The Dollar Empire Runs On Printing And Power

Sovereignty sounds patriotic until you ask a simple follow-up: who controls the money, the data, and the rules that shape everyday life? We start with the week’s political theater and Trump’s “take back our sovereignty” framing, then pull the thread until it runs straight into the machinery that actually governs modern America. Along the way, we unpack why speeches about liberty feel hollow when interest rates, inflation, and bureaucracy decide what your paycheck can buy. 

We dig into reports of intelligence community overreach and the steady erosion of privacy, including how censorship pressure and surveillance programs can grow in the dark. Then we shift to the money question, because that is where sovereignty becomes measurable. Illinois becomes a case study after a digital asset transaction tax gets slipped into a budget late at night, sparking backlash from the crypto industry and raising a bigger concern: once a state creates a tax on digital transactions, it also creates an excuse to expand monitoring and enforcement. 

From there, we connect dollar dominance, sanctions, stablecoins, and the coming push for “clarity” in crypto regulation through the Clarity Act. We talk about Bitcoin self-custody, peer-to-peer money, and why governments fight hardest where they get power for “free” through currency issuance. We even look forward to the frontier: space-based data centers and the idea of mining Bitcoin in space. Finally, we bring it home with war spending, NATO procurement, inflation incentives, and the Save America Act fight over voter ID, proof of citizenship, and emergency powers. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend, and leave a review with the one part you think we got wrong.

Transcript

Peasants Perspective Warm-Up

SPEAKER_14 0:43

We're just peasants. Every one of us. You watch those little 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. So glad you guys made it. I slept on my back last night. I snored when I do that. On my back, I snore. And I woke up this morning with like the back of my throat just completely swollen. So I apologize if I sound a little bit funny. I sound funny to myself in the headphones here. So I don't know. We'll see. All right, you guys, I know why you show up bright early, all two of you. Come on, let's load into the chats.

SPEAKER_15 1:27

I wonder if uh what's his name, Rush Limbaugh, ever like took special precautions in order to ensure that his voice was, you know, that golden whatever. E I B microphone.

SPEAKER_14 1:39

I bet he did.

SPEAKER_15 1:40

I bet I was actually thinking about somebody else that I heard that had um insured their hands because they were so important to their work. Oh, yeah. And I was like, well, maybe Taylor needs to ensure his voice.

SPEAKER_14 1:52

Insure my voice. Do you make money with your hands or do you make money with your mouth? That's yeah, you gotta ask yourself. All right, I know why you guys pile in bright and early. You pile in for the simultaneous sip. Carl Leetz, he finally made it. This might be the longest delay we've had in a long time for people jumping into the chats. Carl Leetz, good morning. Glad you made it. I know why you guys show up bright and early. Pony boy, he's here. Good morning, good morning. I am pimping for chats this week. We've got a couple more days left. I need at least two more chatters. So if you're unfortunately, Pony Boy and Carlitz aren't gonna help us out. Yeah, you guys are you guys are on the first of the month to get your. But if you're a regular listener and you're streaming, please jump into the chats if you haven't done so this month.

SPEAKER_15 2:34

We appreciate you guys.

SPEAKER_14 2:35

Pray the rosary daily. Happy Thursday, happy Thursday, glad you made it. Okay, okay. It's time for the simultaneous sip. And all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass of tackard, a chalice of stein, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind. And fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee. And join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine head of the day. The thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip. And it starts right now.

SPEAKER_09 3:01

Well,

Trump Quotes And Media Spectacle

SPEAKER_09 3:02

Schumer's lost his way, he's become essentially a Palestinian. I think it's the greatest transformation of a political position I've ever seen. Chuck Schumer, who was a strong supporter of Israel, and he's become 100% Palestinian. In fact, I've asked for a beautiful, beautiful silk uh outfit to be sent in the Palestinian tradition. I'm gonna send it to him as a breath at present. Now it's the greatest transformation of a political ideology I've ever seen.

SPEAKER_14 3:37

Jeff Schumer in Jewish and he was a strong supporter of Israel, not that strong, because he led the Obama, even though he was supposed to become a Palestinian. It's the greatest transformation in history. I have him with a silk suit made in the Palestinian tradition. Oh my goodness. I'm telling you, in 20 or 30 years, we're gonna be reading a book of quotes from Donald Trump. And it's gonna be like, chase your dreams, never ever give up. You know, the moon is our future, and then you're gonna turn the page, they're gonna be like, Chuck Schumer's a Palestinian. So funny. Oh, it's great. Ferrazier says online, but not in books. John Attack sent you a message in the car watching Peasants Perspective. It's that is a we are we are live in a Tesla right now.

SPEAKER_15 4:27

That'd be one of those books where it had the little swatch of soap that you could rub.

SPEAKER_14 4:33

Pony Boy says, was it Gavin Newsom that insured his hands? You think you'd think that it would be you'd think that it would be we've got these forest fires all over the place. Yes. Gavin Newsome insuring his hands. Donald Trump also had another good crack up yesterday.

SPEAKER_09 4:52

He explained what the Democrats are, and all Democrats, you know, Democrats they want to lose the war. They're stupid. That's why we call them Democrats, you know. I no longer use the E. I use I've changed the E into a U. We call them Democrats. They're dumb.

SPEAKER_14 5:12

I'm telling you, I'm telling you, the book of quotes is gonna be an absolute banger. I don't call them Democrats anymore. They're Democrats. I've taken out the E.

SPEAKER_15 5:22

That's gonna be in the alphabet book. That's good for the youngins.

SPEAKER_14 5:26

Yeah, exactly.

Declaration Of Independence Mindset

SPEAKER_14 5:28

Oh, Trump also gave a speech yesterday, which was really a good one. He kicked off the 250-year celebration with the uh what do they call it? The state fair celebration. Everybody's still trying to figure out what state it is that the fair is. It's the federal government, I guess. But, anyways, Donald Trump gave a good little speech, and he started off this way, hearkening back to the Declaration of Independence. And unfortunately, this is something that we don't hear from our politicians enough.

SPEAKER_08 5:58

In 1776, our founding fathers met in Philadelphia and changed the world forever and ever with a thing called the Declaration of Independence. They proclaim the eternal truth that we are endowed by our Creator with the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. We all made, and you know that, free and equal by the hand of Almighty God. Those timeless American principles did not just win a revolution, but they built us into the greatest, strongest, and most exceptional nation the world has ever known.

SPEAKER_14 6:46

It's nice to hear a president talking like that. You know, we've gone quite a few years where you've had people like Joe Biden saying, you know, we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created in the image of, you know, you don't know the thing, the thing. The other thing Donald Trump says here is something that I find interesting. Trying to see a little bit of the signal through the noise and trying to understand what is the operating system that our president and this administration run by. And I think this is just a little bit of a window into the mindset these guys have.

SPEAKER_08 7:19

But just like those patriots of 1776 over the past 17 months, we have taken power back from the far-off political class. They're trying to gain it back, but it's not going to happen. We have reclaimed our sovereignty, regained our liberty, restored our prosperity, and we have saved our country. In all things, we're once again putting a thing called America first.

SPEAKER_14 7:50

That I think is an interesting insight, right? We have retaken our sovereignty from the politicians, essentially, right? The embedded politicians. And I just think that that is a real window into the modus operandi of this administration. Understanding that there is, in fact, a divide between the people of this country and the people in the nation. And when we say the people in the nation, oftentimes you can almost narrow it down to the employees, the bureaucrats, the people that are on the doll from the nation, you know, the recipients allegedly of taxpayer funds, and that there's a big divide there, and that Donald Trump's administration is coming in and trying to restore the power to the people, which makes sense why, as Donald Trump is doing that, he gets so much pushback from the machine, from the institution, from the uniparty politicians and whatnot, right?

Intelligence Weaponization And Surveillance

SPEAKER_14 8:41

So, John Solomon, as you know, a week ago put out the little piece saying that he's leaving, being the editor-in-chief for just the news, so he could go work as a temporary government employee to help out the director of national intelligence get a bunch of information released.

SPEAKER_16 8:55

Okay.

SPEAKER_14 8:56

So he's been over there for a couple days now, and he came onto Steve Bannon's show, War Room, and reported just a little bit about what they've been finding.

SPEAKER_24 9:04

It's literally his testimony to the Senate Intelligence Committee. By the way, it takes like five seconds to vote this out, right? Um, it did and if not, tell the prosecutors I can't get the votes and subpoena me, and then let's bring it into the courts. That's what they did with Richard Nixon during Watergate and the Watergate committee. Um, you're right. The Intelligence Committee is ground zero for what was a decade and perhaps a decade and a half, going all the way back to the early Obama years, uh, of uh a weaponization of intelligence, of law enforcement. And I also think when we're done with the project I'm working on and what others who are working on, great journalists are working on right now, it's also ground zero for the erosion of our liberties, the erosion of our privacy. There are programs all across the government, nothing I've seen yet, but I intend to find it. Uh, but as a journalist, I have been able to confirm there are programs that the CIA and others gobble up Americans' records. It isn't just the NSA that's gobbling up programs. We have a Fourth Amendment that has more holes in it than the Alamo after the shootout. We uh don't have a Justice Department until recently that tried to enforce the Fourth Amendment or the Second Amendment or the First Amendment. And um, I think the intelligence community is at the heart of censorship, weaponization, invasion of privacy. And John Brennan was the Grand Maestro. He was the John L. Williams of that operation, that orchestra. And we can't fix it until we fully expose it. So my goal, my goal is just to help the president and some very good people in the intelligence community who want to get it out, to get it out, tell a story, and then the policymakers and the president and the cabinet secretaries can fix it. And um, I just want to say thank you to President Trump for opening the door to this. It's something that's long been needed. He did it, he gave a great team that's working with us. And early on, uh, I wanted to shout out Director Ratcliffe, uh, Director Patel, and uh uh Director Palti, who just got started, but has been more helpful than Tulsi Gabbart was for months in my quest to get information. They're all taking this seriously. And I think we're gonna have some bombshell revelations in the next few weeks that will just show you how much the intelligence community kept from the American people and intruded on the American people's rights.

SPEAKER_14 11:22

It'll be really interesting to see if they release information that showed that the intelligence community was going after the little guy. Right. It's really it's one thing when it's like, oh, they covered up COVID. That's this is a huge thing. There's millions of billions of dollars involved. But what what I'm really interested in is did they come after the little guy? The guy that we don't know his name. You know, was there someone out there that was just a way too influential of a pastor? And they came and targeted him.

SPEAKER_15 11:48

I mean, like Tina Peters.

SPEAKER_14 11:51

Tina Peters, you know, again, sometimes us little guys get involved in things that are way bigger than we are, right? Like me going to January 6th, suddenly I'm not just some online guy yelling to 60 people in an audience, right?

SPEAKER_15 12:04

You know, all of a sudden me is just some guy in Washington should never even know Tina Peters' name.

SPEAKER_14 12:08

Yeah, exactly. So we inject ourselves into these massive stories, but then sometimes it's like they just came after that guy that went to the school board. That's not injecting yourself in a big story that's trying to protect your daughter in a local school, right?

SPEAKER_15 12:22

It's like it shouldn't, but did they happen in every town America?

SPEAKER_14 12:26

Yeah. And then you've got Trump, you know, basically saying we've reclaimed our sovereignty. It's really interesting that Polte, in just a matter of days, is being called out as having been more helpful than Tulsa Gabbard. Now, reports vary, but Polte came in and fired between 50 and up to 400 people in intelligence. So that's quite a few people. Apparently, it's a big clean out at the counterintelligence division. But what is counterintelligence? These are the spies that are supposed to find the spies. Ah okay. Now, a lot of times the spies that are supposed to find the spies end up on assignments creating spies or creating counterintelligence situations. It's the counterintelligence guys that went out and found these UFC pipe bomb plotters.

SPEAKER_15 13:14

And I'm not saying that they're all double agents, but that's where double agents come from.

SPEAKER_14 13:18

That's where double agents come from. That's right. So

Why Money Determines Sovereignty

SPEAKER_14 13:21

one of the things we talk about anytime we talk about sovereignty and we talk about taking back our ability to pursue life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, the conversation necessarily, if we're to take it seriously, needs to involve the discussion of money, right? Going all the way back to Thomas Jefferson. He says if if the American people ever allow the banks to take over issuance of the currency, that your children will wake up on home, wake up homeless on the land that their conquers uh conquered. Because first by deflation and then by deflation, they will rob you of everything you've ever earned. And certain states have put it, and obviously our whole nation runs off the dollar system. And the United States right now is trying to shore up the dollar, strengthen the dollar. We're gonna hear a little bit later today about how Venezuela and Iran now are both gonna peg their currencies to the dollar, which is good news. Which is good news, right? This is good news. It's gonna mop up some of that liquidity. Apparently, we don't have to import Venezuela here to mop up the liquidity, we can just give them the dollars there to mop up the liquidity. But nonetheless, having said that, Illinois made a made what many are considering a very deep state skeezy move, right?

Illinois Digital Asset Tax Blowback

SPEAKER_14 14:33

Because your sovereignty kind of begins and ends with your ability to control your labor and to profit from that labor. So when you don't have control of the money, it creates a problem. And for many Americans, we're living in American nightmare rather than American dream, and a lot of it centers around the money. Well, Bitcoin is a way out of that. Obviously, we've talked a lot about this on this show. And the state of Illinois put a bill in in the middle of the night. It was part of a larger bill, but they put a provision in there that taxed your cryptocurrency holdings. They would tax you for the money you had on an exchange. So 2% annually was just going to, or 0.2%, excuse me, just for a sitting balance. If you transferred that balance from one wallet to another wallet, you owed 0.2%. If you made a purchase, you owed 0.2%. Or if you made a sale of cryptocurrency, you would owe 0.2%. So in the Ethernet world, how would Illinois even know? Essentially, they were taxing what you have, what you move, what you buy, and what you sell.

SPEAKER_15 15:33

But but it sounds like you have to declare it.

SPEAKER_14 15:35

Probably. And you know, the way it works is once they have a tax due, they they create a surveillance system to try to, you know, look at it. Well, this bill got snuck in the body. John Cabello and it received a lot of backlash because it was never debated on. It was never even presented in committee. It literally got stuck onto the bill at four in the morning.

SPEAKER_15 15:56

Sounds like a local BLA ordinance.

SPEAKER_14 15:58

Yep. So one of the Chicago House of Representatives member has already introduced a bill to repeal this bill.

SPEAKER_01 16:05

John Cabello just introduced a bill to repeal the digital asset tax. It comes as crypto industry leaders are criticizing the 0.2% tax that will be imposed on all digital transactions in Illinois next year. This tax was introduced just hours before state lawmakers passed the $56 billion state budget at 4.13 in the morning. One of the industry leaders speaking out is Brian Armstrong, the CEO of Coinbase. According to his post on X, Coinbase has over 1.5 million customers in Illinois. He wrote, quote, this Illinois law is remarkably bad. It will end up hurting the state, kill jobs, and push innovation out of the state. And now these local and national leaders are encouraging residents to tell their local reps to repeal it. And in fact, I have Representative Cabello who's joining us. He's doing just that with his legislation. We're going to talk about that tax with him. And then also uh Ji Hoon Kim, who is the CEO of the Crypto Council for Innovation. Thank you both for being here.

SPEAKER_16 17:09

Thanks for having me. Great to be here.

SPEAKER_01 17:11

Uh, Representative Cabelo, let me start with you. Walk us through uh how you feel this would um, you know, be pushed through. I mean, it at this point in time, it hasn't even uh been enacted, but you're calling for it to be repealed.

unknown 17:26

Correct.

SPEAKER_17 17:27

So what my legislation does is repealing what was never talked about in a committee, was never discussed, never saw the light of day. It was put into a revenue package that was passed in the the dark at night. Um so if it's that good of an idea, we should have a full committee hearing on it that we should allow the public to come in and tell us uh what their their thoughts are on this type of a legend piece of legislation and have have some sort of sunlight on this stuff. I mean, we can't continue to tax our way out of the problems that we have. So you know, Illinois already struggles to attract and retain businesses, and instead of creating an environment that encourages innovation and investment, uh this digital asset uh transaction tax sends the opposite message.

SPEAKER_14 18:16

That's exactly right. Digital assets and specifically Bitcoin are a way for you to reclaim your sovereignty and your freedom and take control from the government and not participate in things like forever wars and stuff like that. Over in the chats, Shantini joined us. Morning, folks. Glad you made it. So this next clip comes from a show that I quite enjoy.

Separation Of Money And State

SPEAKER_14 18:34

It's called Simply Bitcoin. It's a couple young guys, uh, I think it's Nico and OT AT or something like that. Anyways, these guys talk Bitcoin news every day. And he has this good little bit here where he talks about control of money and how the system is set up where they force you to use their money. And unfortunately, it's kind of a rigged game. No kidding. Yeah, when Donald Trump says we've reclaimed our sovereignty, again, any serious conversation about that has to address the money because this is the number one way that the average American loses their sovereignty.

SPEAKER_10 19:09

Separation of money and state. That is the ultimate goal, that is the ultimate mission of Bitcoin, right? This is what Satoshi envisioned, this is what all of us have envisioned, and it looks like we got a little bit of a detour, but again, in the separation of money and state, if a big portion of the state's revenue comes from printing money itself, you don't think that they would react? You don't think that they would use the heavy hand of government to you know attack quote unquote peer-to-peer transactions in the EU, they're basically making uh any peer-to-peer transaction over ten thousand dollars uh illegal, right? So again, all of this uh is to keep you within the pen. All of this is to keep you within the fiat system. That is the goal, that's what they intend to do, that's what they're doing. And if you think that these attacks will stop, I got a bridge to sell you. This is going to continue to happen. This is going to continue to accelerate. We live through the separation of information and the state. That was when they tried to censor social media, that was when the Twitter files got released. The Twitter files were basically claiming that hey, there was pressure from the United States government on social media platforms to censor certain types of information blatantly against the First Amendment. Now we're in the next phase. The next phase is the separation of money and state. And in the separation of money and state, things are gonna get a little bit nastier. And the reason things are gonna get a lot nastier is because governments get a tremendous amount of power from being able to issue their own currencies and being able to control the money flows. And ultimately, they can use all the scary language. It's for the kids, it's for your own safety. But ultimately, it comes down to them wanting the unique ability of being able to create money for free that everyone else has to work for. So we can give you guys all the data, we can give you guys all the information, VPN ban, you know, tax on every crit on every Bitcoinslash crypto transaction, right? Um, but ultimately it comes down to one simple theme. They want to keep their control over money. And my question for you is as a sovereign individual, as if you live in the United States, is that truly freedom? If the government gets to choose what money you use, is that freedom? And then it's not only the government choosing what money you use, the money that you use has a baked in inflation, has baked in inflation. So it's like they're literally forcing you, forcing you to use a money that is designed to lose purchasing power. If that is not a new form of slavery, I don't know what else is. And that's the key point here. So we have to pay attention to these things. They're going to continue to develop. And then I think the the the following question, the natural question to that is how do you fight it? How do you fight against that? The way that you fight against that is you stop paying attention, you stop paying attention to all the bells and whistles, you stop paying attention to TradFi, and you focus on one thing buying Bitcoin, earning Bitcoin, mining Bitcoin, and putting that Bitcoin into self-custody. If enough of us do that, we win. That's it. Full stop. Bitcoin ultimately is designed to be used peer to peer. It is not designed to be used via custodian. And I think this is the lesson that we all forgot this previous cycle.

SPEAKER_14 22:51

I think a lot of people don't understand Bitcoin's premise. It's to take sovereignty back. It's to be able to transact without government permission and not be sucked into whatever monetary system that they want to force you to use, of which all of them are inflating away by the government printer. Right. Now, it is good for me as a peasant in the United States for the dollar to be strong. It is generally a good thing. There are some problems with that, right? When we do have prices that go higher and higher, it's hard to earn those dollars to keep up with rising prices, right? Because asset prices will go up with global liquidity. Wages, that's a matter of private bargain. And so if you're not good at raising your wages as they're printing money, eventually you get behind the curve, which is where the entire millennial generation finds themselves. They're so far behind the curve on wages, they can't afford assets like single family residence.

SPEAKER_15 23:48

Wages go up about as fast as gas prices come down.

SPEAKER_14 23:52

Yeah, exactly. There's an investigation into that one. TIF Time. Hi guys, glad you made it. Glad you made it. So,

Dollar Dominance And Faster Crypto Rails

SPEAKER_14 23:59

in addition with this, we also, right, as they turn on the money printer and more people use the dollar. So this is key. As more nations use the dollar, right, there has to be more money printed to go and get absorbed by those people. So that is again, Donald Trump has done some really incredible things. He's opened up new markets. Like I remember last uh year, one of the trade deals we daddy opened up, I think it was Indonesia, 100 billion people.

SPEAKER_15 24:26

Just all of a sudden, now they're gonna be what I was gonna say is maybe you just have to pick the right country to inject your money into.

SPEAKER_14 24:32

Yes, pick the right country to inject your money into. Well, Iran has 90 million people, Venezuela's like 35, 40 million people. And Scott Bessant just said both of those nations are now gonna reap the rewards of being on the dollar.

SPEAKER_07 24:45

Dollar dominance is essential, and everything President Trump is doing here is you know, if you look, uh, the the the new Venezuela is going to is invoicing in dollars, they're coming back onto the dollar system. They've been sanctioned, they were not allowed to translate or to transact in dollars, and now uh dollar the dollar is going to be the centerpiece of their trade. Uh you know, they were selling discounted oil to China and not getting dollars. You know, we're seeing in the uh Iranian negotiations, the Iranians will be uh invoicing in dollars. So everything we are doing is pushing the dollar the back. It's never left as the centerpiece for the global currency system, but we're reinforcing it. You know, I would anticipate uh when the Russia-Ukraine uh conflict ends that Russia will want to come back in the dollar system because again, you know, the the dollar, it's our liquidity, it's our capital markets, it's the depth and breadth. Everyone wants to be here. And I think many times the great thing about the United States is we we course correct when we go too far one way or the other. And I think we should not be uh the uh shy about flexing where we have advantages and where we have advantages, share with our allies, and push back the uh on those who the uh are are not aligned with us.

SPEAKER_14 26:17

Just like we are team player ones in the space, because it creates a lot of jobs for Americans and a lot of factories and a lot of money gets sucked up into the space race. We're also team player one for the American dollar. I mean, of course we want to have the American dollar used all over the place. But when I listen to what Scott Bessant said there, I what I hear is they're buying an additional season, right? They're buying some time for dollar dominance by bringing on Iran and Venezuela. These these are two countries that very recently were floating the idea of basically doing everything through Bitcoin. But what has happened here through the force of military might.

SPEAKER_15 26:58

I don't know if we convinced them that it was economically the right responsible thing to do.

SPEAKER_14 27:03

Yeah, I don't know if they're like, yes, I want to get on that ice, I that melting ice cube called the dollar. Yeah, no, we are forcing them to take it at the barrel of a gun. So on one hand, as an American, as American countrymen, I'm like, oh yeah, I love it that my my national currency is the dominant currency around the world. But you have to take a step back and recognize we're forcing these countries to use it at the barrel of a gun, literally.

SPEAKER_15 27:28

And I really like this personally, but also doesn't this make is this kind of like a form of slavery? And aren't this?

SPEAKER_16 27:35

Yes, yes, it is.

SPEAKER_15 27:37

Aren't we kind of like the baddies?

SPEAKER_14 27:40

Yes, this is why it's like the empire keeps growing.

SPEAKER_15 27:42

I know, and it's like, dang it, I kind of like that, but damn.

SPEAKER_14 27:46

Um yeah, now to remember, there's the Bitcoin system, which is internet gold, and then you have cryptocurrencies, these are internet fiats, so there's an interesting time thing happening here. Cryptocurrency, that entire genre, allows very fast transactions, right? You don't require FedWire, you don't require overnight settlement, you're not gonna have banks charge, you know, earning interest while your money is in transit. So there's a huge advantage to go onto cryptocurrency rails, right? I know Ripple likes it. We're gonna be the rails of the banking system. Yeah, good luck, Ripple. The point is, it's like, yes, the banking system is going to be a lot of tokens, stable coins. I mean, this this happened, this was a huge benefit to the US dollar. The stablecoin market was able to open up in places like Nigeria, where their national currency is so bad nobody wants it.

SPEAKER_15 28:38

The locals want it. Not to derail your thought, but I was just thinking about what is our bond rating, I guess, you know, because you know how that's taken a hit, and like what's the other metric they use to determine, you know, how strong the dollar is in the world? You know, some of those metrics have taken hits in the past. I wonder how they're doing and is are they recovering or are we just going full body on this situation?

SPEAKER_14 29:02

I think we're just trying to be the tallest midget in the room. Yeah, that's what it feels like. Your credit rating's the best if you're at least paying your debt, right?

SPEAKER_15 29:09

It means as long as you're coupled with the right currency.

SPEAKER_14 29:13

Yeah. So there's a timing thing happening here. As the United States flexes its muscle around the world and re-establishes itself as you know, we want you to transact with the dollar, they're going to have to keep up with the the changing technology. Even a country that's willing to take the dollar as its as its you know, reserve currency, they would sure like transactions to settle faster and smarter. And so they're going to adopt the cryptocurrency rails, which is another reason why, just like everything, there's a story being told here.

The Clarity Act And Institutional Bitcoin

SPEAKER_14 29:44

The Clarity Act is coming into place. The Clarity Act is going to make it so stable coins and cryptocurrencies in general have a set of guidelines, clarity, and the rules, so that banks and developers and things like that know what the United States is going to consider as kosher as to how to build these cryptocurrencies.

SPEAKER_15 30:02

Well, this is really important, not just for this is important for everybody because you know, in permitting, for example, you need a certain amount of certainty that a transaction is going to occur a certain way. And if if you don't have the confidence that those things can happen, then the transactions won't happen. So this is setting up the confidence rails for people to be able to transact in this stuff.

SPEAKER_14 30:25

Exactly. And it also does some other things like it secures our right to private custody of Bitcoin and that they can't get in the middle of peer-to-peer transactions. So there is some good stuff in there for we the users, right? The people who want to use Bitcoin, but it also creates a huge opening for banks and whatnot to spread the control grid via the cryptocurrency. That's an opportunity for different technologies. So this is Cynthia Loomis saying, listen, the Clarity Act will be on the floor of the Senate in July.

SPEAKER_21 30:51

But we've been working through thousands of hours in negotiating thousands. Uh and uh we're finally to the point where we're gonna put out a text over the July 4th and give people one last really thorough look at the bill. And then we're moving in July. But we've been working that is exciting.

SPEAKER_14 31:14

We're moving in July. I expect all cryptocurrencies, and I expect Bitcoin especially to take a pretty big role when that happens because it is institutionalizing it, and banks will be able to hold Bitcoin on their balance sheets without actually having to hold cash 10 times that amount.

SPEAKER_15 31:27

Well, it will also signal to the public, which will drive volume.

SPEAKER_14 31:32

Yeah. Um, BlackRock put out their investment guidelines today, and they were they suggested that all of their clients have two percent of their asset or balance sheet in Bitcoin. It's a pretty big deal. Now, as we move into space, and again, you know, sorry, uh Carlitz, I might I might be a space tart, I don't know, or globet as they call it.

Space Data Centers And Bitcoin Mining

SPEAKER_14 31:55

But as we move into space, there's a company that just launched the first uh Nvidia-backed StarCloud. They announced that they will soon become the first company to mine Bitcoin in space. Whoa. This is a pretty big deal. Take a listen to this.

SPEAKER_05 32:09

This moment right here. StarCloud One operation confirmed, could represent the birth of an entirely new industry. Data centers in space.

SPEAKER_02 32:18

The problem is that data centers take up a ton of space and they need a huge amount of energy into star cloud.

SPEAKER_03 32:26

This is the beginning of a future where most new data centers are being built in space.

SPEAKER_05 32:31

They're starting small, but the goal is to build massive orbital data centers that will make computing more efficient and less of a burden on the limited resources down here on Earth.

SPEAKER_03 32:41

I can see why it seems like a long shot to some people. To me, though, the reason for doing this is that the potential impact is absolutely massive. So even if you think there's a small percentage chance of it working, then it's worth taking this kind of risk.

SPEAKER_05 33:02

Philip Johnston and his team at StarCloud recently made aerospace history when they launched a satellite into orbit carrying an NVIDIA H100 GPU.

SPEAKER_03 33:11

This is the first time anybody's tried to launch data center-grade terrestrial Earth-based GPUs into space. It's gonna be the first of many.

SPEAKER_05 33:19

While it's essentially a prototype, it's still a hundred times more powerful than any computer that's ever operated in the vacuum of space. To find out how they went from an idea to launching a demo satellite in less than two years, we visited StarCloud's HQ and Redmond, Washington. Tell us about what StarCloud is working on.

SPEAKER_03 33:39

We are building data centers in space, initially to provide GPU compute to other satellites, and then later to compete on energy costs, even with terrestrial data centers.

SPEAKER_05 33:48

StarCloud's goal is to build the world's first orbital data centers, massive GPU clusters powered by constant solar energy to run AI compute at scale. Operating in a sun-synchronous orbit, they'll draw uninterrupted sunlight for energy, radiate heat into deep space, and run with zero fresh water and much lower carbon emissions than data centers down here on Earth. By taking the cloud off Earth, StarCloud can scale almost indefinitely, free from land, grid, and cooling limitations, and ultimately compete with the cost of the largest terrestrial data centers. Tell us more about how far along you are.

SPEAKER_03 34:26

We started about a year and a half ago. We've designed, built, and tested our first satellite, and that will be the first satellite that will have an H100 from NVIDIA on board. The purpose of this is really to prove that our thermal management and radiation shielding techniques allow us to operate the state of the art in space. We're gonna be running a whole bunch of demonstration workloads on that. We'll be the first to run Gemini from Google on there. We'll be the first to do fine-tuning of model and training a model in space.

SPEAKER_05 34:50

Why data centers in space? It seems like uh, you know, people are still struggling to get the compute that we need here, building them on Earth. Like, why is space going to be the next frontier for that?

SPEAKER_03 34:59

Yeah, so we see a world where almost all data centers, anything that doesn't require very low latency, is operating in space, surely because of the constraints we're facing on energy terrestrially. And so we're building with a vision to build extremely large That's pretty interesting.

SPEAKER_15 35:16

You know, I th I thought about this a long time ago. I was thinking about, oh, you know, it'd be really cool if we could have like a power station in space where you have like just huge solar nets, and you're just capturing all this radiation, and then you beam it down to Earth with microwaves, and everybody has free energy, and it'd be great. And I was thinking about that as I'm watching this, going, man, transferring just the data is way easier than transferring the energy. This is brilliant.

SPEAKER_14 35:44

Yeah, exactly. What I love about it is, you know, here's just a company, StarCloud, but they're gonna be doing processing in space. And one of the things they said in their press release was they're gonna compete with uh uh energy production on the on Earth. And how are they gonna store the value of that energy production? It's gonna be through Bitcoin. This is it's it's just one of those things. The more you get into it, the more you realize, you know, fix the money, fix the world. Right? The next thing we're gonna well, let me get to Carlitz here. Carlitz says, I'm not sure Trump signs the Clarity Act without the Save America Act. I hope he doesn't. No, I do want the Clarity Act. I hope he doesn't. We need the Save America Act more than anything else. Carlitz, I just can't get there that we're evolved chimps on a spinning ball of water, water hurling through space. What if we're a spinning ball of water hurling through space, but it was the Anunnaki who fused the chimps' DNA and added some of their own? I mean, there's there's a lot of places we could go with this, right, Carlitz? There's a lot of places we could go. Okay,

NATO Spending And The Inflation Loop

SPEAKER_14 36:42

speaking of spending an extreme massive amount of money, the general secretary of NATO, Mark Rute, is very happy with what the United States did with Iran. In fact, uh Rute says that Donald Trump is the leader of the free world and is doing what the leader of the free world should be doing.

SPEAKER_25 37:06

A few things I want to share with the media, with you being here at present. That's about your leadership. Uh, first of all, about uh Iran. Uh, I really want to make clear how important it is what you are doing on Iran. This is first of all, about the nuclear capability. Iran was basically getting its hands on its hands on. And it would have been a threat to the region, it would have been a threat to the whole world. This is a country which is exporting chaos, it is exporting terrorism. Um, and they were very near to getting the hands on a nuclear capability. As you've seen last week in Twister G7, all of the leaders in the G7 are low in effect that is nuclear capability has been degraded. This is extremely important, and I just want to make this clear because sometimes people think, why was this whole Iran thing going on? This is about security, about safety. This is the leader of the free world taking responsibility beyond the church of the United States for the rest of the world. And this is where you kiss. Um I know there have been debates about whether your allies in Europe were with you or not. I just want to say one thing, Mr.

SPEAKER_14 38:08

He says they out, you know, whether they were with you or not, and he says, They were. Oh, they're very happy because you're the leader of the free world. They're all wusses, is basically what he's saying. Okay. Now, he did come on to something, he did come on to another topic. And this again, right? Just emphasizing the fact that the money is a big part of the problem here. And money plays into all of this. We went into Iran and we spent an incredible amount of money, but also one of Trump's agenda items has been getting the other nations that are a part of NATO to spend money. When we talk about to spend their money, spend their money, right? Which is all backed by our money. So when we talk about defense spending, this is this is like one of the primary causes of inflation. The two main sources, the two biggest expense line items on our budget is what? Defense spending.

SPEAKER_15 38:59

I was gonna say it was gonna be interesting.

SPEAKER_14 39:01

Listen to this. No, that's the number one. We're just paying interest on all that shit. Yeah, but those are the reasons why we print money. Right. If you stay here, I go over to these boards here, because I want to show you what this president was able to achieve.

SPEAKER_25 39:16

And I start with this chart. This chart is about the Trump trillion. The Trump trillion shows you the increase Europeans and Canadians are paying into defence since you took office in 2017. Trump 45 plus Trump 47. A total of extra spent by the Europeans and the Canadians of 1.2 trillion. When you look at the effect of Trump 47, so the isolated effect of the extra defence spending in 2025 and 2026, you see almost 140 billion dollars extra spend nominal on defence by the Europeans and the Canadians. And also this year you will again see an increase by about 120 billion, which brings a total in two years of over 250 billion dollars. I can assure you that this is because of Russia, because of the threat. But I'm also absolutely convinced that you being President of the United States, being consistently pushing for something which since Eisenhower has not been achieved, which is the Europeans equalizing their defence spending with the United States, this is your efforts. Then when it comes to jobs, look here in total, 195,000 jobs being supported by investments. Investments from European companies into the United States, 83,000 jobs supported by that, 112,000 jobs created by the fact that Europeans are massively, about half of all their defense spending when it comes to defense industrial output is spent in the United States. 112,000 jobs. Last year they spent 54 billion dollars on the US defense industrial output. There is now a order catalog, order backlog of 300 billion. So 300 billion dollars of defense spending from Europeans buying this in the US over the next couple of years, which is already under order. Last year 54 billion, a total now ordered 300 billion, almost 200,000. These are real jobs, real people like you. And yesterday means you spoke in Pennsylvania, the people behind you.

SPEAKER_14 41:20

But let's hone in on the big top line number: a trillion dollars. Where did that trillion dollars come from? Well, according to Mr. NATO, it came from other countries. I know, and where did they get the money? They borrowed it from us. Uh we printed all that money. That is all printed money. This he is describing the process of inflation. We print the money, we buy the goods, the good some of that that money to buy the goods goes into the labor and the jobs. He's describing the entire economic cycle of fiat money, all based on what? Defense spending, bullets, missiles, tanks, planes, battleships, right? This game we play around the world that causes untold amounts of suffering and chaos and death, all to do what? To prop up the dollar. And what are you doing to prop up the dollar? Printing more dollars. It's an endless cycle. This cycle of war, whether we like it or not, because it plays into human nature, right? But the incentives of the fiat system is that you just have to outspend your competitor. And that's really what it boils down to. And Trump is serious about defense spending. He had some of the defense contractors into the White House recently.

SPEAKER_00 44:00

DOW official are in full compliance with all ethics laws and regulations. Any claims otherwise are false.

SPEAKER_14 44:06

So I'm past the point of caring where they spend the money at this point. And I'm more on this the point, they're spending a lot of money. And they're dead serious about these defense contractors spending more of it and making more missiles. Yeah, you're starting to feel like a mom.

SPEAKER_15 44:22

Put it back. We're not getting that. Put it back. Put it back.

SPEAKER_14 44:24

Put it back in the back on the shelf. Get that out of the cart. But yet we just keep spending and spending. In fact, we want to spend so much money on defense that we're shaking, that we're leaving defense contractors shaking because of how big our orders are.

SPEAKER_25 44:39

You have taken leadership. And last week you signed the Defense Procurement Act. You made it possible for companies to work together to be able, therefore, to ramp up their defense production. You have been very harsh with them a couple of weeks ago and had one of them opened in my office. Yeah, it was really harsh. I have one of them opened in my office. He was still family. And I statistic good. It is exactly what we need. Because we need this extra defense output. This is important for Europe. But I pointed all these jobs, of course, also many jobs being created in Europe and in Canada. But again, almost 200,000 here in the United States, supported by all these investments. So it is about defense industrial output. And this is also what the Ankara summit has to be about. The whole first day will be about defense industrial production because we can spend as much as we want. But we need the interceptors, the missiles, we need the tanks, we need the artificial intelligence, etc. etc. This is what you are doing.

SPEAKER_14 45:36

We can literally spend as much as we want.

SPEAKER_15 45:40

Have you ever seen Trump so quiet? I know. He's just sitting there like eating it up. He's like, man, this guy is great.

SPEAKER_14 45:47

Secretary General's like, look at all the money he's spending. This is great. And Trump's like, I like spending money. Guys, the printer is on. Don't doubt it, right? Even with the dollar dominance coming back into vogue, and even with Iran and Venezuela getting back on the dollar, and maybe Russia. Guys, it's a fiat system, right? It's designed to eventually fail. It's designed to change your time preference for spending because it's inflating away. So you're incentivized to spend it now.

SPEAKER_15 46:14

This kind of printing is the only way that we operate. I mean, it was not really ever going to happen a different way. What did you expect?

SPEAKER_14 46:22

It wasn't going to happen a different way. Now, yesterday, Trump went over to the White House and actually met with the senators.

Save America Act And Emergency Powers

SPEAKER_14 46:28

And as he was doing this, he put out this post because there was a housing bill that was passed and it was ready to be signed by the president. It's all done by the House, all done by the Senate. And Trump canceled it. He said today's housing news conference and signing is hereby canceled until such time as we pass the desperately needed Save America Act, which I consider to be a national emergency. Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump. That national emergency line is a big deal. If Trump declares a national emergency, guess what happens? He can suspend the Constitution and say we have to fix this. And he may very well use this tool. And the national emergencies, you know, over at 1776 Live, we had a great uh course on the Trading with the Enemies Act, and it empowers presidents when they create national emergencies to literally do whatever they want. They actually become kings, they become emperors, quite literally.

SPEAKER_15 47:20

I was just gonna say this is when everybody starts yelling kings, no kings.

SPEAKER_14 47:23

Yeah, exactly. Now, the interesting thing about this is there is a national emergency over banking. Banking, right? Over the banking crisis during the Great Depression. They declared a national emergency and they literally took over the financial system. They took it away from the free market. The people of the United States, we became commercial enemies of the country. So what do we think is happening now? And now they're printing away and they're forcing you to use their money. It's the same story, same story. But Donald Trump went over to the White House or over to the Capitol building to meet with the senators. This is from Real America's Voice.

SPEAKER_11 47:57

The commander-in-chief is literally just rolling out now in a motorcade that's probably it's got probably 30 cars in it with the beast, and he's heading for Capitol Hill for that luncheon with a group that's called the Senate Steering Committee. That is the conservative block of senators, roughly 25 conservative senators who get together, sort of like the Freedom Caucus or the Republican Study Committee on the House side. So the Senate majority leader, John Thone, was not involved in this invitation. It wasn't cleared with him. I doubt he's even going to attend. Rick Scott, the senator from Florida, who challenged Thone for leadership at the beginning of this session. Rick Scott invited the president. And so this is a very interesting dynamic because the conservatives on Capitol Hill have been pushing for the Save America Act. And the Republican leadership, along with Democrats and their media allies, have been trying to block the Save America Act. The bill passed the House. All they need is the Senate to approve it, and then we're off to the races. The president today was supposed to sign a major housing bill. He said, I will not sign the housing legislation until I get the Save America Act, Terrence.

SPEAKER_13 49:12

Some interesting storylines developing. Let me start here with Rick Scott of Florida inviting the president and not necessarily notifying uh leader Thune. Is this, do you see this as a first step of potentially pushing John Thune out?

SPEAKER_11 49:30

Well, it doesn't do anything to help him, that's for sure. That basically says, hey, you're unnoticed, kid. Uh the majority leader position is not in the constitution. He is not in the chain of succession. That's why the president pro tempore succeeds after the Speaker of the House, not the majority leader. He's in a party position. 27 senators could oust thune today at lunch. I don't know if it'll happen today, but I've never heard such talk and buzz about ousting a majority leader in the middle of a session in all my years of covering politics. You hear it all the time down and then in the House, but never like I'm hearing it now with John Thune.

SPEAKER_14 50:13

And I'm not comparing that much of them wanting to replace John Thune. I feel like it's just a lot of like uh bot buzz, if you will. But nonetheless, the fact that they're even talking about it is, you know, significant that he doesn't have quite an iron control over the Senate, which is no surprise because he can't get the Save America Act over the over the finish line. Trump responded to this directly. That, you know, they asked, Are you gonna veto the bill? And he said no. Here's the thing, and Donald Trump mentions this, is he's been in real estate forever. He's made billions of dollars in real estate. And he just says, real simply, you want to fix real estate, lower interest rates, right? Nothing else is really gonna matter. This this bill is just more regulations to allegedly make it easier for people to buy homes. We all know that it's probably not gonna do much of that at all. In fact, one of the things the bill doesn't do is close the door to illegal immigrants and people who are here illegally from buying houses. It actually kind of opens the door to them.

SPEAKER_15 51:06

Yeah, I've never seen a process improvement for a permit that made it cost less. Never seen it.

SPEAKER_14 51:11

No.

SPEAKER_09 51:11

So Trump Trump just calls it out. They're leaders because they want to cheat. Their policy is so bad, they're unelectable. About what? No, I'm sorry. Look, the housing bill is housing I I make billions of dollars without it. So I know housing better than anybody can make me anywhere. It's all about the interest rate. Lower the interest rates, you can have all the housing you want. You have to understand I don't want to ha I don't want to hurt people that own houses. These people, for the first time in their lives, they have valuable houses. They become rich. I don't want to hurt them either. What you want to do is what's good for everyone, get the interest rates down. We have this numskull that was the head of the Fed before. And he's a stupid person. And before him too late, because he was too late with the interest rates all the time. Um We need low interest rates. Low interest rates will solve everything.

SPEAKER_14 52:17

We'll solve that. And despite that, we're doing well with housing. And I completely agree with him. Low interest rates would fix it. And he ties it all back into the Save America Act. We have to get the Save America Act passed.

SPEAKER_12 52:30

Um, would you be arguing to a compromise measure that had provisions of the state of act into a reconciliation?

SPEAKER_09 52:35

Not really. No, the Save Act should be this compromise. It's voter ID, it's proof of citizenship. And it's also the mail-in ballots. We want mail-in ballots for the military if they're away. We want it for people that are ill or people that are in some form handicapped or have a hard time, or people even that are on vacation. I'm open to that. But mail-in ballots, you have to vote because uh we have a lot of rigged elections. And then we edited in men in women's sports as a no-no. There's no men in women's sports and no transgender mutilation of our children. These are 99% issues. And we have to do it. We have to protect. Look at what's going on in Los Angeles and California. The vote still hasn't been counted. What's it, two weeks now? It still hasn't been counted. And I don't know Spencer Pratt, but I watched him and he was doing really nicely. All of a sudden he's out. And I said he was going to be out because he was doing well. And then a week later, they started saying, oh, he's starting to lose paper. He's starting to lose. I said they just rig the election. And they were going to do that with Steve Hilton. He's a good man. And I asked the U.S. attorney to go look at their votes. And as soon as they did that, they announced that Steve Hilton would be a finalist. So now we have we have rigged elections. Now, in my case, I made it too big to rig. Remember the expression too big to rig? But we have rigged, and we have to have voter ID. And we don't have voter ID and proof of citizenship. But basically, it's the Save America Act.

SPEAKER_14 54:14

He talks with such intensity around this topic. If he declares it a national emergency, it really does give him all the power to fix this however he needs to fix it. I mean, he can bypass the Senate and the House in two seconds. It puts the burden on them to overcome, you know, not only the 60-vote threshold to cancel the emergency, but they also have to then get over a presidential veto, which probably wouldn't happen. It might be the only way he gets it done. Tommy Toomerville got onto Fox News yesterday because in that little meeting with the senators, there were some fireworks that happened.

SPEAKER_23 54:48

Save America Act is the number one thing the people want. They want fair elections. We just saw the nonsense in California, and we're seeing the nonsense of the of these uh communists taking over our country. And they're not socialists, they are communists. And so President Trump was exactly right. I'm proud of what he did today. He spoke up, he called people out. Uh they had a very good conversation back and forth. But people need to be called out. If you're not going to vote for this country, my God, folks, we are in trouble. And uh President Trump needs help, and we're not giving him 100% help that he needs.

SPEAKER_20 55:20

So you said you talked about the number of ways that you could pass the Save Act. Can you elaborate on that? Is there any um movement that would sort of take some pieces out of it that might get the thrust of voter ID across the finish line, Senator?

SPEAKER_23 55:35

Yeah, but that that's an that's a that's a no-go. He's not going to take anything out of the Save America Act. Uh what's in there needs to stay. We just talked about the avenues of the talking filibuster or voting, uh voting out the regular filibuster and and voting it in. Because this is, and President Trump's right here. Um, you know, again, I travel a country. If if we don't do something with the filibuster and we don't get things passed, it'll be the last time we'll have a Republican president or Republican Senate or a House. That's how fast this country is going down to communism. And we need to stop it. We can stop it. It's it's balls in our court. President Trump said that. Balls in your court. You know, I'm here to support you. Uh let me know if there's anything I can do, but this is what we have to do to save the United States of America from communism. He's exactly right.

SPEAKER_14 56:26

So I think that's the scary thing, is the contrast is being drawn that this is a battle over communism in our own country. So going all the way back to the beginning of the show where Donald Trump talks about taking back our sovereignty. Who's sovereignty? The people's sovereignty. How? By controlling who governs us. And that's the theme of the Trump administration. And he's sticking to it. 17 months in, he's just tabled a housing bill, which should pass. I mean, it passed the House, passed the Senate. Usually the president signs these things right away. And he's saying, no, you're not gonna get this legislative success.

SPEAKER_15 57:00

This wants focus, focus people.

SPEAKER_14 57:02

Yeah, let's get the Save America Act fixed, and we can have Republicans in office forever. Otherwise, you're going to lose to these communists. They cheat. You can't win in a game where the winner is who cheats the most because no one will hold each other accountable. All right, guys, we're gonna jump over to private and we are gonna cover the fireworks.

Senate Infighting Cassidy Vs Trump

SPEAKER_14 57:20

There are two senators who just recently lost their incumbency, right, and are going to be leaving the Senate at the end of the year. Okay. Both had fireworks with the president. So we're gonna be going over Cassidy and Cornyn and how they had it out with the president in this private meeting. So join us in private. We'll be recapping that. Don't forget to join us over at 1776live.us and may as well take a visit to leftbehindwithout.org while you're at it. All right, guys, we'll see you in private in just a few seconds. Audio listeners, you'll just stick with us. Bye-bye. Shut down YouTube and X. All right, it's just you, my rumble friends. Okay, so first thing we're gonna hear from is Senator Cassidy talking about his meeting.

SPEAKER_06 58:02

President, good morning. Did you hear my question? Interrupted me. I didn't care to be interrupted, and I'm not gonna be bullied when I'm trying to get answers from the American people. And so uh so escalated from there.

SPEAKER_14 58:15

So Senator Cassidy's like, I asked my question and he answered back and it got loud, and then he started to bully me around. Remember, this is the senator who just lost, came in third in a Republican primary in Louisiana. CNN reported on this with Senator Cassidy and Donald Trump. So, Lauren, take us behind closed doors. What happened inside that room?

SPEAKER_22 58:37

Yeah, I mean, what we have heard from sources that were in that room, and Senator Bill Cassidy himself is that this was an exchange that really escalated with the president. Bill Cassidy telling our colleague Morgan Rimmer just a few moments ago that he lost his temper. Essentially, the president was asking why these four Republican senators would vote for this war powers vote last night. And at that point, Cassidy told our colleague Morgan Rimmer that he asked the president, is that a rhetorical question, or do you want to actually know the answer? The president invited him to share why he voted the way that he did. And essentially, Cassidy berated the president for what has transpired in Iran, for not being clear with Congress about his actions in the region, and essentially arguing that until he got a more fulsome briefing of what was transpiring, he was going to continue voting the way that he was voting. Cassidy said that the president was raising his voice, and in response, he continued to raise his. He said he lost his temper, that he's not necessarily proud of that fact, but he joked it was the Irish in him. I mean, obviously, this was an extremely tense exchange. A lot of Republican senators coming out of that meeting noted that it had taken place. Some of them, Senator Tommy Taverville, tried to downplay it to me, arguing that it was a really cordial exchange, that they were just having a difference of opinion.

SPEAKER_15 1:00:01

Well, if he was Irish, he probably was cordial.

SPEAKER_14 1:00:04

I have a feeling Senator Cassidy was taking out some of his latent frustration for just losing his uh primary there. This is Senator Cassidy on the phone telling the same story.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:15

You have not told the American people what's going on. Our original objectives have not been achieved. And I want to know what's going on. He did not particularly care for my comments. Raised his voice. I lost my temper. That's not appropriate. It's the Irish me. But I again matched his tone and his volume. Oh, back and forth.

SPEAKER_14 1:00:45

I love that. I lost my temper. Oh, so he is a he's alleging that we haven't achieved any of the outcomes we wanted to achieve in Iran. Really? I don't know. What were the outcomes we were trying to achieve? Who's stinking knows, right? So Corny put this out yesterday. He said, There is not a single instance in the history of the United States Senate where a talking filibuster has resulted in a favorable outcome for the proponent. Furthermore, there are some very important priorities we should should that we would be precluded from considering. So here's this little thing that John Cornyn put out that he gave to all the senators. He said save act talking filibuster issues. So bullet point number one, two speech rule resets and applies to every debatable action in the Senate, including procedure, amendments, and underlying bill. Democrats can point number two, Democrats can voice unlimited tough votes on any subject that divides us at any time on any issue for months and months. Point number three, Republicans must maintain quorum at all times, including nights and weekends, or Democrats can seize control of the floor. Point number four, it becomes impossible for members in cycle to go to their states because we cannot go out of session or control the timing of key or hard votes. Point number five. Democrats can drag the process out so late in the year that the Save Act cannot be implemented before the election. Point number six. Mail ballot restrictions Trump wants do not have the votes even at 57. At the end of the process, we may not even have the votes for the bill because of amendments, changed views, process files, etc., and the opportunity costs. Last but not least, are district and circuit judges and other nominations, reconciliation and appropriations, DOD supplemental and N DAA, college sports slash N I L bill, and the Highway Bill and the Farm Bill would all be opportunity costs to the Save America Act. Now the challenge with this is yeah, that might be an opportunity cost, but what's the point of any of these things if we don't control our country? Now remember, John Corny is one of these guys who didn't really want to get on the record with the Save Act and oh, I support it and I would vote for it, but we just don't have the votes. Then why would you put out this these talking points talking about how the Save America Act can't be passed? It doesn't sound like someone who's trying to make it work. He's trying to sound like someone who's coming up with excuses as to why it won't, right? And so John Corman was caught in the hallway, and this is what he had to say.

SPEAKER_20 1:03:15

How did you feel being with the president after he campaigned against you?

SPEAKER_26 1:03:20

Well, I think the officers surely feeling you went in there.

SPEAKER_14 1:03:44

He talked about things that are not exactly unifying. Unifying for who? Unifying for the American people or unifying for the Uniparty. That's what you really have to ask.

ICE Surge And The Money Angle

SPEAKER_14 1:03:56

See unifying for you. Who? Tom Holman got to do a little press conference yesterday. This is leaving the topic of the Save America Act, but it is also a critical topic. So as you know, uh DHS and ICE have been underfunded, right? We went through a long, we've gone through two government shutdowns over ICE funding, finally got the funding passed, they finally got things going. But the Border Patrol has been in the process over the last year of hiring 10,000 new employees. Well, their time has arrived. They are about to start hitting the streets. So Tom Holman said, if you think the portions have been bad up till now, just wait. They're coming in droves.

SPEAKER_04 1:04:33

So if the DHS is now saying that deportation flights are on the rank or high since the came in registration, I do numbers now. Now with the replenished resources at the DHS, how do we expect the numbers to trend for the rest of the 10,000 ways to five?

SPEAKER_18 1:05:01

We got a lot of work to do. So with additional resources, additional money from big two bills, the rest of the package, you're going to see a lot more rest activity watching.

SPEAKER_14 1:05:11

I like to hear that. A lot more rest activity activity. Again, a lot of our problems, they mainly center around money. Even the illegal immigration topic has to do with monies, people coming into the country to mop up the liquidity. Otherwise, all those dollars that the illegal immigrants are putting in their pocket from their day labor jobs end up in your pocket. And that means you you've got more dollars chasing around the same dozen eggs. And that causes kind of a uh uh demand inflation or a supply of money inflation problem. So that has been one of the reasons why we've opened the door. Donald Trump takes a different tact, he just opens the door to Venezuela and floods them with dollars on their streets. Okay, that's probably not the worst way to do it, but nonetheless, this is a good thing. Housing, all these other things, they're tied to illegal immigration. So I appreciate you guys sticking around with us to the bitter end today. I really

Closing Notes And Peasant Wisdom

SPEAKER_14 1:05:57

appreciate it. Good show. Tomorrow, my daughter's Getting married. I'm uncertain if we're gonna have a show tomorrow or not. Don't do it. Don't do it. Hours though. I took those days off to drive across the country. Now we don't have the hours. We're up against the wall. We'll see. We're either here or we're not. If we're not here, go back to bed, folks. We're just we'll be here.

SPEAKER_15 1:06:17

Maybe we should do it just to you know so your constitution stays firm.

SPEAKER_14 1:06:20

Yeah, maybe I want to get the hours out. And I need the chatters. I need the chatters. So if you're gonna be around tomorrow morning, all right. We'll see you tomorrow. We'll see you. We'll see you. We'll talk to you later. Bye.

SPEAKER_19 1:06:58

Man, ma'am. What night lives in that castle over there? I'm 37. What? 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 he 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. How'd you do? How do you do, good lady? I am Arthur King of the Britons. Whose castle is that? King of the Who? The Britons. Who are the Britons? But we all are. We are all Britons. And I am your king. No, 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. How dare you go? Bringing class into it again. That's what it's all about. If only people would leave these good people. I am in haste. Who lives in that castle? No one lives there. Then who is your lord? We don't have a lord. What? I told you. We're in an anarcho-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 quiet. I order you to be quiet. Or who does he think he is? I'm your king. Well, I didn't vote for you. You don't vote for kings. Well, how to 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?