Bitcoin As An Escape Hatch For Ordinary People\n

The world keeps telling regular people to calm down while everything gets weirder, meaner, and more expensive. We start with a simple “peasants” reality check, then spiral from a Kentucky Derby moment that feels like simulation theory into the deeper problem: modern politics doesn’t just fight over tax rates anymore, it fights over whether America is worth defending at all.\n\nWe dig into why ugly campaigns are nothing new, but why today’s incentives feel uniquely corrosive, especially when media narratives harden into identity. We talk RussiaGate, how stories get laundered through leaks and headlines, and how Trump derangement syndrome can become a permanent operating system for voters who never get a clean correction. From the Ukraine whistleblower drama to the Comey 8647 indictment debate, we keep circling the same question: what happens when institutions meant to enforce the law also become tools in the political war?\n\nThen we take it to the “peasant” level where it really hurts: inflation, fiat currency debasement, and why saving in dollars can feel like running on a treadmill. We break down Bitcoin volatility, retirement flows, ETFs, and the argument that Bitcoin could eventually pull “savings demand” out of housing and make real estate less distorted. Finally, because this is a conspiracy show after all, we jump into Bigfoot claims and footage analysis, and why belief spreads when official answers feel thin.\n\nIf this conversation hits a nerve, subscribe, share the show with a friend, and leave a review with the one topic you want us to go deeper on next.

Transcript

SPEAKER_17 0:28

The revolution's gonna be kids for sure. It's a little guys, the little guys, everyone. 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, peasants. Welcome to another episode of The Peasants Perspective. It's Monday. Ron. Ron walked in this morning with about 45 seconds to spare and got the show launched pretty much on time. Pretty good, Ron. I'm very proud of you. Talk about talk about man of the moment. Man of the moment. Good morning in Boise. Glad you made it back home safe and sound. Carlito and Tiffany, good morning, y'all. So glad you guys are calling out from YouTube. We need more YouTube listeners. I mean, we want YouTube listeners to convert over to Rumble, but if you're on YouTube, don't forget to share the show. Share the show. That's for everybody. Everybody, share the show. All right. This is pretty good. How was your how was your sleep last night? We were in the studio yesterday with uh Mr. Gary Welch recording the first. What?

SPEAKER_20 1:44

It was pretty rough.

SPEAKER_17 1:45

Was it? Hence the late show up. Uh yeah. We were in the studio yesterday with Mr. Gary Welch recording the first podcast of Take Back Your County. So watch for that. It'll be coming up. It's one of the channels on the peasants' perspective. So if you go into the channels, you will see it. And go ahead and subscribe so you can get notified when the episode gets posted. It'll be great. Let's see. Pony Boy, good morning. Glad you're out there pumping oil, pumping oil. Carlitz, good morning, friends from Rumble. Thank you so much. Glad you guys are here. And we know why you guys show up right and early every morning. It's for the simultaneous sip. And all you need is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tanker, a chalice of stein, a canteen, a jugger of ask, even a can will do just fine. It's really just a vessel of any kind. And fill it with your favorite liquid. This morning I've got Dr. Pepper. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the mean thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip. And it starts right now.

SPEAKER_00 2:44

Damn it. It didn't work. We're still poor. Peter, every month our savings get smaller and smaller. We really gotta figure out a better way to budget for this family's future.

SPEAKER_32 2:54

Bitcoin. What? I don't know.

Kentucky Derby Names And Simulation Theory\n

SPEAKER_17 3:01

I was like, that's actually pretty good. Let's see. Pray the Rosary Daily. Good morning. Glad you made it. So good. Shantini, good morning. Welcome, welcome. From the great state of Michigan. John Atis, it's great to be in Idaho, considered a great state. Yeah, yeah, it is a great state. I know that's where a lot of our friends and family have moved to over the last couple years. Constantly asking the question when do you get out of East Berlin? Before or after the wall gets built, right? Before or after the wall gets built. Okay, so the Kentucky Derby was this weekend. Did you know that, Ron? No. Of course not, because you're not even a horse guy. The Kentucky Derby was this weekend, and I saw this clip. It was kind of fun. It says, I'm starting to think simulation theory is realistic. Number 17 leads almost the whole race. Golden Tempo, which is like golden time, golden age, right? Golden Tempo beats Renegade. What was Renegade? That was Obama's code name at the very last seconds. Think about that crazy coincidence. Trump, the Golden Age, Obama Secret Service name, Renegade. Last year, the winner of the Kentucky Derby was Sovereignty that beat out journalism. What in the Matrix is going on?

SPEAKER_32 4:10

And they're up in the Kentucky Derby. And a great start early for So Happy and Wonder Dean. Wonder Dean racing out there with the names of the names of the best. Speed from the far outside. And down toward the rail is Danon Bourbon. Four across the track by the stands for the first time. And here comes six speed with his speed. And six speed leads the way with a circuit to go. So happy just off racing in second. Denon Bourbon toward the inside. Third. A charge in behind them. Incredible is buried at the inside. Fourth potente bounced around in fifth. Three wide. Emerging market in six. Four wide. Wonder Dean in seventh. Five wide. Pavlovian in eighth. Further ado is racing in ninth. Chief Wallaby reserves. Wild tenth. Robusta is 11th. Intrepidot toward the inside is racing in 12th minutes. Commitment by another two to Incredible, who's already 12 lengths off the lead. And then another margin of eight lengths back. Renegade. Renegade is 15 lengths off the lead down the back stretch run as they head toward the far turn. O'Celly's alongside him. Albus and Golden Tempo so far behind. 46 and two, a spirited half mile. They hit the far turn. Six speed has the speed. Does he have the stamina? They round the far turn. Danon Bourbon is poised. So happy, free-wide right there. An emerging market is centered toward the inside. Has to quicken. Further ado. Commandment is coming with his rally now as they round the far turn. And O'Celly. O'Celly is picking it up with a wide bid as they come for the top of the stretch where Danon Bourbon has taken charge. Danon Bourbon's off the turn and he's got a three-way fleet heading for the eight pole. O'Celly and Commandment are closing in. Renegade rolling down the top of the track. And Golden Tempo from far behind. Danon Bourbon trying to fend off O'Celly. Renegade. And here's Golden Tempo. Golden Tempo from off the pace to win the Derby. Defending the racing, the finding win for you know, all that pump and circumstance for a two-minute race.

SPEAKER_17 6:26

Oh, so fun. Kentucky Derby, man. It is like as American as apple pie, isn't it? And most of America has no idea that we just had the Kentucky Derby.

SPEAKER_20 6:35

I almost turned into a horse guy. Huh? I almost turned into a horse guy.

SPEAKER_17 6:38

Almost turned into a horse. Dude, the commentators, the best. Like all those names, they're kind of confusing.

SPEAKER_20 6:44

I was like, man, this would be so great if they like combined this with mad libs.

Politics Has Always Been Nasty\n

SPEAKER_17 6:49

Combine it with mad libs. That's fun. Oh, anyways, Kentucky Derby was fun. Golden Temple took it last year. It was sovereignty. So lots of fun. What in the matrix is going on here? You know, so yesterday we had Ron and Gary in Studio. Excuse me. Ron, you were here too, but we had Gary in Studio and we were talking about politics. You know, it's a common topic for us every day. And uh one of the things that you hear consistently with people that are just becoming aware of what's happening politically, and especially if it's in the last 10 years, right? It's how ugly political races have become. So much mud smearing and name-calling and stuff like that. And I mentioned last week that back when Thomas Jefferson and Adams were running against each other, it was one of the most vicious presidential campaigns ever. It was for who was going to become the second president. Obviously, Thomas Jefferson became the third, but he ran against Adams the first time. And that was a bitter, bitter race. In fact, at one point, they were saying something about if the other candidate wins, her mafidites will run through the street of DC and blood will flow. It was like, oh, these guys are vicious. Mark Levine was on with Brett Bear, and he was talking about that presidential race and how politics has always been a pretty ugly game.

SPEAKER_16 8:02

You know, you look back to the founders, think about vice president Thomas Jefferson challenges John Adams, the sitting president, in 1800. You think campaigns are bad now? That was the ugliest of ugly campaigns. In fact, they didn't talk to each other for 11 years after that. But in 1812, they started writing letters together to each other. And by the time they died, by the way, they both died on July 4th. By the time they died, they became really close friends. My point in this is the virtue you talk about, the common ground that we have as Americans, is something that we need to rekindle. We need to remember to talk to each other before we do crazy things and make stupid statements online. Listen to each other. And um I think that that's what's in the pages of this book.

SPEAKER_34 8:53

No, it is. And uh a lot I'll tell you what, when you go through the chapters, there aren't a lot of chapters. You spend time on each subject and you give it the kind of time that it needs as an example. And like chapter seven, America Strives for a civil ideal. I thought that was a very, very important chapter, a civil society, civil ideal, understanding rights and privileges, um, and the community of man. Our system really does stress that, doesn't it? John Locke, the Declaration of Independence, the founding and so forth. We can have these huge, feverish differences, but the point is to do it in a relatively civil way, right?

SPEAKER_16 9:28

Exactly. And, you know, we've lost a little bit of that, and we've lost a little bit of that um uh, you know, dissent with civ civility. Uh and I think we need to all strive uh to be better at that. You know, I I have this thing on the show called Common Ground where I bring Democrats and Republicans together to talk about what they're working on in Washington as opposed to what they're fighting about. We talk about the news of the day and everything that's important, but we also talk about what they're working on. And at first I could never book my my staff said, but this is gonna be impossible to book, boss. And I said, wait, it's going to work. And I went up to Capitol Hill, I talked to the press secretaries and Democrats and Republicans, I said, this is the chance. And they started coming on. And we did it every week, back till uh since 2022. And I did a debate between Lindsey Graham and Bernie Sanders, at which they talked about their differences, but then they also talked about how they they could work together. Um, listen, it it can happen. I'm not saying we're looking through rose-colored glasses. We got a lot of differences, and you talk about them a lot. Um, but this book reminds us, as we get to the 250th, to take a breath and realize how great we have it.

SPEAKER_34 10:25

It is such an inspiring and patriotic book. I'm glad it came out as it did, and when it did The Case for America, an argument on behalf of our nation, folks. It is a fantastic book. You're gonna love it. Go to Amazon.com. Oh, the pitch.

Common Ground Versus Party Power\n

SPEAKER_17 10:38

So it's interesting to me. That is the most rhino thing I've ever heard. Right. Well, we've got common ground. We do have common ground. The truth of the matter is, we the people are have a lot more in common than we have separate, right? A lot more in common than separate. But when it comes to the politicians, Gary mentioned this yesterday in the episode we recorded. You know, he's been political consulting for years and years and years. He's like, trust me, there's no love lost between Republicans and Democrats. They hate each other, but they love the power each one of them gets, and then the next one gets the takeover, and they get those powers. And that is something that I think I think Donald Trump is a little bit unique in this, in this sense, in the fact that he was the victim instead of just the you know sideshow bob to the whole thing. The uh Gary mentioned, you know, Republicans talk so much about smaller government, lowering taxes, but when they take over after the Democrats have increased the size of government, they don't decrease the size of government. They just kind of slow down the growth for a minute, but they love all the big government stuff that they've got that they can use now to fill their coffers and you know, self-enrichment and all the things that come along with politics. But it's a little bit different now. It's a little bit different now in the fact that we have one political party that genuinely I'm not convinced love America, right? I'm not convinced they love America. Here's this poll that came out. This was uh CNN ran this piece. Let me find it here real quick. CNN ran this piece, and it was Scott Jennings on uh CNN, and he here's here's what he has to say. There's a poll that came out that showed that a an unfortunate large chunk of Americans don't think America is the greatest nation on earth. And he points out, yeah, but when you look at the cross tabs, the cross-referencing, you realize it's one party doesn't think America is the greatest nation on earth. That is the difference between politics now and politics before. There most Americans thought America was great. We were arguing over tax rates, we were arguing over policy. Now we're arguing over if we're even a good nation or not.

SPEAKER_08 12:45

Right. And even if we look at like what the United States is the greatest country in the world, 36% of people said that was true, 41% said it's one of, but only 23% but 23% of people said we're not one of the greatest countries.

SPEAKER_13 12:56

And if you look at the splits on that by politics, what would you find?

SPEAKER_08 13:00

We don't have that slide to the case.

SPEAKER_13 13:01

If you look at this, but if you look at the splits on how people feel about America, the promise of America, you look at whether they're proud of their country or not, Gallup has measured this. Republicans and conservatives are proud to be Americans. And it's Democrats and liberals who are not. And I think if you look at the splits in that, you'd find it's the opposite of where I wanted to be able to do it. You'd find the lines on the graph going Jesus.

SPEAKER_17 13:23

That's the opposite of where I wanted to go.

SPEAKER_13 13:26

Oh, because it's not about party in this way. And honestly, I I mean I think there's a political movement in this country right now built on telling people that America's rotten at its core, and it's not the Republican uh ideology, right?

Is One Side Anti-America?\n

SPEAKER_17 13:37

And even if we look at like what it's not the Republican ideology, it's the Democrat ideology. Marco Rubio, here's this great uh quote from Marco Rubio. Let me grab it here. He said this. He said, We've uh Marco Rubio, quote, I believe there are a lot of people in this country influenced by Marxism that don't even realize they're being influenced by Marxism. It's infused every aspect of our society. And I think that's absolutely true. I mean, as someone who can spot Marxism and collectivism a mile away, it's amazing to me when I talk to people that we agree on 98% of things, but they've got that poison pill of Marxism, right? The way we agree about things is like, well, I think we should take care of the poor too, but how we take care of them is a different story. Does that make sense? And to them, Marxists want to use the power of the state to do it. I'm like, I want to use the power of the individual to do it. It's a different paradigm completely. Here's Barack Obama being interviewed about Russia Gate. This is back, uh this was on MPR, and this was back when uh the world still thought RussiaGate was a real thing. And and we read last week the actual documentation that Tulsi Gabbard has disclosed, uh, unclassified, that talked about how this the intelligence community clearly established that Russia did not interfere in the election. They meddled, right, but nothing substantial. And they couldn't find any kind of significant cyber fraud coming from Russia. But then the next document we showed was where the IC changed course at the direction of Barack Obama, right? He wanted a report from the IC that did say that Russia meddled, which is what kicked off the Russia investigations and really derailed Republican policy agendas for four years.

SPEAKER_40 15:26

You talked about this with the comedian Trevor Noah the other day, and you said a number of things in a row. You observed that there had been contacts between members of Mr. Trump's staff and Russian officials. You noted that Trump benefited from the hacks. Uh your spokesman, Josh Earth, has gone on to say this week that it's obvious that Trump knew what was going on. To what extent are you suggesting some kind of cooperation between the president-elect and Russian officials here?

SPEAKER_11 15:56

Well, I'm I'm not suggesting cooperation at all. Keep in mind that those statements were in the context of everyone now acting surprised by the CIA assessment that this was done purposely to improve Trump's chances. And my only point was that shouldn't be treated as a blockbuster, because that was the worst kept secret in this town. Everybody understood that. Steve, if you go back and look at your stories, if you read any mainstream publication, you would see that if you have a hack of the DNC.

SPEAKER_17 16:45

So we gotta go back to this, right? The DNC got hacked. They needed to find a a bl someone to blame. They blamed Russia, and then they pinned it on Trump that he was benefiting from the Russia hacks and the cyber hacks and the influence campaign that Russia was doing. It was a best kept secret. It was being widely reported. Where did the reporting come from? Let's refresh our memory here. Where did the reporting come from? It came from leaks from the FBI and likely the CIA to journalists to publish it, which then they used the turnaround to get warrants. They information laundered a smear campaign originated from Hillary Clinton and then promoted by Barack Obama through the media, right? This is where Pizzagate came from. This is where Uranium One was exposed. This was where like a whole series of scandals will all expose through those hacks. The Green Scam was exposed through the hack, alien cover-up was exposed through those hacks. It's mostly inconsequential. I mean, mostly nothing.

SPEAKER_11 18:22

Then it's a pretty clear inference that people would draw and did draw that this was helping the Trump campaign and it was hurting the the Hillary campaign. That doesn't mean that the Trump campaign was coordinating. It just means that they understood what everybody else understood, which was that this was not good for Hillary Clinton's campaign.

SPEAKER_17 18:47

And when you who else understood that? James Comey, right? All the people that wanted her to win, they all understood that it was bad for her. But we can't take the actual brunt of this, so what do they do? The wrap-up smear. The wrap-up smear.

SPEAKER_11 19:02

Combine that with the fact that the President elect has been very honest about his admiration for Putin. Uh and that he hopes to forge a more cooperative relationship with him and focus on uh the threat of his Islamic terrorism. Uh then my only point was we shouldn't now suddenly act as if this is a huge revelation. In October, we said, after being very careful about it, because we had no interest in appearing as if we were putting our thumbs on the scales, was almost unprecedented, which was every intelligence agency in the federal government arrived at a consensus that the Russians had hacked uh the DNC and the information was that was now being released uh was as a consequence of a decision by Russian intelligence and Russian officials at the highest levels. So uh what the CIA is now assessing, which was it was done purposefully to tilt uh the election uh in another in the direction of a particular candidate, shouldn't be a surprise to anybody, and in fact isn't a surprise to anybody.

SPEAKER_17 20:32

Uh it was a surprise to Trump, it was a surprise to everybody, and that's what kicked off the entire four-year firestorm. Now, I know that was hard to listen to.

SPEAKER_19 20:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_17 20:42

I know that was hard. What happened to my sound? You're good. You can hear me? What did I do? I don't know. Uh-oh, my headphones have a short in it. Okay, so to us, we're like, well, yeah, I mean, Trump wasn't colluding with Russia, but you've got to remember, right? In this environment we have that is extremely divisive, and you have people that are absolutely infected with Trump derangement syndrome, Trump derangement syndrome did not arrive because Trump lowered gas prices. It did not arrive because Trump tried to close the border and stop mass migration. It did not arrive because Trump wanted to lower taxes, right? It arrived because a big chunk of America believed that Trump was working with Russia and Russia is the boogeyman. And people in the media, legacy media specifically, pushed this narrative like there was no tomorrow.

SPEAKER_20 21:35

Jake Tapper being chief in case chief of chief uh well, they pushed it so hard that there are a bunch of people that still believe it. Still believe it.

SPEAKER_17 21:45

Still believe it. Despite all the stuff that's come out, still believe it. It's easier to fool a man than to convince he's been fooled. If your entire political agenda and your entire political opinion revolves around Russia Gate, oh boy. Outfall of that, it's hard to look in the mirror and realize you were wrong. Even Jig Tamper has to dance around this issue now.

SPEAKER_33 22:06

There is obviously a big move to undermine the Mueller investigation.

SPEAKER_17 22:11

And we this was in 2018. The Mueller investigation that was a complete witch hunt and fraud from the beginning.

RussiaGate Narrative And Media Pressure\n

SPEAKER_33 22:19

See it all the time with all witch hunt. The witch hunt. The hoax. Big hoax. All hoax. Yeah. Yeah. There's obviously a uh, you know, and this is something every, you know, you get wrapped up in the politics of it all. But here's the bottom line: the United States was attacked. The United States was attacked by Russia. Now, it wasn't like Pearl Harbor, it was a cyber attack and it was a disinformation campaign, but we were attacked, and there is this investigation to find out what happened. Now, part of the investigation has to do with Donald Trump and whether or not anybody in his orbit cooperated, but there's this other larger investigation about what happened and how can we prevent it from happening again. And there are a whole bunch of people in Washington who are trying to prevent the investigation from going forward. I mean, imagine if somebody tried to prevent the investigation into how Pearl Harbor happened from going forward. You would say that that person is not being patriotic. It's obvious that people are doing things to protect President Trump and to protect the politics of this all, but this has this is beyond the politics of it all, has to do with a sovereign nation being attacked by Russia. The idea that there are people in Washington trying to undermine it, trying to stop it. They don't want their truth to come out about this, about an attack on the United States, just blows your blows my mind every time I think about it because, you know, we all get wrapped up and then they're doing this, and then they're trying this, and then this group said that, and this group filed this. At the end of the day, we were attacked. The American people were attacked. And that can't happen again. And the idea that there are members of Congress or whoever trying to stop an investigation from going forward into what happened so we can make sure it doesn't happen again, it's it is weird. It's not just weird, it's unpatriotic. I mean, we want Which was weird when we saw the president of the United States standing next to the guy who led the attack on us in 2016, siding with him over US intelligence, over the American people who were the victims of this attack, then the next day pretending that it all had to do with the fact that there he said would instead of wouldn't. Then even in that statement itself, so I take the word of the intelligence community that it was the Russians, although it could have been somebody else, a lot of people out there. He said that, by the way. There are a lot of there are a lot of people out there. Fact check true, by the way. Puts people like me in a weird position because we're just trying to say this is the fact, this is the truth, this is actually what happened. And then you have people who don't want to accept it because it doesn't fit. Did you ever see that Twilight Zone episode with that little kid Jimmy or Billy, who like does horrible things and wishes people into the corners? That's what it's like. And everybody's like, yeah, Billy, you know, everybody's acting as if this is they're just trying to appease this one person. Because they saw Scaramucci wished into the cornfield.

SPEAKER_30 25:01

Right.

SPEAKER_33 25:02

With Ryan's Prebus, you know, they're all out in the cornfield right now. Right, but there is a certain amount of just like dignity, like President Trump, at the very least, is not going to be president from January 2025 on. He's going to go. There is a whole, I mean, a lot of these people, like, they're going to want to continue to have careers and lives. And we spend years like undermining your reputation, your dignity, the fact that you even care about the truth. I don't understand what what the end game is for these people. Why how can you how can you call an investigation into a Russian attack on the United States a witch hunt and still think that people are going to take you seriously? I don't, it doesn't make any sense to me. It's weird, as you point out. It's odd.

SPEAKER_17 25:48

What's weird is these guys went along with it knowing it was false. Everything he just said. Yeah. Here's here's now when Russian gate failed, right? Because the effort to undermine the Bowler investigation worked. They didn't just roll over and take it, right? People like Manafort spent time in solitary confinement in prison. People like Carter Page has his life turned upside down. Neil Capuccio is still, still having issues. We'll talk about that in a second.

SPEAKER_20 26:17

Well, remember, this clip was from 2018. This is right before you go, um, I think I should do a podcast.

The Ukraine Whistleblower Backstory\n

SPEAKER_17 26:23

This is two years before I'm like, I should do a podcast. This is crazy. You know, I'm listening to my sources on the radio, you know, people who are like, here's a source document. I don't think Carter Page was uh a Russian spy, you know, they use that to spy on Trump. So do you remember Eric Ciaramela? Yeah. Now, if you roll back in time, okay, if you said COVID came from a lab, you had your YouTube platform taken down. If you said the words, the name Eric Ciaramela during the Russia the Ukraine Great Impeachment, you got deplatformed. If you said Eric Cheromella's name in the impeachment hearings, John Roberts, the Supreme Court Justice of the United States, would stop you and not allow you to say it. Right? If you said it at any point, we have to protect the whistleblowers, right? We can't talk about the whistleblowers. Why? Because if you knew who the whistleblower was, Eric Charamella, you would quickly uncover that he was working with Joe Biden, he was involved with getting Hunter's son on the board with Barisma. He was uh he was working on Adam Schiff's staff, right? So all the elements of a fake whistleblower were present if you knew who he was, so you couldn't say his name. Tim Poole would stop his guest from saying it. Right? Absolutely stop him from saying it. Cannot mention his name or talk.

SPEAKER_20 27:48

Well, he didn't want to lose his channel.

Comey 8647 And Weaponized Prosecutions\n

SPEAKER_17 27:51

He didn't want to lose his channel, couldn't talk about it on the news, couldn't report on it. Here we have newly declassified Intel docs. This is coming from Paul Sperry. He's he's one of the really good journalists on the hill, and he has a lot of these breaking deals, you know, a lot of these exposes. Eric Charmela staffed dozens of calls between Vice President Biden and Ukraine officials. The time frame was 2015 to 2017, providing Biden both background and info talking points to use during high-level talks. He was involved with the talks between Biden and Poroshenko, where they agreed to nationalize Prevop Bank at the same time that the uh energy minister was giving a license to Barisma, which was creating a big windfall profit, which was then getting funneled through Prevop Bank, which is how the Biden family probably got some back-end deals. Because now the the bank is controlled by the nation. It's not private, its books are closed to the public. Okay. He also joined Biden on Air Force Two for trips to Kiv. Still unknown is how many of these contract contacts concern Barisma and Hunter Biden, U.S. official. Cheromel's close contact with Biden and Ukraine leaders make whistleblowing on Trump over Biden and Ukraine that much more of a conflict of interest. So here's Eric Cheramella, and here he is again sitting in a boardroom in Kyiv talking. That's the whistleblower Eric Cheramella. Most of the world honestly believes that Trump was a Russian asset and that he tried to get quid pro quo from Ukraine. When the reality was who got quid pro quo? It was Biden. It was Biden. You don't fire the prosecutor. This is weeks after the prosecutor got a letter from the State Department saying, good job on going after corruption. Good job. And then Biden goes over there and he's like, fire the prosecutor. They're looking into corruption. And who's involved in that corruption? Jen Saki, this is this is May 2025. This is days before Jim Comey posted the 8647 seashells on the beach that he's now been indicted for as a threat to Donald Trump's life. This is days before that. He's on there talking about the DOJ and the people at the DOJ who are going to be there after Trump. Remember, Obama referred or uh Jake Tapper referred to this too. Don't these people want to have jobs when Trump leaves office? Right? So they better play by the rules. What rules? The rules we establish. They better keep our cover up because when we come back, there's going to be retribution. And there was, by the way, during the Biden administration. Here's James Comey talking about this. And what's James Comey's new talking about? I hope the judiciary has the strength to stand up to Trump and his retribution campaign.

SPEAKER_10 30:33

Same same playbook. One of the things we've seen recently is the dismantling of the Office of Public Integrity, which historically, typically if people are going to from the part of the Justice Department, it's the part of the Justice to make sure prosecutions of lawmakers aren't political.

SPEAKER_23 31:38

If I'm them, I sure would want these career people in place, making sure that it's done in the right way.

SPEAKER_17 31:54

How do we know that those attorneys are still in place? Right? We know in the J6 case against Brian Cole, the alleged pipe bomber, we still have Jocelyn Ballantine. Who's Jocelyn Ballantyne? She prosecuted the Proud Boys. Who did she also prosecute? General Flint. Imagine if the last two cases you had had to result in presidential pardons. What kind of prosecutor are you? Clearly, you're a weaponized prosecutor. The FBI is uh, this is Michael Caputo, and he goes, so he's responding to Jim James. Straight to the point, FBI's secret targeting of Trump team, Caputo, details a horrifying, horrifying follower of the Biden era investigation. And Caputo posted this. This is one of the people that was in Trump's orbit that just got his life destroyed by Robert Mueller, right? Destroyed. Investigations, they had to move because of threats to his children's life. They had to move from New York down to Florida. FBI is spying on the Trump team today, right now. Even with Todd Blanche in charge, even with F uh Cash Patel at the FBI, how do I know? I caught them. Here's the secret search warrant they filed against me, Trump staff uh a Trump staffer after President Trump won in 2024. They continued spying until December 10th, 2025, one year into the new Trump administration. That was only five months ago. And then he he puts the document here. It was filed under seal. So we didn't see it. Right. They were still working against Caputo. They were still, they up until months ago, they were still pursuing the remnants of the Russia Gate campaign. Wow. If you're a Democrat, right? We have we all have friends that are Democrats, unless you're, you know, unless you've already cut them out of your lives. We all have family members who are Democrats who, frankly, are infect infected with this TDS that Trump can do nothing good. Now, John Fetterman is one of these Democrats that has figured out that Trump isn't wrong. You know, for years we talked about Iran being bad. What's wrong with that? John Fetterman's pro-union. Trump is pro-union. What's wrong with that? Trump wants jobs in America. What's wrong with that? There's actually a condition for people after a stroke. It changes the way they think. And John Fetterman might be one of those people. Oh. Right? He might be one of those people where he he's seeing the world differently than he used to see. I was reading up on this. I can't remember. It's it's an actual condition, but it's where you're you're like the premise of your life changes after a stroke. And it's not just because you had a the cure TDS. Yeah, a stroke might be the cure to TDS. Now, it's interesting. It's not one of those things where it's like, you know, you saw the light, now your life changes. It's not that type of thing. This is an actual hardwiring of the brain type thing. So John Fetterman might be in that category. This is a this this guy right here was a graphic designer, or he was a video game maker in Pennsylvania who was going to run against John Fetterman in the Senate. It's kind of an interesting deal here.

SPEAKER_15 34:54

I got fired on a Thursday and I thought about it. And that Friday I thought, you know what? I think I'm gonna run against John Fetterman for Senate in 2028. I thought about it a little bit longer and I thought, man, that's insane. Like, who's gonna vote for me? A random guy in Pittsburgh who's just a game designer who cares about other people and comes from a working class family, who's a first-generation college graduate, who's a self-made man. Who's gonna vote for me?

SPEAKER_17 35:24

And then I heard God I got I heard God speak, and I'm gonna run against Fetterman. Turns out, on April 18th, 2026, Chandler allegedly described a graphic scenario in which the congressman and his 13-year-old daughter, uh, a daughter attacked or would be attacked, saying that they would be pulled out of your house and have their throat slit, according to an affidavit for his arrest. Days later, on April 29th, Chandler allegedly left another message urging the lawmaker to assassinate Trump, telling them to walk into the Oval Office with a gun in your hand and put it in the president put it to the president's head and pull the trigger of the affidavit states. So this guy was gonna run for office. Now, in Virginia, the attorney, I think it's the attorney general, also had a text message exchange with some Republican friend of his saying that he wished Republican children were killed and murdered and dead and all this stuff. He actually won. He actually won. This goes this goes back to the CNN poll. You know, a lot of Americans don't think America's the greatest nation on the earth. They don't think it's a good country, and those people get deeply infected with TDS. Now, John Fetterman, we play a lot of clips from him because as far as a Democrat goes, it's kind of talking sense, right? And you would think that a lot of Democrats might be starting to feel that way. Turns out they're not. This is a little bit disturbing. Here in North Kittsapp, we have a Democrat that's running that walks around with a pocket constitution, right? It's kind of a Fetterman light character. Turns out in the Democrat Party, and and maybe I've been a little bit wrong about this. Maybe I've been a little bit wrong about this. Maybe they're a little bit more infected with TDS than you'd think. They don't see policy, they see red and blue, and only red and blue. John Fetterman is deeply unpopular amongst Democrats in Pennsylvania.

SPEAKER_36 37:09

Part of a larger story, Mr. Berman, I would just say that John Fetterman is doing as well with Pennsylvania Democrats as the New York Giants are as liked in the state of Pennsylvania or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. I mean, just look at this among Pennsylvania Democrats and that approval of Fetterman. Back in 2023, he was a Democrat, liberal darling. He was at plus 68 points. Look at how low he has fallen down to negative 40 points. He's down there with the Titanic among Democrats in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. And you know, put a comparison point on, you know, we always talk about how Chuck Schumer is not well liked by the Democratic base nationwide. Chuck Schumer has a net popularity rating of about minus two points. He is 38 points more popular than John Fetterman is with Pennsylvania Democrats. And I was also looking at Kristen Cinema, who of course ended up leaving the Democratic Party in Arizona. She was considerably more popular just before she shifted over than John Fetterman is at minus 40 points.

SPEAKER_35 38:02

Is this a 108-point swing?

SPEAKER_36 38:04

This is an 108-point swing. Very good mathematics here.

SPEAKER_35 38:09

This is, I mean, I was honestly thinking, is that even possible? All right, how does this compare to other he faces a primary? If he wants to run again, you know, he faces an election in two years if he runs in a Democratic primary. How have senators who lost their primaries, how does their whole situation compare to this?

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SPEAKER_36 38:25

I would just know John was like off on the screen going, what, what, wait a minute, wait a minute. 108 points. You never see anything like that, but my goodness gracious. I mean, just take a look here. Okay, 2,000 senators owned party net ratings, about when they lost a primary. Bob Smith plus 15, Arlen Specter plus 13. Of course, he switched parties to Democrats. It didn't work for him from a Republican. Plus six, Joe Lieberman, Dick Lurger was at zero points, Lisa Murkowski was at minus 15 points. All of these were considerably more popular than John Fetterman is right now at minus 40 points. He is below the lowest, the ones who actually got beat in a primary. There is no historical analog to this. That is how unpopular John Fetterman is with Pennsylvania Democrats. There is basically no doubt in my mind that if Fetterman decides to run for re-election as a Democrat, he will face a primary challenge and will be a very competitive one.

SPEAKER_35 39:12

So Fetterman says that Democrats are suffering from what he calls Trump derangement syndrome. Is that a compelling argument to make among the voters there? No, no.

SPEAKER_36 39:19

I mean, that is the last thing that Democrats want to hear. I mean, look at this. Lowest approval among Dems at this point in term two. Donald Trump has just a four-point, four-point approval rating. George W. Bush, who was not well like, was at 10%. Richard Nixon was at 11%. Donald Trump is the lowest of the low on this point. The bottom line is this John Federman, when you look, when you look at his net popularity rating at minus 40 points, he's on a completely other planet from Chuck Schumer, who is also unpopular, and he is on a different galaxy entirely from other incumbents who actually lost re-election, far less popular than that.

SPEAKER_35 39:57

We set it up by talking about his vote to push Mark Wayne Mullen through committee. How likely do the prediction markets think Mark Wayne Mullen is to get confirmed?

SPEAKER_36 40:05

Yeah, John Fetterman basically was the bow on this because just take a look here. Okay, Chance Mullen's confirmed as DHS secretary, and this is before May of 2026. Look at this, a 98% chance, according to the Calcian prediction market. John Fetterman is the big reason why Mark Wayne Mullen is going to get confirmed as DHS secretary. Another reason for Democrats who already didn't like him to dislike him even more.

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SPEAKER_17 40:26

And he was confirmed. So the TDS-infected Democrat Party absolutely hate Trump. And anything that goes along with Trump at all, good or bad, there's no discussion about policy with these people. They are absolutely focused on the man and how evil he is and he's a Nazi and on and on it goes, to the point that they their approval rating for John Fetterman, the one Democrat to us that seems to make some sense some days, right? Is probably going to lose his primary. Which makes you wonder if he becomes political and if his wife has anything to do with it, he will. He'll start to reverse course and he'll start to pander to that base to try to get back on their good side. This is a big problem. This is what prevents Democrats from having any sanity. Is there's enough of their base that will call him out on that stuff? And why is that? It goes back to that CNN poll. Democrats have become infected with that Marxism line of thinking. That's very dangerous. So this is um state senator Mallory McMorrow. She's running for Senate, okay, in Michigan. So Shantini, this is up in your neck of the woods in Michigan. So she was a resident of California, moved to Michigan, and K-File, which is CNN's investigative journalism, which basically means to them they just go through your old tweets. That's all K-File does anymore. They just go through your old tweets and your online accounts. But they have derailed a whole bunch of political careers. There was the uh the lieutenant governor in I think it was North Carolina that was running for governor, and they found his old porn accounts, right? And his chat accounts and stuff like that, and published them. Totally, I mean, totally derailed his campaign. Go figure. He called himself a black Nazi and all this crazy stuff. So this state senator had a whole bunch of tweets when she moved to Michigan talking about how much she hated Michiganders and how she thought they were dumb. And she thought, you know, like she had a bunch of negative tweets. Six thousand deleted tweets that they uncovered. Now, they're focusing on election fraud in this interview. Apparently, she committed election fraud to one degree or another, and she kind of sidesteps this.

SPEAKER_02 42:39

Can I dig a little bit deeper here? Because the K-File report showed that you wrote in your auto 2025 autobiography that you, quote, relocated permanently to Michigan in 2014. But there are social media posts of yours where you describe yourself as a California resident in 2016. And the reason why this is an issue is because you posted you voted in June 2016 Democratic primary in California. And I don't need to tell you, but of course, you're required to vote in the state you're a resident of. So why would you be voting in California two years after moving to Michigan?

SPEAKER_04 43:13

So we decided to move to Michigan in 2014. I was still working in Southern California. My then boyfriend, now husband, was working in Michigan. Like a lot of millennials, moving takes time. It was a two-year process to finally settle in Michigan. And I registered to vote in Michigan in August of 2016 and voted in the general election in November that year.

SPEAKER_02 43:36

But you wrote you relocated permanently in 2014. And you also posted an Instagram post that you had moved out of California. And that was before the June 16th primary in that state. Should you have voted in the 2016 primary in California?

SPEAKER_04 43:52

We still had our place out in Southern California. And as I mentioned, we had multiple jobs. Moving is ugly. I wish we could have just up. And moved in one fell swoop, but that's not the case, just like it is for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_02 44:04

Because you had criticized a Twitter user in 2024 for voting in Michigan after moving to California. You called it illegal.

SPEAKER_04 44:12

Yeah, absolutely. If you are doing that intentionally after moving permanently to a place that is illegal, but in our case, it was a two-year process. And when I was finally a permanent resident in Michigan, that is where I registered and that is where I voted.

unknown 44:25

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 44:25

So it sounds like you shouldn't have said you relocated permanently in your autobiography.

SPEAKER_04 44:30

We made the decision to permanently relocate, but it does take time. And yeah, could have worded it a little bit differently. All right.

SPEAKER_17 44:37

It's good for me, not good for you. I hope that her Senate campaign gets derailed. I really do. Right. The stuff that she said about Michiganders is should be disqualifying for a state senator. You shouldn't criticize the people of the state that you depend them voting for on you, unless, of course, your constituency is made up of USA haters who, by default, are going to hate anything the Republican Party is doing in your state. Right. Now, for the Democrats that are sucked up in this Marxism, and this goes back with the quote with Marco Rubio, I believe there are a lot of people in this country influenced by Marxism that don't even realize they're being influenced by Marxism. It's infused into every aspect of our country. And one of the ways it gets infused into the aspect of our country is people have an incredible desire of belonging. They want to belong to a movement. That's one thing that Donald Trump definitely utilizes that element of human nature with MAGA. Right? If you're pro-America, you're MAGA. Make America great again. And then, you know, there have been policies that have come through that we might have a debate on, but it's like, get in line, gotta do it, gotta do it, gotta do it. Great. He's using a tool that's been used by collectivists forever, that sense of belonging rather than that sense of individual, individualism. Okay, makes sense. It's politics, it's a zero-sum game, you have to win. But Democrats do it, but it's manufactured a little bit differently. Donald Trump draws on that natural patriotism and love for our country, love for your communities, the desire for good schools and things like that. He draws on that. He draws the desire of the individual and makes you a part of something bigger in a collective movement. What Democrats do is they draw on that hate. They draw on that hate of country, they draw on that hate of the system and the establishment and the way things are. And then they amplify that with money. And then they amplify that by sending people to the streets and funding a lot of different programs to make it look like there's a large majority, which is why you have people in the background, you know, your typical school teacher or game designer who think this is the norm, this is the democratic process, these are the people speaking out. Trump has a riot, sends out a tweet that says January 6th is going to be wild, come join us, lend support to the legislatures if they make a tough decision to send the election back to the states and they freak out. But when we have riots and protests all over the country that are Marxist-based, that are anti-America, anti-ICE, anti-whate. Whatever Trump's doing, we're anti-that. They think it's legitimate.

SPEAKER_14 47:08

Turns out, not so much. Our research shows that um there's some 600 groups, including the People's Forum, the Party for Socialism and Liberation, and the Answer Coalition, and of course, our perennial favorite, Code Pink, which is upset about absolutely everything.

SPEAKER_17 47:26

And have you ever seen the Code Pink van driving around here? Yes. In Kitsap. So that guy, I've met that guy. He's always standing out on the sign with PC signs that say end war, green America, abortion for everybody, all these leftist things. So he's a guy. I met him at I met him at the Hood Canal Brewery a while back. We went to watch some live music, and he's a regular there. And I sat next to him, and this is before I went to prison. I was telling him that I was a J6er. He apparently did a protest with his sign on support authority property, got arrested by the Kidsap sheriffs. ACLU came to bail him out. And it ended up being the Kitsap County Sheriff's Department got in trouble more than him, right? But he totally was in the wrong. It was the ACLU's big lawfare muscle that kind of bailed him out of that one. But he's a code pink person. He actually drives a van that says code pink on it, like code pink.com or whatever. And I think he's funded by them. I think he gets money from them to go out and do his little campaign protests and stuff like that. But they're another one of these groups. They just hate America. Like everything about them, they hate America.

SPEAKER_14 48:26

As Rachel mentioned a minute ago, um, these people, they don't know what they're talking about, but they do know that they got, you know,$75 in cash probably to come out and hold a sign, and they're doing a good job of it, even though they don't really know what the sign says or what it means. Um, we're looking at, you know, uh literally in the billions in terms of the amount of money that gets spent like this. And it's, you know, you hear the left talk about dark money a lot in politics. Well, this is the darkest dark money there is. Um, and the result of it winds up with you wind up with literally thousands of protests all around the country on the same day. And you wonder why when you wake up in the morning, it's like, well, I never heard anything about that because you're not the target. Uh they know how to target people. When you walk down the street and they say, Hey, do you have with a clipboard and they say, Do you have time for such and such rights? And then they get your email address. They're they're they're not looking to convert you or convince you of anything. They're looking to get the email address of like-minded people so that they can organize these things. Okay, so then the May Day Strong demands tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes come first. No ice, no war, no private arms serving authoritarian power. Don't know what that is. Uh, expand democracy, hands off our vote.

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SPEAKER_17 49:47

All of those things could easily be construed, in our opinions, as anti-American. Every one of those things, right? And and destroying the establishment. Yeah. Tax the rich. They tax you, man. They never get the rich. They do a whole different world of how they get their money. They don't make these giant incomes. When you tax the rich, you're taxing NBA players and NFL players. And you, the middle class person that's making above minimum wage. Right.

SPEAKER_20 50:15

What's Jeff Bezos' salary?

SPEAKER_17 50:16

$80,000 a year. Yeah, if that. If that yeah, he borrows money to uh fund his lifestyle. Now, again, the mainstream media is still at this campaign to try to make it look like what the Trumps, that what Trump administration doing is not normal, right? That somehow it's out of left field, that everything he's doing is retribution. As if Russia Gate and Ukraine Gate and every smear they've leveled at Donald Trump is not retribution for winning and covering up their crimes. So here's Kristen Welker trying to talk to Todd Blanche about how do we how do we not think that this is retribution? If Donald Trump said go after these people, isn't this retribution as if the things they did didn't warrant these investigations and prosecutions? I believe, I hope I'm crossing my fingers, I really hope, and I'm crossing my fingers that John Solomon's right and some of these other people are right. And in the next few weeks, we're gonna start to see actual prosecutions come out of this grand jury down in Florida and stuff like that. The timing feels just about right for that. Although, you know, frankly, I remember one time on the podcast in 2020, there was some news about COVID and oh, you know, and I was like, this is it, the fever's gonna break. Boy, was I wrong. Boy, was I wrong. It makes you wonder the level of resistance behind the scenes, what Comey referred to and Jake Tapper referred to, these stayover DOJ officials who were like, uh, Trump leaves in 2028. I maybe I can just stall.

SPEAKER_20 51:47

Right? Make sure everybody remembers those prior practices. Is that policy or something?

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SPEAKER_37 51:52

Yeah, we'll see. President Trump publicly posted a private message to then Attorney General Pam Bondi, pressuring her to prosecute Senator Adam Schiff, James Comey, and Letitia James, writing, quote, they're all guilty as hell, but nothing is going to be done. They impeached me twice, they indicted me five times over nothing. Justice must be served now. Why should the public believe that any case brought against the individuals listed there is an independent law enforcement decision and not retribution?

SPEAKER_21 52:24

Because you have investigations and you have indictments and you have the result. I mean, listen, if if if years later you're judged by a simple um note from President Trump, by the way, that wasn't a private message. That was a message delivered to the entire world. Right. So this is not being done behind closed doors. It was meant to be private initially, based on my conversations.

SPEAKER_37 52:43

Based on my conversations, it was meant to be private with top administration officials.

SPEAKER_21 52:48

It was meant to be private and posted by mistake. President Trump is very clear with the American people what he expects as president of the United States. That is not something he hides from the American people.

SPEAKER_17 52:59

So let me give you a little code speak here. The reason I wanted to play that clip, right? Trump posted that message, and what Kristen Walker is saying is that was supposed to be private. The old way of doing business, and we've now seen this from Barack Obama, is you say one thing in public, and in private you're like, go get them. Hey, I see. The private message was Russia didn't do anything. The private message from Obama was go make something up. Go get something. He's guilty. Go find it. Go make it happen. But in public, you play the soft ground. So Trump, he doesn't do that. He doesn't say one thing in private and not in public. He posts it in public for the whole world to see. But I'm sure her sources are some DOJ officials being like, oh, that was supposed to be a private message. That's how we used to do it. Because then we're only accountable to the president. Now we're accountable to the people. Does that make sense? There's a there's a little flip there, which goes into the fact that James Comey is also playing the same game. Again, you get a little window into how things normally are done outside of this administration. That normally those private messages that call for weaponization and targeting are done privately. And in public, you just play the big game. Well, Comey posted that picture that said 8647 and then turned around and oh, it was a mistake. I thought it was talking about, you know, taking the lettuce out back or so. I don't know, some stupid reference, right? I didn't know what it meant. What does this mean? 8647. If it if you don't know what 8647 means, why would you take the pictures of the she shell? Oh, I just found something interesting. Yeah, come on, right?

SPEAKER_20 54:35

This is a guy who prosecuted mobsters. The way, the way that he's he posited that it was like he threw the shells up in the air, woo, and they all fell down. I just found it, right? Right.

SPEAKER_17 54:46

So this is Todd Blanche now getting grilled, where Kristen Welker's like, hey, you know, he deleted the message, it was no big deal. He says he didn't know what it meant. And Blanche is like, uh, we had a full year to investigate this. You don't think there were subpoenas out for his private messages? You don't think there's something more behind the scenes?

SPEAKER_37 55:04

Move on to former FBI director James Comey. A grand jury has indicted the former FBI director for this Instagram post. I want to put it up. I think a lot of folks have seen it at this point. 8647 in seashells, which the indictment says, quote, a reasonable recipient who is familiar with the circumstances would interpret as a serious expression of an intent to do harm to the president of the United States. How does that image of seashells amount to a serious threat against the president's life?

SPEAKER_21 55:36

Well, every case requires an investigation. And what you just showed is one part of that investigation. What you just showed is the Instagram post. Rest assured that the career assistant United States attorneys in North Carolina, the career FBI agents, the career secret service agents that investigated this case didn't just look at the Instagram post and walk away. That's why you saw an indictment last week, notwithstanding the fact that it was last May that the post was made. So I am not permitted to get into the details of what the grand jury heard or found, as you know, but rest assured that it's not just the Instagram post that leads somebody to get indicted.

SPEAKER_17 56:12

It's not just the post. Yeah. There was more behind the scenes because that's the old way of doing business, right?

SPEAKER_20 56:19

So that's the only part they could really show because it's already only it's already in the public.

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SPEAKER_17 56:24

It's already in the public. Now, a lot of chatter from the leftists are like that we know this is a targeted prosecution because Comey hasn't been given the evidence against him. He hasn't gotten his discovery. Discovery's being withheld. And uh Shipley from Shipwreck and Crew on X, he posted he was a former prosecutor. He's like, guys, discovery is a product of arraignment. Comey hasn't been arraigned yet. He gets arraigned in North Carolina. He made his first appearance in Virginia to get his terms of bond and stuff like that. And he's now going to get arraigned in Virginia probably this week, at which point then he'll get the discovery. Right. We may or may not see the discovery. That's typically private. They may post some things or whatever, but we're unlikely to see all of it until an actual trial comes out. Okay. So rest assured, the government's got stuff. You know, they've got stuff. Even that happened in my case, right? The government had my private Facebook messages between me and PB Brown, Utah Scouts that posts with us sometimes online, had private messages between me and others, you know. So that stuff wasn't publicly available until my trial. Now you can go read the transcripts, see what I said. By the way, it was pretty similar to what I said in public. So not that big of a difference. But either way, now Tom Tillis, Republican senator from North Carolina, not running for re-election, probably couldn't win. But he's been very obstructionist, right? He's the one that says anybody anybody who supports January 6th, he won't vote for him for confirmation. Like anybody. He's the one who derailed uh Ed Martin from being the the DC U A USA or US the DC United States Attorney. He's the one who was trying to hold up uh uh Kevin Warsh from being the Fed chairman because uh of the investigation into Jerome Powell because of the overspending. There's probably some some you know some back channel money there. But he gets on with Jake Tapper. Again, who's Jake Tapper? The guy who pretended like Russia Gate was totally legitimate. We were attacked by Russia, even though the intelligence community originally said we weren't. And then once Barack Obama wanted them to say they would, change their tune. So here he is on Jake Tapper, acting like he doesn't know what 8647 is. Now, for those of you that understand this, for some of you might it's not even be a big deal, but 8786, 86ing something was a mob term for take them eight miles out and six feet under. That's what 86 meant. So James Comey, who prosecuted mobster, that is a common mob term. Now, if you're working in a restaurant and you're like, hey, get rid of the lettuce, 86 it, what are you saying? Throw it away, make it go away, right? Get rid of it. Okay. So he's acting like 86, that's not that big of a deal.

SPEAKER_33 59:05

Do you think posting 86, 47 is a crime?

SPEAKER_05 59:10

No, I, you know, again, if this prosecution, which is coming from the Eastern District of North Carolina, if this whole case is based on a picture in the sand of uh of a North Carolina beach, it it again makes no sense to me. Number one, 86. I used to work in the restaurant industry, and I think 86 actually has its roots as a cook. That's my understanding, too. It has its roots 86 in the menu or 86 in the product. I I can't find any evidence except some that's come up after the president made the comment about the movies. I know the penal code in North Carolina, 187, means murder, but I can't find any evidence where 86 is used to uh as a call for violence. And again, if if if it's more than just the picture, it reminds me of the two minutes of testimony against Powell. It better be more than just the picture. There have to be facts and circumstances beyond that to convince me. And Comey is the biggest disappointment of my Senate career. I actually stood up for this man in my first term in the Senate because I thought he was being attacked unfairly. I found out later that he was a political hack and he was motivated by political agenda. That alone, though, would not allow me to uh support what I think on its face as some sort of a vindictive prosecution. Republicans are better than that. Let's leave it to the Democrats. And I could point to a of what I consider to be vindictive prosecutions and operations against conservatives, but let's not sink to their level. Let's let's leave it to the Democrats.

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SPEAKER_17 1:00:40

Let's let them run amok with the DOJ and not do anything about it. I stood up for James Comey. Okay, so now that it's just too much to stand up for him, now you get it. But you don't think maybe that same, he's a political hacked characteristic carries forward. And what are Democrats doing in Pennsylvania threatening the lives of uh uh John Fetterman? Yeah, I mean, it's just par for the course. It's par for the course. But at the end of the day, at the end of the day, the peasants, the people who actually have to live in our cities and walk our streets, we want things fixed. And so there will always be a clamor to end homelessness, to stop poverty, to raise wages. There will always be a clamor for that. Even San Francisco, this is their district attorney. There's their district attorney is hearing the voice of the people run. They are tired of poop on their streets. They are tired of open-air drug use on their streets. Okay, so he's got solutions. He's got solutions. Chantini says in the chats Did you see where one of the Congress people want to change ICE to national immigration so the MSN would have to say nice? Trump actually posted that. That's been going around for a while, and he said, done, make it happen. They changed the Department of Defense to Department of War. They could totally easily change the Department of Immigration, Customs and Enforcement to National Immigration Customs and Enforcement, and they'll be nice. Could you imagine the protest signs paid for by Code Pink and nice? We can't have nice in our country. It's like exactly, that's exactly what you guys want. No more civility. Here's here is you know Tillis saying Republicans need to be nice, right? Republicans need to not do what the Democrats leave it to them to do it. Okay, but what reforms are you proposing? What are you actually going to have done? Well, nothing. We just need to not weaponize government against the people who weaponize government, is basically what he's saying. And given Tom Tillis's, you know, body of work in the last year, it's kind of no surprise that he's inadvertently coming to the defense of Comey. I mean, the who wouldn't post an assassination post about Donald Trump, right? So here's the DA of or the prosecutor of San Francisco.

SPEAKER_20 1:02:52

So if he didn't know what 86 meant, did he know what 47 meant? I mean, come on.

SPEAKER_17 1:02:57

Dude, I think it's hilarious. I I think it has its roots in the restaurant industry. Oh man.

SPEAKER_20 1:03:02

Me too. I do too.

SPEAKER_17 1:03:05

This this is like step back. 10,000 foot view. Mobsters want to say, take them eight miles out and six feet under. How do mobsters launder their money? Usually through restaurants. So it would make sense why mobsters in a restaurant would start saying 86 the lettuce. Right. Do you see what I'm saying? It becomes code word for kill it. Kill the menu item. Let's 86 the menu item. If it has its root in the restaurant industry in New York, it has its root in the mob. Okay. Tom, Tom, don't be so stupid. Don't be so here's the DA in San Francisco.

SPEAKER_41 1:03:45

We are no longer going to tolerate people using drugs on our streets. Uh I'm not going to tolerate it as a father, and I'm not going to tolerate it as uh the mayor. There will be 24 Great.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:58

Okay, what are you going to do about 4-7 nursing here? There will be uh social worker um access. There will be peer supports, meaning people with lived experience helping to motivate and work with individuals here to get them connected to treatment and to services. Treatment for their drug use will not be compulsory or mandatory, but the goal is to make sure that there are folks with lived experience helping to motivate somebody to get connected to treatment. So you're going to do nothing. Yeah.

SPEAKER_17 1:04:31

So, Ron, if stuff really hit the fan for you, like I mean, your house was full of mold, and you know, your your neighbors, I don't know, you can't live here anymore. Yeah. Could you find a place to stay? Um, yeah. Yeah, right. You've got family, you've got friends. I mean, you could stay at my place. Well, we'll figure it out we'll figure it out. Yeah. Yeah, you'd figure it out. You you you'd find a place to stay. You've got people you could reach out to, help you could get. Would you have to go to the state for services necessarily? Uh no. I don't. What would they even have? Ah, there you go. So if you're a homeless person, you can every every single person listening to this to this show right now can ask yourself that question. If I found myself suddenly evicted tonight, could I find a place to stay? And the answer is almost universally yes, because you're decent people, you're normal people, you have a job, you work. If you got laid off, lost everything, somebody would give you a couch or a spare bedroom and you and your whole family while you put yourself back on your feet.

SPEAKER_20 1:05:29

Well, hold on. Think about the other part of that question you asked me. Now ask the people of the great people that are listening to us how many of you would think that you need to go talk to the state about device your answers.

Fiat Currency Collapse And Turkey’s Lira\n

SPEAKER_17 1:05:43

Yeah, okay. Because ideally, there's people, there's other peasants that you would know that would help and stand in need. Notice how they said the help won't be compulsory, right? You're when you when you want help, you Ron, I'm not gonna force you to stay at my house. You're gonna call me, you're gonna ask, it's Going to work out. But here's the thing if you're to the point where you're homeless and you're addicted to drugs and you're living on the street, why don't they have a couch to stay with? If they want help, don't they have family, friends, parents? I mean, I mean, there's a rare exception, someone that's truly on their own in the world. But for the most part, these people that are on the streets, somebody loves them. Somebody out there loves them. But you know what? They don't want the help. So what what is this that this DA? We have a problem. I'm gonna hold a press conference. We're not gonna tolerate any more campaign seasons coming up. What are we gonna do? Nothing. But we're gonna pick your money and we're gonna pay counselors and nurses. Won't be compulsory. Won't force them to do it. Do you get it? Yeah. Right? It's it's a choice thing. Now, what's happening is some of these Democrat districts, and they do this in cycles. They do this in cycles. When Republicans sound like they're starting to make sense, their policies are starting to make sense, then they want to get on board with that. So what happened last week was we had that Supreme Court decision that said the gerrymandering based on racial districts couldn't happen anymore. This is gonna change power dynamics in the United States. Some Republican governors have kind of stated, hey, we're gonna do some redistricting. Some Republican governors have said, ah, it's it's inconvenient to get it done this year. Okay, so you're gonna put the entire Trump agenda at risk, all of your constituents that put Trump into office and put Republicans into office, you're gonna put them all at risk because it's too inconvenient. So Trump posted this. He says, we cannot allow there to be an election that is conducted unconstitutionally. As in, if you have gerrymandered districts that are racially gerrymanded, they're unconstitutional. You can't let those unconstitutional districts exist in this upcoming election. Like, get on it. He says, if they have to vote twice, as in you have a primary because some primaries are starting like in the next couple weeks, so be it. Redo the districts and force it through again. We should demand that state legislatures do what the Supreme Court says must be done. That is important. That is more important than administrative convenience. The byproduct is that Republicans will receive 20 House seats in the upcoming midterms. Here's Trump's reaction right when the news broke to him. When did it come out just now?

SPEAKER_27 1:08:15

Um, it came out this morning, uh, but basically very much narrows the voting rights act. Was he considered a win for the Republican? But my question is a very good.

SPEAKER_26 1:08:25

We can end this just now, sorry. I want to read it.

SPEAKER_27 1:08:28

My question is that some Republican governors have not responded in just what they're gonna do. I guess early voting, for example, and we can Republican voters. What Republican government, what about early voting begins Saturday there, for instance? Should they redraw the map in the next couple of things?

SPEAKER_26 1:08:45

I would. I mean, it depends. I mean, some states don't need to redraw. Some do. I mean, I know what the concept of their own, I just haven't seen the results. Um yeah, I would say generally, I would think that they would want to do it. Some are greatly helped, and some you know didn't make much difference. Yeah, I would say we would do that.

SPEAKER_17 1:09:05

Yeah, but this is incredibly important. This week here in Washington is when the PCOs submit their applications to be put on the ballot to be elected as PCOs. Okay. If you don't get involved locally, Trump's tweet is not going to move some of these governors that are comfortable with things the way they are. They got deals cut, they got it all figured out, right? You have to get involved at the grassroots level. There has to be a clamor from people of position, precinct committee officers from the bottom up to let them know we want the redistricting. We don't care if we have to do two primaries. We want constitutional districts, not unconstitutional ones, right? You've got to make it so that the reward to the politicians who do this is that they'll get re-elected, that they'll be supported, and that the punishment, if they don't take action and do the redistricting, that they will potentially lose their primaries, which is a tough sell, right? Because you don't want to vote for the Democrat. But that's the thing. When you have these squishes like Tom Tillis, and they're all over the place, some of them haven't pulled their mask off yet, right? You've got to get involved. It's a it's a huge deal. Over in Iran, Scott Bessant was on with Maria Bartolomo this weekend, and things are going uh pretty serious over there. So Iran is getting to the point where they can't pay their soldiers and their police officers.

SPEAKER_12 1:10:27

Update on the economic uh choke that you have been putting in place in Iran. Are you still looking to apply secondary sanctions or sanctions on Iran or those doing business with Iran?

SPEAKER_39 1:10:41

Yeah, and Maria, just to remind you and you and your viewers, this began with the order last March from President Trump on max pressure. And three weeks ago, the president gave the order to Treasury myself uh to begin economic theory. And the way to think about that, we are running a marathon over the past 12 months, and now we are sprinting towards the finish line. And I can tell you that we we are supplicating the regime, and they are not able to pay their soldiers. This is a real economic blockade, and it is in all parts of government, all hands on deck. It is the blockade that our great uh Navy is doing. No ships are getting through, and we have upped the pressure on anyone uh trying to remit money into uh Iran to help the IRGC. And they are a corrupt institution. They've been stealing from the Iranian people for years. They have money offshore. We've tracked that down. We will continue to track that down, and we're gonna preserve those assets for the Iranian people on the other side of this conflict.

SPEAKER_17 1:11:49

So they're taking the assets, but they're gonna hold them. So it's not just spoils war here. They're gonna hold them for the Iranian people. Do you know where else this business model has worked? Venezuela. Oh, yeah. Venezuela. So here's Trump did a press conference last week about Venezuela.

SPEAKER_25 1:12:06

Been working closely with the new president of Venezuela, Delcy Rodriguez, who's doing a great job working with us. She's doing a great job because she's working with us. If she wasn't working with us, I would not say she's doing a great job. In fact, if she wasn't working with us, I'd say she's doing a very poor job. Unacceptable. No, but she's doing a great job, Marco, right? And she gets along great with Marco. And we're taking out tremendous amounts of oil. They're getting they're making more money now than they've ever made. Ever made. We have the big oil companies in. They are getting making more money. We're getting some. They're getting a lot. They're making more money now than they've ever made in the history of their country. Can you imagine?

SPEAKER_17 1:12:54

What a turnaround. What a turnaround. They took out Maduro on January 3rd, and here we are May 4th. And they're making more money than they've ever made as a country before.

SPEAKER_20 1:13:08

Should have some other countries like going, hey man, can you come do that over here?

SPEAKER_17 1:13:12

Think about the leverage with Iran. Yeah, we're holding these assets for you. They're there for you when you capitulate and you sign a peace deal and stop be you know pursuing nuclear weapons. It's there for you. Otherwise, it's just continuing economic destruction.

SPEAKER_25 1:13:27

It's being spent properly and they're they're watching it closely. And I'm pleased to say that this week we have formally recognized the Venezuelan government. We've actually legally recognized them. We have also just reached a historic gold deal. It's called the gold deal with Venezuela to allow our two countries to work together to facilitate the sale of Venezuelan gold and other minerals. They have great amounts of gold. They have good land. Very good land. But they weren't able to take advantage. The system didn't allow them to take advantage of the value of their land. As we achieve a historic transformation in Venezuela, we're also looking forward to the great change that will soon be coming to Cuba. Cuba's at the end of the line. They're very much at the end of the line. They have no money, they have no oil. They have a bad philosophy, they have a bad regime that's been bad for a long time.

SPEAKER_17 1:14:31

Could you imagine if you give Trump enough time? I mean, this Iran thing will resolve itself, right? At some point. I don't, who knows the timing, but it'll resolve itself sooner than later. If they can't pay their soldiers, they can't pay their policemen, that's what's propping up the regime domestically, right? It will resolve itself. Could you imagine Trump ending his term with Venezuela having normalized relations, Cuba having normalized relations, and Iran having normalized relations? Pretty wild. Kim Jong-un's gonna be like, where did you want to build those condos, Donald Trump? I mean, this is amazing. Just me underscore Pacific Northwest says they are taking good at taking guns, but not drugs. Go figure. I know, man. I know these people are nuts. So Donald Trump also did something very nice for the world. He said, Countries from all over the world, all of many of those, almost all of which are not involved in the Middle Eastern dispute, going on so visibly and violently for all to see, have asked the United States if we could help free up their ships, which are locked in the Strait of Hormouths, on something which they have absolutely nothing to do with. They are merely neutral and innocent bystanders. For the good of the Iran, the Middle East, and the United States, we have told these countries that we will guide their ships safely out of the restricted waterways so that they can freely and ably get on with their business. Again, these are ships from areas of the world that are not in any way involved with that with that which is currently taking place in the Middle East. I've told my representatives to inform them that they will use best efforts to get their ships and crews safely out of the strait. In all cases, they said they will not be returning until the area becomes safe for navigation and everything else. This process, Project Freedom, will begin Monday morning, so it should be underway right now. Middle East time. I am fully aware that my representatives are having very positive discussions with the countries of Iran, and that these discussions could lead to something very positive for all. The ship movement is merely meant to free up people, companies, and countries that have done absolutely nothing wrong. They are victims of circumstance. This is a humanitarian gesture on behalf of the United States, Middle Eastern countries, but in particular the country of Iran. Many of these ships are running low on food and everything else necessary for large-scale crews to stay on board in a healthy and sanitary manner. I think it would go a long way to showing goodwill on behalf of those who have been fighting so strenuously over the last number of months. If in any way this humanitarian process is interfered with, that interference will unfortunately have to be dealt with forcefully. Thank you for your attention to that matter. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States. So opening things up, that's good news. You know, for world markets. Um markets were doing something crazy last night. You had um risk investments were being invested in, and there were zero shorts and sales on risk investments. That's a pretty big deal. Um, anyways, so I don't know. Um price of Bitcoin. Yesterday, the price of Bitcoin went up over 80,000, which was this morning. It did come. Oh, it came back down to 78. Now it's back up to 79,560. It's gonna go over 80 again by the end of the day. It does that, right? There's a volatility day today, but yeah, guys, when we started talking about Bitcoin, it's trading at 65,000, right? So it tests the floor at 70, and then it tests the floor at 75. Now it it peaked a little, it almost hit 81,000. It'll probably get up over 80, and that'll be the new floor. There's never a bad time to buy Bitcoin, it goes up 40% a year on average, but you have to deal with the day-to-day volatility. It is not a stock. Okay, Donald Trump also talked about another thing that they're trying to do, and I've explained this to my wife this morning. I was like, you know, Bitcoin was at 125 when Trump got elected and it dropped. There's a couple things with that. There was a halving cycle, there's some normal stuff that you observe with how Bitcoin works. But also remember, Bitcoin is valued against the value of a specific currency. And so when Donald Trump got elected, what did he do? Immediately put in a tariff regime, immediately got the tax. I mean, what was it by like June? We had the tax bill. Messed with a lot of currencies. Messed with a lot of currencies, but but made the dollar stronger. You also saw things like the dollar for a two by four. What was the cost of a two by four under Joe Biden? Do you know the answer to this?

SPEAKER_20 1:18:36

I should.

SPEAKER_17 1:18:37

It peaked at$13. Right now, you can go into any Home Depot in the country and you can buy one for$250. Right. So a lot of costs came down. And what happened to the cost of fuel? Biden was in office. We were running at$4 a gallon. Trump came in, it dropped down to under$2 a gallon national average. Here we were still paying a little bit more because the state of Washington's stupid.

SPEAKER_20 1:18:58

Either way, it dropped significantly. Our gas has like almost what is it, two bucks in tax.

SPEAKER_17 1:19:04

Yeah. So a strong dollar means Bitcoin gets cheaper to buy because the dollar's strong, not because Bitcoin's changed. Because remember, if you go to another country, if you go to another country, my headphones now have a short number. This happened to me in prison a lot. I had to replace my headlines like four times. It's a short, right? In the little face. So if you go to another country, the price of Bitcoin has gone up compared to other countries' currencies. I'll show you a really dramatic example of that. So here's Scott Bessant talking about another thing that the United States has done that has increased its value. Do you remember how under the Biden administration they gave grants under the um wasn't the Genius Act? It was under the it was one of the acts that had the deal with um chip manufacturing, the Chips Act. They got grants, just free money, just threw it at Intel. And when Trump came in, he was like, hey, I don't know about these grants. So what Intel did, they offered, they said, instead of us paying back the grants because they were supposed to, why don't we convert it to stock and let the United States Treasury hold stock in Intel? Well, that investment is what it ends up being, has paid off big for the American tax.

SPEAKER_12 1:20:09

Intel uh was was doing very well in the last quarterly numbers and uh and and the stock reacted. What should we expect from Intel?

SPEAKER_39 1:20:18

Uh I again, you know, Intel, the under the Biden administration, the CHIPS Act was supposed to help create national champions. And you know, part of what President Trump has given this administration the order to do is to make sure that we are secure economically. And we are trying to bring back key industries, whether it is semiconductors, critical minerals, our pharmaceutical supply chains, steel. And with Intel, Intel is our national champion uh with uh semiconductors. The government took a stake several months ago under President Trump's direction. I was in the Oval when he told the CEO of Intel that he would like a 10% stake. The CEO turned it over, and the the U.S. government's made between$30 and$40 billion on that. And no one gives wants to give the president uh wants to give the president credit for that. And he is working for the American people every day. So not not only, Maria, not only do we have more national security, we have the uh a more resilient balance sheet.

SPEAKER_17 1:21:27

The other thing Trump's done that has strengthened the dollar is when you understand cryptocurrency versus Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies rely on something called proof of staking. How many people hold the coin and will not sell it? Okay. So the United States dollar acts like a cryptocurrency. It's a fiat currency. And so proof of staking is important. Why, where does that show up? 401ks, can't touch it. Put it in the market, can't touch it. That's proof of staking. Kind of like a CD. Yeah, it stays in the market, right? It's guaranteed to stay there. 401ks, IRAs, they stay in the market long term. What did he just do for kids? So a normal 401k, if you're a millennial, you don't even get involved with that until you're in your 30s and you have a career. Now, if you're a newborn baby, you can get a Trump account, which is like a little baby IRA, right? And that creates proof of staking for at least 18 years they can't take from it. Right. So they can print the money, but the money doesn't create inflation because it goes into equities, it goes into the market. It makes the dollar stronger because that inflation doesn't chase goods around, it invests in businesses. That's a good move if your goal is to prop up the dollar. And why is that important? Because if you don't prop up in the dollar, you have a little problem. Have you ever heard of a country called Turkey?

SPEAKER_19 1:22:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_17 1:22:43

Okay, so Turkey is a NATO member. And it is a Muslim country, and they're very poorly managed. So this right here is the Turkish lira in compared to Bitcoin. Okay. This is stunning. This is the problem with fiat currencies. They will all do this eventually. Okay. If you go back to 2021, you could buy Bitcoin with, I don't know what the denomination is, but you could buy Bitcoin with the Turkish lira. That currency has become so devalued. If you follow what's going on in Turkey, they were doing 50% minimum wage increases year after year after year for government jobs. Because if you're working at a government job, you couldn't raise your wages unless the government raised them, right? And you couldn't buy food. So they had to raise the minimum wage, you know,$15 to$22.75 to 28%, like every year. In fact, I think at one point it was a six-month window. Over a hundred percent inflation per year. This is a NATO ally. Right now, today, you cannot buy Bitcoin with Turkish Libra. Nope. Nobody who holds Bitcoin will sell it to you for the Libra. It is that devalued. Right? It got to the point, you know, a million dollars of Bitcoin, 10 million Libra of Bitcoin, a billion dollars Libra for a Bitcoin. Nope, won't even sell it. Your currency is that devalued. Warren Buffett understood this. Now, Warren Buffett was critical of Bitcoin, and you know, is what it is. Um, I'll show you a little example here on Jamie Diamond being like, I was wrong about Bitcoin. But Warren Buffett talks about money and how holding money is a bad deal, even the US dollar, and he says it's the nature of these currencies, they get devalued.

SPEAKER_28 1:24:33

And obviously, we wouldn't want to be owning anything that we thought was in a currency that was really going to help. That's the big thing we worry about with the United States currency. I mean, it's the tendency of a government to want to debase its currency over time. There's no system that beats that. You can pick dictators, you can pick representatives, you can do anything. But the people there will be a push toward weaker currencies, and of course, that is I mentioned very briefly in the annual report that the the fiscal policy is what scares me in the United States because it's it's made the way it is, and uh and uh all the motivations are doing a lot of things will cause trouble.

SPEAKER_17 1:25:26

What did we just hear in San Francisco? Oh hey, we have a problem, we're gonna fix it. What's the solution? Pay people to stand around and hope that somebody comes and wants help. Right. Okay. Hey, we have a problem with homeless in Seattle. They can't find a couch to live on. So what do we do? Give them tiny houses to use drugs in.

SPEAKER_20 1:25:44

What I heard that guy say was is we're gonna we're gonna pay people, what what do you call them? People with lived experience? Lived experience. Those are just the people that are on the street. So they're just gonna pay people on the street to help people on the street. Okay.

SPEAKER_28 1:25:58

All right. With money. But that's not limited to the United States, it's all over the world. And some places it gets out of control regularly, as annually, no, no, no, they they uh they devalue it, rates that are breathtaking, and that's can that's continued. I mean, and you people can study economics and you can have all kinds of arrangements, but in the end, if you've got people that control the currency, you can you can issue paper money than you will, or you can engage in clipping currencies like they used to centuries ago, or there will always be people. That's the nature of their job. I don't I don't I'm not singling them out as particularly evil or anything like that. The natural course of government is to is to make the currency worthless uh over time and uh it's got important consequences, and it's very hard to build checks and balances into the keep that from happening.

SPEAKER_17 1:27:01

Yeah, it's hard to build checks and balances. It doesn't matter if you're Reagan, it doesn't matter if you're Bush, it doesn't matter if you're Trump, you're gonna debase the currency. It's just the way it works, it's it's designed to do that. Go study Keynesian economics, and you realize that was the objective. Raise prices. The worst thing in the world for a Keynesian economic economics person is for prices to come down, right? They were afraid of deflation, even though deflation is the natural sort of things. Now, Bitcoin's in this unique crossroads because the vast majority don't understand Bitcoin. I had a I had a discussion with my father-in-law this weekend, and he's like, Well, Bitcoin is what you think it's worth. I'm like, and so is gold, so is the dollar, so is land.

SPEAKER_20 1:27:41

I'm like, it's everything's worth what you think it's worth. I had the exact same thing come out of my dad's mouth. Yeah, exactly. It's like, what the heck?

Bitcoin Adoption And The ETF Wave\n

SPEAKER_17 1:27:49

This is human nature. When new things arise, people don't always grasp the significance of it. And sometimes it takes a little bit of a time horizon for us to see what it really is. This is a newspaper. Clipping from December 2000. This is the Daily Mail. The Daily Mail. Internet may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it. Remember, this is just after the tech stock bubble. Right? Internet comes around 1995. Letterman's like asking Bill Gates, like, ah, what's the big deal with this?

SPEAKER_20 1:28:24

This was also after Y2K.

SPEAKER_17 1:28:26

Y2K. Uh internet is just a passing fad as millions give up on it.

SPEAKER_20 1:28:31

Hey kids, ask your grandpa about Y2K.

SPEAKER_17 1:28:34

Yeah. I remember Y2K. You know, oh my gosh, I was at a dance. I'm like, are the lights gonna go out? Total scam, right? Total scam. Okay, so internet may be just a passing fad. There's lots of prominent economics people, bankers and whatnot, have criticized Bitcoin, including Larry Fink, CEO of BlackRock. So he's on a stage here. This is the New York Times put this on. It was a deal book summit. And this is uh an MSNBC host, I can't remember his name, but he's talking to Larry Fink, and he's saying, he's talking about how Larry Fink had criticized Bitcoin. For those of you that are like, well, Bitcoin's a passing fad. I think if you've listened to the show every day, I've probably shown you like, then why are governments buying it? Why is the US holding onto it? Why are these big banks holding on to it? This is a great clip from Larry Fink. Just like so many people were wrong about the internet, just like so many people were wrong about the airplane or the car or you know, all these other technologies that have come around. He was wrong about Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_38 1:29:35

I called crypto an index for money laundering. Uh BlackRock and thieves and thieves. Money laundering and thieves. Um you uh now have the biggest Bitcoin ETF. So what happened here?

SPEAKER_31 1:29:52

I have very strong views, but that doesn't mean I'm not wrong. Uh but you by having strong views, you have to test yourself and ask yourself. And you know, in my role, I see you know thousands of clients a year. I have you know governmental leaders, and we have these conversations, and it my my thought process always evolves. And this is a very glaring public example of a big shift, in my opinion.

SPEAKER_17 1:30:20

Uh crypto, big glaring public example of a shift, in my opinion. Bitcoin is for thieves and criminals, and now you're the largest ETF holder of Bitcoin. Or he's the biggest thief and criminal of a lot. I know, right? So here's Michael Saylor. He's got a product that's an ETF that pays an 11% annual return. Wow. Now, one of the challenges for someone that's older, right, is you don't have time to wait for Bitcoin to go up. And you can't handle the volatility. You need the money now. You're in retirement age, right? And so his ETF is very attractive because if you put a million dollars in, he pays you$110,000 annually, paid out bi-weekly. That's a great retirement account. That's better than you're gonna get in your 401ks, your IRAs, and pretty much any other investment that's not hands-on, right? But there's a better investment that's Bitcoin. It gets about 40% annualized return, but it has volatility. It could lose 40% and then go back up 80 and down and up and down. So he's talking about how it this is a huge transition for people. You either need the cash flow now, if that's the case, ETF is the answer. Or if you can wait the volatility, if you're currently working and you're got retirement that's five, 10, 15, 20 years out, you should seriously consider Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_22 1:31:46

More than double the SP. Okay, so why don't why don't a billion people just all buy Bitcoin? It's because the volatility is 40. Even sophisticated financiers will not agree to buy Bitcoin. Takes a thousand hours of discussion to sell an asset appreciating 40% a year with a volatility of 40. But let's just say I want the 40% and I'll take the 40 40 volatility and I'll give you 10%. And I will I will strip away the risk, strip away the volatility, over-collateralize the instrument. You have a million dollars. You can either buy a million dollars of Bitcoin and get on a roller coaster. By the way, if your time horizon is 10 years, I would tell you make a lot more money that way. Get on the roller coaster. But you're gonna have to go without anything for four years, right? So do you want a capital asset with no cash flows, massive volatility, and you've got to have a time horizon of four to ten years? Or do you want to give me the million dollars? I just give you 10% a year, and I will peg the principal to 100 bucks to par. So the volatility falls to two or one or whatever the number is, but closer to a money market, and you collect right now, STRC pays 11.5%. And the beauty of that instrument is it's a return of capital dividend, so it's a tax-deferred dividend. The market for the first 11% of the return is 100x larger than the market for all 40 percent.

SPEAKER_17 1:33:24

And that is why Bitcoin is going to go parabolic because now there's products, these ETF products like his BlackRocks, and others that will pay you that really high sustained rate of return. Why would you go do a CD at three or four percent when you could do that at 10 or 11%?

SPEAKER_20 1:33:42

Yeah, I don't know.

SPEAKER_17 1:33:43

Does that make sense? And the market of people, the boomers, the 401k accounts and all these accounts is 10x the size of people who can just squirrel away a little bit of cash savings, right? The people who could squirrel away a little bit of cash savings, that's what got Bitcoin to$100,000. But now that the big dogs are in, the 401ks, the Trump accounts, 18-year hold cycles, right? All with a 10%, 11% rate of return is going to send the price of Bitcoin parabolic, which is why here's Tim Draper, billionaire Tim Draper, talking about Bitcoin, and he's making a prediction to 2028 because Bitcoin goes through what's called halving cycles. There's only so much Bitcoin that's mined every day, and every four years it goes in half and half and half again. So we're we're the next halving cycle is in 2028. There was a halving cycle in 2026, which is another one of the factors why Bitcoin took a drop. Miners turn off their computers, they wait for the value to go back up and then they turn them back on. It's very normal cycle for Bitcoin, very predictable. But in 2028 is the next halving cycle. So there's going to be a parabolic move from where we're sitting at today, sub eighty thousand dollars up to you'll hear him say it.

SPEAKER_24 1:34:56

I didn't realize that they would set Bitcoin back four or five years, and they did. But now it looks like we're gonna be hitting my number pretty soon. You said 18 months fairly recently. I mean, uh, because that's after the havenings, we we still call it havening. It was a having. I don't know a lot about economics, but I do know that if the sub if this is supply and demand, and the supply gets cut, the demand goes up and the price goes up.

SPEAKER_17 1:35:26

So I didn't realize that they would set so his prediction is 250k by 2028, is his prediction. And he was right on his other predictions. Don't know a lot about economics. I love that. Here's another one. This is this is$20 billion bitwise CIO. He just said by 2030 he's got another pretty significant prediction.

SPEAKER_01 1:35:48

Question I mean, if an everyday investor here had$10,000 and they wanted to turn that into$100,000 by 2030, what what sort of crypto assets should they be looking at? Is it the DeFi sector? Is there specific crypto tokens, you believe?

SPEAKER_30 1:36:04

Look, I think Bitcoin could go up 10x by 2030. So I would start with Bitcoin. I think it's dramatically undervalued versus a scalable market it's going after. I think you could see Bitcoin north of a million dollars in five years. So maybe start with Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_17 1:36:17

Question I mean, if and if you start with Bitcoin north of a million dollars in five years. Mathematically, you did your own math because you're an engineer and you always have to check your math. And what did you figure?

SPEAKER_20 1:36:28

Uh, I was right about where this guy's sitting. Yeah, 250. Yeah. But I figured it was 250 now.

SPEAKER_17 1:36:36

That's the thing, it's undervalued, and a lot of that has to do with media, it has to do with the fact that when it had a little bit of a drop, people, ah, Bitcoin's over. Yeah, Jim Kramer's it's gonna go to zero now, right? It's not going to zero. And here's the secret, and this is what everybody needs to understand. Listen, we're gonna get to private here in a second, we're gonna continue on with this BigFit theme. I've got some crazy stuff on Bigfoot because this is a conspiracy thing. Okay. But when it comes to Bitcoin, if you can save in Bitcoin, prices as compared to Bitcoin go down. Look at what happened to the Turkish Libra. If you have Bitcoin, even just a little fraction of it, you're richer than every Libra billionaire in Turkey right now.

SPEAKER_20 1:37:18

Right. Just pretend for a second that that graph was United States dollars, and just think how many dollars you could buy with one Bitcoin.

Bitcoin Versus Housing As Savings\n

SPEAKER_17 1:37:26

Exactly. And this and this has real effects on things that matter to us, the peasants, like housing. Here's an example of how Bitcoin makes things cheaper when you save in Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_09 1:37:39

Bitcoin is going to demonetize real estate. A house is not supposed to be a savings account, it's not supposed to be what you exchange your effort and labor for. You acquire a house to consume it and live in it. It's not a money. Unfortunately, because the world has been robbed of money, robbed of the market good that they're supposed to save and exchange in, and that market good has been manipulated and debased and controlled. People have had to resort to things like real estate as money. And so real estate is distorted, it's artificially expensive. And so Bitcoin will dematerialize after all of the money that's in real estate, not to consume it, but rather to save in it, that money will go to Bitcoin over time. And what that will do is it will drive the Bitcoin price up and it'll drive the real estate prices down. Guys, when I got into Bitcoin, my dream house was a hundred thousand bitcoins. And then some years later, my dream house was ten thousand bitcoins. And then some years later, my dream house was a thousand. Then some years later, my dream house was a hundred. And then some years later, my dream house was ten. Now the average American home you can get for three, four coins. So I think within the next decade, you can get a medium-sized house in the United States for less than one Bitcoin. And so the best way to become a homeowner and a purchaser of land, real estate, is to stay humble and stack sacks.

SPEAKER_17 1:39:21

Exactly. For those people that are under 40, for people that feel like they're iced out of the housing market, prices are going up, your wages aren't keeping up. Even if you are getting incremental wages, it doesn't touch the devaluation of the dollar, which gets directly affected in the prices of real estate.

SPEAKER_20 1:39:36

And outpay and outpaces your income.

Move To Private And Bigfoot Tease\n

SPEAKER_17 1:39:38

Even a small get off zero, even a small amount of Bitcoin. Remember, one Bitcoin has a million Satoshis, just like one dollar has a hundred pennies. You don't need one Bitcoin or 10 Bitcoin to reach your financial goals if your horizon is four, 10, 15, 20 years out. For anybody that's my age that wants to retire at 65, the smartest thing you could do is not invest in anything other than Bitcoin. Right? It's what the same Jack Mahler says. People understand Bitcoin. You don't keep 1% of your portfolio in it. You keep 100% of your portfolio in it, right? If your time horizon is out there a little bit and you can live on what you're making now, then Bitcoin is the investment because in the future, even a half of Bitcoin is probably going to be able to buy a house very shortly, 2030, 2025. It's going to make things affordable if you can actually save in Bitcoin. So that's my advice for everybody. We got big problems. Big problems. And while Donald Trump can do some things and we can change the policy outlook in our local counties, and we should, because remember, there are policies that are not tied to money. School boards, waterboards, counties, the local dog catcher. These are not jobs that affect nationwide inflation or anything like that, anything like that. This is our quality of living, getting drug users and homeless people off the streets and how we go about doing that. That is the game we have to play, to actually have the wealth that our founders left for us to actually own our own country and have a say in how it's run, that Republican form of government. You've got to get involved. But the best way you can be involved is to save. To save, to become financially independent, become strong. That's what led to the Gilded Age. And it's my belief that's what's going to lead to the Golden Age. Just like the Kentucky Derby winner. It might be a hair finish at the end, but Golden Tempo wins every time. Okay, guys, this is we are going to jump over into private and we are going to go over some Bigfoot stuff. We have some live footage of Bigfoot. Now, I've been researching Bigfoot. I think I said when I was in middle school, I gave a speech on Bigfoot with the black and white transparency on the Patterson Gimlin film. And I've seen pretty much every Bigfoot documentary Netflix or Prime or any of them have ever had. And a lot of it is like, yeah, okay. You know, kind of roll your eyes at it. But some of this stuff really sticks. Some of this stuff looks really legitimate. So we're going to look at some of this today. It's absolutely incredible. Now, on Friday's episode, which by the way, we had a massive drop up in listeners. And it's interesting. I had three separate people contact me and tell me that was the best episode. It was like, people have got to listen to that episode. I'm like, why did we have 25% viewership?

SPEAKER_20 1:42:25

Yeah, what happened?

SPEAKER_17 1:42:26

Exactly. I hope we're not being shadow banned. The algorithm got it, pulled it out of everybody's feeds or something. But very good show on Friday. You need to go listen to that show. It was, it was, it was even after we stopped recording. I was like, that was a good one. So you got to go listen to that show, share the show, spread it around. This show only grows with you, right? We're not in the algorithm. We don't pay for ads. We don't promote the show. That's a viable way for some people, but we just don't do it.

SPEAKER_20 1:42:54

Well, we're promoting the show right now. This is how we do it.

SPEAKER_17 1:42:56

This is how we do it. So don't forget to get in. Also, we still have the Rumble tip challenge, May 9th. We've got days away, five days away. If you like the show, please consider getting a crypto account and making a crypto tip into the Rumble wallet. You can find the link on Rumble. You click on there, do the transfer thing, and uh you can make it happen.

SPEAKER_20 1:43:15

If you're a rich sugar daddy out there, just contact me directly.

SPEAKER_17 1:43:19

Just contact us directly. So please, please consider that. Uh on May 9th, we're gonna total it up. We're gonna take 10% and we're gonna send it back to the biggest sender. Okay, so that'll be kind of fun. We'll figure all that out and do that. It'll be great. Okay, guys, we're gonna jump over to private. You gotta stick around. If you're not a Rumble premium subscriber, you're missing out. This is some serious Bigfoot stuff. We'll talk to you in just a second. Bye.

Bigfoot Plausibility And Gorilla Comparison\n

SPEAKER_20 1:43:42

All right.

SPEAKER_17 1:43:43

So one of the things with Bigfoot, did you know, do you know when they discovered the silverback gorilla? Um no, I don't. So about a couple thousand years ago. Okay. So if you from Uganda, you always knew about these big gorillas that lived up in the mountains. But it's hard to get to. It's a jungle and it's steep, right? It wasn't until the 1970s that we identified them as a species. Oh, really? So the so this was a you know, this was a dinosaur myth. Yeah, yeah, big monkeys up in the mountains. Okay, sure, you crazy villagers. Okay. So the idea that we could have a massive primate that could elude us in, you know, faraway places and dense woods is not an impossibility, especially an intelligent creature like a gorilla who's got better senses than we do, is is you know, can blend in, can run away. Like talk to any elk hunter, and you could be like on the trail of an elk, they smell you. The wind shifts, they're gone.

SPEAKER_20 1:44:43

They're four ridges over. I've done circles around bulls, like yeah, never saw them, but they I heard them and smelled them and followed their tracks.

Todd Standing Footage And Eyewitness Claims\n

SPEAKER_17 1:44:54

Yeah, so I always imagine Bigfoot have close to human level intelligence. So if you got close to human level intelligence and you're adapted to your environment, the idea that you could run from humans would be not hard to imagine. No. So here's a quick clip of a Bigfoot being filmed up close. Now, we showed the frozen Bigfoot on Friday. If you look at a face and you look at how it's built and you look at this, it's just a perfect match. Look at that.

SPEAKER_20 1:45:22

Oh, I've seen this clip. Yeah.

SPEAKER_17 1:45:24

Have you?

SPEAKER_20 1:45:24

Yeah, it's not a it's not a particular.

SPEAKER_03 1:45:34

Look at your screen right now. I need you to really look at what you're seeing. There is a Bigfoot crouched in the brush, hiding behind a tangle of branches and dead wood, and the man holding this camera is close enough to count the hairs on his head.

SPEAKER_17 1:45:48

That is incredible footage. Now, here's a here's a longer clip. I'm not sure if it incorporates that clip, but it incorporates others. And this comes from um Todd Standing. So Todd Standing is someone who goes out and will actually take people out to see these Bigfoot. He's the one who took Survivor Man um Les Shroud out into the woods, and Survivor Man saw it. And Survivor Man tried he we, you know, he plays this neutral journalist kind of person, but he absolutely saw this. In fact, he had an he had an episode, it was supposed to be a two-parter, and they only released the first part because the second part allegedly he got footage of Bigfoot. They never released the second part. He was pumping it, pumping it, pumping it, and then it ends with him at night with a Bigfoot circling around his camp. They never released the second part. They filmed it, never released it. Probably because, frankly, La Shroud is funded by somebody who's like, eh, not doing that. Okay, but here's some here's multiple clips of footage. And again, if you compare this with the frozen samples with these video clips, it's pretty compelling.

SPEAKER_06 1:46:52

Uh and the evidence to substantiate this footage is real is absolutely incredible. Uh, because the eye spacing is non-human. And when you look at this, if it's non-human eye spacing, you clearly can see nasal moving. There's his face, right? I mean it's clearly the blinking eyes, the wet eyes, uh, the the uh it looks human. It it does, but the the spacing between the eyes are not human. And if you saw that in real life, you'd realize the head is you know 15 inches across.

SPEAKER_17 1:47:19

The other significant thing about this, and there's the clip, it's not a man in a mask, because the eye spacing, right? If it was a man in a mask, the eye spacing would be similar, or if it was something else, it wouldn't have that wet look to it. So that's another significant piece.

Skeptic Take And Local Bigfoot Stories\n

SPEAKER_06 1:47:33

This is Jake. So a Sasquatch I had incredible live interactions with. He was actually a friend of mine. I considered him uh a good teacher of mine. But you can see him blinking, and uh he's gone now. I don't, I haven't seen him in many years, which has been very upsetting to me. He died. No, I think he was a dominant young male and he's gone off. There he is. This is another uh another video of Jake. He's just gone off to somewhere far. Incredible video, Todd. This is absolutely stunning. And absolutely, and don't take my word for it. Come out with me. I show people this. What's this? This is Jake again. This is just uh I I I I I focused on the eye blink there. So I I turned up the exposure and uh all my all my stuff is documentary style. So I can turn up saturation like I do in this one. Saturation gets turned up, but just so you can clearly see that individual. And again, eye spacing is non-human. And I proved that head, oh my god, that my head is seven inches across. That head is like 16 inches across. My head fits just over the passage of his nose. This is a female. I call her Jane. That's the daughter of Seeger, and uh my colleague Ashley has incredible success with her. It was amazing to me. My native teacher, he so I I initially thought this was just a male Sasquatch. My native teacher, here she is from a different angle, looked at that and said, Wow, you filmed a female. Years later, I saw a breast on her, and I've seen her around, and I I gauge what female Sasquatch do based on her tracks, which are the same size as the Patterson footage, and and her her interactions and and the way she shows herself. She'll walk around a puddle, a male will blast through it. She'll make gentle, beautiful tree breaks that are precise, and a male is rugged and harsh and wants a big, giant, you know, like egotistical. Why don't they run away from you? Right here, she's looking down at me. She's she's the last line of defense for me going into a position where uh I was going to get more footage. Why did they let you get so close? Uh she didn't. I was moving in in a ghillie suit and I come see that there's snow there. I was literally, I came in, I had success because it was a snowstorm so bad you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. So I got into the snowstorm after the snowstorm, this is the day after they came back down the mountain. And where where is this located? This is uh close to Radium British Columbia, and all this is Jane. So you can see everywhere there's snow. And now what's happening too is it's it's gone up way above uh it was in the fall. So we had a minus 10 day with a snowstorm. Next day it's like plus 15, so all the snow is melting like crazy, which could Sound and and makes uh uh me better to be stealthy. So but she she's she's looking, she's closing in on me. And when she finally you know nails it, that that's Todd, he's there. Literally, a Sasquatch walks up behind me, grabs me by the ankle, and pulls me out of my ghillie club. That's some of the most unbelievable video I've ever seen. It's never gonna stop. And and and again, I I've taken out people and showed them that Survivor Man has been out with me. He filmed the top of the head of a Sasquatch, which matches Jake's head. And he's been out there and he's Survivor Man again, one of the greatest outdoor, no, the greatest outdoor survivalist filmmaker of all time. And he literally goes, I have no explanation for what's out there in the wilderness. I know all animals, I know what moose and birds sound like. And something took my apples, left giant footprints on the ground, got footage of it. And the truth is behind the scenes, he knows they're real. He's trying to be skeptical. So he's you know siding with the majority of people that believe that Sasquatch aren't real, he's trying to draw them over. Do you have a lot of doubters when they see the film? Absolutely. Yeah, it's preposterous. The infinite amount of garbage that gets thrown at me. But but uh I've learned from my mentors, especially my native mentors, when someone can see the truth, uh they look at that footage. Like I've seen native elders look at it and go, Oh, that's a big foot. Uh and you would be like, How they know? Because when someone is true and they're flowing and they have good energy, uh, they can look at things, they can look at the Patterson footage, and they don't need any evidence. Uh they can know it's real. I wasn't like that. I am now. Uh I can look at something, I can feel the energy of it, uh, and and and the truth comes out for me. And that's and that's really uh what I'm here and why I'm exposing this, because they are real and that's the truth. Uh and I good energy. How do you feel about that, Ron?

SPEAKER_17 1:51:44

Are you convinced? No. No, all right. We'll be on it again tomorrow. This is a conspiracy show after all. I just I I look at that and I think it it there's a possibility.

SPEAKER_20 1:51:56

Well, I yeah, there are there's always been a possibility, but this footage is not swaying me one way or the other.

SPEAKER_17 1:52:02

There was a there was a University of Washington crew that went up on Mount Rainier and they were up there for something else. They were doing like geological markers or something like that. It had to do with like trying to figure out how if Mount Rainier is moving or expanding or whatever. And they were way up somewhere, and they were barefoot prints in the ground that were oversized, they were like men size 16, and they were looking at them, they're like what like you know, we're struggling with i uh ice axes and pickaxes to be up here. And there were these prints, barefoot prints, and they were just like totally blown away. It was well documented. There's another one over on I think it's Mount Hood, where it was a ridged ridge, and they were watching a Bigfoot walk up the ridge, and there's like you know, I guess just some guy's walking in a ghillie suit, and he's scaled up at like eight feet tall, and it's like just randomly walking up the ridge all by himself, you know. It's like crazy, crazy stuff. Anyways, all right, guys, that's it for the show today. A little bit Bigfoot to end it off because you know, the world's what is my brother like? Truth is stranger than fiction. Yeah. So, you know, we've got uh Bigfoot sightings all over Kitsap County. In fact, the uh tribe that owns White Horse, Tacoma's tribe, their forestry director allegedly interacts with Bigfoot. And my father-in-law went golfing at Whitehorse and ended up in a foresome with him. And he's like, What do you do? Oh, I'm a forestry manager for the tribe, and I keep people away from Bigfoot. And he's like, he started telling him all about it. My father-in-law came and told me, he's like, Taylor, uh, big guy, this guy's insane. Like Bigfoot might be real. I was like, I don't know, John, maybe he was pulling your chain. Who knows? All right, guys, thanks so much. We will talk to you again tomorrow. Bye.

SPEAKER_29 1:54:09

I'm thirty-seven. I'm thirty-seven, I'm not old. Well, I can't just call you ma'am. You could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind, you don't subject you if you automatically treat me like an inferior. Well, I am king. Oh, king, a very nice. How'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers, by hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress, we feel fair. How'd you do? How do you do, good lady? I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the Britons. The Britons. Who are the Britons? We all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. No, we have a king. We thought we're an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy and wish the working class is called. There you go. That's what it's all about. Only people will these good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. Yes, I see. By a civil majority in the case of purely internal affairs. Be quacked by a two-thirds majority in the case of quack. I order you to be quacked. I'm your king. You don't vote for kings? Why do you become king then? The lady of the lake. Her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water. Signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I'm your king. Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. Bequip! But you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart through a sauna is. I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bitch had loved a simitar at me, they put me away. Shut up, we shut up. Now we see the violence inherited in the system. Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I've been repressed! Bloody peasants! Oh, what a giveaway. You hear that, you hear that. I'm on about. Do you see repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?