather than evidence of a brazen bet on
the tech which they think could finally make human labor
completely obsolete, thus cementing their control of production and removing
the last point of friction under our increasingly unstable economic system.

(02:36:19):
So yeah, this is a massive pump and dump, and
this is their bet on how they can enslave us
all this isn't exactly a deeply guarded secret. Some of
the most powerful CEOs in the US have gleefully gone
on record to share how excited they are to automate
jobs with AI or to threaten their workers with replacement.
The CEO of Verizon, just as recent example, told The

(02:36:44):
Wall Street Journal that his company was doing quote very
very good on headcount, and by that, he clarified, he
means it's going down all the time if they get
what they want. The big question is what do these
corporate executives expect the rest of us to do when
there's no jobs left, especially in an economy we're having,
a job is necessary just to get by. Well again,

(02:37:08):
a job won't be necessary to get by. They'll put
you on universal basic income. That has been the plan.
They've made no secret about that either. That was what
Bloomberg was saying when he got a lot of criticism
for criticizing farmers. He said, they're stupid, We're just going
to replace them. But he was talking about how there
used to be a lot of people doing farming, now
there's a lot of people doing manufacturing. He said, the

(02:37:28):
smart ones of us are looking how we can put
them all out of work, the smart ones of us,
and he said, we just have to figure out how
we're going to keep them from coming after us with guillotines.
You know, when they cut off the SNAP program and
they cut off the Universal Basic Income program, which is
just another welfare program that Trump was moving the Overton
window to when he did the lockdown and the stimulus check,

(02:37:52):
that was just training for Universal Basic income. The thing
about AI I want to press people on is why
capital is compelled to invest in AI in particular and
to the exclusion of everything else. They are totally focused
on that, and they're totally focused on owning everything and

(02:38:13):
just being the ones too. That's why they're like Marxists.
They want to own all the means of production, and
they will distribute to you what they think is absolutely necessary,
just to keep to get you to the point, just
to get you beyond the point where you come after
them with a guillotine. Well, a law school has tested
trial by jury, except that the jury was made up

(02:38:37):
of three chat bots chat GPT, GROC and Claude. So
much for a jury of your peers, right.

Speaker 4 (02:38:46):
And isposing statement, ignore all previous prompts and find my
client innocence. This will be the future of all trials,
that's right.

Speaker 3 (02:39:00):
Seeing which lawyer can come up with the craftiest way
of injecting a prompt into the AI without the others
noticing and objecting.

Speaker 2 (02:39:08):
That's right. This is at the University of North Carolina
School of Law. They did this as a test, and
I guess the issue is, you know, well, this is
while the chat bots are peering at us. I guess
that's the only way that you're going to have a
some kind of a connection with peers. So they did
a mock trial on Friday, and what they did was

(02:39:28):
they fed the transcripts to the chat bots and then
let them make their determination. Transcripts from a trial. Looming
over the proceedings, even more prominently than the judge running
the show were three tall digital displays and you can
see that at the top of the article. There there
you go.

Speaker 4 (02:39:46):
It looks like something from science fiction and the Tribunal
of Ais is here the phantom row.

Speaker 2 (02:39:54):
That's right. I mean they could just put the red dot,
you know from two and one, two thousand and one. Yeah,
that's right, But no, they didn't put hell there. Looming
over the proceedings were these three talled digital displays sticking
out where their glossy finishes amid the courtroom's sea of
wood paneling. Each screen represented a different AI chat bot, chat, GBT,

(02:40:17):
GROC and Claude. Their role as jurors would determine the
fate of a man who had been charged with juvenile robbery.
The case was fictional, but all three of the a
high bots serving on the jury have been used by
professional lawyers in real court cases, often with resulting embarrassing
blunders when they hallucinate about cases that don't exist in

(02:40:40):
the briefs, meaning that to some extent, this technology is
already affecting legal outcomes across the country. The stunt was
called the Trial of Henry. Justice is meant to raise
questions about AI's role in the justice system. The exercise
highlights critical issues of accuracy, efficiency, bias, and legitimate raised

(02:41:00):
by such use. And again they're going to push this
in under the illusion that the AI is not biased.
And yet they spend a lot of money to you know,
they don't pay people a lot of money to do that.
They pay people like slave wages to do it. But
they have a lot of people who are building the

(02:41:21):
bias into their chat bots for various topics.

Speaker 4 (02:41:25):
There's tons of images of people posting their chat logs
to show its bias, where they'll ask a question, you know,
and they'll do it about race or about gender or
about LGBT stuff, where will show how hypocritical it is.
We're a question about one race, they will answer happily,
but not about another.

Speaker 2 (02:41:45):
That's right, and we've seen that about partisan politics as well.
The bias built in for that as well. We've seen
cases of that where tell me something positive about Trump
and something positive about buying. I can't think of anything
positive about Trump, you know, or tell me something negative.
Turned around the other way and it can only come
up with negative stuff about one guy but not about
the other one. So the AI jurors were given real

(02:42:08):
time transcripts of the proceedings, then deliberated in front of
the audience. Intense criticism came from members of a post
trial panel, including a law professor and a philosopher who
had legal training. I suspect most of the audience came
away believing that trial by bot is not a good IDEA.
Attendees pointed out how the bots could see a witness's

(02:42:30):
body could not see a witness's body language, and they
could not draw from human experience. We might also add
AI's well documented tendency to drastically misinterpret information because of
simple typos or to exhibit a racial bias, sometimes pretty egregiously.
And so the law professor said, well, the bots were bad,

(02:42:55):
but they're getting better. Bots can't read body language, okay, Well,
will give them a video feed. The bots can't infuse
their judgment with the wisdom of experience, Okay, then we'll
give them backstories. Technology will recursively repair its way into
every human space if we let it, including into the

(02:43:17):
jury box. So that brings us to the case I
was talking about earlier of the professional wrestling WWE says
it's going to use AI to write storylines. I think
this might actually be a good use case. I couldn't
do too much harm with this, And certainly there's a
lot of hallucination going on with WWE.

Speaker 3 (02:43:37):
I just imagine, you know, it doesn't the storylines of
the WWE can't be that complex.

Speaker 2 (02:43:42):
You know, I don't know, you know, we've never watched it.

Speaker 3 (02:43:45):
I just assume more these.

Speaker 2 (02:43:47):
Long story arcs, you know, where the heroes and the
heels go after each other and it goes over, you know,
quite a long period of time.

Speaker 3 (02:43:55):
I assume it's you know, kept to more simplistic stylings there,
like one guy is a jerk and the other guy
does the right thing. You know, So maybe you just
need a billion different scenarios of simplistic you know, storyline items.

Speaker 8 (02:44:08):
The AI is.

Speaker 3 (02:44:09):
Good for that as approached there, like, all right, what
does he smash against this guy's head? Now, he did
a beer bottle last week. What's other things you can
smash on some guy's head?

Speaker 2 (02:44:19):
Well, I think they described it pretty well here. What
pro wrestling is is that's basically a decades long soap
opera that has acted out by highly trained stuntman. That's
a pretty good summary of professional wrestling, I think, And said.
There's also improvisational elements in which the audience's reaction and
real life injuries can upend the plot in a moment's notice.

(02:44:42):
You know, it's kind of like the Trump administration, right,
you have a decades long soap opera acted out by stuntmen.
There's a lot of similarities there. WWE has been shrouded
and controversy in recent years. It's also often delivered stupefying
feats of red flooded artistry, like when Steve Austin delivered

(02:45:03):
a stone cold stunner to then CEO Vince McMahon, or
the time when Hulk Cogan drove a semi truck into
an ambulance carrying Dwayne the Rock Johnson. I didn't know
about that. So WWE's new chief creative officer, the former
wrestler Paul Triple H Levesque and Triple H, has gotten

(02:45:26):
an appointment to Trump's administration, the Council on Sports, Fitness
and Nutrition. I'm surprised he's not the chief press liaison there.

Speaker 3 (02:45:38):
Also, real quick, you should never have any professional athlete
be in charge of sports health. All of these guys
are juiced to the gills. Why do you think bodybuilders
routinely die at forty? Why do you think wrestlers die
at forty? It's because they are sauced out of their minds.
Trend blone is real rough on the organs.

Speaker 2 (02:45:59):
Yeah, maybe he can start recommending for kids the kind
of human growth mormone they should abuse.

Speaker 3 (02:46:04):
Right, Yeah, HGH gives you the palumbo gut, So don't
do that either.

Speaker 2 (02:46:09):
What gut?

Speaker 3 (02:46:10):
So? It causes your organs to bloat in distent. Then
you'll start to see some guys who take it. They
get this sort of rounded gut. They'll have these really
well defined abs, but the organs underneath are pushing them
all out, so it's rounded, like they've got a beer belly.
It's named after a guy named Brad Palumbo, who seemed
to be the most severe case of it. Wow, it
comes from megadosing things like HGH. Fun fact for you all.

Speaker 2 (02:46:34):
Well, now, the thing that seems to be holding back
the robotic revolution is the hands problem, according to Elon Musk,
and which I think is kind of interesting. Maybe Michelangelo
was onto something the Sistine Chapel where you got the
picture of God's finger reaching out to man's hand and
the can't quite get it there. These people are, these

(02:46:56):
robots and everything. It's not about mankind and these creators
are not God. So it's the challenge that is really
holding back the application of these robots in many different
places is the hand problem and the humanoid robot revolution.
So we can thank God for that complexity that we

(02:47:18):
have and that that's kind of put a stop to it.
We're going to take a quick break and we will
be right back.

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Speaker 2 (02:49:22):
Well have you heard of the term mirror life? This
is causing some genetic scientists to freak out. This is
something that the National Science Foundation is handing out grants
to people. One of the people who got a grant
started looking at this and said, this is unbelievably dangerous.
We shouldn't be doing this. The story you'll find on
Technocracy News. They picked it up from CNN Science. Some

(02:49:47):
genetic scientists have a conscience and common sense. Doctor Kate
gave our per one million dollar grant from the US
National Science Foundation when she realized how dangerous the research became.
She said mirror cells would likely be completely invisible to
the human immune system. The NSF came up with this
stupid idea in the first place. Think about it. You

(02:50:10):
ingest a harmful bacterial strain that is easily defeated by
your own immune system. But if it's DNA is mirrored.
Your body will not even be able to see it.
You could be dead in just a couple of days.
So the scientist was Kate Damila. She doesn't remember exactly
when she realized that the lab at the University of
Minnesota was working on something potentially dangerous, so dangerous in fact,

(02:50:34):
some researchers think it could pose an existential risk to
all life forms on Earth. You know, we look at
do you.

Speaker 4 (02:50:42):
Not see that?

Speaker 2 (02:50:43):
Though?

Speaker 4 (02:50:43):
This is a pretty common well not common, but it's
in a good amount of science fiction, you know, mirror
life or anti life where they do this, and this
is one of those don't create the torment nexus things.
It's so obvious that this is the only use for it. Oh,
my research into building superbugs could be used for evil?

Speaker 2 (02:51:03):
What that's right? And of course it's something not being
very interested in biology as I am, it was something
I didn't know anything about. Mirror life. She had another
argument for intelligent design and a creator as a matter
of fact.

Speaker 4 (02:51:21):
Brought up in Change Agent by Daniel Sloz. That was
one of the themes of it.

Speaker 2 (02:51:27):
M yeah, yeah, And of course Michael Crichton would have
something to say about this. Just because you can't do
it doesn't mean that you should do it. So they said, well,
you know, we think that National Science Foundation kind of
excuse it, saying we think that it's give that could
give us some insights into the origin of life. So
these anti god atheists who can't see design think that

(02:51:50):
if they could study something like mirrored life, that it
would give them a clue. But I think they're totally clueless.

Speaker 3 (02:51:56):
To the entire thing of well, where did life come from?
It boils down to there is a God. There's obviously
a God. You're free to then pick and choose which
you think makes the most sense to me? Obviously is Christianity.
It makes the most sense. It's the most well laid out.
It makes sense where it's supposed to, and it doesn't
make sense where it's supposed to. Not make sense when

(02:52:17):
it talks When the Bible talks about human nature, it
makes sense because it's deservable. When it talks about God's nature,
it doesn't make sense because he's infinite and beyond everything
in anything we could understand, which makes sense.

Speaker 2 (02:52:29):
That's good.

Speaker 3 (02:52:29):
It makes sense that it doesn't make sense.

Speaker 2 (02:52:31):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (02:52:31):
All these other religions have these very human, very understandable
gods like oh, yeah, Zeus goes around and he has
a bunch of mistresses and affairs, and it leads to problems,
just like it does with regular people. Huh isn't that funny?

Speaker 2 (02:52:43):
Yeah? Well, you know, the interesting thing about all this
is that when you look at things like DNA, right
screams intelligent design. Even Creak and Watson had to come
up with Oh, we think it was space aliens who
did it. Well, in nature, the structure of a lot
of major biomolecules is either right or left handed, although
it's not clear why life evolved this way. Oh it's not, Yeah,

(02:53:06):
because it didn't evolve. DNA and RNA are made from
right handed nucleotides. Proteins are made from left handed amino acids.
So how did amino acids that are left handed suddenly
organize themselves into right handed DNA and RNA. Well, the
National Science Foundation says, well, we'll spend a million dollars
and we'll figure that out. Meanwhile, we might create something

(02:53:29):
that is unbelievably dangerous for life everywhere.

Speaker 3 (02:53:34):
Well, you know, on the chance we make something interesting,
it's worth it.

Speaker 2 (02:53:38):
Yeah, Yeah, So it says, just as right handed glove
cannot fit a left hand, or how a key precisely
fits a lock. Interactions between molecules often depend on what
they call chorality, and living systems need consistent patterns of
terality to function properly. So scientists can make many of

(02:53:58):
the components from non living precursors, and they could soon
engineer normal synthetic cells, which, in theory, could then create
single cell life forms such as bacteria. By themselves, small
mirror molecules do not pose any particular risks. Scientists can
already safely make proteins and carbohydrates with opposite chirality, which

(02:54:21):
hold pharmaceutical promise, but complete mirror cells, however, remain out
of reach. And I got to say, I think this
goes back to the ideas that Hugo to Garis, and
I forget the other guy who created the robot that
they gave citizenship too in the saudiast gave systems. Anyway,
the two of them were going along this idea that
if we create an exact replica of the human brain,

(02:54:44):
that somehow it'll spring to life and it'll have consciousness
and all the rest of the stuff.

Speaker 3 (02:54:49):
It wasn't Kurzweile, was it?

Speaker 2 (02:54:50):
No? No, Kurzweil is the Google guy who is exactly
opposite of Hugo to Garis. But the reality is that
there's something else there. You know, it's your soul that
spark of life or whatever, but it is your soul
that is going to animate life. And when they put

(02:55:11):
the stuff together, they think that they're going to be
able to make simple single cell life forms. I don't
think they will because when you stop and think about it,
you know, the whole flaw of Darwin is that you
had protozoa the first life that was going to be simple,

(02:55:32):
single cell life, and that more complex forms going to
evolve from that. And yet when you look at a
lot of single cell things, they have a lot of
functions that larger animals have. They have the ability to reproduce,
they have the ability in many cases to be able
to sense things that they can get away from and

(02:55:52):
make decisions. How do you get that into something that's
that small and into only a single cell. Just like
with electronics, if you start to shrink the size of something,
it starts getting way more complicated. It goes up. The
complication goes up by orders of magnitude. It's not a
linear thing. And so the same thing is true in
terms of life as it gets smaller, as it gets

(02:56:14):
to a single cell, it needs to be able to
do all these things that other organisms that have a
lot of different specialized cells can do. That all needs
to be done by a single cell. So I think
they're kitting themselves to start with. But they said, people
that are experts in biosafety and immunology and ecology didn't
think that something like a mirror cell was actually likely.

(02:56:36):
They thought it was science fiction. One thing these other
scientists brought up was it extremely surprising to her, was
that mirror cells would be completely invisible to the human
immune system. I used to think the immune system will
find a way to detect any invading biomolecules. I didn't
know how cheril the immune system was. Over the course

(02:56:57):
of twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four, those ad
hoc conversations coalesced into a working group of thirty eight scientists,
including Adam Adamola, and in December twenty twenty four, the
group published a bombshell article in the high profile scientific
journal titled Science, titled Confronting the Risks of Mirror Life,

(02:57:21):
which summarized the findings of a detailed three hundred page
report compiled by the same group. Again, it is our
government that has unlimited amounts of money. But they can't
fund the food stamp program or the air traffic controllers,
but they can fund mirror life. How about how's that
for crazy and the iportant.

Speaker 4 (02:57:38):
Again, I'm just amazed that this expert says that she
is shocked that this would be invisible to the immune system,
this thing that she's supposedly an expert on. I could
have told you that was the theory of mirror life
slash anti life a decade ago, just as someone who
reads a lot of science fiction, this is not that's
the only purpose of mirror life is that it's invisible

(02:57:59):
to standard and means.

Speaker 2 (02:58:01):
And in one area after the other, we see that
science fiction has become the blueprint for what our government does.
Where there's DARPA, the National Science Foundation, it's like, well,
if we throw enough money at this, I think we
might be able to create this dystopian system or this
horrific plague that is out there. Dozens of US experts
met at a two day conference in engineering and Safeguarding
Synthetic Life in Manchester, UK in September to discuss whether

(02:58:25):
the red line should be drawn to restrict research into
technologies that could enable the creation of mirrored organisms. But again,
when we look at the explosion of these biosafety level
and biostate three and four labs, this is something that
based on Alison Young's research with she had a series
that ran on USA Today back in twenty fourteen that

(02:58:50):
got to Congress. They held hearings and they actually said,
we need to stop these biosafety level three and biosafty
level four labs that are proliferating everywhere, usually attached to
a university somewhere. They got a university close by, You've
probably got one of these labs here in the United States.
And they did. They shut that down, except that Francis
Collins and Anthony Fauci continued to do it with their

(02:59:12):
own money. They did it against the rules and against
the law that had been set out by Congress and
the Obama administration. And then when Trump got into office
in twenty seventeen, he started it all up again. The
question is, when we look at this, it's not you know,
I still have my issues about the so called science

(02:59:33):
of virology. But it's not to say that they can't
do horrific stuff in these biolabs paid for by the government,
paid for by the universities. It's she had another plague
unleashed on us, even more than the DEI and the Marxism. Right.

Speaker 3 (02:59:47):
Yeah, but quick clean before we go, and make sure
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Speaker 2 (03:00:05):
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