The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #266

Episode Date: June 12, 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] Dan@FutureDanger6 on Twitter

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. Sous-titrage ST' 501 ¶¶ You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour. This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence. Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com. Patriot Power Hour, June 12th, 2024. It's episode 266. Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, here with Future Dan. We got a little concerned that episode 266 might become a lost episode.

Fingers crossed that the tech is working tonight. I double-checked it, and it seemed to be working. But there's a time or two in the past where I double-checked and it still didn't work. But we're going to presume it's working. And if not, c'est la vie. So next week is actually our season finale so this is uh the penultimate episode of spring 2024 before we uh do our usual news blitz news

analysis what's been on your mind this past week well today Jerome Powell had a lot to say about our economy. Enlighten us. The one thing that I caught that was being pointed out in Twitter is, at one point, he did cast a little shade on government CPI numbers, which came out today. So for a sitting Fed chair to even entertain the possibility that they're being inflated, this being an election year, he didn't add that part, but there's your context. That's a little bit historical.

He's going to probably suffer attacks from Democrats for that one. Get a little grumpy maybe. When I'm at work, I try not to send grumpy emails, but that seemed like a little bit of a grumpy statement, like you're making my job harder here, government. You can't keep your crap together. So the inflation did come in at, quote-unquote, only 3.3% year-over-year increase,

which is still a lot higher than the 2%, but a little lower than expectations. So Powell said it's good news. We like to see inflation sort of backing off. At least it's not 8%, 9%, 10% like it was a couple years ago. But he also threw a lot of caution and even a couple complaints about where we're headed there, too. So in medieval times, medicine and law were educated in Latin, which made it hard to access that information if you weren't trained in Latin.

It was kind of like a gildish behavior in some senses, right? Fed speak, Fed speak today in the 21st century can sort of resemble that, right? And if you're not literate in some of the terms being used, it can all go right past you. And there's no chance that we're going to dive into the wonkiest terminology of Fed speak. It wouldn't be a service to our audience. But I do have a sort of common sense mystery about inflation terminology. And I thought that I'd save that and ask on air from our resident finance master's degree holder, who clearly needed prerequisites in economics to hold such a lofty degree, about some terms. Can I ask you about some inflation terms?

Pop quiz. I usually do well on these, but no guarantees. What do they say they say prior performance does not guarantee future performance but i'm ready let's go yeah dennis hopper in that keanu reeves movie pop quiz hot shot here you go all right so we we we generally understand you know most people generally understand that you know know, inflation and there's many, many, many measures of it. So you can get really nerdy about it fast, but inflation is when prices are higher than they used to be. And deflation is the opposite. Prices are less than they used to be. But there's a term out there that deserves some analysis, which is disinflation.

And then I got a bit of a mystery. Maybe I'm just exposing my ignorance, but shouldn't there be disinflation if there's disinflation? So let's go to calculus it's all about the first and second derivatives is the line increasing if so is it increasing at an increasing rate or at a decreasing rate is it leveling off or is it going parabolic so really it's math the actual language part of it is a little semantical, I guess. You could say, is inflation accelerating or decelerating or is it disinflation or is deflation

accelerating? That would mean a crash in prices in that kind of double negative speaker. It is wonky. In the end, prices are going up a lot. We can boil it down. So dis-deinflation is a logical term.

You just never hear it talked about because what kind of catastrophe would bring about a situation where prices were decreasing at a slower rate, right? But that would be dis-deinflation. But that would be just de-inflation. One of the only ones I could think of, and it's kind of funny because it's one of the only things that's going down in price big time these days, is big screen televisions. And if there's a trade war, then those lower prices at Walmart on your $400 4K 80-inch TV, they will no longer be $400. You probably won't even be able to get them anymore for a while if there is truly a trade war or a war in the Pacific. So that would be dis-deinflation, maybe, if that's what we're looking for here.

Dis-deflation, to be precise. There you go. There you go. But what's driving the narrative today is dis-inflation. Inflation is not as, it's not, the curve is not skyrocketing, it's leveling off. Yeah, it's cooling off a little. I like the word abating. It's abating.

But for how long? How long does this hold? And how fast before they have to cut? Yeah, if they were balancing the budget and things were getting pushed in the right direction with the economy as a whole, then maybe they could continue this road and continue to get better.

But they're doing a pretty good job of kind of sticking to it. If you asked me what I would do if I was in charge the last year or so, I would just be like, I'm not going higher, I'm not going lower, I'm just holding tight and holding by the seat of my pants, hoping. Because if they raise rates, it will cause a lot of bank failures. And if they lower rates in the short term, it actually will be good for the economy

quote unquote good good for the markets and housing prices but very quickly that inflation would go back to eight ten plus percent if not more if they went back to zero percent interest rates and a bunch of stimulus so but i still think they can't hold the line too much longer but they've they've done it pretty well. Maybe they're – they definitely don't want to raise rates before the election, and they probably don't want to raise them at all if possible. So they're trying to wait to lower them. It's one of their last bullets in the chamber is one more rate cut,

one more bailout. Or if they don't do that, then you know that they crashed it on purpose. That's how I look at it. And what? Powell's just the fall guy? Because somebody would have to be the example for why the crash happened. If all of a sudden they're like, oh, we're going to do all this austerity, and now there's no such thing as too big to fail.

Like if they really change their tune of what they've always done, then you've got to wonder why not this time. But I doubt that's going to happen. I still think they will kick this as far down as they can until the dollar is totally disintegrated and then replaced by something. I guess we could talk about what that could be. So somewhere in the 100 series of Patriot Power episodes, we did talk

about how the Soviet Union organized their monetary system and financial system and central banking. And I would say this, that no matter what level of No matter what level of neo-Marxism, central planning that you want to ascribe to the Federal Reserve, you can at least say it's not like the Soviet system, because the chairman does have to get out in public and answer for why they're doing what they're doing. In this case, they didn't raise, they didn't lower, they held firm. And that wouldn't have been in the Soviet Union. So I don't know if you'd consider it a facade of accountability, but I think history is going to judge J-PAL

and not just people from our perspective that centrally planned economies are doomed to failure in the first place. Everybody's looking at him and what he does this election year. That's a tough job for him. I hope they're paying him well then. Going to go down as the villain both in the easy money and the hard money crowds. That's a tough place to be, but i guess he's the hero we didn't know we needed or he sails this thing long enough that perhaps advances in artificial intelligence boom our economy right right out of the problem i like that let's go with that all right folks

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Let's have at it. An asteroid flew past Earth at less than 0.02 lunar distances. It's pretty darn close. 1 50th of the way between here and the moon.

An asteroid that would have done some big damage went by. Closest flyby of the year. Not much other natural or health news in this late spring. So let's move on to economics. Covered a little bit in the first segment. CPI up 3.3% year over year. Unemployment's relatively steady and somewhat low. Markets relatively flat over the last couple months.

Dow is at about 38,700, a few percent away from its all-time high, just above 40K. NASDAQ, S&P doing decently. Oil, under 80 bucks. Gold, a little over 2,300. Silver, just under 30 bucks. I still think gold and silver are pretty good little purchases here.

Especially if you don't have much. And Bitcoin, $68,000. A little choppy on all those assets the last couple weeks, but they've kind of found their level heading into the summer. couple weeks but they've kind of found their level headed into the summer none of these assets or prices I just

talked about really changed much today after Powell spoke which can be rare sometimes let's go on geopolitics national security NATO plans for surging US troops into Europe in case Russia invades. Ukraine claims the first airstrike on Russian territory. I believe it was on Monday.

Intrepid commander talked about that. Hezbollah rains rockets on Israel after strike kills commander. January 6th, Capitol Police chief says speaker's staff blocked additional security. Eight suspected illegal alien terrorists arrested in New York, Philadelphia, and L.A. Decent amount of activity, actually, all around the world, even at home in the national security column.

Relatively low level, though. Prep on. Liberty Free Speech, rounded out. Political advisor, Topotus45, Bannon to be imprisoned for contempt of Congress, reporting July 1st. State of Michigan raid seizes $90,000 of whole food

grown by the Nourish Cooperative. And Google API leaks. They reveal that the search giant rigs results for COVID, election, and other topics favoring hand-picked narratives. Again, leaks of the Google API, pretty much the guts of Google and all the different machinations of Google and its data and all of its branding and all the different ways Google is on the Internet. There were leaks in the API, and those leaks came out

and proved that the search giant is rigging results of all types of searches, recommended videos, and all that different type of stuff based on hand-picked narratives. Future Dan, it's bad enough to leave those type of algorithms up to the AI. That can kind of give over your consciousness to the computer,

but then to be programmed by the social engineers behind the AI, that's even worse. What do you think? It's evidence and news censorship that we knew that private corporations liable to do. And it's not government censorship until it's the government doing it. But behind the scenes, it's the government doing it, but behind the scenes it's fascism. I wanted to ask you, Ben, on the heat map dashboard, which is a relatively low amount of headlines

today of varying grades of severity, pick the most surprising, least surprising, most dangerous, and least dangerous. And you can tell me on the time horizon how you're measuring that danger. I'm trying to find most surprising. Does any of this really surprise me? Let's see. One of them has to be beyond the others.

We know that you're fairly jaded, of course. Surprising is, I guess, the ongoing war against Whole Foods and co-ops, Amish, Raw Milk, all the different articles. This is one specific situation here, generally that's pretty surprising like uh i don't know that i shouldn't be surprised but still a little surprised that they will get down to that level to harass people and ninety thousand dollars a whole food on one hand that's a lot of money to a single farmer on the other hand i bet that sting or whatever it was by the state of michigan cost tenfold that. I bet it cost them nearly a million dollars overall for the intel, personnel, and all the equipment and everything going on.

Yeah. It's repression at a very local level. Yes. So surprising. Not surprising, okay. How about least surprising? Least surprising. Le surprising. Okay. How about least surprising? Least surprising. Least?

Yeah. I would say least surprising is that Google's messing with the results. Because I, as someone who grew up with no internet until I was about 12, and I had to dial up internet for a few years, I've seen the growth and the changes of search engines and how raw they were back then and just how they've become more and more glossed over, whitewashed, and then eventually just straight up manipulated, censored over the years.

So I've witnessed that. Totally not surprising that that's coming out. Most dangerous. I'm just super not feeling great about what's going on in Ukraine, Russia in particular. So super dangerous. And NATO does this. They have a lot of Ukraine, Russia in particular. So super dangerous. And NATO does this. They have a lot of plans, I'm sure. And they do a lot of exercises for surging U.S. troops

and stopping at the fold of Gap. There's all types of operations that NATO has on the books and ready to roll out. But still, I feel like it's about as close as it's ever been in Western Europe to becoming a full-on ground war since freaking 1945. So that's, I feel like the most dangerous to me. That's a feeling though, maybe not a fact.

Least dangerous. Least dangerous. I'm definitely not going to say the asteroid, because that might be low probability, but high risk, I'm not, on the flip side of Ukraine and Russia, perhaps I'm overly concerned there,

I'm maybe a little under concerned, or not as concerned with Israel, Iran, the Middle East. They always just blow each other up. There's always problems. It did heat up about a month ago, right? But, okay, they're killing each other some more. There's still rockets going on, this and that. I'm not as concerned of that as Ukraine and Russia. So Dave was speaking about the Russian forces now exercising in Cuba.

And I did want to weigh in on that. Yeah, his question to everybody was, and it was actually in the title, the Daily Auto Cash, is do you feel, well, actually, I don't have it in front of me. It's either do you feel better or do you feel safer or less safe knowing that there's Russian forces in Cuba? So what's your answer? So, I don't know is the answer.

What's happening inside of Ukraine is of much greater concern. But I'll say that, you know, Russia, the Soviet Union, did port calls with nuclear armed vessels all throughout the Cold War in Cuba. And obviously we had the first Cuban Missile Crisis, which was way closer to World War III than I think we are today. And finally, these information operations planners in Russia and in the West have forces of action, branches, sequels, just if this happens, then we're going to do this. And obviously, Russian naval exercises in Cuba are also for domestic consumption inside of Russia. We got Finland putting at Finland and or Sweden are exercising with air forces in Romania for the first time since they dropped their neutrality stance. So what I think is going on is the Russian planners have all these, you know, demonstrations of force in the books. And when they see provocative acts in their view from NATO, then they're going to do this and they're going to do that. And it's going to be a constant demonstration of capability.

And from their strategic planning perspective, it protects Russian interests to do this, right? to do this, right? So I'm not going to go, you know, into some kind of panic mode about this happening in Cuba. Now, I'll admit that, you know, armed with hypersonics, whatever is in the Atlantic right now for the Russians is way more dangerous than it was in 1961, 1960, 61. But still, we had the ability to bomb ourselves into utter ruin back then, and we do now just faster.

Historic results do not guarantee future results, but I hope we don't blow each other away. Darn, I had another thought. thought on oh okay here we go here we go here we go senator graham i don't have the clip senator lindsey graham south carolina came out said ukraine could easily be the richest country in western europe and that needs to be notice he didn't say Eastern Europe or Europe generally. He considers it part of Western Europe. And he specifically stated we need to keep it out of Russia's hands. And because Russia and China are allied,

China will get access to all those resources in Ukraine. But I almost think it's, you know, that's one case. That's true in some regards. But also if Russia collapses upon itself, which many in the West would like Russia to collapse. Some don't. Some have, you know, some realistic expectations and understand a collapse of Russia would probably cause more problems with a strong man or even stronger strong man than Putin coming through

I would expect but if that happens then China might just move in to the eastern portion of Russia they used to own part of northern Manchuria area and all the way up to Siberia there's tons of resources there Vladivostok, all that.

If Russia totally fractured into 15, 20 provinces or became a failed state, who's to say China wouldn't come and take over half of Russia anyway? So damned if you do, damned if you don't, I guess, from a strategic point of view. You got any thoughts on that i don't see the russian state collapsing maybe the putin presidency with a coup that's happened in russian history but the entire collapse of their deep state i don't see it happening and that And that military absolutely positively every single day has to consider the threat of China. They just do, especially in the Far East, right?

So China getting kind of this dominance, the Russian state is entirely collapsed and balkanized. And by the way, what are the resources of Ukraine that Lindsey Graham's talking about? Like it was considered the breadbasket of Europe because of its wheat fields, but those are heavily mined

war zones right now. So what's in Ukraine exactly that everybody else who's a superpower doesn't already have? Maybe it's just his money laundering facilities. I'm not exactly sure, but I'll have to do a little research on that. You can offshore that somewhere. I'm pretty certain. Yeah, I don't know.

I don't think they have a bunch of rare resources like portions of Africa. That's just what Lindsey Graham said. Not saying if it's true or not. No, I don't consider him a credible source for geopolitical thinking. Fair enough. Fair enough. Fair enough. What else you got? Yeah,

it's summertime. So shouldn't be surprised. There's more exercises near Ukraine and more, more warfare in Ukraine, right? It's the summer. So I just don't see anything changing from last week that makes

me think that that strategic balance is tipped. The couple things that I've seen is, especially over the last month, number one, it seems like Ukraine is down to its last able-bodied men. So they're really having to ramp up conscription in pretty much Shanghai,

throwing people in. Dual citizen people can't leave the country anymore, and people being thrown in after a week or two of basic training. Just a warm body on the front that's accelerated, so that's a sign of desperation. Also, both sides are having a lot more of their infrastructure hit. We talked about Russia being struck in Russia proper, but they've had a lot of oil refineries blown up recently.

And meanwhile, Ukraine's really had its power grid blown to hell a lot more in the last month than in the last couple years even so that's acceleration uh the f-16s are going to be used by ukraine apparently they're not going to be uh housed in ukraine so they're going to be in poland Romania I think and the question is will Russia strike those airfields because they consider that part of the war or not let's say

a sortie of F-16s even if they're Ukrainian pilots takes off from Poland strikes Russia proper Russia hits with conventional weapons even, that airfield in Poland, then where do we stand, do you think?

No, any Russian strike on NATO territory would be a... That's the line that I don't think Russia dares to cross. I just don't. If you hear a headline about it, watch, because it's going to go two ways real fast. I don't think Russia dares to cross. I just don't. If you hear a headline about it, watch, because it's going to go two ways real fast. It's going to go to someone saying it was an accident, major U.N. meetings held, and it'll be a great big panic.

People will be running to the box stores buying 36 packs of toilet paper again, and then it'll be smoothed over. Or that's it, 99 red balloons. Feels like the West, and this just comes from news sources that I check out, all different types, but definitely feels like the West has been ratcheting up not only the aid but also the advanced level of weaponry. At first it was

pretty basic. Now it's getting higher and higher. Now it's F-16s which Russia said, hey F-16s can carry tactical nuclear weapons and we're going to assume if we see one coming that it may have a tactical nuke. Does that mean Russia's going to launch all its nukes

if F-16 enters its territory near it? No, but that's antagonizing to, you know, arm Ukraine. But, you know, I'm no fan of Russia, but it seems like poking the bear over and over might not be the best idea all the time. Well, you know, we've spoken a lot about Overton windows and in this war, there's all kinds of, you know, windows getting stretched or you could use the boiling frog kind of metaphor where, you know, we're going way past what during the Cold War would have been thought

reasonable. But there is some kind of limit, and I'm going to stand by it, that nuclear powers can't fight each other because it is the end of both of them. You can't use nukes a little bit. And the planners have realized this for decades. So, again, I think there's going to be provocations.

And the Europeans really have to justify to their populations, Western Europeans, the expenditure and the war footing, the readiness, right? So there'll be this. There'll be that, you know, as we might cross some threshold where some European NATO troops are actually in Ukraine. I don't think that that U.S. troops are going there, though. Not not publicly that that would be that, you know, Russians might actually get to the point where they would tolerate French advisers openly serving in Ukraine. actually get to the point where they would tolerate French advisors openly serving in Ukraine. But I'm not sure that, you know, what really matters is the material and troops on the ground. How many U.S. divisions are in Poland and Romania right now? Right. And the Russians know how many we got and they know how to watch. And it's hard to not advertise like the movement of entire, you know,

combat brigades. Like these things are almost always publicly announced by, by our military because you're not going to hide it. Right. So I don't, I don't see much more than some of the large exercises that happened throughout the cold war. It was called reforger.

It was the movement of, you know, I believe the goal was to put two divisions into Europe in some limited time frame in the event that the goal to pull the gap had been overrun, right? But again, the entire scenario was entirely what if because how could they overrun any NATO territory

without it escalating straight up to hydrogen bombs getting used? Sure, sure. I don't think Russia would go outside Ukraine, but can't guarantee that. I agree that Russia and U.S. forces directly fighting is not going to last long at a conventional level, probably escalate. The buffer between that was the Ukrainian people. They're dying out, and they're being pretty much decimated, I think is the proper military term.

And without them to fight the fight, it may be able to end. Maybe they'll sue for peace. Or Russia will finally win that attrition battle. And if the West doesn't put more boots on the ground, then Russia, I mean, they had like a 7-1 population advantage. So if they just keep grinding for two, three, four years, we're on more, you know, we're at about two years, four months now.

You said this would grind out for multiple years. But it seems like, you know, that grind is really taking its toll, and I don't know how much longer it'll go. And at that point, will Russia sue for peace? Will Ukraine sue for peace? It'll end, hopefully. But if not, Russia might just say, ha, now you guys are screwed. You don't have any able-bodied

men. We're just going to go all the way to Kiev. Well, they tried that once and couldn't get there. Lost a lot of airborne troops trying. Decimation is, you know, not actually a term of art

in military doctrine. It's just reducing something to a tenth of its previous whole, and the Ukrainians aren't decimated. If they were at 60% of the strength that they started the war, I think they'd be doing well. If they could be brought to less than 50%, they're in trouble, and that might be where they're at right now. But the military terminology I think you're seeking is attrition.

It's an attrition battle. It was just like First World War or the U.S. Civil War, right, or places and times it was definitely that in World War II. And certainly it was the way we fought Vietnam, is to attrit the enemy, just try to, you know, end its military, you know, its ground infantry capacity. And even if the Ukrainians were attrited on the ground, this is a very high-tech war.

Occupying that space that they would evacuate towards their capital, again, it becomes a gigantic, you know, killing field for the drone strikes, the loitering munitions, right? So enough loitering munitions flowed into that country, and the Russian army you know can't can't just walk in there

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Tuesday. Not Wednesday, Tuesday the 18th. 7 p.m. Eastern for the season finale. We'll be live and you can also, of course, check out the archive. So, in a few words, why are we not talking about the hunter biden conviction

we should be if only because they were gaslighting us so much that it wasn't real laptop wasn't real the crack smoking and all these other things either weren't a big deal or he was in recovery or it was all fake conspiracy well no a lot of it came out to be true and now he's convicted is it really rate as dangerous

I get where you're coming from maybe not but it is the rot of the country overall it's sort of in the background. It's destabilizing, that's for sure. The Trump conviction, now the President's son conviction, total new territory for our constitutional republic. And I believe in the chat internal PBN communications message from Dave Jones asking our opinion on whether we still live in a constitutional republic.

Maybe I'll let you go first on that one. I look at the Bill of Rights as a big part of that. Do we still have the Bill of Rights? The Bill of Rights is a big part of that. Do we still have the Bill of Rights? I think mostly. I got the First Amendment still. Even though they censor what I say and what I find on the internet,

I still can do this show. I still have a fair amount of free speech. The First Amendment, mostly there, but under attack big time. The Second Amendment, I exercised that, and they've tried to come after that big time. But I think, if anything, we've defended the Second Amendment better than anything else almost. The search and seizure warrants, Fourth Amendment, and jury by trial, and some of these other judicial bill of rights. Some of those might be gone for certain people in certain circumstances.

I do feel like it's almost like a secret police, secret gulag creeping up on us. So we're holding on to some of the core tenets of constitutional republic from the Bill of Rights. That's how I kind of judge it, but all we've got to do is lose one or two of those, and the rest will probably follow. I guess the

question for me is sort of it's asked in a binary way, and it's always going to be some shade of truth in between, right? So the Constitutional Republic, as it should be, in Patriot power, ours, established position would be pre-establishment of the Federal Reserve, before the establishment of the FBI, and certainly before the National Security Act in 1947, establishing all the rest of the deep state, right?

all the rest of the deep state, right? So those acts are for either of our lifetimes. So can we be at 100% constitutional republic after certain things like the direct election of senators as opposed to by state legislatures? So where are we and how far are we declining? It's definitely declining. There's no question about that. And tying it back to the first segment, the rate of decline, the deflation in our constitutional republican-ness is accelerating. It's not this de-inflation of our constitutional republican-ness.

How's that for some analysis? There you go. It's not only deteriorating, it's deteriorating worse each day than the day before at a quicker pace. Unfortunately, I think that's true. Rough go. rough go i would you know from a scale of zero to a hundred the country never hit a hundred perfect constitutional republic or utopian government what do you think the high point would be though no no no when when this constitution republic was founded it was the 100 it was the first in history that was it and for all of its imperfections after the the articles of confederation were

scrapped and the u.s constitution was adopted i think that's the 100 and how it's fallen since is just a matter of debate. Okay, so you're doing more of a high watermark rather than a hypothetical best possible situation. In world history, 250 plus years ago, that's the 100. After the Federal Reserve was established in, I believe, 1913, a big cut out of that 100 was definitely accomplished. It was.

This concept, I would like to have an unbiased doctor in history who studies this for 50 years kind of rate the different points year by year. I'm sure during the civil war that wasn't a high point of our constitutional republic i'm sure uh even during the depression um i guess that was after 1913 but you know it it ebbs and flows certainly but this past gee since 9-11 even let's's just say it's just from 9-11 on, it's been all downhill from there. I don't think it's had a bounce up.

Some would say maybe the four years that Trump was in, I think that's more of a flattening where it didn't get worse, maybe. Maybe tiny improvement, but at least most of it didn't get worse, but then it fell right back off a cliff. It definitely spiked under Reagan. Okay. I like to say, yep,

I'll give you that. I'll give you that. I was only a little, little child, but I've, I've seen a few of the deregulations and of course, hey,

ended the Cold War at least for 20 years. It's back for the vengeance, the sequel. We only got a couple minutes left. What else you got with us? Well, we're still a constitutional republic. It's just a matter of degree.

And I don't like the degree, the direction of that trend line. I don't know what else. We got these weeks after weeks, Ben, where I think episode 262, 3, 4, 5, 6, before tonight, or tonight is 266, got the same, you know, 10 to 12 headlines of varying degrees

with not much necessarily directly tying the headlines to each other. We're kind of in this scattered, low-level of news environment. And, of course, it's an election year so any bad news that any side wants to keep is being protected very strongly right now but uh i think we're probably headed towards a breakout of this pattern and that could that could mean significant events this summer. So I don't think we'll be as quiet in the summer of 2024 season starting in July than we have been in the spring season. I don't think so either. Good time to keep on prepping, folks.

I personally have invested more than $500 in storable food and a little bit more into other preps, just the basic preps. Intrepid Commander said, again, I think it's the same podcast on Monday, if I'm right, that when you're not sure what to do or just get a little over flustered or whatnot, just get back to the basics, you know, food, water, medical security. So just keep stacking away and get in good physical shape because if it's a pandemic, you want to be able to fight it off. If it's a collapse of the power grid, you want to be able to walk your ass around. If you've got type 2 diabetes and are 300 pounds, it might be a problem

if you have to walk 20 miles to get back home after an EMP. Long story short, keep on prepping and every day it's not too crazy. I think that's a good thing. At least we got another day of reprieve and preps. One last

headline I saw today that I didn't get a chance to read. Maybe you didn't either and if we can't find it quickly, we might have to hold this. But Trump spoke about Bitcoin today. Did you see his understanding of making Bitcoin made in America? Yeah, he wants all the rest of Bitcoin to ever be made to be made in America, he said. What do you think? What does that mean?

Does he know what that means? This is the question. If so, and he's going to give massive tax breaks or even 0% capital gains, treat it like a currency, not like a commodity in the taxes, then that's money where, put his money where his mouth is. So we'll see. But that's money where, you know, put his money where his mouth is. So, we'll see.

But if he doesn't, you know, otherwise, it won't do anything. He's definitely making a play for the crypto crowd. Hey, a lot of people make a play for the crypto crowd, and unfortunately, most of them are BS. Oh, really?

Who else? Really? a play for the crypto crowd and unfortunately most of them are BS. Oh really? I'm hoping he's not. Who else? Really? Who in Congress, Senate or the House or at a state level has become an outspoken advocate for cryptocurrency? I can't think of anybody.

I wasn't talking about politicians. I'm talking about all types of scammers and hucksters. Politicians are hucksters and scammers, so do something about it. Do something with the tax code, and I'll believe you. Until then, they're just saying it. Yep. All right. We'll probably be revisiting this one.

I got a feeling Trump's going to keep hammering that one All the way to November Hey man Might be enough for me to vote for him I don't know we'll find out Great show future Dan We'll see you on episode 268 Right episode 268

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