In this episode, we discuss Mark Zuckerberg's latest submission to the US Supreme Court, his letter to Justice Department Director of National Security, Jim Jordan, and his defense of the right to freedom of speech. We also discuss the recent arrest of Pavel Durov in France, and the implications for the future of the internet as a globalist, anti-democratic tool.
00:00:28.000I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
00:00:33.000Ask yourself, what is my task and what is my purpose?
00:00:37.000If that answer is to save my country, this country will be saved.
00:00:43.000War Room. Here's your host, Stephen K. Band.
00:00:47.000Tuesday 27th of August, Anno d'Armini 2024.
00:00:58.000Hanwell here at the helm, filling in for Steve Bannon.
00:01:03.000So we're not going to dig into this story today about Telegram and the founder, Pavel Durov, being arrested in France.
00:01:11.000Though I have many things to say about that.
00:01:13.000But that's the backdrop, I think, to our first segment with Mike Davis, which is Mark Zuckerberg's submission to have judiciary.
00:01:24.000Because the backdrop is, is the regime, doesn't matter where in the world you are.
00:01:29.000The regime, that globalist, anti-democratic organization, misrunning, malrunning your country into the ground, wherever you are in the West.
00:01:41.000The regime is trying to take away your, your right to freedom of speech under the, the, the rather more genteel terminology of content moderation.
00:02:28.000Let's start off, um, with, because there are three fundamental points here in this letter from Zuckerberg to Jim Jordan, right?
00:02:36.000The, the, the COVID, the, the, the fact that the Biden regime was pressurizing Facebook and that Facebook sort of rather supinely complied with regards to COVID.
00:02:51.000And then there's the, the, the rather sort of more minor issue, perhaps to do with, um, the chance Zuckerberg initiative, which many people think was just a front for election interference.
00:03:01.000Um, let, let, let, let's go through these things in the order of, um, Zuckerberg's letter to Jim Jordan and the COVID misinformation.
00:03:10.000So basically as Zuckerberg can hear himself, I say, this is not new, but the fact that these are, that these are now, this is black and these facts are coming out black, black and white.
00:03:21.000The, um, the Biden administration in 2021 successfully put pressure on the Biden, excuse me, the Biden regime put pressure on Facebook, um, uh, with, with regards to, um, information being exchanged on COVID-19 on the pandemic.
00:03:37.000And many of the things Mike here on this show, I think it shows a pioneer pushing out the truth in face of, of government lies.
00:03:45.000Um, firstly, what's your take here then on, on this, this paragraph here, uh, with regards to the fact that a government federal government was putting pressure behind the scenes on a social media platform.
00:04:00.000Um, and what are the consequences of this?
00:04:02.000I can't think of anything more dangerous in a democracy than the federal government putting their hands around the neck of a trillion dollar big tech monopolist, whether it's Facebook or Google or Amazon and app or Apple, and essentially coercing that big tech monopolist.
00:04:26.200In this case, meta or Facebook or Instagram or WhatsApp are all the same company.
00:04:31.200They're all part of the same organization and telling them if you need to censor so-called COVID misinformation and that COVID misinformation ended up being correct.
00:04:44.200And that censorship likely led to many unnecessary deaths and other misery because we have the federal government censoring doctors and scientists and policymakers and other experts.
00:04:58.200You know, the whole scientific debate, the whole scientific methods got shut down because of the Biden Harris regime, including Tony Fauci shutting down dissent.
00:05:10.200They wanted people to believe that the six foot rule was going to protect us from COVID and cloth masks were going to protect us from COVID.
00:05:20.200That ended up being completely bogus science.
00:05:23.200Tony Fauci admitted that the six foot rule essentially was bogus science.
00:05:27.200Look at how much damage and destruction that censorship did because of those policies, because we couldn't question the six foot rule or we couldn't question the cloth mask mandate.
00:05:39.200Just just imagine what look at what look what happened to kids in schools, particularly minority kids in schools, poor black kids and Hispanic kids in schools that Democrats pretend to protect and champion.
00:05:53.200Look at how badly they were damaged during COVID because of these bogus lockdowns based upon this six foot rule and this cloth mask mandate.
00:06:02.200Mike, Steve Bannon has said on this show over a number of years that these social media companies need to be managed as effective as if they are utilities state utilities because of their effective monopolistic share of the market.
00:06:21.200Now, obviously, some libertarians will take a step back from that and say, you know, it's not really the government's responsibility to to be commandeering private institutions that that is effectively what has already taken place.
00:06:35.200What would you like to see from an incoming Trump administration with with Steve suggestion in the background?
00:06:42.200What would you like to see from an incoming Trump administration so that this never happens again?
00:06:47.200Well, I will say this. The only thing President Biden has gotten right just about is his antitrust law enforcement against big tech with Jonathan Cantor at the antitrust division in the Justice Department and Lita Khan at the FTC.
00:07:01.280They've actually they've actually they've actually followed our century old antitrust laws and are moving to break up these trillion dollar big tech monopolies, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.
00:07:12.840Kamala Harris, on the other hand, is terrible on these issues.
00:07:16.240Trump is great on antitrust. Kamala is terrible.
00:07:19.320Kamala is beholden to her big tech California billionaire donors at Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.
00:07:26.900She has Anita Dunn, a Google lawyer, doing debate prep for her right now.
00:07:31.740So that tells you where Kamala stands on big tech.
00:07:34.280When President Trump is back in office, he needs to continue what he started.
00:07:39.060And President Biden and his antitrust division and FTC, to their credit, have continued, which is breaking up big tech.
00:07:45.540If Facebook competed against Instagram and WhatsApp instead of acquired it, they wouldn't be censoring Americans.
00:07:52.740If Google competed against YouTube instead of acquired YouTube, they wouldn't be censoring Americans.
00:07:58.960They would be competing for Americans.
00:08:00.480They wouldn't be they wouldn't be trying to curry favor with the federal government for their antitrust amnesty and their Section 230 immunity.
00:08:09.740If there were 10 big tech companies instead of four.
00:08:14.160Right. And that's that's the key is we need to update and enforce our century old antitrust laws.
00:08:19.720We need to target these anti-competitive tumors, Google, Amazon, Facebook and Apple.
00:08:25.200We need to break them up so they do not have gatekeeping power over information and commerce.
00:08:30.360And the federal government doesn't hijack or commandeer their gatekeeping power and have these big tech platforms censor and otherwise violate our constitutional rights, which the federal government can't do.
00:08:42.680What they're doing when when these big tech platforms collude with the federal government to censor Americans, they are violating federal law.
00:08:51.720It is a crime to conspire to deprive Americans of our constitutional rights, including our constitutional rights of free speech and association.
00:09:01.720That is a violation of 18 U.S.C. 241 and 242.
00:09:07.120On that point, when and if if and when in November, President Trump gets his hands on the weaponized DOJ.
00:09:25.100The Trump 47 Justice Department should open a criminal probe on day one with this this what appears to be a clear criminal conspiracy to violate the constitutional rights of Americans, their free speech rights.
00:09:39.760You have the federal governments colluding with these big tech monopolist to censor Americans.
00:09:45.980That is clearly a deprivation of rights under color of law.
00:09:50.780Well, that is clearly a conspiracy against rights.
00:10:02.540You can also bring civil lawsuits on day one.
00:10:05.700You can reassign people with the career civil servants who are impossible to fire.
00:10:10.320So if there are people, for example, who have been coddling big tech in the Justice Department, reassign them to changing diapers on the southern border until they quit.
00:10:20.180I mean, there are a lot of things that you can do to change to change this.
00:10:24.120Mike, moving on to the laptop from hell, Mark Zuckerberg says rather sedately, look, the background of this is there was a poll that came out.
00:10:35.920You'll remember this, that where where the majority of the American people said, had they have known that the laptop from hell was genuine, that would have changed their vote.
00:10:45.760And when I say majority of people said that, enough people had said that in that poll, I think it was like a year, 18 months ago, that that would have changed the result of 2020.
00:10:55.440That's the that's the takeaway point here, that enough people were misled by you had all the 50 signatures from the deep state intelligence services to the New York Post.
00:11:18.620Given that reality, given that reality, given that reality, given that reality, the few lines that Mark Zuckerberg dedicates to the to the laptop, which was an election defining.
00:11:34.080So on this point, let's not get into the stolen election aspect.
00:11:37.140But that that in itself was an election defining issue.
00:11:41.260Six, seven, eight lines here just to say, oh, look, we've implemented some processes to make sure this doesn't happen.
00:11:48.620And again, my question is, Donald Trump was criminally indicted in New York because of a payment.
00:11:56.880To to Stormy Daniels, which was considered to be retrospectively a campaign expense that Donald Trump tried to avoid declaring.
00:12:07.100Is this is this that this had a massive influence on the 2020 election, that part of it which wasn't stolen?
00:12:14.020Right. Is this not an aid to an election campaign in kind?
00:12:19.840What the secret services, what the what the services, intelligence services, what they did with their letters, what Facebook did in suppressing, which admits here that the New York Post story are these these things had an election consequences.
00:12:36.280Why aren't they being calculated in the same way with the same degree of fanaticism that Donald Trump's payment to Stormy Daniels was considered?
00:12:46.440Why is the DOJ, which Merrick Garland claim says of the law that it's that no one's above the law.
00:13:04.080So President Trump, then then presidential candidate Donald Trump had a nuisance claim against him by Stormy Daniels.
00:13:14.140And in 2000, 2017, when he was the president of the United States, he settled this nuisance claim through his attorneys and he put it in his private books as a legal expense.
00:13:27.920I've settled many nuisance claims on behalf of my my legal clients over the last nearly 20 years.
00:13:34.940I don't know what the hell else you would put it in your books under other than a legal expense.
00:13:45.580It was in 2017 he put it in his private books and somehow under the Soros Fund at Manhattan, D.A., Alvin Bragg and this Matthew Colangelo from the Biden Justice Department and this corrupt Manhattan judge, Juan Mershon, who illegally donated to Biden and Harris and whose daughter, Lauren Mershon, is raising tens of millions of dollars for Biden.
00:14:06.600And somehow Trump's payments of that expense in 2017 and putting it into his private books as a legal expense in 2017 somehow affected the 2016 election.
00:14:17.640And we just had a jury find him guilty of 34 felony charges for this nonsense, bogus theory.
00:14:24.220Yet the Biden regime is colluding with these big tech platforms to censor Americans.
00:14:33.160And somehow that's not election interference.
00:14:35.140And somehow that's not a criminal conspiracy against Americans' constitutional rights under our very clear federal criminal civil rights statutes.
00:15:01.400They now want to use the technology behind Bitcoin for their own Orwellian purposes, their gold to dominate our economy by forcing everyone to use central bank digital currencies, which they control.
00:15:14.380Imagine your every purchase being called into question.
00:15:17.520Your every move tracked like you live in a communist country.
00:15:21.400This is not the America we want, but it is the America they want to create.
00:16:23.520The latest news on the Jack Smith prosecution is that he has, the special counsel has appealed, Judge Eileen Cannon's decision to throw out the Trump case.
00:16:35.800Mike, could you just give a very quick recap on what it was that Judge Cannon ruled and why the legal basis for Jack Smith's appeal?
00:16:48.740Yeah, so Judge Eileen Cannon in the Southern District of Florida dismissed the charges brought by Jack Smith against President Trump related to the presidential records that President Trump was allowed to have under the Presidential Records Act.
00:17:05.360The reason is that Jack Smith's appointment as the special counsel is unconstitutional.
00:17:12.100He is not an officer of the United States, and he does not report on a day-to-day basis to an officer of the United States, which makes it unconstitutional.
00:17:21.300Under our Constitution, the executive branch is run by officers, and those officers are created by statutes, like the attorney general or a U.S. attorney.
00:17:34.680They're confirmed by the Senate, and then they're appointed by the president after confirmation.
00:17:38.600And then there are people like assistant U.S. attorneys who work for the U.S. attorneys, but in order for Jack Smith's office to be constitutional, he has to be managed, supervised on a day-to-day basis by a constitutional officer.
00:17:51.760And under the Department of Justice regulations, they have intentionally insulated him from day-to-day management by the attorney general or the deputy attorney general or a U.S. attorney.
00:18:02.400In addition, he has an unlimited budget, which violates the Appropriations Clause, only Congress can appropriate, and to give this appointee who's not even an officer, this unlimited jurisdiction, unlimited power, unlimited budget is clearly unconstitutional.
00:18:18.620Jack Smith has appealed this to the 11th Circuit.
00:18:21.320It's not going to get resolved before the election.
00:18:23.940President Trump is presumably going to win.
00:18:26.180I hope he fires Jack Smith on day one and opens a criminal probe on Jack Smith.
00:18:30.580Would it have been—is there any precedent for a special counsel to be Senate-confirmed?
00:18:41.340What we used to—we used to have the Office of the Independent Counsel that was created by statute.
00:18:47.800After the Ken Starr investigation of Bill Clinton, Congress didn't like the Office of the Independent Counsel anymore, so they let it lapse.
00:18:55.920And Congress never created a new Office of the Independent Counsel or Office of the Special Counsel.
00:19:02.300And so what did the Justice Department do?
00:19:04.660They just did it by fiat, that the attorney general thought that he could just create this Office of Special Counsel through regulation, give it an unlimited budget through regulation, unlimited jurisdiction through regulation.
00:19:32.480He could have had his U.S. attorney down in the Southern District of Florida run this investigation of Mar-a-Lago instead of putting in this partisan hack.
00:19:42.920Jack Smith, whose wife was a producer for Michelle Obama's documentary, who's clearly a partisan.
00:19:49.880Look, Jack Smith is the Democrats' scud missile they bring in to take out Republican presidential or vice presidential contenders.
00:19:58.580They did this with Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.
00:20:01.540Jack Smith came in and brought these bogus charges against him.
00:20:04.720He was a likely presidential or vice presidential contender.
00:20:08.300He got destroyed with this bogus corruption trial by Jack Smith and this conviction.
00:20:14.400It got reversed by the Supreme Court several years later, 8 to nothing.
00:20:18.340It would have been 9 to nothing, but Justice Scalia passed away.
00:21:07.080I mean, maybe Merrick Garland and the Justice Department can appeal, but I don't know how the office of the special counsel, which doesn't exist, which got struck down by Judge Ken.
00:21:15.500I don't know how they have the ability to appeal this.
00:21:38.960He doesn't have an office under Judge Ken's ruling now.
00:21:42.980But let's set that minor hurdle aside.
00:21:47.100He's going to appeal to the 11th Circuit.
00:21:49.560This is going to take many months to resolve.
00:21:52.160This will get, you know, a petition for cert to the Supreme Court.
00:21:56.340The Supreme Court will likely take this.
00:21:58.820In the meantime, President Trump is almost certainly going to win.
00:22:02.440I mean, if we're on this current trajectory, as long as we get out Trump supporters and vote as early as possible, Trump's going to win.
00:22:08.900And then do you think you don't think on day one that President Trump's going to get rid of Jack Smith and then open a probe on Jack Smith and all these other Biden and Harris partisan operatives who have been running this illegal criminal conspiracy against him and his top aides, like Steve Bannon, who's in prison right now.
00:22:27.720And Peter Devarro, who went to prison and Trump's attorneys like John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani and and Jeffrey Clark and Trump supporters on January 6th, who have been persecuted.
00:22:38.940Yes, persecuted per the Supreme Court's Fisher decision.
00:22:44.380And that's a big component of justice.
00:22:46.380I think the idea, the prospect of retribution is going to take many people listening to this show to the to the ballot box on November the 5th.
00:22:59.020I just want to synthesize that I've understood the legal arguments here for this.
00:23:03.000So you're basically saying that Judge Judge Eileen Cannon ruled that Jack Smith's office did not exist.
00:23:11.800And therefore, because of that ruling, he somewhat ironically, therefore, lacks the jurisdiction that he would have needed to have had to appeal to this case to the 11th Circuit.
00:23:25.880Let's put this in a way that the Democrats can understand.
00:23:28.600Let's say that President Trump's back in office on January 20th, 2025, and he decides he just wants to create the office of the viceroy and appoint Crazy Mike Davis as the viceroy and give me unlimited budgets, unlimited jurisdiction, unlimited power and very little accountability to Congress and even to the attorney general.
00:24:01.320I'm going to I'm going to exact retribution against Biden and Kamala and Jack Smith and Fannie Willis and Tish James and Judge Mershon and Laura Mershon.
00:24:11.720There will be hell to pay if that happens.
00:24:13.520Do Democrats really think it's constitutional that a president or his attorney general can just make up this all powerful office of special counsel, despite what Congress has done?
00:24:25.900This is clearly unconstitutional and Democrats don't want to play this game.
00:25:09.220Dan, let's go for the quick two and a half minute clip to herald election Georgia election board hit coming up.
00:25:18.200One of the things that has happened over the last four years since Trump tried to overturn his election loss in 2020 is that the Republican Party has installed election officials in counties and states all across the country who not only parrot Trump's idea that the 2020 election was somehow stolen,
00:25:37.080But they have started doing what he wanted election officials to do for him in 2020.
00:25:44.380They have started refusing to certify election results.
00:25:48.980Now, they've done this in a number of states around the country, some blue states, some swing states, some red states.
00:25:55.660But the state where Republicans have done this more often than any other state in the country is Georgia.
00:26:02.680Republicans are now trying these gambits to block the certification of election results everywhere.
00:26:07.420But they have been trying it most aggressively in Georgia.
00:26:10.500And over these last few weeks, a really alarming situation has emerged in Georgia because there is a newly appointed pro-Trump majority on the official Georgia state election board.
00:26:22.980And in recent weeks, they have passed a flurry of new rules that purport to legalize some of these tactics that purport to empower local election officials to actually do this stuff, to block the certification of the vote or to delay the certification of the vote.
00:26:40.800And this state election board in Georgia is apparently planning to do much more of this, even as we are getting closer and closer to the election date.
00:26:49.760The Washington Post just reported that the election board plans to adopt nearly a dozen additional rules beyond the new ones they've just put into effect over coming weeks.
00:27:01.700Quote, despite warnings from state and local officials that the lateness of the calendar all but guarantees confusion and mistakes.
00:27:08.400But Democrats are prepared and we will stop them.
00:27:12.220Certifying an election is not a choice.
00:27:44.820And thanks to state leaders like Senator Nabila Islam Parks and State Rep Sam Park, these efforts to subvert our democracy, they're not going to go unchallenged.
00:29:35.900Well, it's no surprise that Georgia, being one of the six predicted swing states in the election, 2024 election in November, is now coming under increasing pressure, also in courts.
00:29:52.680This is before anyone's even cast a vote just yet.
00:29:55.780And there's a lawsuit, as we just heard, that has been presented by the Democratic Party that said that the Georgia State Election Board will, its rulings, its last-minute rule changes, will guarantee chaos after the November election if this ruling is allowed to stand.
00:30:19.320Now, we've been talking about this for some time on the show.
00:30:23.920Jenny, Beth Martin, you were expounding the implications of this in a very positive way just a few days ago.
00:30:33.660Would you like to recap what the SEB had ruled?
00:30:38.800And then we'll hear from Catherine Engelblatt.
00:30:43.320So the Georgia State Election Board has done several things to improve the processing in getting to the point where you certify ballots, and contrary to what—or certify elections, and contrary to what Rachel Maddow and the left is saying, if you are on an election board, you still must certify the election.
00:31:04.800The state election board has said that the local boards of election are able to review information prior to certification.
00:31:14.260I think that's extremely important because in 2020, the certification, and even in 2022, the certification happens even when the local election board still has questions and they're trying to understand how things went wrong.
00:31:30.560Like in 2022, I mentioned when we last spoke that in DeKalb County, Georgia, in a primary election, a Democrat person who was running for office came in in third place.
00:31:44.200The machine count showed that she was in third place, but it showed she had no votes in her own precinct.
00:31:51.440And really, after they wound up going back and trying to count the ballots again, she still had no votes in her own precinct.
00:32:02.420They counted the ballots, and she was the first place challenger, first place finisher, went on to a runoff, and is now a county commissioner in DeKalb County, Georgia.
00:32:12.540So there are problems, but the board members wondered, are all the rest of the elections correct or not?
00:32:20.160And they had to go ahead and certify even though they had those kind of questions.
00:32:25.280This may not completely eliminate that issue because there is a deadline and they must certify by that deadline, but at least they can review information and have access to information so that when they go to certify, they're making the best certification.
00:32:41.540And if that isn't, they're certifying to the best of their knowledge and ability.
00:32:47.000And if that isn't the purpose of the board for certification, then why not just let the machine automatically issue a certification?
00:32:55.320If it's all just ministerial, the machine counts the ballots, just let that be the end of it.
00:33:55.140If you're sending them on, make them public information.
00:33:58.140And then quickly, make them public information quickly and locally so that you can ensure that the information being transmitted is correct and stays the same between the county and the state.
00:34:09.080And then the last thing is that they said that you've got to count the physical number of paper ballots, and that has to match the number of ballots that were scanned by the machine and the number of ballots that were issued based on the number of people who checked into a precinct.
00:34:42.180It will ensure that people, regardless of political party, can trust the outcome much better than they did in Georgia in 2022, like I just mentioned with DeKalb County, Georgia, or 2020, like we saw as Trump supporters, or 2018 for the people who supported Stacey Abrams.
00:35:01.900It helps both parties to make this a clear, transparent, open process.
00:35:07.780And most importantly, it restores confidence in our elections, which we must all have.
00:35:13.280Catherine Engelbrecht, you have been, and through the vote, has been deeply involved in Georgia and its election shenanigans for a number of years now.
00:35:32.780What does it tell you about the Democratic Party launching this lawsuit less than 10 weeks away from an election?
00:35:42.480What does that tell you first off about the current state of the campaign?
00:35:48.580Yeah, it tells me that the Democrats are going to fight tooth and nail to make sure that the fraud that we've seen coming out of Georgia over these last few years, that that remains institutionalized.
00:35:58.420As Jenny Beth rightly says, all that the state election board is asking for in its new consideration of rules is, hey, let's follow the law.
00:36:09.300And that simply didn't happen in 2020.
00:36:12.060So I applaud the state election board, and even more than that, I applaud the citizens of Georgia who have fought tirelessly to try to bring elections back to some semblance of common sense in their state.
00:36:27.660The state election board seems to finally be understanding that what all the people want is a free and fair, transparent process.
00:36:36.500And the Democrat Party is opposed for all of the obvious reasons, but I'll state the obvious, and that is that they intend to manipulate and exploit the weaknesses wherever they can.
00:36:49.620Catherine, what do you think of the time frame here for any lawsuit here?
00:36:57.880Is there any possibility that there might be a ruling before November the 5th?
00:37:22.820Georgia doesn't need to actually follow the law.
00:37:25.760I mean, certainly stranger things have happened.
00:37:28.260But I shudder to think that that would be the outcome of this case.
00:37:36.180And if it is, then, you know, the other side needs to punch back hard and keep fighting just to the Supreme Court of the United States because we must have an underpinning of process that is transparent and accurate.
00:37:50.140But otherwise, you know, we risk removing this final cornerstone from our republic, the stability of elections.
00:37:57.900It's not something to be tampered with.
00:38:06.140Jenny Beth, what are you hearing on the ground there about this lawsuit?
00:38:11.420Well, one thing about it being heard or not, it has to go before Fulton County's court system.
00:38:19.840And we all know the issues in Fulton County.
00:38:23.260So who knows exactly what will happen with that?
00:38:26.760I hope that I would imagine that it winds up being appealed at least to the Georgia Supreme Court before it's all said and done, if not, like Catherine said, to the United States Supreme Court.
00:38:39.060People on the ground are really frustrated.
00:38:41.080One of the things that they're extremely frustrated about is that the attacks from the left, they're so predictable at this point.
00:38:50.100I've been doing this for so long and I've been called so many names.
00:39:25.680And I think that that's very frustrating.
00:39:28.040That lady who is a black woman, Janelle King, she was recently appointed by the Speaker of the House of Georgia.
00:39:34.600And she put a statement out yesterday saying that she is doing this not to create—I'm not quoting her exactly.
00:39:43.600It isn't to create chaos, but to ensure that the law is upheld and that the questions are resolved so that we have confidence in the elections.
00:40:04.120It isn't to create problems based on the color of your skin.
00:40:07.760It isn't to create problems whether you're a Republican or Democrat.
00:40:12.360It's to restore faith in the outcome of the election.
00:40:14.940And, you know, I remember back in 20—in the year 2000, after the election, where there were so many questions with George W. Bush and Al Gore, the media were allowed to go back into every single county in the state of Florida and recount every single ballot.
00:40:33.740And that put to rest many of the questions that existed regarding that election because you had someone who was independent going in and doing oversight of those election—of those election results.
00:40:49.660Every time anyone has tried to do that, there have been stalls and delays or there have had to be court cases.
00:40:54.760And I don't want what happened in 2020 to be repeated.
00:41:00.740And I think that the Georgia Election Board, regardless of how they voted on these rules, none of them want it to be repeated.
00:41:07.560We need to have elections we can have faith and trust in.
00:41:11.180And that's what these board members are trying to accomplish.
00:41:14.280It's important to remember, I think, that President Trump himself has praised the board's three Republicans, referring to them as pit bulls, fighting for honesty, transparency and victory.
00:41:29.220Catherine Engelberg, what can people do if they are to show solidarity with the nonpartisan election board here, trying to ensure that at the very least, in 2024, the election will be fair and transparent?
00:41:50.060Continue to speak out as they have been doing.
00:41:52.700Unfortunately, the state election board just recently moved all of their meetings from in-person opportunities to Zoom meetings.
00:42:00.220So that new degree of separation I don't think is great for morale.
00:42:05.980But nonetheless, Georgia citizens staying involved, reaching out to the party or candidate of their choice and getting engaged in the process to make sure that there is no polling place left unmanned,
00:42:18.560that there is no absentee ballot left unreviewed, that Central Count has eyes on everywhere, just being there and ready to stand shoulder to shoulder with the state election board and other patriots to make sure that the laws are being followed.
00:42:34.900And I think the final thing is the mindset.
00:42:37.680We must go into this knowing why we believe what we believe and standing firm on that.
00:42:43.080The season that we've come through where we've been told that up is down and that we can't trust what we see or that somehow following the law is, as Jenny Beth says, racist or immoral.
00:42:54.480It's just it's this dystopian narrative propagandist nonsense.
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00:44:53.540Field of Greens is your host, Stephen K.
00:44:56.660The petrodollar is crumbling before our eyes.
00:45:06.000Saudi Arabia just declined to renew the 50-year-long petrodollar agreement, which means the U.S. dollar's global dominance is now riding on fumes.
00:45:16.720How much longer until the dollar crashes in value?
00:45:19.880Nobody knows for sure, but it's always best to be prepared.
00:45:24.300I believe owning gold is the best solution.
00:46:29.460So my next guest is going to break down some of the recent developments to do with the housing, the property market.
00:46:40.220As you know, for our constant talking about home title lock, most people's wealth is tied up in their property.
00:46:48.320So what's going on there, I think, will significantly affect people's sense of their own wealth.
00:46:54.880And this is important, obviously, as the mainstream media is trying to convince people as we head towards November that they've never been richer.
00:47:09.440Very well, very well indeed. Thanks for coming on the show.
00:47:11.920Can you tell me then, please, if you wouldn't mind, how the increases in interest rates, mortgage rates that we've seen, will affect affordability for homebuyers?
00:47:27.700And what are the imminent trends people might be expected to see along that axis?
00:47:34.920Absolutely. So with interest rates, I mean, obviously, what normal people would think is when the interest rates go up, that the affordability goes down and home prices go down.
00:47:48.160But in this case, we've sort of seen an opposite effect, where although the interest rates have gone up, we have seen affordability come down, but we've seen home prices go up.
00:47:59.700And, you know, we've got our finger here on the pulse, my agents and I, and you hear a lot of analysts breaking it down.
00:48:06.660But when you actually give the number of how an interest rate change affects affordability, it's astonishing to people.
00:48:13.780So for every 1% increase in an interest rate, you lose about 9% of buying power on a home.
00:48:22.540And when I tell that number to people, it's a huge number, because we went from the 2016 to the 2020 timeframe where you had interest rates that were at 3%, and now we're seeing interest rates at 7%.
00:48:37.440Sophia, Sophia, would you mind just repeating that once again?
00:48:43.300For every 1% increase in interest rate, a buyer loses 9% in buying power.
00:48:51.320So to put that into perspective, if you were able to afford a $500,000 home, now you can only afford a home that's in the low to mid $300s.
00:49:05.640And there are statistics also called the affordability indexes, which also plays into that same trend that we are seeing with the loss in the buying power.
00:49:17.000For example, from 2016 to 2020, we saw affordability indexes as high as 160, but they're all over 100.
00:49:27.280That meant that 160% was the earnings on the income earnings that you were making over the median price of a home.
00:49:37.580So people were actually able to save money.
00:49:39.720And now in July of 2024, which is the latest statistic that came out, that number has dropped to 74%.
00:49:48.920That means that people are only earning 74% of affordability for a median-priced home.
00:49:57.640So they are unable to save money to afford a home at the current prices.
00:50:01.460I think many people following the show will have seen, and I certainly did, and I was horrified by it, one of the few policy proposals to come out of the Harris-Walls campaign.
00:50:18.660And that is the proposal to give $25,000 to first-time home buyers.
00:50:27.820Because this seems to me, in Banana Republics, famously, third-world regimes could buy their citizens' vote by just giving them sort of $10 in an envelope under the counter.
00:50:43.800It seems to me that Kamala Harris is significantly upping the game.
00:50:48.200This seems like a straightforward bribe for votes to me.
00:50:54.420Well, the proposal is to give $25,000 to new-time homebuyers.
00:51:00.080That was what she recently had proposed.
00:51:03.040It sounds great on the surface, correct?
00:51:05.080But first, let's define what a first-time homebuyer is.
00:51:08.620A first-time homebuyer is a person that buys a home every three years.
00:51:12.740So automatically, you know that that's going to be exploited right there.
00:51:17.460Secondly, you're artificially creating a change in the market.
00:51:21.980The problem has been the lack of inventory.
00:51:26.500So if you are not incentivizing homebuyer or home sellers to sell their homes to increase that inventory, to increase, you know, the number of homes that are currently for sale on the market,
00:51:39.240by flooding this $25,000 into the market, you're just increasing the demand, and you're not doing anything to change the number of homes that are for sale, which is the supply.
00:51:51.080And all that's going to do is further drive the home prices up.
00:51:56.260And that $25,000 is just going to go into the home seller's pocket.
00:52:00.000And it's worth pointing out that you taxpayers are going to be paying for this $20,000, all taxpayers.
00:52:08.420Everyone who pays taxes will be paying, contributing towards this $25,000.
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