The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Patriot Power Hour #345

Episode Date: May 1, 2026

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last time we aired somebody tried to kill the president again the Fed has met and the stalemate in Iran has continued yeah we got a lot of news on the dashboard but when you talk about those major themes there hasn't been well the assassination attempt to the side at least but with iran not much has changed nothing's really improved or gotten too much worse oil is above a hundred today and uh with regard to the debt with regard to all these other things you know we'll talk about it but um i don't know we can start with the fed if we need to do we need to do we need to I guess.

I am apathetic to these days. Yeah, you've capitulated on the Fed, have you? The most dissent ever in that austere appointed body of American politics, political economy, most dissent ever. And it's the last Jay Powell, chairman, brief. And they held rate steady. So what do you think? Well, they, Trump wants. rates at zero percent he said it multiple times over his last 12 years can't do it because that would

blow inflation way above the 3.5 percent that's coming in at right now which is fairly high so you know the capitulation to the fed i'm just sick of it trump we'll see what he actually does with a new placement or a new person in there but he ain't revolutionizing the system he's not auditing Fort Knox. He's not stopping the national debt. He's not reforming Medicare. He's not cutting spending. He's Doge. Yeah, Doge was somewhat successful. Stopped a lot of U.S. AID fraud and a lot of other fraud, which is good. But I don't know. The Fed ain't going nowhere at this rate. He's a supply sider, though, you know, grow the economy. What do you think about tariffs and fuel costs and the AI boom in the

just the prospects of growth this year see and we believe it i guess uh the i i i boom it's having a lot of positive impact but there's a lot of uh circular logic where you know all these companies keep making deals with one another if one of these companies fails then the other ones are going to be really stuck hold in the bag but there i feel like it'll be similar to the dot com bust where a lot go bankrupt with those who survived just revolutionize the entire economy make trillions of dollars so AI is for real but there is a little frothiness and i don't know that's fine that's innovation but i don't know if that's going to grow us out of here with with the inflation continuing to pick up not just maintain well you know there's the AI companies the AI investment

and the AI bubble on Wall Street. That's, you know, set that aside. Just straight up productivity. Just or improved quality of anything that, you know, demands the written word, which is most of business, right? In my experience, most business is fairly unproductive. So hopefully all that unproductive stuff will be taken over by AI. Or it will just be more efficient at doing unproductive.

of wasteful tasks, which, you know, I expect that. Like any AI done by the government will just be additional waste that they'll be able to perpetrate with AI. So it goes both ways. I would agree with you in Harley in that statement before Doge. Well, what's Doge doing these days? Why aren't they holding press conferences monthly showing, you know, their $50 billion that they save that month? Maybe they're doing it, and I'm not paying a close enough attention.

but like that should be the like a top five priority is not well i think it was pretty clear about this time last year that they you know no they still had more left to go by by last july though not april but july they hit the limit of advance on what can be done within the executive branch itself right then with a with a with a margin like with with the president's party's margin in the house and senate so thin. I mean, that's, that's just kind of reality. Yeah, it looks like it's going to get way worse after midterms.

So no hope then. Unless there's a miracle, but midterm's not trending well. Looks like, I don't know. I'm not a politico, but very unlikely it'll be a better situation one year from now to make change, is my guess.

But it just depends on the, the majorities in both houses, right? And they're pretty lame anyway, even with the majority. Probably won't even act. Yeah, so. I don't know. You look back when there was big majorities. Parties passed, you know, we had things happen in the 90s under Gingrich.

And, of course, you know, Obamacare after Lehman brothers fell apart right at the end of Bush's term and everything swam. hard to all all of the popular branches controlled by Democrats. Big legislation can get passed when you got like a 30 seat margin in the in the House of Representatives and you're you're up at 55 senators in one party. But I'm not saying it's going to swing either way. I think it's still going to be really close after the midterms. and the Supreme Court basically nearly struck down a 1960s voting rights act, you know, on the basis of, you know, clearly gerrymandered, you know, racial preference districts.

So that came from a decision for something Louisiana had done. that that that that's going to cause all of these redistricting efforts all the the redistricting wars of 2025, 2026 like you know and then there's still deportation underway and court cases to actually you know for the federal government to see the voter rolls of the democrat states and start to identify all the names that are dead all the names are illegal, all the names that are convicts, all the names that their vote can't count, right?

So this election, midterm environment for how elections are run, it's going to be way different. And the summer's coming. We might have insurrection and the insurrection act this summer. So, you know, I would make no bets about how this election turns out right now. well i think it's time to get into the newsblitz and uh you feel it yep i will also say the website feeling it yep i am at a 46 hour of a fast so i'm cranky and low are you but i'll do my best yes got to get my quarterly fast in okay so take it under and cranky but i'll try to focus because I'm pretty good shape, I think, mentally.

We'll see. All right, here we go. Let's see. I think personally, it's a matter of time before you have not capitulated on the Fed. It's going to be a temporary competition. It's just annoying. Like, I don't know. I take the opportunity to end the Fed and wipe out this myth of Fed independence.

is closer than ever. Like the whole idea that you couldn't audit the Fed is this idea that the Fed's this fourth branch of government that's untouchable. Nobody's, you know, gone after the Fed like Trump. I can't, I'm actually surprised you're not, you know, kind of pleased about that. Just feel like he wants to use it for his own purposes

and just instead of like doing it for the right reasons, he just wants to control the ring of Mordor himself or whatever the hell, the ring, you know, go to Mordor, I guess. Okay. Lower the Rings there. Like, yeah, I want it so I can be the rich, you know, I could go down in history of saving everything myself.

Anyway, let's start with the newsblitz. I'll try to go fast. U.S. Navy to extend Iran blockade. Supreme Court to review geo-fencing in pivotal Fourth Amendment cases. These are both happening now, S-H-T-F level. That geo-fencing will definitely take a look at. that. That's it though. I mean, two extremely impactful articles, but only two in the Liberty column for security, domestic, and international. Purported Pentagon email floats suspending

Spain from NATO. German Chancellor says Iran is humiliating the U.S. as talk stall, sent com to deploy dark eagles, which are hypersonics. And we reported on it. Last week it was on its way, but it's now arrived. A third U.S. aircraft carrier in the Middle East. Huge news Saturday night. White House press correspondence. Dinner. Crazy guy just runs right through security with shooting at people.

He was taken down. President evacuated as shots fired. Shooter in custody. Cole Allen, 30-year-old, California, former teacher. tweets and other evidence suggesting radicalization fueled by Democrat messaging. Of course, there's the thoughts of, is this a false flag? False flag conspiracy swirl around the assassination. Continuing on, FBI probes theft of 15 agricultural spray drones in Jersey as Iran war heightens

bioterror fears. Get some of these spray drones, put some... chlorine gas in it or something. Probably not good. Economically. Well, this actually soured my mood as much as my fast. Is that federal government debt at 100% of GDP, and I would say it's actually way higher.

Inflation locked in at 3.5% oil above $100 today. Gas, highest level on four years. Fed could not lower interest rates because of this. but there's a lot of dissent, which we'll talk about, some of the highest dissent in the voting of the Fed. In decades, America's bond market privilege, disappearing as federal government debt soars. Yeah, we have quite the privilege here,

and it's been squandered for the last couple decades and running its course from a strategic production point of view, above and beyond the economy, the free market economy, that is, Defense Production Act on grid infrastructure equipment and supply chain capacity presidential determination also related to economy

federally seized at a mid-level indicator tonight. Budget airlines pits Trump administration on a bailout or relief plan, 2.5 billion. So, Watching that closely, more centralization of power, potentially.

And news and nature, there's a 6.1 earthquake in northern Japan, fairly large. Earthquake swarm around area 51. Tornadoes in Texas, a little bit of volcanoes going on. We talked last week about wildfires down in the southeast, like in Georgia, Florida floods and Yemen. So, you know, there's always natural disasters. We'll report on them if we see big trends or big knock on effects, but nothing too out of control right now.

Has been a bit of a drought, though, in the U.S., 60% in drought. Wheat, crops, wither, herds thin, and I wanted to save last for the least. No, last but not least, I've tried to say, under lifespans unnaturally extended, rich and powerful, want to live forever. What if they could? Thought experiment or a little bit of a research as well into that. New therapy based on natural rejuvenation discovery has the potential to reverse aging.

Future, Dan, that's the news blitz. And I've been told that if I can live into the year 2050, then I'll live into the year 2150. due to the life extension that will be around. So if I can make it another like 20 years, then they say I can live another 100 years after that. I don't know if I believe them, but what's your thoughts on where we ended tonight's newsblitz, rejuvenation, life extension, all that?

Not everybody will get to have that. So doing that is super dangerous. Super dangerous. 100% where I'm not going to take any, experimental gene therapies, neurotherapies. I mean, at this point, I barely take aspirin. So it is what it is. I try to live healthy lifestyle.

That's my life extension. But if it proved to be true and then it was safe and it worked and you were not allowed to have it, then what would you think? I'd be pretty pissed. If they don't let you have it, then it probably works. If they try to push it on you or give it. for quote unquote free then maybe there's a catch um that's interesting because we thought of it from exact same opposite directions yeah that's true yeah but if it was denied in fact it'll

automatically be denied as a source of political power so that the disenfranchise have you know something to you know gain power and exert force and that's exactly what the rich will do they'll take it, they'll make it so they can only have it, and then they will propagate it, this message to the poor that the poor are there for brief amounts of short, brutish Hobbesian lives to service the, you know, basically an aristocracy back on Earth. You know, it's dangerous because not everybody's going to have it. Not everybody will be able to take it, even if it were widely available. And of course, who's going to get rich providing it?

All good answers. They were writing about this like 100 plus years ago. And of course, then it turned into some eugenics and beyond that. Well, we could go down the rabbit hole conspiracy theories depopulation. But yeah, I could understand where they're like, hey, we can't have 8 billion people living to 200 years old. Like what about their kids and their kids as kids? Like before you know, we're going to have hundreds of billions. That's why Elon Musk says we got to like go to the stars ASAP.

We could actually have that many people if we left the planet. This is over like several centuries, not several decades. So I, you know, I'd rather talk about that stuff than some of the news we got going here. But I got to kind of ground to myself. And we got a lot right in front of us right now. Yeah, we do. I'm ready to react to any of the stories or the indicators. in general with their recent histories that you want to direct us to.

Well, let's just start with the first column here. Liberty. War unconstitutionally waged shows up again this week, as well as unreasonable search and seizure normalized, which has shown its head here. I'd picture at Power Hour over the last decade, but maybe not as much recently. But both these articles won U.S. Navy to

extend the blockade and to the geo fencing fourth amendment case. Maybe you could tag on with the gerrymandering Supreme court case. I know it's not dangerous. It's not why it's on here, but go for it. Yeah. Here's a metaphor for you. Like if if the US Constitution and all of its, you know, you know, articles and, and tenants, all the, all the points of it were the exterior of a rubber tire.

And that wheel was just stomped on the brakes and you were screeching to a halt. The surface that's getting, you know, rubbed off in the, in the, in the, in the, in the process is the fourth amendment and the war powers, the whole concept of war powers. It's just two examples in column one tonight that point to where, you know, no matter how great we, we look back at, you know, the accomplishments of the founders. there was, you know, situations and environments that they, the Constitution wasn't designed for. And there you go. You know, that's why those are the, you know, abused parts of the Constitution. Fourth Amendment is probably the worst part of it, you know, just, you know, you still have a right to not be surveilled if you're at your house, on your property. You know, you know, just don't use electronics.

don't broadcast on a radio wave like you and I are right now. Otherwise, you know, you don't, your Fourth Amendment rights aren't all there. And war powers, right? We've talked about it for weeks since this Iran operation at McPyuri, right? Which I would have supported a yes vote for declaring war, by the way. But we didn't do that. And War Powers Act of the Vietnam era, no president since it's been passed has agreed it's constitutional. So, you know, the entire conversation of Trump has this much more time under the War Powers Act, that's BS to me. That law was never constitutional. I listened just the other day to, you know, a clip of Roosevelt declaring or going to Congress to ask for the declaration of war against Japan, right? We haven't done it since. So that part of the Constitution is broken.

well with that said gas is at its highest level in four years even more than when Russia went into Ukraine or that's pretty much what's paired up to haven't had a resolution in Iran but you know we got another carrier in there apparently ground forces are still hanging out ready to go in at a moment's notice is this still kind of a bluff or posturing I mean Bessette came out and said that, hey, we could siege them for four months and they'll fall.

So is this just a siege or are they going to actually go in? What are you thinking here? No, it's a siege and it's an active war to blockade and it's working. And what I never understood about, you know, the whole petroleum situation and I'm sure people did. Well, ahead of time is, you know, make it so the Iranians have to shut off their pumps because they have no storage left, which is apparently pretty close to being true. The Iranians are storing petroleum crude in what's called junk storage, like barrels and train, you know, just places that unrefined crude isn't supposed to go,

but they have nowhere else to put it. And from what I understand is, if they have to shut off their wells, those wells will get backed up by groundwater. And the engineering required to recover them, it's like iran will be out of the petroleum industry for a long time very soon unless unless all that's turned back on and pretty clear trump knows this oh i can only imagine 80 90 percent has been knocked off live for quite a while already no no no no they're pumping no no they're pumping They're discussing loading up trains and shipping it to China.

They're filling tankers that are parked offshore that aren't going anywhere, and they're literally just scrapping together, anything that will hold crude oil, to try to not have everything turned off. They have not turned off yet. But they're getting to the point where they're just going to be pumping crude onto the ground. If they don't, if they, if they will have nowhere else to put it. and at that point you're they have to shut their stuff off right yep i suppose i misspoke maybe a little bit i meant more like 80 or 90 percent of their oil that they'd be able to normally

produce store transport cell it's probably already been cut off i would expect maybe they're still pumping it but you know that's super inefficient that by putting it on trains and stuff already reduces the efficiency by half or more so there's definitely getting strangle strangle hold there yeah and obviously trump's going to come out in a short amount of time and say that was the strategy all along i just didn't tell all you fools that kept saying i didn't have a strategy because speaking out loud would have hindered the strategy so is that we're going to expect somewhere between now and four months they'll just fold literally fold because they got you know like a choke hold from a fighter just goes unconscious eventually

even if they don't want to tap out. So I wonder if there's still covert action going on to kill whatever elements of the Iranian regime won't cooperate because it's fractured, right? Mosaic is there's no central power right now, right? If that's happening solely but surely and any members of the regime that are willing to cooperate solely or surely are being incentivized to do that, right? I mean, that's what you're looking at. So I don't think there needs to be a full on assault, although advertising to the rest of the world that the third carrier arrived, and the Dark Eagles are about to be put, you know,

experimental hypersonics brought to the battlefield for the first time, at least, you know, in an unclassified way, right? I mean, it's all part of the information campaign. Well, Spain, going to be kicked out of NATO. NATO's not cooperating too much. Germany's talking trash. What do you think? I've said before that U.S. is NATO,

but we don't have power to expel other members unilaterally. So the Pentagon paper basically suggested that, you know, I think we're going to stop acting like Spain is in NATO, but technically we can't expel members. Just put them on the kids table and just ignore them, but they still get to hang out, I guess. That's a good question if NATO treaty is even written to address how members can exit it because it's never been thought of, right?

Maybe there's an article in there how you would do that. But obviously all the members that signed up probably had some mechanism like it had to be a majority of members to expel somebody. You know, honestly, Turkey has been borderline ally for many decades at times. somebody must have considered what would it mean since the end of the cold war since the end of the soviet union before the end of the Soviet Union no one was thinking about this at all but since the end of the Soviet Union somebody probably thought about expelling Turkey at certain points

well uh what do you think about let's just keep rolling down through this the Trump assassination attempt or what happened at the correspondence dinner you know that happened since our last time we were on air yeah it did and I'd like to ask you what credence do you give to any conspiracy theory that this was

at a minimum a lie hop let it happen on purpose so conspiracy on Trump's end like right on their side because there's still a non-zero chance

better than zero chance that it's some sort of conspiracy on the Democrat side even though it kind of blows up in their face I guess. But I don't know. Non-zero chance. Why not? Why not have...

They know this idiot's going to do this, but not very high of a chance. I mean, I can't believe this stuff doesn't happen more often. That's why Trump has not really been out in public as much. Because, I mean, pretty easy to just run through security. You're not going to get to the ballroom, though.

I can't believe they didn't get shot down a lot quicker than that. I think people were just surprised so much, but these people are paid professionals. I don't know why they're not. paying more attention at the front of the security, but, I don't know. Have you ever heard of the word chican? Yeah. Uh-huh.

Yep. I think I first heard that on like racing, but I know that's actually for like a roadblock, right? Yeah, it's a serpentine kind of roadblocking. Definitely things that they did in like in checkpoint operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Something that prevents, you know, the, you know, anybody approaching the checkpoint from doing what this fool did last. Saturday night. So get ready for that when, you know, it'll now become the new mandatory way of running checkpoints. But it's also, you know, pretty much every airport you go to makes you walk through that kind of maze to get to, you know, TSA is already doing it at airport. So

I'm surprised that they set it up at this hotel and let him have a running start like that. But just one of those security gaps like, yeah, remember he did that now. well, that's never going to happen again. And it's like the, it's like the guy who hijacked up, what was the name of the guy, D.B. Cooper took the airplane, right? And hijacked it and demanded the cash and then jumped out of the back. And all that, you know, D.B. Cooper issues, some have speculated, that was the CIA running an op in the United States to force the change necessary because it was obvious that we were vulnerable. definitely interesting there uh i don't have it queued up by any means but press secretary goes on pretty quickly thereafter probably the day after i'm not sure exactly but just talks about how we need

dhs so much funding we need all this i'm like oh my god he's sound like the bush administration now and that's the breaking news tonight uh the longest and strangest government shutdown ended this afternoon right so we got that then the next words out of their mouth is this is why we need the ballroom which maybe is true so i mean never let a good crisis go to waste as rob emmanuel says so same thing for trump administration but i'm like huh if you wanted to stoke the flames of people with conspiracy minded it's yeah we need more money for dhs and we need more money for the secret ballroom with a bunker underneath it i don't see what the resistance of the the the the the the the ballroom is i mean Nixon put a bowling alley in and i think Obama tore it out and put a

basketball court in place right like this isn't new right well i mean i don't think that they let it happen let it happen on purpose just to get a ballroom but you'll never recognize as the white house again when trump's done with it the second term though

is he going to do the arc day trump though do i think that'll ever get built I don't know I don't know that would have to be authorized by Congress and funded just the

very ground that it sits on is the district so it would have to be like approved so I mean eventually Democrats get back of power tear down like a Robert Ely statue or something so yeah

maybe that'll make me support it then maybe I'd actually want it then if that's the case all right anything else saw that Trump assassination. I don't know. Like I don't hardly believe anything 100% but it's just it's pretty pretty simple to see just some dumb ass doing that like I would never do that but it'd be easy to kind of do what he did. Just somebody speculating that there was a conspiracy.

That's now part of the American political culture. It's always going to be there. And last I read there was a Secret Service agent shot and there was a round fired apparently from you know Allen's shotgun but it isn't still like necessarily known that he shot somebody so there's all kinds of little you know who shot JFK kind of in the moment kind of weirdness and I think that's always going to be part of it when I was a little kid I remember when Reagan was shot and people the next day speculating that somebody shot Reagan out of the window, not just Hinkley from the street. Right.

And Hinkley, by the way, did manage to note that the Hilton in Washington, D.C. is unsecured. Of course, the same hotel Reagan was walking out when Hinkley shot him. Right. Ain't that crazy.

Well, I think it's good, everyone. Some people at least question everything. Doesn't mean everything's questionable. who ends up being a conspiracy, but, you know, shouldn't just believe everything you're told, that's for sure. Yeah, I agree with that. There's some weird stuff.

I heard three different, and there's a little bit of fog of war in there. Maybe there's this info just to throw people off the trail or to spin up conspiracy theorists to kind of throw the toy over there to distract them from something else. But they said, yeah, first this person came in and shot a guy in the body armor stopped it. Then they're like, oh, the phone stopped it. Then they said, yeah, we

shot the subject. And they said, no, we didn't shoot him. And so tons of conflicting. But, I don't know, crime scenes always have conflicting witness statements anyway. Yeah. And he was moving fast.

You've seen the video. He's... Fast as shit. I could have believed someone didn't take him out quicker, but they were just like so surprised, I guess. Yeah. It's just one of those things nobody ever did before. Now it's been done. And be sure that it's going to be almost impossible to ever do that again

when you're going through metal detectors near the present. For sure, for sure. All right. Let's see. What else we got here in the security column? One more, the 15 agricultural spray drones in New Jersey. Let's read more about this. See if it's legit or just fearmongering.

What's your initial take? No, it doesn't, all you need to know is that they've been stolen. It's all that's, you know, after 9-11, it's like immediately you've got to think the worst afterwards. So how, you know, we're looking at this article for those that are watching live, uh, they carry a 40-liter tank and cover about 36-foot swath around waypoints. So it's kind of like a 36-foot wide. it just keeps going and going or you can make a pattern of it so you can go hit certain areas and move on to another area and you know i ever had one of those uh vacuum robots it's kind of like that

you can program it to do certain things right i'm not sure how many exact square miles or acres it can cover per se but seems like it's a lot and if they did in a very populated area it'd be very, very bad. Yeah. Yeah, this is just the fact that those are so uncontrolled. We're probably going to be another one of those examples of someone seriously needs to lock down that technology, right? How much reengineering would it take to change that aircraft to carry napalm? And to be able to light things, right?

like not really an effective weapon of war right force fires by by flying a 60-liter tank and napalm around to be be hard to put it into effect in like a theater like Ukraine and I say this because I'm pretty sure those two sides would have been spilling napalm on each other a couple years ago if it was made military sense but just as a terror weapon that is absolutely frightening what that could do to a densely populated city just fly through it and just imagine flying over like just straight down one block in New York and getting every building seriously on fire on the roof yeah no those those things are have to be better controlled weapons this is not something that is you know a second amendment right to bear napalm drones not say the least but that kind of goes in with that geo fencing we were talking about early but geo fencing is more of cell phone data but they also have geofencing for drones like can you enter certain areas and can you film in certain areas so it's not the exact same thing

but you know geofencing of drones is important I would expect if our intelligence systems as legit as it should be, they got some sort of way to prevent that from happening, but maybe not. What exactly? Like if those drones could be detected fairly easily

and disabled, either with a kill switch or just shot down if they were approaching, you know, New York, for example, or major city. I don't know.

They got all types of trackers in my car. I know that. So, hopefully they can track. these drones that are way more expensive than my car well they could track it and watch it go do all of its terror because these cities aren't outfitted with any kind of weapon system to bring them down well the military better be on ready to go i mean what are we paying it for dhs what are you doing can't take out some drones i mean how can they not track them they can track everything else in

this world well you've mixed up a couple things there that probably deserve separation home on security is not the military. This would seem to be a very appropriate National Guard mission. National Guard probably would never get funded by Congress until something terrible happened like this. And all the federal police agencies are going to want to have it instead of the National Guard. And the National Guard, the Army National Guard, right, this would be from the ground.

They're going to, they're not going to want to, they're going to throw it away. say, well, that's not what the National Guard, if activated to be federal troops and go to war, they're not going to have to worry about this. So our people don't need to be trained in this. So make it a DHS function. And then DHS is going to have limited funds. And then they're going to have to partner with, you know, like New York Police Department or, you know, Washington Metropolitan Police. So you get into, you know, one of the, you know, resoundingly successful features, of our republic is federalization right and you know power centers split up then you get into a problem like this you have the exact problem that unifying the approach is hard because we're we're

federal well it's been 25 years since 9-11 so they can't figure that out by now that's pretty sad what i'm pretty much getting at is if there is a bioterror attack with these drones or any other drones I'm calling false flag immediately. It's not Iran doing it. I don't know. Russians putting some of these into effect out west to start massive forest fires. It makes sense to me if they needed that to be affecting the U.S. news cycle and draining our resources. Pure enemies could do this to us.

You just got to control those kind of aircraft. They can't, you know, that's just, you know, that's just. We're not, we don't live in a world where you can just freely have things that can spray from above. It's, it's dangerous. Oh, yeah. All right. Economically, oh, man. Well, as we stand right now, gas, pretty high, oil, $106.

Something we don't talk, we haven't talked too much about on this show, though, is it's not just like a quarter of the world's oil supply, but lots of other stuff. of the helium for semiconductor manufacturing to the fertilizer, lots of other stuff goes through there. And it's not just about prices. It's about lack of availability and shutting things down. So that's a huge headwind. Trump was on seemingly on the right track. The economy was picking up.

Inflation mostly tepid. a lot you know let's just call up 2025 the inflation that we'd seen in Biden had abated it hadn't gone backwards necessarily but on some things it had in particular fuel but that's all over with for now but do you think that's temporary and you know if we do finish up with Iran in the next month or two they can get gas back under three bucks a gallon nationwide by midterms um guess what not not to be rude and I know you're in the middle of fast so you're a little cranky anyways but I don't care what what matters to me is the Chinese strategic petroleum reserves are getting drawn down day

after day after day the Chinese military is getting weaker day after day after day the Chinese military is witnessing technology and capability that they don't have and and some fool the new york times wrote about how you know the u.s military edge has been demonstrated to be you know lost in what just stupid democrat talk just just just getting stupid democrats to kind of have something to say that is it's fun because it's absolutely in the face of truth right that kind of stuff now they know what time it is in Beijing in moscow so yeah i mean we're exporting front of them out of oil right now the united states of america is exporting it right helium right we now we'll just collect the helium that used to just leak out of the earth in the in the united

in the united states because it had been cheaper just to let i don't know uae in kawake collect it um and i'm also seeing uae leave opec i'm watching opec break up right now right because venezuela is not in opec in any functional way right now right now Now, UAE is walking out. Russia's been essentially, you know, unable to really coordinate with the rest of OPEC since it attacked Ukraine. We talk about NATO dissolving. We're watching OPEC dissolve. And if OPEC dissolves, the Petrodollar continues for the rest of our lives.

Yeah, I guess that's the only move on the chessboard because otherwise the PetroDolar is dead in 20 years. So war it is. makes sense. It's always been back behind the military. So, I mean, what's the main reason to stop China from going to Taiwan? I guess that's how we could justify it being worthwhile. Because if it's just a dick measuring contest, like, look what we could do. We're way better.

We got way more overmatched than you imagined. Okay. Like, is that really worth it? Maybe. Maybe not. I've said it before. If it stops a nuclear war or even an invasion of Taiwan, I guess, is worth it. You know, Russia is almost too late with Ukraine.

but stops them from going too crazy maybe i don't know i don't know the real data points and facts of what's going on but man it's every day billions and billions and more dollars down the drain so it better have a good justification i don't know if it's down the drain that'd be a lot cheaper in the long run there might there might be some opportunity cost calculus here right so trump looked at it's like this thing's happened in my presidency or Think about the cost of bringing about mutually assured destruction and guaranteeing it in the Middle East if the Iranian regime had nuclear weapons, right? So there's a lot of the way to measure these things. You can justify if there's a 1% chance of that that is worth destroying them, I guess.

Possibly. I mean, the math works out. It's infinitely horrible. So you almost have 1% of infinite is infinite. I mean, that's Israeli thoughts right there. That's why they're going after it. But they're the ones under the biggest target. So I could understand that too.

I don't know. I think it's mostly bogus, but I get where you're coming from. It's more of a show to everyone else. Here's our cool tech. It's a good research experiment. And I ran a bunch of assholes. So, I mean, the leadership deserved this beat down for sure. Just, I don't know.

Was it worth it? I guess we'll see in the future. Maybe in 50 years we can. actually know if it was or not yeah i mean if trump truly solves it with the regime truly falls if it fundamentally changes the world order it the outcome i don't i can't see how it would be more expensive to us shifting oil production to make the united states a a net exporter of of fossil fuel energy for the next several decades i think that's a could be very very good for our economy i'd rather you know advance the 21st century technology instead

of 19th century technology but i get what you mean i think the combustion engine is a human marvel that hasn't even you know we barely ever been rivaled and and not understanding that and demonizing combustion engines is i just never understood it no it's they're pretty legit it's all about the energy that's stored in uh in oil and gasoline it's just so much more energy dense than everything except for uranium which we should be going all in on on that now i know we have some progress in that regard but yeah i don't know more of the same where we're going to be 20 years from now then okay we're going to have to do it all over again and just keep cycling every 20 30 years for the oil the war

for the oil continues. I don't know. If OPEC fell apart. But Saudis, Saudis, the OPEC guys, they're supposed to be our friends. But I guess they're not. No one's really the friends over there.

Well, that's a cartel. It always was a cartel. Trump's breaking up all kinds of cartels. Except the banksters. I mean, I'm waiting to see one. The banks would go to jail. But maybe next year.

Yeah, well, J-Pal might be hanging around on the board of governors because he doesn't want the Comey treatment. And Comey was arrested like, what, yesterday? Yeah, should have been arrested a year ago on way worse charges of sedition instead of just some BS about some seashells that, you know, is more than a veiled threat. But there's so much worse at him and Hillary and the rest of them should go down for. They have to do it in a way that sticks, though.

It's not going to stick. They're going to drop it in three months. No, they've got the, what was it, North Carolina? was the grand jury, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they, they're not, I'm not, I'm just going to say that it's not going to happen, but I hope I'm wrong. A conviction that's overturned somehow, a technicality. That's my bet right here. What would polymarket give me for that? Hey, let's talk about, uh, the, the defense production act being used to force the production of electronic components in the United States. I didn't realize the, the, uh, the, of just all the hardware that you need to run, you know, modern electricity to, you know, houses and businesses and, you know, just everywhere, you know, all the components that were, that have been, you know, offshoreed in several decades. So that's the Fence Production Act. It's the economy being federally seized and is sort of the has the same paradox to me as the Iran War.

paradoxically, I'm in favor of fighting Iran, but against not doing it without a constitutional declaration of war. And I am torn. It's come to this. We have to use a Defense Production Act to force companies in the United States to make the infrastructure that during a major conflict with EMP weapons, we would be in dire straits if we can't replace that hardware. So it's It's the command economy. It's the command of wartime economy, Trump's running in a lot of regards. Yet I have to agree that it's, you know, less dangerous to do these things. I would agree.

Another thing that what have they been doing the last 25 years? Because, I mean, freaking Newt Gingrich came out with something like 20 years ago about how we're EMP, very susceptible. Transformers take 18 months and they're all overseas. and there's hardly any backup deployment available, blah, blah, blah, blah. So I'm hopeful that some of that has been short up in the last couple decades, but Trump's saying, no, we need more, which, you know, at the risk of sound like a commie, centralized planner. I'm all for this when it comes to infrastructure, electrical, and, you know, transportation, in particular.

like that is not some of the free market necessarily especially redundancy and stuff that's not necessarily profitable to a company but needs to get done so in that regard i'm more favorable for sure on this than iran war like it actually get behind this it could be attacked by an enemy if it could be attacked by the enemy and have a significant effect on you know on our ability to defend from that because you know most of the united states after an email M.P. attack with its infrastructure down would be, you know, be a tough situation to defend ourselves, right? We would do it, and it would be costly. And I fully believe we, you know, if we were under attack like that, you know, that our armed services would prevail. But it would be hard going for a long, long time. And it would be big losses. So, you know, if it can be attacked by the enemy, you know, I wish we could have agriculture.

drones that can be freely sold with minimum regulation maximum innovation maximum profitability let the free market prevail but then the damn thing can be turned into a chem bio weapon so you can't have that for sure it's definitely uh everything would be way too easy if it was binary yes no black white all that it's not that easy let's see economically what else um oh see this is actually what put me a little angry earlier today like I said I have fasting but US debt tops 100% of GDP where they getting their numbers at this is some BS numbers we're way oh that's the problem I honestly I I pulled that right before the show I haven't had time to investigate it's not your fault is Wall Street Journal it's on the top of freaking drudge

report they say yep uh publicly held debt 31.2 trillion And the annual GDP is essentially that same amount. But everything I've seen, U.S. national debt is 39 going on 40 trillion, which is way higher than $31 trillion. I mean, ask yourself, would you rather be 39 years old or 31?

Does it make a difference? Probably a little bit. So they caveat by saying publicly held debt, but this is still a whitewash by Wall Street Journal. And, you know, the deficit spending is ridiculous and continues to grow as well. But perhaps you should just give credit that someone at the Wall Street Journal found a maybe a somewhat, you know, misleading way, but is just at least keeping this in the conversation, putting this before, you know, Congress, putting it out there before the midterms, making it part of the discussion and bringing attention to. how dangerous the national debt is, or shall I say the federal government debt. And I would have thought that you were, you know, at least supportive of the attempt to, you know, keep people aware of our debt.

That's a bridge too far for Wall Street Journal. But I gave you that. They at least put it out there because it makes Trump look bad. So that's why they did it. And sometimes truth comes out because of that. So that's good. I mean, that's why you've got to have the tension between the two parties. Sometimes they have to use the truth to hurt the other guy when it comes down to it.

Right. So, but I don't know. People don't care until it's too late about the debt, honestly. And anyone over the age of 40, definitely over the age of 50, all they care about is that none of their benefits are cut. And everybody under that is just like, I'm screwed. I'm going to pay all this money in taxes. Social Security and never get it back.

And that's going to happen someday. It's just like, at this point, it's musical chairs, though. It's in everybody's self-interest to kick the can down as long as it can until it explodes. And hopefully, you know, you're dead by then before it blows up. Hopefully it happened in the year 2016, not the year 2030. Yeah, you know, outliving the problem is, you know, I wouldn't say everybody, but many people are guilty of that. Just knowing that they're going to outlive the problem,

and therefore they don't have to address it. And there's this reasons, there's other reasons, but, you know, having a constitutional amendment that put age caps on, you know, members of all branches of government, right? Mandatory retirement ages so that, you know, you know, just the average age of the Senate, the House, the Supreme Court, and the president is lowered, you know, could, could be a good thing.

but it would take constitutional amendment. And again, that's nothing that the founders ever thought about. Because when the founders founded the country, but they lived at the ages they do now, right? So they never thought it was possible, and they never planned for. The Constitution has some built-in things that aren't quite right with the modern world.

Now, what the founders envisioned is that we would amend it intelligently along the way. So you could start advocating for the next, constitutional amendment to help in that regard make it I don't know what age would you set it at in all those bodies I would might have to be limited to uh one term so two years for a representative six years for a senator that's it never get a run again for that office you could be a rep for two years a senator for six and a president for four and that's it that's what i would do that's one way but it takes away the freedom of a people in a particular who like their representative and know that they're good to bring them back to office, right?

So you're limiting of freedom there. But if you make the argument based upon cognitive decline, because we have the science now, the things that people aren't able to be able, they aren't able to do mentally after certain ages, right? And that, you know, our Congress right now is just got some, you know, people dying in office. they're so old, right? So you just, we have minimums. Can't be in the House or the Senate or the president

without meeting the minimum. Why not just have maximums? It's tough to say. I guess 75 might be a good maximum then if I had to pick one, an age. Yeah, I think people over than that, especially in the presidency, in a world where you might have to command

strategic forces at a moment's notice. That's probably would be prudent, but we got, you know, we can't, we can barely, you know, pass budget bills to fund the Department of Homeland Security, let alone, you know, bring about, you know, new amendments in the Constitution. It's going to have to take just a massive swing in, in one or the other directions to have majorities that could do that sort of thing. Yep. We'll find out if that could happen. I don't think anytime soon, even after the midterm, it'll be a gridlock, no matter who comes out, eeks out a little bit on top like we were talking about before we went on air. We've been on about an hour. We've got a few minutes left.

We haven't even touched the fourth column very much, but was there anything else you want to hit on before we hit some nature and health to finish out? No, let's go there. And the Area 51 news sort of, you know, brought you down a beat on your blitzkrieg, I might say. but that right there could be the um nuclear weapons testing resuming yeah i don't know by missing the beater was i just like resigning to it or something i don't know if it was resignation or chagrin or just just just just interest and talk about area 51 i don't know I was thinking the same thing. Like it probably is freaking, if not,

nuke test and then some underground propulsion or power generation or it could just be some random ass earthquakes. But I don't know. I think it's worth to keep track of these things in the aggregate looking for trends, but hard to really pin this on something, right? Of course not. Yeah. And then there's always the layer of, you know,

what are the states communicating? to each other behind closed doors. You know, when asked by the Russians or the Chinese, what was that? We, you know, have an answer for them that they don't want to hear. That's, uh, well, we've talked a little bit about disclosure and what's going to get released. And there's been little hints from Trump and the administration. I haven't seen so much yet. We've talked about, you know, unidentified or what?

Unmaned vehicles or the Tic Tacs, Tick, talks, whatever, ticktacks, not TikToks. Running on Steam here. Anyway, are we going to see more substantive developments there? Now that we're talking about conspiracies in Area 51, what's going on?

I don't think it's a conspiracy. They just they were doing something on the ground. I don't know. I don't know. But my first inclination is it's a cover story for you know, weapon systems we have that we want to, you know, let our

peers know we have that are super weapons developing secret and Trump's basically said we got stuff that you wouldn't believe so

who knows we actually came full circle it depends how valuable information campaign is going on at the time well and that's why it's hard for me to even really comment on anything I force myself to on a radio show

but I don't like to make comment I know 90% of the lay of the land of a topic and I don't know 10% of lay of the land on area 51. And there's so much sub refuge and decades and billions of dollars behind it. It's hard to really know. Well, you know, it doesn't hurt to speculate here and there. Use your imagination. Then, you know, make a hypothesis and over time test the hypothesis. You might be right on some of these things.

You don't have to be read in on secret programs to see all the signs that there are secret programs and what they're meant for and what they're meant to accomplish. We've got so many declassified from the Cold War now that we know how governments that are highly security focused, pitted against peer adversaries, how they behave. And when you get, you know, Reagan showing up in office or Trump showing up in office, you know, and putting a priority on it, it's pretty obvious that it's going to happen. And, you know, what we learn or don't learn is all going to be part of the plan of the people that, you know, have the responsibility for employing that power. Well, got a lot of faith that they'll do the right thing, but I guess it's always been like that. Oh, I don't think I said. What's that? I don't think I said that part.

No. No. There's, yes. And it all comes from the politically, you know, the politically elected leadership. If they're in control and can, you know, govern it, that's one thing. If they aren't in control of it, then I have no trust that necessarily mistakes won't happen. Yeah, I guess I misspoke. I mean, like, our fate is in their hands.

not that I have faith in them. So we better kind of implicitly we have faith in them because we have no other choice. Like you have faith in your captain as you're in a wooden sailing ship going across the freaking ocean.

You might not like him. We might suck, but you better have faith in them, I guess. Like we're all at the same boat. I hate to say it, but that's a way to look at it too. That's been, you know,

if it wasn't true before the advent of nuclear weapons, it was permanently true after that. Exactly. That's what I mean in terms of like, the military and the scientist and the deep stave or whatever you want to call them

better be looking out for us. Or, I guess we will have a nuclear war, but, you know, hopefully not, hopefully not have faith in the, in the system, self-preserving at least.

How about that? Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Any indicators or, other other angles on the news that we really really ought to cover in this is episode 345 if I'm not mistaken yeah what else what else should we cover 345 um we literally went left to right up to down um I don't there's really not too much that we missed uh the drought in a US has been seeing some drought and one of the big things people come playing about with the data centers besides electrical costs going up is water um you know it depends

where you live if the drought affects you but there's already a lot of places out west that had a lot of water issues but as we saw down the southeast wildfires due to some drought conditions there so you know wildfire season's coming i guess yeah riding season too and they go together so we're in the last cold month of 2026, at least until November. And the protests, the, you know, just the moves by the Department of Justice, rulings by the Supreme Court, it just seems like the Trump's opponents are just getting boxed in, boxed in, boxed in. And, you know, this assassin last Saturday night could be just the tip of the iceberg. on insane violence that, you know, could get very dangerous for everybody.

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