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00:08:32.000So, Philip, last week reports emerged that the U.S.-Saudi petrodollar agreement expired.
00:08:38.000I mean, I know that's a big deal, but for people who haven't been paying attention for the last 50 years as to just how important that is as it relates to our borrowing power, all the ridiculous spending that we have, this changes the game a lot.
00:08:54.000So, reports have been circulated that, you know, There's been an end to the petrodollar agreement between Saudi Arabia and the United States.
00:09:03.000Now, I don't expect there to be an official press conference.
00:09:06.000There was no official beginning to the agreement, so I don't expect an official end, if you will.
00:09:13.000You know, this is an agreement that dates back to the 1970s, essentially in exchange for military
00:09:20.000equipment and training, the Saudis would agree to sell oil exclusively in US dollars and really has
00:09:26.000been the cornerstone of dollar supremacy since Bretton Woods. And it's how we've been able to
00:09:31.000maintain our global reserve currency. The Saudis are showing increasing willingness now to start
00:09:39.000selling oil outside of dollars, particularly in Chinese Yuan. And that doesn't bode well
00:09:44.000for the long term prospects for the dollar, as you know, well.
00:09:49.000I mean, if the reports are in fact accurate, how would an official end to the petrodollar monopoly affect the U.S.?
00:09:55.000I mean, clearly it would, you know, I mean, it may be good.
00:09:59.000I mean, there may be things that, hey, we're no longer going to be able to sell, you know, $50 billion for, you know, transgender awareness in Pakistan and some of the ridiculous stuff that we do.
00:10:10.000But, you know, in all seriousness, it feels like it could create a lot of other problems given the $34 trillion outstanding we have debt-wise.
00:10:21.000You're right, it'll be a curb on obscene government spending, which would be the only sort of silver lining, if you will.
00:10:29.000Across the board, it would have sweeping effects.
00:10:31.000First of all, Saudi Arabia would need a new security partner.
00:10:34.000We know China has been waiting in the wings for years for the opportunity, and we'd lose essentially our most reliable Arab ally, and I think it would put Israel in some trouble.
00:10:45.000Secondly, nations that need dollars to buy oil won't need those dollars to buy oil anymore.
00:10:51.000Japan, for example, the world's fourth largest oil importer, they get 40% of their oil from
00:14:58.000But, you know, they've gone after other friends of ours, you know, Sean Parnell.
00:15:01.000They do this thing and they've really sort of exposed their underbelly of just how far they're willing to weaponize our own system of government and law against their own citizens.
00:15:12.000What can we do to stop this nonsense once and for all?
00:15:35.000Yeah, and then they do absolutely nothing.
00:15:37.000And I actually look to the Cold War for the example of how you win this war with lawfare.
00:15:44.000So during the Cold War, we had so many nukes, and the Soviet Union had so many nukes, that both sides understood that if they were to launch one first, they would be destroyed before that one even hit the ground.
00:15:57.000Yep, and that understanding that you would be eliminated from the earth if you were the first aggressor, that made it so that nobody used them, and that was a good thing.
00:16:11.000The left needs to understand that if they come after us, they're going to have the exact same rules that they used against us shoved down their own throats.
00:17:16.000Republicans are feckless and they have not been doing that.
00:17:18.000It doesn't look like they're changing their minds on it anytime soon either.
00:17:22.000Yeah, I think there's two things we can do there.
00:17:24.000The first is these people need to understand that they serve at our pleasure and they work for us.
00:17:28.000And if they're not going to work for us, and they're not going to do the things that we need them to do, they're not going to work there.
00:17:33.000So I think it needs to be made clear to them, you do your jobs or you're going to have a different job and we're going to send you packing.
00:17:41.000I think we've been pretty bad at that.
00:17:43.000And it's hard to fault people who only care about the next election for not doing things that we think they should because they don't pay any consequences for them.
00:17:53.000So number one, there need to be political consequences for Republicans in Washington acting like a bunch of spineless neutered eunuchs.
00:18:01.000Number two, I actually don't think the action has to come from Washington.
00:18:19.000They're doing it to him in these completely corrupt New York City courts.
00:18:22.000There is zero reason on earth why Republican DAs who love this country shouldn't be doing that at the local level in Florida or Tennessee or Texas or Idaho or Oklahoma.
00:18:34.000Democrats should be facing this onslaught in every state the same way they're doing to our own people.
00:18:40.000And until they feel that pain, until their own people start getting hauled in and indicted, they're not going to stop.
00:18:45.000Yeah, so I had this conversation with Charlie Kirk last week, and it was that, which is sort of interesting, like, you still don't see that kind of action either.
00:18:52.000Even, and frankly, you actually see less action in arguably the most conservative states.
00:18:58.000It's almost like, you know, the places that you think, you know, have the biggest conservative voting blocs actually end up with a lot of the, let's call it the mushiest, you know, sort of rhino conservative leaders.
00:19:08.000And I don't know if it's just the Democrats run as conservatives because they know they can't win as Democrats.
00:19:13.000I don't know if Democrat voters just sort of vote for the weakest Republican, and as long as he gets a couple points of the Republican side of it as well, you know, they get into these positions.
00:19:21.000But yet you haven't seen that kind of response yet in those states where, frankly, it would be looked upon much more favorably by the constituency than in Washington, D.C., where it would actually take a little bit of balls.
00:19:32.000At the state level, it's still not happening too much either.
00:20:05.000So hopefully now, there may not be an immediate solution right at this very moment, but it feels to me like people are waking up to the nature of the battle that we're facing, and that's going to require a different type of politics.
00:20:17.000We've got to be doing more than just throwing money at ads every other year, every four years.
00:20:22.000We need to be going and building institutions at the ground level to take the fight to the left.
00:20:31.000For as bad as their policies are, for how flagrantly they failed everything, not just our country under Joe Biden, but if you look at the policies of so many of the inner cities of this country, and yet They have a very loyal voting bloc that blindly keeps voting for them and will continue to do that.
00:20:48.000I think we're making some inroads there these days only because the failure is so bad.
00:20:53.000It's difficult for even them to hide it and it's difficult for their lackeys in the media to cover it up because people are not going to not believe what they see every day with their own eyes as they live their lives.
00:21:32.000The left understands the value of media.
00:21:35.000I think the right is just starting to understand it.
00:21:38.000Look, we don't need to have the New York Times and CNN and MSNBC and the Washington Post.
00:21:43.000We really just need a handful of people that are staffed up and funded up that they can take the air war to the left.
00:21:49.000You know, that's what we've done at the Federalist.
00:21:51.000We wake up every morning, we look at the narratives that are out there, and we see, you know, what are the leftist narratives that need to be destroyed?
00:21:58.000And what are the narratives on the right that need to be pushed?
00:22:58.000I do think that's a weak point that's very easy for us to attack because you can demonstrably show How they've not just been manipulating people, they've just been outright lying.
00:23:21.000We started The Federalist a little over 10 years ago.
00:23:24.000And we started it because we looked at the right-wing media and we looked around and everything was focused on Washington.
00:23:31.000Everyone lived in Washington, everyone worked in Washington.
00:23:34.000They were bombarded with what Washington wanted them to think.
00:23:37.000And then what they did is they translated that to their readers and their subscribers.
00:23:41.000It was, hey, everybody out in real America doing real jobs.
00:23:45.000And paying for our lives and our jobs.
00:23:47.000Here's what Washington wants you to think.
00:23:50.000And I looked at that and I thought, this is totally backwards.
00:23:53.000America doesn't need to hear any more about what Washington wants.
00:23:56.000Washington needs to hear what America wants.
00:23:58.000So we started with this idea that we're going to be combative and we're going to be fearless and we're going to fight.
00:24:04.000And we're going to take the fight to Washington on behalf of the American people.
00:24:07.000The majority of our staff, we're not in Washington.
00:24:10.000The overwhelming majority of our writers, we have thousands of them, are spread around the country.
00:24:16.000These are people with normal jobs, normal family lives.
00:24:19.000They have skills and experiences that people in Washington simply can't understand.
00:24:24.000And that gives them perspectives that everyone in Washington needs to hear.
00:24:27.000And that was kind of the The secret sauce of why I think the Federalist has worked is that we don't really care what Washington wants you to think, and we don't really care what they're up to.
00:24:36.000We care about them getting through their thick skulls with the American people need them to hear.
00:25:23.000How do you get those sort of reasonable people, those blue-collar Democrats, to understand that, you know, the party that represents them in Washington DC has left them and is literally almost cheering for, you know, our nation's demise at this point?
00:25:39.000Yeah, it kind of feels like we're watching The Hunger Games.
00:25:42.000You know, they had all the ridiculous people in the Capitol doing ridiculous things and living lives totally divorced from the reality of what everyone else is facing.
00:25:51.000That's what politics and that's what Democrats look like right now.
00:26:02.000They didn't really face any of the consequences of their COVID insanity and their lockdown nonsense.
00:26:07.000So they're not actually having to feel the pain of their own policies, because they've built these little enclaves around them.
00:26:13.000And to your question of whether I think they'll destroy the country to keep power, absolutely they will.
00:26:19.000They remind me of those weirdos we probably knew in high school or college, and somebody would break up with them, and they'd say, well, if I can't have that person, no one can.
00:26:29.000And you'd be like, wow, that's kind of like psycho talk there.
00:26:32.000That's how Democrats seem to feel about the country is all they want is power.
00:26:48.000I know in the past week, you know, eight illegal immigrants were arrested for ISIS ties.
00:26:53.000I mean, they're tied to terrorist organizations.
00:26:55.000They came across our Swiss cheese border with no resistance.
00:27:00.000One illegal immigrant was arrested for rape.
00:27:03.000Another illegal immigrant arrested for murder.
00:27:06.000And Joe Biden's response is to get up on a world stage and give amnesty.
00:27:11.000Just outright, just, hey, no problem here to Millions of illegal immigrants.
00:27:18.000What does it tell you about, you know, what's going on there?
00:27:20.000I mean, there have to be... I know it's not a popular issue across the country.
00:27:25.000When does the sort of disjointment of Democrat policy in DC actually start getting Democrats across the country to realize, you know, they've been left behind, that this isn't what they want?
00:27:37.000And is there ever a bridge too far With the radical policies of Washington, D.C.
00:27:43.000Democrats and Democrat voters in America, where they say, OK, enough is enough.
00:28:01.000I think the Democrats want the answer to that to be no.
00:28:04.000So they've got some ideological reasons why they're opening the border.
00:28:07.000They think borders are racist, and they're just intrinsically bad, and therefore they shouldn't exist.
00:28:12.000But there's also a political motive there.
00:28:14.000They clearly want to bring in a bunch of people, legalize them, hand the ballots, and then let them vote.
00:28:20.000And so it's almost like they're doing a two-front war on the American republic.
00:28:25.000They're trying to destroy the rule of law and flood us with a bunch of people who
00:28:29.000don't understand our culture, are not interested in assimilating, don't care about our laws.
00:28:34.000And then they want them to actually go and vote as well to replace or to subsume the votes of citizens
00:28:41.000who do care about the long-term health of that country.
00:28:43.000So I think what they're doing, it's not just about bringing in a whole bunch of people
00:28:50.000to remake the country in their own image.
00:28:52.000I think a lot of it is about trying to rig another election by sending ballots to people who aren't legally entitled to them so that they don't actually have to be accountable to the desires of the people who they're supposed to work for.
00:29:04.000They want to engineer their own election results.
00:29:06.000Yeah, I think you actually did something in the Federalist.
00:29:09.000I saw one of the articles or one of your writers did something about it.
00:29:12.000I sort of bookmarked it to read later because I've had a crazy week, but isn't there some legislation out there right now?
00:29:19.000They're trying to make it like, hey, it's okay to vote if you think.
00:32:06.000I mean, they for years tried to make it so you or I couldn't go to a restaurant unless we had a particular ID that said we had gotten the right shots that they wanted us to have.
00:32:17.000They didn't want you to be able to go to the doctor without an ID.
00:32:20.000But suddenly, if you say, hey, maybe you should have to have an ID to vote for the most powerful person on Earth who has the nuclear codes.
00:32:30.000Saying voter ID is racist is itself racist.
00:32:34.000Everyone has figured out how to get an ID in this country.
00:32:36.000It's not really hard because you can't live without an ID.
00:32:40.000And yet that's the one thing they don't want you to have to show in order to make one of the most important decisions you'll ever make, which is voting.
00:32:46.000Yeah, and talk perhaps a little bit about the disparate treatment, frankly, between Americans, actual American citizens, and the illegals coming through.
00:32:55.000I mean, it feels like I would not be able to do the things that the illegals are able to.
00:33:02.000We are actually, it feels like, as American citizens, compared to what they're clearly and just flagrantly doing for all the illegals, We're second-class citizens in our own country, and I'm hoping that certain, and maybe this is why, maybe some demographics are figuring that out, which is why they have to import more to make up for that, the loss of reliable Democrat voters, but I mean, it's very clearly that's happening as well, whether it's the, here's $10,000, and here's free rent, and forever, and I'm like...
00:33:28.000We don't, there's American veterans, there's Americans with, you know, mental issues.
00:33:33.000They're not afforded these same freedoms and benefits, yet they get to pay for them in their tax bill very clearly.
00:33:42.000It's almost worse than being a second-class citizen.
00:33:45.000It's not just that it feels like we have less rights or fewer benefits.
00:33:49.000We're effectively being robbed to pay for all of it.
00:33:53.000You have the privilege of paying for your own stuff, plus giving them a lot more, but they're not paying anything into the system, ever.
00:33:59.000Yeah, I basically can't afford to go spend a week in a nice hotel in New York, and yet they're taking my tax dollars, which I work really hard for, stuff that should be used for my family, are going to house and give benefits to people who are here illegally, who should have been turned around right at the door.
00:34:17.000Now look, I don't begrudge people wanting to come to America.
00:34:30.000And it's enraging to see the amount of gaslighting that's going on to be told that we're bad or evil or racist because we want people to follow the rules and follow the laws in order to share in this awesome country that we're in.
00:34:57.000I mean, you know, how do we change that?
00:35:00.000Do we get, you know, is there a need for more conservative screenwriters so that, you know, maybe talking about pop culture or, you know, the programming on television, you know, maybe every dad in every show isn't, you know, a big, You know, Dolt isn't seen as a loser.
00:35:21.000Do we have to have more conservative actors and musicians?
00:35:24.000How do you take back some of that cultural component that they've sort of ceded and the other side has weaponized against the entirety of the nation, not just one-sided viewership?
00:35:36.000Yeah, it's a hard problem because I think one reason the left is so fanatical and so energetic about all this, about taking everything over and remaking humanity in their own image, this is effectively their religion.
00:37:51.000I'm not even creating news for, like, I'm aggregating other news.
00:37:53.000I'm just making sure you see the New York Times with the Federalist, not Just the New York Times on, you know, the first 65 pages or CNN of a Google search.
00:38:03.000And then, yeah, The Federalist be on page 9,476.
00:38:05.000And if you had nothing to do for the next nine and a half years, maybe you'd find the article.
00:38:12.000I didn't think of Hollywood necessarily as one of those deities to be worshipped by the left.
00:38:16.000I always thought, you know, it's You know, Greta Thunberg is the High Priestess of Climate Change, and Anthony Fauci is the Lord God of COVID, and then, you know, it became, you know, Zelensky with a short hiatus for George Floyd, and, like, it's an ever-evolving deity, and I guess it's all part of the same problem, and I'd wonder, you know, is legacy media even on the right?
00:38:36.000partly to blame for some of these things.
00:38:42.000I, you know, I noticed, you know, I guess I call out people on the board of Fox News because they're rhinos and they suck, and, you know, so I'm no longer on Fox News.
00:38:51.000Have they failed us too, succumbing to the pressures of what's out there?
00:38:57.000Well, honestly, I think every institution on the right has failed.
00:39:01.000I don't know how you get to the point where we are with people on the right getting shut down, with our government censoring us, with people being thrown in prison for their politics.
00:39:11.000I don't think you can get to that point without systematic failure across the board.
00:39:15.000I think we fail to understand the threat of the left.
00:39:17.000We fail to understand the importance of media.
00:39:21.000I look at the major institutions in American life.
00:40:03.000You know, man, I feel like when you're losing the church as well, not across the board, I mean, there's many great, but you see the left making even strong inroads there.
00:40:16.000It's almost like a pincer movement in the military.
00:40:19.000Once you control the ground here and you control the ground there, you just start bringing in your troops, you encircle them, and you eventually strangle them.
00:40:26.000That's what they've done with their control, and it didn't happen overnight.
00:40:30.000They call it the march through institutions.
00:40:32.000They've been working on this for decades, and we're not going to get caught up overnight, but we're certainly not going to get caught up by thinking, oh, we can just stroll through the forest and pick daisies, and la la la, it'll all pass, and we'll all be fine.
00:40:49.000Our side has to get absolutely serious about taking back these institutions or building up our own to where they're more powerful than what the left has and then using ours to crush theirs.
00:41:00.000It's hard and it's frustrating to hear that.
00:41:03.000I think it's a heck of a lot better than going down the road that we're on now because we're being taken straight over a cliff at a pretty high rate of speed.
00:41:11.000I joke, like, they're like, Don, why do you fight so hard?
00:41:14.000I'm like, hey, because I'm one of the first people they're bringing to the Gulag, so we got no choice, you know, and we talk about the sponsors of the show, you know, you know, go to Public Square, you know, shop there rather than Amazon.
00:41:25.000Like, at least you have your money go to someone that shares your values, or you take the easy way out.
00:41:30.000So, like, we are, I do feel confident in the sense I see people out there building up these sort of alternate parallel economies, parallel institutions.
00:41:38.000We just gotta be all in actually supporting the guys doing those things so that we can actually make a dent.
00:41:44.000If we take the easy way out, if we follow the apathy, if we don't cut off the dollars that are going to literally fund and weaponize every institution of this country against Good patriotic Americans.
00:42:14.000And in fact, oddly enough, Their desperation to censor us and come after us is proof that what we're doing is working.
00:42:22.000If what we're doing didn't matter, if the journalism we're doing, if your podcast, if it didn't matter, they wouldn't constantly trying to be shutting it down.
00:42:31.000They wouldn't be going to Facebook and lying about it.
00:42:33.000They wouldn't be calling things that are their own video.
00:43:32.000They freeze-framed the picture that it looked like I was holding his hand, guiding him down this walkway.
00:43:37.000And even like, you know, Kayfile, one of these layers, like, listen, guys, like, we're trying hard to make Trump seem like Joe Biden, who we watch every day.
00:43:46.000They say it's a deep fake when you put live video of him falling asleep or falling off a stage or falling on his ass or just getting lost.
00:43:53.000You know, like, they're not deepfakes.
00:43:54.000Like, there's nothing deepfake about a live video that's real, put out by a leftist institution showing this incompetence.
00:43:59.000But then they try to counter it by being like, look, Trump, Don Jr.
00:44:02.000is holding his hand, walking him off the stage.
00:44:04.000It was literally like a high five as he's walking.
00:44:13.000I'll try to clip that in there, because it was literally ridiculous.
00:44:15.000The picture that they ran, and then you show the video, and in like three seconds, you see, like, it was a moment of contact where hands met, and they just freeze that, like, that's the image.
00:44:24.000That's the narrative, even though it had nothing to do with reality.
00:44:28.000Yeah, it's actually one of the more absurd examples of gaslighting I've ever seen.
00:44:32.000It reminds me of Baghdad, Bob, during the war in Iraq where there's tanks rolling behind him and he's like, there's no tanks in Baghdad.
00:45:52.000I used to, you know, 20 years ago, you would ask me, I'd be like, hey, listen.
00:45:55.000They're only going to do so much to manipulate the election because they know that, you know, a key tenant of people believing in the democracy that they talk about is like a, it's a, you know, it's a running joke, right?
00:46:06.000Like we're going to, we're going to jail all our political opposition to preserve democracy or something.
00:46:11.000But, you know, they, they talk about it in these jokes and yet, What they do each and every day is such an affront on that democracy.
00:46:21.000But there was a time I said, you know what, there's only so much they can do to roll Joe Biden over a finish line, because a key tenet of that democracy is people actually believing there's a chance that it was real, right?
00:46:32.000I mean, if no one believes it, it's sort of over, right?
00:46:35.000But if you told me today that they said on November 6th, they said, Joe Biden got 450 million votes.
00:46:44.000I'd be like, they would run with that.
00:46:45.000Like, in a country of 300, you know, let's call it 330 million people.
00:47:16.000And for me, I think the ship sailed when they started trying to tell us that, like, boys can get pregnant, boys can become girls.
00:47:23.000And then, like, I have to say, this totally, like, hideously disfigured freak is, like, beautiful and stunning, brave and not disgusting.
00:47:31.000Like, if they're going to lie to you about that, they'll lie to you about literally anything, including an election or a war or how our laws work.
00:47:38.000Like, they will say and do anything to keep power.
00:47:59.000So, you know, I mentioned earlier, you know, Vladimir Zelensky is, you know, the high priest of, you know, I guess Ukraine, which is a new religion of the left.
00:48:10.000But what role do you think, Sean, does the endless war machine play in all of this insanity?
00:48:18.000It seems like such an unpopular thing for Americans across the country.
00:48:21.000I survey every large group I speak in front of all over the place.
00:48:24.000I mean, I think I've tallied it up now.
00:48:26.000It's off the top of my head, like 65,000 people and basically three people.
00:48:30.000One guy was a warmonger, like from DC, probably profited off the wars.
00:48:34.000One guy happened to be born in Kiev, Ukraine.
00:48:37.000And one guy misunderstood the question.
00:48:39.000He thought it was a double negative, so he actually wasn't for it.
00:48:41.000So two people of 65,000 thought that Ukraine war was a top ten issue.
00:49:24.000But also, it's this foreign policy of returning to a sane, Jacksonian foreign policy, where it's peace through strength, not peace through constant war, that you need to have a strong foreign policy to make people understand that you don't mess with the U.S., but beyond that, we're not the world's policeman.
00:49:42.000That is a devastating proposition to people who make trillions and trillions of dollars on the war machine.
00:49:49.000And you know, if somebody had told me that 25 years ago, I'd say, yeah, I don't know about that.
00:50:25.000So I think the war machine, the surveillance machine, the security state, I think they are all wound up together.
00:50:33.000I think they've all been doing a ton of shenanigans in Ukraine.
00:50:38.000For a decade or more, starting with the Newland-led Maidan revolution there.
00:50:44.000I think there are a lot of skeletons in closets there.
00:50:46.000I think there's a whole bunch of nonsense that they're terrified of being found out because they were using NATO as their base of operations for all kinds of stuff that the people didn't know about and certainly didn't approve of.
00:50:58.000And they're terrified of getting found out.
00:51:07.000They couldn't process that Hillary just lost because she sucked and nobody liked her and she couldn't find Wisconsin on a map.
00:51:13.000So they had to invent an external actor, Putin, Russia, who's the real reason and they they've never been the same since.
00:51:21.000And what they're doing in Ukraine now actually scratches two itches for them.
00:51:25.000They get to hate on Russia more and blame Putin for Hillary sucking, and they get to keep propping up the military surveillance industrial complex.
00:51:37.000And it needs to be neutered ASAP because we can't have a bunch of unelected bureaucrats, unelected spies running our government without any accountability.
00:52:37.000It does seem scary that you see even the Republicans in DC trying to make it almost impossible for Trump to achieve peace.
00:52:45.000You know, take off, you know, all the tools that he could use to actually achieve, like, peace deals like he did in the Middle East and elsewhere.
00:52:52.000They're trying to take those tools off the table so that they can ensure that they can get through these four years so they can just keep it going in perpetuity, it seems.
00:53:02.000Yeah, well, it tells you everything you need to know about the regime, that the greatest threat to them is peace.
00:53:09.000Well, there's no money in peace, right?
00:53:11.000There's only money in war, so I guess they got to perpetuate it.
00:53:14.000But, you know, eventually you run out of money, right?
00:53:16.000It feels like it's not like America's succeeding economically or otherwise.
00:53:21.000I mean, Bidenomics has not exactly been a What the media has told us it's been, and we know that because we hear people talk about that, not Republicans or Democrats, but everyday citizens in every walk of life, in every aspect of their day.
00:53:33.000They understand these policies are failing, and yet it doesn't stop us from sending another $50 billion on top of the $160 billion just last week.
00:53:40.000Yeah, and it's not to say that foreign policy and fighting tyranny are unimportant.
00:53:47.000I don't like them when they're in my country or when they're in Russia or when they're in China.
00:53:51.000But you've got to, like, prioritize your problems.
00:53:53.000And if my house is crumbling, if the electricity doesn't work, If the pipes are leaking, if my fences are down, if there's crime everywhere, maybe I should be focused on fixing my own house and not sending all of my money to go fix a neighborhood that's a thousand miles away.
00:54:20.000Yeah, like the analogy I always use is sort of like, you know, every time you get on an airplane, and these days that's getting more and more precarious because of, you know, DEI practices and, you know, Boeing offshoring engineering to people who perhaps aren't even engineers.
00:54:32.000I don't know what the hell they're doing, but, you know, you're reading about doors and wheels falling off planes in flight.
00:54:36.000So, but every time you get on a plane, it's like, hey, put your mask on before helping those around you.
00:54:43.000We're doing the opposite so that you succumb to the fumes or whatever it may be before you could ever actually effectuate any real change, but we continue to do that.
00:54:51.000It doesn't seem to be working and nothing's changing.
00:54:55.000Yeah, and it's so frustrating, and you see why.
00:54:58.000You know, they talk so much about our election and the sanctity of our democracy.
00:55:03.000They don't give a crap about actual elections and actual democracy.
00:55:21.000I'm fighting to make what I believed America to be B. I feel like that's been bastardized and taken advantage of for so long, probably, you know, many decades.
00:55:32.000It was only sort of, you know, whether it's Trump or, you know, the phenomenon known as Trump Derangement Syndrome that finally got these guys to say the quiet parts out loud and start, you know, exposing just what they've been doing all along.
00:55:47.000Yeah, to them, our democracy just means our power.
00:57:13.000My colleague Molly Hemingway and I, we try to game plan this out regularly, and we're constantly complaining to each other that we think we lack the imagination that the left has.
00:57:24.000Like, I just don't think I have the capacity for evil.
00:57:29.000They're going to bring in as many votes as they can, illegal or not.
00:57:32.000I absolutely think they're going to put President Trump in jail.
00:57:36.000I think they will use violence if they need to.
00:57:39.000There is nothing that is off the table for them.
00:57:42.000And my problem is I don't have the imagination to think about all the different things they're going to put on the table.
00:58:31.000Like, you're the guy they're gonna call at 4 a.m.
00:58:34.000if the shit hits the fan, and the world's imploding, and like, I gotta sit down for an hour conversation.
00:58:39.000I mean, that in and of itself should almost be disqualifying, but like, what, you know, I had Ronnie Jackson on, you know, last week, you know, what is it that they can jack him up with?
00:58:48.000And the answer is, I think we should, our only thing should be, we'll give you whatever we want, we just want a post-debate, right off the bat, Drug analysis.
00:58:57.000Because I think the Americans deserve to know what they're pumping through this guy's system to make him seem coherent.
00:59:03.000Listen, I think they did it in the last debate.
00:59:34.000It's going to be a completely loaded affair, you know, three to four against one.
00:59:39.000But man, Biden's problem is, we all have eyes, and we all have ears, and we can all see the sky, and we all know something's not there, and something's not right.
00:59:50.000The best doctor in the world, I don't think they can hide that.
00:59:52.000They might be able to prop him up, Weekend at Bernie style, you know, pump him full of Hunter's cocaine, I don't know.
01:00:16.000Like, it'd be really nice to go back to that world.
01:00:18.000I could build buildings and be left the hell alone and be invited to the cool person party, you know, in a couple years again once things settle down a bit.
01:00:25.000You know, that's probably not on the cards these days, but what is it that he could even run on?
01:00:33.000Because, again, then we don't have to do it, and we don't have to fight, and everyone wins, and there's millions of... But, like, I can't think of a single metric that he could credibly run on.
01:00:43.000I can't imagine anything that says that we're better off now than we were four years ago.
01:00:50.000They'll fact-check Trump's ad nauseum.
01:00:51.000They'll tell you that, you know, it's wonderful because Joe Biden did X, Y, Z. They'll have a pre-baked line and some notes that he's probably gonna read to be like this.
01:01:00.000And, you know, it'll be ambiguous enough that the fact-checkers who aren't exactly fact-checkers but more like narrative propagandists will say, well, that's technically right, even if it's total bullshit.
01:01:09.000You know, how do you think that plays out?
01:01:13.000Man, I think Biden and the people controlling him know they have nothing to run on.
01:01:18.000It's why they're trying to put everyone who's running against them in prison.
01:01:32.000It's why they're trying to throw Trump off the ballot or why they tried until the Supreme Court said, yeah, we're not going to allow that kind of nonsense.
01:01:39.000They know they don't have a record to run on.
01:01:42.000And so they've got two things they can do.
01:01:44.000They can make it impossible for you to vote for who you want to, which they're trying.
01:01:47.000They can take a candidate they don't like off the board completely, or they can just peddle lies and nonsense that's not so much, hey, vote for us, we're great, but hey, vote for us because this guy's awful and he's going to bring back slavery and it's terrible and there's going to be fascism and Nazis and all that.
01:02:04.000They've clearly chosen they're just going to do insane fear mongering and lawfare.
01:02:37.000I think if we all take part in that, if we all become unafraid and willing to share these things, we can actually get that message out.
01:02:44.000It's not like there's a lot of confidence in those Uh, institutions, whether it's media or otherwise these days, we just gotta make sure that people actually get a chance to see the other side.
01:02:54.000They can see the other half of the debate.
01:02:56.000Uh, they can see the facts, not as presented to them by CNN, but, uh, with some reality, uh, behind it.
01:03:03.000So, you know, let us know where people can check that out.