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	In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
	It's the David Knight Show.
	As the clock strikes 13, it's Wednesday, the 22nd of October, year of our Lord 2025.
	Well, today we're going to take a look at this festering abomination of Argentina first, and it just keeps building.
	And a lot of people are talking, pushing back about this in the Cattlemen's Association.
	There's a strange approach to tariffs and to other countries within the Trump administration.
	And it is very contradictory.
	We're going to take a look at that.
	We're going to have a guest in a third hour.
	We're going to have the publisher of the New American, the John Burst Society.
	And we're going to talk to him about an article he had about the U.N. pushing for a global tax.
	Of course, for the environment.
	That's where they were always going to be coming in with that.
	We'll also talk about what's going on with gold.
	Very interesting times that we live in, isn't it?
	We'll be right back.
	Stay with us.
	Yes, it is a strange set of priorities.
	We have to give $40 billion to Argentina, not a penny to our farmers, because Argentina has got an election coming up, and a friend of Trump's is on the ropes with that.
	Forget about the fact that we got one out of every three farms in Arkansas about to go out of business.
	So we have, after the bailout that was put together by our genius, Scott Besant, our Secretary of the Treasury, the Argentine peso has weakened.
	It's not working.
	It's not funny.
	You know, you kick off these different things.
	Kick off wars, you can't stop them.
	You kick off inflation, you can't stop it.
	The Argentine peso has fallen below the level it reached before the U.S. Treasury began purchases earlier this month.
	And a sign that the Trump administration's financial support is failing to halt the currency slide out of a crucial election for Javier Malai.
	The peso dropped almost 1% early trading on Monday, touching a fresh record intraday low before pairing its losses.
	The level is close to the bottom of the exchange rate that has been adopted in April.
	The slide has resumed despite three purchases of pesos by the U.S. Treasury since October the 9th, which Argentine economists estimate total roughly $400 million, though neither government has confirmed the figure.
	We're not allowed to know, like pretty much everything the government does.
	This is secret.
	And of course, the reason they keep it secret is because they know we don't want what they are doing.
	And so U.S. support, led by Scott Besant, the Treasury Secretary, has failed to quell demand for dollars from Argentine investors who are hedging against the possibility of a bad result for Malai at a critical midterm election.
	Trump needs to be looking at his midterm elections.
	He keeps doing this kind of garbage.
	Absolute betrayal of America as well as America's farmers.
	What kind of logic is it that we must be self-sufficient and self-contained when it comes to manufacturing widgets, for example?
	We can't even import some of the components that are going to be used to make the finished products that are made in America.
	He's putting a squeeze on domestic manufacturers by shutting off even supplies of lower-level manufactured products like tin plate and things like that, let alone China's retaliation on rare earth minerals, which of course they needed, they should have seen that coming, right?
	You don't just cut off your nose and say, all right, this is it.
	We're just stopping everything right now.
	We're going to go cold turkey off this system that has been built for decades.
	And we're just going to bootstrap ourselves up from nothing.
	Well, that isn't going to work.
	That's obviously going to fail.
	And now, yet, when you look at this, shouldn't we be self-sufficient in growing our own food in this country?
	Why is he harming the farmers to such a degree?
	And of course, he knew this was going to happen because that was already in a playbook that happened in his last administration.
	Happened to him, and he was slow to do it, but eventually he gave them some money.
	For most of them, it wasn't enough to keep them.
	It was too little.
	It was too late.
	Same thing is going to happen again this time.
	You have to ask yourself if it isn't a plan, if this guy isn't the Manchurian candidate for the globalists.
	Besent said in a TV interview earlier this month that he thought the peso was undervalued and he intended to buy low and to sell high.
	However, after he's been propping it up, it's now dropped significantly.
	And they're expecting that it's going to drop another 15% in two months forward, they said.
	So, yeah, he's buying low and selling high, right?
	What a genius.
	Peso, no.
	No peso.
	So the farmers and Americans should have a beef with Trump because of what he's doing to the beef industry, as a matter of fact.
	Trump's plan to purchase beef from Argentina to lower prices for consumers in the U.S. And of course, this is what he said on the plane on Sunday.
	It was, he took a little bit further.
	He lectured this reporter saying, you don't know anything about what's going on in Argentina.
	I would plead guilty to that because it's not our business.
	I don't care what's happening in Argentina.
	I don't care what's happening to Javier Malai.
	I care what's happening in America.
	That should be the concern of the American president.
	But instead of saying, you know, she said, you're putting Argentina in front of the farmers and that type of thing.
	So instead of him even debating that, what he did was he doubled down on it.
	The question is, what do you have to say to U.S. farmers who feel that the deal is benefiting Argentina more than it is them as they are in the world?
	Argentina's fighting for its life, young lady.
	You don't know anything about it.
	They're fighting for their life.
	Nothing is benefiting Argentina.
	They're fighting for their life.
	You understand what that means?
	They have no money.
	They have no anything.
	They're fighting so hard to survive.
	If I can help them survive in a free world, I happen to like the president of Argentina.
	I think he's trying to do the best he can.
	But don't make it sound like they're doing great.
	They are dying.
	All right, they're dying.
	What do you mean by me?
	That's right.
	Well, don't forget about the farmers in Arkansas who are dying.
	We don't care about that.
	We only care about Israel and Argentina and the people who pay this grifting crook behind the scenes.
	I'm sure that's what's happening with Argentina as well.
	Why is it okay to raise the price of manufactured goods, and yet we have to lower the price by destroying our domestic industry?
	Right?
	Does that make any sense at all?
	No.
	Trump is from Argentina, wants Argentina to lower prices.
	He wants beef from Argentina to lower prices for consumers.
	He's not worried about consumer prices when he puts on his tariffs or he has a tariff tantrum, right?
	Oh, we're just going to have some pain, but I've got to stop the cheap imports into Walmart from China.
	But he isn't going to say the same thing in terms of some structural changes.
	And the beef association, cattlemen's industry and others, are talking about the kinds of things that need to be done to actually help the cattle industry rather than just this arbitrary system of, you know, put tariffs on here.
	I'm going to then to raise the prices.
	And now I'm going to actually, I'm going to punish Brazil.
	I'm going to put tariffs on them.
	And this isn't for economic reasons.
	This is for geopolitical reasons.
	He doesn't like the people in Brazil, so he puts tariffs on their beef.
	Even though the American farmers largely supported him, and they're very careful when they come out, they say, oh, we love Trump.
	We really support Trump.
	I think he's great.
	Except in this particular instance, what he's doing here is wrong.
	They know they're going to get hit by Trump and by the MAGA people.
	So they're so deferential in their criticism of his policy.
	And so we'll put tariffs on Brazil, but we will give money to Argentina, and we will bring in their products to compete against the American farmer and to drive the prices down for the struggling cattlemen.
	It makes no sense at all.
	And, you know, when I look at this, think about the Chicago Board of Trade, for example.
	You know, you have the New York Stock Exchange, but the Chicago Board of Trade was set up to trade futures and agricultural products, right?
	And so you can buy pork bellies, you can buy soy, corn, all these other things in the futures market.
	What is the purpose of the Chicago Board of Trade?
	Well, it serves a very important purpose.
	What it does is it fixes the price for farmers on a particular commodity.
	They need to have that stability.
	They need to have that transparency.
	They need to know, this is what my cost is going to be when I sell it in two or three months.
	What Trump is doing, and this is what you hear over and over again from the cattlemen people, they say that, you know, we can't survive in an environment where the prices are constantly fluctuating because of your trade policies, because the subsidies, or because you're going to bring this thing in.
	And so he is single-handedly basically destroying what the entire Chicago Board of Trade was set up to do.
	And he's not just doing it for agricultural products.
	He's doing it for all manufacturing in the United States.
	Nobody has a stable, predictable price that they can factor into their business to know if they can stay in business.
	And that's why he's putting them out of business.
	Only the big guys are going to survive this kind of chaos and confusion.
	So Meriwether Farms, a beef producer based in Wyoming, said it supports and it loves Trump.
	We've got to always start with that.
	We must always support and love this New York City Democrat socialist, central planner.
	If you're going to be a central planner, at least have a brain, right?
	This is the worst of everything.
	We've got a guy who is sitting there with no idea of what he's doing.
	He's run a half dozen casinos into the ground into bankruptcy.
	And now he wants to micromanage every aspect of our economy and he knows nothing about what he's doing at all.
	So they describe the people who say, well, first of all, we love and support you, Mr. Trump.
	But they said that this is an absolute betrayal to the American cattle rancher.
	The continued manipulation and betrayal by the very people who claim to support them, cattle ranchers, needs to end immediately.
	I just say, let's just get over this Trump derangement stuff.
	He is what he does.
	By his fruit, you will know him.
	And if he deserves criticism, let's not be afraid to criticize him.
	And of course, they go, oh, we love you personally.
	This is the thing.
	This is what inoculates him.
	The left has come after him because they can't stand him personally.
	And I understand.
	I never liked him personally either.
	However, the issue is the issue.
	The issue is what he's actually doing.
	And whenever you criticize what the guy is actually doing, the MAGA people will defend him.
	They defend him in their own mind, and they will defend him to you and say, you just have Trump derangement.
	It's like, no, pal, you're the one who's deranged.
	You're the one who's delusional.
	We can't see what he's doing.
	We love Trump.
	However, he has absolutely betrayed us.
	Yes, that's right.
	It's an absolute betrayal of the guy that we love so much.
	I guess that's what his wives said, isn't it?
	Well, we love him.
	We need to have a divorce.
	Mental cruelty, I think, is irreconcilable differences.
	I have irreconcilable differences with Trump, and everybody is suffering from his mental cruelty and brutality, including other nations who are out there.
	Trump is acutely aware of voters' concerns about inflation, a key issue that helped to deliver him the White House in 2024, and one that could hurt him in next year's election.
	This is a newsweek story.
	Trump said Sunday that his administration would import beef from Argentina to help tackle persistently high prices as the supply is throttled by drought, by a flesh-eating pest.
	We're not talking about Trump and other issues affecting cattle.
	We would buy some beef from Argentina, he said on Air Force One.
	If we do that, we'll bring our beef prices down.
	Well, the price of beef alongside everyday essentials has soared this year, largely because screw worm outbreaks have weakened already diminished cattle herds.
	They should name the screw worm Trump.
	That's basically a good description of the way he operates, I think.
	Data from the Department of Labor says that the beef and veal index rose 13.9% in the 12 months to August.
	So it's gone up about 14%.
	Uncooked beef steaks are up 16.6%.
	Experts believe beef prices will remain elevated for the foreseeable future, given the lengthy process of replenishing herds and because of high tariffs on key exporting nations such as Brazil.
	So again, you're going to, you're worried about the price of beef.
	Part of it is because you put a tariff tax on Brazil.
	And now you're going to subsidize Argentina and you're going to drive the domestic cattlemen out of business in the plan.
	So again, central planning by an idiot.
	The worst of everything.
	This is the stable genius and his sidekick, Peter Navarro, the Democrat from California, who couldn't even win as a Democrat.
	So they are the ones who are going to destroy American farms.
	So Meriwether Farms sounded the alarm on the plan with a message directed at the president.
	We love and support you.
	But your suggestion to buy beef from Argentina to stabilize beef prices would be an absolute betrayal to the American cattle rancher.
	It admired Trump's, quote, concern for all Americans, and it said that beef producers would suffer if the plan moves forward.
	Well, again, if he's saying, well, the concern is that the, you know, we've got to look at what's best for all Americans.
	You know, prices are going up, so we're going to have to ease the restrictions on foreign beef.
	Why does he say that about anything else?
	He says that about nothing else.
	Because the reality is, is that we don't really have American manufacturing left anymore.
	We can still grow our own food for now, except he's rapidly killing off the small and medium-sized farms.
	But he's not going to bring back American manufacturing.
	Let me tell you something.
	Those manufacturing jobs are gone.
	When they come back, they will come back in the form of automated factories and of government subsidies to billionaires who own those factories and don't hire any workers.
	And he will brag about how he's bringing manufacturing back on shore.
	That'll happen whether it's Trump or whether it's somebody else.
	That's been in the cards for a long time.
	One of the reasons that manufacturing went offshore was because of slave labor.
	And that's what robots are.
	That was the Czech word for slave, was robot.
	And so it's only going to be robots that are going to be taking your jobs if they come back at all.
	But we need to be able to grow our own food.
	And we need to have small businesses.
	And we need to have small farmers and medium-sized farmers.
	And that's what they don't want there to be.
	They want there to be a concentration of power and wealth and control in Washington.
	And so they accused Washington of facilitating the squeezing of our own ranchers for decades while allowing these entities to flood the market with cheaper, lower quality imports.
	As a matter of fact, this is from the president of the Nebraska Farm Bureau, put this out on social media.
	Hello, Ag friends.
	Hopefully your fall is going well.
	You know, some days you feel like you just can't catch a break in agriculture, but the cattle sector is one of the real bright spots here in the industry and certainly in Nebraska where we have a lot of mama cows.
	But unfortunately, we have an administration that thinks that they need to lower the price of beef.
	President Trump on Friday actually made a statement that said we should lower the price of beef, and ultimately that's lowering the price of cattle.
	That's not something we need to do.
	I just want our members to know that Nebraska Farm Bureau is adamantly opposed to anything that would artificially lower the price of beef.
	We have worked hard to get our cattle market where it is.
	It's a supply and demand issue right now.
	But quite frankly, we need this bright spot here in Nebraska.
	So I have communicated with all of our federal delegation and let them know that we are opposed to any move that would artificially lower the price of beef cattle.
	They have worked that up to the leadership already today.
	And so stay tuned as we kind of follow this story.
	Hopefully we can get this tamped down.
	I just want to make sure that you know that I'm doing everything that I can as your president of Nebraska Farm Bureau to ensure that our beef sector So the bottom line is that this is not about helping the American consumer even this is about helping his political friend and that's all it is It's all just politics.
	He doesn't care about America.
	He doesn't care about Americans.
	He told American businesses that they were non-essential in 2020 when he locked them down and put them out of business.
	Well, Christopher Gibbs, who's a farmer, he's involved with the Democrat Party in Ohio, but he's also a farmer.
	He said, I guess when you get tired of bending over soybean growers, you can move on to the cattle ranchers because that's what he's doing.
	And it's not just those two sectors.
	It's all these different agricultural sectors.
	Those are the two that are hurting most immediately.
	Another one, another person who's with capital management, Tolu Capital Management, said, our own farmers go bankrupt and lose everything.
	Yet Argentina gets another bailout.
	Are we up to $50 billion to Malai yet?
	Well, no, I think it's still at $40.
	Somehow, buying beef from Argentina instead of from struggling U.S. farmers is America first, said the executive director of Campaign for New York Health.
	So Americans are getting decimated, says Marjorie Taylor Greene, with a high cost of living and skyrocketing insurance costs.
	Many of them have zero savings, and some are making, are taking out credit cards to survive, their maxing amount, I should say.
	So tell me how it is America first to bail out a foreign country with $20 billion or $40 billion of taxpayer dollars, said Marjorie Taylor Greene.
	Well, it's who you know.
	And it's what's in it for Trump.
	This isn't just because they're pals.
	I'm telling you, the Javier Millai administration is reeking with one corruption scandal after the other, as is Netanyahu's administration.
	These are the kind of people that Trump likes to keep around him for friends because he knows that these corrupt politicians will give a corrupt politician like him some cash as well.
	And I'm sure that there's going to be a deal that's going to be there.
	It'll be there, if not for Trump, for some of his kids, or for Jared Kushner.
	As Argentina faces financial turmoil ahead of midterm elections on October the 26th, the country's voters can voice their support or opposition to Malaya's cost-cutting free market reform agenda.
	Justin Pupper, president of the U.S. Cattlemen's Association, put out a press release and said, when policymakers hint at intervention or suggest quick fixes, they can shake the market's foundation and directly impact the livelihoods of ranchers who depend on stable, transparent pricing.
	This is what I was talking about.
	You know, what Trump is doing to our economy is creating total chaos.
	And when he creates total chaos, he's going to put a lot of people out of business.
	Everybody except for the really big guys who operate on the New York Stock Exchange and get their capital there.
	They can operate at a loss for a very long time.
	Nobody else can.
	The real people who are operating in a real free market, who have to provide a service at a reasonable price, are going to be put out of business by Trump's chaos.
	As this guy said, you've got to be able to depend on stable and transparent prices.
	You've got to know what the price is going to be, and it's going to be stable.
	Everything that Trump is doing with his tariffs and with his international economics and geopolitics mitigates against that.
	Like I said, it's like he has single-handedly destroyed the entire Chicago Board of Trade.
	So sudden price moves make it harder for independent producers to plan, to invest, and to keep their operations running.
	So he said, if you look now, although I must tell you, if you look now, South America is turning, said Trump.
	Those South American countries are starting to turn very much toward us.
	They're getting away from socialism, and you can go right down the pack.
	But they're starting to turn to us.
	It's pretty amazing.
	Well, he's turning them, but he's turning them away from us.
	Just talk, look at what is happening across Central America as he is bullying Brazil because he doesn't like their politics.
	He is bombing boats off the coast of Venezuela.
	He is threatening other countries with invasion as well.
	He's threatening Colombia.
	He's alienating all of South America.
	This is not just gunboat diplomacy.
	This is guns blowing up boats diplomacy.
	He's not just carrying a big stick and walking softly.
	He's screaming at these people and hitting them with a stick.
	This is not a wise foreign policy, and it's not turning people to us.
	Going back to Meriwether Farms again.
	Why is it that members of Congress, cabinet secretaries, and other senior government officials continue to call farmers and ranchers the backbone of the country while simultaneously screwing them with disastrous policy decisions?
	That's why I say they should call the parasite that's affecting the cattle the screw worm.
	He's called the Trump worm.
	Anyway, do they even believe what they're saying?
	Or do they think that we're stupid?
	I think they don't believe what they're saying, and I think they think you're stupid, both of those things.
	That's why I played that old clip from Michael Keaton that he was saying before the election.
	He said he could shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue and you'd still vote for him.
	He says that because he thinks that you're stupid.
	He thinks that you're so tied into his personality that you don't care what he does.
	And he sold you this illusion of making America greater.
	Well, you're going to wind up homeless on the street.
	Betrayal.
	Ranchers are furious as Trump plans to spend U.S. taxes to buy Argentinian beef.
	And so these are some more ranchers who have spoken out.
	This is from Ross's story.
	Trump made the suggestion to reporters in Air Force One on Sunday, according to the AP, a few days earlier.
	He had said that a deal to cut the price of beef was going to be coming down pretty soon.
	U.S. ranchers and industry groups responding critically to Trump's proposal that the U.S. would buy some beef from Argentina and a bid to bring our beef prices down while pursuing an up to $40 billion bailout for the South American country.
	Again, if we look at the price of eggs, for example, right?
	What was the solution of the Trump administration?
	They weren't going to have the U.S. Day stop killing birds.
	They're going to bring in eggs from other countries.
	How does that make any sense?
	And it was absolutely unnecessary.
	They had this idiotic policy that if they used their PCR procedures, not even a legitimate test, if they used that and found one positive, they would kill all the birds at a given location.
	Millions of them would be killed because they got one positive result from their PCR procedure.
	If only Kerry Mulles were around to explain that to them.
	I guess we'll have to try to explain it to them ourselves as to what's really going on.
	But it was a problem that was entirely created by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
	And Brooke Rollins, Trump appointee, and all the rest of them were not going to relent from the Biden policy.
	Instead, the only out was we're not going to stop killing all your chickens until you vaccinate all your chickens with mRNA vaccines.
	And that's what they did.
	And so they create the problems, and then their solutions are yet another problem, in many cases, an even worse problem.
	So I said an Illinois cattle producer and senior director of programs at the organization called Farm Action said Trump's plan to buy beef from Argentina is a betrayal of the American rancher.
	Those of us who raise cattle have finally started to see what profits look like after facing years of high input costs and market manipulation in the meat packing monopoly.
	After crashing the soybean market and gifting Argentina our largest export buyer, he's now poised to do the same in the cattle market.
	In other words, you know, their largest export buyer was China.
	And he handed China to Argentina on a silver platter, along with $20 billion.
	Importing Argentinian beef would send U.S. cattle prices plummeting.
	And with a meat packing industry as consolidated as it is, consumers may not see lower beef prices.
	Either Washington should be focused on fixing our broken cattle market and not rewarding foreign competitors.
	And here's the problem.
	You know, he talks about a consolidation of the beef industry.
	A lot of that is driven by the FDA.
	They will, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, I'm sorry, there's the USDA that has the oversight of this stuff.
	Remember the fight up there in Pennsylvania with the Amish farmer who wanted to grow grass-fed beef and slaughter it on his ranch and how the establishment, in his case, it was the state of Pennsylvania that came after him, but also the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
	They insisted that all the cattle had to be slaughtered at these centrally controlled locations.
	He had Thomas Massey and others put together bills to try to make sure that we could grow and process our own food, that we don't have to use these centrally controlled monopolistic organizations.
	So that's a big part of the monopoly that he's talking about here.
	And again, that is a government mandate.
	So there are things like that that Washington, the Republicans, that Trump could do if they were serious about doing this.
	Everything that they do is about creating more centralization, more control of everything, and more monopolies.
	With these actions, Trump risks acting like the president of Argentina rather than the president of the United States, he said.
	And that is absolutely true.
	As Lance said yesterday, the cattlemen need to write a letter to the Nobel Peace Prize Committee and give a framed presentation of it to Trump as Javier Molai did.
	Maybe then they could get some attention from him.
	Everything is about flattering this narcissist.
	It's just amazing.
	Farm Action's proposed fix for the U.S. is to tackle the structurally flawed system.
	He said, with three steps, reinstate mandatory country of origin labeling for beef and pork, restore competitive markets by enforcing antitrust laws, and rebuild the U.S. cow herd to achieve national self-reliance in beef production.
	Well, rebuilding the cowherd is not something the federal government has the authority to do or could even practically do.
	And they could put labeling on there.
	I'm all for labeling so that you know where your food is coming from.
	We're going to talk about what's going on with the pharmaceutical industry and what's happening with India.
	It's amazing how India has exploded in terms of generics and other things like that and how bad their quality control is.
	They're literally poisoning people.
	And it's not by design like Pfizer-Moderna do.
	This is just to cut costs.
	This is a good old-fashioned accident.
	That's right.
	This is just out of cutting corners and not caring enough to check your price.
	Craziness, stupidity, all the classic reasons.
	Yeah.
	Unlike Pfizer Moderna, who do it on orders from DARPA and the U.S. government.
	So anyway, the group was far from alone in criticizing Trump's weekend remarks and offering alternative solutions.
	You had the CEO of RCAF, USA, the nation's largest cattle organization, said, We appreciate Trump's interest in addressing U.S. beef market, which has been producing all-time record high consumer beef prices.
	The guy who was the CEO of that, his name is actually Bill Bullard.
	With a name like Bullard, you got to be president of the United States.
	He was born for this.
	Anyway, we urge the president to address the fundamental problems in the beef market and not just its symptoms.
	And see, this is what the government will always do.
	They'll address the symptoms and they'll do things that will add another problem rather than fixing the fundamental problems.
	He said, the symptom is that the U.S. has shrunk its beef cow herd to such a low level that it can no longer produce enough beef to satisfy domestic demand.
	But the fundamental problem is that decades of failed trade policies have allowed cheap, undifferentiated imports to displace the domestic cow herd, driving hundreds of thousands of cattle farmers and ranchers, millions of domestic beef cow out of the domestic beef supply chain.
	So you'd think that Trump, who's all about making everything here and it would support the domestic food industry.
	No, it's never been about what he says it's about.
	The National Cattleman's Beef Association CEO said that their family farmers and ranchers have numerous concerns with importing more Argentinian beef to lower the price for consumers.
	This plan only creates chaos at a critical time of the year for American cattle producers while doing nothing to lower grocery store prices.
	Again, when we look at it, it's kind of like when the Fed goes in and they say, well, interest rates are so high, so we're going to lower the interest rates.
	Well, it doesn't help the people who have credit card debt, and it doesn't help the people who are trying to buy a home because the market is setting the price of the home loan things, and people don't want to commit to a 30-year loan when they think that the lowering of the interest rates by the Federal Reserve is going to increase inflation, and they're going to be paid back with less valuable money.
	And so, and of course, the credit card people, they don't care about the market.
	I mean, it's just usury, criminal usury.
	But it's chaos.
	Said, this policy is creating chaos at a critical time for the farmers who need to know what the price of their product is going to be when it comes to market.
	But Trump is captain chaos with everything.
	And he went on to say, the National Cattleman's Beef Association CEO said, additionally, Argentina has a deeply unbalanced trade relationship with the U.S. In the past five years, Argentina has sold more than $800 million of beef in the U.S. market.
	By comparison, the U.S. has sold just over $7 million worth of American beef into Argentina.
	Well, normally I would say, you know, who cares about that?
	That isn't the real issue that is there.
	You're not going to have a parody on every single thing or a trade surplus on every single issue.
	But see, that is the basis on which all of Trump's tariff chaos is based.
	You know, we can't be buying more of this product than you buy of that product from us.
	And so, again, when you look at this by his own logic, it is bad.
	But he says Argentina also has a history of foot and mouth disease, which if brought to the U.S., could decimate our domestic livestock production.
	Justin Tupper, president of the U.S. Cattlemen's Association, highlighted the rising costs that ranchers are enduring.
	He said the cost of producing beef today is accurately represented in the consumer markets where it is sold.
	Ranchers are facing historic highs for feed, for fuel, for labor, and for land.
	And those costs have risen far faster than the price of beef on the grocery store shelves.
	When policymakers hint at intervention or suggest quick fixes, they can shake the market's foundation and directly impact the livelihoods of ranchers who depend on stable, transparent pricing.
	Sudden price moves make it harder for independent producers to plan, invest, and keep their operations running.
	And again, this is true of everybody that is making anything in the United States.
	Everybody that is manufacturing or that is growing food, they are all being hurt by Trump's whimsical, capricious, arbitrary changes of prices with everything.
	The man is just a paragon of chaos.
	Market-driven prices, not mandates or panic interventions, have delivered value for generations.
	Let's focus on transparency, on market integrity, and maintaining the conditions for sustainable rural economies.
	Yeah, he wants to destroy the rural areas.
	How do you get people packed into his smart cities, into the UN, you know, into his freedom cities, what the UN calls the smart cities, 15-minute cities.
	Well, you've got to make it impossible for them to live outside.
	So you've got to collapse these rural communities as well and their economies.
	That's a big part of what is happening with this.
	You know, everybody could see it happening.
	It was done in such a ham-fisted, obvious way in the Netherlands when Mark Ruta did it.
	You know, he's actually banning fertilizer coming in.
	The Netherlands farmers would look at that video that Trump did over the weekend and say, can we have some of that?
	Can you give us a BS bomb?
	That's our president does.
	He's constantly dropping BS on everybody.
	Anyway, it was such a self-harmed thing.
	He puts a crown on and he drops the BS on everybody.
	That's the Trump administration in a nutshell in that video that he put out there.
	Anyway, in addition to beef, shoppers are facing higher prices for staples such as coffee and eggs.
	And again, eggs, 100% the problem of the federal government, both Biden and the Trump administration.
	Trump administration is, we'll solve your problem.
	We'll stop killing the chickens if you give them all mRNA vaccines.
	It's always a good time to get your own chickens if you can afford it, if you've got the room.
	Chickens are a great way to stay fed when things are shaky.
	And then you know what they are eating because you're the one feeding it to them.
	So the Democratic National Committee, of course, is critical of this.
	This is a low-hanging fruit for everybody in terms of criticizing Trump because he is so utterly wrong on all this note pun intended.
	It's such an obvious wrong step.
	You know, let's assume you don't care about getting yourself involved in the markets.
	Let's assume that you think it's okay for the government to meddle to this extent.
	American beef producers are already hurting.
	This is not the way you go about helping them.
	If you care at all about the American market, whether or not Javier Malaya is your friend, you say, I have to prioritize my own people.
	I have to do what's right for them.
	Cannot help you with this.
	This is going to tank the American beef industry.
	And again, if you're going to sell the idea that we need to be self-sufficient as a country, wouldn't that be food?
	Why are you killing all the farmers and ranchers?
	Yeah, the whole, we've got to bring all the manufacturing in while deporting all of our food production.
	You wouldn't hear him saying, or at least he hasn't yet, oh, you don't understand.
	The Chinese are really struggling.
	We've got to have manufacturing from China because these Chinese are just so poor.
	I would imagine China, most of it anyway, is even poorer than Argentina.
	Yeah, well, he doesn't care about anything other than his geopolitics.
	And as geopolitics, he wants to be allied with Javier Malai.
	And he is opposed to Brazil.
	He's opposed to China.
	And so that informs that it's not what's good for the American people.
	It's what his agenda is, which doesn't align with that.
	Trump has done more in the past month to help Argentina than he has to help the American people who are struggling to afford everything from rent to groceries.
	That was a statement from the Democrats.
	And unfortunately, they're right.
	Because of Trump, farmers are on the brink of bankruptcy.
	And the government has been shut down for almost a month, they go on.
	You would think that the so-called America First President would be focused on reopening the government and saving millions of Americans from skyrocketing health care premiums.
	This is the Democrats talking.
	But Trump is showing his true colors.
	He only cares about helping himself and his friends, even at the expense of the American people.
	Well, again, you know, whether or not you agree with the Democrats wanting to spend more to lower health care premiums, the government should not be involved in health care.
	The government should not be involved in cattle production.
	And the government should not be dictating which industries succeed and which ones fail.
	And which nations we are going to subsidize and which ones we're going to try to have a war with.
	Because that's what sanctions are.
	It's a prelude to war.
	If he wants a war with China, he sanctions them over and over again, puts 100% sanctions on them.
	But everything is for Israel and for Argentina.
	And we get bombs for Venezuela, we get bankruptcy for American farmers.
	That's the way this whole thing is operating.
	Well, DeSantis in Florida, Governor DeSantis, has slammed a proposal to engineer meat allergies in humans to save the planet.
	This is the other thing.
	They don't want us having any meat.
	They don't want us to have cattle at all.
	And so you've got some so-called bioethicists that are out there.
	And again, there's a guy, I think his name is Peter Singer or something, who was talking about whether or not it'd be ethical to kill a child up to two years old, right?
	And according to his twisted calculations, well, yes.
	Because how do we determine personhood?
	I think it's when somebody can read my books or something, right?
	And only then do you become a person to him.
	I think we cut it off when you start agreeing that you can kill children.
	So I think if you agree you can kill children, you're not a person, and therefore you don't make the criteria.
	That's right.
	Yeah, that's what it all boils down to is you're a person if you agree with me.
	If not, then I can kill you.
	That's right.
	Well, they won't have to worry about this if Trump can make the ranchers fail.
	They won't have to worry about how they can engineer meat allergies.
	And so last week, DeSantis went back and pulled up some old videos.
	This went back to 2016.
	I'm not going to play it.
	I've played it before.
	A professor of bioethics talking about how they could, there's a particular tick that if you get bit by it, it's kind of like, you know, remember they created Lyme disease at Plum Island.
	And so it's another one of these types of things.
	You know, the government creates some kind of a weapon, bioweapon, and they can spread it with a tick.
	Does this one come from the same area as Lyme disease?
	It might have, yeah.
	This is the lone star tick.
	And he says, so, you know, if you get bit by that, you become allergic to meat.
	So something we could do through human engineering, and I think we should, he said.
	And again, this is a new comment that was brought out.
	But again, they've been talking about this for over a decade.
	And one person said, although DeSantis is slow to the game, at least he's noticing what's going on.
	This guy's been talking about making people allergic to meat for a decade, going back to a TED talk 12 years ago in 2013.
	Remember that?
	I do.
	Liao said, just as some people are naturally intolerant to milk or to crayfish, like myself, we could artificially introduce mild intolerance to meat by stimulating our immune system against common bovine proteins.
	One person said, Sayer G said, this isn't dietary advice.
	It is social engineering.
	An unelected global cabal have no business dictating what free people eat, especially when they're demonizing traditional foods that have sustained human health for millennia.
	So DeSantis said the notion that cattle are destroying the planet has and always has been ridiculous.
	So Real regenerative farming, said Kendall McIntosh, a board-certified nutritionist, said real regenerative farming supports independent and local economies.
	Centralizing food systems through synthetic or lab-grown products benefits corporations, not families, and not people.
	Sayer G said only, he said such proposals are indicative of the merger of biotechnology and behavioral control.
	The war on meat has never been about climate.
	It's been about control, about consolidating food production under centralized, patented, technology-dependent systems.
	Meat represents everything the global technocracy fear.
	Decentralized production, nutritional independence, and cultural traditions that resist standardization.
	When people can raise their own food, they're harder to control.
	And the World Economic Forum and the UN understand this perfectly.
	This is why we must get the government's boot off of the throat of the farmers who can raise and slaughter their own cattle.
	A paper published earlier this month.
	So even though this other thing has been around for over a decade, we just had a new paper that was published in the Journal of Bioethics.
	And they said, again, talking about the Sloanstar tick to spread what is called alpha gal syndrome.
	That's my alpha gal.
	We have alpha males and now we've got alpha gals who don't want you eating meat.
	Eat soy.
	And the paper, Western Michigan University Bioethics Professors, argued that if eating meat is morally impermissible, well, it's not.
	They start with a false premise.
	They say, well, then the efforts to prevent the spread of tick-borne AGS is also morally impermissible.
	So we have to not try to stop this tick.
	And because it is morally impermissible for you to have meat.
	So according to the CDC, when it bites, the lone star tick transmits the alpha gal sugar molecule in the bloodstream, leading to a red meat allergy.
	Consuming red meat after being infected could result in life-threatening anaphylaxis.
	Well, remember the anaphylaxis that they were causing with people with the pegylated particles that they injected in people with the Trump shots?
	Remember they contacted Children's Health Defense, contacted the FDA and said, you're going to send people into anaphylact shock with this stuff.
	There's a lot of people allergic to this, and you're going to inject it into them.
	I said, we don't care.
	Contact Pfizer.
	Pfizer didn't care either.
	The paper's authors present what they call the convergence argument, that if a specific action prevents the world from becoming a significantly worse place, again, this, they begin with a false premise.
	But if this action prevents the world from becoming a significantly worse place, if it doesn't violate anybody's rights, and yet it does, and if it promotes virtuous actions or character, which it doesn't, it doesn't do any of those things.
	So eating beef is not making the world a worse place.
	Giving people allergies violates their rights.
	Everything about this is wrong.
	How in the world do we pull back from these obnoxious universities?
	I'm often reminded of John Knox's essay, I'm reminded of it, but I can't remember the title.
	The monstrous, that was it, the monstrous regiment of women.
	And that's what we have here.
	We have a monstrous regiment of women, and they're putting out alpha gal to keep us from eating meat.
	What he was talking about was the fact that the monstrous rule of women, and he was talking specifically about the fact that we had Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth at his time.
	And he was saying that it was monstrous that we'd be ruled by women like them and women in general.
	And so we can kind of see where this is all headed.
	I'm sorry.
	If I was in control of things, if you had put out this talk in 2013, we would have renditioned you to a boo garab.
	No, I don't think you get to discuss whether it's ethical to tamper with the genetics of the planet and decide you don't get it.
	And create allergies in people.
	I don't think so.
	Yeah, create allergies in people.
	How could that be ethical in any way?
	Let's have that discussion.
	Let's not.
	There comes a point where it's just like, we're not going to entertain these discussions of, is it ethical?
	Be quiet.
	I'm going to be the one who decides what you can and cannot eat.
	And then I'm going to make you sick to make sure that you can't eat.
	We need to have these conversations.
	No.
	There comes a point where there is no benefit to discussing these ridiculous absurdities with them.
	They have reached a point of insanity, and debating this with them is completely pointless.
	You are not going to reach someone that has gone over to the point of, well, if they're eating meat, we're going to have to poison them with ticks and make them allergic to it.
	Someone that believes that is insane.
	You cannot reach them with logic or facts.
	They are gone.
	They are thinking about bioweapons delivered by ticks.
	The thing is, these people aren't waiting for DeSantis to say, okay, now you can do it.
	They're just doing it.
	There's a lot of suspicion around both Lyme disease and this lone star tick thing about it being genetically created in a lab.
	Well, and of course, if you look at their logic, okay, they would use that same logic to say that you can be surreptitiously given an mRNA vaccine without your knowledge or consent because it's good for public health.
	So you need to take it.
	And if you don't volunteer for this, we'll just do it to you without your consent.
	They literally said that.
	Yes, yes, they have.
	Also, look at what happened with Africanized honeybees.
	Those were allegedly accidentally let out into the wild.
	It was an experiment, and someone just left one of the doors open and a queen escaped.
	And now they're making their way further north and further north every single year.
	It's just this type of thing.
	These scientists continually engage in these sorts of experiments.
	Well, wouldn't it be good for society if we did this?
	And then, oh, it accidentally got out.
	Isn't that funny?
	Well, we've seen a lot of these types of things.
	I mean, going back to the FDR, they thought that part of the answer to agricultural soil loss was going to be to bring in kudzu.
	And we know how that turned out.
	It's a perfect metaphor for government intervention, isn't it?
	Anyway, calling it a thought experiment doesn't make it any less disturbing.
	The idea that, because they said, well, we're not saying that you should do it, we're just using this as playing around with the ethics of this.
	The idea that inducing an allergy or harming human health could somehow serve a moral purpose shows just how detached academia has become from basic human ethics.
	The fact that this is even published tells you how normalized these anti-human, anti-food narratives are becoming under the guise of ethics.
	And so last year, DeSantis signed legislation to prohibit the sale of lab-grown meat in Florida.
	And Florida, he said, is fighting back against the Global Elite's plan to force the world to eat meat grown in a Petri dish or bugs to achieve their authoritarian goals, he said at the time.
	Many lab-grown meat companies are using immortalized cell lines.
	These are cells that are capable of continuously dividing and growing in a manner that is disturbingly similar to cancer cells.
	That's why I call it tumor meat.
	Get a tumor T-bone.
	Similar concerns about human consumption of insects.
	The exoskeletons of many insects contain chitin, a natural material that can trigger an allergic reaction in humans.
	It suggests that humans cannot digest it, while other studies suggest that humans don't digest it well.
	But, you know, I remember Tucker Carlson had a chef come on when he was working for Fox News and did a segment talking about how delicious his bug food was.
	Now Tucker is supposed to be on our side.
	Sauteed crickets.
	Delicious.
	How do you see the light?
	And why doesn't he go back and undo these things?
	Nevertheless, in 2019, the World Economic Forum published an article saying that humans will be eating replacement meats within 20 years.
	And so 2019, this is interesting.
	You know, it was mentioned the other day, especially somebody mentioned on here with a comment that Beyond Meat is really taking it on the chin.
	You don't realize just how badly they are.
	Here's the thing.
	He wrote in 2019, he invested in Beyond Meat, and then he wrote in his 2021 book, How to Avoid Climate Disaster, the Solutions That We Have and the Breakthroughs That We Need.
	So he said, we have to change human behavior.
	We've got to switch to synthetic meat.
	And he said wealthy countries should switch to 100% synthetic beef.
	So he had invested in Beyond Meat, and then he invested in creating this narrative.
	The problem is, is that Beyond Meat's stock price had an all-time high of $240.
	And now their stock is worth less than $1.
	That's fantastic news, I think.
	So he's less wealthy after this beyond meat.
	And that's something that perhaps gets his attention.
	Only money, I guess, gets Bill Gates' attention.
	Well, let's take a look at some of our comments here, Travis.
	That's right.
	North American House Hippo.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Says, good morning, David Travis.
	David Travis friends here in Robble Chat.
	It's another beautiful day.
	Every day above ground is a great day.
	Mind you, I once worked in a subway, so what do I know?
	Blessings to all.
	That's right.
	Yeah, the weather is really turning nice here.
	It's getting really pretty.
	Fall.
	My wife and I will be taking a trip back down to Texas for a bit here soon.
	So I like driving during the cooler months.
	You get to see the trees changing colors all over the place.
	And then once you get to Texas, there are no more trees.
	And there's not as much heat this time of year.
	A little bit less.
	It's calmed down from the hundreds into the 80s and 90s.
	North American House Hippo as if 20 billion for Argentina wasn't enough.
	Let's throw in another 20.
	A billion here, a billion there.
	So you're talking about real money.
	And as I mentioned yesterday, they said, well, we haven't done the 20 billion yet.
	We've done the currency swaps because I can do that here.
	And I'm also that second 20 billion.
	He's putting that together with private businesses.
	And he said, you know, he said, well, he can't do the other stuff because the government is shut down.
	Well, you know, he could put together private help for the farmers if he wanted to, but he doesn't want to.
	Yeah.
	Real Jason Barker.
	Good to see you, Jason.
	Of course, Jason is part of Nights of the Storm, and you can find their website, netsofthestorm.com, where they have a schedule up for all the shows.
	Their show, our show, Tony's show, Guard Show.
	Go check out Nightsofthestorm.com.
	And many other shows, too.
	Yes.
	It's a great resource.
	Real Jason Barker.
	Controlled demolition of the West is what we are seeing, including our financial systems.
	To build back, you have to first burn it down.
	Nibiru 2029, mRNA injected beef from Argentina.
	Doesn't that sound wonderful?
	We can import our poisons from across the globe.
	North American House Hippo.
	When do maggots admit this is not what I voted for?
	Jason Barker, responding to Nibreu, says, and it won't be declared.
	Same with Aldi brand food.
	They're a packaging company and don't list the GMO.
	I did not know that about Aldi.
	That's good to know.
	Real OctoSpook, government slaughtered a lot of cattle and ranchers have never recovered.
	MRNA high BLM leases.
	And of course, that's Bureau of Land Management leases to run cattle on.
	And new rules, regs, and controls are a real problem.
	Yeah.
	North American House Hippo.
	Gotta love Kroger beef, product of USA, Canada, and Mexico.
	You know, one of these three.
	Take your pick.
	NAFTA beef.
	Yeah.
	Heard a giant sucking sound.
	USMCA, right?
	Real Jason Barker.
	Aldi brand food is packaged and labeled in Illinois, and they don't put the GMO notification on it.
	We don't know.
	It just comes to us and we slap the label on it.
	It was on them.
	Pizzono Vante, 1776.
	There are two types of TDS: Trump derangement syndrome, where people reflexively hate Trump, and TDS, Trump Delusion Syndrome, where his supporters think he can do no wrong and any criticism of him is thought to be from the left.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	Star Barkley.
	Trump did things like this during his lockdown.
	A representative of Florida was pointing out oranges from China.
	We're flooding the market in Georgia and Florida.
	And I guarantee you, those oranges from China were covered in the worst pesticides they can get their hands on.
	The real Octo spook, it isn't just beef.
	It is all meats, vegetables, eggs, milk, etc.
	Yes.
	Yeah, we can see how they were sniffing around with bird flu, how they're sniffing around dairy and milk.
	Yeah, they are.
	Anytime you try to open up a dairy, they make it impossible.
	If you want to sell actual raw milk, they will bring it.
	They'll come down on you like a bolt from Zeus if you step out of line.
	They do not like that.
	It must mean that raw milk is the cure to everything that is wrong with us with how much they hate it.
	Star Barkley, Trump did thing.
	Read that one.
	The real OctoSpook, it isn't just beef.
	It is all meats.
	Read that one as well.
	Real Jason Barker, my family does a beef sharing thing with a rancher in Iowa.
	I need to get in on that.
	I have to drive about six hours, but I can get a year's supply of clean beef.
	That's the way to go.
	If you have a deep freezer, if you have the room.
	I'll put in a plug for Brian Shulhave as well.
	He's got some specials on where he's doing that with chicken and he's doing it with beef.
	Now, you got to buy like $2,000 at a time.
	Yeah.
	But you get a tremendous amount.
	And it's all grass-fed, non-GMO, all the rest of that stuff.
	So if you go to, see, what's his website?
	Health and Health Impact News.
	I always go to vaccineimpactnews.com.
	Anyway, if you go there, you can see where that is.
	And he's put a lot of that stuff together.
	He's very careful about the sources of food that he's got there.
	Now, you're going to pay a little bit more for it, but it's cheaper than going to the hospital.
	Yeah.
	And we are not sponsored by them.
	Yeah, that's not sponsored by the.
	Give me a tip.
	You know, if you want to fill up a freezer with some stuff, he's got really good quality stuff if you can afford it.
	Yeah.
	And of course, it's a large expense all at once, but cost-effective in the long run.
	Niburu 2029, importing beef from Argentina gives Trump's feral government ever more centralized control on food.
	Yeah.
	Guard Goldsmith says: the problem with the ranchers trade group is that they never want just a free market.
	They have lobbied for protection every few years, so the system is fascistic, especially for big agra and big ranchers.
	Everyone has their own sacred cow that they want to protect.
	Cattlemen have their sacred cows as well, right?
	No, we need protection.
	Real Jason Barker, first it was food processing, plants burning down randomly.
	Then we had the chicken culling.
	Now the beef.
	They are waging war on our food because of climate change.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Well, they're using climate change as an excuse, but or they're using other issues as an excuse as well.
	Yeah.
	Pezonovante 1776 says, where's the beef?
	Evidently, it's in Argentina.
	And we can't get it here.
	Yeah.
	Real Jason Barker says, let's print money to buy offshore beef so that it will still be expensive when inflation kicks in due to the printing of money.
	Yeah.
	Well, let's take a quick break here because we do have our guest ready, and I want to talk to him about several issues.
	Maybe we can talk a little bit about this.
	But he also wants to talk about constitutional money.
	And he's a publisher of the New American, which is put out by the John Birch Society or associated with John Birch Society.
	And I also want to ask him because, you know, John Birch Society was way ahead of the game when it came to the dangers of federalized police and militarized police.
	I also want to get his opinion on that.
	We're going to take a quick break, folks, and we will be right back.
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	Welcome back.
	Our guest is Steve Bonta.
	He's publisher of the New American.
	It's a magazine from the John Burch Society.
	And we were just talking off air, and he's lived in Argentina.
	So he can tell us a little bit about that.
	He's also most recently lived in China as well.
	He's the author of a book Inside the United Nations and a lot of articles from New Americans.
	As a matter of fact, there was one that I wanted to get to today before he came on that I didn't have a chance to, and we'll talk about that.
	And that is the UN trying to establish a tax, a global tax on shipping in the name of the climate MacGuffin.
	And so we'll talk about that as well.
	But he also contacted me because he wanted to talk about gold and money.
	That's also very topical right now.
	So thank you for joining us, Steve.
	Happy to be here.
	Thank you.
	Let's talk a little bit.
	Since I was just talking about Argentina and beef and things like that, give us your take on what's having lived in Argentina.
	Give us your take on what's going on.
	Yeah, I mean, the thing about Argentina, I lived there as a teenager way back before the Falklands War and the military junta days.
	Oh, wow.
	And Argentina is not like, well, the whole southern cone, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile in particular, is really quite different from what most Americans think Latin America is like.
	Most people think of Latin America, they think of, you know, men with sombreros and donkeys and tortillas and that kind of thing.
	We think in terms of Mexican and maybe Caribbean American stuff, Puerto Rico.
	And southern South America, Argentina in particular, is a lot more like Europe.
	In fact, Argentina, culturally, is more Italian than Spanish.
	There are more people of Italian ancestry than Spanish ancestry.
	And the current president, Javier Millé, excuse me, is one of them.
	And when I arrived in Argentina in 1979, I was really shocked at how well-educated the people were.
	It's a very bookish society.
	People love to play chess, for example.
	Not to put too fine a point on it.
	They have their problems too, but they are very well educated.
	And in those days, mostly maleducated and paronists and supporters of socialism and so forth.
	But Millay is a different animal altogether.
	He's a very, very bright guy and extremely articulate.
	Anyone who knows Spanish listening to him talk, he's very persuasive.
	He's really a silver-tongued individual.
	And as is his mentor, an Argentine economist named Alberto Benegas Lynch.
	You can find lectures by him on YouTube as well.
	And these are both men of very sound understanding of free market economics and principles of libertarianism generally, the non-aggression principle, all the rest of this stuff.
	And so Millay is a multi-talented individual, very much in the Argentine mold.
	He's an accomplished, I believe, a rock guitarist and a semi-professional soccer player, a football player at one point, and this kind of thing.
	And mostly self-educated as an economist, as well as a successful talk show host, kind of a Rush Lindbaugh type figure, and this kind of thing.
	And now, obviously, he's the president of Argentina.
	Argentina is, of all of the Latin American countries, probably has the government most similar to ours, at least on paper.
	So the Argentine, when Argentina first became independent of Spain, it was ruled for several decades by a series of what they called caudillos, which were military dictators, culminating in a guy named General Rosas, who was a really horrific dictator, ran a true police state.
	This was in the 1850s.
	And when Rosas finally fell, he was replaced.
	A group of men quite similar to the American founders, called themselves the Generation of 1838, came forward.
	Some of them had studied in Europe and in the United States, had traveled abroad, studied the systems of government of the countries, including the U.S. Constitution, and they attempted to craft a constitution similar to ours.
	Argentina is a federal republic, just like the United States is.
	It consists of provinces rather than states, but it's very much a federal type arrangement.
	And unfortunately, unlike the U.S., well, I mean, maybe similar to us, their constitution has been reformed with scare quotes a number of times.
	And so this has enabled the rise of the left.
	Obviously, Argentina, as Millais never tires of pointing out, was once one of the world's most powerful countries.
	In fact, if you were a European ground down by the yoke of European feudalism, a peasant yearning to be free and have some sort of opportunity in life, there were two prime destinations in the late 19th century.
	One was, of course, the U.S., and the other was Argentina.
	And Argentina, like the U.S., was and remains a melting pot, very amenable to immigration, and at one time was very, very a place where a man could basically go and do as he pleased and prosper or fail according to his own efforts.
	And obviously, all that and that led to a state of affairs where by the early 20th century, Argentina was one of the top five or so richest countries in the world.
	And the expression in English, as rich as an Argentine, was a common expression back in the roaring 20s and all that.
	All that's changed.
	You don't look at that anymore.
	Yeah, so yeah, and so Argentina has since undergone almost a century of socialism.
	They call it Peronism, but it's a species of collectivism.
	And with just horrific results, when I was there more than 40 years ago living there, I've been back since, but when I was actually living there, the inflation rate was running at 50, 100% per month and this kind of thing.
	And no one under those circumstances could save money.
	The moment you got paid anything, you immediately had to buy land or buy gold, silver, any type of actual assets because the idea of actually putting in a savings account or anything like that was not to be thought of.
	So this is the way the Argentine economy has evolved.
	And then Malay comes along and says, have you had enough?
	And the younger generation in Argentina, kind of similar to the way our Gen Z is shaping up here, has said, you know, we don't want this anymore.
	You know, this may have worked for our parents and our grandparents and our great-grandparents, but this isn't what we want.
	We want opportunity.
	We want to be able to, you know, to actually enjoy the fruits of our labors.
	And so I think Malay is right-headed, but now he's encountering, he's in a situation where he's no longer living in the world of theory.
	He's living in the pragmatic, rough and tumble world of politics, where the reality is, and this may or may not be reinforced by this weekend's elections, national congressional elections, is that he's kind of a lone man.
	The Peronas still dominate the Congress and they use it to thwart most of his agenda.
	So it's been very, very rough slog for him.
	And whether he'll succeed is still an open question.
	I mean, when I see these, right now he's been barnstorming all around the country to rapturous crowds in many towns and cities that have never had an Argentine president visit them before because he wants to make gains in Congress in this weekend's congressional elections.
	But I see these videos and I think, yeah, one person could step out of the crowd with a pistol and this would all be done with.
	Well, it's a very cautionary tale for us because if they started with a constitution and aspirations of freedom, looking at America, and then you look at what happened with the Peronistas and all the rest of the stuff, a large part of that, I think, is the cult of personality.
	And I think that's one of the things that, you know, I don't know.
	I've never lived there, so I don't know the pulse of the people.
	But when I look at how infatuated they were with Juan and Evita Peron and how that played out through them, this whole idea of people getting attached to an individual or to a party rather than to a set of principles.
	And I look at that and say, well, you can't really reverse course.
	And in a sense, Javier Malay comes in with a very charismatic personality as well.
	It's a different type of personality, as you pointed out, his rock star aspects and his sharp tongue that he's got, throwing out not only debating points, but also insults to people and the hair that he is his trademark and all the rest of this stuff.
	So in a sense, you still have the Argentine people, I think, influenced a great deal, as everybody is, as we are here in America, by personalities that are there.
	And if they can have a situation where their free society can be overthrown and you wind up with a paranistas and you wind up with people being disappeared, put into helicopters and flown out and dropped into the ocean, if you're a political dissident, that can happen anywhere.
	It can happen here as well, can it?
	Yeah, and I mean, it has happened here in the sense.
	I mean, Peron was the same generation as FDR.
	And FDR's, the stamp of his personality still remains in Washington, D.C. I mean, FDR was the pivotal 20th century figure in American politics, in which he basically came out, he seized the tiller of the ship of state and said, hard left.
	Yeah, that's right.
	That's what we're going to do.
	And from now on, everything is going to emanate from the federal government, the federal government.
	There is no problem that cannot be solved by the creative application of federal government force.
	That was the premise of the New Deal.
	And these other lesser figures, Lyndon Johnson and more recently, Clinton and Obama and even Joe Biden and so forth, are just really pale shadows, but they're swimming in his wake.
	And the state of affairs where Washington, D.C. is wholly owned by the Democratic Party, which embodies that philosophy, I think, more completely than the Republicans, although they're certainly not perfect either.
	This is really a partisan issue as such.
	But all of that, which Trump is now purporting to fight against and overturn and so forth, is the legacy of the cult of personality of FDR and the man who followed him, Truman as well, to some extent, had that effect.
	But they permanently altered, well, up till now, permanently altered the direction of the ship of state.
	And it's proving a very rough slog indeed to change people's minds and say, well, we need to get back to the idea that the federal government is the creation and not the creator, that it is to be subordinate to the states, and they in turn to the people and the Constitution and all this type of thing.
	It's a very tough sell now.
	So, you know, that's the same thing.
	Yes.
	I had a very interesting interview last week with a guy who just wrote a new biography of FDR.
	And very, very interesting.
	His point of view was that even though you had the Democrats who wanted to go to the same place that FDR did, you still had a lot of opposition within the Democrat Party to a lot of these extreme radical authoritarian tactics that FDR was doing.
	They said, we don't want to do it that way.
	There was a clear understanding in early 20th century America, just like we saw with alcohol prohibition.
	They wanted alcohol prohibition, but they didn't do something like our drug war.
	They said we've got to have a constitutional amendment.
	And so you had people, even though they wanted to go the same place that FDR did in terms of government control and government taking over and running everything, they said, we're worried about that tactic, whether it's packing the Supreme Court or various other things that he was doing.
	And that's what I think is sadly lacking on both the left and the right in America today.
	And I go back and I look at FDR.
	I don't know if you are familiar with the work of Strauss and Howe, fourth turning the book that's there.
	But I see, to me, I see that we're in another fourth turning right now, as they predicted.
	And, you know, we have these fourth turning presidents like Lincoln and FDR.
	Now I think Trump is in that mole who want to go very quickly, accelerationists.
	They want to create chaos.
	And they don't care what means are used as long as they get their desired end.
	And I think we're seeing the problem right now, and I think we're going to see this, is that even if we agree on the goal of where they want to go, I do agree with Trump on many of the goals of where he wants to go, very concerned about the means that he's using because it's going to set very, very dangerous precedents that will come back to haunt us, I think.
	Well, and this is, you know, the problem with permitting the radical, I hate to use the word radical left, but these radical utopian reformists, they're all collectivists by disposition, allowing them enough leeway until you get to the point that Argentina was in by the 1970s, where they control the judiciary.
	They control all the local governments.
	They control the police force, everything else.
	And the same was true by the time that Allende came to power in Chile in the 1970s, or when Fujimori came to power in Peru in the 1990s.
	In all of those cases, the radical left had progressed to the point where they were militarized, where they're kind of going where Antifa would like to go, but we weren't quite that there yet.
	The question becomes, how do you solve that problem when you're so far gone that there's no longer any appeal to the law because the judiciary is all corrupted and the police can't be relied upon and all this type of thing.
	And so this creates a well-nigh insoluble problem.
	We say, well, the only thing to do is to do what Pinochet did in Chile and Fujimori did in Peru and the military Junta Galtieri and people like that did in Argentina.
	And that is you go in and use extraordinary force and you try to clean house.
	And I'm very much afraid that we're approaching that point in the United States because we've already gotten to the point where the law is so twisted that they don't do much if you go out and wearing the banner of Antifa or Black Lives Matter or something like that and vandalize stores, assault, even kill people and this sort of thing, the law gives you a slap on the wrist.
	But heaven forfend if you defend yourself against someone like that, as happened in Kenosha right here in Wisconsin a few years ago, and this type of thing, where you get the point where the law and the judiciary can no longer be relied upon.
	It gets to the point, and this is what revolutionaries, of course, know.
	They understand that if they can destabilize things to a certain point, the only possible remedy is some sort of a crackdown from above.
	And then that generates the pretext to say, you see, you see, they are fascist, just like we're saying, you know, and that gives them more impetus.
	And that's kind of what's happening now, where the Trump administration has the situation where the cores of a number of our major cities are completely out of control.
	And the local magistrates don't want to do anything about it because they're in sympathy within because they perceive that crime creates a rationale for more government.
	I mean, at some level, venal politicians like crime and like civil unrest because it creates a need for them and their services.
	And so that's the reason that places like Chicago and Memphis and Portland and LA and New York, of course, their local constabularies are saying, oh, we're not going to crack down and so forth.
	And so what are you going to do?
	It's a very difficult problem.
	And I think that push is coming from the right also.
	I've said for the longest time in terms of this fourth turning, you go back and you're like, previous three fourth turnings we've had in the U.S. have been the Depression, World War II, part of that, the Civil War, part of the world.
	And I said, yeah.
	And so I said, you know, I think we're probably going to have all three of these things at once.
	I think we're going to have a depression.
	I think we're going to also have a Civil War, a revolutionary war, and a world war.
	And it seems like all of our global leaders, regardless of what political party they're in, regardless of whether they're left or right, they all seem to be pushing us in this direction.
	I wish I could say, no, you're wrong, and here's why.
	But I mean, obviously, anything can happen.
	No one can see the future.
	But I would not be at all surprised if that scenario unfolds over the next five to ten years.
	Well, let's bring it back to the farmers.
	I mean, what do you think?
	Have you paid attention to what's going on?
	I mean, a lot of what they're saying is, and we have seen this when we saw things with the eggs, for example.
	They go through with a PCR procedure and say, well, we've got one chicken here that tested positive, so we're going to kill all five million of them here at this location, that type of thing.
	It was kind of a government-imposed thing, began under Biden, but it continued under Trump's USDA until Brooke Rollins said, now our solution is that you vaccinate all the chickens with mRNA and other animals with this mRNA vaccine.
	So the question is, you know, we have so many different issues.
	You know, one of the issues with beef stuff is the consolidation of it.
	Part of that is the government-mandated centralized processing, meat processing places that are there.
	What do we do from a market perspective?
	I mean, certainly Trump and Besant are not even focused on what's going on with the farms.
	And it's a surprise because we saw what happened in the first Trump administration when he started messing with China and trade and tariffs and things like that.
	They immediately retaliated against agriculture.
	And the government was slow to act at that point in time to repair the damage that they had inflicted.
	And they're being very, very slow to do it now.
	What do you think is going on with that?
	Well, in generalities, first of all, I mean, the problem is we tend to elect urban people as presidents.
	Obviously, Trump being no exception.
	He's an East Coast urbanite.
	He's now a Florida urbanite, whereas formerly he was a New York urbanite.
	But those people, and I can say this without prejudice because I grew up in rural western Pennsylvania on a farm.
	And I've lived in Nebraska as well, worked in a small cattle bank in a Nebraska cattle town for some of you.
	Well, you had quite a background.
	I've been around and around the world.
	But I can tell you this.
	I mean, the contrast in culture between, I live in Wisconsin now, by the way, which is a farming state, primarily dairy farms.
	But the contrast in the mentality of the man of the earth, the farmer, and the urbanite is very stark.
	And urbanites tend to view the economy primarily in financial terms.
	The key secret to economic success is making sure, keeping an eye on the money supply and proper monetary policy, all that type of thing.
	Because, of course, all the big cities are where the banking and the finance takes place.
	That's their primary raison d'être is to be enablers of international trade and finance and banking and all that sort of thing.
	I mean, the Federal Reserve is actually the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is where all the action is as far as monetary policy is concerned.
	So that's the lens through which someone like Trump is going to tend to see the world and not really have a grasp of farming.
	I mean, I happen to think that Casey, Ezra Taf Benson, some other good secretaries of agriculture, that we shouldn't even have a Department of Agriculture.
	Oh, I agree.
	I don't see that as being part of the constitutional purview of the federal government.
	And that's kind of an extra-constitutional heresy that goes back also more than 100 years, well before FDR.
	The Department of Agriculture was already had its finger in the pie and was influencing meddling with the market mechanisms as far as the prices of crops were concerned and this kind of thing.
	So, I mean, I tend to be a Jeffersonian in the sense that I think that an ideal republic is first and foremost agrarian.
	I think manufacturing and finance and all those things are fine, but it's all predicated on a strong agrarian.
	Well, absolutely.
	Yeah, I absolutely agree.
	He believed that an agrarian society was essential to maintaining our liberty and our form of government.
	And I agree with him.
	When you look at our Civil War, for example, I've mentioned many, many times that Italy had a civil war at exactly the same time.
	And they didn't have slaves, but it was about the consolidation and centralization of power, creating a nation-state, when in the past they had had a relatively decentralized, agrarian Italy.
	They wanted to create a nation-state, and it was driven by a lot of manufacturing and urban interests that were involved in that.
	And so that's what we see happening over and over again.
	Jefferson said, as you're talking about, how it's always focused on finances and other things, like they said, cities are a threat to the health, the wealth, and the liberty of man.
	I think nothing has changed with that.
	It's just in the nature of the way that people live.
	Well, here's the thing about agrarianism is that, number one, it delivers the best possible standard of living.
	I mean, Rome never had it better than when they were an agrarian republic, for example.
	And the same could be said, mutatis mutandis, of the medieval Italian republics and so forth and so on.
	Although many of them were also, they were based on trade and all this kind of thing.
	But the thing is that agrarianism is not conducive to domination.
	That's right.
	You're self-sufficient, yes, exactly.
	But finance is.
	I mean, the basis, yeah, the basis for imperialism or whatever you want to call it, that kind of thing, being a superpower, is finance.
	You have to have robust finances and a robust banking system and all this.
	That's very much, of course, in sync with the Hamiltonian vision of America.
	But America did just fine for all of the decades that it wasn't a superpower, a world-engirding power.
	And the idea, and this is as much implicit in the policies and rhetoric of the Trump administration as it was in all of his predecessors going back to the early 20th century, the idea is that America is a superpower and must remain a superpower.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Phrases like we're the indispensable nation, all this kind of thing, well, kind of feed into that.
	And here's an interesting thing.
	Speaking of Argentina as well, I mean, Argentina, interestingly enough, has never been a great military power.
	They've never, actually mostly South Man, they've never been.
	But they showed that during the Falkland Wars, didn't they?
	Yeah, the Falkland Wars was an exception.
	There's some interesting history there, too.
	The wind of that right now.
	But by and large, Argentina has been very content with its dominion there in southern South America.
	It has all that it needs and feels no need, though it certainly has the resources.
	I mean, resource-wise, it's just as blessed as the United States.
	They could become a superpower if they wanted to.
	They just don't want that.
	And so the United States, I mean, it's heresy to say this, but I wrote an article a while ago for the magazine questioning the very premise.
	Should America be a superpower?
	Is this really what the founders envisioned?
	Is that we want?
	And obviously, it depends what you mean if by superpower you mean, well, the greatest country on earth, the place that everybody wants to go to live and all that.
	Okay, well, I suppose.
	But if you mean it in the sense that we mean it today, the dominatrix of the world, so to speak, that is something very much counter to what the founders wanted.
	And so going back to our agrarian roots, what's his name?
	The financial wizard who now lives in Singapore.
	I can't think of his name.
	But he's said a lot in recent years.
	Thinks that the future of wealth is actually going to be in farming after this whole fourth-turning thing gets through the Bill Gates kind of thinks that, doesn't he?
	I mean, he's bought a lot of land, even though he doesn't want to have agricultural farming.
	He wants to manufacture food.
	He still has bought a lot of land.
	And I think he realizes that's the fallback position.
	Maybe after they destroy the food supply and everybody is fed up, just like they are with Beyond Meat, I was just talking about how their stock that hit a high of $240 is now less than a dollar.
	So after all of that, people turn back to the farm.
	And so he's kind of hedging his bets by getting farmland.
	Yeah, and why not?
	I mean, because that's they call it real estate for a reason.
	There's a certain tangible reality about owning land and developing it for farming or whatever.
	And I think we've sort of become divorced from that in our relentless quest for ascendancy over nature, which I think is understandable.
	It's good that we have things like the polio vaccine and all the rest of that nowadays.
	We have modern medicine and maybe that life is not quite so Hobbesian as it once was.
	So it's understandable that we want to subdue nature, the more brutish aspects of nature.
	But at the same time, you don't want to throw the baby out with a bath and say, we're going to live entirely in this technocratic society, completely divorced from the need to get our hands dirty, Mike Rose style or anything like that.
	And so, yeah.
	Yeah, a virtual reality, which is not a reality at all.
	Well, you were talking about this idea of American exceptionalism and how we are indispensable and how we have to be, you know, it has to be Pax Americana and so forth, and how financial issues are so much a part of that.
	And so, of course, when we look at the Federal Reserve and what is happening with gold, give us your take on that.
	That is, of course, the superpower that underlies the American empire, and that is the ability to conjure money up out of nowhere.
	And they may be at the end of their road to use it and force everywhere else to use it because it's the world reserve currency.
	That's the real rub.
	And that's the reason.
	I mean, I was talking with an economist the other day on this.
	Why is it that Argentina, when they print a lot of money, all they get is horrendous inflation?
	Whereas we do the same thing, and somehow it never has that same effect.
	Well, the answer is that we enjoy a luxury that the Argentine central bank does not.
	Namely, we can export.
	We can print lots of money.
	We can create lots of debt, ex nihilo, and people will come and buy it because pursuant the remnants of the Bretton Woods Agreement and just the way the world works now, everything is denominated in dollars.
	There's a unique demand for U.S. dollars that doesn't exist for Argentine pesos or even Euros or Japanese yen or something like that.
	So we've managed to insulate ourselves to some extent, and a lot of the inflation has been shipped abroad.
	But what's happening now, I mean, inflation is a very complex than simply, okay, we double the money supply and prices double, that kind of thing.
	It's not as simple as that.
	It's more diffuse.
	And this is the reason that a lot of economists, not just modern monetary theorists, but a lot of economists, Keynesians all, reject the idea that inflation is ultimately a monetary phenomenon that's caused, in effect, by governments and banks printing money because it's hard to see, in terms of the prices, price rises versus the money supply.
	It's very complex.
	It's hard to perceive.
	Some prices rise faster than others and so forth and so on.
	But the reality is that inflation is caused by printing money.
	Inflation is not possible except under conditions of a fiat money source.
	And fiat means money that's not tied to gold and silver.
	Funny thing is that gold and silver, for all of the obloquy that's been thrown at them, gold was famously called a barbarous relic by Keynes.
	And this kind of thing, people who believe in the advisability of returning to the gold standard are derisively called gold bugs in economic parlance and so forth.
	In spite of all that, the fact is that gold and silver remain real money.
	And their price behaves like real money.
	So if you want to sort of cut through all of the complications of inflation, consumer price inflation versus asset inflation, all this type of thing, and see, well, what's really happening?
	You look at the price of gold and silver and it's going through the roof.
	But here's the interesting thing.
	I saw an article.
	And I think it's because the central banks don't buy into this Keynesianism.
	And certainly they don't buy into the modern monetary theory, which I call the magic money tree of the MMT.
	They're accumulating gold for their own purposes.
	And even if they're trying to come up with an alternative economic system, financial system to ours, which has been weaponized, they are still turning to gold for credibility.
	Well, sure, although they say, well, it's just a hedge and all this type of thing.
	But the reality is, and I saw, I mean, so if you, I was just attending a conference the other day down in Florida at the Mises Institute, and there was a lot of talk about this.
	And one of the cardinal features of a free market, a non-inflationary free market economy, is that over time, prices will tend to fall.
	And we saw this, for example, in the United States post-Civil War, the latter half of the 19th century, is that prices of goods and services gradually decrease over time.
	And to some extent, we even see it today, although it's very much muddied by the inflationary waters.
	But you see, for example, things like the prices of cell phones and laptops and so forth tend to decline over time.
	But here's something that never declines in price, supposedly, and that's houses.
	People love to flip houses, buy houses, investments, real estate, because people, the mantra goes, the value is always going to go up, even if you don't do anything to improve.
	The value is going to go up over time.
	This has been our experience.
	Well, there's a reason for that.
	And the reason is that those are assets that are very close to where the money spigots are, and the money center banks, where the new money enters the economy.
	And so, like stock prices, the prices of real estate, houses and so forth, are driven up artificially by inflationary government policy.
	But here's an interesting fact.
	Apparently, the price of houses, if reckoned in terms of gold, has also been slowly declining over the years and decades.
	In other words, if you reckon things in terms of gold and or silver, then you see the true, you know, the real economy.
	Yes.
	And what we're seeing now with gold, you know, the skyrocketing gold and now silver prices as well.
	I'm kind of glad I bought silver over the last several years.
	Although that's a silly thing to say, though, isn't it?
	Because my silver is quote-unquote worth more, but it really isn't.
	Yeah, it's the dollar is worthless.
	And it would be the height of folly for me to take the silver and say, oh, now it's worth twice what it was.
	I'm going to sell it and get that and make a profit on it.
	I'm not making a profit.
	Because what's happened is the worth of the dollar relative to real money, to silver and gold, has plummeted.
	And those are both indices of very severe inflation, even if we're not yet seeing it at the grocery stores.
	I agree.
	Yeah, as a matter of fact, there were some articles saying, you know, you need to start looking at assets and even things like the stock markets.
	Look at them in terms of gold and they don't look so good.
	We've had a lot of inflation in terms of stock prices, a lot of it because of the AI bubble.
	But when you look at it in terms of the Dow Jones Industrial Average or these other market-wide metrics, it hasn't gone up as much as gold has.
	And I know I've talked to Tony Arteman in the past.
	We've looked at people who have done experiments that go back and say, how much would it cost to do certain things over 100 years, say 120 years ago or so before they went onto the fiat thing?
	If you had gold, if you bought a custom soup or you took a trip where you did this or that and start to compare it, they would find that it was pretty much comparable, just like you were saying with real estate, that it was basically the prices were about the same if you priced it in terms of gold, although the prices have gone up significantly in terms of fiat currency.
	Well, and the fact that people have this mistaken idea, they think in terms of what things are worth in the dollar, is a reflection of the intuition that people have that goes back to the days when we had sound money, you know, pre-the act and pre-FDR and all that kind of thing.
	And that is the idea that money should be both something with value and also an accountancy, something, a way of keeping records.
	Whereas in a fiat money system, money no longer has value.
	It's just an accountancy device.
	The value is still there, but it's been divorced from money.
	And that's reflected in the behavior of gold and silver in that sense.
	But money itself is no longer a repository for value.
	And I know that some of the Misans will criticize the very idea of value this kind of thing because valuation is very subjective.
	But that's the issue.
	But people still think money should be valuable in some sense, In the sense that it once was.
	And so that's where this confusion arises from.
	People like to say, well, you know, how much is this worth in $1965 or $1980 and this kind of thing.
	But what we have now is under so-called fiat money, which is really a contradiction in terms, is purely and simply a system of accountancy that is fraudulent.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Because it says, you know, you put 1,000 of me in the bank, and it's still going to be worth $1,000 plus whatever interest, you know, 10 years from now, 20 years from now.
	And of course, that's not the case.
	Everybody knows this.
	Yes, that's right.
	And so when you look at the retail trade, a lot of urban mining going on.
	People, New York Times actually wrote an article about it this last week about the rush of people to go down to the diamond district in New York City where people will pay you for your jewelry.
	So people are taking gold and silver jewelry down, cashing it out.
	One woman was saying, well, you know, I got $7,000 for this, and now I'm going to go take a vacation or whatever.
	So she's not using it as a store of value.
	She's just cashing it in and taking a vacation at, you know, taking advantage of the fact that she can get the vacation that's still priced in dollars.
	She can get that in the value of gold.
	But what they're doing is they're transferring out of an asset that retains its value into something that is evaporating very quickly.
	Makes sense if you're going to immediately consume it.
	And a lot of people are caught in a liquidity trap.
	As a matter of fact, when we saw the plunge in gold and silver, the questions were, was this the last day or so?
	Questions are, is this profit-taking?
	Because it's been going straight up for quite some time.
	Or as one person who is a former Federal Reserve governor said, I think this is indicating something's bigger than that, than just price than taking profits.
	They said, this looks to me like a liquidity issue, like the type of thing that we saw back in the spring of 2020 when we had the lockdowns imposed on us and that type of thing.
	And so I think a lot of people in the financial markets are getting caught in a liquidity squeeze and they're having to liquidate gold with that.
	So we'll see what happens with that.
	But that's the key issue.
	And it's really a control issue.
	I think it's kind of interesting.
	You know, we talk about Bretton Woods, as you mentioned before.
	When you look at what happened with Bretton Woods 2, Kissinger moved it to essentially the petro dollar.
	He kind of tied the dollar to energy using Saudi Arabia.
	And that has now disappeared.
	Perhaps that's what's going on with Venezuela.
	What do you think about that?
	They got more oil than Saudi.
	We could reinstitute a petro dollar if we control that oil.
	Yeah, that's part of it, to be sure.
	And his neighbor Guiana, it turns out, has a lot of oil too.
	So, you know, that whole part of the world, as does Mexico.
	And so, yeah, I mean, and Argentina does, too.
	I don't know if people don't know this, but particularly down in Patagonia in Chubut province, in particular, and Ushuaya, way down the southern tip of Argentina, is now become quite the oil boom town.
	Wow.
	So Patagonia is not just high-expensive clothing, right?
	No, no, I've been down the same beautiful area, but it's definitely prospering quite remarkably.
	And a lot of that is because of the oil that's found on the continental shelf off the coast of Argentina there.
	And so, yeah, there's a lot of, and you can bet that that's in the back of Trump's mind and Besson's mind as well when they're kind of building this new bromance with Malays Argentina.
	So, yeah, I mean, no doubt, oil is still, in spite of all of the quest for alternative energy and the kind of fanatical attempts to rid the world of fossil fuels, the pragmatic reality is that oil ain't going anywhere anytime soon.
	That's right.
	So it's going to remain the main stock in trade.
	The engine of growth, yeah.
	I mean, China right now is trying to sort of belatedly realize that their policy of having a financial bamboo curtain around China and preventing the Renminbi from being used internationally for fear that it might be destabilized or something like this.
	They're finally realizing if we really want to compete with the United States, we have to try to internationalize, to globalize the Renminbi and make it an alternative to the U.S. dollar.
	But they have one major disadvantage, and that is that China has no oil.
	None that anyone's aware of.
	They're completely an oil and gas importing country from Russia and other places.
	And so they're not a power player.
	Yeah, and you go back and look at it.
	I mean, oil is foundational to so many of our wars as well as to the economy.
	And if you go back to the 1930s and the technocrats and the technocracy incorporated and so forth, they were talking about essentially getting rid of money and evaluating everything in terms of energy usage.
	And of course, you've got a lot of people who buy into that technocracy philosophy, people like Thiel and Musk who around Trump.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And so, you know, I think this whole idea that for them, it makes sense to evaluate things in terms of energy.
	And of course, the energy would be the barrel of oil still as a practical matter.
	So I think that's the foundation of a lot of this stuff that we're seeing here.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Yeah.
	Enough said on that.
	So while we talk about that, I mean, the UN, though, sees that their power basis is kind of using what I call a MacGuffin because that goes back to what Hitchcock said.
	You know, it's basically just something that you put out there to control the narrative.
	And so their basis is to try to also control energy by restricting it, by taxing it, and so forth.
	And you had an interesting article on the New American about the UN tax.
	And we see something being done right by Trump here.
	I have been very critical of most of Trump's policies, but I think one place where he has done a far better job than any of the other presidents has been on the energy issue in both the first term and now I think in the second term, it's still not perfect.
	There's many things that are still left out of it.
	But they put their foot down against this UN global tax on shipping.
	Tell us a little bit about that.
	Yeah, well, so this is something that has been in the works for a number of years at the behest of the IMO, the International Maritime Organization, which is a little-known UN appendage.
	It's part of the UN, and its job is to regulate shipping.
	Okay, and there's, by the way, there's a corresponding organization to regulate aviation, and they're trying to do the same thing to instigate a global tax on aviation fuel as well.
	But that's another story.
	So the shipping tax is potentially a tectonic event because it would represent, I mean, irrespective of what kind of taxes, it would be the first time that the United Nations would have independent taxing authority.
	And they have to have that.
	And they have to have that to be a powerhouse, really.
	You know, first you've got to have the ability to tax, and then you have to have the ability to raise an army.
	Right, and then they got basis.
	Yeah, and so those are two things that politically were not palatable back in the mid-1940s when the UN and also the Bretton Woods system were set up.
	The people who said I would have dearly liked to have proclaimed the UN a world government then, but knew that that was not feasible.
	And so they created an organization that could be the framework, could be gradually filled out over time and turn into a world, which is why the UN looks like a government, why it has basically a bicameral legislature, has the Security Council and the General Assembly, and it has, or purports to have, executive, legislative, and judicial powers and all this type of thing.
	There's a reason for all of that.
	But what the UN doesn't have de facto is the, number one, you mentioned a military.
	I mean, to the extent that there's a UN military at all, it's crucially dependent on the willingness of member states to contribute troops to serve under UN command.
	But they don't have the authority to levy their own troops, to conscript people.
	They don't have their own independent military.
	And the same is true of taxation.
	All governments worth their salt have the authority, the power to levy taxes, which the UN doesn't.
	I mean, how does it get funded?
	Well, primarily by, again, by donations from member states, membership fees and the like.
	That's been a great, has curtailed the UN's ability to live up to the potential envisaged by its founders.
	But now, and, you know, we were warning about this.
	I and my colleague Alex Newman in particular have written a number of articles on this impending global tax and shipping, which has been in the making for five, six years.
	It's kind of been out there.
	And we fully expected that it was going to happen this year.
	And that would represent the first time that the UN was able to collect to have its own revenue stream.
	And it won't be the last.
	I mean, if it's passed, there are other ideas out there like taxing international transactions on the internet, obviously carbon tax of jet fuel is another major one.
	Things like a global income tax and global property taxes are further down the road.
	But certainly, they kind of hope for that as well.
	And in this case, what happened was that the Trump administration, in a rare, I have to say, a rare spasm of ideological clarity, Trump himself said, this is an unconstitutional global tax.
	It's not happening.
	And if anyone tries to make this happen, we're going to impose severe penalties on them and so forth.
	And the result was that some countries, including Argentina, by the way, which earlier this year abstained from voting on the measure, they kind of tried to wiggle their way through it.
	They turned into a firm no vote.
	And on the other hand, Brazil, China, and most of the EU, certainly the UK, are supporters of the measure.
	But Saudi Arabia and the other major petroleum exporting countries, a lot of countries that are crucially dependent on cruise lines, like the Caribbean nations, for their economic well-being, were all opposed to it.
	And it ended up being a very slim vote no, but it's not really no.
	Okay, so what they were going to basically at the IMO summit in London, they were supposed to rubber stamp this thing, and in another year or two, it's going to start coming into effect, and the UN will start having all this money coming in, ostensibly in the name of reducing carbon emissions and moving forward the net zero 2050 goal, all that stuff.
	And instead, they were on the verge of saying it's just not going to happen, but in a last-minute act of parliamentary ledger demand, a couple of the people said, oh, well, here's what we'll do.
	We'll vote to table the thing for a year.
	So that's what they did.
	They said, okay, we're not going to make a decision on it now.
	We're going to meet again a year from now.
	And of course, they're hoping against hope that the politics will change by then.
	And this is what they always do.
	This is how the globalists operate.
	If once you don't succeed, you try, try, try, try, try again until eventually you get the result that you want.
	So this is not going away.
	Kudos to Trump.
	Give credit where credit is due.
	It's like the WHO's pandemic treaty.
	They get shut down.
	They keep coming back.
	They're relentlessly going to keep coming back and changing the whole thing or maybe just bringing it up as it was for another one of these things.
	And it is kind of interesting because we've kind of seen this pattern.
	And of course, Zbigniew Brzezinski was all about this in terms of creating the trilateral commission and these different economic areas, creating trade groups that would essentially have some economic control over people, and then unifying those trade groups into a political entity.
	That's the pattern that we saw happening in Europe with the common market then becoming, you know, going in with more and more economic control in the marketplace, and then finally coming in with the Euro and things like that.
	Now they're moving to, you know, after they establish more and more political control of people, probably all of this push with Ukraine and everything is to give them a European army, which they denied they were doing as Brexit was happening.
	Reports they wanted a European army.
	Oh, no, no, we don't want that.
	Now they're talking about it openly.
	And so we see these types of things.
	It's kind of interesting that the UN has taken, you know, you can unify people economically, then unify them politically to create this large governing block and then bring those blocks together into a world government.
	But in the case of the UN, they're doing it politically, and now they're moving into the economic stage, kind of doing it in reverse order.
	Either way, it's that same goal of consolidation and centralization, isn't it?
	Yes, and using as an entering wedge things like trade and economics.
	Saying, in effect, as, of course, the Europeans did way back in the 1950s.
	Oh, no, no, this isn't political.
	This is just about free trade and open borders.
	And obviously, who can oppose such positive-sounding axioms?
	But, of course, as it turned out, it was about much more than that.
	And then they're trying to do the same thing here in the New World.
	They did with the FTAA of a generation ago that ultimately kind of fell apart.
	They tried to create from Canada to Tierra del Fuego, this free trade zone, ostensibly free trade zone.
	And that eventually didn't work out.
	But they're still working.
	I mean, the fact that we have a sort of a customs agreement, a trade agreement amongst the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, there are souls out there who want to transform that into some kind of a broader North American political union.
	And people like Mark Carney openly talk about that.
	His predecessor, Justin Trudeau, up in Canada, are very well aware of this.
	And certainly some of the people in Washington as well know that that's the real goal.
	You use trade and you persuade people of the advisability of having open borders and free trade, and then you work toward the political convergence.
	That's right.
	And of course, I remember when Trump said, I'm going to get rid of NAFTA.
	We don't like NAFTA, so I'm going to do the USMCU.
	And replace it with something else.
	Yeah, and you guys were spot on at the New American and saying that, well, the USMCA is not really fundamentally different from NAFTA.
	There's just been some tweaking of some other stuff.
	So what do you make of the fact that Trump began this administration by attacking a lot of the same agreements that he was boasting about in his first administration, coming after Mexico, coming after Canada, even accusing Canada of bringing fentanyl into the country?
	What do you make of that?
	Has he changed?
	Does he not want to have this unification that is there with Mexico and Canada, this economic unification?
	Well, there's some evidence that he did learn some things during his four years in the political wilderness.
	Obviously, certainly experiencing the brunt of lawfare and all that had an effect on him.
	But more than that, I suspect that he's actually done something that he probably hasn't done a lot of in his adult life, and that's done some serious reading about some of these issues.
	This is the one thing about moneymen, a lot of moneymen, they're so busy doing what they do, they don't take the time to really read.
	And so while I think a lot of Trump's instincts are spot on, he's instinctively hews toward freedom and so forth.
	He doesn't really have a strong understanding of a lot of these issues, and he relies on his advisors and this kind of thing.
	And he does seem to have a different crop of advisors.
	His first time around, he bought into the idea that, well, I need to surround myself with policy experts.
	And in practice, that usually means people of CFR and trilateral pedigree.
	And that's why we had that revolving door of Secretary of State and this kind of thing under the first Trump administration.
	And he's constantly feuding with his cabinet is because he'd appoint people who were basically globalists and elitists and thought differently than he did.
	But they were sold to him by his circle of advisors.
	Well, you need to have, you know, you're a newcomer to Washington, so you need to have these seasoned experts.
	You know, it'd help him.
	He quickly realized, I don't like what they're telling me to do.
	And so this time around, he does seem to have made wiser choices in that regard.
	In fact, fortunately, he's got this one really bad hangover, Peter Navarro, who came up with those reciprocal tariffs on that chart that was just utter nonsense.
	You know, Navarro's been in prison too, so he's got a chip on his shoulder.
	I mean, Scott Besant is the one guy in this Trump administration that is kind of cut from that cloth, this kind of establishment type guy.
	But most of the rest of them are, you know, I mean, there's a lot to quibble with, certainly.
	Trump is certainly no Ron Paul or Thomas Massey.
	But, you know.
	That's right.
	Yeah.
	And, you know, you get back to Scott Besant and where we began with Argentina.
	When you look at the beginning of his $20 billion bailout to Argentina, this hasn't gone very well.
	Actually, the peso, the Argentine peso, has continued to go down in spite of his financial levers that he's been pulling.
	Yeah, well, and again, much as I love Millay and Argentina, we have no, you know, the president has no constitutional power to bail out other countries even via currency swap.
	I mean, Clinton did that with Mexico back in the mid-1990s and got into all kinds of trouble.
	He used the exchange stabilization fund in his case to just up and send money to Mexico to stabilize the Mexican treasuries and all that type of thing.
	Whereas, you know, Besson said, well, it's a currency swap.
	Well, what does that mean?
	It means that we go in and buy their worthless currency with our somewhat less worthless currency.
	So, you know, that's pretty much what's happened.
	And yeah, I mean, we'll see.
	The elections in Argentina are coming up this weekend to kind of come full circle and we'll see what happens.
	Millay will be president one way or the other for two more years, presumably.
	But whether or not he has a more compliant Congress is very much in doubt at this point.
	We'll see.
	Yeah.
	Well, and again, I think a big part of what we're seeing happening in the backfire of Besant's policy is the de-dollarization that's going on internationally.
	People are walking away from the dollar because it was weaponized by Biden and continuing to be weaponized by Trump.
	They want a different financial system.
	They're moving to gold or they're trying to establish BRICS or something like that.
	And just to, I think it is also a harbinger of the declining power of the dollar financial system that's there.
	What do you think?
	Well, absolutely.
	I mean, I mean, you know, this is something, again, as with military power, we're loath to admit that the state of affairs that we have all come to accept as natural for the past several generations, to wit, that the dollar is going to be forever and ever, amen, you know, the world's dominant currency, that that could ever change.
	But again, you know, the Germans thought the same up through World War I. I mean, you know, the German mark was, you know, alongside the British pound.
	And we could, you know, also adduce the example of the British pound, which up until World War II was the world's great currency.
	Where's the pound today?
	Yeah.
	Where's the mark?
	Well, the mark doesn't even exist anymore.
	We know about German hyperinflation after World War I. So, yeah.
	And here's the thing, too.
	The triggers for calamitous hyperinflation, Weimar Republic-style hyperinflation, usually are major traumatic events, like a civil war or a major military loss.
	And so if the other things that we talk about come to pass, you know, if the civil unrest continues, if the United States gets involved in some kind of major world war starting over Taiwan or Ukraine or something like that, you know, these things could all prove the death knell to dollar supremacy.
	Yes.
	Because it would cause, you know, potentially at least, you know, could just absolutely detonate a bomb in the middle of our American sense of confidence and complacency about the dollar.
	And I think a lot of people see that.
	I think that is fundamental to a lot of this move into gold and silver away from the dollar that we're seeing.
	And of course, again, the weaponization of this financial system that we set up, we're destroying it ourselves, even if we don't do it from within.
	But there's a lot of issues that are coming up within.
	So very important that people keep their ear to the ground.
	And one of the great places to do that is at thenewAmerican.com.
	Thank you so much, Steve, for joining us.
	Our guest has been Steve Bonta, who is the publisher of The New American.
	And it's always a pleasure to have people on from JBS.
	And I just, I want to see more stories out there about the concern about the federalization of policing and other things like that.
	Because I tell you, I'm just going back.
	I talk about it constantly.
	I said, well, the John Burch Society was like 60 years ahead of the rest of everybody when they talked about the dangers of the federalization of the police and the militarization of the police, you know, back in the 1960s, support your local sheriff or whatever.
	That is more important than ever, I think.
	And we've got to be careful that we don't move into that because of a particular goal that we have.
	We have to be mindful of the precedents that we're setting and of the means that we're using because those are going to be the things that are going to be used to hang us when the administration changes as it inevitably will.
	Yes.
	So thank you so much for joining us.
	Steve Bonta.
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	And Brian Deb McCartney, sorry for missing your question earlier.
	Yeah, I'm going to try to do a better job of keeping up with the comments during an interview.
	I'm sorry I didn't see that, but they asked if I could ask him some of his solutions to these issues.
	But I would just say that I think I know that Steve would say the Constitution and following the rule of law, which is what we have gotten away from so much.
	And that's what we need to do is we need to move back into more of a federal system where we have decentralization of power.
	That is really the solution.
	Any way that we can do that, in any area that we can do that, that's a solution, I think.
	CJP Rumble says, oh, it's about more resources for data centers.
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	Assyrian Girl says he is right on the target.
	The city government do create and thrive on crime.
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	South America is always in chaos because there is enough oil nearly surfaced to completely upset the fixed market and OPEC.
	Big Brit is back again.
	Gold lost 200 an ounce this week.
	Yeah, the biggest drop that they've had for a very, very long time.
	And let's start with that.
	We'll start talking about that when we come back.
	But go ahead and finish these comments.
	Epstein Island talking to Jason Barker says it looks like it's falling again right now.
	However, the idea of gold being 4,000 reminds me of Zimbabwe inflation.
	Niburu 2029, BlackRock gained its foothold on the nation through the farm aid crisis with the aid of MAGA 1.0 while Michael Milken's junk bonds are being used as a distraction.
	That's right.
	Yeah, that was Larry Fink's ticket to the top.
	And now we're saddled with it for the rest of our lives.
	Defy Tyrant 1776.
	All the lawfare against Trump was contrived.
	Bunch of BS to drive support to him.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	And unfortunately, he's come out swinging.
	And as I said at the very beginning of the Trump administration, we'll see more of this.
	The lesson was not to, Trump is not going to come out and say, we should never have this again.
	We need to establish a rule of law.
	Instead, it's going to be we need to establish the rule of Trump.
	And so he's going to make it about empowering himself instead of the Constitution, instead of having integrity in society.
	He's going to do the exact opposite on the other side.
	Real Jason Barker, keeping the dollar strong is no longer possible unless one or two things happen.
	We either tokenize all of our assets and assign a value, or we take up a new thing like Venezuelan oil.
	Yeah, well, that's pretty much all this tokenization stuff is kind of what he was talking about in terms of keeping a ledger, right?
	And then we don't have to, we can divorce it from the value of these different things.
	That's a very dangerous thing, I think.
	The tokenization.
	People ought to go back and think about how we got into that situation with real estate, the most real of all assets.
	And yet it was securitization kind of tokenization.
	These kind of financial games that they play, that they invent out of New York and play these things.
	That was what got us into that situation.
	It's what created a Larry Fink and a BlackRock.
	Real Jason Barker, they were working at keeping the bubble going with tokenization of our inheritance and looking at offshore oil.
	But the long-term play is to replace the whole system to erase the debt.
	Elise Biden was honest about his horrible agenda.
	Trump is a liar.
	Yeah, that's right.
	They make the system intolerable, unbearable, and say, well, we've got to do away with it.
	We've got to switch to something, anything else.
	Let's get to the questions about gold.
	As a matter of fact, this is what I mentioned briefly in the interview.
	This is an article from Kitco.
	Ex-Fed insider warns of systemic liquidity crisis and sees the gold sell-off as a major distress signal for the economy in general.
	It says, a former Federal Reserve advisor issued a stark warning on Tuesday, arguing that a systemic liquidity crisis is already underway, a development she says will force the central bank to abandon its inflation fight, not because it has won, but because the financial system itself is breaking.
	The warning comes amid a period of pronounced market contradiction.
	On Tuesday, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained over 200 points, fueled by strong earnings from companies like GM and Coca-Cola, pushing the S ⁇ P 500 to within fractions of its all-time high.
	This optimism stands in sharp contrast to the stress emerging from the fixed income and commodity markets.
	And this is the person who's issuing this warning is Danielle DiMartino Booth, who served as an advisor to the former Dallas Fed president Richard Fisher from 2006 to 2015.
	She says this divergence is unsustainable.
	She's now the CEO of QI Research.
	She's been a persistent critic of Fed policy, arguing that the central bank's actions have created deep-seated vulnerabilities.
	She said it certainly looks like the system is running out of sufficient liquidity and that the Fed is going to be forced to pull over to the sidelines.
	In other words, to start up with quantitative easing again.
	Her assertion refers to the Fed's ongoing policy of quantitative tightening, a program that's been removing liquidity from the financial system by letting up to $95 billion in Treasury and mortgage-backed securities mature off of its balance sheet each month.
	She said this as gold suffered one of its steepest single-day declines in five years, falling over 5% to about 4,125 an ounce after reaching a record high above 4,380 the previous day.
	She argued that this is not a fundamental rejection of gold, but a sign of forced selling due to market-wide, quote, dash for cash.
	She said this is a dynamic that was last seen during the severe market dislocations at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
	She said, I think that what we're witnessing right now, I think we're witnessing a repeat of what we saw in March of 2020.
	In such an environment, investors who receive margin calls or need to raise cash quickly are often compelled to liquidate their most profitable and their most liquidable liquid asset.
	People tend to, if they get margin calls, if liquidity becomes an issue, they tend to pull their winners.
	The resulting volatility, she cautioned, is not a healthy sign for the asset.
	You never want to see gold behave like a meme stock, she said.
	Her warning is centered on the private credit markets that have grown explosively to over 1.7 trillion and which operate with less regulatory oversight than traditional banking.
	She sees a significant risk of contagion stemming from the lax underwriting standards that persisted during the era of near-zero interest rates.
	And again, we've seen reports about how a lot of automobile loans that were subprime, the people are now, you know, you can quickly go underwater with an automobile loan because it depreciates so rapidly.
	And so that has caused issues for a couple of financial institutions, which she's saying outside the banking industry, they were making these automobile loans.
	But I think it's also true of the commercial real estate market that Selenti has been pointing to for quite some time.
	And that also includes the banks.
	Her analysis validates recent concerns from global financial leaders.
	On Tuesday morning, Bank of England governor testified before Parliament and drew a direct parallel between recent blow-ups in U.S. private credit and the 2007 subprime crisis.
	Financial stability reports from both the Fed and the IMF have highlighted the rapid growth of this opaque market as a potential systemic risk.
	She said, if we are seeing these blow-ups in the private credit market, they're indicative more so of banks not necessarily having proper due diligence and sound enough underwriting standards when the money was flowing freely.
	And again, this is when she's saying it's banks, it's commercial real estate stuff.
	She believes that these are not isolated incidents, but that the problem is systemic.
	Echoing a recent warning from JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dieman about finding cockroaches in the financial system.
	She said, if the lending standards have been laxer than they should have been, then we're going to find, as Jamie Demon would suggest, more cockroaches.
	And it's not just the lending standards.
	I mean, these are subprime loans that are being made out with cars and other things like that.
	However, you know, the commercial real estate stuff, that is a real true hangover from the pandemic lockdown and the damage that was done as a consequence of that.
	It wasn't because of poor lending standards, but it was because of poor authoritarian policies by the Trump administration, frankly.
	U.S. household debt stands at a record of $18.5 trillion, with credit card and auto loan delinquencies rising steadily above pre-pandemic levels.
	With the market appearing optimistic, Booth pointed to underlying data showing a consumer under pressure, with recent reports from Vanguard and Empower noting that 401k hardship withdrawals are at a two-year high, partly driven by the recent resumption of student loan payments.
	She maintains the real economy is weaker than headline figures like the Atlanta Fed's 4% third quarter GDP, which now is the estimate that they're suggesting.
	So she believes that, again, as the economy is weaker than it appears to be from a lot of these reports, that people are getting calls they need to have liquidity.
	So they're going to liquidate their winner, which is going to be gold if they've got gold, and that's part of it.
	People taking, and once it goes straight up for so long, once some people start selling, a lot of people are going to start taking profits in it.
	So I look at it as gold is on sale.
	I think it's a good thing because the fundamentals have not changed.
	And even though we saw gold and silver see the worst one-day drop in years, the long-term uptrend remains solid.
	And why is that?
	Well, because of all the things that we've been talking about, the systemic realignment that is happening in the financial system.
	A lot of it is geopolitical, but a lot of it is just reality catching up to them and inflation catching up to the Fed's policies of quantitative easing and the manipulation of the economy.
	Metals have room to move lower, and let's note that both the markets remain in strong long-term uptrends.
	So that's what we're seeing.
	Silver is also facing selling pressure, trading at a two-week low, but it is still up 67% year-to-date as of yesterday.
	The same thing is true about gold.
	It moved to the lowest level in several days, but remains up more than 56% since the start of the year.
	The consolidation in gold is a function of profit-taking, pure and simple, said analysts at TD Securities.
	Today's sell-off was always in the cards given the scale of this year's rally.
	Some would argue, well, what took so long?
	With so much buying lately, investors have finally started to take profit after the record-breaking run, either willingly or otherwise, he said.
	The impact of profit-taking and long-side liquidation has added some real selling pressure for a change after what was one-way traffic.
	And so, again, other people are saying, well, it could withstand a 10% correction without breaking its bullish narrative.
	I mean, when you look at how much it has gone up, it is truly amazing that there haven't been more and deeper corrections in the past.
	But like we saw about a year ago, remember after Trump was elected, everybody said, well, it's going to be all about crypto now.
	And gold dropped quite a bit.
	And I remember the commercial that I did with the guy, Klondike, Klondike Bill or whatever from the little Rudolph Rednosed Reindeer.
	Anyway, he said.
	UConn Cornelius.
	UConn Cornelius.
	Thank you.
	Klondike Bill.
	Where did that come from?
	Anyway, UConn Cornelius.
	Yeah, gold and silver are on sale.
	And they were.
	They were on sale because they've gone up about 60% on average, the two of them.
	The fundamental backdrop remains...
	I think I have that if you want me to play it.
	I think people heard that quite a bit.
	Dominated by the same themes that propelled gold through successive record highs.
	A waning confidence in the old financial order leading to persistent central bank accumulation.
	Renewed demand for ETFs from investors in the West.
	And on top of the continued demand from Chinese households seeking alternatives and a four-year-long property market slump.
	And fourth, a fourth-year demand and a gradual erosion of trust in both fiat and fiscal management in the West.
	We have lost confidence in our institutions.
	So again, if we look at this, one of the interesting things, Lance, in this article here, gold can go higher, but conventional wisdom on inflation hedging is flawed.
	There's a chart in there.
	I want you to pull up on the screen.
	I didn't put it in the deck.
	And that is gold price versus ETF holding on gold.
	So if you get that, there it is.
	No, the next one, next one down, next chart down is, yeah, that one right there.
	Now look at that.
	That blue line is, let's see, the light blue line is ETFs.
	And the dark blue line is gold.
	And you see that the two are not tracking each other.
	That's the key thing, right?
	So it was up higher than gold was for quite some time.
	And then it has now gone lower and it's staying lower as gold has been going up.
	That was the thing that really concerned me about paper gold and paper silver, the fact that they weren't tracking with the metal.
	And so that got me to look to see what was really involved in it and to say, no, I don't want any of that.
	If you're going to get into gold and silver, get the real stuff.
	Don't settle for paper.
	Don't get out of one fiat instrument into another fiat instrument.
	So gold price is down with the biggest slide in 12 years after rallying to the highest value ever.
	Silver isn't doing too much better, but it is on sale, as Yukon Cornelius told us.
	Now, the key interesting thing here is what's going on in India.
	India has the largest metals refinery, just ran out of silver for the first time in history.
	So this is a company that does silver refining, and they can't find any silver in India.
	Isn't that interesting?
	And there's also a panic over silver in London as well.
	In India, the largest precious metals refinery ran out of silver stock for the first time in its history due to high demand from Indian consumers.
	The silver market crisis was caused by a combination of factors, including a multi-year solar power boom, a rush to ship metal to the U.S. to beat possible tariffs, and also a sudden spike in demand in India, particularly during the Diwali holiday season.
	For months, this company had been bracing for a stampede of buying from Indian customers who were going to be loading up on silver to honor the Hindu goddess of wealth.
	That's what this Diwali holiday season is about.
	So in the past, they've accumulated gold, but this time they started talking.
	There was a lot of talk about how silver was historically low.
	So they were going after silver and silver coins.
	And they said, we are literally out of stock on silver, the largest precious metal refinery in India.
	The guy said, this kind of crazy market where people are buying at these levels, I have not seen this in my 27-year career.
	Within days, the shortages are being felt not just in India, but around the world.
	India's festival buyers were joined by international investors and hedge funds, piling into precious metals as they bet on the fragility of the U.S. dollar, or to simply follow the market's irrepressible surge higher.
	By the end of last week, the frenzy had rippled across to London's silver market, where global prices are set and where the world's biggest banks buy and sell in huge quantities.
	Now it had run out of the available silver.
	Traders described the market that was all but broken, where even large banks stepped back from quoting prices as they fielded repeated calls from clients yelling down the line in frustration and exhaustion.
	When traders and analysts try to pinpoint the immediate cause of the silver crisis of 2025, they inevitably point to India.
	During this holiday season, hundreds of millions of devotees buy billions of rupees worth of jewelry to celebrate the goddess Lakshmi.
	Asia's refineries usually meet this demand, which typically favors gold, but this year many Indians turned to silver.
	The pivot was not random.
	For months, India's social media stars promoted the idea.
	After gold's record rally, silver was next to soar.
	The hype began in April when investment banker and content creator told his nearly 3 million followers that silver's 100 to 1 price ratio for gold made it the obvious buy this year.
	His video went viral on the auspicious day for buying gold, and they bought silver instead.
	So just as Indian demand was soaring, China closed for a week-long holiday, so bullion dealers turned to London, and they soon learned that London's precious metal vaults were largely sold out.
	While London vaults underpinning the global market hold more than $36 billion in silver, the majority of it was owned by investors in these ETF funds.
	Demands for silver ETFs have surged in recent months amid concerns about the stability of the U.S. dollar and so forth.
	So some people were actually, it was so chaotic that one individual, one trader, said big banks were offering such wildly different quotes because nobody had any silver, so they're all over the place.
	He said he was able to arbitrage that and make money.
	He said he could buy from one bank at its asking price and simultaneously sell to another and make an immediate profit.
	That's how chaotic it was.
	So again, we're seeing some strange things that are happening.
	The bottom line is, is that the fundamentals have not changed.
	Gold is the gold standard.
	Silver is there as well.
	And it's the institutional loss of confidence in the dollar and the financial system that the West has created that is driving all this stuff.
	And when we see these types of swings and things like that, it's only going to drive people that an increasing rate.
	So I don't think that this is any kind of a real change that's happening.
	It's just a temporary glitch.
	I think it's gold and silver on sale.
	Yeah, silver fell more than 6%, but again, it's up by 60%.
	As this person ends this, said, I see little reason to believe that we have seen the end of this rally because there is no fiscal discipline anywhere in any country and any government.
	Despite soaring deficits and inflation well above target, the Fed is cutting rates anyway.
	Do you have faith in Congress?
	Do you have faith in Trump to address this deficit?
	Do you have faith in the Federal Reserve to be able to control financially what's happening with the dollar?
	Look, the Federal Reserve can't even control what's happening with the Argentine peso with massive input.
	So, you know, they're losing their ability to control things.
	He says, well, neither do I, and neither do gold or silver.
	They have no confidence in these governments or their fiat currency.
	Do you want to take some comments here?
	Absolutely.
	Of course, it's just you can only deny reality for so long.
	No matter how strong the government is, no matter how much power they have, eventually reality reasserts itself.
	It's like one of these Roadrunner cartoons, right?
	You know, the Roadrunner runs off the cliff and he's gone for a good while until he looks down and he sees, he realizes that there's nothing underneath him, and then he drops like an acme.
	Once you realize gravity exists, he drops like an acme anvil.
	We've got, don't frag me, bro, controlled demolition of the economy.
	These are older comments from before the interview that we didn't get to.
	There's a few more that are new at the end.
	Okay.
	Okay.
	Star Barkley, it isn't just whole foods that sell shipped-in produce from Canada, Mexico, South America.
	Other stores do it too.
	Blueberries from Peru out of season.
	Yeah.
	Defy Tyrant 1776.
	Trump spent about the same amount of money in his first term as Obama did in eight years.
	That's where a lot of inflation came from.
	Helicopter money during the scandemic.
	And then Biden kept it up, and Trump is keeping up.
	I mean, they just, you know, just assumed a new curve and a new slope on the curve.
	And they've been maintaining this.
	He's precedent Trump.
	Big Britt is back again with Trump.
	He's going to put farmers out of business and then leave it for the billionaires like Gates to buy the farm and the land.
	Gates is buying up everything.
	Audi, MRR, the fundamental problem in the beef market is government.
	Yeah.
	It's the fundamental problem in many a market.
	And I have a beef with government.
	Brian and Deb McCartney, the issue is that the government does not belong in our food industry period.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	Steve Ebbs, responding to Big Brit, says it's now next to impossible to escape mRNA unless you never eat out and never shop at a grocery store.
	Yeah.
	It's going in everything.
	President Ovante 1776, the government destroys everything it touches, money, education, health care, etc., etc.
	Big Brit is back again.
	They keep rabbits in Europe for food, but most people in the U.S. keep them as pets.
	There's a few channels online that'll teach you how to keep meat rabbits.
	I've seen them pop up.
	Yeah, I knew Prepper, who's a Marine, and he was really big on growing rabbits for meat.
	They breed like rabbits.
	Yeah, that's right.
	I've also heard, though, that you can starve just eating rabbit.
	It doesn't have enough nutrition, so you want to use it as a supplemental meat.
	But if it's your only source, you can still starve while eating rabbit because your body just isn't getting enough nutrition.
	Big so Gollum didn't know that when he got a brace of cones.
	Exactly.
	This isn't what we need, Gollum.
	Where's the beef?
	Well, I don't think Gollum is really the health advisor that he wants to take.
	Get the Gollum look.
	Have you wanted to look haggard, strung out, distressed, as if by an ancient evil?
	Big Brit is back again.
	They keep rabbits in Europe for food.
	Read that.
	Real Jason Barker, Gates will win big time with his fake meat.
	If people can do no longer, people can no longer eat real meat.
	It says Gates has already released millions of bioengineered in several U.S. cities without the public's knowledge or consent.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	We need meat to live.
	One of the few sources of copper for our blood.
	Yes.
	Being vegan is a bourgeois affectation.
	It does not exist for the average person.
	You have to take so many supplements and you have to get this just-in-time delivery system to work just right so you can have your blueberries, like you said, flowing in from Peru and your oranges from Florida or wherever they're growing at this time, because otherwise you are going to starve.
	Your body is going to start shutting down as it can't get nutrients.
	Yeah, you tried that with the RA.
	Yeah, I tried being vegan for a while.
	It did not work out.
	And I was miserable and sickly and exhausted.
	It's the only time in my life I've been more tired than dealing with the baby just because your body does not have the energy it needs.
	You can't.
	You're kind of going for the golem look there as you lost all of your muscle.
	I was very, very skinny.
	I was down to like 130 pounds or something like that.
	Very, very scrawny individual at the time.
	But your body needs a lot of nutrients and the vegan diet doesn't really provide it.
	You have to specifically plan it out and make sure that you are getting them.
	If you don't do that, you'll fry your brain.
	Yeah.
	Well, let's take a break because I want to talk about, you know, I mentioned that India was driving the accumulation of silver was driving a lot of problems that had international consequences.
	But when we come back, I want to talk about India's footprint in the pharmaceutical industry.
	Just when you thought that pharmaceuticals couldn't get worse than what Pfizer and Moderna are doing, then we have another form of grifting that is coming from India, and it actually does make it worse.
	So we're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
	We'll be right back.
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	Pills, Profits, and Peril.
	I guess we could also say poison if you want to be hanging in there with the alliteration.
	How India's export-driven pharma machine puts Americans at severe risk.
	This is from WND.
	And he said, if it's every parent's nightmare, racing their child to the emergency room only to learn that the cough syrup they gave their son or daughter, rather than relieving their cough, instead had poisoned their child.
	It's the kind of horror story that no one expects, especially from something made for children.
	Yet it accurately reflects the grim reality of today's global pharmaceutical trade.
	And again, we're going to see that it all really comes back to the FDA, giving approval to the government covering up and concealing where stuff is coming from, number one, and also just giving a free hand to companies as well as countries, entire countries, who want to game the system and not do proper due diligence.
	Because just as in America, these pharmaceutical people are grifters, con men, thieves, and murderers.
	In this case, it was a drug manufacturer in India that decided to swap safe ingredients for cheaper toxic chemicals, the same substance used in engine coolant, brake fluid, and antifreeze.
	As horrifying as that story sounds, there is an even more unsettling truth.
	The same country responsible for these deadly syrups also produces a huge share of the medicines that are sitting in Americans' homes and hospitals.
	And yet, another reason to just say no to the most dangerous drugs, these pharmaceutical drugs.
	The most dangerous because you think they're safe.
	And it's another reason to start looking for alternatives.
	We don't necessarily need to have cough syrup that comes out of the bottle.
	There's plenty of natural alternatives for cough suppression that are out there that are safe, that you can put together yourself.
	Yeah, save the cough syrup for the rappers who really need it.
	They use that as a drug.
	Oh, yeah.
	Rappers have been using lean.
	It's called lean.
	I wouldn't know that.
	Because it makes you lean.
	I had a friend who is underage.
	He couldn't get alcohol, so he got NyQuil.
	And it's like, are you crazy?
	He started drinking NyQuil.
	It was a higher percentage of alcohol than most of the alcohol they could buy in an alcohol store.
	Do not go to sleep.
	Don't cough medicines like that have some sort of hallucinogenic effect as well?
	I don't know.
	Taken in large enough doses, it can cause weird stuff with the brain, but it also is just extremely hard on the body.
	It generally leads to seizures and all kinds of medical complications.
	But rappers aren't necessarily known for their forethought and circumspect nature.
	So they tend to...
	Neither was my friend.
	They tend to disregard those sorts of consequences.
	Well, India now dominates the global generic drug market.
	Behind the dominance lies a disturbing pattern of fraud, contamination, and neglect.
	Factories caught falsifying test results, skipping safety checks, or cutting corners with unsafe inputs have continued to ship products abroad with little interruption and even less accountability.
	I guess the question is, how's this different from Pfizer?
	Except it is different.
	It's even another level when just when you thought it couldn't get worse.
	So about 15 years ago under Obama, the U.S. FDA recognized India's, this is a statement from Biden's FDA Commissioner.
	So about 15 years ago, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recognized India's strategic importance to the U.S. And in fulfilling our mission, you know, to poison Americans, I guess that's the FDA's mission right now.
	We opened up one of the FDA's first foreign offices in India.
	Indian medical product sector has continued to grow, as has our reliance on medical products made in India.
	India sometimes describes itself as pharmacy to the world.
	And as WND points out, this pharmacy of the world thing is a narrative that paints India as a benevolent supplier of affordable medicine to developing nations, a trusted producer of life-saving generics for the West.
	But behind that reputation lies a far darker reality, one that is built not on innovation or quality, but on cost-cutting, corruption, and cutting corners.
	India's rise in pharmaceuticals was not driven by breakthroughs in science or superior manufacturing.
	India's breakthrough began when they rewrote their patent laws in the 1970s, allowing domestic firms to reverse engineer Western drugs without licensing fees.
	The loophole fueled an explosion of generic production, cheap, fast, and profitable.
	When international patent protections were later restored in the U.S. in 2005, Indian manufacturers pivoted again, this time flooding foreign markets with off-patent generics while undercutting competitors through low labor costs, weak oversight, and questionable testing practices.
	This is a lot of the stuff that we saw with China as well.
	Intellectual property theft, and then cutting corners, and that's especially disturbing when you're looking at medicines that are there.
	Today, India produces about 20% of the world's generic medicines.
	Nearly half of all generics sold in the United States come from India.
	But low prices come with a high risk.
	A landmark study found that Indian-made generics had a 54% higher risk of serious side effects compared to U.S.-produced generics.
	So imagine even more dangerous than the U.S. pharmaceuticals.
	Yeah, they already play all these games to get them approved, and that's the ones that are the clean manufactured ones compared to these Indian ones.
	That's right.
	That's right.
	So, I mean, you know, the substance itself can be dangerous, and then you can add to it shoddy quality control and even substituting ingredients, putting antifreeze type of stuff in it because it's cheaper to do that.
	So, again, these people poison for profit.
	You know, the Indian pharmaceutical companies are no different than the U.S. pharmaceutical companies.
	Instead, the U.S. poisons people because of government agendas, for example, from BARDA, DARPA, ARPA-H, and their depopulation agenda.
	Indian manufacturers have reportedly been tied to contamination, falsified test data, toxic ingredients.
	There was a $500 million fraud case for this cough syrup poisoning that was done, and the World Health Organization investigated, the UN investigated, and nothing is changing.
	India, the Indian government is so corrupt it's not going to do anything about that.
	Very much like our government.
	They allow their profitable companies to do anything.
	Since 2000, pharmaceutical imports have surged to unprecedented levels.
	By 2024, the U.S. brought in more than 828,000 metric tons of drugs and ingredients, over seven times the volume imported at the start of the century.
	So over a 25-year period, it's gone up by sevenfold.
	It's the product of a failed trade and regulatory model that has sacrificed American manufacturing for short-term profits.
	The problem is, is that we can't point the finger at the Indian government any more so than the FDA.
	They're even bragging about the fact that the FDA participated in this lack of regulatory oversight and this fraud and poisoning.
	They even put multiple offices there in India to facilitate it.
	All it should take for someone to realize we should not be manufacturing anything that someone is going to consume in India is about 10 minutes on Twitter.
	If you spend about 10 minutes on Twitter, you will see enough videos and gifts from India to make you go, I would never.
	Well, it's kind of like when we were in China, we took that excursion out into the country to kind of see where our daughter had been living.
	And we get off the boat and they're just putting food out on the road to dry.
	And this is a road where not only vehicles and people are walking on, but they've got animals that are defecating on the road.
	They got, you know, their livestock and everything are out there.
	And they're putting food out there to dry.
	And some of the people from our group, they took this stuff off of this.
	We saw this.
	They're taking it off the street, taking it in and putting it in their machine and packaging it.
	And people on our group are buying it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, you're going to get an exotic stomach issue coming up here in a minute.
	Two countries, China and India, dominate the American drug supply.
	Together, they account for 70 to 80 percent of the generics and key ingredients in the U.S. medicine cabinets.
	India alone produces nearly half of all Finnish generics sold in this country, while China supplies many of the raw compounds that are used to make them.
	This dependency doesn't just threaten America's health.
	It hands foreign governments and corporations enormous leverage over U.S. national security.
	Hey, I'm more than happy to let these people pull these things off.
	Take the pharmaceuticals off instead of the rare earth minerals.
	And just watch us squirm about this.
	Anyway, in February, when researchers revealed that Indian-made generic drugs carried a 54% higher risk of serious side effects, including hospitalization, disability, and death, the Indian pharmaceutical lobby immediately challenged the findings.
	Industry representatives accused researchers of bias, arguing that the analysis unfairly targeted India's global role while insisting that its products and international quality standards were fine.
	And actual evidence at home and abroad, though, told a much darker story.
	Again, this is the same story we see when anybody pushes back against what the FDA is allowing and what the pharmaceutical companies are doing here in America.
	They just deny it and continue to do this again.
	Over recent years, Indian-made cough syrups have been linked to hundreds of children's deaths across multiple continents.
	So again, it's not nearly as dangerous as the MRA Trump shots that are out there.
	The World Health Organization has documented more than 300 child fatalities caused by syrup laced with diethylene glycol, DEG, and ethylene glycol, EG.
	These are industrial toxins used in antifreeze.
	Well, of course, as I mentioned frequently, and I mentioned it earlier today, Pfizer is putting PEG, DEG, EG, and PEG, these are basically the same, putting that into the Trump injectables.
	And when Children's Health Defense saw that, they called him on it and they said, well, FDA said we don't care.
	Contact Pfizer.
	Pfizer didn't care either.
	Between 2022 and 2023, fatal outbreaks were reported in Gambia, Uzbekistan, Indonesia.
	In 2025, new deaths in the large Indian state of Madhya Pradesh were traced to syrups containing nearly 500 times the allowable diethylene glycol limit.
	But we see this all the time with the Trump shots.
	We see massive millions of people who have been killed with this globally, and they don't do anything to stop it.
	Instead, Trump rewards Albert Borla and Pfizer, goes into business with them.
	Each time regulators and manufacturers call the tragedies isolated incidents, just like they do when people die from sudden death after the Trump shots.
	But repetition reveals a pattern.
	The pattern looks less like bureaucratic incompetence and more like strategic containment, a deliberate effort to protect the pharmaceuticals.
	Again, same pattern we see here, except this is even, they just add contaminants to it.
	But we know that there is DNA contamination that violates the FDA's own standards on these Trump injectables, and they're not stopping any of this stuff.
	Data from India's own regulators show that over 36% of Indian drug manufacturing plants inspected since mid-2023 were ordered to shut due to non-compliance.
	But they don't shut them.
	They keep them open, and they don't even inspect all of them on a regular basis.
	And when called on it, the Indian equivalent of the FDA said it's not the government's job to test every single batch.
	That responsibility lies with the manufacturer.
	Again, the same story that we saw about PEG and the FDA.
	FDA says, oh, call Pfizer.
	Don't talk to us about it.
	In 2024, India's top regulator declared the crisis under control.
	Yet, within months, that assurance unraveled as new child deaths emerged, and the owner of one pharmaceutical company was arrested, and the World Health Organization issued a fresh global alert warning that contaminated cough syrups from multiple Indian companies posed a serious risk to public health.
	A June 2025 ProPublica investigation, they called it the threat in your medicine cabinet, the FDA's gamble on America's drugs, showed how the FDA repeatedly allowed overseas factories, largely in India, to ship products even after serious manufacturing and quality failures.
	They do the same thing here.
	The FDA is purely political.
	They're bought off, they're controlled, whether it's by companies here in America or companies in other countries or even an organized effort by a government like India to push this through.
	I also want to comment again.
	I've mentioned this before, but Eastern countries, especially places like China and India, have this, you know, you're a sucker if you're not trying to cheat the system mentality.
	It's a someone is going to cheat and get rich.
	It might as well be you.
	And they're not going to abandon that mentality when they come to the United States.
	They're not going to integrate.
	They don't have to because people are just waiting to be bribed at the FDA.
	And they've also imported millions upon millions of migrants.
	So there is a large enough base here for them to just go live with their own people and create their own subcultures in the United States.
	They never have to really interact with American culture or adapt to it.
	Well, when you look at the impact of coming into this country, a big part of this, which is the next thing I was going to cover, is that they have now built 20 plants in the U.S. And so they have falsified records.
	They have filthy labs.
	They've received exemptions that let at least 150 drugs or ingredients to keep flowing into the American market.
	They said out of the 150 that they targeted here that were coming in, one of them was from China, one of them was from Hungary, and 148 were from India, almost all of them from India.
	So inspectors found metal shavings on production lines, raw materials contaminated with extraneous matter, and blackish vials of injectable medication that still reach U.S. pharmacies.
	And again, blackened vials.
	That reminds me of the couple of batches, over a million of them each, that the Japanese threw away of the Trump shots because they said they had black particulates in them.
	And that they interacted with magnets as well.
	You know, you talk about metal shavings or whatever, whatever this stuff is, whether it's graphite or metal shavings.
	So again, maybe the metal shavings are just sloppy manufacturing in India.
	Here, it may be graphite that was put in intentionally for some kind of nanotech thing.
	Can we take some graphite or metal shavings for Trump's account?
	Sure, we can.
	That's right.
	The FDA, however, pressured by industry lobbyists and afraid of drug shortages, looked the other way.
	Instead of sounding the alarm, it kept the public and even Congress in the dark, as if Congress would ever do anything, right?
	Adverse event reports, including hospitalizations and deaths, and the agency rarely investigated.
	Again, you know, this is a good article.
	It's good to know this about what's going on with India and what's going on with our own FDA.
	But WND will not apply these analogies to what's going on with the Trump shots that are still out there as well.
	Indian pharmaceutical multinationals have also embedded themselves into America.
	Most of them have anchored their operations in New Jersey, Maryland, and North Carolina.
	These firms exert influence through direct federal lobbying and powerful trade groups such as the Association for Accessible Medicines.
	Most of the board seats on that group, 13 out of 23, more than half, are held by executives of companies that are owned or controlled by Indian parent corporations.
	These same Indian firms supply roughly 40 to 50 percent of the U.S. generic drug market.
	Companies repeatedly cited for safety violations, contamination, and FDA compliance abroad are shaping U.S. generic drug policy here domestically.
	Again, America has been taken over from the outside.
	One country after the other.
	Where you're talking about Israel, Argentina, or India, they just have their way because our own government is so corrupt.
	And so they end this article from WND.
	That's an important note from WND.
	Key members of Congress, as well as the Trump administration itself, including the Office of the Vice President and the Department of Justice, are all well aware and taking serious note of this investigative report by Amanda Bardolata's groundbreaking reporting on this.
	But I just have to say that you're not going to see them do anything, and we can understand that with certainty.
	You're going to have RFK Jr. just as a sycophant to Trump.
	He's not going to do anything about this stuff.
	You didn't believe that you were going to get to heaven.
	You're doing God's work here.
	You've made peace in the Middle East, which is beyond anybody's imagination.
	It is imaginative.
	It is an imaginary peace.
	And you're doing this while the government is locked down.
	So many different contenders for sycophant of the year.
	This administration has not stopped working for the American people.
	And that's because of your energy, your commitment, your vision.
	And I want to thank you for allowing me to be part of it.
	Yeah, right.
	Okay.
	Well, let's take a quick, quick break here and read some of the comments here.
	That's right.
	Knights of the Storm gifted a sub on kick.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you, Jason.
	Of course, that is Jason Barker.
	Yes.
	Real Jason Barker from Nights of the Storm says the fake food thing is no different than what Big Pharma does, get rid of non-patentable products so they can sell what they have patented.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	That's right.
	BMI Valentine.
	Willie Bergdorfer, who discovered quote-unquote Lyme disease, was putting various pathogens and ticks to see what ones could survive and can coexist together.
	Isn't that funny?
	It just so happened to find it.
	Yeah, now they got the Alpha Gal.
	Alpha Gal.
	How could this happen?
	They name that Alpha Gal.
	It's, yeah.
	Now we have the Alpha Generation, right?
	Yeah.
	Now we're on to generation.
	So then we can use Alpha Gal so that people can't eat meat.
	They can all just have soy and they can all be soy boys.
	Oh boy.
	I love women.
	Yeah.
	No more alpha males.
	Real Jason Barker responding to Guard Goldsmith.
	They're doing the same with energy.
	Don't have a word wood burning stove.
	Buy my subsidized solar.
	It's all planned obsolescence for the money.
	Yeah.
	Solar does have a sort of half-life where it gets weaker as you go.
	It isn't going to last all that long.
	And then if it's a grid down scenario, it might be hard to get replacements for that.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Alien poop evolution says kudzu is edible.
	Lots of estrogen in it.
	Huh.
	Interesting factoid.
	I didn't know about estrogen.
	New kudzu is edible.
	We had kudzu root.
	It's actually pretty good.
	We found a recipe for that.
	Remember, mom made that.
	It was like.
	I remember she used to make a leek pie.
	Yeah, it was leek pie, and it was delicious.
	And actually, they had the kudzu root from like over in Asheville is where we got it.
	Well, North Carolina is covered in kudzu.
	That's right.
	North Carolina Mountains.
	It's like, yeah, I finally got a product for it.
	Yeah, just the root, but I don't know what you'll do with the leaves.
	The root of the issue.
	I saw something about people making paper out of kudzu and how if you have land that has kudzu on it, you can use it for stuff, but you can't plant it anywhere legally in the U.S. Interesting.
	Real Jason Barker.
	Carbon taxes will push out legacy forms of energy so they can sell you their alternatives.
	Don't frag me, bro.
	Chitin is in the insect meat.
	Everything is a lie, damn it.
	And of course, that's howdy MRR's new broadcast.
	So we won't have chitlins like Granny did, but we'll have chitin.
	I'm good on both of those.
	I'll pass.
	No, thank you.
	Yeah.
	None for me, thanks.
	But I will take the collard greens.
	The reason that GMO food is not labeled as such is because of the DARC Act, which Obama signed into law 2014.
	Manufacturers no longer required to label their frankenfood as GMO.
	Yeah, and a big part of that was the glyphosate stuff, because again, you know, that was done to turn people into renters of seed.
	You have to buy it every year and only buy it from Monsanto.
	And they had found that in certain communities, the farmers were educated.
	They knew what was happening, and there was a drift of glyphosate onto their property.
	It would poison things and then, you know, poison their land they couldn't grow.
	It wasn't just a matter of it being non-GMO, but actually poison it so that you couldn't grow anything on it unless it was Monsanto's seed.
	And so even though they would go into some of these communities, and one of them, they spent $8 million on ads when somebody came up with a bill to ban the use of glyphosate in that area.
	And it's even worse with the Canba.
	DeCamba is notorious for DeCamba drift.
	It sounds like a Brazilian dance, but it's not.
	It's a poison.
	And so they were losing one after the other because when they would put these bills up, the farmers were informed about what was happening, and they couldn't buy their way in with all this advertising.
	So they went to Washington and they said, we can't have a patchwork of different regulations throughout the country.
	Well, why not?
	That's called federalism.
	That's what our system is built on.
	And so they got the Obama administration to shut it down from Washington and say, we're going to have one set of rules, which will be that there are no rules.
	And so they set that up.
	And that was the so-called DARC Act.
	Before we run out of time, though, I want to cover this a little bit.
	You know, we had Trump is absolutely dead set on coming after Thomas Massey.
	And over the weekend, he posted another anti-Massey rant on social media.
	And he is promoting a candidate to run against him who ran and failed in a Senate race, Ed Galrine, I guess.
	He's a former Navy SEAL.
	And they have been sitting there with a lot of money from three billionaires who are Zionists, who are against Thomas Massey, who is against more money for foreign aid.
	He's against wars and things like that.
	So you've got people like Miriam Adelson and Paul Singer and John Paulson.
	Together they put in $2 million to fund a fund that was going to run against Massey.
	And it doesn't say everything about our politics.
	They didn't even have a candidate.
	They're just putting a pool of money there and going looking for a candidate.
	So now this Navy SEAL has been begging for it, according to Thomas Massey.
	And it looks like he's the chosen person to get this inheritance from these Israeli billionaires who don't live in Kentucky.
	They don't even live in the United States.
	At least Miriam Adelson doesn't.
	I don't know where Singer and Paulson live.
	So the drive to end Massey's career has plenty of money, but it's lacking something more important.
	A candidate, says Zero Hedge.
	So enter this guy who has been out there running for office.
	And you know that this guy is a Navy SEAL.
	He's probably going to be in the mold of a big military industrial complex supporter.
	He's going to want wars everywhere.
	And guess what?
	He does.
	And so Thomas Massey did some research and said, well, after having been rejected by every elected official in the fourth district, Trump's consultants clearly pushed the panic button with their choice of a failed candidate and an establishment hack, Ed Galrine.
	He said, Ed's been begging them to pick him for over three months now.
	And so Trump asked dual citizen Miriam Adelson, a billionaire running nasty ads against me in Kentucky, who do you love more?
	The United States or Israel?
	She refused to answer him.
	He says that might mean that she loves Israel more.
	This isn't AI.
	It is real video, said Thomas Massey.
	And of course, the reality is we could ask the same question to Trump.
	Who do you love more?
	America or Israel?
	I think we already know the answer to that.
	But then Massey did some more research.
	He said, well, looky here, this hack that Trump just endorsed to run against me is a Lindsey Graham donor.
	And so to put the hypocrisy in sharp focus, says Zero Hedge, Trump calls Massey a rhino, a Republican in name only, yet Trump's chosen candidate has failed the quintessential rhino test.
	And Massey's dances, how, have the ones that have angered Trump, they put him in this zero hedge article, opposing the $2 trillion COVID-19 relief package in 2020.
	That was the first time Trump said, we're going to primary this guy out.
	He failed in doing that.
	And so.
	How do you think Mary Madelson went about looking for this?
	Rich older woman looking for agreeable goy toy.
	Putting that in the personals there.
	Anyway, to degrade yourself.
	No, remember, they have their badges with the QR code on them.
	That's right.
	They just scan them like going to the supermarket.
	They've got them all on the back.
	Before we run out of time, I want to show this.
	This is, it's not just that this guy donated to Lindsey Graham.
	Trump donated to Lindsey Graham.
	Trump's first in-person fundraiser of the 2026 cycle will be for Lindsey Graham.
	And of course, this is tweeted out by, I saw this from Shannon Joy.
	She said, I told you so about all this stuff.
	But think about it.
	Who is the rhino?
	Is it Trump who is supporting Lindsey Graham, the quintessential rhino?
	And again, putting in this guy who is just another clone of Lindsey Graham, who is all about the military-industrial complex.
	And so what is it that Trump has a problem with?
	Well, he doesn't like that Massey has voted against a $2 trillion COVID quote-unquote relief package that was a universal basic income training package.
	He also pushed back against the Big Beautiful bill that would add $4 trillion worth of debt to the government here.
	He's been against wars.
	He's against Israel's war on Iran.
	And he has also organized a discharge petition that on looking at the House going back into session will force a floor vote on declassifying files related to Jeffrey Epstein.
	And again, Trump doesn't even realize where he is on this.
	Look at this is somebody doing a projection of Trump and the Epstein files playing the X-Files.
	Trump doesn't realize just how bad this whole Epstein thing is.
	The royal family is starting to come around to it as they're pushing away anybody that was involved in it.
	This is going to be the ultimate rhino albatross around Trump's neck.
	But again, the real rhino is this New York City Democrat called Donald Trump.
	He is the rhino.
	He has pushed against Thomas Massey for doing the things that everybody wanted Trump to do, that candidate Trump said he was for, but that President Trump always opposes.
	That's it for today's show.
	Thank you for joining us.
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