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Episode Date: February 24, 2022Head writer and chief researcher for Glenn Beck Jason Buttrill joins Glenn and Stu to discuss the Russian invasion of Ukraine and what the invasion might look like. Host of "Your Welcome" Michael Mali...ce joins Glenn to analyze Russia's invasion through a historical lens. Glenn lists off the things we should be doing in the wake of the Russian invasion of Ukraine that will help in the fight against evil. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Very important podcast today.
We go through what is happening on the ground in Ukraine.
What Russia is doing?
There's a couple of tense moments between me and Bill O'Reilly.
We disagree on.
Putin being crazy or crazy like a fox.
You'll hear that on today's program and a list of things that you can do,
how this affects you, all on today's podcast.
You're listening to the best of the blend.
Today is one of those days where we're going to try to figure out what's going on together.
Some things really bother me don't seem right.
Let me just start with what happened at 550.
a.m. Thursday morning,
Russia time. Putin was wearing the same suit and the same red tie that he wore on Monday,
as he took to the airwaves and warned President Biden and NATO not to intervene in Ukraine.
He said his plans, interesting choice of words, were to denazify Ukraine.
He continued to stick to his factually inaccurate version of Ukraine's history, saying essentially
that Ukraine was always part of Russia.
His attempts here in the last few days to rewrite history at his convenience seemed to me to be something
that we talked about on yesterday's program, a very calculated plan in his own home country,
of working towards capital T traditionalism.
If we have time, we'll get into that again today.
If you don't know what it is, listen to yesterday's podcast.
We went deep into it.
He was misleading everybody, you know, saying that he's not going to do any of these things.
Within hours of the speech, the Interior Ministry of Ukraine said that there had been hundreds of casualties.
CNN reported, despite Russia insisting early that they were only attacking military installations
and were voting populated areas, that's not true.
President Biden responded to Putin's attack last night, saying the prayers of the entire world
were the people of Ukraine as they suffer an unprovoked and unjustified attack by Russian
military forces.
There is, this is real trouble.
and there's some things that just don't make sense.
I'm going to give you just a couple more pieces of the news,
and then we're going to start talking to some experts today
on what they think this means.
Our Dow, let me look at our futures.
Our Dow futures are down about 800 points.
I know when you're talking about the loss of life,
that does seem like something you should worry about,
but the world is about to change
if this continues.
The Dow is down 770 points right now.
Oil is up to almost $100 a barrel.
Your stock markets all around the world are going through the floor.
There's no place worse than in Russia.
Russia, their stock market, was cut in half.
And you have to ask yourself,
how is he going to benefit from this?
What is the real game?
We'll get to that here in just a little while.
Meanwhile, most Americans want nothing to do with it.
Most Americans are saying we're not going in for Ukraine.
I don't think we should either, but we should support Ukraine.
And we should also call out the devil that Putin is.
I'm tired of people making excuses.
for Putin. What he is saying is not true. Let's not be Neville Chamberlain. However, that doesn't
mean we go and fight it. It means we just call a spade a spade. Ukraine is absolutely corrupt.
We know, just if you paid attention to any of our specials on Ukraine with the Biden people
and his son and everybody else that was in Ukraine, we have,
Under the guiding hand of Barack Obama, we have meddled in Ukraine and just, it's horrible, horrible corruption of what we have been involved in in Ukraine.
We shouldn't have been there in the first place.
We should mind our own business on that.
That's not an isolationist thing.
That's a let's get out of everybody else's business, please, especially when that business is corrupt.
They are corrupt, but they are a democratic society, and they do not want to go back to Russia.
Anybody who says that, I just would remind you, look up the word holodomor.
They know what happens when Russia comes in to their place, and they are not interested in going back.
Gold is up, and the Chinese.
The Chinese media has leaked censoring rules on Ukraine.
The Chinese news organization, they say accidentally leaked.
I don't think so.
It's censorship plans regarding Russia's invasion into Ukraine.
The organization said it needed to be sensitive on the matter
because it would need Russia's support when we wrestle with America to solve the Taiwan issue once and for all.
I do not believe that that was a mistake and nobody's going to be disappeared on that little mistake.
They're sending America a message.
I want to bring in Jason Butrell, who is with us now.
Hi, Jason.
Hi, Glenn.
You and I have been talking about this for a long time.
We have spent a year on Ukraine.
And this takes both of us by surprise.
I have to hand it to the intelligence community, although I don't feel comfortable.
Something's not right here.
But the intelligence community and the Biden administration said this is what he was going to do,
and he's done it.
Yeah, I agree.
It's really crazy because when you study geopolitics, you learn to analyze and look at these things from that lens.
You're taught that geopolitics is a study of maps.
It's demographics, numbers.
it's interest, hardline interests.
And when someone starts acting, you know, emotionally like Putin has been doing over the past really year plus,
you learn to kind of put that away and say, okay, well, he's obviously after something else,
which I still think there's something else, you know, involved, just like you said.
So when the Biden administration was kind of saying, you know, now this is happening, full-scale invasion, all that,
I didn't believe it was happening.
I didn't.
I was looking for something behind what was going on.
and because of this all seems so irrational.
But I think the intelligence community was spot on.
I've seen reports that it actually, you know,
the intelligence community coming out and saying that false flag attacks would happen.
That would be the preempt to them doing a full-on invasion.
I wasn't buying it.
They were exactly right.
And the reports say that it actually delayed Putin's invasion by it possibly even a week.
Like they wanted to do this last week and not this week.
So the intelligence community,
and Biden administration were exactly right on this.
Now there's ways to criticize other things, which we can get to later of what they've done.
But just a quick recap, the media started reporting last night that the invasion was
going to commence around 4 a.m. Kiev time.
And pretty much that was spot on.
It happened around 410, 415 Kiev time.
And it's very, very conventional from what I've been noticing.
I'm following this all night.
This is not like Crimea in 2014 with unconventional warfare.
This is a very conventional invasion.
What we saw commencing around 4-8 in Keev time was airstrikes, a target command and control systems.
That went as far as Keyes.
And it's a three-pronged attack coming from Belarus,
coming from Crimea and the south, and coming from mainland Russia and the east.
Now, we do not know how far they plan to push this, but it is a conventional invasion.
it looks as if they will probably go further than just eastern Ukraine.
Question now is how far they will go and how far tensions will rise,
especially with NATO gathering troops all along the border of Ukraine.
Okay, so let's let's, it looks as though he was using conventional warfare to cut off the troops
as they were kind of gathered at the borders of the two disciplines.
districts that President Putin said he was going to take, they went behind those lines and kind of
cut them off so they can't fall back to defend Kyiv, correct?
Yes, that's correct, because they know that Ukraine's strategy here is they know they're going to
get overwhelmed. So their strategy is their mainline forces in the east guarding those two
territories, as you said. Their strategy is to do a tactical retreat back into the urban
areas within Ukraine. Then it turns into both a hybrid guerrilla warfare and heavy urban warfare
in the large Ukrainian cities. That is very, very bloody. That is very, very dangerous for the
Russian military as well as civilians, which Russia does not want to kill too many Ukrainian civilians
because that is going to be very, very unpopular in mainland Russia. But Ukraine strategy here,
as I said, is to get into the cities and turn this into an urban conflict and drive.
it out for as long as possible. Russia wants to stop that. Then that explains why they dropped
in behind the troops there. Can they take the whole country just by air and cutting it all off?
They absolutely can take the whole country in the short term. It depends on how effective their
air assets are, and that's what we're seeing right now. We're seeing the bomb from the air. We're
seeing cruise missile strikes. So cutting off command and control all over the country and crippling Ukraine,
so they can eventually roll into the capital.
That will happen, is my guess,
unless somebody else intervenes,
which I kind of highly doubt.
But a short-term victory
is really all Russia can hope for here.
And that's another puzzling thing,
because I can't imagine they think they win
in the long-term.
In the long-term, it's going to be too damaging
financially and politically for Russia.
So it's catastrophic in the short-term.
In the long-term, I don't see how they win this,
unless there's some other grander strategy that we just don't know about,
which could even be scarier, actually.
So we have some puzzling things.
First of all, Putin said he wants to denazify Ukraine.
Any idea what that's about?
Same rhetoric he's been using since 2014.
And that's directed more at the people of Russia,
not anybody else in the world or Ukraine.
but he's been using that World War II sentiment to get public support to do what he's now doing.
But that's going to continue and no doubt he's going to provide some air quote evidence,
you know, that they're taking out some Nazi, but he's drawing on World War II nationalism.
He said that there has been an ongoing genocide in Ukraine that he's trying to stop.
I mean, this is crazy.
And that's what makes it so hard for me when I was looking at this before to really think that he was going to go through with this.
Because usually, but Putin is not a crazy guy.
I mean, he may be now, but in the past he's not been.
He's been very cold calculating.
Geopolitics and interest was always forefront in his mind.
He's not a, he's not a psychopath.
I mean, well, he might be.
But he doesn't, he's not somebody driven by rage.
He is cold and calculating.
And when he, I mean, he's out and out evil.
He is a bloodthirsty killer who has spent a lifetime killing people.
But he's logical in it.
He's very calculated in it.
And the rhetoric, I mean, I think the Nazi stuff, the religious,
of stuff, that's all, that's, that's, that's Dugan kind of language.
Yeah, and, and that's a very, very powerful weapon for Russians, uh, because they're,
they're very much willing to, uh, to suffer and to, you know, to basically take it,
you know, on the chin. If they have to, if that means that their country, you know,
will eventually reign supreme. Um, it's, it's interesting. If you go and take a, uh, if you take a tour of
the Kremlin and Red Square and Russian.
which I've done a couple of times.
You'll be very surprised to see that the Soviet, you know, the former Soviet Union, the capital,
in the red square, it's probably like 80% churches.
There's multiple churches.
They weren't religious during the Soviet Union, but historically, during the Russian Empire,
they were very religious.
Orthodoxy is very, very pivotal to Russian nationalism.
And even the Soviets would turn that up when they needed to.
But that's exactly what Putin has done in the vein of Alexander Dugin.
especially in that speech that he gave, you know, last week.
That was very, very telling to a lot of us that have been looking at this,
people like you and me, Glenn, that, okay, now we know exactly what he's doing.
He's turning up that dial of nationalism to justify doing, you know,
what he's doing and possibly even more, which is scary.
Okay.
Would you agree with me, and I'd like you to explore this a bit,
there is no real obvious win for Putin.
His stock market has crashed.
This is going to be horrible.
They are in the oil business.
They just made a deal with China,
but that's years down the road.
They're going to shut down all of the oil exports
into any Western country because of this.
So his oil is going to crash,
which funds his government.
and his country. The stock market is down. Business is going to be cut off. It's already a shambles
in Russia. What does he have to gain here? Can you think of anything that he has to gain?
I've always thought from the beginning of this, especially when I thought didn't think that
invasion was happening. I thought that what he was really doing was playing a game to divide and
conquer NATO. That's what I thought, and I still think that's a major part of its plan. Taking Ukraine
is also very, very important strategically for Russia to get strategic depth.
It's always been their plan was to have some buffer so they can protect the capital of Moscow.
Yeah, but also the warm water port.
Exactly, yeah.
When he's talking about, you know, there are, you know, the heart of Russia, that's true,
but I don't really think that really guides him.
I think that's just the excuse he uses to, you know, to get support from home.
But I think that it's very, and it's very important.
irritating. I think that we're talking about Putin is not a psychopath. I think he is very spiteful.
I think that the Russian election interference, which I don't think did anything. I don't want to
say that it did, but their election interference, I think was a direct response to Hillary Clinton
and what they did to his election. I think that a lot of what we're doing now, I think was a direct
response to how the Obama administration and all his foreign policy elite handled 2014 Ukrainian
revolution. I think he responds to these people, you know, directly in kind. That's also a reason why he was
willing to back off of this when Trump was there because he knew that that was not how they operated
and they weren't the ones directly responsible for what happened. And I also think that it's ridiculous
that NATO wouldn't respond. I wouldn't say, hey, look, we're not going to admit Ukraine into
NATO. Why couldn't they say that? NATO was irrelevant. And the irony of this is now that we're Putin responding to
that is making NATO relevant again. So I think that eventually his goal is to play the long game.
Eventually, there's going to be NATO countries like Germany's not going to want to attack.
They're not going to want to send troops. No. That's going to cause a divide in NATO.
That's going to because of divide between the U.K. and France. They're not going to want to attack either.
And eventually this will play out to where NATO will do exactly what he said was what he wanted.
He wanted NATO to do a withdrawal. That benefits China and everybody else that's on Russia's side.
So his ultimate goal is the long game, divide NATO, possibly even the end of NATO, and to get strategic depth with Ukraine.
Okay. Thank you very much, Jason. I appreciate it.
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I think there's two things that we as Americans need to make very clear.
Vladimir Putin is an evil, bloodthirsty killer.
He is a totalitarian.
that does not mean the second point I'd like to make clear that we should go to war.
Those can be separate and equal.
And we need to support all we can, the people of Ukraine.
And I mean that as people.
Mercury 1 is working with Slovakia right now.
Slovakia is taking in refugees.
There are going to be people that are going to be running and escaping Ukraine.
And we are looking into ways to help them.
We as people can help the people of Ukraine.
A guy who knows communism really inside and out is Michael Malice,
this lie that Putin is sharing that, you know, it's just a, it's a Russian territory.
And, oh, they love Russia.
Let me use one word to remind the world, Holodomor.
They don't love Russia.
Michael Malice is here with us now, the author of The Anarchist Handbook and also,
dear leader, Michael, can you, you escaped from a communist country or your family did, right?
Yeah, I was born Ukraine.
You're born in Ukraine.
Yeah, we were from Western Ukraine, Levovoux specifically.
Wow.
So I didn't know it was Ukraine.
So you give us perspective on what's happening.
Well, I mean, I think the problem we have with, I'm going to take a little bit of a meta approach,
the problem we have with kind of the way our media set up is you and I are discussing a very dynamic situation.
We have very limited information.
The information we're given is often intentionally, a fussatory, certainly from Russia's perspective.
So we're kind of shooting off the hip and people want to understand how should I look at this.
and anything you and I say is going to be a little bit,
it should be taken with a grain of salt,
just like anything we see in the media, generally speaking,
but especially when it comes to a war situation
where it's enormously advantageous for both sides
to kind of keep their cards close to their chest.
I would disagree with you a slight bit.
I don't think Putin is a totalitarian,
not every dictator is a totalitarian,
but that is a silly semantic point that really is neither here nor there.
What would you call him?
Wait, wait, how would you classify him?
You could be a dictator without being a totalitarian.
He's not literally a Stalinist or a Hitler figure.
I agree with you completely that when you're talking about missiles hitting cities,
our concerns should be with civilians and making sure they're kept safe.
I mean, I think it's fair to say, Glenn, this is the kind of thing that you and I,
and pretty much everyone listening to this
couldn't really
expect to see in our lifetimes.
This is something, you know,
war in Europe and this level
is something that was regarded
as relegate to history books.
So I think
we're all a bit like,
what do we do now? But thankfully,
it's really, it's kind of bone-chilling.
We have the strong firm hand of Joe Biden in the White House.
Yes.
Head the foreign policy committee. That's why Obama
tapped him. This is how
smart Obama was, he saw this coming, so he picked Joe Biden as his foreign policy extra VP. Now he's
in the White House. So we can rest the sure. The Ukrainian people can rest assured Joe Biden has your
back. Tell me what it's like in Ukraine. Well, I left when I was one to half, but my parents...
Well, as a one and a half, so it was very big. The rooms were very large. No, they weren't,
even when you're one to half. I assure you. But my...
parents did not, you know, if they had any chance of me having a hopeful life there, I would have
remained. But again, this was the 70s, this was the USSR. It was a very different time.
Ukraine, don't say that Ukraine, which is a region. Ukraine is a country. Ukraine is, you know,
obviously much more liberalized. But the point you made earlier in the introduction, the level
of animosity from Ukrainians to Russians, and to Russia,
specifically, I don't want to say Russians, excuse me, is really, really high to the point where
if you speak Russian or that is kind of a bit of a faux pa, because there's such a memory of
decades of oppression. But on the other hand, eastern Ukraine does have more affinity
toward Russia than Western Ukraine, which has historically more aligned with Europe.
I mean, it's the reason why we say Kiev instead of Kiev, which we've always.
always said because Kiev is the way the Russians have pronounced it, if I'm not mistaken, right?
Correct. That's correct, yeah. Yeah, yeah. When he says he's going to denazify the Ukraine,
or Ukraine itself, what does that mean to people in Ukraine? Oh, it meant that all those truckers
somehow crossed the ocean.
And now they're in Ukraine.
They really kicked them out of Canada good.
I mean, it means
it's nothing, it's nonsense.
It's complete, you know, double talk.
It was the same thing that East Germany said for years
for their oppression,
which is, oh, you know, we're getting rid of all the Nazis,
which were kind of, they claimed was historically,
a specifically West German phenomenon.
How could that even be possible?
So when you're talking,
when you're talking, here's the thing with Putin,
and just with the Russian approach,
it's kind of like saying things that are so audacious and ridiculous on its face,
but it's daring you to call their bluff.
So whatever he's saying, I mean, in any time of war,
you only have to roll your eyes and be like, okay, this is not-sensical.
So, Michael, I know that you and I disagree on the size of government.
You say zero.
I say, you know, some.
and we both disagree with going into Ukraine, I imagine, and sending military and troops and getting
involved in another war, et cetera, et cetera.
Can you explain how do you square the circle when it comes to things like Hitler?
If we would have acted sooner and acted with force before he went into Poland,
things might have been different.
You catch these guys early and don't give them any air to breathe.
How would you deal with this in your utopian world?
Well, I don't live in a utopian world.
You live in an utopian world because in your utopian world,
you can go into someone who was duly elected like Hitler was
and you could overthrow the government and somehow that's not going to have negative consequences.
So the non-utopian world I live in recognizes that there are,
going to be extremely evil people like Hitler. And in order to do this, you have to make sure
they are not given incentives and mechanisms to increase their power. And the only way a Hitler
can become a Hitler is with the government. Without a government, you're just going to have him
be a homeless painter. So that's one thing. I don't think anyone has or had a solution to Hitler.
I mean, Hitler happened.
So there was no good options on the table at the time, especially, and most importantly,
and this goes back to the person you and I hate the most in terms of America, Woodrow Wilson.
If the West hadn't been so exhausted as a result of the Great War,
if they hadn't seen an entire generation lost for no reason,
there would be far more appetite to take on a Hitler.
This is one of the reasons Neville Chamberlain had his appeasement
because he's like, we're not doing this again.
I can't, whatever the cost is, we're not paying it because we just paid the cost yesterday, effectively.
So in your non-utopian world, looking at our utopian world, how does a Michael Malice solve that, do you, if you don't want him to be a dictator, don't let him grow into things, don't give him access to things.
Do you cut off his access to the West?
To Hitler?
No, no.
like Putin.
What would you do if you were, go ahead.
I don't, I am not,
this, you're talking,
there's a big difference between, you know,
a political philosophy and theory,
whether, you know, the founding father's vision of America,
my vision of anarchism,
or some kind of Bernie Sanders' social democracy,
I don't know that any of those really matter
when it comes to a situation of war
that we're fighting today.
I'm not a military strategist,
I don't think I have any particular insight into geopolitics or we should sanction this region or let some route in through the Caspian Sea or something like that.
I don't have any good answers for you, Glenn. I'm sorry.
Oh, that's, I mean, I think that's one of the best answers.
I have heard from anybody.
Everybody's willing to spout off.
And, of course, you know, those of us who are clearly right do.
Anyway, Michael, thank you.
No, go ahead.
Just quickly, anyone who thinks that there is some kind of magic wand that's going to resolve a situation against, you know, one of the largest countries in the world who's actually already shooting missiles in the cities, I think they're just being inaccurate.
Do you think that Vladimir Putin is, Bill O'Reilly and I just had this argument, he thinks he's crazy.
He thinks he's always been, always been rational, blah, blah, blah, blah, but now he's crazy.
I don't think he's crazy.
I just don't think we understand what his goals are.
The whole point, the reason I wrote, Dear Reader, my North Korean book is to demonstrate how evil, rational, and logical their system is in order to further the Kim's family and their control and power.
There's nothing Putin's doing that is remotely crazy just because it's something evil or we don't understand.
Correct. Correct. We just don't understand what his real motives are, what his end game is.
We can look at it from our perspective and say, that's ridiculous. But until we understand,
him, we won't, we don't stand a chance. We don't stand a chance. Thank you, Michael. I appreciate it.
Always a pleasure, Glenn. Take care, guys. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program.
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Sure, sure. So Dow is down about 600 points right now, which is off of its lows from the last
24 hours, but still down quite a bit.
It's still what, about 2%, not bad.
Bitcoin is at about 36,000, which is about near its lows since the 2021 price increase.
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well, only because people who have Bitcoin may have taken out margins and bet on stocks,
and they're going to have to pay that back. So you might see an initial fall of Bitcoin.
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Oil is over $100 a barrel for the first time since I think 2014. It's at 104, basically right now.
Um, gold is approaching $2,000 an ounce.
It's at 1929 right now.
Uh, so what an appropriate, what an appropriate, uh, number, 1929.
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Okay.
Um, so people, my own family has written to me, what do we do? What do we do?
Um, I want you to, uh, I want you to, uh,
think about things this way. Look, there are so many ways this whole world can come apart.
We are looking at a very, very fragile situation all over the world. It's not just America.
This is happening all over the world, especially in the West.
There is a feeling in me, a friend said to me, don't run away from something, always run toward something.
and you'll know when it's time to find that thing or that thing will appear when the seasons change.
He said, watch the leaves on the trees, and you will know when the seasons change.
I will tell you that I think we have hit a season change.
I've been feeling it this last week, week and a half, that something is different and it's a season change.
thing, we're entering a new phase.
So some of the things that I would suggest you do, some may dismiss, but I will tell you,
we are fighting evil now.
We are.
And evil is, it's just rearing up its head and it thinks it's going to win.
It doesn't know what's coming for it, but it thinks it's going to win.
I know how it ends.
We all know if you're a Christian, we all know how this ends.
It's just which side are you going to be on?
And it's going to be very easy to get lost and get swept up into things.
So let me give you a couple of things that we should be doing.
First of all, pray.
You should be praying and reading your Bible every day and be on your knees asking for guidance.
And listen and obey that still small voice that you hear.
There's nothing more important than that.
Get into groups and neighborhoods that think alike.
Find a group of friends that maybe will join you on this path and you can help each other.
We are going to need each other if we're going to survive.
If you are all alone, move.
Don't be the only person that is in your area and you're feeling alone.
Get out.
find like-minded people because the seasons have changed.
When you're preparing, think about the community as a whole.
I have a small town in Idaho that I just love.
And I move there because it's a small town.
And they're all farmers.
And farmers know that they're going to have to take care of each other.
And right now we are doing things as a town like we're building a smoker.
because we know if there's a shortage of meat and let's say there's a shortage of power
and power keeps going in and out.
There's going to be a shortage that we won't be able to deal with.
So let's go learn how to smoke meat so we can smoke some beef and store some beef if it gets to that point.
You know, we didn't have a warning in 1929, really.
It wasn't, it was the roaring 20s and then maybe a couple of years into it, a couple of years before 1929.
Some signs started to appear.
But it was a pretty fast crash.
We've had almost two decades to prepare.
So there's no excuse here.
We have the warnings.
You're either listening to them or you're not.
And if you're not, man, there are less stressful shows to listen to, honestly.
honestly,
um,
prepare now.
Uh,
and here's a couple of things you can do.
At this point,
I would make sure that I had a week's worth of cash on hand.
Why?
Because if I,
if I were Vladimir Putin and we started getting hit financially,
I would unleash my team of hackers and I would shut down oil pipelines.
I would shut down,
um,
the access to our banks, I would disrupt through hacking as much as I can.
He remember, he said World War III will be fought with ones and zeros.
I don't know how prepared we are for that, but he's very prepared for that.
So we should be.
This isn't attack against just the government.
This is an attack on us, make the people as miserable as possible.
So we could see, in very short order, banking,
holidays. It would be rational. If somebody is attacking our financial systems, then they got to shut
them down for a while and it would cause great instability. Do you have enough money just to be
able to buy the things that you would need to buy so life is okay during a banking holiday?
You might want to have more than that. Fill your gas tanks and keep them, keep extra gas in gas
tanks, there will be shortages.
Keep them tapped up.
So if you needed to go someplace, you can go.
Call your oil heating company and tap your tank off if you can.
Gas for heat and cooking.
Get those tanks filled now.
It'll be cheaper now than later.
But also, you want to make sure if there is any disruption, you're not going into it
with half a tank.
if you fill your pantry, you will thank me in a year.
If you go out and buy food today, you will thank me in a year because inflation alone is going to go through the roof.
It will.
If you can get vegetables and even canned them out of season, but you can get them now, I would get them and can't them and can them.
they're going to be harder to get the price of fertilizer and and just having a farm is going
through the roof.
These things are going to be more scarce next year.
If you if you if you can, I would have a year's worth of food supply for my family.
And if I really had money, I would plan for others as well.
We are going to need one another.
And that's why I say be in these communities.
because somebody's going to have something that you need and they're going to have something that you need and you're going to have something that they need.
Begin to think this way.
Really, really important.
Watch the other hand.
This is a very dangerous and fragile time for freedom.
Look how fast Canada.
called people terrorists and shut them down.
This is going to happen while we're not paying attention or for some other reasons.
It is vital that you get involved in your local and state politics.
You call your state reps and tell them to stop ESG standards from being used in your state.
It is so important.
These standards are pretty much what the Canadian government is doing to the truckers.
Get your state to pass a law also against a single Fed coin.
I'm going to give you a story here that I can't believe we missed in June 2021.
The Bank of England, that's their Federal Reserve.
The Bank of England has called on ministers to decide whether a central bank digital currency
should be programmable, ultimately giving the issuer control over how it is spent by the recipient.
Tom Mutton, the director of Bank of England, said during a conference on Monday that programming
would become a key feature of any future bank digital currency in which the money could be programmed to release only when something
happened. You can introduce programmability. It happens to be one of the participants in a transaction.
It puts a restriction on the use of that money. There could be some socially beneficial outcomes
from that, preventing activities which are seen to be socially harmful in some way. This is what
they were talking about two years ago. If you don't think that digital currency is coming, you're
mistaken. It is right around the corner and it could be something like what could be coming in response to
Putin and our cutting him off on the banks. He will respond, I believe, in ones and zeros. And then
the government will have its new virus. It'll be a computer virus and they'll have to protect us and shut
things down. Get your kids out of school if you can, but local schools, if you're, if you have to have
to local school, make sure you know all about it. Again, if you're the lone voice, move now.
If you are joining the truckers here in America, make sure you are not following a leader.
Make sure you're following God and the peace and actions of Christ. Get the Martin Luther King
pledge of non-violence and get everyone in that group to sign it.
If they will not sign it, you may be in the wrong group.
Between real crazies who want to burn the entire thing down through war or chaos, plants
from the left who are Antifa, and the fact that media, the capital police, and the FBI actively
in one way or another want to define us as terrorists, be very, very, very, very,
very careful. Look how fast it happened in Canada. Remember, chaos is from the adversary. It is what I believe
Putin is creating now. I think he's doing it intentionally, but I could be wrong. That's only a guess.
We are not asking for chaos. We are asking for a return to order. The constitutional order.
that is really an important difference.
If we can just keep our heads about us and not freak out,
if we can have faith that we have God guiding us,
and if we live righteous lives,
if we are people of merit, as George Washington said,
he will see us through.
I expect miracles to be seen in your,
your time, in your life, you will see clear hand of God miracles if you haven't already.
Billy Graham was right when he said, God's doing stuff with people all over the world.
And one of these days, he's going to turn on the lights and it'll be a surprise party for Satan.
And you will see that the solution could only have come from God because it's all of these individual people standing up.
I was talking to Stu yesterday about people actually having dreams or hearing from God.
I think that is a growing thing.
Don't dismiss those promptings.
Don't dismiss them.
