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00:00:33.000Paul from Minnesota, Sue from California, Laura from Washington, Terry from Oregon, Mandy from North Dakota, Mary from California, and more.
00:01:10.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:01:53.000In fact, you've been out there beating this drum for a while.
00:01:55.000You're well aware of a number of the threats that we currently face here in the United States from the Davos crowd.
00:02:02.000And of course, one of those is the central bank digital currency.
00:02:05.000There just so happens to be a couple of bills that are down currently in committee in Texas legislature that will, one, serve as a great inflation hedge to every American, in fact, everybody in the world.
00:02:17.000It'll be a way for the state of Texas to be able to generate a little bit of additional revenue.
00:02:22.000But maybe one of the most important things it will do is provide an alternative from what seems to be the intentional effort to destroy the dollar and guide us into a programmable digital currency.
00:02:33.000So Texas, according to Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution, states have the authority to coin gold and silver since tender, or actually the dollar was supposed to be backed by gold and silver and was until the early 70s.
00:02:46.000But states can't just print dollars or create dollars, but they can coin actual gold and silver.
00:02:52.000So in 2015, the state of Texas brought all of its gold back from New York and built their own gold depository, kind of like their own Fort Knox.
00:03:00.000And what these bills will do will create the ability for the Texas Comptroller to basically add an ATM machine to the Texas gold depository.
00:03:11.000And every individual in the world can deposit part of their savings, part of their paycheck, whatever, and have it held in gold at the depository rather than in dollars at the bank.
00:03:20.000And this is legal tender according to the Constitution.
00:03:24.000State of Texas absolutely has every right.
00:03:28.000So individuals, if the dollar continues to be devalued, and as we all note, it is, then this is an alternative form of currency that can be used in the United States and worldwide.
00:03:41.000Beautiful thing about it, it's already in the Constitution.
00:03:43.000Texas is light years ahead of everybody else with this legislation already in place.
00:03:48.000And we have been beating the grassroots for the last two weeks.
00:03:51.000And we've literally seen over 2 million people reach out to the Texas legislature and encourage them to go ahead and pass these bills that would be good for all of America, including our own state treasurer here in Oklahoma, Todd Russ, in a letter of support for what they're doing and saying that the state of Oklahoma would be very interested in learning about this project and perhaps replicating it here.
00:04:14.000So, this would be a competing currency to the U.S. dollar.
00:04:35.000Gold and silver throughout history and throughout biblical history and throughout American history is tender.
00:04:40.000So, this the states reserve the right that they can actually coin gold and silver.
00:04:45.000And with modern debit card technology, we don't need to coin it.
00:04:48.000We don't need to carry it around in a little pouch hanging in our glove compartment.
00:04:52.000You know, we can use debit card technology enabled to transact business with actual gold that we have on deposit in the state of Texas.
00:04:58.000So, would this then include a creation of a central bank, or are we going to do it the right way, the way our founders actually envisioned?
00:05:08.000And the comptroller working individual agreements with different, like, oh, MasterCard, whoever does create the debit cards, credit cards can enter into contract with the state of Texas under Texas oversight, the comtroller in particular.
00:06:17.000But I mean, Paul, I would trade my dollars for a Texas metallic-based currency.
00:06:21.000And once this hits a critical mass, I mean, this then could be a legitimate replacement, right?
00:06:29.000Well, see, and this is good in so many ways.
00:06:31.000Quite frankly, the only people that would object to this and do object to it are the maybe the Federal Reserve and the globalists because they want to concentrate.
00:06:43.000The normal banks, the regional banks, will love honest banking business.
00:06:49.000But what this will do is for the average individual, you know, if you've got means, you know, perhaps you can have a percentage of your portfolio in some investment account and do something that kind of counters or battles inflation.
00:07:00.000But actually, a CNBC article I read just this last week said 64% of Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
00:07:08.000So they are absolutely exposed to inflation.
00:07:12.000And quite frankly, anybody that tries to minimize just what a threat inflation is to us right now is lying or just ignorant.
00:07:18.000So this will provide inflation protection for every individual.
00:07:22.000You can have your weekly, you could have your whole check deposited weekly down there.
00:07:27.000You'd use your debit card technology just as you do now.
00:07:31.000It's good for the state of Texas or for any state.
00:07:34.000Again, let me say any state can participate in this.
00:07:37.000Oklahoma could rent space to the Texas depository right now.
00:07:41.000And then in the future, if they decide to build their own depository, they could.
00:07:45.000But this would be good for each state because a state would be able to make like a 1% or 1% transaction fee off of every card sale, just as we pay now.
00:07:54.000It should lower the tax burden for the citizens of a particular state.
00:07:58.000And then, of course, it'll battle the CBDC.
00:08:00.000It'll really be a shot to the solar plexus.
00:10:22.000We're all overtly patriotic that are involved in pushing this.
00:10:26.000But literally, this is just the grassroots.
00:10:29.000So the only ones that would be opposing it are really the ones that want to centralize currency, turn it into a programmable digital currency.
00:10:37.000And as you have talked about up with your audience on many occasions, that's not really currency.
00:10:41.000It's a means of control over the over the masses.
00:10:43.000A Texas-based transactional gold and silver currency.
00:10:47.000If you get 100,000 people start to use it or a million people, it could break the, I mean, unintentionally break the back of the dollar.
00:10:54.000That might be an unintended consequence, but I could see a lot of foreigners all of a sudden coming in for a stable currency in the state of Texas.
00:11:04.000This is the way we need to start thinking.
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00:12:36.000Kevin wrote a book dealt with the subject of total warfare.
00:12:41.000And of course, Kevin has been sounding the alarm on the threat of China since about 2006, 2007.
00:12:48.000And at one point in time, he was actually a subject matter expert that was advising the Pentagon when it came to total warfare and economic warfare.
00:13:45.000As you said, Paul, Article 1, Section 10 of the Constitution allows states to make gold and silver coins, tender.
00:13:50.000In the past, using gold and silver to pay things was impractical, but with modern technology, the Texas bullion depository can make gold and silver transactional simply by adapting existing debit card technology.
00:14:01.000And so, Paul, basically, what you're putting forward is a solution against all this anxiety: the dollar can collapse world reserve currency.
00:14:52.000You know, what inflation is just when you're turning on the printing press.
00:14:55.000You're inflating the supply of dollars, thus devaluing the dollars that are already in circulation.
00:15:02.000So, the policies that we're seeing, Charlie, you know, you mentioned a little while ago: is this a threat to the dollar?
00:15:07.000Quite frankly, the dollar is at risk regardless.
00:15:11.000This is just a possible lifeline that would allow all citizens in the United States to continue to function, even if the dollar does go to half.
00:15:26.000You are, I don't know if you remember, several years ago, you and I were at a particular event, and I really, before you had rocketed to Stardo, I mentioned you how proud I was.
00:15:35.000Please forgive me if being an old guy seemed to condescending.
00:15:37.000You reminded me of my oldest son because the way you talk and the way you thought.
00:15:42.000So, your people understand this stuff, but this is not intentional.
00:15:48.000If we just have morons in D.C., every now and then they'd get the answer right.
00:15:53.000But, you know, when you've got the Federal Reserve trying to, you know, slow down the economy by raising interest rates at the same time, rather than cooperating with the Federal Reserve, you've got our federal government policy just creating vast amounts of dollars out of thin air and pumping it into the market.
00:16:14.000But not only is the inflation of the money supply going through the roof, but our economy is slowing down, which just magnifies it.
00:16:21.000So I personally believe that this is intentional.
00:16:24.000I think the globalists are intentionally devaluing the dollar so that there will be a need to move away from the dollar into eventually will be their programmable central bank digital currency.
00:16:37.000But even right now, BRICS nations, you know, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South America, and others are actively pushing to replace the dollar as the world reserve currency.
00:16:49.000And I'm afraid that the day that happens, the American dollar, we become Zimbabwe.
00:16:54.000I mean, we're going to be walking around with $10 million bills in our wallet.
00:16:56.000They won't buy a little bit of a business.
00:16:58.000We have a backup currency plan because we have a lot of value in our country.
00:17:02.000We do have overinflated amount of pieces of paper, but we have entrepreneurs, we have a trained workforce.
00:17:08.000We have a lot of natural resources, a lot of energy, a lot of great ideas, a lot of companies.
00:17:11.000So having a competing currency could be an insurance policy.
00:17:17.000It could serve to fight against the monopoly right now.
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00:19:48.000The left they scream about January 6th insurrection, but we see them time and time again behaving in very similar fashion, taking over state houses, mostly the trans world, though.
00:19:58.000And that I really want to build that out because you're a deep thinker and a really well-published writer.
00:20:18.000Yeah, well, we had these transurrectionists, as I call them, come in yesterday and attempt to disrupt the meeting of the state house, essentially doing a bunch of chants and trying to shut down the house business.
00:20:34.000And this is a really big deal because, as a small state, we only have a legislature that meets three months every two years.
00:20:41.000We've got a lot of business to get done in a short amount of time.
00:20:45.000And, you know, when we have a disruption like this, it puts a bunch of things on the legislative agenda off that agenda and it creates some real problems.
00:20:59.000And the good news is that we arrested seven of them, some of them are the worst actors.
00:21:03.000Although, you know, and it's funny because the people in Montana are such decent people.
00:21:08.000You know, as one of these people was being let out in handcuffs, the arresting cop, and this is on video somewhere, apologized for misgendering them at some point.
00:21:23.000And like basically allowed them to give an impromptu interview to all these news media who were there.
00:21:28.000And again, it's not that this cop is a bad guy.
00:21:31.000He's just not used to dealing with these sorts of malevolent actors.
00:21:36.000And, you know, this is all just, you know, the kind of broader impetus is that we are trying to pass things in Montana that's very sensible, frankly, not even adequate, but a good start legislation that will forbid essentially the mutilation of minors and cross-sex hormones, et cetera, for minors in Montana.
00:21:58.000And we actually have a transgender identified Montana legislator who accused the Republican majority of having blood on their hands.
00:22:08.000They were appropriately censured for that because that's not the sort of thing that we say in a legislative body and essentially told that they were not going to be recognized by the chair until they apologized, which they've refused to do.
00:22:21.000And that's sort of what has led to the current situation that we're in.
00:22:38.000Well, I mean, I think you have to spread it out, Charlie.
00:22:41.000You have to look at different constituencies.
00:22:42.000I mean, I think particularly for the young people who are increasingly the sort of Gen Z folks, both minor and of age, I mean, they're just confused people who have a lot of problems in their lives.
00:22:57.000I mean, childhood, youth, adolescence, young adulthood, these are challenging times.
00:23:02.000And the appropriate response, of course, for people who get confused in this way is to sort of counsel them and to, you know, offer support and help, but not to kind of feed their delusions.
00:23:14.000And then on top of that, we have a superstructure of leftists who just kind of want to burn down every traditional institution in the West and in America.
00:23:24.000And they see transgenderism as kind of the next institution in the long march through the institutions to blow up the natural family to do all these sorts of things.
00:24:51.000It is a social issue that is being misrepresented as an identification issue.
00:24:57.000And so talk about the specific legislative items that you're trying to get on Governor Gianforte's desk.
00:25:04.000Yeah, well, I think there's a few different bills that are working through, but basically it's to, you know, to kind of ban any sort of surgeries for minors, to ban hormone treatment, to this has been one controversial one,
00:25:19.000to essentially not make it easy for teachers to or to refer to people by other than their birth sex so that you don't have some of these secret transitions going on and social transitions in school because social transition ultimately leads to medical transition.
00:25:40.000Now, I think, as does Matt Walsh and others who've done a terrific job on this, that we absolutely, you know, it is a danger and a mistake to say, well, this is fine for adults, but it's just bad.
00:25:57.000It's a social contagion that is rooted in a rejection of reality and a tyrannical impulse to get other people to conform to your own delusion.
00:26:14.000You know, having said that, you know, minors is a good entry point.
00:26:18.000I think pretty much everybody who's not totally taken leave of their senses realizes that this is not something we should be exposing kids to.
00:26:26.000But I do think that it's important that as we talk about it, we do it in a way that makes it clear that this is a bad thing for everybody, not just for kids.
00:26:34.000Yeah, and it's creating an insane and increasingly neurotic society.
00:28:07.000And I've actually done some very micro analysis of the Senate, like county by county districts from the census.
00:28:14.000And what you see is people moving into conservative and rural counties.
00:28:20.000You have the most conservative in the last year metro in Montana, which is Kalispell the Flathead up near Glacier National Park, growing twice as fast as Bozeman, which is more liberal kind of near where I live, but still a mixed district.
00:28:33.000And I have to say, I know tons of conservatives who have moved here just in the last few years.
00:30:45.000Are you worried that Montana might now be the new retreat of the ruling class now that they've destroyed Aspen into an unrecognizable gay hellscape?
00:30:55.000Well, I want us to make Montana as uncomfortable for these people as possible.
00:31:00.000And that's ultimately one of the reasons I think, Charlie, you're absolutely right to be concerned about it.
00:31:05.000That's why I think it's really important that we prosecute these transurrectionists to the fullest extent of the law, because you've got to send a message that this is not going to be your new boulder, that we are a conservative state.
00:31:18.000We're a state that has Judeo-Christian values, and that we're not going to just let this place be.
00:31:27.000You want Democrats who are looking on Zillow right now to say, this place is so backwards.
00:32:04.000Yesterday we had a great guest on about Aspen.
00:32:07.000And now it's just kind of like, as we enter the summer months, we're reflecting on the upper altitude states that could determine the Republic.
00:33:01.000That's really the question of who that's going to be at this point.
00:33:04.000There's been some noise about a guy named Tim Sheehee, who runs a company called Bridger Aerospace out here in Bozeman, who I think is clearly being pushed by folks.
00:33:14.000The other guy out there who I think hear a lot about prominently is Matt Rosendale, who I think is a terrific conservative stalwart congressman from the Eastern District now of Montana, now that we have two districts, although he represents the Constitutional Committee.
00:33:27.000Trump doesn't seem too happy with him, though.
00:34:17.000He's got a farming background, but he votes identically to Chuck Schumer, basically on everything that matters.
00:34:22.000We never get his vote on anything that matters.
00:34:24.000So he's a radical lib in his voting record.
00:34:28.000He's dramatically out of state, out of step with the state of Montana.
00:34:32.000And by the way, they're nerdy political scientists who kind of look at voting patterns of senators versus what you would expect for their state.