Bannon's War Room - May 04, 2023


Episode 2708: Exacerbating The Financial Crisis


Episode Stats

Length

58 minutes

Words per Minute

171.73528

Word Count

10,095

Sentence Count

59

Misogynist Sentences

7

Hate Speech Sentences

11


Summary

In this episode of the War Room, we discuss the current state of the world, the current political climate, and the future of the biotech industry. We also talk about the dangers of Big Tech and Big Biotechnology.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 this is the primal scream of a dying regime pray for our enemies because we're going medieval on
00:00:09.960 these people here's not got a free shot all these networks lying about the people the people have
00:00:16.560 had a belly full of it i know you don't like hearing that i know you try to do everything
00:00:20.320 in the world to stop that but you're not going to stop it it's going to happen and where do people
00:00:23.900 like that go to share the big line mega media i wish in my soul i wish that any of these people
00:00:31.720 had a conscience ask yourself what is my task and what is my purpose if that answer is to save my
00:00:39.660 country this country will be saved war room here's your host stephen k band
00:00:53.900 well one day back from the beach one day back from the beach of course in the war room now
00:01:18.400 i'm too edgy right i don't think a juice is gonna i don't think my juice my sippy cup my juice is
00:01:25.400 gonna calm me down i gotta go that's that's that's live on the stage in in uh in budapest that's the
00:01:31.800 hungarian folk dancing i love folk day you know mode people don't realize this captain bannon was a
00:01:37.300 champion level irish folk dancer when she was a little girl um it's very soothing because joe allen
00:01:44.060 and brat combined have got me jacked up today um and i've still got the whole show to go to we got
00:01:49.100 we got investigations we've got um politics polling capital markets
00:01:54.980 but is all that going to matter and all the fights we've got which we got to win those fights
00:02:01.900 if if this thing doesn't we don't get on top of this and now you're seeing the official
00:02:05.960 oops and here's what i really feel great about they've probably given this to the most incompetent
00:02:13.720 person let's face it even the democrats know that she's completely over her head you know
00:02:19.280 completely it's it's they've given it to the most incompetent person that hasn't succeeded
00:02:23.820 in anything the administration's given her so when we talk about the end of humanity what is camilla
00:02:29.720 what's she doing is she free this afternoon can she take some meetings can she get some briefings
00:02:33.820 she did such a great job and the southern border is about to explode
00:02:38.380 right and and and she's in charge of that she's in charge about five other things all of that
00:02:44.940 have been abject failures no follow-through no command no no no uh owning a room no stepping in
00:02:52.580 and commanding a decision none of it so let's give it to kamala i feel so much better let's give it to
00:02:57.860 kamala we're talking about the proteins and the end of the earth the end of mankind let's put her in
00:03:03.200 charge doesn't it make you feel good doesn't it make it feel good go grab a chamomile tea
00:03:08.380 chamomile tea right now and uh and and and and heat it up and just contemplate that for a second
00:03:13.960 joe allen brother help me out here well you know steve maybe the ai systems can create better brondo
00:03:21.420 with better electrolytes uh then you know kamala harris would at least be in her element when talking
00:03:27.120 about it um so you know i think to to sum this all up i i this this entire kind of public private
00:03:36.380 partnership we see emerging with the federal government big tech and also the biotech corporations
00:03:42.680 uh i don't believe that the federal government will rein in these tech corporations any more than they did
00:03:48.200 when google search dominated uh over 80 percent of all search results and the information flow on the
00:03:54.700 internet uh nor did they do anything when it was very clear that facebook twitter and all these
00:04:01.000 others instagram all these social media companies were basically turning children into smartphone
00:04:06.220 zombies they did absolutely nothing about that i can't imagine that they're going to take on the
00:04:11.520 most powerful tech corporations in the world with one of the most powerful technologies if not the most
00:04:16.480 powerful technology in the world i think what will happen going forward there'll be a lot of talk
00:04:22.160 about how they're going to make sure that it's not a discriminatory ai there'll be a lot of talk to
00:04:27.620 say okay well if these companies perpetuate fraud we're going to come down on them but there's really
00:04:33.540 no way once the cat's out of the bag right once that happens there's really no way to fix it if people
00:04:41.060 have access to the technologies if they democratize the technologies which is one of the things they talk
00:04:45.960 about all the time as far as social justice that means that any bad actor anywhere uh can use it for
00:04:52.780 generating misinformation uh for a sowing social discord by way of misinformation and of course by
00:05:00.140 generating uh you know cheaply made bioweapons one of the things that renee wegerson from the uh from
00:05:07.520 arpa h talks about is that you can go on to the internet and buy a very very cheap like a few hundred
00:05:14.380 dollars crisper kit you're not going to be able to create something super sophisticated but the fear
00:05:19.880 that she expresses the woman who is working on pushing biotech forward is that you will just get
00:05:26.560 some rando with just enough skill to create something extremely dangerous and like i say these tech
00:05:33.260 corporations yeah they're mitigating risk the big risk they're worried about is being left behind
00:05:38.900 the big risk that they feel is a threat to them is that they won't be first to create the most powerful
00:05:45.800 narrow ai and of course the goal they're all looking forward to to create a god-like artificial general
00:05:53.380 intelligence and i think that that's the situation we find ourselves in here steve these companies are
00:05:59.040 going to race forward no matter what and the government will just kind of function as pr for them
00:06:04.840 ultimately you talk about the public private partnerships and i want to make sure this is
00:06:10.200 what your tax dollars this is one of the reason why cut the federal budget so dramatically talk to me
00:06:14.600 about the national side when you get to bratz point you're dealing with people that don't come from the
00:06:20.520 same ethical framework of the judeo-christian west uh this framework that's listed you know lasted from
00:06:28.740 time immemorial it's been passed down generation to generation they're they they're not part of that
00:06:34.940 they've opted out of that because they're so smart they have such wisdom right walk me through the
00:06:41.800 national science foundation don't we have a problem already that the whole place is infested with
00:06:45.940 transhumanist i mean one of the issues we got here see people see no problem with this they're they're
00:06:50.560 all gung-ho on this show allen yeah the national science foundation that's a big part of these
00:06:56.980 these white house initiatives they've got 140 million now to work on uh what was the quote
00:07:03.000 rights and safety and ai well one of the more prominent and certainly from my perspective maybe
00:07:09.100 one of the most important figures there at the national science foundation is william sims bainbridge
00:07:14.460 he's been there for a long time in 2003 he published a paper an enormous document actually some 300 pages
00:07:21.660 on nbic which is transhumanist which is kind of code for transhumanism nanotech biotech infotech and
00:07:30.620 cognitive technology and william sims bainbridge uh being a prominent transhumanist it's impossible to
00:07:38.480 know without being on the inside how influential that is within the national science foundation but one thing
00:07:45.540 i know for certain is that when you look at the sort of rhetoric coming out of big tech or if you look at the
00:07:51.100 rhetoric coming out of people like renee wegrezen at arpa h and then if you look directly at the
00:07:57.020 writings of william sims bainbridge what you see is this kind of open declaration that these people
00:08:02.420 orient themselves towards a transhumanist vision that technology is the highest power and that human
00:08:08.920 beings are best served by aligning themselves with the highest power which is artificial intelligence
00:08:15.640 and the various sort of biotechnologies that artificial intelligence makes possible it's as much a
00:08:22.060 religious revolution as it is a technological revolution uh brad help me out here on this on
00:08:31.120 this framing when you have the people like william sims bainbridge and others that are the leadership
00:08:35.780 of these taxpayer funded efforts and they come from a totally different perspective than the taxpayers sir
00:08:44.080 yeah well joe joe hit it right uh in in describing what's going on it's a race to be first and it's
00:08:52.960 a race to be first to achieve god-like status right and so in the bible this is called idolatry it's uh
00:09:01.380 the key sin it's the original sin uh to replace god almighty with yourself uh humanity has a great track
00:09:09.440 record of doing that when it comes to ethics there's no such thing as ethics i taught this stuff for 18 years
00:09:16.580 so what i'm saying is actually true ethics is the study of the criteria for what is good that is the debate
00:09:25.220 right so hitler had a system where he identified slaughtering people uh for the third reich to be good
00:09:31.980 the chinese have a one child policy uh that selects boys over girls that they call good the judeo-christian
00:09:39.460 tradition has an elaborate system which you just stated has been with us for thousands of years
00:09:44.920 which has in a very sophisticated fashion defined a way uh to get at the good through god and to live
00:09:54.400 out the good it it by far even even empirically there's no competitor to the judeo-christian system
00:10:01.320 of ethics the competing systems are kant or aristotle or buddhist ethics or confucian or islamic ethics
00:10:07.340 etc uh but the scientists you mentioned right the way science proceeds even in ethics is if you have
00:10:14.660 a better system name it and you have to explain more with less right that's how science proceeds
00:10:20.500 it's occam occam's razor and you have to provide a better ethical system than the existing one
00:10:26.360 uh to get rid of it science doesn't even enter that debate and and across you know corporate
00:10:32.500 america and all this corporate ethics and the business ethics and all that most people know
00:10:35.940 that stuff is just a smoke screen to cover liability uh those ethical systems can't stand up to three
00:10:42.420 sentences of questioning as to can you please define the good or the right uh in a meaningful way
00:10:49.040 and so joe's done a just outstanding job of showing what the threat is it's clear and and joe speaks
00:10:56.260 in very sophisticated fashion about uh religious themes that are attached to this supposed you know
00:11:02.540 scientific uh culture that's emerging out there but the american people as you say ought to put the stop
00:11:08.400 uh the brakes on this thing uh immediately uh until we get some social definition of what are we trying
00:11:14.300 to achieve here what is good uh for all of us in the long run and so that's the challenge
00:11:19.920 uh hang on one second dave joe uh can you give people and i know you've worked on a big project
00:11:26.340 uh give people how they can get uh caught up with you also we're announcing ben harnwell's putting up
00:11:33.020 exclusive content on the newsletter you can get that by going to warroom.org totally free joe allen's
00:11:39.940 going to be giving exclusive content we're going to have other people giving exclusive content we want
00:11:43.620 to make sure there's no paywall here it's not going to be a paywall we want to make sure everybody gets
00:11:48.000 access to this uh so joe how do people how do people get to you for your voluminous writings on
00:11:54.860 this topic as you now come to the forefront of one of the great thinkers uh of this movement
00:12:00.420 well steve there's going to be a lot of stuff coming up in the very near future as soon as i uh
00:12:06.220 work out a few kinks on my end with this this project which has taken long enough and is coming to a
00:12:11.740 close um so you can find all my writing at warroom.org under the transhumanism tab
00:12:18.040 joe bot.xyz or my social media getter and twitter at joe b-o-t x-y-z thank you very much steve thank
00:12:27.300 you very much dave appreciate it uh thank you very much um by the way i think i need to take a nap
00:12:35.040 i think i need i think i'm gonna have nap time here again can we do i'm gonna do a my pillow read
00:12:40.640 i got to right i think every i think a lot of people in the audience say hey can i get a pillow
00:12:45.560 and go curl up right now we've just had an hour and 10 minutes of uh of of uh doom and gloom i don't
00:12:52.660 want it to be doom and gloom but i want to make sure people understand as now the authorities finally
00:12:58.380 awaken to the fact of what they've known for quite a while because publicly they understand this is
00:13:02.620 untenable that uh we've got to be in the risk mitigation business in the early years of this
00:13:09.080 it's got to be risk mitigation the upside's all going to be there it's all going to come but you
00:13:13.720 have to be in the risk mitigation business and so far there's been none of that that's why the leaders
00:13:19.840 in in this movement in the transhumanist and in the particularly artificial intelligence aspect of it
00:13:25.960 are all coming uh are all come in fact the guy that wrote sapiens is in the economist
00:13:30.720 the economist has a big article about him remember he wrote homo uh deus um that that warned about
00:13:37.580 this and he's been one of the kind of proponents of it he's now warning against it they're all
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00:14:19.200 we're gonna take a short break we're gonna go from the sublime to the less sublime we're gonna talk
00:14:25.440 about a contagion this is a virus that spreads through the american financial system you know
00:14:31.240 over the last 48 hours jamie diamond joe biden janet yellen uh chairman powell the federal reserve
00:14:39.120 has told us nothing to see here it's all solid markets are not telling you that price is truth
00:14:47.560 next in the war room
00:14:49.920 inflation has consequences as the fed raises interest rates to combat out of control government
00:15:06.660 spending long-term bonds have diminished in value crippling banks depositors are holding their
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00:16:34.340 okay um
00:16:38.480 dave braskin walks through some of this banking
00:16:42.780 remember it's all interconnected and they just can't sit there and tell you hey we don't have a
00:16:48.640 problem it's all solid right it's like that last scene in the in the animal house right nothing to
00:16:54.420 fear here no problem boom the guy gets run over um there's something deeply wrong and that's it gets
00:17:01.360 back to spending that's why this fight is so big and so important the biden spending led to the biden
00:17:07.100 inflation that led to the biden fed having to jack interest rates to try to choke it down
00:17:12.440 um that led to the biden bonds the bonds dropped 80 percent the unrealized losses it it it it it flipped up
00:17:22.720 the balance sheets of these uh of these banks plus consumers or customers started leaving taking
00:17:28.480 their deposits out going to higher returns and it all it's led to this in the regional banks and now
00:17:34.960 as we know we said the commercial real estate business is 80 financed by the regional banks
00:17:43.320 and you've had you know you had the silicon valley banks they had these massive jumbo loans all these
00:17:49.000 dirtbag entrepreneurs and you had three of them all tied to silicon you know silicon valley bank
00:17:55.240 signature and first republic boom they're all gone at your and you're paying for it don't let them lie
00:18:00.640 to you and now they said well that's it you know jamie down it's all it's good now we finished that
00:18:05.100 it's all fine you know because he's buying and getting all the upside and you're you're eating the
00:18:08.820 losses they're socializing they're mitigating risk they know how to mitigate risk here's how they
00:18:15.120 mitigate it uh go look in the mirror just right on your take just right on your mirror mitigation and
00:18:20.960 so you can see you're the mitigator you're you're mitigating the risk of the wealthy they're getting
00:18:25.540 the upside and you're mitigating risk so we got we got a and now with commercial real estate collapsing
00:18:33.900 and that's because the the city centers are out of control with the anarchy of the source back da's
00:18:39.100 it's not surprising this is happening and the lockdowns and now the economy's imploding so the
00:18:46.940 tech companies that were buying all the space oh you know either work for home or you're laid off
00:18:51.060 so you're in a vicious cycle and all they're doing is every day is another line a spin in a uh this is
00:19:00.560 why biden i don't think is going to be their guy this is why you know robert kennedy is at 21 with no
00:19:05.360 money not even a campaign platform and he's going to he's going to cut to and they said oh when the
00:19:11.460 debate started won't be at 21 where they're not going to have debates over there they've shut that
00:19:16.260 down just just i'm gonna get a guy on here tomorrow i think we're gonna try to do it to walk through
00:19:19.980 michelle obama because michelle obama is like a specter over that whole thing don't think the obamas
00:19:25.320 they susan right don't think the obamas are not sitting here you don't think they're going to give up
00:19:29.860 the administrative state in the deep state under no circumstance they're going to let donald john
00:19:35.440 trump return to the white house okay the whole apparatus is against him the entire apparatus is
00:19:42.220 against him from the murdochs to the obama to doj to the fbi all of it they're all against him
00:19:48.740 all of it return to date brett now make sure you go to and by the way philip patrick on saturday
00:19:55.700 we're going to go through this in detail with the geopolitical situation i'm going to have some
00:20:00.200 top guests on here do not miss that show philip patrick's going to join me go to birchgold.com
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00:20:18.820 don't give you easy homework assignments we're giving it to you from the economist from the ft from the
00:20:23.760 top research places the top papers the top thinkers in the world they're all globalist i'm not telling
00:20:29.640 you to agree with them but you've got to understand how they think and that's how we break it down for
00:20:33.160 you so that you can come to your own conclusions as a populist a nationalist and an american patriot
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00:20:46.840 the third segment installment totally free download debt the debt trap you can also go online and talk
00:20:57.000 to look one of the things we've been breaking here is that central banks been buying gold with both
00:21:01.120 hands the global south is going to a gold backed kind of currency they haven't quite figured it out
00:21:08.040 yet but they got the resources and we have federal reserve notes and the dollar used to be rock solid
00:21:14.620 but it's not now and they know it they know you're they know they get the joke they're doing a
00:21:19.540 devaluation on you they're doing a devaluation on you every day the american citizens they're devaluing
00:21:29.340 your currency and they're saying hey if they do it to their own citizens they're certainly going to do
00:21:34.660 with us we have the resources maybe we get gold back and maybe we saw what putin did when they try to
00:21:40.120 take down his central bank and try to take down his currency something they didn't even do with the
00:21:45.420 nazis try to do it and he just said hey i'm a peg the ruble to gold suck on that they bratt walk me
00:21:53.840 through this contagion the bank this regional bank thing and it ain't going to get better because
00:21:57.740 commercial real estate is not going to get better and remember two-thirds to eighty percent of the
00:22:02.480 loans in commercial real estate and almost a hundred percent of the loans to the small business guys and
00:22:08.240 the entrepreneurs the entrepreneurs out there are all done by the regional banks and you're seeing
00:22:13.660 a credit restriction right now this is going to exacerbate the implosion that is upon us day brett
00:22:19.180 yeah i've got charts that back up that signal uh but the first i want to start off with a fed
00:22:25.880 commentary which was tremendous signal uh they said and this is not a saturday night live skit line they
00:22:33.800 said yesterday the banking sector is fine but we're not sure about the credit what that is the banking
00:22:41.580 right the banking is credit that's what they do and they honestly in the same paragraph said
00:22:47.760 the banking system is fine meaning they don't think the the midsize is going to spread to the bigs
00:22:53.360 uh but then they said but the credit piece we don't quite get so i've got a few charts here let's
00:22:58.060 start with the chart one denver uh and it basically uh is is the bomb uh we're currently seeing the
00:23:05.240 largest decline in u.s commercial bank deposits since 1934 right look way to the left and then look way
00:23:14.920 to the right and there's the bomb we're currently seeing the largest decline in bank deposits commercial
00:23:21.440 bank deposits since 1934 that's new whenever you see a chart like that we got to study it
00:23:30.380 hang on hang on stop stop ho ho ho don't don't no more charts i got a hole in that chart yep i want
00:23:37.660 you to go back and hit that again and here's why remember the movie bonnie and clyde when bonnie and
00:23:42.940 clyde out there in west texan texas they're going around robbing banks the first i think two or three
00:23:46.960 banks they rob they go hey buddy we're not a bank anymore we closed down right depositors all ran
00:23:54.100 and had a bank run that 30 34 or 34 the you know the everything's in 1929 uh when the stock market
00:24:02.920 crashed hey the the worst part of the depression was all to come 32 30 this one brought roosevelt to
00:24:09.080 power 34 since night give me that again since this is the since 1934 what is this day brett let's get
00:24:16.200 this chart up there for everybody's on the podcast or on radio this is why you got to go to worm.org sign
00:24:21.840 up get all the charts get all the videos give it to me again brett yep yep we're currently seeing the
00:24:27.860 largest decline in u.s commercial bank deposits right run on the banks decline in commercial bank deposits
00:24:36.360 since 1934 that is staggering that's a result of federal reserve policy uh in the next chart we can get
00:24:45.680 to that one if you want to move on sure okay and so here you see everybody hang on hang on is there is
00:24:54.620 everybody hang on i just want is everybody having a good morning you're having a good morning in the
00:24:59.320 war room no no seriously look we wouldn't do this to you if we didn't know you had big shoulders
00:25:07.740 yeah right you're you're the creditors committee that hey sometimes you got to tell the creditors
00:25:12.560 committee bad news yeah here's a reality check and this is why next week when they're over there at
00:25:18.760 the white house drinking coffee off the fine china and they're all talking and you know oh these cuts
00:25:24.940 are so terrible and today they got they're going to put out not eight million people out of jobs
00:25:29.280 give me the alternative yeah remember they're only cutting the rate of growth they they're not taking
00:25:34.840 the meat ax they let brad bannon cortez navarre you let us at it with a meat ax we show you some cuts
00:25:41.240 right which you have to do because this is what you end up with they they disassociated with it they
00:25:47.480 just know if this is the problem the spending is not a benefit the spending is a liability
00:25:55.000 day brad continue on sir yeah the next chart uh if you just look at the the the gray bands going up
00:26:03.940 and down at about 2000 right uh the blue line uh when it goes below zero you've heard this phrase
00:26:11.140 you have an inverted yield curve well you see that blue line go right after 2000 go down below zero and
00:26:17.760 then you get the gray band which is a recession same in 2005 2006 the fed prints a ton of money
00:26:24.440 they invert the yield curve and then you get a a wider gray band the 0809 financial crisis
00:26:31.440 recession right now look to the far right uh you think you had an inverted yield curve problem back
00:26:38.440 then look at right we're still nose diving going straight down so what do you think comes next
00:26:44.060 and then the uh the last slide here's the bomb on the research been done oh oh oh hang on whoa whoa
00:26:50.880 whoa whoa slow down slow down professor i'm one of the dumb kids sitting up on the sky deck
00:26:56.400 normally reading the sports section and but i know i know this is going to be on the exam so i got
00:27:01.420 to ask the question right um the inverted the inverted yield curve here's why here's why it's
00:27:06.260 always a it's always a forecaster of a recession because they're charging more for short-term money
00:27:11.320 than long-term money money which is obviously not logical right the greater time out you would want
00:27:16.240 to charge more it's inverted and that's why this is always used by the guys in wall street as a
00:27:20.860 leading indicator the macro guys to say trouble ahead trouble ahead tell me about this inverted
00:27:27.080 you give me some observation on this inverted yield curve well the basic idea related to credit and
00:27:34.040 banking and the federal reserve is if you have an inverted yield curve like you just said that's how
00:27:38.840 banks make money right they they and and that's what caused all the problems with the five banks we've
00:27:45.300 seen so far right they went long to grab a little bit more yield they they locked in at you know two
00:27:51.140 percent uh for 10 years uh back a couple years and they're locked in and so that you know on the books
00:27:57.520 uh that bond's worth you know ten dollars uh but then when the depositors make a run on the bank and all
00:28:04.500 the money goes out of the bank uh then you have to back up your reserves to follow the law and you
00:28:10.340 don't have any deposits and so then they have to sell off that bond and it's no longer at book value
00:28:16.220 it's at market value and it tanks everything's upside down that's what's going on right now
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00:30:00.440 i want to thank uh members of the engine room that have been uh sending me uh information here the
00:30:09.380 last couple minutes given the the tone of the show about this is national this is the national day of
00:30:15.520 prayer and so we absolutely agree that the prayer is the greatest thing we've got going but make sure
00:30:21.540 i think today adding your prayers that uh you use your agency and instrumentality we're not going to
00:30:26.840 pray this away divine providence works through human instruments that would be you by the way
00:30:35.400 as we put this burden on you and it even shouldn't be a burden i mean think about it in all human history
00:30:42.480 in all the history of this our beloved republic you're in you were born in here today in its moment
00:30:51.660 of greatest crisis and this is its moment of greatest crisis president trump said that the
00:30:56.620 other day in the conversation we had at mar-a-lago there's a no doubt and quite frankly we're on now
00:31:03.340 into a path we've opened a pandora's box because of the short-sightedness of man that you just read
00:31:11.040 the old testament read the new testament particularly old testament right time and time and time and time
00:31:16.320 again false idols got another false idol technology and men and women who think they're gods
00:31:24.560 right so national day of prayer okay from the sublime once again back to the less sublime because
00:31:33.320 we've got a lot of work to do here let's get this up on the chart for go back to brad this is from the
00:31:37.620 cobayese letter it's up on twitter very smart people on on wall street i want to read this they just put
00:31:43.440 this up last night and grace and mo were good enough to get it to me with a bunch of other
00:31:48.340 stuff they got number one interest rates at their highest since 2006 number two and this is important
00:31:55.420 write this down with your number two pencil credit card debt set to cross one trillion dollars for the
00:32:01.360 first time one trillion dollar credit card you don't think people are tapped out number three multiple
00:32:08.580 regional banks on brink of collapse pack west number four regulators believe quote the system is strong
00:32:20.860 the system is strong five one month away from a u.s. default on the debt now we know that's the the
00:32:29.660 regime trying to play with us but that's where we are in the financial part of this and remember
00:32:36.680 they're going to have a chat and look i give a hat tip to mccarthy to get the 218 but the problem the
00:32:41.800 moderates in the republican party and the rest of you got to start listening to burchett got a lot
00:32:47.580 start listening to biggs and to rosendale and gates and these others you gotta you gotta join reality
00:32:53.840 you can't just because the press gonna say oh you're cutting this hey we're on the edge of a collapse
00:32:59.620 of course jim kramer yesterday he's putting out yeah i think it's the greatest i've ever seen
00:33:03.500 just go inverse kramer on me baby how's that market doing today how's the bond market doing um
00:33:11.140 dave bratt continue on sir yeah well just to follow up on the list you just gave us uh
00:33:18.920 another institution that is just morally bankrupt right now is the economist class and i have one
00:33:26.520 exception here but you don't see the economist class harvard yale princeton even chicago dealing with
00:33:33.120 the the issues of the day uh having to do with economic populism that you cover along with your
00:33:39.380 hosts and coast 50 trillion in debt it seems like that might have an effect on the economy
00:33:44.800 two and a half trillion dollars in interest payments a year in 10 years that might affect
00:33:49.420 investment uh an open border might have a profound impact on black brown blue blue collar uh workers
00:33:55.980 wage rates uh china policy have you seen any of this from the economist class nothing just a wall
00:34:03.200 good news is stanford stanford uh business school has produced a paper and if denver wants to pop up
00:34:09.820 the next next chart uh this uh this graph i'll explain what it means but markets are finally waking up
00:34:17.240 to the fact that a large portion of the banking system is potentially insolvent it's not just a few
00:34:24.160 banks and i'll explain all of what all these dark blue squares mean in this stanford working paper
00:34:30.140 right and this is the the chart they provide it in the back of the appendix the u.s banking systems
00:34:35.280 market value of assets is 2.2 trillion dollars lower than their book value that's what we're talking
00:34:43.980 about that's the error that the federal reserve system has created the market value when they go to
00:34:49.140 sell their bonds when there's a run on the banks is 2.2 trillion dollars lower than suggested by their
00:34:56.900 book value right the accounting book value that they have on their books even if only half of the
00:35:03.100 uninsured depositors decide to withdraw right so just a half run on the banks almost 190 banks
00:35:10.520 with assets of 300 billion dollars are at potential risk of default impairment and bottom line look at
00:35:19.380 that map these are the banks any of the dark blue squares you see are in the top 20 percent of banks
00:35:26.060 that are in the default range so this is not a few banks every dark blue square you see is a potential
00:35:35.640 bank at risk of default and obviously when that happens uh the interest rates are still going up
00:35:42.320 people quit buying homes businesses quit investing uh we got a recession coming up within a few months
00:35:48.700 and then you just pray uh that it's not a crash landing and a credit crisis uh like we've never seen
00:35:55.860 before judging by that inverted yield curve um you know i think it's christopher uh whalen uh wrote
00:36:05.380 easy the book lords of easy money yeah we've had him on here before uh the other day they had
00:36:12.100 something about the fed or you know the banking system and in in this i think it's a reuters or
00:36:16.940 associated press articles a wire service and in there there's all this happy talk from the
00:36:21.340 economists and whalen who has studied the federal reserve probably closer than anybody any modern writer
00:36:26.240 said i don't know what people are talking about but yeah we've got a regional bank crisis uh and it's
00:36:32.640 big and it's going to you know you better be prepared uh for the for to to deal with this
00:36:38.520 and quite frankly here's the scary thing between yellen and and powell and i mean there's no
00:36:45.160 credibility these guys right right there's no credibility in yellen there's no credibility in
00:36:49.780 powell there's no credibility in biden this is only going to get exacerbated of course biden's
00:36:54.880 sitting there going oh no you can't i want a debt ceiling increase and and what brad just said
00:36:59.780 tell me how to give me get tell let's go to the end and work back tell me how you're gonna handle
00:37:04.040 the 50 trillion dollars if we just give you a clean debt ceiling they got these democrats running
00:37:08.220 around right now they're trying to do the 14th amendment and they're gonna they're running around
00:37:12.180 saying we're gonna do some legislation to just take the debt ceiling away the debt ceiling dude we're
00:37:16.260 not idiots that's our leverage we're not gonna let you take it away we're gonna grind you down with
00:37:20.700 it we're gonna grind you down with we don't care if you don't like it the spending's a liability
00:37:26.460 it's not a benefit and you're crushing the american people you're crushing citizens of this country
00:37:32.720 you're crushing them as you're exacerbating a a uh a uh invasion on the southern border
00:37:39.800 brad how do people amazing job sir how do people get to you fantastic job this morning
00:37:45.140 yeah and i've got some of the lingo that goes with these charts if you want it to please uh share with
00:37:50.340 your family's kids brat economics on getter and everyone always talks about the children the love
00:37:56.640 for the children uh we love children look at what we're doing to our children it's it's just a moral
00:38:03.420 catastrophe now hang on for a second you got that's what's got to be dealt with now look all the easy
00:38:10.360 choices are are gone there's no easy choices there's gonna be some hard choices right and guess what all
00:38:16.760 the people say we can't talk about raising taxes hey all the wealthy and super wealthy are all woke
00:38:22.360 democrats are woke established republicans why would i not increase their taxes i'd do it in new york
00:38:28.860 second in a new york second they don't support you they hate you this is so they help cause this mess
00:38:38.520 they benefited from all the fed activity why wouldn't we carve some of that back oh you can't talk about
00:38:45.000 raising taxes you know we don't oh yeah i can and we shall you gotta this problem's got to be dealt
00:38:51.400 with somehow it's not going to go away you're not going to wish this away you're not going to wish
00:38:55.180 the invasion of the southern border away you're not going to uh wish away the ccp and this war in
00:39:00.340 the eurasian landmass we're not going to wish away the mullahs in persia you're not going to wish away
00:39:04.740 the kgb you're not going to sit down you're not going to wish away the invasion of the southern border
00:39:09.500 what's done to our country in the fentanyl war and the second opium war of the chinese communist party
00:39:13.380 you're not going to wish any of it away it's your agency that's going to do this this is why the ai
00:39:20.740 this is why we bring it to you you're the salvation of this country you this audience not tucker carlson
00:39:27.780 not steve bannon not donald trump you not mtg not matt gates not not jim jordan you you
00:39:37.700 when you finally have determined that yes this is we we must save it here's what we have to do
00:39:45.240 it's going to be saved and only until that moment
00:39:49.160 bratt one more time how do people get to you yeah thanks steve bratt economics b-r-a-t
00:39:56.720 bratt economics on getter all economics all charts all day also on the third floor business school
00:40:03.360 liberty university come on up and visit love seeing the the war room uh friends uh come on up
00:40:08.940 with their young scholars god bless you all have have a great day keep the faith thanks david and
00:40:15.240 thanks for going through your i know you had to get out earlier thanks for sticking around for us
00:40:18.360 um i've got a terry shilling thing i've got i've got um our own ben harnwell in rome i want to deal
00:40:25.280 with some things here for a second uh number one you've got the birch gold i want you to get the
00:40:31.320 information so that you can be better member of the creditors committee and chairman of the
00:40:35.580 creditors committee but i also want you to talk and look i've never been a gold guy but what they've
00:40:40.880 done over the last three years it destroying this uh destroying the dollar and we had in the
00:40:46.080 conversation president trump we take and by the way there's a lot of obligation that comes with being
00:40:51.300 the prime reserve currency i i i admit that and if we don't want to be the prime reserve currency
00:40:56.940 that is a decision we can make as a nation in a logical manner that's not what's happening here
00:41:02.840 that's not what's happening here the world is revolting against the radical biden regime and what
00:41:09.300 they're doing because they're saying hey the american citizens are sitting there taking it getting a
00:41:14.860 devai a rolling devaluation but we're not because we got these resources and these resources are limited
00:41:20.480 and we're going to max the value of them so they're going to essentially a gold standard that's why
00:41:25.200 these central banks are buying gold at greater rates than they've ever bought and philip patrick
00:41:29.620 will be back on saturday we're going to break it down but that's why you ought to immerse yourself
00:41:33.220 in information right now immerse yourself in information you're it's it's you know you're free men and
00:41:40.980 women to make these decisions but you have to get the information go to birchgold.com right now
00:41:46.380 slash war room the other we got this the drone attack situation has even gotten bigger today
00:41:51.940 because you got this kind of weird non-denial denial by the u.s government and now it's like
00:41:57.640 bizarro land was it a drone strike was an assassination attempt was it not the russians
00:42:03.540 hit back hard but one of the things there is on cyber and this is the another thing i want this
00:42:08.560 audience i want you to start checking boxes let's get the burden off you right now with this economy
00:42:13.800 remember 80 of your net worth in all likelihood or 90 is tied up in your home
00:42:18.620 we try to build this economy around home ownership the last thing you can afford right now is not
00:42:27.060 paying attention and have one of these cyber guys remember they're stealing 600 billion dollars a year
00:42:32.040 half of it by cyber the chinese communist party the russians and the guys these are the most advanced
00:42:37.860 cyber guys in the world and they're not all good actors right now you have to make sure that your
00:42:44.900 home title has not been taken in a second mortgage think just think of your situation right now
00:42:48.960 somebody went into your home either took the title and sold the home but let's just say they
00:42:52.900 put their name on it and were able to take out a second they took a hundred thousand dollars second
00:42:56.700 mortgage out how would you get your math out get your number two pencil work through your math
00:43:01.480 on how that would be when the bank comes you say hey i don't want to hear that it was taken
00:43:05.480 right that's your responsibility pay me back right now you don't need additional burdens
00:43:11.660 we want to do risk mitigation we want to we're in the risk mitigation business we want to get
00:43:16.060 burdens off you you know why because you got to stand and fight for your country
00:43:19.260 go to home title lock today and get the information check it out see if it's right for you
00:43:25.600 if it's right for you if you put in bannon you get 30 days free but we need you take burdens off
00:43:30.880 yourself it's a quick check to do home title lock.com
00:43:34.320 i've got the very patient ben harnwell that's been with us also terry shillings in budapest gave
00:43:41.040 a barn burner today let's try to get all of it in in the d block in the war room
00:43:47.780 i don't know about you it takes a lot to shock me these days but to see our judicial system resemble
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00:46:08.860 okay uh we got a lot going on charlie kirk's gonna follow us at noon um we've got a lot of stuff we
00:46:16.780 want to play from hunger i mean there's so much we had planned for the show today and we didn't get to it
00:46:21.540 um join us back here five to seven tonight and we'll try to get to it all i mean we had mtg clips we had
00:46:27.660 the sequoia situation capital situation mtg and others on this investigation of biden you know oh by the way
00:46:33.780 they caught him directly with a foreign national cutting deals in the vp and he came and fit that
00:46:39.280 into the war room in two hours there's too much going on uh ben i give me i've got um in like with h uh
00:46:47.440 home title lock right there it's about unrestricted warfare that's the cyber and information part of it
00:46:52.120 unrestricted warfare the the manual and i tell people you know hitler wrote mein kampf and told you what he was
00:46:58.280 going to do and nobody really read it or paid attention to it because he laid out his plan the
00:47:05.060 same thing with the chinese communist party in the late 1990s unrestricted warfare it lays out
00:47:10.300 how they're going to take down the west part of that cyber and cyber is just in its infancy then
00:47:16.220 that's why you got to check everything in your home about your communications all of it about cyber
00:47:20.940 you've got to check that's why just go check your your your title to your home make sure that's
00:47:26.500 secure don't put that burden on your shoulders at home title lock.com we're going to get that apple
00:47:32.500 ft's got a great story about apple and about unrestricted warfare on supply chains that haven't
00:47:37.500 been sorted out yet that is and by the way gets to the jas jas medical also which talks about getting
00:47:45.820 your antibiotics now and not have depend upon the ccp supply chains which we still haven't done
00:47:51.080 anything on the api we still haven't done anything really about bringing the supply chain back that's
00:47:55.840 we need trump back immediately his efforts have all been thwarted by biden and by the republican
00:48:03.980 establishment but ben we got this situation we had rebecca koffler on yesterday and that people
00:48:09.920 were dismissing oh no it's just a rumor it's not a rumor something happened we can't figure out what
00:48:14.300 happened but something happened on this drone drone strike and i want you to bring up what the
00:48:19.200 white house said about it because they've had i think more confusion to this ben harnwell
00:48:23.060 well there's confusion and multi-faceted recriminations coming in from every direction
00:48:30.440 of interest is the white house's statement earlier which hasn't been widely picked up
00:48:35.160 but it said that um in an unusual choice of words the white house said that it uh that the u.s had been
00:48:43.380 unable to independently verify ukraine's denial of involvement um in in the strike on the
00:48:51.300 the drone strike on the kremlin um but you know russia's blaming the u.s um the u.s is actually
00:48:58.940 interestingly enough uh in addition to the statement that i just quoted before is now pushing very
00:49:04.680 heavily and you'll see this across the media this idea that it's actually russia uh that was involved
00:49:11.320 in some kind of false flag operation uh putting a a drone in on themselves in order to give themselves
00:49:19.020 the pretext to then come out and attack yeah by the way that's not that's not beyond that's not
00:49:26.060 beyond there's not beyond the kgb to do that it's not beyond by the way they hit kiev with a big
00:49:30.920 strike overnight but it's not beyond that but well you think the administration you think the regime
00:49:36.940 would be able to lay out kind of what happened can i can i can i bounce back off can i know what
00:49:43.380 steve can i bounce back off sure sure sure it is absolutely um it is absolutely uh it ought to be
00:49:49.360 there under consideration but i finally after years of of studying uh intelligence agency operations
00:49:57.540 i've now finally found an intelligence intelligence agency operation um which is a conspiracy theory
00:50:05.560 that the white house is willing to look into because every time the u.s's own intelligence agencies
00:50:13.540 have been doing this kind of thing you know it's just been dismissed as as cuckoo talk but now finally
00:50:19.820 finally obviously it's got to be the kgb that needs to be brought into question here but finally
00:50:25.780 um that they found a conspiracy theory that they're willing to look into no steve i have to say
00:50:32.080 this reminds me um this has a hint of two things two elements that the war room possibly be very
00:50:40.020 familiar with the the one you remember last year in forgive my pronunciation projev
00:50:45.180 projevadov um in poland um when when a stray missile killed two farmers um and zelenski this is on the
00:50:54.620 the polish side of the polish um ukraine border and zelenski came in straight away tried to usher in
00:51:01.500 world a nuclear uh again saying you know now nato needs to activate he he lied he lied it was it
00:51:10.620 it was ukraine steve it was a ukraine missile right so the very the very people are telling us oh this
00:51:16.600 is um this is um this is um this is a false but this is okay my point my point my point is this is
00:51:23.160 metastasizing before us we're going to be on it uh ben hang on for one second also uh the reason to go
00:51:29.840 to birch gold today and talk to talk to an advisor birchgold.com slash bannon get one of the advisors
00:51:36.660 on the phone talk about your rra 401k pack west i think is down another 50 the market overall is down
00:51:43.040 400 and this is just not you know things happen every day but western alliance bank i think is now
00:51:48.240 down 50 they've just announced i think they had a failed sales operation you got to you know talk to
00:51:54.960 your financial advisor and say hey what's going on with these regional banks uh you know i'm feeling
00:51:59.240 a little jiggy because i don't think that uh the federal reserve jamie diamond i don't think is being
00:52:04.440 straight with me pal i don't think is being straight with me janet yellen i don't think she even knows
00:52:08.880 she's so out of it i don't know how she thinks you know and can you trust anything she says if she's
00:52:14.640 over kiev wants to give them and by the way didn't we give kiev i think another three or four hundred
00:52:18.840 million dollars last night just just put that in your notebook log that ben how do people get to
00:52:24.360 you we'll have you back on this thing in ukraine is starting to metastasize in a quite ugly way as
00:52:30.300 the quote-unquote spring offensive gets ready to kick off where do people get you sir thank you so
00:52:36.120 much steve i'm on getter as my social media platform of choice it's simply my surname my profile
00:52:41.920 at harnwell and i'm also pushing out original content exclusively in the new the warman newsletter
00:52:48.640 that's going to be found on warroom.com that won't be on my getter feed but it will be there so
00:52:53.760 you do need to subscribe to that newsletter um steve at some point i do hope to come back to to
00:52:59.400 discuss this unrestricted warfare um yes in the ft it's very very important no very important apple's
00:53:08.960 a chinese company you got it we're going to break all that down um we've had enough joy for one day
00:53:14.400 remember we wouldn't put the burden on your shoulders if your shoulders couldn't take it
00:53:18.600 charlie kirk next we're back here at five to seven we're going to go through the investigations
00:53:24.000 the financial all of it see you back here five o'clock only in the war room
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