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And here we are again with Jason Burmes, of course, famous documentary filmmaker and has his own show, Making Sense of the Men.
It's on YouTube.
Jason, how's it going this morning, man?
It is going well.
How are you doing today?
I'm doing great.
I'm doing great.
I'm ready for you to give my brain a workout.
I always enjoy that.
And, you know, we've kind of been all over the place here the first few weeks of doing this.
And I got to tell you, I get a lot of people talking to me about it.
I think the fact that we do it on Fridays is great because it gives people a chance to talk about it over the weekend.
And that's what they're doing.
And I get a lot of messages, too, like, hey, what are you guys talking about this week?
And actually, we kind of went back and forth a little bit.
And something I would love to learn more about, and I know you know a lot about, the Pritzker family.
Of course, our Illinois governor, J.B. Pritzker, but that family goes a lot further than that in terms of some of his siblings and family.
And can you take us into a deep dive here and explain a little bit more about their background?
Well, the Pritzker family is one of those families that, like the Koch brothers, you're familiar with one or two of them.
But in fact, I believe there are over 10 of them that are billionaires.
11, but then at the same time, there are 13 of them.
Maybe some don't have a billion or multiple billions of dollars.
But this is one of those families that's made their money in separate places, but mainly outside of the hotels that you'll know about.
They're associated with high hotels, kind of like the Hilton family is the Hiltons, et cetera.
But they're one of these families that have figured out the philanthropy grift.
And that's what people really need to understand is that the vast majority of these organizations that are set up and presented in a benevolent way, whether it be the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, whether it be the Carnegie Endowment Fund, et cetera, down the line, the Rockefeller Foundation.
It's a great way to have tax-free money laundering and influence.
And the philanthropy that the Pritzkers have been involved in, especially in recent years, and when I mean recent, the past couple of decades, is certainly that transgender movement.
I know on one of the earlier broadcasts that we did before we were doing the Deep in the Weeds segment, you had brought up Pritzker.
And I brought up the fact that J.B. Pritzker's brother slash sister now, born a man, now a quote-unquote woman, is the richest transgender person on the planet.
Now, that's followed closely by an individual named Martine Rothblatt that I really go much more in depth into.
But it is that Pritzker money that has really not only permeated the Midwest through Illinois and Chicago politics, but throughout the country.
And the really odd thing about all of it is they're not really doing it on their own dime.
They're doing it in a manner where they're allowed to invest money through these philanthropies.
To give you a great example of how these work, Bill Gates at the World Economic Forum, I believe it was in 2020, just before all the madness happened of COVID 1984.
And the anchor asked him, she goes, vaccines, you know, I was pretty surprised, but why don't you tell me why these are your best investment?
And he explains right on the spot that these have more than a 20 to 1 return on investment.
So they're able to take this money that's donated or raised or whatever, and then put it into the market or into a product and then get a return on that product.
And he even lays out the math, or she does, that if he had just taken the same amount of money and put it into some kind of a fund where it accrues value, it was a might, it wasn't 20 times.
Let me tell you this.
It wasn't even two times.
It wasn't even double the money.
And when you incentivize these type of things and then you indemnify any type of criminal action taken when there's negligence or malfeasance, well,
you've set up a system where you literally have this mini oligarchy of predator class nepotistic families that it's going to be extremely hard to usurp their power or even curb it and certainly not hold them accountable for the types of things that they've done because once again,
they're very good at setting up foundations, infiltrating governments, both local and beyond.
I mean, Pritzker's the governor of one of, I would say, probably the most important five states out of the 50 here in the country.
You look at California, New York, Illinois is the heart of the Midwest.
You know, you got Texas, and then you could probably throw around for the fifth.
A lot of people might say Virginia because the capital's in there, Maryland, right in the middle.
Florida, maybe.
Yeah, Florida, exactly.
It vies.
But certainly, I mean, people don't understand how much our supply route goes through this state, you know, and the Midwest and Illinois.
So, you know, the Pritzkers, I imagine, are going to be around for some time.
The latest kind of political jabs you're seeing, it's kind of funny to me because now Epstein is such a hot topic that when, you know, Trump is talking about bringing the National Guard into Chicago, Pritzker is mocking him, knowing he can't do that.
And honestly, I hope that Donald does not do that.
But then he says, release the Epstein files.
I don't think the Pritzkers have any vested interest in the Epstein files.
But Aaron, even here on Kimberly, okay, the one, I think like right up from the North Park Mall that is the billboard that is electronic and changes, they've now got a billboard attacking Marionette Miller-Meeks' relationship with Donald Trump with a big picture of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together.
So, you know, as I've said in the past on this program and beyond, that isn't going anywhere.
The Epstein thing is going to stick around.
And I think we're going to be hearing more and more about that as well.
But we've got so much going on even today, Aaron.
You know, for instance, Trump is meeting with Putin.
I think that is of the utmost importance.
You know, I know that people like to get into the stuff that maybe you don't hear about as much on the mainstream.
But at the same time, this one today is huge.
I don't know exactly what is going to come of it, but anybody out there that has a vested interest in de-escalating a global conflict that not only is taking the lives of literally hundreds of thousands of people on both sides, but we're funding, we're providing the weapon systems for, and if it gets too out of control, we could be encompassed even further.
So, my fingers are crossed on that one today.
Me too.
Me too.
I think, well, and they haven't really released any details of the meeting yesterday with the European Union and Zelensky.
They were all together, and then Trump was on Zoom or what.
I don't know how they do it for government stuff, but he was on video.
And yeah, I mean, I'd really like to see this end.
It's surprising to me how much stubborn Zelensky is.
I've not been very impressed with him.
And I know, you know, he's been in a bad situation.
He's been trying to run a country in a war for three years.
But I mean, at some point, you cut your losses and you give your people a break.
And if you can possibly pull a NATO membership out of that deal and you lose a little bit of land, but you're guaranteed that you'll never lose any more, then, you know, because Putin initially had said he wanted the whole country and then he backed off and, you know, reportedly just wants the rest of Donetsk, which they already occupy two-thirds of.
And I feel like, you know, you got to find a way to make a deal here.
Yeah.
And for me, as far as Zelensky goes, I mean, this whole idea of entertainer leaders or entertainer presidents.
Yes, our current president is a reality star, was very much in that world, but certainly didn't initially come from that world.
At the same time, we had Reagan.
You know, he's an actor, turned politician.
We've seen that a lot.
Yeah, and Zelensky is of that ilk.
However, with Zelensky, to me, I mean, it just outwardly looks like he was installed there for this very plan.
And I don't know that he gets to get into NATO.
Go ahead.
I'm sorry.
I was just going to say, you're saying he was installed for the war.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
You look at this guy, and I mean, first off, a lot of people forget, but that first Trump impeachment had ever, and I would have never guessed that this impeachment was going to come because Trump was on a phone call with the president before Zelensky about the prosecution or the prosecutor that was looking at Burisma, that was looking at Harvard Biden.
The Biden tie-in?
It was the craziest thing to me, Aaron, because months before that, in fact, probably almost a year before that, I had played a clip of Joe Biden in front of the Council on Foreign Relations talking about going to Ukraine with a billion dollars.
You familiar with this clip?
No, I'm not.
So, you know, maybe we could pull it up because you could at least hear it because it's the craziest thing.
He gets up there and brags that he's going to withhold a billion dollars to Ukraine unless they fire their, here it is right here.
They fire their prosecutor that happens to be going after their son.
And the leader then is like, you know, we're not doing that.
You're not the president.
And he goes, call him.
But you know what?
I've got the clip here.
You'll be able to hear it.
Let's play it.
Okay.
All right, let's do it.
To convince you that we should be providing for loan guarantees.
And I went over, I guess, the 12th, 13th time to Kyiv.
And I was supposed to announce that there was another billion-dollar loan guarantee.
And I had gotten a commitment from Poroshenko and from Yatsenyuk that they would take action against the state prosecutor, and they didn't.
So they said they were walking out to the press conference.
I said, no, I said, I'm not going to, we're not going to give you the billion dollars.
They said, you have no authority.
You're not the president.
The president said, I said, call him.
I said, I'm telling you, you're not getting a billion dollars.
I said, you're not getting a billion.
I'm going to be leaving here.
I think it was, what, six hours?
I looked at, I said, I'm leaving in six hours.
If the prosecutor's not fired, you're not getting the money.
Oh, son of a bitch.
You got fired.
And they put in place someone who was solid.
So, in other words, someone that did not go after his son.
Pretty wild that Trump talking about that corruption and saying, hey, unless you look into this, we're not going to give you the free money, aka the aid that we guaranteed you.
And then they impeached him for that.
I would have never guessed it.
I mean, to me, excuse me, you just heard Biden say was it completely criminal.
He's literally talking about withholding U.S. aid, not based on policy, but based on the fact that they were investigating his family for literally tens of, if not hundreds of millions of dollars in fraud.
Yep.
And here we are.
So how does this translate into getting Zelensky in there for the war?
Well, again, at that time period, you know, that's tail end of the Obama administration.
They have to bring somebody in that is popular.
And look, just like in our country that's westernized, Zelensky was a very popular comedic actor.
So, you know, you get that person in, and then all of a sudden you start escalating the rhetoric.
And what really ends up happening is, you know, you talked about NATO, is that many of these members of NATO are in his ear saying, we're going to make you, you know, we're going to make you a part of NATO and we're going to take this part, et cetera.
And you go back to George H.W. Bush, the first Bush.
And when the Berlin Wall fell and NATO basically established this anti-quote-unquote Soviet corridor, the Soviet Union had just fallen and they wanted to make sure it had never come back.
They said, not one more inch.
Not one more inch because NATO was really built around the idea of the Soviet Union and not necessarily Russia.
Well, let me tell you right now, we encroached way more than that one inch all the way up to, you know, basically the border of Russia.
You got to understand while Zelensky was building that military apparatus.
He was doing so with NATO and the United States.
And we can sit here and say, oh, you know, Russia invaded, et cetera, et cetera.
It warned again and again and again.
If they continued to put military personnel and equipment on these lines, they were going to get a military response.
And finally, Putin took the bait and got in there.
And I don't think that happens without somebody like Zelensky.
I mean, Zelensky, after the escalation, there was this very, very choreographed, especially in the West, way to present him, right?
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He was little Rambo.
They had him in like the fatigues and the gray shirts.
And really, within about six months to a year of the conflict, they had him speak in English.
They're bringing him to the United States.
He's getting, you know, standing ovations, etc.
And, you know, all this has taken place during the Biden administration.
I don't know that it would have taken place during the Trump administration, but that just shows you how partisan politics is a big joke.
If a certain person is in power, you're just going to get behind, you know, whatever the part.
I mean, there was a handful of standouts during the beginning of this conflict against Zelensky.
And I'll give them all the credit in the world for that.
Thomas Massey, still in there, still anti-war, still probably the best thing that we have in Congress.
Matt Gates, love him or hate him.
He was part of that coalition that was very, very much against this war.
And Marjorie Taylor Greene would be the other person of note who, look, again, lover or hater, on the issue of war, especially, she has remained consistent.
Yeah, she's not my favorite.
I just don't like her face.
I mean, she's just so angry looking all the time.
What?
I mean, I'm just saying, I'm not saying she's ugly or anything, or I'm not saying she's pretty either, but just her demeanor and the look on her face is just like, wow, okay.
Like, yeah, I don't know.
But I consider her counterpart AOC on the other side of the aisle.
They both go by initials and they, you know, they both very got their attitude about what they want to do.
But it's funny you called, you referred to Zelensky as Little Rambo.
So now I'm thinking of the Rambo movies.
But yeah, they really did do that.
You know, he did come out.
He had the shirt.
You know, I remember, and then that's kind of gone away.
Nobody's really seeing that anymore, but it really was almost like a production.
Have you ever seen, maybe I brought this up in a previous week, but have you ever seen the movie Wag the Dog?
Yeah, Wag the Dog, for those that don't know.
Yeah, it's basically a Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, and it takes you through the manufacturing of a war in that Eastern European region.
And I mean, I definitely believe this war is real, but it's interesting to think about, and really that's the way we're talking about this, and it's both sides, and it's whoever's running the political parties, but I think that's some of the same people running both.
And it's, well, let's put this thing together.
You know, how do we, I just imagine guys sitting around in a room with like a bill, you know, a board with a chalkboard or something.
They're like, all right, well, let's get this guy in place here, and then we can make it, you know, and then we need to do this with him.
We've got some, you know, retro work to do with him, get him up to speed, and then we're going to move this over here.
And then it's just like a big game of risk or a chessboard or something, and they're just deciding what's going on.
I mean, and that's kind of what Bilderberg does, right?
That is very much what Bilderberg does.
But I mean, when we're looking at this conflict in particular, I just want to say that out of the gates, the idea that the U.S. was not heavily involved in the planning, the logistics, and yes, even the boots on the ground initially, you were extremely naive.
Even about, I don't know, three to six months ago, the New York Times started doing stories on how the initial parts of the wars, the invasions, et cetera, were taking place with U.S. command in France with other NATO commanders.
Out of the gates, we had reports.
You would get these reports of, you know, former Marine dead in Ukraine or et cetera, et cetera.
And there were mercenary groups there up and down.
So, again, I don't believe that this thing could have taken off without certain elements covertly within the United States government working in conjunction with NATO.
I think the big sell to the American public right out of the gates, it actually went pretty well for them.
I mean, I don't know if you remember this, Aaron, but when that initially started, even here in the quad cities, there were a bunch of bumper stickers of the old yellow and blue.
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And even on my way down to Elmore on that drag, you saw people out there, you know, honk for Ukraine and all these other wacky things.
It's like, wow.
So now we've got pro-war protesters for a war that doesn't really involve the United States.
I mean, it seemed ultra bizarre, right?
And somehow, some way, they were able to push that through a certain segment of the population.
But I think the vast majority have now tired of that.
And I think, again, that's part of the resounding success of the Trump campaign in 2024.
One of the big appeals for somebody like me who isn't playing team baseball is the guy said, and I thought he was genuine when he said it, he was going to stop this war before he even got into office.
Now, we're six months plus deep of this second administration, hasn't been able to do it.
What's going on in the Middle East, in Gaza, Palestine, I think that's out of control as well.
I think that also has to be addressed.
But as far as a larger scale conflict, I am happy that he's about to, you know, sit down with Putin.
A lot of people forget this, but Trump did that in his first administration.
They held a joint press conference, despite the fact that it was Russia Gate and Russia, Russia, Russia, all over Trump.
I still, and the media spun it certainly in that manner, puppet of Putin.
I like the fact that they stood on podiums next to each other, addressed the press, took questions from the press.
We need that.
If we don't have that, we have, I mean, the amount of transparency we already have is a sick joke, but we need more of it.
We don't need, you know, first of all, Biden was a dementia-ridden puppet during his administration, but there were no lines of communication even open between the Putin and Biden camp.
I mean, how dangerous is that that you're not even going to have a line between the leaders of two of the most significant nations and military powers on the planet?
Even during the Cold War, when Russia probably couldn't have been more demonized in modern history, Khrushchev had a line to the White House in case, and Kennedy to the Kremlin in case.
Those are good things.
Yeah.
Do you think that part of that was because Putin knew what was going on with Biden?
You know, that, you know, he wasn't really the one in charge.
He wasn't really running things.
You think that had an effect on the, you know, why even bother kind of an attitude?
I certainly don't think it helped.
And I certainly don't think that Putin felt like he had a, you know, there's that very famous quote from Putin, I think, and it's from, I think it's from the first Trump administration, not the Biden administration.
It goes viral every once in a while.
But he actually is referring to Barack Obama when he's talking about it.
He's like, you know, Barack Obama, smart guy, educated guy.
I don't necessarily think, you know, he wants war.
Maybe he wants to bring peace in.
And he just talks about the fact that, you know, once they're in there, all of a sudden, you know, men in suits, he goes, much like mine, show up with briefcases and conversations are had and you find out who's really in charge.
And he's like, that's the real bureaucracy.
And I wish I could disagree with the guy, but it seems extremely hard to disagree with him when it seems like even our executive and the executive that for the first time in my lifetime that's kind of stepped off the reservation a little bit and said and done things traditionally a president hasn't done how much power does he really have That's a kind of a million-dollar question right there.
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And, you know, after the last Biden administration and some of the way that things are playing out now, you know, it's a great question, Jason Burmes.
It's one I often ask myself, you know, even on a local level, I think to myself, if I were to get into politics, which I don't want to do, Aaron, it's the last thing I really want to be involved in.
And I don't want to just sit here and bitch all the time, and I don't want to not have solutions.
But when I see a government that is so deceptive, and I see somebody like a Bobby Kennedy, who I think is having huge wins, by the way, and that's why when people are completely, quote-unquote, blackpilled and they believe there is no good and everything is rigged and everything is fixed.
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I don't believe that.
I think that through public pressure, we are able to have certain movements and certain people do step into the arena and push for humanity.
When you've got a guy who's now one of the top guys in the administration and I would say the most visible person outside of Trump within the Trump administration, literally absorbed because of his presidential run, when you've got that guy who is doing big things, you know, banning the mRNA platform for human beings, that's a huge thing, coming out and talking about that technology, talking about BARDA.
Most people don't even know what BARDA is.
And by the way, that is BARDA.
That is the medical DARPA, so does the Biological Advanced Research Defense Agency.
And essentially, they were the ones with DARPA that had developed that mRNA platform, right?
So that's a big win.
But then I see him in that Dr. Phil clip being asked about spraying and geoengineering.
Are you familiar with that clip?
I'm not familiar with that clip either.
I mean, let's see if we can pull it.
We can do it live.
I think let's see if we'll.
We'll do it live.
Okay.
All right.
Let's see.
We'll do it live.
Fuck it.
Do it live.
I'll write it and we'll do it live.
I couldn't help myself, Aaron.
I'm sorry.
So, Dr. Phil, RFK, and spraying.
Let's see if we can get it from there.
Videos.
So here it is right here.
And the fact that a man in his position admits to the programs that this woman's talking about, but then admits that he doesn't know that he can do anything about it.
And they'd think that it's DARPA is extremely worrying to me.
But here's the clip.
Hopefully.
Hopefully, U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he plans to crack down on government planes that he says are spraying the skies with chemicals.
Paul Spey checks that claim for politi fact.
See, this is the fact check.
It's not even the claim.
Hold on.
See, this is what kills me.
Here's the actual claim.
Okay.
See, you can't even get what you're looking for, folks.
Here it is.
Is the stratospheric aerosol injections that are continuously peppered on us every day?
Bromium, aluminum, strontium, it's sprayed in our skies all day long.
And I know you've talked to Dane Wiggington about this.
He seems to be one of the experts in the field.
Is there a question?
Yes.
How do we stop it?
That is not happening at my agency.
We don't do that.
It's done, we think, by DARPA.
And a lot of it now is coming out of the jet fuel.
So, you know, those materials are put in jet fuel.
I'm going to do everything in my power to stop it.
We're bringing on somebody who's going to think only about that.
Find out who's doing and holding them accountable.
So think about that for a minute.
You got somebody within the upper echelons of the executive administration.
And first of all, we've never gotten an answer like that.
But they're going to put somebody on it.
I mean, what are we putting them on?
I mean, how do we not know the type of programs that are spraying aerosolized whatever into our skies without our permission?
He doesn't even know who's doing it.
He's like, I think it's DARPA.
I think.
He doesn't even know.
Pretty alarming, right?
And for somebody like myself who, you know, we've talked about my films before, but I made a film called Shade the Motion Picture that very much dealt with the geoengineering and bioengineering world and the terms solar radiation management, stratospheric aerosol injection, all these things are kind of a catch-all for these geoengineering programs.
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And we often talk about cloud seeding, et cetera, making storms greater or trying to knock them out.
Yes, that's part of it, but that's only a small part of it.
And when we get to some of the things that have been admittedly sprayed on human beings via our government, Aaron, I would just let people know about the cadium, the radioactive cadium sulfate that was aerosolized and sprayed on human beings, not just from planes, but they also in a poor town outside of St. Louis, Missouri,
took station wagons and they sprayed materials underneath, telling them that they were running a drill to see if they could basically block out the Soviets' ability to spy on them via satellite.
But no, it was actually human experimentation on the general populace.
Okay.
Man, why, you know, I don't know.
I guess they do this to see the reaction so then they know what they've got or what they're going to, you know, what they're going to do with it.
You know, it's a good question on exactly why they do this in the manner that they do.
You would think that you would only do this kind of stuff at black sites or you would try to do it in general populations that were not the United States.
And certainly that does occur.
But the bottom line is that you have certain individuals that have complete and total hubris.
While we sit here and opine about quote-unquote Nazi experimentation, we never talk about the Japanese and their unit, I think it was 701 or 301, but they were doing massive human experimentation as well.
And we were doing the same exact thing.
Our Department of Energy in particular, it has this innocuous name, right?
So you, oh, well, we need energy, and we certainly need a department for it.
But then you find out how involved the Department of Energy, for instance, was involved in human experimentation, not just on civilians in the manner that I was talking about, but on military personnel.
And even, I mean, when you look at some of the really more horrific experiments, They were experimenting on mentally retarded and disabled children all the way back in the 50s, injecting them with, I believe it was certain types of sexually transmitted diseases.
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I mean, you basically have these terminally ill, maybe cancer-ridden, disabled, sick kids.
And instead of trying to help them, they were using them as guinea pigs.
That's gross, man.
It's not my favorite.
You know, these governments are doing this stuff.
And like, you know, Japan, same thing, you know, doing this stuff.
I just, you know, it just makes you wonder, like, what's the point?
You know what I mean?
Why?
Why?
Okay, let's just work on stuff being positive or any of that.
There's just so much, you know, mustache twisting, if you will, it feels like, that goes on with leaders or people that run the leaders with the money they have or whatever it is.
And it's just weird, man.
Like, it's, you know, like, I have a big problem with them, these surgeries and stuff for kids, the transgender surgeries for kids.
I think you got to let them grow up a little bit and figure stuff out a little better.
12 years old, you don't know what's going on.
You might think you do, but you don't.
And I know there's a couple of moms who are, they started a group, and I can't think of the name of it.
I could probably look it up here, but that are fighting against it to get the age raised up to 18 because they both had kids who thought they were transgender.
They didn't let them do the surgeries or any of that stuff.
They got them some help.
I mean, you know, transgenderism is recognized as a mental illness.
And so they, you know, they worked with them, and now the girls are 18 and they're very much girls.
And they're glad they're girls and they're glad they didn't go through with what they thought they wanted to do.
And it just blows my mind that this is allowed to happen for kids that are minors.
And then in some states, if the parents fight against it, the kids can get away from the parents.
And that's really bonkers.
Completely bonkers.
I mean, they are.
And I know a lot of, you know, we're kind of looping back around here, but I know Jennifer Britzker is behind a lot of the funding on this stuff.
That is absolutely true.
And, you know, you do hope that this push to drive out these surgeries for individuals that are under 18 years old does go through.
I think you're right that you probably want to wait even longer than 18.
You don't have a fully developed frontal lobe until you're about 24, folks.
But my issue is this.
Yeah.
My thing is this.
You kind of have to make it 18 based around our societal norms, not just on the age of consent sexually, but the age that you can go to another nation under the guise of the war on whatever and kill another person, right?
Like, I feel like, but then, you know, at the same time, you can do that.
You got to wait another three years to have a drink and now smoke a cigarette for some reason in a lot of these states.
Yeah, that was the weirdest thing that they snuck that in there.
Like they just gradually made it from 18 to 21.
It's crazy to me that you'll restrict something like a cigarette and tobacco and nicotine to that level, which, whatever.
I'm not sitting here advocating for cigarettes, but you want kids that aren't even 12 to get life-altering surgery or be put on life-altering drugs.
To me, Forget about the surgeries, but the idea that you're drugging your child with anything, Aaron, anything that is not directly necessary due to some type of real medical issue, not ADHD, you know, not these things that get into the realm of, in my opinion, pseudoscience and modern-day psychiatry.
Modern-day psychiatry is psychotic because modern-day psychiatry is one of the methods,
the driving factors in where we are today in this gender ideology and ultimately this push to give a child what they think is autonomy over themselves against their parents when they don't even understand what autonomy is because they wouldn't do that by themselves.
Instead, they have been driven in that direction.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, absolutely.
I think, and well, so traditionally, sexual education is done in seventh, eighth, ninth grade, right, for kids.
And now, and the state of Illinois is one of them.
Now you have to start teaching trans stuff to kids at first grade kindergarten.
You know, that's crazy.
Crazy.
That drives me nuts.
I can't believe that that's a thing in the state of Illinois, but it is.
It's as if, I mean, are they trying to push more people into being transgender so we're bringing the population down?
Like, that's what I don't understand.
What's the point of this?
Why this big push?
Transgender, you got 0.04% of the population identifies as transgender.
And we're trying to change everybody else around that.
Like, everything's supposed to be based on that.
And if folks are transgender, fine.
Like, I don't care, but I don't understand why we're trying to change our whole society around 0.04% of the population.
0.1% of people in the nation are born with extra fingers.
Why don't we start selling six-fingered gloves to everyone?
That's all you can buy.
Because this guy over here has got six fingers.
Right?
Like, I just, the numbers don't make sense.
None of it makes sense.
There's obviously a bigger push, a bigger something behind the curtain that's trying to get this done for whatever reason, and it doesn't make any sense.
Well, if your listeners end up watching this after I post this on my channel, we do show our work.
You'll be able to see that clip from Biden, et cetera.
But right here is one of the driving forces.
Remember, earlier today, I mentioned Martin Rothblatt being the second richest and maybe the most powerful transgender person.
And if you're watching this, in the backdrop, is a book called From Transgender to Transhuman: A Manifesto on the Freedom of Form.
And in the opening of this book, Rothblatt argues it's not two genders, it's not three genders, it's not a baker's dozen genders.
There are literally, quote-unquote, billions of genders.
And they're pretty open about in this book that this is a driver, again, towards transhumanism, towards what they believe is taking charge of your biological reality.
But in reality, you are rejecting your biological reality on the mantle of transhumanism.
And transhumanism is a lot of things, Aaron.
I think we're going to be seeing more and more and more and more of that technology within the coming years.
But ultimately, there is a class of people that believe through human experimentation they can biologically live forever.
You know, for instance, Rothblatt is also into xenotransplantation, has the only FDA approval for that.
And that is growing human organs, gestating them in other animals, other mammals, such as pigs, and then trying to transplant them into humans.
That's one of those steps.
So there's a certain class of people that think by doing a bunch of this stuff, work with bionanotech, et cetera, they can biologically live forever.
But at the same time, this person, Rothblatt, is also very much advocating you take charge of your digital twin.
And your digital twin is basically you and all the information that feeds into you and create these kind of AI assistant entities.
And also, at the same time, that you can upload your consciousness eventually.
Like these digital twins will be as close to you as possible and then give them rights.
So essentially, for the rest of us, we're not going to biologically live forever.
We're going to euthanize ourselves in some poor imitation of ourselves will live on in some digital realm or some robot avatar.
Hell with that.
Not my favorite either.
Don't think I want that one to happen either, Aaron.
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Data Centers and Energy Inflation00:06:34
And yeah, I don't know.
People got too much spare time, Jason Burmes.
They should have more kids, keep themselves busy or something, or get another job.
I don't know.
Like, I don't, I just, yeah, I don't know.
And I think all the time, how did we get here?
You know, how is this what's going on now?
How is this?
How is this in our country anyway?
How is this what we're doing?
Because it just seems like we took a wrong turn somewhere, and instead of turning around and going back and getting back on the right path, we just keep going down.
You know, I try not to have the super negative attitude that everything that is happening is a negative nature, right?
I do certainly understand where people are concerned.
And I think that, you know, it's hard not to be concerned when a lot of the things that you hear that are supposed to be positive, that are supposed to be happening, really aren't happening.
Let me give you a couple examples of that, Aaron.
I'm constantly hearing about how inflation is under control and how the economy is hunky-dory all of a sudden.
I'm not paying any less in gas than I was two years ago under Biden or you.
I'm still four bucks on the premium, bro.
And that's on the Iowa side, okay?
My groceries haven't gotten any cheaper.
The only thing that I've seen get cheap are eggs, but that really didn't have anything to do with quote-unquote inflation.
And they're certainly not at the level they were before the COVID 1984 nightmare.
There has been COVID 1984.
That's funny.
It's the truth.
Like, like, people want to.
I know.
Yeah, people don't want to even act like it exists, like, like it even happened.
And again, here's one of those points.
You know, before COVID or during COVID in the very beginning, a gallon of water, we're not even talking about milk anymore.
We're talking about the lifeblood of mammalia.
A gallon of water was like 88 cents.
That same gallon of water is a buck 38 now.
I mean, that's a huge increase in the percentage you're paying.
Nothing that I have seen of any rent hasn't gone down.
Electric hasn't gone down.
This idea that inflation is under control, what does that even mean?
Have wages across the board gone up, you know, 20 to 50 percent in line with inflation on everything again.
Certainly haven't seen that.
Sorry, go ahead.
No, I'm just saying I haven't seen it.
So I think that people are kind of disillusioned with that sort of thing.
At the same time, you know, there's plenty of good in the world.
Last night, I was over at that dinner with a bunch of UFC Hall of Famers and Jens Pulver, who is launching his project, Evolution, over on the Illinois side here in Moline.
I had a great time over at the Rust Belt on Saturday watching Ice 9 kills.
There's still a lot of great things out there.
I just tell people this again: ignorance isn't bliss.
You are going to have to navigate certain things, and there are certain things that are going to be out of your control.
And that doesn't mean don't try.
You know, you're talking about the twisting of the mustache, right?
And kind of these nefarious things going on.
Well, let me give you a new nefarious thing that's going on.
These AI data centers that are now being built across the country, I was on my social media, and out of nowhere, I see just a couple days ago that in my old small town, and this is, folks, this is out by the Baseball Hall of Fame, very much a rural area next to a college town where they are now proposing to bring in an AI data center.
Now, this is actually a smaller data center in comparison to, say, the one Zuckerberg wants to put into Kentucky that's two-thirds the size of lower Manhattan.
This one is only, I think it's just under 160 acres.
The problem is this: number one, these data centers, they get extremely hot and use a ton of energy.
So, number one, they're going to be prioritized for the energy grid.
This is not going to make people's energy bill any cheaper.
It is going to make it more expensive and give them the possibility of rolling blackouts because the AI data center always has to be on.
And, secondly, although this one will probably not have many nuclear reactor facilities built on it to power it, which the larger ones, that's what they're trying to do, it will take up a ton, like not a ton, tons daily of fresh water.
So, towns that have already done this, for instance, there is an X AI Muskernuts data center outside of Memphis.
It has devastated the community.
The air quality has gone down.
The water supply has gone down.
The bills have gone up.
And the funny thing is, Aaron, we've been lectured our whole life about, oh, you're using too much energy.
You got too many cars.
You're driving a gas guzzler.
Yeah, I get that lecture every month on the power belt because we've got five kids.
And so it's like, your energy consumption is much higher than your neighbor.
I also get that in my belt, not because I have five kids, but because I'm sitting in front of four monitors right now as we speak.
However, however, I'm not going to be lectured about what I do as a human being and how much energy I use when they're about to use way more energy than you could ever imagine for artificial intelligence and basically the enslavement of humanity.
I mean, these AI data centers are track trace database on steroids because they're not just doing that.
They are building models based on you, based on your family, based on your neighborhood, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
50 Shot Nuclear Dilemma00:08:59
And then incorporating that into the AI that is going to drive the narrative management when you ask, you know, Siri or Alexa or whatever the next chat GPT a question.
And they are never going to shut these things down.
And they will always prioritize them over you while lecturing you on your energy consumption.
Totally wild.
Yeah.
I got a barn burner for you here, a question.
How tall do you think the riser or the stool they give Putin to stand on if they're standing next to each other?
How many inches do you think they'll give him?
You think they'll make him the same height as Trump, or you think they'll let him still be a little shorter?
I think they'll do what they did the last time, which is they won't put them directly next to each other, right?
So there's always a buffer, a nice buffer.
I'd say like a two to three person buffer, two to three flag buffer.
That's a better way of doing it.
So you can see everybody's flag.
Usually something in the middle.
And yes, absolutely a booster.
Putin is not a tall man.
Trump is a tall man.
Trump is shorter.
Yeah, I think that you'll still have, even with the booster, even with the side to side, you'll have probably about half a head.
Like Putin's bald head will probably be chin to nose level on Trump.
Okay.
All right.
I'm just curious, you know, do we take him all the way up so the same height?
What are we going to do here?
What do you think the over-under is on this thing that they strike a deal and we get this Ukraine war ends?
Man, I don't want to break out my jump to conclusions, Matt.
I don't want to have too much hopium, but man, I'm hoping.
I really am.
I don't know that I guess because Trump has kind of gone out of the way and done this, and he's already talked about the fact that he wants all three of them to be able to sit down together.
I'm going to give it a 50-50 shot.
But just like you said, you've got Putin who has been totally and completely excommunicated from the NATO crowd.
They've been meeting European Union, et cetera, with Zielinski.
They've basically backed this forever war in that region to try to destabilize Russia.
But anybody that understands Russia, Russia's not going to lose.
They can prolong this thing for as long as they like.
They could make it five, 10, 20 years, God forbid.
That's extremely dangerous because the moment it escalates above traditional warfare, and in some senses it has with the use of drones, especially being used outside of war zones and targeting civilian areas, escalate that to something that is nuclear or ultra-devastating, and our entire world changes.
So I am hoping.
I mean, again, I'm not holding my breath, but I do really think there is a 50-50 shot today to put this, you know, on the journey to goodbye.
Yeah.
Well, that would be nice.
I hope.
And I don't know that Zelensky really has a say.
I mean, he keeps saying, oh, we're not going to give him any land, but you're going to have to do something to make this work out and understand that that's how you're going to get a deal done.
And that way, Putin gets to, you know, be proud that he brought more of Russia more land.
And in his mind, he's a greater Russian leader because of that.
And that's what a lot of it is.
But I mean, Russia's the bulldozer on one mile an hour, and they're just going to keep grinding until something changes.
But you know what we haven't seen?
Casualty numbers from this war.
We don't see anything.
I just Googled it and it came out, it said there's less than 14,000 civilian deaths in the Ukraine war.
Something tells me the number is a little higher than that.
And that, and even if that is the real number, and like I said, I think it's a lot higher than that.
That's civilians.
That's civilians.
That's not.
And I mean, are they counting the civilians that have literally been ripped off the street in Ukraine to serve in that war that they didn't want to serve in in the first place?
I mean, how many of those videos did I have to watch?
How many videos I have to watch of a busload of kids that didn't even look 18 years old, male and female, going off into their death?
I'm just, I'm not that guy.
I realize that these are real people, that this is a real war.
I'm not sitting here going, boy, I want Putin to win, or boy, I want Zelensky to win.
No, I want this to stop.
You know, and this isn't even to promote the old Soviet Union and the Soviet style.
But I would say that Russia, although it is a huge military power, is it taking the type of military action that the United States has taken in the last 20-plus years across the world?
Not that I've seen.
I've seen their conflicts be local and on their border.
God forbid we ever had a hot war in the United States on our border.
I hope that day never comes.
But I don't see them trying to be the world's policeman.
And unfortunately, I do see that with the United States.
Yeah.
No, yeah.
Most definitely.
Most definitely.
Yeah, I don't know.
My biggest concern, I guess, about today is if it doesn't work out.
How does that change our relationship with Russia, our country's relationship with Russia?
And what are we going to see moving forward?
So whoever's sitting up in the big tower, wherever it is, who's actually running the show, we'll see what they want to do, I guess, is how that's going to go.
But yeah, not just be really great to have this end and just all those innocent people can have their life back or start to rebuild it, I guess.
You know, unfortunately, what I'm going to, you know, we've already seen some of it, but get ready for the rhetoric once again of Trump is Putin's puppet.
Trump is soft on Russia, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
Literally attacking the president to try to bring about peace and diplomacy.
And I really feel like those politicians, especially, and there are plenty of them, they need to be highlighted.
They need to be put on blast because, again, this is the type of thing I voted for.
I want my world leader in conversations with other world leaders, especially when we are in wars killing each other.
I want to kill less and talk more.
There you go.
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And I hope, and I know this is kind of your old hat here with, of course, Luce Change on 9-11, but we're coming up on the anniversary of September 11th.
And maybe the next couple of weeks we can do a little chatting about that.
Yeah, absolutely.
You know, the 24th anniversary of 9-11 is just around the corner within the next few weeks.
And I often remind people, you know, we talk about narrative management here.
The official narrative surrounding 9-11 is the baseline for all of our foreign and domestic policy here in the United States today.
We do not have the war on terror without that narrative.
We do not have the Patriot Act, the Military Commissions Act, the National Defense Authorization Act, or even the Department of Homeland Security without that narrative.
And when you take a look at it, that narrative is absolutely shattered into a million pieces, and there has never been accountability.
Instead, there has been an aggressive movement to restrict our freedoms here at home and build up an executive within an executive that allows these global wars to take place and even encourages them.
I can't wait.
This is going to be awesome.
I mean, this is kind of your, you know, a very strong suit for you.
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