The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #285 - Trump Appointments; BTC $93K

Episode Date: November 14, 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

Not 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 this is the last stand on earth this is the last stand on earth

the last stand on earth SILENT PRAGUE © BF-WATCH TV 2021 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, we are live, November 13th, 2024, it's episode 285, yes, 285. Also, what I consider the seventh year anniversary snuck up on us. Patriot Power Hour. Ben the Breakup Bankster is here with future Dan as always. How you doing there, sir? Yeah, seven years later, big elephant in the room. We got to get out of the way. Bitcoin at its all-time high.

All-time high. It's just above $90,000 right now. About this time last week, it was $75,000. And that was after a good day after Trump won, who's seen as a very pro-Bitcoin and just overall economy president compared to his counterpart, whoever that was, whoever that bum was. But $90,000. Bitcoin's ripping and roaring.

In the meanwhile, gold and silver down about 5% to actually more like 10% each in the last week. The question is, is that just because there's less uncertainty, or is it because Bitcoin's demonetizing gold and silver? Bitcoin's demonetizing gold and silver. I still think that linking the dollar to Bitcoin in the long run with a strategic Bitcoin reserve, a lot of investors understand that that might force other countries to do it too. And now we're not talking $90,000. Yeah, now we're not talking $90,000. Yeah, now we're not talking

$90,000 a coin. We're talking $900,000 a coin. A million. Yes. So, this week, at about $85,000 was the price where Bitcoin now has,

at least as of this recording, has a higher market cap than all silver. So I don't have the exact number in front of me, but it's around $1.5 trillion worth of silver in the world. And all of Bitcoin combined in the world is worth about $1.5 trillion now. If that happens with gold, if they call it flip, right? If Bitcoin flips gold, or let's just say the market cap is equal or greater than gold, Bitcoin would be about $800,000, which is 10 times more than it is right

now. So that's a long, there's a couple ways to look at it. That's a long mountain. That could take many, many years. I'm sure it will. It's not going to happen overnight. On the other hand, maybe it's reasonable, and that means it's not too early to still get in. That's two ways to look at it right there.

It's proving to be an excellent means to set aside a relatively small amount of money and prepare to have cash on hand for all the preps that are out of reach right now. Would you agree? I look at it as if you're going to have a dollar in the system on in the electronic banking system 401k savings whatever you might as well have it in bitcoin now i'm a bitcoin maximalist but i have essentially no electronic assets besides bitcoin of course i have a lot of physical in real life. I'm a prepper. I understand without electricity you're kind of screwed in the short term or even the long term with Bitcoin.

So obviously here on Prepper Broadcasting Network, that's a huge problem if you're prepping for end of the world. But anything less than end of the world, i.e. a Trump presidency where maybe we can reclaim or at least forestall apocalypse for a while. Bitcoin is the superior electronic form of money. Exactly. Well, it's ripping right now.

That's for sure. Probably spend the entire episode talking crypto, but there's a lot more going on, a lot more headlines on Future Danger Heat Map, which we'll present in the next segment. But they do seem to be low-grade threats, early warning signs, or just repeat signals of the same drumbeat of news showing threats that we have to watch out for. But there's no black on red tonight. There's one red indicator. So relatively full news map or news dashboard, but at a low-grade intensity. That's how I characterize this.

For episode 285 of Patriot Power Hour, our current situation, that is. It honestly might have the widest breadth of topics with the least amount of actualization or severity, whatever. However, we want to look at like you said there are a couple red level uh articles but almost all of them are topical or low level so we're going to go through them all of course but but given that there's at least 30 headlines here i i would suppose 25 of them are very low-level, topical, interesting, worth tracking, but not really much going on.

25 out of 30, that's a very large amount, and that ratio is very high compared to what we normally see. Yeah, yeah, definitely. But before we get into headlines on the news map, we should probably take a moment to talk about some of Trump's cabinet nominees. Let's make it happen. We'll start with Rubio. Secretary of State and consider it a war hawk. That would be the criticism. That would be criticism from the left and also from general anti-war sentiment that Rubio's been very much a war hawk.

What do you think? I'm going to have to research a lot more because at this point, Trump has won some trust from me and some benefit of the doubt so i think hey let me take another look at rubio his reputation as a warhawk and darn near neocon precedes him but i've also seen rubio say some good things but tough one. The foreign policy of Trump is not my favorite part of the package he brings to bear, but let's just say there's other appointments I like more for sure, but let me do a little more homework on Rubio and see what he's up to now.

I will say, final thing, Trump disparaged Rubio in like 2015 on Twitter. Trump disparaged Rubio in like 2015 on Twitter. Now, things have changed for sure, but he was definitely calling Rubio part of the swamp at that time. Well, who hasn't he disparaged that stood against him? And by the way, as soon as opponents stop standing against him, he kind of leaves him alone. Yeah, he'll say, hey, get out of the way and surrender, and we won't have summary executions.

You can go on and live in your palatial palaces or be kind of exiled from government. We don't need to punish all of you with jail now. Many, many do need to go to jail but i feel like from a non-criminal point of view his political foes he's like hey you don't even have to bend the knee kiss my ass necessarily now that's nice but at least just get out of my way i got bigger fish to fry bigger fights to to wage is how it just seems with Trump there. You know, Trump approaches this sort of thing like a businessman looking at a, you know, a ledger, right? Asset versus liability. And when you're opposing him, whether it's in the Republican establishment or just – we're talking about within his side of the aisle.

We're not talking about his opponents, the Democrats. Yes. But on his side, you're either an asset or a liability. If you prove yourself to be an opponent in the primaries he's gonna treat you that way and then after you you know withdraw from running against him you know he works to make you an asset Tulsi Gabbard defense or the director of national intelligence DNI that's not cabinet position That's not a cabinet position, but it is an important position

that he did nominate Tulsi Gabbard for. She ran as a Democrat, grew up as a political career as a Democrat, and has now switched to the Republican Party. And the interesting thing will be watching the criticism of Rubio. You know, Democrats are going to try to assassinate character and call into concern ethical, perceived ethical violations of anybody that Trump. That's part of the resistance is just oppose everything, just slow down everything, right?

Here's where they're caught coming and going, though. If Rubio's a war hawk and has said things that are dangerous in that regard, and he's firmly anti-communist party of China in his public statements, that much I know. Gabbard is probably going to face the exact opposite criticism that she's a peacenik that opposes war and that could jeopardize security so with those two picks Trump's you know picked assets they're their assets now and he's rewarding them for being assets. And the criticism that his political opponents can lay against him are kind of polar opposite.

Somewhat, you know, a little bit of 4-D jest going on there. I mean, making his opponents, ultimately, they're going to end up being... ...notion of what the criticism of each of those nominees are. You're breaking up just a little bit there at the end. Can you repeat like the last 10 seconds maybe? Yeah, I'm just, I'm saying that he's putting the Democrats in a position where if Rubio's too much of a war hawk and Gabbard's too much of a dove, well, what's your argument? Which way do you want to have it?

You can't have both, right? Yeah, I can see we're trying to kind of balance it there. National security is not easy at all. Especially not nowadays with China rising and things already, conflagration in Ukraine, Middle East not looking so happy.

So neither route is easy. All right. What else we got? I mean, we got Gates. Next up, what's your thoughts on Gates? I saw that come across social media and I felt uh, felt the urge to immediately turn on. I was, I was, I was heading to CNN, but when I turned on my TV, it was actually happened to be on MSNBC and I watched the announcement come out breaking news.

And I, and I watched the segment that MSNBC's anchor was in some afternoon, MSNBC news show, just stunned, stunned, like they didn't know what to say. Nothing had been written for the talking heads to come out. The amazing part, though, is they were cycling photographs of Matt Gaetz as they came to grips with that reality. And obviously, to me, the pre-staged pictures of any of their political opponents, they pick the worst ones. They get all the goofy faces, the evil looking expressions. Like they got a, they got a stack of photos for any moment. So the, they were that far ahead on, on the imagery, but they, they, they know what to say. And I really can't think of a single attorney general nominee that would pose a greater threat to what the DOJ and the FBI stands for in the last 16 years.

Really got cemented under Obama, and Trump had to fight it in his first term, and it's been pretty much a gestapo in the last four years. Gaetz is going in there. He is an attorney, practiced law briefly, then became a politician, elected. But if he's surrounded with the right people,, no, no greater lightning rod to take on the cleaning out of the DOJ and the FBI. And I think Trump is going to be hopeful that a lot of these embedded deep state pro-Democrat corrupt justice officials are they're just going to quit by inauguration. Gates might not have to clean out that much. They might all just resign. Self-deport. Self-deport.

They got the border czar. What's his name again? Is it Holman? Holman? I don't have a list of all this in front of me, but we just had a couple clips of the border czar. I'm sure you all have heard that. Can you explain what the border czar is because it's not an actual cabinet position? Is this just like some informal advisor?

How do you constitutionally see a border czar? What does that even mean? Well, the Constitution doesn't even specify cabinets, right right so these are all creations of law and the czar of anything that came in vogue can't remember if it was at the end of the reagan term or you know during the first bush presidency but this idea of a you know a leading coordinator of some policy, and naming it a czar is bizarrely foreign to me anyways. I don't like it. Like a czar is... Trump should not continue that.

I thought it was like a totally commie thing. Why would he even, I don't know, why would he perpetuate that? He should have been holding that against all the prior administrations. Sorry. That he should have been holding that against all the prior administrations. Sorry. It, it, it effectively, you know, I don't like the term, but effectively we're talking about, uh, you know, an advisor to the president that coordinates policy in one specific area, but they are confirmed by the Senate.

They don't have statutory authority or anything. So, yeah. And they can come and go. So I think that's a throwback to the era when Trump, you know, just grew up the era he grew up in czars were appointed. So he's, he's finding a way to bring the right people near him and the big, big questions. Will it be a more disciplined White House?

And right now, this nomination process, it's moving swiftly. It's taking his political opponents, you know, they're off guard at every step. And it seems a lot more orderly than last time. It should be for a few reasons, but you've got to imagine the Democrats are pretty shook right now

and it's been a full week, so they're a little shell-shocked each piece of news that comes at them. Kind of knocks the wheel down a little bit more. Maybe not. Maybe the empire will strike back, for lack of a better reference. What about Senate Majority Leader?

Getting all this confirmed from what, South Dakota? Is that correct? Well, that's not an appointee. No, but he's been put through today. I guess maybe there's more appointees on the list you wanted to go through. Oh, no, we can jump around. But soon is consider Rhino. He actually called for Trump to withdraw and Pence to ascend to the nomination

a month before Trump won the first time. However, uh, how, how much he's come around to the reality of Donald Trump's political power remains to be seen. But the litmus test that Trump had for any nominee for the position of majority leader in the Senate was that they allow recess appointments. And reporters this afternoon were chasing around Representative Massey.

He was riding an escalator. You know, he was trying to get around, you know, the offices in D.C. And reporters were following along with microphones, asking him about the Matt Gaetz appointment. And he just looked at him and says, we're going to recess. So Gaetz is the AG, suck it up. That's how Republicans are telling the media right now. Yeah, they're in shock.

They're powerless to stop this. And really, it's a matter of, you know, the leave behind sleeper cells, the bureaucrats that can escape immediate scrutiny from the, you know, the Trump administration that could just, you know, do whatever they can to sabotage the policies of the incoming president. They did it to him last time, but last time Trump was novice at this. I think the plan to root them out is underway right now. All right, folks, going to the news dashboard after this real quick break.

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and a rose tattoo and we are back time for the news blitz on this 285th episode november 13 2024 let's be pithy google still burying right-leaning media post-election meaning censorship. Judge delay sentencing of President-elect for falsifying business records. Delayed indefinitely. Polymarket. We've talked about Polymarket a lot here on the show. Well, the CEO's phone and electronics were seized by the FBI just a few days after Trump's win.

Polly Market, where people were putting wages on Trump and they predicted that Trump would win. Well, can't do that. FBI seizes the phone and electronics. Georgia mother jailed for letting 10 year old walk less than a mile alone to town. Geopolitics got a little bit of news, but thankfully all topical or low level. US opens missile defense base in northwestern Poland. 100 Israeli airstrikes pound Hezbollah in Lebanon. Some of the biggest daytime strikes ever.

FBI stops Iranian plot to assassinate Trump. FEMA is staging 350 semi-trailers at a decommissioned Air Force base in Michigan. Interesting. Colorado and Illinois governors might reject National Guard federalization for the mass deportation plan. Some of the states trying to fight at their level economically we already talked about bitcoin but wow ninety thousand dollars seven years ago when we started bitcoin it was about twenty thousand dollars had a heck of a ride since then it lost 50% it quadrupled it lost 70% it tripled up and down and up and down but the only thing that's not volatile about it is the fact it keeps growing the long term hey Trump likes it now If you always thought it was a dumb idea, some sort of scam, now it's time to maybe look into it.

That's all I'll say. Gold and silver getting beat down, unfortunately. But, hey, we buy it as insurance. I certainly do, at least. So, if gold and silver are going down, maybe that's good news for the rest of the world, right? The economy of the world is not going to collapse. So, so hey some of your gold and silver goes down in value whatever economically we got the stock market ripping and roaring all-time highs s&p 500 is 10 times higher than it was at its low in the great financial crisis.

Had a financial crisis in, uh, it was actually, I believe, January 2009 was the low of the markets. Infamous 666. S&P was worth 666 points at its all-time low, well, not all-time low, but low of the 2008-2009 crisis. It's now above 6 000 so from 666 to above 6 000 markets not as much as bitcoin but still ripping and roaring so is the debt though we're above 35 trillion in debt but generally the economy and financial news overall

not not that much going on right now. FDA forces Costco to recall 80,000 pounds of butter because label didn't say contains milk. Famed economist and former treasury secretary sounds the alarm bell on inflation. Federal government deficit explodes. Second worst start to U.S. fiscal year on record. So yeah, debt not great. Florida home prices steepest decline since 2011, which was the low of the housing market. Took a year or two to work through from 2009 collapse.

Sorry for all the noise my dog's going crazy just got home from work today so they're freaking all over the place driving me crazy, chewing on stuff, shaking. Well we power on. Shaken. Well, we power on. Very strong. 6.8 magnitude earthquake hits Cuba. Peer-reviewed paper shows COVID vaccines increase risk of getting COVID. That's one of the most important articles of the week.

We'll dive into that. Again, peer-reviewed paper shows covid vaxxers increase risk of getting covid forever chemicals in u.s drinking water a growing problem glad to see rfk in there mixing it up with that type of stuff bringing some attention to forever chemicals microplastics gmo all of that crap let alone the vaccines over 20 chemicals used to grow food linked to prostate cancer prostate cancer 20 chemicals used by big agra linked to prostate cancer medical experts beginning to feel compelled to report untreatable turbo cancers coming out and saying look there's these turbo cancers that almost come out of nowhere and just metastasize grow so quickly pretty much untreatable we have never seen anything at this level before

essentially what they're saying why why we could talk about that five americans got an std every minute last year that's horrifying five americans get an std every minute last year wi-fi has potential to influence brainwaves, making people vulnerable to suggestibility, mood enhancing, mood dampening, and more. Last one. 96% of seal colony,

elephant seal colony, pups, 96% died from bird flu in Argentina. Mass extinction, darn near, they're definitely, definitely endangered at this point, you would think. 96% future Dan, that's the news blitz for today. Which one of those headlines concerns you the most in the near future the most in the near

future let's look at here 24 months 12 to 24 months personally or for society as a whole well both I guess I think society as a whole i'm probably most concerned about covid vax and forever chemicals all the chemicals in food giving people cancer turbo cancer i personally knock on wood i don't deal with that right now and i

try to be clean eating and didn't get the covid vax. But in terms of humanity's future, I think that's the most concerning. For me personally, maybe some of the economic stuff. And, you know, I don't know. Not the Costco recalling the 80,000 pounds of butter because the label was wrong. Gee, hopefully the Department of Government Efficiency will stop that type of waste. What do you think of Larry Summers piping up about inflation suddenly?

Larry Summers. What did he say lately? Is he complaining about it before he said it was a problem or vice versa? I don't really care what these bankers say half the time. He's setting off alarm bells suddenly about inflation. Didn't have much to say about it two weeks ago, but now he does. I was about to say, didn't have much to say about it two years ago, a year and a half ago, I was about to say, about two years ago, a year and a half ago, we were putting in 8-10% official numbers month over month and 5-plus percent annualized.

So, yeah. Trump is inheriting a really, really nasty economy. And all that. What he needs to do is expose all the fraudulent numbers so we can really see the magnitude of the debt and the magnitude of the problem of inflation and unemployment. All that. Get the real bad numbers out there and fix it. Instead of trying to cover it up and tell the Fed to lower it to 0%. You know. He said that in the past. 0%.

He wants 0%. 0%. 0%. That's not what we want right now. Fix some things. Hopefully we will. What do you think? It's just, you know, the ability to switch on a dime

by that other political party because their constituencies are just ignorant of these matters, like what they thought and what they knew just a short time ago. And what they seize upon and start saying to themselves moments later is that alone is dangerous. We have a political party that operates this way. They lost this election for this behavior, but we know that, you know, the midterms are, you know, frequently not favorable to the party in power. Democrats regain the House or the Senate is, you know, it's just the window of opportunity. But once the party flips off, like there used to be a problem if you flip flop in politics, they, they, they almost live by it. Unfortunately, a lot of them say, it doesn't matter whatever we could do to take out Trump.

I don't even care what my side says or what the truth is as long as it's bad. As long as it hurts Trump, I'm for that. There's a large percentage of people that say that. Now, the Larry Summers of the world are, let's just say they're not doing it out of ignorance. endurance so look when everyone was saying biden what i think keith olbermann said this is the best biden ever he's so wise and experienced he's sharp as a tack sharp as a tack all the media was saying that then we saw him emperor no clothes on the debate and then everyone's like we gotta get rid of that and we gotta get rid of like They don't care about flip-flopping. It's normal for them.

Even if it doesn't behoove them, they flip-flop. They're just so used to it, I think. They just go with the wind. Yeah, the attempted deficit disorder that they're counting upon from the voters, that's a key to them losing the election, is that there just wasn't enough zombies who can just hear whatever MSNBC or CNN is saying tonight versus tomorrow night and how it doesn't even comport with logic. It just can contradict itself. with, you know, logic.

It just can contradict itself. They overestimated the amount of people they had under that kind of sway. But it's a matter of time before narratives are reinforced. They're not going to stop the drumbeat. They're going to, you know, just seize upon anything they can to, you know, undermine Trump's political power.

But Trump's power is at its zenith right now. It's all-time high this week. So use it. And he seems to be using it or moving the machine to get ready to hit the ground running day one for real, which is nice. Any criticisms or areas you wish he talked about in the first week of president-elect like

you know either either policies you you think are critical he hasn't talked about or missteps or appointees etc you think are wrong no no uh given where we were at bringing gates in as ag to clean house, to bring about justice. Elon Musk nicknamed him the hammer of justice a few hours ago. We're talking in a patient that has many, many frailties and illnesses and is not healthy, you got to, you know, when you go and try to take care of someone in an emergency situation medically, you got to keep the airway open. You got to keep the heart beating. You got to stop the bleeding, right? You know, ABC, airway, stop the bleeding, right? You know, ABC airway bleeding and circulation, you know,

you get, it has to, you know, the rest of it is, is, you know, on the, on the margin to me right now, but what Gates could potentially do, you know, releasing Epstein's list, which, you know, could possibly show Larry Summers having visited Epstein's Island, right? DC establishment, and especially the Democrat DC establishment, is in full panic right now. And that looks pretty healthy to the Republic, to me. I really want to see it come out, whether it's the Epstein-Lewis or any other damning information about

fraud and crimes that have been committed in the last few years or even decades ago, for that matter. Of course, not every promise will be kept or can be kept, but they've said they're going to do a lot on that front. They better, man.

They really better. Another area that's coming up is in the Department of Defense, Pete Hegseth nominated. He was on Fox & Friends hosting on Saturday. That's how I knew him, is he was the fox and friends host on the weekends well he's gonna be the secretary of defense and rumor has it there's an executive order prepared it's going to establish board and it's really going to look at firing generals firing generals responsible for afghanistan Afghanistan, firing anybody in chains of command that, you know, thwarted the bill of, of POTUS 45, in other words, Trump's first presidency.

And the generals have brought about the, the, the transsexual, you know, policies that are, are, you know, Hegseth, let's just say, he's clearly said he's going to put an end to that. So that's going to be presented to the world as, you know, purging the military, behaving like third world, but elections have consequences. You know, partisanship within the ranks of the senior officer corps is not unheard of. Lincoln had his own problems. He faced, you know, generals who quit. McClellan quit and ran against him during the Civil War, right? So, you know, this is not new.

This is natural. This is civilian control of the military by popularly elected, you know, constitutional officer, the president, and his appointees. So lots of positions are open. There could be other appointments where I'm scratching my head thinking why is this person in that position? But the big ones are getting filled right now, and D.C.'s in panic because of who's getting named.

I like how you, you know, I liken it to the self-deportation of illegal immigrants. We could have some self-deportation of some bureaucrats and deep-staters. Maybe not the fully dedicated agents. But a lot of their minions, maybe they'll resign. Do you expect, let's even say 10% of the federal workforce to be eliminated in the first year? Well, the federal workforce is over 20 million, so 10% of them. You look at the federal workforce, it's at two levels. There's the civil servants who have unionized, even though during the Great Depression, during Franklin Delano Roosevelt's four terms in office, at least back then, they soundly rejected the idea of civil servants unionizing, but it's the norm now. And then, so there's that layer with relatively less power,

but far, far more employees with far, far stronger unions and protections. The president simply can't, you know, fire them. But then there's the senior executive schedule, the president simply can't fire them. But then there's the senior executive schedule, the SESs. Those are political appointees. They will all resign. All of Biden's SESs will resign. And the question is, can Trump find enough people who, you know, they're obviously going to get called unqualified, whatever that's supposed to mean, by Democrats and rhino Republicans. You know, the senator in Alaska is already, you know, condemning Gates's appointment as he's not a serious pick.

Right. So there's rhinos even in the Senate still that are going to oppose them. in the Senate still that are going to oppose them. But is there enough effective leaders standing in the wings to be senior executive schedule appointees? And are they going to go into Mar-a-Lago and sound good and get Trump to pick them, appoint them, and then ultimately they were there for a book deal because they're going to be, you know, disloyal as soon as they get in there. Which is pretty much what happened most of the time in the first Trump presidency. So, time will tell, but boy, you know, Trump and his team had a lot of time to learn from their mistakes the first time around. And I think who he's surrounding himself with as advisors is a lot better. But that experience is so key, so important.

Hmm. Well, Musk has come out and said, Elon Musk, of course, I guess he's referring to not the senior executive leadership, but more of the much larger portion of the workforce that they're going to get a two-year severance, and that's still a really good deal to get them out. Do you think that's even reasonable?

Do those unions have such sway that they could prevent any layoffs? Can you just give a couple examples of who those unions are? Like 20 million federal employees, that's a heck of a lot. Well, the Constitution is designed to actually make Congress the most powerful branch. And if Congress defunds these agencies, then there will be layoffs. Those people will be let go from government, right? But it's going to have to come through the budget process,

which Thune and the likes of him, Cornyn, some of the, you know, some senators that had, you know, pretty negative things to say about Trump in the past. And they do have six-year terms. They have that kind of, you know, staying power. They don't face the election that often. So will they defund these agencies? I think all the Republican establishment understands the threat that the FBI poses to them, their party, right? It might come down tonight to how compromised is Cornyn and Thune and others like him by the FBI right now.

Hopefully not too compromised, but I guess there's all, I don't know, interesting battle. I'm not too big on the political machinations, but at this point, I guess you got because it's pretty darn interesting. Seems like most of these folks are making it to the right spot, but proof's in the pudding if they get things done. And yeah, I guess we'll be talking about any other thoughts on that, on Trump presidency with that much, you know, about a week after the election and then otherwise, are there any other big, big articles you want to hit on before the night ends?

Oh, there's definitely other articles, but last word on the Trump administration shaping up is they don't seem like they're playing around, and they look like they learned their lessons. Shouldn't be playing around trying to shoot their boss. Just four months ago, literally, hey, four months ago, literally today, it's the 13th of November today, and it was the July 13th. Crazy. Crazy. What do you think would happen if they had killed Trump at that time? Republicans would have lost.

Pretty, I mean, right? Pretty obvious there, or what would have occurred? No, no. Let's see. The Republican convention hadn't happened yet. And unlike the Democrats, there would have been a contested convention. And who prevailed in that would have made all the difference in who won. Who prevailed in that would have made all the difference in who won.

So impossible to speculate how they would have arrived at that candidate. But that is literally neither here nor there. Because right here, right now, it's POTUS 47. I think it's here or there because we were like one inch away from SHTF level. So that's why you got to keep prepping every day. And also, I also feel like Trump's got at least a 50-50 shot of another attempt on his life in the next year. Is he currently under full secret service protection and military airspace protection so he doesn't get shot down by a SAM missile? What do you know about that? Anything?

protection so he doesn't get shot down by a sam missile what do you know about that anything well he's he was under quote-unquote full protection at butler but it wasn't as full as it should have been right at this point though where where are we at with the with the secret service and their internal investigation and and and reforms, right? So the things that are going to get revisited in January when the new Congress convenes, the hearings, the investigations, you know, from the executive branch and from Congress, this is a chance to make a change. And if you see it changed into something where it becomes just, you know, talking points and rhetorical battles to gain donations ahead of the midterms, then you know not much is going to change. But Trump's nominating people that seem surefire to, you know, want to make a change, right? So time will tell.

What else on the dashboard is piquing your interest November 23, 2024, this evening? Housing market, I think it's at a minimum plateaued in desirable areas. And in certain areas that have maybe overbuilt or are having issues getting insurance, and insurance skyrocketing like in Florida, huge declines. So with that turning over, and we already know commercial real estate's a stinker, let's just say there's some economic headwinds. I want to grow out of this, and I want to cut spending,

and hey, I'm feeling somewhat almost positive about being able to contain the debt bubble, but I still know that's a hell of a battle. Even the biggest Trump fans are going to have to realize it's going to be harder than you expect. Yeah, I'll help bring some sobriety to that. In the past few days, we set an all-time single-day debt accumulation record, $18 billion in one day. Oh, my.

One day. Wow. That's crazy. $18 billion in one day. One day. That's crazy. $18 billion in one day. And the two places I can look to where you can start to make the argument that there's a chance to outgrow this, forestall the reckoning at least, outgrow this, you know, forestall the reckoning at least. Artificial intelligence revolution and advances in space exploration,

private, you know, musks, you know, SpaceX. What we are able to do there and what we're able to do to, you know, potentially able to do in terms of productivity in the workplace with artificial intelligence. You know, two examples of how if 20 years from now there's been no default, all the same problems would probably still plague us because there was never any collapse in fundamental reform. If you ever find yourself in that state of affairs, and you for a long time have not thought that the Ponzi scheme, the house of cards could go on much longer. revolutionary, industrial innovations that are exploited to the maximum in the United States of America. And I think that's what Trump believes, that we are the country that can do that.

It's like we can keep getting those big gigs before we go bankrupt. We're right on the precipice every time. But then we're the ones leading that revolution, whether it's industrial space. Like you said, I like it. Artificial intelligence. That's why I agree. If we can pause. If we can just pause where we're at right now

not let it get worse for the next 10 years then maybe we can kind of contain it and grow past it that's that in and of itself is going to be super difficult to even come close to to pausing where it is whether that's real inflation not just the nominal but the real inflation numbers and growth and or the federal deficit and all the i mean it's still a while uh till baby boomers even peek out their draws on social security medicare medicaid all that so there's a lot of unfunded liabilities to be paid out more than 10 years from now. But again, I'm feeling almost optimistic. More than I've been in seven years we've been on Patriot Power Hour, I'll say that.

Yeah, I mean, in the long run, there's a lot of vested interest in bringing about a reset, right? And I don't want to be a broken record, but I do think that late 2027, early 2028, the end of Trump's second term, Trump's second term, there could be an economic reckoning that's designed to bring about a return of Democrat power in D.C. with an emergency necessary for their help fixing. And the economic could just be part of something else, whether that's massive war or terror attack, or I'm thinking another pandemic, COVID 2.0, or all types of black swans, etc., etc. The economy could be the threat by itself, certainly, but almost any other SHTF-level event will also wreck the economy, two for one or more. Yeah, just a good old fashion, all the banks collapse

at the same time. For no other reason than they packaged derivatives in a way that finally got exposed. Some people can say I'm an accelerationist in this regard, but I think in a good way, not in a bad way.

That'd be good. Let's exorcise those demons. Let's get the skeletons out of the closet. If we need to default or have a partial default, who's better than Trump to lead us through a real national bankruptcy and come out real nice on the other end? I swear. I swear. Probably can't do it within a four-year year period probably not the political will to do it but the current debt is needs to be defaulted on in one way or another there's different ways to do it some better than others you could also

you know i i'm a bitcoin maximalist i've been a fan since it was under a thousand bucks. If they really have a strategic reserve of Bitcoin, they could have, before you know it, almost enough to pay off the national debt. Maybe not. That's a lot of money. But they could at least bolster the national balance sheet. If we could get spending under control still have good revenue but from smart tax policy where they're not offshoring and hiding at all still

getting decent revenue but mostly tax cuts to spur more growth to get more taxes if we can get on that cycle uh again we could at least mitigate it and come up with hopefully we'll have some golden age right all that all that so anyway still a long way to go even even with with that folks be very frugal if you have the money and keep prepping keep buying those real goods they're not going to be cheaper than they are right now. I can guarantee you that. Every day goes by, food and other important commodities will be expensive, at least for the upcoming year or two. Even if Trump does everything perfect, it's going to take a while to turn it around, I think. Yeah, and some of this is out of control of any politician

or any government. Exactly. Unfortunately, but we can make a difference. At least we can start. Yep. But we know this. Therefore, we prep. I personally don't want to see a collapse of anything like this in my lifetime or my or or or the next generation's lifetimes i mean this is bad news this is not good people will die people will become destitute so this is not something to be hoped for and i don't resign myself to saying it's inevitable, but the existence of future danger is proof that I believe it's highly possible and has to be guarded against. So, yeah, that's where we're at.

What else is on the heat map that's maybe uneconomically related that's causing you to take notice? causing you to take notice. The FBI coming out announcing they stopped an Iranian plot to assassinate Trump. That was big news that didn't really make as much highlights as you'd think it would be. 20 years ago, they said they stopped a plot to assassinate George W. Bush. We already attacked, obviously, Iraq, but we would have attacked them faster, I think, if it was Iraq. Because Iran probably would have attacked them if this came out. And it would have been news for a while. I felt like this was, maybe it's just caught up with the whole election

thing, but FBI admits. What do you think on that? Well, you know, historically when George W. Bush justified the evasion of Iraq, he gave a lot of reasons. He gave a speech. He listed a lot of reasons. And one of them was definitely that, you know, during the Clinton presidency, that the Iraqis had schemed to assassinate his father. So, yeah, that was one of those justifications in George W. Bush's minds for taking out Saddam. Of course, the Iranians want to kill Trump because he took out Soleimani.

So here's just one more of those conundrums. Trump campaigned on, you know, there weren't any wars during his first presidency. He's going to end the needless wars. wars. On the other hand, anticipate some special operations in next year. And it's going to be targeted to Iranians

and very likely Mexican drug cartels. Maybe that's why Israel's holding off from attacking Iran properly. Alright, if we just wait six more months, we can really have America side by side. I don't really support that, but Trump is gung-ho to go after Iran. Even before this news, the FBI stopped in this recent plot.

Shortly after his July attempt on his life, it came out that Iran might be involved with future attacks or assassination attempts, maybe even in Butler. Yeah, he's not a fan of Iran. He said it. Israel, a lot of people thought they would have attacked before the election, but they didn't. I think they're waiting to go side-by-side with Trump there. They probably decided they don't need to.

Then why didn't they attack before? Maybe it's still an offing soon, for all we know. I think they pretty much told the Iranians that their entire oil infrastructure is held at risk. And if they destroyed that, the stability of the Iranian regime, when it could no longer feed its people, right? So regime change in Tehran would be of strategic value to Israel, right? So it's the Middle East.

There's a lot going on there that the United States of America does not control, never can control, right? Yeah, I mean, Bolton, John Bolton was in the first Trump presidency, you know, quintessential neocon, right? And he was pushing at one point for us to strike Iran. And by Trump's own account, it was close until Trump called it off. So I think it would be targeted at special operations to take out Iranian leadership, send a message, have a payback for attempting to assassinate him while he's running for president.

But more than that, I'm not sure. You know, that's not Trump's focus. He doesn't want to be a wartime president. Do you believe the FBI? Or do you think this is some fake story they concocted to cover or make everyone think, oh, Iran, but I tried it in July. It wasn't internal. Well, some of the people they arrested are American citizens.

So we're going to find out whether their trials are national security related and heavily redacted, like basically secret trials. That's the good question, right? But for the FBI to do this, one could innocently argue that at some level, the FBI people were doing their job, right? But I think most of what they've done in the last 48 years has shown that, you know, you just can't trust them at all. And I personally advocate for abolishing the FBI. But with that, so with that jaded point of view, I'm wondering if that's a move by the deep state to try to lure Trump into a war that would end up being harmful to his presidency. you know, 4D chess.

I'd have to guess he's aware of that too. Certainly. Hey, 3D chess against Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock's tough enough. 4D chess against Trump oh man you're going against the goat that's about it that's I don't have too much else unless you

want to talk about uh turbo cancers and vaccines and forever chemicals some more but talk you know not much else to say about that I really hope RFK and others do some damage against those that are poisoning ourselves and future generations for sure. He has a chance to expose as much as Matt Gaetz does at the Department of Justice, as much as Pete Exet does at DOD. So stay tuned. But what I would say is these things might seem in the short run positive and bring safety and security to our republic. If done in the wrong way, they also could be highly destabilizing, right?

So we watch and we prep. We stay vigilant. So we watch and we prep. We stay vigilant. That's what we do on Patriot Power Hour this November 13th, 2024, episode 285. Pleasure to recap current events with you, Ben. You as well.

Another great episode in the books. We'll be live next week. Catch you guys later.