The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #296

Episode Date: February 20, 2025

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future Dan the editor of future danger comm February 19th 2025 it's episode 296 of the Patriot Power Hour. I'm Ben the Breaker of Bankshare here with future Dan. Yeah, we got less bad news tonight. It's safer tonight. Just want to bring that up

front. We will get into the newsblitz in the second segment but yes yes, it's less frequency and less severity of dangerous news. We got a lot of good news or maybe topical news, interesting items to talk about, and we certainly will, but in terms of future danger, mapping out threats, how to get your preparedness plans in place or even executing. Not that much news in that regard tonight, at least compared to what we've seen in previous weeks. We've got eight indicators. They all have one headline. So it's very diverse. Half of them are grade one topical. that's grade one topical. So with that said, then we are more than four weeks into the Trump presidency. What's your grade so far, future Dan of Trump administration? Well, we did the we did the Godzilla metaphor. Show a little of that I Would compare what I'm seeing in a new metaphor tonight you ready? Let's do it

Trump's administration not he himself, but his White House running the departments and the independent agencies of the US government in the 45 term POTUS 45 Now looks as though he took a race horse into the gates and Here you've watched the Kentucky Derby. You've watched Triple Crown races if not other Thoroughbred racing, right? Oh, yeah. And occasionally there's horses that don't get into the gates well and don't come out

of the gates well and literally buck the rider, not at the high, high levels of that sport, but horse has a mind of its own. And that's what it looked like happened between 2016 2020 is the as a federal government and Trump trying to ride it he he got bucked. He got bucked at that That horse was not in his control and tonight He looks like a Triple Crown Winner, you know on the three three quarter mile post ahead of everybody.

I mean, that's the difference in these administrations just came out smoking hot and it's still there. Still leading the news cycle, still driving what everybody has to deal with next, pulling the levers of power on the reins of that thoroughbred and you know winning the race right now I Like it and I don't think he's gonna stop anytime soon I think however many furloughs he'll win by in this analogy He's gonna keep running full speed ahead if not at least until the midterm see how that goes but that's more you know that's essentially two years away less than two years away but not that much less and at the pace is that now I

think today is like day 30 maybe the pace now another 18 24 months of this man of course I don't think it's gonna continue at this rate but it doesn't seem like it's abating at any at any point if it's almost getting stronger because more evidence is coming out reinforces the urgency and the need for Doge for rethinking economic policy for rethinking geopolitical policy some things I'm not big fan of but I Do it great Big part about Doge. I would take a slight exception what you just said

There's there's no Justifying Doge There's no there's no stopping it. It's it what it's already exposed is Is is all you know sets the stage but it's gonna continue and It's mounting mounting legal chant challenges against it You're gonna fail in court. They're failing. Yeah, because what what the judges have to arrive at is this concept that civil servants who are not a political appointees are the only custodians of these information systems that the president

and his appointed advisors, consultants and officials can't do it. Doesn't make sense legally. can't do it. That makes sense. Legally. Already, some of those have stated as such, and there will be more. I've had a couple people, Trump derangement syndrome, can't argue facts with them. I don't even really try, but I just tell them, hey, bring it to the courts, bring to the judges. If you think it's unconstitutional, we'll see what happens. And that's something I think you've always done a great job of bringing to the Patriot power hour and prepper broadcasting network at large is the constitutionality behind what Trump is doing, but even, you know, over the last

several years, the unconstitutionality of what was being done by Obama administration, Biden administration, and even during the Trump administration, when he had people fighting against him, the horse bucking him off was, let's dare say, the deep state embedded in a lot of ways, what was really bucking him off as much as anything. Well, that's definitely turned the corner here, and I think that momentum is gaining.

And with USAID as an example, that's been blown out of the water, I think that momentum is gaining. And with USAID as an example, that's been blown out of the water, I think. I mean, a lot of this, I don't think there's anyone that can think rationally that is not more convinced that there's fraud that needs to be investigated. Now, than two weeks ago. Like maybe someone could come up with some sort of argument that Doge is overstepping his bounds

and we would think that's BS, but that was two weeks ago. Everything's been shown already and it's like, look, you're gonna really complain about this when the real thing you should be complaining about is what's being found to all the fraud and billions and billions of dollars wasted. So big, big part of what Democrats succeeded at in the first term, setting up all these false boundaries

and precedents that they just absolutely demanded that any president follow. And Trump has learned and talked to people that, for example, if a lower court, not his peer in our system, the Supreme Court, but as constitutional officers, but if lower courts arrive at temporary restraining orders, injunctions, et cetera, that you could actually just ignore them. And what is the check and balance on that? What is it? Well, he's already been impeached, right? So that's the check and balance. Does he think that the US Senate would convict him for breaking, ordering employees to break? Because there's a slew of laws, a slew of regulations that if you and I were an employee of the government, we were breaking them would be, you know,

very problematic. We would be at legal risk. There's people in Doge that are at legal risk if they're, you know, just plowing through the terrain without any cognizance of some of the laws. Now I know that lawyers are tightly embedded with the Doge. Like each Doge team includes like a data analyst, an HR person, and also a lawyer. Right. It's like four people teams. So I'm sure they're thinking through this,

but there's probably laws that are getting broken technically, but if challenged on them, how does that compare with Section Two powers of the president, right? So a lot of precedents established by Congress, a lot of regulations established by Congress, and there could be some minor law breaking happening

on the sides, but the check and balance for that is impeachment and I don't see that happening. So we have Trump derangement syndrome on one hand we have I think some people being maybe a little too overconfident that the War is over. I'm always just trying to which war The war against the Democrats if you want to just call it that No, I meant like hey Trump is cleaning house week one it's over I definitely don't feel like that I'm sure you don't either but if I what I'm trying sure if you're going to be able to get a job at the house. No, I meant like hey, Trump is cleaning house week one. It's over. I definitely

don't feel like that. I'm sure you don't either but if I what I'm trying to get at is is there anything that Trump is either doing or not doing that you think is particularly concerning or any weak spots that you just you're a little

concerned about for the empire striking back for lack of a better term like you know, put on the devil's advocate if you have to, is there anything that's concerning right now? Not at a high level, which also goes back to why future danger currently has eight active indicators with eight headlines. Not a lot of dangerous news to be found this week. So I don't, you know, and how to, you know, then to get into just pure speculation

of what could happen if this happened, if that happened. So I'm not, I'm not necessarily ready to go there, but, um, something happened on Wall Street tonight that foreshadows it's a decent foreshadow. Of what I think is to come. I said before in the show, I said during Trump's first term when before COVID, it looked like he was cruising to a reelection is that, they're gonna have to find a way to make him Herbert Hoover.

The second great depression. Something that would shadow what happened in 2008. It's also, it's just a joke to call that the great recession anyways. Stupid, stupid really. Know what happened in 2008. It's also it's just a joke to call that the Great Recession anyways Stupid stupid really recession is far worse than a or far less worse than a depression, right? So is the great money manipulation to prevent a depression in 2008? But laying at Trump's feet a Great Depression. I'd say in the 2027 about two years now after the midterms,

you know, to sabotage reelection and to, you know, just leave him holding the bag for the second Great Depression. That's a very real threat. And what happened on Wall Street tonight is directly tied with how Doge is succeeding. Directly tied with how doge is succeeding And I want to direct your attention to hey, maybe you can Quit the scroll for a moment. What is Palantir stock doing tonight? Yeah, how did Palantir close tonight not good from what I heard on the radio It's

BAM spam spam Yeah C-4.4 percent, but I don't know if that was after mark. Yeah, it was so 10% 10% by the time the Market closed and then an additional 5% plus so yeah 15 and a half percent pretty much day in the last day. So let's talk about Peter Thiel and his relationship to Trump and Elon Musk. Peter Thiel is the leader of Palantir Technologies. Let's talk about what Palantir Technologies is, and it's been confirmed now, Elon's confirmed confirmed this technology is being used by Doge So for our audience we do we did show prep very small amount of show prep

But and then I'm gonna come back to why I think Palantir stock is down 12% And after hours after the close So let's first let's discuss what Palantir is. You got the you got the analysis of that for us to take a glance at? Yes. All right. Palantir technologies. It's a whole suite of software products, data integration, analysis, visualization, essentially taking deep data mining and turn it into something humans can understand and use. There's Palantir Foundry, data integration analytics enables organizations to manage and analyze

vast amounts of data from various sources, heavily used for operational efficiency, supply chain management, risk assessment, all the stuff nerds like me love. There's also Palantir Gotham. This is more for government and defense, so not just general efficiency and industry, but a little bit more for security-related data,

counter-terrorism, law enforcement, etc. And then Palantir Apollo is another product under the umbrella, I guess. It calls itself, or the kind of descriptors here, continuous delivery system that enables the deployment and management of Palantir software across various environments, including on-premise and cloud. So cloud for non-classified and then on-premises for, you know, behind the, oh gosh, what's it called? You know what I'm talking about, the secret rooms and whatnot where it's totally firewall-off, air-gapped.

Or maybe not. Depends on how Doge is doing its business and exactly in that regard, cybersecurity regulations may be getting broken. But in any event, let me let me pull it down for you. Yeah. Palantir is the combat grade intelligence used during the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan, particularly to essentially allow the surge of forces, which for a period of time left the opposition basically powerless at peak U.S. force in both of those countries and running this kind of software with special operations able to strike based upon it. Those those counter insurgencies were highly successful compared to, for example, Vietnam, right? Lot was learned in Vietnam. Lot was applied and a lot a lot of success

in those wars. And if you look at the loss exchange ratios, that tells the tale in terms of war. We were really on top of it with very advanced classified systems and Palatir was one of them. There's another aspect to like, why did this kind of artificial intelligence emerge this kind of pattern detection capability, like really, really big data lakes being able to analyze across it. What was the need for it? And I'll give you an example of one of the problems that our military and intelligence community had after invading and occupying Iraq. When they got to Baghdad, they went

into the Iraqi headquarters of the military and the government, Saddam's files. This was millions of paper, pieces of paper, predominantly paper, some electronic, but mostly paper. They had to scan them all, make them readable, optical character recognition, be able to read it. And still, there was more there than any, just pick a number of military intelligence, all source

analysts. It just didn't have enough of those people to possibly ever go through it all in any of their lifetimes, right? Talking hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of Intel people working on it all the time. They were never going to get through it all. So they built tools and Palantir in the Gotham, what they're calling now Gotham, the counterterrorism, counterinsurgency, you know, functionality of that is that it's going to

take in an awful lot of information and show associations, patterns, trends that no human being could, you know, no team of human being during, you know, you could take a million all source analysts and in their lifetime, they could, you know, working every day, nine to 5, 50 weeks a year for the rest of their lives, could not have gotten through. And I was wondering, did Doge have their hands on that technology?

Peter Thiel came out in favor of Trump, someone who was apolitical or otherwise considered to be very cooperative with administrations that were Democrat. He, like Musk, took a look and said, I'm going to go with Trump on this. They are leveraging powerful, powerful war fighting intelligence tools in Doge right now. And last week when we showed you know some images of Bernie Sanders absolutely freaking out, bug-eyed, red-faced, freaking out. It's they know that. So what happened to Palantir today in the stock market? 12% drop, right?

Palantir plunges after CEO carp changes the shares plan and Pentagon budget report says CNN, CNBC, that's a total cover story. That's not what's going on here. That's BS. What's happening is the Democrats on the Hill figured out what was happening, start pulling strings in their network to all their Democrat major donors, get the word out, Palantir is about to expose everything, start dropping their stock. So this is in their playbook to go ahead and use their networks, right? There's a new world order. It's not very orderly right now and it is worldwide, but it's really

the Left the modern left the technocratic left and they're getting eaten alive right now by the tool that was built during Bush's terms Grant, you know became highly effective during Obama's terms terms Someone said hey Elon, you said, hey, Elon, we could use this to go look at the treasury payment system. You know what we would find out? That's exactly what they did. I have no idea how they were able to integrate

and mine that data so quickly and get it into such a system. But once they did, it must've worked real fast. It's a war fighting tool It's meant to do that. It's meant to ingest Battlefield that one of the right very successful Operations, you know operational concepts. I wouldn't say strategy or tactic because it's somewhere in between buddies What what would happen is when they're gonna start taking down networks whether it would be bomb makers in Baghdad area or

parts of the remnants of Isis in or al-qaeda in Afghanistan is that you raid someone and and you kill capture whatever the mission was. I guarantee they're trying to capture as much as they could, right? And then grab everything that was there. Like when Bin Laden's site was exploited, right? Grab everything that is on the site. And then you feed it into Palantir-like technology. It ingests it in whatever form it is, you start scanning documents, feeding it in. And then you launch another raid

based upon what you can exploit in this fast, in as short a timeline as possible. So that way you could just knock down networks, just string after string, you know, in 72 hours six or eight people in a particular network in a cell could be killed or captured. That's just that's the way the special operations worked in those wars. This is what Doge is doing without the lethality, but they are hitting this, hitting that, hitting this, hitting that. And it's part of information

Warfare is getting fed back to the White House and it's getting presented like Trump read on Hannity interview last night, you know, you know a series of Absolutely ridiculous things that they're discovering. So now the worst of the worst examples the rhetorically most valuable You know instances of waste, fraud and abuse are being surfaced and fed to the White House podium as talking points every day. It's, Palantir is the technology, it's the tool in the middle of it. And this is what happened to them on Wall Street today. So the president's opponents that are, you know, the wealthy elite Democrats, this is their response. Hammer Palantir. And

cover it up with, you know, the idea that, you know, the Pentagon's got budget cuts. There is, for example, in the US Army, a program called Army Data Platform. The current Army Data Platform is Palantir. The Army under Biden, after Peter Thiel came out strongly for Trump, the Army was suddenly moving quickly to get itself unlocked, get itself out of Palantir and some kind of replacement capability, right? So the push is on that side of the aisle to punish Palantir for what it's doing. But yeah, I think all that's happening here is Palantir is going to be certain to be part

of after the cuts to the Pentagon arrive, after the inefficiency of waste, which is certainly there, is identified. I think that of all the cabinet departments, the Pentagon's budget is going to remain the healthiest and Palantir is probably going to benefit from that. It's a good tool. It works. It works wherever it's a good tool. It works. It works wherever it's tried. I

don't want to get too deep into like what ifs and and all this. I just wonder if it's uh what their argument or defense will be against it. Maybe they'll say that it can be used domestically. The people that are going to be going to jail

for the stuff that Palantir finds, what their defense lawyers are going to try to say, maybe they'll try to make some of this evidence inadmissible under some sort of pretense that I don't know what pretense. That'll be interesting. You don't have any such rights if you chose to be employed by the US government. Those cases won't even happen. Well, one thing I like to see here, well, actually, you know what would pressure you into the news blitz.

But we do have a comment here. Let's see who wrote in. FirewolfForge, what's happening, Firewolf? Future Dan, you want to get in the news blitz real quick? Yeah, let's do it. All right. It's a quick one. A light news.

Yeah, go for it. You're going to lead us today. Yeah Judge in Mississippi Orders a newspaper to delete editorial criticizing public officials That's gonna have a hard time standing up under review for First Amendment free in the press reasons Musk and Trump receiving calls for violence and assassination across social media Something you mentioned and made predictions about

On the new year. It's an old ever present threat does look like the Secret Service is obedient and doing its job now for the current president Indo Paycom commander warns Chinese forces are getting ready to attack Taiwan That's Every once in a while someone at that level for Star General responsible for the entire theater of the Indian and Pacific Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean I mean you know they make that statement

Every now and again, but it's happening now, and it isn't going to be welcomed by China New York governor's ex-aid faces new charges in Chinese spy case so That that's probably what they're really worried about. Zoge is going to show up some patterns. You know, it's an intelligence tool show up some patterns of beneficiaries of waste fraud abuse that are involved with people connected to Chinese intelligence agencies and Democrat politicians. US demonstration of force, launching a nuclear missile,

amidst everything that's going on in our negotiations with Russia, China, everybody watches that when we do that. No economic bad news this week, just not rating. I mean, I guess I could put articles up about how eggs are expensive. Those don't seem to be stopping, but it's not really news.

No economic news tonight. But got a measles outbreak growing in Texas, rural Texas. Probably, probably nothing. Vaccine effects exposed. That's going to stay red hot, just like COVID did. Just like pestilence falls and lab leaks from labs and bio weapons employed and emergency use authorization. Some, some of column four was black on red for months and months During kovat lockdowns. Well, it's this is the this is the You know the the sequel and probably vaccine expect the effects exposed It's only gonna grow bigger with more news coming out with our FK jr. In place Asteroid discovered we talked about this on December 27th They call it Christmas out asteroid a few days after Christmas actually it's considered a city destroyer then

Well it now has a one in 38 chance of impacting Earth in 2032 still Barely remote chance, but I'm not sure something big enough destroy a city has ever been the year. We're still in the It's not Earth shaking news. It's not earth-shaking news, not good news, but not earth-shaking. That's your heatmap dashboard tonight, February 19, 2025. What do you make of it? Episode 296. I want to get into most of these articles. There's not that many, and each of them have a couple of interesting takes. So we'll click through those. I want to shout out TextDad86. He gave us a little bit of comment about what we were talking about in that question as well before the news blitz. Thought I'd hit that and we'll dive into these other articles. Last night on Sean

Hannity, Alon said they're already using Starshield. And Textad says, I'm guessing this is the same technology you guys are talking about. So probably not too distant. Yeah. I'm gonna just do a little research. I'm not too familiar with Starshield, but big data, right?

And they all analyze it in ways that was never humanly possible. That's what's being done to the Treasury payment system and all these agencies. The Doge is inside what's called the Federal Procurement Database System, which, besides it doesn't have classified contracts, but everything else it is supposed to have and it's going to be a good question if you know what we're going

to get surprises. I'll just leave it at that. We're going to get real surprises on what's actually possible to know with this kind of technology. And as more and more of the agencies undergo this sort of audit, I guess, if you want to call it, or just review of public, some of these are publicly available documents. A lot of them are not publicly available, but are available and should be available

to the president and the teams that he designates as a read only, by the way, they're not even manipulating the data. They're just taking data like a snapshot, running it through their machine for all intents and purposes. But as they move on to other agencies and dare I say, the Fed, the Pentagon, CIA, all those, whether they tell the public or not as much telling us, they'll be able to find even more linkages. Or when they find a couple threads to pull over here, then all of a sudden they realize

that thread's connected to this one way over here that no one would have been able to figure out, just like you said, humanly impossible to get through that at Byzantine You know administration in bureaucracy and documents not to mention a lot of this stuff is either paper documents or some archaic programming language like cobalt or old versions of C or you know systems that are 30 40 50 years old so as they integrate those fully and can just keep running their magic data mining process and all this is verifiable they can just point like

look at this look at this look at this hey this system pointed it out. Now you can have the lawyers go through it. Find tooth comb. Build their cases. There you go. Yeah, yeah. Pull up Doge is one of many X accounts. Let's just take a tour of what they're, you know, how they're operating. That's good. Even pull up I am following it, of course, how could I not? I am at Bankster Breaker on X, by the way. Future Dan here is at feature danger six, number six. All right, was there someone specifically you wanna look at or just kinda go through some of those?

Just check out, all right, so just check out some of their tweets, right? So they're working with Treasury right here. We've been working to identify ways the Treasury Department says, Doge replies and this right here is a view from the Federal Procurement Database System, which is open to the public. If you can dare try to use it, it's a really archaic website. Really archaic all the lost and missing money wasn't spent on this system. I can assure you and what you're seeing right here is the is the data fields to explain what happened with a 1.9 billion dollar contract apparently if you read that total on the right correctly and

The reason for the modification right there in the middle of the document information The reason for the modification right there in the middle of the document information terminate for convenience and what some people who have no true understanding of the US government and how it does business and perhaps they have just a understanding of contracts in the business to business world. The US government can terminate any contract at any time for convenience without any explanation to the other party. That's what Doge is doing. Doge is going through and finding the contracting officers and ordering them on the spot from

White House authority, cancel that contract. That's what they're doing. They are combing the government spotting these things. So if you scroll through this Doge X account, it's just example after example after example of them doing this. Pretty transparent. A million dollars there. If you add it all up, I mean just 360 million for Medicare and Medicaid services alone early on. I mean they are, I mean we should go take that. One of my favorite places to go to of course, done it many times on the show. By the way, if you're listening on the podcast

and you say why are they saying looking, really looking at we are now on Patriot power hour and proper broadcasting network doing live streaming a video Wednesday night, 7pm Eastern. So join us live next week. If you're listening the archive right now. But yeah, here we're looking at us debt clock.org 114 billion with a B. Doge is cut right out just in The savings going back to taxpayers. I've seen that floated. That's a terrible idea. This is to bring the federal deficit into some reasonable state so we don't entirely collapse the world economy with a US default during our lifetimes. Well I would have to say otherwise I think is the symbolism alone is worth the price tag 20% of these savings and this only

goes to those who actually paid a net tax. No this is that to be something that he'd cheerlead and get across the other legislation to do this. It has to be a law. Yeah, it has to be a spending bill passed into law. And there may be too much opposition to it, but they've talked about it even saw it on CNBC, 20 percent, pretty much 20 percent bounty. I think it should only go to those who have paid a net tax In five consecutive years, so if you have not paid a net tax after all

Transfers that may have came your way if you did receive any benefits from the government In my opinion, you got to be a net taxpayer five consecutive years each individual year And then you can be eligible for this not reef not Dividend it's a refund one-time refund 20% of Doge's first year savings. Let's do it. Come on Yeah, I think it'd be a drop in the bucket on the debt clock that you're showing it would be the the the

the the the the I can't think that way, but that's all right. I'm more like, I want to bounty, I want to refund. I know a lot of people out there piss and want to refund, but the actual logistics of making it happen, the political ramifications. Yeah, that is unfortunately the devil's in the details. Yeah, go back to that dead clock then.

Oh, we're looking on the back end here. That's what happens when I share my screen. I'm looking. Yeah, show us that dead clock again. I mean. Did this is about is trying to stave off utter collapse in, you know, you know, make make the dollar sound again, and take a chunk out, you know, at least slow that US national debt Clock right that federal spending you know at seven Trillion right there. I

Mean there is a lot of redundancy a lot of what they call rice bowls which are you know? This little part of the government has you know it managed to get some requirement. Oftentimes, it's an information technology system, a software system. But it can be other things. And it's just projects. And get it funded. It serves a very isolated need for a very small amount

of bureaucrats. And what the Doge office you know which was renamed from the digital services office which has a mandate by law to go and improve technology within the executive branch of the US government you know looking for ways to you know I would say that redundant contracts and there's a lot of them are doomed. They're doomed because they'll get cancelled and you can't no one is a party to you know, a court case suing the US government for cancelling based upon terminate for convenience. That's just, it's not going to happen. No judge is going to stand away in that. Every contract signed by any party knows it can be

canceled for the convenience of the government and that's Trump's decision through Doge right now. So when the dust settles, it might get a far leaner, more affordable U.S. government in the near future. I hope so, but they got a long way to go. But they only started two weeks ago, so I can't give him too much problem. I mean, you still have the $2 trillion deficit growing. So even though Doge is cutting literally tens of thousands of dollars a minute, uh, the annual deficit continues to grow. And by the way, one thing they've both Elon Musk and Trump and others have been talking a lot about is how interest on the debt is larger than the

defense and it is now a lot larger. It used to be 600, 700, 800, 900 billion. Now it's $1.04 plus trillion for interest on the debt. So anyway, there's a hell of a lot of rip current to go against or headwind, whatever you wanna say. I'm glad every dollar doge finds and slashes I'm happy about and I'm glad about, but it really is not gonna actually fix very much. They need to go either way deeper or figure out how to cut Pentagon budget 8% every year

for five years, 40% in total. Or I don't know, this will never be fully fixed, but they're going in the right direction at least. Big, big federal workforce, big, big pieces of the federal workforce are going to be unemployed It's going to affect labor markets. It's going to affect housing markets where there's big amount of you know, especially especially but not only Washington DC and God is going to face, you know, you know a requirement to spend less money.

And every military installation around the country surrounded by contractors employ a lot of people that perhaps are not even necessary. So big, big impacts. I think the Democrats are probably eventually they're going to figure out that all they're left to do is collect sob stories of Where cuts impacted people and run that stuff non-stop?

Like literally they're probably in you know planning sessions tonight You know setting up staff to look for the first places where they can actually start naming people that quote unquote died because of Doge cuts. I mean, that's coming. Doge is killing people, is about what they're going to have to resort to for the midterms. Yep. Well, I don't think Doge really cares. They're going to keep exposing the fraud. And literally, if they were halted 100% right this instant, what they've already found will pay dividends in terms of prosecuting criminals and hopefully making a statement that we don't want this stuff to go on in the future, because they've already found a lot. They've already found a lot. They're digesting it. I bet they haven't even released a lot that they still just want to shore up their case a little further. So.

computers can help with that people just won't see because there's just so much data are going to lead in new areas that are going to lead to prosecutions and they're going to be famous ones. So I got to admit, I didn't see it coming. But if I had a time machine, I put two and two together last summer when Peter Thiel and Elon Musk really threw in. Musk didn't even endorse Trump until the day Trump was shot. So that was just last July.

But if you were well ahead of the curve, you would have seen what happens when somebody like Peter Thiel with a tool like Palantir, which is proprietary technology. They sell the software as a service to the US government. They do not sell the source code. The products of the tool, when purchased by the US government on US government contract, the government owns those data rights, but they don't own the source code.

That source code is, or it's probably not, it's not even the source code. Doge doesn't even need the source code. They just need Palantir to rapidly tweak it on the edges, create new features, allow for something that it hadn't been able to do before. And from Palantir's perspective, it's suggesting an amount of data that no other company, like Microsoft is over on the sidelines looking at this, just probably freaking out at the advantage

at this near competitor, not as valuable a company yet, but what they're going to be able to learn, how to make their tool better. It's another entire aspect of this is going to be absolutely, absolutely freaking out their opponents that, you know, Palantir got to basically a sole source contract to do this through Doge. Now, Democrats are saying that Doge and Musk are trying to steal Social Security, mess with your Medicare, Medicaid. We know that's a joke, but looking at these numbers here,

Social Security, unfunded liability, Medicare, unfunded liability, those are combined four or five times larger than the national debt just looking at those numbers it can't happen the US needs a default on its fiat currency it's gonna have to happen one way or another either the feds gonna print it under because you know Trump wants zero percent interest rates in the Fed printing so that's probably how it'll happen but we'll see if the fed actually acquiesces they actually don't want to cut rates now while they probably would have with uh kamala in office anyway we got to get to

some more articles but real quick fire wolf ford says watch we'll toss us a refund then count it towards earned income or gift and tax it again I did I on my ex post about this I did say not only do you have to be a net taxpayer over five consecutive years? This also must be a hundred percent Tax free at least federally. I bet your state would try to get out get it still Never pass the heart. We don't have a big enough revolution yet is my point. It's the real fiscal hawks looking at that $2 trillion. Liars. They are not fiscal hawks. There's only like 10 of them that an entire combination of

both houses that are true fiscal hawks in my book the rest of us like yours and liars who's lying none of them in Congress in the Senate or the US House representative or actual fiscal hawks they only say that when they're told to by their party machine except for like 10 of these folks you might be able to name like a handful of the people that are actually care about the deficit. Wait a minute, wait a minute, I'm talking about the 10. Well okay, they don't care, they're not gonna pass legislation or halt it themselves. Yeah but the Republicans only have a majority of two. That's why it's not gonna pass. Which means we better get a lot,

if we're actually gonna fix problem, we need a much bigger majority election. The, the physical Hawks and the GOP right now have more power than they've ever had in your lifetime. Yeah. And, uh, doesn't take the entire caucus to want to cut that $2 trillion federal budget deficit, there's 10 of them that can any any two of them could vote against the bill and it

doesn't pass. That's why there's not going to be like a handout for refund of taxes. Just isn't gonna happen. Well, fair enough. We could leave that part to the side, but actually doing something about Medicare, Social Security, 40 plus percent Pentagon spending cut, that will never, that has way less chance to be done than a $20 billion refund to taxpayers. Right? Well, you gotta look at the demographics. the state's. refund to So it's going to get worse, unfortunately, but no, the burden will be less in those social welfare programs. Oh, that's like 40 years down the road. I mean, like 10 years down the road when all the boomers are 80 and there's no 20 or 30 year olds to pick up the slack.

There could be a lot less 80 year olds. In other words, outlays for social security, they're declining. I got, I think they did peak like they hit a peak in the last couple of years. It's kind of more of a plateau, but it's very high for a while though. It was the baby boom. It was a big generation after world war two. Makes sense, right? Should have worked that way. Essentially, you know, with social security, I think as soon as it gets close to collapsing, they're going to come in, they're

going to restructure it and just raise the minimum age, which the life expectancy of people rose since Franklin Delano Roosevelt put social security in place. When it was put in place in the, you know, in the thirties and forties, the, um, the, the average age, the life expectancy of people that would collect it, that the age was set at 65. It was higher than the average lifespan, meaning most people didn't get any social security ever.

It was designed that way. It was designed to make sure the people that lived well past their productive years had something. And then they never changed the age. So it's become this, you know, massive fiscal burden doesn't have to be. I don't want anything that I just said to make me sound as though I believe in that Ponzi scheme. I don't There's no other ways to solve. There's no other ways to solve that problem than from right well Stealing your money your whole working life Yes, I guess we're making a full circle when we're talking about how difficult it would be to get

Congress to pass some sort of Doge refund or bounty. I like to think of it as a bounty. That's pretty much, you know, impossible. Very difficult, we would say. Maybe not impossible, but you know, I think politically touching the Medicare and Social Security in the next 20 years would just be so difficult that no one would. So raising the age, general inflation going up, large deficits. But if we can cut the deficit from two trillion to one trillion, I consider that a good win. So we don't have to have a budget surplus next year. I will say that, but we need to a hundred billion is good, but it's like literally a decimal point on the balance sheet. You know? Yeah, I got you. So let's let's get

into the British newspaper here pointing out the judge order to miss the newspaper to Yes, something. This is coming back to the news blitz. We've had a lot of good discussion today, but let's blitz through some news blitz articles. Dang, time's flying. Almost 53 minutes in. We'll go a little over an hour, I think, tonight. Anybody else that's watching live? Any questions, comments, suggestions, feedback? Send us some love. I'll be looking out for that, but until then, let's go. This is the Judge Orders Mississippi Newspaper to Delete Editorial Criticizing Public Officials Judge orders Mississippi newspaper to delete editorial criticizing public officials article out of the independent.

Like you said, British under the news, world America's US politics, first amendment lawyers and press freedom advocates blasts blatantly unconstitutional order. Pretty much that seems like the antithesis of America ordering a newspaper to delete an editorial criticizing public officials doesn't even seem real. Can you run us through this and why is it actually did happen? Well, I'm trying to you guys scroll down to the details. I haven't read this. You see that?

Yeah, yeah, I can. Hearing to review the allegations, editorial is removed. And it's on the grounds of defamation, defamation of public figures. So it's a defamation case. And that's really, really, really hard in the United States for any publicly elected people to Use defamation to shut down speech basically the First Amendment just if you're publicly elected or you know publicly known figure of some Vague, you know level it, you know def is, you know, difficult to prove in this country. Of course, England has major laws about defamation, you know, you do not have that freedom of

speech. So I guess that's why the English paper picked up on it to their readers. This is like a alternate universe where, you know, it occurs to them but yeah Germany too as well in Germany they literally say you're not allowed to insult people in public and especially not on the internet because it stays there longer they're like if you would salt someone in the public square verbally that's one thing but if you we've had a man on line it's actually worse they in Germany. There's plenty of laws against harassment in our country. I don't see what the issue.

OK, so taking that, bringing in a couple of levels, I don't know the exact words, exact legalese for this, but public figures have a higher bar of defamation for this, but public figures have a higher bar of defamation. And then public officials have an even higher bar of defamation, libel slander. So you can usually just talk trash about people, but they can bring a suit against you, see how, you know, depends on the jurisdiction, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's still, you have mostly have freedom of speech and even in that regard in America, but you're at your own risk. You could be sued, but if it's a public figure, say a celebrity or Piers Morgan or whoever, some idiot on CNN is who I was really thinking.

He's not on scene anymore. Probably I don't even know, but he has, you know, you could really talk trash about him. I'm not saying violent things at all. I'm just like Defamation but then a public official like that's super protected like I'm sure there's some sort of limit but as you said compared to UK and Germany like blow it out the water Well, there there are like it all depends on the parties involved like CBS News can't to fame Trump and he's gonna win cases against them true, right? That's what they

Yeah, this is not gonna withstand review this this order in this Mississippi court. So Yep so, you know if Trump is actually getting money out of CB News CBS News for defamation. He's a public figure. He's a public official. And you got to think, wow, it must have really messed up if they're actually going to have to pay off. Well, Stephanopoulos said that Trump raped somebody. He wasn't even convicted of that.

I mean, that was a pretty easy way to lose a defamation case. That's pretty hip that clears the bars Sure seems alright next article this is the commander of The what is this the Indo-Pacific?

Theater the kind of Indian Ocean Pacific Ocean for the United States? Is it just the Navy or all military forces? Everything from California to the Middle East or Afghanistan. Afghanistan, Middle East, or Southwest Asia is going to be central command. So there's actually maps with lines about responsibility, but it's all the Asian. That's a crowd. Korea, Japan, Pearl Harbor, Guam, all these things. San Diego, all around Washington State has a lot of nuclear submarines and stuff.

So this guy, you know, kind of important and four-star admiral in charge says China's preparing to attack Taiwan. the American military urgently needs to step up preparations for the conflict. That's a little bit in opposition to a 40% budget cut. From your perspective, do we need to invest more in this or is that 40% cut needed? What's the reality as a budget cuts at the Pentagon? I don't know what the reality is, but I do know that there's classified modeling and simulation exercises done constantly modeling how the U.S. Navy and U.S. Air Force in particular, but these days also ground space based weaponry and defenses that the army would be involved in

How those fights would look like how an invasion of Taiwan would look like? What missile strikes on Guam would look like? any scenario how Korean War would be refought that that model it goes on constantly To advise decision makers on investment decisions, right? Are we getting surpassed in a submarine capability or a combat fighter capability? And the distances in the Pacific specifically are just tremendous for a Navy and an Air Force to operate like Just just it's a really big ocean right and and and the distances between our bases that could survive Chinese missile attacks and

Taiwan like they do that all the time and if and you know one could be cynical To say the Admiral's you know just speaking up to prevent budget cuts to his command or you you could actually assume that he's a competent leader and Stepping forward and doing his job then saying that His command doesn't have the capability to stop an invasion of Taiwan as it stands right now making that very clear to the new administration. Or and or it's part of an information operation. You know we're

launching a ballistic missile today, got an admiral that's going to say this tomorrow, you know it's going to string along like that with other revelations just to like that with other revelations just to communicate with the power centers of China and to keep them deterred. Maybe say there's a new regime in town. If you thought you could get away with it before, you definitely can't now. I hope that's the sort of message they're trying to push across. So, Pappero, Admiral Pappero, he's not, he's not speaking belligerently here, nor, nor would he, right? Now, that's what elected leaders in the United States do, right? Until there's a declaration of war.

That's when you hear the generals and the admirals get bold, get bold now, now we're fighting a war. You know, you get your George Pattons who speak up boldly during the war, but ahead of wars, you get more reserved people making it to this rank, flag rank in the military. So he's not saying anything. His predecessors in the same, you know, previous commanders of Indo-Pagom have said the same thing. you know, previous commanders of Indo-Pakom have said the same thing. Is it being timed strategically right now? Probably. He's that important. I mean, he is the commander of that entire region of the world for our military. Looks like, yeah, Taiwan is only spending 3% of their GDP. Trump wants them to up that to 10%

so they don't rely on us as much. I'm all for that. I mean, they need to, I think for NATO as well. I'm not sure what the truth is there. Well, it's a negotiated strategy, I'm sure. That's a public number. I'm not sure if 3% of their GDP is real. Secretly, it can be a lot higher. Yeah, especially that island decided a long time ago that their chances of

Surviving involved having a nuclear arsenal which are expensive Maintain especially to maintain one secretly. Nothing would have stopped Taiwan by itself developing maintain one secretly, nothing would have stopped Taiwan by itself, developing warheads by now, right? With no help and no espionage. Like it's 2024. If we figured out in 1945, they could have figured out by now. So do they have that? Is that sitting in their pocket? That's what is my Time is flying. You said yeah, we just had to correct it, but it's 25 and also I was thinking number one. They are the hub of microchip and all types of advanced

Production of equipment. So yes, they could make a rudimentary nuclear weapons If not advanced hydrogen bombs and beyond by themselves, but also how about this? We always talk about black budgets, black projects, secret projects in the U S defense, but what if they off record produce certain equipment for us and we pass along certain equipment or knowledge to them and that's been going on the last 10 or 20 years that could be a possibility too. Well as long as they're secure I don't really have a problem with it. Well they're losing their island to communist China. Absolutely. I just hope someday it's not Taiwan just kind of Benzene and

acquiesces like Hong Kong did. I don't think they will. But you know, over the generations, they're either going to become more separate or become more and more absorbed. Yeah, no, the real the real danger is that they the real danger is if there are enough Taiwanese that want to declare independence, right? The moderates in that country know that doing that brings upon trouble with China that could spiral out of control, right? Sure. We've talked or we've reported on or reviewed different articles in the past on Governor Kathy Holtzschel and her former aide, Chinese spy, acting as agents for the CCP, her husband and herself. There's some new, well, I think that was the last time we spoke about it was September 20 to 24, but we even, I think, reviewed some of this beforehand. But on February 11th last week, they pleaded not guilty in Brooklyn. And, well, there's new charges coming down the pike, even though they pleaded not guilty more and more charges and I just

kind of wonder if they could take Palantir or whatever else they may call it or proprietary system they have and start running down some of some of these folks. Oh, they could if we had a loyal FBI. I'm wondering how much the previous FBI actually was beholden to the PRC certainly behave that way and look at from the communist China's point of view. into power, launch a bio weapon to cause your, the first president that ever stood up to you to lose power and prop up a puppet regime in Washington DC, what agencies would you have to have significantly compromised? FBI is one of them. Cash Patel and a brand new FBI with Patriots might be able to this this right here Linda son

She might be the tip of the iceberg. Oh, yeah has to be has to be That's no, you know small bowl in Congress California Congress Democrat in Congress was you know? California Congress Democrat in Congress was you know homosexual relationships with the Chinese spy like the question is how deeply is the Democrat Party penetrated by Chinese intelligence services, that's what I want to know and I as the Breger bankers get a little too focused on economics and money dollars all that Just as important or more important about Doge and flushing out all this corruption, fraud, waste, all the above is, you know,

getting rid of those programs that are subversive and anti-American, a lot of them, number one. But number two is kind of just, Hey, it's a message as much as money's being saved. It's a message of you can money's being saved it's a message of you can't do this anymore we're watching we're not gonna let this happen it's like a culture change hopefully hopefully it's a positive culture change I guess what I'm trying to say and Trump could always empower defense counterintelligence agencies to really ramp it up. And what that would end up looking like is Trump using the military to suppress his political enemies. Right. But if they're entirely

beholden to foreign intelligence services, not just China, by the way, I think in the long run, most Americans would really appreciate that. I think that's why you see the panic in DC right now is With knowing how to pull the levers correctly to run the executive branch the the music stopped Democrats are running to find a chair to sit in and some of them aren't gonna be left They're gonna be left standing with a spotlight on them and eventually handcuffs I'm gonna be real happy with all the dollars saved, but I'm gonna be a lot happier when people who are

properly legally and lawfully convicted Go to jail for a real long time That'll make me happy too. So Working on that. I'm sure I'm sure they're there after that. We got a couple more articles before the end of the night. What do you say? Let's power through them. And by the way, you spoke with us in our signal channel with Dave and James a few weeks ago, you and Dave were throwing around the word trader. I don't think treason comes into play as a crime. And the reason for that is that term treason was so

overdone in every evil way in England before the founding of America that our founders narrowed it significantly. You got to aid in a bet an enemy of the United States, which isn't your opinion on who the enemies are. Congress has to have declared war against someone. That's when treason happens. But there are other espionage laws. And by the way, they carry the death penalty. The Rosenbergs went to the electric chair for sharing nuclear secrets with the Soviets. And they

weren't convicted of treason. It was lesser espionage crimes, right? So just just to help people out, you know, throwing around the word treason, saying those people are traitors. You gotta be real careful. Our history doesn't substantiate that because that got out of control badly in england in the 13 14 1500s 1600s. So that's why our founders they don't let that's that's a very special and Say it reserved crime By the way, it's the only crime defined by the u.s constitution I love it. Constitutional education here on Patriot Power Hour. Asteroid 2024 YR4. That's

the name. Now has a one in 38 chance of impact. That's a pretty high chance all considered. This is in 2032 late December just after Christmas they're saying a city killer one in 38 it's not the greatest chance ever of course but you know if you had a one in 38 chance of of dying next week you would not be happy at all and that that's an increase. So it went from 1.8% chance to 2.6% chance. Now you combine that with the fact that 70% of the earth is ocean, probably won't hit land. Most land is not

populated. Most the coasts of this world the most populated. most the coasts of this world carry the highest population centers. Well, it's not me from that thing would kill a lot of people if it hits like 100 miles off the shore. That's

sure. I think if it hits square in the middle of Atlantic, it may not be as bad as we might think but I may be wrong. You just might have more time. You might get to know that the tsunamis come in, you know, in an hour and a half from now instead of 10 minutes from now, but it's still coming. Oh, I mean, I'll give you that. I'll give you that. You might be modeling out months and years ahead, hopefully, but yeah, these are low, low chances we would see it coming there be you know, they would evacuate coasts know with the expectation of being a model which I

island or which ocean it would hit but this is very low chances, but it's carried on future danger under the indicator entitled back door asteroid spotted where the, you know, this why, why are four, it was, it was seen, right. And it was seen, you know, years ahead of when it could potentially minuscule chance, but still potentially hit earth. It's the one that comes from the direction of the sun through the back door our telescopes can't see it

We have no way of knowing it's there and it's on a direct course those are the ones that you know movies have been made about and Yeah, one of those natural disasters of you know potentially the greatest magnitude know potentially the greatest magnitude. Based off good old chat GPT, they say would definitely be larger than the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, which had a hundred foot high waves in certain areas and that killed hundreds of thousands of people. Oh, yeah.

Most people in the world live on the coast too. But it wouldn't be like kill the dinosaur tidal wave or explosion. That's a planet killer, not a city killer. But if it landed in a region, that region would have hundreds of thousands, if not millions dead, if it's very populated and, uh, yeah, we'll, we'll keep an eye on it. I hope, I guess the best way to prep in that regard is don't put all your eggs in one basket.

You might have to leave your, your homestead if an asteroid has in its in its marks, so sometimes you got a bug out even with an asteroid, I guess. How about that? I'm pretty sure most countries of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles would be using them at the last minute to do something. Come on, Elon Musk, let's do it. Or the Russians just decide to do it without consulting, or the Chinese, right? The other companies might just do their own thing. But this is how speculative we are tonight on

episode 296, because ultimately, there isn't a lot of bad news going on. We're getting more exposure of mRNA shots. And here's Montana looking at banning them. Some people are predicting a complete federal ban sometime this year. And how Trump squared that circle, from bragging about Operation Warp Speed to then letting others get out in front of this and put an end to what's proving to be a very dangerous experimental vaccine. That's, that's kind of a graceful landing in a political

career, I'd say. Jim Collison Yeah, even enough for me to give them a little bit of a break on it, I guess. We'll see in the long term, but you're right. The horse bucking metaphor that we talked about to open the show. Fauci was part of that system that was the horse that Trump couldn't ride it. He just had no idea how to ride that horse. Guarantees what's happening in CDC, National Institutes of Health, everything that Fauci was part of and controlling is getting the

severe doge attention as we speak. The shoe hasn't even dropped yet for that reason. And they're not going to leap over R.F.K. Jr. He is the secretary. and they're not gonna they're not gonna like leap over RFK jr. right he is the secretary so they're gonna be assisting the secretary come out with the what was absolutely you know they're on the books and no one was looking at it yeah who Trump has surrounded himself with is a big part of his success right now. When RFK joined with him, especially after Musk joined with him and after he got shot in July, I knew he was gonna win after that and I was I was stoked because I liked Musk's, I liked RFK. I was like you bring them in and you bring in like Tulsa Gabbard and some of these others. It's a good

little crew you're starting with. But speaking of others taking the fight to the mRNA, I even saw Musk last night talking about his own personal experience with, I forgot which one. I believe he said he got the Johnson Johnson which is not the mRNA version of the COVID and he said it wasn't a problem but then he got the booster of the other type or something like that but even Musk was in there kind of pointing like huh we need to look into mRNA a little bit more so he's never really said that he He's starting to pick that up. Obviously RFK, obviously a lot of others as well. And now Montana State Legislature voting on a bill to ban mRNA vaccines. And also, gosh, I don't think we

have the article here. I should have saved it, but we've gone through so many tonight. It's all right. But maybe you know even know more than me. I know a lot of military members who were kicked out or placed on leave or any of that type of stuff for not leaving COVID vaccine. They got they all got they were separate. Were there any of that maybe got some sort of punishment and then maybe they got the shot maybe they got theirs. Their black marks removed from the record but alright anyway point is what they're getting their back pay is that official or is that just what they're saying? I think more more more has to happen there. Might require a bill might have to be in a

spending bill. Might have to be a spending bill I have to be my happy budgeted by law But yeah, that's a pretty good news rap tonight. We had some tweets I sent you some posts from X but you know more than enough content to fill a patriot power hour, but I want to talk to you about Futures betting have you participated in any kind of futures markets, any betting? Not since the 2020 election. So you did do it.

I did there. It was not with, it was just on a normal sports wagering site, not polymarket or something like that. a wagering site, not not polymarket or something like that. There was a sports book that let you bet on political outcomes in 2020. Who is that? There's an offshore book. It's not OK. OK. Yeah. So I was going to get into polymarket.

I want to ask your opinion about this, but I didn't have my VPN on and it immediately recognized I was based in the United States. And actually, I had the VPN on but I had set for a location in the United States. And it so it knew that and it said, Hey, not available. And there's another alternative maybe you can There's another alternative. Maybe you can Google, Kalchi versus polymarket. I, you know, there's, there's a choice.

I think it's K L S H I, but if you put polymarket in there, it'll probably get one. Yeah. Cal she. So I went to Cal she, this is us based. They claim to be the only us based, you know, future events. the It's not betting. It's just hedging, right? Which invites the question, where's the line? But in any event, they don't call it betting. But I checked out Cal-She and I checked out Polymarket.

And Polymarket has, in my opinion, far cleaner and far more interesting and controversial events up for betting. So here's my question to you. If I change my VPN to an offshore location, and then I can open an account with Polymarket, do you think they will figure it out and void my bet in their terms of service will, you know, keep my money but not pay me out? Super good question. Or would you trust a VPN to keep it all running just fine? They're not going to be able to know. Especially since you consulted with me on the VPN I'm running. Man. Well, I'll say that one.

I'll start by saying, if I'm wrong, I identify you or pay you if they don't. But the, I feel like they, it would not kick you yourself. Your issue would be how you're gonna get money on and off of there. Your bank won't do it for you anonymously. So they'll know it's a US bank and they won't do it for you anonymously. So they'll know it's a US bank

and they won't do business with them. And your bank may not do business with them either. So you're gonna have to find a way to get money there and get money off. So you got a foreign bank account or maybe you got some Bitcoin. That's the way to do it. I don't know.

I'm just checking right here if you can get, actually make bets with Bitcoin on Polly market. That's good question. How you deposit? I don't know, honestly, but it's, I don't think the website itself really can. What, what you don't tell me you don't know if they take Bitcoin, you know exactly how to transfer I know how to do that, but I don't know it if somehow if the company if Kalash or I guess polymarket in this case If they find out that you're lied to them and you said that you were international, but you're actually us

They may just still shut you down. Anyway Whether you pay in Bitcoin or not. That's the threat. I don't know if I'm on Pauli market site and they confirm that they do accept multiple cryptocurrencies. So, yeah, so that's all right. Now in terms of, will they just shut your countdown and take your money for any reason at any time? Would they find out?

That's something I would not... Can I trust my VPN to not ever expose the fact that I'm in the US? I would hope so, but... Hope is not a method. More to follow. I might do the old... I'm confident that they would be able to not know where, you know, what state you are or your exact IP, but whether or not they know that you're using a VPN and that may disqualify you in of itself. I can't answer that. Yeah, that's a good point more to follow I might try to get into poly market and lay a few

minimal dollar bets because Sure, I think that you know our discussion on Patriot power are on a regular basis Does allow on certain occasions to see obvious winners I? Don't want to sound like that guy at the racetrack that just knows who's how the colonies is going to turn out today. But like like you made some money on Trump's defeat in 2020. That seemed obvious to you, you will you're willing to throw a little money against that prospect. So I

think I'm not into sports book, not really into watching professional sports anymore. But'm not really into watching professional sports anymore, but, uh, might give some shot on some of these event based prediction markets. Cause they're growing. Kelsey's the first one supposedly legitimate in the U S. And, uh, at a minimum it's good content and we've done a little con then on Patriot power hour with these, these markets, especially heading up to the election, but we could build either a real or a fake portfolio

where we take some positions and we just kind of like follow each show. Maybe something to think about. Yeah, that'd be fun. Have we spanned the news universe to your satisfaction tonight? I believe so. I do see in the chat, the prepper broadcasting network on YouTube just sent a message.

I presume that's the Intrepid commander potentially not sure, but what's happening, we've had a great show. Almost a we're on one hour, 24 minutes, almost 25 minutes. So we've gotten a lot of good news and analysis and just dare I say speculation and opinion as well. So good mix. That's about all I got. Oh no, you know, I got one more thing.

I almost forgot. It's in the Twitter. You sent me some things in Twitter. Not gonna go through the actual articles, but Fort Knox, do you think it will be audited? Is that something that's on here? I should search to see Fort Knox. What's this whole thing? You know, Ron Paul, Musk, zero hedge even. They were all saying, yes, let's let's

Cal she doesn't go out there with, with, with wagers or, or events to stake a position on that seemed controversial. the market doesn't go out there with with with wagers or or events to stake a position on that seem controversial. Polymarket does. There you go. Yeah. 17% chance right now. Ah, down to fifteen. I would uh

I might I would throw five bucks on that. Right? That it is that that there is some missing. And the definition of missing, that's always, that in of itself is interesting. If it holds less than this. Not who owns it, I think. I think it's, so if this, one thing people are saying is the gold may all be there, but some of it may be owned by China or others. So the US essentially sold it, continues to hold it, but it's quote unquote not ours. I think that would not qualify under this bet though, cause they're going- How would you resolve it? This is smart.

This is like, is it physically there? Cold? Yes. No. It has to be like an insurance policy. It has to be very easy to interpret. Hopefully. If not, you got a problem. We're talking about all kinds of new things on Patriot Power Hour this year. I'll tell you what we're talking about technologies and potentials for future outcomes that never before in the history of us doing this show, stretching all the way back to 2017.

It's all new and interesting this year. So I'm looking forward to running Patriot Power Hour straight through the spring. You and I got a little planning session coming up with the commander and Dave Jones about the next Azure Highland. So we're going to get some details out to folks probably in March, ahead of our April event,

others are welcome to join and replicate with a month long event. You can do it from your home. So anybody who wants to join in this time, tell us your tale of how it went for you. Love that. Anything else we want to cover tonight on Episode 296, Patriot Power Hour, Ben? Oh, another great show in the books. We'll be live next Wednesday, 7 p.m., but we always reserve the right to jump on if there's crazy stuff going on. I think we hit our high watermark of live listeners. We got 23 live across all platforms, which is nice. But I know the great majority of folks out there

are listening on the archive, on the podcast. So if you find yourself with some time on a Wednesday at 7 p.m., come join us live. You'll be able to watch while we share screen, while we go through different things live, and also interact with the chat. It was good to talk a little bit with Firewolf and with Text Dad and also I think

Intrepid Commanders out there and others. So awesome show. I think we can call it a night and we'll be back next week, all right? Yeah, let's do that. Good show, man. the I'm sorry. So So Thank you. you