The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #343

Episode Date: April 17, 2026

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And we're back once more. April 16th, 2026, episode 3403. I'm Ben the Brager of Banksters here with Future Dan. What's going on, Future Dan? I'm Future Dan here with Ben the Brinker of Banksters. Ready for the second episode of Patriot Power Hour in the spring season of 2026.

you've been on the road you've been you've been places since we last opened up this season we premiered for this season so what are you seeing out there did it change your perspective on anything yeah i had a transatlantic flight and some time overseas in the last month as well as driving 1500 plus miles through kind of the east and central of the country so i got a good look at USA as well as a little bit overseas, not that much. But everyone certainly complaining about prices, but there's a lot of traffic on the road and a fair amount of people spending money. So it's no depression that I see.

Yeah. What about other sentiments? Middle East, war in the Middle East. What are you hearing? Warren to Middle East. Well, overseas they were pissed because. They were getting affected a lot more by scarcity, not just the price increases, but potential rationing even. I was in the UK, and it was really early in it.

And right now, Ireland's having much worse of it. But I know down in Australia and New Zealand, like, it's particularly bad in the Philippines, too. So we've talked about it. NBC guys talked about it here in America. Very grateful we're domestic producers. It's bad. you know driving around with four plus dollars a gallon that kind of stinks but it's not that bad compared to maybe some other places can you believe the USA export to oil now i'm still having

a hard time wrap my head around might change might change but there's a lot of money to be made out there and people will pay a high price so that is you know oil is relatively free market and And now the extraction and who owns the land and stuff, that's a whole other level. But the global market and commodity price, you know, there's a reason to us import and export at the same time, even though it doesn't make sense kind of mathematically. Why would you do that? It actually does. No, it makes perfect sense. What's the economic term, the political science term for a economy that's entirely isolated unto itself?

An autocracy? What's that called? well like theoretically of course it can never actually occur right i don't know just uh yeah this is my jeopardy question for 800 on that one alex there's a word for it and it's failing the pronunciation's failing me right now but you know it doesn't exist in in reality and california because of its rules will import middle eastern oil while other oil you know departs East Coast to Europe or wherever it may go. So that's just the world economy, but it's good to be a net exporter.

And it's certainly clear to me that the dominoes Trump intended to have fall were opened up the Venezuelan, you know, oil market by seizing Maduro, bringing the oil into our, into the United States, and be in a position to export while, Iran's offline. And all the Arab countries, really. So even though he's kind of nuzzled up to the other ones, they're getting screwed over too. And it goes all the way.

Hey, the Saudis are starting to run out of money. I'm sure they got some stashed away. But all of them are hurting. I don't know about Saudis running out money, man. Relatively. For a few weeks, man, that country. And it has the pipelines that run to the Red Sea, which are, you know, getting even more. They're making money.

They're making money. The prices might make up for the net, you know, loss in export. Kuwaito and, you know, the other other guys who don't have pipelines, yeah, they're, they're probably, you know, had enough at this point. Where do you see this end game going? Well, as of tonight, there's supposed to be more hopes of the ceasefire. I was really glad that about a week ago, and we were off. I was ready to go for an emergency show if there was, just called a sustained ground presence. But there wasn't.

A civilizational destruction? Well, that would be even worse. I wouldn't even go on the air. I'd probably just go to a bunker. We didn't have a chance to weigh in on, on, on, on, on, on, on, what the president said that night on on easter right that was a few days after our most recent show and about 10 plus days ago so so how did you take that when he wrote that what did you think he meant like best case scenario is just going to take out the desalination plants and power plants and bridges

and you know it'd be a humanitarian nightmare you know worst case scenario is going to drop some neutron bombs on the coast and maybe even just I wouldn't think on some cities. I mean, hopefully it's just bluster. But what I mean, that's the two extremes. So let's focus on the word civilization. Like when he wrote that, what do you think he had in mind? All the Iranian people themselves?

I don't think so. Not killing all the people, but knocking them into the stone age, but all the civilian infrastructure, not just a military, which it's mostly been limited to, you know, definitely the energy. any and all energy. And, you know, he talked about desalination plans and bridges, which would really put a, I would kill a lot of people, a lot of civilians that way. So I would suggest to a fellow patriot that your definitions are being driven by the president's

opponent and that it a purely cold military logic point of view. everything that he threatened to strike with dual use for industry, which includes military industry. So. So, yeah, but all the data centers in the cities of the United States are also military targets in that way, for sure. They are. They certainly are. Right. So we have to defend them.

Yeah. No, that's for real. But if all that was blown up at all the interstates and all the major interchanges, like, there'd be a lot of people that died because they couldn't get to the hospital. just the traffic jams alone would kill dozens heart attacks and shit yeah well you know Hiroshima Nagasaki you know major major industrial sites that is the way wars fought he threatened total war now I'm not sure that he would ever consider using nuclear weapons or neutron weapons like don't why why you don't really even have to would have been just cheap conventional bombs to get that job but do you think the iranians blinked i don't know about that i mean so as of right now

there's really no ships going through the straits still right only like 20 a day or zero a day here and there but how many of them are flagged and controlled by globalist billionaires who are anti-trump they already have their money in chinese flagships that that that doesn't necessarily seem like a real shrewd economic move i don't know i mean one c mine that iran put out there that it doesn't even have a navy to go pick up anymore you know could destroy a very expensive tanker so right so how long until that they get over that fear i don't know but what i saw happen is that threat and when trump is the word civilizational I think he kind of looks at the whole world from the real estate mogul point of view, right?

So bombing all that dual-use infrastructure, to him, that's close to his definition of civilization. When he looks at different countries, he looks at the infrastructure, clearly judges, judges countries based upon that. So, you know, but my God, did the rest of the world think he was threatening human Holocaust? and the Iranians, they couldn't quite know what he meant by that either. And I think it was what it took to put them into an agreed upon ceasefire long enough for the U.S. Navy to do something that it hasn't done in a long time at scale. And maybe I'd have to read the history of the U.S. Navy in World War II probably did a lot, but certainly, you know, it was never the major activity of the Navy, which is,

is demining, right? Clearing lanes from sea mines. But certainly in our lifetimes, the U.S. Navy is not dealt with this. So we don't even have that many mine sweepers, right? So it gave, it put a pause on a hot war to immediately go into talks in Pakistan and then come right back out and announce a blockade.

And he did it, Trump did it while the Iranian negotiators were in Pakistan. So if anybody fired at the U.S. Navy as they went in to impose the blockade, the plane flying back to Iran probably would have got shot down. There's a lot of leverages going on. And honestly, with this blockade in effect, I want to hear the argument from the opposite point of view. If you got one, I want to hear it about how this country can, can can escape an absolute collapsed economy by the midterms.

The United States? No, no, no. Iran. Because our economy is about to collapse. How are they? They can't. I mean, it's going to turn into a cesspool of Afghanistan, Iraq style in terms of of just warlords and mass death and marauders when the food is scarce, no medical

care. Like, you know, Gaza times five thousand. thousand that's that to civilization even if they're not using nukes and neutron bombs and or just choking off all the energy which is like the only way they're going to make any money have you know so that's so that doing that temporarily the regime change if it took three months or even a year that's bad but okay in the long term you can say that would save the people but like if it goes on for five or ten years i mean at some point it's just too much damage has been done almost so i don't know where it's going to land but that you know can't go at this level for years and years and say that you're saving the people irgc could hold out that long you think without the oil revenue probably not but it'd be like warlords and stuff so then what happens like russian china try to control some of the country we throw in our gray braz or whatever to try to like control warlords and bribe them and shit with my money actually no with deficit spending

not even my tax money tax day yesterday by the way um so yeah it's all an order of magnitude or like how long does it go and how extreme will it go but you think it can only go from a blockade no oil revenue irgc government falls and then the only next step is just just just without rule of law in iran but maybe not as much damage or ability to damage other countries around it. So if you think that's the military victory, they won't be able to launch it at its neighbors. And that might be true because they're just such chaos,

civil war that they can't even like, you know. No, no, I'm talking about the ideologically driven regime in charge since 79. No, right. Oh, they're going to fall. I think they will fall. But then, like, how will, what will replace it or anything? That's the question, right?

Yeah. I mean, your fear is it could be worse, but I'm not sure it can. I'm not sure those people would start to resemble Afghanistan. That's sort of hard for me to believe. The place is so central to the whole world. If it had self-government, right? If it had some modicum of freedom, even if it was as strong man controlled as Turkey, But even if it was, you know, relatively free like turkey, it could easily grow back pretty fast, especially with the oil, right?

That is a good thing. Humanity can rebuild and grow back pretty damn fast, you know, as long as it's not a total nuclear wasteland or some crazy virus gets released, it kills us all. So that, you know, that is a glass half full is that I would love for that all that happened. Maybe it won't be worse. I just don't think it'd be better. It almost sounds like the perfect playground for nation states and private military organizations, similar to Ukraine to just field all their new weaponry, blow shit up, try to score rivalries and take over certain areas and just do that for 20 years.

Like, that's probably what it will be. Well, I can comment on part of that. The stocks and munitions that we used, unlike the old days, right? Every single weapon that's fired, every bomb, right? Every missile, every bomb, it's a science experiment, right? It's measured. Its effects are measured. Did it succeed?

Did it fail? And there's also, you know, an imperative. It's clear that you got to drive down the cost to these munitions. Just purely from a warfighting point of view. Forget about the debt for a minute, which we never really can. But if money wasn't even an option, you still have to have less expensive stuff. so you can have it in higher volumes quicker right and i think i think we know you the air force of the navy's munitions they're going to be all brand new after this that's true they should be like

you know way better refined bet you know they call them blocks i know that they call blocks sometimes or other terms uh series and stuff like that um well and meanwhile China's sitting on all their old stuff that now not only in Venezuela but in Iran has been proven, you know, woefully inferior to what we can throw at it. The whole world, the people that really are looking at what's going on and think about military power balances, we are subordinating China. And forget about Russia. Russia already knew in Ukraine, right?

The ISR, we provide the Ukrainians, preserve that country. We can see anything anywhere and target anything at any time, it appears to me. They all know it now. So I would just argue that in the long run, in the big picture, you know, zooming out and looking at over courses of centuries, some of this could turn out to be, you know, dramatically stabilizing and making us a lot safer. I hope so. it will be increasing the military spending the proposal is $1.5 trillion up from $900 billion. So it would be a 66% increase.

Probably will end up a little lower than that, maybe a 50%, 40% increase. And that won't be just for one year. It'll be not into perpetuity, but possibly. Also, the higher tariff revenue of the first year is expected to go down. So I put some of these numbers in, analyzing. last couple months. We're going to be looking at 40 trillion national debt and $2 trillion deficits being normal and potentially worse.

But if interest pretty much inflation ticks up as we see here on the newsblitz a little bit and we'll get into the news splits. Then interest rates have to go up correspondingly. So all this will start to compound even faster. Hopefully we can outgrow it. I mean, we talk about that all the time on the show. Our real hope is to outgrow this. We'll try to look at some of those numbers.

A whole new dimension. China's trying to come out and say it got 5% GDP in the middle of this. They're not. Not in reality. Not with the amount of oil they don't have now, right? So look at what's happening to Europe. You open the show talking about in the UK. They're none too happy because it doesn't make their life any easier when everything is this expensive.

You know, you got to look at where the United States ended, World War, to understand why there was Bretton Woods, right? And right now, you got to look at how U.S. ends its Iran war and how distant everybody else will be to us economically. You know, don't come talk to me about the bricks, right? No one that's bricks right now has been, you know, you know, they're all, you know, getting worse economies much faster than us, right? So, you know, that's important math is real you know you know eventually it matters but i think by doing this it's it's all relative it's just how necessary was it if it was to stop a nuke from going off in times square because iran was going to do that okay it's worth it anything less than that is going to be

hard for me but you know i don't know the details and again the big picture signal into china is obviously worth a lot by itself just to stop taiwan by itself right I don't care about that rubio Graham argument of a threat to the United States that's bullshit there's no Iran war starts on the heat map dashboard because when this was generated when it was conceived when it was published and has been running for over 10 years 10 and a half years now I never thought that war with Iran would be dangerous I didn't I always knew we'd smoke them and we did so that that that's never meant anything to me. What really bothers me is the government's on earth that their people

don't vote for. So 47 years of that, I mean, I had enough when they took over the embassy when I was eight years old. And then they killed 241 Marines in Lebanon. I had enough of that regime then. So I'm not, I don't need that, you know, they're going to nuke us argument. It doesn't doesn't really strike me as very real. But I do have a neighbor, and he's from Iran. And I believe you met him once, actually. In any event, I was just talking to him, right?

He was born there. That's his country. And I'm like, you know, what do you think? He's like, that regime's got to go. He's got to go. It cannot be left existing. Now's the time. He's got to go.

He came to the United States for college. in like years before the iranian the Islamic revolution and he was graduating in 79 he just finished college and he called his mother and his mother's like don't come back don't come back and he i think he only saw her one more time when he was allowed to go to the country when she was dying of cancer so like the arrainians i meet the aranians i know in the united states the exiles like they tell me it's got to go they're happy this is happening so what is haggseth vance

and trump replacing it with what is their stance on it right now they don't care anything anything the theocracy that's not good it'll probably be worse from everything I've seen or at least as bad no you know you would you would never sit underneath the tyranny like that and be like well

we better not revolt because it could be worse afterwards. It'd be like going from Hitler to Stalin. It's like, okay, not better. Pull pot. I'll take him instead. Like what? It's kind of tough.

It's a brutal regime. It has been for a long time. Well, we're definitely documented here. We have been. How about we knock out the newsblitz? And we could hit any other other articles about that. But other topics, too. What do you say?

Yeah, we do have to have a righteous discussion of federal debt. because we're patriots and it matters it's a little bit you know it's not the most popular kind of topic you know that because almost anywhere else you go you're not going to hear much about it but you're going to hear about it on patriot power hour after this yeah give us uh we got bookended black on red so the whole time you were away we've been still carrying black on red uh but we got new stuff hitting the fan indicator tonight let's let's let's let's Let's blitzkrieg, Ben. All right.

Let's make this happen. War unconstitutionally waged is the indicator. U.S. Navy blockades, Iranian ports. You've said so. Future Dan yourself, if this was voted upon, you'd have a much more favorable opinion. Maybe I would too. But it has not been.

And of course, U.S. Navy is involved in the port and blockade in the ports as we've talked about. Bilderberg, 2026. DC hosting the global deep state secret of Bilderberg Group just met. I went to visit them back in 2012, actually. Protested outside of it. I should have gotten this year, but it was unable. But you can see who's on that list here on Future Danger.com.

It has a list. A disturbing trend that continues to score points here on Future Danger. under four black ops, a 10th scientist reported missing. This dark project secret pattern continues. I've seen it even on the mainstream news now. We've been reported on it for weeks, if not months. White House correspondent asked White House press secretary about 10 dead or missing U.S. scientists.

What's going on there? North Korea tests, cruise and anti-ship missiles from Naval Destroyer. Europe accelerates fallback plan in case the United States or the POTUS pulls out of NATO. China prepping delivery of new air defense systems to Iran. There's a shooting in an L.A. Street takeover four were hospitalized. And draft registration, selective service, all that, becoming automatic December 2026. Let's move on economically. Silver, gold, Bitcoin, relatively flat in the last couple weeks.

Oiled down below $100 at the $91 or so dollars as it stands this evening. Inflation searches the highest in nearly two years. 1% month over month. If that continued at that rate, that would be a 12% plus increase year over year. energy up 10% just in the month of March. April's seen some increase, so that won't be the end of it. But not extreme, you know, it was still higher after Ukraine invasion, for example. So this are not of the highest threat grade, but adds more to the pile for sure.

And two articles in the natural news and health, both. Both pretty important. High rated unvaxed blood requests grow. And American fertility rates hit record low in 2025. The numbers are in. Future Dan, let's start with those two health items first and work our way back. What do you say? Yeah, yeah, it is what it is, right?

So it's triggering the event. But in and of itself, is it a polychristian? tonight actually since since we last aired and for the last month this e-map dashboard is relatively calmer oh it's much calmer than it's been the last six weeks the last three or four episodes we've done in the last six weeks uh it was and really it peaked for our last show which was april second so it's a step back a little bit of a pullback uh not a lot of things have been solved outright but at least some of the pressure, some of the steam is settled down for now. Well, one of the heat map indicators that's off the board is, you know,

Israelis fighting the Iranians directly. So that's currently cease fired. I'd say that's an improvement. Yeah, that is good. That's certainly good. That's just happened today, I believe. No, they stopped shooting the same time. Well, within hours after Trump announced the ceasefire.

fire on you know right after the two days after Easter I think it was two days after you declared the whole epic fury of failure I think they were still after uh Lebanon and blown the hell out of them for a little while of Beirut for a couple weeks thereafter but allegedly that's not that's not Iran that's a proxy right but that sees fire which is just as important you know that was an important ceasefire let's just say that and that also is in place how about that for now. Even that.

Even that. That won't last. But, you know, even that. It will, it'll last once there's no regime in Iran that'll, you know, pay for the, you know, Hezbollah. Right. Hesbala's not up there, like with its own country generating its own stuff. It's just a, you know, non-state actor residing in Lebanon that, you know, constantly attacks Israel.

So we'll get back to I ran, but I want to knock a couple of these articles out. First, the unvaccinated blood requests. Unvaccinated blood for transfusions. This is more of a request of patients. And even on Fox News, they say there is no evidence that unvaccinated blood presents any safety benefit. And that's according to a journal on transfusion. Whatever. The main report and the main thrust of this is more and more people.

People are refusing standard or unknown vaccinated blood. Would I actually do that? I was a staunch anti-COVID jab person. If I was going to die otherwise, I would take it. But I don't know. That's a tough dilemma. And I wouldn't even believe them if they told me it was unvaxed blood anyway. But that's just me.

Yeah, true. I'm with you 100% on all of that. So that's on Fox News and the actual, what I'm more worried about long term, U.S. fertility rates, females aged 15 to 44 in the year 2025, new report that came out just in the last week, 53 bursts per 1,000 females between the age of 15 and 44, down a percent from 2024, which is already super low, 23% drop since the most recent peak in 2007. So since the financial crisis of 2007, it's been dropping, drop, drop, and dropping, down an entire quarter.

I mean, that is like 10, 15 less babies per 1,000 females just since 2007. That adds up. Yeah. There are economic solutions, right? I mean, at some point, they'll be, you know, having children will be, you know, subsidized, not just tax-free, right? Or, you know, what I'd like to see is, you know,

families with children under 18, just, you know, we don't tax those people. Let them raise their children with the funds that they got. That's a great way to start. They don't even need subsidies. Just stop taxing them, good start. This is multifaceted. And as someone who's a male,

in this cohort, not the female, without children. I would say multifaceted. Some of it's economic. Some of it is like cultural slash mental illness. Like people are screwed up these days. So they're not having kids because of that in a way. And another part is health. Like some people, I feel like less people are able to have them either because they're

really obese, really unhealthy. Who knows? Maybe even some other conspiracies of why fertility is never. down throw those all in there and through the soup. And it's not surprising that the fertility is down and continues to go down in 2025. Yeah, we're going to just have to see, you know, over the years, got a difference it makes, right? I mean, we're not talking, you know, just because it's, you know,

a record setting 2025 doesn't mean that it was, you know, dramatically off the historic norms or can't return to the historic norms, right? Got to get control of the cost of living. I think that's the biggest reason why people, they have still. And they just have fewer and they wait longer in their lives. That's a huge part of it. And I don't know how they're going to get a hold of the cost of living. They haven't even been able to freeze it, let alone reverse it.

So it continues to tick in the wrong direction. The replacement migration is the next step that I would talk about. Some of this is on purpose, bring the illegals in. in who have probably twice the fertility. I'd like to actually see the numbers maybe even more so to X maybe more. Well, it's incentivized, right? Oh, yeah. Multiple ways.

You know, birthright citizenship, just social welfare. It's incentivize that way. But we can reverse that. You know, you can keep illegals out. You can have programs that bring guest workers in that are identified and work through several long-term steps to become citizens in a, you know, a well understood and controlled manner and, you know, and also, you know, again, just the native born population to take, take the taxes off of their back, put, put it on the backs of people who, you know, they're taken from Social Security, but they're never

contributing back by having offspring, spring, right? Yeah, and allow some opt-out, buyouts of Social Security Medicare. That'd be cool. No, that ain't ever going to happen. Um, ha. Ha, ha. let's see where do you want to go next we got several other other areas i want i want to finish up okay talking about i think i've had a you know i've sat and i've thought long and hard about a war declaration and why we haven't done it since world war two so i want to finish the show episode 343 the picture of power hour april six 2026 I want to finish that way but I know you did some research you want to remind us that hey you never can stop looking at this massive federal government deficit yep let's jump right

into that really so I've talked a little bit on the show about a financial model or just really gathering detailed information and analyzing it both with my own brain what I call bankster intelligence, B.I. And of course, artificial intelligence, augmented intelligence, whatever you want to call it. Well, it really helps automate the process, too. So in 15 minutes, I can do what would normally take me two or three hours of manual work. So I'm able to pull these updated numbers weekly instead of once a month or every few times a year. What I'm trying to get at is I've been tracking multiple data points over the last couple. couple months since the last time I brought this up on the show and and the last time you showed us

your model we get are we going to be able to screen watch are you going to get us into what it's saying now no because I was having trouble getting it to cooperate and be a smooth experience it actually works better on my phone for what it's worth but I did tighten it down into just like a 30 second kind of summary let's see what we can go for what do you what have you learned what what's it telling us now? Three major areas have gone on to the, you know, are heading in the wrong direction even more so than in January, late January when I ran this. Number one, growth, official numbers, we can argue about their validity, but in mid

to late 2025, we were seeing 4% growth, 3% growth. We're not going to see in that. we're seeing almost flat real growth in 2026. Hang on. Hang on. Yes. What's the source of the data? And also while you tell me that,

explain to me why growth estimates that you never trusted before are now able to be trusted to make that statement. Well, those same numbers are going down. Now, maybe they're just resetting to the real data. But, well, we can dive into the fact check in here in a second. But let's just say, according to my model, growth is trending down compared to where it was two or three months ago, the projections. Number two.

Those are fed numbers, though. Yeah, exactly. Well, I will see if we can get those actual exact numbers. And we'll track this. This is kind of not a prediction per se, but this is someone we can track over the next month or two to see if this holds true. call it a cop right it's a copy at these are fed numbers

a fed that the president's at war at by the way true i'll give you that um next is tariff revenues expected to you know based on the news sources here we can go into each individual one if we want but

the projections for long term tariff revenue is down big time year every year just because the odds of it being thrown out are certain tariffs being thrown out or limited. Not all of them, but a major haircut of the projected tariff revenue that was baked into my model as of a few months ago has to be cut out now. So just the federal government debt is that much worse off. That's the result of that.

Exactly. That used to be a tailwind. Like, hey, we're getting the tariffs. Maybe that'll help us stabilize things. Well, if that gets neutered, cut in half, even cut down. by 20%. That's definitely a negative. Increase in military spit. Go ahead. One second, though. One second. So the cost was borne by the consumers on those tariffs. The refunds are going back to the companies. And at what point does competition bring those prices down? Is there not a chance that there's falling prices?

or at least flatlining of prices because there isn't a tariff there anymore? Well, we're seeing inflation going up right now. If that reverses or stabilizes the next six months, maybe that argument can be made or maybe that would mean inflation would be worse otherwise. Well, you've got to separate the cost, the cost of oil in transportation as part of the final cost and the products themselves that were tariffed. So if spending's going higher from the military, up 300 to 600 billion, either that's going to add to the deficit or they're going to have to cut other programs or raise taxes or all of that.

Yeah, they've got to pass that bill, though. That's not that's not set in stone yet. True. It's at 900 billion today. So they propose $1.5 trillion. It could be somewhere in the middle or maybe it'll just stay at $900. I doubt that, though. But here's the kicker that, you know, I think it's the worst part of it all is the expense paid on the interest on the national debt.

It's getting dangerous. It's getting dangerous. And if interest rates continue to climb, it's just compounds even worse. So everything else, I think there was kind of a, you know, pro and con to or at least some caveats. but that one is undeniable that just the amount of money paid on interest to the debt is just starting to get crazy. I agree. And I'll maintain that if that ever leads to the rest of the world deciding that we're in default, the federal government default and how absolutely severe that would be.

And they wouldn't even call it that. They'd design new programs and have some new bankster speak to tell you how the default wasn't the default, but it'll be a fucking default. And all the way up until virtually the day before it happens, a Congress with sufficient willpower could make changes to prevent it. I'd like to see that. That would be nice. I'm not sure we can. Not split like this.

That was, you know, with four or five vote, you know, margins in either of the houses, you know, six or seven in Senate. Nope. It'll be, it'll be gridlocked right over the cliff. we need a really good scare to shake the political system loose and you and I both know how that could work right if it shakes loose in one direction now we got the Clinton Obama Biden reset and it's forever after and we're definitely on the precipice of that I think a lot more people want the bailouts want universal income want universal health care all that Every year, every decade, unfortunately, a larger percentage thinks that's a good idea. That's just my dead reckoning. But that is also not, you know, stopping or reversing. It's only getting worse as time goes on, it seems.

True. One thing that's out there, though, is, you know, what kind of productivity gain do you get out of the, I don't know, top 20% performers in any organization? Right. When you give them AI five years from now. not today's AI. Not stuff that's looking like the Commodore 64 in the beginning of the PC age AI. I'm talking about the Windows 98 version of AI

and then later all the enhancements. It's doing that kind of runaway increase in effectiveness. We talked earlier about growing our way out. This is Patriot Power Hour. This is a Doomsday Power Hour, right? There's ways to shape this so that we survive and prosper. That's why Prepper Broadcasting Network. We're here to help prep, help get the information, actionable information, future danger that might affect you.

And you can, you know, prepare yourself and your family, whether it's short term or long term. Hey, I did a little of the fact checking. Bureau of Economic Analysis. That's what went from a four point. 4% GDP growth in Q3 down to 0.5. But all the others, there's all types of other banksters, IMF, International Monetary Fund, and Congressional Budget Office, CBO.

They're talking more of growth not collapsing, but they're lowering their projections, blah, blah, blah. So there you go. True. Trump came out and said, you know, he's hitting Iran now because of how strong we were. Like he knew he could do it now because he knew there would be a shock to the energy markets. And he knew that would be a hit for the economy, but he thought we could afford it right now.

Well, certainly the right thing to do to take out Venezuela if you're playing risk is the back channels. Dave Jones says he's playing risk. Well, the right move was to take Venezuela. I think you mentioned 250,000 plus barrels a day, which is. more than 1% of the U.S. demand. It doesn't sound like that much, but it's a heck of a lot.

It comes from Venezuela to the U.S. just, that was just like two months ago or less, so it could even go up more. So the people that, you know, paraded themselves on to mainstream financial cable and news and radio

in January, in the, let's just say the two weeks after Maduro was captured, And if you'll remember, Trump and Rubio hosted all the executives of the oil companies, U.S. oil companies at the White House. Big room, right? They're all sitting around the corner. And Exxon spoke up and said that they weren't going to be able to commit to stuff.

And Trump said, all right, so Chevron will do it. You know, basically screw you. So two weeks after that all happened, it's just a parade of people saying they'll never get that oil. out of Venezuela. They'll never get that really old architecture back up and running. There's just nonsense numbers from the president. I'd like to know right now what's happening in Venezuela because it's pretty quiet down there.

And it's a lot of oil coming out. I think there's a lot of idiots that were flat out wrong in January. That's some numbers we should research and bring to the table in the next few weeks or at least definitely this spring season. What is the latest

numbers out of Venezuela look like. So I think that's something that the people in the White House are perfectly, you know, aware and smart enough to kind of stick that in the back pocket. And, you know, everything is, you know, six-generation hybrid warfare, right?

Everything's an information operation, a sci-op. By definition, it's always happening. Contesting wills, influencing the information environment. It's just the way it's done, right? I think that what would be ideal from Trump's perspective is lining up a large amount of successes that everybody thought he couldn't bring about and timing it in the September to October timeframe to do something that hasn't been done in lifetimes, which is for an incumbent president's party to win the midterm after his election. And I think he gambled this year.

He's like, well, usually you never win. So he's going to go real big and see what can be done. And just, you know, pointing at Venezuela by August or September and saying, look at that success, definitely be part of that. Anything else from the national security standpoint, whether China, North Korea, Iran, or NATO, Europe accelerates fallback plan. Anything else you want to hit on? Yeah, the missing scientists and engineers that definitely was surfaced by Peter Ducey to Karen Leavitt. And, you know, wait for the other shoe to drop on that. We could have some really lethal espionage happening in the United States.

And that's another thing that, you know, when that sort of stuff happens, just like a big financial crisis, a lot of power swings to the executive brand. I think we started covering this at 7 or 8 and every month it's another one minimum heck here's the article right here April 7th where they talked about 8 I know we talked about it when it was 7 8 now it's 10

you expect to continue it was the Air Force Research Laboratory retired commanding general AFRL commanding general he's the big one and it was noticed immediately when he went missing and he's still not been found so that somebody might have decided that any you know the United States of America has an aerospace capability that they have to catch up with they have to steal it and and and grabbing our people it could be a really desperate move

because they're seeing what we're able to do and they're scared to death of it. That'll be money well spent in the military industrial complex. Just I'm saying. If we got some kind of overmatch right now, you know, stop talking to us about, you know, to anybody who wants to talk about World War III, every minute we're doing what we're doing, Iran, we're getting further from that, I think. All right. Well, they were meeting in D.C.

Bilderberg. I want to read a couple of the people that showed up. Let's take a look. Where's the list? I thought I just had it. King of the Netherlands. They stopped by the White House too. I know King Charles is visiting.

Is visiting the White House and some places on the East Coast as well. Soon? I think in the next couple weeks. I'm not sure the exact time. Should come by. On the U.S. 250th, Fourth of July. I did not see them at that. No, no.

I can't find the list right here, but it's a good list of banksters, politicians, and royalty. That's kind of the way I look at it. Yeah, do they matter anymore? I don't think they matter right now. Not as much, not as much for sure. A lot less. They still have a lot of powerful. They're witnessing power that they don't have.

and you know that's what happens when you get shot at and you barely live through the experience like trump doesn't care it should be obvious to all of build the burgers that he's not he's not listening to them as a body and taking counsel from him that also is good and safe and a move in a good direction if it maintains after the trump administration i'll take now i'll take safer and better now all the time. I guess, yeah. At some point, you got to look short term because, you know, you got to breathe eventually. You can't just be looking ahead too far.

You got to take care of the down. Absolutely. All right. Well, we're coming up nearly to the top of the hour. We still got a few minutes left, though. But anything else we wanted to run through, especially anything that happened over the last week that might not necessarily be on the dashboard, but it was super important. we're not going to talk about freaking swallwell or any of that other stuff either necessarily but

chinese asset chinese asset that's going to be exposed as that by the way bang bang to be he's going to be proven to be a chinese asset i think there's every likelihood that that newsome is as well and many other california politicians chinese intelligence interference in that party is another card that could get tossed on the table pretty easily i think i think Tulsi Gabbard's in the background building up a lot of evidence that is it the you know, they're going to take care of business. Expect all of that before the midterm. But I wanted to talk about, you know, declarations of war and why, why we don't get them anymore. Oh, yeah. I think. I think that. Yeah. And no, I've never heard anybody say this. So I'm going to take credit

tonight for being original. I, you know, it probably not entirely factual and probably legally, you know, There's a lot of nuance here, a lot of arguments, a lot of different points of view, but I'll give you mine. And it goes to the word treason. And I've said it before in Patriot Power Hour. Treason is the only crime defined by the U.S. Constitution for a reason because of how abused the term was in England, Great Britain, before our ancestors colonized North America. Their parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, they knew. real tyranny because be accused of treason to lead to you losing your head

for many centuries very easily and you didn't get anything close to a fair trial about that sort of thing, right? And when you're throwing around the word treason, you know, that's, you know, it's the hallmark of a country that's, you know, in dire straits, the government of that country is in real trouble. Like, you know, in Iran, right?

like the many thousands of protesters that were killed in January, they were going to accuse of treason, right? So the reason I don't think we've declared a war since Franklin Delano Roosevelt is if you do that, now you illegally, you got enemies, right? No war, no enemy. You know, it's just rhetoric to call it a war and call it, you know, enemies. it makes sense in a lay person's point of view, but legally, no declaration of war, no enemies, no enemies, no

aiding and abetting the enemy, and therefore no treason. But if they declared war, going on to this podcast and speaking out against that war, well, yeah, that becomes treason. Declaring war, very serious power left to Congress, not the president's because I think the founders knew you do that. You declare war. Then you're taking a big piece, a very important piece of the First Amendment

and hitting the off switch. You don't get to talk negatively about wars. You don't get to criticize wars. There's no hippie movement against Vietnam if you actually declare a war. I think it distills to that. It's such a pure state. I know a lot of people be shocked and be like, no, that doesn't make sense and try to quibble around some of the corners. But I think there's a clear definition.

War gets your enemies. Enemies means you can aid and abet them. And if you're doing that, read the constitutional definition of treason. Now you're a traitor. Makes sense to me. I was thinking more of all the funding of these different worldwide organizations and funds. of money that could be considered aiding and abetting them. But also for the citizens of the U.S., you know, that makes sense too.

That's the other side of the coin. Well, treason would only apply to Americans, right? Well, I guess you're talking about freedom of speech. I'm thinking they're protecting them up their own selves so they could play both sides and make money on both sides and the politicians won't go to jail for doing that. as much or more as silencing the people uh can you run that by me again well everybody makes it's a war is a racket all the politicians making a hell of money off of this entire situation one way or another and if by doing so they were actually helping russia on accident

or a little bit or iran or any of these other organizations they had their finger in either purposefully or on accident they would be culpable as well so all the little scams out there those USAID scams how many of those helped Iran or helped Ukraine in the last decade that would get these people implicated in long-term treason as well so that's big reason they don't want yeah I don't know there's no long-term treason first you declare the war and then that would that clock starts there the legal conditions start there because war declared. What you what you have done in the past before there was a war is nothing more than freedom of association, a protected right under the First Amendment. Well, I would like to just go,

if we're going to stop it now, why don't we go back back in time? Like, why do I stop now? Well, that would be unjust, right? You can't change the law, punish people for breaking a law that wasn't in effect before the law was passed. That's essentially what, you know, declaration of war does, fundamentally changes the landscape of the laws. I think every political party since, you know, the Republicans and Democrats since World War II, sort of realize, look, people could start playing games of these definitions and come after political opponents really easy.

So they found a way to have authorizations of use of force, but they didn't call it a war declaration. And even the fool that was, you know, that teenager from California found among the Taliban, right when we went into Afghanistan the Northern Alliance was ripping apart the Taliban CIA Green Berets were there you know making it happen with those forces and they capture a bunch of people there's somebody from California he was charged with all kinds of you know federal crimes related or similar to treason but he wasn't charged of treason and I thought at

the time you should don't totally be you know we'd already passed the authorization use of force. He should have been treated with reason. They wouldn't do it. Well, I guess the lawyer's convinced him it's too high of a hurdle or there's another reason they do that and it's to protect their own ass. I think that's got to be something. It's a deep state kind of consensus opinion. If it's if you believe in my logic, they, they agreed a long time ago. We're just never going to do that because that would tear the country apart to have a real war a real war where no one gets on the air and starts talking shit against it because that's treasonous and and they'll be coming to put you in jail for it right

you're gonna you're gonna stay in trial running your mouth against what your country's doing right there wasn't examples of there was no street protest against world war two right nobody nobody nobody did that because they knew that you're you're gonna get imprisoned if you do that Well, that's good. Keep the sheep asleep, not even riled up. Let a few of them vent on a radio show occasionally and run the world into the ground. It's worked for the last 70 years, so they continue. They continue. Of course, we can get on the air and just talk about purely hypotheticals without naming any particular places.

And everybody who know what we were criticizing. But then all of those First Amendment games come in, it would just clog the system. system. It's like that's why I don't think we have real wars. I think the only time you'd ever really be at a real war is if the government, you know, got struck in a crushing surprise attack that, you know, did continuity of operations, right? Like something that fearful. That came our way. Yeah. Yeah. Watch out. That's a real war. There's real treason when there's real war. Better be on the right side when you're talking. best idea is probably be a prepper keep your head down and have a small network you can work with and trust so that that's a good way to end the show i think future dan but another good one in the bank yeah episode 343 april 16th 2006 we're back in the spring looking at the news having a patriotist perspective on the prepper broadcasting network thank you to our audience for listening as always reach out to us I'm at future danger number six on X where could they reach you then at Bankster breaker at Bankster breaker check the description of the podcast you're listening to or the video you're watching if you check the description you can find that and click on the link there too good good show sir been a pleasure enjoyed it yes sir we'll be back next week

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