Why The Process Becomes The Punishment In Politics

The fastest way to understand politics is to stop treating it like a debate and start treating it like a system of incentives. We open with cost-of-living pressure and why hollow “prices went up” messaging feels insulting when families are living the squeeze in real time, then we widen the lens to what happens when institutions lose credibility.

From there, we bounce through headlines that point to the same pattern: Venezuela and the wild idea of expanding US influence, the FBI extraditing a top Trende Agua figure, and the uncomfortable reality that some criminal networks operate like disciplined deployments. We also dig into pretrial electronic monitoring failures in Cook County and how money flows can create perverse incentives where violations don’t get enforced. When prosecutors cut deals that shock the conscience or drop cases after a judge rejects leniency, it raises the question we keep coming back to: who is the system actually protecting?

Then we shift into the future of money and leverage. We talk Bitcoin, self custody, debanking, and why regulatory moves like the Clarity Act could accelerate mainstream cryptocurrency adoption and institutional inflows. We connect that to scarcity, inflation hedging, and even the labor market as robotics and AI make “ordinary” work less scarce. Finally, we share one of the most mind-bending supply chain lessons: ultra-pure quartz from Spruce Pine, North Carolina and why it matters for silicon crucibles, advanced semiconductors, Nvidia, AI data centers, and national security.

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Transcript

Welcome, Weekend Promos, And Coffee

SPEAKER_07 0:26

The revolution's gonna be for sure. It's the only gonna be it's the little guys, it's a little guy of everything. It's gonna be 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 and Pony Boy is hot on top. Good morning. John Attackis, good morning. Welcome, welcome. Glad you guys made it. Oh my goodness, Ron. It's Friday. I'm so happy for Friday. This has been a really busy week for me, and it's gonna be a busy weekend, too. Gotta go to the Republican booth at the Viking Fest. I've got something else tomorrow morning. Oh yeah, Ron! Ron, Tom, our Bitcoin expert, is going to be doing a Bitcoin preview for our Bitcoin class at 1776 Live. Gotta go check it out. It's gonna be tomorrow morning at 10 a.m. Pacific, live on the 1776 Live uh Rumble channel. And uh maybe Lisa can put that in the chats if she's listening. But tomorrow at 10 a.m. Pacific, live on the 1776, I should probably just pull it up and make sure. I just started typing Friday, 10 a.m. Yep, Friday, 10 a.m. No, Saturday. Oh, damn it. Saturday, 10 a.m. Oh, isn't that great? 1776 live.us rumble channel. So 1776 live.us rumble channel. And Tom is going to be doing his Bitcoin preview. So make sure you go follow that channel and and uh be there for that tomorrow. It's gonna be awesome. For those of you who want more information on Bitcoin and how that works, it's gonna be really good. It'll probably be about an hour, hour and a half, something like that. And uh let's see. Oh, I'm doing a January 6th town hall on Friday. Or on Sunday, actually. I'll go ahead and give you guys the location for that. Let me grab it.

SPEAKER_06 2:40

Give me just a second. I should have been better prepared for this one. It's just over today.

SPEAKER_07 2:46

Let's see. So Sunday, Sunday is our live town hall. And here's the event right here for those of you that may or may not be interested. Alright, so there's our live town hall event. It is May 17th, and you've got to go register for that. It's up on the screen. What really happened? Come and hear the other side. You're gonna have myself, John Cameron, um, you're gonna have a couple other people. Jared Sessler, he's a candidate for Congress in Washington 4th, and Joanne Tolentino, she was a J6 attendee attendee, and she's running for office up in um King County as well. So, anyways, should be really good. It's gonna be moderated by Glenn Morgan. Yeah, isn't that exciting? Glenn Morgan, it's probably the most famous Washington State podcaster, host of We the Govern channel. That's kind of fun. I'm actually gonna be sitting with him at the Lincoln Day dinner here coming up pretty soon. Look at me, I'm all involved politically. How great is that? All right, I know why you guys piled on in here early. Look, oh, that's mostly you chatting there, Ron. Let's see, what do we get? Scroll back up there in the chat so I can make sure I say hello to everybody. Okay, so we got Modiesel. Hello, Shantini, good morning, peasants. Glad you're here. Pray the Rosary Daily. Happy Friday, Carlitz, hello, hello. Let's see, Carlito and Tiffany Howdy from the Tube. I don't know where the tube is.

unknown 4:01

Okay, that's fun.

SPEAKER_07 4:02

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Inflation Talk And Media Spin

SPEAKER_27 4:39

Well, let's start with this. Prices have gone up. And families and individuals are dealing with the realities of that bread costs more, the gas costs more. And we have to understand what that means. That's about the cost of living going up. That's about having to stress and stretch limited resources. That's about a source of stress for families that is not only economic, but is on a daily level, something that is a heavy weight to carry. So it is something that we take very seriously. Very seriously. And we know from the history of this issue in the United States that when you see these prices go up, it has a direct impact on the quality of life for all people in our country. So it's a biggest. And and what are you gonna do about it?

Venezuela As The 51st State

SPEAKER_07 5:38

Well, we just have to acknowledge that prices have gone up and it hurts people. And dude, I cannot believe she almost became president. Like it is, it is, they didn't even run a primary, they just picked her. Like she was the reason Joe Biden get it didn't get 25th amendment. People were like, I'll stick with the auto pen. Thank you very much. She's so bad. Oh, she's so bad. Donald uh Maria Salazar, no, not that's not that's not correct, not Maria Salazar. Um Maria Corina Machado, down from Venezuela. Now she was the Nobel Prize priest winner, Nobel Prize Peace winner, who gave kind of a lot of credit to Donald Trump. And obviously, after Donald Trump pulled out Nicholas Maduro, a lot of people she thought she would roll into Venezuela and re-establish the country. Instead, Donald Trump did the what is proving to be the wise move, leave the government in place, hold them over a barrel, and be like, give us your oil and your gold, or else, and and let some political prisoners go. And apparently things have been going fairly well down in Venezuela. So well, in fact, that Donald Trump has floated the idea of making them the 51st state. He even thought maybe he should just run for president down in Venezuela. He says, the people down there love me. So he Maria was on with Aaron Burnett, and Aaron Burnett was asking her about this. Like it's a huge slight. Like, can you believe Donald Trump would do this? This is worth listening to. You know, it's one of those deals where just like after 9-11, the whole world was kind of shifting a little bit, like something new was in the air. We were we were getting ready for a 20-year debacle in the Middle East and a lot of money printing and instability and stuff like that. But this is another one of those eras, this this Trump term, these first two years, where the whole world order is kind of shifting quite a bit. I mean, two or three years ago, when they were putting out rewards for Maduro's capture, and we were having, you know, city uh uh apartment complexes in Aurora, Colorado taken over by Trendal gang members, to all of a sudden be like, hey, why don't we just make Venezuela the 51st state? It's total turn of events here.

SPEAKER_04 7:53

But Trump keeps talking about Venezuela as the 51st state. I, you know, I just mentioned that social media post uh that he posted with the 51st state and the map of Venezuela. He also talked about this in detail earlier this week to a Fox News reporter uh who was really a bit taken aback by it. How do you even respond to that?

SPEAKER_01 8:14

Well, I know President Trump really likes Venezuela and for good reasons. It is a beautiful country, but most of all, of wonderful people. But I'm sure he's gonna love it even better when we have a country that is free, prosperous, and democratic and turns into the strongest ally in Venice in the Americas, because we're located in the heart of the Americas. And look, Erin, from every perspective for the American people and for the Venezuelan people, a transition to democracy is a win-win solution.

SPEAKER_04 8:48

But um, when when when Trump said to the Fox News reporter, quote, I'm very serious about this, so you can talk about this. I'm serious about beginning a process to make Venezuela the 51st state, you do not take him seriously.

SPEAKER_01 9:02

Well, I think he's sending a message to many people uh and and decides and certainly to the regime. I mean, uh, we, the Venezuelan people, uh value, appreciate, share the values of the American people. We are decisive to be a strong ally, and I think it is in in terms of legacy, imagine what this will mean for the for the US government and for your country, Erin. For the first time, we will have, once we move towards democracy and and Venezuela is free, Cuba will follow, Nicaragua will follow. We will have for the first time the history of this continent, the Americans free of communism and dictatorship. This is huge.

SPEAKER_04 9:47

All right, Maria Karina Machado, thank you very much.

SPEAKER_07 9:50

Dude, how crazy would it be if Venezuela, Cuba, Nicaragua, what if they all became states?

SPEAKER_09 9:56

Oh man.

SPEAKER_07 9:59

Dude, it would be it's not outside the realm of possibility. You know, we started out as 13 states, Ron.

SPEAKER_09 10:06

We started out as 13 states. I know, and the you know, and the country has uh you know grown over time. I I know it could happen. It just does it seems weird.

SPEAKER_07 10:15

It does seem weird. The United States is the only nation on the planet that wins wars and doesn't take territory, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_09 10:23

It made me start thinking though, like, how many people do they have? What's their tax base? I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 10:29

Yeah, who knows? I don't know.

Trende Agua Extradition And Gangs

SPEAKER_07 10:31

But I'll tell you what, there's a lot of people in America that would move down there. Oh the pe it'd the people that speak Spanish as a first language would be like, hey, that's gonna be our new home state. It might be the new Idaho, it might be the new Idaho. Yeah, everybody's like, I'm getting out of this place. I'm getting out of this place, I'm going down to Venezuela for some jungle and anaconda. Freedom's still free. Yeah, I would love, I love living in Brazil. I think that it would be pretty cool to try out Venezuela. Not that I, you know, looking to go anywhere right away if it's not Florida. Okay, today the FBI and our partners extradited the highest ranking members of Trendé Agua ever brought to justice. Jose Enrique Martinez Flores, aka Shuki. This is from the director FBI director Cash Patel. Flores just arrived in Houston from Colombia this evening. This is the first time that a TDA member has been charged with terrorism-related crimes and has been extradited to the U.S. history made history made pursuant to President Trump's executive order last summer, designated Trend de Agua as a foreign terrorist organization. Flores is charged with providing material support to TDA, a designated terrorist organization, as well as with international drug distribution conspiracy. He is scheduled to make his federal court appearance Friday morning. So that's kind of interesting. When I was in prison, back when I was in prison, back when I was in prison, I met a handful of Trende Agua gang members. And then, of course, a lot of the Hispanics knew Trend, you know, the Trendai Agua guys pretty well. Sure. And and I've said this before, but they view their time here in the United States. They're not coming up here for economic opportunity. They don't want your roofing jobs. They're not here to pick almonds, they're not here to start to pick strawberries, they're not here to start a family and look for a better opportunity. No, no, no, not at all. They are here on deployment, uh right? They are part of a gang. Some of them were recruited out of prisons, and andor they're just members of the street came, Trenday Agua. That's you know, train over the river or whatever it means. And they're troops. They're troops, exactly. They were sent up here to cause havoc, to take territory, to sell drugs, to do the bidding of the cartel. When they get caught, they keep their mouth shut, they get the free attorney, you know, or they get a cartel-provided attorney, depending on where they're at in the cogs. But they know they're trained. You just don't ever tell them anything, don't say say anything. Go do your time, we'll take care of your family, and when you're done, you'll get another assignment.

SPEAKER_09 12:50

You know, maybe this time to Europe or something like that. Kind of like if you're a POW, you know, the only thing you can remember is your name and rank and badge number, but these guys can't remember any of that.

SPEAKER_07 13:00

Yeah, pretty much, even though they have like trendy agua tattooed on them and stuff like that. I always found that funny, is like the guys that had Venezuela tattooed on, or you know, it's like, God, it just gives you away.

SPEAKER_09 13:11

Or MS-13 across their face.

SPEAKER_07 13:12

So MS-13 stopped promoting tattoos for that very reason. Exactly. Started recruiting young kids with no tattoos and then said don't get tattoos, because then you can you can fit in with the almond pickers. Anyways, pretty interesting. Carlite says we need to make Puerto Rico and Guam states too. I don't know that Guam is big enough to be a state. That's like bringing on another Rhode Island.

SPEAKER_09 13:32

That's just too already a territory, yeah.

Ankle Monitors And Perverse Incentives

SPEAKER_07 13:42

But Puerto Rico definitely could be a state. Puerto Rico's got a pretty decent population. Um yeah. You know, you talk about the impact of Donald Trump. That's one of those things that's like, wow, you know, Louisiana purchase type big. I know. Okay, so another thing that happened down in um, another thing that's been going on around town is in Illinois, there's been a little bit of problem with keeping track of criminals.

SPEAKER_17 14:10

It works out to 8% of the people on electronic monitoring and the pretrial program in Cook County and Chicago who are unaccounted for. Even the state's attorney says we should all be deeply concerned. This is the same system that was ignored by Lawrence Reed, a career violent criminal with 72 arrests. His ankle monitor showed that he'd been out all night twice and was violating his curfew on November 17th of last year when police say he boarded Chicago's L train and set a complete stranger, Bethany McGee, on fire. This is the same ankle monitor system that was ignored by 26-year-old Alfonso Talley. Records show he'd been in trouble for all of his adult life. He disregarded his curfew to the point that he didn't get home to charge the battery, and the ankle monitor went dead. Police say on April 25th, he went on a crime spree that ended with a mother of three, pistol whip with a broken nose, one police officer dead, another fighting for his life. 3,048 people were released pretrial on electronic monitoring. Almost 20% of them are charged with violent crimes, 7% aggravated battery, 4% criminal sexual assault, 0.8% charged with murder, and 246 of them cannot be found.

SPEAKER_15 15:18

They have no idea they're at none. Zero. They have no idea where needs individual guard. So think about that. It's not like they could just go out and start looking for them, but they have no clue.

SPEAKER_17 15:42

But any sheriff's deputy will tell you there are thousands of warrants in the system. Without an alert on a specific individual, they get lost in the pile. But the Cook County Chief Judge did tell a local reporter yesterday that law enforcement is actively searching for the people who are at large.

SPEAKER_07 15:57

We have a list of people we're missing, so we're actively searching for whatever that looks like. I feel so much better. Oh man. So I have a friend who works with a company that does ankle monitors and blow and goes, court-ordered stuff that you have to install.

SPEAKER_16 16:12

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 16:12

So I was talking to when I was on pre-trial, he's like, Do you have an ankle monitor? I was like, No, thank goodness I don't, right? And he goes, Oh yeah. I mean, it actually this is this is how he said it works. Okay. So the company makes money when you have an ankle monitor, and they pay the county for that contract. So it's like one of those they get paid, but then they pay back. Like there's a kickback. It's not called a kickback, but there's a so it's kind of like the flot cameras. There's a rebate of some sort. So there's there's a flow of money, they get money from the court, and then a certain percentage of that money goes back to the law enforcement officers or whatever. I don't think it goes back to the court. I think it goes to the police department to pay for their end of the monitoring or something.

SPEAKER_09 16:58

Sure, they're sharing the proceeds.

SPEAKER_07 17:00

Yeah, they're sharing the proceeds. And I I could be wrong exactly about the mechanisms of that, but I mean, I would call it a kickback of some sort. So if their people are incarcerated, there's no ankle monitor, there's no money flow. Okay. If they're out and there's an ankle monitor, there's money flow. So if somebody violates, like say they go outside and they're not allowed to go outside or they go after the outside the geographic zone, what is the incentive to bring them in? There's no incentive. And so a lot of the reports he says internally in their office, they'll look at them and then uh we're not gonna send that one on. Or they'll send it on, and the guy on the other side's like, oh, we're not gonna do anything about it because then he would go in and it would end the contract for the ankle monitor. So it becomes like this weird little deal where it's like there's money involved going to a certain place if they're on the outside, and when they violate it, nobody wants to enforce it. And he says, same thing with the blow and goes, like, like they'll have times where they'll have someone that's blown in with like alcohol, alcohol, alcohol, and they get like a picture every time the blow and go happens, and he's like, they don't do anything about it.

SPEAKER_09 18:04

No, I'll bet they're on the other end. They're like, keep trying, come on, and they're all like you can do it.

SPEAKER_07 18:12

So there's like this weird carrot and stick incentive with the way the money flows there that they don't turn people in, except for the most egregious offenses, and even sometimes those don't get turned in.

SPEAKER_09 18:23

I was just thinking, you know what we could do? We could start and start uh start some polymarket things with the live feed.

Prosecutors Dropping Shocking Cases

SPEAKER_07 18:31

Will he pass? Will he fail? Will he pass? Will he fail? Oh man, I had a buddy who had a blow and go in it, and so I drove his truck a couple times, so he had to sit and give me the tutorial on how to do it. It's it's it's I guess you have to get used to it, but it's kind of harder than you think. It was pitiful because his son wouldn't drive the truck. His son's a teenager, right? And his son would have to blow into the blow and go to get the truck to start. And once you're driving, like five minutes into driving, while driving, you have to blow in it again. Oh, really? Yeah. There's there's like a verification blow once the vehicle's in motion. That's just training. Dude, it's so funny. All right. So this is this is Representative Knott, and he is grilling the Fairfax County prosecutor. The Fairfax County prosecutor, or the the district, excuse me, the uh United States attorney up in Fairfax County, Virginia. He let a child uh a predator, he let a child rapist go, dropped a case. This is a really interesting exchange. I want you guys to listen to this. This just kind of goes to the upside down nature of our judicial system when the law is not being followed and the ethical norms and guidelines aren't being followed either.

SPEAKER_10 19:47

It could not sentence this person to any term over two years. Is that not correct? Sir, I'm so glad you brought this down.

SPEAKER_07 19:54

Okay, so the guy, this child predator took a plea deal that this um Commonwealth attorney, Discano, he put into the plea deal that the maximum amount of time this guy could serve was two years. Is that not correct? Well, because I would like to explain something.

SPEAKER_10 20:08

It is correct. And the court rejected it. Sir, I know this is a good idea. This was a this was like I'm talking. It was a judge that was appointed by Senator Warner. This is not a right-wing judge, this is a liberal judge. And you know why he rejected it? Sir? He saw what you should have seen. He cited overwhelming evidence. So I would talk about the evidence. I know it and you don't quit talking. And I would love to do that. He yanked a four-year-old girl out of her bed with the intent to harm her, and you wanted to give her a cap of two years. Sir, this is a couple of things. And then when the plea agreement was rejected, what did you do? Sir, this is a great example. What did you do? This is a great example of a case. You know, I prosecuted. I prosecuted. And when you're invading like that, you know what that's a sign of? Guilt. What did you do? You dismissed the case. Sir, can I presume about this? When you dismiss a case, what happens to that defendant? He walks free. Walks free. A disgusting, perverted individual preying on children that you dismissed the case. As the father of two young girls, one of them's five. That is as shameful as anything I have seen. Quit defending the air about people in my life. You clearly don't. Absolutely. You dismiss the case and it's shameful. You're a coward.

SPEAKER_07 21:40

You're a cow He dismissed the case instead of letting it go to trial.

SPEAKER_09 21:45

Wow.

SPEAKER_07 21:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 21:47

Yeah. I think I'd have about the same words for that guy.

SPEAKER_07 21:50

So they also brought in the uh sheriff that had to release the guy.

SPEAKER_09 21:55

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_07 21:55

Who actually wrote a memo basically being like, I don't want to do this, but I have a court order. I'm being ordered to release them. And Jim Jordan grills her. He's like, Did could you stop her from being released? Anyone who thinks that your functionaries inside government, your sheriffs, your police deputies, your jailers can do anything other than what the court says. That's one of those great examples where she's like, everything in my head is screaming, don't let this guy go. And I have to let her go. Like they're going to do whatever the judge says, who's basically in a lot of times kind of in cahoots with the prosecutor, too.

SPEAKER_09 22:28

Well, I mean, think about it for two seconds. I mean, if the sheriff or the deputy does something against a court order, what do you think is going to happen to him? I mean, they get dragged in.

FBI Morale And Selective Justice

SPEAKER_07 22:38

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So James Comey was talking about this very thing. How frustrating it must be at the FBI and other law enforcement because they're forced to like let criminals go. You know, so there's like a lot of deep lack of morale. Hopefully you can sense the irony in this setup.

SPEAKER_12 22:54

Do you still talk to uh employees at the FBI regularly?

SPEAKER_07 22:58

I do.

SPEAKER_12 22:59

And what do they are they afraid to be talking to you?

SPEAKER_30 23:02

Yes. Matter of fact, they're under siege. And how is he allowed to talk to you? I think about them a lot. I worry about them a lot, both those who are still there and those who've been thrown out while loved ones are sick, while they're struggling financially. Who cares? Who cares?

SPEAKER_09 23:17

How is he allowed to talk to anybody at the FBI? Just like how is Obama allowed to open his freaking trap? Just shut the hell up and go off into the sunset, dude.

SPEAKER_12 23:26

Seriously.

SPEAKER_30 23:26

A lot of pain at the FBI and the FBI community right now, but it's not gonna last forever.

SPEAKER_12 23:32

Do you still talk to it's not gonna last forever?

SPEAKER_07 23:36

I don't know, man. I just thought that was funny. It's like, here's James Comey. Do you still talk to people at the API? Well, of course I do. I mean, how do you think I get my inside info? Well, yeah, right. How do I how do you think I stay a step ahead of my prosecutors? It's like good gravy. Here's another one. This is Representative Barry Moore. He's up there with Andy Ogles. And you guys might remember Barry Moore was indicted. Do you remember this? He was indicted, and Donald Trump had to kind of come in to save the day on this one. So he talks about exactly what how that looks like. This is the James Comey FBI. This is the Robert Moeller FBI. This is the Christopher Ray FBI. When people like Ron Paul years ago said, I don't think the FBI exists for any reason other than to produce blackmail, right? It's basically just the government's domestic spying arm. And once they have you, they use it, they use what they the information they get as leverage. I'd like to introduce Congressman Barry Moore.

SPEAKER_08 24:31

Thank you, Andy, for hosting this. And you know, really the punishment is the process. Even if they don't find anything wrong, the process to quieten the dissenters within government. My story's a little different. I was indicted. I I actually the two top conservatives in Alabama were indicted by a former federal prosecutor. And the deal was if you'd cut a deal and walk away from your political office, if you would stop the fight, the persecution would go away. And my team of attorneys called my house and said, Hey, Barry, and these are high-paid attorneys. If I told you the names, you'd know who they were. They said, We think you should just cut a deal. You should walk away. I hung up the phone with my high-paid attorneys and walked over to carport. My 12-year-old son, Andy, was standing there and I said, Buddy, if we don't get out of politics, they're going to destroy us personally. They're going to destroy us financially. They're going to destroy us politically. My son said, Dad, I've been reading the book of Daniel. He said, When all those men bowed, there were men who stood. We made a decision that day as a family. We would win that race and we would win that case. And we won that race. And we won that case. But it's like Andy says, what they put your family through to quiet the people who do not want to stand against the system itself is unbelievable. And we need to bring attention to it. And you guys in the media need to understand that we need a blind justice system. Instead of trying to find a man and to go look for a crime, they need to find a crime and investigate the crime. But the process is to quiet anybody who will not go along. So as we're in the fight, what Andy goes through, what Perry, what many of these people on the stage have gone through. It's a message to the media. It's a message to our country that they are truly undermining the true blind justice in this country. And so we need to speak out. And Andy, thank you for hosting this, and I appreciate everybody being here. God bless you. With that, I'll introduce Senator Ron Johnson.

SPEAKER_07 26:21

Isn't that interesting?

SPEAKER_08 26:22

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 26:23

Cut a deal, go free, just leave, just just get out of politics. Stop the fight. I I said this to my attorney one time. I said, Well, I get this. The process is the punishment. And he he kind of laughed and he's like, Yeah, it really is. Now that was when we were thinking maybe there would be a plea deal or something like that, right? That would be reasonable. But hearing him say that, right? He's just a little old representative from Alabama. He's not someone that's national stage, but clearly he's in the fight. If I were Tim Burkhart, if I were any number of these individuals that seem to fight the deep state or bring awareness, I'd be super concerned. What do you got for us, Ryan? Oh man, I just clicked the button. All right, let me play this here. This is Morgan Freeman, and this is an example of how the DOJ and the FBI will use the process as a continuing punishment, and it has a residual effect. This is Morgan Freeman, guys in like every show ever. He's got one of the most iconic voices in America, and he's on MS now talking like this was serious.

SPEAKER_02 27:27

Well, uh, we have uh somebody sitting in the White House who's leading us down a shithole. I can't personally understand how a convicted felon 34 felon felonious is that word accounts of wrongdoing gets to be president. How do you do that? Well, you say, Oh, well, evils count, I don't care. That ruling went down before he stepped into the over office, so it just doesn't make sense to me.

SPEAKER_09 28:10

Come on, Morgan. That's bullshit.

SPEAKER_07 28:12

So, do you think that Morgan Freeman believes it? No. Do you think he just hates Trump because he's got TDS? Do you think that there's something about his life that he wants to keep a secret? Like, what what do you think that is there? I I don't know. Do you think that's like this is a guy who's never turned on Fox News ever once in his life? Is that what's going on here?

SPEAKER_09 28:33

No. I I think he was just asked or paid to say something.

SPEAKER_07 28:37

You think so? You think he doesn't actually have an opinion? This is hey, what you should his publicist is like, hey, what you need to do is you need to go on.

SPEAKER_09 28:43

If that's his actual opinion, he just should just keep his mouth shut.

SPEAKER_07 28:49

No kidding, right? All right, let's do one of these, Ron.

SPEAKER_09 28:51

Oh, yeah, let's do it. Let's see here.

SPEAKER_07 28:54

Trumble wallet. Whoa.

SPEAKER_16 28:55

Yeah, that one. Uh okay.

SPEAKER_09 29:01

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UK Energy, Immigration, And Windmills

SPEAKER_07 30:04

Boom. Speaking of Bitcoin is down this morning. It's down to 78,775. You know what's funny? Now that I'm like in Bitcoin and I'm holding long term and I don't need the money like tomorrow. Yeah, you know, I get so excited when the price goes down because it's an opportunity to buy more. And I keep thinking about you peasants. Like, yes, please, you guys, it's so fun. My cost base is low enough that there's really no drop now that's going to affect my cost bases. So I'm I'm in the I'm in the black no matter what. So yay! Like it's down, people can get in. Long term, man. This it's there's no problem with it going up. It's so exciting. Definitely get involved in crypto if you're not not just crypto, Bitcoin specifically. Okay, so Donald Trump on Air Force One, flying back from China, was asked about the embattled Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Take a listen to this.

SPEAKER_13 30:56

Well, we were we were talking about Britain, but um Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister there, is in a lot of trouble. You know, you're asked about what he's in trouble for two reasons energy and immigration. He's very bad on energy. He should open up the North Sea. He's got a gold mine that he should open up oil in the North Sea, and he doesn't have a tremendous value to you know they buy their oil, a lot of it from Norway. Norway gets it from the North Sea. Not as good an area as Scotland, and the UK. So they're paying Norway a fortune for oil that they take out of the North Sea. Do you think Storm is gonna survive as well? And uh the penis is start drilling, but stop with the windbowts all over the place. Our project happened. Most expensive form of energy. The penis is stuck with the windows, it's got to do energy, but it's not open up the new two. You know, it's got one of the greatest oil finds anywhere in the world. It's not using it's not using it. The oil topic is called me every day. Please, please, we want to go to normal state. Twitter. I I don't say that. It's a I think it's a nice man, I think. But uh I mean I didn't like what he said would extend just as soon as you're finished with the war, as soon as you but we're sort of finished militarily pretty much. But we, you know, David, we are we finished probably 70-75 percent. We didn't finish every one of the things. We'll go back and finish them off. And by the way, and more than that.

SPEAKER_07 32:39

So here's Starbert, what's killing them according to President Trump, is immigration and lack of energy. So the windmill thing, the windmills are interesting. I saw this video in California. Apparently, what is it, the giant condor, the big vulture? Yeah, yeah, right. Apparently, its population is on the decline again. And you know how much, I mean, dude, the amount of money and stuff they spent to try to bring that population back from from uh extinction is incredible. Well, you've got these big windmill areas out in California constantly growing, and of course, what do windmills do? It kills birds. So, what do condors do? They eat dead things that are on the ground. So these condors are circling around the windmills and they look down and they see some dead bird, and they fly down, and then boom, I saw a video where this, I mean, condors are what do they got? Like eight, nine-foot wingspans, they are ginormous birds, and it's coming in, and you can tell it's circling around a windmill, and then it gets through the blade one time, comes again for the second time, whack down to the ground, totally dead. People run over, pick up the bird, the birds, you know.

SPEAKER_09 33:46

I saw a video recently of a guy that was trying to make uh baskets uh behind one of these windmill blades, and he kept hitting the blade with the ball, and it was like, holy smokes, that freaking ball just was like pew pew.

SPEAKER_07 34:02

Yeah, those blades are moving, man. They're big and they look like they're moving slow, but they're not moving slow at all. So Donald Trump also sat down with Sean Hannity talking about it's kind of a post-China trip interview, and we got uh we got an oil and gas deal out of China. I I am just more impressed every time Trump makes these moves. You know, these are like long-term real things. China is a buyer of energy, they have a very difficult time creating their own energy and a sufficient food supply for their people. They do not have the best land in that country. They've got some critical minerals, some, not everything, but they don't have really good farmland and they don't have any energy reserves. They've got some coal, but you know, dirty coal, right? Not the nice, clean, clean coal like here in America.

SPEAKER_14 34:57

They get a lot of their oil, 40% of their oil from that location. So, what has happened, and one thing I think that we we're gonna make a deal on, is they've agreed they want to buy oil from the United States. They're gonna go to Texas because they're sending Chinese ships to Texas and to Louisiana and to Alaska. And I think that was another thing that was agreed to. That's a big thing.

SPEAKER_13 35:18

What about liquefied natural gas?

SPEAKER_14 35:21

Gas, too. Yeah, everything. Energy. Energy. That's the one thing they really need energy. That's the one thing. They have an insatiable appetite for energy, and we have unlimited energy. You know, we've now under under me, but we now produce more than if you combine Saudi Arabia and before the war, you took Saudi Arabia, Russia, put them together, we're doing twice as much oil and gas as they are. Think of that. Amazing. Called drill, baby, drill, right?

SPEAKER_07 35:54

Drill, baby, drill. It's interesting in with the confluence of Bitcoin and energy being the largest producer of energy, by laws of nature, we're probably going to be the largest holders of Bitcoin as a nation ourselves. So jumping back over again to England, talking about Keir Starmer, Keir Starmer put out this video about the Unite the uh Unite Unite the Kingdom rally, and the Unite the Kingdom rally was put on by a couple different factions, but it was led by Tommy Robinson. This this right here, right? This is the kind of politics that I don't the constituency that Keir Starmer is talking to is an ever-waning constituency, and it's a manufactured constituency. This is the Reddit crowd, this is the blue sky crowd, this is the crowd of people that that really have nothing in the game. They're not producing anything, right? This is your cubicle crowd at best. At best. When you hear stuff like this, this to me is like how does a politician ever get away with this?

SPEAKER_05 37:03

Tomorrow's March in London is a reminder of what we're up against in the Battle of Our Valley. The organizers, including the convicted thugs and racists, are peddling hatred and division plain and simple. Their goal is to convince people that Britain's problems are caused by those living alongside it. But that is not the Britain that I know. This is a country built on decency, fairness, and respect. A country that is at its best when people from different backgrounds come together in common purpose. This is our country with a majority who share those values, a majority who may not always be as loud, but must always define who we are. So my government will not stand in the way of peaceful protest. But we will act decisively against hatred. We will use the full force of the law when that hatred manifests as violent, and we will ban those coming into the UK who seek to stir it up, as we have done already.

Voting Rights Claims And Gerrymandering

SPEAKER_07 38:10

Because this country belongs to all of it, and I will not tolerate anyone who seeks to stand in the way of that. I noticed in the entire video there was not one Islamist person in the video. But that's the only constituency he's talking to. And that's the people that were people when he says, Well, people living next door that don't share. Dude, you've got a polygamist Islamist that wants young daughters, right? You I mean, like the stuff that comes out of England is shocking. That video right there, how that guy maintains any power in that nation is stunning to me. Other than he's talking to the Islamic community, and the Islamic community is laughing at him, like, yeah, go ahead, keep keep doing that, keep keep your population suppressed so that we can take over. And that's exactly what they intend to do. Isn't that a stunning? That is stunning, man. Talk about weaponizing whatever virtue you have, whatever soft heart you have for you know your good old Christian values or whatever. He's pulling on those threads to have you self-cannibalize your nation, to just destroy your nation. And we have the same thing going on here in the United States. Scott Jennings was on uh with uh whatever Caitlin Collins or whatever her name is here on CNN, and they have this woman from the South. What is her name? Her name is Um she's just listed as a liberal. Okay. So she this a liberal woman who's talking about the voting rights and blacks being their vote being suppressed. And Scott Jennings kind of calls it right here. He's like, Who's being suppressed? Name one black person that's not allowed to vote. But these are the kind of tropes that get used against the conservatives and legacy Americans and people who just want the system to function, right? Like just the system to function and how your virtue gets weaponized against you by calling you a racist and everything under the sun.

SPEAKER_29 40:12

I was born black, I'll be black all my life. I don't want to hear anybody say that the Republican Party has not gone out of its way to keep people who look like me away from the ballot box because it's painfully untrue. It is something that's been charged in the courts time after time, decade after decade, and particularly across the South, across the South where the largest concentration of black people live. So we've seen those in Georgia, we've seen it in Texas, we've seen it. Well, those states are not led by Democrats, first and foremost. I let you talk. Would you please let me finish? Thank you very much. Beyond that, we have to be very serious about the concentration and the erosion of civil rights across this country. And yes, that it that also proceeds with voting rights. The erosion of the Voting Rights Act has been done holistically by the Republican Party. What we've seen from Donald Trump is someone who wants to and continues to try to expand his power by the most illegal means. So, yes, those orders were challenged. Those orders were challenged in Venezuela because, quite frankly, there was no impetus to go there to begin with. What we do know is that more than likely this was illegal. First and foremost, that's why he's trying to hide the videos.

SPEAKER_18 41:15

Okay, so a couple things. Number one, has anyone ever personally tried to stop you from voting? Answer no. Number two, I voted.

SPEAKER_29 41:24

I don't vote in the South.

SPEAKER_18 41:26

Number three in this country, number three in this country, I hate to I hate to remind you of our history, but it was the Democratic Party that tried and tried and tried to suppress black votes in this country, not the Republican Party.

SPEAKER_29 41:38

And I would love to remind you that when the Jim Crow laws were eroded, they were eroded by the Democratic Party, not by Republicans who tried to hoist them up and try to continually re-entry, re-enter Jim Crow in the modern era.

SPEAKER_18 41:50

I think you need to reread your civil rights history. The Democratic Party doesn't have a clean record on this. But the bottom line is Democrats are going to continue to be ruthless. They're going to continue to try to gerrymander, they're going to continue to try to say the president's delivering illegal orders to mess up our military. Who knows what they'll do in Washington from here on out? But the bottom line is Republicans tonight didn't do this redistricting. Democrats are going to keep doing it. And if you're looking for who the most ruthless partisan players are, the Democratic Party.

SPEAKER_07 42:20

Where do her and Morgan Freeman get their information? I don't know. I'd love to scroll through their algorithm, their feed, and see where this is coming from. The idea that the Republicans have tried to blackvote blacks from voting, never, ever. That's never, ever been the case. Like Republicans, to their credit, often are colorblind. And it also is what blinds them to they get blindsided by this stuff. The worst thing you can call a Republican is racist because they're not. Right. Right. So then you put them on their back foot to try to defend themselves, and then they run scared about racism. They're just not.

SPEAKER_09 42:59

Maybe they're maybe they're just watching the view or something. I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 43:05

The amount of psyoping that the Democrat Party gets away with in the black community is something on another level. Like the idea, she doesn't even live in the South. And she's like, Republicans are trying to stop blacks from voting. What? Like, no, it's the Democrats that have consistently tried to stop you from voting. And your little minority majority districts. Why do so many of the minority majority districts have white guys?

SPEAKER_09 43:33

Maybe you should have asked her a question about the SLPC or whatever that organization.

SPEAKER_07 43:37

SPLC. Yeah. How do you feel about the SPLC paying for the KKK? Right. Wow. SPLC is a right wing organization, Ron. Clearly. That's what you would say. Oh my goodness. Martin Easel says a small town in China is 5 million. Yeah, I know. It's like you pack them in there tight. Okay, so Kristen Welkel was asking JD Vance why it is that the Republicans Feel the need to do this redistricting. And J.D. Vance had a pretty good answer for it.

SPEAKER_20 44:04

If President Trump's agenda is so popular, why do Republicans need to add additional seats to the map?

SPEAKER_07 44:11

Okay. Break that down for a second. What? If Donald Trump's agenda is so popular, why would you need to do any redistricting at all? Why would it even be a thing? If it's so popular, why would you need to do that? What is the when you see these districts for Democrats that are like the finger lakes running across to Illinois, right? The reason is because you rig the game in the way you gerrymandel. We're just going to do it on general principle. How about that? On general principle? Yeah. I'd like to just have quadrants. Like it should just be take the square footage, divide by whatever, but you can't because it's by the vote. It should be they should be geographic areas, in my opinion.

unknown 44:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 44:55

But what about closely closer aligned with county boundaries, maybe? I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 45:00

Something like that. Yeah. So so he she goes, how cool would that be if every county well, no, because it's apportioned. So you couldn't really do it like every county gets two reps. No, you couldn't really do it. You'd have you have to apportion it.

SPEAKER_09 45:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 45:13

I mean, I understand why a lot of these red districts look look huge. It's because it's a lot of farmland across the country or a lot of mountain ranges. But then in these little little cities, you can have, you know, like AOC's districts, like this little dot. It's densely populated, yeah, populated area. But where you see these problems is where you see a city that's densely populated, and you see the but then it reaches out like 400 miles. Like the one in the one in Virginia, you know, you go up to uh I think that goes all the way across the whole state. Yeah, it's like the city's got three congressional districts that then suck up all the farmland. It's pretty nuts. Okay, so continuing on here, if if Donald Trump's agenda is so popular, why do you need the redistrict at all?

SPEAKER_20 45:56

Yeah, well, first of all, Chris, you have to ask yourself, why have Democrats gerrymandered their states aggressively over the past 10 to 20 years? If you look for that's a good question.

SPEAKER_07 46:04

Why would the Democrats have to do why would the Democrats want to gerrymanders? Especially if they were so popular. Yeah, I mean, if the if totalism's so great, why don't you just leave it as is?

SPEAKER_20 46:14

I mean for example, at the popular vote in a lot of these states and Massachusetts, where 32% of the residents of Massachusetts voted for Republicans, zero Republican federal representatives. So we're not trying to sort of all we're doing, frankly, is trying to make the situation a little bit more fair on a national scale. The Democrats have gerrymandered their states really aggressively. We think there are opportunities to push back against that, and that's really all we're doing.

SPEAKER_07 46:43

It makes sense to me. It's like that the premise of that question, though, is like, why are you punching us when we're down? Right. Because our policies are popular, because it's fair and balanced. The gerrymandering is one of the ways that things get rigged. So um this is Marco Rubio. So the two leading candidates for the Republican side in 2028 are Marco Rubio and JD Vance. Now, apparently these guys are best friends in the White House, they talk quite a bit, they're kind of in the same age group. And Donald Trump has, you know, put the hand of favor on JD Vance from time to time, and he puts the hand of favor on Marco Rubio from time to time. And he's he's it's I don't think Donald Trump wants to see a rivalry, but he kind of, you know, being the king maker that he is, he's kind of setting up a potential rivalry. So as we get closer to 2028, it'll be interesting to see which one of these two guys takes the lead. I think a Vance Rubio ticket or a Rubio Vance ticket, as far as Republicans are concerned, would be dang near unstoppable. But who's gonna be at the top of that ticket? So as of these first two years, Marco Rubio has definitely been in the limelight more because we've had a lot of international stuff. Uh obviously Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, that's all JD Vance's or something.

SPEAKER_09 48:03

Well, yeah, I mean, remember, every time that somebody something came up with uh Trump and he'd be like, well, who's gonna handle that?

SPEAKER_07 48:10

Rubio. Yeah, well, Rubio, right? So he's had a real prime role here in the first two years, yeah. But now J.D. Vance's fraud task force is starting to really make some waves. He had that big uh big town hall rally in Maine yesterday, which by the way, they said you gotta vote for Susan Collins. And he goes, even though I disagree with Susan Collins and I wish she was sometimes more partisan, you gotta vote for her over the Democrats, because at least we get her votes 95% of the time.

SPEAKER_09 48:38

She actually votes more with the Republicans than Thomas Massey did. Isn't it refreshing to have a conversation about look how much Marco Rubio can do and look how much Vance can do? And man, let's see who can do the best job, and let's see who can be the best leader in the future. This is great.

Iran, Oil Prices, And American Resolve

SPEAKER_07 48:54

And they're both amazing communicators. Yeah, compared to that to the beginning of the show, the simultaneous SIP video with Kamala Harris. Inflation is when things get more expensive. And one thing we know about inflation is it affects everybody. And what are you gonna do about it? We're gonna talk about it. So that's that's the other side, okay? I mean, they could run John Fetterman, but then again, I don't know that he's up for the job either. So this is Marco Rubio communicating about affordability and and the conflict in Iran and how that affects prices, and how Donald Trump has said it doesn't matter. Like Iran can't have a nuclear weapon. Marco Rubio articulates this very well.

SPEAKER_21 49:43

Did he make a mistake when he told a reporter that America's financial situation isn't playing, quote, even a little bit of a role in his motivations to make a deal with Iran?

SPEAKER_00 49:52

No, I think what the president is claiming is that Iran's not gonna use that as gas. Doesn't that sound out of touch, though? I mean, the Americans are spending so much for gas. Because I think what the president is making clear is that we're not gonna let Iran use that as leverage. Think about what the Iranians are thinking. The Iranians, and they watch this. Remember, there's no free press, there is no you in Iran, right? There is there is no press in Iran that can criticize the regime or say, you know, create any pressure on them. And I think what the president's making clear is if the Iranians think that they are going to, you know, use our domestic politics to pressure him into a bad deal, that's not going to happen. We've taken extraordinary measures uh to keep gas prices lower than they are in some other parts of the world, and it will go down. Those straits will be open, and we will see those prices go down. And actually, I think you're gonna see a dramatic reduction in oil over time because all of that pent-up oil that's being held hostage by Iran, once that reaches the marketplace, it'll have a very positive impact. But I would also say there's a price attached to a nuclear Iran. If Iran ever acquires a nuclear weapon, they will immediately what would stop them from controlling the straits then, and then forget about it being a three-month or a six-month problem, it could be a permanent one.

SPEAKER_07 50:58

Exactly. These guys get it, right? And they they understand there's certain things. This is where America has lacked a backbone since Vietnam. I I mean, the ability just to Korea, even if you go study the Korean War, why didn't we win that thing? Like, it's still going on. Why didn't we win? Because we lacked a backbone. Um, I was listening to someone earlier saying after World War II, the United States could have conquered half the world. We had nuclear weapons. We literally could have expanded our territory and by conquest or just simply by saying, Hey, this country, Mexico, you're now United States. This country, you're now United States. We could have walked across half the globe and just taken anything and everything we wanted. Instead, we did the whole Britain Woods thing and we decided to use the British colonial model and control everything through money. We wanted to play nice, create all these client states, right? Because our virtue was weaponized against us. Exactly. As soon as the Soviets got a nuclear weapon, they breathed a sigh of relief, right? Oh, okay, they're not going to take us over. I mean, literally, the nuclear weapon, this is this is the part of U.S. history that that you really got to give credit to the Americans for not taking over the world because any other country in 1945, any other country of the 190 countries that existed at that point, name anyone. If if Belarus had discovered a nuclear weapon, they would own the entire Asian continent. Okay. It wouldn't matter what country it was. Switzerland would have finally decided to become a conquering nation and taken over all of Europe and Russia had they had a nuclear weapon. So the United States has been really good about not conquesting. All of our expansion has been Manifest Destiny, the Louisiana Purchase, the Oregon Terror, you know, we've purchased it. Like we bought Alaska from the Russians. You know what I mean? Like we didn't go and do nukes and guns. But ever since the Korean War, the United States has had the lack of backbone to really flex up because we're all we've already won. Like we have nuclear weapons. So if we want to win in Korea, we could win any moment we wanted to. So then it becomes what is the cost of victory? And this is where our leaders have been completely feckless. What is the cost of victory? If you spend too much money and spend too much blood and treasure, then there's a domestic cost. If you end up using a nuclear weapon, then there's a domestic cost. And now in a world where others have nuclear weapons, the price might be a little bit too high because that that that chicken might come home to roost, right? And so American politicians and presidents, while they flex their muscle one way or another, they've been they've lacked strategic desire to win because the cost of winning is too high. I mean, look at Jimmy Carter. He gave away the Panama Canal for a dollar. Why would you do that with a strategic asset like that? Right? With the cost of winning, the cost of being the bully. Like we've already won because we've got nukes. Our borders are secure, sort of, right? Until they figured out that they could just walk in this country and destroy us from within, like a bad termite colony. So JD Vance and Marco Rubio and Donald Trump and the rest of his cabinet, they understand that you have to win. You have to use the tools you have to win. Scott Besson as well. So going after Iran right now, I understand it is really hard affordability-wise. Oil is going like we're probably going to see some significant inflation, which Donald Trump's going to deny is even happening, right? But we're probably going to see some significant inflation from now to the end of the year because of this oil problem, because it raises the prices on everything. And across the world, there's more demand for these goods, which is also going to make the goods more scarce. Right. So I think it's I think it's going to be a problem for them going into the midterms. Even though I agree with the mission and I completely agree there. Like if Iran got the nuclear weapon, they could close the strait themselves and charge a toll and have the same effect.

SPEAKER_09 54:57

Well, we focus on the oil, but the oil is a precursor for everything else China makes. So pretty soon everything else will be more expensive. More expensive and unavailable.

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SPEAKER_09 55:10

Okay, let's do it.

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SPEAKER_07 56:08

Phew. Awesome. Yesterday I watched a Mark Vixer Hansen uh it was a longer video he had talking about how China views America and how China has basically walked over every one of our leaders since George H.W. Bush. They have just taken advantage of. They knew that America wasn't going to do anything. They would, you know, use a sanction on one company. China's like, okay, great, use a different company. Like they have total command and control. They can dodge sanctions, they can manipulate things as easily as we can manipulate things. But Trump comes in and he just starts taking chess pieces off the board. Venezuela, Cuba, Iran, uh, the Panama Canal. He he shores up the North Sea, goes after Greenland. And so China is looking, they respect strength, right? They're looking at Donald Trump. And in the first term, they fought him, but now they realize there's a huge sea change happening in America. They thought America was totally on the decline. And and uh with Donald Trump, however, you're looking at$17 trillion of investment into the United States. We close the border, right? All these things are happening, and China respects that. And they want to be a rival, and they believe that they need the competition in order to succeed. They need us to develop stuff so they can steal it, is what it boils down to. And so when Donald Trump did things like China still is generations behind Nvidia and some of our chip manufacturers, generations behind. Like it's not something they're going to be able to replicate. And their entire mercantilist model centers around the silicone stuff. And so when Donald Trump brought the Nvidia president there and he walked in, if you notice, when he walked off the airplane, who was directly behind Donald Trump? I didn't see Jason from Nvidia. The guy that, like literally, if Donald, when Donald Trump said early in his term, when he said you can't sell Nvidia chips to China, that was an economic nuclear weapon in China. That brought China to the table. And so the Chinese, their perspective was last time, ah, he wants a trade deal. We're going to run him out of office. We've got our little ace in the hole, Venezuela, with those election machines, right? Well, now that is kind of taken off the table. And so they cut a deal with Trump. And I think we're going to get a really big deal. So Donald Trump also, he says the thing that the Chinese and everyone else wants to deny is happening. He says, Yeah, they spy on us, but we spy on them.

SPEAKER_14 58:37

And she asked me a question. Yeah. She's talked about China, this and that, that they steal this and they steal that. And they said, we do it to them too. They spy on us. They said, we spy on them too, I guess, you know. So some people thought that was cute. Other people said, you don't have to say that. I said, I sort of do. No, we have we do things and they do things and that's the way it is.

SPEAKER_07 59:04

Now, with that being said, I spoke to I like the candidness of this. To not pretend like our hands are clean. Yeah, no, we spy on them. I mean, you know, we're looking for our shot too. Like we're rival nations. Hello. What do you think is going on here? Yeah, don't pretend like we don't.

SPEAKER_14 59:23

Very strongly about them, and I'd like to see it taken care of. But they've been doing that for 50 years. Will there be an improvement with trade? Fentanyl is way down. And she asked me a question.

SPEAKER_07 59:39

Yeah, one of the other big things was fentanyl. So talking to she directly about fentanyl. Now, this comes up every time they talk in every negotiation we have is you've got to stop sending precursors through Mexico for fentanyl. And Mark Victor Hansen pointed out that in the last couple years, 600,000 Americans have died from fentanyl. That's more than all the soldiers we lost in every war we fought in the last century. And so that's all, and when you start like when they started keeping track of that, the fentanyl deaths, it was it's been shocking to 660,000. 600,000.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:11

Okay. That's still almost two percent.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:14

Yeah, Tomaste, you said you can find a PDF free online from the author's master thesis. I'm not exactly sure what you're what you're referencing there.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:22

Huh? I don't know what that's about.

SPEAKER_07 1:00:24

Yeah, I'm not exactly sure what you're referencing there. But I'm sure it's important because it's coming from you. So you're gonna have to you're gonna have to give me a little more context on that. So that's that's a really that's a really big deal. Like they've got to stop sending the fentanyl. If we get a positive trade deal and our relationship with China is such that they need us and we don't need them as much, it could be a healthy relationship. Where it's an unhealthy relationship because of the nature of our politics with presidents changing over four years and elected representatives changing over every couple of years. If we need them, it's bad for politics to do anything to counteract any of their malign actions. So we need to get to a point where we don't need them, but they need us. And then I think the world will be a much fairer place. You know what I'm saying? Because if they if we need them, they're gonna use that and they don't play fair. They're a communist country, they're not going to play fair. In their ethical guidelines, it's not like the contract is the law. No, Mao said all political power comes at the end of a barrel of a gun, not from a contract.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:27

Not playing fair is fair.

SPEAKER_07 1:01:29

Yeah, not playing fair is fair, don't you know? Donald Trump understands that. His world and business, Manhattan real estate, is a cutthroat game, and he understands you either win or you lose. You either get the deal or you don't. So he said this because when Chairman Xi had mentioned that America was in decline, this kind of caused a lot of stir. How do you dare you say America's in decline? Hello, our president says that. President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation. He was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of sleepy Joe Biden and the administration and the Biden administration. On that score, he was 100% correct. Our country suffered immeasurably with open borders, high taxes, transgender for everyone, men and women sports, DEI, herbal trade deals, rampant crime, and much more. Mark Vincer Hanshin mentioned that the DEI in America is 100% the result of a Chinese PSYOP on us and in Europe. It originates from them. They use DEI in Chow's Cultural Revolution to get control of the country. They've eliminated it completely. They are a meritocracy. Like you either do a good job or you don't to move up. I thought RCIA invented it. No, it it is it is right out of the playbook of what Chairman Mao used in the Cultural Revolution. So they they seeded it here in the United States, literally to destroy our meritocracy.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:53

Okay.

SPEAKER_07 1:02:53

And but they have adopted meritocracy with their economic model now.

SPEAKER_09 1:02:57

But then our three later agencies were like, hey, this is a great thing. We can use this.

SPEAKER_07 1:03:02

They've seeded it, they've worked through the Cubans. That's the other thing, right? We learned from Patrick Byrne yesterday in the private side. We learned from Patrick Byrne the CIA had a lot to do with Fidel Castro's rise in power. And so yeah, the CIA is rogue, man. What did JFK said? I'll break them into a thousand pieces pieces and scatter them to the wind. And then a couple of weeks later, he took a couple bullets to the body. You know what I mean? Not one bullet that took a magic curve and came back in the other side. He got shot at least twice. Okay. President She was not referring to the incredible rise in the United States, the United States has displayed to the world during the 16 spectacular months of the Trump administration, which includes all-time high stock markets, another all-time high yesterday in 401ks. If there's any evidence that the big print is on and money is flooding into our country, it's that right there. That will lead to inflation, period. Like it's great. Your stock market's at an all-time high. It's mopping up the liquidity of dollar bills that are flooding into our country. Military victory and thriving relationship in Venezuela, the military decimation of Iran, to be continued. Strongest military on earth by far, economic powerhouse again, with a record$18 trillion being invested into the United States by others. Best U.S. job market in history, with more people working in the United States right now than ever before, ending country destroying DEI and so many other things that it would be impossible to readily list. In fact, President Xi congratulated me on so many tremendous successes in a short period of time. Two years ago, we were in fact a nation in decline. On that, I fully agree with President Xi. But now the United States is the hottest nation anywhere in the world, and hopefully our relationship with China will be stronger and better than ever before.

SPEAKER_09 1:04:39

Sounds like President Xi uh agrees with that too.

Corruption Stories And Weaponized Government

SPEAKER_07 1:04:42

Um oh he linked linked a book about how Bitcoin can eliminate kinetic war when you were talking about nukes. Tomaste, it it maybe maybe it zapped it the post because I had a link. No, when Ron goes to the ads, it drops the chats. So if you posted it and I didn't catch it, I just didn't see it. But maybe maybe it's still in there. Post it again and uh we'll see it. Yeah, Bitcoin, Bitcoin is for enemies, Bitcoin levels the playing field for absolute certainty. So another thing that happened yesterday is Donald Trump had a lawsuit with the IRS for$10 billion for the illegal leaking of his tax return. And he has agreed. Trump is this is from ABC News. It was reported broadly. Trump is Trump is expected to drop his$10 billion IRS suit in exchange for the creation of a$1.7 billion fund to for victims of governmental weaponization.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:34

Oh, I'm on that list.

SPEAKER_07 1:05:37

I'm on that list. That's pretty awesome. I like to hear that a lot. And what do we mean by weaponized government? Well, there were people directly involved with different incidents that happened. For example, the January 6th debacle that I got wrapped up in. I I made my bed, I'll sleep in it. Why can't I see the thread?

SPEAKER_06 1:06:00

Hold on a second here.

SPEAKER_16 1:06:02

What's going on? I can't see the thread.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:06

Oh, here it is. Okay, so 2013, former Capitol Hill Police Assistant Chief Sean Gallagher. So he's one of the ones in that whistleblower deal that they published the other day that was involved with getting promoted after January 6th. He was then a USCP Capitol captain, was found guilty of forgery and embezzlement of department funds in a payroll scheme. So what he was doing was he was clocking overtime hours. The guys weren't working, and then he was splitting it with them. So he was embezzling back the overtime. Sources informed us that this will be taking, he will be taking the position as the number two in charge of security at the World Bank in DC. What?

SPEAKER_16 1:06:41

Huh?

Scarcity, Robots, And The Labor Future

SPEAKER_07 1:06:42

Coming right on the hills of our Blockbuster Revelation yesterday. I've just confirmed through multiple Capitol Police sources of this most recent development in the upwardly mobile career of ARC of this notorious Capitol Hill police leader and key figure in the January 6 stuff. From my March 2024 article about the egregiously criminal behavior of Gallagher, you can learn how his internal affairs investigation resulted in a recommendation for his termination. The offense is egregious. This is from the Capitol Hill report, and absent any mitigating factors warrants nothing less than termination. This offense was willfully frequent, occurring on eight occasions. Captain Gallagher misrepresented his times, forged his supervisor signature on overtime authorization forms, falsified pay certification sheets, and forged his supervisor signature on pay certificate certification sheets to defraud the government for significant personal gain. Termination didn't happen. He only received a 10-day suspension. And just two years later, was promoted to inspector. After which he continued in his rise up the command ladder at Capitol Police, eventually serving as assistant chief and a couple of days of acting chief after the departure of Chief Thomas Manager. So now the guy who was found guilty of forgery and theft of government funds has been appointed to the number two head of security at the World Bank. You simply can't make this stuff up. You got that other gal that went on to the CIA after being the first one to fire shots and may or may not be the pipe bomber. It feels just like the former Assistant Chief Yogananda Pittman's job well done reward as chief of police at UC Berkeley. Crime does seem to pay in DC if you're working for the right people. Hanneman report Hannah reports and I are not going to stop, despite our DDOS attack on our website, job termination, a deep state funded lawsuit to shut us up. Please consider helping us to continue this battle. And if you're interested in that, definitely go to Steve Baker's site and uh make a donation because they are doing the Lord's work for sure. Another person who just pled guilty to embezzlement, to uh money laundering and tax fraud is Dana Wills Williamson. Now, who's Dana Williamson? Newsom's chief of staff from 2022 to 2024. She appeared in a Sacramental court to plead guilty to counts of conspira of conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, subscribing to a false tax return, and making false statements. She's accused of being the ringleader for a plan to siphon 225,000 from a dormant campaign account belonging to Xavier Bacera, who's also running for governor, who is a leading cabinet for governor to pay for her own personal expenses. According to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of California, Williamson was charged with a 23-count federal indictment, alleged conspiracy to commit bank and wire fraud, defrauding the United States, obstructing justice, filing of false tax returns, and lying with authorities. Williamson also allegedly claimed personal expenses as business deductions, including thousands on Chanel and Findy Baggs, an HVAC unit for her home, and even a hundred and fifty thousand dollar trip to Mexico for her birthday. Sean McCluskey, Bashar's former chief of staff and lobbyist Greg Campbell, also pleaded guilty to charges related to the thefts. It is one big club and you ain't in it. For sure. You know, it's so crazy how we go around trying to daughter ize and cross our T's. And when you're in government like that, talk about crime paying. You know, when you hear that representative from Alabama saying, you know, they indict you and they just want you to walk away, take the deal and go. When it's when it's when it's real crime, it goes unprosecuted under Democrats. When it's fake crime, it gets prosecuted. And Donald Trump is obviously changing the course of all of this stuff by going after fraudsters, going after these people that actually did commit these crimes. It's pretty interesting. So, one of the other things, too, and we talk about this when we refer to Bitcoin quite a bit, is the non-scarcity of assets like gold and silver, which, you know, again, I have to say this a million times. I've been a huge fan of silver, huge fan of gold. My attitude has changed markably over the last six, seven months because I see why those assets are not the world reserve currency right now. One of the reasons is they're not scarce, right? So if you think gold's going to be there for you, yeah, compared to the big print, it's better. But now that you have Bitcoin as an option, it's a better option because it's built-in scarcity. So as silver rose in value last year, which was very good for me. I mentioned yesterday they found that deep, the those deep, um, that deep mine, that mine's not in Colorado, it's in Mexico, by the way. It doesn't matter though. Five 50,000 meters of drilling told drilling told silver dollar where to look. The 2006 drill program at La Jolla is underway, targeting deeper high-grade silver mineralization. That and this could change how the project is value. Drills are turning, and um it's a huge adventure. So here's where they're out drilling for my and these are this is silver from what I understand. Look at those rods they're pulling out.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:34

This looks like a test well.

SPEAKER_07 1:11:36

No, what they do is they drill down. What they do is they drill down, and then the silver comes up in the pipes, so it's like a well. So the silver comes up already pre-core drilled. So what he's pulling out of there, he's on that sheet, those are all silver that they've mined super deep. So rather than big doing big open surface mining, they just drill hole after hole down into the silver core and they just pull it up through the pipes. So it's really efficient. And at$85 an ounce, they make a lot of money doing this. And that's apparently the price point they had to be. So as the world uses silver, they're supplying it, and they've got an unbelievable resource there, like an unbelievable amount of silver. So it just goes to show, right? Anything, anything that can be that is not scarce will become cheaper. Now, another thing that is going to become less and less scarce is labor. Anything that you can do, a robot soon will be able to do better. Anything that you can think, AI and large language models will soon be able to think faster.

SPEAKER_09 1:12:42

Ah, and so we're almost obsolete.

SPEAKER_07 1:12:44

We're almost obsolete, Rob. We're almost obsolete as a human, as a as a as human beings. In fact, there's a company called Reflex Robotics that is releasing the first robot made for bachelors.

SPEAKER_24 1:12:57

Meet the robot designed for bachelors, built by the New York-based company Reflex Robotics. This machine can handle your daily routine at home. It wakes you up on time and gets your day started. While you get ready for work, it can prepare your breakfast. It also takes care of household chores with ease. In the evening, it can make dinner and help you relax. The robot moves on a four-wheel base, making it stable and easy to move around. Its upper body is humanoid, with a head and arms to perform different tasks. It is mounted on a vertical mast that can move up and down, so it can adjust its height based on the work. Meet the robot design for a bachelor.

SPEAKER_07 1:13:37

I need one of those. Making bed, peeling bananas, making a smoothie, making dinner, putting the dishes away. Wow. There was I didn't play it yesterday because it actually was very boring, but they did an eight plus hour stream of a different version of a robot on an assembly line, flipping packages over for a conveyor belt, which apparently, like Amazon has people that all they do is put the packages, you know, as they come down this tumbler, the right side. Like they just literally stand there all day long and flip packages over while the mark over. And it just kept putting stuff on this conveyor belt for delivery. And it's like, well, I mean, that thing, that thing basically you could plug it in and it could just work indefinitely.

SPEAKER_09 1:14:41

Yeah, that's the video that I was telling you about. Maybe this is a different one, but I was watching one just like that where they had a guy that was trying to disrupt the robot from and keep him from being able to complete the task like he had a stick and he was just like i i poking it in there in between him and the package and the stuff they were trying to put in. And the robot was just like just kept working away until he finally got it.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:05

Oh man. I I want a robot robot to weed my acre. I want a robot that's out there that knows the difference between a dandelion and a and a tulip. Well, and just can do that.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:16

Unfortunately, you know, if you're an early adopter, you know, I think these robots are pretty pricey, so you might need to wait a minute.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:22

So Elon's talking about bringing them out at about 20 grand, which Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:28

Wait till the lawnmowers cost a thousand bucks. What do you mean? Just wait till the price comes down.

SPEAKER_07 1:15:34

Oh, I I think that's an incredibly cheap price to replace human labor. I mean, I spend it is cheap. It is cheap. I lose more than 20 grand a year in doing chores around the house. Oh, sure. Sure. Based on my level of productivity. Sure.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:49

But it won't be long before these things come way down in price, and everybody will have them. Yeah, it'll be interesting. They'll be like roombased, they'll be everywhere.

Clarity Act And The Bitcoin Endgame

SPEAKER_07 1:15:58

Okay, so we have some other really good news on the Bitcoin front. The Clarity Act is in front of the Senate, and it passed out of committee yesterday. They are moving fast now. Like buy your Bitcoin quick, folks. Yeah, seriously. Where are we at right now? Let's see. Bitcoins 78. Ooh, bargain basement prices. Gotta do it. Uh oh.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:17

78? We're gonna pause the show.

unknown 1:16:20

Hold on.

SPEAKER_07 1:16:21

Pause the show. Yeah, you're like, I'm gonna go give me a pie. All right, so this is Kevin O'Leary talking about what will happen to Bitcoin the moment that Clarity Act is signed into law.

SPEAKER_28 1:16:31

I love the idea of innovation. The money center banks have been sitting on their hands for years, trapping on the crypto industry, but it's not about Bitcoin. Nothing to do with Bitcoin, it's digital payment systems. That's the potential. That's the amazing opportunity we have here. Now, the reason that will be important and why we'll get price appreciation on Bitcoin is the minute that happens, it will signal the move to the next act, the Market Infrastructure Act. That's the Clarity Act. Why that matters to everybody in this room is we will finally determine is Bitcoin a commodity or a security? And when that is determined and regulated, Katie bar the doors, a trillion dollars will come and index that asset. Let's all hope that happens while we're all alive here.

SPEAKER_07 1:17:25

Anyway, and it's happening now. That speech was given a while ago. So the names of the acts, Bitcoin was declared a commodity. That's where we wanted it to be, which means we can buy and sell it. Securities, it becomes a whole different thing. So it was a commodity. That was the Genius Act, and now we have the Clarity Act. The author of the Bitcoin standard, Safadine Amos, Amos, he said this, and I kind of agree with him. I don't know about the dollar amount, but he says if Bitcoin is worth$200,000, do not sell it and buy dollars. Because if Bitcoin is at$200,000, the dollar is very close to its grave. So this is what we mean by that. People like Senator Warren, who have literally become the banking senator. Like she represents big banks and their desire to control the financial system through a form of CBDCs. She said this in the committee hearing, and if she says this, I think we all need to take it pretty serious.

SPEAKER_23 1:18:23

When this blows up the economy, I hope everybody remembers this moment. Mr.

SPEAKER_07 1:18:27

Chairman. So when it blows up the economy, so when the economy becomes the golden age, Ron, I hope everybody remembers this moment. Obviously, she was trying to say that Bitcoin and cryptocurrency would destroy the economy, but I'm glad she used the word blow up because it does have the potential to really blow up the economy.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:43

So both of these clips back to back. I'm this is really interesting that you played these back to back because um they're both right. And I'm nervous that when Bitcoin does hit you know 200 or 250 or 300 or whatever it is, whatever the tipping point is, you know, sh what's her name? Uh Elizabeth Warren. Elizabeth Warren. She's not wrong. It is going to blow up. The dollar will become worthless. And my fear is that most of America is going to be left out in the cold on this. I mean, for really, I mean, probably 300 million people are going to be left out in the cold grabbing the scraps.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:22

If you think of it, if you think of Bitcoin like a tech stock, yeah, no, you're there will, you know, at three, four, five hundred thousand dollars, a million dollars a coin. So a lot of people are gonna be left out.

SPEAKER_09 1:19:33

It is going to be a commodity, but for this moment in time, it will act like a security for about three months, three to six months. It's gonna feel like a security. When it when it shifts, it's it's gonna be big. It's gonna be big, and the dollar value is going to plummet like immediately just to zero, which is going to look like things become more expensive. Yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:19:58

So if you're an asset holder, it's gonna look like you're getting rich. Yes. If you're trying to buy assets, you it's gonna be unattainable.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:05

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:05

And with the rise of robots taking menial jobs, what are you gonna do? And this is gonna catch everybody in the whole nation completely off guard. It is gonna catch people off guard. Now, oftentimes when you're studying this stuff, you just think like in 2009, 2010, 2011, you know, the the Jack Dorseys of the world are like, this is gonna this is happening. Yeah, well, it's gonna take 25, 30, 40 years. It's like the self-driving cars. We tested the first self-driving car 20 years ago, and now it's one, two or three percent of the market. It takes time for this stuff to actually happen. People are slow to change. The internet wasn't adopted in a two or three year period. It took 15 years for everybody to really get online.

SPEAKER_09 1:20:47

So, my fear though is that this won't take 20 years, it's gonna happen overnight because when the new market is created, the only way for that new market to survive is for it to continue on and to kill the other market.

SPEAKER_07 1:20:58

What's gonna happen is one day you're gonna get a job and they're just gonna say we only pay in Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:03

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:03

And you're gonna be like, Oh, okay. Well, at that point, there's no more upside to Bitcoin. Yeah, right, because nobody has to accumulate, they're gonna start spending because it becomes the currency.

SPEAKER_09 1:21:13

That is what I'm talking about. Because at that point, though, everybody will have already lost the opportunity, and Bitcoin will become a utility only.

SPEAKER_07 1:21:23

Only in the all it will, they will already have lost the opportunity, only to the extent that they won't get the upside appreciation. Yes. That I want people to understand that. Yes, the a Bitcoin future is a good future, it's a future of peace and prosperity where bullets cannot resolve your problems. Yes, negotiation has to resolve your problems. So it is a net positive, but yes, there will be losers in the economic system and there will be winners. But eventually everybody will transition over to this. And this is why Cynthia Loomis, who is the Bitcoin senator right now, has her little speech where she's countering what Elizabeth Warren is saying about all the ability for crypto facilitate drugs and all the bad things that they've said forever. And she went through a list of things how this is a law and order bill because it creates regulatory um standards that then can be prosecuted rather than just selectively prosecuting people. Um, there was a gentleman that was on the Simply Bitcoin podcast that was talking about how Democrats used to be really, really, really pro-crypto. And their guy, Sam Binkman Fried from FTX, was the Bitcoin guy, right? And altruistic investing because he was so rich with all of his Bitcoin, and he was the primary, he was the largest donor to Democrats. Turned out he was a big scam, Ponzi scheme fraudster. And so they had to turn and they became anti-crypto to kind of save face, but they're not really anti-crypto, okay? But they're anti-crypto to save face. And Elizabeth Warren, I think she really drinks.

SPEAKER_09 1:22:54

I thought they were just covering up their tracks from all those the scams that they were running around it.

SPEAKER_07 1:22:59

That's why they have to they have to turn face really hard. So this is Cynthia Loomis describing the power of Bitcoin as far as sovereignty of money. This is why, guys. This is why Bitcoin, over everything else, it's not a tech stock. Yeah, buy it cheap, get the upside 100x, 400x over the next five or 10 years. It's amazing. We have a we have a once in a species opportunity to be on the ground floor for something. I mean, this is incredible. But the long-term advantage of this, yeah. Once we get past that hump, yes, what this really represents is what Cynthia Loomis describes here.

SPEAKER_23 1:23:37

This is a pro-law enforcement bill. And it's also a pro-consumer bill. Consumers can now transmit money between them faster and cheaper than they can now. It provides a level playing field, regardless of whether you live in Rwanda or Queens, New York, about transmitting money faster and cheaper. It provides a woman who's trying to get out of a battered, miserable marriage the opportunity to walk away with her money in her head. It provides people who are being tortured in foreign countries the opportunity to walk away from that country with their money in their head. Because Bitcoin can be memorized. This is a pro law. Do you get it?

SPEAKER_07 1:24:39

You can't take it. From a battered woman walking away from a bad relationship to a refugee crossing a border. Bitcoin is the first asset ever that can't actually be taken from you. Which is why it's so important to come to that live rumble tomorrow at 10 a.m. and listen to Tom, Tomas stay here, talk about it. And then to get enrolled in our Bitcoin class because it is the future. Whether you like it or not, Bitcoin is coming. Our governments are utilizing it. It de-incentivizes war. All the things we stand for and all the things we want as peasants, Bitcoin is the answer, right? Fix the money, fix the world. Senator Bernie Moreno was the first American to pay his taxes in Bitcoin. Did you know you could pay your taxes in Bitcoin? No. You could do it all the way since 2016. Oh. When people are like Bitcoin's for criminals, yeah, the government takes it all the time, right? They love taking your Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_26 1:25:41

In 2016, I became the first person in the United States of America to pay my taxes on Bitcoin to show the capabilities of the technology. Had I met the senator from Rhode Island, I would not have done that as I paid$3,000 in taxes with two Bitcoin. So I would absolutely be in a better spot had I not done that. So we should have met each other back then. I do want to make a note that the$3,000 that you use for the Bitcoin would today be worth how much? Too soon. Okay, thank you. Just wanted to make sure that point was clear. Don't give your Bitcoin to the government, people.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:17

Don't give your Bitcoin to the government. Too soon. Too soon. Two Bitcoin today would be$150,000. He paid a$3,000 tax bill in 2016 for two Bitcoin, which today would be worth$150 plus thousand dollars. Yeah. But Ron, when I said that you could pay your Bitcoin in taxes, you acted shocked. I didn't realize that you didn't know that.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:39

Man, there's a lot I don't know.

SPEAKER_07 1:26:41

So here's the thing: let's say your salary is$70,000 a year and you buy half a Bitcoin for$40,000. Yeah. Ten years from now, 0.5 Bitcoin is projected to be worth$5 million. Oh boy. You just bought 71 years of your salary for$40,000. Bitcoin is time. And again, this Clarity Act is coming fast. Donald Trump has said he wants to see on July 4th, May or July 4th, 17, 2026, on our 250th year anniversary, of all the things he's going to do for the 250th anniversary, signing into law the Clarity Act, making private custody of Bitcoin legal and not allowing any laws against it, almost like a constitutional amendment, is huge. There's a massive amount of significance to that. Here's what um energy, let's see, uh I can't remember his name.

SPEAKER_09 1:27:34

This will be a bolded bullet point in all the history books.

SPEAKER_22 1:27:38

Yeah. It's gonna be a very tricky year because we we have a new Fed chair coming in the market's gonna test that Fed chair. But once we get through that subsequent turbulence, we are probably entering you know an 18 to 20 months, 24 month period that might be the one of the best we've ever seen in our life.

SPEAKER_07 1:27:54

When it regards to Bitcoin, 18 to 24 month period might be the best we've ever seen in our lives because all All that institutional money, all that pent up Wall Street money, all of it becomes institutionalized. A lot of it's going to flood into Bitcoin. The new Fed chair is going to lower interest rates. Okay. He's going to lower because we're moving into a recession. All signs point to recession. We have to pay for the Biden economy. So all signs point to recession. So what do they always do? They turn on the money printer, they lower the interest rate. You can get cheaper money to buy houses, credit cards, cars. And the government, of course, pays less for their money, so they go on a spending spree. And that has a direct correlation to the value of Bitcoin. If you save your money in dollars, it will melt away. You save your money in Bitcoin, it'll hold its value as the dollar decreases its purchasing value. It'll look like the value is going up, but reality is Bitcoin stays Bitcoin. The Trump family's all in on it. Just like the refugees who want to cross a border with the money in their head, or the battered wife who wants to get out of a relationship and keep her money in her head, right? The Trumps got debanked. I got debanked. From big to small, that is always on the table.

SPEAKER_25 1:29:03

And the Trump family's all in on Bitcoin for that very reason. Because he did these things. The reason we got into crypto, and we're all in on crypto, and we're doing American Bitcoin and we have World Liberty Finance and USD one was because there was a time, and probably I'd been on this show where there was a I could call any single banker in New York City. They'd pick up the phone, I'd be able to get a loan for whatever real estate project I was doing across the street. Then we got into politics, and all of a sudden, they wouldn't take your call. You couldn't get financing. We were debaned. And what I realized, and my brother realized, because we were the recipients of every subpoena imaginable, was that, you know what, we were actually just the top of this sort of pyramid scheme that we didn't realize we were a part of, that the financial system was totally undemocratized because we had a certain balance sheet and whatever, we could kind of do whatever we wanted. The regular guy was messed up. Now we were all of a sudden in the shoes of the regular guy that wouldn't be able to take advantage of the markets. And we said, what's the solution for that? The answer is crypto. These decentralized platforms where you're not beholden to this, where you create efficiencies as a guy that did real estate. Why am I paying points in and out for title insurance that could be done on the blockchain? So we got into crypto, not because it was like, hey, this is the next cool thing. We got into it out of necessity. We got into it because we understood just how quickly we could be turned off, even as an incredible developer from New York State. I mean, I don't think anyone would argue that we didn't change the skylight of New York City, but that disappeared in an instant. I mean, we're getting sued by the New York State AG, half a billion dollar fees for paying back loans on time with interest. These aren't fair markets. There's no nothing egalitarian about any of that. So we actually, as innovators, uh as people who understand these things, we went all in on a concept that makes total sense because we'd actually been the recipient of how quickly that can be shut off.

SPEAKER_07 1:30:52

Our founding fathers were in a similar situation. Their wealth got taken by the British when they forced British script, you know, the king's pound on the colonies where we had been using colonial script. It is the reason why Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, George Washington, and many others, it is the the tie that binded them all. They all had their, you know, John Adams wanted, you know, better law and order. George Frank George Washington got snubbed for a for an officer's position in the King's Army because he was uh an American, right? They all had the chip on their shoulder. But the thing that brought them together, the thing that brought them together to actually declare independence and eventually establish their own country was the money. It was the money. And so when you hear the Trump say stuff like that, and there are other families that feel the same way, it is the money.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:51

I thought it was really interesting how you know normally in these shows you got guys talking over each other, asking questions. They let him talk. Yeah. They just shut up and sat there and listened.

Quartz, Silicon, And The US Chokepoint

SPEAKER_07 1:32:02

Yep. So here's Jason Huang in China being asked why he came to China. And when we jump over to private after this video, we're gonna watch a video about silica silicone and how it's made from quartz, and how the United States has the Trump card on silicone. And so no matter where the chips are made, all the silicone comes from the United States, from one specific place. And the fact that he, the CEO of Nvidia, was walking behind Donald Trump is a huge, huge symbolic signal to Chairman Xi and the Chinese that we, despite what you think about ripping off the Chinese or taking over China, all of that is dependent on a mine in North Carolina. So we're gonna listen to Wong say why he was there in China.

SPEAKER_11 1:32:58

Uh summits in human history. And the two the two presidents, President Xi and President Trump, have such a one-to-one relationship. An incredible opportunity for us to rely on their relationships to build a much, much better partnership. Did you get any specific uh customers for your chips for the age to uh we didn't really talk about I'm here to support the president and uh to represent the United States?

SPEAKER_05 1:33:23

What's you think about?

SPEAKER_11 1:33:28

I'm here to focus on one thing, just to represent the United States and supporting the president. Today's morning sermon was very uplifting. President She was very inspiring, very welcoming. And President Trump was very inspiring, very welcoming as well. And so the two of them had an excellent meeting. Thank you.

SPEAKER_07 1:33:44

Any regulatory I'm here to support the president in the United States. I'm here to support the president in the United States. Said on replay. I'll say it again. All right, guys, this was a great Friday episode. Thank you for joining us. Those of you that are on Rumble Premium, you can stick around for our private chat. And we are going to be watching a video about silicone. This was an incredible video. Uh, it's a longer video, so I don't want to play it on the public side. But if you're not a Supreme member, this is some of the great stuff you get in the private side. Bigfoot, real footage, UFOs, silicone, the deep state rig with Patrick Byrne, some really amazing stuff. So we're gonna jump over to private and we're gonna learn about how quartz means everything. All right, here we go. Okay, so when I watched this video, this was something I was unaware of. And it became one of those things where I went, wow, I'm so glad I watched this. Huge education here.

SPEAKER_19 1:34:41

Is the one critical material the U.S. has a monopoly on. Found in exactly one place on the Earth's surface. Stop the ultra-pure form of this from flowing, and the world would slip backwards in time 25 years, which is why you don't hear much about it. Why the secrecy around it, how it's made, how to use it are guarded like state secrets. To make a million iPhones, you need 250 pounds of it. Not a nice to have, not we'll figure something else out if we can't find it. Like Saudi Arabia's oil, China's rare earths, this is America's ace in the hole. Quartz. This is sand. This is sand. This is also sand. This could be sand. Aside from white tropical sand created by fish eating coral or volcanic sand from worn down lava, sand is quartz. Take this quartz crystal, crush it up. What comes out is what's in these piles. Zoom into one of the grains of sand in one of these piles, and you would see oxygen atoms sticking themselves to silicon atoms in a pyramid shape. Each pyramid tangled up with its neighbor. The tangle becomes a crystal called silica. Silica being the main ingredient in concrete is quite literally the foundation of our world. Concrete is not overly picky about the quality of its silica. A little bit of iron or magnesium tangled up in the crystal, mix it together with lime, add some water, pour it in a mold, let it cure, and you have concrete. But if you find yourself with pure silica, nothing else along for the ride, you, my friend, have found something exceptionally rare. Expect a knock on your door. Because humans discovered long ago, if you apply enough heat to silica, it'll turn into glass. The more pure the silica, the clearer the glass. Far more recently, we discovered that if you want pure silicon, yes, that's silicon. If you want silicon, pure silica is the first thing you must find. The tank that fired first won two-thirds of the time, making the need to be able to see from inside the tank critical. With the field of view twice as wide as British or U.S. tanks, the lens on German tank sites often let German tank gunners see target and fire at enemy tanks before enemy tanks even knew they were there. Made big enough so a range finding system could be printed onto an inner layer of the lens. Germans used just one site when attacking. Gunners could sit in one station and look through a lens mounted next to the barrel of the gun. British and U.S. tanks used two. One whole periscope for looking around and spotting enemies, another for aiming the gun at them, forcing the commander to look through one to gauge distance, then yell to the gunner to aim and fire. A one-lens system that helped Germany steamroll through France at the start of the war, and just six weeks after crossing the border, found themselves the captors of Paris and the world's prized silica mine, Fontainebleau, just 35 miles south. It was the purest silica the world had ever seen.

SPEAKER_07 1:37:15

Less pure silica and the larger, more high power, the left isn't that interesting how the war in Europe was over resources like silica. We totally missed that. Yeah, I'd never heard that. Military planners are all wars are about resources. It's I need your farmland, I need your gold mine, I need your silica mine. So that would be the reason why they came all the way in because of strategic. Yeah, I know. When really they were trying to get a hold of some quartz.

SPEAKER_19 1:37:45

The more distortion there is as you move away from the center of it. Rifle scopes, submarine periscopes, tank sites, bomb sites, radar tubes. Fontaine Blue was the single mine the entire British glass industry relied on. Gone. So working at breakneck pace, two inferior silica deposits in the U.S. and the now famous Loch Lane in Scotland, which would end up producing silica purer than Fontaine Blue, were developed to feed the Allied war machine. Better late than never. By the midpoint of the war, the Allies had managed to catch up to Germany and glass production. But it wasn't until two years after the war that the hyper pure silica that powers the entire modern world was discovered. Despite 80 years of scouring the planet, nowhere else on Earth has come close to rivaling what comes out of Spruce Pine, North Carolina. Fontane Blue is 99.7%, Rockaline 99.8%. Spruce Pine is a staggering 99.999% pure silica. It is impossible to make leading edge semiconductors without the silica pulled out of Spruce Pine. Inside your phone, your laptop, weapons, every server and every data center that powers AI are semiconductors formed on little sections of pure silicon called chips, because the little square they're all built on is chipped off a much larger block. It is how that much larger block of silicon is made that makes the quartz at Spruce Pine irreplaceable. Truly irreplaceable. And that is not hyperbole, which I have to say because it's extremely rare to have a hypercritical global industry in the modern world rely on one little piece of land. This irreplaceable land is the choke point that could be used to determine which countries can make advanced chips and which can't. This is why China can't suddenly overtake the U.S. chip industry. Why taking Taiwan does not guarantee China would suddenly be able to make high-end chips? Because if the U.S. stopped providing the quartz from spruce pine, Taiwan ceases to operate. Full stop. But where is this connection between quartz and silicon? This ultra pure quartz, ultra pure silica, is turned into silicon? Not quite, actually. That is exactly what those who make silicon try to avoid. Pull apart your phone, and inside you'll see where the brain that powers your phone is. Inside of this casing, right here, is an advanced semiconductor that in a pristine state would look like this. Just three millimeters tall, a perfectly polished piece of pure silicon. Etched into it using a process that could be mistaken for magic are billions of tiny pathways. The width of each measured in atoms. We're talking 40, maybe 50 atoms wide for each path. If a random iron or oxygen atom is baked into the silicon where an attempt to create one of these pathways is made, the pathway will not be made. Fail to create just one of the paths, and the whole thing must be thrown out. To make a piece of silicon pure enough to power an iPhone, you must make sure that when silicon is melted down from its natural blocks and formed into a cylinder, chips can be sliced from. The thing that's holding the melted silicon doesn't contaminate it. Silicon melts at 1300 degrees Celsius, 2400 degrees Fahrenheit. It's very hot. Just about anything that comes into contact with the pool molten silicon will at minimum shut off little pieces of itself that mix with the melt. Each rod of pure silicon comes out of one of these, a crucible made entirely out of quartz that comes from spruce pine. The quartz that comes from spruce pine, and only the quartz from spruce pine, must be used for every single one of these crucibles because some of it will inevitably end up in the molten silicon. Boeing planes, iPhones, PlayStations, MRI machines, they all require at least one advanced ship that's been cut out of a silicon rod formed in a crucible made with quartz from spruce pine. This crucible is just 99.9% pure quartz, but just three inches wide, we're melting tin. I don't have the equipment skills or insurance to attempt silicon. Crucibles used to make silicon stand three to five feet tall, they're two to three feet across and can only be used one time. For every one million iPhones Apple cells, a crucible will be built, filled up with molten silicon, and destroyed by the process. Each chip in them starts out as silicon blocks that are melted inside the crucible. Created using a process so difficult to perfect, it's not considered science, but black art. Because you can't just let the molten silicon cool and pull it out. Can't pour it into something else for fear of contamination. A Polish engineer named Chakrowski discovered using melted tin just like this that if you dipped an object into the metal, pulled it out in just the right way, you could grow a metal cylinder, an atomically perfect metal cylinder that, in the case of silicon, can be sliced into circular discs half a millimeter thick. A tiny, perfectly structured seed crystal is melted on the tip of a metal rod and then dipped down until it just touches the surface of the molten silicon. Pulled up at an excruciatingly slow pace. The rod rotates, the molten silicon clings to the seed, and as it cools, because it's touching the perfect seed crystal, arranges its atoms in that exact same perfect pattern. Performed by people known as master growers. How fast to spin and pull, how to manage the temperature, the gases surrounding it, everything that allows a perfect silicon ingot to be grown is not considered a true science. There is no manual, just a feel learned through decades of apprenticeship to masters of the craft. Can't patent it because you'd have to reveal how to do it. The operators rely on sound, smell, or color. Even the masters fail 20 to 30% of the time despite perfect settings. These are the traits of a black art, like how to make the blades inside every jet engine. Grown from a single nickel crystal into one giant crystal, molecule by molecule using what's called the pigtail selector, is known to a select few at GE, Brad Whitney and Rolls-Royce, or the handful of people at Canaan and Leica who know how to polish the highest end lenses using cinematic cameras or semiconductor equipment. The Takumi technique. Nobody has cracked the alchemy of 1623 that's led Zildjian for 400 years. Make the world's best symbols using ingredients that every metallurgist will tell you should produce metal so brittle it shatters when struck by a drumstick. 80% copper, 20% tin, with traces of silver. The process is only known by the CEO, delegating it out in parts to prevent anyone from knowing the whole secret. The mountains that run down the east coast of the U.S. used to be taller than the Himalayas, violently pushed to the sky when Africa smashed into North America, forming one giant supercontinent, Pangaea. Friction along the line of impact created incredible temperatures that melted rock 15 miles beneath the surface. Molten rock that would become the quartz pulled from the quarries of spruce pine. Call it a freak accident, like the asteroid that smashed into South Africa, creating a small area that's produced a quarter of the world's gold. But the freak in this accident wasn't the impact, it was the complete and total absence of water. Carrying things with it like a bus, water drops molecules here and there that pollute the purity of quartz. Zero water, zero impurities. With zero impurities, the molten silicon dioxide was left to cook at high temperature for a hundred million years. Very, very, very slowly being pushed towards the surface as the African continent pulled away from North America, letting the mountain shrink to where they are today, a fifth of their original height. Cool the molten rock quickly and would have turned into tiny, messy crystals. But the hundred million year timer attached to this science experiment formed them into massive, organized crystals, mined out of the ground by two very secretive companies who no doubt would prefer this video to not be made. Visible in satellite imagery, you can see bright white veins of quartz, trucks mingling about behind a 25-foot-high wall, patrolled as though an enemy is bound to arrive any moment. Surrounded by nothing but a very small town, trees, and hills. 500 miles away, the semiconductor was invented at Bell Labs in New Jersey. Thirty years later, across the country, Intel perfected it, crowning themselves king of technology. Japan sliced off the memory chip part of Intel's business in the 90s. Two decades later, Taiwan semiconductors sliced off the cutting-edge CPU chips after passing Intel on who could make the most complex chips. Apple, Nvidia, Google, Tesla. Anyone on the cutting edge of technology that needs the frontier of capability no longer looked to Intel for elite chips. They look to Taiwan. Taiwan, now with the crown firmly on, looks across the Taiwan Strait with a new and profound understanding of the famous words Intel CEO used to describe the chip business. Only the paranoid survive. This is the difference between the purity needed for solar panels and silicon wafers. 99s versus 119s. Those two nines are a major part of the moat between the U.S., Japan, South Korea. Taiwan on one side, China on the other. There is no black art in 9-9 silicon. It is a science, limited only by how much electricity you're willing to spend to turn silicon gas into crystals. China won the solar panel awards by deciding it would spend as much electricity as needed, feeding its solar industry free or nearly free electricity, so they could make the tiles of 9-9 silicon that cover every solar panel cheap enough to undercut rival companies, push the price down low enough, and everyone else will go out of business. It worked. And loath to be beholden to the current kings of silicon, it is a play China is, without question, intent on running again for semiconductors once it's figured out the black heart of 11-9 silicon. Stated by officials, outlined in plans, this is no secret. But in a twist of fate from 380 million years ago, regardless of who or what country wears the semiconductor crown, the most advanced piece of engineering humans have ever pulled off will, unless a miracle happens, always be tied to sand pulled out of the mounds around a small town in the United States.

SPEAKER_07 1:47:06

Woohoo! Ron, did you learn something there? I did. Wow. Yeah. Super top secret. So there is a community note added to this. It says high purity quartz mines in Spruce, North Carolina are owned by foreign companies, Belgian Sabelco and French Norregion Quartz Corp. That's fine. It's still here, which means we can take it back if we need to. Not the US and not the US. China announced major domestic high purity quartz discoveries in 2025 to reduce import reliance. So that's interesting. I don't, I don't know if that's true or not, but I have a feeling with the way the Chinese play, it's like they still got one extra nine, but not that last nine. But that would be why the Nvidia CEO and Elon Musk were walking behind Donald Trump coming out of the plane because we control that asset and ultimately we're going to control who gets to make chips. So pretty interesting. Ferrazier says, I learned something new. Thank you. Yeah, thank you very much. The more information we the peasants know, the more we understand the world is happening around us. All right, guys. Thank you so much. We will talk to you again tomorrow.

SPEAKER_03 1:49:47

I mean, who lives in that country? What told you? Well, no, it is coming. As a sort of executive officer for the week.

SPEAKER_17 1:50:02

Yes.

SPEAKER_03 1:50:02

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 quiet, but by a two-thirds majority in the case of all but I order you to be quiet. Or I think I'm your king. I didn't vote for you. You don't vote for kings. Well, how 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. Be quiet! I mean, you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tarp through a sword. Shut up! I mean, if I went round saying I was an emperor, just because some moistened bink had loved a scimitar at me, they put me away! Shut up, will you? Shut up! Ah! Now we see the violence inherent in the system! Shut up! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed, bloody peasant! Oh, what a giveaway, Julia, that jewel, that I that's what I'm on about. Do you see him repressing me?

SPEAKER_16 1:51:23

You saw it, didn't you?