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The Badlands. Running the Badlands. Explain those Badlands. That's a hell of a name.
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We are right about the fraud.
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Joe Biden can't be president. Congress.
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The chair declares the joint session solved.
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Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Devolution Power Hour. Ernie Bright. How you doing, man?
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Exhausted, as dads should be. But as we've been saying now and I. I guess we'll say going forward, absolutely insane week. So that's energizing insane day. Like, every hour feels like it would have been the big topic of. Of any DPH the last couple of years.
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Yeah, we didn't really have to prep for much here because we can just, like, scroll Twitter for a second and find something new.
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What did you look at in the last 10 minutes? Because that'll. That'll be the whole show.
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I have a lot of directions I could take this. We'll see how it goes. We are going to start with some Israel stuff, and we brought on our resident Israel expert to discuss those things. So I'm not even planning on talking for the next, like, hour and a half because I know he's just gonna roll with it. But, yeah, we'll get to him here in a second. I thought you got outside today, man. You look real pale.
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I. You know what? I think I am pale. It's a problem. I was outside today burning stuff, and it's cold. It's cold in the north. Yeah, so I don't have trash pickup, so I just burn all my cardboard like, once a month.
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Nice. You don't have trash pickup in Massachusetts?
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Not in my town. I could pay for it, but I'm not gonna pay for that. So I pay for a dump sticker. I take my trash to the dump, but I burn my cardboard in a big burn pit out in the yard.
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Wow, look at you.
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German shepherd loves it because he thinks we're doing very serious work.
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Yeah, sound. Sounds pretty serious. Yeah. Anyway, guys, we'll talk about the two main topics I would say are the. The Middle east discussion and probably a lot of the USAID funding, the corruption, how that ties into the Smithmont Act. I know you wanted to talk about that. And yeah, we'll see what else goes on. But let's. Let's get a quick word from our first sponsor of tonight's show. And we got CB Distillery. We've cleaned up our diets, removed the harsh chemicals from our homes. So why are we still relying on outdated remedies for our health? Let me tell you about the highest quality CBD from CB Distillery. They offer natural plant based solutions for sleep, stress and even post workout pain that actually work. Get this, 90% of people report better sleep with CBD. That's a huge deal.
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Shout out to Q Alerts, our buddy there. Good week, good month, good year. I, I think for Q Drops, people probably saw I had Stormy. Is that code language? Yeah, burning the books. Me and the, me and the dog are out there burning the books. You know, all the gays are illegal now. And you know, Massachusetts, there's a lot of gay stuff around. So we just gotta pile all that gay propaganda up, LGBTQ plus propaganda and, you know, put it in a pile and burn it all up. I got a kid now. I can't be allowing that stuff.
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Just keep digging, keep elaborating.
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Yeah, Sunday night I had Storm, Patriot Joe on the narrative. And you know, of course there's stuff hitting all the time, or maybe hitting, maybe not. But one funny one that may or may not have been a figment of our imagination, specifically. Yeah. But I singled out Q drop 14. We talked about that for a while. It's the infamous one with the Durham boats. And then the US army changed their header image to that the next day.
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Well, Tuesday, two days later.
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But yeah, I thought it was Monday.
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Tuesday.
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Was it Tuesday?
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Yeah.
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Okay.
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Yeah, it's pretty cool.
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Either way, Q Alerts is probably going to be getting a lot more traffic, I would guess, in the coming months.
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I'm curious how much traffic Q Alerts gets already. Like there's a lot of people into the queue drops, you know. Very curious.
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Yeah, if you're still in the chat, let us know. Just generally, you don't have to say the numbers, but are you seeing a resurgence post election, post inauguration? Because I, I think we're seeing a lot of people come back around and be like, hey, what are you guys doing over there in the infowar?
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Is that how they sound when they come back to the infowar?
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Those are the people that are like, I never doomed out. I just, you know, just went away for a little while.
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Yeah. By the way, guys, I saw this in the chat. Why did the Badlands logo change? I did change the logo to be uniform with all of our logos on all social medias to the white background Badlands media logo. That's why I changed. So also, we are on Instagram. We're going to start ramping up our Instagram postings.
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We have a video, shots, thong shots, twerking.
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Yeah. Lots of dance videos and stuff. We're on Tik Tok now too. Instagram. We are. It's Badlands Media official. We're, we got, we're getting some traction over there. It's really weird, it's kind of awkward, but I'm here for it, so we'll see if it sticks. But anyway, let's bring on our Middle Eastern expert, staff Zionist. What's up, Ghost?
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What's up guys? How's it going?
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It's going well.
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Yeah.
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Big week for you, man.
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Dude, I know. And I've actually been over here studying geological survey charts for Central Africa as one does when your wife, when your wife is out of town. It's, you know, real hood rat stuff over here. But yeah, man, it's been a pretty crazy week.
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The things catch us looking at on our computers are not the things wives typically catch their husbands looking at. Like you looking at drops again. You looking at our lithium deposits.
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Why are you studying Africa? Geological stuff.
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It's a, it's a long story that I know you don't want me to go into, but the short version is just that there's, there is USAID kind of buffoonery happening there and it's all related to Executive Order 13818 and this and the mineral rights that Trump took away back in 2017. The oligarchs want their $24 trillion worth of minerals back. So I've been studying, figuring out where the minerals are in Africa relative to the territories being captured.
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Awesome. That was a test. See, old Ghost would have went on a 30 minute tangent about that.
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I'm so glad you asked.
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New Ghost Tldr. Ghost does not do those things. I don't know if you guys saw him. He was on The Daily Herald today, which was also a test for him and he nailed it. He, he. Everything I asked for, it was short, it was sweet, it was very informational. He did a great job and I will be bringing him back for sure. But. Well, this is test number two. But you get a little wiggle room here because this is a much longer format so we can be a little more detailed. But yeah, yesterday we had Trump and Netanyahu. Trump first signed a couple executive orders. The first one was, well, actually was NSPM and nspm, those who watch the show regularly should be familiar with what NSPMs are. National security, Presidential memorandums.
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That one was basically focused on we're going back to my stance on how we handle Iran. They can't have a nuke, they got to get in line, all these things. And so that was kind of bringing us back to original Trump era Iran stance. And then the other thing he did was took us out of a bunch of UN groups and clubs and whatnot. And the interesting thing I should told you this morning, Ghost, was every reason and justification for taking us out of those groups was because like they weren't. It was anti Semitism. That was essentially it. And made sense. He did those two things on the day he met with Netanyahu. But the big one. And know what? I should probably pull this up, huh?
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Yeah, pull it up.
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Pull up the video. Give me a second. I don't know why I didn't have this prepared.
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I have to say though, I'm actually very pleased with how things look 24 hours later. 24 hours has made a huge difference. It seems like people are exercising a lot of discernment, a lot more discernment and not engaging necessarily like in Copium or Hopium, but actually using like logic and reason and looking at things that. Whereas, you know, six months ago, a year ago, I don't know if we would have gotten that out of the group.
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Yeah, it's a great, that's a great point. Because there's a couple accounts I looked at who I was like, these people are going to be freaking out. And sure enough, they were like right off the bat, like 30 minutes of posts, like, I can't believe you did this. I saw one guy call Trump the Antichrist. No, no joke. But then you fast forward even just a couple hours, like, okay, well maybe this makes sense. Maybe there's something more here. So it was, you can see the learning curve in real time.
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One note I wanted to make on that is the Person I'm thinking of is Ian Carroll. I happened to see his video because he's super viral all the time. Came across my feed, use the word discernment ghost, and I definitely think that there's attempts of that going on. I think a lot of this community has learned to try to wait a bit and see what's going on and, you know, allow the fact that we might not understand what the moves are until they kind of complete. But the other side of it, to your point, John, is some of these figures, especially with really big followings, I wouldn't say that they started using discernment after a few hours.
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I would say that they read the room and took the temperature and realized that, you know, Trump's mandate is so strong right now that the Trump is alternatively either anti Semitic or a Zionist crusade isn't really going to work with their followers. And that particular account I mentioned was going on a whole rant about how he definitely didn't trust Trump, but he definitely was willing to give him a chance and, you know, his followers were making good points, so he was going to reserve judgment. So I think there was some of that going on, like some backward steps.
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Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious to see right off the bat. Well, no, let me play the video. This is the account, by the way, that said it's wild conspiracy theory. But he, if you saw all the posts before this, he was freaking out on Trump. And so this wasn't as wild of a conspiracy theory to this guy as he made it seem. He just said it this way to prevent the backlash. But let's watch this video and then we'll talk.
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The US Will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too. Will own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job, do something different. Just can't go back. If you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years.
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Do you, I mean, just first blush, right off the bat, this is not very America first. Like, if you take what he says at face value, like, we're going to take, take it over. We're going to own it, we're going to fix it up. All these things, it's contradictory to everything his entire agenda so far and everything he campaigned on has stood for. So, again, the immediate freak out from everybody was a little unwarranted because this can't be the end game here to me, and we talked about this earlier, Ghost, but I'd love to, for you to elaborate and give BB's opinion. This seems like a chess move. He's waiting for somebody else to counter move and actually take over there. I don't think it's gonna be us, but it could be wrong. It could be, who knows?
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We haven't seen any of the actual details of this. But, Ghost, what are your initial thoughts on all this?
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Well, I mean, I think the surface level response, like we're just responding to the actual words that are being said here, is somewhat warranted because, you know, the rhetoric that, at face value, that Trump is saying, and I think this was totally strategic and I think he meant to do this to be provocative. It did come off as like a neocon move where he's saying, like, we're gonna come in and own it, we're gonna take it. And I think he knew exactly what he was saying when he was saying it, because, remember, Trump was the guy for years talking about how moronic all the neocons were who went in there haphazardly into the Middle east and basically just broke it and then couldn't fix it. Right. So I think he was being very intentional in how he said it.
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Caroline Levitt, of course, walked back some of that stuff today, and it went from a permanent displacement to a temporary displacement. You know, she also clarified that there will be no, you know, he has not committed any Marines, he has not committed any military to this. We also have committed, no, we're not going to spend any money, so no US Dollars, no US Troops and temporary displacement of any Palestinians that need to leave to, in order to clean it up. So that really changes the framing of it. And it's interesting that he came out and had this really provocative take, because I do think he was trying to incite the response that we saw initially. And I, I'll be honest, like, when I first heard that, I was kind of like, damn, that is. That is wild.
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But I did tell Cancon yesterday morning on Daily, he asked, what do I expect out of the press conference? And I said, honestly, if we do get a big development, I expect it to be Trump appearing to capitulate to Netanyahu, because that would fall in line with the pattern that we've seen from Trump since he's been elected. And I think it all has to do with laying out the order of operations so that Netanyahu is confronted last after you after he reconciles with Putin and knocks out a few other objectives.
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What, what did Cancon say? What did he think was going to happen?
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He, he actually nailed it. He said that Trump was going to come out and say we're going to own Gaza. And he no way. I'm just kidding. No, he was just that he was picking my brain, so.
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Gotcha. You didn't pick his back a little bit. Burning bright. What are your thoughts, man?
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Yeah, one thing I loved, and I don't genuinely don't mean this is, this was a comm. But I think it's encouraging to me sometimes the language some of these people use. So you mentioned Caroline Levitt Ghost. She used the term impossible task as an ironic term. So she said, you know, this moves being criticized. And she said, we've been told the Middle east peace in the Middle east is an impossible task, but it's not. Which is part of what I've been talking about for the last year. I've said that part of Devo, you know, internationally. We've talked about Russia, Ukraine a lot on this show. But I said the Middle east is the Kobayashi Maru. It's the impossible task in terms of that's the narrative and that's exactly the way Caroline Levitt framed it today.
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She said the story we're being told is that this is impossible and what Donald Trump is doing here is presenting somebody that nobody has ever thought to present. I was taken aback by it at first as well, but a couple of the reasons I think it's interesting. First of all, it's probably not going to be to Ghost point, like exactly what we see developed initially. This is a narrative deployment, right? We're just doing body language checks on Netanyahu. So I don't find that all that compelling of like, did he know or not? But if you just look at the surface level and you think, okay, whoever, whichever direction he seems to go in on a binary in favor of Palestine slash Hamas or in favor of Israel, he's going to get vehemently attacked by the other side.
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And it's like nobody considered that Ian Carroll video is fascinating because he was one of those frothing at the mouth, Trump is a Zionist guys like a week ago. And this narrative deployment literally paralyzed him. Like for nine minutes he's going back and forth with himself about how maybe he was Wrong about Trump, but he doesn't really think he was, but maybe he was. And the reason is he's saying, well, what do you do? Like, if we did have American assets, whatever you want to frame that as on the ground in Gaza, what on earth israel supposed to do if they want to start bombing the Gaza Strip? What on earth is Hamas supposed to do, especially if they get their funding from somewhere specific? It's.
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I took this as a warning like that Trump, you know, he does that anchoring thing we've been talking about recently and that the American people saw with Canada and Mexico. He starts with, this is what I could do. Just FYI BB and just FYI other interests in the Middle East, I have the power projection capabilities to do this. So let's see what else transpires so that I don't have to, you know.
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Pretty much the only way they would bomb the United States over there, as if he named the strip the USS Liberty. So as long as he doesn't do that, we should be fine.
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I do have actually a very relevant 46 second clip. And this is from the meeting where Netanyahu came to visit Trump. Exact same setting to the February 15, 2017, and almost the exact same discussion. But I think it's worth watching and just like compare and contrast that moment in this moment.
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We only allow 45 second videos or less on here. So can't do it. But no, I guess one exception, only exception for tonight.
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All right, fair enough.
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As far as settlements, I'd like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit.
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Okay. And secondly, on the settlement issue, what did it say?
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It says, awkward exchange between Netanyahu and Trump over settlements. So they're talking about illegal Israeli settlements. This is when the Israeli citizens, many of whom are actually US Citizens, run into the west bank behind the idf, and then these people go into the homes and say, these homes belong to us. Now.
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I was just asking to like what it said on the screen because I thought, yeah, like, can you just rewind it like five seconds and I'll read it to everybody? Yeah, sure, go for it. As far as settlements, a little bit toward right here. Trump and Netanyahu have awkward exchange over west bank settlements.
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And secondly, on the settlement issue, are you both on the same page as far as settlements, I'd like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit. We'll work something out. But I would like to see a deal be made. I think a deal will be made. Bibi and I have Known each other a long time. A smart man, great negotiator. And I think we're going to make a deal. It might be a bigger and better deal than people in this room even understand that's a possibility. So let's see what we do.
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Let's try.
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It doesn't sound optimistic, but that's good. Negotiator.
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That's the art of the deal. Oh, wow.
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Yeah.
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That's fascinating.
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Very, very cold.
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This is 20, what, 17.
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This is literally like the 20 days after Trump entered office that was. The first person to come visit him again was Netanyahu.
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So 2017.
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2017, yep.
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Okay. That's wild because he didn't even talk to Netanyahu about that before this. You know what I mean? Yeah.
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And then this right here, this is from like three days before the inauguration. This is Queen Renaya. I think I'm saying her name right, but this is the Queen of Jordan. And there are pictures going across social media of like, you know, she's very elegant. She kind of has a Melania Trump vibe. And they get along very well. So this is, these are the people that they're talking. Trump is talking about taking in the Palestinians, and there's reasons why that's not going to happen. That has less to do with Israel, more to do with the Arabs. But we can talk about that.
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But let's talk about that a little bit, because the reaction from pretty much all other world leaders here, including the ones in the Middle east, is like, nobody wants to displace the Palestinians. The Saudi Arabia, in the immediate aftermath of this announcement was like, no, we're not okay with this. It came out today. Russia's not okay with this. I can't imagine China's okay with it. But I don't know if I've seen an actual announcement from them. Pretty much everybody's like, no, we do not want the United States to come in here. And if you think the long term play is not us to be there, but the regions of responsibilities, maybe Saudi Arabia or these other groups taking over that area and stopping this war, Trump threatening to do it, and these countries being like, no, we'll do it is kind of the play.
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You know what I mean?
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Yes, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Like him. Him, basically. And I, I don't want to say antagonizing, but basically stirring up enough energy, like energizing people to step up and take responsibility. Yes.
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And the other side of this is like, these negotiations have probably already taken place. Like, this is the. They all know this is going to happen. It's just going through the process. Probably for Netanyahu's sake. Yes. For it to happen the way it needs to happen.
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Yes. Yeah. The negotiation that's happening right now is with the Israelis. That's because I don't think there's any way Trump goes out and does what he did last night unless he has all of the Arabs, including Qatar, on his side. There's no way. There's just absolutely no way. There's also the fact that. And we've been talking about the Apprentice, not the Apprentice, but the Art of the Deal on. On my show. And one thing Trump says in the Art of Deals, he says a man's word is sacred. He says when you give somebody your word, that's the deal. You don't wait for the contract. You don't like, go back on your word. And once you lose that, your reputation is done and you'll never be a deal maker again.
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And he gave Abbas, the Palestinian president, his word in May 2017 that he was going to be the president to make sure that Palestine was liberated from this situation. So I think he's going to follow through on that. The Arabs have a reason to push back against this in their part of the world. In the east in general, they don't have what we call in the west the divine right of kings, meaning that your power comes from God, their power comes from the tribe. So the minute you stop delivering, the minute you stop, you lose the confidence of the tribe. They remove you from power. And that actually happened in the night in the 1960s, 1964, right after JFK was killed.
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The Saudis all decided that, the brothers all decided that the new king, well knew he had been in office for 11 years, that he was incompetent. So they said, you have to advocate. He advocated. And another guy came in. So this has happened before and it can happen again. And Colonel McGregor has been talking about how the Jordanian king and the president of Egypt have. Both are both facing basically lynch mobs and have been facing that for months because of the unrest, because people there are wondering, why are we just standing by and allowing this to happen to Gaza? So if they. If you then take 1.25 million Palestinians, put them in Egypt, 1.25 million Palestinians, put them in Jordan, and they're angry about what's happened. You're just going to make those situations worse. You destabilize the countries, they fall apart.
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You then have a much bigger problem than just Gaza. So there's reasons why this can't happen and why Putin doesn't want it to happen. She doesn't want it to happen. It would destabilize the entire Middle East.
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Is this your like new sock account Running Bright.
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I know. Is that Mrs. Bright, maybe speaking of state run propaganda. Well, Americans just figured, I mean, that'll be another topic tonight, I'm sure, but it's like Americans just figured out that our media is Canadian media through the Usain stuff. No, but that's exactly that. That's what I meant by the anchoring and I saw Q Digger. You pulled that up. Reverse Hegelian dialectic. This is art of the deal. This is. And as you point out, Ghost, it's not just about Israel. I do think that this negotiation is being aimed at Israel right now. You know, it's a whole region. There's spillover effects for the entire Middle east, of course, but it feels like he is directing this negotiation at Israel.
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And pretty much it's interesting when you flashback to that 2017 clip and he's looking at Netanyahu and Trump's posture is, you might be surprised at the deal I'm going to offer you. And BB's posture is, yeah, you can go fuck yourself with that deal. Now we're a little while later and how does Bibi feel about that? That deal probably looks a little bit better. I bet whatever deal was offered in 2017 probably looks a little bit better because now the next deal in. A lot of people in this community are aware at this point and Ghost has been talking about it. One of the keys to Trump's Art of the deal is that his first offer is always the best one. And it gets worse and worse.
26:51
I, I would guess that this offer of American occupation of the Gaza Strip on a permanent basis is worse for them than the first offer. So now I think we're probably going to go back to whatever that first offer is. We don't know what it was, but I bet we're going to find out what it was retroactively.
27:14
So, Ghost, if the long term goal is to have somebody like Saudi Arabia or maybe a coalition of other countries in the Middle east doing what Trump said he was going to do there, why, what has been preventing it from happening that way up until this point?
27:29
Well, so the way that I saw it, you know, October 7th happened, we got together and we talked about it and what I said I wanted to see from that moment is I wanted to see MBS summon the entire Muslim world to riyadh and tell them all to sit down and shut up and not do anything. And that's exactly what happened. He basically held them all back and said, do not retaliate. Kobayashi Maru. The only winning play is not. The only winning move is not to play shut up. And that's exactly what we saw. And, and so once I saw him like, summoning all the people in November and then that's actually what transpired, that gave me, like, all the confidence that what we're watching is basically these guys standing back and saying, all right, y'all want to do this, the stage is yours.
28:17
Go ahead and do it. Look where we are now. I mean, the whole world now is looking at this and saying, who the hell are these guys in Tel Aviv? Why are they doing this? Why is this happening? Why can't we have peace in the Middle East? Why can't we have a two state solution? Everyone on X right now, whether they hate Trump, love Trump, hate Israel, even people who like Israel are all kind of saying, isn't this really weird that we're kind of bending over backwards to do anything and everything that Israel is telling us to do? And like you just pointed out with the executive order pulling out of the UN and all their programs, which is a great silver lining, but because of anti Israel sentiment, I mean, isn't that very strange?
28:57
And so everyone's kind of like asking the same question, which is, does Israel really have that much influence over our government? And I think that's something that should be explored.
29:06
It's also weird too, that, like, they're talking about rebuilding this area, Gaza, and it's just been devastated. Carolyn Levitt today called it, like, apocalyptic. Everything's destroyed. And while Trump is standing there talking about peace in the Middle east, he's standing next to the guy who ordered the destruction of it. You know what I mean? But he doesn't bring that up one single time like, yeah, we need to rebuild this place because you leveled it. You know, weird. But again, kind of back to my question. I don't, I don't know if I really got answer out of it. And if I, if you did answer it, I wasn't listening or paying attention. Why haven't these countries done this before? Like, if the end game is to have Saudi Arabia lead a coalition of people taking over the Gaza Strip, why haven't they done that yet?
29:50
Like, why is it requiring Trump to threaten to do it himself to get them to, like, publicly admonish it and then go in there themselves? You Know what I mean? Like, why is this step required?
30:00
Great question. Two things were required to get us to this. The first was we needed the guy, all right? And the guy is mbs. Day one is that we needed the leader, the guy who could bring the entire Muslim world together and get them on the same page. The second thing we needed to happen is we needed all of the tribal disputes and all of. All of the animosity within the Arab world, within the Muslim world, because you have. These Arab countries did not get along. You had. Because of tribal politics. You had. The Muslim world didn't get along. Like Iran hated Saudi Arabia hated Turkey, Qatar hated Iran. You had to resolve all that. A lot of that required cleaning up bad actors. We actually watched that play out.
30:41
2018, 2019, 2020, with Trump's help, they kind of all worked, you know, shook out all of the. All of the moths and got. And got rid of a lot of the bad blood. It's not all gone, but they were able to basically set aside their differences and come together. Now they're all on the same page because the move, by the way, with the Abraham Accords is to get Arabia to go to war with Persia. That's what Netanyahu said he wants to do. That's. That's what Lindsey Graham says he wants to do. That's what the neocons say they want to do. So how do you stop that from happening? I mean, what. What Trump is doing right now with saying, hey, we're going to take all these Palestinians and dump them in Arabia. And the Arabs are like, hell, you are absolutely not, Netanyahu.
31:24
Get out of here. And then Netanyahu at the same time is saying, let's go ahead and start bombing Iran, guys. And the Arabs are like, no, absolutely not. So I think that's part of it. But the two things that needed to happen yet had to have the guy. You had to get all the Muslims on the same page. You now have that. You have unity in the Muslim world for the first time since the Prophet Muhammad.
31:44
So if I'm understanding Ghosts the way I'm interpreting that, because, you know, it's complicated. I get what you're saying, but I also get what John is saying. Like, I think what we're looking for, why couldn't. Or we don't know what the end game is, right? But I guess if we want to play broad end game, it's peace, right? It's for Israel to stop attacking Palestinians, for Palestinians to have a place to go. But but given the explanation you just gave, it makes me put together. It feels like this negotiation is all toward Israel. And the explanation you just gave, I think indirectly answers the question. So if the Arab world, when the Arab world was separated, you had this kind of trinity over there. Right. You had Israel, Arabia and Iran and Right.
32:36
Where there was constantly tensions being leveraged from two against one, from one against two, etc. And for the first time, maybe in maybe ever, all of the Arab world is pretty much unified, or at least they're unified, that they are not going to fight each other. That includes Saudi Arabia, by the way.
32:57
Like, why are they unified? Why are they unified? Sorry to interrupt, but.
33:01
Well, they have a common vision now. They have this Vision 2030, where they're like, they're basically like, we're all going to get rich now and there's going to be lots and lots of prosperity. Whereas before you didn't have that. You, you didn't have golden edge stuff. Yeah, yeah. You didn't have like, something to look forward to. You had basically old, like, like disputes that were never getting resolved and people just kicking up dirt.
33:23
But, but really the third thing is the usaid, because the thing that just happened on Monday with Trump revoking the OR shutting down usaid, remember that money is getting pumped in to Syria, it's getting pumped into Iraq, it's getting pumped into Palestine, and it's funding these proxy groups that are destabilizing things, recruiting young men to come join them, giving them bags of cash to say, hey, let's go shoot up this building. Hey, let's go do whatever. Like, let's go do some hood rat stuff and we'll give you a bunch of cash. And that's basically how they do it.
33:54
Sorry.
33:56
Yeah. Well, to your point though, that you just made there, John, of. Of what's the. Why aren't they fighting and everything? I also think that this loops into. We may or may not get to it later, but the Saudi purge from 2017 when Ghost says the MBS is the right guy, I think that's right, but I think. Why is he the right guy? Is he the right guy because Donald Trump likes him? Like, no, that's why he's the right guy for Americans. Why is he the right guy in the Middle East? Because the Saudi royal family were involved in a lot of the destabilization over there. And then obviously you have Western intel that was involved in the destabilization in Iran with the Iranian regime since the 70s, right. So with the Ayatollah.
34:36
So if, you know, we have to take a bit of a leap of faith here, but it looks like the gravity of the situation proves out that the other Middle Eastern leaders trust Mohammed bin Salman because of what he did in 2017. Like, he put up. He put up or shut up. He went in there and he took down the Saudi Arabian deep state in a way that we've, we have fever dreams in the US and the last point there I wanted to make about Israel is that if Trump is giving Netanyahu right now an ultimatum, he's basically saying, like, listen, Dad's going to be home soon, and dad being home soon means we take it and you're fucked if we, you're fucked forever if we take it, or we're going to leave.
35:21
And now we're going to leave you Israel, surrounded by a unified Muslim world for the first time ever. And if you don't think that the Arabians and the Iranians and everybody else in that area won't unify if Israel keeps going, like, Go said, they've been holding themselves back. But it feels to me like this israel's last chance to come to the table. And Trump's unspoken threat here is if we leave, we're going to leave you to the Arab world. We're going to let them do with. Do with you what they've always wanted to do with you. That's, that's how I see. I could be misinterpreting that, but no.
36:05
I think it's, I mean, it's logical. I think it makes sense. I just don't know enough about the Middle east to know. Again, this is not my area of expertise. I can give broad strokes, but I think I'm going to read this because this is from Saudi Arabia and this is what they said, like, immediately after the announcement. I'm pretty sure it was posted within, like, 15 minutes. And it's worth. Worth reading through. The Ministry of Foreign affairs affirms that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's position on the establishment of a Palestinian state is firm and unwavering. His Royal Highness, Prince Mohammed bin Salman Bin. Oh, why are the names so long and hard to read? I'm just going to skip it.
36:39
Crown Prince and Prime Minister clearly and unequivocally reaffirmed this stance during his speech at the opening of the first session of the ninth term of the Ashura Council on September. Blah, blah. His Royal Highness emphasized that Saudi Arabia will continue its relentless efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without that. And goes, I'm not gonna read through the rest, but you kind of get the point there. Saudi Arabia is not willing. Like this is a non negotiable for them. And so what Trump did, and I think you phrased it this way, it's almost like an act of war in a sense against Saudi Arabia, who we've believed for a long time has been working with Trump behind the scenes, like the sword dance stuff.
37:27
And we know before this even happened, before Trump went out there and announced this, I think it was him directly, but if not him, I think Senator Rubio is not, no longer Senator. Secretary of State Rubio had a phone call with Saudi Arabia and let all these people know what was coming. So they knew this was coming. But yeah. Any comments or thoughts on that?
37:48
Yeah, no, it's spot on. I mean, remember the day after those the Silicon Valley bureaus came out and did the $500 billion AI announcement. The very next day MBS came out and said, yeah, that's cool, I'm gonna do 600 billion by myself. And then Trump later said, yeah, he's probably actually gonna do a trillion. So by himself, like these other guys had to pull their money together and MBS is like, yeah, I'm just gonna do a trillion by myself. So. And the fact that he had to make it 600 billion, I think was a shot across the bow. Just like, yeah, I'm gonna be the big stack. Don't worry about it.
38:23
That's, that's 911 reparations.
38:26
Yeah, yeah. But, but Trump, I think, you know, Trump doesn't go out there last night and say all that stuff unless he's confident that he's not going to lose that 600 billion, that he's not going to lose MBS's trust, that him and MBS are good. So again, like you said, I think this is a lot of, this is posturing. Remember that I mentioned earlier on your show that, and BB messaged me about it earlier that Reuters announced or reported that Riyadh is probably going to be the site for the Putin Trump reconciliation. So we're gonna have like we'd have the Kodak moment of MBS bringing Trump and Putin together. And yeah, there you go. So they're saying UAE or Saudi Arabia, it's 100 going to be Saudi Arabia.
39:14
And, and FYI, just as a added bit of color here, this was the Russians who are Requesting this. So this is like Ben Solomon to Ghost Point, I think is really shaping up in the public narrative, as you said, John. These guys, we know, I mean, sovereign alliance is proven at this point circumstantially, is overwhelming. You know, we know these guys are. Have relationships. Trump's pretty open about that at this point. But it seems like in the public narrative, MBS's role is going to be as that broker. Like, he's going to be that unification point where Trump can come to the table, Putin can come to the table.
39:53
And the last piece of that little puzzle is the guy who, up until literally last night, Tuesday, said that he would not sit down with Putin, was Zelensky, and has now said he will sit down with Putin, still considers him an enemy, but he'll sit down with him.
40:09
Yeah, I don't know if this means anything, but in this letter that he wrote, he talks about, he reiterated this firm position during the extraordinary Arab Islamic summit held in Riyadh. Like, so they just held a big summit there where he talked about this. Is it fitting that they're having potentially the meeting, the peace talks in Riyadh later on?
40:32
It is, I think. I think it's definitely symbolic. I think it's definitely. I mean, what MBS has said for the past 10 years is that his vision 2030, is that he wants Riyadh to be literally the center of the world. It's already the geographic center of the world. He wants that to be the conference room for where people come to meet. Not Davos, not Belgium, but he wants Riyadh to be where parties come to meet and reconcile differences. So I think this makes a lot of sense.
41:02
And the beauty of that, too, like, as on an esoteric sort or human level, is that. What is that? What is that region of the world known for to east and west for the last hundred years? Bloodshed, war, misery, chaos. Right. And if we are going into this global golden age, it would be fitting for the Middle East. Geographically, it makes sense. Of course, as you said, culturally, it makes sense because they're kind of the perfect middle point between Eastern and Western culture, but also just in terms of, like, poetic justice, spiritual healing. If you've got the Middle east being a place that becomes known to a next, the next generation as the. The place of peace, like the Cradle of Pete, this is where people figure shit out.
41:46
I guess an open question maybe to both of you, is we don't know where this stuff is going to go. Right? But if we're assuming that Trump is dealing here, that he's negotiating. Usually it doesn't mean we're going to get what he laid out. Usually it doesn't mean we're going to get this US rebuilding of Gaza, etc. Right. Just like we didn't get the tariffs on Mexico and Canada that he was saying. Trump in the past has talked two state solution. As you just pointed out, John, MBS is two state solution. Putin is two state, Xi is two state. Everybody's two state except for B.B. Netanyahu and Lindsey Graham. Do you think that this story ends some way somehow with two state solution codified? And that's what in that's the deal, right? Is Trump sitting here going, you're getting a two state solution.
42:34
It's either we're going to babysit you permanently on your border or you're going to do the two state solution and in agree in accordance with what the Arab world wants.
42:47
Is there a third option though? Like, is there another option?
42:49
That's what I'm asking. I don't know.
42:50
I mean, something people haven't thought of yet. Because that's where I think it's going to end up being. Because the two state solution, a lot of what I've listened today, I even did listen to like 10 minutes of Ben Shapiro just to see what he was saying and he was like, totally. He loved, I couldn't handle much of it. But they're talking about, you know, like what Trump did here. This is totally unconventional. Nobody's done it like this before. It's a completely unique idea, all these things. And like. Yeah, that's true. And then he's like, and this is going to result in the two states illusion or something, which is like the idea that's been there forever. Right. What is the other option?
43:30
Well, the other option that's been presented more recently, I've heard Colonel Wilkerson, who's the guy who had, you know, has gone on the Politano show and made these devolution type remarks about certain Pentagon officials and you know, sitcom combatant commanders. He says that. I've heard a few other people say it as well. Basically, if you can get the, like the hyper radical Zionist element out of the Israeli government, like out of Israeli politics, and just restore a actual real, quote unquote democracy, as much as we've all come to despise that word, you could actually see maybe a one state solution where the whole thing can work. I don't know if we're gonna if that's possible day one, it probably is a process because there's going to be a lot of distrust and mistrust.
44:26
It would require a pretty extraordinary event for you, you to go there like at one time. But yeah, I mean, I think it is possible to see a one state solution. If you don't have the Jewish supremacist view in Tel Aviv where you have guys in power right now who say we want to conquer these areas and then the Arab citizens who choose to stay will have citizenship, but they will be considered second class citizens. Smotrick has a thesis where he's written that out like in legal form and what, what that would look like codified into law. So yeah, you have to get that element removed. I think even a two state solution with that element there really makes the two state solution have a lot of friction and tension. So at the very least you need the two state solution. 1967 border.
45:16
But maybe one day it could be a one state solution as long as people can get along and have common ground.
45:23
Yeah, interesting.
45:27
One thing I would say though, it would be really interesting to see that the Russians, if the Russians come to Riyadh, make peace with Trump. What if we see Russia take, take over Gaza like the Russian?
45:37
Well, I wasn't thinking Russia, but I, I was, I did just have the thought, you know, if you look at what Trump presented and don't think of it as this crazy ridiculous thing, but maybe take the US element out of it. Russia wasn't what popped into my head, but what did pop into my head for some reason was like the uae. Now I know the UAE is their own independent nation, but it functions kind of as an international playground. Like it's by playground I mean sort of business playground. What you were saying about peace talks with the Saudis, the UAE is sort of that for business leaders, you know, like Dubai has really become this place where business interests and entertainment interests can go. You know, Another one that pops into my head is Singapore. Like very high standard of living.
46:30
It's, it's a safe place. A lot of people in the west don't know that. And it's a place where business interests and political interests can go and sort of deal with each other in neutral territory. And if we're looking at some sort of transition period, could Gaza become that like sort of a, an autonomous zone where it's like not in the way it has been where it's an autonomous zone just waiting for the Israelis to bomb them Next or Hamas to do something, but more of a prestige autonomous zone where lots of international interests are. So if you build it into almost this Morocco or this Singapore type thing, these are kind of stretched analogies but like something like that where you know, whether it's the Russians or the Chinese and it's like, hey, you know what? If, if you all, if X comp.
47:27
It's if X countries send aid to this region and participate in the restoration of the Gaza Strip, it could be built into something and used as a model to the point where Trump is saying, but then the Palestinians get the right to live there. Like you get these international countries almost subsidizing, but hopefully not in a globalist way, more in a free market way.
47:55
Yeah, and it's fitting. Crown Prince, he had a call with the UAE president today. He also had a call with the Jordanian president today. They talked about mutual areas of interest and stuff. But the, the part of this, that, and this is going to tie us into our second subject. And Ghost, you're welcome to stay for more if you want because we're going to get into the USAID stuff. The, the most important aspect of making sure what we've witnessed going on in Gaza and the Middle east for the last decades to make sure that doesn't happen again is to get rid of the terrorists that are doing it.
48:28
The people funding the terrorists is our own government in the CIA and a lot of that has been done through the usaid and that is being wiped out and taken off the table now like that's one source of their funds directly and it's going bye now at least it's being exposed. We're going to get to that. But first I got to get to our next sponsor, so bear with me. We got Field of Greens. I try to eat healthy, but I'm human. Occasionally I fall off the healthy eating wagon and that's why I got my diet insurance. Field of Greens. Even when I mess up my diet, nutrition, Field of Greens keeps me on a healthy track. What's the point of supplements or green drinks if you aren't 100% confident they'll improve your health? Field of Greens is radically better.
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49:51
Otherwise I think we can segue right into the USAID stuff because the last couple days, maybe even since Monday, you know the whole story. Elon Musk gets access to usaid. They end up locking a bunch of people out. They shut the whole website down for a while. When it comes back online yesterday, there's just a big page there that says like, you're all fired. F you guys. And now they barged in.
50:14
John Barged.
50:16
Bunch of nerds. Like a bunch of creepy nerds, as the Democrats are saying. And it's kind of fascinating watching this stuff all get exposed on Twitter. Like everybody's getting involved. They're digging up stuff from the USA spending site, seeing where all this money is going. Not only is this stuff going to like just foreign trans, you know, group stuff overseas, which is just coded language for regime change operations and terrorist groups, but it's also funding media here, domestic narrative warfare operations. The same people who were burying Hunter Biden laptop stories who are helping cover for Biden the last four years, like you name it was probably being funded in some fashion by the USAID and our government. And it's a huge story.
51:03
There is another aspect to this I want to talk about, but I think we should celebrate the good stuff first because this is more of a. People aren't going to like hearing this take. And so, but yeah, what are you guys thoughts on it so far?
51:19
Before the show, I was saying, and I know John, you mentioned that Mike Benz talks about this a lot, the Smith Modernization Act. So for anybody who somehow is not aware, the Smith mundt Act of 1948 was amended in 2013 during the Obama administration and essentially legalized government propaganda without saying that it was, this was under the guise or under the auspices of United States government storytelling or narrative toward foreign interests. That was what it was supposed to be, but there's no parameters put on it. Right. So I had told John, I had an interesting back and forth with Grok earlier today where I was asking about the Smith Monetization Act.
52:06
Because I said on Twitter today, you know, this should be the first thing people think of when they see money being disclosed going to Politico, the New York Times, US Media, you should think propaganda, obviously. And then, okay, let's reverse engineer that. People are using terms like illegal online. And what I was saying earlier today is actually the scandal here is that none of this is illegal at all. This is very legal, and it was legalized in 2013. So I think that we should shift this conversation. I mean, in the wider space, stop calling stuff illegal. Start looking at the game. Right? Don't look at the players, look at the game. They're all playing the game according to the rules. Politico is playing according to the rules. The New York Times playing according to the rules. They're propagandists. They're professional, legal government propagandists.
52:55
And you know, the other point on that was that the interesting exchange I had with Grok, if I can find it, I asked if the USAID disclosures about this funding to Politico, etcetera, could be related to the Smith Modernization act, and if so, how? Of course it's going to say, well, we don't know. But it did say that there's so much wiggle room in that act that it says usage involvement with media often pertains to international development, democracy promotion, encountering disinformation abroad. However, if USAID funds were directed toward American media companies, they can be for purposes like supporting journalism in areas of U.S. Interest or countering foreign disinformation domestically, especially in the context of global information wars. So that's the loophole that is in this foreign propaganda. I mean, I don't think foreign propaganda should be legal either, but it is.
53:56
Okay, so that's the loophole is that if the government can justify the propaganda by saying that Americans are being misled by foreign disinformation campaigns, then they can deploy that propaganda on American citizens. And it made me think of the clip John plays all the time of Donald Trump with the talking about illegal psychological operations being conducted against the American people.
54:25
Don't forget, this persecution is being done by the same weaponized agencies that for seven years have been running illegal psychological warfare campaigns against the American people, much as if they were trying to destabilize a foreign country. From the Russia, Russia hoax to the no collusion Mueller witch hunt to impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two.
54:50
You get the idea.
54:51
So the last point on that would Be it. It adds another layer to all of the Russia, Russia impeachment hoax. 1 and 2. We know that those were illegal. Right. If they were knowingly fals, that's where this all, what this all hinges on. If it's knowingly false, then that's illegal. That's where he's pulling that word in. But it gives you another motive for the Russia hoax. They didn't really. They didn't. It's not just that they wanted to convince the American people that Trump was a Russian agent. It's that as long as they believed Trump was a Russian agent, they were allowed to lie to the American people about everything that spun out from that. That, that's kind of how I'm looking at it now.
55:37
And I'm thinking that this ball of worms that Elon is disclosing maybe starts to get us to unwind to those 2013 National Defense Authorization act that Obama signed. And that is when I fully blackpilled as a Democrat, by the way, was the ndaa.
55:57
Yeah, you're spot on. And this is where I said, Mike, I don't think Mike Benz necessarily has talked about the Smithmont act, but he's talked about that, the foreign censorship, stuff like the money that is being put into these agencies under the, you know, the justification of foreign censorship. It's, it's all being done here domestically too. And a lot of this stuff came out in the Twitter files. But anyway. Go ahead, Ghost.
56:22
Yeah, I, I think that this US Aid thing is the most significant thing Trump has done thus far and it may in hindsight be the most significant thing he does as president. Just in terms of a single move to destroy the deep state, to dismantle the swamp. Ron Paul put out a video, like a five minute video that Elon quote, posted and said, interesting, that really ruffled a lot of feathers. But Ron Paul said there's a huge misunderstanding among Americans about what the usaid, the Agency for International Development office is. Y'all think it is something that engages in humanitarian efforts. The only reason that office exists is for regime change operations. That's the only thing it does. And that's what Ron Paul said.
57:14
Including here.
57:15
Yeah, including here. And, and as I said on a few other shows earlier today, what we've lived through under the past four or five years is what every other country has lived through for the past 50 years because of our government. And that's why a lot of countries have, a lot of people across the world have animosity towards the US Government is because we've been doing to them what our government has done to us for the past, you know, four years. We just got a very small taste of it.
57:43
You're. You're spot on, man. It is really cool and fascinating to see people kind of wake up to this. The part that's a little. I don't know how to say this the right way, but. But it's really. It really shouldn't be that upsetting to people because we've been talking about this for a long time, especially Chris Paul. Chris Paul has been on the nose about this for years. Let me. Let me pull up this post because this is where I saw today again. And I sent it to Chris and he's like, I just read this again, and this is exactly what I've been talking about since the Twitter files dropped. And it's. It's spot on. Hold on, I gotta find it. Gosh dang. It might take a second. This guy's. A lot of posts. It's the last refuge.
58:26
I don't know if you guys are familiar.
58:28
Yeah, the conservative treehouse.
58:31
Maybe it's this. No, that's not it. Hold on. Like, some of this guy's stuff is good. Or girl. I don't know if it's got a girl, but some of it is very doomy. Yep. But. But listen. I would advise everyone to pause for a moment as the fevered pitch of a new awakening takes shape specifically around the. You said information. Ask ourselves, are we being managed? Pause. Think about the Twitter files as a reference for how DHS was controlling online speech and communication. Did the Twitter files reveal the DHS control mechanisms? Or was the DHS control system coming to light and the revelations needed to be managed? Was the Twitter file release a control mechanism to get out in front of something the American people were discovering on their own? That's the reference here.
59:15
Were we managed by a controlled system releasing the Twitter file information? If you understand that reference, then ask yourself, is the USET information, which at its core outlines how the intelligence community was in control of multiple DHS silos to influence American society. Yet another operation to control information that was coming to light. Don't be emotional about it. Think logically. Are we discovering the USET information because elements of the IC understood that you said information was starting to surface in the national conversation organically? If you can see the similar approach to both the DHS control of the social media coming to light Twitter files and the same DHS control of the use of tentacles, then is it accidental that Elon Musk is involved in both information releases? Big picture. Is the IC managing the revelations. All roads lead to Langley. Is the journey being managed?
59:59
Think about it. Now, the caveat to this is with Dan Ratcliffe and Michael. Michael Ellis at the CIA, they offered buyouts to everybody. It looks like they're gonna just completely clean house over there. Maybe it doesn't matter if that's what they're trying to do here. But there's a point like this is very similar to how the Twitter files, the limited hangout of the Twitter files were released. You know what I mean?
01:00:24
Yeah, I mean, I think it's. I think it's good to engage with this stuff. I mean, you know, we go back and forth on this stuff a lot. I. We need to be careful to not go full Last Refuge or full. Whitney Webb would be the female version of the Last Refuge, who, you know, can spin anything that seems to be good happening into bad. But, you know, we can be logical.
01:00:50
You can be logical without being doomer.
01:00:52
No, I agree with that. I would just say that it is very difficult to get up. I don't say this to be like, flippant, but if that's the case, and if you say it is this dastardly limited hangout, then Trump is behind it and that he's the bad guy and we lost. And we're like, that. That's what that means. That's what that means because he's so. I think that's what it means because it's like, it gets to the point where. So we gave the largest DoD contract ever to a guy who's managing limited hangouts on behalf of the Deep State to the American people. Like, is that the allegation?
01:01:29
No, but just, just. Because if it is a limited hangout, that doesn't mean Trump is Deep State either. He could just be using as exposure op like he does everything else. Like, he could take it a step further however he wants, but I think it's something to pay attention to, of how this information is being released. Who are the ones being highlighted, talking about all this stuff? And because if Elon Musk is just highlighting like the same 10 accounts talking about this, then it's just like giving access to only Shellenberger, to Libby and whoever, Barry Weiss or whatever. To go through the Twitter, you know, to go through the Twitter files and all of this stuff, like, needs to be made totally public. And I don't know if there's getting, if there's any other Information that they're getting.
01:02:13
Elon Musk that we're not able to get on USA government spending or whatever the government website. Like who knows if that's even accur. Because that's where a lot of the stuff I'm seeing is coming from. All of this should be made public. Just like I think all the Twitter files should have been made public to everybody should be open sourced. And that's the concern that I'm having is what aren't we seeing? Like we're seeing all the media companies, the politicos and all these things, the nefarious ones. That's great, that's awesome. But what aren't we seeing? Because it's not open sourced.
01:02:41
Yeah, yeah, that's a really good point. I would say that one of the really positive things I am seeing come out of this, that is a really important thing to focus on is are we getting the full picture? Kind of like what Ezra Cohen Watnick said about the JFK files. Like when the JFK files come out, are we actually going to be getting the full picture? Are we getting a limited hangout? He kind of implied that.
01:03:05
Yes, he did.
01:03:06
L actually had a. Some. I know that's her handle.
01:03:13
Well, you didn't just refer to her.
01:03:14
Like that because she had a great post earlier where she said that she had like. She just felt like she was in a really great like headspace because of all the positivity she's seeing on X, coming on X. She's not seeing the divisiveness that you see every day where everyone's at each other's throats. Instead it's like everyone is posting the digs that they're doing on the USAD Aid website being like, look what I found. And she's like, this feels like a throwback to like the old days of like 4chan and like 8coon where people were just posting their information that they were finding and everyone was kind of building on what other people were figuring out. And it felt like a real collaboration as opposed to, you know, like a, a competition to see who could be the biggest hardo.
01:04:00
So great point. Yeah.
01:04:03
So I think that's like a really important thing to also note is that in order to really make a success out of what this is, the great awakening, whatever you want to call it, I think that everyone has to recognize that we're not all going to be on the same page. There's never going to be a moment where we all are like, oh, we all agree on every single thing at once. It's going to be more about setting aside our differences and focusing on the common, like the common ground, focusing on where do we have shared interests. And this situation is a perfect example how our government is controlling the entire world but also controlling the American society with this nefarious, you know, agency.
01:04:43
I, I want to piggyback on that too because I think that helps me clarify my point. I, I think that it is logical and reasonable to not just like wait for Elon Musk to come down from the mountain with the sacred tablets and present them to us. I think that Chris has good discernment and, you know, ruthless skepticism. We need that last rep. The reason I take a shot at Last Refuge and people like Whitney Webb is they are professional doomers if you engage with any of their content. That's not what Chris does. Chris is a skeptic who doesn't want to be bamboozled just like none of us do and often does sniff things out where we're being misled. There are other people who are, their job seems to be, or their self imposed job is to demoralize everybody about everything.
01:05:30
And what Ghost just said there, my point is that it's basically that what are the net effects? What I started doing the first year I started doing info war stuff. It's good to try to ask like who's getting the information and how much is being held back. But if I try to engage with even the limited hangout theory and say, okay, let's say that's what's going on, how does that seem to be going for them? How is if from the perspective of the American people, you can never again as the president ever get the public mandate to create an agency that functions like you said, ever again, right?
01:06:09
So like where I come from is if the limited hangout is at the point where they are disclosing the general vector of deep state power projection to hundreds of millions of people, they are not in a good spot. And you can't put that back in the bottle, right? Trump can't go up there and be like we're gonna start maga. You say magade and we're gonna hide everything from you there. But we're, but totally trust us, bro. Like if he did that, he would get called out by 90% of these hundred million people, you know, talking about this stuff around the water cooler. So that's just what I mean, there is that, you know, the Whitney Webb's of the world.
01:06:55
The reason I bring her up and I don't care about saying people's names, is she'll like, push bitcoin, for example, whatever your thoughts are on that. And then go on a podcast about how these people control the network. And then one podcast I saw the girl interviewing her is like, so are you pro bitcoin and think it's a decentralized solution or no. And you can sometimes trap somebody like her or the Last Refuge and realize that they're literally never going to give you a positive answer because they're either not supposed to give you a positive answer, which means they might be the ones leading you into the wrong direction, or they're incapable of thinking that something could be going well.
01:07:36
You know, I get everything you're saying, and you're making great points. You know, we can never. We can never have an agency like you said again. Right? But think about this. What's our major concern about the election victory from. From 2024 is we don't want people going back to sleep because we got it now. We won. Now let elections are fine again. The use said budget is like less than 1% of our total budget. How much of our other agencies and government spending is similar programs like this, we can expose one of them. Everybody thinks the problem's taken care of. And if we don't get it all, then there could be other agencies just like this in other parts of our government that we are never, not even aware of.
01:08:17
Well, granted, but Elon Musk follows up this storm about USAID by saying IRS next. Right. Like, so we do need to hold them to account, John. For sure. But I just think there's. Sometimes there can be this whiplash of like, it's not enough. And it's like, it's February 5th.
01:08:35
Yeah. All I'm saying is this is the same, like, all the feels of the limited hangout we got with the Twitter files, which I'm not saying is a bad thing. I'm not saying what. What we got out of the Twitter files was bad. I'm just saying it. It was. That was a limited hangout. That was a definition of a limited hangout. And I think it's okay to acknowledge when we're seeing a similar pattern with how things are unfolding here. Like, that's all I'm doing.
01:08:57
I agree. I agree. Yeah. I just, I'm just pointing. I'm just saying that there, there are certain people that, like, I don't think they're being. They're Having this conversation that we're having, I think they're just playing the opposite game. It's like the hipster version of everyone thinks this is good now, so I'm gonna go for sure. So you, I just mean that you have to equally be careful of like, you know, people with that mentality.
01:09:24
It's almost like we could get the Great Awakening and like world peace and they'd be like, yeah, but what if they wanted us to have world peace for a hundred years just to like, you know, I know we're not there, but that the last refuge will be dooming out if we go to like what he wants because he doesn't really have a solution for any of this stuff for sure.
01:09:45
But, but even the people who do mouth like that's sometimes they're going to have good points. You know, I just thought it was a good conversation to have. But yeah, we're very early into this. Trump appears to be holding nothing back. And that's why I'm excited about what we're seeing. I, I just wish this would all be on a blockchain. Completely 100% open source. I want to see more of what Elon is doing because it's very cloak and dagger. Like he's got six people sleeping on couches at these departments. They're not allowed to come out. Nobody knows. Yeah, yeah. It's such a crazy story and like it's not the frickin military doing all this work. It's these six teenagers.
01:10:25
Right, right. Literally. Like do you think sometimes from 4chan.
01:10:28
The kids who grew up on Fortune.
01:10:30
Well, both of you, I'm wondering, especially you, John, with I've just been playing, you know, for years we've been talking about like these are narratives translating what may be really going on behind the scenes. It feels to me like recently it's gotten so, like the public story has gotten so cartoonish that it's like, are they trying to soft disclose that or are they trying to provoke the media into asking them what's really going on? Like, do you ever get the feeling that's what's going on? That's that they're trying to put the media on the spot and be like, yeah, ask me if it's really these 21 year old kids that are running Doge? I don't know.
01:11:11
Yeah, I mean it's hard to believe you. Obviously you have those thoughts with everything. You know, it's try to keep an open mind. It goes between actuals and narrative all the time. Especially it's getting harder for me with doing this new Daily show because I'm trying to be like, more. This is what we're being told. This is just the news. Get us through as much as I can. And it's hard to, like, switch gears in my head between the. Basically, like between Cancon and Chris Paul, you know what I mean?
01:11:40
Like, that is the scale. Actually, that's the Badland scale, which is why no matter all the I talk about Cancon, we need him.
01:11:50
Otherwise our scale would be lopsided.
01:11:52
Yeah, we just. We're gonna spin off into the reality prime and we need some. We need that anchor point.
01:12:00
It's not, it's not easy going back and forth, but yeah, I definitely have those thoughts. Like, there's no way that six teenagers are going through the Treasury Department's books and finding all this stuff. And like, but it's a hilarious college sophomores.
01:12:13
It's a hilarious deployment.
01:12:15
I mean, yeah, because think it. Think of this to the deep state, right? Like, they know how to work computers. They can afford funding. They probably have foreign military people on their books. They have black ops people on their books. They have the CIA agencies on their payroll. Like, they can't afford some technology to fight back against the six teenagers. You know what I mean?
01:12:38
Like, it just seems, well, we have teenagers with autism.
01:12:43
Yeah, well, even that ghost you mentioned, I think it's bang on that, you know, I don't know how much you were joking, but I think some of this stuff is pretty literal. When you mentioned 4chan and everything several weeks ago, I said, I didn't mean this as an insult, but I understand why people take it this way. I said, what's going on Twitter feels like infowar for Dummies or 4chan for Dummies. And I don't mean dumb people. I mean, as you said earlier, it's like a nicer, more normie friendly version of the live digging that was going on by absolute shitlords. Like, if you found your way onto 4chan circa 2010, you. You had to have a certain kind of disposition to find your way there. Like, you don't get there doing normal interneting, but you do get to X doing normal interneting.
01:13:38
So the info war that we're gonna see. And it does make me wonder if part of this whole, like, oh, yeah, it's Elon and his little band of Goonies, like, it's the goonies, the autist 4chan Goonies. It. It genuinely feels to me like trolling of the Deep State. Because the, to your point, John, the Deep State knows, or at least suspects like where this information is really coming from. They've, they've been suspecting the devolution operation if they don't know it for a fact. So I don't think that the Deep State thinks that it's Elon Musk and a 21 year old on 4chan that are digging all this stuff up on them.
01:14:16
Well, somebody in the chat's like, I must have missed the story about these six teenagers. There's a couple stories out there, but this is the first one I clicked on. Doge vs. USAID. How Elon Musk helped his acolytes infiltrate world's biggest aid agency, funding the CIA and operations all over the world. These guys took it over. A posse of cocksure young engineers answering to Musk have stormed through Washington D.C. Gaining access to government computer systems as part of what Senator Chuck Schumer has called an unelected shadow government conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. The young men, who are all under the age of 26, have almost no government experience, have tapped into the Treasury Department's federal payment system and vacuumed up employment histories at the Office of personnel management. Roughly 20 DOGE employees. Okay, so I was a little wrong.
01:15:05
20 employees all under the age of 26, completely taking over the computer systems or a government and exposing it all. It's just, it's a wild story you have.
01:15:16
I have to share this because we had a celebrity commenter comment on this. Let me just drop, I'm just gonna drop in the chat and you can share, John.
01:15:26
But what's this?
01:15:27
Just take a look at that X link I just put in there. This is causing this story. This, this deployment is causing the highest level of puppets to re out over this. This is Hillary Clinton freaking out about these 19 year olds there.
01:15:46
They have no relevant experience. Most of them aren't even old enough to rent a car. How old do you have to be to rent a car?
01:15:53
How old do you have to be for the Clinton foundation to abduct three? Yeah, I mean, yeah, they're way too old for Hillary.
01:16:03
I do, I do want to address.
01:16:04
Real quick what y'all talking about before. I, I think that the two things that you're talking about with the last refuge Whitney Webb people and John is those people are cynics.
01:16:15
Don't loot me in with them.
01:16:18
I'm saying it's two different ends of the spectrum, John.
01:16:21
You're in, you're on The Whitney Web scale. You're on web one.
01:16:23
You're engaging. You're engaging in vigilance. Like, you're engaging in vigilance, which is what we all need to adopt. Like, our culture needs to adopt a vigilance and have, like, a watchdog mentality over every single thing our government does moving forward, regardless of who's president. What these other people seem to be falling into is cynicism. And it. And a lot of that has to do with when you just study this stuff, which is so depressing and so dark for so long. It is very easy to fall into, like, a pit of hopelessness because it just seems so overwhelming. Like, how are we going to defeat this? Like, nobody ever thought that USAID was going to be shut down, right?
01:17:00
You know, to. To your point, Ghost, I. I mean, I'm biased with this, but I think that a lot of these kind of cynical nihilist postmodernists that we're seeing that are. That are putting out good information, but that have just doomer glasses on, I think most of them are former liberals. And I can attest that as a Obama voter, it's not just that I'm a former Obama voter. And it's like, you're gonna doom out, right? It's that voting for Obama in 2008 was a response to, like, what liberals saw as this horrific darkness of the Bush regime. And then it felt like the Great Awakening. I know it sounds so silly to conservatives who knew Obama was bad, right? But y'all still voted for the Bushes, or a lot of you did. So we. We both got hoodwinked.
01:17:52
But, like, it was so demoralizing for liberals who are not retarded to have fallen for the hope and change. It was like the Maga of 2008, but just opposite. And then when you do, when you find out like this, and that's what I said earlier, the. The 2013 National Defense Authorization act, it wasn't just the Smith Modernization Act. It was that Occupy Wall street was something that liberals were ridiculed over by conservatives, and they were 100% right about. So, like, conservatives at the time were defending Bernie Madoff and Wall street bankers. Now we're all on the same side. But I. But to your point, Ghost, I do think some of these. These cynics, they're Obama. They're ex Obama voters. They've been hoodwinked by both sides. And so they.
01:18:43
They can't believe that it's possible that we actually do have something different in there right now. And I Was there. Like, I was. It took me a while with Trump, and the Q drops were instrumental in that for me to see him as something more than just kind of a bull in a china shop. So I can have sympathy for it. It's just that at times I'm like, man, I go on YouTube and, like, the most watched episodes of any podcast are these people just dooming out about every single topic.
01:19:12
I just want to clarify something. I never voted for McKenna Romney. I actually was ahead of my time and wrote in Trump in both 2012 and 2016 and 2008. That's a joke.
01:19:24
I love it.
01:19:25
Seem like you're lying.
01:19:27
You weren't sure.
01:19:28
So the way that I reconciled the two positions that y'all presented, because I think both of them are extremely valid.
01:19:33
Which one's more valid?
01:19:34
John? You're the Whitney Webb position, John.
01:19:36
No, I'm not.
01:19:37
No, no. I would actually argue that John's position is probably the most valid because it really require. Well, he's calling for vigilance, and he's calling for, you know, never being satisfied with what we're being given.
01:19:47
Yeah. Burning brain.
01:19:49
The problem is that Webb has not been satisfied enough. I think you've cracked it, Ghost.
01:19:54
The metaphor that I think I used the first time I came on the show was these people have. They live in a fortification that they have developed over generations, maybe over centuries, and they have contingency plans, and you're never going to be able to penetrate that fortification. The only way you're going to get to them is if you're able to draw them out into the open and then attack them, which is what I think Trump has done over and over again. They fall back on their contingency plans once they lose, you know, the proverbial ground. And that's what these limited hangouts are. They say, okay, we have to surrender this ground. We have to fall back. We give. We throw out. Like, we throw out some truth nuggets. They feed on that, and we run away.
01:20:36
So if you look at it like using that metaphor, we just have to keep moving forward and pushing forward and gaining that ground and drawing them back out, because they can't help themselves.
01:20:47
They.
01:20:47
They're full of hubris. They're full of, like, this just viciousness. And so Trump. Sure, yeah, they're very cocksure. And so Trump comes out and acts like the Donald and does his thing, and then they just can't help themselves. They get off their couch and they lash out at him. And then that's when he does the counter strike. Right.
01:21:06
Yeah, totally agree. That's what I had written Overton's goalpost a couple of years ago. And that's exactly it. It's retreat. It's. It's narrative retreat from previously held ground. Like you said, Ghost. But yeah, you've got to keep pushing forward. One more point on that. The dooming. What's the difference with the dooming mentality? I would argue that people like that are not advocating to advance. Often their message ends up being close to nihilism of like, we can't win.
01:21:38
They're trying to get people to retreat with them.
01:21:40
Yes. And that's not what John's doing. That's not what Chris does. That's not what we do. That is what some of those other people do. Like I said, that bitcoin podcast just popped into my head. The reason that one struck me so much is she spent an hour and a half talking about decentralization and whatever and bitcoin. And then the host is finally like, oh, man. So. So what do we do? And she's like, I don't know, like, go off grid. And it's like, okay, here we are. Right? That's what you get. You get the, like, go in a cabin, do the libertarian thing. You know, like, we all go through a libertarian phase and then like, eventually you grow up when you realize that every successful society has had to form a society for a region.
01:22:20
You don't just get to go to your room and. And pout about it and be a little liberty, be a libertarian. Like, you've got to grow up at some point.
01:22:27
Yeah. I think the phase we all need to get to, though, is like Mel Gibson, Braveheart, William Wallace phase.
01:22:32
That was not a libertarian. Liberty.
01:22:35
Liberty and love it.
01:22:38
Yeah, I like that.
01:22:41
Yeah. Are you going to coin that phrase? You all saw that. He does not get to coin that phrase now. You know he does.
01:22:48
Somebody in the chat said, called Ghost Switzerland and do we have a new Switzerland? Oh, Sweden. All right.
01:22:56
I was gonna say. I'm gonna lose that title.
01:22:58
He tried to do the switch. I don't know. You know, John and I are having.
01:23:02
Our domestics at times, and he took my side, though. So. He took a side at least.
01:23:07
I'm just trying to be Davos over here.
01:23:08
There you go. He'd be Davos. Does Davos have a theme song? Because if they do, then we can.
01:23:12
Okay, I'll have to research at the World Economic Forum has a theme song.
01:23:16
Which, by the way, they got funding from USAID as Well, I'm pretty sure I saw something Ripple got some funding from like usaid.
01:23:24
I saw somebody signs that because James Lindsay. Somebody said James Lindsay did.
01:23:28
Oh, no way.
01:23:29
No way.
01:23:30
I saw somebody posted. I didn't see the receipt, but somebody posted.
01:23:33
Patrick, that's a wrap. If James Lindsay is being funded by.
01:23:38
The Ripple organization, it's a different USA ID according to James Lindsay.
01:23:45
Oh, it's not Ripple.
01:23:46
Oh, it's a different USA id. The other.
01:23:50
It's a different James Lindsay.
01:23:52
Oh, different James Lindsay.
01:23:54
Yeah, according to James Lindsay though. So I, you know, I don't think trust that.
01:23:57
But true, you can't. You can't trust that.
01:24:00
And I don't know if this is even Ripple and us. Yeah, this is. The national bank of Georgia has released a public fintech consultation paper. It discusses their CBDC work with Ripple. It has entered the pilot stage. Interesting to see USAID as a consultant about smart contracts. The other Ripple mention also with regard to the CBDC project is in the context of international consultations. Note Elavandi also a part of the discussions as well as the often publicized Enbridge. That's from December.
01:24:30
So what's.
01:24:33
Yeah, what's. So what's so interesting though about the USAID thing is that, you know, burning bright with the news brief, I mean how many stories have we been covering over the past eight months, year about these NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe? Right.
01:24:49
Getting kicked out. Yep.
01:24:50
Yeah. So like all these countries, for those who haven't been tracking it, all these countries around Eastern Europe and like the Balkans have been trying to pass these laws that force foreign funded NGOs to disclose all their funding sources. And it's a law that Putin started in Russia. So the Western media calls it the Putin law. It's like, oh, Putin's influence over them. That guy Robert Feet. So who got shot five times in the chest. The reason he got shot was because he got that law passed in his legislature and Georgia.
01:25:19
And the chest, he got shot sometimes in chest didn't.
01:25:23
Slovakia. Right?
01:25:24
Slovakia.
01:25:25
My dog is Slovakian.
01:25:26
I mean, not that I want to ever get, not that I ever want to get shot in the chest, but like it would be pretty badass to be like, I got shot five times in the chest, but watch a street cred. I'm still here. Yeah. But no, I don't want you on the chest. Just full.
01:25:38
I think the most recent one, or at least the one that's most top of mind to your point. Ghost Was Georgia kicked out? I believe NGOs, I think they went one step further. And then we. In that same part of the world, we've got. We've got a lot of elections going on over there. And recently, was it. Is it Romania that the. They don't want to recognize the win. The Russian.
01:26:07
It was Georgia, actually. Georgia.
01:26:09
Okay, it's Georgia.
01:26:10
I think I. I think it was Georgia. It was either Romania or Georgia where the prime minister won last year. So you got the. You got the MAGA or whatever populist prime minister in there last year. He's trying to get this law passed there. Right after Feet so gets shot, somebody from the. From the European Union calls him up and says, hey, you saw what happened to Feet, so, you know, might want to watch yourself. He told that to the media.
01:26:35
Then the media, yeah.
01:26:38
Then a year later this past fall, they have another election for the president, not the prime minister. The MAGA guy wins in that election, and then the sitting president basically says, I don't recognize you as a legitimate president. I'm gonna stay in the mansion. And there was like, a standoff for like, a week or two where they were just, like, holed up in the mansion and refused to leave. They finally did, but, yeah, so it was just kind of like this. This ridiculous moment where people are just acting like, I'm not gonna let you take power.
01:27:09
So I just had the epiphany of where we need to expand the business next and is inspired by John's reaction to Ghost.
01:27:16
I think we should move on.
01:27:18
We need. We need, like, animated Drunk History versions of some of these Badlands episodes so that when Ghost is explaining history, it'll just be. Have you ever seen Drunk History?
01:27:31
Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:27:32
We talked about doing this on Badlands way back in. In the day. I mean, I feel like most Liberty Den episodes are a version of Drunk History.
01:27:41
That's true.
01:27:42
That's very true.
01:27:43
But I like the animation aspect. If we could figure out a way to make AI take a show, summarize it, and animate it, that'd be great. So if you guys can start working on that'd be cool.
01:27:54
Yeah, yeah.
01:27:56
We do have a couple more things to. I wanted to talk about first. We did get a little shout out from. From Sean Hannity today, which was kind of crazy. Just fine. Oh, here it is. Sean Hannity on Twitter said, watch now. Carolyn Levitt holds White House press briefing. If you click in there, he linked to our Twitter coverage, which is pretty wild. That was you on there. Ghost.
01:28:32
Yeah, that's really wild.
01:28:34
Yeah, kind of random. But shout out to Cheryl for finding that. She saw that earlier today. So that's really cool. I want to talk about. This is very devil related. Anthony Tata going back to the dod Trump has nominated Anthony Tata to serve as the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and readiness. The article here, and I don't even know what article it was, but I think it was Politico, which, by the way, I think it was Politico Pro. And by the way, Politico Pro is one of the things you said is funding, like, they're buying subscriptions to Politico Pro at $10,000 a clip. Like, what kind of subscription is worth $10,000? Like, I think we put out great stuff, but I wouldn't even put $10,000 as a price tag on ours. Ours are free. That's insane. But anyway.
01:29:25
Anthony Tata, controversial former Defense Department official. If confirmed, he would play a key role in overseeing an expected military transgender band and efforts to curb diversity programs. Tata's courted controversy for past tweets. I'll show you that in a second. He was installed as the Pentagon's top policy official in an acting role after Trump purged the agency's top ranks near the end of his first term. And if you guys remember, back In Devolution Part 3, I wrote about him. He was the guy who's placed as the DoD policy guy, providing oversight essentially for DoD continuity of government. It was the first position filled after Chris Miller was put in there, and he's the author of that book, Double Crossfire, the most shocking scenario of our time.
01:30:08
It takes you inside the brilliantly conceived, brutally executed plot to overthrow our government from within, and then until triple crossfire gets even crazier. But this is the tweet from back in the day. And shout out to tweets, don't tax. Don't equal tax advice. It's a great handle. Brennan had a post back in 2018 and Tata responded. Might be a good time to pick your poison. Firing squad, public handing life sentences, prison, or just suck on your pistol. Your call. Like, pretty brutal.
01:30:39
It's amazing.
01:30:40
Yeah.
01:30:42
Kill yourself.
01:30:45
But that's like, those are the people we need in there. And it's just cool. He's devil related and he's coming back to the dod. It's always notable to me when stuff like that takes place. So, yeah, that's that getting the band back together vibes. Yeah. I want to see more, though.
01:31:03
Few things. Russell to Jimmy's more than when one of those guys calls out directly, one of like the Deep State people.
01:31:10
Yeah. The thing is he's got to get confirmed and this tweet's gonna be a, an issue for him. So we're gonna have to like keep it low key. Even though the genie's already out of the bottle. Yeah, we have to get him over the.
01:31:23
I mean, the response to them bring it up is I already like the guy. Like, you don't need to sell me on him any further. Right.
01:31:30
I feel like, you know, the, the correct response should be, did I mean what I said? Yes, absolutely.
01:31:38
Should I say it again?
01:31:39
Probably not. Yeah.
01:31:43
Anything else you guys want to cover before we. Oh, MicroStrategy, change your name to strategy. Yes, I know you wanted to mention that.
01:31:49
Yes. So I gotta show this because, you know, I've been working on an article here for weeks about MicroStrategy and you know, just keep putting it down. But some of us, G, Money, Pip, etc believe that Michael Saylor, I don't know, he's either being leveraged by the plan or is a part of it, or we're just crazy. Yep. MicroStrategy has name, has changed its name to just strategy. You know, so not shocking, right? But they've, there's. They were a software company, right? And now for the last few years, ever since 2020, obviously they're not a software company, they're a bitcoin company. This just makes that official. Now they're not pretending to be a software company. They're just saying, yeah, we're a bitcoin company. But specifically they say strategy is the world's first and largest bitcoin treasury company. Now this is huge.
01:32:49
John and I talked about this several weeks ago, but essentially the idea is that MicroStrategy is, is leveraging a call option on the US dollar and financial system. And I think it's a brilliant Trojan horse. That could just be Saylor being a genius and taking advantage of the infinite money glitch, as many in the bitcoin world call it. But the implications of this are seismic. Another word for a Bitcoin treasury company is a bank. Michael Saylor has essentially just disclosed that microstrategy strategy is going to be the first bitcoin bank. And before people freak out about that, some people do freak out about that. The problem with banks is not that they're banks. The problem with banks is that they lend money that they create. That's the problem with banks is that they don't have any reserves. Right.
01:33:40
So what happens when we have a company that has reserves of the soundest form of money ever created? Pretty interesting. And the fact that Saylor, we know by his own mouth, has consulted with people on the Trump team about their bitcoin strategic reserve. He is arguably the person in the world who came up with the idea of bitcoin strategic reserves because he's the one who's been doing it. So pretty interesting. Might we see the United States as a nation state, mimic what MicroStrategy is doing? I think it's almost a guarantee we'll find out.
01:34:22
Well, let's not go that far, but we'll find out very soon because this is David Sacks just yesterday talking about what him. And he's the crypto czar. He's been tasked as a committee to explore a crypto stockpile. And this is what he says the President instructed us to do was to evaluate the, the idea for a bitcoin reserve. And so that is one of the things, that's one of the first things we're going to look at, is just right there, he says that president himself has tasked them with evaluating having a bitcoin reserve. The President Trump asked David Sachs to look into a bitcoin reserve, not just a crypto, bitcoin specifically. It's the first thing they're going to do. I'll play this one more time. Listen to the words he uses here very carefully.
01:35:09
The President instructed us to do was to evaluate the, the idea for a bitcoin reserve. And so that is one of the things, that's one of the first things we're going to look at as part of the internal working group in the administration. So as soon as we get all that set up, we're still waiting for some cabinet secretaries who are on the working group to get confirmed. So we're still in the very early stages of this, but that's one of the first things we're going to look at is the feasibility of a bitcoin reserve.
01:35:35
Now find out. Another point there, John, is that, you know, there's the shitcoin wars, like Bitcoin versus other crypto, etc. I'm not interested in hashing all that out. There are people, including David Sachs there who are not bitcoin maximalists, who are on this committee. You know, there's ripple. People have been lobbying that made very big waves in the crypto world last week. Is xrp, a CBDC who knows your mileage varies on that. But I don't think, I think it's possible that there will be diversification, etc. But to your point, John, the, the signal to me is that when Trump and the administration are talking about a reserve, a stockpile, they are talking about Bitcoin. That doesn't mean they will not invest in other crypto, but they do not talk about it the same way.
01:36:27
And you know, I said this several months ago before he was actually officially in the administration. But Howard Lutnick's interviews, I think would be very illuminating for people. He is Trump's Commerce Secretary. He is something close to a maximalist and supposedly is where the idea of the tariffs came from and is one of the two men charged with looking into this. So we'll see. I mean, I don't think it's going to be this linear path, but it's going to be fascinating to see how it plays out.
01:37:00
Yeah, I think there'll be more than one crypto involved, obviously. And I'm just, I'm already imagining getting multiple DMs from followers and people I follow that just spam me with XRP stuff like, I don't care.
01:37:14
Been a big XRP push in the last seven days.
01:37:17
I have both.
01:37:18
Big, big push.
01:37:19
Get off my back. I get it. But yeah, if you guys are right.
01:37:22
Just chill with your XRP and you'll be fine. Don't worry about it.
01:37:25
Don't need to evangelize. The last thing I want to talk about. Shoot. What was it? Oh, dang it. This can drive me nuts. I just had it and now I lost it. Is it something you sent me? Sovereign wealth fund. Yep, that's what it was. So do you have that video? Can you pull that video up?
01:37:42
I do, yes. It's a three minute video. Do you want to play the whole thing?
01:37:45
Yeah, let's just play the whole thing.
01:37:47
Okay.
01:37:47
I have to go pee anyway, so I'll be right back.
01:37:49
All right. This was Trump talking about the sovereign wealth fund. People. Let me press the button. This is an executive order discharges your Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessant, and your Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, to begin a process that will hopefully result in the creation of an American sovereign wealth fund.
01:38:11
It's a very exciting event. We're going to have a sovereign wealth fund, which we've never had. We have a lot of things that create wealth. And you've seen that over the last two weeks. I think we've created more wealth. Other people have created d wealth. The people my Predecessors. We're creating a lot of wealth. Scott, maybe you'd like to say something about it and I'd ask also Howard to say something about it.
01:38:38
Yes, sir. This is very exciting.
01:38:41
We're going to stand this thing up.
01:38:43
Within the next 12 months.
01:38:45
We are going to monetize the asset side of the US balance sheet for the American people. We are going to put the assets to work and I think it's going to be very exciting. We're going to study best practices that's.
01:39:02
Done around the world.
01:39:03
It will be a combination of liquid assets that we have in this.
01:39:08
Country as we work to bring them.
01:39:12
Out for the American people.
01:39:15
The extraordinary size and scale of the US Government and the business it does with companies should create value for American citizens. If we are going to buy 2 billion Covid vaccines, maybe we should have some warrants and some equity in these.
01:39:33
Companies and have that grow for the.
01:39:37
Help of the American people. So bringing all these things together, I think we'll create. Scott and I will create an amazing sovereign wealth fund for you, sir. So other countries have sovereign wealth funds and they're much smaller countries and they're not the United States. We have tremendous potential in this country. Tremendous. You're seeing that what's happened just in a short period of time. And as an example, TikTok, we're going to be doing something perhaps with TikTok and perhaps not. If we make the right deal, we'll do it. Otherwise we won't. But I have the right to do that. And we might put that in the sovereign wealth fund, whatever we make, or if we do a partnership with very wealthy people, a lot of options, but we could put that as an example in the fund.
01:40:21
And we have a lot of other things that we could put in the fund. And I think in a short period of time we'd have one of the biggest funds. And you know, some of them are pretty large, I must tell you. Some of the, like the Saudi Arabia fund is on the large side, but eventually we'll catch it. But we're going to create a lot of wealth for the fund and I think it's about time that this country had a sovereign wealth fund. And these two gentlemen and some others are going to work with them very closely and they'll be heading it up and they're going to do a great job. Two highly respected people that have done unbelievably well in the world, in the real world. So that's a big deal, huh?
01:40:59
Yes, sir. I think It's going to create value and be of great strategy.
01:41:05
Saudi Arabia's fund is like, you're muted by the way. It's like $1 trillion now almost.
01:41:10
Yeah. So the reason this hit me, I mean, Stormy and I were talking all about Saudi Arabia on Sunday night. So it just was top of mind. And then this hits, you know, so you can the devil's advocate here of is there more comms being tossed back and forth? Maybe not. Maybe Trump's just saying, like, hey, the Saudi Arabia would be the fund you would think of. It's a, it's a huge, notorious fund. But one of the reasons it's notorious is the fact that in 2017, that fund was less than $200 billion. Mohammed bin Salman comes into power, kicks off the Saudi purge, seizes the assets of the royal family, essentially all the Saudi, what he considers the Saudi deep state. He called it anti corruption purge, the media called it anti corruption purge.
01:41:57
And then the fund since then has grown to 925 billion. Like you said, almost a trillion dollars. This is where Al Waleed, who some of you might have seen on Tucker Carlson Forbes, speculates and we all speculate that his assets, including his shares of Twitter, were seized by MBS as part of this fund. But this goes back into actually something Ghost mentioned earlier in the show. You know, the Saudis are spearheading what we may see a little bit of in the United States when Trump talks about the golden age. I think Americans are going to be absolutely shocked at the transformation in this country when it comes to infrastructure. And if you want a preview of that, look at Saudi Arabia.
01:42:44
This money was taken by the Saudi deep state, including, as Howard Lutnick said there companies that the government took equity in and folded into the sovereign wealth fund and then redistributed that wealth into Saudi Arabia infrastructure. And I couldn't help but think, man, isn't it interesting that the first US Sovereign wealth fund is going to follow in the footsteps of one that was built largely on the back of asset seizures of a deep state purge. And Trump is saying, yeah, we have a lot of things we could put in there. You know, it's just the timing is pretty interesting to me.
01:43:23
Yeah. You know, going back to what Trump said when he's on the campaign trail about the sovereign wealth fund, he talked about putting tariffs and the money received from tariffs into there. I will be curious to see what he does. I know a lot of people when they talk about this, they talk about Executive Order 13 818. I don't think that's the mechanism because if you look at 13818 it doesn't actually say anything about seizing assets. Yes, correct. I think whatever. If there is going to be something which I, I do fully anticipate it happening where we get to a point where corruption is exposed and these people don't just have their money frozen and it's sitting there with it not doing anything. The money does need to come on our books at some point.
01:44:02
It does need to be seized and I think it will be seized that way.
01:44:06
Yeah.
01:44:07
Video. Just slate on my end here. Hold on. There we go. Sorry. I think it will be seized but I don't think it's going to be done through 1381 8. That's a, it's a sanction order. It's a, it's a foreign sanction order for the most part. There are some ties to domestic companies, but it's basically to get those domestic companies and those foreign individuals and prevent them from basically using or taking advantage of or having access to our financial system. So whatever mechanism it's going to be that's actually going to take possession of these corrupted assets from corrupted individuals, it's going to be something new. I don't think we've seen it yet but that it's a great way to fund a sovereign wealth fund as Saudi Arabia has shown.
01:44:45
And, and the proof in what you just said is that we've seen court cases play out in British courts where targets of Executive Order 118-313-818 had their assets taken from them by the courts and not go to the government but be put up for sale and then were purchased by the uae, Saudi Arabia. Other people, somebody in the chat earlier did a rumble rant and they asked how is, how does this sovereign wealth fund benefit me as an individual? Like how does that, how does this good for us? And the explanation is very simple. In Saudi Arabia they don't pay any taxes. So you don't pay any taxes As a citizen of Saudi Arabia. The, the government, everything is completely funded by the royal family, by the pif. And the PIF is, was funded originally by Aramco, the Saudi state oil company.
01:45:36
So oil sales funds the government, now the royal family owns everything belongs to them. But you as a citizen, like I have friends who are Saudi, they don't pay income tax, they don't pay any income, they don't pay any taxes. So it's like they've told me, they told me that 10 years ago they're like, yeah, I don't pay any taxes. I'm like, wait, what? You don't pay any taxes? No taxes.
01:45:57
What's their debt at? Do they have debt?
01:45:59
I don't know. I don't know what their financials look like. I know that they were, they almost went insolvent when he came into power. They were supposed to. The PIF almost collapsed, but which is.
01:46:09
Why it makes sense he did a corruption purge and now they're not because all the family members were being corrupt and making the government.
01:46:16
Right.
01:46:17
Yeah.
01:46:17
Yes.
01:46:18
Yeah. There's a couple little things too that I just wanted to share. Like, so I always say, negative indicators are probably my favorite. There's a, I'll put this link in the chat. There's a November 2024, Human Rights Watch decided to create a, a deep dive on the man who bought the world. And that man who bought the world, According to this NGO, speaking of NGOs, was Muhammad bin Salman. And very dastardly guy goes through the whole timeline here. I was posting about this on Twitter, but they're essentially saying, even though we don't have proof of every single move that was made here, that upward trajectory coincides with MBS's seizure of these elites. They don't call them the deep state. This NGO doesn't call them the deep state. They call them Saudi elites.
01:47:13
So we've got here Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman includes 2017 anti corruption crackdown that consisted of arbitrary detentions, abusive treatment of detainees and the extortion of property from Saudi Arabia's elite. Right. So that's the globalist viewpoint on this extortion, theft of elite property. Right. Well, let's see what Steve Mnuchin had to say about it in November of 2017. This is a CNBC takedown of the same situation back when it was happening. The United States is closely watching the situation In Saudi Arabia, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Friday. Asked about agreements to hand over wealth for detainees freedom, Mnuchin told cnbc, I think that the crown Prince is doing a great job at transforming the country. So sometimes you gotta go back to look ahead.
01:48:04
Is Trump just name dropping Saudi Arabia because he likes how much money they have in their fund, or is the fact that his first treasury secretary knew in November 2017 that the purge was transforming the country for the better signal as to how we're going to transform this country?
01:48:25
Trump said the same thing, by the way, he said at the time he Said, I think the prince is doing a great job and I think he's doing what he needs to do. And it's worth pointing out that Mika Brzezinski's father in the night in the 90s wrote a book where he predicted the future of the Middle east and Saudi Arabia basically didn't exist. And he said that a triumph, a triumvirate may emerge. China, Iran, Russia and the west would go to war with it. So Saudi Arabia being present in this moment is the game changer.
01:48:56
Yeah. All right guys, let's get to the boost on the rants. Ghost, you've had a long day, man.
01:49:03
Yeah, this is my fourth show today.
01:49:05
It's crazy. Real quick, we gotta talk about this. We got Gart coming up and it's gonna be a grand old time. If you guys haven't yet, get your tickets in person is still available. Virtual tickets are on sale. You can get your merch there. And we got some event sponsors up. So thank you to everybody who's sponsoring the event. But yeah, I can't wait for this. TV slash events. No reason not to attend if you're able to. But if you can't attend if you're unable to, no reason not to get.
01:49:36
A virtual ticket because all ghost Saudi friends are going to be there.
01:49:39
I think, dude, the Saudi brothers are coming, man. We are going to have a wild time.
01:49:44
I need MBS is going to be on the power Hour.
01:49:48
Be amazing, but got some boosts here. UKQ patriot. I think you for $2. I think you misunderstood my question last week, so I'll try again. After E.O. 13:961 established the Federal Mission Resilience Executive Committee. Who made up this committee during the Biden Admin Between January 20th and January 19th, 2025, it's, I mean it's all the positions it's in the executive order. Can't give you names off the top of my head, but the point is I think the Trump's committee version of it are the ones that were implementing and running community government behind the scenes or whoever they delegated it to. So it's kind of irrelevant. Yeah. Lionheart 7777 for $100. Thank you.
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Thank you.
01:50:29
Evening guys. Wondering recently if the drones nonsense and the ensuing airline crashes and subsequent deaths are all part of the scare tactics in the queue drops. Kind of like a final flailing attempt to undermine the new admin. God bless aog. You guys got anything on that? Could be. I don't know, I didn't read the drops.
01:50:46
Certainly crosses my mind. Right. I mean, I question all these things just like we all do. Right. We talked about that earlier in a different context. Certainly question anything that's meant to. To provoke an emotional response should be ruthlessly questioned. And we don't know, you know, whether or not these things are happening as we're told, but if they are, then, yeah, I would say, you know, death spiral, panic pattern, that sort of thing.
01:51:13
Yeah. Jim Ron, put out that book for.
01:51:15
A reason with Boon color bubble head for 17 you2 recently discussed the word dastardly. Fun fact. That word was instrumental in identifying and arresting the New York bomber George Meteski in 1957. It was the FBI's first case in which profiling was used. Very interesting. Quite the nerdy facts Bubble head. I like that. I like nerdy facts and. All right, let's get to the rants here. Micro Tool Maker common in clutch as always. Thank you so much, sir.
01:51:50
Thank you so much. Yeah, Very generous.
01:51:53
DPH and all the Badlands media gang have provided us with front row seats for this great movie. Now if they could just pass the popcorn, maybe we'll get your popcorn at Guard. Micro Tool Maker, if you're not at Guard, I'm gonna have questions because you definitely could have afforded a ticket by now with all the rants you've given and then some. So hope to see you there. Ozark Plowboy Dastardly is catching on. I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly Democrat Rep. Al Green. It's true.
01:52:24
Somebody said G Money was telling me. I think it was G money was telling me. Somebody said by cameral in there yesterday.
01:52:31
I didn't see that, but I did see somebody take me on about the Al Green and we talked about that this morning too. So yeah, it's catching on. And you have to give 50 bucks every time you bring it up. So.
01:52:40
Yep.
01:52:40
Thank you.
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We have trademarked it.
01:52:42
Thank you. For those who set that precedent, two Mevs Tom EVs, Big Chem Trail, Sky Trails today in Nipah Valley OR Nipah. Nipah, 5pm when will that stop? Beats me. Probably next Wednesday when RFK junior's in there. I don't know.
01:52:59
Let me. I'll put a call in. I'll find out.
01:53:03
David H. Paul, if at all possible, we should do a gart at Mar a Lago. Yeah. Do you know how much that would cost?
01:53:12
Trump give us a guard on the house.
01:53:14
I was going to say. It's like, can the big man just cop it?
01:53:17
That'd be awesome. But hook it.
01:53:18
Just hook it.
01:53:19
Look, I would be totally willing to do a guard at Mar a Lago, but we would have tickets at like 10 grand a pop. And yeah, I don't know. I feel like that would scare off some people. We'd have a very low attendance.
01:53:31
Very bougie. Very bougie.
01:53:33
Maybe we could do a waiting list and be like, would you be willing to come to Gartmore a Lago for this much money? 1027 JS DPH rocks. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate that.
01:53:45
So I've said I've got my baby cam and when Mrs. Bright's on there, she looks like a zombie. But I particularly look over there when John's talking about guard stuff because I'm like, she already looks scary. She looks even crazier. Blair Witch Project style.
01:54:02
I'm not saying anything I shouldn't be saying.
01:54:05
She sniffed it out.
01:54:06
I'm not saying anything bad yet. But yeah, sounds scary. Ash75Nelly50 thank you. Do you think they will take the you said a step further and do a forensic audit to see where the money was actually sent or who the money funneled back to? Love you guys. Nelly Lab Sisters. Great books, by the way. That's a great question. I hope so. That's what I'm talking about. I want to see it all. Open source, blockchain it, make it public, let us all see it, follow the money.
01:54:34
Well to that point, hopefully. The fact that it's got so many eyeballs on it means that there is public mandate for that. Like very public, you know, very emphatic. Did you read the T3 Excellent one?
01:54:47
Oh yeah, T3 Excellent. Need y'all to explain to me, like I'm a liberal, how the sovereign fund will help everyday Americans. I get how it helps the country. How do we the people will benefit. We covered that.
01:54:57
Yeah.
01:54:57
But thank you. Alien59. Your intro seems so poignant today. Almost prophetic. Learning the extent of the criminality in the you said. And the connections to the CIA. Schellenberger. He caught them all. What a time to be alive. Sure did.
01:55:12
Well said.
01:55:13
Wild Boar 17 finally became a monthly supporter after two and a half years or in our chats out of spite.
01:55:20
He probably did.
01:55:21
Yeah. Probably did that just to get the attention. Probably unsubscribed immediately after. Ready to rumble Chris $2 Ghost, your neediness is the best.
01:55:32
Probably meant to say nerdiness, right?
01:55:34
Oh yeah, I appreciate Both comments.
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Lion ts54 or sorry eliance not complaining, but as anybody aside from myself found the rumble chat box function to be sketchy. On another note, I schedule my evenings around the show as well as Eye of the storm. Thank you. Geez, are we boring you burning bright. Yeah, I was up till sorry. Sorry. Texas 2013 Now Monthly Supporter thank you Ekim Novellas Wonder if you said ever paid money to certain voting system and paper ballot producers at any time? Great question. They sponsored Media Matters at any point. Did I skip any other ones?
01:56:18
So did you ever fortify an election?
01:56:23
Victoria OB Q basically told us that it would be a limited hangout. Post 1 for 4 New Age of Enlightenment 80% covert 20% public post 190 80% dark ops necessary 20% public for justice. No biggie.
01:56:37
I mean I'm just How far does that go? And I I don't like it. But well here's. Here's where I come in. It's if the 80% is available to find on request, I'm okay with that. Like choice to know will be yours. I don't really like the idea of the stuff just being siloed away from us.
01:57:00
Yeah, screw that. I'm not okay with it.
01:57:02
Yep, me neither.
01:57:02
They better not tell us that's actually happening. That'd be frustrating.
01:57:07
But fuck you guys if you do that.
01:57:10
The Nander 7 going after you said is a distraction as they dig into GSA 18 f it for entire government and review 300 leases for cancel daily as government landlord none of this makes sense. That's my saying that huge number of high levels taking the fork and out to 28. Yeah, that's confusing as hell. I think the big thing everybody's missing is they took over the treasury payment system or whatever. If we have a government shutdown that is going to allow DOGE to decide whose bills get paid. And it's a great way to expose which government agencies are totally irrelevant when they're not being funded and not operating. So see what happens. Julie JN the info is coming too fast. Trump has said many times we have it all. Probably Q2 funny story, but those boys aren't getting all that information. Thanks gentlemen. Agreed.
01:58:05
Ekim no Villas I think Trump has some dirt on BB Lot let's talk about you.
01:58:10
Yeah, I know. You know these weeks aren't easy for me. Well, we've got Netanyahu up there.
01:58:16
I don't know how any weeks are easy for you laundering maybe these days he's locked into Trump's foreign policy. Israel can still be last. If Trump uses him till he's not needed, then let the whole truth are out after that.
01:58:32
I don't know if you're referring to the money laundering or the dirty laundry that he's known to bring to the White House to be cleaned.
01:58:40
I still don't believe that, even though I know that you say it's true. There's a lot of things I believe, but it's a ridiculous story.
01:58:48
I don't know, but it's a hilarious narrative.
01:58:51
Yeah, Papa DB1 how about the US rebuilds Gaza? We get the hell out of there with certain percentage of revenue return on investment until we are paid back with interest and future earnings available after Gaza stabilizes itself.
01:59:03
I would prefer that model if it was the Arab oligarchs spinning the oil money, which they've already offered to do. They already said we will pay for it. The uae, Saudi, you know, Qatar, they'll pay for it. So I think we should do that. Regions of responsibility.
01:59:18
Make the whole thing a casino.
01:59:22
Casino.
01:59:23
I'm just saying.
01:59:23
VP Nichols, I'm loving the commentary and analysis about press. Trump's Middle east moves great combo. Maybe Ghost is a permanent Wednesday DPH member hosting suggestions are a minimum $100 for rants. So we cannot take this into consideration.
01:59:37
But appreciate they also immediately push on in the other direction.
01:59:41
I'll take it under advisement. We'll see.
01:59:43
Yeah. Anytime I get a suggestion though, for real, it's like I'm not doing that at all.
01:59:48
You can see the moment where he's like, oh, you know, now that you say that.
01:59:54
I was thinking about it until that rant honestly. So you ruined it.
01:59:58
I do appreciate you. Appreciate you looking out for me. But yeah, thank you.
02:00:02
Dave75, cancer, USAID. It's you said the word aid is being used as a magic word. As word magic to enrage the street soldiers and hold the heartstrings of the TV voters viewers. You said doesn't provide aid. TV is dead. It is funny scene and I've talked about this a few times now that the Democrats have chosen this issue to be like this is their issue. It's foreign government, wasteful spending. We will die on this hill. Just absolutely the dumbest thing you could possibly imagine.
02:00:34
Man. I on that note, like I staying up till 4 with the baby and stuff. I've just been throwing stuff on YouTube and everything and man the normie sphere it the cult from the culture war to the gaming world to the tech world, I really do Think the Democrat Party is cooked like and I, I don't like doing the Republicans we fix our election but like yeah inter in the public mind like it's cooked. It's. It's done. They're two normies. They are an absolute clown show that gets, that's getting worse after the loss, you know rather than you'd think their low point would have been a few months ago. But man, it's like every day they are to your point, they're like grabbing the Titanic and riding it down as hard as they can.
02:01:24
That's amazing. Robert L. Thank you. Keep up the great work. When does Julian Assange come back into the spotlight? Now that we know he was doing more factual journalism than all of the mainstream media. Seth Rich helped wake me up, God bless his soul.
02:01:40
That's one of the major stories I'm looking forward to coming back in around Seth Rich, Julian Assange, that'll be that looks like. Yeah, Snowden. Those kind of names coming back into the public story is going to be a huge signal flare of suicide weekend.
02:01:55
Maybe we shall see. VP Nichols, another five for BB's use of dastardly was a good use. I will, I will give you that credit. Robert L. If devolution theory is correct, DJT had 4 years to dig into corruption, but also had access the past four years to continue to dig through data. Elon, biggest contractor. Did he have a four year head start? He probably even had more of a head start than that. Some people definitely speculate. So. But yeah, that's kind of the Thought and Boyer Now Monthly supporter. Thank you Lindsay Joy Macklemore. Can't wait for Gart. Got to meet each of you briefly in South Carolina. Ghost, I was with you when that girl accused you of being a racist and were like, nope, he's not a racist.
02:02:43
Many such cases.
02:02:44
He's anti Semite Texan by birth. Bernie Bright John is so jealous of you.
02:02:52
Yeah, I don't know.
02:02:54
That's true.
02:02:55
That was a great liar for what? But 50 bucks?
02:03:00
I'll take it for 50 bucks. You can say whatever you want for 50 bucks. But. All right guys, that's all of it. So thank you for tuning in. Hit that thumbs up. Ghost, thanks for joining tonight. We appreciate it. Tomorrow, Daily Herald, 1pm Eastern. If there's anything you guys got. You guys have shows tomorrow.
02:03:17
I, Ash and I are going to cover the. The Secretary of. Is it Agriculture or. No, no, it's Trade. Secretary of Trade. So like the Trade.
02:03:32
Commerce or Is it. Is it Lutnick?
02:03:35
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it's Lutnick or. Yeah, whatever it is, trade is what Ash told me it was.
02:03:41
But I love your confidence in what you're doing tomorrow.
02:03:45
I'm gonna be covering something tomorrow. Whatever the hell is going on in the Senate, I'll. I will be there with. With bells on covering it.
02:03:51
So I will be doing a episode of the narrative during the Super Bowl. So, you know, we're gonna see. Our audience is always like, I don't watch that crap. I better see a full audience there. I'm going to have reality extremist Patrick Gunnels will join me.
02:04:10
Nice.
02:04:11
And you shouldn't have thought it was fitting. Yeah, I should. Or I could rug pull you. But, yeah, bread and circus and everything. It's a good time to do that.
02:04:22
You know what I watched. You know what I watched last night was the Sum of All. All fears.
02:04:26
Nice.
02:04:27
Which is where a lot.
02:04:28
The plot of the movie is that like a neo Nazi guy uses a nuke at a football game to try to kill the President to start a war between the US And Russia. And the material came from Israel. It's like, whoa.
02:04:43
Trump's gonna be at super bowl, by the way.
02:04:46
And I believe he's the first sitting president to be at one, Right?
02:04:49
Yeah. Which is also what happened in the movie. That's scary. Anyway, yeah. So thanks for that. Hit that thumbs up. We'll see you tomorrow on Daily Herald and whatever Ghost is doing. And then Sunday on Burning Bright's thing with Patrick. So thanks, guys. Catch you later. We're gonna close on the sidewar video, the full one.
02:05:07
Don't forget, this persecution is being done by the same weaponized agencies that for seven years have been running illegal psychological warfare campaigns against the American people, much as if they were trying to destabilize a foreign country. From the Russia, Russia hoax to the no collusion Mueller witch hunt to impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two, the 51 lying intelligence officers. How about them? They said it's Russia disinformation and they knew it wasn't. Which made about, according to some of the great pollsters that are right here, made from anywhere from a 10 to 17 point difference. And yet we still got more votes than any sitting president in history in the second election. And we actually did much better in the second election than we did in the first election. The fake dossier paid for by the Democrats. How about the fake dossier?
02:06:03
Remember that one? You think that was easy to go home and say, hello, darling, how are you? When they read about that, it wasn't easy at all. Spying on my campaign. We caught them spying on my campaign, the FBI, Twitter files, and so much more. It's all been a battle of disinformation, one thing after the other, and all to protect the radical left misfits.
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We are right about the fraud.
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Joe Biden can't be president. Congress.
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The chair declares the joint session solved.
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Good evening, everybody, and welcome to the Wednesday edition of the Devolution Power Hour. Ernie Bright. How you doing, man?
00:42
Exhausted, as dads should be. But as we've been saying now and I. I guess we'll say going forward, absolutely insane week. So that's energizing insane day. Like, every hour feels like it would have been the big topic of. Of any DPH the last couple of years.
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Yeah, we didn't really have to prep for much here because we can just, like, scroll Twitter for a second and find something new.
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What did you look at in the last 10 minutes? Because that'll. That'll be the whole show.
01:12
I have a lot of directions I could take this. We'll see how it goes. We are going to start with some Israel stuff, and we brought on our resident Israel expert to discuss those things. So I'm not even planning on talking for the next, like, hour and a half because I know he's just gonna roll with it. But, yeah, we'll get to him here in a second. I thought you got outside today, man. You look real pale.
01:36
I. You know what? I think I am pale. It's a problem. I was outside today burning stuff, and it's cold. It's cold in the north. Yeah, so I don't have trash pickup, so I just burn all my cardboard like, once a month.
01:52
Nice. You don't have trash pickup in Massachusetts?
01:55
Not in my town. I could pay for it, but I'm not gonna pay for that. So I pay for a dump sticker. I take my trash to the dump, but I burn my cardboard in a big burn pit out in the yard.
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Wow, look at you.
02:08
German shepherd loves it because he thinks we're doing very serious work.
02:12
Yeah, sound. Sounds pretty serious. Yeah. Anyway, guys, we'll talk about the two main topics I would say are the. The Middle east discussion and probably a lot of the USAID funding, the corruption, how that ties into the Smithmont Act. I know you wanted to talk about that. And yeah, we'll see what else goes on. But let's. Let's get a quick word from our first sponsor of tonight's show. And we got CB Distillery. We've cleaned up our diets, removed the harsh chemicals from our homes. So why are we still relying on outdated remedies for our health? Let me tell you about the highest quality CBD from CB Distillery. They offer natural plant based solutions for sleep, stress and even post workout pain that actually work. Get this, 90% of people report better sleep with CBD. That's a huge deal.
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03:42
Shout out to Q Alerts, our buddy there. Good week, good month, good year. I, I think for Q Drops, people probably saw I had Stormy. Is that code language? Yeah, burning the books. Me and the, me and the dog are out there burning the books. You know, all the gays are illegal now. And you know, Massachusetts, there's a lot of gay stuff around. So we just gotta pile all that gay propaganda up, LGBTQ plus propaganda and, you know, put it in a pile and burn it all up. I got a kid now. I can't be allowing that stuff.
04:21
Just keep digging, keep elaborating.
04:23
Yeah, Sunday night I had Storm, Patriot Joe on the narrative. And you know, of course there's stuff hitting all the time, or maybe hitting, maybe not. But one funny one that may or may not have been a figment of our imagination, specifically. Yeah. But I singled out Q drop 14. We talked about that for a while. It's the infamous one with the Durham boats. And then the US army changed their header image to that the next day.
04:51
Well, Tuesday, two days later.
04:52
But yeah, I thought it was Monday.
04:54
Tuesday.
04:55
Was it Tuesday?
04:56
Yeah.
04:56
Okay.
04:57
Yeah, it's pretty cool.
04:58
Either way, Q Alerts is probably going to be getting a lot more traffic, I would guess, in the coming months.
05:04
I'm curious how much traffic Q Alerts gets already. Like there's a lot of people into the queue drops, you know. Very curious.
05:11
Yeah, if you're still in the chat, let us know. Just generally, you don't have to say the numbers, but are you seeing a resurgence post election, post inauguration? Because I, I think we're seeing a lot of people come back around and be like, hey, what are you guys doing over there in the infowar?
05:29
Is that how they sound when they come back to the infowar?
05:32
Those are the people that are like, I never doomed out. I just, you know, just went away for a little while.
05:38
Yeah. By the way, guys, I saw this in the chat. Why did the Badlands logo change? I did change the logo to be uniform with all of our logos on all social medias to the white background Badlands media logo. That's why I changed. So also, we are on Instagram. We're going to start ramping up our Instagram postings.
05:59
We have a video, shots, thong shots, twerking.
06:03
Yeah. Lots of dance videos and stuff. We're on Tik Tok now too. Instagram. We are. It's Badlands Media official. We're, we got, we're getting some traction over there. It's really weird, it's kind of awkward, but I'm here for it, so we'll see if it sticks. But anyway, let's bring on our Middle Eastern expert, staff Zionist. What's up, Ghost?
06:28
What's up guys? How's it going?
06:31
It's going well.
06:32
Yeah.
06:33
Big week for you, man.
06:34
Dude, I know. And I've actually been over here studying geological survey charts for Central Africa as one does when your wife, when your wife is out of town. It's, you know, real hood rat stuff over here. But yeah, man, it's been a pretty crazy week.
06:54
The things catch us looking at on our computers are not the things wives typically catch their husbands looking at. Like you looking at drops again. You looking at our lithium deposits.
07:07
Why are you studying Africa? Geological stuff.
07:10
It's a, it's a long story that I know you don't want me to go into, but the short version is just that there's, there is USAID kind of buffoonery happening there and it's all related to Executive Order 13818 and this and the mineral rights that Trump took away back in 2017. The oligarchs want their $24 trillion worth of minerals back. So I've been studying, figuring out where the minerals are in Africa relative to the territories being captured.
07:39
Awesome. That was a test. See, old Ghost would have went on a 30 minute tangent about that.
07:47
I'm so glad you asked.
07:49
New Ghost Tldr. Ghost does not do those things. I don't know if you guys saw him. He was on The Daily Herald today, which was also a test for him and he nailed it. He, he. Everything I asked for, it was short, it was sweet, it was very informational. He did a great job and I will be bringing him back for sure. But. Well, this is test number two. But you get a little wiggle room here because this is a much longer format so we can be a little more detailed. But yeah, yesterday we had Trump and Netanyahu. Trump first signed a couple executive orders. The first one was, well, actually was NSPM and nspm, those who watch the show regularly should be familiar with what NSPMs are. National security, Presidential memorandums.
08:29
That one was basically focused on we're going back to my stance on how we handle Iran. They can't have a nuke, they got to get in line, all these things. And so that was kind of bringing us back to original Trump era Iran stance. And then the other thing he did was took us out of a bunch of UN groups and clubs and whatnot. And the interesting thing I should told you this morning, Ghost, was every reason and justification for taking us out of those groups was because like they weren't. It was anti Semitism. That was essentially it. And made sense. He did those two things on the day he met with Netanyahu. But the big one. And know what? I should probably pull this up, huh?
09:07
Yeah, pull it up.
09:09
Pull up the video. Give me a second. I don't know why I didn't have this prepared.
09:21
I have to say though, I'm actually very pleased with how things look 24 hours later. 24 hours has made a huge difference. It seems like people are exercising a lot of discernment, a lot more discernment and not engaging necessarily like in Copium or Hopium, but actually using like logic and reason and looking at things that. Whereas, you know, six months ago, a year ago, I don't know if we would have gotten that out of the group.
09:45
Yeah, it's a great, that's a great point. Because there's a couple accounts I looked at who I was like, these people are going to be freaking out. And sure enough, they were like right off the bat, like 30 minutes of posts, like, I can't believe you did this. I saw one guy call Trump the Antichrist. No, no joke. But then you fast forward even just a couple hours, like, okay, well maybe this makes sense. Maybe there's something more here. So it was, you can see the learning curve in real time.
10:11
One note I wanted to make on that is the Person I'm thinking of is Ian Carroll. I happened to see his video because he's super viral all the time. Came across my feed, use the word discernment ghost, and I definitely think that there's attempts of that going on. I think a lot of this community has learned to try to wait a bit and see what's going on and, you know, allow the fact that we might not understand what the moves are until they kind of complete. But the other side of it, to your point, John, is some of these figures, especially with really big followings, I wouldn't say that they started using discernment after a few hours.
10:51
I would say that they read the room and took the temperature and realized that, you know, Trump's mandate is so strong right now that the Trump is alternatively either anti Semitic or a Zionist crusade isn't really going to work with their followers. And that particular account I mentioned was going on a whole rant about how he definitely didn't trust Trump, but he definitely was willing to give him a chance and, you know, his followers were making good points, so he was going to reserve judgment. So I think there was some of that going on, like some backward steps.
11:24
Yeah, I think it's pretty obvious to see right off the bat. Well, no, let me play the video. This is the account, by the way, that said it's wild conspiracy theory. But he, if you saw all the posts before this, he was freaking out on Trump. And so this wasn't as wild of a conspiracy theory to this guy as he made it seem. He just said it this way to prevent the backlash. But let's watch this video and then we'll talk.
11:46
The US Will take over the Gaza Strip and we will do a job with it, too. Will own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. Level the site and get rid of the destroyed buildings, level it out. Create an economic development that will supply unlimited numbers of jobs and housing for the people of the area. Do a real job, do something different. Just can't go back. If you go back, it's going to end up the same way it has for 100 years.
12:20
Do you, I mean, just first blush, right off the bat, this is not very America first. Like, if you take what he says at face value, like, we're going to take, take it over. We're going to own it, we're going to fix it up. All these things, it's contradictory to everything his entire agenda so far and everything he campaigned on has stood for. So, again, the immediate freak out from everybody was a little unwarranted because this can't be the end game here to me, and we talked about this earlier, Ghost, but I'd love to, for you to elaborate and give BB's opinion. This seems like a chess move. He's waiting for somebody else to counter move and actually take over there. I don't think it's gonna be us, but it could be wrong. It could be, who knows?
13:06
We haven't seen any of the actual details of this. But, Ghost, what are your initial thoughts on all this?
13:12
Well, I mean, I think the surface level response, like we're just responding to the actual words that are being said here, is somewhat warranted because, you know, the rhetoric that, at face value, that Trump is saying, and I think this was totally strategic and I think he meant to do this to be provocative. It did come off as like a neocon move where he's saying, like, we're gonna come in and own it, we're gonna take it. And I think he knew exactly what he was saying when he was saying it, because, remember, Trump was the guy for years talking about how moronic all the neocons were who went in there haphazardly into the Middle east and basically just broke it and then couldn't fix it. Right. So I think he was being very intentional in how he said it.
13:55
Caroline Levitt, of course, walked back some of that stuff today, and it went from a permanent displacement to a temporary displacement. You know, she also clarified that there will be no, you know, he has not committed any Marines, he has not committed any military to this. We also have committed, no, we're not going to spend any money, so no US Dollars, no US Troops and temporary displacement of any Palestinians that need to leave to, in order to clean it up. So that really changes the framing of it. And it's interesting that he came out and had this really provocative take, because I do think he was trying to incite the response that we saw initially. And I, I'll be honest, like, when I first heard that, I was kind of like, damn, that is. That is wild.
14:43
But I did tell Cancon yesterday morning on Daily, he asked, what do I expect out of the press conference? And I said, honestly, if we do get a big development, I expect it to be Trump appearing to capitulate to Netanyahu, because that would fall in line with the pattern that we've seen from Trump since he's been elected. And I think it all has to do with laying out the order of operations so that Netanyahu is confronted last after you after he reconciles with Putin and knocks out a few other objectives.
15:16
What, what did Cancon say? What did he think was going to happen?
15:21
He, he actually nailed it. He said that Trump was going to come out and say we're going to own Gaza. And he no way. I'm just kidding. No, he was just that he was picking my brain, so.
15:30
Gotcha. You didn't pick his back a little bit. Burning bright. What are your thoughts, man?
15:39
Yeah, one thing I loved, and I don't genuinely don't mean this is, this was a comm. But I think it's encouraging to me sometimes the language some of these people use. So you mentioned Caroline Levitt Ghost. She used the term impossible task as an ironic term. So she said, you know, this moves being criticized. And she said, we've been told the Middle east peace in the Middle east is an impossible task, but it's not. Which is part of what I've been talking about for the last year. I've said that part of Devo, you know, internationally. We've talked about Russia, Ukraine a lot on this show. But I said the Middle east is the Kobayashi Maru. It's the impossible task in terms of that's the narrative and that's exactly the way Caroline Levitt framed it today.
16:28
She said the story we're being told is that this is impossible and what Donald Trump is doing here is presenting somebody that nobody has ever thought to present. I was taken aback by it at first as well, but a couple of the reasons I think it's interesting. First of all, it's probably not going to be to Ghost point, like exactly what we see developed initially. This is a narrative deployment, right? We're just doing body language checks on Netanyahu. So I don't find that all that compelling of like, did he know or not? But if you just look at the surface level and you think, okay, whoever, whichever direction he seems to go in on a binary in favor of Palestine slash Hamas or in favor of Israel, he's going to get vehemently attacked by the other side.
17:17
And it's like nobody considered that Ian Carroll video is fascinating because he was one of those frothing at the mouth, Trump is a Zionist guys like a week ago. And this narrative deployment literally paralyzed him. Like for nine minutes he's going back and forth with himself about how maybe he was Wrong about Trump, but he doesn't really think he was, but maybe he was. And the reason is he's saying, well, what do you do? Like, if we did have American assets, whatever you want to frame that as on the ground in Gaza, what on earth israel supposed to do if they want to start bombing the Gaza Strip? What on earth is Hamas supposed to do, especially if they get their funding from somewhere specific? It's.
18:05
I took this as a warning like that Trump, you know, he does that anchoring thing we've been talking about recently and that the American people saw with Canada and Mexico. He starts with, this is what I could do. Just FYI BB and just FYI other interests in the Middle East, I have the power projection capabilities to do this. So let's see what else transpires so that I don't have to, you know.
18:33
Pretty much the only way they would bomb the United States over there, as if he named the strip the USS Liberty. So as long as he doesn't do that, we should be fine.
18:45
I do have actually a very relevant 46 second clip. And this is from the meeting where Netanyahu came to visit Trump. Exact same setting to the February 15, 2017, and almost the exact same discussion. But I think it's worth watching and just like compare and contrast that moment in this moment.
19:06
We only allow 45 second videos or less on here. So can't do it. But no, I guess one exception, only exception for tonight.
19:15
All right, fair enough.
19:18
As far as settlements, I'd like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit.
19:26
Okay. And secondly, on the settlement issue, what did it say?
19:30
It says, awkward exchange between Netanyahu and Trump over settlements. So they're talking about illegal Israeli settlements. This is when the Israeli citizens, many of whom are actually US Citizens, run into the west bank behind the idf, and then these people go into the homes and say, these homes belong to us. Now.
19:52
I was just asking to like what it said on the screen because I thought, yeah, like, can you just rewind it like five seconds and I'll read it to everybody? Yeah, sure, go for it. As far as settlements, a little bit toward right here. Trump and Netanyahu have awkward exchange over west bank settlements.
20:12
And secondly, on the settlement issue, are you both on the same page as far as settlements, I'd like to see you hold back on settlements for a little bit. We'll work something out. But I would like to see a deal be made. I think a deal will be made. Bibi and I have Known each other a long time. A smart man, great negotiator. And I think we're going to make a deal. It might be a bigger and better deal than people in this room even understand that's a possibility. So let's see what we do.
20:41
Let's try.
20:41
It doesn't sound optimistic, but that's good. Negotiator.
20:48
That's the art of the deal. Oh, wow.
20:51
Yeah.
20:52
That's fascinating.
20:53
Very, very cold.
20:54
This is 20, what, 17.
20:56
This is literally like the 20 days after Trump entered office that was. The first person to come visit him again was Netanyahu.
21:04
So 2017.
21:05
2017, yep.
21:06
Okay. That's wild because he didn't even talk to Netanyahu about that before this. You know what I mean? Yeah.
21:15
And then this right here, this is from like three days before the inauguration. This is Queen Renaya. I think I'm saying her name right, but this is the Queen of Jordan. And there are pictures going across social media of like, you know, she's very elegant. She kind of has a Melania Trump vibe. And they get along very well. So this is, these are the people that they're talking. Trump is talking about taking in the Palestinians, and there's reasons why that's not going to happen. That has less to do with Israel, more to do with the Arabs. But we can talk about that.
21:49
But let's talk about that a little bit, because the reaction from pretty much all other world leaders here, including the ones in the Middle east, is like, nobody wants to displace the Palestinians. The Saudi Arabia, in the immediate aftermath of this announcement was like, no, we're not okay with this. It came out today. Russia's not okay with this. I can't imagine China's okay with it. But I don't know if I've seen an actual announcement from them. Pretty much everybody's like, no, we do not want the United States to come in here. And if you think the long term play is not us to be there, but the regions of responsibilities, maybe Saudi Arabia or these other groups taking over that area and stopping this war, Trump threatening to do it, and these countries being like, no, we'll do it is kind of the play.
22:32
You know what I mean?
22:33
Yes, exactly. Exactly. Yeah. Like him. Him, basically. And I, I don't want to say antagonizing, but basically stirring up enough energy, like energizing people to step up and take responsibility. Yes.
22:48
And the other side of this is like, these negotiations have probably already taken place. Like, this is the. They all know this is going to happen. It's just going through the process. Probably for Netanyahu's sake. Yes. For it to happen the way it needs to happen.
23:03
Yes. Yeah. The negotiation that's happening right now is with the Israelis. That's because I don't think there's any way Trump goes out and does what he did last night unless he has all of the Arabs, including Qatar, on his side. There's no way. There's just absolutely no way. There's also the fact that. And we've been talking about the Apprentice, not the Apprentice, but the Art of the Deal on. On my show. And one thing Trump says in the Art of Deals, he says a man's word is sacred. He says when you give somebody your word, that's the deal. You don't wait for the contract. You don't like, go back on your word. And once you lose that, your reputation is done and you'll never be a deal maker again.
23:41
And he gave Abbas, the Palestinian president, his word in May 2017 that he was going to be the president to make sure that Palestine was liberated from this situation. So I think he's going to follow through on that. The Arabs have a reason to push back against this in their part of the world. In the east in general, they don't have what we call in the west the divine right of kings, meaning that your power comes from God, their power comes from the tribe. So the minute you stop delivering, the minute you stop, you lose the confidence of the tribe. They remove you from power. And that actually happened in the night in the 1960s, 1964, right after JFK was killed.
24:23
The Saudis all decided that, the brothers all decided that the new king, well knew he had been in office for 11 years, that he was incompetent. So they said, you have to advocate. He advocated. And another guy came in. So this has happened before and it can happen again. And Colonel McGregor has been talking about how the Jordanian king and the president of Egypt have. Both are both facing basically lynch mobs and have been facing that for months because of the unrest, because people there are wondering, why are we just standing by and allowing this to happen to Gaza? So if they. If you then take 1.25 million Palestinians, put them in Egypt, 1.25 million Palestinians, put them in Jordan, and they're angry about what's happened. You're just going to make those situations worse. You destabilize the countries, they fall apart.
25:11
You then have a much bigger problem than just Gaza. So there's reasons why this can't happen and why Putin doesn't want it to happen. She doesn't want it to happen. It would destabilize the entire Middle East.
25:23
Is this your like new sock account Running Bright.
25:25
I know. Is that Mrs. Bright, maybe speaking of state run propaganda. Well, Americans just figured, I mean, that'll be another topic tonight, I'm sure, but it's like Americans just figured out that our media is Canadian media through the Usain stuff. No, but that's exactly that. That's what I meant by the anchoring and I saw Q Digger. You pulled that up. Reverse Hegelian dialectic. This is art of the deal. This is. And as you point out, Ghost, it's not just about Israel. I do think that this negotiation is being aimed at Israel right now. You know, it's a whole region. There's spillover effects for the entire Middle east, of course, but it feels like he is directing this negotiation at Israel.
26:09
And pretty much it's interesting when you flashback to that 2017 clip and he's looking at Netanyahu and Trump's posture is, you might be surprised at the deal I'm going to offer you. And BB's posture is, yeah, you can go fuck yourself with that deal. Now we're a little while later and how does Bibi feel about that? That deal probably looks a little bit better. I bet whatever deal was offered in 2017 probably looks a little bit better because now the next deal in. A lot of people in this community are aware at this point and Ghost has been talking about it. One of the keys to Trump's Art of the deal is that his first offer is always the best one. And it gets worse and worse.
26:51
I, I would guess that this offer of American occupation of the Gaza Strip on a permanent basis is worse for them than the first offer. So now I think we're probably going to go back to whatever that first offer is. We don't know what it was, but I bet we're going to find out what it was retroactively.
27:14
So, Ghost, if the long term goal is to have somebody like Saudi Arabia or maybe a coalition of other countries in the Middle east doing what Trump said he was going to do there, why, what has been preventing it from happening that way up until this point?
27:29
Well, so the way that I saw it, you know, October 7th happened, we got together and we talked about it and what I said I wanted to see from that moment is I wanted to see MBS summon the entire Muslim world to riyadh and tell them all to sit down and shut up and not do anything. And that's exactly what happened. He basically held them all back and said, do not retaliate. Kobayashi Maru. The only winning play is not. The only winning move is not to play shut up. And that's exactly what we saw. And, and so once I saw him like, summoning all the people in November and then that's actually what transpired, that gave me, like, all the confidence that what we're watching is basically these guys standing back and saying, all right, y'all want to do this, the stage is yours.
28:17
Go ahead and do it. Look where we are now. I mean, the whole world now is looking at this and saying, who the hell are these guys in Tel Aviv? Why are they doing this? Why is this happening? Why can't we have peace in the Middle East? Why can't we have a two state solution? Everyone on X right now, whether they hate Trump, love Trump, hate Israel, even people who like Israel are all kind of saying, isn't this really weird that we're kind of bending over backwards to do anything and everything that Israel is telling us to do? And like you just pointed out with the executive order pulling out of the UN and all their programs, which is a great silver lining, but because of anti Israel sentiment, I mean, isn't that very strange?
28:57
And so everyone's kind of like asking the same question, which is, does Israel really have that much influence over our government? And I think that's something that should be explored.
29:06
It's also weird too, that, like, they're talking about rebuilding this area, Gaza, and it's just been devastated. Carolyn Levitt today called it, like, apocalyptic. Everything's destroyed. And while Trump is standing there talking about peace in the Middle east, he's standing next to the guy who ordered the destruction of it. You know what I mean? But he doesn't bring that up one single time like, yeah, we need to rebuild this place because you leveled it. You know, weird. But again, kind of back to my question. I don't, I don't know if I really got answer out of it. And if I, if you did answer it, I wasn't listening or paying attention. Why haven't these countries done this before? Like, if the end game is to have Saudi Arabia lead a coalition of people taking over the Gaza Strip, why haven't they done that yet?
29:50
Like, why is it requiring Trump to threaten to do it himself to get them to, like, publicly admonish it and then go in there themselves? You Know what I mean? Like, why is this step required?
30:00
Great question. Two things were required to get us to this. The first was we needed the guy, all right? And the guy is mbs. Day one is that we needed the leader, the guy who could bring the entire Muslim world together and get them on the same page. The second thing we needed to happen is we needed all of the tribal disputes and all of. All of the animosity within the Arab world, within the Muslim world, because you have. These Arab countries did not get along. You had. Because of tribal politics. You had. The Muslim world didn't get along. Like Iran hated Saudi Arabia hated Turkey, Qatar hated Iran. You had to resolve all that. A lot of that required cleaning up bad actors. We actually watched that play out.
30:41
2018, 2019, 2020, with Trump's help, they kind of all worked, you know, shook out all of the. All of the moths and got. And got rid of a lot of the bad blood. It's not all gone, but they were able to basically set aside their differences and come together. Now they're all on the same page because the move, by the way, with the Abraham Accords is to get Arabia to go to war with Persia. That's what Netanyahu said he wants to do. That's. That's what Lindsey Graham says he wants to do. That's what the neocons say they want to do. So how do you stop that from happening? I mean, what. What Trump is doing right now with saying, hey, we're going to take all these Palestinians and dump them in Arabia. And the Arabs are like, hell, you are absolutely not, Netanyahu.
31:24
Get out of here. And then Netanyahu at the same time is saying, let's go ahead and start bombing Iran, guys. And the Arabs are like, no, absolutely not. So I think that's part of it. But the two things that needed to happen yet had to have the guy. You had to get all the Muslims on the same page. You now have that. You have unity in the Muslim world for the first time since the Prophet Muhammad.
31:44
So if I'm understanding Ghosts the way I'm interpreting that, because, you know, it's complicated. I get what you're saying, but I also get what John is saying. Like, I think what we're looking for, why couldn't. Or we don't know what the end game is, right? But I guess if we want to play broad end game, it's peace, right? It's for Israel to stop attacking Palestinians, for Palestinians to have a place to go. But but given the explanation you just gave, it makes me put together. It feels like this negotiation is all toward Israel. And the explanation you just gave, I think indirectly answers the question. So if the Arab world, when the Arab world was separated, you had this kind of trinity over there. Right. You had Israel, Arabia and Iran and Right.
32:36
Where there was constantly tensions being leveraged from two against one, from one against two, etc. And for the first time, maybe in maybe ever, all of the Arab world is pretty much unified, or at least they're unified, that they are not going to fight each other. That includes Saudi Arabia, by the way.
32:57
Like, why are they unified? Why are they unified? Sorry to interrupt, but.
33:01
Well, they have a common vision now. They have this Vision 2030, where they're like, they're basically like, we're all going to get rich now and there's going to be lots and lots of prosperity. Whereas before you didn't have that. You, you didn't have golden edge stuff. Yeah, yeah. You didn't have like, something to look forward to. You had basically old, like, like disputes that were never getting resolved and people just kicking up dirt.
33:23
But, but really the third thing is the usaid, because the thing that just happened on Monday with Trump revoking the OR shutting down usaid, remember that money is getting pumped in to Syria, it's getting pumped into Iraq, it's getting pumped into Palestine, and it's funding these proxy groups that are destabilizing things, recruiting young men to come join them, giving them bags of cash to say, hey, let's go shoot up this building. Hey, let's go do whatever. Like, let's go do some hood rat stuff and we'll give you a bunch of cash. And that's basically how they do it.
33:54
Sorry.
33:56
Yeah. Well, to your point though, that you just made there, John, of. Of what's the. Why aren't they fighting and everything? I also think that this loops into. We may or may not get to it later, but the Saudi purge from 2017 when Ghost says the MBS is the right guy, I think that's right, but I think. Why is he the right guy? Is he the right guy because Donald Trump likes him? Like, no, that's why he's the right guy for Americans. Why is he the right guy in the Middle East? Because the Saudi royal family were involved in a lot of the destabilization over there. And then obviously you have Western intel that was involved in the destabilization in Iran with the Iranian regime since the 70s, right. So with the Ayatollah.
34:36
So if, you know, we have to take a bit of a leap of faith here, but it looks like the gravity of the situation proves out that the other Middle Eastern leaders trust Mohammed bin Salman because of what he did in 2017. Like, he put up. He put up or shut up. He went in there and he took down the Saudi Arabian deep state in a way that we've, we have fever dreams in the US and the last point there I wanted to make about Israel is that if Trump is giving Netanyahu right now an ultimatum, he's basically saying, like, listen, Dad's going to be home soon, and dad being home soon means we take it and you're fucked if we, you're fucked forever if we take it, or we're going to leave.
35:21
And now we're going to leave you Israel, surrounded by a unified Muslim world for the first time ever. And if you don't think that the Arabians and the Iranians and everybody else in that area won't unify if Israel keeps going, like, Go said, they've been holding themselves back. But it feels to me like this israel's last chance to come to the table. And Trump's unspoken threat here is if we leave, we're going to leave you to the Arab world. We're going to let them do with. Do with you what they've always wanted to do with you. That's, that's how I see. I could be misinterpreting that, but no.
36:05
I think it's, I mean, it's logical. I think it makes sense. I just don't know enough about the Middle east to know. Again, this is not my area of expertise. I can give broad strokes, but I think I'm going to read this because this is from Saudi Arabia and this is what they said, like, immediately after the announcement. I'm pretty sure it was posted within, like, 15 minutes. And it's worth. Worth reading through. The Ministry of Foreign affairs affirms that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's position on the establishment of a Palestinian state is firm and unwavering. His Royal Highness, Prince Mohammed bin Salman Bin. Oh, why are the names so long and hard to read? I'm just going to skip it.
36:39
Crown Prince and Prime Minister clearly and unequivocally reaffirmed this stance during his speech at the opening of the first session of the ninth term of the Ashura Council on September. Blah, blah. His Royal Highness emphasized that Saudi Arabia will continue its relentless efforts to establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital and will not establish diplomatic relations with Israel without that. And goes, I'm not gonna read through the rest, but you kind of get the point there. Saudi Arabia is not willing. Like this is a non negotiable for them. And so what Trump did, and I think you phrased it this way, it's almost like an act of war in a sense against Saudi Arabia, who we've believed for a long time has been working with Trump behind the scenes, like the sword dance stuff.
37:27
And we know before this even happened, before Trump went out there and announced this, I think it was him directly, but if not him, I think Senator Rubio is not, no longer Senator. Secretary of State Rubio had a phone call with Saudi Arabia and let all these people know what was coming. So they knew this was coming. But yeah. Any comments or thoughts on that?
37:48
Yeah, no, it's spot on. I mean, remember the day after those the Silicon Valley bureaus came out and did the $500 billion AI announcement. The very next day MBS came out and said, yeah, that's cool, I'm gonna do 600 billion by myself. And then Trump later said, yeah, he's probably actually gonna do a trillion. So by himself, like these other guys had to pull their money together and MBS is like, yeah, I'm just gonna do a trillion by myself. So. And the fact that he had to make it 600 billion, I think was a shot across the bow. Just like, yeah, I'm gonna be the big stack. Don't worry about it.
38:23
That's, that's 911 reparations.
38:26
Yeah, yeah. But, but Trump, I think, you know, Trump doesn't go out there last night and say all that stuff unless he's confident that he's not going to lose that 600 billion, that he's not going to lose MBS's trust, that him and MBS are good. So again, like you said, I think this is a lot of, this is posturing. Remember that I mentioned earlier on your show that, and BB messaged me about it earlier that Reuters announced or reported that Riyadh is probably going to be the site for the Putin Trump reconciliation. So we're gonna have like we'd have the Kodak moment of MBS bringing Trump and Putin together. And yeah, there you go. So they're saying UAE or Saudi Arabia, it's 100 going to be Saudi Arabia.
39:14
And, and FYI, just as a added bit of color here, this was the Russians who are Requesting this. So this is like Ben Solomon to Ghost Point, I think is really shaping up in the public narrative, as you said, John. These guys, we know, I mean, sovereign alliance is proven at this point circumstantially, is overwhelming. You know, we know these guys are. Have relationships. Trump's pretty open about that at this point. But it seems like in the public narrative, MBS's role is going to be as that broker. Like, he's going to be that unification point where Trump can come to the table, Putin can come to the table.
39:53
And the last piece of that little puzzle is the guy who, up until literally last night, Tuesday, said that he would not sit down with Putin, was Zelensky, and has now said he will sit down with Putin, still considers him an enemy, but he'll sit down with him.
40:09
Yeah, I don't know if this means anything, but in this letter that he wrote, he talks about, he reiterated this firm position during the extraordinary Arab Islamic summit held in Riyadh. Like, so they just held a big summit there where he talked about this. Is it fitting that they're having potentially the meeting, the peace talks in Riyadh later on?
40:32
It is, I think. I think it's definitely symbolic. I think it's definitely. I mean, what MBS has said for the past 10 years is that his vision 2030, is that he wants Riyadh to be literally the center of the world. It's already the geographic center of the world. He wants that to be the conference room for where people come to meet. Not Davos, not Belgium, but he wants Riyadh to be where parties come to meet and reconcile differences. So I think this makes a lot of sense.
41:02
And the beauty of that, too, like, as on an esoteric sort or human level, is that. What is that? What is that region of the world known for to east and west for the last hundred years? Bloodshed, war, misery, chaos. Right. And if we are going into this global golden age, it would be fitting for the Middle East. Geographically, it makes sense. Of course, as you said, culturally, it makes sense because they're kind of the perfect middle point between Eastern and Western culture, but also just in terms of, like, poetic justice, spiritual healing. If you've got the Middle east being a place that becomes known to a next, the next generation as the. The place of peace, like the Cradle of Pete, this is where people figure shit out.
41:46
I guess an open question maybe to both of you, is we don't know where this stuff is going to go. Right? But if we're assuming that Trump is dealing here, that he's negotiating. Usually it doesn't mean we're going to get what he laid out. Usually it doesn't mean we're going to get this US rebuilding of Gaza, etc. Right. Just like we didn't get the tariffs on Mexico and Canada that he was saying. Trump in the past has talked two state solution. As you just pointed out, John, MBS is two state solution. Putin is two state, Xi is two state. Everybody's two state except for B.B. Netanyahu and Lindsey Graham. Do you think that this story ends some way somehow with two state solution codified? And that's what in that's the deal, right? Is Trump sitting here going, you're getting a two state solution.
42:34
It's either we're going to babysit you permanently on your border or you're going to do the two state solution and in agree in accordance with what the Arab world wants.
42:47
Is there a third option though? Like, is there another option?
42:49
That's what I'm asking. I don't know.
42:50
I mean, something people haven't thought of yet. Because that's where I think it's going to end up being. Because the two state solution, a lot of what I've listened today, I even did listen to like 10 minutes of Ben Shapiro just to see what he was saying and he was like, totally. He loved, I couldn't handle much of it. But they're talking about, you know, like what Trump did here. This is totally unconventional. Nobody's done it like this before. It's a completely unique idea, all these things. And like. Yeah, that's true. And then he's like, and this is going to result in the two states illusion or something, which is like the idea that's been there forever. Right. What is the other option?
43:30
Well, the other option that's been presented more recently, I've heard Colonel Wilkerson, who's the guy who had, you know, has gone on the Politano show and made these devolution type remarks about certain Pentagon officials and you know, sitcom combatant commanders. He says that. I've heard a few other people say it as well. Basically, if you can get the, like the hyper radical Zionist element out of the Israeli government, like out of Israeli politics, and just restore a actual real, quote unquote democracy, as much as we've all come to despise that word, you could actually see maybe a one state solution where the whole thing can work. I don't know if we're gonna if that's possible day one, it probably is a process because there's going to be a lot of distrust and mistrust.
44:26
It would require a pretty extraordinary event for you, you to go there like at one time. But yeah, I mean, I think it is possible to see a one state solution. If you don't have the Jewish supremacist view in Tel Aviv where you have guys in power right now who say we want to conquer these areas and then the Arab citizens who choose to stay will have citizenship, but they will be considered second class citizens. Smotrick has a thesis where he's written that out like in legal form and what, what that would look like codified into law. So yeah, you have to get that element removed. I think even a two state solution with that element there really makes the two state solution have a lot of friction and tension. So at the very least you need the two state solution. 1967 border.
45:16
But maybe one day it could be a one state solution as long as people can get along and have common ground.
45:23
Yeah, interesting.
45:27
One thing I would say though, it would be really interesting to see that the Russians, if the Russians come to Riyadh, make peace with Trump. What if we see Russia take, take over Gaza like the Russian?
45:37
Well, I wasn't thinking Russia, but I, I was, I did just have the thought, you know, if you look at what Trump presented and don't think of it as this crazy ridiculous thing, but maybe take the US element out of it. Russia wasn't what popped into my head, but what did pop into my head for some reason was like the uae. Now I know the UAE is their own independent nation, but it functions kind of as an international playground. Like it's by playground I mean sort of business playground. What you were saying about peace talks with the Saudis, the UAE is sort of that for business leaders, you know, like Dubai has really become this place where business interests and entertainment interests can go. You know, Another one that pops into my head is Singapore. Like very high standard of living.
46:30
It's, it's a safe place. A lot of people in the west don't know that. And it's a place where business interests and political interests can go and sort of deal with each other in neutral territory. And if we're looking at some sort of transition period, could Gaza become that like sort of a, an autonomous zone where it's like not in the way it has been where it's an autonomous zone just waiting for the Israelis to bomb them Next or Hamas to do something, but more of a prestige autonomous zone where lots of international interests are. So if you build it into almost this Morocco or this Singapore type thing, these are kind of stretched analogies but like something like that where you know, whether it's the Russians or the Chinese and it's like, hey, you know what? If, if you all, if X comp.
47:27
It's if X countries send aid to this region and participate in the restoration of the Gaza Strip, it could be built into something and used as a model to the point where Trump is saying, but then the Palestinians get the right to live there. Like you get these international countries almost subsidizing, but hopefully not in a globalist way, more in a free market way.
47:55
Yeah, and it's fitting. Crown Prince, he had a call with the UAE president today. He also had a call with the Jordanian president today. They talked about mutual areas of interest and stuff. But the, the part of this, that, and this is going to tie us into our second subject. And Ghost, you're welcome to stay for more if you want because we're going to get into the USAID stuff. The, the most important aspect of making sure what we've witnessed going on in Gaza and the Middle east for the last decades to make sure that doesn't happen again is to get rid of the terrorists that are doing it.
48:28
The people funding the terrorists is our own government in the CIA and a lot of that has been done through the usaid and that is being wiped out and taken off the table now like that's one source of their funds directly and it's going bye now at least it's being exposed. We're going to get to that. But first I got to get to our next sponsor, so bear with me. We got Field of Greens. I try to eat healthy, but I'm human. Occasionally I fall off the healthy eating wagon and that's why I got my diet insurance. Field of Greens. Even when I mess up my diet, nutrition, Field of Greens keeps me on a healthy track. What's the point of supplements or green drinks if you aren't 100% confident they'll improve your health? Field of Greens is radically better.
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49:51
Otherwise I think we can segue right into the USAID stuff because the last couple days, maybe even since Monday, you know the whole story. Elon Musk gets access to usaid. They end up locking a bunch of people out. They shut the whole website down for a while. When it comes back online yesterday, there's just a big page there that says like, you're all fired. F you guys. And now they barged in.
50:14
John Barged.
50:16
Bunch of nerds. Like a bunch of creepy nerds, as the Democrats are saying. And it's kind of fascinating watching this stuff all get exposed on Twitter. Like everybody's getting involved. They're digging up stuff from the USA spending site, seeing where all this money is going. Not only is this stuff going to like just foreign trans, you know, group stuff overseas, which is just coded language for regime change operations and terrorist groups, but it's also funding media here, domestic narrative warfare operations. The same people who were burying Hunter Biden laptop stories who are helping cover for Biden the last four years, like you name it was probably being funded in some fashion by the USAID and our government. And it's a huge story.
51:03
There is another aspect to this I want to talk about, but I think we should celebrate the good stuff first because this is more of a. People aren't going to like hearing this take. And so, but yeah, what are you guys thoughts on it so far?
51:19
Before the show, I was saying, and I know John, you mentioned that Mike Benz talks about this a lot, the Smith Modernization Act. So for anybody who somehow is not aware, the Smith mundt Act of 1948 was amended in 2013 during the Obama administration and essentially legalized government propaganda without saying that it was, this was under the guise or under the auspices of United States government storytelling or narrative toward foreign interests. That was what it was supposed to be, but there's no parameters put on it. Right. So I had told John, I had an interesting back and forth with Grok earlier today where I was asking about the Smith Monetization Act.
52:06
Because I said on Twitter today, you know, this should be the first thing people think of when they see money being disclosed going to Politico, the New York Times, US Media, you should think propaganda, obviously. And then, okay, let's reverse engineer that. People are using terms like illegal online. And what I was saying earlier today is actually the scandal here is that none of this is illegal at all. This is very legal, and it was legalized in 2013. So I think that we should shift this conversation. I mean, in the wider space, stop calling stuff illegal. Start looking at the game. Right? Don't look at the players, look at the game. They're all playing the game according to the rules. Politico is playing according to the rules. The New York Times playing according to the rules. They're propagandists. They're professional, legal government propagandists.
52:55
And you know, the other point on that was that the interesting exchange I had with Grok, if I can find it, I asked if the USAID disclosures about this funding to Politico, etcetera, could be related to the Smith Modernization act, and if so, how? Of course it's going to say, well, we don't know. But it did say that there's so much wiggle room in that act that it says usage involvement with media often pertains to international development, democracy promotion, encountering disinformation abroad. However, if USAID funds were directed toward American media companies, they can be for purposes like supporting journalism in areas of U.S. Interest or countering foreign disinformation domestically, especially in the context of global information wars. So that's the loophole that is in this foreign propaganda. I mean, I don't think foreign propaganda should be legal either, but it is.
53:56
Okay, so that's the loophole is that if the government can justify the propaganda by saying that Americans are being misled by foreign disinformation campaigns, then they can deploy that propaganda on American citizens. And it made me think of the clip John plays all the time of Donald Trump with the talking about illegal psychological operations being conducted against the American people.
54:25
Don't forget, this persecution is being done by the same weaponized agencies that for seven years have been running illegal psychological warfare campaigns against the American people, much as if they were trying to destabilize a foreign country. From the Russia, Russia hoax to the no collusion Mueller witch hunt to impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two.
54:50
You get the idea.
54:51
So the last point on that would Be it. It adds another layer to all of the Russia, Russia impeachment hoax. 1 and 2. We know that those were illegal. Right. If they were knowingly fals, that's where this all, what this all hinges on. If it's knowingly false, then that's illegal. That's where he's pulling that word in. But it gives you another motive for the Russia hoax. They didn't really. They didn't. It's not just that they wanted to convince the American people that Trump was a Russian agent. It's that as long as they believed Trump was a Russian agent, they were allowed to lie to the American people about everything that spun out from that. That, that's kind of how I'm looking at it now.
55:37
And I'm thinking that this ball of worms that Elon is disclosing maybe starts to get us to unwind to those 2013 National Defense Authorization act that Obama signed. And that is when I fully blackpilled as a Democrat, by the way, was the ndaa.
55:57
Yeah, you're spot on. And this is where I said, Mike, I don't think Mike Benz necessarily has talked about the Smithmont act, but he's talked about that, the foreign censorship, stuff like the money that is being put into these agencies under the, you know, the justification of foreign censorship. It's, it's all being done here domestically too. And a lot of this stuff came out in the Twitter files. But anyway. Go ahead, Ghost.
56:22
Yeah, I, I think that this US Aid thing is the most significant thing Trump has done thus far and it may in hindsight be the most significant thing he does as president. Just in terms of a single move to destroy the deep state, to dismantle the swamp. Ron Paul put out a video, like a five minute video that Elon quote, posted and said, interesting, that really ruffled a lot of feathers. But Ron Paul said there's a huge misunderstanding among Americans about what the usaid, the Agency for International Development office is. Y'all think it is something that engages in humanitarian efforts. The only reason that office exists is for regime change operations. That's the only thing it does. And that's what Ron Paul said.
57:14
Including here.
57:15
Yeah, including here. And, and as I said on a few other shows earlier today, what we've lived through under the past four or five years is what every other country has lived through for the past 50 years because of our government. And that's why a lot of countries have, a lot of people across the world have animosity towards the US Government is because we've been doing to them what our government has done to us for the past, you know, four years. We just got a very small taste of it.
57:43
You're. You're spot on, man. It is really cool and fascinating to see people kind of wake up to this. The part that's a little. I don't know how to say this the right way, but. But it's really. It really shouldn't be that upsetting to people because we've been talking about this for a long time, especially Chris Paul. Chris Paul has been on the nose about this for years. Let me. Let me pull up this post because this is where I saw today again. And I sent it to Chris and he's like, I just read this again, and this is exactly what I've been talking about since the Twitter files dropped. And it's. It's spot on. Hold on, I gotta find it. Gosh dang. It might take a second. This guy's. A lot of posts. It's the last refuge.
58:26
I don't know if you guys are familiar.
58:28
Yeah, the conservative treehouse.
58:31
Maybe it's this. No, that's not it. Hold on. Like, some of this guy's stuff is good. Or girl. I don't know if it's got a girl, but some of it is very doomy. Yep. But. But listen. I would advise everyone to pause for a moment as the fevered pitch of a new awakening takes shape specifically around the. You said information. Ask ourselves, are we being managed? Pause. Think about the Twitter files as a reference for how DHS was controlling online speech and communication. Did the Twitter files reveal the DHS control mechanisms? Or was the DHS control system coming to light and the revelations needed to be managed? Was the Twitter file release a control mechanism to get out in front of something the American people were discovering on their own? That's the reference here.
59:15
Were we managed by a controlled system releasing the Twitter file information? If you understand that reference, then ask yourself, is the USET information, which at its core outlines how the intelligence community was in control of multiple DHS silos to influence American society. Yet another operation to control information that was coming to light. Don't be emotional about it. Think logically. Are we discovering the USET information because elements of the IC understood that you said information was starting to surface in the national conversation organically? If you can see the similar approach to both the DHS control of the social media coming to light Twitter files and the same DHS control of the use of tentacles, then is it accidental that Elon Musk is involved in both information releases? Big picture. Is the IC managing the revelations. All roads lead to Langley. Is the journey being managed?
59:59
Think about it. Now, the caveat to this is with Dan Ratcliffe and Michael. Michael Ellis at the CIA, they offered buyouts to everybody. It looks like they're gonna just completely clean house over there. Maybe it doesn't matter if that's what they're trying to do here. But there's a point like this is very similar to how the Twitter files, the limited hangout of the Twitter files were released. You know what I mean?
01:00:24
Yeah, I mean, I think it's. I think it's good to engage with this stuff. I mean, you know, we go back and forth on this stuff a lot. I. We need to be careful to not go full Last Refuge or full. Whitney Webb would be the female version of the Last Refuge, who, you know, can spin anything that seems to be good happening into bad. But, you know, we can be logical.
01:00:50
You can be logical without being doomer.
01:00:52
No, I agree with that. I would just say that it is very difficult to get up. I don't say this to be like, flippant, but if that's the case, and if you say it is this dastardly limited hangout, then Trump is behind it and that he's the bad guy and we lost. And we're like, that. That's what that means. That's what that means because he's so. I think that's what it means because it's like, it gets to the point where. So we gave the largest DoD contract ever to a guy who's managing limited hangouts on behalf of the Deep State to the American people. Like, is that the allegation?
01:01:29
No, but just, just. Because if it is a limited hangout, that doesn't mean Trump is Deep State either. He could just be using as exposure op like he does everything else. Like, he could take it a step further however he wants, but I think it's something to pay attention to, of how this information is being released. Who are the ones being highlighted, talking about all this stuff? And because if Elon Musk is just highlighting like the same 10 accounts talking about this, then it's just like giving access to only Shellenberger, to Libby and whoever, Barry Weiss or whatever. To go through the Twitter, you know, to go through the Twitter files and all of this stuff, like, needs to be made totally public. And I don't know if there's getting, if there's any other Information that they're getting.
01:02:13
Elon Musk that we're not able to get on USA government spending or whatever the government website. Like who knows if that's even accur. Because that's where a lot of the stuff I'm seeing is coming from. All of this should be made public. Just like I think all the Twitter files should have been made public to everybody should be open sourced. And that's the concern that I'm having is what aren't we seeing? Like we're seeing all the media companies, the politicos and all these things, the nefarious ones. That's great, that's awesome. But what aren't we seeing? Because it's not open sourced.
01:02:41
Yeah, yeah, that's a really good point. I would say that one of the really positive things I am seeing come out of this, that is a really important thing to focus on is are we getting the full picture? Kind of like what Ezra Cohen Watnick said about the JFK files. Like when the JFK files come out, are we actually going to be getting the full picture? Are we getting a limited hangout? He kind of implied that.
01:03:05
Yes, he did.
01:03:06
L actually had a. Some. I know that's her handle.
01:03:13
Well, you didn't just refer to her.
01:03:14
Like that because she had a great post earlier where she said that she had like. She just felt like she was in a really great like headspace because of all the positivity she's seeing on X, coming on X. She's not seeing the divisiveness that you see every day where everyone's at each other's throats. Instead it's like everyone is posting the digs that they're doing on the USAD Aid website being like, look what I found. And she's like, this feels like a throwback to like the old days of like 4chan and like 8coon where people were just posting their information that they were finding and everyone was kind of building on what other people were figuring out. And it felt like a real collaboration as opposed to, you know, like a, a competition to see who could be the biggest hardo.
01:04:00
So great point. Yeah.
01:04:03
So I think that's like a really important thing to also note is that in order to really make a success out of what this is, the great awakening, whatever you want to call it, I think that everyone has to recognize that we're not all going to be on the same page. There's never going to be a moment where we all are like, oh, we all agree on every single thing at once. It's going to be more about setting aside our differences and focusing on the common, like the common ground, focusing on where do we have shared interests. And this situation is a perfect example how our government is controlling the entire world but also controlling the American society with this nefarious, you know, agency.
01:04:43
I, I want to piggyback on that too because I think that helps me clarify my point. I, I think that it is logical and reasonable to not just like wait for Elon Musk to come down from the mountain with the sacred tablets and present them to us. I think that Chris has good discernment and, you know, ruthless skepticism. We need that last rep. The reason I take a shot at Last Refuge and people like Whitney Webb is they are professional doomers if you engage with any of their content. That's not what Chris does. Chris is a skeptic who doesn't want to be bamboozled just like none of us do and often does sniff things out where we're being misled. There are other people who are, their job seems to be, or their self imposed job is to demoralize everybody about everything.
01:05:30
And what Ghost just said there, my point is that it's basically that what are the net effects? What I started doing the first year I started doing info war stuff. It's good to try to ask like who's getting the information and how much is being held back. But if I try to engage with even the limited hangout theory and say, okay, let's say that's what's going on, how does that seem to be going for them? How is if from the perspective of the American people, you can never again as the president ever get the public mandate to create an agency that functions like you said, ever again, right?
01:06:09
So like where I come from is if the limited hangout is at the point where they are disclosing the general vector of deep state power projection to hundreds of millions of people, they are not in a good spot. And you can't put that back in the bottle, right? Trump can't go up there and be like we're gonna start maga. You say magade and we're gonna hide everything from you there. But we're, but totally trust us, bro. Like if he did that, he would get called out by 90% of these hundred million people, you know, talking about this stuff around the water cooler. So that's just what I mean, there is that, you know, the Whitney Webb's of the world.
01:06:55
The reason I bring her up and I don't care about saying people's names, is she'll like, push bitcoin, for example, whatever your thoughts are on that. And then go on a podcast about how these people control the network. And then one podcast I saw the girl interviewing her is like, so are you pro bitcoin and think it's a decentralized solution or no. And you can sometimes trap somebody like her or the Last Refuge and realize that they're literally never going to give you a positive answer because they're either not supposed to give you a positive answer, which means they might be the ones leading you into the wrong direction, or they're incapable of thinking that something could be going well.
01:07:36
You know, I get everything you're saying, and you're making great points. You know, we can never. We can never have an agency like you said again. Right? But think about this. What's our major concern about the election victory from. From 2024 is we don't want people going back to sleep because we got it now. We won. Now let elections are fine again. The use said budget is like less than 1% of our total budget. How much of our other agencies and government spending is similar programs like this, we can expose one of them. Everybody thinks the problem's taken care of. And if we don't get it all, then there could be other agencies just like this in other parts of our government that we are never, not even aware of.
01:08:17
Well, granted, but Elon Musk follows up this storm about USAID by saying IRS next. Right. Like, so we do need to hold them to account, John. For sure. But I just think there's. Sometimes there can be this whiplash of like, it's not enough. And it's like, it's February 5th.
01:08:35
Yeah. All I'm saying is this is the same, like, all the feels of the limited hangout we got with the Twitter files, which I'm not saying is a bad thing. I'm not saying what. What we got out of the Twitter files was bad. I'm just saying it. It was. That was a limited hangout. That was a definition of a limited hangout. And I think it's okay to acknowledge when we're seeing a similar pattern with how things are unfolding here. Like, that's all I'm doing.
01:08:57
I agree. I agree. Yeah. I just, I'm just pointing. I'm just saying that there, there are certain people that, like, I don't think they're being. They're Having this conversation that we're having, I think they're just playing the opposite game. It's like the hipster version of everyone thinks this is good now, so I'm gonna go for sure. So you, I just mean that you have to equally be careful of like, you know, people with that mentality.
01:09:24
It's almost like we could get the Great Awakening and like world peace and they'd be like, yeah, but what if they wanted us to have world peace for a hundred years just to like, you know, I know we're not there, but that the last refuge will be dooming out if we go to like what he wants because he doesn't really have a solution for any of this stuff for sure.
01:09:45
But, but even the people who do mouth like that's sometimes they're going to have good points. You know, I just thought it was a good conversation to have. But yeah, we're very early into this. Trump appears to be holding nothing back. And that's why I'm excited about what we're seeing. I, I just wish this would all be on a blockchain. Completely 100% open source. I want to see more of what Elon is doing because it's very cloak and dagger. Like he's got six people sleeping on couches at these departments. They're not allowed to come out. Nobody knows. Yeah, yeah. It's such a crazy story and like it's not the frickin military doing all this work. It's these six teenagers.
01:10:25
Right, right. Literally. Like do you think sometimes from 4chan.
01:10:28
The kids who grew up on Fortune.
01:10:30
Well, both of you, I'm wondering, especially you, John, with I've just been playing, you know, for years we've been talking about like these are narratives translating what may be really going on behind the scenes. It feels to me like recently it's gotten so, like the public story has gotten so cartoonish that it's like, are they trying to soft disclose that or are they trying to provoke the media into asking them what's really going on? Like, do you ever get the feeling that's what's going on? That's that they're trying to put the media on the spot and be like, yeah, ask me if it's really these 21 year old kids that are running Doge? I don't know.
01:11:11
Yeah, I mean it's hard to believe you. Obviously you have those thoughts with everything. You know, it's try to keep an open mind. It goes between actuals and narrative all the time. Especially it's getting harder for me with doing this new Daily show because I'm trying to be like, more. This is what we're being told. This is just the news. Get us through as much as I can. And it's hard to, like, switch gears in my head between the. Basically, like between Cancon and Chris Paul, you know what I mean?
01:11:40
Like, that is the scale. Actually, that's the Badland scale, which is why no matter all the I talk about Cancon, we need him.
01:11:50
Otherwise our scale would be lopsided.
01:11:52
Yeah, we just. We're gonna spin off into the reality prime and we need some. We need that anchor point.
01:12:00
It's not, it's not easy going back and forth, but yeah, I definitely have those thoughts. Like, there's no way that six teenagers are going through the Treasury Department's books and finding all this stuff. And like, but it's a hilarious college sophomores.
01:12:13
It's a hilarious deployment.
01:12:15
I mean, yeah, because think it. Think of this to the deep state, right? Like, they know how to work computers. They can afford funding. They probably have foreign military people on their books. They have black ops people on their books. They have the CIA agencies on their payroll. Like, they can't afford some technology to fight back against the six teenagers. You know what I mean?
01:12:38
Like, it just seems, well, we have teenagers with autism.
01:12:43
Yeah, well, even that ghost you mentioned, I think it's bang on that, you know, I don't know how much you were joking, but I think some of this stuff is pretty literal. When you mentioned 4chan and everything several weeks ago, I said, I didn't mean this as an insult, but I understand why people take it this way. I said, what's going on Twitter feels like infowar for Dummies or 4chan for Dummies. And I don't mean dumb people. I mean, as you said earlier, it's like a nicer, more normie friendly version of the live digging that was going on by absolute shitlords. Like, if you found your way onto 4chan circa 2010, you. You had to have a certain kind of disposition to find your way there. Like, you don't get there doing normal interneting, but you do get to X doing normal interneting.
01:13:38
So the info war that we're gonna see. And it does make me wonder if part of this whole, like, oh, yeah, it's Elon and his little band of Goonies, like, it's the goonies, the autist 4chan Goonies. It. It genuinely feels to me like trolling of the Deep State. Because the, to your point, John, the Deep State knows, or at least suspects like where this information is really coming from. They've, they've been suspecting the devolution operation if they don't know it for a fact. So I don't think that the Deep State thinks that it's Elon Musk and a 21 year old on 4chan that are digging all this stuff up on them.
01:14:16
Well, somebody in the chat's like, I must have missed the story about these six teenagers. There's a couple stories out there, but this is the first one I clicked on. Doge vs. USAID. How Elon Musk helped his acolytes infiltrate world's biggest aid agency, funding the CIA and operations all over the world. These guys took it over. A posse of cocksure young engineers answering to Musk have stormed through Washington D.C. Gaining access to government computer systems as part of what Senator Chuck Schumer has called an unelected shadow government conducting a hostile takeover of the federal government. The young men, who are all under the age of 26, have almost no government experience, have tapped into the Treasury Department's federal payment system and vacuumed up employment histories at the Office of personnel management. Roughly 20 DOGE employees. Okay, so I was a little wrong.
01:15:05
20 employees all under the age of 26, completely taking over the computer systems or a government and exposing it all. It's just, it's a wild story you have.
01:15:16
I have to share this because we had a celebrity commenter comment on this. Let me just drop, I'm just gonna drop in the chat and you can share, John.
01:15:26
But what's this?
01:15:27
Just take a look at that X link I just put in there. This is causing this story. This, this deployment is causing the highest level of puppets to re out over this. This is Hillary Clinton freaking out about these 19 year olds there.
01:15:46
They have no relevant experience. Most of them aren't even old enough to rent a car. How old do you have to be to rent a car?
01:15:53
How old do you have to be for the Clinton foundation to abduct three? Yeah, I mean, yeah, they're way too old for Hillary.
01:16:03
I do, I do want to address.
01:16:04
Real quick what y'all talking about before. I, I think that the two things that you're talking about with the last refuge Whitney Webb people and John is those people are cynics.
01:16:15
Don't loot me in with them.
01:16:18
I'm saying it's two different ends of the spectrum, John.
01:16:21
You're in, you're on The Whitney Web scale. You're on web one.
01:16:23
You're engaging. You're engaging in vigilance. Like, you're engaging in vigilance, which is what we all need to adopt. Like, our culture needs to adopt a vigilance and have, like, a watchdog mentality over every single thing our government does moving forward, regardless of who's president. What these other people seem to be falling into is cynicism. And it. And a lot of that has to do with when you just study this stuff, which is so depressing and so dark for so long. It is very easy to fall into, like, a pit of hopelessness because it just seems so overwhelming. Like, how are we going to defeat this? Like, nobody ever thought that USAID was going to be shut down, right?
01:17:00
You know, to. To your point, Ghost, I. I mean, I'm biased with this, but I think that a lot of these kind of cynical nihilist postmodernists that we're seeing that are. That are putting out good information, but that have just doomer glasses on, I think most of them are former liberals. And I can attest that as a Obama voter, it's not just that I'm a former Obama voter. And it's like, you're gonna doom out, right? It's that voting for Obama in 2008 was a response to, like, what liberals saw as this horrific darkness of the Bush regime. And then it felt like the Great Awakening. I know it sounds so silly to conservatives who knew Obama was bad, right? But y'all still voted for the Bushes, or a lot of you did. So we. We both got hoodwinked.
01:17:52
But, like, it was so demoralizing for liberals who are not retarded to have fallen for the hope and change. It was like the Maga of 2008, but just opposite. And then when you do, when you find out like this, and that's what I said earlier, the. The 2013 National Defense Authorization act, it wasn't just the Smith Modernization Act. It was that Occupy Wall street was something that liberals were ridiculed over by conservatives, and they were 100% right about. So, like, conservatives at the time were defending Bernie Madoff and Wall street bankers. Now we're all on the same side. But I. But to your point, Ghost, I do think some of these. These cynics, they're Obama. They're ex Obama voters. They've been hoodwinked by both sides. And so they.
01:18:43
They can't believe that it's possible that we actually do have something different in there right now. And I Was there. Like, I was. It took me a while with Trump, and the Q drops were instrumental in that for me to see him as something more than just kind of a bull in a china shop. So I can have sympathy for it. It's just that at times I'm like, man, I go on YouTube and, like, the most watched episodes of any podcast are these people just dooming out about every single topic.
01:19:12
I just want to clarify something. I never voted for McKenna Romney. I actually was ahead of my time and wrote in Trump in both 2012 and 2016 and 2008. That's a joke.
01:19:24
I love it.
01:19:25
Seem like you're lying.
01:19:27
You weren't sure.
01:19:28
So the way that I reconciled the two positions that y'all presented, because I think both of them are extremely valid.
01:19:33
Which one's more valid?
01:19:34
John? You're the Whitney Webb position, John.
01:19:36
No, I'm not.
01:19:37
No, no. I would actually argue that John's position is probably the most valid because it really require. Well, he's calling for vigilance, and he's calling for, you know, never being satisfied with what we're being given.
01:19:47
Yeah. Burning brain.
01:19:49
The problem is that Webb has not been satisfied enough. I think you've cracked it, Ghost.
01:19:54
The metaphor that I think I used the first time I came on the show was these people have. They live in a fortification that they have developed over generations, maybe over centuries, and they have contingency plans, and you're never going to be able to penetrate that fortification. The only way you're going to get to them is if you're able to draw them out into the open and then attack them, which is what I think Trump has done over and over again. They fall back on their contingency plans once they lose, you know, the proverbial ground. And that's what these limited hangouts are. They say, okay, we have to surrender this ground. We have to fall back. We give. We throw out. Like, we throw out some truth nuggets. They feed on that, and we run away.
01:20:36
So if you look at it like using that metaphor, we just have to keep moving forward and pushing forward and gaining that ground and drawing them back out, because they can't help themselves.
01:20:47
They.
01:20:47
They're full of hubris. They're full of, like, this just viciousness. And so Trump. Sure, yeah, they're very cocksure. And so Trump comes out and acts like the Donald and does his thing, and then they just can't help themselves. They get off their couch and they lash out at him. And then that's when he does the counter strike. Right.
01:21:06
Yeah, totally agree. That's what I had written Overton's goalpost a couple of years ago. And that's exactly it. It's retreat. It's. It's narrative retreat from previously held ground. Like you said, Ghost. But yeah, you've got to keep pushing forward. One more point on that. The dooming. What's the difference with the dooming mentality? I would argue that people like that are not advocating to advance. Often their message ends up being close to nihilism of like, we can't win.
01:21:38
They're trying to get people to retreat with them.
01:21:40
Yes. And that's not what John's doing. That's not what Chris does. That's not what we do. That is what some of those other people do. Like I said, that bitcoin podcast just popped into my head. The reason that one struck me so much is she spent an hour and a half talking about decentralization and whatever and bitcoin. And then the host is finally like, oh, man. So. So what do we do? And she's like, I don't know, like, go off grid. And it's like, okay, here we are. Right? That's what you get. You get the, like, go in a cabin, do the libertarian thing. You know, like, we all go through a libertarian phase and then like, eventually you grow up when you realize that every successful society has had to form a society for a region.
01:22:20
You don't just get to go to your room and. And pout about it and be a little liberty, be a libertarian. Like, you've got to grow up at some point.
01:22:27
Yeah. I think the phase we all need to get to, though, is like Mel Gibson, Braveheart, William Wallace phase.
01:22:32
That was not a libertarian. Liberty.
01:22:35
Liberty and love it.
01:22:38
Yeah, I like that.
01:22:41
Yeah. Are you going to coin that phrase? You all saw that. He does not get to coin that phrase now. You know he does.
01:22:48
Somebody in the chat said, called Ghost Switzerland and do we have a new Switzerland? Oh, Sweden. All right.
01:22:56
I was gonna say. I'm gonna lose that title.
01:22:58
He tried to do the switch. I don't know. You know, John and I are having.
01:23:02
Our domestics at times, and he took my side, though. So. He took a side at least.
01:23:07
I'm just trying to be Davos over here.
01:23:08
There you go. He'd be Davos. Does Davos have a theme song? Because if they do, then we can.
01:23:12
Okay, I'll have to research at the World Economic Forum has a theme song.
01:23:16
Which, by the way, they got funding from USAID as Well, I'm pretty sure I saw something Ripple got some funding from like usaid.
01:23:24
I saw somebody signs that because James Lindsay. Somebody said James Lindsay did.
01:23:28
Oh, no way.
01:23:29
No way.
01:23:30
I saw somebody posted. I didn't see the receipt, but somebody posted.
01:23:33
Patrick, that's a wrap. If James Lindsay is being funded by.
01:23:38
The Ripple organization, it's a different USA ID according to James Lindsay.
01:23:45
Oh, it's not Ripple.
01:23:46
Oh, it's a different USA id. The other.
01:23:50
It's a different James Lindsay.
01:23:52
Oh, different James Lindsay.
01:23:54
Yeah, according to James Lindsay though. So I, you know, I don't think trust that.
01:23:57
But true, you can't. You can't trust that.
01:24:00
And I don't know if this is even Ripple and us. Yeah, this is. The national bank of Georgia has released a public fintech consultation paper. It discusses their CBDC work with Ripple. It has entered the pilot stage. Interesting to see USAID as a consultant about smart contracts. The other Ripple mention also with regard to the CBDC project is in the context of international consultations. Note Elavandi also a part of the discussions as well as the often publicized Enbridge. That's from December.
01:24:30
So what's.
01:24:33
Yeah, what's. So what's so interesting though about the USAID thing is that, you know, burning bright with the news brief, I mean how many stories have we been covering over the past eight months, year about these NGOs in Central and Eastern Europe? Right.
01:24:49
Getting kicked out. Yep.
01:24:50
Yeah. So like all these countries, for those who haven't been tracking it, all these countries around Eastern Europe and like the Balkans have been trying to pass these laws that force foreign funded NGOs to disclose all their funding sources. And it's a law that Putin started in Russia. So the Western media calls it the Putin law. It's like, oh, Putin's influence over them. That guy Robert Feet. So who got shot five times in the chest. The reason he got shot was because he got that law passed in his legislature and Georgia.
01:25:19
And the chest, he got shot sometimes in chest didn't.
01:25:23
Slovakia. Right?
01:25:24
Slovakia.
01:25:25
My dog is Slovakian.
01:25:26
I mean, not that I want to ever get, not that I ever want to get shot in the chest, but like it would be pretty badass to be like, I got shot five times in the chest, but watch a street cred. I'm still here. Yeah. But no, I don't want you on the chest. Just full.
01:25:38
I think the most recent one, or at least the one that's most top of mind to your point. Ghost Was Georgia kicked out? I believe NGOs, I think they went one step further. And then we. In that same part of the world, we've got. We've got a lot of elections going on over there. And recently, was it. Is it Romania that the. They don't want to recognize the win. The Russian.
01:26:07
It was Georgia, actually. Georgia.
01:26:09
Okay, it's Georgia.
01:26:10
I think I. I think it was Georgia. It was either Romania or Georgia where the prime minister won last year. So you got the. You got the MAGA or whatever populist prime minister in there last year. He's trying to get this law passed there. Right after Feet so gets shot, somebody from the. From the European Union calls him up and says, hey, you saw what happened to Feet, so, you know, might want to watch yourself. He told that to the media.
01:26:35
Then the media, yeah.
01:26:38
Then a year later this past fall, they have another election for the president, not the prime minister. The MAGA guy wins in that election, and then the sitting president basically says, I don't recognize you as a legitimate president. I'm gonna stay in the mansion. And there was like, a standoff for like, a week or two where they were just, like, holed up in the mansion and refused to leave. They finally did, but, yeah, so it was just kind of like this. This ridiculous moment where people are just acting like, I'm not gonna let you take power.
01:27:09
So I just had the epiphany of where we need to expand the business next and is inspired by John's reaction to Ghost.
01:27:16
I think we should move on.
01:27:18
We need. We need, like, animated Drunk History versions of some of these Badlands episodes so that when Ghost is explaining history, it'll just be. Have you ever seen Drunk History?
01:27:31
Oh, yeah, yeah.
01:27:32
We talked about doing this on Badlands way back in. In the day. I mean, I feel like most Liberty Den episodes are a version of Drunk History.
01:27:41
That's true.
01:27:42
That's very true.
01:27:43
But I like the animation aspect. If we could figure out a way to make AI take a show, summarize it, and animate it, that'd be great. So if you guys can start working on that'd be cool.
01:27:54
Yeah, yeah.
01:27:56
We do have a couple more things to. I wanted to talk about first. We did get a little shout out from. From Sean Hannity today, which was kind of crazy. Just fine. Oh, here it is. Sean Hannity on Twitter said, watch now. Carolyn Levitt holds White House press briefing. If you click in there, he linked to our Twitter coverage, which is pretty wild. That was you on there. Ghost.
01:28:32
Yeah, that's really wild.
01:28:34
Yeah, kind of random. But shout out to Cheryl for finding that. She saw that earlier today. So that's really cool. I want to talk about. This is very devil related. Anthony Tata going back to the dod Trump has nominated Anthony Tata to serve as the Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel and readiness. The article here, and I don't even know what article it was, but I think it was Politico, which, by the way, I think it was Politico Pro. And by the way, Politico Pro is one of the things you said is funding, like, they're buying subscriptions to Politico Pro at $10,000 a clip. Like, what kind of subscription is worth $10,000? Like, I think we put out great stuff, but I wouldn't even put $10,000 as a price tag on ours. Ours are free. That's insane. But anyway.
01:29:25
Anthony Tata, controversial former Defense Department official. If confirmed, he would play a key role in overseeing an expected military transgender band and efforts to curb diversity programs. Tata's courted controversy for past tweets. I'll show you that in a second. He was installed as the Pentagon's top policy official in an acting role after Trump purged the agency's top ranks near the end of his first term. And if you guys remember, back In Devolution Part 3, I wrote about him. He was the guy who's placed as the DoD policy guy, providing oversight essentially for DoD continuity of government. It was the first position filled after Chris Miller was put in there, and he's the author of that book, Double Crossfire, the most shocking scenario of our time.
01:30:08
It takes you inside the brilliantly conceived, brutally executed plot to overthrow our government from within, and then until triple crossfire gets even crazier. But this is the tweet from back in the day. And shout out to tweets, don't tax. Don't equal tax advice. It's a great handle. Brennan had a post back in 2018 and Tata responded. Might be a good time to pick your poison. Firing squad, public handing life sentences, prison, or just suck on your pistol. Your call. Like, pretty brutal.
01:30:39
It's amazing.
01:30:40
Yeah.
01:30:42
Kill yourself.
01:30:45
But that's like, those are the people we need in there. And it's just cool. He's devil related and he's coming back to the dod. It's always notable to me when stuff like that takes place. So, yeah, that's that getting the band back together vibes. Yeah. I want to see more, though.
01:31:03
Few things. Russell to Jimmy's more than when one of those guys calls out directly, one of like the Deep State people.
01:31:10
Yeah. The thing is he's got to get confirmed and this tweet's gonna be a, an issue for him. So we're gonna have to like keep it low key. Even though the genie's already out of the bottle. Yeah, we have to get him over the.
01:31:23
I mean, the response to them bring it up is I already like the guy. Like, you don't need to sell me on him any further. Right.
01:31:30
I feel like, you know, the, the correct response should be, did I mean what I said? Yes, absolutely.
01:31:38
Should I say it again?
01:31:39
Probably not. Yeah.
01:31:43
Anything else you guys want to cover before we. Oh, MicroStrategy, change your name to strategy. Yes, I know you wanted to mention that.
01:31:49
Yes. So I gotta show this because, you know, I've been working on an article here for weeks about MicroStrategy and you know, just keep putting it down. But some of us, G, Money, Pip, etc believe that Michael Saylor, I don't know, he's either being leveraged by the plan or is a part of it, or we're just crazy. Yep. MicroStrategy has name, has changed its name to just strategy. You know, so not shocking, right? But they've, there's. They were a software company, right? And now for the last few years, ever since 2020, obviously they're not a software company, they're a bitcoin company. This just makes that official. Now they're not pretending to be a software company. They're just saying, yeah, we're a bitcoin company. But specifically they say strategy is the world's first and largest bitcoin treasury company. Now this is huge.
01:32:49
John and I talked about this several weeks ago, but essentially the idea is that MicroStrategy is, is leveraging a call option on the US dollar and financial system. And I think it's a brilliant Trojan horse. That could just be Saylor being a genius and taking advantage of the infinite money glitch, as many in the bitcoin world call it. But the implications of this are seismic. Another word for a Bitcoin treasury company is a bank. Michael Saylor has essentially just disclosed that microstrategy strategy is going to be the first bitcoin bank. And before people freak out about that, some people do freak out about that. The problem with banks is not that they're banks. The problem with banks is that they lend money that they create. That's the problem with banks is that they don't have any reserves. Right.
01:33:40
So what happens when we have a company that has reserves of the soundest form of money ever created? Pretty interesting. And the fact that Saylor, we know by his own mouth, has consulted with people on the Trump team about their bitcoin strategic reserve. He is arguably the person in the world who came up with the idea of bitcoin strategic reserves because he's the one who's been doing it. So pretty interesting. Might we see the United States as a nation state, mimic what MicroStrategy is doing? I think it's almost a guarantee we'll find out.
01:34:22
Well, let's not go that far, but we'll find out very soon because this is David Sacks just yesterday talking about what him. And he's the crypto czar. He's been tasked as a committee to explore a crypto stockpile. And this is what he says the President instructed us to do was to evaluate the, the idea for a bitcoin reserve. And so that is one of the things, that's one of the first things we're going to look at, is just right there, he says that president himself has tasked them with evaluating having a bitcoin reserve. The President Trump asked David Sachs to look into a bitcoin reserve, not just a crypto, bitcoin specifically. It's the first thing they're going to do. I'll play this one more time. Listen to the words he uses here very carefully.
01:35:09
The President instructed us to do was to evaluate the, the idea for a bitcoin reserve. And so that is one of the things, that's one of the first things we're going to look at as part of the internal working group in the administration. So as soon as we get all that set up, we're still waiting for some cabinet secretaries who are on the working group to get confirmed. So we're still in the very early stages of this, but that's one of the first things we're going to look at is the feasibility of a bitcoin reserve.
01:35:35
Now find out. Another point there, John, is that, you know, there's the shitcoin wars, like Bitcoin versus other crypto, etc. I'm not interested in hashing all that out. There are people, including David Sachs there who are not bitcoin maximalists, who are on this committee. You know, there's ripple. People have been lobbying that made very big waves in the crypto world last week. Is xrp, a CBDC who knows your mileage varies on that. But I don't think, I think it's possible that there will be diversification, etc. But to your point, John, the, the signal to me is that when Trump and the administration are talking about a reserve, a stockpile, they are talking about Bitcoin. That doesn't mean they will not invest in other crypto, but they do not talk about it the same way.
01:36:27
And you know, I said this several months ago before he was actually officially in the administration. But Howard Lutnick's interviews, I think would be very illuminating for people. He is Trump's Commerce Secretary. He is something close to a maximalist and supposedly is where the idea of the tariffs came from and is one of the two men charged with looking into this. So we'll see. I mean, I don't think it's going to be this linear path, but it's going to be fascinating to see how it plays out.
01:37:00
Yeah, I think there'll be more than one crypto involved, obviously. And I'm just, I'm already imagining getting multiple DMs from followers and people I follow that just spam me with XRP stuff like, I don't care.
01:37:14
Been a big XRP push in the last seven days.
01:37:17
I have both.
01:37:18
Big, big push.
01:37:19
Get off my back. I get it. But yeah, if you guys are right.
01:37:22
Just chill with your XRP and you'll be fine. Don't worry about it.
01:37:25
Don't need to evangelize. The last thing I want to talk about. Shoot. What was it? Oh, dang it. This can drive me nuts. I just had it and now I lost it. Is it something you sent me? Sovereign wealth fund. Yep, that's what it was. So do you have that video? Can you pull that video up?
01:37:42
I do, yes. It's a three minute video. Do you want to play the whole thing?
01:37:45
Yeah, let's just play the whole thing.
01:37:47
Okay.
01:37:47
I have to go pee anyway, so I'll be right back.
01:37:49
All right. This was Trump talking about the sovereign wealth fund. People. Let me press the button. This is an executive order discharges your Secretary of the Treasury, Scott Bessant, and your Secretary of Commerce, Howard Lutnick, to begin a process that will hopefully result in the creation of an American sovereign wealth fund.
01:38:11
It's a very exciting event. We're going to have a sovereign wealth fund, which we've never had. We have a lot of things that create wealth. And you've seen that over the last two weeks. I think we've created more wealth. Other people have created d wealth. The people my Predecessors. We're creating a lot of wealth. Scott, maybe you'd like to say something about it and I'd ask also Howard to say something about it.
01:38:38
Yes, sir. This is very exciting.
01:38:41
We're going to stand this thing up.
01:38:43
Within the next 12 months.
01:38:45
We are going to monetize the asset side of the US balance sheet for the American people. We are going to put the assets to work and I think it's going to be very exciting. We're going to study best practices that's.
01:39:02
Done around the world.
01:39:03
It will be a combination of liquid assets that we have in this.
01:39:08
Country as we work to bring them.
01:39:12
Out for the American people.
01:39:15
The extraordinary size and scale of the US Government and the business it does with companies should create value for American citizens. If we are going to buy 2 billion Covid vaccines, maybe we should have some warrants and some equity in these.
01:39:33
Companies and have that grow for the.
01:39:37
Help of the American people. So bringing all these things together, I think we'll create. Scott and I will create an amazing sovereign wealth fund for you, sir. So other countries have sovereign wealth funds and they're much smaller countries and they're not the United States. We have tremendous potential in this country. Tremendous. You're seeing that what's happened just in a short period of time. And as an example, TikTok, we're going to be doing something perhaps with TikTok and perhaps not. If we make the right deal, we'll do it. Otherwise we won't. But I have the right to do that. And we might put that in the sovereign wealth fund, whatever we make, or if we do a partnership with very wealthy people, a lot of options, but we could put that as an example in the fund.
01:40:21
And we have a lot of other things that we could put in the fund. And I think in a short period of time we'd have one of the biggest funds. And you know, some of them are pretty large, I must tell you. Some of the, like the Saudi Arabia fund is on the large side, but eventually we'll catch it. But we're going to create a lot of wealth for the fund and I think it's about time that this country had a sovereign wealth fund. And these two gentlemen and some others are going to work with them very closely and they'll be heading it up and they're going to do a great job. Two highly respected people that have done unbelievably well in the world, in the real world. So that's a big deal, huh?
01:40:59
Yes, sir. I think It's going to create value and be of great strategy.
01:41:05
Saudi Arabia's fund is like, you're muted by the way. It's like $1 trillion now almost.
01:41:10
Yeah. So the reason this hit me, I mean, Stormy and I were talking all about Saudi Arabia on Sunday night. So it just was top of mind. And then this hits, you know, so you can the devil's advocate here of is there more comms being tossed back and forth? Maybe not. Maybe Trump's just saying, like, hey, the Saudi Arabia would be the fund you would think of. It's a, it's a huge, notorious fund. But one of the reasons it's notorious is the fact that in 2017, that fund was less than $200 billion. Mohammed bin Salman comes into power, kicks off the Saudi purge, seizes the assets of the royal family, essentially all the Saudi, what he considers the Saudi deep state. He called it anti corruption purge, the media called it anti corruption purge.
01:41:57
And then the fund since then has grown to 925 billion. Like you said, almost a trillion dollars. This is where Al Waleed, who some of you might have seen on Tucker Carlson Forbes, speculates and we all speculate that his assets, including his shares of Twitter, were seized by MBS as part of this fund. But this goes back into actually something Ghost mentioned earlier in the show. You know, the Saudis are spearheading what we may see a little bit of in the United States when Trump talks about the golden age. I think Americans are going to be absolutely shocked at the transformation in this country when it comes to infrastructure. And if you want a preview of that, look at Saudi Arabia.
01:42:44
This money was taken by the Saudi deep state, including, as Howard Lutnick said there companies that the government took equity in and folded into the sovereign wealth fund and then redistributed that wealth into Saudi Arabia infrastructure. And I couldn't help but think, man, isn't it interesting that the first US Sovereign wealth fund is going to follow in the footsteps of one that was built largely on the back of asset seizures of a deep state purge. And Trump is saying, yeah, we have a lot of things we could put in there. You know, it's just the timing is pretty interesting to me.
01:43:23
Yeah. You know, going back to what Trump said when he's on the campaign trail about the sovereign wealth fund, he talked about putting tariffs and the money received from tariffs into there. I will be curious to see what he does. I know a lot of people when they talk about this, they talk about Executive Order 13 818. I don't think that's the mechanism because if you look at 13818 it doesn't actually say anything about seizing assets. Yes, correct. I think whatever. If there is going to be something which I, I do fully anticipate it happening where we get to a point where corruption is exposed and these people don't just have their money frozen and it's sitting there with it not doing anything. The money does need to come on our books at some point.
01:44:02
It does need to be seized and I think it will be seized that way.
01:44:06
Yeah.
01:44:07
Video. Just slate on my end here. Hold on. There we go. Sorry. I think it will be seized but I don't think it's going to be done through 1381 8. That's a, it's a sanction order. It's a, it's a foreign sanction order for the most part. There are some ties to domestic companies, but it's basically to get those domestic companies and those foreign individuals and prevent them from basically using or taking advantage of or having access to our financial system. So whatever mechanism it's going to be that's actually going to take possession of these corrupted assets from corrupted individuals, it's going to be something new. I don't think we've seen it yet but that it's a great way to fund a sovereign wealth fund as Saudi Arabia has shown.
01:44:45
And, and the proof in what you just said is that we've seen court cases play out in British courts where targets of Executive Order 118-313-818 had their assets taken from them by the courts and not go to the government but be put up for sale and then were purchased by the uae, Saudi Arabia. Other people, somebody in the chat earlier did a rumble rant and they asked how is, how does this sovereign wealth fund benefit me as an individual? Like how does that, how does this good for us? And the explanation is very simple. In Saudi Arabia they don't pay any taxes. So you don't pay any taxes As a citizen of Saudi Arabia. The, the government, everything is completely funded by the royal family, by the pif. And the PIF is, was funded originally by Aramco, the Saudi state oil company.
01:45:36
So oil sales funds the government, now the royal family owns everything belongs to them. But you as a citizen, like I have friends who are Saudi, they don't pay income tax, they don't pay any income, they don't pay any taxes. So it's like they've told me, they told me that 10 years ago they're like, yeah, I don't pay any taxes. I'm like, wait, what? You don't pay any taxes? No taxes.
01:45:57
What's their debt at? Do they have debt?
01:45:59
I don't know. I don't know what their financials look like. I know that they were, they almost went insolvent when he came into power. They were supposed to. The PIF almost collapsed, but which is.
01:46:09
Why it makes sense he did a corruption purge and now they're not because all the family members were being corrupt and making the government.
01:46:16
Right.
01:46:17
Yeah.
01:46:17
Yes.
01:46:18
Yeah. There's a couple little things too that I just wanted to share. Like, so I always say, negative indicators are probably my favorite. There's a, I'll put this link in the chat. There's a November 2024, Human Rights Watch decided to create a, a deep dive on the man who bought the world. And that man who bought the world, According to this NGO, speaking of NGOs, was Muhammad bin Salman. And very dastardly guy goes through the whole timeline here. I was posting about this on Twitter, but they're essentially saying, even though we don't have proof of every single move that was made here, that upward trajectory coincides with MBS's seizure of these elites. They don't call them the deep state. This NGO doesn't call them the deep state. They call them Saudi elites.
01:47:13
So we've got here Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman includes 2017 anti corruption crackdown that consisted of arbitrary detentions, abusive treatment of detainees and the extortion of property from Saudi Arabia's elite. Right. So that's the globalist viewpoint on this extortion, theft of elite property. Right. Well, let's see what Steve Mnuchin had to say about it in November of 2017. This is a CNBC takedown of the same situation back when it was happening. The United States is closely watching the situation In Saudi Arabia, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said on Friday. Asked about agreements to hand over wealth for detainees freedom, Mnuchin told cnbc, I think that the crown Prince is doing a great job at transforming the country. So sometimes you gotta go back to look ahead.
01:48:04
Is Trump just name dropping Saudi Arabia because he likes how much money they have in their fund, or is the fact that his first treasury secretary knew in November 2017 that the purge was transforming the country for the better signal as to how we're going to transform this country?
01:48:25
Trump said the same thing, by the way, he said at the time he Said, I think the prince is doing a great job and I think he's doing what he needs to do. And it's worth pointing out that Mika Brzezinski's father in the night in the 90s wrote a book where he predicted the future of the Middle east and Saudi Arabia basically didn't exist. And he said that a triumph, a triumvirate may emerge. China, Iran, Russia and the west would go to war with it. So Saudi Arabia being present in this moment is the game changer.
01:48:56
Yeah. All right guys, let's get to the boost on the rants. Ghost, you've had a long day, man.
01:49:03
Yeah, this is my fourth show today.
01:49:05
It's crazy. Real quick, we gotta talk about this. We got Gart coming up and it's gonna be a grand old time. If you guys haven't yet, get your tickets in person is still available. Virtual tickets are on sale. You can get your merch there. And we got some event sponsors up. So thank you to everybody who's sponsoring the event. But yeah, I can't wait for this. TV slash events. No reason not to attend if you're able to. But if you can't attend if you're unable to, no reason not to get.
01:49:36
A virtual ticket because all ghost Saudi friends are going to be there.
01:49:39
I think, dude, the Saudi brothers are coming, man. We are going to have a wild time.
01:49:44
I need MBS is going to be on the power Hour.
01:49:48
Be amazing, but got some boosts here. UKQ patriot. I think you for $2. I think you misunderstood my question last week, so I'll try again. After E.O. 13:961 established the Federal Mission Resilience Executive Committee. Who made up this committee during the Biden Admin Between January 20th and January 19th, 2025, it's, I mean it's all the positions it's in the executive order. Can't give you names off the top of my head, but the point is I think the Trump's committee version of it are the ones that were implementing and running community government behind the scenes or whoever they delegated it to. So it's kind of irrelevant. Yeah. Lionheart 7777 for $100. Thank you.
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Thank you.
01:50:29
Evening guys. Wondering recently if the drones nonsense and the ensuing airline crashes and subsequent deaths are all part of the scare tactics in the queue drops. Kind of like a final flailing attempt to undermine the new admin. God bless aog. You guys got anything on that? Could be. I don't know, I didn't read the drops.
01:50:46
Certainly crosses my mind. Right. I mean, I question all these things just like we all do. Right. We talked about that earlier in a different context. Certainly question anything that's meant to. To provoke an emotional response should be ruthlessly questioned. And we don't know, you know, whether or not these things are happening as we're told, but if they are, then, yeah, I would say, you know, death spiral, panic pattern, that sort of thing.
01:51:13
Yeah. Jim Ron, put out that book for.
01:51:15
A reason with Boon color bubble head for 17 you2 recently discussed the word dastardly. Fun fact. That word was instrumental in identifying and arresting the New York bomber George Meteski in 1957. It was the FBI's first case in which profiling was used. Very interesting. Quite the nerdy facts Bubble head. I like that. I like nerdy facts and. All right, let's get to the rants here. Micro Tool Maker common in clutch as always. Thank you so much, sir.
01:51:50
Thank you so much. Yeah, Very generous.
01:51:53
DPH and all the Badlands media gang have provided us with front row seats for this great movie. Now if they could just pass the popcorn, maybe we'll get your popcorn at Guard. Micro Tool Maker, if you're not at Guard, I'm gonna have questions because you definitely could have afforded a ticket by now with all the rants you've given and then some. So hope to see you there. Ozark Plowboy Dastardly is catching on. I rise to announce that I will bring articles of impeachment against the president for dastardly Democrat Rep. Al Green. It's true.
01:52:24
Somebody said G Money was telling me. I think it was G money was telling me. Somebody said by cameral in there yesterday.
01:52:31
I didn't see that, but I did see somebody take me on about the Al Green and we talked about that this morning too. So yeah, it's catching on. And you have to give 50 bucks every time you bring it up. So.
01:52:40
Yep.
01:52:40
Thank you.
01:52:41
We have trademarked it.
01:52:42
Thank you. For those who set that precedent, two Mevs Tom EVs, Big Chem Trail, Sky Trails today in Nipah Valley OR Nipah. Nipah, 5pm when will that stop? Beats me. Probably next Wednesday when RFK junior's in there. I don't know.
01:52:59
Let me. I'll put a call in. I'll find out.
01:53:03
David H. Paul, if at all possible, we should do a gart at Mar a Lago. Yeah. Do you know how much that would cost?
01:53:12
Trump give us a guard on the house.
01:53:14
I was going to say. It's like, can the big man just cop it?
01:53:17
That'd be awesome. But hook it.
01:53:18
Just hook it.
01:53:19
Look, I would be totally willing to do a guard at Mar a Lago, but we would have tickets at like 10 grand a pop. And yeah, I don't know. I feel like that would scare off some people. We'd have a very low attendance.
01:53:31
Very bougie. Very bougie.
01:53:33
Maybe we could do a waiting list and be like, would you be willing to come to Gartmore a Lago for this much money? 1027 JS DPH rocks. Thank you, Joe. Appreciate that.
01:53:45
So I've said I've got my baby cam and when Mrs. Bright's on there, she looks like a zombie. But I particularly look over there when John's talking about guard stuff because I'm like, she already looks scary. She looks even crazier. Blair Witch Project style.
01:54:02
I'm not saying anything I shouldn't be saying.
01:54:05
She sniffed it out.
01:54:06
I'm not saying anything bad yet. But yeah, sounds scary. Ash75Nelly50 thank you. Do you think they will take the you said a step further and do a forensic audit to see where the money was actually sent or who the money funneled back to? Love you guys. Nelly Lab Sisters. Great books, by the way. That's a great question. I hope so. That's what I'm talking about. I want to see it all. Open source, blockchain it, make it public, let us all see it, follow the money.
01:54:34
Well to that point, hopefully. The fact that it's got so many eyeballs on it means that there is public mandate for that. Like very public, you know, very emphatic. Did you read the T3 Excellent one?
01:54:47
Oh yeah, T3 Excellent. Need y'all to explain to me, like I'm a liberal, how the sovereign fund will help everyday Americans. I get how it helps the country. How do we the people will benefit. We covered that.
01:54:57
Yeah.
01:54:57
But thank you. Alien59. Your intro seems so poignant today. Almost prophetic. Learning the extent of the criminality in the you said. And the connections to the CIA. Schellenberger. He caught them all. What a time to be alive. Sure did.
01:55:12
Well said.
01:55:13
Wild Boar 17 finally became a monthly supporter after two and a half years or in our chats out of spite.
01:55:20
He probably did.
01:55:21
Yeah. Probably did that just to get the attention. Probably unsubscribed immediately after. Ready to rumble Chris $2 Ghost, your neediness is the best.
01:55:32
Probably meant to say nerdiness, right?
01:55:34
Oh yeah, I appreciate Both comments.
01:55:39
Lion ts54 or sorry eliance not complaining, but as anybody aside from myself found the rumble chat box function to be sketchy. On another note, I schedule my evenings around the show as well as Eye of the storm. Thank you. Geez, are we boring you burning bright. Yeah, I was up till sorry. Sorry. Texas 2013 Now Monthly Supporter thank you Ekim Novellas Wonder if you said ever paid money to certain voting system and paper ballot producers at any time? Great question. They sponsored Media Matters at any point. Did I skip any other ones?
01:56:18
So did you ever fortify an election?
01:56:23
Victoria OB Q basically told us that it would be a limited hangout. Post 1 for 4 New Age of Enlightenment 80% covert 20% public post 190 80% dark ops necessary 20% public for justice. No biggie.
01:56:37
I mean I'm just How far does that go? And I I don't like it. But well here's. Here's where I come in. It's if the 80% is available to find on request, I'm okay with that. Like choice to know will be yours. I don't really like the idea of the stuff just being siloed away from us.
01:57:00
Yeah, screw that. I'm not okay with it.
01:57:02
Yep, me neither.
01:57:02
They better not tell us that's actually happening. That'd be frustrating.
01:57:07
But fuck you guys if you do that.
01:57:10
The Nander 7 going after you said is a distraction as they dig into GSA 18 f it for entire government and review 300 leases for cancel daily as government landlord none of this makes sense. That's my saying that huge number of high levels taking the fork and out to 28. Yeah, that's confusing as hell. I think the big thing everybody's missing is they took over the treasury payment system or whatever. If we have a government shutdown that is going to allow DOGE to decide whose bills get paid. And it's a great way to expose which government agencies are totally irrelevant when they're not being funded and not operating. So see what happens. Julie JN the info is coming too fast. Trump has said many times we have it all. Probably Q2 funny story, but those boys aren't getting all that information. Thanks gentlemen. Agreed.
01:58:05
Ekim no Villas I think Trump has some dirt on BB Lot let's talk about you.
01:58:10
Yeah, I know. You know these weeks aren't easy for me. Well, we've got Netanyahu up there.
01:58:16
I don't know how any weeks are easy for you laundering maybe these days he's locked into Trump's foreign policy. Israel can still be last. If Trump uses him till he's not needed, then let the whole truth are out after that.
01:58:32
I don't know if you're referring to the money laundering or the dirty laundry that he's known to bring to the White House to be cleaned.
01:58:40
I still don't believe that, even though I know that you say it's true. There's a lot of things I believe, but it's a ridiculous story.
01:58:48
I don't know, but it's a hilarious narrative.
01:58:51
Yeah, Papa DB1 how about the US rebuilds Gaza? We get the hell out of there with certain percentage of revenue return on investment until we are paid back with interest and future earnings available after Gaza stabilizes itself.
01:59:03
I would prefer that model if it was the Arab oligarchs spinning the oil money, which they've already offered to do. They already said we will pay for it. The uae, Saudi, you know, Qatar, they'll pay for it. So I think we should do that. Regions of responsibility.
01:59:18
Make the whole thing a casino.
01:59:22
Casino.
01:59:23
I'm just saying.
01:59:23
VP Nichols, I'm loving the commentary and analysis about press. Trump's Middle east moves great combo. Maybe Ghost is a permanent Wednesday DPH member hosting suggestions are a minimum $100 for rants. So we cannot take this into consideration.
01:59:37
But appreciate they also immediately push on in the other direction.
01:59:41
I'll take it under advisement. We'll see.
01:59:43
Yeah. Anytime I get a suggestion though, for real, it's like I'm not doing that at all.
01:59:48
You can see the moment where he's like, oh, you know, now that you say that.
01:59:54
I was thinking about it until that rant honestly. So you ruined it.
01:59:58
I do appreciate you. Appreciate you looking out for me. But yeah, thank you.
02:00:02
Dave75, cancer, USAID. It's you said the word aid is being used as a magic word. As word magic to enrage the street soldiers and hold the heartstrings of the TV voters viewers. You said doesn't provide aid. TV is dead. It is funny scene and I've talked about this a few times now that the Democrats have chosen this issue to be like this is their issue. It's foreign government, wasteful spending. We will die on this hill. Just absolutely the dumbest thing you could possibly imagine.
02:00:34
Man. I on that note, like I staying up till 4 with the baby and stuff. I've just been throwing stuff on YouTube and everything and man the normie sphere it the cult from the culture war to the gaming world to the tech world, I really do Think the Democrat Party is cooked like and I, I don't like doing the Republicans we fix our election but like yeah inter in the public mind like it's cooked. It's. It's done. They're two normies. They are an absolute clown show that gets, that's getting worse after the loss, you know rather than you'd think their low point would have been a few months ago. But man, it's like every day they are to your point, they're like grabbing the Titanic and riding it down as hard as they can.
02:01:24
That's amazing. Robert L. Thank you. Keep up the great work. When does Julian Assange come back into the spotlight? Now that we know he was doing more factual journalism than all of the mainstream media. Seth Rich helped wake me up, God bless his soul.
02:01:40
That's one of the major stories I'm looking forward to coming back in around Seth Rich, Julian Assange, that'll be that looks like. Yeah, Snowden. Those kind of names coming back into the public story is going to be a huge signal flare of suicide weekend.
02:01:55
Maybe we shall see. VP Nichols, another five for BB's use of dastardly was a good use. I will, I will give you that credit. Robert L. If devolution theory is correct, DJT had 4 years to dig into corruption, but also had access the past four years to continue to dig through data. Elon, biggest contractor. Did he have a four year head start? He probably even had more of a head start than that. Some people definitely speculate. So. But yeah, that's kind of the Thought and Boyer Now Monthly supporter. Thank you Lindsay Joy Macklemore. Can't wait for Gart. Got to meet each of you briefly in South Carolina. Ghost, I was with you when that girl accused you of being a racist and were like, nope, he's not a racist.
02:02:43
Many such cases.
02:02:44
He's anti Semite Texan by birth. Bernie Bright John is so jealous of you.
02:02:52
Yeah, I don't know.
02:02:54
That's true.
02:02:55
That was a great liar for what? But 50 bucks?
02:03:00
I'll take it for 50 bucks. You can say whatever you want for 50 bucks. But. All right guys, that's all of it. So thank you for tuning in. Hit that thumbs up. Ghost, thanks for joining tonight. We appreciate it. Tomorrow, Daily Herald, 1pm Eastern. If there's anything you guys got. You guys have shows tomorrow.
02:03:17
I, Ash and I are going to cover the. The Secretary of. Is it Agriculture or. No, no, it's Trade. Secretary of Trade. So like the Trade.
02:03:32
Commerce or Is it. Is it Lutnick?
02:03:35
Yeah. Yeah. I don't know if it's Lutnick or. Yeah, whatever it is, trade is what Ash told me it was.
02:03:41
But I love your confidence in what you're doing tomorrow.
02:03:45
I'm gonna be covering something tomorrow. Whatever the hell is going on in the Senate, I'll. I will be there with. With bells on covering it.
02:03:51
So I will be doing a episode of the narrative during the Super Bowl. So, you know, we're gonna see. Our audience is always like, I don't watch that crap. I better see a full audience there. I'm going to have reality extremist Patrick Gunnels will join me.
02:04:10
Nice.
02:04:11
And you shouldn't have thought it was fitting. Yeah, I should. Or I could rug pull you. But, yeah, bread and circus and everything. It's a good time to do that.
02:04:22
You know what I watched. You know what I watched last night was the Sum of All. All fears.
02:04:26
Nice.
02:04:27
Which is where a lot.
02:04:28
The plot of the movie is that like a neo Nazi guy uses a nuke at a football game to try to kill the President to start a war between the US And Russia. And the material came from Israel. It's like, whoa.
02:04:43
Trump's gonna be at super bowl, by the way.
02:04:46
And I believe he's the first sitting president to be at one, Right?
02:04:49
Yeah. Which is also what happened in the movie. That's scary. Anyway, yeah. So thanks for that. Hit that thumbs up. We'll see you tomorrow on Daily Herald and whatever Ghost is doing. And then Sunday on Burning Bright's thing with Patrick. So thanks, guys. Catch you later. We're gonna close on the sidewar video, the full one.
02:05:07
Don't forget, this persecution is being done by the same weaponized agencies that for seven years have been running illegal psychological warfare campaigns against the American people, much as if they were trying to destabilize a foreign country. From the Russia, Russia hoax to the no collusion Mueller witch hunt to impeachment hoax number one, impeachment hoax number two, the 51 lying intelligence officers. How about them? They said it's Russia disinformation and they knew it wasn't. Which made about, according to some of the great pollsters that are right here, made from anywhere from a 10 to 17 point difference. And yet we still got more votes than any sitting president in history in the second election. And we actually did much better in the second election than we did in the first election. The fake dossier paid for by the Democrats. How about the fake dossier?
02:06:03
Remember that one? You think that was easy to go home and say, hello, darling, how are you? When they read about that, it wasn't easy at all. Spying on my campaign. We caught them spying on my campaign, the FBI, Twitter files, and so much more. It's all been a battle of disinformation, one thing after the other, and all to protect the radical left misfits.
