Tom Luongo argues Trump is waging a war over financial power and sovereignty, not borders or ideology.
Tom Luongo argues that the “British Empire” never truly ended but evolved into a global financial and intelligence network centered around institutions like the City of London, allied banks, NGOs, and intelligence services. In his view, Trump’s actions, from targeting NGOs and global capital flows to confronting Venezuela, reshaping intelligence–military dynamics, and challenging entrenched financial structures, represent a direct assault on this shadow empire. Luongo frames current geopolitical conflict not as traditional nation-state warfare but as a multi-front struggle across finance, information, intelligence, and domestic sovereignty, with drugs, illicit money flows, and election integrity as central battlegrounds. He criticizes libertarian and anti-war commentators for focusing on ideological purity rather than power realities, arguing that non-state actors engaged in drug trafficking constitute a form of aggression that justifies decisive action. Throughout the discussion, Luongo connects these dynamics to broader themes: the weaponization of capital markets, the legacy of the 2008 financial crisis, control of gold and mortgage markets, the emergence of Bitcoin as a threat to legacy power centers, and the idea that Trump is deliberately provoking reactions to expose hidden financial and political networks.
“The British Empire never ended. It’s still there, but as a financial web.”
“This isn’t about oil. That’s 2015 thinking. This is about drugs, guns, election fraud, and private money flows.”
“Piracy is still illegal on the open seas. Cocaine and fentanyl are weapons.”
“There are no libertarians in foxholes.”
“Spies can’t stand up to the military.”
“If London and Brussels ever embraced Bitcoin, I’d start asking hard questions.”
“This is a financial war, an informational war, and a kinetic war, all at once.”
This episode presents Luongo’s most expansive thesis yet: that current U.S. policy under Trump represents an attempt to reclaim national sovereignty by dismantling entrenched global financial and intelligence structures that outlived formal empire. Whether listeners agree or disagree, the conversation challenges conventional geopolitical narratives and urges a reframing of modern conflict, away from left vs. right or isolationism vs. intervention, and toward power, capital flows, and institutional control. Luongo’s message is ultimately one of realism over ideology: in his view, understanding who controls money, logistics, and narratives is the prerequisite to understanding where the world is headed next.
0:00 - Intro
0:39 - Venezuela
6:04 - The road through Langley
15:32 - Bitkey & SLNT
17:22 - NSS matters
27:41 - Fight or flight commentary
40:42 - CrowdHealth & Unchained
41:58 - Rating trump
46:50 - Somalia and immigration
55:47 - Hegseth and Miller
1:03:38 - Bitcoin and Bessent
1:08:22 - Obama endgame
(00:00) Any predictions for 2026? Civil war. Really? Yeah. In the town. The British Empire never ended. It's still there, but as a financial web, we're at war with everybody. The whole world, other than Russia and China. If you think it's just about the oil, you're now in 2015 land. This has to do with election fraud, drugs, and the guns, and breaking of the private money flows around the world, which keep the shadow empire, which never end flushed with cash.
(00:27) This is a classic divide and rule play that the British do. If they were finding his way on the flags, this would be an act of war. >> I I got the most blowback I've gotten on Twitter X >> in years for quote tweeting uh one of the videos of the uh the drug boats getting bombed and saying, "I voted for this.
(00:54) " says uh extrajudicial killing of fishermen off the coast of Venezuela. >> Well, yeah. Well, the libertarians have all lost their minds because they don't know how to read. Um I'm just going to make it I'm just going to be blunt. Um people that are non-state actors in international waters have no rights under UNC cost. Um if they're told to stop and they don't, then you can do whatever you want to them.
(01:15) Like I mean I the guy had a huge post on this the other day and I'm like oh by the way Senator Ran Paul the operative word today is p piracy. Piracy is still illegal in the open seas. And if you only want to describe weapons as you know guns that's great but I'm sorry but you know cocaine is a weapon. Fentanyl is a weapon.
(01:34) You know we're losing more people a year to fentanyl poisonings than we lost during all Vietnam. >> Well and that was that was the thing that pissed me off the is like we didn't declare war. It's like, well, obviously not explicitly. >> We need to declare war against these people aren't these people aren't flying. They're not flying flags.
(01:52) If they were flying Venezuelan flags, this would be an act of war. And then Venezuela can declare war against us. And then we can see who wins, the American Navy or the Venezuelan Navy. Of course, Rand Paul doesn't want to address that because then that would blow the whole his whole um you know, his whole fake moral outrage out the window.
(02:12) Like all the libertarians are crashing out over everything, Marty. It's It's pathetic what I've been watching. And the more I watch them crash out, and I hate to say this, I I'm I'm now going to like breathe fire for a couple minutes on this issue because it's really been bothering me. But the more I watch them crash out, especially over over Venezuela, over over the one big beautiful bill, the Epstein files, this all of this anti-Trump crap, every goddamn bit of it is making me believe that the whole thing was a big goddamn British scout from the whole from the
(02:41) beginning in the first place. Like, I can't not see it anymore. Like Jay Dyer's been screaming about this this stuff for years, and I used to like, no, come on, that's crazy. The Lucians have been saying the same thing for years. That's crazy talk. Now I'm watching them in real time.
(02:56) I mean, I had to I had to hang my head in shame today when I saw Ron Paul say the Heg Seth killings need to stop. Now, do I believe that Ron Paul wrote that tweet? No. I believe that [ __ ] Daniel McAdams wrote that tweet. But, you know, Ron, hey man, blink twice if you can't speak freely anymore. But that's where I am.
(03:16) I mean, I'm I'm over this stuff. We're at war with the We're at war with everybody. Uh I don't know where you lost me in the middle of that rant. >> We're at war with everybody. >> We're at war with everybody. Uh when I mean everybody, I'll define everybody as the west. Um so Europe, city of London, the old um you know, Venetian Jewishness, whatever you want to call it, big organized crime syndicate that's existed for the for the last, you know, I don't know, 2,000 years.
(03:41) Pick your poison as to how far back you want to go. Like we're at war with all of those people. We want our independence as a country for the first time in our 250 year history. And uh you know every as far as I'm concerned it's usually just watch who's screaming and that's so you know who the enemy is.
(03:56) So as far as I'm concerned Rand Paul is now the enemy. He's made it abundantly clear he's the enemy of civilization. Like sorry sometimes you're going to have to take your principles and understand how the the the non-aggression principle actually works which is when people are aggressing you and they're bringing crap into your community that you do not want that is killing your people.
(04:17) You have every goddamn right to blow them out of the water. >> It seems pretty to me. It's like >> non-state state flying a flag, not flying a flag, dick up somebody's ass or whatever. I don't give a [ __ ] Like, it's dumb and it's so pathetic to watch this happen. So, what I found really interesting, what I find really interesting is for the first time ever, I'm watching people on quote unquote our side of the ledger, meaning the conservatives or Trump or whatever you want to call it, the the sovereigntist or nationalist
(04:51) um people, let's let's call them the inheritors of Uncle Joe McCarthy, um are finally fighting back and using media in a way that they always use against us like I'm watching Trump not fight fair. Oh, you know how they, you know, the Democrats don't fight fair, the or the the commies don't fight fair.
(05:14) They say a whole bunch of [ __ ] that's not true. Like Ilan Omar or any of these people, they say a whole bunch of [ __ ] that's not true. They propagate that falsehood through the media and everything else for ye for weeks on end and then, you know, issue some half-hearted retraction later on, but they've seated into the zeitgeist the idea that, you know, Donald Trump is, you know, a rapist or whatever it is or he's in the Epstein files or to pick a thing that they that they lie about.
(05:37) I'm watching Trump and his people now lie about, you know, now openly, you know, speculate. Oh, really? Is Random the take from Venezuela? Cuz I saw that the other day. I don't know if it's true or not. I don't even care. I just know that somebody seated that into the zeitgeist and I'm like yeah prove that you're not like play the Alinsky game on them.
(05:57) They deserve it because this is war and there are no libertarians or atheists in foxholes and that's just the way it is. >> Yeah. >> And it seems like how so I sent that tweet out got a lot of blowback blowback particularly from libertarian leaning Bitcoiners who say I'm supporting the war state. But again, to me, it's like, hey, uh, I'm from Philadelphia.
(06:19) I grew up not too far from the Frankfurt L, which is where you see the tranked out zombies. Uh, and there was a pretty in-depth like mini dock on that part of the city last year that really tied it to these, uh, the trend to EUA um, gang specifically. And they're talking about how they get trank and fentanyl into the United States.
(06:42) And to me it's like, hey, there's boats that are bringing these drugs in. You can find them in the sea and take them out. Like you got to send a message. Like there's equal opposite reactions. >> Yeah. >> Uh and if anything, we're being merciful because of the amount of lives that have >> been lost in the United States.
(06:58) >> It's it's it you're correct and um that's very important. understand that what this is really about the minute we started going after Venezuela for real, you realize that now you Trump opened up a different front. First he went after of course um city of London and Europe with by going after all the NOS's right the globalists that that wing whatever you want to call it I used to call it Davos sometimes I call it the high table now I just like to keep changing the words to fit the model of whatever's in your head you the listener because
(07:30) everybody has a different model of who the enemy is in their head but it's all basically the same people okay you can add more or less you can add more of a note of an air of limey you know, niminess to it or Jewishness to it or old Roman empires. I don't care. It doesn't matter. The people, these people are scum and they think they run the world and they traffic children and they and and and run drugs and everything else and they own and run the intelligence services.
(08:03) So Trump started a uh an international war to end all the war all the the physical wars and the old geopolitical conflicts overseas. And that's him that's him fighting all the roads lead to London aspect of things. Now part of what I'm about to say also leads to London but that road goes through Langley and that's what Venezuela is about.
(08:25) So now he has set the military up against our intelligence services. the as I would you would say the rogue intelligence services but when I the last time I said that in my presence of my wife she's like no no no no the rogue intelligence assets are the ones who are still patriotic and loyal to America the default position within the intelligence services is that they're traitors she's like I'm like yes I stand corrected so that's the front that Trump has under has has opened up and that's who's screaming that's why the sedicious six
(08:54) video that's why the open calls for the governors in blue states to um uh resist ICE and tell the local police not to work with ICE and not to work with the military and all the rest of this stuff. Um that's this is open color revolution stuff now. This is, you know, step six or five, six of seven or whatever it is that we're on that moment where they're trying to uh test the loyalty of, you know, the military at the, you know, company battalion level, the national guardsman, you know, and uh local law enforcement. They're
(09:31) trying to test out loyalty. Who do you work for? Who are you loyal to? >> So, the sedicious six aren't that inspiring, though. Uh it was interesting that they came out. No, it wasn't about inspiring anybody. >> It was a signal. The way I read that video and other people that I talked to have that, you know, are much closer to this type of informationational warfare who are better trained in it than I am.
(09:55) I'm not trained informational warfare. I just happen to have a knack for it, I think. Um, which is why I'm able to like, you know, arrogate these people around me, curate them and and chat with them on a regular basis. Guys like Ian Burlingham and Blaine Hold and some other people.
(10:08) Um and they also said the same thing which that was not a um that wasn't any kind of signal to try and you know get the normies to rise up against the evil Trump. That was a signal to their international partners that they're that they have their logistics in place and they're operationally ready to go. That's the way I read it because they would never they would never come out and say the thing if they weren't trying to signal that they're ready to go.
(10:38) And um now I think they're I think we're we're headed into 2026 with some kind of you know they're going to try something sincere because the way Trump is winning SCOTUS battles the way he's winning legislative battles the way he's winning you know honestly what I like to call the MEQ battles and you know manila envelope quotion I've got the goods on you you work for me now and all of the geopolitical battles as he unwinds all of these these permanent you know these British perma conflicts Cambodia Thailand, India, Pakistan, Iran, Iran,
(11:09) Israel, Israel, Gaza, trying to end Russia, Ukraine, and others, you know, Rwanda, uh, Congo, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All of these, Venezuela, and and the rest of the Western Hemisphere. All of these are old British andor French. Some of them are French. um you know uh uh leftovers from the colonial era that they left behind as they quote unquote left the physical you know control of these countries behind and kept in place political and economic control. The British Empire never ended.
(11:42) It's still there, but as a financial web of old banking relationships, old, you know, land titles and income streams and and relationships and familiar relationships and all the rest of it. And you know, and again, I'm using the term British Empire as kind of a catch-all for all of that because so much of the financial flows go through London.
(12:07) Some of them go through Zurich, certainly, some of them go through Frankfurt. They've been, you know, they've they've outsourced some of this stuff in their global network. Some of it's in Hong Kong, Singapore, right? Dubai, blah blah blah blah. Some of it is in Venezuela. And um we have to, you know, be willing to upset.
(12:24) Some of that is in Ottawa or in Toronto. All the all a lot of the drug money is laundered through Canadian banks. um their control over the capital flow uh into the gold industry for years was flew flowed through all the Canadian banks. And if you looked at the way the I used to study this stuff when I was um when I was first getting into all this stuff, I was first falling down the rabbit hole well before I ever stepped out in front of the microphone or you know do it and did this stuff professionally just when I was back when I was a chemist and like everybody else
(12:54) in the world just kind of like what in the is going on in the world and trying to figure out what's happening. One of the things that was really obvious and I used to be a big fan of of Jim Sinclair and he was he would explain how um gold exploration companies had to basically sell their soul to the bank in order to get any exploration money.
(13:14) The bank would immediately go short against the the loan and you know effectively you know you know no matter what happened the bank won and the gold project never really ever made any money. It was predatory financing of the worst kind. And you stop to think about that in the context of why they would do that.
(13:34) It's of course so that they can control the price of gold at its source all the way up the supply chain from ENP exploration and early production to futures markets to you know to the distribution of the physical and then to the financialization of it over over the course of time and that has slowly and surely broken itself down over the years.
(13:56) First the gold industry in particular started to self finance. you started to get companies like Royal Gold and Wheat and Precious Metals and others that started in Franklin, Nevada that started to do um direct financing of the gold companies and taking royalty streams. So the the birth of the gold and silver royalty companies were a shot against the the major Canadian banks.
(14:17) But those Canadian banks that were controlling gold and turning it into, you know, the shadyiest business on the planet, that news for you. They're the same banks that are running that are laundering money for the drug cartels in Mexico, Venezuela, and Hong Kong, and around the world. Same people. >> Oh, it makes sense that Mark Carney is uh the prime minister of of Canada, considering his connection with HSBC back in the day.
(14:40) >> HSBC, former Bank of England, former former Bank of Canada, right? Head of the of both the BOC and the BOE. Yeah. I mean, Brookfield and then now he's, you know, he's a he's a major partner of Brookfield Capital, which is getting all of the contracts that the Canadian government is putting out in order to do their like rearm thing.
(15:01) Like Canada is turning itself now literally under Carney is trying to turn itself into the arms and commodities brokerage house for the rearming of Europe, right? And guess who's getting all those, you know, guess getting all the the sweetheart deals? Brookfield Capital or Brookfield Asset Management.
(15:17) Sorry, that's the name of company. BAM is thicker symbol. Um, so yeah, and guess who's, you know, on the board at Brookfield, one of the original investors in it. That would be no no less than Mark Harney. So, yeah, >> it's it's so blatant in your face, but >> stuff freaks. This rip of TFTC was brought to you by our good friends at BitKey.
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(17:38) Obviously, in your circle and many parts of my circle, people are paying attention to it, but like mainstream, I just did a reread >> of it this morning and made like a short video. It's basically you have to read this. This is like the most succinct, clear, and if you're an American looking for clarity in terms of what the current government has in store for you and the nation, >> by extension, this is one of the most incredible pieces I've ever written, the fact, >> right? Yeah.
(18:08) I I read it the other night. I I it came out and everybody forwarded it to me and I'm like, "Okay, I've been I was busy with other things." Eventually, somewhere around 10:00 that night, I finally sat down. I never worked that late at night. Never. But it was a nice night. It wasn't bitter cold. The cold the current cold front that we're getting here in Tennessee didn't come through yet.
(18:26) So it was like I had just gotten a brand new pair of wool socks and like so I my feet were warm and I pulled out my tablet, pulled out a cigar and sat and I read the entire thing uh relatively warm in the you know 40 and it was that ball me 41 degrees outside at 10 o'clock at night and I read the whole thing cover to cover and I was like yeah I voted for that.
(18:47) I and all I could read all I could all I could hear the entire time I was reading actually I was describing this I think it was did a show yesterday with um with Tommy Carrian um Ian Berlingame and and uh and Alice Craner. I said while I was reading it I had two voices in my head. I had my voice in my head going this is one of the great and you know the ghost of Joe McCarthy going this is one of the greatest things I've ever I've ever read in my life as an American.
(19:14) And on the other side, I had the kind of pro-Russian, vaguely anti-American commentary out on the other side, some of whom are Americans, some of whom are my friends. I am reading it from that perspective going how could the United States be this area and this to believe that they have the right to do this to do to to control the western hemisphere and do like and they would read it with nothing but that whole kind of Pepeco style emperor empire of chaos veneer right that's their glasses so one movie you know one screen two movies and you put
(19:52) on the nationalist glasses or the pro-American we want our independence glasses and you get one story you put on the, you know, kind of vaguely old moldy old lefty um neoliberal trained glasses of the, you know, of the anti-American set who thinks that, you know, that history started in 19 [ __ ] 46 and you get, you know, you get that version of I could read the document from both of those perspectives at the same time and I was like, "Yeah, I know how this is going to play in the zeitgeist at this point." And I'm like,
(20:28) I can tell you where I'm going to land and I can tell you exactly what I'm going to say to anybody who, you know, is is thinking like, you know, those guys. Like, I can't do it anymore. I can't even pretend to be happy about I I I can't even pretend that that a lot of these people are being generous and that they just don't see it.
(20:47) Like, I just I don't I don't believe it at this point because and this is and and this is going to come across as grousing, but it's not. Okay. I actually about I think at the beginning of the year I I'm sure you and I did a show where I talked about how we were watching starting to watch people start to like crash out and misinterpret what Trump is doing.
(21:08) And I said watch in about 6 months everything's going to change six to eight months and they're all going to be like off the rabbit. You know, they're going to be off the deep end. And now I can name names. I'll give you a perfect example. Judge Npalitano is completely off the deep end. And then he has now poisoned everybody in his circle because they have a they have an echo chamber.
(21:27) And I know some of these men and I like them and they're my friends. I've had dinner with them. I you know they called me up in the middle of the night. They were need to be bailed out of jail. I'd go and I' I'd go and do so. Not a not not a thought in my mind, right? But to watch that well get poisoned because they missed a crucial part of the whole war that we're trying to fight knowing full well that in the conversation 2 3 years ago we had conversations I was like no no no don't look at it that way look at it like this and it started with
(22:04) the Federal Reserve thing and it's like and it's only snowballed for me from there And I'm not I haven't lost the plot, I don't think. But I like look, let's continue to have this conversation. Let's not let's not retreat to our to our echo chambers. And I can tell you that and it's sad because, you know, I'd call them up and say, "Hey, let's do a show.
(22:26) " And they get nothing in response. >> I haven't seen these crashs. What What are they hung up? >> Oh, I'm talking like I go watch just go watch like anything that the judge puts out on a daily basis at this point. It's It's not even worth I I had to turn it off after a while. Doug I can't I can't watch Doug McGregor anymore.
(22:41) I can barely watch Tucker Carlson anymore. Like I can't watch any of these people because it I don't I because I can't tell if they're just watching the you know they're putting on the wrong glasses and watching the 3D version of the movie though, you know, they're putting on their Hoffman glasses and they're seeing you know the aliens running the show or if they're just want looking at reality.
(23:04) I can't tell at this point, right? And I can't tell if it's that or if they really are, you know, I can't I I don't want to believe that they're anybody's anybody's asset. Like I don't want to go there, but it's so hard not to. And so I started talking about this yesterday and and Alex Crraer was and rightly so was kind of um critic you know trying to get you know trying to get me to walk me off the ledge about this like but the Tom we have to continue to keep talking because at some point they're I they're going to come around or we have to keep you know
(23:38) I'm like I yes I understand Alex but it's you know at the same time some of what I what I do and I and I know why I do I I I make a conscious choice when I do something like this is to say I know I'm reflecting a certain part of the zeitgeist, right? That I'm hearing from the people that I um that you know that tune in to shows when I'm on them, right? Or who are my patrons or whatever.
(24:09) And so I I'm gauging the the level of frustration that everybody's having or the or where the the things have the narratives have shifted or where the break points in the narratives are. What I'm trying to do is highlight that so we can all just get stop you know being little [ __ ] and let's sit down and have a conversation. But you know, you know, for example, Robert Barnes ghosted me 3 years ago and didn't say and then didn't interact with me in one way at all for three years.
(24:33) Even though my people were like, "Dude, have him on. Like, have it out. Have him on the show or, you know, come go on his show and let's talk about it." Until Venezuela, he comes after me on Twitter and calls me a Qard. A >> Qard. called me a Qard about the Federal Reserve trying to like take out City of London. I'm like, "Oh, that's it, dude.
(24:56) It's on like [ __ ] Donkey Kong. [ __ ] you. [ __ ] you. You halfassed [ __ ] process lawyer from Vegas. [ __ ] off." >> That That's all he said. I'm like, I just but I know what that was and he did it without at tagging me and somebody at tagged and then somebody tagged me and let me see it and I I'm like, "Oh, really? Rock and now I'm just like going and now I don't care like and I hate to like make this a a big part of where we are but of this conversation today, but it's important because what you're seeing is this is a classic
(25:38) divide and rule play that the British do. They start these [ __ ] scops. They create this they create this z this anxiety and this horseshit and get everybody fighting amongst themselves when we should be fighting the enemy which is them. And you know I don't care if you think the enemy is the Jews or it's the Brits or it's the French or it's the Chinese or whomever but we should be having we should be you know who's the progenitor of these scops.
(26:04) I happen to think it's the British because like they've got 300 years of doing this [ __ ] and they're good at it and they've been skunk skunkworksing this [ __ ] in the bowels of GCHQ and MI6 and MI5 for the last 300 years. Like it's nothing new. So like I go there and that and I also go there because they're the ones always trying to d deflect people from how from what they're doing as opposed to and then trying to turn it and scapegoat somebody else.
(26:35) When you see somebody constantly trying to scapegoat somebody else and minimize and then activate their bot forms to minimize their talking point, you know you're over the target. So now all of a sudden, so now in the last year, I've become a Zionist shill that is part of the $7,000 club because I have a Roman nose apparently. Like, what are you kidding me? I'm Italian.
(26:54) >> That's one of our top YouTube comments when you come on. >> I know. It's hilarious. It's pathetic. Like, dudes, I'm living in a a [ __ ] RV in the middle of rural Tennessee. Like half the time I podcast outside at my house or where I'm just to show people that like I'm not rich. Like if you think I'm I do this because you know the Israelis don't pay very well then.
(27:20) Neither do the Russians by the way and neither does Trump. Like you know what I mean? Like at any one day I can be any I can be any one of those three people. I'm like, "How about I'm just a dude with a with an attitude problem and a and a and a big mouth that you know says [ __ ] you don't like." >> I think that may be the case, but that's kind of true, right? >> And uh I mean, you mentioned like the two you on the shoulder and then >> the other lens on the other shoulder and you said >> you can just hear them reading the
(27:52) national uh security strategy document saying, "Ah, the arrogance." But I thought it was written again intentionally in many different ways. Obviously the length of it, the focus of it, >> but even the wording like you said arrogance. Like when I was reading it, there was like a bunch of humility which is like, "Hey, we're not going to nation build anymore, >> right? >> We want to focus on the Western Hemisphere.
(28:13) We don't want to be over the Middle East and meddling in affairs and in in that part of the world. And we do have a focus on Asia, but we're not really going to be like gung-ho uh about things there. We need to strengthen >> right >> number one our domestic economy and then our region and it's not nation building explicitly stated in in the document like we're not here to nation build partner >> with like-minded allies in the region who can help secure their borders and then hopefully begin to engage in economic trade that uplifts all boats. And again, go read
(28:51) it. It's 33 pages, but really 29 pages of actual >> the strategy and it all seems pretty common sense straightforward to me, which is refreshing as an American. It's like, oh, you're actually telling us exactly what you want to do and it makes a lot of sense, >> right? Well, this again, the the two, you know, two movies, one screen thing is that one is reading it generously and one is reading it ungenerously.
(29:15) Like I I've I've done podcasts recently with you know with people talking about you know the stable coin building gen the genius act and stable coin plan and everything else and so many of them I just are they're in everybody's in such fight orflight mode and again you know when I watch people you know when I complain about what I'm seeing in other other commentators in the space I'm not doing so because I'm like angry or anything.
(29:40) I'm like, I'm actually disappointed and I'm actually sad and frustrated because I can't have I know I can't have a a rational conversation with them. I I watched Alex, you know, for example, I watched Alex Christophoro, you know, debate Susan Kokinda on my friend Crypto Rich's show and like it was like I I it was exactly what I expected was going to happen, which is why Alex has not come on that show when I've been on for over two years.
(30:02) And there's a reason and I could see that happening and I'm like, "Oh, don't go there. Let's have let's not do this." Right? And but it's the the the generosity is the important part. They don't want to give up that it's the American Empire is evil framework. And you know, I look at it and I'm like, "Oh, for [ __ ] sake, for the first time in my entire life, yeah, we're not going to nation build around the world.
(30:28) " Well, then what's Venezuela? Why? He's been Why do you think he has a carrier group in Venezuela? He has a vent carrier group in Venezuela because you've got you've got all this EW, you've got all this all this ability to to watch and listen to the way the logistics are going to light up when they start when they you know take out a boat and then they got still got to move product and they got to move it through a different channel like you know you're just watching it you know you're just they're watching in real time what's happening.
(30:58) Somebody else brought up to me today. It was a patron like I was reading checking my DMs on Patreon. Patron came up with a with a great observation which I missed and I'm going to pass it along and it's not original from me. It's from one of my patrons and it was a brilliant comment.
(31:15) He said, "Oh, by the way, Maduro, because he works for [ __ ] Britain, was it was was getting ready to invade Guyana because of the oil discovery." And so now he can't invade Guyana because he's got to worry about Trump on his northern border. He's got to worry about the carrier group on the northern border in, you know, off the north coast.
(31:34) Like, how about something simple? Like, yeah, maybe they were planning on doing something else. you know, maybe the the real regime change was actually going to happen in Guyana. Like, I'm I'm not saying it's true or it's the only thing going on here. I'm saying this another you've got to add that to the mosaic of what Venezuela is.
(31:58) And if you think it's just about the oil, holy [ __ ] dude, you're like you're you're you're now in 2015 land. Like, we're not this is this has nothing to do with that. This has to do with the election fraud with the gun with the drug drugs and the guns and the breaking up of the illicit money or the private money flows around the world which keep the old empire, the shadow empire which never ended, you know, flushed with cash.
(32:27) The first thing Trump did was go after the public money, all the NGO money. Has he gotten rid of all of it? No. And so anybody who's crashing out with the with, you know, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good arguments, which is what you're seeing from almost every libertarian, like he does nine things great. My my Let me let me back it up.
(32:48) How we'll make it this way. My dad used to have in his office this thing and it was a you know, rules for working here. Every time you do something good, you get an attab boy. and like all the list of how you can get an attab boy. But, you know, and it takes a thousand attabo to get, you know, some kind, you know, to get the next thing.
(33:10) But if you get one [ __ ] you're back to square one, right? So, I used to read that and my dad had that above his desk and and and uh when I when I when he was my first boss and um I used to read that and I would just walk into his office and I laugh every freaking time I saw it. But that's the way a lot of people are arguing about Trump's foreign policy and Trump's domestic policy and his fiscal policy and everything else.
(33:35) And it's nonsense. He's shut down USAD, which was the big money pump. He shut down NE. He's got people in he's got Doge as an operations department embedded in every cabinet office. So, he doesn't need a separate bureaucracy called Doge anymore. and they're going through and they're destroying the grant money and they and all and those things that that [ __ ] takes time and to map at the same time map out where all the money's been flowing through the banks and everything else.
(34:05) And sometimes the only way you can get that money to to to flow is to poke the snake and then watch them light the accounts up that have been dark forever. Personally, I think that's what's been going on with Bitcoin for the last like three weeks. I think they're like out of money. Like it makes sense to me that we're watching wallet.
(34:22) I think we're watching cold wallets that are old intelligence service wallets that are 10 years old like you know or oligarch wallets that are 10 years old that have just been sitting there cold and then they're dumping these bitcoins on the market because dude I'm watching the markets today put out a big long tweet this morning you know because you know and it was actually in response to some a short conversation between Larry Leopard and and um uh Dave Colum and I you know it wasn't it I wasn't For once, I wasn't being a
(34:53) douchebag. I was just like responding to them and because they're, you know, they're both good guys. I, you know, I love Dave. Um, and but then it's like, okay, I I I put out a response tweet to them about Japanese yen and the bond markets and stuff like, no, this needs more color. So, I put up a big post, three-part post about bond spreads, the yield curve, and and all this stuff.
(35:16) and um you know and I said we have you know so we're looking at this you know I'm trying to look at this this differently now what I think is going on with part of what could be going on with Bitcoin is we're when I'm watching the the way the bond market the US bond market is trading now the character has changed it used to be that when you saw a sell off in the tens and the 30s you'd see buying in the ones and twos to try and sell the idea of a recession with an inverted yield curve That's not happening.
(35:47) The US yield curve is now really flat through the middle. They're and then and then rising. That means that they're selling tens and 30s, but they're not putting the money back in the ones and twos. They just need the [ __ ] dollars. So, it also makes sense that Bitcoin's being attacked and capped every time it tries to bounce about 91 92,000.
(36:11) You're watching it like for the last three days. participants is like capped at like 90 or actually since Thursday capped it at like 91 grand. It's the same. You're watching that same, you know, behavior over and over again. I'm like, "Oh, yeah. Yeah, they they're out of money." >> Yeah. It's a bunch of Bart Bart formations on the chart over the last week. It'll get up.
(36:27) >> What's a BART formation? >> Like Bart Simpson will go up. >> Oh, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right. Okay. >> Um, yeah. No, exactly. It'll go up and it'll sit straight sideways and it'll crash it. Then it'll go back then it'll go back up again. Yeah. especially if you watch like the the 1 hour or the the the two hour chart.
(36:43) I think it looks like looks that way. Um so yeah, I I I've been thinking in those terms for a while now. I also think that, you know, they're desperate to to stop Trump from um relisting Fanny and Freddy and get them back on the the New York Stock Exchange and get the investor flow into that. absolutely convinced now that the entire 2008 financial crisis was designed from the ground up to steal the to nationalize the mortgage market and the insurance markets. I'm I'm convinced of it now.
(37:17) I mean, I I I can't go back over this and watch I don't know if I don't remember if you're a subscriber to the newsletter or not, but I wrote about this all last month or the newsletter and I went, "Yeah, my conspiratorial mind is now going back over 2008." And I'm looking at the series of events of what actually happened in what order on what date.
(37:34) And I'm like, the plan was to kill, the plan was to take control of Fanny and Freddy and they had to then liquid. Then they had to detonate Lehman Brothers and AIG in order to cover it up. And AIG was the only one that got the bailout. Leman Brothers got destroyed. Fanny and Freddy got put in the conservatorship.
(37:55) Londonbased AIG got infinite bailouts as opposed to being broken up into various good parts and bad parts. And what did we wind up with? We wind up with DoddFrank supplemental leverage ratio. All of this stuff that is denied and then Obamacare, which Fanny and Freddy profits from 2011 and 2012 went to pay for Obamacare.
(38:19) Hm. I I I'm I seems interesting that we would stage one of destroying the capital formation ability of your generation and my generation as we're coming into our prime earnings years that they would bankrupt everybody. Then then take then make it nearly impossible for small business owners to get a mortgage or or a loan in America because of the capital the the capital requirements.
(38:48) the fact that we can't use our balance sheets and our profit and loss statements to get loans. We have to come in with our tax returns, which they know damn well small business owners don't file on April 15th. So for 6 months out of the year, it's almost impossible to get a [ __ ] mortgage.
(39:04) Ask me how I know this because they just spent four and a half months fighting with Wells Fargo's underwriter because I hadn't filed my 2024 taxes yet because I had filed an an extension because we weren't ready yet. Like it's a simple thing like, "Oh, so you're going to do basic tax avoidance strategies by having, you know, like the same LLC strategy that every other [ __ ] person in this country has.
(39:23) " Well, guess what? You don't get to get a mortgage for 6 months because of stupid [ __ ] DoddFrank rules and Elizabeth Warren screeching at you. Screeching at the bank auditors. [ __ ] off. That's literally the way the American mortgage industry has been working for the last 15 [ __ ] years, 17 years. And on top of that, the banks are all capital starved and they're had they have to go along with this because the supplemental r leverage ratio was forcing them to hold extra capital against their risk-free US Treasury bond
(39:51) reserves. Excuse me. Like I I I know you want listen to the podcast I did with Caitlyn Long about this. She's the one who brought this up. >> Yeah. Like that's the dumbest thing I ever heard. If it's the risk-free rate, it's the risk-free rate. >> Or does the black shells equation not work anymore? >> Yeah. And so and then they killed and then they and then they used the profits from Fanny and Freddy that they kept in the receiverhip on ICE to fund Obamacare to destroy the healthcare industry.
(40:20) >> That's well and that's why and then and then they gave us COVID and then they flooded the channel with money and destroyed the freaking pricing mechanism of everything. Housing, cars, jobs, this everything. Beef, all of it. All designed to destroy the middle class because as always folks before communist revolution the kulocks must be liquidated.
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(42:08) The only way they they don't get an A+ is that they've still validating the media. Trump hasn't fully destroyed the media by just going to fireside chats. I mean if if there's one thing that Robert Barnes and I agree about how he's mismanaged things is that he hasn't gone to fireside chats. There's like stop playing the the media's game.
(42:27) You don't need to beat up on them anymore. It's like beating up on a [ __ ] Everybody hates the media. So, it's it's easy. We can take care of that. I am perfectly capable of memeing MS PMSNBC out of [ __ ] business. Leave that to me. You don't need You don't need to waste your time with that. You're the president.
(42:46) Go speak to the normies and tell them and speak to the kids who aren't quite sold on you yet because you put out a memecoin last year and he needs he doesn't realize how badly that that [ __ ] with >> it was a terrible move. I know why they did it. I tried to explain this to my 19-year-old daughter.
(43:04) I'm like Sophie I told my daughter I'm like dear you do realize that he spent nearly a billion dollars of his own money on legal defense to stay out of jail right for all [ __ ] So the way they got that money back to him is that he issued a memecoin and they threw the money back in. He didn't really most of the people who got caught up in that did not, you know, most of that money was not raised was not raised by, you know, normies making $85,000, you know, plumbers making 85 grand a year.
(43:34) That was mostly money that was funneled into it. >> Yeah. >> You know, it was no different than said than giving him a billion dollar book deal. >> Yeah. The >> which is what they're doing with Biden, right? doing it on >> like the inauguration weekend like the Friday of >> I think they let some foxes in the hen house with that world liberty fi team.
(43:52) Never heard of them and I think they are opportunistic scammers >> for lack of a better term. But when I say like what grade would you give them? I mean based off of >> I >> of your like basically assuming that the public and many others don't understand what's going on. Like is he actually making progress? Is the administration making progress towards >> bringing sovereignty back to the United States? >> I think he is.
(44:19) I think he's doing very I think he's doing well. I think he could be doing better, >> right? But I'm okay with I'm okay with the with the perfect not being attainable. It's a war and no, you know, and no war, you know, no battle plan survives contact with the enemy. to be honest with you, I think that he's done more than I ever expected him to do.
(44:43) I didn't expect him when he, you know, I I I know you and I talked about this. Um, but just to reiterate to the audience who may have who may not have seen those conversations, I was shocked when I became obvious to me that he was going after London when he sent Elon Musk over to go after um the uh to go after Kier Stormer and the rape gangs.
(45:06) The minute he did that, I about fell out of my chair and I'm like, "Oh my god, does Trump actually understand what the problem is? Say it isn't so, man." And I I I it was a big shock to me. And like in the course of maybe two or three days, I went from, you know, he's my ship he's, you know, he's a [ __ ] property developer from Queens, but he's my [ __ ] property developer from Queens, too.
(45:35) Dude, like I was I was stoked. I was absolutely stoked. I spent the entire weekend like thinking about the potential implications of that and then going over some of the stuff that I had missed in because like everything else you you get you you know you think you know something so you go on autopilot for a while and then something happens that makes you go and you're like [ __ ] I was wrong.
(45:58) >> Yeah. >> Okay. And I and and sometimes you go, "Fuck, I was wrong and I'm happy to be wrong. That's a good sign." And then he goes on, then he goes, you know, then the first three months of the administration were amazing. And you always had to realize that at some point the Democrats/ the bad guys, the media, whomever, were going to get their feet under them.
(46:20) Like Dexter White and I had long conversations about this, you know, back in March, April. He's like, he cannot let them get their feet. he has to constantly be hitting them. And the Epstein Files was the perfect mechanism by which to derail his momentum, >> right? And he fell for it and he got sucked into it. And uh you know, they got a win or even maybe two.
(46:49) And you know, I feel like this week or last few weeks with the Somali uh the Minnesota Somali narrative, that's being unearthed there with the abject fraud of the uh >> of the uh medical grants and other sort of federal programs and >> I I mean Tim Waltz talking like Barbara Stryand affecting himself to having people drive by his house to call him a [ __ ] like >> yeah it's great >> mimemetically powerful but also like hey a microcosm of this mass migration flood the zone change the demographics demographics is destiny like really
(47:30) highlighting like hey um they're not sending their best. >> No they're not. I mean Somalia if they are sent they may have sent their best. I you know no offense to you know Somalia has been a a place of been a a a it's been a pretty horrible place for a long time and you know people don't thrive you you don't get you don't get the best people under those circumstances you don't get you know I mean like it's tough you know like we we know physiology is real if you starve children they don't their brains don't develop very well that kind of thing
(48:13) when they're malnourished and they're under, you know, like all of it. And I'm sorry, I've, you know, I've used the phrase IQ60 Somali enough times that I'm not going to feel, I'm not going to, you know, give a [ __ ] whether people think I'm a racist or not. It's 2025. That that that term doesn't have any power over me anymore.
(48:32) Like maybe these are the best that Somalia can actually give us. Maybe Ilan Omar is like a six sigma Somali. She's clearly something because she actually can speak for [ __ ] sake. But you know, sorry folks, I don't care if I if I offend the Somali in the audience, but get the [ __ ] out of my country cuz you were brought here by Obama to destroy Minnesota.
(48:54) Like, you know how much Obama hates America? He took one of the whitest places on the planet and brought the dregs of Africa and dropped it into Minneapolis. I'm sorry. He should be hung for that alone. Forget Obamacare. Forget Russia Gate. Forget every every other goddamn thing that son of a [ __ ] ever did. That alone.
(49:25) Sorry. So yeah, Trump is has so many different ways he can get the momentum back and there's nothing there's nothing he can do about it. >> I mean I mean you alluded to it, but the overtone window shifting, how much does that play into his favor, too? I mean, it shifted dramatically. >> It has.
(49:42) Everything shifted that I mean like when you know that that that chick at um at Cinnabon the other day, >> did you see that video? Yeah. like, you know, I'm like, and everybody's like, "Yeah, I mean, everybody's like, "Yeah, we we don't care anymore." Like, call us a racist. I saw a meme the other day. It was funny. It was like 20 2015, you're a racist.
(50:03) Whoa, what? What are you talking about? And then 2025, you're a racist, you know? Like, okay. Well, more importantly too, I think people are realizing like particularly as it comes to the immigration policy and the sort of investigations into the small community in Minnesota and now Columbus and other immigrant populations across the country.
(50:29) It's like really getting on a brass tax like all right, are they positive economically or not? and more importantly like really getting the message across like hey I'd rather not do this have to send the National Guard in Border Patrol. But unfortunately we uh were put in this situation and we can't just let it persist. We have to do something about it and >> we have to do something about it.
(50:52) And most people understand that and that's what Trump's biggest problem is the same problem that Putin has. I I've been saying this for a couple weeks now. Like that that is that his population wants him to move harder. Like the the average Russian wants Ukraine dealt with more virulently than Putin is.
(51:18) And and that's and that Putin's got the problem of hardliners wanting him to go harder. Trump's got the same problem. If if we take anything away from if we if the big takeaway that we should have of the rise and soon to be thankfully fall of Nick Fuentes, it's that that there's an entire there there is a subset of Americans that are like you need to move faster.
(51:45) And part of that is because again let's go back to the fight orflight thing I talked about earlier. I talked about in terms of the commentary at worried about Trump not having a a clue as to how foreign policy is supposed to work. I happen to disagree with that. I think it's pretty obvious that he does.
(52:02) Um he just prosecutes foreign policy and statecraftraft in a different way than they're comfortable with than they're used to. Um we have the same he has the same problem that he's got a lot of people that want him to move to go harder than he's going and he's trying to hold that line. And I think he's right to do that.
(52:22) Um, but I can, you know, I I'm not going to because again, look at what happened with Jim Comey and Leticia James. You know, you have the Steve Murray's out there. Again, love Lieutenant Colonel Steve Murray. Great guy. Call him a friend. But him I I sparred with him like publicly on the air like but dude like just arrest somebody for [ __ ] sake. Okay. So we arrest James Comey.
(52:42) We arrested Leticia James and the judge just throws out the case because you know the Senate hasn't confirmed any of our any of his AGs like and I got news for you. The legal team inside the the Trump administration understood this. But what are you going to do? What do you what can you say other than, hey, approve our freaking our our our district, our our DAs so we can go in there and then legally do what? They threw harm.
(53:12) They threw um Alina Hava out the other day. She's going to come back. But I mean like this this is this is all this gross extend and pretend. And part of what's happening here, Marty, this is why I say this is this is six video. All of this stuff is all part of the same thing. They want to turn Trump into Lincoln. They want to turn him into the guy who has to suspend the Constitution and suspend habius corpus and start doing stuff extra um quote unquote extra constitutionally in order to justify for them that they can go and they could wrap themselves in the morality of
(53:51) states rights and go we have to defend democracy. the same [ __ ] [ __ ] that they're trying over in the European Union to get the false flag Putin into, you know, I don't know, attacking Gdansk or some [ __ ] I don't know. But it's the same thing. They need to have the moral high ground to be able to then write the headlines to do the thing.
(54:12) And that's what they're that's what they're playing. That's their game plan. That's the British model. That is the color revolution model. How you beat the color revolution model is exactly what Trump and is doing, which is you send in ICE, you send in the National Guard, and you break all this [ __ ] up and you you fight intelligence assets and intelligence money with the military because spies can't stand up to the military any more than snipers can stand up to, you know, company of men coming and, you know, in a in a you know, snipers are only
(54:45) effective as long as they haven't their position hasn't been found. The minute you know where the sniper is, the sniper is now vulnerable and the sniper better got better have a fallback plan, right? Well, it's the same thing with spies. The minute the spy, you know, you know that that's the spy. You can't stand up to to men with guns at that point.
(55:05) They come after you and they liquidate you. And I don't care if that liquidation is financial, legal, whatever. You know, that's a metaphor for we're taking you off the board. spies can't can't stand up to the military. That's why Trump is using the military the way he is. That's why they're going after Heg Seth because, you know, uh and I agree with Ian Berlingam.
(55:30) He wrote a piece the other day saying the reason they're going after Hexath is because he's a warrior who drinks too much. He doesn't give a [ __ ] and he's going to blow you up because he knows you're the enemy and he doesn't give a crap what you have to say about it. He doesn't care. But you're I don't care. Die. That's my job. die.
(55:47) >> Do you think they'll be successful in undermining Hicks Seth and getting him out? >> They've tried how many times now? Like the libertarians are are are are deliluding themselves into um um um delusion del having delusions of adequacy that they have enough political power to do any of this [ __ ] Like the truth of the matter is is that you know that X is a free platform because Thomas Massie and Rand Paul and the rest of them and Dave Smith and all of these guys, they all still have a free they all still have the the quote unquote
(56:24) pull that they do on X because Elon can turn the freaking dial down on them to four tomorrow and he's not doing it. >> Well, it's in his best it's in our best interest to do that but he's not doing it. He's going to let it play out. Because you need to running with this, you need to show relative restraint. >> You just you just have to like keep staying on the just this side of constitutionality >> and then when they make a move, >> you act decisively and you kill it with fire. It's what they did in LA in June.
(57:02) The the LA the riots in LA in June over ICE going into that laundromat, which I thought was hilarious. They went into a laundromat that was laundering cartel money. Like the optics couldn't be more obvious. And they didn't tell anybody what they were doing for 5 days. They went in there on a Friday.
(57:22) And it wasn't until Wednesday that Tom Hman started doing the the the the media rounds to explain why they were there. They let the Democrats and Soros and the rest of them jin up a Renab [ __ ] mob. do the whole set the [ __ ] city on fire so that Trump can then turn around and bring in the nationalize the the California Guard, bring in the Marines, do the thing and wipe it out.
(57:47) But the entire time they were watching all the money being lit up, how many accounts got lit up to pay for that rent to beer mob? >> How? >> And they and I've watched them do it now a hundred times all over the country. >> Who is coordinating this in the administration? Is it Steve? don't know, but I but I'll but I'll take a I'll I'll take a guess that it's Steven Miller or somebody attach or somebody directly attached to him.
(58:11) >> Yeah, >> that's what I would suggest. But I but it may be that Miller is more the Constitution. He's the one setting up all these EOS to get knowing full well that they're going to get they're going to challenge them this way in court and then they have their then they send the the guy to the Supreme Court and make all these arguments like the the the Humphre ex exception or whatever the hell it is that um uh that they're arguing today.
(58:37) Um that's an important one just is just as important as Chevron. like they they wrote a lot of these executive orders and they use certain provisions of the of the of the US code of the legal code like the emergency using declaring a state of emergency to do tariffs knowing full well that there will be a legal challenge that will go to the Supreme Court there.
(58:59) I think they did all this stuff on purpose because you needed to get all of these old bad abregations of executive power off the books. Now, what you know, I talked earlier about reframing the 2008 financial crisis as a shot to get nationalized Fanny and Freddy. >> What if all the Democrats fighting about, oh my god, he's going to get all these Supreme Court pickling? Oh my god.
(59:28) That it was all about abortion. They kept saying it was all about Roie Wade. It's never about Roie Wade. It was always about Chevron. It was always about the Humphre executive. It was always about this thing about it was about reestablishing proper executive power. And it's funny. I was telling talking to my wife about this.
(59:46) I had that insight today or I had that thought today and then I was I was chatting with my wife and I said, "You know what really pisses me off?" She's like, "What?" I'm like, "Well, aside from everything." like yes. Aside from everything there, um what really pisses me off is I think back now on all those the those the libertarian commentators I used to read all the time that would complain about the executive getting too much power and that that they you know and it was there was all it was a constant stream from all of these guys
(1:00:19) about how the presidents were now too powerful even though the reality was is that Congress I I' I've kind of known this for a while. The Congress seated some authority to the presidents that it shouldn't have seated like never passing a budget, declaring war, [ __ ] like that. But on the other side, the Supreme Court was handing executive power back to the legislature or worse taking it and handing it to the managerial class to the to the cabinet class and saying you can't do anything with you can't you you
(1:00:48) can't fire them, you can't do this, you can't do that. And I'm like and they never address that part of it. They only ever addressed executive overreach. And I'm like, huh, wow. Maybe it really was just nothing more than a big British scop the entire time. And that really that pisses me off because I don't want to believe that of a lot of these men who, you know, are are I've always thought were good people. And maybe they are good people.
(1:01:19) Maybe they're just not having again, you know, you can be misled and then, you know, and have tunnel vision because of your imprinting or because of this or because of that, like all of this stuff. And I'm like, there's something wrong here. Like all of this, you know, all of this stuff is not is is it's off.
(1:01:43) >> There's something very off about all of this. And um I think everybody really needs to take a step back and really reassess what it is they think they believe. Now I and this and this is myself as well. Reframe what you think you know about history, about America, about the Constitution, about our republic, about all of this, about all of this stuff.
(1:02:06) And I think if you do that honestly, you're going to really begin to find where um the uh it's not the best way to put this. You're really going to find um where the >> external >> lack of depth in your analysis actually your position actually is. A lot of Bitcoiners are really going to have to rethink and it's not just Bitcoiners, gold bugs and everything.
(1:02:33) Like I I'm at the point now where I'm like I I mean I don't even like I'm like really Peter Schiff, Europe Pacific Capital. He's been telling you the entire time he doesn't work for the United States. Yeah. >> So it's not about gold. It's about that. It's about the fact that, you know, the his dad went to jail and died in jail over over the Amendment, which by the way is, you know, was, you know, was laudable and in its way and I get it.
(1:03:06) But, you know, hey, if I have to play amateur psychologist for Peter Schiff, that's if that's as generous as I'm going to be. But, you know, he should have processed that [ __ ] 20 years ago >> and that's been, you know, watching the way the world plays out. I think his antipathy to Bitcoin. I could easily make the argument that his antipathy to Bitcoin, you know, runs through his whatever relationships he has with London because London is absolutely dead set against Bitcoin. So is Brussels.
(1:03:34) So is, you know, that entire version of the that entire area of the world. They don't want that. >> Well, as a Bitcoiner, it's glad I'm glad to hear that the uh the enemy doesn't like it. >> Oh, the enemy hates [ __ ] Bitcoin. Why do you think I'm still a Bitcoin guy? Why do you I mean why do you I mean honestly if I mean if if I saw coming out of the EU andor out of London that they started to really embrace Bitcoin I would have to take a serious step back and wonder about the whole thing.
(1:04:02) >> Yeah. >> I'm not kidding. >> I I've seen you've been embracing XRP though. What's up with that? >> What's that? >> You've embracing >> embracing No, I wouldn't say I'm embracing anything. I'm all I'm doing is reading what's what's happening. >> Okay. What I think is happening is that the American the the the Treasury Department is is now is is in the process of you of creating a secondary a new mechanism to replace Swift to replace all the to replace a a global payment system and settlement system for US treasuries and US dollars that is not
(1:04:37) controlled by Swift, the BIS, the IMF, the World Bank, all that. all of that. And that's and I think Ripple's just been chosen. I that's what I think. And it's nothing more nothing more complicated than that. I know there are a lot of people out there who want to call me a Ripple show and a shitcoiner and a this and that.
(1:04:59) Like dudes, I've I've I've literally stated this exact thing this way for a year. And I I'll be honest with you, my people internally were begging me, begging me for two years. There's the Ripple guys in my community. Two years. Tom, what the [ __ ] dude? You have to take a look at this. What's going on? I have serious freaking Ripple guys in my community.
(1:05:23) And it finally, you know, it was only I finally started like watching the um the lawsuit, the SEC lawsuit, and I was watching the minations of the SEC lawsuit. And that's when I realized that yeah, no, this is clearly an operation. This was another one of those extended pretend operations in it was designed to do a bunch of things.
(1:05:49) I think the I think Jay Clayton left that poison pill on his way out the door in order to get us to the point where we could have real crypto legislation in the United States because we had to have a we had to have a court case which then defined what a digital security was and what a digital asset you know where the the you know where securities begin and end in the digital space and I think that that's what that was for with the long-term plan of trying to if they ever got back into power to rest control the monopoly control of the
(1:06:26) issuance of dollars away from the Federal Reserve and put it back in the hands of the Treasury. And I think we're I I've been saying this for a long time, you know, I have. This is nothing new. I've been saying this go back almost four years now, three and a half years. I'm saying that I think that this is where we're headed.
(1:06:44) And I think Bent has made it abundantly clear that's what he wants. I think Jay Powell will set the table for him and I think if Kevin Hassid is the Fed chair, it's going to happen >> and odds are looking pretty good for that. And I was talking to I actually had Susan Kakinda on for the first time last week. >> Yes. >> Didn't know you guys were friends and uh but she she brought up the presser that Bented either last week or the week before where he mentioned like 50% of my job is national security.
(1:07:13) Um which was a surprise to him. I also noted, Marty, so two days after Scott Bent comes out and says buying Bitcoin is good for America, they start bombing the [ __ ] crap out of it. >> What's that say to you? >> Oh, they the British start bombing the >> I think that I think we're t we're dealing with that whole >> globalist crowd trying to attack and I think it's comingirect directly.
(1:07:37) This probably came from Larry Frink and and and others. But yeah, and again, Larry Frink is also in trouble because Black Rockck and Blackstone and which, you know, and all of those guys, those private equity guys are all, you know, over beginning to get over a barrel on all of their their residential real estate in places like New York.
(1:07:56) Their CLLOs's are blowing up. Their their private equity, their private loan portfolios are blowing up. They may just need a whole [ __ ] load of dollars, dude. >> Yeah, that's a good point. And Scott is sitting back there going, "Hi, my name is Thurman Mson and I'm catching fast balls. Scott is just on the mound and I'm catching fast balls.
(1:08:18) >> Another 100 bitcoins. Stick them in the sovereign wealth fund. Another 100 bitcoins. Stick them." You know what I mean? So >> yeah. >> Well, there's a lot of focus on the midterms last year. Obviously the polling doesn't look great because people want things to be faster, harder. In your mind, how much of this needle threading is dependent on midterms next year? If at all, >> midterms are are everything.
(1:08:41) It's clear and obvious that the whole point of the extended pretend, you know, the fighting over the big be one big beautiful bill, the government shutdown, all of everything. Marjorie Taylor Green crashing out. I firmly believe she's in the pay of somebody else. [ __ ] [ __ ] Um Marjorie Taylor, drama queen. Sorry. Um and uh they are clearly targeting a midterm scenario.
(1:09:13) I mean it's very obvious if we get honest to god, you know, voter role cleanup and election integrity, which I think Trump is now going to start really pivoting to cleaning up Obamacare. And he's gonna probably see he's got a little bit of time right now. He does because he's got until tax return returns start coming in and people start getting their refunds.
(1:09:41) All the lower middle class people getting their refunds because of no tax on tips and little things like that. A lot of people in the lower mid to lower income tax brackets are going to start getting their refund checks and they're going to be bigger than they thought. That's going to help him. You got the State of the Union address coming up in the, you know, probably late January.
(1:10:04) And he's already seated the zeicist with we need to reform Obamacare. We need to deal with this. We need to do all these things. and uh we need to get Fanny and Freddy out the door and start overhauling the mortgage markets cuz once Fanny and Freddy are out of conservatorship and they're backlisted on the public markets then they can begin the process of changing the terms of which we get a lot of mortgages we get our mortgages um and we start putting it back to the at the center of American financial power which it was
(1:10:34) um and then all these other things start maturing like all all the investments, all the factories that are being built, all the the stuff that's happening. Yeah. Like it's it's it's starting and he's got time to then really then to make the argument for um for a lot of these things and he doesn't have to go faster per se.
(1:11:00) He just needs to start making things better. A lot of these people are not going to go to jail during this term. If anybody thinks that Hillary Clinton's going to jail, that's not the that's not who cares. Why do we care about Jim Comey? Why do we care about Leticia James? These are all that's all bait being dangled out there to find out just how far they're willing to go to stop to to derail the train.
(1:11:28) The target is Obama. And if you go after Obama, you can't [ __ ] miss. It seems like they >> Trump doesn't want anybody else other than Obama. He that's that's all he wants. You can It's You can smell it. >> It seems like that's what Tulsi has been focused on, right? Yes. >> The last few months. >> And I And notice how Trump is out there taking everybody's slings and arrows while she's in the background quietly doing her thing.
(1:11:53) >> How do you think that's going to play out? What's the timeline going to look like? >> I don't know. I don't have a I don't have a I don't have a feel for that. But, you know, you can think in terms of I would I'd say is that you focus on the domestic stuff now. You reassure people that you don't look like a whole bunch of let them eat cake quote unquote supplyers like they branded Reagan with it.
(1:12:14) He didn't care and all that crap. But it's, you know, like both sides of the of the argument working with demand pull and supply it. There are many different ways to skin the cat. Let's let's fix the fraud. Let's get rid of, you know, let's just get things going, right? Let's keep things moving forward. Um Obama, you're not going to probably be able to do anything until there's a new Congress at all.
(1:12:51) Realistically, you can barely get Ukraine settled because Trump, part of the reason why Trump is having to like play the game the way he's playing it over Ukraine. He can't just walk away because if he does so, he will lose so much support in Congress. It's not funny. And they won't pass anything if not [ __ ] impeach him.
(1:13:10) Not because we we would want this. We want this. They don't. They're dirty. They're on the gravy train. They're on the grift. Every goddamn one, you know, the ones who are just cynically on the grift. And there's other ones that are like hip deep in the [ __ ] corruption and all of it. And you don't think he can't get, you know, they can't get they can't muster 60 votes in the Senate if he doesn't set the political table on Ukraine.
(1:13:42) This is why these people will just pull out. Okay. Yeah. Then what? Like, sorry. This is why Ron Paul would have been a terrible president, a global honor. But he would have been an awful [ __ ] president because he would not have navigated the politics of the situation and they would have never had the opportunity.
(1:14:04) I maybe in 2012 things weren't as bad as they are today. That's that's arguable. That's arguable because that's when Trump Ron would have been president. 2012, right? Um, now you can make that argument and you know we we can fight about it, you know, like men, but um but Trump has a reality in front of him, which is that he would he has a Congress that would impeach him tomorrow for being Donald Trump >> if they could get away with it politically. It's still here. Yeah.
(1:14:38) It pisses us off that it's a year. We're nearly a year into this and we're still dealing with that. Yeah, war sucks. Get a [ __ ] hat and pick up a rifle. Like, that's the way it is. Yeah, they're still shelling us, but we're still alive. We're still in the game. We're more in the game now than we've been in a long, long time. Take the win.
(1:15:01) Think Don't think glass half empty. Don't think like you're in your fight orflight mode. get out of fight orflight mode or get out of flight mode and get into fight mode and go, "No, no, we got this done. We got that done. What can we do with that? Those are new assets that we have on the table.
(1:15:20) How can we use those assets to go from here to there and then from there to there?" Like I was talking to somebody the other day and and like you have to think like Patton. >> So little little known fact, you know, I'm a huge Star Wars fan. So, Star Wars Empire, favorite movie of all time. Number two is Patent. Number three is the Maltese Falcon.
(1:15:44) Okay. After that, the list gets a little inky. But Patton, you know, asked very famously at the one point during the whole thing, I George, I would have thought you just got done with a big battle. I would thought you would want to want to regroup and and give your ch, you know, and consolidate your gains. He's like, not me, Freddy.
(1:16:07) I don't like to pay for the same real estate twice. Patton believed in attacking all the time. Once you have the enemy on the run, especially and the more I learned about German logistics and and the difference in logist Patton understood that we had immense logistical um advantage over the Germans just numerically and I mean our logistics lift in World War II was off the charts, right? Um there's and and a variety of reasons for that because we decided we rightly saw this would be an industrial war. We had industrial capacity. We used
(1:16:37) it and we just out performed we just out produced the Germans. German [ __ ] was better. We had more of it. >> We a lot more of it. And our troops on average over the course of on at any given day over the or over the lifespan of the war, our troops were better armed, better uh better better fed, better equipped with inferior equipment because we had more of it.
(1:17:04) All we had to do is knock out one German tank and it was out off the field for months for weeks. You knock out a Sherman and you know guys could fix it by the side of the [ __ ] road with the parts off the other Sherman that just got hit, right? like hell you could like there were they there were parts sharing between the freaking jeeps and again it was just insane the way we we fought that war.
(1:17:22) The point being is that Patton understood that he had the legit logistical lift meaning he never wanted to go backwards because that was his asset. He understood that was the asset you use to win this war, not anything else because that's the best asset that he had. You train the men to believe in the asset of the of all of that and boom, you can do miracles and then you can get [ __ ] like the battle of the bulge, right? Um that's the way we have to we fighting this war today against and this is anformational war. This is a financial
(1:18:02) war. This is a kinetic war. This is all This is a multi- theat multi-operational war. It's like everything else. So, here we are in the information space here. Trump in the political space and in the and in the military space and the financial space, he's fighting on all those fronts at the same time. He's doing a reasonably good job of it.
(1:18:20) And you'll notice that he's not going backwards. He refuses to go backwards. What's the one thing about Donald Trump? We all know tomorrow. Well, this not just that. He is a hard worker. But what with certainty do we know that he's not going to do tomorrow apologize? No, he does not apologize. He just moved forward. I made a mistake.
(1:18:44) [ __ ] that. We move forward. >> He's literally cursing more, too. He's getting more brash. >> Awesome. It's like it's it's hilarious. I when he tweeted retweeted the other day that video of him and fat JD Vance uh setting up the the the the metal band outside of Tim Waltz's house. I'm like this is the best [ __ ] timeline ever.
(1:19:03) >> Like and there was another one this morning of him and Elon Musk in X-wings attacking the EU Deathsar and it was h it was beautiful. Um, like like that's where we have to be, you know, that's what we have to do. And and yeah, does it sound like I'm a you know, you know, a Trump cocknobber or whatever? Fine.
(1:19:21) Yeah, whatever. I don't give a [ __ ] dude. He's the general we have. He may not be the general we want, but he may be the only general who can actually get us to this point in the [ __ ] first place. So, stop whining and go figure out how you can make this better. Because I got news for you, dude. sitting on the sidelines and bitching about Israel isn't winning the [ __ ] war.
(1:19:44) >> Well, so it doesn't matter whether Israel's evil, this that or anything else. They're soon to be an asset. You have to think like I mean seriously, if I'm a if I'm Donald Trump right now and I'm going to I'm using Israel here on purpose because it's like the one liability we're supposed to have, okay? I'm doing this on purpose and I I love feeding the trolls because it just makes me happy because again Patton's my second favorite movie of all time.
(1:20:13) Israel at this moment in time if you rip them away from City of London becomes an asset. Yeah, they may suck and they may be evil, whatever. I don't care. I can use them to my end to get what I want, which is to make America better. I'm thinking like Donald Trump and that's the way he works.
(1:20:36) And that may that may wrankle your morality and that may get on your you may not be able to square that with you know with whatever god you worship or whatever. Fine, but geopolitics doesn't care about your moral morality. Survival doesn't care about your morality. That's where we are. And that's the way we have to analyze the world.
(1:20:59) It's the way I always analyze the world. money. >> That's the alternative, too. It's just like handing it back, accelerating towards socialism. >> Yeah. Why don't we just hand it all back to the the globalists who are going to like put us in cages and tell us we can't eat meat and tell us that cockroach milk is four times more nutritious than cow's milk and all this [ __ ] that you know, like every day they they they go as deep as depraved as I thought they ever could be.
(1:21:26) I saw that one the other day and I was like, "Yeah, that's your alternative." So, you know, if you want to think that I'm in the $7,000 club, folks, taking my 30 pieces of silver from the [ __ ] Israelis, you go right ahead. I don't care. I'm on the side of the guys not going backwards. We love it. >> What is um to end out the year? >> Sure.
(1:21:50) >> Any predictions for 2026 or things to look out for? Really? >> Yeah. >> An attempt. An attempt. >> What's a civil war look like in 2025? Is it >> Connecticut? >> Well, the civil war right now is the intelligence services have have um have declared civil war. They've made this abundantly clear and we're going to I'm expecting if Trump continues to run the table on Well, I I I'll be let me let me put it this way.
(1:22:18) We just had this meeting today between queer Stalin um Emanuel Macarron and and uh and Frederick I can't um Frederick Merid um uh uh uh and and Zalinski. They've made it abundantly clear that they want war with the Russians no matter what and they're willing to go it along without the Americans. Well, good luck to you and we'll sell you guns and you know again the anti-war crowd will you know tie themselves in the knots that you know we shouldn't be doing that. Well, yeah, we can sell them guns.
(1:22:49) It's fine. I happen to think for the most part that they're not going to buy, they can't afford to buy our guns because we may, you know, say, "Hey, oh, but by the way, you got to pay us in gold because we're not taking [ __ ] euros from you." Um, and um Oh, and if you want to sell those euros to buy dollars to buy our weapons, great.
(1:23:10) That's fine. You can watch your credit ratings go into the gutter. So, we've got you coming and going, folks, because if you do that, we're going to take those dollars and we're going to buy gold with it. We're going to send it to $6,000 an ounce and we're going to [ __ ] you that way. Okay? So, I I Bent is a badass by the way.
(1:23:32) Okay? Um, so if we keep winning like that in the battles that matter, and Epstein is not a battle that matters. Marjorie Taylor Green's battered wife thing, not a battle that matters. And all the battles that matter, if we're winning, if he keeps winning, they're going to force them into their nuclear option, which is they're going to attack our bond markets, tell all the governors to um to secede from the union over some created false flag slight, whatever it is.
(1:24:08) I I know that's what they're jinninging up with these with these war crimes over Venezuelan drug boats, which is just I I I I never thought it would be this lame. >> It's very lame. >> It's so lame. It's so lame. I'm like, God, Freddy, that's all you got? >> You're going to you're going to impeach him for blowing up the NFL dealers? >> That's fine. Yeah.
(1:24:32) No, like understand Marty, I have no problem with us deficit spending right now to pay for the $50,000 signing bonuses for people to join ICE to get rid of all of these people in this country. That's where my soul is. That's why. And and why do I think that? And why have I decided to get off the the the the morality train? Whatever.
(1:24:58) I'm not. Yes, I'm no longer in the I don't kick puppies club. I don't wear that t-shirt anymore. Um, it's for my daughter. It's for your children. And it's for everybody's children listening. Whether you want me to whether you want me to to to be working on behalf of your children or not.
(1:25:15) Even if especially if you hate every [ __ ] word that came out of my mouth so far tonight, great. Still going to fight for your kids. That's what Trump is doing. I know that's what he's doing. And that's what guys like Hex Seth are doing that I know that's what Tulsi Gabbard's doing. She couldn't have children. And now she has put her entire life into national service.
(1:25:39) >> Yeah. Well, it's funny you say that, too, because going back to like the overton window shifting, whether it's the Somalian immigrants or just the >> immigration issue broadly speaking, I think particularly in the last 3 to 6 months for me personally, like and especially when like this the Minnesota fraud >> came out, it's just like >> listen, I don't want my kids to live in a country where that's happening.
(1:26:06) Like, I'm sorry. Like I don't care if you call me racist, a xenophobe, a wararmonger, whatever it is. Like I'm sorry. My my boys will not >> I've been called everything under the I've been called everything under the sun. Like I've been m Mr. Putin doesn't pay very well. Mr. Netanyahu really doesn't pay very well.
(1:26:24) Um you know the you know Mr. Trump doesn't pay very well either. None of them pay well. Like you know who pays well? My patrons pay well. >> Yeah. >> That's who pays well. And um I you know whatever god I may or may not believe in I you know thank him for those people every [ __ ] day because they give me the opportunity to give it to you with both barrels and a little dirty to make it stick.
(1:26:49) Again I'm going to keep quoting patent here until you guys [ __ ] get it. Um cuz I'm not shoveling [ __ ] in Louisiana folks. All right. Um that's what this is about. And we either, you know, this is what I'm good at, right? I'm not much good for anything else. I'm really not. So, this is what I'm good at. What are you good at? What are you going to do to make the world a better place? And whining about war crimes against [ __ ] cocaine traffickers on Twitter is not making the world a better place.
(1:27:23) It's just not. So, go make your community better. Get the [ __ ] off of Twitter. Shut the [ __ ] up. You're not that powerful. And oh, by the way, your ideology probably came from the same place that communism came from, the bowels of MI6. Hate to break it to you folks. I was duped, too, for a long time.
(1:27:48) I still buy gold. I still think you should buy Bitcoin. So, >> we'll end it on that sage advice. It's always a pleasure, sir. Great, great to see. It was great to talk to you. If I do not talk to you between now and the end of the year, and to everybody in the audience, please have a merry [ __ ] Christmas. And uh, you know, we're taking that back, too.
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