From Seattle Violence To Election Reform Bills

One weekend tells you a lot about a country. We go from the spectacle of the White House Correspondents Dinner to something far darker and more local: Seattle chaos around the Space Needle, including illegal stunts and a deadly festival shootout that leaves bystanders hurt, even a child. We ask the blunt question people actually feel in their gut when headlines stack up like that: what happens when “the little rules” stop getting enforced and leaders look more interested in optics than outcomes?

Then we pivot to election integrity and why the argument keeps changing. When evidence of non-citizen registration and voting lands in public view, the messaging shifts from “it never happens” to “it happens but it doesn’t matter.” We break down the SAVE Act push, the Senate timeline, and the simple standard a lot of Americans want: prove you are who you say you are, and stop turning elections into a month-long fog. We also dig into declassified reporting on China cyber activity targeting U.S. political campaigns, because election security is not just politics, it is national security.

From there, we connect the economy to the future: veterans getting fast-tracked into CDL jobs, supply chain bottlenecks, and Elon Musk’s prediction that AI and robotics will drive abundance and deflation. We push back on the idea that incentives disappear, and we explain why Bitcoin and the Clarity Act debate matter if you care about honest money, regulation, and preventing crypto pump-and-dump scams from poisoning the well. If you got value from this, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more peasants can find the conversation.

Transcript

Peasants Perspective Kickoff

SPEAKER_29 0:30

It's the little guys, the little guys that take the blood of everything. It's gotta stop. 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.

SPEAKER_04 0:59

Good morning, peasants.

SPEAKER_29 1:01

Welcome to another episode of the Peasants Perspective. Hopefully you guys can all hear me. Can I get a sound check in the chat when somebody is able to do that? I uh can't be a hundred percent positive that you can hear me okay. Because I don't have sound feedback, right? It's uh it's a little different. I'm in my home studio this morning, enjoying a cup of coffee in a mug instead of a to-go class. That's kind of fun. Ron may or may not join us here tonight. Hopefully he gets a chance to, but you know, it is what it is. Sometimes when you're on the road, it's hard to get things working with all the technical difficulties and whatnot. It is a little different for me this morning. I feel a little out of routine because I didn't drive into work. I didn't drive into the office, I didn't drive in to see Ron. I I I had one of the best commutes ever today. I had the one-minute commute down the stairs, so that's pretty nice. Okay, I still feel like something isn't quite going right here. Looks like we're connected everywhere. Looks like we're doing okay. Looks like we're doing okay. We just haven't had anybody pop in the chats yet, which happens sometimes. It happens sometimes when we change things up just a little bit. I wish Ron could pop in. All right. Okay, well, we'll go ahead and get started with the simultaneous sip because I know that's why you guys try to show up bright and early in the morning. It's for the simultaneous sip. Tomaste says, I'm here, I'm here, I can hear you. Thank you, Tomaste. Good, I'm glad we got it. I've decided that I am going to be shaving my beard. Not shaving it, but trimming it down to, you know, five o'clock shadowy. And uh so I've been like playing with it because I've got a hair thing. I like to play with my hair. All right, I know why you're here for the simultaneous sip, and all you need for that is a cup or a mug or a glass, a tank or a chalice dine, a canteen, jug, or flask, a vessel of any kind. Fill it with your favorite liquid. I like coffee, and join me now for the unparalleled pleasure of the dopamine hit of the day, the thing that makes everything better, the simultaneous sip, and it starts right now. That's kind of a rendition of the opening of Rick and Morty. By the way, for anybody who wonders, that's a Rick and Morty opening. Whitehouse.gov posted that this week. I actually think Donald Trump has always had a really good uh team when it comes to memes and videos. I mean, he's obviously got Dan Scavino, and he's had obviously tons of other team members that have been helping him along the years. Let's see what we got here. Pony Boy, good morning. Glad you made it for Razor. Great hot morning in Florida. Well, I'm still wearing a hoodie here. It was raining yesterday here in the Seattle area. My wife keeps doing the whole thing, oh, I love the weather, it's great. And I'm just like, I'm so done with it, man. I'm so totally done with it.

Trump Roast And TDS Crowd

SPEAKER_29 4:20

All right. Last week, Donald Trump on, I think it was Friday night, Friday night, they had the White House Correspondence Center. Now, I gotta tell you, at least at this White House Correspondence Center, we didn't have the drama of a shooting and attempted assassination. So that was a big, big plus that we didn't have that. But the one thing we did have at this was we had a collection of the most infected with TDS people you probably have in the whole country. And because of that, this was the worst audience I have ever seen for Donald Trump. I I watched most of Trump's speech. Okay. I there was a couple minutes where I was like, I'm done. The audience was not clapping or laughing at almost anything Trump said, and some of it was pretty hilarious, right? But you could almost tell they were they were going out of their way to try to not laugh at his jokes. Well, Donald Trump, in a masterful session, masterful way, had a joke that was so cutting and so exposing of the kind of leftist lie about transgender stuff. He made fun of Caitlin Collins from CNN and compared her to Dylan Mulvaney. This is freaking hilarious. So here he is at the dinner.

SPEAKER_17 5:48

She shouldn't get the award. It was a fake, but I didn't mind. I said, Caitlin, congratulations. But it was fake, there's no question about it. But she's a young, attractive woman. She never smiles. I said, Caitlin, do you ever smile? Smile. You have a nice position, you're at CNN fake news, you should be a happy person. So smile, Caitlin, just smile. But uh, we attack, and I thought Caitlin had really made it big with a major new sponsorship, but then I informed her that it wasn't her on the Bud Light can, it was Dylan Mulvaney. And Dylan learned a lesson, but I want to personally congratulate Dylan Mulvaney.

SPEAKER_29 6:32

So some of you might remember who Dylan Mulvaney is, right? This is Dylan Mulvaney right here. This is uh she was on the Bud Light, he, she, whatever, right, was on the Bud Light commercials and is transgender. So there's Caitlin Collins. There's Dylan Mulvaney. So CNN during the live, during the live uh tweeting, you know, they've got the they're broadcasting and then they've got live tweets. They were defending Caitlin Collins, doesn't look anything like Dylan Mulvaney. The problem is, it's not that they don't look alike, it's that Dylan Mulvaney is a man. That's the problem. But they can't acknowledge that she's a man and that that's why the joke is offensive, because she's a woman and she's allegedly a pretty woman, so why would it be a problem if you look like a pretty woman? So this this really like the commentary around this has been really quite hilarious. Uh, you know, you've got things like this meme here. Let me share, share with you guys. We'll just go down in the in the chats here because they're kind of funny. The comments, Dylan Mulvaney is a beautiful woman. Comparing Caitlin Collins to Dylan Mulvaney is insulting, and it's the legacy media. Oh, you guys aren't seeing it. Let me add it back here to the stage. Right? There's the legacy media. Go down. Uh the memes. Trump always points out their stupidity, like when he asked Congress to stand up if they believed U.S. citizens were the first priority before illegals, and all Democrats remained seated. Yeah. Domaste says, oof, trapped. Exactly. Intention matters. The intention was to insult her. Even accepting the main idea that trans men are in fact men, calling a man a woman is not an insult per se. It is it is the falsity and the intent behind the comment that is objectionable. Oh, you've always got people that are coming to, you know, whoever he defends uh aid. It ain't no woman, it's a man. Anyways, the the comments are pretty hilarious. The the fact of the matter is the left is just crazy. So a joke like that, it doesn't even have to be funny. It's just exposing, right? It's one of those exposing. The rest of the the rest of the correspondence dinner, uh, for me, kind of take it or leave it. You know, he doesn't like Adam Shift, he's got a fat head, blah blah blah, bunch of stuff like

Hawaii Lieutenant Governor Indictment

SPEAKER_29 8:44

that. There was something else that happened yesterday that is pretty interesting. So we've got this uh lieutenant general in Hawaii that was arrested over the weekend or was indicted. I don't know if arrested is the right word, but that was indicted. Got a new share screen. I don't have Ron here. He's my cheat code, he always does the sharing. Ron Cleaver did say good morning, and Carlitz, good morning, y'all. Glad you made it. And Carlito Tiffany, hello from YouTube, glad you made it. All right, so Brenda Morello reports indicted Hawaii Lieutenant Governor. Uh, I gotta add it to the stage. All right, there we go. Hawaii Lieutenant Governor was indicted Friday on bribery-related charges after a month-long state investigation into a campaign finance scandal. She's accused of accepting campaign donations, contributions, excuse me, in 2022 while serving as a state lawmaker in exchange for securing funding for COVID-19 testing sites. And a grand jury returned a 12-count indictment that includes criminal conspiracy to commit bribery and falsifying candidate committee reports, amongst other charges. So this is the lieutenant governor in Hawaii has been indicted. That's pretty interesting for in exchange for getting a COVID-19 testing site. Uh Pray the Rosary says it's Monday again. Oh my goodness, today, and it's the 27th, which means this is the last week of the month of July, which means next month's August, which means we're in the last pretty much quarter of the year at that point. This year is flying by. Last year is flying by. One of the things that keeps kind of like last night, it shouldn't be a shock, right?

Prison Memories And Time Passing

SPEAKER_29 10:26

Every now and then the topic of prison comes up. And last night I was like, you know, prison is like it's becoming far enough away that some of like it's becoming far enough away that some of my walls about talking about it and feeling things about it have come down. And last night I was having one of those nights where I was remembering all the things that I've refused to remember. Like the, you know what I mean? Anyways. But it's I've been home longer than I was in. So it makes sense that some of that stuff is finally starting to like work its way through, I guess you could say. All right, and an interesting thing that happened in Seattle yesterday, we had a weekend of bedlam.

Space Needle Stunts And Shootout

SPEAKER_29 11:06

So one of the things that was going on over in Seattle proper itself, the city itself, right in one of its most iconic spaces, the Space Needle over the weekend, had some base jumpers that went and did some um base jumping off of Seattle. So let me show you the clips of this. This is actually, in my opinion, pretty stunning. Having been here to the Space Needle and seen how they may have done this, it's pretty crazy. So these guys snuck up into the music with it. So they jump, they jump up into the Space Needle, they climb up over the windows, and they took off jumping. Look at this. So as you can imagine, this isn't exactly the most legal behavior for the Space Needle, right? This isn't like, oh hey, let's go to the Space Needle and just casually jump off. Not really a thing, right? So apparently the base jump happened, as you can see there, and the police were on a hunt looking for the jumpers, right? Trying to figure out who they are. In addition to that, over the weekend, last night there was a mass shooting at the Space Needle. They call this place Seattle Center, and there is a a uh, you know, touristy stuff around the Space Needle. That's what's going on down there. A lot of touristy stuff. And while down at the while at the Space Needle, there was a shooting last night. So I think confirmed reports are three people were killed, four were injured after the gunfire. And uh preliminary reports right now show this was essentially a shootout between two people, and then all the victims are bystanders. So it wasn't a you know, go into a crowd and shoot up the crowd situation. This was a conflict between two people that happened inside of a large crowd. And uh, so it's very, very sad. So when it happened last night, obviously there's a lot of images coming off of X. I've got plenty of images of some of the chaos and people running around, and there's even images of one of the uh people that was shot that's being given care that's on the side of the it's just disturbing images. It's not something we want to watch. Well, there was a they were having a press conference last night. So they were working on getting a press conference going, and of course, getting all the people that needed to be a part of that there caused a huge delay. So one of the things that the police said was that uh they were going to wait for dignitaries, which is really crazy. So let's do this, let's start out with uh Fox News breaking news, and then we're gonna go to some of the clips from the press conference, and they did, they brought some dignitaries in. Apparently, this is a good moment for some stage time, I guess. All right, here's the breaking news.

SPEAKER_10 13:50

They are meanwhile, the Department of Justice in DC taking new steps to protect religious freedom and parental rights, now releasing new guidance and rules across the federal government.

SPEAKER_04 14:02

So Alex Hogan is live totally the wrong clip.

SPEAKER_09 14:28

If we're shooting at a festival in Seattle.

SPEAKER_29 14:31

Okay, sorry guys, you didn't even get to hear my commentary about that was the wrong video. Here's the right video. This is a new Rumble Studio thing. I was getting stuff played. I just hadn't shared it to the live. So, all right, I got it all figured out now. So here's the report from Seattle.

SPEAKER_09 14:55

So we find we start with an alert. At least three people have been killed and four others hurt after a shooting at a festival in Seattle.

SPEAKER_21 15:03

Thousands of people had gathered there for the annual Bite of Seattle, just a food festival, near the Space Needle when gunshots shots started ringing out, sending that massive crowd running for cover.

SPEAKER_10 15:13

Seattle cops say that a quote, a young person is now in custody, but they believe two shooters were firing at each other, and now a manhunt is underway for the second shooter.

SPEAKER_24 15:25

Gunshots were heard. We had officers in the area, in the immediate area, when these gunshots went off. Officers responded and addressed one of the shooters. Uh, that person gave up and was taken into custody. There was another person that we believe that was also involved that fled the scene, and officers began an active search for that person.

SPEAKER_09 15:50

So two of the victims were declared dead at the scene, while a third succumbed to their injuries in the hospital. Officials say the other four victims all suffered gunshot wounds with ages ranging from as young as two years old to 39.

SPEAKER_21 16:05

Meanwhile, state leaders say that they are doing everything in their power to assist with this investigation and that federal authorities are now involved.

SPEAKER_03 16:22

The FBI has been in touch, obviously, and we are coordinating across all different levels of government. We're going to continue to work with the mayor, with the governor to make sure we get whatever federal resources we need here on the ground.

SPEAKER_10 16:35

Meanwhile, police are asking the public to reach out with any possible information to help their investigation.

SPEAKER_29 16:42

So that's pretty sad. I mean, obviously, any any shooting is going to be sad news. It's kind of interesting. In one weekend, you had base jumpers off of the space needle, and then you have this shooting that happens. And it it's kind of like, what's going on? I mean, that that's just real simple. What's going on? What's going on is you're having a breakdown in law and law and order in one of our biggest cities, right? You've got people who are more than willing to carry firearms. Now keep in mind, Seattle's got some pretty stringent firearm rules. Okay. It's not as much as, say, places in New Jersey, but it's fairly stringent. Um, City of Seattle does. So you know, you shouldn't just be walking into these big crowds with AR-15s, which is my understanding. One of these guns was either an AR-15 or an AK-47. But also just the fact that there's lack of law and order, that people think they can do that. It ranges the spectrum. People who think they can get away with jumping off the space needle, which, you know, maybe I support that kind of free-loving Americana, break some rules, have some fun, put your life at risk, but nobody else kind of situation. Right, yeah, maybe we have a certain tolerance for that kind of breakdown of law and order, but it leads to the other half, right? Is it when you don't enforce the rules, the little rules, then the big rules don't get enforced. All the way to jumping off the space needle, all of a sudden they're like, oh my gosh, let's go look for these people. And now they're looking for shooters as well. Ron Cleaver says seems like a pretty large response for a simple shootout. So that was the interesting thing. The police chief, if you noticed in that, in that response there, um Kamala Jayapala, our representative to the U.S. Congress, was at this press conference in Seattle. Now that is her area, that's her district, but the fact that she was in town and made it to this press conference for a normal shootout, you know, and then we're getting federal assistance. It's a shootout. Here's the problem with it. Right? So this is um let's see here. So this is police chief. I gotta get all this stuff shared here. So this is the uh police chief in Seattle, and this is the second major response, major thing that has happened where the police chief has not been there. So this is Seattle Police Chief Shoon Barnes was missing in action after the shooting at the Space Needle tonight. He understandably stumbled when asked where he was and if he had a home in Seattle before he finally acknowledged that he would be back in town on Monday. This is the second time that he's been out of town during a major incident. According to the Associated Press, his family's primary residence is in the Chicago area. Barnes' wife and children remain in Illinois during his tenure as Madison, Wisconsin's police chief, where he rented an apartment in Madison. So the police chief from Madison, Wisconsin, his family currently lives in Illinois, is commuting to work in Seattle as the police chief. Yes, you understood that correctly. Again, this has become a political position rather than an actual law enforcement position. That's what's going on there. So Ari often, Ari Hoffman, in my opinion, gave a much better breakdown on what was going on than even Fox News does. So let's just take a look, he's obviously a local news radio host, has you know good connections on the ground. So let's take a listen to this summary here. Again, this is another thing, one of those things. If you live in Chicago, news of a shootout, not the biggest deal. If you live in, you know, Memphis, Tennessee the last couple of years, news of a shootout, not the biggest deal. But in Seattle, it is a big deal, you know, like whereas Chicago has 300, 400-ish homicides per year, Seattle has 10, 15, 20. That's it. So it's not that common. And especially to have these public shootouts like this, it's not that common. What's happening in Seattle over the last 12 to 24 months with the shootouts on Aurora Avenue, again, North Seattle. This is just north of where the Space Needle is. I mean, you know, 10, five minutes north, and you're in the Aurora Avenue area. And then you've got what's going on around the Space Needle. The whole city is just in utter disrepair right now.

SPEAKER_28 20:50

Well, I needed a place to recharge my cell phone, so I ran back to KVI and was able to get in my studio real fast. If you're just joining us, here's the update on what happened at Seattle Center today. Earlier today, there was a shooting at Bight of Seattle, which is a big music and food festival. It's an annual festival here in Seattle. As with most Seattle Center events, there were no metal detectors or meaningful security at any of the main entrances. There was security on the premises, but there was nothing to check anybody as they were coming in and out, no bags, as with most Seattle Center events. Three people are now confirmed dead. Four people are injured, including a two-year-old boy. One suspect is in custody. The police are searching for a second suspect, but they claim there is no threat to the public. Bob Ferguson, Pramilla Jayapol, Katie Wilson were all at this presser, which was delayed by over an hour. That's close to five hours before anybody issued an official notice for the presser, an official presser for the media, which is insane. And I wonder if that was because they were trying to get all the quote unquote dignitaries down there because they all wanted their time. In front of the camera. More on this as it develops, and we'll definitely have more for you tomorrow on the Ari Hoffman Show from 3 to 6 PM right here on Talk Radio 570K.

SPEAKER_29 22:10

So that news is probably going to dominate the local airwaves for the next couple days, which is totally acceptable. I mean, we've got to get to the bottom of that stuff. It's a big deal, no doubt about it. So okay, we got one other thing. Let's well, not one other thing. We got a couple more things we're going to talk about today. I'm missing my partner Ron. I think he's listening. He says these happen every day on Aurora, Aurora Avenue. That is a north and south running road in North Seattle and uh runs right into downtown Seattle, basically. But yeah, Aurora Avenue. It's crazy. I did a project over there right on Fourth Avenue, which is intersects with Aurora Avenue right next to the Lowe's. And uh I have never been I have never been anywhere in my life where I've seen so many open-air prostitutes at 10 a.m. on a Tuesday morning. Let's put it that way. On a Tuesday morning, I drive into the Lowe's parking lot to get lumber. And driving in the parking lot and driving out the parking lot, there was a gaggle of of uh of women on the sidewalks, you know, trying to solicit every guy in and every guy out. And uh it was pretty it's pretty interesting. Uh let's just say let's just say the the best people aren't out on Tuesday at a 10 a.m. Let's just put it that way. All right. So how do we flush that out? Yeah, missing Ron, man. I'm missing Ron. Some of this stuff I think would be really funny with you in studio. We giggled it, all kinds of stuff. All right, so this is another um uh Hakeem Jeffries.

Election Integrity And Senate Clock

SPEAKER_29 23:36

So let's shift focus and talk about the elections. We are definitely getting to a point now. We're coming up on the August recess in the Senate. And you've got the Clarity Act that needs to be passed, you've got the Save America Act that needs to be passed. The Democrats are preparing to do another government shutdown, so they're trying to do some type of funding/slash reconciliation bill, and they're trying to attach the Clarity Act to it. So there's a lot of stuff that's got to happen here and then the next week, week and a half before they break for the August recess. There's starting to be a little bit of momentum on the Republican side of the Senate caucus to the Senate conference to delay the August recess in order to get some of these bills passed. So Hakeem Jeffries was on CNN. Now, remember last week, everything kind of changed from Trump's press conference where he presented evidence of election fraud or released it right after the press conference. Then there started to be the media had to now swallow and digest this. So in the day after, it was more lies. We didn't broadcast it, you know, we got to fact-check this. Then it was okay, there was a little bit of admission, you know, admission, maybe there was a little bit of China meddling. And then we have the release from New Jersey, where we now know there's 6,600 illegals on the voter registration and on the voter rolls. We found out that they called 75,000 illegals to jury duty. At least 400 illegals voted. So we're starting to kind of the dam is cracking. They can no longer say there's no evidence. Now they have to say there is evidence, and what are you gonna do about it? So Hakeem Jeffries was on CNN and Dana Bash, who's one of these, in my opinion, kind of, you know, deep state plotters, asked him, hey, now that we know for a fact there was voter fraud, what are you gonna do about it?

SPEAKER_25 25:13

Your next door neighbor, New Jersey, just disclosed that six uh 6,600 non-citizens were mistakenly registered to vote there from 2023 to 2024. 400 of them actually voted in elections since then. It is a small number compared to the 7 million voters in New Jersey, and there's no evidence that that swayed any election. But this is one of the most significant disclosures of non-citizen registration. Democrats have repeatedly said that non-citizen voting doesn't happen. It happened. Is this a problem?

SPEAKER_00 25:50

I think that I continue to have confidence in state and local authorities in making sure that there's going to be a free and fair election in November. And if modest or minor challenges emerge, such as the one that was disclosed voluntarily by the authorities in New Jersey, that it is immediately corrected. And that's what I expect will continue to happen. Unfortunately, what we've seen from Donald Trump is that in this particular case, Republicans have adopted voter suppression as an electoral strategy because they have failed to actually deliver on making life more affordable for the American people. It was Donald Trump who promised to lower costs on day one. But we know that costs haven't gone down in this country, costs have gone up. It was Donald Trump, I believe, who said that he was elected not to start wars, endless wars in the Middle East, but to stop them, and then turned around and has gotten us involved in this reckless war of choice in Iran that has skyrocketed gas prices on the American people. By the way, it was Donald Trump who said they were gonna love and cherish Medicaid, and then Republicans enacted the largest cut to Medicaid in American history, ripping health care away from more than 14 million Americans. They have nothing to run on. We're gonna run on fighting for an affordable America.

SPEAKER_29 27:13

So total act of deflection there, right? Obviously, get asked about the election. He goes into, well, Donald Trump's not keeping us campaign promises, blah, blah, blah. But notice how she said Democrats have long said that there was no evidence of illegals voting, but that's not true. That sentence right there, right, is a significant crack in their armor. Anybody who's like deflecting on wanting to get to the bottom of the voter fraud clearly has some motive to keep things in their status quo, of which more and more of the zeitgeist, 65% of Americans, think there's something wrong with the electoral system. It's a big, big deal. John Attackis says, Don't look at the issue, look over here there instead. Exactly, right? Exactly. Ron Cleaver, why don't the Dems ever just deflect and say it is the other party's fault and benefit uh and benefits? Instead, they have to, they have been clinging to it's not happening. Yeah, exactly. Don't believe your lying eyes. Don't believe your lying eyes. So Ted Kennedy, not Ted Kennedy, Ted Kennedy's dead.

Senator Kennedy On The SAVE Act

SPEAKER_29 28:13

Not Ted Kennedy. Uh Senator John Kennedy was on Face the Nation, and there's two clips from this Face the Nation that we want to watch together. John Kennedy did a really good job on here. He's getting asked about the Save America Act, and he's being asked by Margaret Brennan about John Thune and kind of the process. So let's listen to these two clips because I think he gives us some good insights as to where we're actually sitting in the Senate on getting this thing done. And the answer is it's stalled. Maybe take a few extra days.

SPEAKER_18 28:41

Look, I mean no disrespect. I love John Thune. Uh he's my leader, he's got a big brain, he's uh uh he's better looking than me. Uh, but I think he's just being too cautious. He wants to spend the rest of our time talking with Senator Schumer about shutting down government. And the grand platinum wing of the party is his party is not gonna let Schumer agree with us. They already want to give Schumer a bathrobe, a popsicle, and an early bedtime and have him retire. I don't think Chuck can agree with us. I just I think he's gonna shut down government.

SPEAKER_19 29:18

I want to go back. You just said you wanted to move forward on what the House just started the process on. That would be a party line. That would be a party line vote. That would be Republicans jamming this thing through. And the SAVE Act, as you know, or even some version of it, is highly partisan, highly controversial. Bigger picture. Isn't it going to hurt faith in our election process if a Republican-only policy to change how elections are run is rammed through a hundred days? Okay.

SPEAKER_29 29:50

So she ends with that question. Isn't it going to hurt our belief in elections if it's a Republican-only led election reform bill that gets rammed through Congress at the quote last second, right? Or close to last second. Uh he has a good response to that. He has a good response to that. So she's going to repeat the question here, and then uh she's gonna he's gonna answer that question. Obviously, we have an opinion, like fix the elections, right? Let them get fixed and let the rest of the world like get on board with it. But let's listen to this.

SPEAKER_19 30:21

The SAVE Act, as you know, or even some version of it, is highly partisan, highly controversial. Bigger picture. Isn't it going to hurt faith in our election process if a Republican-only policy to change how elections are run is rammed through a hundred days, you know, less than a hundred days out from the election?

SPEAKER_18 30:44

No. In my opinion, for both sides to have credibility in the elections, in our elections, we need to do two things and only two things. Number one, you have to prove you are you who you say you are in order to register to vote and to vote. And number two, however you decide to vote, that's up to the states. We need to go back to having an election day, not an election month. We've got to know the results of election that night or shortly thereafter if it's close. That to me is what the SAVE Act is all about. And I think we can pass it. And I think we can craft it in a way to survive a birdbath. Uh grants, in other words.

SPEAKER_19 31:26

But we're not going to know if we don't try. Grants, in other words, to states to incentivize, not requirements for states to take action.

SPEAKER_18 31:32

Yeah, but this is not the only thing. I've I've I've been contacted by some really smart people about a way to do it in addition to the grants. I'm not saying it'll work, but you're not going to know unless you try.

SPEAKER_29 31:45

All right. So sounds like they're going to make an effort at trying to get it passed. And it really boils down to what Kennedy said. And he has been really hesitant to criticize John Thune. He's John Thune's not doing enough. He wants to sit and play patty cake with the with the Democrats, with Chuck Schumer specifically. So DI Poulte, right, for the next week or so until they make an official vote on Jay Clayton.

Declassified China Cyber Targeting

SPEAKER_29 32:10

D and I Poulte is the director of national intelligence. So on his Twitter page, he posted this uh the week this weekend. So let's take a look at this together. Right here, this is declassified by Council of the President Warrington on July 10th, 2026. So the topic here is China. Cyber activities probably prelude to election espionage. China is probing the presidential campaign for opportunities to tailor collection and gather insight on policy positions on U.S. China issues. So it goes on to explain that in 2018, cyber Chinese actors known in the private sector as APT31 have targeted the personal email accounts of senior U.S. leadership, including officials in the executive office of the president and high-ranking officials in multiple executive branch organizations, Congress, and the federal judiciary. So the CIA knew that China was spying on everybody. In 2017, a separate blank has worked with the blank to enable more stealthy operations by identifying email addresses of high-level U.S. officials, then requesting that blank obtain it or crack the passwords for targeted accounts. As the 2020 election approaches, the IC has detected Chinese state-sponsored cyber actors targeting the former vice president's presidential campaign. This is Hillary Clinton's campaign. Probably to gather, or uh no, the former vice president. That would be Joe Biden's. Probably to gather intelligence that could enable future operations. The first instance, this election cycle, that we have seen them directly targeting a U.S. presidential campaign. China has also conducted cyber espionage against other U.S. election-related entities. The ICSS is that China does not currently intend to covertly interfere. So they're saying they didn't want to interfere to try to sway the outcome of the election, although this activity could enable such operations. If Beijing made the decision to do so, as of April 20th, APT31 actors had sent spearfishing emails containing tracking links to the Gmail accounts of staffers associated with the presidential campaign of Blank. On June 4th, Google announced that APT31 was targeting the campaign. Google and the FBI both briefed campaign officials on cyber operations shortly thereafter. So the thing I find interesting here, I'm very curious about this as of May 20, May 20, the spearfishing emails. I wonder if this is the Podesta leaks. I wonder if this is the Podesta emails. So China being obviously deeply involved in our elections, more and more of that information is coming out. John Attack has said, I finished the new book last week. I really enjoyed Kennedy and wish I could vote for him. He also used to be a dem and changed when they said they left him. Yeah. Pody Boy says approved by Republicans. By what she fails to mention is that it is bipartisan when it comes to the everyday American. I know exactly. Most of America approves this bill, both sides. Life is hard. It's even harder if you're stupid, should be everyone's mantra. Exactly. All

CIA Whistleblower And Globalists

SPEAKER_29 35:11

right. Catherine Heridge had a great report that came out this weekend. She interviewed a CIA whistleblower who came out and talked about some of the infiltration and the deep state and just, you know, all these deep state topics that have been coming up. And he said something really interesting in one of his in one of the clips that came out here. He said that the deep state, um, the deep state is made up of basically intelligence officials and globalists that are just embedded in the system. This is kind of what the conclusion everybody's come to. There's not like an Illuminati cabal so much. There's an ideological cabal, people that are that share an ideological viewpoint and then kind of all start pulling in the same direction. And in this case, it's resistant to any America-first MAGA policies and Donald Trump in general. That there's globalists who actually think that globalism is a good thing. And of course, this ties into China. Oh hold on. See, I gotta I don't have Ron here where he can just pop on the screen as I go to share it. I have to do, I have to do my own screen sharing. It's crazy. I need a producer. Here we go.

SPEAKER_31 36:24

Are you familiar with the whistleblower complaint that was lodged about the suppression of intelligence about China's election activities in 2028?

SPEAKER_32 36:33

Yes, I'm aware of it.

SPEAKER_31 36:34

What can you share with us?

SPEAKER_32 36:36

I I I don't want to go too much into that specific whistleblower complaint, but I will say that I have spoken to many people who are involved in COVID origins analysis, uh, people who were uh both on the operational side and the analytical side. And that is 100% believable because the same sort of things are happening in other topics that touch on China. So yeah, yeah, we had whistleblowers say, Yeah, they didn't want to touch, they did not want to harm China.

SPEAKER_31 37:08

What explains the reluctance of the US intelligence community to present evidence that is fact-based and credible about the threat from the Chinese Communist Party?

SPEAKER_32 37:22

You know, what we have decided is how the world should work. And frankly, we got globalists working inside the IC. And um, last I checked, we work for America. We're not here to ensure that NATO gets their funding or the UN is supported or the WHO is can help us with our pandemic response. There are quite a few people who were more than willing to say, hey, listen, this this global, this globalist thing is a good thing. I think there was probably based on what we're seeing with regard to uh former president Biden's family, there were a whole lot of ties to China.

SPEAKER_29 38:02

So she says former presidents Biden's family had a whole lot of ties to China. Duh. Duh. This is the whole Hunter Biden laptop, CEFC, flying over on Air Force Two to go visit with the Chinese official, you know, the effing spy chief of China is my business partner kind of stuff. Like we we know that, right? But the IC was intentionally covering this up from Donald Trump or anybody else that could have done anything about that kind of blackmail. And obviously, in my opinion, it's because the entire Democrat Party is kind of under the thumb of the communists, right? They're under the thumb of the communists. When you think about what's going on with the Democrat Party and the far left, the far left are completely and totally given over to communism, socialism, collectivism, that that whole thing. The traditional Democrat, the blue dog Democrat union worker, they're still very patriotic, love America, still talk about capitalism and the free market. We just got to take care of the orphans and the widows. It's great, right? So the Democrat Party, though, has been totally captured and influenced by China. Not only did they have influence over the president, but they have influence over all kinds of party members. And I would venture to say, without exception, every single Democrat that's running under the banner of Democrat, Socialists of America kind of thing, they're all sympathetic with communist China. Mark Halperin on his podcast was talking about if you were to sit down with Chuck Schumer or some of the other Hakeem Jefferies, and you were to ask them off the record about the state of the Democrat Party, they would tell you it's in shambles. I think this is important for us to hear because while there is a deep state and while they have incredible amounts of power, they're losing the plausible believability. They're losing the ability to just be like, well, we're 50% plus one, and you know, this is what America wants, that we can rule by consensus. Nothing is so clear as the Save America Act. When the Democrat Party, even when their own party, 75% supports citizen, citizen uh proof to vote, they won't pass it. Why is that? It's because they are completely captured by that far left. All right, here's Mark Helpin explaining, you know, what that looks like to these politicians off off the record versus on the record.

SPEAKER_13 40:16

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries out to dinner and said, uh, how how what do you feel how do you feel about having these socialist nominees? They would say, off the record, Mark? And I'd say yes, and they'd say, this is an effing disaster. We we're gonna have to play dodgeball the entire time for the next hundred days to try not to let these socialists and and and alleged communists kill our chances from coast to coast. Publicly, what they say is homina, homina, homina. They don't want to engage. In fact, very few Democrats, with with all with uh Senator Fetterman's a small exception, James Carvel, very few Democrats are willing to speak out and say this is a disaster. And and uh here's someone who did Ram Emanuel, Ram, I'm still at zero in New Hampshire, even though I biked across the state. Emmanuel uh has been touted as the sister soldier, the truth teller, the guy who's going to fight for the nomination by calling out the extremes in his own party. And occasionally he does, but he does it in a cutesy way. He'll say, we need to be talking about the classroom, not the bathroom, blah, blah, blah. Well, today, ladies and gentlemen, he ripped off the band-aid and opened the kimono in one fell swoop in a Wall Street Journal op-ed piece where he is a columnist. Ram Emanuel says this the Bernie Pros could, could spell Democrats, spoil Democrats' midterms. Republicans will make even moderate opponents answer for the radical views of DSA candidates. Mr. Emmanuel, a former mayor of Chicago, a former White House chief of staff, a former ambassador to Japan, and a former very successful chair of the DCC, writes this. It was socialists who led the charge to defund the police, open the borders, abolish prisons, release filing criminals onto the streets, and degrade the flag. I think he means denigrate the flag. And I'm sorry, no one edits his piece. Degrade the flag means denigrate. We know these are electoral losers. In 2020, after protesters chanted to defund the police, Joe Biden was swept into office without coattails. After Mr. Biden instituted an open border policy, we lost control of the House in 2022 and the White House and Senate in 2024. Kevin, what impact going forward will Mr. Emmanuel's op-ed piece have on the Democrats grappling with the socialists in your midst?

SPEAKER_05 42:24

Well, if you want to, you know, fire a shot across the Bernie Bro uh bow of a ship, it's certainly uh in the pages of the Wall Street Journal, uh, which I'm sure all of them will subscribe to and will read. Um, but it's a cautionary tale. Again, everything that Rahm is doing is through the lens of 2028. He sees this lane potentially as this truth teller. The piece he talks about uh at length managing the DCC when we successfully flipped, you know, dozens upon dozens of seats. But again, I subscribe to the old adage and we talked about this online. Uh just win, baby. You know, these these folks if you need to run against the party and leadership, do it.

SPEAKER_13 43:00

I want to take exception with what you just said. I think if Rom was 100% sure he's not running for president, he'd still believe this, and I think he'd still say it. So while you're right that this is part of his calculation, Larry, uh if let's say, let's say Chuck Schumer and and Hakeem Jeffries read the op-ed piece. They say, you know what? Rahm's right. We can't stay silent about this. Would it be in their interest to be as outspoken as Rahm is in this piece and say, we don't stand for what these people stand for? Maybe, maybe not say kick them out of the party, but say we repudiate openly these people. These are not people whose views match up with our Democratic Party.

SPEAKER_11 43:40

Mark Hochran, I I I want to believe it would be in their interest, and at the very least, maybe I'm naive, it would be in America's interest. It would be in our constitution's interest because they're about to um allow members of the Democratic Socialists of America to take a seat in Congress and swear to protect and defend the Constitution that their party or not, the voters are.

SPEAKER_05 43:57

The voters are that's but but but

SPEAKER_13 44:00

But but but what what would be the downside of doing it? For instance, I'll ask you both, would would would progressives who give millions, tens of millions of dollars to candidates stop giving? Would they say, screw you, Chuck Sheer and Hakeem Jeffries, we're not gonna support your candidates? No, because you're repudiating ours?

SPEAKER_11 44:15

No, they wouldn't. Unless you think Hakeem Jeffries is gonna ride a blue wave with a 20-seat advantage, um, those DSA candidates will be the difference in whether he holds that gavel or not. And if he alienates and pisses them off right now, they're gonna be there. They're gonna win. They're in deep blue districts. So he's got to keep them on their side so that he can keep the gavel. Otherwise, you you know what you saw with Kevin McCarthy will be a Disney movie compared to what you're seeing with Kevin.

SPEAKER_29 44:43

That is a that is an incredible amount of insight because you've got a Republican consultant, a left-wing consultant, Mark Halpern, who kind of seems to play the middle there, right? The Democrats, the mainstream Democrats, the the Hakeem Jeffries, the Chuck Schumers, they could care less about the socialists, but they can't get or even get close to a majority without them winning. But they're going to get hammered in the districts where they're running normal traditional Democrats, you know, they're gonna get hammered in these like split districts in a deep blue district, whatever, you know, run whoever you want out there in hippie, New Hampshire. But everywhere else, you know, how are you gonna win a St. Louis? Or how are you gonna win a uh Clawland County, Washington, right? If you've got a hardcore socialist in there, that's gonna be and they can't, they need that seat, right? So they're they're going to be in a real pickle here. And it's obvious, right, for anybody who loves America, for anybody who just thinks common sense, basic stuff, the stuff that we almost get tired of talking about. How is it possibly that we'd be talking about boys and girls' bathrooms again today? How could we be possibly talking about getting rid of police officers and letting bedlam run the streets? How could we possibly be talking about that today? How could we possibly be talking about rent controls when prices are running out of control? You know, how could we possibly be talking about opening the border, you know, when we've seen so much destruction around every town, a border border town kind of thing going on? How could we possibly be doing that? The Democrat Party has proved itself to kind of be pretty evil. And and Alan Dershowitz, who's been a diehard Democrat his whole life, was on with Cohen, Michael Cohen, who was Donald Trump's fixer, right? Who turned on Donald Trump. So the two of these guys had this little podcast. And I think Dershowich, he gets it, man. He understands it.

SPEAKER_15 46:37

The Democratic Party is is is dead in the water. The problem is uh they may win this midterm election. And if they do, they will make it harder. And I'm uh as an old Democrat, I am trying my best to prevent the Democrats from winning the midterms. I want the Republicans to win the midterms. I don't want AOC to be a chairman of a department. I don't want Liz uh Warren to be the chairman of a committee. I don't want Bernie Sanders to have more power. The only way to do that is to vote Republican. Now, I don't agree with everything in the Republican platform. I'm not happy with some of the policies they have, but you you pick between the lesser of the two evils, and and there's no question in my mind today, the Democrats are the evil party in America. They they are very similar to what we saw in Germany in 1932. Some of them, not all of them. You got a person like Fetterman. If he were the Democratic Party, I'd become a major contributor to the Democratic Party. But he's not the Democratic Party anymore. And he in fact said yesterday he would quit the Democratic Party. He himself, Senator from Pennsylvania, would quit if they became the anti-Israel Party, which they're which they're becoming. They have Trump derangement syndrome. Anything Trump does is wrong. Anything against Trump must be right. That's not in the interests of the American people. And so um I'm I'm proud of my leaving the Democratic Party. I'm proud of joining the Republicans.

SPEAKER_29 48:05

Yeah, I think that's great. He's he's right. Alan Dershowitz, for years and years and years, I'm still a Democrat, I'm still a Democrat, but they're kind of going crazy. But he crossed the line a while back ago. He's like, these people are nuts. These people are out of control. They've lost their liberal values, right? They've lost their love for free speech. In the name of free speech, they want to censor. In the name of, you know, all that is good and holy, they want to do the very thing that they hate. And so the fact that he's recognized that is pretty good. Back to that Catherine Heridge interview. This is the CIA whistleblower talking more about this quote, shadow government. What is the shadow government? If you remember in the releases that Donald Trump put out after that speech a couple weeks ago, or the week and a half ago, on Thursday, two Thursdays ago. In that speech, there was a series of text messages that was released for one of the FBI agents said, I'm running a shadow government across the FBI, right? She's like, I'm running, or the FBI. I and the FBI are running a shadow government across all these departments. They wanted all election challenges and claims to come directly to them so they could debunk them before they got investigations and legs under them. The whole thing was just wildly corrupt. So they're addressing that. And he's talking about what he thinks that really is. What is that shadow government? Add it to the stage. All right, here we go.

SPEAKER_31 49:24

These records got a lot of attention. Uh, they were instant messages sent by a senior FBI official, uh, Nikki Flores, and she talks about running a shadow government across the FBI at this point. Is there a shadow government?

SPEAKER_32 49:40

I don't know if people say I'm part of the, like wearing their shadow government t-shirts in the building where they're like, I'm part of the shadow government. But there's certainly people who believe that they are the adults in the room and they're here to make sure that, you know, the political leaders that are in charge, we can't let us let them do anything too crazy. You know, we're here to make sure we temper their their worst their worst uh tendencies. Tendencies. Thank you. I think that in effect, what you have are people who act as a shadow government, whether they know they're doing it or not.

SPEAKER_31 50:13

Also in this instant message, it says that all election-related IIRs, these are intelligence reports, must come through FBI headquarters. Does this show that there was an effort to keep all of this election information on a close hold so that they could control it?

SPEAKER_32 50:34

Yeah. Yeah, of course. In my opinion, that's exactly what that means. If they're trying to get a handle on every single report that comes in and centrally locate it, okay, there might be some some reason why you want to do that, but it sure doesn't look good. Not if you're over there also saying, hey man, I'm part of the shadow government.

SPEAKER_29 50:57

When you're trying to centralize all the information about voting, you know, there might be some random justification for that, but not one that includes I'm running a shadow government. I think that's pretty good. That's what's going on, right? People who just think they're the adults in the rooms, people who are committed to globalism. This this is a huge, huge problem, right?

Blowback Fears And Iran Hawks

SPEAKER_29 51:18

Choices have consequences. One of the things I discovered when I got my political science degree was this concept of blowback. Anytime we talk about covert operations, CIA, or any of these, you know, winning the hearts and minds of the people or any of these shadow covert actions that happen, this concept of blowback, that you do something and then there's going to be a natural reaction to it. But the thing you did that causes the reaction is undisclosed, right? So you have a secret Navy SEAL operation which kills a warlord, which then sets off a civil war. And then we look at and we go, oh my gosh, there's a civil war that broke out. Not knowing that we caused the civil war by pulling the grenade pin, by killing warlord X, right? That's blowback. So then we have to deal with the Civil War. Many, many people could make the argument that Iran was blowback from in uh overthrowing the Shah in 1978 or 79 and installing the Ayatollah. That we kind of backed the hem because we thought it would be better for the oil enterprises. And now here we are 47 years later, experiencing the blowback of that decision. You could say the same thing about Iraq, right? We propped up Saddam Hussein in the 80s and early 90s. We sold then weapons. Why? Because they were in the third largest war of the last century, the Iran-Iraq seven-year war. For seven years, Iran and Iraq were blowing the crap out of each other, and we supported Iraq in that conflict, and the Russians supported Iran. It was one of the Cold War proxy conflicts that that happened right after Vietnam. Again, right? We're fighting this collectivism in the name of capitalism. Same thing that happened in Vietnam, same thing that got us involved in South America. Ronald Reagan's ABC, anything but communist. They would prop up a far-right dictator that did all of the same things that the authoritarian dictator communists would do, but they would do it in the name of capital, you know, in the name of something other than communism, and we would support them. So we had a lot of blowback from that. An incredible amount of blowback. You can trace a lot of the conflicts we've had around the world, the little skirmishes, you can trace a lot of it back to blowback. When I ran with Iran, I'm extremely concerned about not only is this a product of blowback, we're having to deal with 47 years of blowback, but on top of that, there's always the potential that we have blowback into the future. So if this war doesn't get settled appropriately, we're probably going to face some blowback. We have the same thing with Iraq. We have the same thing with Syria. What's going to be the blowback of toppling Syria, right? Having Assad get toppled. What's going to be the blowback of putting in an Al-Qaeda leader as the president of Syria? What's going to be the blowback? What's that going to look like in 15 or 20 years? When I think about Lindsey Graham, and I think about the legacy that he and the other neocons made on both sides of the aisle, the right and the left, they have, with consistency, wanted to use military might over and over and over again, whether it was in Iraq, whether it was in Afghanistan, whether it was threatening Russia, right? Their desire to use the military and the military industrial complex to put the war industrial complex to work has been stunning to me. It is one of the reasons why many, many MAGA people that are more leaning on the anti-war side of the spectrum despise Lindsey Graham. We despise John McCain. We despise these guys. Even though we're the Republican, even though they usually vote on our ticket, we despise the way the way they go about it. This is a little video clip. Apparently, Lindsey Graham had a film crew following him around. They probably regularly have people filming things. But when we announced the opening of this recent um campaign in Iran, is it Epic Fury? Lindsey Graham was being filmed. And I wanted to play this. I'm not a hundred percent sure what to think of it. Okay, I'm not a hundred percent sure what to think of it. So I want to play it with you guys, and then I want to discuss it.

SPEAKER_16 55:18

Virtually everything they have has been knocked out now. Their missile count is going way down.

SPEAKER_12 55:28

Look what we've done here. I almost cried.

unknown 55:31

Yeah.

SPEAKER_12 55:32

I mean, like, how long have we been pushing this?

SPEAKER_06 55:35

Well, I mean, you've been pushing this for years, right? Right. It's here.

SPEAKER_12 55:38

I thought of Trump this morning. Oh, he's Jack. It's the best thing I've ever done.

SPEAKER_01 55:45

He loves blowing stuff up. So, you know, there are a lot of people inside didn't want to do it. So I've had my challenges. President Trump when he gets into the zone, he listens, he asks good questions, you know, no tweeting. He has done nothing, he hadn't tweeted much at all, no drama. He's been a great wartime president. I said last last night that Trump and BB are like Roosevelt and Churchill. I mean, they're the right two guys to confront this evil.

SPEAKER_29 56:23

I don't know what to think about that clip. Trump and Bibi are like Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt. Uh, Trump loves bombing things. Now, I I can see Trump doing the locker or bombing them. I can see it. I can see it. Ron Cleaver says, wow, looks pretty thrilled. Yeah. When when Lindsey Graham says, look how long we've been pushing for this. This is the Alex Jones conspiracy, right? For years and years and years. I remember back in like 2005, he's standing outside of the Bilderberg group in Canada being like, they're gonna go to war with Iran this year. That's what they're discussing. The globalists have always wanted to go to war with Iran. So the reason I played that clip after the Catherine Heridge thing, right? Iran has been a problem for globalists, even though, in my opinion, it's been a tool for globalists, an off-books balance sheet, right? But they've also been a problem for Iran. Because they cause all kinds of, you know, chaos. And uh, it'd be nice if they could just launder the money from Iran without the terrorism. So they've been a problem for the globalists, and they've been a problem for the nationalists both. Everybody, everybody that has had a problem with Iran. But what are the consequences of going in there? Iran, Lindsey Graham does not have a good track record when it comes to assessing war.

unknown 57:37

Okay.

SPEAKER_29 57:38

I mean, this is a guy who's like, we'll be in and out of Iraq. We were there for 20 years. We'll be in and out of Afghanistan. We were there for 20 years, right? This is not someone who has a good track record of nation building and diplomacy and stuff like that. So it makes me nervous. I have a right to be nervous, right? We're going to war with a major power that's propped up by Russia and China. It makes me nervous. I hope Trump has a plan. I think he'll see it through. I do believe he's the right guy. I do think Iran had to be dealt with. But when I see clips like that and I see Lindsey Graham kind of over the moon, acting like it's some personal achievement, you know, some some merit badge he gets as a senator, it's just it makes me nervous. And I think you guys would probably feel the same way. As Ron Cleaver says, he looks pretty thrilled. Yeah, he's pretty thrilled. There was something a little disturbing about his female staffer smiling when he was talking about the bombing started or whatever. It's like there are people dying right now. That's that was a little hard

Veterans Fast Track To CDL Jobs

SPEAKER_29 58:33

for me. So the other thing we talked about last week, uh towards the end of the week, was there's a new initiative with the Department of Transportation to take military veterans to allow them to get their CDL licenses rapidly so they can get on the road and start trucking. This is a pretty significant thing because obviously illegal immigrants have taken a lot of trucking jobs. There's a couple things that have happened. There was a Supreme Court decision that told distribution companies, so companies that broker to owner operators and to other fleets their loads, that the broker would share liability or would be liable when their drivers, so the people that they broker the loads to are illegal, haven't kept up on their inspections, their trucks get put out of service. Basically, all the stuff that happens to them, the deaths and accidents they cause, the brokers, the ones who simply, you know, broker the loads will be responsible. So these guys broker millions of loads a year, and they're turning to carriers and they're saying, hey, Swift, or you know, there's a couple of other kinds of DOT or DAT, I can't remember the name, but some of these companies that just hire new truckers all the time. Like, hey, we got to have legal truckers, we got to have ones that can speak English, we got to have ones with good track records. It's causing a lot of trucks to go down. And then, of course, you've got the English proficiency standards, which have been implemented, I believe, nationwide. I'm sure there's some states that are not asking drivers if they speak English. All kinds of stuff is happening. So the truckers were already behind the eight ball when it comes to truckers on the road and how much we need them. But at the same time, you got to deport a lot of them. A lot of them aren't going to be allowed to work. So last week, the Department of Transportation, through an executive order, made it so that service members who have driven trucks in the military can get their CDLs and get put out on the road. This is interesting to me. When you're talking about the economy at a whole, there's a couple bottlenecks. One of them is transportation, right? Trains and trucks. Critically important. You don't understand, you know, to get your Amazon overnight shipping, all that stuff has to be distributed to a truck. You want to go to see full shelves at Walmart? Trucking and trains are a huge part of that. So the fact that they're addressing trucking and they're addressing it in this way with a propaganda video that looks like you're enrolling in the military just tells me how important this is and how good the Trump administration is into trying to put this into motion. I can think of a couple veterans who would probably qualify for a CDL through this kind of new program or whatever they want to call this that uh could take advantage of this.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:06

Are you a veteran and not an illegal alien? I did you drive things like this? Or this, maybe even this? You drove the toughest roads on earth, defending our freedoms.

SPEAKER_22 1:01:20

Stick around.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:20

Why not get paid to drive on ours? You show me a pay stuff for $72,000 before I quit my job right now. How about six figures? Become a freedom hauler.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:29

You ever think about that? I like it.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:31

We like it too.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:32

It's a real blessing.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:33

And we're blowing up fraud. We want you on the front lines. Your road, your rules. Make your own hours, your schedule.

SPEAKER_12 1:01:43

You sure about that?

SPEAKER_06 1:01:44

Oh, we're sure. Keep talking. Did I mention medical benefits and sign-on bonuses? Training costs are completely covered for veterans because our heroes treat safety like a mission and rack up more miles doing it. Best part, you'll be on the road in a few weeks.

SPEAKER_18 1:01:58

It's happening!

SPEAKER_06 1:01:59

What are you waiting for? Your next mission deploys now.

SPEAKER_29 1:02:08

Freedom Haulers 250. That's pretty fun. They did it, you know. Get on the front lines. Why? Because because we're in an economic war. Right? Get on the front lines. What a good commercial. I just think that's positive. I think getting veterans working is great. I think getting illegals off the road is good. Hard to argue with those two. It's common sense. Ron Cleaver says the patent imagery. That's really nice. Um, that's awesome. If you can drive an 18-wheeler and Humvee in the army, you can drive trucks for America, says Carlitz. Uh Ron Cleaver says, nice and freedom. Yes, absolutely.

Elon Musk On AI Abundance

SPEAKER_29 1:02:41

So I've really this weekend, I actually watched quite a few clips from Elon Musk. And, you know, Elon's got tons of clips out there, and so sometimes old ones circulate. I don't know exactly when this one showed up, but I thought this one was really good. He's he's again kind of talking as a futurist. What does the future look like? And for me, I don't think I think there's a little bit of a challenge here with Elon, who clearly over, in my opinion, clearly knows more than we do about supply chains and what's possible with robotics and AI and things like that. But at the same time, I feel like because he's on the front edge of all this tech and development, that he's probably a little he's miss he's miscalculating the time frame that some things are going to happen. But at the same time, he's probably right about what will happen. So, and I think that that one of the things that Elon Musk struggles with in his understanding and projection into the future is the concept of money. Not everybody doesn't care about money. Okay, not everybody will work without reward. And so Elon believes that AI and robotics will bring in this wonderful age of abundance where we can just have everything we want. And I look at that a little bit different. I kind of take a kind of a founding father's perspective, and that is that you can never actually have a successful society that doesn't have solid weights and measures. And one of those solid weights and measures has to be money. Your time and energy has to be able to be measured, and you have to be able to reap the fruit of your labor. I think that that is a principle that if you violate that principle in either a micro or a macroeconomic setting, you're setting yourself up for disaster. And that's what I worry about with Elon Musk is that the human nature of needing incentives, needing rewards that manifests itself through money and the means of exchange that that represents. I think that the short-sightedness of this idea that we can have total abundance that somehow we'll pick a good path. So let's listen to Elon here opine on the future of AI and robotics and what's possible.

SPEAKER_08 1:04:50

I call AI and robotics the supersonic tsunami. Yes. Which maybe is a little alarming. Um it's good. It's good.

SPEAKER_23 1:04:59

Well, because they're just like a wake-up call. This is important for folks to grok because um uh I don't want to leave people depressed. I want people to understand what's coming. So we're we're basically demonetizing everything. I mean, labor becomes the cost of capex and electricity. AI is basically uh intelligence available uh at a de minimis price. Um uh so you're able to produce almost anything. Things get down to basic costs of materials and electricity, right? Uh so people can have whatever stuff they want, whatever services they need. Um it's not when when we say universal high income, it it sounds like it's a tax and redistribute, but that's not the case.

SPEAKER_08 1:05:51

Um It's it's I think my my best guess about how this will manifest is that prices will become prices will drop. Yeah. So as the efficiency of of production or the provision of services drops, um prices will drop. I mean, pr you know, prices in in dollar terms are the ratio between the output of goods and services and the money supply. Sure. So if your output of goods and services increases faster than the money supply, you will have deflation and or vice versa. You know?

SPEAKER_07 1:06:25

So um it's a good thing we're growing the money supply so quickly then.

SPEAKER_08 1:06:29

Right. Well look, I I yes. That's why I I can't like let's not worry about growing the money supply, it won't matter. Because the output of goods and services actually will grow faster than the money supply. And I think we'll be in this, and this is a prediction I I think some others have made, but um I I will add to it, which is uh that that I think governments will will actually be pushing to to increase money supply um like like faster. Yes. They won't be able to waste the money fast enough.

SPEAKER_07 1:06:59

Which is saying something because isn't it crazy how close those timelines just randomly worked out? I mean, the rate because we're we're expanding the national debt, not because we're anticipating AI. We were gonna do that no matter what.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:10

Yes.

SPEAKER_07 1:07:10

And so it's like right on the edge of becoming Argentina.

SPEAKER_08 1:07:13

But yeah, so productivity, the productivity is gonna improve dramatically. Um and it is improving dramatically. I I I I think we'll see, I think I think we may see high like high double-digit uh output of goods and services. We have to be a little bit careful about how economists measure things. Yes.

SPEAKER_29 1:07:32

Okay, so we he says we have to be so he says we have to be a little bit careful about how economists measure things. But his to understand the basic of this, right? So you have your national debt, and then how do you pay the national debt? Well, you pay the interest on it. So you've got your GDP, which is your total growth, and the idea is that as your GDP grows, as you make 2% more money per year, they try to print 2% more money, and so the dollar is always a dollar, but they never do that, right? Either the economy grows at 1.5% and they print 3.5% of money, or the economy grows at 4% and they percent 7% or 10 or 9% enough money. So they're the the ability of the money printer to outpace goods and services is it. It's static, like it's always the case. And it's my belief that the money supply always has to outpace goods and services because of debt. The companies producing the goods and services do it based on debt. And if prices come down, now they have to produce more to pay off the debt that they took to produce less. It's it can't happen. So when these guys opine, and again, these people think in terms of profitability, you want to make more money than you spend. When you're in government, you don't make any money, you just spend. And so if the government sees that the economy is growing at seven or eight, or heaven forbid, what he says double digits, 15%, that'd be great. Robots for everyone. They're going to print money, they're going to open the printer to try to keep costs rising, to keep debts falling. And so the idea that you're going to grow out of your debt, great. What's the reality of it? What's the supply shock to electricity to get there? What's the ability to get there with silicone and chips? What's the ability to get there with just you know, all these other factors that go into doing that? It looks really great to say you can do that. But then on top of that, even if you do enter the future, and he's talked about in other areas, you know, universal high income, the treasury should just print the money. This goes against human nature. So this is this is where I now depart. Okay, maybe growth is possible. Maybe human productivity is possible. Perhaps with robot labor, the quality of life for even the poorest of the poor amongst us could raise substantially. I would much rather be broke and poor in 2026 than broke and poor in 1896. There's a big difference. Even 1996, I'd rather be broke and poor in 2026 than 1996, right? Just going back 30 years. The social safety net has expanded immensely. The burden on society has expanded immensely. And it would be easy and probably will happen that the Treasury will cut checks. But what do we know? It no matter what, no matter what the productivity is, if you're cutting checks, you're diluting the value of money. That is the wrong kind of deflation, right? It's the deflation that is self-defeating. Because eventually everybody will have a robot, just like cars. Eventually, everybody had a car, and then new cars are just replacement cars. They're not everybody gets their first one. That's when you see those exponential growth. There'll be exponential growth, but once everybody's got an AI agent, and once every business has AI, and once everybody's got, you know, their stuff, the robot in their kitchen making dinner, you're not going to see that kind of growth. And at that point, that's where the debt catches up. It has to fail. It's like even if you can grow out of it, all you can do is grow out of it for a season.

Bitcoin Case And Wall Street

SPEAKER_29 1:10:55

So, what's the solution, Tomaste? The solution is Bitcoin. So, Bitcoin right now is trading at a really significant discount from its all-time high, which is excellent. So, let's listen to one of these. Um, let's see, her name is uh she's from Morgan Stanley. She's one of their big big wig investment advisors that does like strategic planning and directions. Well, she did a little interview talking about where they plan on Bitcoin going. And I think that this is the other part. The only counterbalance to AI and cost depreciation, right? Deflation, is Bitcoin. It's the natural solution. I believe Trump administration understands this. Obviously, Cynthia Loomis understands this. So it seems obvious to me. There's a lot of upside for little peasants to get involved. And there's a reason why all the big institutions are chomping at the bit to get the Clarity Act and get it passed as well, because there's a huge amount of upside in a real scarce money supply.

SPEAKER_26 1:11:58

Actually, asset allocation work is still relatively limited. Uh, and there's still many clients that don't have any exposure. So I think you're right there. There's still uh more to come. And I think unfortunately, the environment, especially this year, it's been tough to uh add when you have so many other uh assets across your overall portfolio that have been performing so well.

SPEAKER_30 1:12:18

Yeah, we have not done too great. Yeah, that's right. So you're saying that uh I I've heard it anecdotally so many times. Why would I hold this thing if I can just put my money in AI? To me, that seems like an AI top signal and the crypto bottom signal, honestly. But that's right.

SPEAKER_26 1:12:31

Well, and I and I and I always say, although some people um will will say, even if we were at 80, it would be better than where we are today. Uh, it's really hard to build when we're over a hundred thousand Bitcoin uh price. It it just has a there's a ton of pressure. There's such an urgency to get out there. I mean, you know it better than anyone. The momentum on the way up when we get into some of those big numbers is just so rip-roaring. And then when we get down to some of these lows in the Bitcoin uh cycles, it it gets pretty, it gets pretty bearish and pretty dire.

SPEAKER_30 1:13:02

I find huh.

SPEAKER_04 1:13:03

So what she's saying, what she's saying there is when oop come back on stage.

SPEAKER_29 1:13:11

So what she's saying there, right, is when prices are high, over $100,000 on Bitcoin, the intensity around Bitcoin is so high that it's actually hard to develop anything around it. Whereas when the price comes down, the pressure comes off and they can develop. So they've been developing. And I think that's the thing. Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, BlackRock, uh Strive, MSTR, there's a whole bunch, whole bunch of asset managers and fund managers that on the way down, they've been building right their their Bitcoin products. And a lot of them have launched those products. Obviously, BlackRock had the number one ETF launch ever in the history of BlackRock that was a Bitcoin ETF. So these products are being built, and as the price rebounds and as things go back up, and especially if the Clarity Act gets passed, now everything can go onto you know crypto rails, so to speak, blockchain and whatnot, which becomes interoperable. They're gonna build on top of Bitcoin in a big way. It's a huge, huge thing. In the Democrat world, the socialist left world, they do not want Bitcoin because it's decentralized. Its very nature is antithetical to their way of government. Okay, it's antithetical to their way of government. They will say things, especially right now, as the Clarity Act is on the verge of having enough support to get passed. The Democrats have started to put up a wall. They have started to say things that aren't really true, okay, but they have the plausible believability. One of the things Donald Trump did in 2019 and 2022, I believe, he launched, he and Melania both launched cryptocurrency coins and their names, you know, the Melania coin and the Trump coin or whatever it was. These are these are what we call cryptocurrency pump and dumps, right? Hey, I'm launching a coin, you can invest in the brand. People invested in the brand. I think my dad has some Trump coins, you know, you pay a couple dollars a coin, and who's selling the coins? Trump is or Melania is, they get most of that money, and then nobody wants to buy any more coins once everybody's bought their collecto crypto coin. They've basically just given Trump or Melania all that money. So their recent disclosure showed that they made over a billion dollars on those pump and dump schemes. Those coins aren't worth anything now, they're not trading for nothing, right? And they're not even trying to be like juice the values, like there's nothing there. It was purely a pump and dump. Well, this is a bad look. Anybody who looks at it can admit it. And that type of crypto scam is what we really want to avoid. If the Clarity Act could accomplish one thing, it would be to make it so that those pump and dump schemes don't happen. I mean, it's it's theft, really. But this is becoming the new talking point. There's been a confusion between Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, right? Again, we've we talk about this occasionally. They're two separate things. Cryptocurrencies are generally centralized. Even when they say they're not, they are. Then you've got Bitcoin, which is truly decentralized, right? No one can control it.

Clarity Act And Crypto Conflicts

SPEAKER_29 1:16:11

Chris Murphy, Senator Chris Murphy, was talking about cryptocurrency and the Clarity Act. And the new talking point, again, in the anything but Trump, right, the resist Trump movement, anything that Trump has anything to do with is bad. So the Clarity Act was very close to having enough support to get passed. And then Trump's disclosures came out. And so now the talking point from the Democrats is Trump and the federal government cannot manage cryptocurrency. It has to be, and they can't be in charge of it. They can't have primary jurisdiction because Trump's a scam artist and the the federal government, the DOJ, will never prosecute Trump. So they want the state's attorney generals to be able to do prosecute crypto crimes. You know, like digital asset crimes. The problem is, is this would open them up to prosecute across jurisdictions. A California attorney general could sue a Utah senator because of crypto holdings, the way they're trying to make where the enforcement happens. Trump has agreed to basically divest of all crypto and, you know, do a whole bunch of stuff. And there's an amendment to the Clarity Act that is going to make it so that nobody in federal office, congressmen, judicial bench, executive branch, heads, they can't have crypto holdings or any influence in any kind of crypto business up until 2030. Seems fair enough. Okay. But nonetheless, the Democrats are now using this as their talking point that Trump can't regulate crypto because he's too big of a crypto holder. So here's Chris Murphy saying that.

SPEAKER_27 1:17:44

If the legislation allows the president to continue as a major player and in some of these markets the major player, while he also regulates the industry, that simple reality is fundamentally corrupt in and of itself. And of course, the slaughter decision makes this even more of a red alarm moment, because slaughter says that the president has the power, even when Congress says you can't fire somebody unless it's for cause, to get rid of regulators and replace them at will. And so that allows the president, when a regulator looks like they're going to rule against his interests or potentially for the interest of a competitor, to fire that individual on the spot and put someone new in. But it is also unacceptable because of the fact that whether it's the SEC or the CFTC, he is essentially regulating himself. And that shouldn't be allowable in the United States of America.

SPEAKER_29 1:19:07

What's the problem with that? The problem with that is that would apply to any industry. If the president holds mortgages, oh, you can't regulate the industry where you make money. If the president's a real estate investor, oh, you can't regulate real estate. If the president owns an international business, oh you can't regulate international business. That's the point of presidents and these people, they put their assets into a blind trust. Every president that I'm aware of since I've ever been alive has done that. They've put their assets in a blind trust so they don't have conflicts of interest. They obviously know what stocks they own. You're never going to stop that. But it's a faulty argument. The premise is wrong. That would apply to everything because the president regulates. And I understand what he's saying. Hey, the slaughter decision, you can fire someone that's regulating you or your family. And my response to that is well, I guess that's one of the decisions the people have to make when they elect their presidents, right? Are we willing to go with their version of business instead of whatever the opposition's is? Pretty interesting stuff. We'll leave this on

Tariffs And June Budget Surplus

SPEAKER_29 1:20:03

a high note. Scott Bessant said something over the weekend that I think is excellent news. Again, you know, take it where we can get it. The Trump administration, there's no doubt that they have made a significant effort to fight back government spending and fraud. They still spend more money than they did last year, but at least they're making more money. And when I say making more money, the Treasury is in receipt of funds. Where do they get their funds? Obviously, tax payments can come in. That contributes. Then you've also got tariffs. Tariffs also come into the coffers, permit fees, licensing fees, all that kind of stuff, royalties. All of these things come into the Treasury. Scott Bessant announced that last month in June, they took in a huge amount of money and actually uh operated the federal government operated in the positive in the month of June.

SPEAKER_22 1:20:50

I think he's created a lot of leverage because he's created an A-B situation. He is able to go to the trading partners and say, look, I am happy to take in this tariff income if you don't want to negotiate. This is a high rate, but the U.S. is taking in massive amounts of tariff income. We had the first June uh budget surplus since 2015 last month. We reported it this month. And so we are taking insubstantial income. So President Trump is creating this leverage by saying, if you don't want to negotiate with me, I've sent you a letter with a high rate. You're have at the high rate or come and negotiate in better fashion. Because I'll tell you, what was fascinating for me, and this was President Trump at his best, at his best, was uh the Indonesians came with what I thought was a very good offer uh out of the box. President Trump kept pushing them. He raised the reciprocal rate when he sent them the letter, and five uh iterations later, the Indonesian trade deal was greatly improved, turned into a great deal for both sides.

SPEAKER_29 1:22:07

That's pretty good. I like that. More money in the Treasury in June than since 2015. They operated in the in the black. That's actually really impressive for the U.S. government, unfortunately. Oh, we got one month. We didn't lose money. Oh my goodness. Uh, that's really good though. But Trump is masterful at using power and leverage, no doubt about it. So, all right, guys,

Final Thoughts And Sign Off

SPEAKER_29 1:22:30

that's it. That's all I got for today. It was an interesting weekend, lots of uh different news stories, and this week should be interesting. We're supposed to be getting some more um disclosures as Polte heads out the door. And uh should be a very interesting week as we move into the August recess. There's gonna be a lot of pressure on the Save America Act and the Clarity Act. Both are coming into the last week, week and a half, where they can get voted on without some change to regular order. So, all right, guys, we will talk to you again tomorrow. Bye. No outro today. I gotta upload it under this new Rumble studio. Bye, guys.