The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Red Beacon Daily News 8.20.2026 US DEBT HITS $40 TRILLION

Episode Date: August 20, 2026

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Red Beacon Daily News, August 20 at 2026. We are back from a long stretch of travel, prepper camp, so on, so forth. Happy to be with you. Big story. Not a good one. National debt reaches $40 trillion milestone. The national debt could cross the 50 trillion mark by 2030. This is historic.

It's been about three months since the federal government's debt hit $39 trillion. Wrap your head around that. It's been about three months since the federal government's debt hit $39 trillion, and here we are at $40 trillion. Dead held by the public's around $32.2 trillion, and intragovernmental holdings are close to $7.8 trillion. Hitting this milestone comes firmly ahead of the congressional budget off. The congressional budget office. The whole thing should be abolished. What is the, you have a congressional budget office with a $40 trillion debt.

Is that, that's like something out of a joke. That's like a punchline. That's stand-up comedy. That is stand-up comedy, right? Congressional budget office is baseline estimate of 2027. Congressional budget office. You want to slash something out of government. immediately. Start there. I want to thank the Epic Times for having a wonderful website that I

pay for it to view, and I don't mind paying to view it whatsoever because of the fact that there's no ads. So yes, we're indebted. We're indebted $40 trillion, maybe. Maybe we are. I don't know. Are we really? Are we really indebted $40 trillion? Because how many trillions does the government take from the American people every single year in taxes, hundreds of billions, trillions. But we never seem to put it towards the debt. Trump's made a lot of money, trillions, trillions in investment, doesn't seem to be put towards the debt. So we can't pay it off.

That's the way I look at it, right? We can't, I don't know how to make a payment to the national debt. How do you force Congress, how do you force the executive branch, the president, to make a payment on the national debt. I will just pay the interest. Okay. I have a feeling that's not a long-term strategy for success. If you want to mitigate that,

then, you know, tune into the Prepper Broadcasting Network. We can only do so much here on Red Beacon Daily News. We have our priorities. Two topics that are absolutely fire. Flock cameras and AI. Let's do it. Your AI assistant here. We've got a bit of a good news situation.

So over here at Gizmodo, a website that I don't pay for to view, and it shows because there's ads and videos and this and that horrible. Flock's new AI tool does much more than track license plates. A wired investigation found that cops can search for vehicles and their drivers using prompts describing location time and pattern of movement. Controversial surveillance technology company flock safety has long insisted that its automated license plate readers can't recognize or track people's faces. But they may as well be able to, thanks to the new AI tool, which can reportedly identify vehicles and their drivers based on several other variables. The new tool called OS Investigate is currently being tested with a small group of law enforcement agencies, according to a Wednesday report from Wired. Using the code found on the flock website's login portal, Wired reporters, and an independent agency security and privacy researcher

who goes by the pseudonym Bukodi, were able to reconstruct a mock-up of the experimental tools interface without being able to access it directly. So, okay, I got to dance. I got to do a little dance here. Here's what I do know. Halloween is fast approaching and from the looks of things

the flock camera situation around the United States might not be as much of a situation going forward you follow me it just doesn't seem like that's going to be much of an issue I have a feeling that well we'll just have to wait and see

I'm going to leave it at that you're going to hear a lot more about it trust me if you haven't already in the weeks and the months to come but something tells me by early november flock will probably have a lot of new business but they they won't be utilizing the AI technology in early November but we you know we have to address the intrusiveness of privacy and survey or the intrusiveness of surveillance on our privacy in the public space here we have to address the fact that Atlanta is now using police dogs to roam around the streets, police robot dogs to roam around the streets.

At the end of the day, folks, we have to hang on to our no. We have to hold on to our ability to say no. Okay? That's the whole thing. That's the whole shooting match, as my father-in-law used to say. Dr. Prepper Medical. I ran into Tom with Dr. Prepper. Let's do a little prepper tech because that's what this is.

This is Preper Tech at its finest. As you know, I like to deliver you a Preper Tech segment. It's not always something I've tried or something I've done. It's something for you to look into. Sometimes it's something I've used or done. But I ran into the Dr. Prepper at Preper Camp, which was a wonderful time, by the way. and he showed me his stack system pro, which as a medical doctor, he put together this amazing system. He put together this amazing color-coded system with color-coded books, color-coded gear,

to really sort of simplify the big, scary world of medical preparedness. Now, it comes at a price tag. It is an investment, but it's an investment, I think, that will, it'll give you confidence. You know what I mean? It'll give you and it'll give you everything you need should things get wonky. And how are things not going to get wonky

in the very near future? One of the most interesting things about PreparCamp now is that we have it in one of the greatest natural disaster areas in the country. It's kind of creepy how that worked. It's kind of creepy how we had prepper camp for years and years and years. And it was just in this quiet little place in the Appalachian Mountains, western North Carolina. But now we have prepper camp in a place where the surrounding people have gone through a historic event.

Like nothing we'll ever see again probably, right? And sort of the ethos of the baseline prepper is you're on your own. No one's coming to hell. And it's so interesting that we now have people who have lived that. Right? They have lived that. And that's wild. It's just why.

And so now it's just an interesting thing. to have a kit like this in the worst of times this is a peace of mind investment that's what it really is you know what I mean because it's knowing that I pull the red book in the red box look through the red book for the answer the red box has everything I need within the red book

it's just perfect well-organized designed by a real doctor Tom a great guy great family I met them all they seem like awesome people who know their stuff and just thrilled, man. Just thrilled to be able to show it to you. So check out Dr. Preppermedical.com and see if you like that Stack System Pro. Because it's, you can tell you took a lot of time to put it together and a lot of thought. And it's purpose built, you know, to make medical easier.

So see if that's something you're into. So to wrap things up here, folks, we're going to do something that some of you are going to like and some of you are going to hate because it's August. This won't be the last you hear of this poem. I don't know. It's just something I want to do, you know, just what I want to do today. This is from Keats, John Keats.

And I don't know about you. I do hear that there's a cold snap coming. I do hear that there is a cold winter ahead and cold temperatures coming in the near future. and then we'll all be talking about autumn. But John Keats' Ode to Autumn in this poem titled to Autumn, it's just wonderful, man. You know, I guess in some sense,

oh, no, I can't talk about this on this podcast, but just take it from me, okay? If I bring you a poem, take some time to appreciate it. Don't skip. Don't close out. Like, even if you're wearing your night vision goggles right now with your AR-15 packed away in your truck, like, just take a minute to enjoy this, okay? Because there's a reason I'm here doing this. And that's kind of what I, you know, we're not going to read the whole thing.

It's like, it's not very long. I can't promise you I won't read the whole thing. Actually, I may. I've got something coming up here in 12 minutes. To Autumn, John Keats, Red Beacon Daily News. Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Close bosom friend of the maturing sun, conspiring with him how to load and bless. With fruit the vines that round the thatch eaves run.

To bend with apples the moss cottage trees and fill all the fruit with ruts, with ripeness to the core, to swell the gourd and plump the hazel shells, with a sweet kernel, to set budding more, and still more later flowers for the bees, until they think warm days will never cease, for summer has overbrimmed their clammy shells. Who hath not seen thee off amid thy store, sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find,

thee sitting carelessly on a granary floor. My soft hair, soft lifted by the winnowing wind, or on a half-reaped furrow sound asleep, drowsed with the fume of poppies, while thy hook, spares the next swath, and all its twined flowers. And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep. Steady thy laden head across a brook,

or by a cider press with patient look. thou watchest the last oozing's hours by hours. And there is one more stanza, but we're going to end it there. When autumn is in full effect, we'll read the whole thing. Okay, that's what we'll do. Thank you so much, folks, for joining us. Glad to be back. Red Beacon.