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And it is time to go deep in the weeds with Jason Burmese course brought to you by River Cities Reader.
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It's Making Sense of the Madness.
And here he is right now.
It's Jason Burmese.
What's going on, Jason?
Not much.
How are we doing today?
Super busy, buddy.
We are packing boxes for troops all over the world right now.
We sent a bunch out yesterday.
We got a whole bunch more going out today.
This is just our ninth annual WeCare Package Drive that we're doing.
So it's a busy time of year, if you will, but all good, much deserved, and trying to help out some local veterans, too.
So it's, I don't know.
It's something I look forward to.
It's like it's that thing, you know, it's a very busy time, so you look forward to getting it done.
But I just, you know, it feels good.
I look forward to it every year.
It's nice to do something nice for someone else.
No, it is, but it is disappointing that they have something called holiday shipping prices now, and it runs from October through the beginning of January.
I just don't even know how that's legal.
And it goes not only from our post office, but into UPS and FedEx as well.
Just kind of mind-boggling, really.
Well, it's the, you know, it's like Uber charging you more when there's a concert.
You know, it's just what they do now.
It's called sticking it to you.
I'm pretty sure is what they call it.
Well, it's more than that because, and although they're, you know, attempting or at least saying they're attempting to regulate this in the EU, they are now pricing you according to your purchasing behavior.
So, in other words, your price may not be my price on a flight or a piece of technology.
And I really don't like that type of thing because obviously there will be a manipulation and you don't have a level playing field when it comes to your purchasing power either.
Right.
Right.
It's, yeah.
You know, it's hosiery, essentially, but it is what it is.
I don't know.
A lot going on in the world as usual.
And something I brought up to you earlier in the week that I found interesting.
And now this has actually escalated into a bigger thing.
Of course, Charlie Kirk, turning point USA founder, murdered earlier this year.
The 22-year-old, I guess, is going to stay on trial.
There were some questions as to whether he would or wouldn't be in there for some reason.
Do you know anything about this?
Yeah.
You know, yesterday was the three-month anniversary of the murder of Charlie Kirk.
And obviously, the headlines surrounding his murder either involved Tyler Robinson in the case that you're talking about.
Tyler Robinson made his first court appearance yesterday.
The appearance we saw before was virtual.
And actually, his lawyers introduced that evidence and that taping as a way to possibly get a mistrial saying that certain documents were able to be seen and the public perception against him via these videos may thwart his chance at a fair trial.
I don't know that those motions are going to go anywhere.
Some people are highlighting the fact that he was actually laughing in the courtroom yesterday.
I don't know that this is, you know, behavior you wouldn't see for somebody who's now basically been in custody for the better part of those three months.
It took about 72 hours before he turned himself in, allegedly.
But Candace Owens has basically put a lot of things out there speculating that Tyler Robinson is not the killer.
And I'll say this, you know, I've watched a lot of her stuff.
I've seen nothing conclusive.
And from the drama of her basically accusing Turning Point USA or members of selling Charlie out, even going as far as to kind of speculate that some may have been involved.
You've had some of them come out, do big podcasts like Sean Ryan, dispute some of the things that are out there via the hand signals that we've seen in one of the video or a couple of the videos, I guess.
You know, I just like to put it out there again.
We've really only seen two videos of this guy's murder.
I doubt that's all that's out there.
You know, we know that, for instance, you know, Turning Point USA itself has footage there as well.
As to whether or not that is going to, you know, change the case, I don't know that it is.
The other thing is plenty of people just don't trust the FBI at all and have every reason not to.
You know, last week, we talked about the fact that they finally picked up a suspect in the pipe bombing case.
This came after, only after the Blaze did multiple pieces basically pointing to somebody else.
And the person that they've accused is Brian Cole person in the January 6th bombing case.
They're supposed to hold a press conference a couple days ago.
They canceled that.
I haven't seen really anything in regards to that man's social media presence.
The amount of stories on him have been minimal.
But the ones that are out there, you know, make this suspect out to be like a grown child.
It's very bizarre.
You know, you've got the furry thing with Tyler Robinson and now with Brian Cole, apparently this guy is a brony and into my little pony as a grown man.
Again, not even saying.
Oh, yeah.
And again, from what I'm seeing on this Cole person, very sparse reporting, but he seems to be autistic.
He seems to be a grown man also living with his parents in his 30s.
There's a lot of questions surrounding that.
So all those things mixed together, I don't think you're going to get a public that is just willing to believe the FBI, and I think there's a good reason for that.
And of course, Erica Kirk now has basically named Candace Owens on Fox News and been very, very angry with her.
And maybe it's a justifiable anger.
You know, this is a widow.
This is a fresh wound.
And on top of that, I don't know that they have had any private conversations prior to this.
I don't think the story's going anywhere.
My mind is open to either side.
I want to see the evidence that they're presenting against Tyler Robinson.
I think there are certainly questions.
But at the same time, I think the people that are also asking the question, well, if this guy isn't the guy, why is it that he basically turned himself in with his parents?
Why aren't his parents coming out and saying he's innocent, et cetera?
He seems like a Patsy.
I mean, maybe, maybe not.
I don't know.
Again, I've got to see the evidence.
What we've seen so far are, what, a couple of photographs, some blurry video, certainly nothing that is conclusive.
We do know it was a successful assassination.
One shot, one kill.
We're still talking about it today.
It has caused an uproar, not only in the geopolitical community, but certainly in the mainline conservative and MAGA groups.
A split, if you will.
And here's the thing.
With the Donald Trump phenomenon, there has always been a portion of that new base, if you will, that has been conspiracy-minded.
And I don't always know conspiracy-minded in the sense of actually having discernment.
Remember, this is the same crew that brought us the QA nonsense.
And there are plenty of those people that really do believe and still do, or did believe and still do believe in, you know, white hats and superheroes and Donald Trump taking down the deep state.
And we can't even get an indictment to stick on somebody like Comey, who has clearly committed all sorts of crimes and treasonous behaviors, not only against Trump and his administration, but I'd argue the American people.
And you're talking, of course, about former FBI director James Comey, who's been brought in.
But before we skip down that rabbit hole, backing up just a second here.
So I wonder with the Erica Kirk, Candace Owens situation, if Candace Owens has hit a sore spot.
Like, I wonder if maybe some of these folks did know.
You know, some of the turning point folks maybe did know or were in on this or had an idea.
Because, I mean, if Charlie Kirk takes the deal to stop talking about Israel and Gaza and gets himself a lot of money, wouldn't that have made all of them a lot of money?
Some of the founding members, board members, stuff like that?
Like, couldn't they have all stood to profit exponentially if he had done that?
And then furthermore, I've heard that Erica Kirk, both of her parents are FBI.
Have you heard anything about this?
You know, there's a lot of speculation out there on Erica Kirk and her family and connections to the United Nations.
Erica Kirk is a model rich kid.
You know, when I say that, I think she was like runner-up to, you know, miss whatever state she was from.
She's a beauty queen.
She's grown up in the public eye.
As far as the parents and the FBI, I have not seen that information.
Maybe it's true.
I'd have to look into it.
But, you know, I've seen a lot of speculation out there from the way she's acted.
We saw the photograph with her and JD Vance where they're looking at each other and maybe hugging a little too much.
That go viral.
I don't think there's anything conclusive there.
As far as the monetary motivation of keeping Kirk on board with the pro-Israel stance, certainly understand that motivation.
I just don't know that any of it is actually evidence.
I will say this, you know, there was a clip I think I came across earlier this week, maybe about a week ago, that I had not seen of Charlie Kirk talking about what was going on via Israel and Palestine on the Patrick Bett David show.
And he essentially, I mean, he didn't essentially, he said he had to be careful with his words, but he used the word genocide.
And he's like, you know, there really isn't another word when you are going to displace a group of people of an ethnic or religious background.
And look, you know, we could talk about a ceasefire all day.
That conflict's not over.
It may be in a bit of a lull right now.
We may not be hearing that in the mainstream media.
But what are we hearing about?
We're hearing about Ukraine, Russia.
We just signed off on another $800 million in aid to Ukraine in that conflict.
So, you know, the Venezuela situation, we not only flew F-17s.
Go ahead.
I was just going to, that was one of the things I wanted to bring up today.
By the way, we are deep in the weeds with Jason Burmese brought to you by River Cities Reader.
What the hell is going on with Venice?
Because we're like, oh, it's drugs, it's drugs.
And now we just seized an oil tanker.
And I know we're trying to get Maduro out of there.
I know Putin backs Maduro.
We want a different leader, obviously, that'll be our own puppet, so then we can take the oil.
I mean, I'm just reading between the lines.
I'm guessing out loud here.
That's one of the things it seems like might be happening.
What did you want to say, Mike?
Well, I read something about China's involved with these oil tankers.
And they're buying the oil.
And is there also some drug trade?
It's like I've heard they send these tankers out to sea and they hang out at sea and then they do some kind of transfer and there's work between stop and go narco gas station out there in the sea.
Yeah.
Hey, give me 50 kilos and, you know, like a Pepsi to go or whatever.
Here's your oil.
Yeah.
What do you got on this, Jason?
You know, I'm highly skeptical of anything that's being said about this from the quote-unquote Secretary of War and the gang.
We know that the idea, I'm just saying, the idea of Venezuela, you know, being a rogue nation is not a new one.
It has spanned numerous administrations.
It really ramped up during the Chavez era, but our policies via South America have been horrendous for my entire lifetime.
And, you know, like you just said, and, you know, I'm going to show it in the background right here.
This military unit that just dropped in on an oil tanker and took it over, this is scary stuff.
You know, these boats, no matter whether you think that they're carrying drugs or not, have not been significantly large.
I don't know that my government isn't the one dealing many of these narcos, not only abroad, but in the United States.
I don't know that the behavior of Iran-Contra ever subsided.
So this idea that we have the moral justification to go in there because of quote-unquote drugs or fentanyl does not make sense to me.
And, you know, I think that they're trying to make that China association because they've had the previous association with China and fentanyl.
I'm worried.
You know, I don't want to see this escalate anymore.
And I also don't want to see this as an avenue to turn what is already a very hot and dangerous proxy war overseas into more than that.
You know, Representative Thomas Massey just introduced a new bill a few days ago, and it is called the NATO Act.
And it stands for not a trusted organization.
And it's a very, very short bill.
I mean, the guy is spot on.
Very, very short bill.
We read the whole thing on air.
It's only about four pages.
It lays out what NATO was originally intended for, the treaties in which it was solidified, and the reasons why we have no business being in NATO right now.
And I couldn't agree with it more.
I want out of NATO.
I want out of the United Nations.
I'm sick of these organizations further oppressing the American people and not just our budget.
I'm also sick of Donald Trump being like, well, they're buying the guns from us and they're buying this from us.
I don't care.
I don't want to be selling these things.
I do want to have the best weapon systems and the best technology.
And I want to be in a posture where we can always defend ourselves and, if necessary, go on the offensive.
I don't necessarily want to sell that technology or share that technology with others so they can rain death upon their enemies.
To me, if that was happening to us, we would directly consider those making the weapons our enemies as well.
And I don't know how people don't understand that.
I don't either.
I don't either.
It's, you know, obviously our tie-ins to all of this stuff are a lot deeper than what we let on, you know, or what they let on publicly.
And I was laughing earlier about the Hegseth because, I don't know, like I've said before, he's like the guy who flexes in the mirror, you know, or always makes sure he checks his hair.
And, you know, and I always think of him, if he's going to say Secretary of War, he'd be more like Secretary of War.
Like he's just that guy, you know.
So I feel like with that guy in charge of these situations, it's, I don't know.
I don't know.
I feel like we could have maybe found a better candidate.
Well, you know, Hegseth was one of those guys that served in the military during the war, the war on terror.
He made a ton of different media appearances.
That landed him a media job as a Fox News reporter and talking head.
And let's be honest with ourselves, Donald Trump likes that type of media savvy person.
That's what he's really filled his administration with this second time around.
And it doesn't surprise me that he does like a guy like Hegseth.
At the same time, is Hegseth really the one calling the shots?
I would say it's a conglomerate of generals and contractors that are sitting there laying out the intelligence in these meetings.
They're being laid out to Hegseth, Donald Trump, and the undersecretaries.
And they're following the baseline.
They're following this neocon pathway, whether they label it as something different or not.
That is what I am consistently seeing with this administration.
I wanted to believe the hopium that Donald Trump was going to get us out of the war in the Middle East and the war with Ukraine and Russia before he even got in there.
Instead, we are now four years deep in the Ukraine-Russia conflict and over two years deep in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
And I see no end in sight.
And like I said, a hot conflict or war with Venezuela only, you know, only escalates this on the global theater.
And one of the things people don't really understand about Ukraine-Russia is that you've got 100,000 South Korea, or I'm sorry, North Koreans fighting in that war.
Let me repeat that.
There are 100,000 North Koreans on the ground in that war.
That's no small thing, and that shows you that with the right situation, the right powder keg, the right event, things could get in a much, much more precarious spot.
I agree.
We are kind of like a step or two away from a much global escalation that could be called WW3, probably.
Let's rewind just for a second here.
Ukraine, once again, we are deep in the weeds of Jason Burbus, Rogue by River Cities Reader.
So Zelensky met with European leaders, then he met with the Pope, and he has doubled down again and again and again, tripled, quadrupled down.
We're not giving up any land.
Okay, so you're just going to wait until they take the capital and then they take it all.
I mean, is that what he's?
I mean, it's asinine.
He's not paying for any of it.
Everybody else is.
They said it's $120 billion for 2026 is what we're looking at for a cost.
And he's like, well, we're not giving up any of that.
We're just going to let all these people keep dying.
Like, how is that a, like, who really put this guy in this position to deal with this?
And why is he so thick-headed?
I mean, dude, you're not going to win.
I mean, you're David versus Goliath.
And even with the magic slingshots we're giving you, you still can't, you know, unless you hit the Kremlin with a missile or something, you're, you know, they're Russia's bulldozer on one miles an hour.
They're just going to keep coming.
And I just feel like, why not just bang your head off the wall and be more useful?
Well, I don't know that Zelensky has much of a choice.
You know, this is the definition of a globalist puppet.
The irony is that he was able to gain political power through becoming a comedian, actor, and media personality that was largely extremely popular in Russia, right?
A lot of people don't understand how close culturally Ukraine and Russia are.
There are plenty of Ukrainians that consider themselves Russian.
That's one of the contentions with the piece of land that you're talking about, Crimea.
So, you know, culturally, we're extremely ignorant to what's going on there.
Zelensky is there to expand NATO.
That is literally what he's been put there for, other than to continue the corruption and the looting and the kind of backdoor shenanigans that have been going on in that region, not just since 2014 when the Central Intelligence Agency went in there and busted that place up, but into the late 90s when George Soros and Hillary Clinton were making their way there.
They really do like that area.
And again, they like it because it is an expansionist part of this idea against Russia, which is a global superpower.
So these nutcases, these think tankers, they really believe that we can have a 20-year war with Russia, and we're just going to remain in the conventional weapon space.
And this is what we should do so that we can take them down via this proxy.
I think that's insane.
I think there's a tipping point.
And there's certainly a point where Russia just stops using conventional weapons.
And Lord knows where that leads to.
I think that, yes, nuclear weapons are on the table, but I also think there is a plethora of other technology out there that may end up being utilized that we can't even imagine.
You know, I had James Corbett on my show yesterday of the Corbett Report.
And he said, you know, God help us if we do escalate this into a quote-unquote World War III type scenario, because I don't think most people understand the type of technology that will be deployed and the kind of destruction and havoc that will be wreaked globally.
Yeah, even Trump said things about, like, oh, we have weapons you can't even imagine you've never seen.
And I'm sure we do.
I don't know what any of that looks like, but I don't know.
That's a scary thought.
It's an extremely scary thought.
And, you know, especially in a time where people are being driven more and more away from being to own their own things.
You know, we talk about these AI data centers and the impact that they're having on environments and fresh water.
Well, now the next big impact is on consumer technology.
For instance, RAM has more than tripled in some cases.
And I mean, the prices of hard drives are through the roof.
And that's because we were down to about four companies that made commercial RAM as of last year.
And just it was either this week or last week, Micron, who builds the crucial set of RAM and hard drives, they're no longer making commercial RAM.
So let me just give you an example and I'll ask you.
I know that you're not a tech nerd like myself, but a 128 gigabytes of RAM, and that would be 264 gigabyte sticks.
Now, that's a lot.
How much do you think that would cost you?
I don't know, $100.
Oh, God, you wish.
I have no idea, buddy.
I'm really not.
I mean, even if it is something I buy often, my wife buys it.
So I don't really, I buy beer.
I could give you some beer prices.
Like a six-pack of Tallboy is like $10.
I got that for you.
But aside from that, I don't really know.
Well, let me say this.
I'll give you a good example.
For $100 in 2023, and I did this live on air, it was actually $90.
I was able to get 32 gigs of RAM, two 16 gigabyte sticks.
All right.
That same RAM, again, this is from 2023 in October, two plus years later, now costs $239.
Okay?
So that is more than doubled.
Now, the 128 gigabytes of RAM, and this isn't Photoshop, if you come and check the show out afterwards, it would have cost you probably about $500 three, four months ago.
Now on sale at a discounted price of $505 after is now $1,494.99.
Yes.
Now, one of the other things that you're seeing is, say, an Xbox that came out five years ago.
It was $500 MSRP.
Traditionally, game systems, what?
Go down in price over time.
That same Xbox is now $650.
Okay.
This trend is going to continue.
And what that does is that essentially moves more and more people to cloud-based processing, cloud-based computing, constantly having to log on, constantly having to not just have streaming services to watch their favorite Netflix, but to use their favorite programs.
And another thing that puts this kind of fear into me via technology, yes, You have the Ram situation, you have the hard drive situation, but you also have all-time high prices for precious metals.
Silver's taking a bit of a dip today.
It's down to $62.99, but it hit an all-time high of, I believe it was $64.65, was the highest it is.
And I think that we're actually going to see triple-digit silver in short order, probably within the next three to four months.
We've seen less than a year ago was in the 20s.
Yeah.
Yeah, much less than a year ago, it was in the 20s.
And this, again, and I've watched, not telling people what to invest in, but I've watched the precious metals market now for the better part of two decades.
And the highest silver ever was before this was $50 in 1980.
A lot of people say that, you know, it was inflated at that point.
I would argue that actually it was right around the correct price at that point.
And a lot of propaganda just deflated it.
Let me give you an example.
So right now, again, you can't see it, but maybe you can hear it.
We'll tap it.
I'm holding the quarter from 1957, 25 cents, right?
Now, this quarter, because it's still made of silver, 90% silver, is worth around 10 to $11.
I want people to think about that.
Do you got any old quarters, Mike?
I had some old silver dollars from my mom's birth year.
Yeah, so I carry a Morgan silver dollar from 1921 around in my pocket as good luck.
I don't know what that would be worth.
I'm not going to sell it anyway, but that's crazy, man.
Old quarters are worth $10.
Well, again, if you've got the ones that are 90% silver, and I believe that's 1965 and before, yeah, they're about $10.
Now, I want you to think about that.
The value of a quarter, which was just a piece of silver, okay, at $19.57 is $0.25, is now $10 to $11.
That's a markup of 40 times.
Okay, four times $25 is $1 times $10 is $40.
That's the amount of money that's basically been the value of your purchasing power that has been taken away since the late 50s, early 60s.
That should alarm people.
Yeah, well, we talked earlier this week about how, you know, they were talking about affordability and the cost of everything.
And we hear a lot about all the nickel and dime stuff.
Well, bread's this much more, and eggs are expensive, and this or that and the other.
But the big things I said, and it's really because of lobby dollars steering politicians to make sure it stays this way, you know, insurance, homeowners' insurance, health insurance, and property taxes.
That's what's killing people.
You know, 50 cents extra on eggs.
All right, I'm going to handle it, you know, for a week or whatever.
You know what I mean?
That little stuff, that's what, 20, 30 bucks a week.
There's people, you know, we saw a huge increase in our property taxes.
Our homeowners insurance went up $300 a month.
This year, we have some friends where it went up $600 between homeowners and property taxes, like their escrow payments and stuff like that.
And so the whole, like, I don't know.
And I know the gold standard got abandoned a long time ago.
It seems like we're just kind of out there in the land of nod right now when it comes to money and inflation.
Like, nobody really, it's hard to get a good grab on what the hell is going on.
Well, a lot of people think that this is the final shift before we see a total revamping of the global monetary system.
And I usually don't like to make those type of predictions, but it certainly seems we're finally leaning in that direction.
We've seen more and more movement towards digital payments, the end of the penny, the Federal Reserve just cutting rates with Jerome Powell.
The Federal Reserve also looking to get rid of paper checks that they give out via entitlement programs.
I really think, especially with people being priced out of things, like you just said, yeah, the grocery store is a little bit alarming, but things like health insurance, homeowners' insurance, taxes have all gone through the roof, and our purchasing power has plummeted.
So, yeah, I'm a bit worried about that.
And we've got, again, you know, we've talked about scroll culture before.
But really, on top of scroll culture, you mentioned Uber pricing, Uber Eats culture, DoorDash culture, the fact that you can take a loan out on your DoorDash.
Oh, don't have enough money.
I mean, that's literally where we're at.
Then you have the movement of your personal identification going to your phone.
So you're doing all this stuff on your phone from Cash App to PayPal to Venmo to DoorDash.
X has now released their payment system in beta to their employees.
And remember, the Muskerdo wants to make that into the everything app, which is basically WeChat in China.
You have to have that app to basically purchase anything, go anywhere.
And that is the idea: a digital track, trace, database society.
That's why your Apple wallet in Illinois now has your digital ID if you want it.
Yes, your license is now a part of your phone and your Apple wallet.
I wish we were moving away from this, but even the announcement of the real ID and them, you know, basically for your safety, the TSA is now going to be charging you $49 if you don't have the real ID.
That's not for your safety.
That's to move you into a real ID and then eventually into a digital ID.
This technology isn't going anywhere.
It's pushing forward.
In many cases, people have woken up and are trying to push back.
You know, the digital ID that Kier Starmer tried to implement in the United Kingdom, that did not fly over well there.
It didn't get passed.
But at the same time, the speech laws over in Europe are just some of the most draconian and insane in the world.
They are actively arresting people in that region for social media posts, for expressing themselves outside of the quote-unquote politically correct norms.
And a lot of that goes into not only your digital identification, but your movement on the internet.
You know, to Musk's credit, I believe the EU just fined him something like $120 million.
I hope it's not $120 billion.
I'm pretty sure it's like $120 million for not being in line with their speech regulations.
But let me say this: a lot of people still think that X is the free speech platform.
I got news for everybody.
Right now, YouTube is letting me say more and giving me more reach than X is.
You know, I've been doing a series where we've been playing the old videos that YouTube removed because of community guidelines.
And not only am I getting away with playing them, but they're monetized.
So there has been a shift.
I'm not saying that YouTube's great and we should trust Google again, but I am saying that these platforms are kind of leapfrogging each other as to what is acceptable speech.
But the moment that an event happens or a great narrative is pushed that you're not allowed to question, watch all of them get in line again.
It just takes the right disaster.
And then everyone says, sure, whatever it is to be safe or not have, you know, yeah, I get it.
Similar to your COVID stuff and stuff like that.
But they, you know, most of the countries in Europe are socialist.
And then as you get farther east, it's more authoritarian, kingdoms, stuff like that.
And so they do definitely are tracking down more on that stuff.
But it's like, well, you know, I work four days a week, 32 hours.
A lot of the socialist countries are set up this way.
It's a life little more chill.
I don't have a lot of extra things, but I have enough.
And, you know, sneakily, they also take things like free speech and stuff that I don't, I guess what I'm getting at is it seems like the folks over there, and I don't know what's wrong with America.
I don't know why we're all full of it, full of energy, ambition, and just like, and we all, it's not all of us, that's for sure, but, you know, that's more accepted, more expected, if you will, here, in terms of just normal behaviors like, hey, I'm going to work three jobs.
I'm going to, I'm going to get a bigger house.
I'm going to start a company.
I'm going to, you know, I want to climb.
There's a lot more of that seems like goes on here than it does there.
There, it feels like they're comfortable just kind of being here, which is okay, like whatever.
But as a consequence of that, they give up more personal freedoms because they're more on the government dole in terms of, well, everything.
Unfortunately, I think that you're correct.
And I think that's the great danger.
Unfortunately, I think you're correct.
I mean, you know, I'll give you a good example.
And, you know, this isn't a knock, and I've never been there.
But I remember my buddy joined the military, and he was out in Italy for like a nine-month stint.
And he's just like, and this is 20-plus years ago.
And he's just like, everybody moves at a different speed there, man.
He's like, you go into a shop and you want to get something done.
They're really not that concerned with you.
Like, you know, they're putzing around.
They'll get to it when they get to it.
My buddy was just in Barcelona three weeks ago.
Same exact thing.
He's like, everywhere we went, he's like, you know, everybody's at their own pace.
I'm sitting there.
I'm waiting for a drink.
Nobody's concerned.
They're finishing their conversations.
They got the siestas going in the middle of the day.
It's a different culture.
I think what's most unfortunate is that at this point, Americans, at least the actual working class, the people that are paying into the type of systems that you're talking about, the people that are getting gouged on health care, et cetera, are now paying just as much taxes as the Europeans are.
Yeah, I mean, we're very breakdowns.
Actually.
What's that?
We did a little breakdown on this earlier this week.
So, and this was, I don't know the exact numbers now, but forever, the socialist tax setup in Europe was $45.54.
You were either getting 45% of your checkout or 54% based on how much you made.
If you made more, obviously you're paying the higher tax rate.
Similar to here, but just much higher.
But that includes everything, right?
You got health insurance is included.
Kids are getting ready to go to school.
You get a check in the mail to go get their stuff that they need.
Obviously, college provided.
In most cases, If it's a university owned by the country or the government versus, say, like a private university would be a different thing.
But so you have all that included.
Here, we're starting at 22%, and that's for people that don't make jack squat, right?
And it goes 23, then I think it's 24, then it bumps up to maybe 28 and then 32.
I think there's four different brackets, and I could be wrong on that.
But anyway, so let's just say you're 22%.
Well, then 20 to 25% of your paycheck doesn't even come, you don't even get it because it goes to health insurance.
So where are we at?
We're right at 45%.
And that's just, and then we don't get all the freebies.
No.
We're still paying after our, you know, after the insurance company, after you argue with the insurance company over a series of phone calls for three weeks, they pay part of it.
You still have to pay the rest.
You know, you still are paying for your kids to go to school.
You're still paying for their school supplies.
There's, you know, but at the same time, I sure as hell don't want to be socialist.
You know, I grew up in a trailer, and there's nothing, there's anything wrong with that, but I had a mindset that I didn't want to continue to do that, even as a kid.
You know, just some of the things you deal with if you're a trailer park kid.
It's different.
You get treated different.
And it is what it is.
You know, you have that option like, hey, I'm going to work my tail off.
And I've worked two or three jobs pretty much my whole life.
And I'm going to get out of this situation.
And you have that opportunity.
And I feel like that's probably a lot harder to do if you're already in a socialist setup.
And maybe not, but it seems like it would be.
And, you know, a lot of people always talk about, oh, the American Dream is dead.
No, no.
It's just hard.
And nowadays, people just aren't that tough.
You know, generally speaking, not everybody, but most people just aren't tough enough to want to work hard enough to chase an American dream.
They're, you know, well, I guess they may be better as Europeans.
Unfortunately, again, I think that you are correct.
I do think culturally we have become much softer.
One of the big issues that I have, for instance, even with this idea in this country with universal health care, is what kind of universal health care are we talking about?
Because if I'm going to be forced into this system and you're going to take the money out automatically like they do in Europe, what kind of medicine am I getting?
What kind of choices am I getting?
Am I going to have to step into line with COVID-19 type protocols?
In other words, taking PCR tests and shot after shots or you don't get your health care.
Exactly.
And by the way, there's a brand new study out of Stanford.
Let me just read the headline for everybody.
Scientists discover how COVID shots cause deadly heart damage as officials launch probe into vaccine-linked deaths.
And of course, now it's okay for Stanford University, a Ivy League academic staple, to start bringing this information out.
But even with this study out there and the admission to the myocarditis, et cetera, they're still sugar coating it quite a bit.
And remember, it's now almost 2026.
How long did it take for that narrative to become even semi-mainline?
And despite the fact that that narrative is now semi-mainline and we have multitude of papers and doctors finally discussing it, you still have this mindset amongst those that, you know, need to be followers of some kind of political ideology, need to play team baseball.
In that RFK Jr., we actually had a House Democrat introduce articles of impeachment because RFK Jr. just, you know, he has turned his back on science.
I think, you know, and I think that's hilarious.
Like, could you speak more?
Could you pull that wad of money you got from the insurance company out of your mouth?
Because I couldn't quite hear you.
I mean, it's a joke, man.
Total joke.
Like, oh, hey, well, yeah, I'm, you know, I get a lot of lobby dollars from insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies.
So, yeah, yeah, you're crazy.
You're giving people a choice.
You're asking people to do their own research.
You're asking people to make their own decisions.
You know, last night, Check, that was the American Way.
So, I don't know who the hell these lawmakers are that they're like, oh, you're avoiding.
No, he's not.
He's encouraging people to get educated and make your own decisions and not let the pharmaceutical and insurance companies run how things go because that's what's been going on for a long time.
And, you know, I think it's going to continue to go on even through this administration, no matter how hard they fight.
I'm just happy that the conversation has moved so far away from where it used to be.
So many of these topics used to be completely taboo, whether it came to, obviously, the COVID shots, traditional vaccinations, the idea of the pay-to-play health care.
And look, we also have this problem in our country that we give out health care to people that aren't citizens.
I don't know if you just saw that recent, I think it was 23 out of 24 fraudulent applications got pushed through for Obamacare for people that weren't, well, not only weren't citizens, Aaron, they were just made up.
They just weren't even real people.
And somehow they made it through our system.
So, you know, our system.
We have a call of IT from Tim Waltz.
Could you take that, please?
Tim Waltz, all the phone.
Timmy Walls.
I mean, apparently he was a football coach at some time.
Not that I played football, but I can't imagine a Tim Waltz type character being my sports coach.
You want to have respect and admiration for your coach.
And I think that would be, I mean, Tim Waltz looks like the grandpa you never wanted.
Let's be honest.
Like, he's the guy that you don't want to walk around with.
You know, he looks like a retiree out of Florida.
He doesn't look like he's equipped for the Minnesota weather.
But here we are.
I mean, these are the cartoon-like cutouts, unfortunately, that we are surrounded by in the geopolitical arena.
And that's why somebody like Massey is so refreshing, right?
Because he does step up to the plate on big issues, whether it's Epstein or Ukraine or even the National Defense Authorization Act.
You know, once again, this guy is the man.
Massey, like the only voice in the wilderness a couple of days ago that tried to amend the National Defense Authorization Act to bring it in line with our Constitution.
And behind me are, I believe, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12 attempts at those amendments.
And yet, he really can't get anybody else in the house to step up to the plate and support him on these issues.
I'm glad that he was able to corral people on both sides to push the Epstein stuff through.
We'll see what happens in the next couple of weeks waiting on those documents.
We also had a judge this past week say that they are unsealing the grand jury files from the Ghelan Maxwell trial that have not been released.
And there are now attempts also to release the files in the Jeffrey Epstein case from 2019 that we were in the process of before he committed suicide.
Did you put your air quote fingers up when you said suicide?
I put up my mental air quote figures.
I saw Sam Harris, who I'm absolutely no fan of.
And if people don't know who Sam Harris is, he's one of those guys that thinks he's really, really, really smart.
I mean, he really thinks he's smart.
And he is about the dumbest smart guy that you could ever imagine.
I mean, he is one of those asinine academics where he starts talking about, you know, how Epstein killed himself.
And anytime he hears anything else, he starts thinking about 9-11 truth conspiracies and how they don't make sense either.
And I'm just thinking to myself, once again, just the fact that Epstein is the only suicide in MCC now in the past 20 years, and he allegedly had a suicide attempt just before that, should raise all sorts of alarm bells.
And it's not even an argument I hear made ever, ever.
And it needs to be.
Because, again, just by the numbers alone, we should be questioning that.
And instead, you've got these pseudo-intellectuals like Sam Harris, who were extremely authoritarian during COVID-19, wanted you to roll your sleeve up as many times as the government told you to.
He's assured you that Epstein killed himself, and he's assured you that Joe Rogan is a bad person, and he shouldn't be having any of these guests on that dare to question anything.
By the way, I don't know if you've seen it, but the Golden Globes is trying to get hipping with it.
And for the first time, they're doing Podcaster of the Year awards.
And of course, they snubbed like the biggest podcasts.
No Rogan, no Theo Vaughan.
Instead, it's a bunch of mainstream actors that were gifted podcasts and audiences.
And they're the ones that the Golden Globes will anoint.
Well, of course, they're working in the narrative.
You know, I used to watch the Golden Globes and the Oscars.
And, you know, I was much more into mainline entertainment and movies.
But now all this stuff is just one big amalgamated ball of Johnny nonsense, virtual signaling, and identity politics.
I mean, look what's happening right now with Warner Brothers.
Netflix and Paramount are fighting to see who absorbs that next.
I mean, Fox has already been absorbed by Disney.
We really have in our lifetimes, Aaron, just seen the consolidation of everything into these super mega corporations that are completely intertwined into our government, their agendas, their narratives.
And it truly is the blob.
Yep.
I think that pretty much sums it up, buddy.
That's, yeah, that's a good way of, you know, we stop there for this week because that's, you know, I love the responses I get from the hour that we talk to you every week and the light bulb moments that people have and things they'll bring up to me.
And it's, I don't know.
I really enjoy the hell out of this.
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