The Arterburn Radio Transmission Podcast
The Arterburn Radio Transmission is a blend of cutting edge commentary, fused with guests who are the newsmakers and trailblazers of our time. Your host Tony Arterburn is a former Army paratrooper, entrepreneur, and historian. Tony brings his unique perspective to the issues facing our country, civilization, and planet.
The Arterburn Radio Transmission Podcast
#491 Economic Instability and the Power of Precious Metals
Imagine a world where the acceleration of global events aligns with Lenin's notion of time compression. On the Arterburn Radio Transmission, we unpack the rapidly evolving landscape of politics and economics, questioning the mainstream narrative of stability amidst chaos. Reflect on recent U.S. elections and new cabinet picks: what do they signal for the nation's future? Our exploration draws from my own media journey, inspired by the likes of Pat Buchanan, and emphasizes the importance of skepticism towards political rhetoric. We'll challenge your views on de-dollarization, gold's role in the economy, and the implications of these shifts on international relations.
From the camaraderie of early mornings at InfoWars to the stage set for a thrilling pop culture showdown between Mike Tyson and Jake Paul, this episode is as varied as it is engaging. I'm grateful for my time with colleagues like Owen Schroer and Harrison Smith, where we fought for free speech and due process. The spotlight on Tyson underscores a warrior mentality, defying age and media narratives with sheer resilience and dedication—a testament to setting and achieving personal goals despite life's hurdles.
Turning our gaze to the broader economic stage, we'll explore how central banks are stockpiling gold amidst de-dollarization efforts, raising questions about financial stability. Historical comparisons shed light on the persistent geopolitical tensions we face, urging listeners to remain wary of political promises. We'll navigate the intriguing complexities of Donald Trump's pro-Israel cabinet picks, examining hawkish foreign policy directions and the multifaceted geopolitics of the post-9/11 world. This episode is a clarion call for a more cautious approach to international relations, advocating for less interventionist strategies while questioning the true costs of America's foreign engagements.
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Speaker 1:It is the 14th of November 2024. Lots to talk about today. The quickening. Everything is accelerating. It's Vladimir Lenin's quote about. Sometimes there's decades where nothing happens, and there's weeks where decades happen. All that I was talking to David Knight this morning on his show and just remembering how we started off this decade. And, of course, the election has passed. There's a new administration. I want to talk about cabinet picks today, not necessarily about politics, but about language, ladies and gents. I want to talk about what this signals for the future.
Speaker 1:Right now, we're seeing this very strange market where happy days are here again and nothing's wrong. And we didn't debase the dollar. We didn't completely destroy the dollar, folks. We didn't lose the petrodollar no, no, no, that didn't happen. And there is no such thing as the BRICS nations who are de-dollarizing at an alarming rate. And gold didn't supplant the euro as the second most held reserve asset. That's just all past us. It's great, everything's fine. Go get your FANG stocks. Listen to Jim Cramer. No, the fundamentals are all still there. For what was driving gold to all-time highs 35 times this year and now it's pulled back. We'll talk about gold price today. Silver's pulled back, people are liquidating their positions to get into the market and really that's a larger. I think it's a larger issue for what's happening and where we're headed into 2025.
Speaker 1:You know, I was talking to David Knight, also about the start of my media career. I had been following Pat Buchanan for many years. I read the Death of the West. It was one of the last books I read on my exit out of Mesopotamia, also known as Iraq, on my last and third foreign war. I read the Death of the West and it was about dying populations, about culture, about cultural Marxism stuff that they don't teach you in the standard conservative think tanks, you know, and I remember being captivated by what I finally found like this was like the Rosetta Stone that unlocked a lot of things for me and led me to what I do now.
Speaker 1:And it's funny, I've been in this stream of history for quite some time. I'm honored to be here. I like what I do, I like the niche that I'm in, I love my audience and I'm very grateful and so many things have taken the hosts that I started out in radio with they've gone one way and I've gone the other. And people I've come into contact with I've gone one way and they've gone the other. And I was thinking about the subtitle to Buchanan's book. And as I started out my media career going into 2012, 2013, and that Christmas of 2011,. I was reading Suicide of a Superpower and the subtitle was Will America Survive to 2025? And if you go and crack that book right now and you really look at what Buchanan was asking probably one of the smartest men to ever run for president I'm not the only one that thought that Arthur Schleichinger Jr, who worked for JFK, also thought that Buchanan knew more about history than anybody who'd run for president. And they said, unfortunately he drew the wrong conclusions.
Speaker 1:But I do second a lot of Pat's thesis in the book, and it had to do with trade deficits actual deficits. It had to do with the tripwires of global war and it had to do with culture. We had a declining culture. We had an expanding empire and our ability to produce was shrinking and of course that was bankrupting the United States and it was really bankrupting the soul of America. So I started out running for United States Congress and I jumped into radio. I had a radio show in Dallas and, like I said, there are different paths and I'm really glad for what I do, but there's a stark contrast. I'll tell you a quick story.
Speaker 1:While we're talking about cabinet picks, I ran against the last World War II veteran in Congress. His name was Ralph Hall and he'd been a congressman since I was a baby and he'd been a state senator and a judge. He was very plugged in and a consummate gentleman, real old-school politician and marketer. And he always said I'm not that smart, I have to have a gimmick. He was a throwback and a warrior, and true grit too. You know, just a tough man, smart man. Tough man knew how to play the game and he was being challenged. I ran against. I thought it was his last term, so I ran against him.
Speaker 1:I came out as a libertarian, ron Paul, paleo, kind of a hodgepodge, you know. Secure the border, bring the troops home, audit the Fed, end the Fed, you know all that. You know no. End the income tax, you know, throw out the neocons, all the rest, peace and prosperity. And so I ran a. I ran a tough campaign. I did a lot of groundwork, a lot of stump speeches, a lot of radio and at the end of the campaign I obviously didn't win.
Speaker 1:I got two calls, one from his challenger that was in the second place of the runoff and one from Ralph. And of course I took Ralph's call and he said he said I think we have the same barber, you know, and I said, yes, sir, we do, we have the same barber and he goes I'm pretty sure that SOB voted for you. And I said, yes, sir, he did. And Ralph and I had known each other I mean for a long time, since I was a teenager and he'd been a Democrat. You know, he's old school Sam Rayburn, lbj, democrat, blue dog and we hit it off and I told him I'd help him in his last campaign and it's a long story, but I ended up being a surrogate, he, I, was his Twitter and they would send me out in the field. You know, you just speak as Ralph, he totally trusts you and, uh, you can communicate his viewpoints, and so they would send me out to these small towns and, um, I'd end up being paired against his opponent. And, uh, I knew, uh, his opponent. I knew John um from being interviewed by the Dallas morning news and they were just fawning over him and it was.
Speaker 1:It was really just a sky, kind of my first real look into the belly of the beast of the media. I'd been, you know, as a power lifter and world champion and stuff I did in high school and breaking records and stuff. I was featured in the papers and I just thought well, that's how media works, you know, it's not how that works when you run for office and you take contrarian views to what the establishment holds. And I remember just going and so I'm good on my feet. I don't know if you guys know this, but I know stuff, and not everything. I'm always learning, but even you know 33, 34 year old Tony was pretty sharp. I knew a lot of history, I knew how to talk to folks and especially in East Texas and we talk about big picture items and I knew what, how Ralph had voted, and I knew you know what, what, what the challenges were at the time and I do pretty well.
Speaker 1:And uh, the opponent, um, john, and I'm going to get to this cause, this is part of the cabinet picks Um, he ended up beating us and, uh, I was persona non grata, I mean no longer welcome in politics. I chose the I, by the way, I'd do it again I chose the losing side. You know the, the old establishment, and the reason I did that for is multifaceted, but it had with Ralph being last World War II veteran and he's like my grandpa. I mean, he asked me to help him, so I'm going to help him. And he was one of my, my dearest friends. I you know, when he was out of power, I'd go see him a couple of times a week. I'd bring him dinner. Um, we had a real connection. He's calling check on me.
Speaker 1:This is a man that you know put presidents on hold. Um, this isn't me. He was, uh, he was the one of the first promoters for a boxer named Cassius Clay, also known as Muhammad Ali, and he was my friend. The first time he met my son, houston, he said do you know who Muhammad Ali is? I've got a great picture of Houston sitting with Ralph at his house. And Houston said yes, I do, he goes, he's my friend and that's all true. And but anyway, that's how politics works and that's how the bend of history works. Politics works and that's how the bend of history works.
Speaker 1:And now his opponent, who was not fond of your host, and uh, and neither was his campaign, but he's now going to be the director of the central intelligence agency. So, uh, you guys know my shows and what I talk about. I find this to be highly comedic and uh, it just uh, these kind of moments give me. I know I'm on the right track. I know what I'm doing, what I'm supposed to be doing, and even you know where I am right now with radio. I'm thinking about making some moves in radio and it's become such a contrast between where I am spiritually, where I am intellectually, where I'm just the path that I'm on, and what used to look like the road to success. It looks totally different to me now and I like where I am, but that's a true story. Ladies and gentlemen, john Ratcliffe will be the new head of the Central Intelligence Agency. He was the director of national intelligence and my old sparring partner in debates, so good luck to him.
Speaker 1:All right, let's jump into some other news. The headlines on Drudge. Of course, the Onion buys InfoWars and they've got an article up from Zero Hedge. Let me share my screen. Still have a lot of my friends over at InfoWars. Strange day, sad day, I mean, just for freedom of speech in general. Infowars website down after Onion buys in bankruptcy Hours. After yesterday's auction, infowarscom is now down. We wish Alex Jones well on his next endeavor, which we're guessing is going to be massive.
Speaker 1:The leftist satirical rag, the Onion, announced on Thursday it had won the bankruptcy auction to acquire Infowars, the website founded and operated by Alex Jones since 1999. On Wednesday, jones said that the auctions trustee could choose any bidder it wanted, not necessarily the highest bidder. Well, this is. You know, if you saw this coming, we've talked about, you know where they've headed after these, the lawsuits and the Sandy Hook stuff and the judgments and knowing how bankruptcy works and how all of this stuff and they've gone by the way. I don't way. I think they've broken the mold on all this. I don't think this is really how bankruptcy works anymore. They're just. This is a punitive, it's punishment, it's over the top, it's Orwellian and it's absolutely disgusting. And I mean, what could the Onion think to gain from this? Was anybody? I mean it's just a domain. I mean, at this point, you know Alex can pull his show and go do the Alex Jones show or the Alex Jones whatever, and the report, or I mean he could literally use, he could start a new channel, even if they go after his Twitter channel that's current, and just reset everything and get out of this and you know, not necessarily being able to keep the same size crew, but he will be able to go lean and mean, I think, and um, it just makes you wonder what the whole point of this was. I mean, it's just again they're not gonna. What could they recover?
Speaker 1:By the way, I've broadcasted many shows from the info war studios in Austin and I used to get there sometimes before I mean right at the same time the security card would show up Like it was. You know I was always preparing for I would be the first person there to be dark in the studio. As a matter of fact, I need to in my phone. I knew somehow on Friday, the 13th of November 2020, that would be my last in-studio show. I wasn't told that, but I just knew that I wouldn't be back. I just sometimes get those gut feelings. I have a great picture of the studio being dark, where David Knight hosted and I'd done many, many shows there.
Speaker 1:This is a sad day for free speech. It really is a mockery of the justice system. You don't have to agree with Alex or anybody from Infowars to support the Constitution, support the First Amendment and due process, rule of law. Yes, this is a strange time and this makes me reflect on where I've been in my life and I'm thankful for for InfoWars. I'm thankful for the opportunity that they need to text my crew that the key is outside. I'm locked the door. My son, houston, left today. The studio usually watches the door for me, but he's gone and I'm sitting here thinking I have to let them know that the key is outside so they can get in, because they get here early. I have a great crew, by the way, so let me do that real quick and then we'll continue the story. That's just a little thing about stream of consciousness and being my own producer. Like I can't just wave at somebody.
Speaker 1:And those were the fun times at hosting InfoWars. If you think that doing a show and doing radio live is fun, wait until you have four people running a board, somebody talking in a year, putting clips up on the screen in real time. It's like it's like getting off a a, a street bike, you know. And then somebody lets you get into a Cadillac, you know, it's just a completely different experience. And, uh, I'll always be be grateful for my time. And you know my friends, like Owen Schroer and Harrison Smith and Jason Lowe, who got me into InfoWars in the first place he used to go by the title Maga Titan, a great guy and just a good bunch of people, a lot of my InfoWars friends. I wish them well.
Speaker 1:This is a strange, strange thing to go through. But you know, I think on the other end of this you could build something even better. Sometimes it's sometimes again, it's a blessing in disguise or you could get over leveraged, you could be in a position where it's time for a change, and I'm not wishing that on anybody. But did the forces of censorship, did they win here? Does anybody think that this is a win? Um, all right, text is out so I can uh rest easy going through the rest of the show that we're going to be okay. All right, let's, um, let's transition a little bit. I do want to get into the cabinet picks, but I want to talk a little bit of finance Before we do. Let's do a little pop culture.
Speaker 1:I don't normally do this, but this brought up just kind of my warrior mindset, where I am in my life and things that are interesting to me, that spark my wheelhouse. I saw this as a link up on drudge and, uh, I think we've just gotten so far away in this country from knowing what the warrior mentality is, um, what constitutes discipline. And I saw this article and I'm not won't read the whole thing, but just to get back to basics here. There's here this is the mirror Again. It's a link that was up on Drudge. There's a fight coming up, as you know. Mike Tyson is going to be fighting Jake Paul. I want to just bring this up for a second as part of again stream of consciousness. I thought I'd bring this up. Mike Tyson has done a terrible job of hiding uncomfortable truth about Jake Paul fight.
Speaker 1:Now, this is how the headline goes If you read a little further into it. And, by the way, I've been following because I love Mike Tyson and I've been following his training and as an old guy okay now, I used to be a world champ and as an old guy, I like seeing another champion who's getting older, who's not going quietly into the good night Okay, he's not going quietly, he's training hard, he's still setting goals and he's always been. You know, since my I think about 30 years old is when I really found out who, uh, mike Tyson was. There was a great documentary by James Toback. Mike Tyson was. There was a great documentary by James Toback. It's just titled Tyson. I recommend that to anyone, especially a young man and just a really interesting human being and a true profile in courage. In my opinion, I think he's one of the greatest fighters of all time and, uh and especially, the most interesting. And so they go into this article and what they're just drawing a conclusion is that um tyson isn't up for anything like he's. Um he's done with this.
Speaker 1:It says it was supposed to be the last chance of trash talking and to put their point across, but as mike tyson and jake paul met for the final press conference, the former could barely have seemed less likely. He wanted to be there. Ariel Helawani's attempts to get any answers were met with a remarkable brief response. The media had just as little success, and even when Jake Paul tried to drag him into exchange, all he got was I'm just ready, I've said everything I have to say. Tyson later added and a pre-planned part of the press conference is hosted by Helawani Tyson said just 21 words, as he said very little over the remainder of the 45-minute event. When he returned to the stage to face off with Paul, he instantly turned away to leave, before being dragged back for final photos. We established that Tyson is ready, quote-unquote and firm. I'm not going to lose, but that was about it. It says whether Tyson is in fact truly ready or whether or not he is going to lose is up for some substantial debate. The only thing that does seem clear is that Tyson has very little interest in selling the event. Well, the event's already sold.
Speaker 1:I just wanted to this this just briefly. We live in an age of soundbites. Uh, we live in an age of false tough guys, bravado, narcissism, over the top, hubris. Let me tell you something dangerous, and I think if I was to channel, where I would be is I'd be very quiet. I'd be the same thing If I knew I was ready, if I had trained hard and this was where I wanted to. You know, and if you listen to him and being interviewed, I wouldn't want to fight this man. This is not how the bluster, the over-the-top rhetoric, the overtures, all the stuff that happens when you get somebody's ego involved. You don't see that here and that's the tell. So I'm going to watch on the.
Speaker 1:I think it's tomorrow, so I'll be watching. I'll find a way to watch the fight Because in my opinion, that's somebody that's very dangerous. I mean, we have source inundated with a bunch of faux effete, fake tough people. They're all around, they're on the Internet, they're commenting, they're this, they're all around, they're on the internet, they're commenting, they're this, they're that, and then when you really get down to the nitty gritty, you know they run, and so we got to be careful. It's hard to find what is actually real. So if I'm reading this, I think that's very authentic.
Speaker 1:I'd be the exact same way. I'd be that way before. You know, when I went into, you know, be challenged. When I was challenged to break world records and I knew that what was on the line, I got really quiet Because that's what I'd be thinking about. You know it wouldn't. I wouldn't waste time hyping anything. Sometimes you can hype up to it and you can talk about what you're going to do, and then you reach that point and there's a lesson in that, especially if you're a younger man pay attention to what happens next.
Speaker 1:All right, now let's jump into some. Let's see we've got oh, we've got enough time. Let's jump into just a little bit of headlines on. Of course, this is parapolitics and precious metals, but a hodgepodge of a show, ladies and gents, and I'm glad you're tuned in. We've got a new timeline for Paratroother. I talked with Mr Anderson, I talked with Chris Graves. We are setting a new schedule and I'm going to put this out on my Twitter feed, out on X We'll make it official. But 5 pm Eastern on Sundays, we're going to do Paratroopers Live and it'll be a little bit of topical, a little bit of deep dives, and we'll have guests and sometimes we'll not go live. I'll do interviews and things like that, but it looks like we're going to do a pair of truthers live, so set that on your schedule. You'll be able to comment and we'll do that on the america unplugged channels, over on rockfin, on rumble and, of course, my ex, and then we'll maybe even talk about free world other places we'll get it streaming. Uh, that'll be live on sundays, 5 pm Eastern.
Speaker 1:This is Kitco something I talked with David about and we don't have to go into the entire article. But this is the World Gold Council. It says gold pullback likely temporary amid rising stocks, crypto and the dollar. The gold rally has been on hold since the re-election of Donald Trump, with the yellow metal resting support at $2,600 as traders take profits and rotate into stocks and cryptos, but with multiple headwinds still facing the global economy analysts think it's 35 times in this year are still there buying gold at a record pace, mainly all central banks outside of the West buying gold at a record pace. De-dollarization, you know. Now the US goes into a trillion dollars in debt every 90 days and possibly more. It takes a trillion dollars just to service the interest on the debt, which is more than the entire defense budget by about $300 billion. Massive folks. We have massive financial fallout from what's happened over the last especially and accelerated the last 10 years. It's been unprecedented money and currency creation and that's just continuing.
Speaker 1:None of these things are off the table as far as every war is still available We'll talk about cabinet picks in here in a second Every war is still available. Everything's still on the table. So all the things that were driving gold and again that's fear, uncertainty, doubt. You know the FUD. It's still driving gold, except these little blurps or these little, you know, again, bends in the river of time. They are happening in the marketplace, so you can take advantage of that. I think gold's probably going to dip a little further and I'll give gold and silver prices before we close out, but this is part of it. This is from the World Gold Council.
Speaker 1:The first week of November saw gold move lower after hitting a new all-time high on the first of the month, hitting a new all-time high on the first of the month. And again, to truly understand where we are, I've told this before, but in 2011,. Gold hit $1,930 an ounce. The head of the Federal Reserve, ben Bernanke, came out and said sorry, we drove this price up. We didn't mean to. We had to bail out these giant financial institutions that were too big to fail. We didn't mean to. We had to bail out these giant financial institutions that were too big to fail. We won't do that again. Tarp funds and all that.
Speaker 1:So gold and silver fell after that and there wasn't another all-time high until 2020, ladies and gentlemen, so nine years. And then I was on air when it did that and it broke another all-time high, and then it was dormant again for another two years up until the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. And then you fast forward to now and it's done it 30-some-odd times. I don't know the exact number, but it's probably 35 this year. So something is afoot and all those things that drive that price are still there. Yeah, let's see if there's anything. Yeah, the US elections results have taken a bit of a knee-jerk sting out of gold's impressive year-to-date rally. The analyst said Suggested reasons are continued strengthening in bond yields and the US dollar, risk on sentiment equity markets, a boost in cryptocurrencies and a quelling of geopolitical tensions. And that is true. But here's the fundamentals. The fundamentals are and we're going to get into cabinet picks here at the end of the show If you look at policy, personnel as policy, the United States is still gearing up for war.
Speaker 1:That's why I opened up the show quoting Anthony Swofford from his memoir Jarhead. It's something I think of often. You know your hands, remember the rifle. I look at global tensions and the goals of the ruling class in the US and some of them seem just absolutely schizophrenic. Trump was again ran as the peace candidate. That's what we were supposed to see. But I've seen that before in history.
Speaker 1:Woodrow Wilson ran as the peace candidate in 1916. His actual slogan was he kept us out of war and as soon as he was re-inaugurated on march 4th 1917, uh, he took us to war. That was the first thing he did and he used the lusitania, which was two years before that. Um, that wasn't the real reason. It was, uh, deals that were made. You know there was the zimmerman telegram, you know, from the german consulate to the, to me, mexico, saying that if they would join the German efforts that they would get back the Southwest when the United States was defeated, and so on and so forth. And that was you really trace that back? There's a Rothschilds agent in Germany that got that to happen because they wanted the US to join the war. And of course, fdr said the same thing. You know, running for an unprecedented third term. No one had ever done that. And well, I think US Grant did. I think Ulysses S Grant tried to run for a third or a nomination, but he didn't actually get all the way to a third term, not in a row. But he said you know he'd seen war and he hates war and he's not going to send your boys to another European war. That's the first thing he did. So we have to always be skeptical of what you know.
Speaker 1:Personnel is policy All right. So all the fundamentals still there, folks. Don't forget that. It reminded me of the movie and the Independence Day. You know when they are in Houston, you know, after the craft is all hovering over the major cities, they send the scout out and they're going to make the decision to use nuclear weapons. And they thought they got rid of it. And it clears, the blast clears after they've nuked it, and then nothing happens. And they say target remains. Well, that's what I mean by this election Great reset remains, you know, the agendaet remains, the Agenda 2030 remains. All the fundamentals are still there. All the bones are still there.
Speaker 1:It's up to us to continue to share information and be aware. I think it's just taking consciousness to the next level. Really is the goal here for people understanding where we are? Because you get stuck in the same paradigm, you're going to get the same things. All right, let's jump over.
Speaker 1:Let's talk about these uh cabinet picks a little bit. I've already told you about john rackliff and, of course, the unknown that's not in here. Uh, that I could see was the Secretary of Defense pick. Again, this isn't about politics. This is about language. I want you to pay attention to the language.
Speaker 1:This was an article I pulled from antiwarcom. It says meet the pro-Israel hawks. Donald Trump has tapped for his new administration. Uh, mondo Weiss is the news and opinion outlet this uh stems from. This is Donald Trump is filling his incoming administration with pro-Israeli war hawks. The moves indicate he will embrace hawkish foreign policy in the middle East and advance attacks against organizations aiming to help Palestinians. Donald Trump is picking a number of pro-Israel voices to join his cabinet. His selections, some of which have officially been made and others which have only been reported from inside sources, solidify the fact that his administration will embrace a hawkish foreign policy in the Middle East and advance attacks against organizations aiming to help Palestinians.
Speaker 1:The first one is Marco Rubio. I have so many fond memories of 2016, and I think one of the greatest moments in politics and I have to I really have to just whenever I see this man's name. You know Rubio's running for president in 2015, 2016. And, of course, he's the pick of the council on foreign relations and, you know, typical pro-war. He's my age, right, and I always get weirded out by people that are my age and they're like really pro-war, like it's okay, you didn't go, but if you didn't go and you could have, and you aren like really pro-war, like it's okay, you didn't go, but if you didn't go and you could have, and you aren't really pro-war. Now, it's just, it's just so bizarre to me, there's something fundamentally, it's just like a thorn in my mind. Whenever I hear that and he's one of those people. Uh, I used to say, like you know, I ran. I ran towards the battlefield and rubio ran for office, so we're two different people.
Speaker 1:But this is this is besides the point. He had a bad night with Chris Christie Does anybody remember this? And I don't like Chris Christie, but he did a great job just breaking Rubio down and I think they were in New Hampshire debating and the next day he kept repeating himself during this live debate because he'd memorized. That's the one thing about when you run for office If you really know what you believe, it's fun. Like you never like I love, like a lot of politicians and I'm not a politician, but a lot of the people that run for office they hate question time and I absolutely loved it. I love question time. That's like you know, brer Rabbit, don't throw me in the briar patch Like. That's the most, that's the best part of it, because if you believe something, then you only just you want to talk about it, you know. So I would find that to be the best time, but Rubio obviously not.
Speaker 1:And he scripted and had, you know, focus groups and everything. He's really contorted and he's trying to remember what his lines are, but he keeps repeating himself and somebody did the hashtag robot Rubio and the next day, somebody dressed up as a 1950s robot and followed him around a schoolhouse in New Hampshire and it was one of the funniest things. Whoever did that, that is comedic. They were silent and it was just like beep. And follow him around like beep, or and follow him around like he's the fellow robot. That, to me, one of the greatest moments in politics. Uh, I've never forgotten it. And you can also look up things like marco, marco rubio phone party, I don't know. There's other things that, uh, it's just a, you know, an interesting time to be alive. But he's the secretary of state coming up.
Speaker 1:Trump will pick Marco Rubio and you can know where his foreign policy is. Okay, I mean, it's not as bad as Lindsey Graham's, which is basically, we got to kill everybody or they're going to kill us. I mean, you ever heard this guy? Lindsey Graham is precious. He's scared about everything, everything, even himself. Um, he's, he's just so. I just picture him, you know, sitting in a dark room sipping chardonnay, just scared of everything that's out there. You know everything. He's just really, really afraid. Um, but again, you can go back and look at things that Rubio has written. He says after returning from a trip to the country in the spring.
Speaker 1:He penned into this Israel. He penned a national review op-ed, declaring that in the end, no matter what the international community says, israel has a right to defend itself and the United States must support its effort to destroy Hamas as a terrorist threat. Well, israel certainly has the right to exist and defend itself and it also needs to be smart enough not to put Hamas in power. And if you will just take five minutes and actually look that up, that would help somebody who needs a little bit of nuance, like they did that. They funded it. It's kind of like what Al Qaeda is Like. If you want to find out what the origin of Al Qaeda is, it doesn't mean the base. To find out what the origin of al-Qaeda is, it doesn't mean the base, it means the database. It comes from 1979 when the Central Intelligence Agency took over the database from the Muslim Brotherhood and the British that had controlled it to fight the Soviet Empire in Afghanistan. They collected the names of the fighters. That's where that comes from. It's the data base, not the base. And that's where you get people like, uh, tim osmond's, where you get some bin laden and he was visiting the pentagon, uh.
Speaker 1:So you know it's easy to whitewash history. And and then you, you know you can create an enemy and then fight the enemy. A lot of that's how this is done. If you've ever read a wall street, the Bolshevik Revolution or Wall Street and the rise of Hitler by Anthony Sutton, you realize that sometimes enemies are created. Sometimes, you know, history is not just bumbling, it's so silly. Like court historians are like, well, there's just peace and prosperity. And then there's a dictator you know like, and then there's this, and then there's a rise of something that's a threat, okay, and it just comes out of nowhere. Like nobody backs it. Like you know, where did they get the bolshevik revolution from? You know, oh, they just some guys. They picked up power. It was just lying in the street. No, that's not how any of that works.
Speaker 1:Then Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor Waltz is primarily known for being one of the house's biggest China hawks, but he's also a fierce advocate for Israel. The China hawk stuff. Do you know that really just came on into the zeitgeist, into the forefront in the last five years? I mean for those administration in 2001, 90 days after 9-11, gave China most favored trading status. So and actually that's the anniversary when Hitler declared war on the United States in 1941. That's besides the point, but that's what George W Bush did. And right after that we lost 55,000 factories. One in three manufacturing jobs disappeared and the Bush administration tried to make fast food workers into manufacturing because they built sandwiches. I'm not kidding, because the numbers were so bad. We literally lost what was left of America's heartland and its production from that. So they used to to. So this is me telling you red flags okay, whenever.
Speaker 1:And they've changed policy on china. And in january 1st 1979, zignu brzezinski, in a memo for jimmy carter as his national security advisor, drafted a one China policy memorandum where we broke diplomatic ties with Taipei, which is Taiwan. We in favor of going direct with China, not recognizing Taiwan. So we've reversed that now and we built them up. We gave, gave away through free trade policies and other globalist agendas. We gave away the manufacturing ability of the united states to china to build it up. So you got to ask yourself why. So now you have china hawks.
Speaker 1:John ratcliffe's a china hawk. He thinks that they're building um, super soldiers and um, I don't know you would cyborgs or something. It's almost science fiction. They could very well be. They're a totalitarian regime and Justin Trudeau loves them. So it's kind of like, do you love them? The establishment, what are they? I'm just skeptical on anything with china hawk policies because we gave them everything. I mean, it's not china's fault, you? You look at uh the clintons with uh bags of cash china in the 90s. You know like giving them oh the, and then we give stuff to the israelis. You could look this up. We give a lot of like secret missile technology to the Israelis and they sold them to the Chinese. So you're pro-Israel and a China hawk. I want to talk to your buddy about not selling the Chinese missile secrets. You know stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Then you have Mike Huckabee. He's probably not a bad guy and he has been selected as Trump's ambassador to Israel. He's an evangelical pastor and this is interesting. I grew up you know my views aren't ever were this, but I grew up in the same kind of thought. I am a follower of Jesus. In the same kind of thought I am a follower of Jesus. I find myself kind of conflicted, and especially in the modern church, especially when I came back from Iraq and you get kind of these talking points from a lot of evangelicals that are, you know the United States really only exists to support Israel. Some of my family members think that I don't follow that line. I don't find anything. I mean I don't follow that line, I don't find anything. I mean I read the Bible every day. I don't find that in there. So that's not my wheelhouse, that's not what I want, but that's certainly something that somebody that's like Mike Huckabee would espouse, which is strange.
Speaker 1:So you're going to be ambassador to this country. You believe that is almost like the raise on debt, like the reason the United States exists. That's what they believe. I don't know, and a lot of people listening to the show might. And that's your thing, that's fine. You can have as many of your own opinions. We certainly won't criticize you.
Speaker 1:But I do have an issue with if you look at the totality here of what's being set up and it's not just about israel folks, it's about iran and the goals of the neocons, the goals of the military industrial complex. Did you ever see? Uh? Oliver stone did a movie called w, and it's where he he depicts uh Cheney. Right, cheney is, uh is the vice president. He's showing a big map and he shows all the bases. You know that the U? S is putting together.
Speaker 1:This is post nine, 11. And then, of course, post invasion of Iraq. And then it's this big mass, big mass, you know, and it says Iran. And it really is like he turns and he says you know, they ask him what's the exit strategy? He says there is no exit strategy, we stay. So Iran, for the complexities here, it's not just that it threatens Israel, it's that it's natural resource rich, it's also an asset in the column of Russia. If you don't know your history, you've got to look at your geography. But that's a go-to, like that's Yalta, you know, I've mentioned this before. Like the deciding meeting between Stalin, churchill and FDR was in Yalta. It's Iran. And of course that was because of they met there, because of Stalin. You have to remember. These aren't just one-sided things, like you see. Well, we have to support Israel, so we're against Iran. It's a multifaceted thing and that's why I'm looking at these cabinet picks and it certainly seems that we are preparing for something.
Speaker 1:And then there's Elise Stefanik, ambassador to the United Nations. She's a congresswoman from New York. As ambassador to the United Nations, an organization that the House member has attacked for its alleged anti-Israel bias, stefanik celebrated Israel's decision to ban UNRWA, which she claims instills anti-Semitic hate in Palestinians. I would have preferred her just being anti-UN. There's a bill to get us out of the UN. That's what I'm looking for. I'm looking to more American sovereignty, absolute American sovereignty. That's what I'm looking for. Get out of the UN. There's a bill to exit the UN. Most Congress people don't co-sponsor. Why do you think that is so again, common theme here. You got to see you know the personnel is policy folks. There's Christie Gnome. She's going to head up this, uh, the department of homeland security. Uh, trump is expected to nominate south dakota governor christy gnome as secretary of department of homeland security.
Speaker 1:Doubts about the future of gnome's political career developed early this year when she realized she had once killed her own dog and was found to have lied about meeting Kim Jong-un. That's a pretty big lie. It's kind of hard to pull off, don't you think? Early this year, noe signed a bill asserting that the controversial International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, ihra's working definition of anti-Semitism must be taken into account during investigations into discriminatory practices. Well, it's hard to know. I forgot about that. I forgot about the. I met Kim Jong-un. I remembered about her dog, but I'd forgotten that she'd claimed that that's a big one.
Speaker 1:You know used to, you didn't recover from stuff like that in politics, and now we just do. You know, ever since Trump, he just did this off the cuff. It was one of the most entertaining things I'd ever seen in politics when he just uh, he was. This is back candidate Trump running in 2015. And he just says about John McCain and John McCain's criticism of him and he says I prefer people that weren't captured and I remember watching that going. Well, uh, that's pretty funny and as a I'm a vet and I'm laughing at this and I'm like I don't know what happens next and nothing did and that's, that's just because the country got so bad off, folks. I mean, we're just, we're not in the mood, like you, it's hard to get canceled anymore. Really, I mean, they just become so over the top. So interesting times, folks.
Speaker 1:And then, you know, the secretary of defense pick. This is interesting, um, and I think a lot of things remain to be seen. He's my age, uh, pete hegseth and he's going to be secretary of defense. Looks like, you know, he's a Fox news contributor. He's a veteran, but not like me. I don't think we share the same. I'm see, I'm not an approved veteran. That's the thing is like.
Speaker 1:When I went into radio, they thought I was one thing and they thought they were going to get something that they didn't get. And I always just made a mad. You know it's, it's been a problem of mine. They always think they're going to get something and then again I I pull out things like well, you know, I'm a, I'm anti-war, what. Like I didn't support the incursion into Syria. I was right, you know, it would have been a disaster. I mean, lindsey Graham at the time was like we got to get 200,000 troops in there. They're gonna kill us all. I remember him saying that I literally he said that because he was running for president. Well, it was. That was two years after, but the same time frame, and he was saying, when I was saying that we got to get out of syria, we can't go in there, I wasn't like very much.
Speaker 1:And that's when they found out like oh, tony doesn't want more middle eastern wars, like nope, none, there's, no, there's no vital national security interest in the middle East. If you actually boil it down, there's nothing. I live there, I know. I mean you can just buy oil from whoever owns it. Uh, that seems fine to me. It's not worth thousands or tens of thousands of American lives or casualties, or trillions in blood and treasure. Is it worth it? For what? So the Iraqi parliament can ban the US dollar.
Speaker 1:Did neocons have any? I think it was Russell Kirk who talked about the conservative thinker. He said that the neoconservatives were often clever, never wise. We shall know them by their fruits. It's just war, death. And even Trump said that when he was president. It's nothing but sand and death. And I'm going to learn more about this Secretary of Defense pick, but I've seen some of his clips on Fox. And again, pro vet, but I'm pro vet in a way that I want. I don't want to make more of them when it's unnecessary and there's nothing on the global stage that we need to be involved in.
Speaker 1:Iran can't project power. It doesn't have an air force capable of delivering anything here. It doesn't have an army capable, unless we just let them walk over the Southern border, which I guess we could do. They have no way of projecting power except the weapon of the week, which is terror, and everybody has that. But again, you have to think rationally, unlike general Millie who said that the J sixers almost overthrew democracy because they went into a building. I don't know what war college he went to, but there's no power in a building. If that was the case, then why didn't they send me to the government buildings when we invaded Iraq and I could have just said hooray and plant the flag and there's peace. There's no power in a building, folks, power comes from who controls the weaponry? Who controls the energy? Who controls the supplies? Who controls the military? That's where power comes from. It's not in a building. But they'll confuse you with stuff like that.
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