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Sept. 23, 2023 - Info Warrior - Jason Bermas
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Oil Is Our Bloodline And Biden The Buffoon With Mark Schaftlein And Zak Paine | MSOM Ep. 829

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Oil Prices on the Rise 00:15:07
Welcome to Making Sense of the Madness.
I am Jason Burmese and today we're going to be talking about the global economy with Mark Schaffline.
And of course, we're going to be talking about impeachment and beyond with Zach Payne.
Buckle up and get ready to make sense of the madness.
Oh my God, really?
Oh my gosh.
You know, oh, it's devastating.
Don't do it.
Please don't do it.
Oh, no.
Oh, no.
Here we are in the dark cartoon where a man who was clearly installed after having a life-threatening stroke that clearly affected his cognitive ability is joking around about the criminal activity of the other currently installed puppet that runs nothing, Joe Biden.
Welcome to 2023 and beyond into 2024, folks.
It doesn't seem real, but oh, it is.
And Bidenomics is continuing to take hold.
They're telling you, hey, inflation's not that bad, down to 3% from just the 9% we told you was inflation before.
But let's take a closer look at the global economy.
Last week, we focused on the fact that China does not seem to be doing so well and that you had large bank closures over there.
Today, I wanted to start out focusing on Europe with Mark Schaffline.
He's an AMP news contributor and economic savant.
Mark, we're seeing shrinkage in the United Kingdom and beyond.
What is driving this?
The UK and now Germany are having large shrinks in their economy as prices are going up, especially in the realm of energy.
Well, it's no surprise, Jason, and thank you for having me back on as your guest.
When you have oil prices north of $90 a barrel, which is where we are right now, I mean, I filled up yesterday here in Southern California, how about $6.09 a gallon for everybody watching across the country?
I mean, it's bad and it's going to get worse.
And when you see situations like these radical leftists who take, for example, Alaska, our most prominent, you know, everybody thinks it's Texas.
No, it's Alaska, our most prominent energy state.
And basically, they cut out 85% of the ability to drill on permits that had already been issued.
And then it's no surprise that oil prices, which were hovering in the mid-70s, are now sitting $90, $92, $93 a barrel.
And Jason, if you can, this is the oldest economic rule in the book.
If you continue to limit supply, and oil is a global commodity, certain economies, even if they don't grow hardly at all, demand for oil will increase.
Prices have to go up.
Well, what happens when prices go up?
It crowds out everything else.
Oil is a commodity that goes into virtually every aspect of our economy, whether you're producing a goods and service, whether you're producing food, filling up your gas tank.
Eventually, it flows into the mortgage market too.
So it's no surprise that you're going to have economies like Great Britain that already has a left-leaning government.
Germany that is further left-leaning than Great Britain, and some of these environmental policies that the Brits and the Germans are embracing, there's a cost to that.
So, my feeling is this: when their citizens realize they're in such pain, and that's always the catalyst for it, when you reach a certain pain level, they'll demand change.
But obviously, they haven't hit that level yet.
And I wonder when they will, because energy prices are completely out of control.
And prior to the COVID-19 44 nightmare, a lot of people forget, but France had a large movement with the yellow jackets complaining about the fact that they did have inflation, that what their economic status was being dwindled, that they didn't really have the retirement package that their parents had.
And we're seeing that more and more and more.
When you talk about oil, winter is coming, Mark.
What are your predictions?
Are we going to see rising energy prices in Europe and in this country, especially with the policies of the Biden administration, as you alluded to, shutting down pipelines that already had the permits, Mark?
Yeah, it's going to get bad.
And the people in the Northeast, particularly, that rely on home heating oil.
I was just talking to Joe Visconti, a frequent guest on my show.
He lives there.
Prices are already starting to go up.
And again, Jason, it goes back to the simplest rule in economics.
When you limit supply, prices go up.
So think about this for a minute now.
Most of the Northeast is pretty heavily Democratic.
Occasionally, New Hampshire will vote for Republicans, but it's generally a Democratic stronghold.
Now, how will Pennsylvania play into this?
Very important because Pennsylvania is a swing state for the 2024 election.
But if you start seeing, let's say, gasoline prices in the Northeast, $450 a gallon, they're probably hovering $350 to $4 right now.
But if you see $450 to $5 home heating oil much higher than that, you're literally going to see people screaming from the rooftops.
And when Democrats start inflicting pain on their own voters, then maybe they'll have a little bit change of heart.
You know, I mentioned to you here in California yesterday, I paid over $6 a gallon for gasoline.
It's crazy.
I mean, we have energy resources that are abundant in this country.
And think about what we did.
We drained the strategic petroleum reserve, not drained it completely, but took a big chunk of oil that we have stored in there for emergencies, and we took that oil out to help stabilize prices when they were getting a little wacky.
The Biden administration had a plan that they were going to restock the strategic reserves, you know, that's basically in caverns in Louisiana, around $70 a barrel in oil.
Well, guess what?
The markets had a different idea.
They said, wait a minute, you're not going to pay $70 if you want to do this.
Markets anticipate demand.
And when they believe that demand is going to increase, then prices are going to go up.
Now, there's a little bit of a contrary statement in there.
You might say, well, Mark, if economies in Germany and Great Britain are shrinking, how can demand go up?
Well, think about this.
The U.S. economy, for all the issues that we've had, has still been resilient.
We're still growing at about 2.5%.
We have the largest economy in the world.
By definition, we're going to use more oil.
Despite what all the greenies tell you and all the TESLs you may be seeing driving around, this country runs on oil.
China is another example.
The Chinese economy, which has been contracting for the past couple of years, they're not going to show it to you in official statistics, but when you see massive amounts of vacant apartments, 30% unemployment among workers under the age of 30, I don't care what the government statistics are.
That's an economy that's not growing.
But the Chinese are starting to lower interest rates, put more money into their system.
And guess what?
Despite the bad policies in Germany and in Great Britain, if you have the two largest economies in the world, the United States and China, growing, which is arguably what's happening right now, then oil prices will go up.
Now, who does that affect the most?
People that have income earning less than $60,000 a year, people on fixed income.
Jason, I have to tell you, if the Republicans, again, you never want to have anything bad happen for the country.
But if you could pay to scenario where whether it's Donald Trump or someone else in the Republican Party has Joe Biden as his opponent for the 2024 election and you see these energy prices, my goodness, you've got literally an issue handed to you on a silver platter.
Well, that's assuming that this election isn't going to be rigged like I believe the last one was, especially because you talked about the Northeast.
And, you know, my brother, I moved from upstate New York, but he lived in a much more rural area, had the oil, and he saw those prices skyrocket over the last two years and has already been complaining to me that they're going up yet again.
You mentioned Pennsylvania.
We led in with the clip of John Fetterman, a man who could barely speak at a debate against a very popular TV show.
I don't know, TV show host.
I don't know about you, Mark, but I remember a time that if you were a celebrity, it really didn't matter what political party you were a part of.
You kind of got elected.
Somehow he didn't.
And Joe Biden also got elected in that state very suspiciously.
So, you know, if we are going to talk about that voting block, especially being an upstate New York guy, very much a part of the Northeast, I can tell you that we don't believe that our elections are free, fair, and secure, folks.
And we would like an audit of them, especially after the last one.
However, the infrastructure hasn't changed.
So my next question is: if the infrastructure doesn't change and the Biden administration is still in there, or there's an extension of the Biden administration by another Democratic administration, or maybe even an establishment Republican one, we never know.
Will we see gas prices go on?
Will the, I'm sorry, go down?
Will we see the energy turnback in any way, shape, or form?
Or is it going to take pushback from citizens in mass protest to even move that needle mark?
It's going to take the latter.
I mean, it's simple laws of supply and demand.
If demand increases, which unless the economy really makes a left turn, no pun intended, and starts heading south, I just don't see that in the cards right now.
Yeah, could we see a contraction maybe to flat to slightly negative for a quarter or two?
Maybe.
But unless that happens, demand for energy products is going to increase.
Look at some of your company.
This is what really gets me.
Some of these oil executives, they know damn good and well where their bread's buttered.
I see the CEO of Chevron come on.
I see other CEOs from global energy companies come on, come on the news.
And what do they talk about?
They talk about like 5% of their business, which is renewables.
Folks, this country and the globe runs on oil and it will continue to.
We have so much oil in Alaska.
Honest to God.
If the Alaska and War, which is where most of these reserves are, it's in northern Alaska, very hostile area.
But the major oil companies still bid for leases up there.
Why?
Because there's 90 billion barrels of oil up there, 90 billion barrels of oil.
But the Biden administration is limiting 85 to 90 percent of that.
So, think about this: you're one of your major supply areas in the country is being limited.
Now, do you think for a second?
Okay, if the Chinese, the Russians, let's even throw again a tiny country, but you know, you talk about a current axis of evil: Russia, China, and North Korea.
North Korea doesn't have the resources, but let's just stick with Russia and China for right now.
Russia is a major oil producer, but guess what the Russians have done?
And you can criticize them all you want, but they're not stupid.
The Russian finance minister has aligned themselves with guess who?
Saudi Arabia.
So, if you have Saudi Arabia and Russia aligning each other, which they are, and that's two of the three largest oil producers in the world, and you've got a country like ours led by a Democrat who doesn't know what he's doing, who's listening to greenies telling what the policy should be.
And oh, by the way, think about this for a minute, folks.
When Donald Trump was president, he was welcomed in Saudi Arabia.
I mean, they put out the military guard, they honored him with a parade.
I still remember him holding up the swords and, you know, meeting with the president of the country, meeting with MBS, Mohammed bin Salim, who's really running the company of the country.
And Saudi Arabia and the United States relationship was as good as it gets.
When Joe Biden met MBS, it was as cold as you could get it.
I mean, the U.S. and the Saudis are not on the same page.
And why is that?
Because all the greenies in the White House don't want this oil, but there's not enough alternatives soon enough.
So now we have a combination: the Saudis and the Russians getting together.
Well, guess what?
They came out and they are limiting production.
You can hate the Russians all you want, and there's granted good reasons for it.
And you can get pissed off at the Saudis.
But at the end of the day, they're two of the three largest producers.
And if they limit the supply, and then you have this genius in the White House who's limiting our ability to drill in northern Alaska, global supplies are going to come down at a time when global demand goes up.
So in a longabout way to answer your question, I don't see prices coming down.
Here's the paradox to it, Jason.
If oil prices say dip below $70 a barrel, what does that tell you about the economy?
To me, it looks like a lose-lose.
If prices go up, which they are right now, that's going to put a lot of pain on the American public.
If prices go down below 70, then you're going to have a situation where the economy starts to contract.
People start using the recession word.
And then if you go into an election as a Democrat and the country's in a recession, I don't care how much you try to stuff the ballot box, cheat in the election, you'll lose.
And that's sort of how I see it right now.
I'm not so sure that you lose in this situation in 2024, but I'll take your word for it on that one.
Oil Prices and Economic Recession 00:09:12
You know, you talked about alliances and you briefly talked about North Korea.
Russia, Putin, is about to meet with Kim Jong-un.
It should be very interesting to see what arises out of that.
We've got to take a break, but when we come back, I'd like to contrast the energy policies of the Trump administration with the Biden administration and what you think could happen in a successful 2024 run for Trump or another Republican.
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What should people know about that whole blow up with Project Aritus?
I read a few people wrong, and that's my fault, but I learned from that, and I think I'll be a more effective messenger as a result of that.
That'll free me up to do the next chapter, the next stage of my evolution, which is OMG, which is decentralizing journalism.
And sometimes things happen for a reason.
That's my goal.
That's my mission.
And I didn't ask for that, Lincoln.
I never thought that would be my mission.
It just has become my mission.
And I'm excited about it.
We are back and we're talking the economy and beyond with Mark Schaftline.
And Mark, when I look at the economy under Trump, it was undeniable.
There was more money in my paycheck.
Number two, gas prices were down.
You're talking about in California paying six bucks.
I'm paying about $4.59 for premium, no ethanol here in Iowa.
I don't like the taste of it.
I'd be much happier with under three.
I remember those days.
At the same time, you have this CPI report coming out saying, well, inflation right now and the rise of in August is due to rising energy costs.
But if you continually shut off the power, of course, these costs are going to rise.
I guess my question to you is, is there a way that, number one, if Trump gets back in or another Republican, and is there another Republican, can they just turn the power back on like that?
And doesn't that seem to be kind of anti-the agenda that has been opposed and really a difficult process?
If they push somebody like a Nikki Haley or a Mike Pence, does that really happen?
Yeah, the short answer is yes.
Okay.
And right now, look, Donald Trump's leading by 30 points in the most conservative poll that you have.
But occasionally, depending upon the flavor of the month, Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy, Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis.
I mean, names pop up, but the consistent theme is it's Donald Trump's party writing.
He's 30 points ahead.
Now, again, things change in politics, but I do want to give you this encouragement for all your viewers.
The answer is yes.
If a Republican becomes president, think about what's going to happen.
We will allow more drilling because those policies that the Biden administration restricted are, they're not law, they're memorandums.
They're edicts coming out of the White House.
So yes, we can, now there will be environmental challenges and lawsuits, but at the end of the day, over a reasonable commercial period of time, we will get more production.
Second, and it's just a fact, Donald Trump has a great relationship with the Saudi government.
My belief is that one phone call from Trump to MBS and that one to 2 million barrels a day that the Russians and the Saudis are taking off the market could gradually come back on the market.
Let me share this with you.
Whether it's a Russian oil company, a Saudi oil company, or a U.S. global-based company, $70 a barrel oil is profitable for everyone.
And at $70 a barrel for oil, you're going to be paying about $3 a gallon in Iowa.
We're going to be paying about $4.50 here in California.
Florida is going to be in the high threes.
New York, low four.
I mean, it's high by historical standards, but it passes the reasonableness test.
I mean, when you're out here, when you're paying six and you go down into the forest, that's a material change because so many people have to drive out here.
And think about this too: the farmers, you know, in Iowa that do the crops, I mean, their input cost for gasoline goes down.
So, yes, I believe just based upon the international relationships that Donald Trump and/or Republicans would have with the Saudis, I think that would happen.
Point number two: let's fast forward now to January of 2025, assuming a Republican could win in 2024.
Do you believe the Russian-Ukraine war will still be going on at that point?
I, for one, do not.
I think there will be some type of resolution prior to that.
What happens if we get a resolution to the war between Russia and Ukraine?
Well, guess what?
More oil production is going to come onto the marketplace.
So, I think there can be a happy spot here where the economies could grow.
China is going to eventually figure it out too.
Again, with their economy being second largest in the world, and their official figures show they're growing two to three percent.
You and I both know that's not true, but they'll figure it out.
China's very smart, they know how the markets work.
So, if you get some reasonable growth in China, the war in Ukraine ends, you get a Republican president here in the U.S., I see where oil prices could come back down in the $65 to $70 a barrel level.
Now, what else happens at that point?
And this is one thing the Biden administration is right on at $65 to $70 a barrel in oil, you can refill that strategic petroleum reserve.
So, now you get more of a supply-demand balance.
And if that happens, that's good for actually for the global economy because then you'll have things more in balance.
But if we continue with these crazy leftist policies and their idealistic wind, you know, we're going to run on windmills and we're going to have all electric cars.
Look, for all the talk about electric cars, it still represents a tiny fraction of the overall global business.
So, yes, to short answer, I think whether it's Donald Trump or another Republican, that would be a major campaign theme that I'd be running on if I was in the Republican Party.
Well, I got to say, I think you're a bit of an optimist to think that the Ukraine-Russian conflict will be over by 2025.
I certainly hope that is the case, but I'm not sure I see a path to that future, at least currently.
What can people do right now to really secure their wealth or even expand upon it possibly in these economic times?
Well, two things.
Okay, think about this right now: if you buy short-term government debt, and I'm talking less than six months, you're going to pay 5% for just having your money wait.
Okay, the other thing, and again, I'm not one to tout this just because we have sponsorships, but if you go into the commodity business, whether you know you're buying oil contracts, whether you're buying gold or silver, okay, right now there's a little bit of an imbalance between the price of gold and silver, how the ratios normally work.
That's a good long-term store of value.
Certain stocks that pay high dividends that are non-tech stocks.
I'm talking about the non-Microsoft, non-Apple, non-NVIDIA, you know, that are trading at massive valuations.
You can still find very good, what I call industrial stocks, stable companies, been around for a long time, paying good dividends.
And then you can find your smaller growth companies who have been able to weather some of this.
But the idea that you're going to have seven or eight tech stocks that are going to carry your portfolio, I'm just not seeing that.
I think you need to diversify.
I'd be cautious with real estate right now because you're seeing a tremendous amount of pressure, particularly in the office buildings.
Home prices have leveled off.
Rents are actually starting to come down a little bit.
So I would look for good, stable dividend companies.
If you want to park cash, put it in T-bills, look at precious metals and keep a balanced portfolio.
Mark Shaftline, always a pleasure.
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i'm just following my orders here uh staff if anybody haven't spoken I ain't calling on you.
How come I said I have five questions?
I need it.
BOA.
Kevin McCarthy's Reactive Playbook 00:15:14
Unbelievable.
I mean, he's laughed at by the press.
He says he's taking orders from his staff.
He then scolds them for trying to ask a question and then goes to the pre-approved journalist.
If that isn't the most outright puppet this country has ever had, I don't know who is to talk about that and much more is Zach Payne.
I'm sorry for the shocked look on my face.
I've watched the clip five, six times now, and I just still can't get over how egregious he is.
I mean, he's on the world stage.
He's supposed to be projecting himself as the leader of the free world, and he can barely speak, and he cannot even put a facade on that he runs anything, Zach.
Yes, Jason, we truly are in uncharted waters.
But every time I see Joe Biden on stage, I'm reminded of the fact that he was a winner of 81 million votes all across this nation.
People from C to Shining C believed that this geriatric Alzheimer's patient was going to do a wonderful job as president and deliver us the America that Donald Trump simply couldn't.
And excuse my sarcasm, but Joe Biden obviously didn't win 81 million votes.
We were aware of exactly how this experiment was going to play out.
And I have to believe that the people who put him in that position were also all too aware of exactly what would happen if Joe Biden pretended to be president of the United States for four years.
They simply believed that they would be able to manage him better than they could manage Donald Trump.
He was a man that could not be controlled, that was going to do what he wanted.
At least if Joe Biden does what he wants, he's going to order chocolate instead of vanilla ice cream.
He's got his handlers to tell him exactly what to say and when to say it, as long as he can find his notes.
Otherwise, we get the display that we saw there in Vietnam.
And also, positive note, very shortly after that, he went to bed.
He did go to bed.
And look, I get it.
Sometimes you have about five or six of those little cards.
It's very hard.
I mean, especially maybe there was a Baker's dozen there.
I mean, that's very, very, very confusing when you have all those cards and it's very hard to read at that age.
It's tough.
Now, Biden's.
The font is a big consideration.
The font is a big consideration.
Well, I want to say they got to have at least a 15 Ariel black, probably bold for him, but who knows at this point?
I don't know.
He seemed very, very out of it.
He seemed so out of it, in fact, on the 9-11 anniversary this year when they shielded him from the public and didn't let him go to New York City, even D.C., where, you know, he's supposed to be running the country or Pennsylvania.
He made the statement that he was at ground zero on September 12th.
Now, he was not at ground zero on September 12th, actually, September 20th.
I'd say that's a pretty big deal that he missed an entire week plus, especially because during that week, Zach, on the 12th, he was actually on the Senate floor grandstanding and threatening Pakistan and saying that they were going to have to make some very difficult choices soon.
Pakistan ends up being a launching base for the attacks on Afghanistan.
And in that week, he was also meeting with a guy named General Mahmoud Ahmed.
And General Mahmoud Ahmed was the Pakistani ISI chief, the head of their, basically their CIA.
He had wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta in the week before 9-11, just happened to be on MDC, meeting with people like Bob Graham, Porter Goss, Bob Graham, and Porter Goss, who he met with on the morning of 9-11 as the attacks occurred, would head up the initial congressional investigation.
And Porter Goss would later become the head of the CIA.
Other meetings that Mr. Ahmed had were with Condoleezza Rice, who denied even knowing that he was in DC at the time, and George Tenet, the head of the CIA.
Now, with all those names that I mentioned, and then throwing Joe Biden into the mix, somebody who was just a senator from Delaware, it certainly serves to note that he was at an upper echelon of what I like to call the DC crime cartel.
And there was a reason that he is one of the people that was picked to have meetings with this guy and talk about Pakistan in particular on the floor.
Now, Joe doesn't remember that because the Joe we have now is not the Joey B of old.
But can you speak to that Joey B of old that was very much pro-war on terror, very much pro-Bush administration and very neocon-esque in many of his actions during that time period?
Absolutely.
You know, and to be fair to Joe Biden, what's six or seven days when you're in the obvious end stages of life?
We've got to cut the man a little bit of slack every now and then.
But, you know, to me, watching the video, I think it was a Senate Appropriations Committee that Joe was actually at on September 12th, you know, watching him pontificate and grandstand.
He also at a later date attempted to put the blame on Republicans for not allowing the Patriot Act to be passed sooner.
Joe Biden is and has always been a major constituency of this deep state uniparty apparatus that's controlled Washington, D.C. for hundreds of years at this point.
You know, he didn't exist in a bubble.
He wasn't a champion of the people.
Joe Biden was a champion of his own bank accounts, of the orders that he was given.
And it's very clear that with everything that went on in the days and weeks leading to 9-11 and then after, Joe Biden was an integral part of that machine that gave us that new Pearl Harbor on September 11th in the exact same way the Project for a New American Century predicted we would need.
And yes, the USA Patriot Act existed long before September 11th, although at the time it was billed as the nation's response to September 11th.
All they needed to keep us safe was greater spying powers.
They needed the ability to listen to every single call, to read every single email, to essentially minority report us into oblivion.
And Joe Biden was all too happy to help that take place.
And as we've seen with a number of other things Joe Biden's done in the past, perhaps the crime bill, along with the USA Patriot Act, although he may not have been responsible for writing all of it, it has led to a strange dystopian future that I think a lot of people hoped we would never achieve here in America.
And never believed that we would get to the point that we are today.
And when we say that Joe Biden wrote these bills, that means he grandstanded on these bills as they were handed to his staff to rewrite and reinforce as they would go through the process.
Let's be honest.
The guy is not much of a reader, except for when he wants to plagiarize.
But that's a whole nother things, act.
We're getting justice.
Let's be honest.
I mean, they may have picked him as their bag man and their vice president under the Barack Czar and now their 2020 hero of the day, the $81 million man.
But McCarthy came out yesterday in what I would call a lukewarm milquetoast speech, which he barely mentioned any crimes or activities of the Biden crime cartel and really nothing that hasn't been known from the 2017 to the 2019 era within the public and especially the Department of Justice, which is most alarming.
So I'd like to get your take, especially after you saw the Fetterman reaction, which again, pure gold right there.
I really loved it.
Absolutely.
What's your take?
What's your take on the impeachment inquiry, McCarthy, and yes, the Fetterman reaction?
So as far as Fetterman is concerned, I mean, I don't think that his reaction was out of line.
I mean, does anybody think that an impeachment in the modern age really holds any weight?
I mean, they essentially destroyed the process during President Trump's two fake impeachments.
So they've watered it down to something that is simply political grandstanding, the attempts of the opposition party to bring down whoever it might be that's in power.
Whereas with the impeachment of Joe Biden, we're talking about real crimes.
We're talking about serious actions that have consequences.
And when it comes to Fetterman's reaction, I simply do not believe that the Senate is going to turn on Joe Biden, no matter how badly they would like to maybe put Gavin Newsom or Michelle Obama into the position as the Democratic nominee.
I think that Democrats largely stay together.
And, you know, to a degree, Republicans do too.
But when it's politically expedient, they have no problem turning against somebody like Donald Trump.
So John Fetterman's reaction, I think, was genuine.
And this is actually the first time I think I've seen and heard him put together words into a comprehensive statement, even though it was, however, brief.
Now, when it comes to Kevin McCarthy and that lukewarm announcement, his announcement to consider the possibility of opening a committee to maybe look into the possibility of an impeachment.
Yeah, I think it's perhaps a response to the speech that Matt Gates gave later that day, where he threatened to use the power to vacate the chair, which was a major sticking point for the Freedom Caucus when, after, what, 17 votes, they finally allowed Kevin McCarthy to become Speaker.
Kevin McCarthy has had eight months, eight months to subpoena, eight months to open real investigations.
Yes, the judiciary and the oversight committees have done wonderful jobs, but Kevin McCarthy using the speakership position has done absolutely nothing to thwart the efforts of this current illegal administration.
Joe Biden has had the unrestrained spending powers that he and Democrats have enjoyed for many, many years in the past.
And one of the amazing aspects of the House of Representatives is that they have the power of the purse.
They could have stopped Joe Biden at any point, or they could have at least pretended like they wanted to stop him.
I think that when Joe Biden came into office, we had a $1 trillion deficit.
Now it's at $2 trillion.
I mean, what, six months from now, it's probably going to be four at the rate that we're going.
And Joe still wants to send more money to Ukraine, or his handlers want to send more money to Ukraine.
They want to continue to dump funding into just ridiculous things that are not making Americans' lives any better.
I think that if Kevin McCarthy truly wanted to bring justice to Joe Biden on behalf of the people, we would have seen some overt moves at a much earlier date.
I think this is him playing catch-up.
It's too little, too late.
Gee, it's almost like my prediction about Kevin McCarthy being an ineffective political hack was 100% correct.
And I was actually right when I said they should have never, ever, ever conceded to him being speaker and dragged it out even further.
You know, I'm still waiting, Zach, on all that January 6th footage I was promised months and months and months ago.
But instead of getting that footage, I'm reading headlines of Owen Schroer, who didn't go into the Capitol, getting 60 days in prison.
And I'm reading headlines of Enrique Tario getting 22 years in prison for not being in D.C.
And I'm reading headlines of Zachary Rell getting 15 years in prison after serving his country with no criminal record for being waived into the Capitol.
I think that we have truly crossed the Rubicon and we've done so with a very, very, I would say, willing establishment puppet who's on his last rodeo, if you will.
We're going to take a break.
We're going to come back and we are going to talk a little Patriot Act and Joey business after this with Zach Payne.
It's making sense of the madness.
We'll be back after this.
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Civil libertarians were opposed to it right after 1994.
And you can ask the Attorney General this because I got a call when he introduced the Patriot Act.
He said, Joe, I'm introducing the act basically as you wrote it in 1994.
It was defeated then, not by any liberals.
It was defeated then by the folks who worried that we'd have the Minutemen would get in trouble, by the Mr. Bars of the world, who were worried about the right wing, not anything else.
So just this has nothing to do with you all, but just to set the record straight, almost the same thing that got passed, the Patriot Act, was introduced by me in 1994.
And it was the right wing that defeated it.
You guys tried to help get it passed, including the wiretap changes and the rest.
Good, because we have a vote on it.
So much going on in that clip.
Number one, Joey B bragging about the fact that he wrote the Patriot Act back in 1994.
Now, if people remember, there was an attack on the World Trade Center in 1993, Zach.
But what people don't realize is that you actually had an FBI informant, Ahmed Salam, who had been hired by John Antisev and his partner after they met him in a New York City lobby at a hotel that he was working at.
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He was an Egyptian army officer before that, and he was to infiltrate the blind sheik's cell.
Now, we all heard about the blind chic.
We all started hearing about Islamic terror as the number one threat in the 90s.
What they didn't tell you is that Ahmed Salam built the bomb.
And when he built the bomb, he wanted to build a fake bomb.
And they didn't let him.
And when they said to him, hey, we can't let you build a fake bomb, he's an Egyptian army officer.
He started taping his conversations with John Antisev.
And I actually highlight this in my film, Invisible Empire, A New World Order Defined.
You can listen to their discussion, and it becomes very, very clear that that bomb that went off in the World Trade Center that they used to try to shoot this Patriot Act into trajectory was built by Salam with the supervision of the DOJ, the ATF, and the FBI.
And then Salam was quietly whisked away, given a new identity, and we've never really heard from him since.
Yet Joe Biden gets to sit there and talk about how Bill Barr and his buddy Robert Mueller actually were key in trying to get that refuted.
For those that don't know, Bill Barr at the time in the early 90s was the first and youngest attorney general under George H.W. Bush.
And Robert Mueller was coming up in the Justice Department where they used to work together.
Post 9-11, he gets made the director of the FBI.
Yeah, folks, there was never a chance with the Mueller report.
He helped cover up 9-11.
Looking at that clip, under a minute long, and the players involved, what are your thoughts, Zach?
Well, I find it fascinating because it clearly lays out the tactics that we've seen in virtually every terrorist investigation that was successfully brought out by the FBI and the DOJ.
I don't think that I know of a single investigation that didn't include the copious use of FBI informants and some sort of entrapment scheme.
You know, in recent years, we've had situations where they've even gone after disabled teenagers, people who clearly would not have the capacity to engage in this type of violent terroristic activity.
But simply due to the fact that they are looking for friends and they're vulnerable and the FBI sees that, they have used it to their advantage.
Now, I go back to what I said about the project for a new American century.
I think that this is the exact same scenario.
They were hoping at that time to create a new Pearl Harbor-type situation in the same way they created a Pearl Harbor-type situation, in the same way they created a Gulf of Tonkin-type situation.
This is just another example of our government using the threat of violence and death to scare the American people into doing what they want, which is just to control us to an even greater degree.
And I'm glad you brought up your film.
I haven't seen that in such a long time.
And it really is shocking to think about it, even today.
Yeah, you know, again, a lot of people are completely unaware that that has been put out into the public arena.
That film is from 2010.
I don't think I was able to get that audio until about 2007.
And I was itching to put it into a film as obviously it didn't make the Loose Change series or even Fabled Enemies because I did not have it at the time.
But it does illustrate the fact that time and time again, when we hear about these plots by terrorists, whether they be of an Islamic nature or as Joe Biden alluded to in the 90s, he was talking about the Minutemen and the militia.
You look at what happened in Michigan, and it was very apparent that that entire thing with the kidnapping plot of Whitmer was Fed run.
And the first jury ruling reflected that.
What did the court system do?
Well, you can't do double jeopardy, right?
You can't do double jeopardy.
They just charge them again with something else in more of a kangaroo court.
And guess what?
They get convicted after the fact.
That's what's really scaring me, Zach, is now they're going after people more than once.
And it's taking more and more time to expose this type of thing.
Another great example of a Fed-run Islamic terror cell was the Newberg 5.
And this was, you know, a little bit upstate New York, not that far, about 45 minutes from the city.
Again, a mosque situation.
And they brought in their asset who had a nice car and all sorts of money and was buying things for these guys.
And really, these five individuals had planned not to carry out the terrorist attack that was led by the FBI informant, but to eventually rob the FBI informant because they were low-level criminals.
Yet that is not how it was portrayed.
Now, you discussed the possibility of false flags.
You named some big ones there.
Gulf of Tonkin, the foreknowledge at Pearl Harbor, obviously what we know about the World Trade Center attacks.
We have not seen a large-scale terror attack in this country in decades.
Do you think that might possibly be on the table on the run-up to the 2024 election?
And do you think that the scenario that they're going to impose would be this new domestic terror or white supremacist threat?
I think it's always a possibility.
I think that now, because the surveillance and control grid is so much more sophisticated and brutal, they might not necessarily need something as grand as a 9-11 type event.
I mean, and also tactics change.
I mean, look what they did to shut down everything in the wake of the end of Donald Trump's presidency.
I mean, they caused a pandemic, right?
They shut down the nation.
And it didn't matter what the evidence said.
They used the power of their messaging delivery systems that they've got with social media and the mainstream media.
And they were able to successfully scare enough people into complying.
And then they scared even more people into actually taking the ineffectual and dangerous clot shots.
So I don't know that they necessarily need something really big.
They could certainly come up with something that would implicate white supremists or people that they claim are MAGA patriots or perhaps, you know, going back to the idea of militias or Minutemen.
Yeah, they might do that.
But I don't know that they would necessarily allow for such grand devastation and loss of life.
But who knows?
I mean, they surprise me all the time.
I think that with the totalitarian nature of this current administration, they would be content to just continue to chip away, however, regularly at our civil liberties to the point where perhaps Joe Biden actually suspends elections in 2024 or whomever they have sitting in the White House suspends elections,
especially if Donald Trump remains on the ballot and if the trajectory continues on the path that we're on right now, which looks to me like Donald Trump would, in a heartbeat, win this election in a landslide, barring any unforeseen circumstances like mail-in ballots being injected into the system or a mass computer wipe of the actual tally of votes where they have to make it up on the fly.
But if we were looking at an organic scenario, Donald Trump wins the election, Joe Biden goes off to the old folks' home, and hopefully we see a lot of necks getting rung for the criminal actions that they've perpetrated on the American people.
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Or some pipe bombs go off in D.C. that didn't go off on January 5th and 6th on the bomber they never found.
And there's a state of emergency and limited martial law.
And we've got those mail-in ballots, Zach.
That's all I'm saying.
Just a possibility, my friend.
We got to take one more break.
When we come back, I want to talk about what you have going on over at the Red Pill and how your beach party went.
Guys, they had a big beach party.
They didn't invite me.
I'm a little bitter about it.
It is making sense of madness.
We'll be back after this with Zach Payne.
We are back.
Final segment of Making Sense of the Madness.
And Zach, you and Badlands Media just had a big old beach party.
Tell me how it went, what went down, and why people need to be involved in the next one.
Well, the Great American Restoration Tour just concluded its second annual meeting in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
It was an incredible time.
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I met so many amazing people from the chats.
You know, I've done a number of these events in the past, one other GART in the past in Arizona, I believe we did.
And then, of course, I've been to many more over the years.
And it seems to get more and more enjoyable every single time.
Not only because it's cool to meet people that you just see in the chat, you know, screen names and such, but also to hear the stories of these people in real time and to know that we're having a real measurable effect on the people who are watching these shows.
You know, it's not just entertainment, Jason, as I'm sure you're aware.
You know, yeah, we try to make it fun, as lighthearted as we possibly can, but we're talking about some really, really dark subject matter.
And we're trying to shine a light on things that could frankly get all of us killed.
You know, the federal government has no compunction about assassinating or disappearing people.
And there have been a number of times in the past where journalists have found themselves on the wrong end of a revolver with two gunshot wounds to the back of the head.
So it's a real thing.
And for people to come together, I think that it is the trans, well, a transitioning of sorts, kind of the evolution of this truth and freedom movement.
You know, people got used to just being anonymous avatars online.
And in the early days of the Trump administration, I think that was kind of a survival method, right?
Because people were getting banned.
People were having their bank accounts shut down.
People got fired from their jobs.
But although that was happening, you know, it wasn't enough for people at the time to necessarily come forward and say, hey, this is me.
And I care about this country and I'm willing to do something to help stop the madness that we see going on.
But as things have progressed, as the deep state has become more and more bold and they have just continued to destroy anything that's left that's good in this country, people have began to get braver.
They've begun to step forward and they've begun to take action in their local communities.
And that is truly what I believe is the most important aspect of this.
People stepping out from behind the keyboard, engaging in that local action so that hopefully at a time in the future, we can have that national impact.
You know, we're constantly reminded that the American Revolution, what, it was like 12% of the total population were involved in actions that led to America gaining its independence.
It might even be less than that.
I don't know off the top of my head.
But we have far more people than that here in America right now who understand the dangerous nature of what's taking place and are willing to take a stand and actually do something about it.
And although we have many people who are afraid to organize after the events of January 6th, I think that there's no way around it.
I mean, we have to have that level of bravery to step forward and say enough is enough.
I think we have to go even beyond that.
I think the big sin of January 6th is there was not a plan outside of being there on that day and calling for Mike Pence to not certify the votes who went kind of off the rails after that.
But had they gone the style of Occupy Wall Street and said, or of the caravan, said, we're not leaving here until we get some kind of a resolution.
And you could have a baseline of 10,000 people in DC or up to 100,000.
That's the type of thing we need to do.
And don't get me wrong, that could be obfuscated.
That could be infiltrated.
There would definitely be provocateurs there, but we're going to have to navigate those systems because, as you said, you must get politically involved.
I often go to the quotation from Ralph Nader, Love Hem or Hate Hem.
You know, the guy was involved.
And he used to say this: you need to turn on to politics before politics turns on you.
And believe me, the politics of the people in power in this country have turned largely inward on its citizenry.
Zach, in the next two minutes, tell us what you got going on this week and where people can find the show.
You know, one of the most important stories I think that's broken over the last several days has been the unconstitutional decision by the governor of New Mexico, I believe it was, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
They have outlawed the handling of guns either through a concealed carry permit or open carry.
There is no privilege that allows for a governor to suspend any aspect of the Constitution.
And I think that what we see there is an effort by the Democrats to see just how far they can push us.
Are people going to buy this?
Are they going to allow it to happen?
And I think that like overwhelmingly, the people of New Mexico and the rest of this country are looking at that and saying, absolutely not.
Like you have just taken a step too far, even up to the point where the Attorney General of New Mexico has announced that they will not be representing the governor in the certain future challenges to this unnecessary and unconstitutional mandate.
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Zach, thank you so much.
And I'd like to thank the audience for joining us as well.
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