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We start from a simple premise: most people are stuck living under decisions made in rooms they never enter, so the only way to stay free is to understand how the machine runs. From a chilling “cabal” monologue pulled from TV to Washington State’s income tax push and state vaccine authority, we talk about what control looks like when it’s dressed up as policy, compliance, and “just paperwork.”

Then we hit the Iran war coverage and the fog-of-war problem head-on. Are strikes hitting real targets or decoys? Are defenses depleted or is that bait? We use oil prices and the Strait of Hormuz panic-and-crash as a hard reality check, because markets price risk even when governments and pundits won’t tell you the truth. Along the way, we connect the geopolitical chessboard to China’s energy needs and Taiwan timing, and why cutting off a supply line can change strategic behavior overnight.

The thread that ties everything together is election integrity. We dig into the SAVE Act push for proof of citizenship, why Senate leadership claims the votes aren’t there, and how influence can flow through media access, corporate money, and even foreign-linked sponsorship. We also break down DOJ movement in Maricopa and Fulton, Arizona officials pushing back on subpoenas, and why the jury system and jury nullification are part of the last line of defense in a constitutional republic.

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Peasants Welcome And Community Ritual

SPEAKER_19 0:33

Peasants, man. We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those old movies, you see the peasants in the background with the kings and kings walking around. We're those people. We're those people. Good morning, everybody. Hello, peasants. Welcome. Hello, peasants. Oh, love. Perfect timing for a coughing fit. Good morning, Shantini. Welcome. John Attackis. Good cold morning. What do you say there, Ron? Dang. Barely connected. Shantini. Yeah. Carlito Tiffany. Good morning from YouTube. And Douglas Wyatt. Good morning. Wow. You guys are just like racing for Pony Boy. You know what's funny? I mentioned Pony Boy in a 1776 event. And like a whole bunch of people are like, we love Pony Boy. Pony Boy. We're making Pony Boy famous. Making Pony Boy famous. Yeah. Ponyboy gets a shot. There he is, right there. Pony Boy, shout-out. Pray the Rosary Daily. Good morning. It is actually really fun. The uh little chat community we have. It's so fun to have you guys every day and hear your guys' input. I do read every comment that comes through. I just try to keep the show flowing, and sometimes I can't like stop and you know read your comment. But I see everything. Uh howdy, y'all, Carlitz on Rumble. Thank you, thank you. Uh Chantini Peasants Perspective. Ha ha. I just hit refresh right. That worked out good. Okay, you guys. Oh, I know why you guys are here. The reason you come every day over and over again. Although most of you were coming before we started doing this. It always takes me a second to uh get this open. All right, you're here for the simultaneous sip. It's long, I have to read it. Hold on. You're here for the simultaneous sip. I know why you're here. Cut this part out of the show, okay? I know why you're here. You're here for the simultaneous sip. All you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank, or a chalice, or a stein, a canteen, jugger flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid this morning. I like Diet Coke. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day. The thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip. And it starts right now. And I have no audio. So that's the reason. So all right, you guys. This morning I I drove past the gas station. I was like, do I want coffee? And I was like, nah, not today. It's kind of weird. It's unusual for me. I got sent this little link that I thought was really interesting. In fact, I think it was Carl Leetz that sent this to me. Um, I think it was. Anyways, this is from the old movie. Do you remember the movie Blacklist?

SPEAKER_25 3:06

Um, I don't know how old it is.

SPEAKER_19 3:08

It came out, I don't know, in the mid 000s, somewhere around there.

SPEAKER_25 3:13

I quit watching movies before that.

SPEAKER_19 3:15

Um, it was a TV show. It ran for a bunch of series. And uh, anyways, the caption here is if a dramatic movie is ever made about the genesis of the Q operation on 4chan, this would be the opening scene when Nans were first told by Q who the enemy was and what exactly we were getting ourselves into by taking the oath. Now, I'm not saying this is like a Q reveal, but this is a clip from the movie. And just like so many of our movies and like TV series, a lot of them are kind of a disclosure thing, like, hey, let's show you about our new toys or the new thing we're doing, you know. Kind of they put it in your head so that when down the road somebody mentions Epstein and and Pizza Gate, they're like, Oh, that's from the TV show. Right. The good guys win, so don't worry, you know, huh?

SPEAKER_25 3:59

It's old news too.

SPEAKER_19 4:00

Yeah, it's old news too. It's already in the zeitgeist, and oh, we've processed it and moved on. Right. So I like this clip because it's actually very descriptive of exactly what we have assessed, how the world runs. And all the way going back to season one five years ago, I was like, there's like a thousand people that really control the levers of power around the world.

SPEAKER_20 4:19

I'm here to tell you a story. I'm sure you recognize many of the faces behind me. They are among the most powerful men and women on the planet. They are also part of a global conspiracy. A shadow organization that spans across every continent and has for the last three decades, consisting of leaders in world government and the private sector. Some call this group the cabal. The world you live in is the world they want you to think you live in. They start wars, create chaos, and when it suits them, they resolve it. Cabal members will move more money in the next quarter than the World Bank will in the next year. Their alliance affects sea change in every aspect of human life. The value and distribution of commodities, money, weapons, water, fuel, the food we eat to live, the information we rely on to tell us who we are. What exactly do you expect us to do with this information? Study it, investigate it to determine the truth, and then report it. Let me be clear. If you do what I'm asking, you'll be putting your lives and the lives of those you love at grave risk. In the end, the truth will out. Not all of us will live to see that day. But the truth will out.

Washington Income Tax And Vaccine Control

SPEAKER_19 6:10

The truth will out. Isn't that fun? What a great disclosure. They call it the cabal. Hey, hey, I guess we didn't make up that term. Oh what's going on here? You got it on TV. Like 20 years ago, they were telling us about this. And here we are, like Epstein's dead, right? Wow, that's really interesting. So yesterday in Washington State, a very sad thing happened. They did end up passing the um end up passing the income tax. So now it's sitting on the mayor's desk here, which is really too bad. And I said to you, right, is just seconds before we the governor, yep. Right, seconds before we started the show, I said, man, I feel like Washington State's getting ready to secede. Like they're trying to raise their own taxes, get their own policy. They're trying to disconnect themselves from the federal government. One of the other things we got, along with income tax, was the uh governor signed into a law yesterday. We are not standing by leaving ourselves at the mercy of the federal government's chaotic, politicized, unscientific policies.

SPEAKER_24 7:12

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_19 7:13

This is Bill Gates talking through the person of the governor, okay? Yesterday I signed my bill with insurance commissioner Cooterer to give Washington state decision-making authority on what vaccines to recommend. Meanwhile, Florida's like, no vaccines at all. And in the other corner of the country where we're at, they're gonna chase us around with needles, Ron. It's they've already got the concentration camps pre-built on a bunch of these Indian reservations, just ready to put us in them. I mean, we wanted to go full Australia in 2020. So that's a lot of fun. And then there's something that was really revelatory that went with this. So if you look at the House or the Senate, man, how do I get this to move? If you look at the Senate in Washington State, Brandy Cruz posted this. She says, if you just scan across the audience, look at this. We'll just mute that. But do you notice there's nothing on the Democrats' desks? There's no flags. But when you get to the Republican side, it's full, everybody's got flags. Right? So you on the Democrat side, no flags. Republicans, flags, American flags, American flags, American flags. Isn't that interesting? It almost makes you wonder who the politicians on the Democrat side of the Washington Isle there have their loyalties to. So as the Senate was uh voting on the income tax, one of our most famous billionaires, homegrown Howard Schultz, wrote a letter. He posted this. He said, I'm moving to Florida. Oh boy. He's up and going. Like many Seattle-based companies, Starbucks today stands on the shoulders of many Pacific Northwesterners who built the company. They help shape the culture, benefits, and the brand, contributing to the civic community and public life of the city and state. It is our hope that Washington will remain a place for businesses and entrepreneurship to thrive. It's our hope. Good luck, guys. We're out.

SPEAKER_25 9:08

Yeah, I think that's more likely. We hope you keep drinking our coffee bye.

SPEAKER_19 9:12

Yeah, I mean, we'll take the revenue, but I'm not paying the tax rate. You know what I mean? Over the years, Sharon and I grew our family and built Starbucks globally from Seattle. He says they're taking the business elsewhere. He says the family office is moving to Florida. But don't worry, we'll leave the nonprofit there. You know, the nonprofit that isn't gonna owe any taxes, anyways. Oh man. When are you moving, Taylor? Shantini says. I said, as soon as I can get Ron to go with me somewhere, the show must go on, right? Although we might locate the show in Wyoming or something, just do it remotely. Wyoming has great tax code, it's no no state income, but they've got great protections for uh um online people, you know.

SPEAKER_25 9:52

You know, Washington's okay. I don't even have an income anymore.

Iran War Claims And Decoy Doubts

SPEAKER_19 9:57

What's the problem is is they're making us report. That's the that's the thing that's the it's like the wolf in sheep's clothing. It's not the taxes. It's like if you're just taxing millionaires 9%, I'm like, I don't care because I'm gonna hide my income before I report over a million dollars in taxes, right? But the challenge here is they're gonna make everybody file, and they made it a felony if you don't. So even if you're not gonna owe taxes, you're gonna have to tell the government all your income and all your sources of income. And this isn't this is in opposition to what Washington voted for that declared income as property, and it has to fall into the rules of property tax where it's proportioned and equal to everybody, which is why this bill, even when it does, because it will go to the Supreme Court in Washington, they're gonna say it's constitutional, but you can't do the millionaire thing, and they're just gonna make it tax everybody equally. I mean, it's really sucks. Carlit says, come to Texas. The problem is you're too close to the border. That's that's the issue I have. I don't know where to go, man. Florida looks enticing. I don't know where to go. I don't think we're going anywhere because you know, analysis paralysis on this one, I guess. Okay, so let's jump over and talk to uh TIF Time said that show was amazing, gave away so much, and good morning, y'all. Yes, it was. I uh I remember watching it when I had the flu once. I watched like two seasons straight, grew up like 25 times. That was 20 years ago. Okay, so this is you former U.S. Marine Scott Ritter, and he was on with Mario Nar uh Knophal. Nario Nauphal has the largest show on X, and he's based out of uh Southeast Asia somewhere, so he's not not American, but he does he does pretty decent shows, and I actually use a lot of his content. He's obviously got a team of producers behind him because they're kicking out little things all the time, little exploration blurbs. I like it, I like this guy a lot, anyways. Um, you know, so the war in Iran's going swimmingly, right? Well, you know how there's this whole thing of we're only as good as the information we have, and sometimes you can see people's biases come through. And when I listened to this, I was like, oh my goodness, this is like smack you in the face.

SPEAKER_32 12:04

You're talking about Israeli defenses, but at the same time, American bases are not being hit the same way they were in the first few days. I think you'll say this is a war of attrition. There's talks on on the American side that most of the missile launchers were hit. The drones are obviously a lot harder to hit the drone factories.

SPEAKER_21 12:18

Um missile launchers have been hit. But to stop the nonsense. Have you seen the evidence? What we know is they're hitting decoys.

SPEAKER_19 12:31

So I've seen the evidence of them hitting decoys that turned out not to be decoys. They were real, they were just black and white images, like 2D, right? Kind of like hitting the narco boats in the ocean. Okay, because it's a decoy, it's CGI. That's the problem here. The fog of war, we really don't know what's going on. They're not, you know, the videos that they're releasing, people are like, oh, they're fake, they're decoys. So this guy's obviously on the all of our missiles are just blowing up in the desert on painted aircraft carrier or painted painted jets on the runway, right?

SPEAKER_21 13:01

I mean, they may have hit one or two missile launchers, but the point is Iran's missile capability to deliver missiles has not been interdicted at all. Zero.

SPEAKER_32 13:09

Zero. This mathematical, why did they drop the amount of missiles they fired? Because they should continue. I understand it's a war of attrition, but if they keep firing missiles, then the aid defense systems, the munitions that are already depleted, will deplete even further. Everyone's talking about depleted munitions on the Israeli side, on the American side, on the Gulf side. So wouldn't it make sense for Iran to keep firing those missiles to deplete the munitions even further?

SPEAKER_21 13:32

Well, they already have. I think Israel's down to firing Pac-2 um Patriots, which means they can't shoot anything down. They're out of pack threes, which means they're already depleted.

SPEAKER_19 13:42

They're out there they can't shoot anything down. That was proven last year. Or they can use the old gravity laser-guided bombs because they have no air defense system left. So either we're running out of munitions and we're resorting to gravity bombs, or we're using gravity bombs because we don't have to use our expensive ones because they can't shoot us out of the sky, which is it, Ron.

SPEAKER_21 14:03

They simply can't shoot it down. So if you're Iran, you continue to fire uh 15-year-old missiles, which is what they've been firing, um which you know to to absorb missile defense, or do you now transition to the big guns? Now that they can't shoot you down, now that they can't defend, now it's time to deliver the real damage, the real harm. They said they're going to turn Tel Aviv upside down. This war doesn't end until Tel Aviv is turned upside down. Israel doesn't get to carry out a surprise attack against Iran and walk away clean. That isn't going to happen. There will be a price that's going to be paid. And the same thing with the United States. Iran will not accept an offering because to allow a ceasefire to take place at this time means you simply allow the United States and Israel to hit the reset button, and then you're going to do this all over again. This has to be the last time Israel ever thinks about launching an attack against Iran. It's over for Israel. It's done. Netanyahu gambled and he lost. And the truth is that they're looking for an off-ramp. If Israel was confident, remember, just yesterday they were saying we're in it for the long run. This war could last a long time. Now they're looking for an off-ramp. Why? Because they know the truth. They are defenseless, and Iran's about ready to bring the hammer. And they know that. And they know what's about to happen. So they're looking for an off-ramp. It's an act of desperation. Why would Iran concede all of the advantages it has accrued so far?

SPEAKER_19 15:31

Yeah, I don't know. Because they lost. I don't know the answers here, right? I'm not in Iran. I don't know what's going on on the ground. Yeah, I I've been watching a lot of videos, and Elon Musk on X has actually done some kind of filter where it's trying to take out the AI videos because in the first day it was like AI videos, AI videos, AI videos. This happened in Ukraine. You had major news channels talking about the ghost of Kyiv. It was a video game. It was a video game clips. Some fighter pilot was knocking down all these Russian jets on a video game, and CNN was running it like we need to support Ukraine. We can, you know, we need to get the ghost of Kyiv, the Medal of Honor and sanity. Okay, so the fog of war. We don't really know what's going on. And nobody's gonna really tell us the truth. If you're Iran and you're losing, we watched the clip yesterday. Ah, we're getting ready. Oh, yeah, we've we've got it. You know, we've got we've got America backed into a corner. Baghdad Bob, you know. Oh, we are pushing the infidels out. Meanwhile, M1A1 tanks are literally rolling in the background behind him. This is like Anderson Cooper being like, the flooding is absolutely horrible. And then some old lady in rain boots walks behind him. You know what I mean? And he's on his knees in the water.

SPEAKER_25 16:42

It's like podcasts.

SPEAKER_19 16:46

So Abby, uh Abby Phillips on CNN had her panel on. And I thought this was kind of cute, you know. My armchair suns, sons, uh my my armchair copy of Sun Tzu Art of War says, don't tell the enemy what your limits are.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

To echo what the Secretary of War said, and again, you know, I haven't served. Certainly I wouldn't uh supersede some of the people on this panel who have, uh, but but but my Sun Tzu for armchair quarterback certainly indicates that telling the enemy exactly what your limitations are in a combat operation probably doesn't sound like the smartest strategy. Uh it framing the plan in a way that limits what you can do or how you can respond uh just seems like allowing them to make more time to prepare the defense uh and injure American troops. So I don't blame, as you even pointed out, I don't blame Secretary Heggseth or the president for not wanting to just place a handcuff on the administration's reaction. Uh that said, I do think that most people don't want to see ground troops in this conflict. I think that's a fair uh critique from the public. I think that's a stretch. However, if ground troops are needed to secure enriched uranium, then what is the entire purpose of this conflict but for securing that uranium?

SPEAKER_19 17:57

Okay, so basically, he just said they're gonna not tell us the truth. No matter what. Are we in it for the long horrors? Or is the war almost wrapped up? We don't know. We are not gonna know until it's over. Right? Because they're not gonna tell us, oh no, we're gonna occupy the place, and they're also not gonna tell us, oh, we've already won and there's nothing left, right? Because what if a drone pops up? So it's kind of like this information detente where we're basically listening to Pete Heggseth and Donald Trump being like, rah, rah, rah, let's go sign your children up for the military, let's do it. We're so good.

SPEAKER_25 18:31

Also, I also don't believe this guy who's like, wow, these guys are out of these weapons, and they can't do that. That's kind of like, hey man, I don't got any more snowballs. Go ahead and stick your head up.

SPEAKER_19 18:41

It also goes, you can I don't know that guy, but I I imagine he hates Donald Trump. You know, he's a traitor because he's just got that. It's lies. We haven't hit a single missile defense system. Well, you're a former Marine. Are you saying the United States military is completely ineffective? You know, that we have no technology. Like, I remember the discombobulator in Venezuela that flipped on a dime. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_25 19:02

But also, how does he know that they don't have specific models of whatever weapons or missiles? I mean, how does he know?

SPEAKER_19 19:10

Exactly. The am, you know, how much do you think there's they're all out of bullets? Hey, grok, how many tomahawks does the US have left? Like, like we're gonna disclose inventory amount, right? You know, you you know you don't know the top speed of an A1 and of an M1 Abrams tank. I don't know, nobody knows the top speed. No, not even the people who drive them know the top speed. They have a governor on them that they can turn off. And so even the guys who try it was like, well, they go up to 45 miles an hour. Oh, they're faster than at low RPM. Like, there's a lot more juice. They will never disclose how fast because they don't want the enemy to calculate how quickly they can cross the desert. Uh okay. Those are the kind of things like you don't freaking know. We have no idea what you know, they're using they got lasers on sharks coming up, Donald Trump was talking about, right? You know, this is Colonel McGregor, who I have learned over time to kind of be like, he's always takes the doomsday point of view of things, which, you know, sometimes when you're hedging your bets, it's like, well, you know, it's if if we're gonna win or lose, I can pick one and I'm 50-50 if I'm gonna get it, right? To me, but listen to what he says. I mean, again, he is read in on this, not like on the intelligence side of things, but as far as understanding the military and operations and plannings. And uh, he doesn't think it's going so well for the United States and Israel.

SPEAKER_22 20:28

Well, actually, the Iranians have destroyed 27 bases in the region. 27 now. 27.

SPEAKER_19 20:33

Okay, that's news to me. I didn't know that there was one. 27 bases. Holy has there been one? Now I dug into this a little bit. Some of these hits are like they hit the guard shack on the fence, you know, like they got hit, but they didn't get hit. You know what I mean? But nonetheless, okay. They've hit 27 bases.

SPEAKER_22 20:53

They actually attacked our air base in Kirlik, Turkey, uh, which has been a key hub for U.S. air power across the entire region for decades. So key is a part of the vegetable. We also need to remember that. What? So key, I've never heard of it. Yeah, I know. Oh, those important outposts. Well, we say destroy, it doesn't take much to damage an airstrip or airstrips. In other words, to render these many of these bases in operals not difficult. Now, the Fifth Fleet space uh has been utterly and completely destroyed, seriously pulverized by multiple missiles. In many other cases, they've used relatively cheap and expensive drones. That our air defenses have failed to shoot down. And when I say ours, I'm talking about the air defenses we established of UAE and other Gulf states using Patriot missiles and so forth. Of course, Patriot missile, if you fire at uh two or three drones, is a pretty bad exchange rate because you're spending millions of dollars to shoot down a couple of hundred thousand dollars worth of equipment. But they've managed to also damage all the port facilities that we have historically used, even port facilities in Oman. And we were building a port facility in Oman that was supposed to replace the one we've been using in Dubai. And the reason for that was very reasonable very understandable. We were looking at the vulnerability of the port facilities that we needed someplace else where we could reload tomahawk missiles and strike missiles from the Navy, the the whole SM family. Right now, we've lost all of those. And the impact on our logistical infrastructure is huge. Because you're talking about having to fall all the way back to ports in India or ports in Europe because you can't use the ports that are in the Middle East. And then in beyond those that have been destroyed or damaged, most of the countries in the Middle East have now turned away from us. And I think that's going to be the future. If I were going to picture predict the future right now, I think we will be swept completely out of the Middle East by the time this war ends. We will be finished in the region.

SPEAKER_15 22:37

Do you predict this being a short-term c and that's a bad thing? Conflict something there's going to be long-term and ongoing.

SPEAKER_22 22:44

I think this is going to go on for weeks, maybe months. We just don't know. Remember when we started the uh Kosovo conflict, uh the bombing campaign. That was supposed to last I recollect two to three days, maybe a week, two weeks at most. Well it lasted for seventy-eight days. And the bombing campaign did not drive the Serbs out of Kosovo. We sent Stroke Talvot to Moscow, and he cut a deal, as President Trump would say, with uh the leadership in Moscow and agreed that they would tell the Serbs that they could not provide them with food, fuel, and medicines through the winter. And at that point, Bolosevic, who was then the uh you know widely demonized leader of uh Yugoslavia or Serbia, recognized that he had troops out because he didn't want to watch several hundred thousand of his countrymen starve or freeze to death in the winter. Because we bombed all the energy grids, all the heating plants, and so forth. Uh this time around, you're in a somewhat different position because you have an enemy that is far better armed with much more modern technology than anything we faced in Serbia in 1999. And thus far the Iranians seem to be tur doing very, very well. I think their next step is to essentially eliminate all the uh air and ground facilities in Israel for the Israeli armed forces and force the Israelis to essentially fight from the ground without having much access to launch aircraft. Do you think Israel is going to get absolutely pounded over the next few days? I think it has been already, and it's going to continue nonstop. Uh I'm told that President Trump actually sent a message over the weekend to the Iranians offering them to nego an opportunity to negotiate. And they said not only no, but hell no. And I think they've had it with us because once again, this latest attack did not begin with us. And we need to back up a little bit. I've been saying for months, ever since the 12-day war ended, that uh this would recommence. In other words, the war between Israel and Iran and us would recommence.

SPEAKER_19 24:30

So with a guy like Colonel McGregor here, he has that personality where he has to be right. Uh-huh. He knows I've been saved for months. So it's like, are you confirmation biasing yourself into this idea that we haven't hit any missile launcers? Like, are you that down on the US Navy that they can't hit a target and the Space Force that they can't identify targets? You know what I mean? It's like, I don't believe it. Carlitz in the chat says, I think the U.S. military is dumping all of its old weapons. The new stuff has got to be light years ahead. I think that's the case. You know, when they said, hey, listen, they can't shoot our planes down, so we're gonna use our good old-fashioned, you know, Iraq smart bombs that we just drop and they're laser guided, so they hit their target, but we fly over the target. Like that was the thing. After 48 hours of bombing Iran, they couldn't shoot us down. How many of our Navy ships are on the bottom of the ocean? Because I'm pretty sure there's 50 Iranian ships on the bottom of the ocean now. That last count. Was it was it the Gerald Ford that sunk? Was it the Lincoln? Was it the Nimitz? I can't remember. Oh, none. Zero. That's right. It was zero ships. How many drones hit our ships? Was it nine? Was it 27? Oh, it was zero. Okay, okay. All right. But but the but a drone, the drone hit the uh airport somewhere, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's right. That's right. You know, in a hotel in Dubai, a hotel in Dubai guy. Oh, okay. And uh, you know, probably part of an airstrip in Turkey, I'm sure. Um they're probably repaving it, right? We made some potholes somewhere. Yeah, I don't know. You know, it just seems do we know? We have no freaking clue.

SPEAKER_22 26:00

I thought it would happen just before Christmas. It didn't. Uh then it became clear that it was probably going to happen in January. We saw these demonstrations, which were grossly inflated in their importance.

SPEAKER_19 26:11

Oh, you're taking the side of Iran. Okay.

SPEAKER_22 26:13

We've lied about what had happened over there. Oh, well, people lie in war. Okay. Kind of like maybe you. Arguing that tens of thousands have been killed, which is a lot of nonsense. Uh.

SPEAKER_19 26:23

Including uh and they don't cut the head off babies or, you know, condone taking you know, large numbers of police.

SPEAKER_22 26:32

Well, ultimately what happened is that they did kill the demonstrators, about 400 policemen, but we know that that happened because the Mossad was on the ground with weapons and passed them out and urged people to shoot them, paid people to shoot them in some cases. And the demonstrations were not about overthrowing the government. They were protests about the sad state of the economy, largely as a consequence of our sanctions. And the government didn't disagree with them and said we're doing everything we can. And they were negotiating a deal or a loan with China uh for a billion dollars to boost the economy. As it turns out.

New Ayatollah Rumors And Optics

SPEAKER_19 27:01

So, you know, I like we have to listen to the other side, right? We have to listen to the other side, otherwise, we end up being blind when we get blind-sided. You know, I mean, I don't want to be like, hey, Trump's doing awesome, and then we find out we're in another 20-year war in Iran and we can't win, and we never hit any of their air bases, and they were holding the best for last. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know. Do they have a discombobulator? Meanwhile, Jesse Waters uh uh talked last night about the new Ayatollah because it passed down to the sun. Now, this is really interesting. So, some background on this. The difference between Saudi Arabia and the Sunni world and the Shia world is the Shias reject uh uh family authority. So Saudi Arabia is a monarchy, father, son, father, son, cousin, their sons, you know what I'm saying? Princes, kings, that kind of thing. In in Saudi Arabia, in in Iran, it's a theocracy. So it's the religious leader rules, but he doesn't just pass down his religious mantle to his son. They kind of elect a new person and they're the the religious leader, the supreme leader. Right. That's some hubris. So what this particular Ayatollah has said for many, many years that the next leader would not be his son, but it's now his son. So if you're a hardliner and you really because the whole thing is about the line of succession, and you are anti-monarchies, what did we just do? Um, fractured the people, fractured the theocratic base based on this nepotism. You know what I'm saying? So it gets a little weird here. So Jesse Waters talked about it, and we talked about it a little bit yesterday, too, but you know, he does a better job monologuing.

SPEAKER_05 28:48

Alert Iran went back to a monarchy, the Nepo Babies, the new Ayatollah. The mullahs spent 45 years denouncing hereditary dynasties, and they just crowned a king. Khomeini Jr., the boss's son. He's 56, no resume except his last name. He's like Iran's hunter Biden, except King Khamaini was treated for ED three times. He can't close politically either. He didn't even win a majority vote in the council. So the military had to step in and give him a little nudge. Half the clergy boycotted the coronation. No one wanted the trust fund terrorists to lead. Not the clerics, not the old guard, not even his own dad before we blew him up. Apparently, he put in his will, do not let my son take my place. But Minnie Kimani had a side hustle. He's sitting on a global property empire. Persian Gulf shipping, Swiss bank accounts, British luxury real estate, more than$138 million worth. Upscale hotels from Frankfurt to Mallorca. A villa in the Beverly Hills of Dubai. Estimates say he's funneled billions of dollars into the West, all while under sanction. Passing power from father to son doesn't look strong. It means Iran's bench is empty. It's no longer a theocracy. It's your run-of-the-mill corrupt Muslim dictatorship. And it means they're really scared. Little Ayatollah hasn't even shown his face yet. No video, no pictures, not even a statement at the official ceremony. They pledged allegiance to a picture frame. Where is he? Is he even alive?

SPEAKER_29 30:24

I'm the new leader of Iran. There's reports that he's been wounded.

SPEAKER_09 30:27

Oh, the new leader of Iran. Uh he would be wise to heed the words of our president, which is to not pursue nuclear weapons and come out and state as such. Uh, as far as his status, I've that's uh not something I can comment on right now.

SPEAKER_05 30:40

How can you rule a country when you can't even show your face? Doesn't the wartime Ayatollah need to show proof of life? If he's strong and capable and the Iranian regime hasn't collapsed, where is he? Rumors are swirling that he's been injured, but we can't confirm. We can confirm that he has a target on his back. The Israelis are going to put the whole Iranian hierarchy in the kill chain until a new leader can play ball. As far as Donald Trump's concerned, he's been clear. A lunatic hardliner is unacceptable.

SPEAKER_28 31:11

Overnight I spoke with President Trump. It spoke about Operation Epic Fury, how it's going, and his thoughts on Mushtaba Kamanae, Iran's next supreme leader. He told me he's not happy with that selection, adding, I don't believe he can live in peace.

Oil Prices And Strait Of Hormuz

SPEAKER_19 31:27

Left Tel Aviv in the background, and it doesn't look flattened. So I don't know. Ah, again, you know, I do know one thing oil prices spiked and then collapsed.

SPEAKER_25 31:39

So I like how he's Jesse Waters is allowed is he even alive? He can't even show his face. And the whole time I'm like, man, do you remember the Biden years?

SPEAKER_19 31:51

Exactly. Exactly. Exactly, Ron. That's it. Jesse Waters is our backdad blob, okay? We've got a couple of them too. Okay. So I don't know. I don't know. But what is one of the things that people who you know markets don't lie, right? When money's on the line, when I'm making an investment, I'm gonna do all my research, I'm gonna make an investment. I might make a loss from time to time, people might make losses. But when you're managing big amounts of money, what is the name of the game? Risk assessment, right? It's risk, it's risk aversion. And so there was a price in for the Strait of Homoots being closed and for Iran causing all kinds of infrastructure damage. And oil prices, the futures and everything shot up, and the price per barrel went to$124 a barrel. Wow. Really expensive. And right now it's at$77.65. Look at that. Holy we saw the largest ever oil price drop since this, I think COVID, you know, when everybody went on lockdown and nobody was on the roads, oil prices plummeted then. But as far as again, this is another one of those like, so are people not using oil? No, that's not the situation here. What it is, is people are realizing we can get stuff through the Strait of Hormoots. Don't announce it, right? There was some threat. Oh, there's land, there's there's some mines in the water. And Trump put out a post. If you posted mines, we'll hit you harder than ever before. And they've swept for mines, and then they destroyed 10 more boats that were mind-setting boats and no mines. But if you're Colonel McGregor, oh, the Strait of Hormoots is full of mines. Is it? I don't know. You know what I mean? Like, do you have the scuba gear? Meanwhile, the oil prices they're just dropping so fast they can't even update the chirons fast enough.

SPEAKER_10 33:40

Started out down, uh, but then reverse course and has only gone up since then. The Dow at 421 points. This says oil continues to sell off from those highs made yesterday, almost$120 a barrel yesterday. It's hard to update the banners fast enough. Right now, we're looking at oil now down 19%. That's a drop of$18 a barrel, and it is now at$77 a barrel. This is just an incredible swing. Here was the president on what they're doing about those what were high energy prices yesterday. Listen.

SPEAKER_27 34:15

We're also waiving certain oil-related sanctions to reduce prices. So we have sanctions on some countries. We're gonna take those sanctions off until this straightens out. And who knows, maybe we won't have to put them on. There'll be so much peace.

SPEAKER_19 34:30

What's interesting is he's talking about Russia. Oh. He's talking about Russia. Russia wants a way back into the world market. It's just uh right, they've been on the sideline, totally sanctioned. But think about the leverage here. Russia and Iran were allies. Russia has not rushed to Iran's defense. And by the way, it was confirmed they're not sharing intelligence with Iran. That was leaked. Oh, Russia's selling with intelligence with Iran. Nuke Moscow. They're not sharing intelligence.

SPEAKER_25 34:55

That's really interesting.

SPEAKER_19 34:56

But Moscow's now got a dog in this fight because if Iran falls, we can sell our oil on the market. And Trump's like, hey, you want to play nice? Let's play nice.

SPEAKER_25 35:08

Interesting.

SPEAKER_19 35:08

See, Donald Trump understands all the cards he has to play. Zelensky, you have no cards. We hold all the cards. This is one of those things. He's unlocking that market, which he's not going to be able to back off. Like Marco Rubio said, five years, sanctions aren't going to work at all. They're not going to work at all. So it's like it's either going to just go by the wayside and they're going to work around you. Or right now, when it's still effective, you can open the door and let them in. Does that make sense? And be okay, come in, but on our terms. That's what's happening right now.

SPEAKER_27 35:38

But when the time comes, the U.S. Navy and its partners will escort tankers through the strait if needed.

SPEAKER_10 35:44

Okay, Mohamed Al Arian is joining us now as this news is breaking. I mean, Mohammed, we've watched the markets for a long time. I'm looking at oil, and this is just an incredible move. What are your thoughts on this moment?

SPEAKER_26 35:55

It is wild, Sandra. I don't think I've ever seen anything like this. We went from$70 a barrel a week ago to almost$120. And now, like you said, we've back below 80. Um, we've come back for three reasons. One is President Trump saying that the war will be over soon. Second, we've had a tanker accompanied through the Strait of Hong today, which is a very important psychological message. And then third, we have a coordinated agreement to release strategic reserves. And that has gone all the way down from 120, which would have really hurt the economy.

SPEAKER_19 36:38

So is it because we're winning and there's an end to the war, or is it because we're dumping reserves? Well, I thought our reserves were already low. Ours are, but other countries have reserves. There's like 1.2 billion barrels of reserves floating around in Saudi Arabia and these other places.

SPEAKER_25 36:55

So just on the world market, there are reserves. Okay.

SPEAKER_19 37:00

I don't know. Is it temporarily down? Is it going to stay down? Or is it like, hey, the war's pretty much over now. Iran's not firing back. They're just sending out propaganda videos at this point.

SPEAKER_25 37:12

Well, when the when the price is dropping a lot, it doesn't really feel like market manipulation. It feels like you know real market pressure, but I don't know.

SPEAKER_19 37:19

Yeah, I don't know either. We're blind, we're just peasants, we just got to live here.

SPEAKER_25 37:24

Well, and remember, we did talk about this either yesterday than before. There were some speculators that were like playing a long game on oil and they lost a boatload of money.

SPEAKER_19 37:34

Lost a lot of money, a lot of money.

SPEAKER_25 37:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19 37:38

So Bill O'Reilly, I guess, talked to President Trump and he has a he has his opinion on how this thing's going to wrap up.

SPEAKER_07 37:44

I believe that what will happen going forward is you'll have sustained bombing for another week, maybe 10 days. That should do it. That should knock out all the infrastructure, including the mines and the Strait of Hormuz. Okay, so you see this photo here?

SPEAKER_19 38:00

Let me just back up. Sorry, Bill. Okay, so that guy at the beginning, there was a lot of videos like this, black and white, but they're, you know, kind of from space, and it would show an Apache helicopter or a plane. And they're saying those are those are just painted. Those are just painted on the runway. They didn't really hit it. Well, then I saw one where this guy was painted, and then it had a uh security footage from like a garage that showed it from the side, and it was a real play, it was a real helicopter that got hit. So it's like the whole idea that we're just hitting decoys. I'm like, do you think Iran had 5,000 decoys laid out in anticipation of that? Maybe. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 38:35

Including the mines and the Strait of War moves, every uh kind of uh weaponry they have, all the drones they have. Another seven to ten days should knock it down. Okay then I think you'll see an announcement that the mullahs, who's ever gonna be in charge, want to talk. Okay. And then there'll be a meeting in Geneva, and there'll be some kind of uh capitulation on a part of Iran um that Iran won't live up to because they'll be so desperate they'll sign anything and they're gonna live up to it, and Trump will say, hey, we won. That's the likely scenario.

Iran As A China Strategy

SPEAKER_19 39:20

I believe that they could pull a Germany and uh you know, sign whatever they can to capitulate and end the war and then turn around and rebuild. However, change of leadership, change of agenda, you know what I mean? So I don't know. The other thing, too, is geopolitically what's been happening is just stunning because who's the real enemy, right? When we're talking about the United States and geopolitics, we're the hegemonic power with a rising power in China. So everything that that's been happening has been kind of like the breadcrumb trail back to China, you know what I mean? Now our thread has been the election fraud, right? We're following the election thread, pulling on that string, and it led us to Venezuela, leads us into Iran, and it leads us ultimately back to China. So all of what we're doing militarily in the name of narco-terrorists in Venezuela can win, you know, but we got rid of the Dominion head, okay, with the Maduro and all that. The cartel stuff was nice too. The drug, the drug trafficking's gonna be reduced. That's nice. But we take over the guy that's stealing our elections, right? Yeah, and then we thread back into China, and Cuba's a part of it too, but Cuba's just kind of in a blackout right now, so whatever. Okay, we're coming back to them, as Trump says, they're next. And so we're pulling on the thread and we're getting closer and closer to China. So this was Jesse Waters, and he I can't remember this guy's name. He's got a Middle Eastern name, and he's one of these big geopolitical analyzers.

SPEAKER_05 40:47

This progress in in in under 10 days is historic. You just heard the senator say he'd plant the flag, declare victory, and come home. Would you?

SPEAKER_01 41:00

Oh, yeah. You you could even add more as I was listening to the program. This is a strategic victory against China. Because the Chinese leader told his military officials, be ready for war in 2027. Well, that is less likely now because a lot of their oil reserves are now being cut off from Iran with what the United States has done. And China wanted to use Iran as a second front to distract America from Taiwan. That now is not happening as the United States is taking care of Iran, so it won't be a second front. So this puts us in an advantage with China and makes war less likely. So I think that's a huge strategic benefit and outcome that nobody seems to be talking about.

SPEAKER_19 41:47

This progress in So that's that's the thing, right? He's knocking out China's ability to wage war against Taiwan, which through the channels we've seen, the intelligence gathered, is 2027 was the target. They've been building, building, building. And once this conflict started, do you know China stopped flying jets into Taiwanese airspace for the first time in like six or seven years? Oh, just stopped doing it. They're either out of gas or they're like, oh, test the big the evil foreign devils. Right.

SPEAKER_25 42:18

I thought that it might have had something to do with the way that they saw some of their um equipment functioning when the war kicked off and Iran was getting their own. 100%.

SPEAKER_19 42:27

This goes back to what Cernovich says. He says, you know, you can count tomahawk missiles and you can count drones and do all this math on what's known in the public. But then Cernovich is like, and then that Venezuela thing happened. And all those missile defense systems, the Russian and Chinese systems, all the Cuban intelligence officers that have infiltrated the government didn't see it coming.

SPEAKER_25 42:46

Right. And then they got stepped right over them.

SPEAKER_19 42:49

And then they got discombobulated. And the butcher, Dulce Rodriguez, is like, I love America. Take our oil, please. Have some gold. Okay. So it's like, there's always the possibility.

SPEAKER_25 43:02

So there's always one guy with clear eyes.

SPEAKER_19 43:04

There's always one person that's like, I saw the the the best bodyguards Cuba could offer barfing on the floor while special special forces soldiers walked in. Yeah. DEA agents with warrants went and picked up Maduro and his wife in their beds. Right. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_25 43:22

Those are the guys with the clearest eyes on the planet. They're like, oh, this is how the game is played.

North Korea Lesson On Nukes

SPEAKER_19 43:26

Oh, okay. We're a little behind the eight ball on this one, right? So to understand why Trump struck around now, right? Ver a good case example is North Korea. In 1994, President Clinton was weighing the first strike on North Korea's nuclear facility in Yongboygun. I can't say that if it's Portuguese, I can say it. Then Jimmy Carter flew to uh uh Pyongyang Pyongyang with a CNN crew, and he struck a deal with Kim Kim the second sung and announced on live television before watching. Washing could stop him. And then Clinton just accepted it. The agreed framework froze North Korea's plutonium program, but they ran a secret uranium program the whole time. The deal collapsed in 2002. Bush considered military action when the secret program was revealed. But with Iraq and Afghanistan consuming every resource, the moment passed. By 2006, North Korea had the bomb, and every president since has had to deal with it. What did Barack Obama tell Donald Trump were his two biggest threats? He said North Korea and General Flynn. Those were the two things that Barack Obama wanted to pass on to Trump. Don't put General Friend in his DNI DNI. Why? Because he saw the illegal drone strikes in Libya and all that kind of stuff. And two, North Korea, you're gonna go to war with North Korea. Okay. And Trump rejected that. And we saw what happened in the first term. I shed an actual tear when Trump crossed the demarcation line and went and shook hands with Kim Jong-un. That was a big deal. That was a big, big deal. Okay. Trump's argument on Iran is simple. Diplomacy has been tried and it didn't work. When you're trying to get a nuclear weapon and you're a rogue state, they're not going to agree to what they sign on paper because once they get the nuke, they can throw the paper out the door out the door.

SPEAKER_25 45:17

Yeah, that's the argument against the 47 years of whatever.

SPEAKER_19 45:21

Yes. Sanctions have been tried, covert ops have been tried, none of it is stuck. He decided it was unavoidable. Whether he was right to question, history will answer. But North Korea gives us and gives us a look at the alternative. If you buy the nuclear argument, right? If you're trying to avoid nuclear weapons, this was the only way. Now, North Korea has been relatively silent until yesterday. They just decided to remind the world that they still exist and they've launched a ballistic missile.

SPEAKER_24 45:48

Of course.

SPEAKER_19 45:51

I love the way these guys look. They're like kids. I'm just so excited.

SPEAKER_25 45:54

We're the control room.

SPEAKER_19 45:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_25 46:02

These guys have the best world warcraft. I know, too.

SPEAKER_19 46:09

So they launched some missiles just to remind the world we're still here. We still matter.

SPEAKER_25 46:13

We're still mad dogs. We're still mad dogs.

SPEAKER_19 46:17

I think, I think Kim Jong-un is sitting back just going, ah man, I'm glad that I wrote that letter to Trump. You know what I mean? I'm glad that we became friends all those years back. Like, I'll just I'll just play nice. I'll sit around. I mean, I don't have to be re-elected or anything.

SPEAKER_25 46:31

You know, all these years, Dennis Rodman's been over there just greasing the wheels.

SPEAKER_19 46:35

Greasing the wheels, I know, man. Okay, so Gordon Chang, Gordon Chang, who I like his assessment on China. He's a huge China hawk, right? But uh I like his assessment. He was on with uh Chanel Rion, and he was talking about how China's basically been cut off with oil. And this changes everything. And they've also been doing so many military changes, they're really in a bad spot. They were not prepared to deal with the 2026 onslaught between Venezuela, Cuba, and now Iran in any way, shape, or form.

SPEAKER_12 47:05

Elon Musk on X uh a few days ago shared a metric, a graphic showing how China is is moving very quickly towards solar. Are they are they at a place right now where solar can maybe ease the load of the crisis?

SPEAKER_08 47:24

No. I think Elon Musk got that one wrong. Um, because China's been China sells more solar panels than any other country by far. But really what they're doing is they're exporting them. They want others to buy into this green uh energy idea. Um they're not doing it themselves, they're doubling down on coal and they need fossil fuels. So, no, they're solar, wind, um, hydro, I mean, no, that's that's just not gonna do it for China. Certainly not solar.

SPEAKER_12 47:57

What what about Taiwan? The uh uh Taiwan has long been used as this uh as this focused piece of leverage that China uses. It always ups this rhetoric regarding China Taiwan whenever anything happens globally. Where are they now with regards to Taiwan?

SPEAKER_08 48:18

They've been very quiet over the last seven, eight days, just nothing occurring. That worries some people. Um we should always worry about China with regard to Taiwan. But the important point here is that Xi Jinping's purges have made the Chinese military incapable of launching hostilities by invading the main island of Taiwan. Central Military Commission of the Communist Party, which governs the military, normally has seven members, now has two. Xi Jinping himself, he's not a military officer, and a political commissar, who's not an operational officer. So the chain of command has been severed, and uh basically China, you know, China can stumble into a war, Chanel, and and there's a high probability of that, but it it really cannot go out and invade somebody, especially uh the main island of Taiwan.

SPEAKER_12 49:12

Wasn't there uh I again we don't have confirmed evidence of what happens here. We just know that players are being moved internally in China, Chinese leadership. But wasn't there a big move uh after the Venezuela invasion? The subsequent invasions, did those create ripple effects or did they really just purge the military leadership, according to reports, after Venezuela?

SPEAKER_08 49:38

Well, January 24th, which is after January 3rd, the invasion or the uh extraction of Maduro and his wife. On January 24th, the Ministry of National Defense reported that two senior officers were under investigation. One of them was General Zhang Yao Shao, who was the number one uniform officer, the first vice chairman of the Communist Party Central Military Commission. That was um an earthquake. Um that was just uh that stunned the military. And right now, um, as I mentioned, uh I think that the purges have made the military at a point where it's just disarray. Um, so right now, um, you know, you're right, it was after Venezuela.

SPEAKER_19 50:21

Yeah, it was after Venezuela. They were like, oh, we don't have a discompobulator. And their man with secrets. If China was supporting Venezuela, which we know they were doing business, but if they were supporting them with subversion of the United States electoral system, intelligence gathering, and things like that, their man is now in U.S. custody. And this is a problem because not only Maduro, but the other people that have come out of Venezuela that have been arrested, they're singing like canaries.

SPEAKER_18 50:51

Do you think Maduro is going to say anything on this, given that so much of the Venezuelan software, and I know you know this very, very well, uh, you know, is operated by his regime.

SPEAKER_06 51:01

Yep. Yeah. The answer, short answer is yes. And there's others that they have in custody that are also uh divulging great amounts of information for the first time because they they now know that that you know President Trump means business. I mean, so yes, I I think we're already learning a lot of things, and I think that that is driving some of the things that we are seeing the uh the FBI, the Department of Justice doing.

Venezuela Thread Back To Elections

SPEAKER_19 51:24

Do you think Maduro is going to So they're singing like canaries? Why would they be doing that? What's the what's the thread here, Ron? What have we followed through this whole thing? I had I had to follow this thread to DC, Philadelphia, Oklahoma, a prison in Missouri, right? As you pull on this election thread, we're the only ones that I'm aware of that are pulling on this thread and saying, listen, all this action comes down to Donald Trump had an election stolen from him, right? And as you go through and you go back through the corruption in the government, you go back through the weaponization of government, you go back through the intelligence operatives, you go back, and you start to see it. It's like all of our problems come back to the only way the cabal could win was to destroy the United States and her constitution. It was the only way they could do it. And so that has been their vector of attack. Slowly but quietly, they've been doing it using random. I never, you know, when growing up, I never thought Venezuela would be a threat to our electoral system. You know what I mean? But it's starting to come out. Now, when you are talking to your friends and family and you're telling them about this great show you listen to every morning, remind them that we're the only show that is connecting. How all this international stuff isn't just about gas prices, it's it's actually about your ballots. It is actually connected to your daily life and your ability to have sovereignty. It's not just about two great powers, America and China duking it out. America is a peace-loving nation, period. We have no business doing anything other than going to work, taking care of our families, and pursuing happiness and living our American dream. And we would just assume the rest of the world would do the same. Yeah. Okay. But when you infringe upon our peace and our posterity and our ability to act freely, to choose our path of happiness, we got a problem. And that's been the case since the day we wrote that Declaration of Independence. We have fiercely guarded our ability to have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. And so here it is. We've connected this whole thread. And now, hopefully this week, we're going to see where it leads. It leads straight to China.

SPEAKER_11 53:40

China might be intervening in the U.S. election, getting fake driver's licenses and fake ballots so they can help Joe Biden win. And what does the FBI do with that one? It says, eh, circular, we're going to throw it in the garbage can. That is the FBI in 2020. It was just as bad and maybe even worse under Chris Ray than it was in 2016 under Comey. The mindset was not crushed and it became more emboldened in 20. And then in 21, 22, you see how emboldened it is when they get to Arctic frost. This cancer kept spreading, it kept metastasizing. And more and more people thought it was okay to settle political scores under the power of government color. And I think that's the cancer we're now fighting. And it's more deep-rooted today than it's ever been. There's been a lot of, you know, progress made in firing and moving people, but there are agencies we don't even talk about, like the National Archives, that were in on this. They were helping this machinery to crush MAGA, create the MAGA dragnet, and crash the Magna movement. And we have a lot of work to expose who all those people are. We're hardly maybe 3% into the project.

SPEAKER_19 54:43

And where did it come from? China was directly involved in driver's licenses. We covered this. Not just recently. We covered this four years ago.

SPEAKER_24 54:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19 54:53

Before I went to DC to say, hey, I think you got, I think this election might be stolen. Okay. We covered this. This is the thread that we're pulling on. The narco-terrorism, that's a fringe benefit. Get rid of that and secure our elections. Oh, have I ran not have a nuclear election and secure our elections? Oh, put China in a box and secure our elections.

SPEAKER_25 55:16

Well, you know, if our elections were really free and secure, I don't think we'd even have this podcast.

SPEAKER_19 55:22

We wouldn't, Ron, because we'd be out living our lives pursuing happiness instead of here beating on a drum every day.

SPEAKER_25 55:29

Well, I think that I'm just saying that so that people understand the importance of the point. I mean, the whole reason we're doing this podcast is because of this thread.

SPEAKER_19 55:37

It is because, yes. Yes. It started with COVID. That was the eye-opener. Whoa, they can tell me to shut down my business? Yeah. Because of some virus coming out of China? China. There it is again. China. Huh. Oh my gosh. Why would China release a bioweapon on the United States in 2020? Because they wanted to install their puppet. You know, the one that they gave his son$1.5 billion in a fund to trade and earn commissions on. You know, that guy. Right. Right? That guy. Now, Senator John Thune was asked, hey, why don't you pass the Save America Act? Because in all of this, since Venezuela and Cuba, you'd think Trump would be like the imperial king and they'd be like, you're making all of our districts are making bombs. The military-industrial complex is happy. I mean, how could it not be right now? You know, you're reestablishing American supremacy and military might. Right. This is just unbelievable what we're doing. So, you know, let's let's use that political capital. But instead, Donald Trump is pushing to clean up our elections.

SPEAKER_25 56:34

Right. But but but that's so weird.

SPEAKER_19 56:36

But Trump, you just won and you got majorities. You got a House, you got the Senate. Why can't you just be happy?

SAVE Act Blocked By Senate Math

SPEAKER_25 56:41

Well, my like my brother-in-law thinks I'm crazy because the elections are fair and free. And what are you talking about?

SPEAKER_19 56:47

Yeah, I mean, of course. So, you know, we're trying to get the Save America Act passed, and Senator Thune gets asked about it. Hey, why don't we do it?

SPEAKER_16 56:55

Do you run a risk of being on the wrong side of President Trump in your resistance to who this talking filibuster tying the Senator Knox for weeks?

SPEAKER_07 57:06

We don't have the votes.

SPEAKER_19 57:08

Oh, okay. So let's go over the senators that we know in 2020 showed up. Mark Kelly, who's the other senator from Arizona, I can't remember. But both of them come through election fraud. The two senators from Georgia, both red states, by the way. We got four Democrat senators coming out of solid red states, right? In one in these fraud. So you got four senators at a minimum. And then you got Fetterman, who I think was their screw up. Okay. Because we would have had Meme Oz, who I don't know would have been as good a senator as he is a uh health secretary or a Medicaid secretary, whatever he is. But either way, right, we got Fetterman out of it and shot themselves in the foot on that one. Okay. But we got Fetterman, there's a whole bunch of them. So he's like, hey, we don't have the votes. We don't have the votes. Oh okay.

SPEAKER_14 57:55

Either to proceed, get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got on. Um, but that's just a that is just a function of math. And there's anything I can do about that. I mean, I understand the president's got a passion to see this issue addressed. Does he understand that so? Well, we've conveyed that to him, but um we'll continue to make that argument because I think it's important that everybody understand that this really is about it's about the vote, it's about the math. And um I'm I'm for better or worse, I'm the one who has to be a clear-eyed realist about what we can achieve here. And so we'll continue to convey that. And uh and I think that we're gonna have a fight on we're gonna vote on this, uh, we're gonna put it up, and we'll give the Democrats the opportunity to cast their vote on whether or not they think non-citizens ought to vote in American elections. And um so that that debate will happen. Um, but uh like I said, I can I can guarantee the debate, I can guarantee a vote. I just can't guarantee an outcome.

SPEAKER_19 58:53

Did he just say we'll have a debate on whether or not we're gonna allow non-citizens to vote? Is that did that just come out of his mouth? Did that come out of his mouth? Now, Peter Schweitzer in his book wrote about the uh U.S. birthing industry where you foreigners come here to have babies so they can get U.S. citizenship and then go back home. They said China has 1.5 to 2 million U.S. citizens living in China that were just born here and taken back to China as infants and are being raised there. And you know what's interesting about it when you vote from abroad, you can pick where you vote. So they can put two million votes right here in Kitzap County if they wanted to, Ron. They can do that. It's completely acceptable and allowable under our current laws. So are they U.S. citizens? Okay, what about the actual illegals? Because there's been a slew of illegals that have been arrested, but they're one-offs, right? One guy in Alabama, one person in Maine, this guy in Illinois. So yeah, but there's a pattern here. It's obviously easy to vote. So let's look at John Thune. Data Republican put this out yesterday, and she goes, at Punchbowl News, would you like to comment on this business model of reverse engineers how you keep leader John Thune in line? So, what is Punchbowl News? Punchbowl news is an Axios publication, and it's a huge publication in the District of Columbia. You've never heard of it because why would you? But this is the news channel that people in DC politicos open up, Punch Bowl News. Punchbowl, by the way, is the Secret Services code word for the Capitol, the Punch Bowl. Okay. Okay. And so it's Punch Bowl News. So here's how it works: you've got Punchbowl News right here, and John Thune is like their number one guy. Okay. So here's a here. Let me let me show you this chart here. Okay, so this is John Thune. Punchbowl is Thune Bowl. Not only does Thune receive tons of money from their co-sponsors, sponsors, Thune is also by far their most prominently featured congressman member. So you look here, John Thune, this is his mentions in Punch Bowl News. It's way bigger than Chuck Schumer, the number two guy, Hakeem Jeffries down the line. You go. Okay. So he's considered first voice. He gets he gets priority on Punch Bowl News. He always gets featured. So here's how it works: Punch Bowl News gets special access to Leader John Thune. Leader John Thune blocks the Save Act, right? And interest uh interests are protected in funding for whose corporate sponsors? Punchbowl news corporate sponsors, who these corporate sponsors paid Punchbowl about$9 million a year. Punchbowl news has a circulation of about$65,000 a month. If you take the number of staffers in DC and you times it by the number of days a month, guess how many opens you would get?$65,000. So they're not going to be able to do that. So their prioritizers are not paying for advertising to like normal people. This is just a newsletter. It's a newsletter that basically only they care about.

SPEAKER_25 1:01:35

Right, internal newsletter.

Punchbowl News Sponsors And Thune

SPEAKER_19 1:01:36

Yes. And guys like me, you know, I'll tap into it sometimes to see what the thing is, but it's just it's Punch Bowl news, right? It's just another one of these news aggregators, but it's very specific and focused. Well, of the corporate sponsors that sponsor Punchbowl News, Jenner Tathune gets about$1.2 million in direct pack donations. Okay. So then if you dig into Punch Bowl News, here's some of their sponsors: Goldman Sachs, Comcast, Chevron, Merrick, Wells Farger, ExxonMobil, American Express, Google Alphabet, MetaFacebook, Intel, Pharma, American Investment Council, Blackstone, Microsoft, JP Morgan Taste, Johnson Johnson, and Amazon. Are there any conservative groups on that list at all? So you've got a whole slew of far-left American organizations donating significant amounts of money to John Thune. This is his donor list that are also punchable news sponsors. So you see the one-two punch here. They pay for punchable news, they feature John Thune, and then they donate to John Thune, and he makes sure the Save Act doesn't get passed and that their funding and everything stays. Do you see this?

SPEAKER_25 1:02:35

That's pretty weird.

SPEAKER_19 1:02:36

This is your list of cabal members here. Let's go back to the beginning of the show. All right. So now let's look at this. So so you've seen that graph. Here's a here's a little bit of a nicer way to show it here. Okay. You know, Punchbowl News, Punchbowl Ad buys uh ads in Punchbowl News, direct access to Thinner to Thun. Sponsors benefit from favored policies, sponsors donate to Thun and Congress, and we see the cycle, the influence cycle, the weed water, repeat cycle here. Oh, that's data Republicans' little logo. So here's the interesting thing about this. One of the also biggest donors to Punchbowl News happens to be you're gonna love this.

SPEAKER_25 1:03:14

Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_19 1:03:14

Uh-oh, did I already click out? Oh, here it is. Already get love this. Punchbull News gets 95% of its revenue from corporate sponsors, including what does that say, Ron?

SPEAKER_25 1:03:25

Alibaba, CCP.

SPEAKER_19 1:03:28

Oh Alibaba. State media must register as foreign agents under FARA unless you're just sponsoring a newsletter. This is how foreign operation works. Alibaba is one of Punchbull's top sponsors. Yay, China. Wow. So now, why would John Thune be like, we don't have the votes, and I'm not going to force him to vote. I don't have leverage on them. Blah, blah. Why?

SPEAKER_25 1:03:50

Money straight from China.

SPEAKER_19 1:03:52

Money straight from China. And what's the thing you're blocking right now that has 95% support? It'll likely be the most popular piece of legislation in the history of the United States. Oh, I don't have the votes. I got all these unelected senators over here that are benefactors of the, you know, the China program and the stolen elections. And of course, I've got my corporate sponsors because I might be a benefactor myself. You never there it is, guys. Follow the money. Follow the ballots, follow the money. And they both lead back to what? Red CCP China. Here we are as peasants. I just don't want to pay income tax in Washington State. I just want to have no boys and girls' locker rooms. I I just want to say the Pledge of Allegiance and then go about my day and and you know live life and have my religious beliefs. But instead, I gotta deal with all this nonsense. I gotta, I gotta send my sons and daughters to fight overseas. Why? Well, narco-terrorists, no? That wouldn't even be a problem if we could have elections that would put criminals in prison in the first place. Slowly but surely, we've lost our political sovereignty to China. And we were this close to losing our national sovereignty to China. You know what I mean? When you have the leader of the Senate who's supposed to win this thing and get it on the floor and pass you're not gonna lose any votes back home, John Thune, if you pass this.

SPEAKER_25 1:05:24

But all we have to do to preserve that is to give up our personal sovereignty. It's okay, Taylor.

SPEAKER_19 1:05:31

Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, what's the big deal here? You know, look at all the people China's raised out of poverty. They only had to kill off like 20% of their population to get there, if they even have the population they claim to have.

SPEAKER_24 1:05:41

Right.

DOJ Moves In Fulton And Maricopa

SPEAKER_19 1:05:42

Right? The whole thing, it's the same thread. This cabal wants to control everything. And the only way to control the world is you've got to destroy the United States and her constitution. That's the only way to do it. Because we, the American people, are too strong. We Act voluntarily. We act with with absolute dedicated devotion. Why? Because we're self-interested people. As Ayn Rand says, it's the highest of virtues. Okay. It's what led to the 5,000-year leap. We declared independence, and here comes trains and internet, electricity, and space travel. Something that Rome couldn't accomplish in 2,000 years. You'd have to go back to Atlantis. The last time we've been at this level of technology, if Atlantis is real. So, what are they going to find? The DOJ went into Fulton County. The DOJ went into Maricopa County. What's going to be the result of all this?

SPEAKER_18 1:06:41

What are they going to find in Fulton? What are they going to find in Maricopa? What is the big kahuna here?

SPEAKER_06 1:06:47

Yeah. I think we're going to find that there are people serving in Congress and serving in other state offices that didn't win those elections. So we have just like Joe Biden. So we're going to find that. They're going to find criminal activities, particularly in as they have in uh uh Fulton County and of course Maricopa County. But these are just those are tactics of a of the broader strategy. But I think what we're going to find is we're going to be looking at the results, the real results, once we lay them out. And many of them have started to get laid up, particularly in Fulton County, because they're already down into the weeds of that. And we're going to see people that are serving in elected offices that were not elected. That's not a constitutional republic. That's that's a criminal enterprise. What are they going to find?

SPEAKER_19 1:07:37

As they said, a cabal. What an amazing journey we've been on. We could just wrap this show up and be like, yeah, okay, let's few new elections. John Solomon was on with Benny Johnson because we've had these big news stories. They had four operations against Donald Trump, and we're finding out about foreign influence. So it's been suspected, suspected. But now John Solomon has information on his desk, and he's saying in the next couple of days, we're going to find out more. And what are we going to find out that might sway some of these senators or not?

SPEAKER_18 1:08:10

But your take on Maricopa County, you're saying that what's going to happen is we're going to find out the Chinese had a major heavy hand in rigging election? What what's your take on the channel yesterday in Maricopa?

SPEAKER_11 1:08:22

Yeah, it wasn't really right. It was a grand jury subpoena, but they grabbed the staff. There will be some search warrants executed in the coming days, based on my reporting. Uh, they're looking at in Maricopa County, it's a very technical thing, just like it was in Georgia. Did you follow state law? Because if he didn't administer a federal election as it was supposed to be under state law, you can be charged federally. It's just about doing the right thing and following the law. But above that, not in Maricopa County, not in Fulton County, there is an extraordinary review going on by the CIA director, the FBI director, the director of national intelligence. So Tulsi Gavard, John Radcliffe, and Cash Patel, they have found a body of documents that I think will trouble all of us and probably will have a profound effect on the Senate debate over the Save America Act. A lot of senators are sitting up there saying, I don't know if I need to vote for this, I don't know what the politics are. Wait a second. When they find out that maybe voter identities in their state databases were penetrated by China and used in influence operations, that may change their mind as well. I think the debate in the Senate could be informed by what comes out in the next few weeks.

SPEAKER_19 1:09:23

Oh, fascinating. Or they can be like, but we like it that way. This is this is right here. It's like we are on the cliff's edge of going deep into this and finding out how much our country's been stolen. There might be dog catchers in your local county that have to go be arrested for violating your rights under color of law that were put in by China. District attorneys, prosecutors, judges, county commissioners, planning board people, judges, you know, in Washington State, our judges are elected, and we have mail-in votes on Dominion machines. Do you trust our Supreme Court? Do you trust our judicial branch? Do you trust our legislatures? Do you no? Even our Republicans, many of them are bought off. John Thune takes indirect benefit from Alibaba.

SPEAKER_28 1:10:13

Good.

SPEAKER_19 1:10:14

Okay. Uh Harmite Dillon was on with Chanel Rion talking about she actually went out and was one of the political observers that went and put eyes on Maricopa County. And then she got into the civil rights division. She's the assistant attorney general. So she saw it firsthand.

SPEAKER_12 1:10:30

There's a lot of work movement happening in Maricopa County, Arizona, a hotbed of election fraud. Do you expect anything interesting to come out of there? Is there anything you can share on that front?

SPEAKER_04 1:10:42

There's nothing that I can share right now, but I can tell you, Chanel, that I've been on the ground in a couple of successive elections in Arizona, including uh being stationed there in 2024 and managing those operations from a political perspective. And some of the things I've seen over there are just like incompetence so bad you have to wonder if it's deliberate. And, you know, lack of chain of custody, of ballots, um, improper sized ballots being provided, improper sized paper being provided for the print-on-demand ballots in the voter centers in Maricopa County, uh, you know, random things like proper equipment not being available entire countywide and some of the more rural areas there. It's really a shambolic and poorly run system in Arizona. And so whether it's fraud, whether it's incompetence, either way, that kind of thing really decreases the confidence of voters in the outcome of elections, which is a tragedy for any functioning republic democracy. And we have to put a stop to that. Everybody should look at the outcome of an election and accept its results, feeling confident that you have a competent government doing their job and not just treating this like some second or third class right. It's a first-class right in this country to vote and to have the ability and confidence that your vote is being counted once and only with American citizens. And the rest of the world, even countries that we kind of frown upon as not really being functional democracies like our Democratic Republic, they have elections in some of these third world countries, and everyone accepts the outcome because they looks like they're at least that's being competently run in their country. We have the opposite here. A lot of things happen very well in our country, technology, but in this particular area, some states and many election officials have made it easy to cheat and also uh hard to have confidence in the outcome. And we're trying to put a stop to that in this admin.

SPEAKER_19 1:12:33

They've made it easy to cheat. Who takes advantage of it? China, who's got a is got a building full of people that study every county and their election rules, and they know how to cheat in every single county.

SPEAKER_25 1:12:44

What a great word she used there. Shambolic.

Arizona Officials Resist Federal Subpoenas

SPEAKER_19 1:12:48

Shambolic. What a great yep. And you want to know what shambolic looks like when you have to defend a shambolic election? Here is Arizona's Secretary of State. General Mays, let's talk about what is happening.

SPEAKER_03 1:12:58

The FBI conducting a probe of 2020 election in Maricopa County. Um, tell me what you think is motivating the administration and how you plan to fight back. Despite the fact that we have uh had multiple audits on our 2020 election, multiple investigations, all of which showed that our election was run absolutely solidly.

SPEAKER_19 1:13:22

We were on what about that missing equipment in rural counties, sharpie gate, miss sized printers, chain of custody problems. What the hell were ballots from Nevada doing in Maricopa County and Utah?

SPEAKER_25 1:13:34

Okay, what uh as far as I know, none of this has ever been quote unquote adjudicated. So what are you even talking about?

SPEAKER_19 1:13:43

It was adjudicated. Don't question the elections, dismissed on standing, right? Or latches. This is it. Straight to jail, straight to jail. No soup for you. Okay, this is so bad, but that's it. We've been we've been drawing some, you know, we've we've stayed, we kept the keys to the building, so we're still in part, is what she's saying here, right? Fantastic. Oh, and then here's the deflection.

SPEAKER_03 1:14:08

Oh, they're just coming after elections because elections in the state of Arizona, and here they go again. Uh, and and it's just unbelievable. I think it's a distraction from the Epstein files, it's a distraction from the rising cost of gasoline due to the Iran war, and it's a distraction from the tariffs that are costing the American people so much money. So it's outrageous, and they ought to knock it off.

SPEAKER_25 1:14:37

Oh, yeah. Outrageous and they all know. This is a waste of time, Taylor. Quit asking questions.

SPEAKER_19 1:14:42

Yeah. Now they've done some preemptive work because you know, these these there's a big scared. So Adrian Fontes and the Secretary of State there, they wrote a letter to the county recorders. Dear county recorders, in light of recent news that the Department of Justice, DOJ, subpoenaed county, uh, state senate for records, and Senate held in connection with its 2021 subpoena of Maricopa for election records. So it goes on and kind of describes all that. And then it goes on to say here, listen, it says, uh, thus far, three courts have had have addressed this issue and determined that state privacy laws are hiding behind privacy laws. There's nothing private. State privacy laws, oh, law presumed by the federal law cited by DOJ, and therefore state statutes prohibit disclosure of private voter information, just like the federal law referenced above. As public servants, we took an oath to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the state of Arizona, and to bear true faith and allegiance to the same. That oath, that state and federal law prohibit you from turning over unredacted voter files to the DOJ. But there's the whole oath constitution. If you get a federal subpoena, you're supposed to comply with it. We cannot overstate the importance of protecting voter voters' private data. We don't want anybody to know where these voters came from, that they came from China, or they came from Mexico, or they're not going to be able to do that. As the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California concluded, it seems the executive branch of the United States government wants to abridge the right of many Americans to cast their ballots. Or we want to abridge the right of Chinese nationals to cast their ballots or Mexicans to cast their ballots or Iranians to cast their ballots or Canadians to cast their ballots in America.

SPEAKER_25 1:16:28

Or have them cast casting my ballots.

SPEAKER_19 1:16:31

Yeah, or my ballots, yes. We have a sacred duty to protect our constituents' privacy and uphold the law, and we urge you to stand with American democracy for a republic and protect Arizona citizens from the federal government's unprecedented abuse of authority. If your office receives a federal grand jury subpoena demanding that you turn over voters' private data, we urge you to notify our offices immediately so we can run interference. The grand jury should not serve to circumvent Arizona's ongoing lawsuit. But I thought we took an oath to the Constitution, which says if you get a grand jury subpoena from a federal thing, it's superior to the state offices immediately. The grand jury should not serve to circumvent Arizona's ongoing lawsuit, and our offices will pursue all legal actions available to prevent the Department of Justice from misusing grand jury process. I implore you to fulfill your oath by declining any such legal demands. That's sedition.

SPEAKER_25 1:17:25

I was just gonna say that sounds like Mark Kelly.

Mark Elias Warns Of A Collision

SPEAKER_19 1:17:28

Yes. The cabal. Our offices are committed to upholding the sanctity of Arizona's elections and democratic processes. We will pursue to the fullest extent of the law all possible remedies to ensure the integrity of Arizona's elections and the privacy rights of its citizens, respectfully, Chris Mays and Adrian Fonte. Adrian Fontes, whose dad was a cartel member and he was a cartel lawyer. Oh fun. Now Mark Elias weighs in, and whenever Mark Elias weighs in, you know it's a heavy hitter. You know, he had an indictment ready to go by uh uh Mueller. No Durham, Durham. He had an indictment by Durham, and then Big DOJ stepped in and said, no indictment for Mark Elias. He was indicted. Okay, we just found out that out this week with one of these disclosures.

SPEAKER_13 1:18:13

Look, I think you put it really well in the introduction that the 2026 midterm elections are all around us. The attacks on democracy are all around us.

SPEAKER_19 1:18:22

Yeah, they're all around us. They're in Iran, they're in Venezuela, they're in the Strait of Taiwan. The 2020 election is all around us. That's all this is about. That's all it's about. It's not about anything else. It's not about drug trafficking. CIA was in on that. It's not about, you know, uh money laundering and financial fraud. Oh, you know, politicians have had their hands out forever. It's not about any of that.

SPEAKER_25 1:18:46

Here's a quick hot take. You know, those boats they blew up, you know, the drug trafficking boats. They had ballots on them, not cocaine? No. That was just the competition.

SPEAKER_19 1:18:57

Exactly. Okay. So it's this is all about the elections. Epstein files everything. Because remember, Epstein was tied in with the Russian gate bladders, Kathy Rumner, and on and on. This is all about the midterms. It's all around us. It's not a distraction from, it's a diversion when we focus on that. That's what's great about this show. The peasant's perspective. My most valuable form of currency is my ballot. We can flush out all the nonsense with free and fair elections.

SPEAKER_25 1:19:32

And we can we just need about 300 million more subscribers to get our message out. Share the show.

SPEAKER_19 1:19:39

Seriously. If there is institutional suppression, they would suppress the show because we cut through the bullshit of all the other stuff and bring it back to where it actually matters. This is about the midterms because it's about your ballots. When Lisa, 1776Live.us, don't forget to register for Ignite tomorrow night, said to me, I wish Trump wouldn't have done this Iran thing right before the midterms. He had to. He had to. He had to. Because you gotta pull up, you gotta get to China. You gotta put them in check. I sure hope we don't go to war with China this summer.

SPEAKER_25 1:20:16

No.

SPEAKER_19 1:20:16

Right? But you've got to put them in a position where they're not gonna do it again. I don't want to go to war with anybody. I don't want to go with anyone. But my ballot is all I have. I either have ballots or I have bullets. There's no middle ground. When you want to determine the course of our lives and our futures and our children's future and our posterity, you have ballots or you have bullets. And we're doing this podcast because we want to stay on the ballot side. You want to stay on the ballot side. I already shook a gate.

SPEAKER_13 1:20:53

And my fear is that people are not focused on these things until way too close to election day. I mean, as you point out, we've now had two counties have their ballots uh seized, one by subpoena and one by search warrant. Uh, we have the Department of Justice in court trying to get access uh to the most sensitive data on voters that states keep in 30 states. At least a dozen Republican-controlled states have turned that data over uh voluntarily. You have Congress having enacted a version of the SAVE Act, which would be a catastrophe for voters. You have the president insisting that that doesn't go far enough and needs to also include provisions that uh that do away with all voting by mail and that he'll shut down all congressional business. He has said he will issue an executive order if Congress doesn't do this. I mean, we are we are on a fast-moving train towards an absolute uh uh collision point for democracy between the president of the United States and the rule of law and free and fair elections. I said this in the run-up to the 2020 election, and I know, Nicole, you and have been sounding the alarm as well, but we need everyone now to recognize that that collision is not going to wait till November. It's gonna start to take place before then.

SPEAKER_29 1:22:04

Yeah, I feel like it's it's also a roller derby, right? Where like like punches are being thrown and elbows are being shoved into ribs now. I mean, why does the FBI have election material from Maricopa County?

SPEAKER_13 1:22:19

They have election material from Maricopa County for two reasons. And I think people need to internalize that both of these things are true. Okay. Number one, Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, and he is on a vindictive campaign to go after anyone who says that uh that uh that he lost it, right?

SPEAKER_19 1:22:37

So so they are it's not so much anyone who says they lost it, it's anyone who caused them to lost it.

SPEAKER_25 1:22:43

Allah, Venezuela, Iran. Right. That thing that he said is this is there's two truths. He immediately told the non-truth, the partial truth.

unknown 1:22:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_19 1:22:52

But that's the thing. Yes, yes, Donald Trump is on a vindictive campaign. But he didn't on my behalf, or me, for me, for Taylor. He's on a vindictive campaign to go after the people who stole my ballots, right? So yeah, uh, I mean, there's a grain of truth in that.

SPEAKER_13 1:23:07

Data in Fulton County and in Naracopa County to continue to spread the big lie about the outcome of the 2020 election and to criminally prosecute anyone he possibly can who uh has told the truth. That is that is one reason. But there is a second reason that is independently uh uh important, and that is it is a dry run for 2026. Every time they engage in these tactics, they learn something about the logistics of seizing ballots, and that's no small thing. I mean, in Fulton County, remember, they went and got a search warrant, and then it turns out their search warrant was wrong because it targeted the wrong facility or the wrong place. Well, in the process of fixing that, they learned something about how you seize ballots in Fulton County. When you saw the director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, on an evidence truck, it was alarming because Tulsi Gabbard is the director of national intelligence on evidence truck. But what you saw were boxes of ballots, and they learned a lot about how many trucks you need to get all the ballots, how the ballot, how the boxes uh need to be stacked. Are they pre-boxed in the facility or do you need to bring boxes? And the same thing is happening here. So it is both a way of vilifying people over the 2020 election and being vindictive there, but it is also critically a dry run for what they hope what they expect to be prepared for and want to be prepared for uh in 2026.

SPEAKER_25 1:24:29

Man, I think it'd take me 10 to 10.

SPEAKER_29 1:24:31

The audit of the Arizona vote was done by uh a super MAGA outfit called something like Ninja Mutant Turtles or Cyber Ninjas.

SPEAKER_19 1:24:42

It was the Cyber Ninjas, and it is a silly name, it is a silly name, but what they do is they do cybersecurity and forensic nationality.

SPEAKER_25 1:24:50

I know, but she butchered it on purpose and made it sound kidlike before she did.

SPEAKER_19 1:24:54

Yep, it was a silly name, but nonetheless, very legitimate firm or something.

SPEAKER_29 1:24:58

I mean, this wasn't this wasn't even the Republican governor, it was also a Trump backer. This was like a MAGA outfit for profit.

Jury Training And Jury Nullification

SPEAKER_19 1:25:06

All right. And I don't know that they were all that MAGA, to be completely honest with you. The amount of pressure they had not to put into the report that the results that they had were conclusive that the election was fraudulent was immense, and they buckled. They absolutely buckled. If you go read that cyber symposium report, you just walk away going, what? This printed ballots, sharpie markers, matching signatures to the thousands. I mean, it was like, what? Oh, it wasn't dispositive on the election, though. What okay? One of the things that we were just LARPing. Yeah, we were just LARPing. One of the things that the left is just masterful at is manipulating every system that we have. And one of the systems we have is trial by jury, right? If you're gonna bring criminal charges, we are given constitutional protections to say that it has to be brought by a grand jury. If you're gonna spend a year or more in jail, you have a right to have a grand jury look at that information, and then you have a right to be tried by a jury of your peers. Well, the left is getting really organized because they know one of the worst things that could happen to their political power is for the criminals to go to jail. I know it sounds crazy, right? I know it sounds crazy. Remember, Joe Biden did let out thousands of criminals in his last days. Okay, but they clearly have an affinity for lack of law and order. It creates a necessity for them to be benefactors. If your neighborhoods aren't safe, well, vote for me and I'll send an extra cop. It's astonishing. Yeah, whatever the case is. So one of the things they're doing is they're actually holding trainings and training camps teaching American citizens. If you went to one of these events and you got taught this, you might not get called for a jury for five, six years, but you're gonna remember what you learned.

SPEAKER_30 1:26:50

James, given your experience as a former agent, how tough it is to put these cases together meticulously with evidence, what type of threat does this organization pose to our judicial system?

SPEAKER_31 1:27:05

Laura, a huge threat. And I love the definition that they give. They're self-describe the freedom trainers as a loose network of trainers teaching collective non-cooperation. Now, Laura, what are they not cooperating with? Our justice system, which is inarguably the best in the world. And what is the jury selection system? That is the process where we choose jurors who are impartial individuals for a trial. Now, I have sat in as the lead FBI agent on cases during what's called void dire. Voidir is where you get an opportunity to check and evaluate witnesses for how good or how suited they are. They are teaching these potential jurors to not tell the truth, to say that you'll be impartial and not do so.

SPEAKER_19 1:27:56

Yep. So they're spoiling the institution. Of the grand jury and the trial and the jury trial.

SPEAKER_25 1:28:03

Now, aren't there consequences for doing something like that?

SPEAKER_19 1:28:06

Yeah, it's called acquittal. Drop charges, which means criminals can potentially get let free. Now, I am not anti-you should learn your rights and learn what your rights are and what you can do as a juror. I do believe in jury nullification. I totally believe in it.

SPEAKER_24 1:28:20

Right.

SPEAKER_19 1:28:21

Because jury nullification is given to we the people. It's our veto power. Yeah. And what do we get to veto? There's three branches of government. The legislative branch writes the laws. So a jury can look at a charge and an event and go, that law is stupid. The legislature messed up. And you can nullify the conviction or the charge, which is basically a slap to the legislature saying that law is bad. Judges and the judicial process, right? Because the judicial branch oversees it, they can make critical missteps. They could show bias. There's a whole bunch of things that they can do. And a jury can go, this isn't fair. And a juror can go, I don't think this process is fair. This guy's getting railroaded, and they can nullify the judicial process.

SPEAKER_24 1:29:05

Okay.

SPEAKER_19 1:29:05

The other thing is obviously the prosecutor, the executive branch who executes the laws. If they think that it's not fair, the charges aren't right, whatever the case is, a jury can nullify, right? And basically say, nope, go back to start. So it is our veto vote. Right now, if anybody in a United States courtroom says the said nullif, the judge will start screaming. Okay. I know, I know because I tried it. They don't want to talk about it because it is the people's veto. There's a room with 12 people in it and one person who says, I'm not acquitting and I'm not convicting. I'm nullifying. I don't like the whole thing. It stinks to high heaven. Right? The whole process comes to a grinding halt. That's how much power you have. As an American, you only get to vote a couple times. You get a ballot once every year for local, every two years for federal, you get a jury vote. Those are the two votes that you get. Those are the two moments where you get to set the government in motion and you get to shut it down. Those are the two most important things you get. When we talk about being a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, that's it. It's a bicycle, and those are where that's where the rubber meets the road.

SPEAKER_25 1:30:24

Everything else in your life should be pursuing freedom and happiness. Everything else.

SPEAKER_19 1:30:28

And let the process play out. Yep. And then reevaluate it every year when you go to vote. You know what I mean? That's how it's supposed to be. And when you recognize the power of that, you desire to be an informed elector. You desire to put good people into power that share your ideology, your belief systems, your faith, whatever it is, right? But when that's taken from you, you feel like you're banging your head against the wall. As Dan Carlin said, it's one big club and you ain't in it. Okay. But you are. You are in it. The government, the constitution is a reflection of the constitution of the people. What can we take? And in 2020, in 2020, a lot of Americans woke up. Right? I can't, I wouldn't say I wasn't awake, but I was like, time to go protest. And I took it. In my particular case, I accepted everything. I didn't care what they said about me because I knew that at the end of the day, they didn't actually have authority to adjudicate me. You know what I mean? And I just took it. Accepted it all. And as you guys know, you listen to me every day. I'm not particularly bitter about it. It had to happen. Right? I had great, great-grandfathers who fought in the Revolutionary War. Had to happen. You put your life at risk. You put things at risk. Why? Because I care about the world my children grow up in. I care deeply about that. Carolyn Levitt had a press briefing, and she's emphasizing in all the chaos around the world, in all the things that are happening, and all the cards Trump is playing and everything he's doing, it all boils down to one thing and one thing only.

SPEAKER_17 1:32:02

President's demand that Congress pass the Save America Act, requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

SPEAKER_23 1:32:08

He wants all options on the table and he wants the Senate to move as quickly as possible through whatever means necessary.

SPEAKER_17 1:32:14

But Senate Majority Leader John Thune is doubtful the Senate can execute President Trump's directive. Do you run a risk of being on the wrong side of President Trump in your resistance to do this talking filibuster, tying the Senate in knots for weeks?

SPEAKER_14 1:32:27

We don't have the votes either to proceed, get on a talking filibuster, nor to sustain one if we got on it. Does he understand that, though? Well, we've conveyed that to him. I'm the one who has to be the clear-eyed realist about what we can achieve here.

SPEAKER_17 1:32:41

Some Republicans worry that a protracted debate about voter security could devolve into a political free-for-all, ranging from January 6th to the Epstein files.

SPEAKER_00 1:32:51

Are we opening ourselves up to a series of losing control of the floor? Having votes that are probably not good.

SPEAKER_17 1:32:59

President Trump has delayed his endorsement in the Texas Senate race. It's an effort to apply pressure on GOP Senator John Cornyn and other Republicans to pass the bill.

SPEAKER_19 1:33:11

I do believe some of the senators are just so ignorant of the facts because they're in a punch bowl that they don't recognize it's all connected. It's all one conversation. Epstein, January 6th, Russia gate, Ukraine gate, the Russia-Ukraine war. It's all connected. It's all connected. Armite Dillon was on with John Solomon. She talks about accountability. Are there going to be criminal charges for the weaponization?

SPEAKER_04 1:33:37

Well, it could be. You know, we are a lot of the stuff has been concealed. I think it's come out there that FBI has found things and restricted access or prohibited access. Things have been dumped and shoved and mislabeled deliberately and concealed. And that itself is, of course, obstruction of justice. And so getting unpulling on that thread and untangling it and getting to getting to the bottom of it is a challenge. And you see a lot of frustration online, John. I get it on just about every time I announce something that my office has done almost daily or sometimes more than once a day. Where the arrests are meeting you know, we don't believe it anymore. I mean, we have due process in our country and and our standard is a high one. And so you're not going to have arrests at the front end, the rest happen at the back end of an investigation, not at the front end of that. So we are diligently working together as a huge DOJ with, you know, tens of thousands of employees nationally and working on these issues. But justice must be served in these circumstances. Um I do feel it will be. I personally am committed to it in whatever small part I can play. Um civil rights division uh investigates conspiracies against civil rights. We've brought some criminal charges in that regard. You've seen that in Minnesota, and you will see more of those cases. And so uh we're you you have a team of, I think, the most zealous advocates for liberty at the DOJ, and I'm really proud to be a small part of Camp Bondi's team with Todd Blanche and others who are doing a great job.

Accountability Timeline And Hidden Evidence

SPEAKER_11 1:35:04

You know, I talked to a whisper for the other day and said it took 10 years for the uh weaponized government to do all the things it did. It's going to take us a little time to unravel, particularly when it's uh hidden.

SPEAKER_04 1:35:13

Oh, okay. Let me tell you something. I learned recently from the reports about Arctic Frost that my law firm was targeted in years ago. Yeah. No one told us. I never got a notice. No one told us that our outrageously there was an attempt to pierce our attorney-client privilege communications with our client and the campaign, the president, the Republican National Committee. So I'm as outraged as anybody about this and as motivated to make sure that these violations of our civil rights should never happen again. And I, you know, like these are the most precious common law rights, the attorney-client privilege, um, you know, your privacy rights and their natural rights as well. Uh and uh people have very casually waived these rights and said everything is uh Google has it, it's in the cloud or what have you. No, we have rights to privacy in our country, and that DOJ officials who work in the same building as I currently who worked in the same building as I currently work in, shredded those rights should be morally offensive to every American, regardless of politics.

SPEAKER_11 1:36:15

You're confident they shredded our rights, aren't you?

SPEAKER_04 1:36:17

I'm very confident. I know it. I believe it, I know it. I've seen some things that shock me to the conscience and to my core as a lawyer for more than three decades. We have to stop it.

SPEAKER_11 1:36:27

Yeah, well, this will be the moment. We'll know in the next couple of years, I think, what what the ultimate outcome, but it it is an amazing if you're in the punditry space and you're not talking about how the election connects to everything, you're missing the whole thing.

Going Private Epstein And Zorro Ranch

SPEAKER_19 1:36:43

These people are champions. Ermit Dylan, Cash Patel, sure, goes and parties with the hockey team. He was spied on. You don't think he's trying to do something about it? Prevent it from happening again? Trump? You know what I mean? Like you're missing it. If you're criticizing every single move they make, you have no idea what you're doing behind the scenes. Just like we had no idea when the FBI was being weaponized under our noses. You have no idea what they're doing. Just like we have no idea what's really happening in Iran. We just get these little new newsboards and we get to pull it all together. And over time, you start to see a lot of stuff stacking up as evidence of what is really happening. You have to triangulate it. You know, you can't just follow one person unless it's us. All right, guys, it's gonna we're gonna jump over into private. Hopefully, accountability is coming. I'm gonna play for you what I think is one of the dumbest things Mike Johnson has ever said. We're gonna be talking a little bit about the Epstein murder and how that prison guard that took the 5,000 bucks and was Googling Epstein minutes before he died, how she's going to be getting a subpoena. I think she's just the cover-up girl, personally, because I don't think she had the strength to strangle Epstein. I think someone else did the dirty work. No chance. But I think she knows a little something about it. And this completely jives with my first hand account from in prison from an inmate that was on the block that said he saw the video and was essentially paralyzed as a shot across the bow, I guess you could say. So I have a uh that it jives with that. We're also gonna hear the long form of uh one of the clips I played. We're gonna hear the long form of it from John Solomon that goes into more detail, tying some of it all together. And uh, and then we're also gonna be talking about Zoro Ranch. They're investigating Zorro Ranch finally. And uh James Colmer talks about this, and I'm gonna point out one little sentence he says in this clip, and I'm gonna go, that right there is the door to cover up. Okay, I'm gonna show I'm gonna show it to you so you can hear these things because when you hear stuff like that, you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, you're wanting me to believe a story and you're prepping me to believe it when you release the the report, so to speak, which is the government's MO, right? That's the whole problem with internal investigations, IG reports. Right. They tend to they tend to be like, okay, we investigated, nothing to see there, folks. Shut up.

SPEAKER_25 1:39:05

And then they and also drip, drip, drip with a little bit of info.

SPEAKER_19 1:39:09

Drip, drip, drip with a little bit of info. They kind of disclose what they have to disclose, and then they wrap it up in a nice bow and say, nothing to see here, folks. So I'm gonna show you the one sentence that when you hear that sentence, your antenna should go way up, right? If it's worth investigating, there's probably criminal activity. So when investigations are publicly put out there and then we don't see something come of it, it's almost certainly, almost certainly a cover up. Okay, guys. So we'll talk to you guys in private that are sticking around, and the rest of you.