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.
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#501 The Economic Circus: Tariffs, Bitcoin, Gold & Geopolitical Chaos
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Speaker 2:Today is the anniversary march 6th the fall of the alamo 1836. Ladies, ladies and gents, great letter. I looked I had in my archive some years ago I put the letter over a Megadeth song and I couldn't find it. We did that in the studio long ago in San Antonio. But maybe next year and maybe at the end of the episode, I'll talk a little bit about that history, some fascinating Texas history that doesn't get circulated as much anymore, especially after the whitewashing, the neutering, the retelling, the reimagining of Texas history that's happened in the last 10 or 15 years has been pretty brutal, ladies and gents, and I've been out in the forefront fighting that battle for a while now, but maybe we'll talk a little bit about that. So it is the 6th of March 2025.
Speaker 2:This is the Arterburn Radio Transmission. I am your host, tony Arterburn. I'm broadcasting In Defiance of Globalist Goblins, the Neocons and the New World Order, along with my co-pilot and co-host, beans the Brave, from deep within the heart of Texas today, in my home in Denison. I just got done with the David Knight Show Always fun to talk to David. We went over a little bit of our usual time we usually do about 30 minutes but David and I get to talking and there's so much going on. I mean it really is, and even he and I were speculating just to try to figure out what is all of this for. We'll talk a little bit about the chaos of the tariffs, the financial system, just everything that is absolutely upside down. And, like you're trying to read, what is the strategy here, if you look at the headlines of Drudge, you see you know Trump caving on tariffs, or is he caving? Or what's going on? He's placing tariffs on Mexico and Canada and all around the world and you know this is so much to unpack there, because you look at that. You look at the financial system of the sovereign wealth fund and all the rest of it. It starts to, it starts to look like a, a funhouse mirror version of economic strategy. They start talking about the bitcoin strategic reserve and you're saying, okay, well, that that makes sense, you know, uh, having a fund because we have so many bitcoin already. And then they start adding in XRP and Cardano and actually they don't even list BTC at the beginning and Ethereum and all this other stuff. What does this have to do? How does a country hold basically stocks at this point? So we'll talk a little bit about that. It's insane things in the financial markets.
Speaker 2:But I wanted to start off the program with something I talked to David about and earlier in the week I had found an article from Jim. Rickards has been an insider in the game of currency and precious metals and some of the asymmetrical warfare that goes on in the financial system. He worked for the Central Intelligence Agency, for CISA and a lot of the analyzing that goes on globally when it comes to the financial markets. Anyway, rickards put out this article. It's up on Zero Hedge. I want to put it up on the screen because he mentioned something in here and this is the kind of host I like to be for you, because I know we're not going to do conventional stuff but you're going to learn some things. I learned something. I didn't know this, but you're going to learn some things. I learned something I didn't know this and it has to do. Look, and he didn't even really get into it much, but let's go through what he mentions in this article about notes that are owed to the Federal Reserve from the Treasury of the United States going back to 1934. And again, this article is on gold's historic rally. We're heading up to 3,000, folks and not financial advice, not investment advice. I just have a calculator and I know what's happening to the dollar. But I want to get in. Let me get down here to where he brings this up, and it's talking about the certificates that were given the Fed. Let's see. I want to kind of paint this picture for you. First I'll read this Another take on monetizing gold revolves around the fact that the Federal Reserve currently holds a gold certificate issued by the US Treasury in 1934 in compensation for the transfer of gold bullion from the Fed to the Treasury on orders of Franklin Roosevelt, backed up by legislation.
Speaker 2:That certificate is valued on the Fed's book at 42.22 per ounce. If the Treasury ordered the Fed to write up the value to market, that would add $760 billion to the Treasury's general account, which could be used to finance the US government without adding new debt. And then he again this is a note that was given to the Fed for handing over the gold that they held to be repatriated right After Franklin Roosevelt said turn in your gold, and it went from $20 an ounce to $35 an ounce. And so, and it says, can the US even sell gold? So this is where it gets really crazy and this needs to be talked about because I didn't know this.
Speaker 2:Still, the issue of monetizing gold has to be put in the context of whether the government can legally sell any gold at all. If you convert the Fed's gold certificate into troy ounces of gold not dollars, but ounces it's approximately equal to the entire US gold reserve today 8,133 metric tons today, 8,133 metric tons. If the Fed's gold certificate is intended to be backed by physical gold, it's possible. The government cannot sell any gold without diluting the Fed's gold certificate. All right, let that sink in, because we're all talking about what's in Fort Knox, right? We talk about the 4,000 or some odd tons that's supposed to be there, and then other gold that's held through the Federal Reserve banking system or whatever. Right, we have this gold and supposedly we have 8,133 tons as a nation.
Speaker 2:So back in 1934, we issued this note to the Federal Reserve from the Treasury of the United States saying here's gold for you to back all the you know. Basically, here's the gold that we will hold for you. Here's what we will back up. With this note, you hand over your physical gold. Now who's really in charge? Is the Fed in charge, or is it the US Treasury?
Speaker 2:Well, if you read the creature from Jekyll Island and understand how politics actually works, and you have this international banking consortium and combine known as the Federal Reserve. It's not audited, it's not federal, it's not a reserve, it's insidious, a Luciferian banking system, and it uses its tentacles to get into everything and control everything. Like John D Rockefeller said, own nothing, control everything. So it doesn't actually own anything, right, it just controls all the mechanisms because it controls the money supply. So again, let that sink in what I just said. And I didn't know that, I didn't know that there, and I do this all the time. Why doesn't Tony know that? Well, even Rickard said it's not even put into mainline anything.
Speaker 2:Financial analysts don't look at it, they look at the government holding the gold. But if you look at it this way, almost entirely the entire gold supply of the US is already owed to the Fed, just based off the 1934 gold certificate he says. This is not discussed in economic literature to my knowledge, but it could be a simple derivative of the fifth amendment constraint that required the treasury to give the feds something of fair value when the gold was confiscated in 1934. This happened when the us was on the gold standard and the weight and value of gold were interchangeable. He says that's not true. Today, weight is constant but value fluctuates. It may be the case that the Treasury has to maintain a certain amount of gold by weight, regardless of value, in order to honor the original deal. If this analysis is correct, that's extremely bullish for gold. It means the world's largest single gold holder, the US, cannot be a seller. By the way, if you sold all the gold that the US supposedly has, the 8,133 tons, it's like $760 billion, right? That covers three quarters of the interest payment on the debt for one year. That's it, and so you know.
Speaker 2:Ask me if I'm confident in the current system to maintain itself. No, it's really. It's just this article, and again it talks about a sovereign wealth fund, and I talked to David about that today. We really are like. The strangeness of what's happening economically right now has certainly got my attention and it's had my attention for a long time, but it's weirder than I even anticipated. I mean, when I went to the Bitcoin conference in Nashville it's like a pivotal point in my life when I went there, too strangeness and Trump announced and this was huge because I'd been in the space for so long and I never anticipated anything like that in my lifetime to see that there was going to be a former US president and presidential candidate of RFK Jr talking about making Bitcoin a strategic reserve, and that, to me, made sense In a digital age. It's universal, it's not a company, it's not controlled by a board of directors, it's a decentralized in theory at least, too and it's the way it operates around the world. It's decentralized store of value based on energy. So to me, that made sense. You know I necessarily.
Speaker 2:You know I have some arguments of why I don't think the taxpayer should foot the bill or anything like that, to purchase Bitcoin. But now we're in tomorrow's this summit for a crypto summit or something at the White House, and before this, they just started announcing that they're going to add XRP and Cardano, ada and all these other coins and I go. What now? Like that has nothing to do with those of us who understand, like what Bitcoin is as opposed to what the crypto space is, which these are two different animals, and so they added that it's like again, it's like adding a stock or something. It makes absolutely no sense. There's a lot of stuff being floated around right now, there's a lot of misdirection, and until I read this from Rickards, I guess I wasn't even. It's almost like we want to make sure we have the gold because we have to make sure that the Fed maintains its ownership of it, which I already knew in large part like.
Speaker 2:If you drill down to the, the gold confiscation. It really wasn't gold confiscation so much as it was. You know, turn it in, here's Franklin Roosevelt. He just gets elected. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. Oh, and also gold confiscation. And you take your $20 gold pieces, which are now worth close to $3,000. You take your $20 gold pieces, which are now worth close to $3,000. You take your $20 gold pieces and your $10 gold pieces and your five and your two and a half, and you go turn them in and you get a piece of paper from the Fed and they give you the certificate and that gold goes to the US government and eventually ends up in places like the BIS. It goes to the Bank of International Settlements.
Speaker 2:Which was this heist? I mean inside, this is a major heist. I mean that's what the whole point of the setup of the Federal Reserve folks was a heist. It is to control the money supply and to get the gold, to take it away from the hands of the American people, and they engineered crises to do it. I mean, there was the economic crisis of 1907. Clearly, clearly engineered. And it's like we've got to get control of the money supply. And this is how we'll do it.
Speaker 2:And, mind you, we hadn't had a central bank at that time since 1836. Talk about 1836. That's when Andrew Jackson killed the second bank of the United States. There was no central bank that this country did not have one until 1913. But they had to do a series of things to lay the groundwork to make that happen. Even the AI, that doesn't know any better, yet it's not supposed to tell you the truth. Even if you look up what the meeting on Jekyll Island was on November 22, 1910, they call it a secretive conspiracy. The AI doesn't even it doesn't know it's supposed to cover that up and say that's not true. It was all very transparent and I was very secretive and they knew exactly what they were doing and it took a while.
Speaker 2:You know, uh, the American system, you can't turn the ship around overnight. You have to set up some really horrible things. You have to have 1913. You have to have, uh, the income tax, the 16th amendment. You got to get the 17th amendment for the direct election of senators. You got to get the Federal Reserve and you got to throw in these free trade deals. That's what Woodrow Wilson did and, of course, he took us into World War I. He ran on a platform of he kept us out of war and that's the first place he took us was. He took us into World War I and the debt of the US was $1 billion, if my memory serves, and at the end of the war, from 1917 to 1919, 1920, the debt of the US was $5 billion. So, you know, once they got control of the money supply, and that's when they take you to war and that's when they, you know, start.
Speaker 2:You know, you look at the Carnegie Foundation, some of the things that they studied prior to World War I, and this is all these foundations and other things. It's all the same thing, right? They're all the tentacles of the same octopus. And you look at what they studied, they're like, hey, we want to make some societal changes, because that's what people, for whatever reason they, get ultra rich they want to start farming you and they want to make societal changes. They said what's the quickest way to do that. And they said, oh well, their think tank came back and said oh, it's a war. You know, it's a way to reform society. Is you need a war? And then they said, okay, how do we get one? And that was 1912. So, you know, they had the Titanic and you had to make sure that those people went to the bottom of the ocean, a lot of people that that were on the, the melons and the asters and other people that opposed the Federal Reserve. And then you got to take out William Howard Taft. So you run Teddy Roosevelt, right, you have to siphon off votes and you could put in this intellectual, the first PhD and only PhD president that we ever had. We had Woodrow Wilson.
Speaker 2:Anyway, this is a long way around saying there's a history. They'd build it up to get to 1933, 1934. And it was a heist. And now that I understand and I'd never seen it put that way is that basically the gold for the US was already turned over, at least in paper, right. So you have this foreign entity that's literally just parasitically on the body politic of the republic, controlling events with an IOU, with the full faith and credit of the US Treasury. That's what it's supposed to, and that's a very clever thing, because a lot of that gold that was taken anyway in 1934 was repatriated again to Basel, switzerland. You can find some of this there's great research on this in Rodney Howard Brown's book the Killing of Uncle Sam, and this is like all these things are. It's funny. There's really nothing new under the sun. It's just about heist and theft and grift. You know, they can just make it more complicated and that's what I'm trying to figure out now.
Speaker 2:It's like if you look at the tariff issue with Trump, I support tariffs, matter of fact, this is such a strange reality for me to be in and I can't even explain to you how strange it was for me. Running for Congress and getting this is not that long ago I mean, it's 2013, 2014, and it was like an insane idea. Then I was like that was even on my campaign literature. I supported modest tariffs to reset the financial structure. One, you know it incentivized companies to move here and make things here, and you know the companies that were already here not to move and make things here, and economic zones and getting away from the corporate income tax. All that stuff, great, but you have to understand like it's worlds away.
Speaker 2:And now we're in this realm where there's tariffs everywhere but they're not strategic, and you even, what are they for? Like you know, there isn't any real strategy there, and perhaps there is, maybe the fact that I'm missing it is the strategy. It's just about causing chaos and disruption for the sake of it, because inside the chaos, there's always an opportunity, right, there's always something to grab onto. Perhaps that and that's not what I'm not seeing Certainly has completely upended the precious metals system, and that's for a good thing, at least in the short run. There's probably going to be a lot of economic pain based off the fact that the whole world's been floating on fake for so long.
Speaker 2:You guys understand it's a $400 trillion economy with $350 trillion in debt worldwide, globally, right, right? Well, how do you? How do you evaluate? How do you put value when you, when you inject paper currency that's not backed by anything into a financial system, how do you quantify what value actually is? Woo-woo, you know navel-gazing, kind of philosophical debates on. You know superstitiously, like how many angels can dance on the head of a pin and stuff like that. Well, how much fake makes you know? How do you get real value out of fake things. How do you quantify? I don't know. I don't know how you quantify it, but these little nuggets where you find out, oh well, all the gold in the US is already on paper owed to the Fed. But they don't say it that way. It's interesting to unfold and you know, it's one of those like you get. It maybe brings a smile to my face whenever I learn something Like oh, of course, that's the way, course, that's what it was the whole time and I didn't see it, you know, and that's never been laid out that way. So interesting, interesting times.
Speaker 2:Uh, ladies and gentlemen, uh, we've got a lot to cover today too, besides this and I went a little long but my friend Donald Jeffries has put out an article and perhaps I'll talk to the chat before we get to Don's article. But he's put out an article and I don't read enough of Don's stuff on the air. I follow him, I subscribe and contribute to his sub stack. I want to encourage you all to do that. But he's got a great article on Doge and Trump and uh, what's going on with with that? And just the just laying out, trying to make sense of uh, you know, because we, as analysts and people in alternative media just want to give you my best, the you know, the best possible analysis. Uh, without you know getting I even call it.
Speaker 2:I said today with to david knight was like partisan politics gives you brain damage, because then you can't remember people cheering on like oh BlackRock, blackrock's got the ports in Panama. Big deal Is that good. Is BlackRock on our team now? It's BlackRock. I mean seriously, larry Fink and BlackRock are buying up these, like in giant swaths of residential housing and outbidding first-time homebuyers and just snatching up. Why are they doing that?
Speaker 2:I've been asking this, you know, and bringing this to your attention for years, years. And we're talking about BlackRock and you know, has everybody forgotten ESG, environmental, social Governance? Larry Fink himself said that they could change behavior through the financial system and through incentives. So why do they want to farm you? Why do they want to change your behavior? Oh, that's the overlord complex. That's what you get from BlackRock. How much behavior can they change if they own giant swaths of the residential housing supply in the United States?
Speaker 2:What's the end goal there? That's to change behavior. It's to change how you live. It's to change ownership. What is ESG? It's to change how you live. It's to change ownership. What is ESG? Environmental social governance is Marxian politics and policy. It's cultural Marxism through the financial system.
Speaker 2:And you may say well, tony, these are some of the world's richest people. Why would they want to impose Marxism? You haven't listened to my other shows. You don't understand how it works. I mean, again, this is where you get cultural Marxism and Marxian ideology. That's where it flows down from. It doesn't come from the bottom up, it comes from the top down. I mean, I can go through a history lesson of Marx and who Karl Marx was and what, but again, that's where this is.
Speaker 2:The Communist Manifesto calls for the fifth plank, I believe, as a central bank. Now we've adopted every aspect of graduated income tax. The entire thing of the Communist Manifesto has been adopted by the super elite because they funded Marx and because that they put him in place. Because this is a top-down totalitarian system of way of thinking. They think of themselves as the landed gentry of the. You're the new serfs and they got to control that. And you know price controls, all the stuff that you know emanates from the top down. Marxism isn't a bottom-up thing. That's not how any of that works. So ESG is an extension of that, and that's where BlackRock steps in and these other companies. I mean, this is where we've been talking about this for years. There's companies that don't even try to make money anymore. They're not even trying to make a profit. They're not in the black, they're in the red, but they can borrow as much as they want because, behaviorally, they're approved.
Speaker 2:I'm skeptical of all that stuff. You've got to keep your head on a swivel. Stay frosty, friends. This is not the time to get. You know, don't become the sheeple. Get caught up in partisan politics, you know? Hey, if somebody does something great I mean, I'm all about Zelensky getting thrown out of the White House that sounds great. Now do Netanyahu.
Speaker 2:All right, let's go over to comments real quick. And then I want to jump into this article from don. Let me take this off the screen real quick. All right, let's jump into this. See what's going on over on rockfin. See my friend jason barker's over there. Brian deb mccartney good to see you.
Speaker 2:Karen Carpenter, great show with Tiger last night. Tony, I was on with Angry Tiger. Great show, had a fun talk. I think we just did a little bit over an hour. Excellent, excellent program, smart show. We'll have to get Tiger on over here sometime. We're going to be recording a new Paratrooper on Sunday with Danny of the Rabbit Hole Conspiracy Podcast and Mr Anderson and myself, so that'll be fun.
Speaker 2:Let's make sure I got Harps is over on the Twitter stream. Good to see you, harps. Let's go and see who's over on Rumble. You can catch this and I need to work on my channels, but the American Unplugged channel over on Rumble as well. Knights of the Storm over there and Birdhouse Blues. Birdhouse Blues always has some interesting comments. Let's see Paleo Armory.
Speaker 2:We need a gold-only option for all the tiers on Wolfpack. Hey, that's an interesting thing you just brought up, because next week I can't do all the tiers because that's impossible for the cost. But I'm announcing something next week, if you're Wolfpack, I'm revolutionizing the Wolfpack system and I had to brief my crew on it because you've got to be ahead of the ball on it, and we also added the gold grams, so that's free shipping, gold gram, gold gram, bars, all that stuff that's already on there for gold only, but we have something coming for that and it won't be all the tiers, but I've got something in mind. I'm adding a new in the final tier to Wolfpack, so stay tuned for that. Let's see.
Speaker 2:Uh. Birdhouse blue says I love art. Well, I appreciate that. I think this is, uh, my labor of love. It's all I find, uh, once a week, a little stream of consciousness and some articles, and and uh, let's see if we can pull some uh meaning and get some good strategy out of all this. Uh strategy comes from the greek wordos, which means leader of the army. So in that spirit, let's keep that mindset.
Speaker 2:All right, let's jump on over to this article from Don, and Don Jeffries is an American treasure. It's such a great article I'll do my best to cover the entire thing, but he just brings up so much good stuff because a lot's happened. That's what we're good into. Let me put this up on the screen. You can go to donaldjeffriessubstackcom or you can go to donaldjeffriesmedia and find him, support him, if you can. I'm going to have Don on to talk about his new book, the American Memory Hall. I just need to schedule it with him. Let's put this up on the screen. This is the iProtest blog and it says Doge, the Epstein list in World War III, wwe theater, front and center. So says Donald Jeffries.
Speaker 2:I've criticized Donald Trump countless times for his pattern of promising, bloviating and backing off, or, more often, flip-flopping. I coined the term the Trumpenstein Project to explain his befuddling behavior. He talked the talk but never walked the walk. All toupee and no cattle Well, now he can't stop walking. All to pay and no cattle well, now he can't stop walking.
Speaker 2:Trump 2.0 has unleashed a series of often fine-looking executive orders in the first month back in office supermodel executive orders. He abolished birthright citizenship. He withdrew the us from the who. He rolled back any recognition of the transgender lunacy. He declared an emergency at the southern border. He reaffirmed a commitment to free speech and against censorship for what that's worth. He is ending the annoying daylight savings time and now he's establishing English as the official language of the United States. Now they all sound really good, but how much will that actually change? Already, a federal judge has predictably ruled that the ban on birthright citizenship is unconstitutional. That's what federal judges do under the odious guise of judicial review.
Speaker 2:In 30 days, really, on his first day back in office, trump did more than he did in his previous four years in the White House, and he's absolutely right about that. Look it surprised, you know. Patrick Henry famously said you know, I light my path with the lamp of experience. I know of no other way of judging the future but by the past. And so those of us who follow history and understand, I mean, you've shown us one thing, and this certainly has a different tone to it and there's a speed and there's something to it. And again, if you hear somebody says they know exactly what's going on, they don't. I'm not even sure the people that are doing it do.
Speaker 2:A few days ago, trump staged and it was definitely staged the most remarkable meeting with a foreign leader that Washington DC has ever seen. From the moment he greeted vertically challenged Ukrainian Democratic leader Vladimir Zelensky, with a Trumpian troll at his casual attire mocking him with I see you dressed up. It was pure WWE theater. Zelensky is shown he is willing to wear a suit and tie if the occasion calls for it, for instance when he meets with Israeli Democratic leader Bibi Netanyahu. During the meeting, which was aired live before the press, trump and JD Vance both scolded the pathetic former Ukrainian comedian like he was a naughty schoolboy, not an upstanding world leader, who was once wowed audiences by playing the piano with his penis. Zelensky's Boris Badenov impression just didn't intimidate anyone and Trump supposedly wound up throwing him out of the place.
Speaker 2:Yes, trump made certain to have his hands formed into the familiar triangle as he met with the upstanding, quote-unquote democratic leader of ukraine, just as elon musk made certain to flash similarly unnatural hand and finger formations during his recent visit to the oval office. I forget what you call that it's like. Uh, it's not a mandala, it's something else, something you make. It's like the formations of your hands. You know it has something to do with presence and you see that a lot with people that will teach that in certain things like new neuro-linguistic programming and other things, I mean it maybe has something to it, but then you always just get Illuminati confirmed for it. Anyway, let's see, it was once estimated one billion children, estimated. One of his estimated one billion children wiped a booger on Trump's desk or something he's talking about.
Speaker 2:Elon Musk, to be fair, I recall someone advising me back in the misty days of America 1.0, because Don calls it America 2.0, that I should form my hands intoa triangle when being interviewed. Something about how it displayed confidence and power. I don't know. It didn't work for me. I don't see how you can feign power with the other party knows. You don't have it. All those weird things the rich and famous do with their hands obviously must be significant. They appear to be swearing allegiance to someone, or something like wearing your guy's letterman jacket or a blue collar name tag. Well, there's something to that. As I said, there's something to that. They do flash those signs.
Speaker 2:It would have been a great video of Trump picking up the arrogant Democratic leader with the Napoleon complex and tossing him onto the lawn of the White House, maybe tarred and feather him using red, white and blue tar. Poor Vladimir didn't even know that he wasn't going to have a lunch in his honor. As Trump laughed out at him during the meeting, he certainly sounded the right themes. You're playing with millions of lives. You're playing with World War III.
Speaker 2:Zelensky appeared unmoved and his fan base in Hollywood and the state-sponsored media were appalled at how disrespected he was, treated horribly by the bully Trump and JD Vance, whom they never failed to denigrate for supposedly wearing eyeliner pants, whom that never failed to denigrate for supposedly wearing eyeliner? I do, yeah, they. That's another thing. Whatever happened to the eyeliner story? That was uh, that was all the rage. Or you can talk about Marco Rubio's foam parties. Remember that that didn't get brought up anymore. Um, let's see, it certainly would be if eyeliner adored the face of a random obese, green hair, heavily tattooed transgender with a nose ring.
Speaker 2:Those who somehow thought this cartoonish bullwinkle villain in a black sweatsuit, who refuses to consider us a ceasefire or stop sacrificing his people in a hopeless cause, was the good guy, were reaffirming their commitment to war. Zelensky appears to want World War III. So does the entire American woke left. Nuclear weapons are so cool now no nukes. Sorry, can't remember that. My memory is going a smoked. A lot of pot back at those concerts. But nukes are a reasonable option when you stand with Ukraine.
Speaker 2:Sure, zelensky banned all opposition parties and shut down newspapers who criticized him. Parties and shut down newspapers who criticized him. But we paid Ben Stiller $4 million to slobber all over him. And Ben Stiller wouldn't lie. And do I need to remind you that he can do what he can do with a piano? That certainly ought to count for something. Would Bono give a concert in the middle of an alleged war zone for just a Democratic leader?
Speaker 2:Oh, this has all been such a show, hasn't it? I was talking, I was mentioning the other day just topped. I mean, this is the stuff that rattles around in my head, but I've done so many, I read so many articles and did so much research. You know, in 2020, 2021, especially Guys, does anybody remember the first person to get the COVID jabs was a guy named William Shakespeare, because all the world's a stage. Go look that up. That was out of the UK and I had forgotten that. All of a sudden it'll pop back up in my mind to remind me you're still inside. All this is still going on. The ops change, the characters may be changed, things are rearranged, but you're still on the stage.
Speaker 2:This is beyond my poor powers to fathom exactly what the purpose of this, the steel match encounter between Trump and Zelensky, was. To make Trump look tough to the MAGA crowd. Why was the press there and who was the guy who blasted Zelensky for decidedly non-formal outfit? I think that was Marjorie Taylor Greene's guy or something, wasn't it? The most important question is did Trump's slimp Zelensky yet another billion or so during his unceremonious exit from the White House? Exit from the White House. If Trump permits another penny before he outlaws them to be sent to this arrogant actor dictator, then that destroys any pretense that this was a legitimate event. But I'm guessing that's what happened or will happen. It's a Trumpenstein thing you wouldn't understand. But if Trump stops the aid to Ukraine and continues to lecture on the dangers of World War III, then that would be a good thing and it would cause more quote woke warmongers' heads to explode, which is always fun, I just think, completely like Don, at this moment.
Speaker 2:Tds levels were already on red alert prior to the Zelensky carnival sideshow. We did continue to hear allegations that Elon Musk and Doge are really quote cleaning house, firing government workers left and right, many of them the essential hardworking types that most of us are largely unaware of. One claim is that some of these terminated employees were quote working on nuclear weapons or something. That's kind of vague, isn't it? Actually, the claims on both sides are pretty dubious. Musk and Trump brag about saving a gazillion dollars or so already without eliminating any agencies, just auditing USAID. So I'd like more details with that, please. And those with TDS Trump derangement syndrome are apoplectic about losing the opportunity to pay all those humble and lovable federal workers a very generous wage along with a much better benefit package than those in the boring world of private industry.
Speaker 2:Isn't this weird too? I mean, if you watch the state of the union, I didn't watch it. I I saw some of the lowlights. It didn't seem like a real election. It doesn't seem. Politics is no longer politics. But I'm always fascinated by people that you know.
Speaker 2:What did Hillary Clinton say? She called it the politics of meaning. Right, because if you don't believe in a higher power or you don't believe in something beyond yourself, you have to find it. It's like GK Chesterton said that when people don't believe in God, they don't believe in nothing, they believe in everything. And so you find these people who make politics their meaning, and that seems like such an empty place. I used to think that there was some meaning to it and and maybe there is, and maybe I'm just so jaded I can't see it anymore and just I have the glasses on from they live. So I can't. I can't do it. But I noticed this, the article that was up on.
Speaker 2:You know, al Green the Congressman gets up and he's got his cane and he's morally outraged. He's going to stop the whole State of the Union. He gets thrown out by Mike Johnson and censured by Congress and all the rest. But it just really drives home the fact that people in power will fight everything but evil, Like, say, you don't disagree with Trump, fine, you know whatever.
Speaker 2:But I remember something Al Green did after you know, january 6th. He went out to the steps of the White House, like two weeks later, and he sat out there with his mask on. He's like I'm not going to let you know another January 6th happen, just like there was an army of QAnon people and other things that are supposedly coming to the. They had this. They kept releasing all this stuff that people were going to go back to the White House. And I remember thinking like again and I brought him up I'm like these people will fight everything but evil. They'll fight perceived things but not actual evil. They don't stand up. I mean, when's the last time anybody in that political party tried to put an end to any of these wars? I mean, talk about Zelensky, talk about millions. What about the children in Gaza or Yemen or Iraq? That's just the war part, or the smuggling that goes on. The amount of human evil is staggering the exploitation of people, the farming of people, the experimentation on people through big pharma and things that have gone on through big pharma and things that have gone on, but none of that for some reason triggered Al Green to stand up and start protesting.
Speaker 2:No, it's the State of the Union with Trump. And this is the derangement. I don't understand. What about the? Of course he's going to be, it's going to be partisan, it's going to do all the stuff. It's the same thing that Biden did. And you have people like Joe Wilson is standing up and screaming at Obama. You lied, Joe Wilson. That same congressman wants to make a $250 bill and put Trump's face on it. It's so partisan, it really is exhausting. I'll go back to don's article, but it really is it. That's something to think about. And before you get partisan, like on, and just how? Why don't people in power ever fight evil? What they talk about, real evil, you know, fight the other team, but never actually evil, don says.
Speaker 2:I would like to know where all this public outrage was when countless American workers in private industry were kicked to the curb through no fault of their own in the past several decades, in the first 16 years of this century alone, some 600,000 employees were laid off, outsourced or replaced by cheap foreign labor by just 11 companies. That's just 11 companies, folks. The examples are never-ending. Ibm got rid of 60,000 employees in 1993. Sears and Kmart laid off 50,000 in January 1993. Happy New Year. At&t laid off 40,000 in 1996. Ford eliminated 35,000 workers in 2002. General Motors 47,000 in 2009. Citigroup 50,000 in 2008. These are just a few instances of the outsourcing, downsizing fervor that gripped corporate America beginning in the 1980s. Dell laid off 26,000 in 2024.
Speaker 2:I didn't see any gnashing of teeth on that over social media, but there is, he says there's a pussyhat level of screeching over the prospects of government cutbacks. Why this double standard? Why do the same people who snickered you should have learned new skills? When some useless eater in private industry lost his or her job, abandoned all reason over the prospect of scrutinizing federal workers For the first time, I might add. Until now, no one working for the government had to worry about being outsourced, replaced by a foreign visa worker. The joke goes that it's impossible to be fired from the federal government, but it's no joke. You have to do something really awful to lose a government job. So why, then, is it easy to be fired by a private company? As I can personally attest to, this is especially true in the so-called right-to-work states, where they can fire you without cause, as happened to me in 2018. What Doge is suggesting is finally looking at various public employees actually do to earn their generous taxpayer-provided income.
Speaker 2:In private industry, we all have been scrutinized. I've had bosses that literally looked over your shoulder, stared a hole through you while you were trying to concentrate on your work. That would never happen to any government worker. I had a friend who worked in the post office back when they paid extraordinarily well and had premium benefits. He described how there was some immigrant worker whose job it was to sort mail by zip code that routinely just tossed mail into various zip code slots without even looking at them. Well, that's where my mail went. That goes a long way towards explaining why it frequently takes so long for the mail to travel to such a short distance. My friend eventually grew tired of figuring out his job function and that no one really supervised him, so he just followed the crowd and did whatever he wanted.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's an attitude, right, it's systemic. You find it when something gets so bloated. There's so much of a mixed bag to take from this, by the way. There's so much of a mixed bag to take from this, by the way, to navigate these waters without having partisan brain damage. It's harder and harder to do, but we'll get done. It'll get done on this program. I promise you that I'm going to skip around a little bit. Let's see.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and in the same week we saw rumors and more rumors about the epstein list finally being released. Attorney general pam bondi said she had it on her desk, then vented at the fbi for dragging its feet, then dragged her own feet. Eventually, a truly ridiculous photo op of various conservative quote influencers was widely circulated, where the likes of mike cernovich, dc drano whoever that is, uh, liz wheeler and the lips of top tiktok woman were captured, waving folders that read the epstein files, phase one. This phase one consisted of completely redacted pages. What exactly are the legal ramifications of this list? Anyhow, the authorities admitted taking videos and hard drives from Epstein's mansion. Why aren't any influencers waving them in public?
Speaker 2:As I've said, if Trump's name is on any list, maga people will say it's fake. If it's not, then those with TDS will say it's fake will say it's fake. If it's not, then those with TDS will say it's fake. While we can watch the WWE spectacles, we don't really know what's happening. Both sides have a vested interest in making it appear that Trump is deporting a record number of illegal immigrants. The official numbers don't seem to bear that out, but the MAGA people claim it's happening, and those with TDS claim that he's already cleaned out the schools of Hispanic names and broken up families. The same can be said about government workers. Those now with critical stage TDS allege that the government soon won't have anyone left to manage it or to mismanage it. The MAGA people basically agree, cheering at Trump for taking out the trash. There was this talk about the Department of Education being abolished, but it's still in existence, as far as I can tell. Will Trump actually abolish the IRS, as he suggested doing? Look for more Freemasonic occult hand signals from Elon Musk.
Speaker 2:Don Jeffries, is it too much to expect transparency from those who govern us? Why do so many taxpayers balk at the idea of seeing where their money is going? This is a whole new level of Stockholm syndrome, our drunken, abusive national spouse finally being on the ropes and millions are squealing. No, he swears he'll change. The USAID disclosures are fake news. The fact-checkers, albeit while on the USAID payroll, themselves have debunked everything Doge has discovered. Ignorance is bliss when you're looking at intelligence budgets, but why? That's why they've always been secret. Millions of people don't care, as witnessed by the reaction to just a few rays of sunshine on the rotten, corrupt mess Ron Paul is advising Doge. This is why he would have been a great president. If it results in no one being held accountable, then it's largely for naught.
Speaker 2:But for now, I'm popping more popcorn and enjoying. The show that's Donald Jeffries, ladies and gents, fun times. The show that's donald jeffries, ladies and gents, fun times uh again. Uh, go support don. It's just uh. It's a great uh sub stack and you know he dumps articles uh once or twice a week. Got some good stuff up there.
Speaker 2:That's very well thought out. I mean, we're trying to navigate these waters in between partisanship. What's actually happening? You know you got the. The inner lockings and movings of the us economy right now and world economy are absolutely fascinating and terrifying at the same time, because you have a a chance for it's like going back and looking at some of the quotes prior to the 1929 stock crash or 2008,. You very manufactured by any of the stability that you would find in the world economy and these tariffs not based on revenue and not based off of protectionism David Knight explained that very well based off of protectionism David Knight explained that very well, which you have to understand about tariffs which I support in the general sense is that Thomas Jefferson used tariffs to make sure that no one knew the tax man, that foreign imports funded the government.
Speaker 2:That way regular people didn't have to pay the burden of that. And later in the 19th century it was used for protectionism. You know, post-civil War and the Industrial Revolution. It was tariffs. You know, and this is something that even Abraham Lincoln that's what he ran on. You know, I'm humble, abraham Lincoln I'm for the tariff and I'm for a central bank. I mean, that was a plank of the Republican Party, william McKinley, who was assassinated probably for one of those reasons. A gold standard and tariffs, this was a part of our national identity. This is how we paid for things, it's how we protected our industry. But a lot of that changed.
Speaker 2:Even Karl Marx wrote about that protectionism was conservative and that free trade hastened the revolution. That's why he opposed tariffs. Karl Marx opposed tariffs and opposed protectionism because he believed that if you got rid of those barriers, that it would make the revolution more. It would hasten it, it would bring it about faster. You can go look that quote up, by the way. Almost everything. I've been over this a million times, but there's something strange about these. So I pay attention to where this goes. I'm not sure what it's trying to set up, but there's a lot going on here that's beyond normal politics and beyond normal economic positioning, because the world is changing. There's a race towards resources, ladies and gents, that's what we're watching. Resources, ladies and gents, that's what we're watching. A revaluation, a transvaluation, if you will, and we're on top of that here.
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