Cleaning Up Voter Rolls Shows How Fast Politics Can Flip

You ever look at your paycheck, see what disappears into taxes, and wonder who decided that was a good idea? We start Memorial Day with a blunt “peasants” reality check, reacting to a viral clip about Colorado taxpayers footing the bill for transition-related care. That sparks a bigger conversation about public spending incentives, why populist policies catch fire, and the widening gap between what working people think they’re paying for and what government actually funds. 

Then we pivot hard into safety and the local consequences of hands-off leadership: Seattle gun violence near Aurora Avenue, neighbors describing shots hitting homes, and the claim that sex trafficking activity is spilling into quieter suburbs. From there we connect the dots to law-and-order crackdowns like FBI task forces, and we argue that removing repeat offenders can change daily life faster than any new slogan about guns. 

Politics threads through everything: Oregon cleaning up voter rolls and a gas tax referendum that collapses, the Texas Cornyn vs Paxton fight, and campaign messaging that seems built for a narrow activist culture. Immigration policy becomes a major focus too, from border numbers and work permits to the reported shift requiring green card applicants to wait outside the U.S., plus the real labor and housing pressures that follow. 

We close with the big arc: Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, oil prices, and why energy shocks hit “kitchen table” budgets first. On the private stream we go deep on the economy with Ray Dalio’s warning about a breaking monetary order, Kevin Warsh on AI productivity and rate cuts, and our strongest take of the day: the crypto world is splitting into regulated rails versus Bitcoin as savings outside the system. If you got value from this, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review. What topic should we go after next?

Transcript

Memorial Day And The Peasants Theme

SPEAKER_35 0:07

And when they went to the green, the teller, who's subject had no bread! Do you know what's being ready?

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Let them eat cake.

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We're getting screwed, ma'am. Every time we turn around, we're getting screwed. The revolution's gonna be true. It's the only way to be it's the little guy. It's a little guys. 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. Ron, let's get a mic check. It's working. It is okay. Perfect. We're just having to reset up from Saturday. Well, we're just a few minutes late. We were here on time, but then we had to change a couple settings in a second. So, anyways, welcome to another episode of The Peasants' Perspective. Glad you made it. It is Memorial Day. Remembering those whose sacrifice secured our freedom. Their memory strengthens our nation. Absolutely. Pony Boy, good morning. Doug Wyatt, good morning, peasants. John Attackis, good morning. And of course, Ron, you threw one in there. Good morning, peasants. Mana Izo, got it now. I know we're just a couple minutes late, but we're here. We're here. It is a holiday after all. You got to give us some grace. I considered just sleeping in today and just not doing it. And then I was like, ah, that doesn't feel right. We'll need some people waiting for us. Carlitz, good morning, y'all. Glad you made it. All right. I know why you guys piled all in here bright early this morning. You piled in for the simultaneous sip. Now I gotta give you a heads up. When we watch our simultaneous sip video, it's gonna be a little bit of naughty talk. It's gonna be a little bit of naughty talk because you're not gonna believe where your tax dollars are going. So, anyways, all you need for the simultaneous sip is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or to chalice a stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind, and fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And I got some cookies here this morning. So I'll have a little cookie and coffee for my simultaneous sip. So join us now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the

Taxpayer Funded Trans Benefits Debate

SPEAKER_09 2:30

thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip, and it starts right now.

SPEAKER_11 2:34

How much does your transition shit cost? Um hormones? Yes, how much does it cost? Uh well, I just thought back on medication. Hormones? But no, no, no, you got tits as well. That was worth pretty much free.

SPEAKER_13 2:48

Why? Because my body is priceless. No, how is it free? Oh, uh, Colorado taxpayers.

SPEAKER_11 3:00

Not federal, right? Just Colorado? I don't, I don't.

SPEAKER_14 3:03

I hope that because I just wrote a $4 million check the other day to the IRS. If that's paying for literal cities, what are we doing? Nothing wrong with trans, but why am I paying for people's boobs?

SPEAKER_13 3:13

Don't get me wrong. I I don't think it should happen either, but I did abuse the system. Because why would I pay for it if I can get it for free? Government, the taxpayers paid for your tits? I mean, I pay taxes too, so no, you're not an ex-tributor.

SPEAKER_14 3:27

No, we just sent you $4,000 back, especially with your no tax on tip thing and the majority is tip. It's honestly, it's just the I I'm I'm not in favor of the no taxes on tip thing. It's so stupid. You already contribute nothing. And we're it's just more populist policy.

SPEAKER_13 3:41

No, but we should just be getting paid a normal wage, so we we shouldn't have to get paid.

SPEAKER_14 3:45

That's fine too, but advocate for that. It's just so stupid. It's just another it's just a performative policy, and that's why both parties are on it because populism is winning right now. It's just it's so stupid. That's a you already contribute anything. You're part of the I do contribute six. No, you're part of the 50% that contribute 1%. It's nothing, it's a drop in the bucket. If it was gone, nothing would change. This is we give everything to you. Now we pay for your boobs.

SPEAKER_10 4:12

Seriously, though, if you're in Colorado, you're paying for her transition stuff. Totally free.

SPEAKER_09 4:19

Colorado taxpayers paid for it, Ron. Oh my goodness. My dad's over there cringing in his skin right now. His body is priceless. Do you feel like we're not quite as loud as we usually are? Yes. Why is that? I don't know. Okay, well, I'll just swallow this microphone here so I can hear myself. All right, so that's some crazy stuff. Apparently, Colorado taxpayers are paying for transition surgeries, and as you know, all money is money, which means you're paying on the interest on it no matter what it is. Ron's over here playing with the audio settings. See, it looks like everything's maxed out. Why is it everything we make the most minor of changes? All of a sudden everything changes. It's weird. Okay,

Seattle Aurora Avenue Gun Violence

SPEAKER_09 5:01

in Seattle, a little bit of news over the weekend. Apparently, the crime coming off of Aurora Avenue. Ron, you know where Aurora Avenue is? I sure do. Yeah, it's a rough part of town. Aurora Avenue, for those of you that don't know, I had a job site, not too just right off Aurora Avenue. It was on 4th. And when I would go to the Lowe's, which is where I'd go to get lumber, I mean, it was quite literally one block away from the job site I was at. I'd have to fight through as I would pull into the parking lot or out of the parking lot at either of the entrances or exits. I'd have to pull through a whole bunch of prostitutes constantly lining the street. It could be 10 a.m. on a Tuesday, and there were some ladies out there blotting their wares for you. Well, just a few blocks away from that, there's always been a lot of crime on Aurora Avenue, mainly because of the illicit activities that are happening there. But now there's starting to be some significant amount of gun crime. And just in the last few weeks, one particular neighborhood has been terrorized by rogue gunshots.

SPEAKER_03 5:59

We began with a shooting in the Greenwood neighborhood where four bullets flew into a family's home this weekend, one striking dangerously close to a window where a baby was sleeping. At least three shootings were caught on camera near the intersection of Linden Avenue North and North 100th Street. Just within the past two weeks, Boxer team Jennifer Dowling spoke with neighbors who say the gun violence is spilling over from nearby Aurora Avenue, potentially caused by groups involved in sex trafficking. Now they're urging city leaders to take action.

SPEAKER_18 6:30

You can see right here, there's two shots that hit my house right here.

SPEAKER_04 6:37

Jake, his wife, and six-week-old baby were asleep when three to four bullets came flying into their Greenwood home.

SPEAKER_18 6:43

It went through this wall, that wall, and then you can see right over here the baby's window where there's two bullet holes right above the baby's window.

SPEAKER_04 6:54

His security cameras captured the terrifying moments. Another just above his son's window.

SPEAKER_18 7:11

The bullet came through. It looks like it actually hit my gutter and went into the house right here. And then the bassinet's like right there.

SPEAKER_04 7:21

Video on a different camera showed a possible motive. In it, you can see a driver park a vehicle, and at least two gunmen get out to hide behind a random car parked in the street. As a crossover SUV drives by, coming from Aurora Avenue, the men open fire in what looks like an ambush-style attack. Then the car speeds away. And about a week ago, someone opened fire at a nearby school bus stop.

SPEAKER_33 8:00

All the neighbors woke up to boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. At least it was uh over a dozen shots.

SPEAKER_18 8:06

Unfortunately, this is the sixth or seventh shooting within 10 blocks of my house in the past 30 days.

SPEAKER_04 8:15

Both men believe groups involved in human trafficking on Aurora Avenue are contributing to the violence. They say they're also struggling to get answers back from city leaders about what they're doing to stop it.

SPEAKER_33 8:25

They're not making any movement that would allow the police to protect us uh in the way we need.

SPEAKER_18 8:30

The escalation feels like it's only a matter of time, whether it's my kid, whether it's a neighbor or a neighbor's kid that has to deal with the unthinkable unless the city actually does something, anything.

SPEAKER_04 8:44

Reporting in Seattle, Jennifer Dowling, Fox 13 News.

SPEAKER_09 8:47

You know, the old trope that if we just got rid of all the guns, this wouldn't happen. It's like it's these these criminals are never gonna respect gun laws. Look at what they're doing with the guns they have. They're just opening fire inside of neighborhoods. That's not hunter's education responsible gun ownership. We're not even like approaching that at all here. It's just it's starting to become a little bit Wild West on the streets of Seattle. It's very, very dangerous. Now, traditionally, Seattle hasn't been the worst gun crime city out there. All right, we're gonna take it just a second here while Ron plays around with the sound. Is that the only place where we get sound? The board's all turned up max already.

SPEAKER_17 9:24

Oh my gosh. I don't know. I don't know how to produce shows. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just turning them all up to 11. I don't even know why these say zero and it's in red light. I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 9:38

That is so weird. Can you guys hear us okay on the other end? Are we streaming our right sound wise? Because on our end we can we're like sounding like we're very quiet in our headphones, which is highly unusual. There's not like an output. Turn up the headphones. Go down there and turn up the headphones on the top right corner, bottom right corner here. Right there. Does that does that change anything if you turn those up? I don't think so. Okay. I wonder if your computer sound needs to be turned up. Since we're coming off your computer. It's not that. That's weird. Well, you are halfway. Turn it up. No, not that. Okay. I'm just wondering if you have the physical sound down. Like coming off of your computer. Right there. Yeah, see, that's a lot better. That sounds more like we usually sound. This is not how you fix it. Oh my goodness. Alright, let's go back to the chats and see if they gave us some feedback. You sound fine. Alright, well, we're just gonna keep rolling here. Okay, so in Seattle, obviously, we're having a serious breakdown going on. There's been a slew of shootings in this one specific neighborhood. I'm pretty familiar with this neighborhood. It's it's suburbs. I mean, it's like pretty far outside the city. It's right on the edge of the Linwood border. It's suburbs. It's where you would think it would be pretty quiet at night, except you've got this Aurora Avenue situation, which brings in all this prostitution. Washington doesn't prosecute the prostitutes, right? They only get involved when there's some type of theft, assault, or something like that. They allow the sex crimes to just happen. And that just brings it brings in the riff rap, Ron. It brings in the riff rap, right?

SPEAKER_16 11:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 11:25

So here's the other thing, too.

Law And Order With FBI Task Forces

SPEAKER_09 11:27

And Seattle's got to be a little bit careful if you're a Seattle city leader, which I I I kind of at this point we would welcome any type of intervention. In Chicago, they had a similar situation, right? Chicago became like one of the most dangerous cities in the country. Well, in Illinois, they started to have another one of these task forces where they partnered up with the FBI and federal law enforcement agencies, and they have dramatically reduced crime in Illinois.

SPEAKER_29 11:53

Today the FBI announced the results of a violent crime roundup right here in central Illinois. They're calling it Operation Viper. Good evening. I'm Kelly Finley, Infra Brandon.

SPEAKER_30 12:02

And I'm Jennifer Roscoe. During this five-day operation, they arrested dozens of people. WCI3's Peter Hansen is with us now. And so, Peter, these numbers represent a collaborative effort.

SPEAKER_22 12:14

Jennifer Kelly, Jennifer, that's right. In fact, the FBI Springfield's office worked closely with the Decatur Police Department during the bust. I talked to officials at both agencies about the results and how they work together during initiatives like this one.

SPEAKER_19 12:29

We, along with our partner agencies, determined that um there were violent crime upticks in central Illinois.

SPEAKER_22 12:37

So the FBI started Operation Viper, part of a larger nationwide initiative to combat violence that started here.

SPEAKER_19 12:45

With this particular initiative, we were focused on our most violent actors that had active warrants for their arrest.

SPEAKER_22 12:52

In late April and early May, partner agencies arrested 29 people that seized thousands of grams of drugs and confiscated seven guns.

SPEAKER_20 13:12

Especially with the FBI. Um over the last several years.

SPEAKER_22 13:20

Decatur Deputy Chief Scott Rosenberry says with the Department's street crimes unit already in place, participating was an easy decision.

SPEAKER_20 13:28

This is something that they they already do. So it just made sense for us to uh task them during this five-day surge uh to help out.

SPEAKER_22 13:37

The results in Decatur, 10 arrests on felony warrants, and two guns seized, one of them illegal. But again, Rosenberry points toward collaboration as a reason for success.

SPEAKER_20 13:48

We had daily communication with FBI. You know, they provided uh intel support if we needed it.

SPEAKER_22 13:54

And he says if his department needs something down the road, he knows he can count on partner agencies.

SPEAKER_20 13:59

It's something that we we protect at all costs, and that any time that we need help or assistance, um, they are all willing to reach out and help.

SPEAKER_22 14:11

I asked special agent Presley which other areas here in central Illinois were targeted by Operation Viper, but he couldn't tell me yet. Kelly.

SPEAKER_09 14:20

Peter, thank you. Ten people taken off the streets in central Illinois, which is a pretty small town. Those are significant numbers. It reminds me a lot of what happened in what was it, uh, Nashville, not Nashville, Tennessee, it was Knoxville, Knoxville, Kentucky. Is that right? No, Memphis, excuse me, New Memphis. It was Memphis, which was also becoming one of the most dangerous cities in the United States. And in a matter of four or five weeks, they arrested just a few hundred people across the city, and the murder rate has dropped to basically zero. The overall crime rate has dropped to, you know, a tiny manageable number. Weird how little common denominators like that. Weird how a little common denominator can change things over pretty quick. Right. You know, a little law and order, and you turn you you find out that you have recidivism, which is basically this idea that it's the same criminal committing the same acts over and over and over and over again. And if you can clean them up off the streets, the entire rest of the city gets a breath of fresh air. I remember playing a couple clips with kids going, man, in just a couple weeks, it went from not being able to walk to the park to all of a sudden we can walk to the park. Now, I've said this before.

Oregon Voter Rolls And Gas Tax Vote

SPEAKER_09 15:28

If we could fix our elections, we could flush a lot of this stuff out. I want to show you guys an example of how dramatic things can happen when you fix the elections. Now, in Oregon, based on the lawsuit from Heartbeat Illen to the state of Oregon in California, Oregon ended up taking 800,000 voters off their voter rolls. That's not a small number for the state of Oregon. Okay. That's like 25% or 20% of the alleged population of the state, you know, if that is the population of the state, came off the voter rolls. So last week on May 19th, they held a referendum. And on that referendum, one of the questions there was a new gas tax to pay for all these public services. Now, Oregon has had this history of voting these things in over and over and over and over again, right? And so the legislature goes, well, you guys voted for these gas taxes. So this gas tax went on the ballot, and this is post-changing the voter rolls. And I want to show you the results here, rather on the screen. Measure 120, increased fuel taxes, registration, title fees for roads, tax on wages for public transportation services. Look at this. The no votes were 82.92 percent. 970,011 people. Yes, was 199,946, 17.

SPEAKER_17 16:48

Hold on. Hold on. Wow, I'm really loud there. But if you added 800,000 to that number, what would have happened?

SPEAKER_09 17:00

Ron, you just nailed it. Oh you just nailed it. If you took 199 and added 800,000, you would be at a million. And this would have passed.

SPEAKER_17 17:12

It'd be a blue state.

SPEAKER_09 17:13

Hold on. Oh. This would have passed 971,000 losing to a million, or it would have been 99, 9,946.

SPEAKER_17 17:27

Just enough to win.

SPEAKER_09 17:28

Just enough to win.

SPEAKER_17 17:29

With 800,000.

SPEAKER_09 17:33

Okay. Can everybody do the math here? They took 800,000 people off the voter rolls. If I assumed that those were 800,000 votes, they could control at will, they could apply them to any ballot measure they wanted to. Okay. Any statewide ballot measure they wanted to.

SPEAKER_17 17:51

Any election cycle. Huh? Any past election cycle.

SPEAKER_09 17:54

Any past election cycle. I'm looking at this here, okay, and I'm assuming no other hanky panky in the system. None. Just simply cleaning up the voter rolls. If you were to add 800,000 to the yes vote to pass the tax, you would be at 999, 999,946 votes, and no would have been 971,011 votes. You would have passed the tax by less than a 1% margin, which would be completely plausible based on what you and I have believed about Oregon. It's a blue state.

SPEAKER_17 18:34

Right.

SPEAKER_09 18:35

Okay. However, living in the state just north, Washington, when you go out and actually talk to people, yes, you find some people that are blue, but when you actually talk to them about, well, do you support increasing taxes? No.

SPEAKER_17 18:48

No.

SPEAKER_09 18:49

Right? Do you support more crime in your neighborhood? No. What are you talking about? Yeah. Do you support any of this stuff? No. Okay. This is a great example. What if, Ron, that was all the difference here? I know. What if that was it's solid red? Even Portland voted against this. What if Washington was just like that? What if Washington was just like that? A Democrat, this is coming from Andy No, a Democrat measure to increase gasoline taxes in Oregon to fund crumbling roads due to horrific financial mismanagement by the Democrats in power was overwhelmingly rejected. Even in Portland, where leftists generally like tax increases, it was rejected. Meanwhile, corrupt Oregon governor is running for re-election on the campaign of opposing Trump's extremism. That could be a big deal. That could be a big deal. I found this little picture here, and I just thought it was a good example, right? When people talk about make America great again and restoring the American dream, when I think of like the American Dream, I think of this. Everybody, even just little old factory workers, can have their piece of American dream. A piece of private property that's their own, a white picket fence, the nice cars, same exact neighborhood, same extract street. Fast forward to now, isn't that a difference? I imagine this is probably somewhere in Detroit or something like that. But wow, wow. Right? So if we don't get on top of this stuff, that's what happens. But oh my goodness, what could possibly happen with a little bit of law and order and a little bit of fixed elections?

SPEAKER_16 20:21

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 20:21

That could change everything. Oregon, wow. Let's see, let's go back to the chats now. Carlitz says, good morning, y'all. Carlitz and Tiffany on YouTube say, What up, fellow peasants, and happy memorial day. John of Tacis, you already said, You sound fine. Glad we do. We still sound a little funny in our ears. Martyasel, what that's what Pratt wants to do. Just enforce the law. I know. That's really all you have to do. Chantini, good morning. By the way, got a little bit of feedback from somebody in government that is in the know when it comes to building codes and zoning and minimum lot sizes and all that kind of stuff. And I shared with them what was being said by the our county council and how they're going to have to raise taxes and they can't get more growth or make it so that we can have more single family houses because they'll get sued if they try to. And this other person who That's nonsense. That's what that's what this other person said. I I hate to even say the gender, but they said that's nonsense. They could change all this. I said, Well, they could get sued. They said, No, we can't. She's in the same jurisdictionary. She says, We change it all the time. We do waivers, we do we could you can just change it completely. If they wanted to do it, they could do it. Yeah. That's what she said.

Texas Senate Fight Cornyn Versus Paxton

SPEAKER_09 21:51

Okay. So down in Texas, the Senate has gotten big mad over the situation with John Cornyn and Ken Paxon. Now, there's quite a bit of context with this. All in one week, Donald Trump created the weaponization relief fund 1776. I was on a five-hour Zoom call yesterday with attorneys listening, hearing about this. Okay. Five-hour Zoom call. Sarah Singh says, out trimming the front hedge while listening. Oh, so glad to have you. Turn up the volume because we don't know if we're loud enough.

SPEAKER_17 22:26

That's what she said.

SPEAKER_09 22:28

So five-hour Zoom call yesterday. And what happened was that weaponization uh fund was created, and there's really nothing they can do about it. So even if there's lawsuits, they don't really have standing against it, there's precedent for this. The other thing, too, is even if the Democrats and the Republicans passed a bill that said you can't do it, it's against the law, they'd have to overcome a Trump veto. They're not going to overcome a Trump veto. So that was like a big aha for me. I was like, oh yeah, sometimes we forget that the president has the ultimate say in what does and doesn't become law. They just veto it. Even if they vote against him on like the War of Powers Act, he could just veto it. We don't see that too often, but that's the threat. So they're not going to advance a bill that the president won't sign because if he vetoes it, all of a sudden they actually have to come up with the votes to overcome it. So the situation with the Save America Act, the funding of ICE and Border Patrol, the uh there you can also throw the Clarity Act in there now because it's it's being delayed because of the Senate vacation. But when Donald Trump came out and said, I'll endorse whichever candidate in Texas for senator, whether it's Cornyn for re-election or Paxson, who, if we can get the Save America Act pass, I'll endorse John Cornyn. Okay, so John Cornyn, get to work. Well, John Cornyn didn't really get to work, did he? Right? Save America Act didn't pass. He seems to just think I'll just go along to get along. And the Senate has played the role of obstructionists all along here. The Senate hasn't been able to really pass anything. It's just everything seems dead on arrival. But they keep working on these bills that Trump has indicated he's not signing any bills until the Save America Act hits his desk. And why the Save America Act? Did I just show you what happened in Oregon? Did I just show you what happened in Oregon? If you could just clean up the elections a little bit, right? You could have a comp you could have blue states like Oregon suddenly go red. Imagine if you're a Democrat sitting there going, well, hold on, I thought taxes were cool. Haven't we passed like every tax referendum we've ever pushed for the last couple decades? And all of a sudden we just got slammer stomped. 85, 84, 85 percent said no in Oregon? Blah. That's a pretty incredible turnout. So Kim Paxson was being asked about this primary runoff and why Trump didn't endorse him. And he pushes it off onto the Senate. Trump was just mad at the Senate.

SPEAKER_07 24:54

Well, clearly. Do you think the president flinched in endorsing you because he didn't think you could win?

SPEAKER_25 25:01

You know, I really don't think it was about me. I think it's very different from the Cassidy and Massey situation because I've been a Trump ally, as uh you point out. I think he got frustrated with the Senate, uh, not able to get what he wanted when he wanted it. And as you know, the president uh can be a pretty impatient guy, and I certainly understand that. It's he's a he's a chief executive guy, he's not a legislative guy. And so um I think he just got frustrated and um he wanted to send a message. Do you think the president flinched in?

SPEAKER_09 25:35

And I think the message was pretty well sent. And the senator, Senate sent a message as well. They went on vacation. Now, if I was John Cornyn, the assumption here is Cassidy and Matt, Massey's gonna obstruct, but he's already obstructed. So, like the analysis on Massey is it's the same thing. Like, yeah, he's a lame duck, yeah, he's gonna vote against the president, but on every key issue he's voted against the president as well. So it's already kind of a known quantity there.

SPEAKER_17 26:01

Both of these guys both claim to be Trump allies. Yeah, that's dubious.

SPEAKER_09 26:08

Dubious. Okay. So Cornyn claims to be a Trump ally, but he hasn't really done anything to advance the Trump agenda. He's kind of there for the party vote. And if I was Cornyn and I wanted to play my cards right, because Trump has played nice, like, well, Cornyn has supported me, but he's a little late in supporting me, he's kind of played that soft hand. Like, not that he's a dirty politician, not that he's corrupt, he's just not motivated enough, right? He's just kind of put him in this category of like, eh, yeah, we'll go with Paxson. He's a stronger candidate for Senate. If I was John Cornyn, and you lose tomorrow, because tomorrow's the primary, and I I suspect he probably will. If I was John Cornyn, rather than be an obstructionist with all your buddies in the Senate, wouldn't it be great if he played for an ambassador spot? Right? Trump can make anybody an ambassador, and surely John Cornyn would get confirmed by the Senate to an ambassador position. If I was John Cornyn, I'd be like, yeah, I will actually get the Save America Pact asked. I will move to nuke the filibuster. I'm gonna move to do the things that would make me unpopular with the Republican caucus, the establishment, but I'm gonna get good grace in Donald Trump's eyes in these last six months and then ask Donald Trump to appoint him to a nice cushy ambassador some somewhere, ambassadorship somewhere. Wouldn't that be a great play for him?

SPEAKER_17 27:31

I don't know. I'm not smart enough to even know what all the play options are.

SPEAKER_09 27:34

I think that I think that would be a great play. I think Cassidy could do the same thing. Cassidy could come around and be like, you know what, Donald, I was wrong about you. I'm gonna work really hard. We're gonna pass the Save America Act. I'm gonna stop obstructing the Senate. I'm gonna put pressure on Thune. Can you extend my political career into an ambassadorship somewhere or something cushy and nice? Like that would be a great thing to see, but it's probably not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_17 27:58

How many of those type cushy jobs are there? Like, how many ambassadors do we have? I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 28:02

Well, we have there's 190 countries, and I figure we have ambassadors in 187 of them. So yeah, I'm pretty sure you've got lots of ambassador spots, and a lot of them are pretty cushy. And you know, Carrie Lake just got appointed ambassador to the Bahamas. That's nice. Or no, is it Jamaica? Like, that's nice. Uh uh Don Jr.'s girlfriend, uh, what was her name? She she was Gavin Newsom's ex-wife. She's an ambassador in Greece. That's gotta be nice. There's a couple nice ones. There's a couple nice ones. You know, it's it's not ambassadorship in Siberia by any means. Now, Ken Paxton added a little bit more color to this as to why he was endorsed. And quite frankly, that Senator Cornyn, in his 40-plus year career, hasn't actually delivered anything for Texas.

SPEAKER_06 28:47

Everyone in Washington had assumed that John Thune had won and that Trump was gonna endorse John Cornyn. And then a gutsy play was made. A pledge was made by Ken Paxton, the Attorney General of the State, that unless John he will drop out of the race, but John Cornyn has gotta get the Save America Act passed. He couldn't do it. It was a brilliant political gambit. And 75 days later, Donald Trump has endorsed Ken Paxton, who's my guest right now. Uh General, I've got so much I want to get to uh with you, and we don't have a ton of time, so I'll I'll try to be quick. But first I gotta ask about this strategy. I mean, it was a pretty genius move. Uh, when did you guys come up with it?

SPEAKER_23 29:24

So, first of all, in the first round, you know, hean out spent me 20 to one. It was 100 million to 5.8 million. So that's that was the the way that he won that race was just unlimited money from Washington, D.C. As a challenger, I'm not allowed to raise the same money. So that was the first part of it. But the move came up because we had concerns that um you know Trump might endorse him. And we were like, look, there's this uh we want to highlight the problem here. The highlight is that the the the Senate with John Cornyn doesn't accomplish anything, and John Cornyn doesn't have a single accomplishment, a good accomplishment in the last 42 years. So let's put him on the spot and say, okay, here's your chance, John, to deliver one time in 42 years. And the reason I say 42 years is I've asked every person I've been in front of for a year and two months, can you name one good accomplishment from John Cornyn in 42 years? No one's ever given it to me. So I was given him a chance to to deliver on something, and guess what? They went on vacation for two weeks instead. John Cornyn failed us again, which is not surprising, but disappointing for sure.

SPEAKER_09 30:23

And I think that's the thing with John Cornyn. When I think of Texas, I think of six-shooter revolvers, I think of landlords that can evict their tenants at gunpoint. I think of Wild West kind of stuff. I think of really high T masculine men, I think of blonde women, right? That's that's my vision of Texas. And so when I look at John Cornyn, you know what I see? None of that. I don't see any of that. I see someone who promoted red flag laws, I see someone who got soft on the border. You see this low-t kind of go along to get along. He doesn't bring any fire to the Senate at all. You know, you would think like uh an example would be Tommy Tooberville from Alabama. Like he brings a lot more like energy to the debate. You'd think that Texas would send a senator like that. And I think Ken Paxson will deliver. Ken Paxson has proven to be kind of a tough guy. Tough guy in the courtroom, tough guy in his impeachment, tough guy in the way he runs the state as attorney general. And he understands politics too. He's one of those people who does both. He actually has a real job as a prosecutor doing that, and he understands the political game there. There's another gentleman that's like that in Pierce County, Washington. His name is Sheriff Keith Swank. Shout out to him. He's another one of these people that when you meet him, you're like, oh, what's, you know, you're kind of kind of has a non-sheriff demeanor. You know, he's not six foot five with a man shoe, mustache, or anything like that. But he's a fighter. He's a law enforcement officer, first and foremost, but he understands the political game and he fights the political game. Ken Paxon reminds me a lot about that. Now, Ken Paxson wasn't as strong as you would hope on the January 6th issue, but I think a lot of Republicans kind of ran scare on scared on that one. I remember one time I was meeting with Ashley Babbitt's mom when I was in jail. She came to visit me, and she had kind of barged into a fundraiser where Ken Paxson was at to get some FaceTime with him. And she said he was drinking white wine. So, you know, take that as what you will. She kind of felt like at least a red wine would be more appropriate for someone like Ken Paxon, but nonetheless, he's a white wine drinker, but he's gonna be a lot better than uh John Cornyn. So tomorrow, if you're in Texas, I know we've got quite a few people downloading the audio out of Texas. If you're in Texas, vote Paxson. I think he's gonna be better for you. Corner's drinking the Kool-Aid. Yeah, and come the general election, Ken Paxon is going to be, most likely Ken Paxon is going to be up against Talo Rico, right? Democrat representative Taller Rico is running for Senate in Texas. Now, remember what I just described Texas as? You know, rough, tough. Remember the Alomo type of people? This is who the Democrats are running, and this is an ad put out by the Lone Star Liberty Pack.

Culture War Ads And Youth Politics

SPEAKER_31 33:09

The Democrats have a weird, a weird cat today.

SPEAKER_21 33:13

God is non-binary. There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six. It is now existential that um we try to reduce our meat consumption. The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us. Prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness, my own masculinity. Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front. No need to sit and cry over, you know, your whiteness or your masculinity. They're gonna call me a radical leftist.

SPEAKER_30 33:47

Something that you love, that's not family or friends.

SPEAKER_21 33:50

I love, I'm just saying this because it's on my mind. The trans children.

SPEAKER_31 33:56

The Democrats have a weird, a weird cat today.

SPEAKER_26 34:01

Low Telarico, too weak for Texas. Lone Star Liberty Package responsible for the content of the set.

SPEAKER_09 34:10

I didn't say it. Wow. That is who the Democrats are running in Texas. Wow. Wow. Wow. Who does that appeal to?

SPEAKER_17 34:22

Um I don't. I'm not camp, so it's I'm having a hard time understanding who that appeals to at all.

SPEAKER_09 34:32

There's one group that that appeals to. Indoctrinated youth. That's it. You you have to have been raised in an educational environment where you've been taught there are more than two sexes, and that is just a position of fact. And anybody who disputes that is dumb, right? You have to have been raised in an indoctrin in an indoctrination environment like that. You have to have been raised in an indoctrination environment where you think whiteness is somehow the original sin. You have to have been raised in an in an environment where you think there's something as something called toxic masculinity.

SPEAKER_17 35:07

Yeah, you gotta be under 30 for sure.

SPEAKER_09 35:10

You gotta be under 30, right? Which is a concern here. Like if the Democrats are running him, he's already been elected to office. He's already in the House of Representatives. So who votes for that? Right? Who in their right mind votes for that? Now, boomers would listen to that and be like, dude, that is nuts. We have a different culture. We weren't raised in an environment where toxic masculinity was a thing. You weren't raised in an environment in an environment where you had to apologize for being white. You've got to be indoctrinated to vote for that. So now the question comes out how many people have been indoctrinated? How many people agree with what he how many people their thing that they love more than anything in the world, other than family and friends, is trans kids? Right? How many people can say that?

SPEAKER_17 35:55

Just because it's on my mind.

SPEAKER_09 35:57

Thomas Massey, who just lost his reelection bid last week in the primaries, he's blaming his loss on the boomers. Okay, he's saying that they ran an AI ad that showed him teaming up with the squad, and boomers showed up and showed up in droves to vote against that. But he won the millennials, he won the younger vote, and in the general election, the younger vote's gonna vote. So he thinks there's a lot of promise for America. He's literally telling you that the upcoming wave of voters are the type of voters that would vote for Talo Rico or vote vote for someone who's vehemently anti-Israel, right? He's telling you who the younger voters are.

SPEAKER_05 36:42

That's how much they bamboozled the people here in Kentucky. They used artificial intelligence to create a video, lifelike video, that showed me checking into a hotel room with AOC and Ilhan Omar and holding hands with them. It was actually very effective on the boomers. But here's the thing, Kristen, that's only going to work for a little bit longer. The boomers are gonna uh, you know, leave this country to the Gen X and the Gen Z and the Gen Y and the Millennials. And those folks are the ones that I won overwhelmingly. That makes me really hopeful for this country. They don't get fooled by artificial intelligence and they check the news. They get news sources like from podcasts and other sources. So um, they won this race by fooling my voters and expanding the base of people who vote to the uninformed voters. But look, I got 45% of the vote on its name.

SPEAKER_09 37:35

They expanded the base to the uninformed voters. The boomers, Ron. The boomers are the uninformed voters. Okay. Have the boomers traditionally been uninformed, the older vote. They're the most informed. They're the most informed voter. They have more life wisdom, they see their neighborhoods decaying, they know the solution is law and order. They're the ones that don't get fooled by the weird ads, too. The weird AI ads, yeah. It's like, but the but the youth aren't fooled by AI. Listen, nobody believed the ad was real. They knew he didn't check into a hotel with AOC. But the symbolism, this, the, the, the, the symbolism of him teaming up with AOC and being an honorary squad member. When AOC endorses the libertarian candidate, you've gone full circle on the political spectrum where now you're shaking hands down at the bottom again, right? And that's that's what's going on. Uh deplorable, deplorable D says, good morning, Patriots. Welcome, glad you made it. How do you get the little symbols like the little uh whale on your thing? Does that mean you're a political commenter? What does that mean? I don't know. I don't know. We've got a crown on ours. That must be because we're like the host or something. I don't know. Okay. So good morning. All right. RNC

Border Numbers Work Permits And Wages

SPEAKER_09 38:51

Research posted this. This is Democrat whip Catherine Cr uh Clark. She was on CNBC. She was doing an interview in the hallway of the Capitol. I believe this is kind of in the rotundra. And she was trying to claim that Joe Biden had control over the borders. And the CNBC host is like not having it here.

SPEAKER_24 39:11

Open borders for four years didn't help working Americans at all. When illegal immigrants were taking jobs, and it and there were a lot of things that happened over the four years that did working Americans felt totally neglected. And and those wages fell. Real wages fell over a four-year period.

SPEAKER_02 39:29

So let's let's take immigration as an example because we do need secure borders. President Biden got there, but it was very difficult. Oh, definitely in the end of his administration, he got there, but it was late. So let's we fundamentally agree we need secure.

SPEAKER_09 39:50

Open borders 20 million immigrants later. People have such a short memory, right? Donald Trump came in, the border was wide open, and it was just this constant drove. 2 million people a year. 2 million people a year, which was a lot. That's a lot, it's too much. And Donald Trump drove that number down to thousands. I mean, just drove it way down. Biden came in and I watched another debate amongst a whole bunch of influencers and stuff. And this one Democrat influencer is like, well, Biden didn't really do anything. It's just climate change. Oh, remember what we talked about on Friday? Climate change and economic disaster from COVID around the world caused people to rush to where there was opportunity, and that's why they came. And then and um I think James Boyer pointed out, he's like, on Biden's first day of office, he overturned by executive order all of Trump's Biden policies. Yeah. Like he sat down with a pen and got rid of the rules that were keeping the border pretty close. And this Democrat was like, Well, I'm not sure that there's any evidence that that's actually why the border went open. And he's like, that's what did it. And then it got, then the whole thing got funded, right? On our show, we've covered how the funding came from these in you know, from the government to the NGOs, down to South America and even Africa, and people start coming across the border and floods. 20 million people crossed the border in four years. Just for reference, if we were averaging at a super high point of 2 million a year, which was insanity, uh, we were up to 5 million per year average. And that's just the ones we know about. Those are the ones that use the CPB1 app and that presented themselves at a at a crossing and they were allowed in. And this is where we get this huge list of people like that came in. They were illegals, they were given work papers to go get a CDL in California so they could kill somebody up in Washington State with their semi-trucks, right? This is the kind of stuff that was going on. We don't know the gataways, the ones that didn't present themselves, the ones that actually wanted to come into the country and be here illegally. Now, knowing this, let's see. Erasure says whale means financial supporter. Thank you, deplorable D. Oh, thank you. Uh also Pony Boy 3255 is a whale. Is that right?

SPEAKER_17 42:05

So they're saying that the whales mean that they're supporters.

SPEAKER_09 42:07

Oh, thank you. Thank you. That's awesome. We've got some whales in here. We need more whales. Everybody needs whales after this. Everybody needs whales. And I'm guessing the rumble check means that you're a premium subscriber, then that's probably what that means. Probably, yeah. Oh, yeah. See, we're getting smarter. That's awesome. I love instead of whales, they should just do like dollar signs. We're always gonna read your comments. Uh, I have no idea. We met at the town hall. Oh, D! Yes, I know D D. Yes, we did. We spoke for quite a while. She's involved in the Republican Party in King County. Thank you. So glad you made it. Okay, so significantly with this, talking about 20 million people coming across the border, and they were all allowed to be here. They were given either asylum status, they were given work permits, they were given the appropriate paperwork to get things started. We even found out that they were processing people so quickly that came across the border in what otherwise would be considered an illegal fashion, they were getting Social Security numbers within four months. Okay. Pretty significant. So the Trump administration put out an advisory, and this is now policy, that if you're waiting for work approval. So if you came across the border and you were given asylum status and you were given like temporary, temporary work status, like temporary work visas, you were typically applying for permanent work visas, otherwise known as green cards, right? That's your ability to work forever. They they what happens with those green cards, I know a few people who have these that came here totally legally. They waited their turn, they got the right visas, they came here and now they're they're they've got green cards. The green card is good for 10 years and then it automatically renews. So it's it's permanent residency. You can live here the rest of your life with a green card. Now that can be revoked at any time, you commit some crime or something like that, they can revoke it, but on good behavior, once you At the green card, you're just one step shy of citizenship. Okay. And it can be a lifelong thing. So the Republic Donald Trump has put in a new policy that is really going to change the game.

SPEAKER_08 44:15

The Trump administration says any non-citizens in the country who have applied for a green card must leave the country indefinitely, even if here legally, and regardless of whether they have a spouse or children. Then they have to wait for their green card application to be processed outside of the country. We'll follow up on that. Meantime, American Service Norm has changed.

SPEAKER_09 44:40

That is huge. Now, if you're out in the workforce and you happen to be in a workforce where you have people who are immigrants, there's a good chance this is going to affect some of those people. Because depending on the type of nature of how they came here and when they came here, they're probably here on some temporary work status. You know, they've got an asylum application, they're on temporary work status so that they're not homeless while they're here. They probably have some benefits coming because of that. Well, even if they're in the process of applying to the green card, they believe they can pass the background checks, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They got to go. And they got to go voluntarily. Otherwise, you're never going to get permanent status. You're going to stay in temporary limbo forever.

SPEAKER_17 45:23

Doesn't this also affect people that have been here for over a decade with the green card thing? You know?

SPEAKER_09 45:29

If they have the green card, they have the green card. These are people that are awaiting application approval.

SPEAKER_17 45:33

Oh, okay. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 45:35

You've got to go get get out of the country so that you're in the right spot to apply for that. You don't get to apply for that when you're here.

SPEAKER_17 45:41

I thought we were talking about applying this to people that have green cards in hand and had been here for, you know, 10 or 20 years. And it's like, well, where do they go?

SPEAKER_09 45:49

No, this is applicants.

SPEAKER_17 45:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 45:51

So you're here, you're working temporarily. Okay. Now you've got to go to where you should have been. You shouldn't be able to get here temporarily. See, what happens is you come in across the border, you you ask for asylum. Okay, great. We'll give you asylum so you're not, you know, the gang in your neighborhood isn't hunting you down. Okay, well, now what happens? You're just here sitting, right? No food, no, no shelter, no nothing. Okay, well, we'll give you a temporary work visa so you can at least go. I'm being very majority, you can at least go pick almonds, or you can at least go and you know, fold, do do do housekeeping at a hotel, right? Temporary work visa. Well, while you're doing that, you're establishing residency and you're putting roots down, you apply for permanent status. And this is how in the system they get you in here do dubious means, asylum, they get you working, that juices the job numbers, and then eventually you become permanent with the green card. Now you're truly here legally, everything's good. What they're saying is if you came here and you're on temporary status and you're trying to make yourself permanent, go back. Okay. Go back. The asylum claims, this this clears up the asylum courts. It clears up a lot of these jobs that are taken by people that may or may not be qualified. And it's gonna open the door a lot for native workers to take those jobs. And then as the green cards come over, they'll fit in where they should fit in instead of prematurely taking jobs.

SPEAKER_17 47:16

But the administration, the current administration is drawing a hard line in the sand saying, we're gonna start right now. We're starting over, boom, and this is the spot that we have to make the cutoff. And I think it's the right spot.

SPEAKER_09 47:27

Yeah, I do too. Now, as anything, as anything goes on here, I remember having a discussion with a large Republican donor in the area, and they own property in different states, and in one of the states they own, they they acknowledged openly that hey, one of our housekeepers is in this temporary status limbo. Like it's not a problem for her hiring her. She's got paperwork, right? But she clearly qualifies in this temporary status. Well, what happens is if that person has to go home, they've got family, they've put down roots, they've been here for three years. That's long enough to kind of establish yourself, right? There's going to be tears, there's going to be sadness, it's gonna, it's gonna tug on our sympathy strings. And so we have to remember that person right there is taking opportunity from our children, right? From our teenagers, from our young adults. That that person right there is one of the reasons why housing is so expensive, because they're sucking up inventory, right? You have to put it in the right context. It's not that we don't care about that person, it's not that if we could do something, we would do something. It's that the process was broken and we're the ones who paid the price. And so this is just looking to settle things out a little bit. And people have to understand that that's what's happening here. It's not about hate for the immigrant or anything like that. It's about establishing law and order again. It's about cleaning up the streets, it's about getting back to the point that it's supposed to be where we're all equal under the law and playing by the same rules.

SPEAKER_17 48:56

Then, if those immigrants are good people, they're gonna be welcomed back with open arms as soon as they process their paperwork and all that, right?

SPEAKER_09 49:03

You know, America loves an underdog. We love the story of the immigrant who comes here and makes a huge fortune in business or whatever. But what we hate are cheaters. Yeah, we hate cheaters. There's a reason why our baseball heroes that were knocking out home runs left and right, as soon as we found out that they were taking steroids, we demonized them.

SPEAKER_16 49:22

Yep, right?

SPEAKER_09 49:22

But they're so fun to watch. Yeah, when we thought it was fair, but when the cheater always wins, Americans don't like that at all. We don't like rigg games, we don't like it at all. Heck, we kept Pete Rose out of the Hall of Fame because he bet on his own games.

SPEAKER_17 49:35

Yeah, but when you when you find out it's not the man and it's the juice behind the man that's making them hit the home runs, it's like, eh, you know.

SPEAKER_09 49:43

Speaking of, this weekend they had the enhanced game sponsored by Peter Thiel, where you could take as much steroids as you want. You're breaking all kinds of world records. None of it counts, of course, but the juice does make a difference, folks. The juice does make a difference.

SPEAKER_17 49:55

So do they not say hold my beer? They say hold my juice.

SPEAKER_09 49:59

Hold my fanny pack full of steroid syringes. We used to always joke about that when I was powerlifting in the gym. When the guy walks up, that's like, you know, super big and he's like, Hans and Frowns. It's like there's a lot of probable cause in that fanny pack. A couple hypodermic needles and some TRT. Okay. Deplorable D says we're trying to beat out the rhinos. It's a tough job. I know it is. Um,

Green Card Applicants Must Leave

SPEAKER_09 50:22

our episode, we we recorded the third episode. It's the first episode posted on Rumble on Saturday from blah blah blah. The third episode of Take Back My County. And you can go into our channels and you can find the link. It's takebackmycounty.com. You didn't get the period there, you put a semicolon. Takebackmycounty.com. In fact, let me uh show you guys this here. So if you go to our channel, we gotta find it here. The episode is posted on our channel here. It's take back my county. Three types of socialism here. So you go to take back my county, look, there's three followers. Go. We need more followers. Followers here. But the first, the third episode, the other two episodes will get uploaded later. The first two, they're also at takebackmycounty.com. But the the initial episodes of that are up. You guys should go take a listen to it. It's a quick 30-minute episode. 30 minutes flies by. We're used to doing two hours, like we're just doing introductions at this point. In fact, look at this. We're already an hour in. Holy cow, we better get going. Okay,

Iran Deal Oil Prices And Midterms

SPEAKER_09 51:33

so this is this is House Speaker Ron Johnson. And if I've ever, in fact, they were at the indie 500 recording this. He's talking about the Republican Party and kind of the midterms. This is the most sports-centric political deal I've ever seen. Tell me if this doesn't feel like a sports broadcaster hyping the next Sunday game, right? This is kind of fun.

SPEAKER_32 51:56

Not have a nuclear weapon. We'll take care of the nuclear dust. We'll get the Strait of Ramuz reopened, which will be great for gas prices here and stability around the world. And that's why all the regional allies there and all the regional countries are following U.S. leadership under President Trump.

SPEAKER_34 52:10

Let's just talk politics here. What does this mean for you and the midterms? Because I know this consumes your thoughts a lot.

SPEAKER_32 52:18

Yeah, it's it's a big thing. Obviously, we've done a lot of work, the big, beautiful bill, the working families tax cut.

SPEAKER_09 52:23

Tell me this doesn't sound like a pit crew chief talking about the race that's out.

SPEAKER_32 52:35

And we were doing that at the beginning of the first quarter, and then the Iran skirmish began. So when this settles out, gas prices come back down to earth, that means your grocery prices come down again because of transport costs and all the rest. It's gonna be a big factor. The kitchen table issues are gonna decide the midterm.

SPEAKER_34 52:48

Can those things come down in time to help you out in the midterm?

SPEAKER_32 52:51

Yes, we got plenty of runway. We have better candidates, we have a fundraising advantage. We're super excited about the midterms.

SPEAKER_09 52:57

I'm absolutely convinced that we're gonna not have a He's convinced the Republicans are gonna maintain the House and the Senate. I'm pretty convinced too. Like I I prepare myself for disappointment. I've had some disappointment in the last couple of years. We're always a little bit disappointed in our politicians. But you remember the fundraising advantage the RNC has? They've got like $150, $70 million. And what did the DNC have? $14 million plus $17 million in debt. I mean, the disparity here is almost as big a disparity as the no votes against raising taxes in Oregon, right? I mean, it's so far apart the amount of money the RNC has versus the DNC. It makes you wonder what kind of campaign they can actually launch.

SPEAKER_17 53:44

I just wonder how how does a Democrat Party, how do they get in debt like that? That is a lot of debt.

SPEAKER_09 53:52

I don't know. Beyonce's check cash and they have to pay for it somehow. Like see, I mean they all run debt, but then they pay it off. It's kind of like you go into debt to get the convention center. I know the event happens to raise money. That's basically they okay. So when you're doing events and you're an event company, one of the things you can do is you go get a business loan for an upcoming convention. Okay. So you go, hey, this upcoming convention is going to cost us five million dollars. The rental, the catering, the speaker fees, the the you know, setup, the sound guys, the light guys.

SPEAKER_17 54:27

There's a big I didn't know you could do that.

SPEAKER_09 54:30

Yeah. So they set up this this happens all the time. This is how concerts are run, right? So you've got an account somewhere, you're doing concerts, you've got a track record of getting people to buy tickets. So you go, hey, there's 10,000 people, we sell everything out, you do the math, you borrow 75% of whatever the ticket fees are going to be. You hold the event, you collect the money, you pay off the loan, you go on to the next venue. So this happens. This is like a normal thing for event financing.

SPEAKER_17 54:54

So I could be an event guy. I didn't know I could do it. I thought I had to have the cash.

SPEAKER_09 54:59

Well, some do, but a lot of them don't. Why have the why spend the cash when you can finance it? Well, yeah. Free money. And it's usually short term. It's you know, six months of promotions, hold the event, pay off the loan, that kind of thing. So what happens is basically they do a couple events, they pay for some advertising, and the payoff never comes. So now they're just making minimum payments. And that's where they're at. They can't pay off their their event fees and the things that they've the advertising stuff that they they did. It didn't result in the payoff. That's why they're running debt. But the Republican Party will do the same thing. They'll run debt, but then they'll pay it off. They'll run debt, that'll pay it off. Okay, so Iran. Iran becomes this the focal point of this whole midterm thing. If gas prices can come down throughout the summer, Americans have proven to have kind of a short memory span. Have we not?

SPEAKER_16 55:45

Yeah. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 55:46

So if gas prices can come down over the course of the summer, that's going to reflect itself in your groceries, your rubbers, your plastics, and obviously the fuel going into your car. And all of the gas price increases are centered around the Strait of Hormoots. If the Strait of Hormuz doesn't open up, then over time gas prices might come down as people get re supplied from other locations, but it's going to be a while. I mean, the Strait of Hormoots, 20% of the world's gas supply comes out of there. You've got Kuwait tucked up in there. You've got obviously Iran was distributing a lot of gas to China and India. And then of course you've got Saudi Arabia and UAE both come out of that strait. Now, Saudi Arabia has rerouted most of its flow down to the down to the Persian Strait. Is that what it's called? Yeah. The strait below Saudi Arabia. So the Strait of Hormuz, however, it's 20% of the world supply and dwindling. So you've got the two factors. One, if they don't get those pumps turned back on, those wells aren't going to turn back on. And two, if you don't open up the strait completely, you kind of screw over Kuwait and you screw over UAE and you screw over Saudi Arabia. They would all have to redirect where they're how they're loading and loading up the oil. So over the weekend, Donald Trump has continued to negotiate with Iran. And there were three significant posts that he put out basically saying we're very close to a deal. All of the Middle East has agreed on a deal. Now only Iran has to basically sign on the dotted line. This caused oil futures to drop 5%. I think on Sunday day trading, it dropped 5%. So that's pretty big. It was down pretty pretty far down below $100 a barrel. It was like low 90s or something like that. So Trey Yates is reporting that there's been quite a bit of progress made on this, but the key parts of Trump's deal, Iran is not to have a nuclear weapon, and the strait is not to be controlled by Iran, are both on the table, and it looks like we're getting close to a deal.

SPEAKER_28 57:44

The reports indicate that the Iranians are trying to toll the strait. A senior administration official said we don't think that a toll is an acceptable outcome. And so the Trump administration is being very clear. This is an international waterway, it needs to be open for international shipping. The Iranians can no longer disrupt the international oil or LNG trade within the Persian Gulf, ultimately out through the Strait of Hormuz, or ultimately there's no deal. And that was the sense that we got on this call earlier today, Mike, is that if President Trump doesn't get what he wants in this agreement, there's not going to be a deal. He either wants the deal that has been put forward by U.S. negotiators, including U.S. special envoys Steve Whitkoff and Jared Kushner, or ultimately it's not going to be signed by the Trump administration. So a lot of those details to work out in the days ahead. You're going to hear a lot of back and forth, a lot of propaganda coming from the regime. What's important to look at is what's actually on the paper and then what can actually be implemented. And oftentimes those are two different things.

SPEAKER_09 58:45

If they sign the paper, keep shooting at boats, you're going to have a problem. Marco Rubio addressed the fact that Donald Trump is not weak on Iran. The idea that he's going to Trump always chickens out, he's going to taco, right? He's not going to taco on this. His terms are set. And he's okay extending the ceasefire two days at a time. Right? As long as you don't fire at us, sure, we'll just keep the blockade going. We can do this forever. And he's he's adamant that Trump is going to get what he wants out of this Iran deal.

SPEAKER_27 59:14

No one that's been stronger on this issue than President Trump. Multiple political leaders, multiple presidents of the United States have all said the same thing. Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. The only one who's tried to do anything, that's actually done anything about it in a real way has been President Trump. So his commitment to that principle that they'll never have a nuclear weapon shouldn't be questioned by anybody. And the idea that somehow this president, given everything he's already proven he's willing to do, is going to somehow agree to a deal that ultimately winds up putting Iran in a stronger position when it comes to nuclear ambitions in the series. That's just not going to happen. But our preference is to address the student diplomatic needs. And that's what we're endeavoring to do here. I think we've made some progress. I'm always cautious when I say that because you can agree to things on paper, they actually have to be implemented. You can agree to things in writing, and then you actually have to go out and do it. And uh, but but I do think perhaps there is the possibility that over the next few hours the world will get some good news, at least with regards to the straits and to a and with regards to a process that can ultimately uh leave us where the president wants us to be. And that is a world that no longer has to be in fear.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:23

No one world that no longer has to fear Iran. Now, why is this so important that Trump is being strong on Iran? Despite what the mainstream media would want you to think, that there's not support for this, there is a lot of support for this. Thomas Massey, right, taking the anti-Israel stance no matter what, and believing that a lot of American youth feel that way, it's not really the truth. When you actually drill down and you talk to Democrats, most Democrats, just the bleeding heart Democrats alone, they don't support the Iranian regime. Remember, if you're like have feminist background, Iran, no bueno. If you have uh LGBT background, Iran, no bueno. If you have Christian background, Iran, no bueno, right? Like there's when you play the identity politics games, unless you are directly in support of Islam, there's really not a lot of sympathy for the regime in Iran.

SPEAKER_17 1:01:20

There's some really weird Venn diagrams around Iran.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:23

Yeah. So you don't have to hate Israel. You don't have to love Israel to support Iran. There's there's very few people that are going to openly say, well, Iran is a good thing in the world. That's just not going to happen, right? I mean, even Bill Clinton is like, yeah, Trump's doing a good job with Iran. I would have, you know, if I'd have had the ability to do it, I'd have done it too, kind of kind of an attitude. Sam Harris. Sam Harris, noted lefty, devout atheist. He's got some meditation apps and stuff like that. He's one of these tech bros, right? He's he's kind of the philosopher of the tech bros. Let's put it that way. Very, very popular. Very, very popular in his own circles. He notably, before Trump was elected, um, talked about how he didn't care what Joe Biden or what Hunter Biden did, for example. Like he kind of denied the whole laptop, and there's nothing on that laptop. It could have the most heinous thing in the world. We still can't elect Trump. He's worse than Biden or Harris or anybody. He came out with this absolute ridiculous notion that Trump was so bad that he would rather vote for a pedophile than Donald Trump. That's how extreme his opposition to Trump was. Trump being in office, just like a lot of people who voted for Trump as a protest vote against Hillary Clinton, like I was in that camp. Sure, give him a shot. He's not Hillary Clinton. What happened was Trump won me over. Right? He actually built the wall. He actually did the things he said he was gonna do. Taxes actually went down. Oil and gas got cheaper. I saw a difference in my business. He won me over. Well, Sam Harris is now in the camp of he's seeing real activity against Iran, which in his worldview is a boogeyman. It is. Okay. He is he is giving Trump credit. This is a huge deal. You have to recognize that while Thomas Massey is going around pandering to the hate Israel crowd, there's a large group of people that are in the quote unquote hate Israel crowd that also hate Iran. And they see that Trump is not necessarily helping Israel. He's hurting Iran more than he's really helping Israel, right?

SPEAKER_12 1:03:39

I mean, I obviously despise Trump and Trumpism and and uh you know 95% of what he's been about as president, but I can readily admit that some things he's done have been good, and uh one of the things is to be fairly uncompromising with respect to defending open societies and Israel against this specific species of enemy, which is you know the global jihadism and and and the culture that that um uh supports it. And you know, the variant in Isra in Iran that has been uh you know a genuine tyranny for uh uh you know nearly as long as you and I have been alive, um since 1979, is um something that we have always uh we we should we should have always supported the uprisings against. I think it's scandalous how um Mealy Mouse, Obama, and Biden were on that front. I mean, they the the the Iranians have been showing uh uh a lot of courage, especially Iranian women, uh periodically to um try to fight for their political equality. Uh going back many years, and uh under you know democratic uh governments, uh we have really been shamefully um silent. Uh and that that probably leads to the second reason why, because it's not you know, obviously Trump isn't the explanation to why Obama and and Biden couldn't have supported Iran more, um, or the Iranian people more. Um and there it's this um lingering moral confusion left of center around uh Islam and Islamism and jihadism, and not wanting to uh uh uh draw too clear a line against the the problem of of um uh theocracy there, right? I mean they're you know Islamic theocracy is a deal breaker for the West and for open societies. It it it it's uh this this is crystal clear, right? And it's and I mean now we have the the spectacle of the UAE announcing. I don't know if you saw this, but the UAE recently announced that they will no longer support their own students studying abroad in the UK for fear that those students will be radicalized uh on on British campuses by the Muslim Brotherhood. That's how bad this is. That's how blind we have been to the infiltration of our own institutions by this ideology. We have to get our heads screwed on straight around this. And Trump, for all of his flaws, and for all of the flaws of the people around him, I mean, the truly awful people around him, just psychopaths and grifters and know-nothings and incompetence. The general shape of their corruption and their self-stealing and their unprofessionalism still leans in the direction of sanity on this point. There's just not much tolerance for jihadism and Islamism coming out of, you know, both within the in the West and coming from societies like Iran. And so, you know, I you know I think Trump is a very uncertain ally for everyone, including Israel, given his aptitude for um for corruption and and just just uh you know pure self-interest uh and just his distractability. But you know, thus far, he's been better than than um uh uh many people could have hoped, and certainly than than many than really any Democrat would have been expected to be, at least at this moment. Um I I I hold out hope that it'll be a different story in 2028. But I do think Trump has been better on this issue than w we would have any right to have expected Kamala Harris to have been. Um And that's the point. Wow.

SPEAKER_09 1:07:38

Yeah, exactly. I mean, you're still gonna throw the people under the bus and they're corrupt. Yeah, did you see Biden's cabinet? Okay, so let's just let's just assume all all cabinets is gonna be full of these grifters and corruptions, and both sides are gonna be able to cast those those stones and sling that mud. But when you're winning over someone like Sam Harris, who keep in mind, socially, we're not going to agree on a lot of things.

SPEAKER_17 1:08:02

Is he like a never Trumper kind of guy?

SPEAKER_09 1:08:04

He was.

SPEAKER_17 1:08:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:08:05

But now he's like, well, I'm never Trump, except for on this issue of Iran. It's a lot better. Remember, if you're in the identity politics game, the big tent that Barack Obama cast, somehow he got the LGBT, the trans movement, the feminists all into the same big tent as Islam. Right. That's crazy. It is, and he got he got some you know socialist Jews in there too. It can't last. It can't last. Right. At a certain point, Islam turns on the other groups, and the other groups then are gonna try to find safe haven. And who's going to protect their right to be weird? Trump is. That's conservatism. We'll protect your right to be weird so long as our safe streets are safe, so long as our borders are closed, so long as we can teach our children as we desire in our household. You can do what you want to do, but we're definitely not gonna let our schools indoctrinate either direction, right? Like all of these types of things are the things that will bring over your weird Democrats, right? They're gonna come over and go, hey, you know where freedom is? It's over here. That's one of the things about the MAGA movement that's so great, is MAGA has become punk rock.

SPEAKER_17 1:09:19

Well, and it's it's one of the most um misunderstood things, too. I think. I think that everybody thinks that a Republican is a teetotaler and you you don't say the F-word. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_09 1:09:34

MAGA and the Republican Party is a big tent party. Yeah, okay, and it emphasizes its big tent party on its defense of individual rights and liberties. But at the same time, with that individual defense of rights and liberties, it doesn't allow for one individual to oppress another individual. So it defends the anti-oppression. The Democrat tent, socialism, you can go to the Take Back My Country, My County episode that we did on Saturday, and we talked about the three forms of socialism. We don't use force to impose one group's belief on another. Now, for some people, this is a little bit difficult because there are some people that have a very evangelical feel to their MAGA. There's log cabin Republicans that are inside of MAGA. There are, you know, MAGA embraces both the uh prayer-giving praise to Jesus movement as well as as well as the biker game dude with tattoo, you know, with with tattoo sleeves and stuff like that. Right. It's a big tent. Ub you boo, okay, but not at the cost of another. The Democrat Party is UBU boo and we'll make sure everyone accepts you. MAGA doesn't make any promise. It's DEI without the policies. It's MAGA? Yeah. Yeah, it's diversity, equity, and inclusion without the ramming it down your throat.

SPEAKER_17 1:10:57

Exactly. It's without the policies. It's still there. That's what I'm that's what I'm thinking people don't understand. They think that it doesn't exist. It exists. It just exists without the policies that jam it down your throat.

SPEAKER_09 1:11:08

Yeah, it's just a big tent open for everybody. Yeah. Right. And it we're going to defend those individual liberties. I'll defend your right to pray, and you're going to defend my right not to pray. But I'm definitely not going to enforce it back and forth. And maybe prayer is a bad example, but it's kind of this idea like, listen, if you like at the beginning of the show during the simultaneous sip, listen, if you're trans and you want to do that to you, that's fine. We ain't paying for it. It is at your own cost. Okay.

Antifa Chatter And J6 Legal Claims

SPEAKER_09 1:11:34

Now, this is going to shape up to be kind of a rough summer ahead, I believe. Antifa and BLM, which are basically one combined entity at this point, Cam Higby reported this. I'm deeply embedded in Antifa Signal Chance in Austin, Texas. So beware. They appear to be planning mass riots mimicking what happened in Minneapolis. Here are the screenshots. So they've got this from the rapid response chat. Minnesota is a city population with almost 6 million. Austin is a city with a population of about 6 million, 1 million. Of course, there are going to be differences. Just wanted to point out that Minnesota is a state with a total population of around 6 million. The Minneapolis-St. Paul twin cities are by far the largest metropolitan area within that state. Austin metropolitan area is about 2.5 million compared with about 4.5 million in Austin. We also see that ICE is operating differently in Texas than Minnesota or California. Our state is collaborating fully with ICE and federal authorities, including having ICE show up at homeless camp sweeps with DPS. Every cop interaction here has the potential to be an ICE interaction. And then here's he goes through the chats, all these different group names. It's open open source intelligence. But it does sound like in Texas, there is kind of an operation to do a summer of love, to try to make a stand. And this is going to this is going to they're going to try to hurt Ken Paxson because he's the sir he's the serving attorney general while this is going on. And any any any response to this, Talerico is going to take and he's going to amplify any kind of police brutality or anything like that. He's going to try to tug at the heartstrings of people. If you don't think these guys work in lockstep, there's a great example of it. Here's another example of how things work in lockstep. Now, I was on a five-hour Zoom call yesterday with January 6th defense attorneys. And it was very, it was very enlightening. I saw parts of a presentation. Well, I saw the whole presentation, but it was given in different parts. And one of the things that uh these attorneys have done, there was attorneys that were defend defense attorneys for January 6ers. Peter Ticklin specifically was assigned by Donald Trump in the off-years to research January 6th. And they have all the evidence of January 6th pre-planning. They've got federal workers planning it on Zoom calls that they have captured and recorded. Like they've got more information than has ever been released to the public. Additionally, Peter Ticklin told us, which we've already covered this on the show because we follow Patrick Byrne, that Maduro is singing like a canary. And they've not only have Maduro who's talking and has specifically admitted to overturning our 2020 election as well as other countries, they've also extradited from Venezuela because they're playing along real nice. His bookkeeper, one of his secretaries, some other like they've indicted five or six other people and brought them up and gathered their testimony as well. So they've got this thing pretty well locked in, and this information will be making it out. We were essentially promised that as this information makes it out, we are no longer, it will no longer be acceptable in the mainstream to call us terrorists and seditionists. We will all be called patriots. He's like, this information is so damning. And and again, this goes to to the J6ers that listen. This is the narrative. By the way, Doug, you've got to have an attorney. This this fund is not something that you can just apply a grant for. They they it's not gonna work like that. So, anyways, so that was really interesting. They're ahead on that. But one of the things they talked about was this is the largest entrapment ever that has happened. And then it went through like there's one guy that in DC has been arrested 25 times for obstructing Congress, and every time it results in a $50 ticket, for us, it resulted in a 20% ticket, right? So that the the weaponization of government, even against the most violent person, right, someone who lost their cool on J6, there's still a huge entrapment thing that happened there. And so, anyways, it was very interesting. And if you want to see that this is an ongoing operation, that January 6th, oh, here's the other one. This was wild, Ron. So, my personal history, we had this show in 2020. We covered COVID, we covered the elections, and we were all over the election fraud.

SPEAKER_17 1:15:52

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:15:53

I mean, we were we were showing the press conferences of the the UPS, the USPS truck that was lost in Pennsylvania. We were covering the Dominion, the Smart Matic, we were covering Sydney Powell, Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani. We were all over those guys. All of them have proven to be totally right. We were playing the Ruby Freeman video before it was cool. We got our channel taken off of Spotify. We clearly were shadow banned everywhere that we were posting and streaming.

SPEAKER_17 1:16:20

All of that. Please prove to me that we're not still being shadow banned and share the show and get our numbers above 100. Come on, yeah, share the show.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:27

This is this is crazy. Okay, there's there's not a lot of shows that put out 300 and well, I think we're like 330 or 40 daily episodes, and we've like grown so little. Okay, yeah, I think we are still shadow banned. And I'll show you why I think that. Sedition hunters. Uh, it has now been proven and shown, paper trail and all, the sedition hunters was paid for by the FBI.

SPEAKER_17 1:16:52

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_09 1:16:52

The FBI paid sedition hunters to hunt people down and give tips, and then they could take those tips and do their indictment thing.

SPEAKER_17 1:17:00

Isn't that their own damn job?

SPEAKER_09 1:17:03

I was the first person sedition hunters turned in. So if sedition hunters was paid by the FBI, presumably they got a dossier of people to look into. Go do background research on these people so you can provide it to us. We had a podcast. I believe that my file, our file, was given to Sedition Hunters, and I was their first turn in. Easy. It's got a podcast, his face, boom, boom, boom, boom. So they turned that in. And then what did sedition hunters do? They listened to our podcast. Yep. And they agreed with us on a lot of things.

SPEAKER_17 1:17:40

It was pretty cost.

SPEAKER_09 1:17:41

It was pretty wild. So the day I got arrested, February 11th, they posted this was our first turn in, blah, blah, blah, blah. At first that we were thought we were busting domestic terrorists. We feel guilty. This man is not it. And then they went on to say some things about he believes in God, works hard every day. He was uh uh deceived by Rudy Giuliani, Sidney Powell, and Donald Trump and the other people, and it's to them we direct our ire, not guys like this. And they went on to write about me in their book, and they went on to give comment to New York magazine and Atlantic magazine when articles were written about my family and I. So the FBI paid sedition hunters, and I was their first turn in.

SPEAKER_17 1:18:23

That's wild.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:24

Wild. So that will be a part of the deal there. Now, obviously, the FBI's involved. We've covered the J6 pipe bomber saga with Brian Cole Jr. and the Capitol Hill police officer, who's now a campus security guard for the CIA.

SPEAKER_16 1:18:39

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:18:40

When Steve Baker started working with Tulsi Gabbard's office, something happened. The CIA started to spy on Tulsi Gabbard's office. So this is a this is this was posted by Ron Rand Paul. He got whistleblower information coming out of ODI. It says in late October 2025, investigative journalist Steve Baker contacted ODI with information allegedly related to the identity of the January 6th pipe bomber. Baker has now been made clear in his reporting, had assumed that a current CIA employee, then Capitol Hill police officer, had planted the bombs outside the DNC and RNC headquarters on the evening of January 5th. DIG members could not and did not attempt to corroborate Baker's allegations. The group did not have the means or legal authority to do so, but as part of the ODNI, which is a coordinating agency, the DIG consulted with senior ODNI leadership to include the Office of General Counsel and the Office of the Principal Director of National Intelligence on circulating this information with appropriate agencies who could attempt to investigate the matter. Right? So then it goes down. As this memo circulated, it made its way to CIA Deputy Director Michael Ellis, okay, and Aaron Lucas from the Principal Director of National Intelligence, Aaron Lucas would call his counterpart at the CIA. Lucas shared a copy of that memo with Ellis. Within a few hours, as has now been reported publicly, that memo circulated to senior Trump administration officials across several agencies. The memo and the ensuing drama that unfolded as a result helped spark a pause in the DIG's work in December 2025 and its ultimate disillusion in January 2026. The disillusion of the DIJ has halted critical transparency work that the American people voted for when re-electing President Trump. Sometime shortly after the CIA, the CIA began monitoring the computer usage of the DIG officers involved in handling Steve Baker's information and polling their electronic communications. The CIA also opened investigations into these individuals and began contacting them, demanding that they report to a separate facility to be interviewed as part of this investigation. The facility is known as a location where polygraph interviews are conducted. Since DIG members were made aware of these investigations, a complaint was filed with the IC Inspector General. This was not the first time the CIA appears to have been monitoring DIGA communications. Individual involved with our AHAI investigation discovered third parties were listening into secure calls at intelligence community facilities. The CIA, when the Steve Baker reporting was made aware to Tulsi Gabbard's office, started spying on Tulsi Gabbard's office. See what you see. If it looks like a duck, if it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it's a freaking duck. If the CIA is so concerned about a campus security guard and they're spying on their boss, one, it's a rogue agency. Two, why do they care? Either Brian Cole Jr.'s the pipe bomber, and that'll come out in trial, or he's not, and he's taking the fall for the person who is, who happens to work at the CIA. Why would the CIA care? Very interesting. Why would the CIA have to pay sedition hunters to find people like me? Why would the government have to use the most broad invasive geofence warrant on January 6th to know everybody that was there and then not want to give the data up in people's discovery and whatnot because it was all illegal? Why would they plan tabletop exercises six months before January 6th? Why would it get snuck into the uh the COVID Act that provided funding for January 6th prop uh prosecutions and whatnot? Why would they do all that if it wasn't a setup?

SPEAKER_17 1:22:55

Well, the FBI couldn't be the one to come find you. They had to hire somebody else to come find you because they needed somebody else to say, here he is.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:04

It's information laundering. It's the same thing that happened with RussiaGate. That's their playbook. Create a dossier, leak it to the media. Yeah. Tips come in, they go get the warrant, and away they go. They information laundered us wrong.

SPEAKER_17 1:23:16

If the FBI did the whole thing on their own, then they would have to answer all the questions to the media.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:22

They would have to have probable cause to get the warrant, and they could never get the probable cause to listen to 300 episodes of our show or to do anything without something there there. Instead, there was probably a file sitting on Sedition Hunter's desk. Because remember, I was indicted January 7th, which means these guys were quick to work.

SPEAKER_17 1:23:41

Well, that's what I told you when you came back. You're like, dude, you're the FBI's list, number 116 or something.

SPEAKER_06 1:23:48

103.

SPEAKER_17 1:23:49

103. Yeah, super high on the list. I was like, that's dude, you were targeted. And you're like, oh no. Yeah, you were targeted.

SPEAKER_09 1:23:59

Probably they had a dossier sitting on my desk. They probably had my dossier on their desk the moment I bought my plane ticket.

SPEAKER_17 1:24:06

Yeah, and so out of millions and millions of people that showed up at the Capitol, you got your picture taken. It's like, okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:13

Yeah. And in in my complaint, it's all about the podcast. Uh-huh. It's all about the podcast. Exactly. Okay. I've mentioned this before, and I showed my own images back when it happened, but here are pictures of the crowd. Now, this is taken from a set of bleachers that were well in front of Washington. This is Constitution Avenue. I'm literally standing like right here. Okay, so where my mouse is.

SPEAKER_17 1:24:37

I can't even see your mouse cursor. There's so many people.

SPEAKER_09 1:24:40

So here's my mouse moving around. So I'm like right here in front of the porta potties. If you go back and listen to that January 8th episode, because I was flying home on the 7th, January 8th. I talk about using the bullhorn to get a line in front of the port-a potties and stuff. So I was about right here. Yeah. This crap, and I'm I can't see the White House. Like I'm way back from the White House. So this was a good thing.

SPEAKER_17 1:24:58

So we just say that was about uh 10,000 people or 5,000 people. How many people is that?

SPEAKER_09 1:25:04

Well, I think low estimates would put it well over a million. Well over a million people.

SPEAKER_17 1:25:09

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:10

Now the interesting thing here, so there's Trump up by the White House. So the J6 committee, in their report, they just pulled from a tent backstage at the ellipse. President Trump looked out at the crowd of approximately 53,000 supporters and became enraged. Just under half of those gathered, a sizable stretch of about 25,000 people refused to walk through the magnometers and be screened for weapons, leaving the community looking half empty to the television audience. Oh my gosh. That's yeah. So half of them didn't want to go to the magnometers because they were armed.

SPEAKER_16 1:25:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:25:47

Yeah, exactly. Totally not true. But the distance here, 2,602.7 feet from the ellipse where Trump was speaking, all the way back to the Washington Monument, where it goes like this, and that crowd was filled in all the way. So you had 2,262 people crammed in like sardines. In fact, that made it into my thing, you know, sardines for Trump, where I took a picture up ahead. We were all crammed in sardines for Trump that day. So the investigation continues. J6 slowly but surely is becoming revealed to be what it was a giant entrapment scheme. And we also had a huge blow to huge blow. Tulsi Gabbard has resigned.

SPEAKER_17 1:26:28

Ah, my my wife told me about that.

SPEAKER_09 1:26:31

It's like so she wrote a letter to the president. Essentially, what happened is her husband has been diagnosed with an extremely rare form of bone cancer. He faces major challenges in the coming weeks and months. And at this time, I must step away from public service and be by his side to fully support him. So she's gonna stick around till June 1st, and then she is off into the distance, which is really sad. Yeah, I get it. Um you know the question always arises did he take the anyways. Now, another thing in good news, one of our friends, uh Bruno, who was another January 6er, he has struggled. He's a YouTuber, fairly successful, too, by the way. And he has had multiple sponsorship opportunities. We're talking like big sponsors. He doesn't do political commentary, he does funny stuff. He kind of goes to the younger generation. But he's had multiple opportunities where sponsors have wanted to take him on and then they cancel on them. They won't take them. And he's had other issues too, and it all stems from the fact that the DOJ still has all these press releases out about January Sixers. So anytime you do a background check on us, we we flag the terrorist lists, we've got bad media reporting and stuff like that. Well, this week he called the DOJ and was like, listen, this is affecting my ability to get a job and all this stuff. And they were like, Oh, well, we'll take it down. So that's it. Couple weeks, they decided to take it down. So Merrill Cornfield says the Trump administration is quietly deleting info about the capital attack from the DOJ websites as it prepares to give funds to J6ers this week. Week. The DOJ deleted a press release about one month after man uh ongoing child solicitation charges. So this is actually about someone I was in prison with. His name is Andrew Talkie, and he had um he had a charge on him from Texas. Long story. Anyways, of course, he's like the worst example you could put out there. But they deleted his page. You look up mine, deleted. So the DOJ no longer has press releases out from when I was arrested, when I was tried, when I was sentenced, right? It was like bam, bam, bam, bam. And of course, who picks up on that? AI, Google, and it just amplifies it everywhere. So it's very damaging to our reputations. Very damaging. Well, the DOJ rapid response posted, nothing quite about it. We are proud to reverse the DOJ's weaponization under the Biden administration. We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were prosecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping the DOJ's website of partisan propaganda. They just called the whole thing propaganda.

SPEAKER_17 1:28:59

I'm glad they're being honest about it.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:01

I'm glad they're being honest about it too. It's really good news. Um, now, this is another interesting thing. I remember when I was in prison one time, I was talking to one of my conservative friends, and he was a big fan of Thomas Massey and Chip Roy and Rand Paul and Ron Paul. And I was like, I was like, I don't, these guys drive me crazy because they're gold bucks. They always want to return to a balanced budget, which, hey, listen, me too. But this idea, like, like in the back of their minds, they want to return to sound money. And obviously, I didn't know much about Bitcoin at the time. And I was like, dude, it's just never gonna happen. It's never going to happen.

SPEAKER_17 1:29:39

You're stuck in the land of the art of the possible.

SPEAKER_09 1:29:42

You're stuck in the art of the possible, yeah, exactly. And one of the other things, too, is these guys oppose Donald Trump on all these spending measures. Well, some of these spending measures are necessary, right? Like closing the border. You need to fund the border. Um, you know, all this other kind of stuff. And one particular person, Chip Roy, who Donald Trump has called out as being a grandstander and kind of floats with the wind. Now, Chip Roy is another one of these guys that he deceives a lot of people because he kind of has a tough talk at a tough, tough act. He sounds good. He sounds good a lot of the time, but there's these key moments, right? Anyone who comes after Donald Trump over J6 and couldn't see it for what it was, you have to question their ability to uh see through the noise and see the signal. Chip Roy is running for attorney general of Texas to replace Ken Paxson. And I have a sneaky suspicion he probably has a good shot at getting it. So this is the guy who's going to be in charge of law enforcement in Texas in the future, or could be. Now, this was a speech he gave after January 6th, prior to impeachment of Donald Trump. Is this someone that you want to have in charge of law enforcement that can fall victim to fake news?

SPEAKER_01 1:30:57

President of the United States deserves universal condemnation for what was clearly, in my opinion, impeachable conduct, pressuring the vice president to violate his oath of the Constitution to count the electors. His open and public pressure, courageously rejected by the vice president, purposely ceded the false belief among the president's supporters, including those assembled on January 6th, that there was a legal path with the president. It was foreseeable and reckless to sow such a false belief that could lead to violence and rioting by loyal supporters whipped into a frenzy.

SPEAKER_09 1:31:26

270 FBI agents in the crowd, 27 confidential informants in the crowd, pre-planned at least six months before January 6th happened. Venezuela did in fact infiltrate the voting machines, the suspension of constitutions around the country to enable mass mail and balloting, voter registration fraud. I've got a sample ballot from Washington State when I was working in the booth last weekend of from 2010 that had right at the top, I am a U.S. citizen, you have to check a box. They removed that from the voter registration in the 2023 ballot update. They just removed the box saying that you're a U.S. citizen. All of that, and he has the nerve to say Donald Trump whipped his people up into a frenzy over these fake allegations. Is that the guy you want to have running, the attorney general's office in one of the greatest states in the Union, Texas? What that tells me is he would have prosecuted me. He would have gone with what the media and the FBI and all the all the talking points were. So this is the challenge we have here. We still have to root through a lot of this inside of the party. And D, you mentioned it's hard to run the establishment out. That's the establishment. Despite the fact that they're pro-balancing the budget and all this kind of stuff, they're not tethered to truth. They're not tethered to truth. They make political statements. I'm sure at the time that bought Chip Roy some bipartisan grace, right? And that that helped him out with the establishment. I'm sure the RNC was more than happy to share money for his next re-election campaign. He said what he had to say to make sure Donald Trump doesn't come in because he's not just disrupting the Democrats. He's is disrupting the Republican establishment.

SPEAKER_17 1:33:16

Bipartisanship is a weird thing.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:18

Bipartisanship is a weird thing.

SPEAKER_17 1:33:20

Yep.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:21

Deplorable D says he looks better masked. What do you mean by that?

SPEAKER_17 1:33:26

He had his mask on.

SPEAKER_09 1:33:27

Oh, yeah. Oh, it's a COVID mask. Yeah, exactly. And he was wearing a COVID mask. At least Thomas Massey took the fine for not wearing the mask. So very, very tough stuff there. Okay.

Dalio Warns Of Monetary Order Break

SPEAKER_09 1:33:41

It is time for us to jump over into the private stream. We are going to be talking about the economy. And so let's jump over and do that. Thank you so much for joining us for this special Memorial Day broadcast. We weren't even sure it was going to happen. And so glad to have you with us, Dee. I'm glad you're here. And I look forward to collaborating with you between King and Kitsap County. There's a lot we can help each other with. Yes. And Sarah sings, yay, congratulations. Very exciting. All right, guys. We'll jump over to private. We're going to be hearing from Ray Dalio. Things in the world are about to change big time.

SPEAKER_16 1:34:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:34:14

Okay, so this is Ray Dalio. He was on CNBC or excuse me, NBC News, and he was talking about how we're heading into something pretty dramatic. Not only are there a lot of red flag signs for a recession coming up, which we'll address independently after this, but more than that, there's a complete shift in the monetary system. Now, Ray Dalio is an interesting character. He's he is a, in my opinion, he understands the big arc economic cycle as far as having one country that becomes the reserve currency for the rest of the world. He understands this piece really well. He's got like a 45-minute YouTube video that's animated that goes over this. And I think it's like core understanding. It's very, very important. It doesn't necessarily mean that he knows everything, right? But he's in my opinion, he's dead on about this.

SPEAKER_00 1:35:04

I think that um right now we are at a decision-making point and very close to recession. And I'm worried about something worse than a recession if this isn't handled well. A recession is two negative quarters of GDP, and whether it goes slightly there, we always have those things. We have something that's much more profound. We have a breaking down of the monetary order. We are going to change the monetary order because we cannot spend the amounts of money, so we have that problem. And when we talk about the dollar and we talk about tariffs, we have that. We are having profound changes in our domestic order, how ruling is existing. And we're having profound changes in the world order. Such times are very much like the 1930s. I've studied history and this repeats over and over again. So if you take tariffs, if you take debt, if you take the rising power challenging the existing power, if you take those factors and look at the factors, that's those changes in the orders, the systems, are very, very disruptive. How that's handled could produce something that is much worse than a recession.

SPEAKER_09 1:36:17

It could produce something that's much worse with the recession, or conversely, it could produce a much better age. It just depends. But right, right, his thing is China is on the rise and we're on the decline. And our monetary policy is what is the reason we're on the decline. We've become decadent, we overprint, we don't produce anything. So Trump is trying to change a lot of that stuff. Ray Gallio has been an advisor for Donald Trump in a lot of things. So he's trying to been, he's trying to help him. Now, the old way of doing thing with things was when we went into a recession, they lowered interest rates to spur on growth. As the economy starts to grow, they raise interest rates because the old view was that economic growth is what caused the inflation, not the money supply. Right. Never never put the Fox in charge of the handhouse. So Kevin Warsh is now been sworn in as governor. He's officially the governor or the uh chairman of the federal bank.

Fed Policy AI And Rate Cuts

SPEAKER_09 1:37:13

He gave an interview to CNBC where he says things are now going to be different at the Federal Reserve. How they're going to approach this upcoming recession and what it really means. And he he's recognizing facts like AI. He's also recognizing things like cryptocurrencies and Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_36 1:37:30

Listen to this. What we call AI in a couple of years we'll just call business. And AI is going to make almost everything cost less. And the U.S. can be a big winner. And uh and it's a hugely exciting moment. If I were to step back for a minute, if I were the president, what I'd be worried about is a central bank that doesn't see any of that. A central bank that is stuck with models from 1978, governance from a prior period, and don't recognize we could be at the front end of a productivity boom. And if I were the president, I'd be worried that they might not see it. And they might think economic growth is somehow going to be inflationary. I think we were probably in the early innings of a structural decline in prices. MCs are on the front lines of real businesses. And I think if you look over uh the period of the next year or two, it's a pretty special moment. Okay.

SPEAKER_09 1:38:20

Interest rates are coming down. That's exactly right. They're going to drive interest rates down because you need money to build these data centers and invest in productivity.

SPEAKER_16 1:38:31

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_09 1:38:31

So you need to make that money easy to get. If the money's hard to get, there's going to be less productivity. And so it's looking at the economy through the lens of productivity rather than just the lens of trying to control a static economy. I think that's a good thing.

SPEAKER_17 1:38:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 1:38:46

However, if they drive interest rates down, what's going to happen? There's going to be a lot more money printed because they print money not just when the government writes a bill. It's not just the national debt. That's what the corporation of the United States owes to the Federal Reserve.

SPEAKER_16 1:39:00

Right.

SPEAKER_09 1:39:00

When a company goes and gets financing, the company owes the Federal Reserve, right? Through all the intermediaries in between. When you get a mortgage, nobody lent you that money. That money was created when you wrote the promissory note and promised to pay. They literally create new digits in the system to loan back to you on the mortgage. You give them a promissory note, they give you a mortgage. You created the money and now you owe the system, right? You owe the interest. So that creates a lot more money floating around. Lower interest rates is going to create a lot more money floating around. As well as prices coming down means it takes less money for you to buy all of your trinkets, services, products, and goods, which means you have more money chasing more goods at Walmart to buy more things or to invest or whatever the case is. So there's going to be certain areas that will mop up that extra liquidity. The stock market will mop it up, Bitcoin will mop it up. Lots of different places are going to mop up that extra money. But the extra money floating around in the system is going to be more dollars chasing less goods that if Kevin Warsh is right, if it's tied to AI, it's going to become cheaper. Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah. So I want to show you guys this chart here.

Bitcoin Versus Crypto Control Grid

SPEAKER_09 1:40:14

This is important to visualize. I've obviously become a huge advocate for Bitcoin. This is why. Right? When we talk about Bitcoin and you treat it like a tech stock, like the Mark Cuban way, you think that Bitcoin is going up in value. And the dollar is like static. That's not what's happening.

SPEAKER_17 1:40:33

The problem is that the dollar is the basis.

SPEAKER_09 1:40:36

The problem is the dollar is the basis. What's happening is Bitcoin has a steady rise based on adoption. Every new person that comes on the network adds utility and that increases the value of Bitcoin in a very static linear way. But what really happens is as the dollar gets printed and deflates in value, this is what's really happening. When your brain shifts over and you start seeing things in Bitcoin and Satoshis, instead of seeing things in dollars, this becomes super clear.

SPEAKER_17 1:41:07

Very easy to see this. And then one of two things happens. You either get really scared or you buy Bitcoin.

SPEAKER_09 1:41:13

Or you buy Bitcoin. You either get really scared or you buy Bitcoin. D D D uh D says it's an it's interesting that LibTards are opposing the data centers. It's just because they oppose everything. You know, it's interesting. This I was listening to John Solomon reports and he was talking about they there's been certain he worked for a firm that would do this before, and now he works for some data center company. And he said when they were uh where was it? It was some county, somewhere they were putting in a data center. And there was one protester who just seemed to get all these people to show up and they were trying to oppose this data center. And they were takes up takes up all the water, it takes up this, it takes up that. And they they honed in. It was all this misinformation about the data center was coming from one person who was creating a huge influence bubble. Okay. And they did research on her. She was getting her money directly from Greenpeace, who gets their money from a handful of cutouts of these climate activists and stuff like that. All of it was false. They're like, we don't take up water, we don't do this, we don't do that, we create jobs, like all these benefits. There's there was really no reason why the city or the county should reject this data center, except for this one influencer was just stirring up all these misinformation concerns.

SPEAKER_17 1:42:33

And they like to put these things out in the middle of nowhere where the land's cheap.

SPEAKER_09 1:42:38

Yeah, yeah. So turns out they've been tracking a lot of the opposition to the data centers, and it is being funded by the same exact people who support Antifa, support open borders. It's the same crowd of people. It's a group of people that are trying to push down the United States and prop up the Chinese model without exception, right? Which is why it's so important that we win this race because whoever controls AI controls the basis of information that the world works off of. And they talked about the China AI models, like if you ask about Tiananmen Square, A, it lets the government know you're asking. B, it won't provide you any information. So it's important that AI be modeled after the American way, not be modeled after the Chinese way. And you gotta watch out, you gotta watch out for that. So the common theme there, deplorable D2, the common theme there is it's the Chinese communists that are opposing anything that puts America first and they're they're funneling the money through these NGOs. You know, lots of people out there support Greenpeace because pollution's bad and stop killing the wells. Right. But then when when Greenpeace is involved in data centers and making allegations like, well, they take up the water. There's lots of reasons why people's wells run dry. That's been happening forever. So if they're putting a data center in five miles away and your well runs dry, like in the one case, there was a news broadcast about this. The data center's like, we haven't even connected to water yet. We're not even live, we're not even using water yet.

SPEAKER_17 1:44:07

Yeah, I went to a Sierra Club. I think it was a Sierra Club. It was one of these, you know, nature groups, and it was at college, and so there's a lot of you know activist type college kids that show up to these things. And I and I just I was just showing up, I was not a member, I was just kind of walking by and was like, oh, I'll just check this out. I got some free time. And I sat in the back of this room of these people that were in this group, and they started talking about Glen Canyon Dam and how they were gonna blow it up, and I was like, whoa, what in the heck is going on here? So I mean, the fact that they were even just talking about that as a discussion point, I was like, man, these eco-groups are full of crazy people.

SPEAKER_09 1:44:50

Yeah, yeah. But that would explain why the Lib Tards are opposing them. It's mostly because they're supporting China more than they're actually opposing the data centers, because China's building them no problems.

Clarity Act And Permissionless Finance

SPEAKER_09 1:45:00

All right. This is Tim Scott from the banking committee, and they have advanced the Clarity Act, and this is what he had to say about it.

SPEAKER_26 1:45:07

Plus the future of finance in so many ways. Listen, American people want to have access to what the rest of the world has access to. The only way to do that is to have rules of the road. So getting this legislation done is historic. It puts America back in the driving seat for the future, the foreseeable future. Having Cynthia Lamas and uh Mark Warner work together on anything is a blessing. It's like Peter walking on the water. It's something you don't see every day. And so this is good news. But more importantly, having Senator Also Brooks and Senator Gallego come along with every single Republican on the committee to do what's in America's best interest long term. Lower prices, faster transactions. And the good news is you, the person who has the resources, you make your decisions. You don't have to wait on someone to give you permission. Now you're working in a permissionless environment because of blockchain, the ability to verify transactions real time. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:46:09

What he's saying is you can go around the banks. Now, there's going to be a fork in the road here, and people are either going to go one direction or going to go the other direction. Cryptocurrency, we're already using bank digital currencies. Your visa, your mortgages, that's all BDC, bank digital currencies. But you but you have to have the intermediary of the bank. They create the digital tokens, et cetera, et cetera. The C BDC concept, the central, you're adding centralized to it. That's the control grid. Right. Taking BDC and putting it into crypto, just a different way, it stays decentralized. So as Republicans write this bill, the attempt is to keep it decentralized. Are you still vulnerable? Absolutely. You're using decentralized cryptocurrencies. Can the treasury seize it? Probably, almost certainly, right? But it bypasses the bank, the big bank collusions, right? It gives power to a lot more differ different groups that are having cryptocurrencies and whatnot. But in my opinion, all the people that engage in cryptocurrencies broadly are all going to be a part of the control grid. They're all in the control grid. And it might benefit you greatly. Just like the fiat effect benefited the boomers, they got the Cantilian effect, where they were the first recipients of all this new money that was being printed. If you're a crypto adopter for the next few generations, you're probably going to be the recipient of a lot of easy money, a lot of easy credit, a lot of investment, decentralized finance, DeFi as they call it. Probably going to be really good. Ultimately, it will end in a control grid of one form or the other. Bitcoin is different. Bitcoin can interact with that system. Bitcoin allows you to have a savings account that is outside of the system. Right. Now, just like if I have cash, I can go to the bank, I can put it in the bank, and then I can make my digital purchases. Bitcoin is the cash concept. It allows you to hold your money outside of the banks. The other cryptocurrencies, even if you have a cold wallet, they're still totally regulated. They could just write off your, they could just write your cold wallet out of the blockchain. Like that's what Ethereum did. They just deleted an entire block block on the blockchain and reset it to the way it was. They can do that. That's the control grid. Bitcoin is outside of that. So I highly recommend right now, you have a fork in the road. You can go the crypto way or you can go to the Bitcoin way. If you go the Bitcoin way, you'll be one of the people who's holding the gold in the future. That all the currencies, cryptos, are based off of. They're going to peg their value to Bitcoin. So take the fork, go Bitcoin, right? And then that allows you to then go to the ATM and put your money in and go do your digital purchases, but it allows you to keep that digital money, that excess energy, your savings, in a private cold storage wallet. So very important to understand.

Final Takeaways And Raid

SPEAKER_09 1:48:56

Okay, guys, thank you so much for joining us today. We are gonna send you out on a raid. What do we have, Ron?

SPEAKER_17 1:49:01

Let's do it.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:03

We're doing raids the rest of the month. J Raid. Raid.

SPEAKER_17 1:49:09

Let's do it. See. Yes.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:12

All right. Floyd Merriweather and the MS and the MIS Reading Rainbow.

SPEAKER_17 1:49:17

Miss Reading Rainbow.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:19

That's pretty good.

SPEAKER_17 1:49:21

I thought it would be funny.

SPEAKER_09 1:49:23

That's fun. All right, guys. Thank you so much for joining us today. We will talk to you again tomorrow.

SPEAKER_35 1:50:00

I'm 37. I'm not old. Well, I can't just call you man. You could say Dennis. I didn't know you were called Dennis. Well, you didn't bother to find out, did you? I did say sorry about the old woman, but from behind, you looked. What I object to is do you automatically treat me like an inferior? Well, I am king. Oh, king, eh? Very nice. And how'd you get that, eh? By exploiting the workers. By hanging on to outdated imperialist dogma which perpetuates the economic and social differences in our society. If there's ever going to be any progress. And it's some lovely filth down here. Oh! How'd you do? How'd you do, good lady? I'm Arthur, King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the Who? The Britons. Who the Britons? Well, we all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. I didn't know we had a king. I thought we were an autonomous collective. You're fooling yourself. We're living in a dictatorship. A self-perpetuating autocracy in which the working classes. Oh, there you go, bringing class into it again. That's what it's all about. If only people would listen. Please, please, good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in a narco-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as a sort of executive officer for the week. Yes. But all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special bi-weekly meeting. Yes, I see. By a civil majority in the case of purely internal affairs. Be quiet. But by a two-thirds majority in the case of all. You're quiet. I order you to be quiet. Oh, does he think he is? I'm your king. Well, 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! Oh but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you. Shut up! Oh but if I went round saying I was an emperor, just because some Moisson bint had lobbed 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! Did you hear that? Did you hear that, eh? That's what I'm on about. Do you see him repressing me? You saw it, didn't you?