Ron Paul joins us on the show to talk about his new book, Gold Standard, and why the dollar should be replaced by gold. Join us to learn more about Ron Paul and his journey to becoming a presidential candidate in 2016.
00:00:04.000you we got this really crazy story about this guy named the
00:00:35.000merchant of death an arms dealer who was released in this trade in exchange and
00:00:41.000And I guess he's claiming he sent a message to Donald Trump that, I'll keep it very light, the Biden administration would prefer to make it so that he's no longer alive before they let him get in their way.
00:00:57.000You know, see, I'm being very, very delicate with the description of this story.
00:01:00.000And so we're gonna talk about that, because that's gonna lead us into a lot of conversations around foreign intervention, war, economic policy, and some cultural issues.
00:01:09.000There's some, I don't know, some weird actor guy, is that what he was?
00:01:14.000Musician talking about exterminating Republicans.
00:01:17.000So all of this talk that we've seen is actually quite worrying.
00:01:21.000And then there's this crazy story about one of the Democrats who was expelled in Tennessee who, well, there's a video of him from a few years ago where he's a middle-of-the-road centrist.
00:01:32.000And then when you look at videos of him today, he's doing this preacher bit and everyone's saying he's basically grifting.
00:01:38.000It's either that or we have completely hyperpolarized rapidly.
00:01:43.000And with talk of, you know, people saying things like exterminate Republicans, yeah, maybe things are getting just a little bit hyperpolarized.
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00:03:53.000I was a resident and going through there.
00:03:55.000But that was my hobby, was trying to understand how the economic system worked.
00:04:00.000And I found out in the 1960s, there were a lot of people who were predicting, you know, this idiocy of the Bretton Woods Agreement, the pseudo-gold standard that was set up at the end of World War II.
00:04:12.000Even back then, Henry Hazlitt said, it's stupid, don't do it, it doesn't work.
00:04:18.000And so the predictions were going, and the black market, the real market of gold, It was fixed.
00:05:53.000Never once did that ever cross my mind because I remember so clearly when I talked to my wife, and I was at a very nice medical practice and loved medicine, loved delivering babies.
00:06:08.000And so when I told her, she said, what in the world would you do that for?
00:06:13.000And I said, I tried to explain to her what I just said, you know, it's an important issue and that's sort of something I've looked after and I want to speak out.
00:06:39.000I thought it was just a speaking opportunity, and that's the way it was for a long time.
00:06:43.000I was there for six years and decided I wanted to go back to medicine.
00:06:47.000I still had kids to go through college.
00:06:49.000And then as time went on, and the conditions didn't get much better,
00:06:54.000so I ran for Congress again in 1995 and went back into the Congress.
00:07:00.000But she was right and I was wrong, and even the people who suggested, oh yeah, I got interested in what you were talking about, you know, when you ran for president in 2007 and 2008 and 2012.
00:07:17.000Believe me, I didn't anticipate that there would be people like maybe in this room that thought, well, you know, that sounds interesting stuff, you know?
00:07:29.000And then I had this revelation that when I went to the college campuses that young people were more open-minded than old people.
00:07:41.000I decided the Chamber of Commerce weren't offering us free enterprise, so the young people were responding very well.
00:07:46.000Matter of fact, the one event that I remember so clearly was when we went to Berkeley.
00:07:52.000I think Berkeley was considered liberal, wasn't it?
00:07:55.000The way that little bit liberal but that was my biggest crowd I had 8,000 young people come out and I there's something it because I knew I wasn't that great a speaker so I said that is a great message you know what people want to know and young people want to know and I would emphasize that this is what you're getting into and so I changed my attitude no not every young person in college in a liberal college are all of a sudden going to have you know great wisdom but There was a group there that was, you know, open-minded enough that if they heard something, if it was interesting, that they would grab hold of it.
00:08:34.000And so since that time, I would say that I have been impressed with the interest that has been shown.
00:08:42.000And that, to me, is the most important thing.
00:08:44.000Minds have to be changed, and that's what I hope I can contribute to.
00:08:48.000You've certainly done it for, I think, everybody here, so thank you for joining us.
00:08:52.000And there's a million and one questions I already have, but we'll introduce the other guests while we got Daniel McAdams joining us.
00:09:00.000Yeah, do you want to introduce yourself to everybody?
00:09:02.000Yeah, I went to work for Dr. Paul in 2001.
00:09:05.000I was living in Central Europe as the U.S.
00:09:07.000was about to bomb Yugoslavia, and I noticed that there was one great congressman who said, this is the stupidest idea ever.
00:09:13.000What the heck are we doing bombing Yugoslavia for?
00:09:17.000And I had spent some time down there, and I knew that this was the stupidest thing.
00:09:20.000So when I finally got back to DC, just by luck, I guess, I found there was one person I never set out to work in Congress at all, but I wanted to work for this person who got it.
00:09:32.000And so I was very, very fortunate to have started working for him in 2001.
00:09:37.000And we went all the way through his last time in Congress, and we started the Ron Paul Institute.
00:10:40.000Well, let's jump into this first story, which will kick things off.
00:10:43.000We have this from timcast.com, and it says, Victor Bout warns Trump of assassination threat from the Biden administration.
00:10:51.000Quote, they would sooner end your life than let you stand in their way.
00:10:56.000Okay, now I'll just stress, The Merchant of Death, as they call him, claiming that the Biden administration is even considering this is just hearsay coming from a guy who is an arms dealer who is Russian.
00:11:09.000So I'm not saying we should necessarily trust him.
00:11:10.000I just think the general idea is interesting that this guy is basically calling on Trump.
00:11:15.000Here's what he said, quote, Therefore, I think it's in the interest of all of humanity.
00:11:18.000And primarily of the American people, to invite Donald Trump here to Russia, to give him security and protection here, so that he leads this uprising against the globalists, and most importantly, does not allow the elimination of the American people.
00:11:33.000I just think it's a particularly bold and, I don't know, kind of creepy story, as it were.
00:11:41.000But I do think that in this vein, we are staring at the potential for World War III, if we're not already in it.
00:11:49.000Russia wants to put nuclear weapons in Belarus.
00:11:52.000is providing arms, intelligence, and, you know, I'll say this, they're indirectly, the United States indirectly has individuals on the ground, volunteers, who are fighting the Russians.
00:12:03.000I think that whether or not his sentiment is correct, we are facing some kind of very serious international conflict.
00:12:11.000So I'm curious, Dr. Paul, your thoughts on everything that's been going on with that?
00:12:15.000Well, I haven't made up my mind whether or not when people talk about World War III.
00:12:20.000And most people think in their mind about World War I and World War II as a certain type of war.
00:12:26.000Tanks and bombs and airplanes and all that.
00:12:48.000And I'm arguing the case that we're in the middle of it and moving right along that the revolution has been fought and there's been a coup.
00:13:01.000We don't have any resemblance to a government that believes in a republic.
00:13:30.000And I got to thinking, well, how many of these people that were complaining about this guy telling lies, how many of them lied when they raised their hand up and swore to uphold the Constitution?
00:13:40.000Now that's a lie that really has consequences.
00:13:43.000Actually, you could probably make fun and make a little joke because his jokes weren't, everybody knew he was fibbing.
00:13:50.000But the real lies are being told, and that is our big problem.
00:13:55.000But I do believe there has been a coup, and it's been taken over, and if I want to, if I can, I want to just put the date in my mind, and anybody could pick probably any date in the last hundred years.
00:14:05.000But I have picked November 22nd, 1963.
00:14:16.000And at the time, I remember, I was in, matter of fact, Kennedy was killed in Dallas, but he landed at Kelly Air Force Base, and I was a flight surgeon there the day before, and I was aware of this trip.
00:15:25.000But that was a big day in history in my mind.
00:15:28.000Yeah, that was the beginning of the hostile takeover of the American government by the spy agencies that, of course, have been becoming more powerful, less unaccountable by every decade.
00:15:37.000They've been doing more crazier things.
00:15:40.000They've been getting away with so many crazy things.
00:15:43.000They'd never, never been held accountable.
00:15:45.000And for every decade, it's like, oh, yes, The last decade, the CIA did something really horrible, but they were never held accountable for it.
00:15:51.000But they're definitely not doing it now.
00:15:53.000But I thought you were going to say 1913.
00:15:57.000Well, I think that was the groundwork.
00:15:59.000I start the intellectual changes a little bit before 1913, probably at the turn of the century, you know, the Roosevelt era.
00:16:09.000And the university started teaching progressivism and gradually they destroyed the whole principle of, like today in medicine, there's no such thing as truth anymore.
00:16:20.000And this society has become nihilistic because they can do anything they want and they have zero guilt.
00:16:27.000They have no shame, because they don't believe there is such a thing as truth.
00:16:34.000And even both religious and non-religious people sort of come around to agreeing, you know, society would do better if they had one rule.
00:16:45.000Don't commit violence against anybody else.
00:16:50.000Basically, the Constitution goes along with that, but not many people take that seriously.
00:16:56.000But no, I think 1913 was a consequence of what was happening in the universities.
00:17:02.000And the universities are still in bad shape, but the real education that is going on now is continuing, especially in economics and other things.
00:17:13.000I mean, there's an institute now dealing only with non-intervention in foreign policy, and you take a group like the Mises Institute, they've done a world of good at teaching young people, and I still rely on them to understand free market economics.
00:18:24.000I think politicians are pretty much irrelevant.
00:18:30.000You know, they reflect what's going on, but I think the least important thing Well, I can't say that every single thing I did was not related to politics, because I concentrated on one philosophic issue, and maybe made a little impression, and that was what Sound Money is all about, and talking about audit the Fed.
00:18:55.000Prior to 1976, when I first went to Washington, the Federal Reserve was never talked about, and I thought, boy, people would come up to me, and what are you talking about them for?
00:19:05.000You know, they'd be wondering about it.
00:19:07.000So I think that But I really do believe that the politicians just reflect a prevailing attitude of the opinions of the people very very important So what I saw is dramatic and wonderful was during the lockdowns That when crowds finally said enough is enough and they started to rebel against that stuff So it wasn't it wasn't a dictatorship of the majority in a political sense It was the people got disgusted and I woke up and you had
00:19:40.000Parents waking up, they're ruining our kids, you know, and they would go to PTA meetings and fire some of those people.
00:19:49.000So I think attitudes are very important.
00:19:53.000So that's why right now I probably spend 90% of my time trying to understand and pass a message on to others.
00:20:02.000The reason why I asked about Trump is because you said just a moment ago that you think the change, the revolution was, was it 1963 I think you said?
00:20:18.000You know, based on this story we pulled up and you have this Russian arms dealer saying Trump's at risk, I'm wondering if you think there's any validity to that.
00:20:28.000The Russian arms dealer claiming that Trump's life is at risk because he's trying to stop globalists.
00:20:35.000I'm wondering if you think that's absurd.
00:20:38.000Well, to me, that come across with that is.
00:20:42.000I probably don't know enough about it to be really astute about it, but it seems so superficial, you know.
00:20:48.000I'm more into Marxism and why Marxists are nihilists and why the, whether it's the original Marxists or the cultural Marxists of today, that their main goal, since they don't have to worry about truth and honesty, their main goal is chaos.
00:21:07.000Street chaos, riots, and you don't have to go very far to look around for what's going on.
00:21:14.000Their goal is, and so I still struggle with it.
00:21:45.000That same decade, Martin Luther King and RFK.
00:21:51.000And over a hundred people that were loosely associated with Kennedy, they suddenly died.
00:21:59.000Nobody knows exactly which ones were related or what, but there's some noise out there that really indicates that it was a big, big event.
00:22:08.000Yeah, Bobby Kennedy, Malcolm X as well.
00:22:11.000I was wondering, what do you think about another Kennedy running for the presidency, and that's Robert Kennedy Jr.?
00:22:17.000Are you guys excited about him potentially running?
00:22:20.000Yeah, we talk about it, even though we don't promote legislation, but we talk about it, and he's a friend, and he came out to one of our anti-war conferences.
00:22:34.000And people loved him, and I think it's great that he's running, but it's not likely... I mean, I'd have him on my program if he would come on, but I probably am not into the endorsing business, you know, because I think that's very secondary to waking up the people.
00:22:55.000I want the people to wake up about the monetary issue, which we're going to have the opportunity, because this monetary system is just starting to crack.
00:23:03.000And then the people wake up just like they got sick and tired of the lockdown.
00:23:09.000And I talk about the football game that I don't remember where it was, but there were 100,000 people showed up and they didn't wear masks.
00:23:17.000And that was sort of the breakthrough.
00:23:43.000Well, the main reason is you don't have a definition of the unit of account.
00:23:51.000Because if you were building a building, and you were an architect, you'd want a unit of account or a unit of measurement.
00:23:59.000How are we going to measure all these things?
00:24:00.000Are we going to do it in feet, yards, or whatever?
00:24:03.000Because everything has to be measured.
00:24:04.000In economics, you have to have a unit of account.
00:24:07.000And that, of course, is a defined currency.
00:24:11.000And they can get away with, you know, We're messing it up for long periods of time.
00:24:16.000We were able to get away with destroying the unit of account, you know, all the way back in 1934 and 1971, the way it is now.
00:24:25.000But we were very, very wealthy and we still are wealthy, but we're getting poorer because people rely on debt and the debt is growing and the price inflation is moving along.
00:24:42.000That they've destroyed one of the most important items, the most important price in economics is the price of money, how much it takes to borrow.
00:25:23.000And now that's because there's the theory of subjective theory of value that tells you that you can't make those predictions.
00:25:32.000But you can make predictions that if you mess up with the monetary system, run up debt, All this debt has to be liquidated and we are in the middle of defaulting on that money and that is the crisis we face and right now we're not very far along at accepting what we have to accept if we want to crawl our way out of here and get back to being a productive nation.
00:25:58.000I just want to go back a little bit to what you said before this statement, because I think this is what really is important about your message.
00:26:05.000A lot of people are like, what politician is going to save me?
00:26:08.000And in reality, no politician is going to save you.
00:26:11.000Personal responsibility is extremely important.
00:26:13.000What's happening with the big banks, what's happening with the ESG score, the international, multinational corporations running things is far more important, especially when it comes to your own individual decisions that you make in everyday life.
00:26:26.000And I think this is why that message is so much more important, because everyone's like, please, someone save us.
00:26:31.000In reality, the only person who's going to save you is you yourself.
00:26:35.000And you know, you've taken many steps.
00:26:38.000Homeschooling, you opened up a homeschooling network as well.
00:26:40.000Can you tell us how that is going and how people could potentially be involved in that?
00:27:29.000I've always thought the libertarians will take care of that There's a lot of smart people they know this and when the government comes in and takes over the internet they will have competition and I think we're getting it and and And it's just a little bit slow in doing it, but I think as long as you have some freedom there and can use it, but that's why we're in such a threatening period, because they're destroying our First Amendment rights.
00:27:55.000You know, people are getting punished for this.
00:28:55.000And I'll be the first one to tell you that technology, I don't understand a lot of it, but I want it to be free and to make these decisions elsewhere.
00:29:06.000But no, the big thing isn't You know, Jonathan Turley has done such a great job exposing this.
00:30:11.000Yeah, and they did it from the very beginning, especially with companies like In-Q-Tel, especially with a lot of the seed funding, especially with a lot of the advancement that government gave companies like Google, Alphabet, to the advantage over their competitors.
00:30:23.000And I saw a lot of people argue, you know, even just a couple years ago, being like, these companies are private companies, they could do what they want, we have to stand by capitalism.
00:30:30.000I'm like, You guys aren't even paying attention to what's really going on here, because, as you said, they are arms of the state, they are acting for their own best interest, and they're sowing division in this country, creating order out of chaos to specifically create a situation where we are fighting each other over petty differences, rather than actually looking at the true source of our problem, and that's the dollar being devalued, that's our currency just being thrown away, and our whole livelihoods just being taken away from us, which is absolutely crazy.
00:30:59.000Do you think it would be righteous to default on the interest to the Federal Reserve?
00:31:04.000Oh, yeah, I think if I could write a pen and close down the Federal Reserve, I just would and everybody has to scatter.
00:31:13.000What would be the evolution of our monetary system?
00:31:47.000And the one thing over the many years that I've worked on this that is the most important information that they hang on to, and that is their transactions with foreign governments.
00:32:00.000That is really sacred, and they don't want that to happen.
00:32:06.000I've been told that they work with the Bank for International Settlements in Switzerland, and like the Bank of London, the Bank of Australia, and the New York Federal Reserve are like, they all send money through this Swiss bank.
00:32:17.000It's a bank for the central banks, and I guess they have to park some of their money in places, but it's the nature of the monetary system.
00:32:25.000See, if Prior to central banking, which was, you know, the debate started with our revolution with Jefferson and Hamilton, you know, there was no, they weren't discussing the Bank of International Settlements back then.
00:32:41.000So it's a, it's totally unnecessary in a free market.
00:32:45.000The most important thing is define the currency by weight or something real and then than prohibiting anybody from disobeying it.
00:32:58.000The Constitution is pretty clear on it.
00:33:00.000And some of the states now are reacting to this.
00:33:03.000States are coming through and trying to develop their own currency because it's tough for them to say, you know, the states can only use, you know, gold and silver as legal tender.
00:33:15.000Now my bill in Congress was a little bit more generalized.
00:33:18.000It said repeal all the All the monopoly laws that the government has in control and let the market decide it.
00:33:27.000But the founders said, no, even the states can't just print up their own money.
00:33:34.000But I think in a free society, a libertarian society, you could have contracts.
00:33:38.000If you're setting up a bank and you say, this is the unit of account, and they say, and you're going to use gold, you have to live up to your contract.
00:33:46.000It seems like crypto is the new contract, which is data.
00:34:23.000You know, jewelry, and it valued, and all the important things of money.
00:34:27.000That happened, then it became very practical to be used as money.
00:34:32.000But you might find 20 things, and more all the time.
00:34:37.000There's actually things being advanced now.
00:34:41.000Even when I was in medical school, we studied about, there were some arthritises at That could be treated with gold and silver, gold especially.
00:35:15.000I think because of you, Dr. Paul, you made a lot of people millionaires and billionaires.
00:35:20.000Because when your message was going around about the U.S.
00:35:23.000dollar being unsound based on these policies, there were a lot of people that were trying to figure out what they could do to store their value properly.
00:37:25.000I mean, if it's designed mainly to prevent fraud or something like that, you have to be open to it, but I just think that you don't need laws, you know, to tell people how to protect against gold.
00:37:40.000What concerns me about tying money to a hard thing, like gold, is that someone can steal all the gold.
00:37:46.000Like, if we tie it to anything, then that thing can be taken and hoarded by someone.
00:37:52.000Maybe, but the silver people back in the 70s, Hunt brothers, they cornered the market and they took it up when silver was $5 or $3, they took it up to $50.
00:38:21.000And right now, gold is at an all-time high.
00:38:23.000Bitcoin just hit above $30,000 today as well.
00:38:27.000And I remember doing my coverage of currency collapses in Venezuela and in Zimbabwe, and we were talking about this a little bit before the show.
00:38:34.000Before a currency collapses, a lot of different things happen before it does.
00:38:38.000There are many things that happen in many different years.
00:38:41.000And then all of a sudden, when it drops, it drops quickly.
00:38:44.000And the effects are one by one by one by one.
00:38:47.000And it goes by so fast, people are shocked and surprised.
00:38:51.000Do you think that is possible in the United States?
00:38:53.000Do you see a possible currency collapse?
00:38:55.000And potentially, on what kind of timescale?
00:39:02.000It will, because they can't keep doing this.
00:39:06.000But, you know, you mentioned that, you know, some of those people that took my advice, I wonder if they're going to give me a cut on what they made.
00:39:15.000No, it just happened that there was an alternative, and so far the alternative has made a lot of people rich.
00:39:22.000But do you think there were 10 people, 100 people, 5,000 people, or a million people that bought cryptocurrency or crypto between 30 and 68?
00:39:35.000And it's on the way up and then on the way down.
00:40:52.000So definitions will change according to that, but you still know, you know, it was $20 an ounce, and then it went to $35 an ounce, cheated the American people, total fraud, and then it was released in 71, And it went to $800 an ounce.
00:41:11.000Then it had to be the market adjusting.
00:42:40.000But after the war, And I remember this issue very clearly because it was in 51, 50, 51, you know, when Truman said, oh, he never probably made it.
00:42:59.000We have to go and, you know, preserve democracy for Korea.
00:43:04.000And my comparison was, yeah, look, we wanted to do that in South Korea, and we lose 60,000 people and kill millions of the Vietnamese and all this, and then we lose, we walk away, lost all this money and all these lives, and what happened?
00:43:22.000Was there a These are just realistic arguments, but was there the domino effect?
00:43:53.000And just think of all we won in peace versus all that we lost in war.
00:43:58.000And sometimes people won't even think of the slightest consideration that maybe a little bit of that philosophy could be applied to those people who are looking forward to a war with China.
00:44:10.000I feel like it's like a Chinese finger trap, that you've got so many people who want war, and they make the argument, we need to go there to stop Russia, we need to go there to stop the terrorists, but in doing these things, in engaging in foreign intervention, it's creating recoil, or creating blowback, and it's making the conflicts worse.
00:46:21.000These big hedge funds and firms, they're getting Federal Reserve money, basically infinitely printed and given to them to do this.
00:46:29.000So it's the lucrative, I guess fascism is probably the right way to say it, the lucrative merger of corporation and state to take over the whole system.
00:46:37.000Under Mussolini's definition, and I think you are correct in some instances there, especially with a lot of these institutions like BlackRock having lucrative contracts now in Ukraine.
00:46:46.000There's a lot of business deals, there's a lot of politicians' sons and daughters who have a lot of interests in that particular region, but I kind of wanted to ask both of you guys, if you guys were the Secretary of State, how do you handle the Ukraine situation right now?
00:47:27.000I remember you had a statement where you said, if someone is given the wrong prescription, you don't just keep giving them the same prescription, you stop.
00:47:40.000And I heard that and I said, I don't see it any other way.
00:47:42.000If we all agree it's wrong, we just stop.
00:47:47.000Yeah, and I think it's fair to say that they've been prescribed crack.
00:47:50.000Crack cocaine, and heroin, and fentanyl all mixed into one, and they're high as a kite, and they're doing really horrible things, especially with what's happening in Ukraine right now.
00:47:59.000There's so many innocent Ukrainians dying, there's so many innocent young men dying in that specific region, and I think, you know, the main reason we didn't blow each other up during the Cold War was because of negotiations.
00:48:11.000Was because we were able to actually sit at the table and negotiate.
00:48:14.000We're not even doing that now, which is just absurd and crazy in my opinion.
00:48:18.000I asked him last night what he would do, and he was like, well, we'd be like, we'd take our troops out and negotiate some sort of economic resolution with Russia.
00:48:26.000And I don't know, Ron, do you think that that would be ethical?
00:48:29.000Because I think what they're trying to do is take Sevastopol, the warm water trade port in the Black Sea.
00:48:35.000But what happens when there's sincere efforts, either with China or Russia, that we could pursue, I mean, the deep state, which is not Republican, not Democrat, they're deep into control of the whole system, they make it so that you become a heathen, you become a Nazi, or they'll give you all kinds of names, you know, and you're unpatriotic, that's the thing.
00:49:01.000When I wanted to bring the troops home, I was unpatriotic and I didn't care about the troops.
00:49:14.000And you were one of the only anti-war voices out there that was finally getting at least a little bit of attention on the corporate media, even though it was skewed.
00:49:22.000Even though when you were polling high, they made sure that it looked like you were polling low.
00:49:26.000They played so many underhanded tricks against you.
00:49:29.000I was wondering, can you talk to that a little bit?
00:49:32.000And how do we navigate this media sphere when they control the narrative and they're playing so unfair?
00:49:39.000Well, I still, I resort to something that I find my comfort zone, and that is that I'm not there, I don't have the ability, nor is the support there, to really change it.
00:49:53.000You know, I want to audit the Fed so people understand it.
00:49:58.000I don't say, okay, the litmus test, if you care about anything at all,
00:50:02.000you have to sign onto my bill that the Federal Reserve is abolished in two weeks.
00:50:08.000So I wanted, people just have to discuss it.
00:50:14.000And that's what happens, it gets turned down.
00:50:17.000We have opportunity, we could talk to China a lot more.
00:50:20.000You know, I thought it was pretty exciting when the great Nixon decided to sneak over to China
00:50:46.000We steal the money from the people and then we invest it to the military-industrial complex to go over and drop bombs on people.
00:50:53.000Then we say, I wonder why they don't like us?
00:50:56.000I've been thinking lately if we could repurpose our military-industrial complex to start building drones by the tens of millions, and then take them out into space and blow them up for training, and then put onboard artificial intelligence on the drones, the drones can tell us what we're doing wrong, make us better at fighting drone swarms, and then we can not blow people up.
00:51:15.000Because I think I still want to make it profitable for Lockheed Martin, but I don't want to hurt people with Lockheed Martin.
00:51:28.000The military-industrial complex is going to move towards the path of least resistance, and that is they need war to stay in power, and they want war.
00:51:36.000So they lobby for war, they get more money from the government.
00:51:39.000So what we need is to divert their profits into nonsense, like building drones in outer space, so they keep getting lucrative contracts, but eventually fizzle out of existence because they're being given money for the government to do literally nothing.
00:51:52.000Yeah, they don't need war, they need profit.
00:51:54.000And they think that war is the most profitable thing right now, but if we could create a more profitable system, i.e.
00:52:39.000Well, this was the article that they were arguing in that case.
00:52:41.000Some people... Well, you see it in domestic life all the time, you know.
00:52:46.000You know, it just was so astounding to me when, it's too common now to even be news, but somebody would be robbing a store, and somebody would be lying on the floor just trying to hide, and the hoodlum comes in, it just fills the person with bullets.
00:53:04.000I wanted to ask you, going back to the, you know, you're talking about the 50s, the 60s, the 70s, World War II, I'm not – I'm 37.
00:53:17.000I'm curious, with everything we're seeing today with political conflict, as you mentioned, with crime, was it at all like this in the 60s, 70s, in the 50s, or anything like that?
00:53:30.000I wrote something recently, what it was like in 1945, because everybody said the world's going to end tomorrow, and things are very, very bad, and I agreed with that.
00:53:56.000But the founders made the point, and I'm a strong believer in it, that ultimately the kind of society we have depends on a prevailing attitude, both intellectually and spiritually, of a community.
00:54:12.000Because, you know, the non-aggression principle, fortunately, can be used by people in In a spiritual realm or in a pragmatic zone?
00:54:24.000This doesn't make any sense, and yet we continue to do it.
00:54:31.000But I think it's the nature of mankind, and I never heard discussions about nihilism.
00:54:39.000Of course, that's been discussed in the philosophy books for a long time, but nothing like it's talked about now, and I've sort of been concentrating on that, because if you don't have truth, which we don't have anymore, then you have nihilists, and you're dealing with people that have no conscience.
00:55:00.000And when you understand that, then you understand the people who just shoot to kill and do all these things and do all that.
00:55:08.000That's going to cause chaos and people are going to die.
00:55:11.000Ah, that will open the doors for true Marxism.
00:55:14.000We have to get rid of all this garbage you people are living with.
00:55:17.000So for us to devise, you know, the perfect social state We need to get rid of all these notions about freedom and capitalism and honest money.
00:55:33.000And since they're nihilists, they don't care!
00:55:35.000So do you think that the reason we're seeing this spike in crime is that these people are intentionally releasing criminals and not enforcing laws because they want to destroy the system?
00:55:49.000Well, I think that they've just lost all contact with reality.
00:55:52.000I think they are psychopathic in that sense.
00:55:55.000A psychopath has lost, you know, contact with reality, and that sort of can be a collective thing.
00:56:03.000The mob psychology, I mean, we're operating sort of with a mob psychology that people are joining this, and they have all kinds of excuses.
00:56:13.000I've been You know, as much as I try to think about this, you know, getting all these corporations and so many people to go along with this lockdown, you know, and most of them are, you know, you think they can't be as far off as I described, but they just go along with it.
00:56:37.000It's sort of scary, but I think the point that the founders made is they said this Constitution isn't worth much if the people are immoral and have no principles and they don't believe in truth.
00:56:52.000How can they believe in honest money if they don't have any principles?
00:56:57.000And they don't have a unit of account.
00:57:00.000They don't have a unit of account for the money.
00:57:01.000They don't have a unit of account for social matters.
00:57:05.000Perhaps this is why they're saying 2 plus 2 equals 5.
00:57:08.000Which was a big thing they're still pushing, to be honest.
00:57:14.000You said something really profound about the non-aggression principle in regards to spirituality.
00:57:19.000I know about non-aggression principle militarily, but the idea that in a conversation you could have a non-aggression principle with another human, and that if you live like that, maybe it'll create a society where then that starts to happen.
00:57:32.000I've made optimistic statements, and I have to be careful because it sounds too optimistic.
00:57:37.000I say, I remember growing up as a kid in the Depression, World War II.
00:57:41.000I was in grade school, high school, college, medical school, military.
00:57:47.000And I said, there's hardly anybody that I met that I thought was a real scoundrel.
00:57:54.000My neighbors have been easy to get along with, and we happen to be believers, so the people we associated with in a spiritual way, they were never a threat to us.
00:58:07.000So my impression, if it was my narrow impression, most people would say, yeah, but what a boring life you had, you know.
00:58:16.000And they wouldn't accept this, because life is much different, and you have to have a good time too, you know.
00:58:23.000Well, it's the old curse, may you live in interesting times.
00:58:27.000So maybe it's kind of good when your life is boring, you get to focus on your passions, you get to take care of your family.
00:58:32.000It's good to be forceful in your life, but not necessarily aggro.
00:58:46.000We have what we would refer to as the left and the right, or whatever words you want to use to describe, you know, wokeness and freedom or whatever.
00:58:54.000One faction says, lie, cheat and steal because the only truth is power, or there is no truth but power.
00:59:00.000The other side is an amalgam of different ideologies that all tend to agree on the rights of the individual.
00:59:06.000So I think while all of us in this room may disagree on certain principles or philosophies, we mostly agree with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, and that's where we differ with those who seek to use aggression against us, or others, to control them and gain power, we actually think people should be free to live their lives, you know, et cetera, et cetera.
00:59:27.000Yeah, but I think people The shortcoming comes from, I'll use the word conservative, but the conservative element sometimes wants to tell you exactly how you should live.
00:59:39.000But if a conservative who wants to do that accepts the principle of non-aggression, yes, he can be critical.
00:59:47.000He might want to approve it, because if it happens to be somebody in your family or a friend and they're killing themselves with drugs and all that, you might try to help people.
01:00:02.000You know, we'll respond, but the problem is that there's this momentum, and I think economics have a lot to do with it, you know, because things, even though there's still a lot of wealth in this country, and people think they're a lot richer than they really are, because it's all on debt, And that's why bad times are coming, because it's gonna get worse when they know how poor they really are.
01:00:33.000Well, there's a couple questions I have for you.
01:00:36.000Why do you think we're seeing this explosion of homelessness in so many major cities?
01:00:41.000And why is it that they are, at the same time, and I think these are related, don't get me wrong, but I'm bringing them both up.
01:00:47.000They say that it's hard to find workers, but we're also seeing this wave of unemployment, I'm sorry, of homelessness You'd think those two things would solve themselves.
01:00:57.000I think it's a reflection of a stupid policy welfareism.
01:01:47.000They steal from you and they transfer wealth and that's where the real problem is.
01:01:52.000And people don't understand that because they say, The one statement that I've heard for so many years is the people who get into trouble as a result of stupid government, they say, uh, the only problem I have is I don't have enough money to pay my bills.
01:02:09.000I go to the grocery store and it's $200 and I only have $100.
01:02:40.000Two days later or so, I go back on Amazon and there's a notice.
01:02:43.000It says, a price change for an item in your cart.
01:02:47.000I click it and it says this item is now $600.
01:02:52.000This is the easiest way for the average person to understand how inflation is happening so rapidly.
01:02:58.000I could have bought it two days ago for 150 bucks less.
01:03:02.000Well, that means if you made a plan and said, okay, I make X dollars per hour, I have Y bills, and the tablet costs Z, that means I have to work this many hours to be able to buy this tablet at the end of the month.
01:03:18.000So you work those hours, and then by the time the end of the month comes, the tablet now costs twice as much.
01:03:23.000Because you weren't actually making any money, as you were working your job and saving, you were losing money.
01:03:29.000See, free market, Austrian economy, is completely different than Keynesianism.
01:03:36.000Keynesianism believes in the computer, you put in the numbers, and they'll tell us, print $100 here, and the people will do this.
01:06:16.000the beginning of the current bull market in gold Because you had bull market $35 up to $800, then you had $1,000 up to, well, the second one.
01:06:27.000But this is the third one, where it was $1,000, now it's up to $2,000.
01:08:23.000So, I'm going to go ahead and close this.
01:08:24.000So you can look at charts and probably prove almost anything you want on the short run.
01:08:28.000You mentioned... I'll just put it this way.
01:08:30.000In the past five years, Bitcoin is up 113%, gold is 53%, S&P 500 is 52, Dow Jones is 35.
01:08:41.000If you go back to the year 2000, you know, I think it's not necessarily relevant for, you know, people my age, then you would have gained way more buying gold than anything else.
01:08:52.000And then in the past five years, the S&P 500 and gold are comparable.
01:08:57.000You know, we all look at that and we think about investments.
01:09:02.000And that is important because that's how do I live?
01:09:07.000But ultimately, if you look at all those different investments that we have that we can do, Actually, the only thing that's going to be important to us is if we have our freedom.
01:09:49.000But I think one of the most important metrics to look at is the purchasing power of the dollar.
01:09:54.000And when you look at that and what it used to buy you and now what it buys you, I mean, there's horrible, tragic stories of individuals burying their money or putting it it underneath their couch. And I'm like, people don't
01:10:05.000understand, one of the biggest taxes out there is inflation. It's a hidden tax. Many people don't
01:10:10.000know about it, but the value of your dollar, of what you worked hard for, is slowly
01:10:14.000being eviscerated by the government and their irresponsible financial policies.
01:10:18.000That was a story where a young couple opened up the floorboards in their attic and found
01:10:25.000a box that their grandfather, or this guy's grandfather, had hidden away with $50,000
01:10:36.000And boy, were they so excited to find $50,000, and they're like, wow, little do they realize that it's basically a million dollars if he had properly invested it, because the U.S.
01:10:47.000Exactly, and just seeing this happening, because now I think it's kind of quickening.
01:10:51.000Now when you go to the grocery store, you see it more and more kind of evident, and more and more in your face.
01:10:56.000Not just with egg prices, but that has to deal with a lot of other circumstances and situations.
01:11:00.000But overall, when you're at the grocery store, when you pay for everything, it's a lot more than it was before, and that's not an accident.
01:11:06.000We just went to the grocery store, And as we are checking out, it was $200 for like one half bag of, it was like cheese, tea, some meat, and some hummus, and then we were like, how is this $200?
01:11:21.000Well, it was like $8 for a little thing of hummus, it was $8 for a pack of cheese, and we were like, Yeah, we filled up a bag with, you know, some deli meats, some cheese, some dips, and some drinks, and they're like eight to ten bucks each.
01:11:34.000And it doesn't take a genius to see all of this, because during COVID, they were like, we're going to give you guys a $2,000 check, but we're going to give you a billion dollars more to all the private entities and corporations that we're in business with.
01:11:46.000And having that much of money just printed out of thin air, those $2,000 were nothing compared to the secret corporate and banking bailouts that were given out to some of the biggest institutions in the world.
01:12:16.000This is direct elitism, socialism for the super-rich that are able to get away and do whatever they want while everyone else is being screwed over.
01:12:25.000You know, the words that they use makes a big difference, too, because even here, and I'll do it quite frequently, but I try not to ever refer to inflation as a CPI and prices going up.
01:12:37.000And Mises, I used to say, well, that's just semantics.
01:12:40.000Just, you know, qualify it or something.
01:12:42.000But Mises said, no, that's on purpose.
01:12:45.000Because if the price of such and such went up, that means Profits.
01:13:09.000Oh, it showed a lot of inflation last year.
01:13:11.000But this is a trick many leftists use.
01:13:14.000I see them say something like, the economy's not doing poorly, these corporations brought in record profits.
01:13:20.000And it's like, yes, inflation is at 15%.
01:13:24.000So if a corporation brings in, say, 10 billion more dollars, and they typically bring in 100 billion dollars, it is just rising with inflation.
01:13:33.000That is to say, the buying power of what they brought in is the same.
01:13:50.000The reason you can't buy milk, bread, and eggs is because it's six bucks for a carton of eggs right now.
01:13:55.000And so that means those corporations, their costs have gone up the same, and so their profit percentage is the same, but the number is bigger because of inflation.
01:14:04.000Yeah, talk in percentages and not in finite amounts when you want to talk about profits.
01:14:08.000Those are the tricks they use to be like, oh, how did they make 50 billion this year?
01:14:11.000You know, Ron, you mentioned units of account and how our money has lost a form of account and that gold used to be the way you would account for money.
01:14:19.000And then you said something about social account, a unit of account for social, social units of account.
01:14:32.000The other one is, there is truth out there.
01:14:36.000And it might not be, you might not have the same definition, but in principle, all the way back to before Hammurabi wrote his code, they had an idea and the code would define Even back then, when it was such a primitive era, they said you should kill people.
01:15:01.000It's a higher law that was known to all civilizations.
01:15:05.000And I think that you have to have that.
01:15:09.000But truth versus nihilism is a good way to do it.
01:15:12.000But I think it's also a higher law which has been known about and accepted on You know, from the beginning of time, from the time of Adam and Eve, it implies right and wrong, good and bad.
01:15:29.000And if you have that, you have no unit of account on social order.
01:15:32.000So is this like a social credit score?
01:15:37.000Is it like an aberration of what we're supposed to think is truth, like truth is what they tell you it is, as opposed to truth is don't kill people?
01:15:46.000I guess it could be, but the social credit thing, I don't want to get near that one.
01:15:51.000And I wonder if losing touch with our unit of account from the Bible, I was never really raised in that way religiously, but I think that there is value to it.
01:15:59.000That if we lose touch with that, then another form of account will come in, like you account to the state, something like that.
01:16:05.000I think the woke left have no moral framework.
01:16:11.000And then the traditional Judeo-Christian values of the United States is a moral framework.
01:16:16.000So, I think that's a big dividing point in the culture war.
01:16:19.000Those who, and I said this before, Bill Maher's a great example of this.
01:16:23.000He says he's an atheist, he doesn't believe in God, but he holds all of these Christian values, such as the presumption of innocence, which is rooted in the story of Sodom and Gomorrah, is the principal example I tend to use.
01:16:37.000But here's a guy who was raised in a society that held these values to be true,
01:16:42.000he then says, but I don't believe about him, I don't believe anything about a man in the sky
01:18:43.000That means they've leaped over too far.
01:18:46.000And that means they have to use force to do that.
01:18:49.000That's why the idea of aggression has to be very, very definite.
01:18:53.000You said something at the very beginning of the show about there being no honest people in Washington, D.C., or something to that effect, and I wanted to say this right away, but I can think of at least one.
01:19:02.000I can think of more than one, but to be fair, at least one, and that's Rand Paul, who, your son, obviously, and then you also mentioned, you know, you had kids in college, and I think that Rand is one of the only politicians that I think is doing a good job that actually is doing right.
01:19:20.000I think they're all far from perfect, but everyone's human.
01:19:22.000And then there's people like Thomas Massey, who I think is doing a tremendous job.
01:19:26.000I'm wondering what your thoughts are on the current state of Congress, and obviously I assume you think your son's doing a good job, but I'm curious to hear your thoughts.
01:19:33.000Well, once again, I don't get into the detail of that.
01:19:37.000I've, over the years, don't even like using their names.
01:19:42.000We had a little rally after they did allow me in.
01:19:47.000At the time of the election, they didn't permit me to speak at the convention.
01:22:11.000If I could just ask you, throughout all of your years surrounding by all of these horrible people in Congress, do you attribute what they're doing because of malice or ignorance?
01:22:21.000Why do you think they were doing what they were doing?
01:22:23.000Why do you think they're such a cause for battle?
01:22:35.000I think that the problem that I look at is intellectual and philosophic.
01:22:42.000We started a conversation with talking about, you know, 1913, and I says even a little earlier, I think people are influenced by By that type of thing, and the control of the scenario, the control of the propaganda, is the real problem.
01:22:58.000Now the individuals, they're sloppy, they're not well informed.
01:23:03.000You know, I had people come up, some liberal Democrats, when I first went there in the 70s, they'd come up and they'd say, I can't figure out what you're doing.
01:23:12.000Why are you boating with this guy over here?
01:23:14.000And I just sort of laugh because I got a charge out of it.
01:23:18.000But, no, there's, and I think there's, that's where we're making progress.
01:24:03.000And I'll say this to you, and one thing I've only realized maybe like a year ago is people tell us when they're watching, they're actually watching with three or four other people.
01:24:10.000So it says one, but it's actually a family or it's a group of friends who are hanging out.
01:24:14.000But I'll say this to you, Dr. Paul and Congressman, I don't know if I would be here right now if you were not doing what you were doing You know, throughout your entire career.
01:24:27.000The things that I started learning online, the speeches that I saw from you, had a tremendous influence.
01:24:32.000And I think, Luke, obviously the same thing.
01:24:43.000And before you know it, thirty years goes by, and you're sitting on some dude's podcast, who's like, remember that one thing you said about the wrong prescription for war?
01:24:52.000Had a huge impact on my view of a lot of this stuff, too.
01:24:55.000So, I think, you know, there's probably a lot of people out there right now who hear even this show, and we don't even realize.
01:25:00.000Okay, I always, in more private conversations, when we get into these talks like this, I always want to know more about, you know, where you were, why you changed, what happens, and I don't do it for you to say nice things about me, but what was it that caught your attention?
01:25:42.000But I remember I remember Barack Obama was supposedly going to be the anti-war guy, that the Bush era was completely wrong, people were marching through the streets saying he was Hitler, and then I'm this young kid, and I'm listening to punk rock music, war is bad, war is wrong, blah blah blah, and I agree, I'm like, I don't understand why we keep hearing these stories about civilians being killed, I don't understand.
01:26:04.000And I research it and I learn about it.
01:26:06.000And I start to understand the history and I read about, you know, Desert Storm and things like that.
01:26:11.000I was a lot younger. I read about the Cold War.
01:26:13.000And then I say, I don't trust the government.
01:26:16.000Barack Obama is supposedly going to be hope and change.
01:26:29.000And I'm like, wow, is this really the change?
01:26:32.000And you know what one of the first things Obama does when he gets into office is he bombs a village of women and children.
01:26:37.000with a drone strike, or I think it might have been an airstrike or something like that, under the guise of terrorist hunting, and I was like, okay, well that's weird, but maybe that was from the old administration.
01:27:00.000And of course then, everything you had been saying about the war was, I started asking myself, why is it That it's this Republican candidate who is preaching against war, who's still preaching against war, who is now, I can see, has the track record of actually caring about these issues.
01:27:16.000And then I started to see the hypocrisy in these other liberal and Democrat voters who told me they opposed the war, but the moment Barack Obama got elected, they stopped caring.
01:27:26.000That put a chip on my shoulder and I got deeply offended and distrustful of these people.
01:27:31.000And not to mention, I never liked Republicans as it was.
01:27:33.000So what I ended up seeing was more of... I've never considered myself like a right-leaning libertarian or a conservative.
01:27:41.000I remember seeing you give certain speeches where I was like, well, I don't agree with that.
01:27:45.000But the one thing I always said, and I think the Mises caucus actually quoted me and they made a little graphic was, I thought to myself, You know, this guy Ron Paul is saying, you know, here's what I believe, but you know what?
01:27:55.000I think the government should leave you all alone.
01:27:57.000And I thought to myself, well, okay, I can vote for that.
01:28:00.000He can believe whatever he wants as long as he leaves me alone, right?
01:28:03.000And so that was a big factor in, you know, I would consider myself kind of like a centrist libertarian type, more, you know, like more freedom, less government, a little bit of government.
01:28:12.000I'm not an anarchist or anything like that.
01:28:14.000But I think the Obama being a liar thing, and it was kind of like they spat on me.
01:28:20.000They lied to me, they insulted me, and I just don't trust them.
01:28:37.000He ends up just Catering straight to the establishment the moment they tell him to.
01:28:42.000Makes a million bucks selling a book and then says, you can be a millionaire if you write a book too!
01:28:45.000And I'm like, was all of that a lie too?
01:28:48.000Look, I gotta be honest, I just don't like any of these politicians.
01:28:51.000But, you know, you seem to have retired with grace and dignity and remain consistent on all your positions.
01:28:56.000Then your son is in there doing great work as well and I'm like, These are the only few politicians I actually think have ever meant it, to be honest.
01:29:23.000If you'd become president in 08, 2008, do you think that they would have been like, here's who you're gonna bomb next, and if you were like, no, that they would have JFK'd you?
01:29:35.000Well, that's hard to say, but if you did more than that, if you really changed things, there'd be a revolution.
01:29:46.000For some reason, whether they kill you or what, but anybody that supported it, it would be done.
01:29:54.000That's why we have to expect the collapse to come in a different way.
01:29:59.000We can't get enough people in Congress to pass the right law to really change things.
01:30:05.000It's good that we have there, and we have a few more now than we did before with the recent election, but it would be catastrophic if you really change it.
01:33:24.000If we were going to do it like a soft landing or something, it would be like by creating productivity, but not waiting for the politicians.
01:33:31.000Well, that's why the market is important.
01:33:34.000I think that you could, you know, if you took all of the dumb economic things that Biden has done, especially in energy, blowing up pipelines, you know, doing all that nonsense and more regulation, If you remove that, that would be helpful.
01:33:49.000That would increase productivity and lower prices.
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01:35:06.000And in the meantime, let's read your Super Chats.
01:35:10.000So we have this one from Raymond G. Stanley, Jr.
01:36:08.000I think thank you to Dr. Paul and Daniel for coming.
01:36:13.000I mean, this is a it's an honor and a privilege.
01:36:16.000One thing I wanted to add to just just in this context, when Dr. Paul asked me about like what mattered to me is I want to stress that I was very much in the generic pro-choice camp when I was younger.
01:36:27.000And then I heard Dr. Paul talk about life beginning at conception, explaining it, and giving his reasoning.
01:37:11.000When he first started, he was in residency, and he would tell it better than I would.
01:37:15.000Just as an example that there was an abortion that survived and the baby was lying in the corner of the room and everyone just was pretending that it wasn't there as the baby gasped for air because the point was that that baby was supposed to be aborted and he didn't have a real strong view necessarily until that experience and I think it really and it was I think in the one book that he wrote about abortion it really affected him so if you're against violence that literally is an act of violence you know.
01:37:44.000And personally, I just never liked the government.
01:39:44.000Cloud Roth says, Ron Paul makes me proud to be an American.
01:39:49.000Man, it is, I think I mentioned this before, but as you were talking about, you know, you maybe say something to 10 people, but then it, you know, as the time goes on, those ideas ripple outward.
01:40:01.000I don't know if you're aware of just how many millions or even tens of millions of people are where they are politically, economically, because of what, of the work you did and how profound that was for so many people.
01:40:13.000No, but that might be exaggerated a little bit.
01:40:20.000And I'm fascinated with the concept of the remnant.
01:40:25.000And I would say that the people that are in this meeting here tonight pretty much look like they're dealing with Retaining and maintaining the beliefs in liberty, and you become a remnant.
01:40:39.000And I've heard a little bit of disagreement, but I heard people in this room that wanted to just hear the plain truth of things.
01:40:47.000And that's, to me, the wonderful thing.
01:41:12.000And I said, well, I'll tell you what, it never bothered me because, you know, obviously my goal was not to become a congressman or the chairman of the Federal Reserve.
01:41:21.000I said, so I just, you know, I did what I thought I could do and in my own way.
01:41:26.000But, you know, I had low expectations and so I tolerated it quite well.
01:41:32.000Gormall says, thank you Dr. Paul for everything you've done and raising a remarkable son.
01:41:36.000I would love to hear your opinion on national divorce.
01:42:20.000And then the person is totally responsible for everything he or she does.
01:42:25.000And you have to accept the consequence.
01:42:28.000But I think the other principle in this that you have to look for is the principle of private property rights, owning property.
01:42:36.000If you know that it's your property and they're not supposed to mess with it, and if you're not allowed to mess with your neighbor's property, then we have to accept the expansion of that, which we don't do very often in Washington, is that That if you can't do it, if you can't steal from your neighbor, you're not allowed to send the government there.
01:43:17.000If it is, it's not too complex in the direction we go in.
01:43:22.000Otherwise, if you want to get the Keynesian mathematical formulas, I'll just say, well, if we do A, B, C, you can get this, and we can, you know, all that nonsense.
01:43:50.000We need to get the other party back to some sanity and stop trying to bomb people.
01:43:54.000I think the Bush years had tremendous damage to the Republican Party and the Conservative Party, especially with all the wars that they have started.
01:44:12.000And this is what caused Obama to be as powerful as it is.
01:44:15.000This is what caused the kind of woke movement to be where it is right now.
01:44:18.000A direct pushback against the conservatives sitting at the table and then, I would frankly say, pooping all over it.
01:44:25.000I thought your work was an example of bridging the gap between libertarianism and the Republican Party.
01:44:30.000Do you see, do you see, well one, I guess do you see a lot of like cohesiveness between the two or or would you like to?
01:44:37.000Oh I would like to but I'm not sure it's going to be all of a sudden a reformation and the Republicans changing their tune because right now the thing that's fascinated me about bringing people together is the fact that the I'm disappointed that the traditional progressive Democrat that was an ally when I was in Congress we've you know the Dennis Kucinich's we'd work together and try to make the point of the stupidity of the wars in the Middle East and I got more support from Democrats because Bush was in there so it was political it was short-sighted so that that is a
01:45:17.000You know, one thing that we could do is, you know, if the progressives are moving away, but they're acting more like hawks, you know, they're joining the Republican hawks.
01:45:30.000But at the same time, the Republicans are improving.
01:45:33.000Now they have a little group up there that, you know, got together with a remnant of the progressive Democrats, and they were able to persuade people that it's time we have to think about no more money to Ukraine, you know, so that's a start. The
01:45:49.000problem there is our practical problem, Daniel, I have to deal with. Yeah, that's all good, but so
01:45:54.000often when we find somebody, oh yeah, there's they want to do this and we're doing too much there.
01:45:59.000What they want to do is for you to build up the hatred toward China. Oh, we'd rather fight
01:46:10.000There was a Politico story about how Speaker McCarthy is getting very nervous because he's got a breakaway group of Republicans who are willing to get together with progressives who are breaking away from their party.
01:46:23.000And the reason why it's important is because there's a lot of leverage there.
01:46:27.000McCarthy can only afford to lose four votes on anything.
01:46:30.000So if you've got 10 people—we saw all the people that were holding up his, taking the chair—if you've got 10 or 15 people, and they will line up with three or four on the progressive side, you literally have a third party in Congress right now that has enormous stopping power.
01:46:47.000And it's our sincere hope that they realize the power they have One of the things that they coalesced on is ending the authorization for the Iraq war.
01:47:32.000I have visited some of their legislative bodies, and it's neat because they're taking the Constitution literally, and they're saying the only legal tender the state's allowed to use is gold and silver.
01:47:45.000So they don't have to ask the federal government about this.
01:47:49.000They're just And it's really pretty neat.
01:48:58.000So what I would want to do is build drone swarms and then put onboard artificial intelligence on the drone swarms, but don't give the swarms weapons.
01:49:05.000just give them like sensor targeting things so they can swarm us point target
01:49:09.000our weaknesses and then give us what we did wrong tell us how to get better at
01:49:13.000why but because drone swarms is the next stage of war but and that the idea is
01:49:19.000There's videos talking about drone swarm developments they've been working on in warfare, where they can unleash like 100,000 drones that can just, they don't need a nuke.
01:49:31.000They just get these drones to all crash into a city in perfect synchronicity, targeting the key point.
01:50:30.000I can't predict the future, but I know if people follow the principles of the non-aggression principle and voluntarianism and become personally responsible for themselves, no matter what happens, they will be ready for whatever comes and more prepared for it.
01:50:42.000And a lot In a lot better situation than if they weren't.
01:50:45.000So I think those two ideas that you guys represent so well and speak about for so many years are critical at this juncture where things are very crazy.
01:50:55.000They're only going to get a lot crazier from here.
01:50:57.000And more than ever, we need to take care of ourselves and our communities.
01:51:00.000And I think if we go along those lines, we're going to be ready for whatever comes next.
01:51:29.000I was raised in a way a chicken farm, then a dairy, and I decided that I wouldn't raise chickens at this particular time.
01:51:38.000I have a couple cows, but I have a nice place.
01:51:42.000And once again, it's back to my so-called optimism that I just haven't run into a lot of ugly people.
01:51:49.000I know they're out there and I suffer their consequences, but no, our family feels very fortunate that I've been able to practice medicine and we have a few problems and it's been rather nice.
01:52:46.000Callum Dimmick says, you should talk about the similarities between the Tennessee legislature bringing back the senators they kicked out with the caning of Senator Summer right before the first American Civil War, i.e.
01:52:59.000Well, I don't think it's the same thing.
01:53:01.000I mean, the pre-Civil War caning was merciless brutality, which left the guy permanently disabled, depending on who you ask, I suppose.
01:53:09.000And what we have now is a guy threw a hot coffee, was arrested for throwing hot coffee four years ago, and then was permanently banned from the Capitol, later got elected as a Democrat and brought into the Capitol, then he joined the protesters to storm the Capitol, so he got kicked out, and then got reinstated by Democrats to go back to the Capitol just recently.
01:54:36.000They claimed that he had some staffers paint his boat.
01:54:40.000But what they were really throwing him out for is because he showed that the Emperor had no clothes, that the whole system, you know, he was famous for going down to the floor and give one-minute speeches that he ended with, beam me up Scotty, you know.
01:55:39.000They Eddie says, in 07 when I was 17 and scared ish-less by Alex Jones's Endgame, Dr. Paul was the only politician we were told we could trust.
01:55:49.000I supported his family only until Trump, still very grateful for Paul's.
01:56:23.000Anwar Abu Bakr says, there's a Ron Paul Revolution billboard still on the highway between Nevada and California from Dr. Paul's last presidential campaign.
01:56:50.000Phil H says, Libertarians have gained a lot of ground with Republicans.
01:56:53.000Can the same be done with Democrats, or are they too far gone?
01:56:57.000Well, my view is that Democrats believe incorrect things too much.
01:57:02.000There are certainly conservatives who believe incorrect things, but for the most part, when I have a conversation with somebody as it pertains to Ukraine or economics or anything, they're just like, I don't know.
01:57:13.000What they know is what the New York Times just said last night.
01:57:16.000And that's probably why they don't like coming on shows like this, where we will pull up all of the stories, and they'll have to confront those issues.
01:58:42.000I think that's absolutely how at least a lot of people I know felt.
01:58:48.000It is fascinating to hear now we have Republicans come on the show, and Luke will say something like, we've been warning you about the FBI and the ATF and the CIA and the intelligence agencies for a decade, and then you'll get these prominent conservatives going, yeah, you were right the whole time, we screwed up.
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02:01:18.000Well, I will just make a point that I make frequently is a lot of times after a speech or a meeting, people will come up and thank me for being a big help and encouragement and what they were doing.
02:01:28.000But I have to admit that I come for selfish reasons, because when I meet people like you, who are interested in what I'm in, and you Well, you know, generally agreed with me.
02:01:40.000So I leave with a positive attitude and that I benefit as much as you might tell me you benefit.
02:01:48.000So that is what I think is beneficial.
02:01:50.000And the neat thing about all this is the whole idea of the remnant is so fascinating that I don't know how long you've been on the air and all, but you probably have influenced a lot of people and it sounds to me like Gee, I sort of agree with those guys up there.