Fourth Reich Archaeology - Inauguration Special: The Chosen Hitler

Episode Date: April 24, 2025

This week, we're taking a break from the Warren Commission, but don't worry; JFK stuff still comes up as relevant context at the present moment. But mostly, we're back into current events to cover the inauguration of the new regime. Trump 2.0. On the one hand, as we've consistently argued, the U.S. is not a democracy but a corporate state investing the bare minimum to maintain a mere image of democracy. So in that sense, Trump is no different from Biden: both are just actors filling roles in the spectacle of politics.We begin the episode saying farewell and f-off to Joe Biden and his entire rotten, genocidal administration. We discuss Biden's and Blinken's farewell addresses, Kamala's uncertain future, and the bravery of journalists standing up for the victims of genocide in the face of violent arrest and slander. We live in a time when "freedom of speech" is being redefined to mean "freedom to espouse and inculcate hardcore racist and genocidal beliefs," while free-speech activity like protesting genocide is being redefined to mean "crime and terrorism." Biden certainly has a role in that, and Trump seems like more of the same.Then we cover the inauguration and first day of President Donald John Trump, "the king of crime." After a banger of a musical number underneath "pig man" Trump's imperial inaugural address, we cover the MANY parallels between Trump and Reagan, including but not limited to their near-identical initiatives to privatize the government under the direction of literal Nazis. We discuss some of the day-one executive orders and issue predictions about what we might see next (including initial thoughts on JFK disclosure!!). Disclaimer: any predictions may very well change; this damn world is crazy as hell! Nevertheless, the Fourth Reich Archaeology thesis - albeit dire - is vindicated daily. Enjoy!

Colonialism or imperialism as the slave system of the West is called is not something that's just confined to England or France or the United States. Every nation, in every region, now has a decision to make. So it's one huge complex or combine. Either you are with us. are with us or you are with the terrorists. And this international power structure is used to suppress the masses of dark-skinned people all over the world and exploit them of their natural resources.

We found no evidence of a conspiracy, foreign or domestic, the Warren Commission of science. I'll never apologize for the United States of America, ever. I don't care what the facts are. In 1945, we began to require information, which showed that there were two wars going on. His job, he said, was to protect the Western way of life. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders the more easy victims of a big lie than a small one. For example, we're the CIA.

Now, he has a mile. He's so long as I'm afraid of we'd never be secure. It usually takes the national. Races. Freedom can never be secure. Pearl Harbor. A lot of killers. You've got a lot of killers. Why you think our country's so innocent? This is I am. Now he has a model. This is Fourth Reich Archaeology. I'm Dick. And I'm John. Welcome to the new regime, Dick. I don't know how you're feeling.

Right now we are recording live on January 20th. The ceremonies have all but concluded. I believe the big donors are still partying the night away at the various and sundry inauguration balls and gala's being held around the major metropolitan areas of the United States. And that's going to be the subject of this week's episode. That's right, folks. This week we're going to take a deep dive into how our tech billionaires like to party.

We'll start off by taking a look at which flavor of galaxy gas Zuck prefers. And then we're going to ask whether Musk is a elf bar guy or whether he prefers. the I-COS for his late-night buzz. All jokes aside, this week we are departing from the Warren Commission decided to give the listener our take on the state of affairs one day into the second term of President Donald J. Trump. And before we dive all the way into it, because there is quite a lot of. to cover, as there always is. Let's take a moment. And welcome the listener. Welcome, listener.

Thank you for joining us. Thank you for tuning in to Fourth Reich Archaeology. And now that you're here, please engage with the podcast in a way that will help it to reach a larger audience, if indeed it is something that you believe in, as we very much do. So follow us on social media at Fourth Reich Pod on Twitter and Instagram. Subscribe, like, rate, review the pod on Apple, on Spotify, wherever else you access our content. and if you're feeling generous, please join our Patreon and give us a little financial support so that we can ramp things up even more. So, Dick, what do you think?

Do you feel different now that we are under the right-wing brand of fascism? No, not at all. um i filled with a little bit more dread i think but at least what's going on as of today i pretty much everything is as we were saying just as we expected right uh baller move to put us in a national state of emergency on day one through the immigration executive orders i think that is a i think that says it in it of itself right day one we're in an emergency. Yeah, I mean, to quote James Jesus Angleton,

usually it takes a national crisis, a Pearl Harbor. But for Trump, you know, he just did it with the stroke of a pen. Right, of course. He's had these documents prepped and ready to go, right? And we saw today just the volume of policies and orders that he was stroking the pen on. Yep. That's right. And so, in this episode, we are first going to bid farewell to the outgoing Biden administration. Then we're going to talk a little bit about the inaugural events and especially paying attention to, because this wouldn't be Fourth Reich archaeology if we didn't, all the historical parallels.

And then finally we're going to look ahead, prognosticate a little bit, and share our initial thoughts on day one of Trump 2.0. Yeah, and I think let's start from last week, right? So at this point, it should be clear that we're recording this on Monday, January 20th, the day of the inauguration, the day of President Trump's inauguration. And I thought when we were talking about setting up this episode, I thought, well, let's talk, let's start from last week. And I think it was last week when we got Biden's farewell address. I figured we spent some time talk about old Joe. Basement Joe. That was my favorite one.

Oh, yeah. Basement Joe. Sleepy Joe soon took over, but basement Joe will always be my favorite. And his farewell address. He swung for the fences with this one, didn't he? It just perfectly captures not only the Biden presidency, but also where the Democratic Party is. And Joe Biden's physical state and mental state, just an empty hollow. You know, the scene in Christmas vacation when Chevy Chase cuts open the turkey, and it's

just deflates. But that's where we are at. And his address is just this mumblecore speech of how America is second to none. And yeah, and I think the best way to get into it is just to visit what he said to us in his farewell address. My fellow Americans, this will be my final. address to you from the American people from the Oval Office on this desk as president. And I've been thinking a lot about who we are and maybe more importantly who you should be.

But democracy must defend and be defined and be imposed, moved in every way possible. I have no doubt that America's in the position to continue to succeed. That's why my farewell address tonight, I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. This is the dangerous concentration, and that's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra-wealthy people.

Look out, Joe, you're coming home. Old times, we're good times. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape in America of extreme wealth, power, and influence that literally threatens our entire democracy, our basic rights and freedoms, and a fair shot for everyone to get ahead. You know, as farewell addressed, President Eisenhower spoke of the dangers of the military industrial complex. Six decades

I'm eager to about the potential rise of a tech industrial complex that could pose real dangers for our country as well. Americans are being buried under an avalanche of misinformation, disinformation, enabling the abuse of power. The truth is smothered by lies told for power and for profit. Only in America do we believe anything is possible. Glory hallelujah, well I lay my...

The kid with a stutter from modest beginnings in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Clay Montelor, sitting behind this desk in the Oval Office. Look at that crazy clown. Look at it. Rather than a sort of a bank, he's going out in a whimper, the state of America and this danger of the concentration of power among the wealthy, which is like the irony of someone like Joe Biden saying that.

Yeah, exactly. Like, how did it get that way, Joe? The register, the tone of the speech, it does have that ring of sort of a pathetic, washed up, like Willie Lohman monologue from Death of a Salesman. Yeah, no, exactly. He's like, oh, look, I was just a plain, straight-talking boy from Scrant, Pennsylvania, Jack. And through humble beginnings, I was able to make it, and that's America. And then having all these fantasies about a series of accomplishments and positive legacy that he just kind of dreams up.

It's really like Willie Lohman talking about all of those. big sales that he was able to pull off back in the day or, you know, play and catch with Biff. Yeah. Because ultimately. Biff has grown up and he is suicidal now and he's addicted to drugs. It's the perfect, this is the perfect analogy because ultimately Biden is a big old loser, right? Like, he vowed to make Donald Trump a one-term president. Do you remember throughout his presidency, he criticized Donald Trump as a one-term president?

as a one-term president and here we are four years later and i could say without a doubt a shadow of a doubt joe biden will go down in history as a one-term president right yeah yeah he's not making any comeback ever though you know i wouldn't put it past the democrats to reanimate the corpse and run him again in four years could you imagine and who knows maybe they've already done that Maybe the Biden we're seeing now is just some Frankenstein monster. Yeah, or he's got on that high-tech latex mask, although the one problem with that is always, if they had somebody wearing the mask, why would every mask wearing person also say incomprehensible shit? Yeah. It defeats the purpose of the disguise.

I was going to say even before his farewell address, I don't know if you saw this one, Dick, but he gave an interview where he says once again that he would have won if he would have stayed in the race and is once again playing that tune of having been pushed out And then he tries to correct and he's like, oh, well, Kamala would have one too. And like, no, she wouldn't have because she didn't. Yeah. That's what I was going to say is, I don't know about you, man, but every time I see

Joe Biden on screen for more than 30 seconds, maybe more than 10 seconds, it's just impossible to think, to grasp that this man is still alive and he's running the country. And it's been like that for like years, right? And at this point, it's like, anytime you see him talking. you're like I can't believe this is happening in front of me he's just mumbling and garbling and you know the gaffes that he's making and the he goes off on these tangents and the train of thought that he has it's like that we are all subject to this it should it should leave no doubt to anyone with more than two brain cells that we are but disgusted spectators in the spectacle Mm-hmm. Totally. Except for Dr. Jill, who is the projectionist here, right?

She's the one that's winding up the box and making the monkey dance. Oh, yeah. She doesn't get nearly enough hate for that, I don't think. I think Dr. Jill, fuck you, really horrific person to not only refuse to say a single word about the genocide that your husband was largely responsible for. But the attitude of entitlement and of denying the lived experience of all who witnessed Joe Biden over the last four years, she will be and should be remembered as a true villain, maybe if not the same level as Joe, definitely up there.

The fuck you to Joe Biden is a great segue to my next person who isn't on our outline, but trust me, it makes sense. You know who would agree with that? Fuck you to Jill Biden. Kamala Harris. Oh, yeah. That's what's up. And what about her?

Where is she? What happened? She's just doing a hunker down and stay out of the press for maybe a couple years. And I don't know, run for governor. But otherwise, like, she is clearly, like, fed up and ready to turn the page. Yeah. Honestly, there, I've seen a lot of very mainstream Dem takes that have insisted that Kamala Harris remains the perspective, presumptive Democrat leader or nominee for the next election.

I highly doubt that. I mean, the campaign was such a disaster. Nobody has admitted it quite yet, or at least the media is still unwilling to go, you know, emperor's nudity with her political chops. But yeah, I hope that she does the Nixon route, runs for governor of California, loses. It just becomes horrifically vengeful. And, you know, she's not criminal enough. Like, she's, her corruption is too frivolous.

She needs to figure out how to do real corruption. You know, generate a body count, Kamala. If you want to play in the big leagues, you got to bash a few skulls. As far as I know, nobody's put a body on Kamala, Harris yet. That's a problem. You can't be president of the United States with no bodies. Yeah, but something tells me this isn't the last we've heard of her. I think the Nixon route, that's really interesting. You know, try her luck at Governor Luz and then join the board of a couple companies, nonprofits. I think that her brother-in-law is already

general counsel at Uber? Uber. Yeah. Somebody get that woman on that board? Get that woman on that board. And that, I think, and that brings us to our last little bit of the Biden administration farewell. That is the Tony Blinken speech. Farewell address, I guess, over at the State Department. Totally. And this was like the most dastardly shit. Yeah.

So if our listener didn't catch it, what happened was that Secretary of State Tony Blinken I believe it was on Thursday, if I'm not mistaken. Yep. He gave what was styled as a press briefing, but was really just a totally self-absorbed, self-congratulatory litany of lies before the assembled journalists. And

heroic journalist Sam Hussaini, who has spent the entirety of the genocide calling out State Department officials on their lies, on Israel's lies, and he's not alone in this effort, but has been one of the more vocal ones, and he was told that he would not be allowed to ask questions. he started interrupting the speech with legitimate questions and was manhandled and he wasn't manhandled while he was interrupting he interrupted then he was quiet and then I was sitting here quietly and now I'm being manhandled by two or three people cops just start filing into the room surround him and drag him out by all four four limbs.

You pontificate about a free press. You pontificate about a free press. You are hurting me. You are hurting me. You are hurting me. And he's, you know, screaming that he's being hurt and starts shouting at Blinken. I'm asking questions after being told by Matt Miller that he will not answer my questions until I'm asking questions.

We should respect the process. Oh, respect the process. Respect the process. All everybody's, everybody from the. From Amstead International, from Amsterdam to the ICJ, saying they're just doing genocide and extermination, and you're telling me to respect the process. Criminal, why aren't you in the Hague?

Why aren't you in the Hague? Why aren't you in the Hague? It's quite a powerful scene. I really recommend watching the video of it because the audio, I don't think, does justice to the event. itself. And I believe that right before the interruption, Tony Blinken was bragging about how the United States was such a champion of free speech and the free press around the world. And so this juxtaposition really lays bare and serves, I think, as a beautiful summation of the utter hypocrisy of

the Biden administration and of the Democrat Party more broadly. It's unbelievable that so many Democrat voters and supporters and media personalities have spent so much time simply maintaining a two-faced approach on so many so many different issues where they say one thing and do the opposite and expect everyone to just go along with it. That was the particularly horrifying thing of the incident. The footage is available online, but as you're seeing this journalist get dragged out, what was disturbing to me is all the other people in the room who are purportedly also journalists sort of sitting idly by. It was just such a stark example of the control that this administration has over the members of the press.

Of course, what was also great was smirky McSmirk face. Oh, fuck that guy. What's his fucking name? Matthew Miller. Matt Miller. Yeah, fucking Matt Miller. The humiliating thing is you got Matt Miller over there. cannot wipe the smirk off of his face.

Like, what is wrong with that man? He literally escorted the cops into the room to take out Hussaini. With a smirk on his face. Oh, with a wide-ass smirk. If anybody ever sees that guy, you know, let him know what he's done. I really do hope that these individuals, meet with vocal objection at a return in public all the way up until they are hopefully held accountable for their crimes and the warrants issued for their arrest, which I don't think that, I don't know

if in our lifetimes we'll see the United States execute a ICC arrest warrant, but at the very least, you know, deprive these absolute ghouls of their right to vacation in Europe. You know, it's about the best that the international legal system can do right now. Right. It's going to say that was how we ended last week. just in a pit of utter despair and boy it's just Monday

well I'll say is you know all that stuff you were saying about Miller and how he deserves to be put out in prison I think that could be on the table with this new administration oh I don't think that they would go so far as to jail any

actually bad people. But yeah, to kick us off this week, this was a spectacle for the ages. Yeah, and I was going to say that it transitions nicely, both in the episode and from one administration to the next, to see how these Biden administration criminals who spent a year plus wringing their hands about how the re-election of Donald Trump would signify the end of democracy in America as we know it and bring a fascist takeover of the government into being. And as soon as the votes were counted, way back in November, that whole line just dropped off entirely.

And now what we've seen is this friendly and peaceful transition of power where everybody from Joe Biden telling Trump welcome home when he greeted him at the White House today to Kamala Harris congratulating Trump on his win to Amy Klobuchar, who as sort of master of ceremonies of the inauguration festivities, really enjoyed and hammed up the spotlight within feet of President Trump. These people don't give a shit. They really are not legitimate voices against fascism.

and they never have been and once again the old fourth rike archaeology thesis has been vindicated right they're not they're not objecting to fascism because they're agents of fascism they're they're operators within the system where you know these these political operators that look at everything and as a, from a clinical point of view, a matter of, you know, what can I gain from this interaction or event or this next transaction, how is that going to affect, how is that going to weigh on my next set of decisions and how can that be used to grow my influence and power and my stake

and so that's the reality we're coming on with any one of these political operators and so to think that they're a voice that opposes that system which they work within it bears no authority carries no water

and I think you know it's interesting to situate this moment in the broader historical context and to bring it back to the framework that we've been developing over the course of our very many episodes so far, think about it this way. You have the assassination of JFK in 1963. There are a series of palace coups and palace intrigues like Watergate, like the sabotage of the Paris Peace Accords in 1968,

the assassinations of MLK and RFK and Malcolm X and Fred Hampton, and setting the stage for a more stable fascist system in the United States. And by that we mean not. somebody with a machine gun on every corner, but a system where the distribution of benefits to the citizens is not dependent really on political participation. Is that, you think, a fair description, Dick? Yeah, that's exactly right. On the day-to-day, the citizens are by and large subject to these market forces that they don't have any control over, right? And most people, if they don't have some safety net of their own through their family or what, you know, they're on their own in this country.

There is no safety net and just one catastrophe away from essentially losing it all. That's right. And on the opposite end of the socioeconomic spectrum, you have a consolidated base of power in the uppermost echelons of society, which I believe we've traced all the way back to the founding of the country, way back in the 18th century, but we've also traced the ways in which people from lower rungs can gain access and entry to those upper echelons, namely with Jerry Ford, he makes the right decisions,

he makes the right moves, and he ultimately finds his way into the seat of power. We've painted a similar picture, with guys like John Sherman Cooper, guys like John J. McCloy. And all of those explorations, listener, are part and parcel of the broader, larger, Fourth Reich narrative and worldview as a way of seeing this hellscape that we occupy. And today, really the consolidation that we've been talking about was in place by, oh, approximately 45 years ago, today, when Ronald Reagan was first sworn in to office. The parallels between today's festivities and January 20th, 1981, are incredible.

So should we dig into those, Dick? Let's do it. The golden age of America begins right now. America will soon be greater, stronger, and far more acceptable. than ever before. As we gather today, our government confronts a crisis of trust. For many years, a radical and corrupt establishment has extracted power and wealth from our citizens

while the pillars of our society lay broken and seemingly incomplete disrepair. In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem. We now have a government that cannot manage even a simple crisis at home while at the same time stumbling into a continuing catalog of catastrophic events of world. It is my intention to curb the size and influence of the federal establishment and to demand recognition of the distinction between the powers granted to the federal government and those reserved to the states or to the people. Ha ha, charade you are. My recent election is a mandate to completely and totally reverse a horrible betrayal.

You will be weak real. Those who wish to stop our cause have tried to take my freedom and indeed to take my life I will head your hand is on your heart I will saved by God

to make America great again You're really in love, but you will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our country, and we will not forget our Constitution, and we will not forget our God. Can't do that. I'm pleased to say that. The host of rat, bad, ah, ah, you're right, you are. I'm pleased to say that as of yesterday,

one day before I sued office, the hostages in the Middle East are coming back home to their families. America will reclaim America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on earth, inspiring the awe and admiration of the entire world. Because we, as Americans, have the capacity now,

as we've had in the past, to do whatever needs to be done, to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom. And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars launching American astronauts to plant the stars to plant the stars in stripes. on the planet Mars. Can you imagine how awesome it will be to have American astronauts plant the flag on another planet for the first time? The spirit of the frontier is written into our hearts.

Our American ancestors turned a small group of colonies on the edge of a vast continent into a mighty republic of the most extraordinary citizens on earth. No one comes close. Americans push thousands of miles through a rugged land of untamed wilderness. They crossed deserts, scaled mountains, braved, untold dangers, won the Wild West, ended slavery, rescued millions from tyranny, lifted billions from poverty, harnessed electricity, split the atom, launched mankind into the heavens. and put the universe of human knowledge into the palm of the human hand. One, two world wars defeated fascism and communism. We will be a nation like no other, full of compassion, courage, and exceptionalism. Our power will stop all wars and bring a new spirit of unity to a world that has been angry, violent, and totally unpredictable.

We will stand bravely. We will live proudly. We will dream boldly. And nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans. The future is ours. And our golden age has just begun. Thank you. God bless America.

Thank you all. Thank you. And I just want to say thank you for making it happen. Thank you. My heart goes out to you. It is thanks to you that the future of civilization is assured. Thanks to you.

Hey, you White House, Hapash and Rod you are. which is something that I think is the most obvious, perhaps. And this apologies, Dick, it's not the first on our list that we've jotted down today, but because it is the most obvious, I feel inclined to mention it first. And that is that the listener may recall that on January 20, 1981, Ronald Reagan, like Trump now, announced the release of a number of hostages at his inaugural festivities. Those were the hostages that were taken in Tehran at the U.S. Embassy when the Islamic Revolutionary Forces ousted the Shah,

took over the seat of government and captured the remnants of the U.S. embassy staff. Now, Reagan and his campaign team, which included such luminaries as George H.W. Bush, and, of course, Bill Casey, Reagan's campaign manager, who went on to become Reagan's head of the CIA. He had been an OSS man way back in the day, and he was a knight of the sovereign military order of Malta as well, orchestrated the so-called October surprise to scuttle President Carter's negotiations for the release of hostages so that the political prize would go to Reagan, and he would hurt Carter's electoral success by preventing the release of the hostages on Carter's watch.

This is good because there's the global perspective on this too, right? Just as at the same time, right, the new regime in the Islamic Republic under Ayatollah Khomeini, if you recall, there was an attempt to rescue the hostages during the Carter administration where the president had green lit a envoy of Black Hawk helicopters to go in and, you know, get the hostages back. And I think it's the story goes like the helicopter choppers go out and there's a intense dust storm and like seven out of eight of them crash. and they're just totally destroyed

and the Ayatollah's like look at the will of God these like scumbag Americans they tried to trick us into negotiations and we're not going to deal with Carter there's actually a really interesting documentary on it I think it's on YouTube it's called the man who changed the world And it's about this guy, the Ayatollah, and how he was able to influence the 1980s election.

Because basically one of the things after coming out of that was like, you know, as long as Carter's in office, there won't be any exchange of hostages. And I got a flavor of that too with like the situation with Beebe and the Israelis and, um, it sort of felt like Israel had made its decision and was going to be backing Trump and the Republicans. I mean, full well knowing that that's what's coming up. But perhaps it's, I think it can't be, we can't overlook the fact that at some point the Israelis made a political decision to maybe included in their, calculus of how they're going to play out the war, they decided to do it in a way that made Biden look bad and Trump look good. Yeah. And it shouldn't be forgotten that the Israelis played a role in the 1980 October surprise to this being the role of intermediary in the shipment of arms to Iran.

the promised shipment of arms to Iran in exchange for holding off on releasing the hostages and releasing them at the opportune moment. And so now, with Trump coming in, it's a similarly dirty deal that seems to have taken place behind the scenes. you know, we don't want to minimize the upshot of a at least temporary reprieve for those brave people who have survived in Raza and who are braving the elements over there with a little bit less violent aggression coming from the Israelis. but unfortunately, I think the promise from Trump was essentially just let me get inaugurated, let me have some good press as a deal maker, and that's about the only demand imposed on the

Israelis by Trump, because now, even since being sworn in, you know, just 12 hours ago, Trump has already said that he doesn't think the ceasefire will last. We've seen Israel taking extremely aggressive actions in the West Bank, shutting down transportation there. I would not be surprised if it were with the intent of spurring some violent resistance in the West Bank and thereby justifying a further opening of a new front in the genocide of the Palestinians. I just am not optimistic that any progress in a positive direction will be taken under Trump and that instead he is mostly interested in working with Arab stakeholders, mainly the Gulf countries, and the Egyptians,

to get their buy-in for the, well, the expropriation of Palestine, and replacing Palestinian. national sovereignty and hopes with some form of diaspora citizenship or Bantustan existence or worse for those who do survive the assault. And just like with Reagan, in other words, yes, there's a deal. Yes, it gives the U.S. incoming president some short-term political juice. and it ultimately inures to the great detriment of, in the Iranian case, the people of the Middle East, right, because Reagan would go on to arm both sides of the Iran-Iraq War,

killed a million in the 1980s, and the same goes for Trump. this is getting a little dark pretty quickly maybe we should lighten the mood up a little bit um yeah uh let's talk about the doge which is i think that would be and it's not again not the first bullet point but that would be a good one to start because it's sort of a bookend to the reagan administration right it's like well of course the thread goes all the way back to jerry and even before that but this idea of privatization and this idea of putting power in the hands of the ultra wealthy and having it

sort of filter down right and it's kind of a seed that was planted when jerry Ford brought Milton Freeman Friedman into the government got a taste of that sweet privatization And so by the time Reagan's elected, the plans are already drawn up amongst the captains of industry. And almost always, with any of these presidents, it's almost always from a place where they're talking about austerity, right? Reducing government waste, reducing government spending on stuff and letting the market take over, right? Cutting the bloated federal workforce. Yeah. I'm not sure. I've not seen it reported that ways in which Doge is modeled after the Reagan-era Grace Commission. And so maybe we spent just a minute describing that, President Reagan launched a commission on privatization, which was chaired by the businessman J. Peter

Grace, who was the head of the W.R. Grace and company, kind of one of these massive conglomerates largely focused in chemical manufacturing. And like Bill Casey, J. Peter Grace was also a knight of Malta. He was, and like Elon Musk, he was also a very, very good friend to the Nazis. So J. Peter Grace famously was the sponsor and employer of a fella by the name of Otto Ambrose, who had been the chief organizing architect of the IG Farben Auschwitz Manowitz plant, which employed obviously tens of thousands of slaves for the profit and the war-making effort of the Third Reich. So the parallel kind of writes itself now that Elon Musk has unapologetically Siegheiled his way into the government.

Approved by the Anti-Defamation League. Yeah, as long as he doesn't wear a kaffia, that would be anti-Semitic. But a full-blown Nazi salute with the chest thump and everything, that gets a pass. Here's what you don't understand, Don. You're being insensitive because it's a form of catatonia where it's a compulsion. he can't control his right arm. Man fear hasn't walked. I think talking about Musk opens the door to all these other tech guys too, right?

They were all there. They were all sort of like these cliques when you're looking at these inaugurations, but they're all sort of sitting next to each other. Bulls on parade, to quote, rage against the machine. Bulls on parade, more like it. Yeah. Yeah, that was incredible. I mean, the lineup on the stage.

So who do we have besides Musk? We got Bezos. We got Zuck. We got, and they're all sort of yassified, too, right? They're all done up and tanned and buff. I wouldn't be surprised if they're also getting some infusions of young blood. Yeah. For sure.

Yeah, the Alphabet CEO, Pichai was there. Sam Altman from OpenAI, Tim Apple in the house. He's not getting any young blood infused. He actually looks a little bit worse for the wear. And their presence, once again, largely made possible by these inaugural traditions that were kind of set up by Ronald Reagan. So if anybody like me tortured themselves by watching television coverage of the inaugural luncheon, you would have learned that that whole tradition was first set up by Ronald Reagan. And just like now, it was set up as an occasion to distribute favors and

political access to top-tier donors. That's the kind of shit. That's got like Roger Stone written all over it. Yeah. Right? Like this is like the birth of lobbying and corporate lobbying in D.C. When it becomes elevated into this sort of like practice of no different than like being a banker or lawyer or something like that. Totally.

it's so normalized and it's a shame that Paul Manafort was not there to see it because he too was such a big part of the genesis of all of this and spill a few drops for Manafort out there in the federal pen what was the lobbying group is like Manafort stone and black or something Mm-hmm. Yeah, something like that. Like, those guys started it, right? Well, they started this iteration of it, but as our regular listeners will know, the practice of corporate lobbying was actually invented... Yes, yes, yes.

By John W. Foster, Secretary of State under President Benjamin Harrison and grandfather to the Dulles Brothers. namesake of Foster Della's. What I mean is sort of bringing it into the 21st century, making it sexy. Totally. You know? Totally. The first iteration of yassifying it.

Yes. Yeah. And they did it at a time, you know, like today, that was very much lubricated with drugs. and all these D.C. parties back in the day, and you've got to wonder what kind of debauchery will take place at the NDA parties that these freaks are throwing. Yeah, yeah, man, while we're talking.

So I'm watching, I'm rewatching the wire. Say what you will about David Simon. I'll say that he's a fucking blowhard asshole Zionist piece of shit But yeah But there's a line Where he's like We and he's talking about the drug

He's like When you're following the drugs It's only going to lead you to more Drug dealers and users And it's like scum But when you start following the money That's when you You know

You don't know where you're going You could hit anywhere And anyone And that's sort of like this politics game Right Like As soon as as you start looking at the money that's behind it, it's like, oh, now all of a sudden we're

talking entire sectors of the U.S. industry that are backing Donald Trump. Totally. And in fact, to bring it back to Doge, if you actually look at the text of the executive order establishing Doge, all it really sets up, it's not about cutting government waste at all. What it's really about is modernization in the tech systems of the government. And so essentially it's going to be a checkmill for big tech, right? It's going to be a cash trough for all these fucking pigs to come and dip their snouts. Have you seen the bigger piggies in the starched white sheds?

You will find the bigger pigs. Yeah, you know, the tech is stirring up the dirt, always have clean shacks to play around me. Yeah, you know, the tech stuff, and we can maybe talk about how the CEO of TikTok was also in attendance. But all of this stuff really makes me nervous about how the youngans, the next generation, is going to maybe fall in line with the Trump train. and what the next four years could mean on like the political discourse in today's youth. Yeah, I mean, well, I do think it's oppressive that the ire against TikTok and the enforcement against TikTok in Congress to try to end its operations in the U.S., it seems to me it was pretty blatantly geared. towards all the pro-Palestine content or anti-genocide content that was being shared there. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And that was powerful. All of the proliferation of images, even if it's not led to political action, at least in terms of taking political positions, almost a meaningless consumer choice. Right. But adorning yourself with the political position of free Palestine, but it is influential. And so now that, as I understand it, after TikTok was reinstated, giving all thanks to Trump for its reinstatement, they have imposed new restrictions on speech regarding Palestine. Wow. Namely, they are now restricting pro-Palestine speech.

Yeah, so they're not even hiding it. It's like the stuff Zuck did with the content moderation for meta. It's like what Elon did with X. They're not even hiding it anymore. You know, put that on top of the fact that they're literally, hauling journalists out of the press room. Like, what is the world we're living? In the skies with all their backing, they don't care what goes on around.

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So put that name down in your books, because I think you're going to hear a lot about it. And what's it going to be like under the next administration? Because I do think that there's something of truth to this ratchet theory. of politics. One person that I think talks about this a lot is Brianna Joy Gray that has talked about this ratchet theory where the Republicans will push fascism way out and then the Democrats will basically consolidate those gains without reversing them. And so it kind of functions to just keep ratcheting it up with the swinging of the pendulum from party to party. Right. So that's kind of in effect here, where you have the blessing from the Democrats of the peaceful transition

of power, not a peep about any of these executive orders, at least not in any coordinated way at the level of the Democrat Party. And so the right wing is poised to go ahead and take off the gloves and keep exacerbating. And it's so nefarious because they have this rhetoric about free speech. And what it's really about is not free speech at all. It's simply identifying certain forms of disfavored speech, namely criticism of Israel. or criticism of the U.S., and they identify those types of speech as akin to terrorism or crime. Right.

And so suppression of that speech, it's not against free speech. It's part of their war against crime. And the reality is, is like, we are all on these apps, hours on end every day. It's our major forum for discourse, and we are seeing in real time that forum constricting. Yeah, and the more that it constricts, the easier it becomes to seed the preferred narratives into the stream, whether that's the kind of Sean Ryan and what's her name, Sarah. That I was talking about with Clani and Sean on the Parapower Mapping podcast, like all these right-wing ex-intelligence people who are now seating brand-new polished-up versions of global war on terror propaganda. You guys think that they've sent at least 15. Al-Qaeda alone has sent at least 1,500 people here in the United States.

Correct. What do they plan on doing with them? They have a 2025 multi-coordinated multi-city plot to avenge the death of Osama bin Laden. Al-Qaeda is actually who helped plan the Hamas attacks. The Hamas attacks is a dress rehearsal. So the Hamas attacks is the practice attack, and then the big attack is going to be in the United States, and then in four countries in Europe. Okay. So there's that.

And it's easy to see how one or two more, quote-unquote, terror, events could give substantial prominence to narratives like, oh, the Israelis were right all along, and the Russia, China, Iran, axis of evil is an existential threat to America. Yeah. And attributing generically all the bad things that happen in the world to, quote, unquote, quote, America's enemies. Yeah. The unpredictability of it is really what gets me.

The next four years are going to be a crazy shit show and we all know it. But it's like, I'm pretty sure Donald Trump is the kind of guy that if Netanyahu's on the phone with him for 30 minutes, he can gas him up so hard to just get into a war with Iran. You know, like doesn't need to be rooted in any logic. It's just gas the guy up, a few key phrases to get him to latch onto, and you're off to the races. Right. The important thing is, as long as there's a plausible endgame scenario for Trump where he wins, that's the minimum. If you can accomplish that, then you can get Trump to do anything.

If Trump thinks that he's going to lose, you know, that's where. he perhaps more than a Joe Biden has some breaks on how far he's willing to go. Whereas Joe Biden, like, look at the Ukraine stuff, that he pursued that disastrous policy of just throwing more and more and more money for basically military, industrial, experimental purposes. I mean, the cruelty of the prolonging. whatever you think about the origins of the war, the fact of the matter is it could have ended way back in 2022 on terms that are as good or better than what Ukraine will eventually get in whatever endgame Trump brings about. And so Biden didn't have qualms about

losing, in other words. And in certain respects, that, you know, maybe is good for Trump. But it also, it's bad that Trump has that outlook in as much as Trump thinks, oh, I could get an easy win by doing a nuclear for a strike. Yeah. Yeah. That's very scary to think about. But also, I'll add this.

The other thing with Trump, at least in my opinion. You could make anything look like a win. Like with Trump, the whole thing is like he will believe anything is a win if he has to. So it's all about how you frame it to him, you know? Even a loss can be viewed as a win. In Trump's eyes, you just have to get him there. Yeah, which is why so many of his actual policies are total stinkers. They're total losers, like the wall, for example.

The wall is just a stand-in in everything that has been done around the wall, besides having been a Democrat idea in the first place, right? It started construction under Clinton, was expanded under Obama, and so Trump was not the originator of it by any means, but to the extent that he went all in on it, it was a total loser of a policy. and the people behind the scenes, the money people, following the money again, really don't care because now we have Doge. And guess what? Doge is going to tell Trump, no, no, wall doesn't mean like a physical structure. It's just a ton of electronic surveillance, drones, satellites, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, to Musk and all of his cronies. And I don't think we've mentioned.

And in fact, oddly didn't see any of their people there, but Palantir and Anderil, right? The old Peter Thiel companies, perhaps strategically. Stanford Analytica. Yeah. Remember there was the Cambridge Analytica issue those years ago? At that time, everyone was warning about what they called Stanford Analytica, which is Palantir. This was like five, maybe 10 years ago at this point. Yep.

Yeah, it was like first Hillary campaign, right? Exactly. But yeah, I mean, that's the shit. Like, this idea that TikTok is a national security concern, it's like, fuck you. You know, like, Palantir is a national security concern. Oh, yeah. Yeah, 100%. And it goes back to this issue of when you control the channels.

of the flow of information, you can control the content that goes through those channels. So we talked about the example of TikTok cracking down on pro-Palestine speech. And the same goes, and I realize we're over the hour mark here, but I do think that we owe it to our listeners to talk about JFK disclosure. Oh, yeah. And here's another area where I'd like to put out my rather pessimistic fear or paranoia about JFK disclosure.

And that is, you think about the people now dead who have likely fingerprints, or not like, have definite fingerprints on the JFK assassination and cover-up. I'm thinking most especially of Jim Engleton here, who successfully withheld Oswald's CIA files, kept them from the Warren Commission, kept them out of sight, and then selectively manipulated the documentary record way back in the day to give a misleading picture. He also masterminded the control of the investigative commissions subsequent to the Warren Commission by, for example, having one of the people closest to him,

George Joannidis, work as liaison to the House Select Committee. Back in the 70s, he was still had his, deputies controlling the flow of information. How much easier by comparison would it have been to seed the record that was poised to be kept under lock and key way back at that time up until the anticipated publication date of 2039, right? Forge a few documents, hide a few documents, destroy a few documents, and leave a perhaps not definitive, but certainly persuasive paper trail, say linking Oswald to Russia or to Cuba. It gives a free pass to all those involved in the cover-up. They were doing it to prevent

World War III. It casts the paranoia of the U.S. deep state during the Cold War in a vindicating light that, in fact, they were correct to do all that they did in the name of combating so Soviet communism, because Soviet communism was responsible for the death of an American president, and what stops would you not pull out to prevent such a calamity? I just have to put this out there in the public record, because I hope that it's not the case. I hope that the documentary record will be authentic and elucidating, but I would certainly not put it past people with the motive and the opportunity to manipulate the eventual disclosure of documents that those people knew at the time wouldn't be

disclosed for several decades well after everyone involved would certainly be dead so we'll see but I guess in some if the documents show that it was a Russian conspiracy you're going to lose your shit I'm not I'm not going to eat my hat I'm not going to let the CIA off the hook and I'm not going to buy it I'm going to be fuming yeah yeah I'm going to be so fucking mad that would be an epic sort of turn of event okay I think looking ahead right let's some final thoughts here's what I expect and I think today's actions, these executive orders, I'll focus on immigration, but

here's what I expect much of the same, right? It's just going to be, like you said earlier, it's just going to be Trump 2.0, right? He's going to do some crazy out-of-pocket shit. He's going to do some shit that seems facially crazy and out-of-pocket, but substantively it's no different than what has been happening with every administration since the Reagan administration. And a lot of his actions, a lot of his activities are going to get challenged in the courts and things are going to get struck down. And some of them are going to get upheld. And throughout all of it, it's exactly like you say. It's just going to be a further push into fascism. We actually got off to a crazy start with today right you had all of his sort of henchmen in the private sector the

oligarchy that president Biden warned us about last week front and center and you have these executive orders and again i'll focus just on immigration that are doing these crazy crazy things like the one the one that I we were talking before we started the one that I think will get challenged pretty quickly is this ending of the birthright citizenship for future children born to mothers who are in the United States unlawfully that is basically if you're a undocumented immigrant in this country and you have a child your child will no longer be considered a US citizen that one's a pretty crazy one the others they're not that crazy the one that I that I was like I don't I didn't realize this wasn't already a rule which is

requiring immigrants unlawfully in the United States to register and be fingerprinted I'm pretty sure that when you're put in removal proceedings in this country you're required to get fingerprinted and do your biometrics like that's a that's like a immediate requirement as soon as you're in the system and so i i don't see how that's not already a requirement um yeah and then it's like the classic stuff you did last time right it's like putting putting a presence an agency presence in the sanctuary cities while at the same time pulling funding through conditional spending or whatever from the sanctuary cities

it's going to be a lot of the same I think yeah I think that you're totally right and just to underscore the point about continuity that you were making Dick I wanted to share a statistic that was reported by Bloomberg, so, you know, presumably vetted,

the 100 wealthiest Americans whom Joe Biden warned about in his farewell address about the tech industrial complex, right? Those folks gained more than one and a half trillion dollars in wealth over the four years of Biden's administration. Jesus. And collectively the top 0.1% of the richest Americans gained more than $6 trillion, which are numbers that are unimaginable. Right.

I mean, a billion is insane. One billion is an insane. amount of money it's a thousand million dollars and a trillion well that's a thousand billion i think this is a great way to end the episode right because it's this is what we're talking about in the beginning of the episode it's like this is all that really matters this sort of metric that you were just talking about this concentration of wealth this it's just growing right it's just going to be more of that it's just we're just headed in that direction at rapid speed that is going to pick up and we're going to go faster and faster unless something

happens and I doubt something will because everybody is on the payroll. And if they're not, there are no shortage of threats, both covert and open, to force their hand. For example, I caught one threat that seemed particularly targeted during Trump's remarks where he was talking about the wildfires in California and he said that some of the most wealthy and powerful people in our country don't have homes anymore and then he said that's interesting and that little throwaway comment of that's interesting I mean to me the subtext there is. Hey, rich Hollywood freaks. You like your fancy schmancy lifestyles? Well, you better get on board the Estato fascisti. The lo stato corporativo. You better get on board. You better

keep your mouth shut because at the end of the day, your chips are going to fall with us, with the money, people. That's right. So fuck your climate control. Yes, the world is already going to burn, and we are going to throw gasoline on the fire, but we are going to build the biggest, most beautiful bunker that you will ever see.

And our breeding programs inside the bunker are going to be spectacular. Yeah. Animals will be bred and slaughtered. It's Dr. Strange Love was maybe the most accurate film of the 20th century. Totally. And Elon's involuntary arm spasm. Seriously. Is the proof right there in the pudding.

I'm just glad they can finally put Joe Biden to rest. Poor guy. Get him to rest. Get that man. that man in a grave, get him nice and cozyed up for the long sleep. Oh, man, I would love if he grew out his hair and beard for his final days. I bet you, I mean, I hate, you know, I've been on this train for so long. I bet you that we're going to see a major deterioration. I mean, we're not going to see him in the news ever again, basically, but a major decline in his

faculties in the next six months. Mm-hmm. He's no longer getting the juice, you know? Yeah. Yeah, he no longer has people to put words into his mouth. All right. Well, be not dismayed, listener, because if nothing else, the Fourth Reich thesis continues to find very persuasive, evidentiary support.

in the public record before our very eyes every single day. So if nothing else, we can point to what's around us and say, look, look upon the system that you have wrought. And is it not the same than the one that our forefathers fought and died to destroy in World War II That's really What this is all about Isn't it?

Look, if we can just get more people To get on board And start talking about The sad, true fact That we are Unfortunately living in the Fourth Reich I think both You know, I'm not going to speak for you, Don

But I will die a happy man Yes, and I think that's as good a place as any to tie this one off. For now, I'm Dick. I'm done. Saying farewell. And do, keep digging. If it's true, rich man leads a side life, that's what they say from day to day and what to all the poor during their lives.

Don't touch the day with nothing to say. I've been beat up, I've been thrown out, but I'm not down, I'm not down. I've showed up, but I've grown up, and I'm not down, but I'm not down.