The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #257

Episode Date: April 3, 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

The Reaction The Reaction Not too long ago, two friends of mine were talking to a Cuban refugee, a businessman who had escaped from Castro. And in the midst of his story, one of my friends turned to the other and said, we don't know how lucky we are. And the Cuban stopped and said, how lucky you are. I had some place to escape to.

And in that sentence, he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. And in that sentence, he told us the entire story. If we lose freedom here, there's no place to escape to. This is the last stand on Earth. This is the last stand on Earth. The last stand on earth. SILENT PRAGUE © transcript Emily Beynon You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour. This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence. and independence. Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com.

Patriot Power Hour, we are live. It's April 3rd, 2024, Ben the Breaker of Banksters, here with Future Dan. How you doing there? Yeah, we're on our estimated 25th season. yeah we're on our estimated 25th season as the uh you know the we split up the actual year into three months quarters and so now we're back in the spring season it's been a long period without patriot power at least the two of us so i'm really excited to be back yes sir episode 257 it's really been we haven't been on air together at least since Gotham

Get Out which was holy cow like 6-7 weeks ago time flies we'll talk a little bit about the news that's taken place in the last month, month and a half but uh and we'll definitely get into some of today's news as well Future Damned but I want to pass the baton over to you.

You can give people some updates on futuredanger.com. And what else is going on? Yeah, so I'm doing a reset. The input devices to the website both went out of service for me simultaneously. And I don't replace these things casually. And, of course, I don't try to carry backup IT input devices for my sites. And on the security layer, there's, you know, making sure that the website and the logins and all that are the way I want them to be on the replacement devices. This is the longest break since the start of Future Danger in 2015.

So now there's a gap in the archive. But we also had an archive gap from the beginning of Future Danger until 2016. A lot of that was lost. It is what it is, but it will return. Still ironing out the details of how to construct this. I try to compartmentalize what I do with Patriot Power Hour, with Prepper Broadcasting Network, and with Future Danger from other electronics in my life. danger from other electronics in my life. So I don't just blindly concede to this idea that because the NSA could probably collect

anything that I've got that I necessarily need to make it easy for others. So it's a reset, and I would like to discuss the news in the last two months. And I would like to discuss the news in the last two months. And I think for lack of a financial crisis or a war breaking out or some true SHFT conditions, which haven't happened since Gotham get out, it was the right time to stop and take an assessment of future danger. Upgrades are necessary, both on the hardware and the software side. So that's what's happening now. Hey, that's a nine-year run without a gap like that. And really, there's always big news these days.

But, like you said, needed a little bit of a break. And I think it was a pit stop that needed to happen especially going into an election year especially with many of the crises we've talked about not resolving in the past couple months you know we talk about all different types of topics but ranging from health to natural uh disasters to man-made disasters, economic, war, and otherwise. Those that we talked about a couple months, they're still around, and we'll have a lot of information to talk through on some of the updates on that. But long story short, I agree that you needed that pit stop.

Looking forward to seeing what future danger can bring. Something that actually I really need to do is kind of this tech reset. Hey, I won't lie lie i'm pretty young so early on i was like whatever i'm all in on social media and all this i'm talking back in like 2008 2009 2010 and i've kind of since then taken it like ah it's too late i've already kind of given up all my privacy but that's a really bad way to look at it. So I'm definitely considering a tech reset myself in the near future. Without going into too many details, you got any tips, suggestions, or anything about your methodology, or are you protecting that at a high level as well?

Yeah, I just put things in compartments. So separate devices run future danger. Separate devices broadcast on this network with appliances and sites and numbers. It's just a different place. And again, at the telecommunications provider level and the national government, it doesn't hide anything, of course. Not these days, it doesn't hide anything, of course. Not these days, it doesn't. But from layers below that that might want to dox me or dox you, I find it prudent to have that architecture set up.

And nothing happened. It wasn't because anything like that happened on a security front. It was actually physical failures. Physical failures of, in one instance, a mobile device that was quite expensive and very much enabled me to input on future danger after its one-year warranty expired, but soon after, not even two years, I still had 10% of the financed cost of the device to pay off to trade in for another device. So, you know, I think I've mentioned it before, but in a very, you know, unethical point of view,

if you make electronics in this century, you want to maximize profit, you find a way to design devices that fail after warranty periods to force people to buy insurance, which if you ever, you know, try to take advantage of those insurance policies, the deductible is usually 60% of the cost of the insurance, you know,

by the time you need it, somewhere like that. And, you know, this kind of phenomenon and shopping for the new device and deciding what, you know, the reviews are so it just doesn't occur to me as soon again, although I'm beginning to believe that, you know, the maximum profit-maximizing behavior causes, you know, quote-unquote defects to cause this to devices, you know, earlier than they ever would have and, you know, when things were made right. Well, they have the, as you noted, in many ways, they have the incentive to allow these to break after the warranty, and they certainly don't have the incentive to not make them break and invest extra into durability, R&D, redundancy.

There's always going to be some failure rate, but as someone who's been in the insurance industry, not for electronic devices, but for commercial businesses, the insurance company knows how to price it. And they're always going to get there. So I think that's an astute point that, hey, everyone thinks it's the smart idea to get insurance on these expensive mobile devices. What I try to do is not purchase expensive ones if i can help it and then i get a really damn good case but i've still had a lot of failures um knock on wood i've been on a good streak lately but um that stinks at least you're able to turn it into uh you know a reset and an upgrade hopefully at least in terms of practicality and uh efficiency and and getting getting getting that privacy, keeping that intact.

Yeah, right. And I'm also looking at future danger ways to streamline some of the functionality so it loads faster. And certain aspects that were designed and worked very, very well in 2016 when Twitter was available to push, you know, the API was open. That's no longer the case, and there's a lot of architecture there in the back end of the WordPress site that could be used to streamline it. The economic gauges that we built definitely need an update

because a lot of them have had to been removed because the sources of data have done things like blacklisted the web scrape to get the data from my site. So, you know, there's been a zenith on future danger in terms of functionality, but it's going to need to change. And so I'm going through that with my webmaster, who's been on this show. And we're working through that at the pace that we could sustain and afford. And I envision a point in time where we're going to be able to be doing things like more easily downloading the archive so that we can run analysis on it. That's a project that definitely I anticipate in 2024 is we're going to start to be able to do some election season trending of a number of factors over the whole history of the archive.

There will be a gap of the last seven weeks, but that's a known gap, and you can look at different data sets, and we're going to do that can't wait i'm a numbers guy i'm looking forward to that uh if there's anything i can help with or get on a call with uh the webmaster anytime soon let me know uh quick programming note next week so today's april 3rd wed, our regularly scheduled time and day. Next week, April 10th, it's possible I will be on the road, actually. But we're still going to do our best to have this show. Potentially moving it to Thursday if I can't.

Or maybe we'll even do Tuesday. I don't know. It's a little bit up in the air, but we'll be back next week. And I don't expect us to miss any shows. Knock on wood, you know, this whole season, pretty much like I'd like to at least get through Memorial day without missing a week. I think we can make that happen. Until we get future danger loaded up with news, which is close to happening.

Hopefully next Tuesday, if we do it, you know, a double barrel Tuesday comeback show haven't been on Tuesdays in a while, or Thursday, or maybe Wednesday. We'll see how it goes. Hoping to have the news blitz in the second segment. But today, it's just a free-flow conversation, a reset, really a special season premiere because we're in this transitory period. Yes, sir. Yes, sir.

So what we're going to do actually is go to our regularly scheduled break. We usually just have one, sometimes two. But today, in most episodes, we'll just have one break. We'll come back. No news blitz, but I really want to get into not only today's news, this week's news, but the past month, last couple months, and as we like to do towards the end of our shows every week, get into some of that long-term trending months, years, and maybe take a look at some of the economic numbers from Q1 2024.

What do you say? Let's do it. All right, folks. Stick with us Patriot Power Hour on Pepper Broadcasting Network it's great to be back stick with us the sky grows dark

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Drink her up for Ragnarok Drink her up for Ragnarok Patriot Power Hour Interception February 25th, 2020, episode 85. Why can low interest rates be bad? In layman's terms, think of it as adrenaline. If you're running on adrenaline at all times, that is really taxing the system and really it could kill you. Sometimes you need adrenaline if there's a medical emergency that can keep the patient alive, right? Bam, right in the heart like Pulp Fiction. But guess what?

You can't be having that all the time. We're not just seeing emergency measures. We're seeing unprecedented emergency measures. Very low interest rates for a prolonged period of time. They simply lead to bad and poor allocation of capital slash resources. Malinvestment, those investors, whether it's your pension fund, whether it's 401k, whether it's foreigners who buy a lot of our debt, by the way, all those folks, they want to get a return.

And guess what? When inflation is actually higher, even though they say inflation rate's low, it's not this low. And the lower these rates go, just means inflation is much and much higher. Where does that end? Just ends in the total, unfortunately, the total destruction in an exponential fashion of any mathematical model. Target on my back, lone survivor last They got me in the sights No surrender, no trigger, fingers go Living the dangerous life

Hey, hey, hey, every day when I wake I'm trying to get up, they're knocking me down Hey, hey, hey, when I need to be saved Outro Music Earthquake powerful, just like a tidal wave, you make me brave. You're my titanium, bright sun, raise it up, like the roar of victory in a stadium. Who can touch me cause I'm alive, who can stop me tonight? You make me feel invincible. episode 257 of patriot power hour continues ben the breaker banksters here with future dan april 3rd 2024 uh were there any big topics or even articles specific articles that uh that you really wish we had been able to talk about over the last month there, Future Dan?

There wasn't really. It was a time to decompress from dwelling immediately on the news all the time for me. I couldn't do anything about it, right? The cars broke down on the side of the road, so you're not going anywhere. Just a little footnote from what we talked about earlier. Another part of what I'm trying to do is de-Google-fy, just to get out of a Google account,

using the browser, using the search, being part of that. So just a footnote there. And it's a challenging thing to do. Challenging thing to do. I don't use Apple devices because Apple owns your identity as soon as you're on them. They've got an iron fist on you for that. Another footnote for the previous section, we were talking about deliberately

misengineered electronics that force you to consume and spend throughout your lifetime far more than you ever should. Apple was caught cold doing that, right? Sending quote-unquote updates to their phones that gradually cause the batteries to perform, you know,

less and less over time, forcing you to want a new phone. So it's not even, definitely not in the theory category. It's in the established fact category. But, I mean, we can talk international. We can talk local. We can talk, you know, national level. But I wanted to share with you, not a news story.

Okay. But I wanted to share with you, not a news story, but a conversation I had with someone I've known for 22 years, who 22 years ago would have been far more moderate on politics and about what's within the realm of possible and not in terms of conspiracies. And we're talking in 2024, after witnessing what's happening just this year with the border invasion, completely flipped from what you might want to say a moderate Republican outlook to absolute distrust that we're not going to be in civil war before or during or shortly after the election. I mean, it's that kind of, you know, attitude change. I'm seeing people who would have never, ever, ever entertained those ideas two decades ago. I mean, that's now. That's a little worrisome because

I was always just hoping I was just crazy and this stuff was not really happening, but more and more moderates start to realize not only a financial scam, the COVID scam. Geez, we can go down the line of many more.

But immigration, obviously, as you mentioned for this person. Was that the biggest? Are there any other issues they feel that way? Or is it really the 10,000 plus per day coming over the border and some pretty crazy videos of that too? Is that what really flipped them, you said? and some pretty crazy videos of that too. Is that what really flipped them, you said? That plus the potential for terrorism to be coming across the border,

sleeper cells being prepared. And we had to talk about the scenario of 2024 that we've got to hope and pray and be ready to defend against would be bombings at electoral sites on Election Day, allowing authorities to declare, you know, basically martial law, some kind of something that, you know, entirely disrupts the election process in enough states that would bring the election of the president down to Congress, which could have happened on January 6th, 2021, had the riot not ensued or the false flag that enabled the riot to ensue, right? So lots of people are getting really anxious about this election. You know, polling places are not protected by police. In most locations. And I think

the trust in the absentee ballot is gone among anybody that used to be a moderate. No one's talking about those as sound and unable to be tampered with anymore. About 10, 12 years ago, I learned you can mail in ballots.

And some of them, of course, it's legitimate, especially people serving overseas or other examples. Let's say grandma's stuck in the nursing home. Okay, okay. But I still thought it kind of crazy. Same thing with like, you don't have to show an ID. I was like, what? Excuse me, double standard.

I mean, when I go to the airport, get the naked body scanner and or the grope, but these people coming through southern border sure ain't getting that. I get discriminated against if I don't want the experimental vaccine they can come on over who knows what the hell they got who cares they'll get them later i'm sure so it's kind of like that double standard that's that's pretty annoying to

me um here's one thing that i really want to touch on of what you just spoke about. I remember you were one of the only, not maybe the only, but I forgot who we were the guests of, but we went on a show. We were interviewed just after the election. You stood firm and said, no, it's not going to be overturned. Here's the actual constitutional process. Trump's not going to be able to get back over. It's not going to be overturned. Here's the actual constitutional process. Trump's not going to be able to get back over. It's too late. You can elaborate better.

I know I'm flubbing this a little bit, but you kind of guided this show as well as our listeners and the network as a whole through the constitutional process of what could or could not occur to overturn an election and all that. So I want to hear what you say. If there is, let's say, at noon Eastern on Election Day, there are several bombings, attacks, whatever, what would the Constitution require, and do you think that process would be followed? And do you think that process would be followed? So the federal election is really 50 federal elections at the state level, of course.

So some states' outcomes will be certified by their secretaries of state, or whatever the office is titled. There's a few states that are different. But basically there's one, either a appointee or an elected official in the state that certifies, yes, this is the outcome. And therefore the electors from the party of the winning candidate cast their vote to Congress through a series of meetings that run after the election on the first Tuesday of November until the first something, Tuesday of the new year, something like that. It's in the Constitution on the dates these must happen, and therefore they happen. And

if a state can't do it, then they don't get votes that electors, a slate of electors casting ballots that are presentable in Congress. And Congress has the power, you know, I don't know if it's a supermajority or the majority off the top of my head, but Congress can reject a state's electors. Of course, the Electoral Congress, you know, Electoral College worked throughout the Civil War because we were at war with the southern states. So clearly they weren't sending electors, you know, when Lincoln was reelected. Clearly, they weren't sending electors when Lincoln was reelected. This system was considered feasible in the late 1700s, but it actually proved to have a resilience in the 1800s during the Civil War, and it hasn't really been tested since.

But it could be tested again this year. Well, hopefully this doesn't happen, but that's a real risk. And that's just one potential negative effect of having rampant, you know, you call it a refugee crisis, illegal immigrants, migrants, whatever term you want to call it, having this many of them undocumented. You know, if 9,998 of them per day are good people, but those two are the worst terrorists you've ever seen, how many did it take to shoot up?

That's what happened when we were gone. The concert hall in Russia getting shot up. All you need is three, four, five, six well-trained guys. You know, that'd be so easy to sneak in. And if you multiply that by 5 10 20 50 man it could be chaos right and ask yourself since 9 11 whether you know lots of opinions on 9 11 right set that aside it's it's it's clear that there were al-qaeda that boarded planes right unless you're into the hologram kind of point of view and cruise missile point of view,

there were planes, right? And there were people on them that took control of them. If you're with that, if you assume that that's the reality, then ask yourself, how have they not been able to since then in any way? The airplanes, obviously, we got the TSA, and they locked down the airports, and you get the scanner, and that's that now. But just a middle school in Iowa or a baseball stadium

where enough terrorists attacked at the same time that they got straight in there, right? You look around your world, you ask yourself, how come it hasn't happened since if they're so driven to do it? And I think it really comes down to the security, the national security apparatus and where their loyalties are. And people are going to question any terrorist attack. And the amount of Americans that will immediately wonder whether it was a let it happen on purpose false flag is at all time

high, which is a very volatile, very volatile, volatile situation. Again, I talked to someone who 22 years ago when I met him would not have considered this reasonable to discuss. And it's not beyond comprehension for folks like that now. Dang. That is good news to some degree. At least hopefully that can help overturn it or prevent some of this. I'm mostly against the open spying and a lot of what's come out. But hopefully at least maybe they are stopping some terrorist attacks from happening. I'm mostly against the open spying and a lot of what's come out,

but hopefully at least maybe they are stopping some terrorist attacks from happening. Like as a small positive side effect from all the negatives of our, I'm totally not saying it's worth it. Stripping away some, some of the liberties and privacy as we talked about to start this show, but at least they could do if they're doing that, stop some of these from happening. But it is, I've always thought it was kind of weird, like, the longer it goes without another 9-11, the more I ask, how did 9-11 happen, like, like, kind of what you said, but, but yeah,

any other thoughts or topics, I don't want to hijack it, but I know you had a couple other ideas that maybe I didn't touch on. Yeah, well, maybe we should discuss what a second Trump term might entail. someone who's younger, who wasn't alive when the Cold War ended, about what it was like right before the Cold War ended. And, you know, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power as the Soviet premier and announced glasnost, the opening, and perestroika, the restructuring of the soviet economy right so more freedom and and and the restructuring was really meant to root out you know the the absolute corruption that had stepped its way into the soviet system it wasn't you know by any means they weren't talking about you know liberalizing the economy and moving towards a Western capitalist system.

But something equivalent could happen to us with Trump. Think about that. Perestroika and Glasnos. And when we talk about Glasnos, exposing the deep state would be our Glasnos, and Perestroika would be, you know, trying to root out the structure so that what happened to Trump cannot happen again. That's his viewpoint.

He says it all the time that this should never happen to a president, right? So looking at the Soviet Union, it couldn't withstand glasnost and perestroika. It collapsed. And I'd have to imagine that Putin and his strategic thinkers who lived through that for them don't have in mind and have contingencies at least discussed and planned for a collapse that Trump could bring about because the deep state, if he tried to expose it and restructure it, would rebel. And that rebellion might be during this election, and he might still make it in there, and they may nakedly be exposed. And that's highly volatile. And in our federal system, you cannot discount the possibility there are states that would start to talk about seceding from the union.

If a government in Washington, D.C. just went off the rails with a president who was trying to restructure it and open it up and expose it. So besides, do you have any more details on what that restructuring is I see a few different tenets of what I would like to see restructured the financial system for one government budget

for two what would he go for I'm sure the Department of Justice would be where he would start which is probably a great place to start. But all of it, really. I think you've got to do all of it, really. The United States of America, governed in this century by,

this is the third term, by a Democrat president, has begun to resemble something know something akin very different but very similar at the same time to the final days of the Soviet Union and the corruption is there it's like all Soviet citizens and by 1986 you know the not not the people that fought in the in War II and their parents who were there for the revolution and were ardent believers in the Soviet state. We're talking about the children and the grandchildren by that time had no morale for it. They were apathetic to it. And it looks like that to me with your generation and the one younger, too, that it's a resignation to this is really bad and it's never going to get fixed.

And when a Soviet premier stepped up and tried to take that on and make it better, it couldn't withstand that. It wasn't reformable in a gentle and slow-paced way. It came apart at the seams. So, I've been labeled, and I don't know if it's good or bad or indifferent, but accelerationist, where I like to restructure all this, and then it's going to fly apart at the seams, and then maybe after that we can come out of the ashes. But maybe that's not the right way to look at it.

Do you think Gorbachev was hoping that it would collapse a few years later, or was that totally not what he wanted to happen? And then for Trump, is he trying to force the system to show its hand and expose itself and destroy itself along with him, and then hopefully will rebuild or is he uh is it something else putin's kgb uh collapse historic collapse of the supremacy of american power abroad would be a historic accomplishment from his point of view

would be a historic accomplishment from his point of view. And for the average U.S. citizen, do we want Trump to come in and then to blow everything up, or do we want a slow simmer burn with another four to eight years of ongoing slipping into dystopia, but maybe we can get out of the pot of water, or do we want to just go all in? I mean, I'm just rhetorical. Right. get out of the pot of water or we want to just go all in i mean this i'm just rhetorical um right well you're you're what you're doing there is is placing um agency on on some of the actors saying

that some of this has been the control of personalities and what i'm trying to say is by the time the soviet union brezhnev died and he was the last hard-nosed Soviet dictator that we were seriously worried about going to war with, World War III, global thermonuclear war. And when the next guy stepped up to the plate and tried to open things up and restructure, it was unreformable in a non-volatile manner. And I think people are beginning to come to that conclusion. It can't be. And look at Russia today. You won't outlive. If you hope for an accelerated collapse and then for things to turn for the better, people to come to their senses. Look at where Russia is today. If a state gets corrupt enough, tyrannical enough,

and rigid enough, that doesn't repair right afterwards. It could take generations. You'd be lucky to outlive it where continued bad, bad things happen in the world because of that void. With the absence of the U.S. power abroad, what it would bring about. I don't think we want to see it happen. No.

No. I think... Let's see. I had a good point of what I thought was a good point of Trump going after DOJ. I give him high marks on that. Going after the banksters, I've seen no real work towards that. But he did denounce CBDCs a little bit. But he still wants the Federal Reserve to go to 0%. He's all about the banksters in my book. So that's a downer.

He's all about the vaccine. That's a downer. But you say you're supposed to vote against the lesser of the evil. I would say he's lesser evil than Biden. But I'll see him as a great reformer

that's going to save us all by any means. I know you don't think so either, but that's kind of what I'm looking at for a Trump third term. But there's a way not to be like Russia. There's a way not to stumble out of

a collapse just on a trajectory for becoming a weaker and weaker nation for the foreseeable future. I'm talking decades, right? This is 2024. In 1991, it all came apart for Russia.

So, you know, Americans don't... That doesn't have to happen here. But what I am concerned about is once a certain sequence of events start to, you know, dominoes start to fall, And that only, it can only be just, you know, absolutely, you know, replaced by, you know, another constitutional convention and a different way of organizing federally, right? And I don't think any of that happens peacefully if it comes to that.

Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe, you know, a lot of people have hope that all it takes is, you know, make America great again, bring in a Congress, a Senate, and a President and pass laws and reform from there. But if someone besides the Democrats can't control all three of those elected bodies, the White House, Senate, and the House, with enough of a margin

that then this doesn't happen, you know, in the way the framers designed it. And with the amount of people just absolutely flooding the southern border, I think that one-party dominance is what the Democrats are seeking. Trying to set up a political party that, for all intents and purposes, was like the Communist Party in the Soviet Union or the PRI in Mexico that ruled as a one-party with folk in opposition for 70, 80 years. I mean, it does seem to be that that's what they want, and they're trying to import the numbers to achieve it. Well, that's the critical mass. If the next generation and generations have no experience of it,

because they're fleeing third-world hell holes, and the quote-un legacy americans of all races really but if and as you said my generation and youngers but really all of us that are alive right now i clump them in but the younger younger in particular if they if they don't really give a crap or either they're apathetic or they're totally brainwashed and on the wrong side of things there or fighting the wrong type of fights. Plus, like I said, a bunch of, you know, the illegal immigrants essentially will do what they're told

and be very happy to do it generally. I will say this, though. I think a lot of the Spanish immigrants are pretty sick of the Democrat lies. Will that blow up in their face? I think if there wasn't this huge swath of people coming over that can't integrate at all and are going to be ghetto-fied and taken advantage of, those folks may not wake up to it. But I do know some of the strongest conservatives and anti-establishment, anti-deep state are from Cuba and Venezuela and Mexico and other Spanish-speaking areas.

So some of them are pretty sick of it, but they also were able to get educated and also establish themselves and have respect for America rather than just looking for handouts. Yeah, well, remember, when everything's gone wrong, voices of reason that speak out against what got us there will resonate with anybody that's reasonable. We're an ideological nation.

That's what America is. Your race and background and religion always been secondary to your belief system in the Bill of Rights and how we govern ourselves, right? So that's the key is we're back on Patriot Power Hour starting up season 25, spring 2024, and we're going to keep talking out. Hopefully next week with a new Blitzkrieg so we get to more fidelity. But, yeah, there's been other things going on since we took the break in the last seven weeks.

Anything that you wanted to make sure we touched on in the season opener? A couple big news events. Talk about as much as you want or as little as you want. I talked about both in a couple daily audio caches I did in the last few weeks. But how about the Baltimore Port incident? And I talked about it a little bit earlier today, or I mentioned it at least, the concert hall shooting in Moscow. Was that ISIS? Was that Ukraine? Was that the West? Is it Russia doing it to themselves? What kind of insight do you have on both Baltimore here domestically and then also that attack in Moscow

and how that seems to be escalating tensions with everybody, to say the least. So when you talk about these news events, before Future Danger, my frame of reference would have just gone in almost any direction. At some point watching the news, I decided to create Future Danger and kind of make a, of what's dangerous and what's not. So both those news events, I don't see them as, they're on the fringe. They're on the borderline, right? If the ship's system was hacked and that was an act of sabotage, then that goes towards, you know, it's on the path to warfare with whoever did it.

And then in Russia, some kind of attacks that, you know, potentially could lead tothinkable things that our government would be so destabilized that you know true control of the nuclear arsenal was in question or same thing goes for russia or china or israel or pakistan or india whoever's got them you know paying attention to France or Britain, for that matter, or whoever else has them covertly. But those are on the fringes. I don't think I have a big, heavy insight into what either of those events mean, but you can't not watch them because, again, they're on the fringes of potentially warfare with another country. Yeah, and at a minimum, it's a lot of our dollars going to that,

but we may be more involved than is being admitted right now with regard to what's going on in Russia, at least. Speaking of dollars and cents, I got an article here. right now with regard to what's going on in Russia at least. Speaking of dollars and cents, I got an article here. Here's something I give Trump two thumbs up on, and that's slamming China. You know, he's strong on the border. He's strong on China.

Those are two things I'm big. I mentioned a couple I'm not so happy with, but it suggests he's going to put huge tariffs on China if he wins. Now, will that come to fruition? Because he'll have a lot of pressure against that. But I also think he'll have a lot of fans that might support that. Economic trade war can really escalate quickly. It'll cost both sides a lot of money. It can really escalate quickly.

It'll cost both sides a lot of money. But also, that might be preferred compared to a hot war. Maybe that would get China's attention and make things a little more fair since they've been doing all types of horrible illegal practices and unfair competitive advantage in industry for decades now, let alone all the pollution they put out there while we get blamed for climate change. So do you think Trump will have the guts to put 30%, 40%, 50%, 60% tariffs on China if he wins? Remember, the wealth of nations and that whole concept,

and when it was written, a free trade with other countries, And that whole concept, when it was written, a free trade with other countries, did not age well in a century with a technocratic communist tyranny like in Beijing. There's no good reason to trade with a country with a government like that. So you say that both sides will lose a lot of money. Well, it's easy when you look on the Chinese side because it is ultimately such a regime that I just described. But the side in the United States of America that loses money, that's more fractured, right? That, you know, there's certainly a lot of members of Congress and their lobbyists and their donors would be hit by that, which is probably no small reason why Trump will make sure he does that. And the law allows it.

Congress delegated this stuff heavily in law, pushed by George H.W. Bush. He wanted to be able to negotiate general agreement on tariffs and trade, GATT, and other free trade agreements head-to-head with other countries. So that international trade law regime delegates a lot to the president, and Trump knows it. He has that power. Nothing Congress can do now if he decides to raise those tariffs. all I can say is the last time that happened, a

bioweapon came out of Wuhan. Good point. I mean, that would be a serious shot across the bow. Besides literally putting an airstrike on the Chinese mainland, the next closest thing would be putting a huge tariff on all imports from China. And there would be the Fortune 100, Fortune 500 would totally be against this. They'd lose a lot of money.

It is what it is. They've been getting away with murder lately. But also, they would be laying people off. But the big thing would be the inflation of Chinese-made goods. People would have to start buying American-made things, perhaps. Now, we may not have that capacity. It may take one, three, five years, 10 years to start making things in America again. So in the meanwhile, there could be shortages or it could be doubling or tripling of prices of things.

That'll hurt people a lot, but we'll also be collecting a hell of a lot of money in that tariff. So that actual money from the tariff was spent on something good instead of just piss down the drain paying debt on the national debt, paying the interest on it. You could actually fund something with that tariff as well. It's a slippery slope. It'll

really make China mad, but maybe we need something like that to level the playing field at least a little bit. Even if it hurts us a bit, it could be worth it in the long run, and you've got to draw a line in the sand somewhere, I think. I wouldn't mind the reshoring of computers and phones with some kind of ethic that the product you produce should last 10 years.

I wouldn't mind that at all. I like it. I mean, why do we have to get this through china japan and south korea they have a lot of expertise bringing on over to america we got lots of open land and ironically and i've announced this on $4 billion Korean semiconductor manufacturing facility is moving to West Lafayette, Indiana, the middle of the cornfield, where Purdue is. $4 billion in high-tech semiconductor manufacturing being moved right next to Purdue

because of all the engineering and all that. My point is, we can do all this crap here. We just need to do it here. We have intelligence, and if we don't, people would love to come here. We could pay them nicely, and we should be reshoring a lot of this. I'm not saying we should. You put it well. World trade is great, but not with authoritarian, totalitarian dictatorship that will kill as many of its people as needed to get an edge.

You know what I mean? Like, that is not the wealth of nations. Yeah, yeah. Just a point, though. We've never lost our organic industrial base in the defense sector. lost our organic industrial base in the defense sector. That's never been considered something that's able to go offshore, extremely protected, although things like the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter plans were essentially copied, stolen by the Chinese.

So if all you do is watch Jim Cramer and think that, you know, Wall Street rules the country, you just don't really understand how the defense industrial base is organized. It's never been something that could have been offshored, not ever since World War II, not since the advent of our modern security state. World War II, not since the advent of our modern security state. And we talked about it in previous episodes of Patriot Power about the, you know, there's actually acts that Congress has passed that, again, delegate to the president. He can invoke these acts, you know, Defense Production Act, right, where the president can essentially order firms to build anything that the nation needs in a time of crisis. And Trump did it with ventilators, with General Electric.

Never seen a news article following up on how many ventilators General Electric actually produced, but there was a big crisis there, and Chuck Schumer suggested to Trump that he invoke it, so he did. There's a big crisis there, and Chuck Schumer suggested to Trump that he invoke it, so he did. Reshoring commercial electronics would be great for American consumers, but obviously all the chips that are aboard all of our missiles are made here right now anyways. Yeah, but I'm not more worried about it. I'm most worried about the chips on the missiles in the planes, etc., and the satellites.

But I'm also worried about the device that the technical specialist uses for their social media being totally penetrated in the microphone. Of course, there's skiffs. use for their social media being totally penetrated in the microphone. Now, of course, there's skiffs and there's a lot of smart people trying to keep things secret, but just having all your consumer electronics be an open source to the Chinese communists is probably not a good idea.

It just sounds like a bad idea. All right, we only got like 20 seconds left. I wanted to point out that gold is at an all-time high today. It touched $2,300, up a couple hundred bucks since we last spoke in February. Bitcoin, it was $44,000 on the last episode of Patriot Power Hour. It was $44,000 on the last episode of Patriot Power Hour. It's $65,000, so up almost 50% in the last six or seven weeks.

And gold up a nice 10%, 15%, I believe. So gold, all-time highs. Bitcoin, it's off a little bit of its highs compared to maybe a couple weeks ago, but still doing nicely. Silver, $27. As of February 7th, that was our last episode, silver was $22, and now it's $27. I actually, you know, I'm glad I haven't sold a ton of Bitcoin, but I wish I bought a little more silver and gold. But, you know, be patient.

If either of these assets go down in price, I would buy some, but also don't wait forever. They're continuing to print money left and right, so these assets are going to go up in value. Also, finally, oil has ripped and roared in the last few days, but definitely since February. When we last spoke, February 7th, oil was 72. Now it's 85.

So a pretty big jump in oil right now. Yep. Electioneer. Don't say the breaker banksters didn't tell you where to get your assets and how to store your wealth. Because if you'd listened any number of years ago, you'd be up right now. You would. You would.

And I suggest if you are up, take some of that profit, convert it into preps. Because preps and your health and your skill set is more important than any gold, silver, Bitcoin. skill set is more important than any gold, silver, bitcoin but I still think all those assets I still think are going up in the medium to long term so

yeah I suggest checking gold, silver and bitcoin out if you have not yet future Dan that's all I got to say we got to get out of here make way for Intrepid Commander it's been a great show yeah we got to let Intrepid Commander it's been a great show yeah we gotta let Intrepid Commander or Dave Jones know

what day we'll air next week but when it happens we're gonna be rock and roll as always Patriot Power Hour back for spring of 2024