The boys are back with another episode of Dangerously Depressed. This week, the boys discuss the FBI Director nominee for the position of No. 5 on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Andrew Yang. They also discuss how to deal with people who are too retarded to stop saying stupid things.
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00:04:38.180Clint, let's just go right into this, because this is something that I think you could speak too much better than either me or David, this dude, Cash Patel.
00:05:10.040I'll give you the background just so people understand.
00:05:12.680And, you know, I've only met him once, but I did a – I don't know if it was 30 minutes or an hour, but it was a panel with myself, Angela McArdle, former chair of the Libertarian Party, Brett Weinstein, and Cash Patel.
00:05:25.740And the name of the panel, it was at Freedom Fest in Las Vegas about six months ago, I think, maybe eight months ago now.
00:05:33.660And it was called How to Defeat the Deep State.
00:05:36.680And the guy who was on this panel with me is now the head of the FBI.
00:06:17.380If he doesn't do that, I will be disappointed.
00:06:20.300Well, firing people is maybe a little bit more aggressive.
00:06:24.480There's quite a bit of offering of severance packages going lately that I've seen to federal employees.
00:06:29.980Something to the tune of like, what is like 60,000 federal employees accepted the severance package?
00:06:37.740Yeah, it's basically just an eight-month buyout.
00:06:40.080You get your full salary for eight months.
00:06:41.480Look, that's what they have to do because the firing process for a federal employee is almost impossible or very, very challenging.
00:06:51.340So they're just like, hey, how about instead of, you know, taking the hard path, let's just incentivize, let's bribe these people to leave.
00:06:59.600But in the FBI, I don't think you're going to have that many that accept the resignation.
00:07:04.360I think you're going to have to fire people, particularly the ones that are probably on the payroll for the real people that run this country.
00:07:13.640So I think you're going to have to fire some of these people.
00:07:17.420I mean, some of these people literally tried to coup the sitting president of the United States.
00:07:29.000But I think that, like, it's obvious that there was real deep state activity to try and undermine Trump from nine years ago.
00:07:37.700Yeah, these are real deal spies at the highest level.
00:07:40.520I think he might be playing some sort of a blood game.
00:07:44.820I think his job might be probably the most dangerous out of the three that have been confirmed or the two that have been confirmed so far.
00:07:52.380You have RFK Jr., whose job is very dangerous.
00:07:56.300Tulsi Gabbard, she's dealing on the international level, very dangerous.
00:07:59.680But this guy is dealing with people that are completely cutthroat, that are here, that are United States citizens, I assume, for the most part.
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00:10:58.040This will pertain to our previous episode about the cartel debate.
00:11:02.700Do you think that these people are as ideological as I do?
00:11:07.740I'm talking about the FBI and the CIA, these deep state people.
00:11:11.720Do you think that when the money dries up, because, like, what you're describing is just money.
00:11:16.620They can sell this information to the media.
00:11:18.160They can go work for, you know, corporations doing whatever behind the scenes after they've made their deals.
00:11:23.800But if they've essentially taken their clearance away and they're no longer valuable assets and the money's dried up,
00:11:30.500do you think they hold a vendetta, do you think they really bother put, like, the comparison that I'm going to make is, like, the war in the Middle East.
00:11:40.400That wasn't a war, like, against the cartels.
00:12:32.320It's not this huge financial windfall to be a member of the deep state.
00:12:36.800Like, it's usually the money comes later.
00:12:39.240The power comes first, which is totally, like, inverted from the free market.
00:12:44.000Normally, you get the money, then you have power.
00:12:46.420In the government, it's like the power comes from your status, from being in the government itself.
00:12:50.920So for these people, I think it's not, they're not, you know, they're not jihadis.
00:12:55.940They're not going to strap on a suicide vest and spread into a crowd of, you know, Trump supporters or anything like that.
00:13:02.020But I think that, like, if they have any avenue by which they get to undermine, you know, Trump and his supporters, they will still do that.
00:13:10.080But I think that the issue is that they won't have much power to do anything.
00:13:14.780And I think that's why I think Kash Patel has a chance of actually really, like, rectifying so much of the evils that we were dealing with.
00:13:23.820Is that once you strip these people of their clearances, once you strip them of their, you know, authoritative position in government, they're just nobodies.
00:13:32.580And that's the other reason they fought, you know, Trump so hard is that they know that.
00:13:37.000Like, once they're out, if they actually get stripped of all this, they're just fucking, they're just these paper-pushing DMV employees, basically.
00:13:43.420Well, I am, I said before that I'm kind of expecting something coming down the pipe in the way of, like, the death throes of the deep state, let's just call it.
00:13:52.360We have these two things happening right now where Kash Patel is now head of the FBI and you have RFK and he's handling all of this, you know, health and nutrition apparatus here in the states.
00:14:01.520And you can make a huge argument that this deep state, if it truly does have its claws and all this, you know, all these various machinations that are leveraged against us, the medical apparatus is a huge one.
00:14:12.360You know, from the outside looking in, you could kind of reductively say that a massive portion of it is meant to just keep us sedated and keep us dumb.
00:14:21.040You know, we're overprescribing to the tune of what, probably millions of people.
00:14:25.420I mean, that's speculative, but I don't think that we need to be on SSRIs and antidepressants and, you know, all these different medications, psychological medications that we are.
00:14:36.800And that's probably, I would imagine that those numbers are maybe a little bit, because there's people that are self-diagnosing and then they're going out and getting their hands on these things.
00:14:43.860Like, Adderall has become kind of a, you know, what would you call it, a recreational drug at this point.
00:14:49.020And it's rife within, especially even in our community, right, content creators, it's like, got to stay sharp, got to be articulate, got to put the...
00:15:34.120So, I mean, if you do take that at face value, that most of this apparatus is there to, like, sedate us, right, to keep us in this kind of fog.
00:15:43.960The propaganda machine is levied against us.
00:41:25.420If you had to bet, Clint, what do you think we'll see?
00:41:27.840Like Elon is talking about live streaming the rate or the audit of Fort Knox.
00:41:33.180Because now I'm thinking you're 100% right.
00:41:35.580Isn't it so crazy how the dollar, even though it's no longer tied to gold at all,
00:41:41.740but the fact that there will be no gold in Fort Knox...
00:41:44.320What I was telling my wife when she asked about it, she's like, well, what does that do?
00:41:48.200And I said, all it does is like it's like a demoralization thing.
00:41:51.360Like if people don't see gold in there, they'll lose their shit, but they don't understand the...
00:41:55.280Like they don't understand that we're not even tied to it anymore.
00:41:57.540But the perception of us being tied to it is what holds up the perception of the money that is no longer tied to it.
00:42:04.740So this whole thing feels like a Band-Aid ripoff, too, just like the whole whatever you do about the cartels.
00:42:10.540Well, you know what? Now I'm on board because every time you use the ripping off a Band-Aid metaphor, you convince me.
00:42:15.560It's a good metaphor, dude. It's a good metaphor.
00:42:18.020Sometimes you just got to rip off the Band-Aid, dude.
00:42:21.400But the way that I'm thinking is like, you know, this could be to the detriment of this new administration.
00:42:26.740It's not necessarily... I mean, obviously, it's in the best interest of the country to rectify whatever's going on with our economy and our dollar.
00:42:33.240But it's not to the best interest of this new administration to immediately do something or unearth something that could cause the collapse of the dollar.
00:42:40.820I completely agree. But this is why I've been as optimistic as I have been about Trump round two is that it seems as if there is some willingness to do things that will be temporarily painful for the benefit of the long-term health of this country.
00:42:58.340Deportations. That is not without consequence. You deport all these people. You end up applying additional wage pressures, like upward wage pressures, because now you have to get Americans to do these jobs because we're losing so many of our field workers and things that illegals had been handling.
00:43:16.240Once you start to actually pay real wages to the Americans that fill these roles, well, then the cost of those goods, the increase in those costs, they transfer over to the consumer.
00:43:27.760That just adds to the inflationary feeling that we deal with.
00:43:31.080So what I'm saying is that that's just one very small example of actions that the Trump administration is taking that will ultimately cause significant short-term pain, that he's just going to have to convince the American people that this is your medicine.
00:43:47.340This is your vegetables. You just have to eat them.
00:43:50.500So I think it's a good thing, but I will say if Fort Knox is empty, which I don't think it'll necessarily be empty, but I think it'll have a fraction of the holdings that it claims.
00:43:58.580Yeah, you're right, Top. Fiat is obviously confetti anyways. It doesn't have any real value, but the value exists as a consequence of belief.
00:44:11.080And if you just show people an empty vault, ooh, not a good look.
00:44:15.580The meme of Fort Knox, like people will say, my house is so safe, it's like Fort Knox. They don't even know what they're talking about.
00:44:22.400They don't even understand how it doesn't even apply to how we live.
00:44:26.800Like I haven't thought about Fort Knox in so long, but that would be a gut punch to America.
00:44:31.560And then how they behave after would be very interesting.
00:44:34.180So I don't think they can show us a completely empty Fort Knox.
00:44:37.720And I tweeted previously, I'm like, well, if we're going to look at Fort Knox, why the fuck are we waiting so long?
00:44:43.980Like, are we giving them time to put the gold back?
00:44:46.360I know that there's been shipments from the UK, but like, yeah, wouldn't it be simple?
00:44:50.600Let's look at Fort Knox, open it up. Is it all here?
00:44:52.940Like, we'd be able to tell if a lot was missing, right? If we just looked in the vault.
00:46:28.760I know that he's also trying to foster growth of cryptocurrency businesses in America.
00:46:34.440He's going to tax them at like 0% and then put heavier taxes on those operating outside of the United States, which is, I like all these things.
00:46:42.320But what it seems like is we're ready to get rid of the dollar, the physical dollar that we have, even though it's, you know, it is garbage.
00:46:48.520But it's still the last semblance of, like, I can take a couple hundred bucks and go somewhere and buy a gun or whatever I want and no one has to know about it.
00:46:59.360There is a real danger in getting rid of physical currency.
00:47:03.280And I think that in some ways, though, you know, as you guys often say, it's inevitable.
00:47:07.640Like, it's just going to happen as the economy becomes more and more electronic anyways.
00:47:13.460Like, so much of what we do in commerce is through the Internet.
00:47:17.280I think it is inevitable, but it is not without, you know, real potential downsides and increasing state power, which is why it's so important to have, you know, the ripples and the Bitcoins of the world that might offer a free market alternative to the centrally planned one.
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00:48:36.960I'm trying to be the cryptocurrency president, but I think it's very important that people recognize that his incentives are probably not going to be the same as your own.
00:48:46.420Like, he wants to be a successful president.
00:48:52.020And there's also, even if he has our best interests in mind, there's still vested interests that are surrounding him that very much would like to have whatever replaces the dollar.
00:49:01.780They want to own 80 to 90 to 100% of it, you know?
00:49:05.380Like, they want to catch that windfall.
00:49:07.340So I'm just very nervous that he will not go with the best option.
00:49:11.800He will go with the best option for the people that surround him with money.
00:49:16.820Like Parler instead of X, which was the clear move.
00:51:24.800And I take very seriously when, like, Donald Trump will say something flippantly because it seems that he is working towards this thing.
00:51:31.740So when he says America is going to become the cryptocurrency capital of the world, and then they go and do a thing like, you know, audit the IRS and try to figure out if there's gold in Fort Knox.
00:51:44.000And we just laid out that that could be detrimental to the administration.
00:51:50.560But I do kind of, that resonates with me, what Top says, this idea that maybe he's going to just sidestep into a crypto like XRP or something like that.
00:52:00.180Because everything is kind of pointing to that, you know, that this, I just don't think you do that without having a plan in place.
00:52:07.980In other words, you don't potentially shoot the American economy at, like, a dead dog or a dying dog, which may be necessary if you don't have a backup plan.
00:52:26.700And this is what they're doing in every aspect of the government or just America in general.
00:52:30.740I tweeted, again, to reference my own tweets, because they're the best tweets.
00:52:35.400I said, like, what we're going through right now, what America's going through, the pain, it feels like, simultaneously, it feels like birth pains and death pains.
00:52:57.660And I described it as the Trump round two feels like an exorcism.
00:53:03.860Like, it feels like we are exorcising demons.
00:53:07.420Like, that's really what it feels like.
00:53:08.680But just before I forget this point, the same game theory that I described where people rug other people when it comes to shit coins, that same game theory exists with every, you know, quasi legitimate cryptocurrency like, say, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Ripple.
00:53:26.480Like, is that if you get in Trump's ear and you get him to make the reserve currency for the US dollar to be XRP, to be Bitcoin, to be whatever, like, you become instantly one of the richest people on the planet.
00:53:41.060Because you obviously, the whole reason you're pursuing this is that you own a ton of Ripple or Bitcoin or Ethereum or whatever.
00:53:49.060So everybody that's surrounding him is going to be giving him advice based off of their own benefit.
00:53:54.960And I just don't trust that he knows nearly enough to actually make the right decision.
00:53:59.920And honestly, as much as I know about finance and economics, I'm not sure that I know what the right answer is.
00:54:04.800So I definitely don't believe that Trump knows what the right answer is.
00:54:07.320So I think it's going to be very interesting to see how that plays out.
00:54:10.460It's not that it just comes down to Trump's decision, which I think that there is.
00:54:14.040But then my conspiracy brain starts going and it's like, well, Trump is making these decisions, or at least it looks like it.
00:54:19.060But I think a lot of this stuff has already been pre-decided.
00:54:22.060And the XRP thing looks like it's been pre-decided because you don't have these government entities that kind of take they take one crypto.
00:54:32.140They take one crypto hostage and then it gets released.
00:54:37.680Like, oh, you got like, if you're selling drugs and your friend got wrapped up by the police and then he's out on the street again selling drugs, you'd be like, what the fuck did you tell them?
00:54:51.700This cryptocurrency is an informant, but it also has the best technology that I'm aware of, or at least it was the best technology when they grabbed it and they started to, you know, persecute these people.
00:55:01.700So for, uh, it's like an, it's international trade.
00:55:34.660Well, then let me say though, because I think that if you're going to make that argument, that it's already been predetermined and that all of the financial players are already in that realm.
00:55:42.960Well, then Bitcoin is the answer because the market cap reflects that the big players have already, uh, you know, dove in much more than into that than any other cryptocurrency.
00:55:52.900So that, that implies that that would actually be the front runner, not ripple.
00:55:56.060But Bitcoin, Bitcoin, how many, how many just like regular retards have a lot of Bitcoin?
00:56:03.260And I think when they, when they grabbed XRP and they threatened that they were going to tank it, I think that they got rid of enough holders in XRP to grab major majority shares of this.
00:56:14.620And whatever else we have, whatever else the people came back in on and bought, that's like, you know, they'll be rich people, sure.
00:56:20.620But they are not going to be in on the ground floor like Bitcoin.
00:56:23.860You know, you had a lot of regular people in on the ground floor on Bitcoin and there's probably still majority holders.
00:56:31.500Um, I just think that, that if you're going to base it off of insider knowledge and the, the heavy hitters that exist within wall street already, like they have clearly showed their hand that they believe that Bitcoin is the best play at this junction.
00:56:44.640Um, but that doesn't mean that, you know, secretly they're not buying up XRP.
00:56:48.900I don't know, but it's, you know, we're just, it'll be a player.
00:56:53.400It'll still be a major, major player, but, uh, XRP, I think will be adopted in a big way as well, or something like it, something like there's it's XRP.
00:57:00.780Maybe there's another one that they, that they mentioned, uh, uh, it also starts with X, but there's like maybe three options that, that like we can go either way.
00:57:08.980And this is the, the four, the four knocks thing.
00:57:10.920It looks like we're ready to just slide right into that.
00:57:14.260And I think that like all of the, all of the things that Trump's doing are very, very perilous to the status quo of the neoliberal world order, which is really predicated off of like defense of the U S dollar.
00:57:26.160And, you know, even though I am as anti empire as you could get, as you know, I, I've spent decades just railing against our unconstitutional, illegal, immoral wars.
00:57:38.260Um, I still recognize that like, there is a very significant danger that everything that Trump's doing, if he really leaves the UN, if he really leaves NATO, that they just dumped the dollar.
00:57:49.700And like, we end up in fucking confetti hyperinflation.
00:57:56.020And it seems like he would have something in place.
00:57:57.840I mean, he's not a guy that, that, uh, he's so desperate for, maybe it's different now that this is a second term.
00:58:03.300If he gets the eligibility for a third term, cause I know they were wondering about a amendment to the 22nd amendment not long ago.
00:58:09.300I don't know what, whatever happened to that, but, um, that would be good for us.
00:58:12.900Cause it seems that he cares quite a bit about being received well by the public.
00:58:16.280He cares about how people perceive him.
00:58:18.300I don't think that he would do something, uh, to our detriment without having sort of a backup plan.
00:58:24.360And I'm not saying that makes him a savior or anything.
00:58:26.320I just think he's good at that sort of a thing.
00:58:28.660He's not going to rug pull or something like that, or he's not going to, cause it would all hurt his, his public perception.
00:58:35.060And that seems to be like, you're right.
00:58:36.660And, and much of the way he functioned is based off of, you know, narcissism and ego and, and being loved by people.
00:58:43.400But, um, this is all under the pretext or the assumption that he's actually on our side and that he's a good guy, you know, which I don't think so.
00:58:51.220Which, which you, you know, you vacillate between thinking that, well, no, he's got a plan.
00:58:56.000And then also like, I don't, I don't think he's a good guy and I don't think he's on our side.
00:58:59.420I'm just saying, I'm just saying like, if you're going to make this transition from the U S dollar being the reserve currency to it, not being that is like, I don't see how you've managed that flawlessly.
00:59:10.660Like it's going to, it's going to create major upheaval and, and just kind of like, you can, you can find a way to cushion it for those that have assets.
00:59:20.640Because those that have assets can transition those assets into another currency or another, uh, you know, just a, a, a physical item that will maintain its value, whether it's in U S dollars or it's in ripple or it's in Bitcoin.
00:59:32.340But if you're poor and all the savings and all the money that you get paid is in U S dollars, you, there is, I don't know how you buffer those people at all.
00:59:41.960Like, I don't, I don't know how I'm looking at his administration more like, uh, he's going to give us a lot of things that we want, things that are good for the country.
00:59:50.640We've, we've allowed things to reach a critical mass where so many different aspects of our institutions are about to crumble in and end up burying this country, whether it's our financial or our medical or, and, uh, I think what's going to happen is he's going to rectify these things and that's going to solidify him, uh, as this, this heroic figure.
01:00:09.880I mean, if you look at what's going on with the medical industry right now, getting RFK in there, you want to talk about, um, going through something painful, we might see something soon where it's revealed to us in so many ways that the pharmaceutical industries were levied against us so nefariously that it's almost unforgivable or, you know, whatever happened during the lockdowns was, was, was even worse than the average conspiracy theorist.
01:00:32.860So if we get exposed to these things, let's like the food supply and all the various chemicals that are being put in there and what they're actually doing to us, because we've known that these things are leveraged against us for some time.