The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #256

Episode Date: February 8, 2024

Each week on Patriot Power Hour, Ben ‘The Breaker of Banksters’ and Future Dan explore the latest Liberty, Security, Economic & Natural news, providing the situational awareness needed to execute your preparedness plans. Questions, Feedback, News Tips, or want to be a Guest? Reach out!Ben “The Breaker of Banksters” @BanksterBreaker on Twitter; [e-mail] Future Dan@FutureDanger6 on Twitter

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Patriot Power Hour, we're live, episode 256, February 7th, 2024. Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, here with Future Dan. Future Dan, welcome to Patriot Power Hour. Looking forward to another show with you, man. Hey, Bankaxter Breaker. Good to be here. It's been 256 episodes to get to the point where we're about to pull off the third exercise of the Azure Highland Series.

And I'm looking forward to it. We just had a big semi-final like a pen ultimate planning session. Might turn out to be the ultimate because I think we know what we're going to do. Foreign exercise coming up later this month.

Are you excited? I am. It's definitely looking real to me. We hashed out more than just the outline uh but there is a little bit more finishing touches and final things to be put together and there's just certain portions of this exercise that we won't know until uh we were actually boots on the ground or we reflect upon it after the fact but we're doing a lot of pre-planning to make sure it's efficient, that it actually works well, and that listeners, more importantly, are able to follow along, learn some lessons along with us, laugh along with us, laugh

at us, whatever you want to say. But I'm expecting a lot of successes and a few failures and a lot of everything in between. It's going to be our third and definitely our best exercise we've done on PBN. It's going to be about different things than the previous Azure Highlands. First, Azure Highland, we replicated motor movement out of a built-up urban environment to the refuge of Nuke Guru, a.k.a. the MVC guys' establishment in the mountains, in rural terrain. The second Azure Highland witnessed yourself and I marching on the Shenandoah Trail overnight in the heat of the summer using tactical TPS radio transmitters with maps, Rhino Garmin's, to make a real tough hike in the dark, in completely rugged terrain.

But installment three of Azure Highland is going to be all about getting out of the city in winter conditions this time, not summer. And we're bringing in a third participant. The Intrepid Commander himself will join us. And instead of being a team event from start to finish, like the first three or first two Azure Highlands, this one's going to have individual competition.

Yourself, myself, and James, we're going to do some survival in the cityscape at night in the winter. I'm really looking forward to it because, well, everyone's going to be involved, even NBC guy is going to be the observer controller. And we've planned it out. I like how it's going to be both a competition and a collaborative effort,

kind of a team portion, team survival at the end. But in the beginning, and this is still the exact details to be hashed out, but the one and only Nuke Guru, Dave Jones himself, is going to be putting together a little bit of a scoring sheet, a few criteria for evaluating how we do individually and then how we do as a team. There's going to be a time component to this where it's advantageous to move quickly, but I think you put it the right way

when you say it's similar to golf. There's kind of gentleman scoring of yourself in certain portions because not only are we going to be independent of one another we're going to be on totally different routes miles away from each other so you're going to be kind of responsible for following the rules and not well not only not just getting an uber to the end line of course but uh you know we're trying to avoid major intersections and potential surveillance cameras and it's trying to you're trying to get

out of dodge when stuff hits the fan in the winter um and try not to be seen but it is essentially you know suburbia it's uh you're not able to totally totally be uh invisible so you got to be kind of a gray man how do you move do you try to move quickly or do you try to just kind of blend in? I don't know. There's a lot of different thoughts. We're going to be dropping live podcasts throughout the night from about 6 p.m. to 6 a.m.

We're going to be posting, and probably later on into the day because it's actually a 30-hour endeavor, it sounds like. Anyway, long story short, pay attention to PBN. We're going to be previewing it a little bit more down the line, and it's going to be all over your feed on your podcast feed on, I guess, what day is that? The 18th? Let me look here. We're aiming for the 18th. Yes, 17th to 18th.

Over the 18th. That's the plan, and it's subject to availability of contestants. You know, there's real life, too. But that's the plan. We're going to get this done in winter conditions this year. Azure Highland 3, Gotham, get out. The GGO exercise has officially been born on Prepper Broadcasting Network, and we're going to essentially prototype an event that could be replicated, we hope.

And Preppers love to talk about everyday carry, right? Like lots of people are into debating what everyday carry should be, how you should be trained in it, you know, concealed carry. It often is, you know, essential, you know, in terms of, you terms of carrying a personal firearm. We're going into this with no everyday carry except a multi-tool. The rest of it is going to be the clothes on our back and the wits in our heads and the heart it takes to get over a many-mile route and endure the environment. So this isn't from a fully prepared bug-out kit point of view.

We're not doing that. What we're going to do, though, is we're going to find stuff. We're going to craft stuff. We're going to make do with what we can find and Dave's going to pour us in an individual phase. Then we're going to get together, bring all those crafts together and try to do our best as a team

to move out of suburbia and into rural territory and continue to survive. I'm really excited. It's going to be fun. Yes, sir. Again, 17th and 18thth that's President's Day weekend but it's subject to

change also I don't know I think it's going to be like a low of 40 degrees that weekend and the next weekend it's supposed to be a blizzard we should move it to the blizzard weekend I don't want to make it too difficult but long story short we live in an area where it should be below freezing at a minimum.

And there could definitely be freezing rain, snow, 20-mile-an-hour winds. It could also, again, be like 40 degrees and calm overnight, which wouldn't be as challenging. But I personally think we should make it a little more challenging on our end if it's not that cold. Like we're wearing a little bit less clothes as an example and vice versa if it's like zero degrees we might wear a little bit more but long story short we want it to be challenging and it is definitely a winter endeavor it is it is so gotham get out stay tuned for more announcements, more of the marketing campaign to ensue. But thrilled to have Dave and James participating in this, and it should be interesting.

So watch your Spreaker podcast feed over upcoming weekend for Gotham Get Up, Azure Highland 3. Looking forward to it, looking forward to it. All right, ladies and gents, we're going to be going to break just a couple minutes we'll be right back with the news blitz yep that's right as always the second segment Patriot Power Hour we'll have

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U.S. CENTCOM forces strike Iranians in Iraq and Syria. 125 bombs on 85 targets linked to the Revolutionary Guard. Why burn books when you can bury them? White House pressured Amazon to target dissenting books. Jonathan Turley. Microsoft CEOs as a company working to address election disinformation

and misinformation. In parallel, a senator's arguing that misinformation and disinformation should not have First Amendment protections. These are extremely high-level, highly rated, high-grade on the dashboard. We're going to talk a lot about this after this dashboard. These are the most important articles on the show today. Disinformation, misinformation, and censorship in general. Presidential immunity denied by D.C. appeals court in 2020 election case.

Federal judge rejects challenge to mail in ballots in North Dakota and wow over 1 million jobs which were reported in 2023 didn't actually exist yep falsified government statistics. Four Russian military aircraft detected in the Alaskan Air Defense Identification Zone.

Taiwan, they're starting to doubt America's going to come to their aid if China invades. Those doubts are growing. 75% of House Democrats vote against deporting criminal migrants who commit Social Security fraud. Economically, I'm starting to see some cracks in the system. But, we'll leave that some cracks in the system.

But we'll leave that to later in the show. In terms of actual news and real-time indicators right now, it's relatively calm. A couple articles, are bankruptcies of some U.S. states in the future? Meanwhile, credit card debt increasing by $50 billion to a new record high. Delinquencies of all types are going up

through January 2024, so through the end of last month. Mortgage, auto, credit card, all three types trending upwards above the long-term average. They're not up to 2008, 2009 level, great financial crisis, but they're trending that way

and will be that way by the end of this year. That's without a major crisis if they continue on this rate. We'll continue to watch that. Will the Fed have to lower rates or do more emergency stimulus?

If there's a banking collapse, we're seeing again some of that in the shadows, but not much on the dashboard here otherwise let's move on bitcoin price you know it's uh it's rebounded quite nicely forty four thousand six hundred dollars right now not an all-time high but up nicely in the last year. Pretty much nearly doubled in the past 12 months.

Gold and silver, they've languished, but they sure haven't dropped. Let's go on to some, how about some health and nature mrna vaccines they cause more deaths than covet 19 variants a peer-reviewed study say says mrna covet 19 vaxes cause more deaths than those that were saved by them. Less safe, less effective. Deadly landslide in the Philippines. Volcano in Indonesia. And actually a bright fireball over Mumbai, India, the second in five days. Meteors don't strike twice.

Lightning don't strike twice, but apparently it does. What are these bright fireballs over India? bright fireballs over India. Future Dan, that's the News Blitz for this first episode of February, February 7th, 2024. Censorship by the government is absolutely grade one happening now, as bad as it can get. There's a few other indicators that are red hot, but most of this is a pretty calm week, really, for contemporary times.

Right. In particular, the wars and economic, we're not seeing. I mean, we could talk about these articles, but they're not blaring. They're not escalating, whether it's Ukraine, whether it's the Middle East, whether it's China, Taiwan. We're not on the war front, not seeing much happening this week. Peace is not broken out, though, either. But, yeah, the censorship is happening now

and it's unrelenting. You know, if we had a functional constitutional system, a declaration of war from Congress on the Houthis would cause that to be a declared war, which if Congress voted for it, would be a declared war, right? It wouldn't be unconstitutional. And there's sort of a fine line there.

When ships are getting attacked, you know, you think back when our Constitution went into place, you know, ships could defend themselves anywhere, anytime. That wasn't, you know, necessarily a war, right? It was, you know, an act of war to attack a U.S. ship, of course. So, you know, we don't have the big wars that, you know, we keep an eye on. Four Russian jets flying into our air defense identification zone is grade five, low level, you know, topical news. It's not an active war. They do it all the time. Everybody does it to each other all the time, honestly. So, yeah.

I don't know if you want to dive into any particular headlines and analyze them. I'm ready for it if you are. Let's just rail on the misinformation and disinformation, seeing it come from both the senator and the Microsoft CEO in tandem, in parallel. And there's many others out there, too. It's really the catchword of the season, I guess, the misinformation and disinformation.

They're really putting those out there. And obviously with the senator arguing that it should not have First Amendment protections. Akin to shouting fire in a theater or being a traitor, I suppose. And then the Microsoft CEO says the company is working to address that. Let's dive deeper into that. I want to see what Microsoft is doing there. But while I kind of prep that, what's your initial take? They're scared to death of AI and generative AI can jump onto ChatGPT and use some imagination and substitute words that the censorship inside that tool can block, right?

So you can, you know, people could essentially make up utter lies of the most mischievous type about any topic and substitute keywords, get a result that is smoothly written really fast at a low, low cost, especially if you're using the freeware version. at a low, low cost, especially if you're using the freeware version, you can still produce this stuff and launch it completely out there into cyberspace for others to absorb. And they're scared to death of it right now. There's no real way for any side to prevent itself from being slandered by any other side in the utterly massive wave of of of the people out there that would tend to do that other countries intelligence agencies included

i almost see this at least it just came to my my mind now let's let's vet it let me know what you think i see this similar to terrorism where there is a real threat of terrorism, but that was used in so many other ways. The scope was expanded a little bit beyond that in a lot of ways, I felt like. So here, misinformation, disinformation. If China, Iran, North Korea, whoever, is using AI or other tools to subvert the American public that's definitely bad and i guess you could argue that microsoft and the senate should be helping to combat bad state

actors or terrorists etc but man negative like they're going so much beyond that well all right that's their theory but then they're going way beyond that i'm not with you at all not at all this is freedom of expression and our republic has to be mature enough to allow its free men and women to decide right more information is the answer. Go in and spot the instances of misinformation and arguing against it. And winning the arguments is the answer. That's the American way.

Clamping down on it is fucking foreign. I reject it. Even if it's a known, well-vetted by the NSA, the IP address is sourced out of Russia, it should not be stopped because of the threat that it could be, you know, that's too much, we've got to live in an open society? There's no chance you can trust the authorities.

I mean, I don't trust them, so I can agree with this, but... There's no way the founders did. That's why we have the constitutional amendments. No, there's a line in there like the revelation of classified information and preventing that, preventing the Russians from stealing classified information and then putting it into the ecosystem. They the ecosystem they're going to always try to do that right but what's classified information that was you know legitimately stolen and what's completely made up russian and iranian and north korean and chinese lies right so they're not

going to be able to control it and musk has x now and is not gonna let it be controlled for this election so it's really what a mature constitutional republic in the 21st century has to have as a citizenry that uh you know they're gonna you gotta get the information it's just you know you might not get it through any microsoft channel but if you want it you're going to get it yeah in reality that's how i look at it for sure um unfortunately we don't have a mature enough intelligent enough active enough population my opinion uh because the great majority either doesn't care or will fall for the propaganda, but I don't know. Maybe I underestimate the populace. We'll see. I don't know if being optimistic or pessimistic is necessarily what I'm

thinking about. It's just kind of in real politic terms, that's what really has to happen. The information has to be available and people have to judge it. People have to be able to argue in the public square about it for us to continue as the America that we're supposed to be. I think that in the current generations alive right now, that point of view is not done. Whether it can be extinguished by globalists so that future generations

don't even think that way. They act like subjects of a totalitarian regime. That's a different matter. And that's why we're on the air is to prevent such an outcome for our country. Well, that's definitely true.

I was trying to think of a parallel to like the 18th century. It'd be like, okay, if you know a known British agent is distributing all types of pamphlets and propaganda and nailing things to the town square, we got to let them do it. Would you agree or not? Well, so it depends on if we're at war, right? Okay. Because a declaration of war by a popularly elected branch of government is so very, very important. Because after you declare war.

Okay, okay. Yeah, good point. And after you're in a war with a pure combatant there's the first amendment's out the window you can't you can't win that war by having you know the first amendment you know you know as in peacetime you know same thing goes for firearms right like if there was a massive insurrection inside of the United States, it would be, you know, suspension of those liberties. Absolutely. Posse comitatus, right? That might be necessary to prevent the country from falling to a foreign invader, right? Just got to make sure you have a government in place that you can trust to end the war,

win the war, and return civil liberties. That would be hard for many of us to accept that that's a foregone conclusion these days. Well, that's definitely a blind spot of America because we haven't really had to go through that before, whereas pretty much every country I can think out there, a heck of a lot of examples at least, they have a revolution, and then the government they bring in is as bad or worse than the one that they overthrew as an oppressor.

That happens in all types of countries throughout the world. Well, we succeeded after the Civil War. But during the Civil War, obviously, you know, both sides, you know, they definitely took control of the printing press. What Lincoln did to control the information is a matter of history. And that happens during war. It's always going to happen during wars when the state that's fighting the war is concerned about the preservation of the state fighting the war, right? So, do you think, bring it full circle, Microsoft CEO and or that senator would consider themselves at war with at least part of the American population?

Oh, yeah. That's why they behave that way now. But it's illegitimate. It's not, you know, in any sense, you know. That's not what a war is. Not a congressional act by any means, but in their calculus, they're already at war with us is how I would say. Well, they did use the word insurrection for January 6th,

which by no means was it any historical standard an insurrection. It just wasn't. No, no. And they're definitely talking about the election specifically here. It's not just generally. So they're definitely not talking about propaganda to the children from TikTok as an example. They're not talking about that. Anything else on the censorship?

Very interesting. We'll keep watching it. I mean, it seems like this is accelerating weekly, this disinformation and misinformation, trying to not only warn people about it, a PSA, public service announcement, kind of being tongue-in-cheek here, but also clamp down on it at the same time. I haven't checked today, but last night Tucker Carlson announced

that he was interviewing Putin in Moscow. I don't know if that was released today. Did you see if it was? I know that it was there. I haven't seen the actual interview if it's come out or a photo of him and put it together yet. But I've been working pretty much all day. Let's go look. I don't think so.

It would have popped up in my feed by now, I think. He told everybody that it would go out on TuckerCarlson.com first. And then later it's going on X. So it's not behind a paywall. He said in his announcement that he was doing it. But I suspect a week from now we're going to have grade one black on red, fully actualized news censorship regarding that interview. So this is going to continue to stay hot.

Perfect. That's a short-term and measurable prediction. So we'll be on the lookout for that and try to talk about it next week. What else is on your radar right now? Well, that Tucker Carlson is probably still in Russia, and we haven't seen the interview yet, so what's going on? Good point. Did he put a timeline on that?

Maybe he did the interview yesterday and it's coming out tonight. I have no idea, to be honest. Not that I saw. He said he's doing the interview tonight, and he said that last night. So it's going to be interesting be interested how that comes out hey dc judge putting uh presidential immunity off the table for trump's actions on january 6 2021 uh i'm gonna make a call that's going to supreme court and getting overturned expand upon that.

So for the Supreme Court, it's all about the precedent you're setting. It's a branch of government, co-equal, right? It has its own powers to set precedents. And so they govern the United States of America in that fashion, right? And to deny presidential immunities to Trump as the sitting president would set precedences that would just collapse the ability of the executive branch in our government to function because people are going to come after the president for things as if he was an ordinary citizen. There's already established Supreme Court rulings that they're just going to point to

and just absolutely toss out this D.C. appeals court decision, I believe. If that doesn't happen that way, there's some nuance to it that I'm missing right now, but I'm sure we're all going to be well aware of when that goes before the Supreme Court. I don't want to muddy the waters too much, but let's just say directors and officers of public corporations have certain immunities in their job functions as long as they weren't being totally fraudulent. And so if they could get it, then of course the president should have like 10x that. And as you said, there is a lot of that already proven out in the past.

Yeah, but to be fair, that's an apple and an orange because there's only a limited amount of roles that are even named in the Constitution. only a limited amount of roles that are even named in the Constitution, right? And of course, the entire second article is the powers of the executive branch and the president. The president is the co-equal branch of government to the Congress and the Supreme Court. So we're in an entirely different level of a rule set compared to commercial leaders or any other appointed leader in the government. It's certainly not an argument that he's held to these kinds of standards as a private citizen. It can't make sense and be constitutionally sound.

Good way to put it. Think of him as a branch of government not a person in that regard. That's how the Supreme Court will think of it. Good. Well, I mean, what's the point of the courts doing this? I mean, this is the U.S. District Court

in D.C. I've seen a lot of these courts that seem like... It's an appeals court. It's a federal appeals court. It is the D.C. federal appeals court. So in a lot of respects, it's the secondary place where these big questions get decided before it goes to the Supreme Court. Right. So if it's so, at least in your analysis, let's say, and I seem to agree with it, but I'm not a legal expert.

It seems flagrant and totally off base and it's not going to withstand the Supreme Court or at least shouldn't. It's almost like saying what's one plus one equal three? No, of course not. It'll be overturned. But why would these courts kind of tarnish their reputation and allow such a poorly constructed argument to pass muster? That should be embarrassing to the judges.

If you get where I'm coming at, of course they're doing it politically, is the other end of it. The judiciary is chock full of people who don't even care anymore it's it's it's lawfare and it's a partisan effort by trump's opponents it's naked most of the cases against them that you, the criminal cases, the civil cases, those are going to end up just being money out of Trump's pocket. Whether they're fair or not, they won't necessarily go anywhere on appeal. They could, but, you know, and some of those appeals will just probably end up being that he owes less than before. So setting that all aside, the civil, these criminal complaints

are all going to end up in the same place because they can all be applied to a future president by a future president's political opponents. And all kinds of examples of courts and parties in power in Latin America just doing stuff that made the idea of being a constitutional republic, you know, honestly, it made it absurd. Plenty of examples. Venezuela most recently. So, you know, the Supreme Court, how many of the people on it did Trump even pick, by the way? You know, there could be a different composition of a Supreme Court in the future that could take lawfare right to the top, and then it's banana republic time officially.

But we're not there yet, and that's why I'm saying most of these criminal complaints aren't going to pass the muster, if any of them. Right. And that's good, but it's kind of messed up that it's getting to the Supreme Court and not being thrown out to start with. I'm sure the D.C. court's a little extra special

compared to others, but I've seen a lot of courts nationwide do crazy stuff these days, and the Supreme Court has overturned some of it, but I don't know. There's some other stuff that it hasn't. All right, what else you got? Yeah, economically, we're getting told everything's really great right now. Most people think that right now, too.

So where are the cracks in the armor? What economic indicators do you predict in the middle of 2024 by summer coming into full election swing could be starting to show? Where are the chinks in the Armour, Ben? One thing I will come flat out and say, and you've said this many times on this show as well, is that don't underestimate the american economic engine right so even with all these headwinds and corruption and bs going on

american economy and americans in general are still pretty damn productive and entrepreneurial maybe some people would say we lost our edge but on the other hand i think we still do it's pretty good stuff so look we've been able to get a little further than i thought by uh grinding through it but we've also been burning through our credit in many many different ways for stalling bankruptcy for all intents and purposes the funny thing is you know the it all comes to the federal reserve it all comes to the lender of last resort and it all comes to whether uh they're gonna be able to paper over the deficits or not and they continue to rack up the debt consumers continue to rack up debt but now we're starting to see delinquencies go up but hey we're still growing now are these job numbers total garbage i think they are but

they wouldn't be able to hide you know mass layoffs mass bankruptcies like covid style or even half that right because there were a million plus per week getting the ax. So, yeah, I certainly think the numbers, especially the job numbers and even the inflation numbers are being more than massaged and they're really like pulling out all the stops. Just like the judicial lawfare, right,'re now they're having to be flagrant in front of everybody about it but they'll do it but now we're like whoa holy cow they're not even trying to hide it anymore same with the job stuff but i feel like so many people are so vested into

their pension into their stock market into hell even you know whether it's bitcoin or anything that you own your house your job whatever it is all that stuff people are so vested that they want to believe the lie because even if they know the math doesn't add up they can't risk losing it also like everyone's been using that psychology for a while but i think it's running running to the end but at this point you got to assume the democrats in particular are gonna try to keep the the picture as rosy as possible till november and then then then then it's gonna all blow up especially if somehow trump's able to you know get past any election fraud and win wow they're just gonna like nuke the economy if not the whole world do you see any potential that jay powell would you know start cutting rates right after trump 2.0 was sworn in and have just the democrats absolutely turned against central banking and if they did you know

they wouldn't be for the same reasons that you are against central banking. How would that work out if somehow the Federal Reserve under Jay Powell is actually politically independent? Like demonstrably politically independent? Of course, you always point back to say, oh, it's a uni party, it's all New World Order, they're all together in it together. I mean, that might be the only way you would analyze the situation is just step back and say, I'm outside all of that. But I could see

rate cuts coming about by next January, and I could see Trump being there too. They talked about there being a couple rate cuts this year. Who knows when, number one. Number two, I think you put out a – all right, here – you had a couple of great points.

But first off, remember Occupy Wall Street, how that was so fraudulent about 10, 12 years ago? It's the difference between the end the Fed movement, the Ron Paul movement, versus Occupy Wall Street movement. They both hated the banksters, but totally different reasons and totally different solutions. And I would say the same thing where, yeah, all the leftists would hate the Federal Reserve and the banksters as well, but they would roll all free market entrepreneurial capitalism into that. Of course, they would not say, ah, we need actually more freedom and it would fix this and more transparency. No, we need more centralized control, status interference, etc.

I actually feel like that's a huge part of what they're going to do when the U.S. dollar collapses and they have to replace it with a CBDC or some sort of other new dollar, right? They're going to absolutely blame free market and blame businesses and even blame the banks. They'll make Jamie Dim know an evil guy but he'll be laughing to the bank because he's already pocketed so much and uh he's organizing the whole thing from behind or at least in my opinion not him literally but point is uh the fortune 100 and the and the banksters and friends when the collapse happens and they can't save it,

they will absolutely use every option they can to blame the American system, the traditional American system of free market. They'll totally try to blame that, absolutely. Yeah, that's on deck in the next 12 months probably. I think it could happen almost any night. It's just when do they want to let it happen and or

when do they lose control. I've always thought that if they really wanted to keep it together they still got several years where they could keep it at bay, kick the can down the road a few more times over a few more years. If it happens soon then I think Keep it at bay, kick the can down the road a few more times over a few more years. So that's a way of it. That's what I mean.

If it happens soon, then I think I personally think that that means that they they're making it happen either to take Trump out or who knows why. But I don't know. Maybe it's also gotten so out of control that they might not be able to stop it. We saw last year the Silicon Valley Bank and a few other banks collapsed. The Fed stepped in and the government as well. Bailed everybody out almost as big as the 2008 bailout just then. And people don't even know that.

So if that happens again, but 10 times bigger, what's going to happen the next time after that? That's what I'm looking for. Yep. Meanwhile, our border is getting absolutely bum-rushed by unprecedented amounts of people that are, you know, have every possibility to be lined up and handing somebody else's ballot in in November. So, you know, that's going to get to crisis point this year because it's, there's no,

there's no solution coming out of this Congress in this president. There just isn't. So that, you know, spending bill on Ukraine, Israel, Taiwan, also, you know, tied to, you know, doing something about the border being overrun right now. That's what a lot of corporate media is currently talking about. But the impacts on this country within 5, 10, 15 years are going to be profound. It's going to be profound. And what I have to do is sit back and hope that

either in this first generation of immigrants or in future generations of their descendants, we can talk to them. We can tell them this is the way it could be with a country that we were. Right. So patriot power, we're not going to stop. We're going to make and common sense will prevail. Right. People will see that there are better ways, especially if you're getting bused to downtown New York City and your first impression of the United States of America is that growing hellhole. There will be people looking for better answers.

I know it's true. For sure. Oh, and that is a little bit of, uh, the charm of America is a lot of people that came here. Sure. Shit.

We're promised a lot better than what they actually got. And a lot of people worked their way out of it. A lot of people didn't, but, uh, hopefully they will turn towards, Hey, I want,

you know, I want the real American dream not oh I just want a bunch of handouts and do whatever my Democrat rulers tell me to do in my new home in Chicago or New York or whatever that trucker rally

or I guess more than truckers but the rally down at the border was peaceful so that was good no false flags or anything like that but yeah the border is a tough one was good no no false flags or anything like that but yeah the border is a tough one but i just i don't see how they possibly could just let it continue the way it is it's it's flagrant disregard and has to be purposeful for economic and for political reasons like you said so the way trump in a second presidency could deal with it is

just bypass the federal bureaucracy and work directly with governors and, uh, you know, let, you know, just cause the federal agencies that can't do anything effectively to stand down, just let, let, let the border States and internally arrest the illegals and deport them. He's promising that, and that's a tipping point. If he's not there to do that, the permanence of the Democrat Party could be established for the rest of our lives. honestly it's already there without more more coming it seems like but

but I ain't giving up yet so only got a few minutes left here I know we were supposed to take a mid break but I did not end up doing that sorry what else you got on the docket for today well i didn't get an answer back from james whether he's going live at eight he said it's

pre-recorded so he's able to uh we're able to continue a little longer if we want yeah yeah so maybe we end where we began now that you've had like an hour or two to absorb the reality of Gotham get out, do you have any personal goals that you want to satisfy? Outside of the competition and outside of the team phase competition, just takeaways. What are you aiming for out of this, Ben? Good question. I actually know the area

pretty well, so one of my things I really would be looking for would be not getting lost, but I sure as heck better not get lost here, so that's not even that great of a goal. Maybe I'm really bad with crafting. Maybe I could actually work to get something

like that. I just get doing, I don't even know, man. I just want to do it well and not be a little complainer. Not that I complain, but just tough it out and be successful. I don't know. I'm looking forward to it, though. So what I'm aiming for is not during the exercise. It's the subconscious impetus that persists after it's over.

To continue, you know, to say, you know, should I take a little extra time and get my affairs, my preps just advanced in some manner better? So because, you know, that impetus, that background, that recent experience of embracing the suck, you know, kind of causes me to, you know, gives me propulsion out of the exercise for many, many months. The other Azure Highland exercises definitely did that. And also some confidence building that, you know, I did that. I'm still able to do that. I'm able to pass on what it's like to others who haven't tried it

and hopefully encourage them to test their boundaries. You know, that's important too, confidence building. But maybe just putting a little of the subconscious fear factor back into my life to know that, you know, even though your preps and your plans were meticulous and well-practiced, you might find yourself without what you hoped you were going to have, and can you do it from that point forward? I think that's what I'm hoping to do out of this exercise, and I'm excited that we've embarked on announcing it, getting it out there,

and more to follow to our audience. And on that note, any suggestions, comments, feedback to ourselves or the Intrepid Commander or the NBC guy Dave Jones ahead of this, we're looking for some input from the audience to make it a better exercise. So reach out to us. Ben, how can they reach out to you on social media? Yeah, I think my email and X or Twitter is both in the description of this podcast here. So to throw in the banksters at protomail.com

and at banksterbreaker send me a DM or tag me I guess send a message out into the ether and tag me or send me a DM but I like the idea of that and really send a message to NBC guy if you don't want us to know about it

because remember he's the controller so if you want to want us to know about it because remember he's the controller so if you want to give the NBC guy a couple ideas maybe a couple scenarios or dilemmas we got to face or crafts we can make send it to him and we won't

even know about it or you can send it to us and we can think about it too you know it doesn't have to all be secretive but I thought that would be a little extra to put in there. Awesome. So that's it. Episode 256 on Featured Power Hour on Prepper Broadcasting Network.

It's been a pleasure, Ben. Absolutely, absolutely, everyone. Have a great night. We'll be back with episode 257 before you know it. And then right thereafter, Gotham Get Out. Catch you later, Future Dan. Later, bud. Thank you. I am paying for this microphone. Thank you for listening to the Prepper Broadcasting Network,

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