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Hey, everybody, Jason Burmes here, and we are going to be getting deep in the weeds with one and only Todd McGreevy.
I know that we've been heavy on the Epstein case, and we are going to continue to be heavy on the Epstein case.
That is an absolute promise.
In fact, later on today, we are going to be streaming a bunch of that documentation live.
But today, we're going to be talking about a plethora of subjects from the Track Trace Database Society within our country that just seems to be pushing forward, even here in the great state of Iowa.
We're going to be talking about license plate readers, but I'm going to want to talk about the larger subject of not only cameras, readers, but the TSA, real ID, and that push towards a digital ID.
Then we're going to be talking about some of the policy right next to us over in Illinois.
Also, the voting transparency here in Iowa, and we're going to be having a big election coming up with a new governor.
A lot of people think that, yo, Iowa's safe.
They're red.
They're always red.
Everything's going to be fine.
Listen, as long as we have machines in charge and no real accountability, guess what?
We are open to situations like 2020 where now they're just conceding, oh, yeah, there's like 35,000 votes over in Georgia that totally and completely should have never been verified.
My bad.
My bad.
And that's really just scratching the surface.
We're going to be getting into all this subject matter and so much more.
So you're not going to want to miss it.
Buckle up and get ready to make sense of the menace.
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And then we're also going to be talking about some of these stories over at The River City Reader, RC Reader.com, an independent media operation that's actually been in print now for decades.
Mr. McGreevy, how the heck are you doing?
Why don't we start with what the focus has been election-wise, transparency-wise, in Iowa, in the quad cities, and the obstacles that you faced trying to get that transparency on track and covering it within the River City Reader?
Excellent.
Yes.
Thank you for having me on Making Sense of the Madness and Deep in the Weeds matchup, if you will, today on this beautiful Saturday here in the gloomy quad cities.
And just a quick little program note, Jason, it's 315,000, not 30,000 ballots.
My bad.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
I said in Georgia.
Are you telling me there's 315,000 in Georgia alone?
That's the number.
That's Silton County alone, the most populous county in Georgia.
See, my jacket is no limits.
It's 10 times as bad as I've said.
Thank you, Todd, for correcting me.
Go ahead.
Yeah.
So just that's kind of a anyway.
So here in the Quad Cities, I don't know if you go to our website, rcreader.com and type in slash tags slash Harry Tompkins.
You'll come up with all kinds of stories we've done about our county auditor, Ms. Carrie Tompkins, who was originally appointed because of the previous auditor resigned during the Zuckerberg era, took $400,000 of Zuckerbuck dollars from the Center for Technical and Civic Life out of Chicago after she told the County Board of Supervisors sitting right next to me in September of that year that the elections were safe, secure, needed no other funding.
The very next day, she wrote a grant for $400,000.
That would be Roxanna Moritz, the Democrat.
She illegally paid the poll workers without getting a raise from the Zuckerberg dollars without getting approval from the county board, which is policy.
She broke the law.
It was reported in the Daily Paper.
She resigned.
And then Ms. Tompkins was appointed.
And so Ms. Tompkins has continued to be the dutiful rhino that she is and goes along, get along.
And she didn't prop, she changed the poll book software that the Iowa Society of Auditors had been developing for 25 years.
99 counties in Iowa, something like 60 or 70 counties use the software.
No problems with it prior.
You know, it seems like a good in-house developed tool that everybody knew how to use.
But no, we needed, we had to have touch screens for digital signatures and so forth.
And so she decided to go out and do a, she didn't, she did a call for entries for vendors, but she didn't do it props.
She did it illegally.
Our county supervisor Diane Holst caught it at that time.
So she had to redo it again.
Anyway, she lied about that.
We've covered all that.
Spent another, that was another, I think, $400,000 of taxpayer money that was spent illegally on the poll books.
She also, to Roxanna's credit, when she came into office, she had replaced a woman who had been there for 25 years, and there had been no chain of custody policy.
And we'd helped a young man, Michael Elliott, run as an independent during that cycle.
And that was one of our big platforms: a chain of custody policy should be in place.
After she got elected, she called us in her office, Roxanne, and said, here's our chain of custody policy.
Thanks a lot, guys, for the good idea and good governance.
We're like, great.
This is how it should work.
Both sides should do what's good for everybody.
So when Tompkins got in after the last election, she decided to get approval from the supervisors to create, to have a confidential secret chain of custody policy, if you will.
And I confronted her about it.
And she literally said to me in front of other supervisors as well, that we can't allow our chain of custody policy to be out there because there might be a vector in that that somebody can use as an attack vector to attack our democracy.
So that's just a quick snapshot, you know, very quickly.
The thing that prompted we're losing you, Todd.
Your audio's off.
You're totally muted.
Stop for a second.
Oh, stop.
I'm sorry.
Bring it back.
Your connection was terrible.
Oh, no.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
We heard you up until the point where essentially they said that this would hinder transparency.
So start there, please.
Sorry.
Yeah.
Having the chain of custody policy public would provide an attack vector to our democracy, is what she told us.
So that's not a good thing.
And we think if you think about it, and by the way, she did that with the complicity of the Board of Supervisors.
They voted six of them to actually five to one, I think.
One Democrat actually voted against it.
And to allow the policy to be secret.
And in our view, as transparency advocates here in Scott County, Iowa, is that how do you know that you even have what when it gets changed?
That what's in it, I mean, it's like this star chamber, this black box that, you know, why would you put something in a chain of custody policy that could be a vector?
Why would you put a password or anything in there that could even open up to an attack?
So that's what's going on there as far as the election goes.
And let me say this, Todd.
You know, one of the things that I found really troubling this time around when voting for the president of the United States is that when I went in to register, although I did use an actual paper ballot, right?
When I signed in, it was not paper.
So, in other words, when I went in there with my identification to my polling place, I mean, I would, in the past, even back in New York, folks, you know, just a little board, everybody's name, your actual signature, et cetera.
Now it's all digital, and you're signing with your finger.
And I know a lot of us are more, you know, apt to that over the years, like when we're, but it's not the same as your signature.
It's never going to be the same as a pen against a piece of paper.
Your finger's a little fatter.
And yet, this is the method that they're supposed to be using to verify that you actually showed up there and that ballot is yours.
So, number one, you have that, you know, digital aspect I don't like, but then you do not have a physical record of that.
What is so hard about getting a damn physical record, something we've literally had as human beings in important circumstances for thousands of years?
Yes, yes.
It would not be difficult to do hand counting in one of our precincts.
I'm in B11.
It's one of the more populous precincts and more active voters.
350 ballots.
You know, we could do a hand count there.
So, my question is: you know, with less and less transparency, with the example I just gave, with the fact that they're basically telling you, you know, you don't have an opportunity to audit these things.
What are the next steps pushing forward?
And is this just something that's going to have to be won in the court of public opinion and essentially get these people out of office and put new people in office?
Or is this a lost cause?
What are your thoughts here?
Well, you can't really get somebody out of office if they can control the election.
That's one of the big problems.
I think Carrie Lake found that difficult when she ran against the Secretary of State incumbent.
That was a travesty.
We pressure the supervisors to have better policies is one thing.
And if you don't, there's a couple supervisor positions open up in this next election, next cycle in 26.
So that would be one way to go at it.
Bring public attention to the matter more.
File for Freedom of Information Request.
Go to the Public Information Board at Iowa that's shown themselves to be somewhat useful when Ezra Sidron and John Ewell sued for the information of the building collapse in Davenport.
So there's a few ways to go about it, and it's just raising more attention to it.
I think the matter is getting more and more, by the matter, I mean voting transparency is getting more and more awareness.
So before we move on to kind of the track trace database stuff, the license plate scanner stuff, the real ID stuff, where do you think this goes with Iowa?
Because we do have a big election, right?
I talked about it kind of in the intro with Kim Reynolds stepping down.
I think that a lot of people just assume that, you know, we're going to get another Republican, an incumbent, and possibly that is the case, et cetera.
But what do you think happens?
The midterms are just around the corner, right?
Obviously, the governorship, also a big deal.
What do you think happens between now and then?
Do you think it's impossible for Iowa to go blue or purple, et cetera, just from living here?
Or if they have control over the voting, again, it seems like they can pick their candidate.
And even if they get caught, they can just drag it out in court for years and years and years until it's an afterthought.
And that person isn't even in office anymore.
Hence the Joe Biden situation.
Yeah, this I've got a bad connection, Jason.
I'm going to re-log in.
Okay, I don't know.
Rough one.
Todd McGreevy needs better internet.
Todd McGreevy needs better internet.
I don't know how much of that that he heard.
Apologies, everybody.
Kind of did this one on the fly.
We're actually supposed to do it on Friday.
When he does come back in, I'm going to go over to this right here.
We're going to be talking about the automated license plate readers in Iowa, review and recommendations.
And here we go.
Let's admit Todd in here.
And I certainly do want to get into this with Mr. McGreevy, but we still do not have a video feed with him.
I would suggest that he changes his internet provider as there is plenty of high-speed internet and maybe get rid of that Macintosh.
By the way, if you're on a Mac, how dare you?
What a terrible, terrible machine those are for everybody watching.
I know probably a lot of iPhones this Christmas.
Plenty of iPhones.
Plenty of iDevice.
Hell, I even reset an iMac.
I haven't touched a Macintosh in a while.
Todd, I just hang up, bro.
I don't see or hear you.
I don't know if you changed settings.
I don't know if you went to another browser.
If you did that, obviously the browser is not set up.
We even did a tech thing for five minutes before this guy's kind of disappointed.
There you are.
Nope.
Can't hear you.
Sorry.
Again, nope, can't hear you.
There we go.
I just pulled the buttons.
I went to the Google Chrome now.
All right.
I would say it has nothing to do with your browser.
It's everything to do with your terrible internet service, but that's another thing.
So before you got cut off.
You're asking about the governorship.
Well, I'm asking about the governorship in regards to what's happening with our voting systems that seem to be coming more and more digital, even in a place like Iowa, where people assume that people are only going to vote one way and that we have transparency here and we have the rule of law.
So what do you see happening coming up with the midterms and now this new governor's race?
I think there'll be some snafus.
I think there'll be some problems.
I think there'll be enough eyes on things that things will get caught.
There was a school board election a year and a half ago that got messed up and had to have a recount.
No, I'm sorry.
It was a state representative election in northern Scott County that had to be recounted.
And you had the former Scott County attorney who's the county retired.
He was a county attorney for like 25, 30 years.
And then you had a former supervisor who was a longtime supervisor, Davis and Hancock, two old curmudging dudes, that had been in it for a long time.
And then they got to pick a third person as an intermediary and Diane Holt because everybody trusts Diane.
She was selected.
And she said that when she went there and dealt with the recount, the machine had all kinds of problems.
Treated Like Prisoners00:00:59
Even Hancock and Davis begrudgingly said we had issues with these machines.
This is a problem.
Even the old guard was recognizing.
One of them was a former county attorney, recognizing that this is a problematic issue.
What we're getting from our county auditor, and they just had a test of the machines, but they didn't publicize it all.
Only because Diane knew about it, we go there, and there was only four of us who showed up, and we were treated like prisoners.
We were treated like we were like interlopers, invaders, that we shouldn't be there.
That one guy yelled at me, like, you don't go over there.
You can't step in that area over there.
And like, just like forgetting that we pay his salary, our tax is paid for this building he's in.
So the dynamic is completely inverted.
Pushing Privacy Limits00:08:38
These people look at us voters as pests.
They really do.
They look at us as little insects that are just bothersome to them.
They just need to get through this.
And they're completely gaslighted and controlled.
And of course, you know, Carrie, when you ask her a question, instead of answering the question or saying, I'll get you an answer, her response is, I'm not going to argue with you.
I'm not going to argue with you.
And that comes from her training as a non-government organization.
She's got all this training in NGOs.
And so this is the classic thing we have, Jason.
So where are we going to go with this?
We're going to try and hold people's feet to the fire and do better.
I don't have a specific empirical answer, but we're going to try.
Well, let me say this.
You know, I remember when I first moved here and we had just met each other and we were going to those meetings once a week or once every two weeks with the freedom-minded groups, right?
And we're going to, I'm going to, I'm going to integrate this topic into the next one here with the automated license plate reading and the cameras and the surveillance.
You know, I specifically remember, God love them, Militich talking about all the cameras here in Bettendorf and Davenport and the quad cities in general.
But honestly, you find more of those cameras over on the Iowa side than you do on the Illinois side.
They're certainly there in Moline and Rock Island, but it's my opinion because they are maybe a little bit lower income, they're not at the level that they are over in Iowa.
And I remember Militich saying, you know, we got to get those out of there.
And then the gentleman who was married to the woman who'd worked on the Ron Paul campaign saying, we can get that done.
No, you can't.
I hate to tell everybody, and I'm not trying to be a bummer.
Ain't happening.
No one.
And I specifically remember talk.
We had somebody there who was a member of one of the boards that had actually seen it because they had recorded for like 72 hours.
And they had something where they had to find a car and they were able to find that car.
And the whole thing is, oh, no, we don't keep it forever and we get rid of it, et cetera.
And, you know, it is very convenient.
And I just told everybody flat out, like I told everybody flat out that DARPA was the one behind COVID-19.
But I go, not going anywhere.
And I got, no, we could get that done.
No, you can't.
No, you can't.
There is just too much of a push.
It's just like, look, I love Catherine Austin Fitz.
I do those IMA panels with her.
People are not going to reject the real ID when they're charging you now almost an extra $50 every time you get on a plane if you don't have it.
Now, it's not for your safety.
It should be totally illegal, but I'm just telling you how things work.
And it's not great.
We just don't have the political firepower, like you said, to change things.
And I haven't seen it.
I haven't seen us be able to get into the state governments or the federal government or the federal places like the Congress and Senate where something can change for the better.
I travel all the time.
You know this.
Guess what, guys?
The license plate scanners are everywhere on the East Coast.
And they're here in the Midwest, too.
They're in Indiana.
Okay.
They're not going anywhere.
Virginia.
They're all over.
All over.
And now, you know, I know I went on my little rant here, but you sent me this document: automated license plate readers in Iowa.
See this as the next step of those cameras because guess what?
They're reading your license plate with it, would be the cameras on top of they're usually medians or overpasses because it's usually highway tolls.
Uh, but we see them at all the uh red and green lights here.
So, first of all, tell us about this document here, Todd.
And what are your thoughts on what I said?
And I don't want to be doom and gloom, right?
I am not that guy, but I, again, have just seen no real political change when it comes to the track trace database society.
I've just seen privacy eroded and more people get comfortable with it.
Well, I'm going to circle back to what you just said about the cameras, but I'm going to go deal with the airport and the real ID for a second.
All right.
And it reminds me of that movie, Ants, I think it's called.
Is that right?
With the grasshoppers versus the ants cartoon.
Yes.
All right.
And where the guy's lecturing the ants.
If they find out that if they all stand up, they can crush us.
Yeah.
Right.
If they all figure it out, you know, if you let one guy figure out he can stand up, the rest of them stand up, we're doomed.
All right.
And that would count with everything we're talking about.
Imagine if everybody walked up to the airport and said, no, we know that there's been a Supreme Court case that says you do not have to have an ID to get on a plane.
I've proven it myself.
I've confronted TSA people myself.
I've confronted the Airport Commission Board in a meeting about it.
And dutifully, they said, yeah, you're right.
You do not have to have an ID to get on a plane.
It's all theater, all of it.
And we just dutifully act like we have to, because it'll jam the lineup.
Well, let me just say this about the theater, right?
And let me give like this much credit to the TSA.
So for those who haven't flown recently, at every checkpoint now, after you put your bag, you check your bags and you get your boarding pass and all that, they've got the biometric scanner for your face that, you know, basically everybody just lines up and they take the picture.
They have a little sign at most of these places, I'd say 90% of them, where it tells you that you can opt out.
And I opt out every time.
Sometimes they actually turn the machine off.
Sometimes they literally just have me step outside of the region and take the picture of nothing, which doesn't make any sense to me.
But it's still there, but the acclamation process is already in full effect.
And they've got 95 to 99% of people doing it every day, all day now for, I would say, months, if not a year, right?
It might even be over a year they've implemented this.
And this is that incremental move that gets people comfortable with this.
And how much longer until Jason Burmes isn't going to be able to say no to that?
Now, look, you can still say no to the body scanners that I was protesting over a decade ago.
But at the same time, you're still going to get your Johnson grabbed, right?
But at the same time, you're rolling the dice because there's no way to know that you do that and you don't get your Johnson grabbed.
But they certainly have not gotten rid of the body scanners.
They've only become more prevalent.
And let me tell you now, the third thing that they're doing in places like LaGuardia and JFK on the East Coast.
It's not just those methods.
Now you're in a line where you literally just get cut off and the person next to you, you walk with them down a 15-foot path while they tape your biometrics and motion.
And you don't have a choice on that one.
Okay.
Wow.
That has been implemented.
That happened to me last year, both times on the East Coast.
Pretty wild stuff in the big area.
You're just scanning your heart rate and stuff like that.
I won't say heart rate because that's a NASA thing, but they certainly are getting your gatewalk.
So, you know how we had that big story recently about how they were analyzing your walking patterns through gate analysis.
So, this is not only gate analysis of you and the person next to you, but then they also have a comparison of how tall and wide you are to another human being from multiple angles.
All right.
And I know I went on a rant there.
And we were talking life, Jason.
If you've got nothing to hide, why do you care?
A little intrusive is all I'm going to say.
And I know, again, I'm not trying to be a bummer because I think that there are times when human beings gather together and we do push back.
You know, obviously the transgender kid issue.
Huge, huge wins, in my opinion, with the Trump administration, RFK Jr., and the awareness about the dies, the hate and lies shots, the vegetable oils.
I know there are some people who are saying, oh, well, it's all limited hangout.
Open Records Requests Varied Widely00:02:53
Listen, this is a process and he's tearing down the system.
Five years ago, we couldn't even talk about these things.
Even under the first Trump administration, they were fringe issues.
They're not anymore.
And there's somebody in office at HHS that is doing things.
So I think there can be movement, but quite frankly, with the Trump administration, that's where I've seen the most movement in a positive direction.
And the places that I've seen movement in regards to a negative direction, it is technology, track trace database, AI data centers, and of course, foreign policy, et cetera, that it hasn't been delivered on.
So that TrackTrace database stuff, that totally integrates into what we're talking about with this documentation and Beyond Time.
Yeah, this is the Iowa ACLU with a class from, I think, University of Iowa did this deep dive study, if you will, about the plate readers in Iowa.
And it's a great document.
It's very rich with information.
And I just did a quick, you know, control F search for the word Davenport in there.
And it came up with some really interesting information regarding the Davenport saying to the to this report to these for this report that where the cameras are and how many we have are confidential, you know, based on open records law, they claim.
And again, yet another way that the citizens have to get back to it and deal with it, it being making the government more transparency.
But on page 16, it says the response to our open records requests varied widely.
The Davenport Police Department told us that all the information we requested was confidential with a footnote 103.
However, we sent the same request to the Scott County Sheriff, the county where Davenport is located, and they provided arguably one of the most thorough responses of any agency.
Most thorough responses which that warned my heart, Jason.
As you know, I'm a fan of our sheriff, Sheriff Tim Lane.
He does, I consider him to do a great job.
He's a constitutional sheriff, and it doesn't surprise me that this report lauded the Scott County Sheriff's Office for the most thorough response.
And you go to the Footnote 104, and they have a link to the email from September 19, 2025.
And then you can go to that, and you can read what that says.
And they're complying, and they're giving them a whole bunch of information.
So I think it's a good thing that Scott County is like that.
The rest of it, though, is not very exciting or very positive, if you will, for those of us for transparency.
So back to the ant story, if you will.
And that is, you know, imagine if all of us got the, I think you can buy like a cover for your license plate that, right?
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It shades it or hazes it enough that you can't read it.
Isn't there a technology like that?
It's very simple just to cover your plan.
I mean, they've sold them for 20 years because these things have been around for 20 plus.
So you can go on eBay and get them.
I don't know how legal they are anymore.
That's a good question.
You know, it's the same thing with, you know, I used to carry around when I when I first came here, when I was traveling around the country, I'd always have the radar detector for the police officers, and those have been around since the 80s.
Some states, they're totally illegal, so don't have them plugged into your thing.
You make sure that's at least plugged out.
Other states, they are legal.
You know, I've talked to now several people that just tell me they don't pay their automated tolls in Illinois.
You know, for me, I get them from all over.
You know, I get them from New York.
I get them from Pennsylvania.
I get them from Illinois.
Man, D.C., I thought I'd got out of there by the skin of my nuts on a decent budget.
Hit me with a $150 bill for speeding via the traffic cams in D.C. doing $40 and a 25.
No way to appeal that.
And if you don't pay it on time, $350.
So, hey, they get me.
I'm not, I don't like it.
I understand how bad it is.
And like you said, it'd be nice for everybody to stand up.
But the only issue I've seen people really standing up on and agreeing on from all sides is this Epstein issue, right?
And that's, to me, the big lesson on this one is that's the one thing that's gone beyond partisan politics in the last 20 plus years.
I thought 9-11 was going to be that issue.
Apparently, it's Epstein.
I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing.
But for instance, like, let's play this, you know, this immigration piece.
This shouldn't be a divisive issue.
It's not a right or left issue.
It's an issue about, hey, if you're a criminal and you get caught doing criminal things, we prosecute you.
And by the way, if you're a criminal who isn't a citizen of the United States, you're then processed through, unfortunately, I don't like DHS, right?
But ICE or another immigration group.
And they take it from there.
Not wacky, not Republican or Democrat, not bigoted.
Notice, I don't care where they're from.
I don't care.
Mexico, South America, Nigeria, Ecuador.
I don't care where they're from.
They're a criminal and they should be prosecuted for the crime that they got caught with.
And then if they're not a citizen, they leave.
It just sounds normal to me, but let's play this clip.
And I'm sure I'm going to be a bigoted white supremacist with my Nazi handler by a group of people by daring to agree with that simple policy.
They're an alleged criminal first.
And then once they're convicted, and they're thorn.
Yes.
Again, you get caught doing a crime and you're not here legally.
You already committed a crime before the one you're even supposed to be charged with and tried to get.
That's a good point.
That's a good point.
Just pointing that out.
Very good point.
All right.
So again, let's go to this clip here.
These set of laws that limits on where exactly federal agents could make immigration arrests.
This comes, of course, after the state legislator passed a package of legislation following widespread immigration crackdown across the Chicagoland area.
Today, Governor Pritzker did sign that package of legislation.
This taking place at the Little Village Community Church.
The state of legislation bans immigration arrests at or near courthouses.
It also requires colleges, universities, hospitals, and daycares to set up policies for dealing with immigration enforcement and prohibits these establishments from disclosing the immigration status of students, patients, and children.
Last month, a daycare worker was arrested by federal agents in Roscoe Village at the start of the school day.
The governor says these laws expand legal protection for Illinois residents as immigration enforcement continues.
Our people have been forced to live in fear.
Everyday activities, like dropping off the kids at school, going to the park with your family, going to the doctor, showing up at your job has meant risking your safety and your livelihood.
Fear and intimidation have been visited upon us by fellow Americans.
It's unconstitutional.
They aren't Americans.
There's not a fellow American if you're here illegally.
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You know, I watched the recent Dave Chappelle Netflix special.
Okay.
And look, there's a little TDS in there.
There's certainly things politically that I don't agree with.
You know that I'm not big on authoritarianism.
I'm always very hesitant for things like martial law or utilizing the military.
You know, I also mentioned that I was, you know, obviously I was in D.C. for this September 11th.
And one of the things that caught my eye was, you know, the week before was the big, we're using the National Guard and we're going into D.C. and we're cleaning up the homeless problem.
And then they were actually, when I was driving down there, going to Chicago to do the same.
It was cleanest I ever saw it.
And Chappelle literally had a bit where he starts talking about it.
And he's like, pretty clean, though.
He's like, gotta admit, pretty clean.
Like, he's like, I've been here a lot.
Yeah.
Pretty clean.
So here's the part that he didn't say, okay, which I wish he had said on top of it because I think it would have been a little more fair.
By the time I was there, and I think that that was filmed maybe just a couple weeks after, because they obviously hit on the Charlie Kirk thing a few times, but I don't think it was much past October, right?
There's no National Guard on the street there.
There weren't in September.
They went in, they did their thing, they got out.
Now, as far as I'm concerned, the National Guard are there for states' issues.
All right.
Now, if you've got all these different programs via states, which we do, halfway houses, shelters, soup kitchens, the infrastructure to put these people in areas where they're not going to be homeless, right?
Or at least have a better situation than being on the street and literally, you know, taking craps on the sidewalk, which Chappelle joked about.
I think that's actually a good thing and a good use of the National Guard.
You could make an argument in Washington, D.C. because it's not a state, right?
And they don't have representatives.
But anywhere else, I don't know that that argument is valid, right?
Like if you're using California National Guard, right?
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And you're using, say, the ones up from Sonoma County, upstate, and you're bringing them down to Los Angeles County and, you know, areas of San Diego and using great.
Great.
Isn't that what we should be utilizing our military for instead of wars overseas or actual martial law or things in DHS where you're targeting your, not fake American citizens, Pritzker, but you're actually targeting American citizens as domestic terrorists like we saw throughout the COVID-19 44 nightmare.
I mean, what are your thoughts on that?
Well, my thoughts are, I go to David Clements was here recently in October at the Reagan dinner for the Republican Party.
There's about 500 people there and got to know him well and been following him.
He has a sub stack and it's called the Professor's Record with David Clements.
And his most recent video, it's about 20 minutes, is about Tina Peters and a rundown of historically how the president and the executive branch has used federal power via National Guard to affect the rule of law.
And for instance, I mean, and that's stuff that we're not taught history well enough, in my view.
I guess in Mississippi, Governor Wallace was refusing two black women to be able to register at the school university, the state university.
And he's literally stood in the doorway.
And there's a whole, there's all, there's film, there's tons of coverage.
This was not a secret.
So there's, that's just one of like four or five examples that Clements showed in that video that's on the most recent thing he did.
And so there's, there's precedence for what we're talking about here going on.
Pritzker's effort, that's called HB 1312, by the way.
We're going to be looking that up more closely for this January edition of the Reader as well, coming out January 8th and covering it a little more because there's some pretty big detractors about it saying, you know, if you are unlawful, you get a red carpet.
If you're lawful, you get treated like a terrorist.
I mean, that's the short version of what Pritzker signed to his critics, like you just explained.
And so now you've got Pritzker saying, keep the feds out, which on one hand, if you're a 10th Amendment guy like I am, I like the feds staying out of the situation.
On the other hand, if you have an unruly state, and this goes back to Corey Eye, my friend Corey, and I did the show Agenda 31 for years.
He lives out in California.
He talks all about how the state constitution was rewritten numerous times, or there's like many of our state constitutions were, but there was an era where the state legislature back in the day raised their hand and asked for help from D.C. because of the Chinese immigrants.
And there was like a big problem in the state.
And it was like, but that was the nose, the camel nose under the tent.
Now that they were in, that was the beginning of the end of the independent state.
You had the feds move in and start acting like they were the state government.
And so it's a slippery slope is my answer to you.
And I think it's fascinating that on one hand, you've got Pritzker saying, you know, I'm 10th Amendment.
He didn't say 10th amendment, but he's like, keep the feds out.
On the other hand, would he hold that same thing up for something else?
If it was about, I don't know, let's pick an issue.
People who didn't pay their taxes because they find the IRS to be unlawful?
I don't know.
Would he do that?
Well, I mean, look at his exploitation.
You know, we didn't even mention this, but exploitation of people outside of Illinois, right?
First of all, you know, with this latest scandal out in, I believe, Minnesota, right, with the Nigerians and the funding, you know, there are numbers where it's 85 to 90% of those people who are not here legally on federal assistance, okay?
Which isn't, and if they're on federal assistance, they're also on types of state assistance because they have those programs too.
It's not just the welfare or the WIC programs, and they're also, you know, subsidized by NGOs.
A lot of that's the Catholic Church, et cetera, et cetera.
So you have that.
Oh, we just lost them again.
Well, that's okay.
Hopefully, we'll get him back in a moment.
It's that terrible, or he is back.
You have that aspect of it.
But now, Pritzker is, and we were discussing this earlier, kind of with Iowa toll plates.
Illinois is one of the worst, and they already hit out-of-staters with more fees.
They already try to drive you to the easy pass or the IPass, but now he wants to charge out-of-staters even more.
Even more.
So, there's a different rate for you and I.
I mean, we live on the border, it's a couple miles away, but we should absolutely be paying 25 to 30.
This is a tax state.
Look at marijuana there.
All right.
Folks, people leave Illinois and drive to Michigan because it is taxed so heavily in Illinois where they actually tax you.
First of all, they tax you on how potent it is.
So, it's something like 26 to 28 percent if it's under 32 percent THC.
If it's over 32 percent THC, it's 31 percent tax.
Wow.
Then, on top of that, as an out-of-stater, you can only get 14 grams of regular marijuana.
Forget about concentrate, and you can only do one transaction at each place per 24 hours.
It's like the most police state overtaxed scam place out there.
And that's why I hope if we get a new governor here in Iowa that's more marijuana friendly, they don't go that route.
They go the decriminalization route with some taxation, but nothing crazy.
And maybe we use Michigan as the example.
Although, if you just saw the governor there signed an executive order trying to tax the growers another 24% just before consumers, now they're fighting it in court, but that's the kind of authoritarian bull shiz, Johnny nonsense that these people continue to pull, right?
And look, Pritzker's one of the worst.
And this other woman who we had that big kidnapping hoax with, Gretchen Whitmer, is also one of the worst.
Here's the thing, and I don't see them going anywhere, Todd.
Go ahead.
It's ironic that there's a rules for thee, rules for me in the pricing of marijuana in Illinois and also of how much you can buy if you're from out of state.
Meanwhile, they have a huge sign on the side of the wall in there that says it's illegal to take this across state line.
So, on one hand, they're acknowledging that you are from a different state and having restrictions on your acquisition and your purchases.
At the same time, saying you can't take it across state lines.
And not only can't you take it across state lines, hold on, across state lines, there are billboards literally for nature's treatment in Illinois.
As you drive through Davenport in the quad cities, they advertise to you what would be illegal in your car at the moment.
And then, on top of that, they also take out radio ads, which I totally think they should be able to do, what you hear throughout Iowa.
They advertise in our paper, and we distribute on both sides of the river.
So, yeah, absolutely.
Yeah, so listen, it's classic.
It doesn't make sense.
And you know what?
Let's get your take on this.
I don't love what Trump did making marijuana a Schedule 3 instead of a Schedule I.
I know that some people are like, well, it's in the right direction, and now you can use it for medical use.
Look, we've had alcohol in this.
We had one small period of prohibition.
Otherwise, alcohol, boom.
Marijuana has proven itself.
It's not like crime has gone out of control or psychosis has gone out of control.
If anybody's been hurt by the rise of the acceptance of marijuana and its ability to be sold in stores everywhere, it's the alcohol industry.
Americans are drinking less than ever.
And look, I like a little booze in my life every once in a while.
We go have a beer.
I'm not a home drinker.
I will smoke blunts at home, folks.
So like for me, I totally get it.
You know what I mean?
I pay the price much more on alcohol.
I think everybody does if you overdo that the next day.
What are your thoughts on Trump's Schedule 3?
And what do you think the future of marijuana is going to be here in Iowa?
I think it's a complicated issue because of CBD and different levels.
And, you know, it's a, it's a, here's what I really think.
I think that the underlying real fear of the big agra, big alcohol, big pharma, and big cotton is hemp.
The same plant that just doesn't have any THC because it is food, fuel, and fiber.
And it is regenerative.
You can grow multiple crops in a season.
It doesn't destroy the soil.
It is, in my view, that is, all this is just smoke, pun intended, about trying to keep this plant down.
Because heaven forbid that somebody would say, we're going to have start instead of soybeans and corn and monocropping and ruining the soil.
Again, in the current issue, the reader, we have an interview with Pat Militich and Monty Bottons about regenerative soil and biostimulants and so forth in the soil.
Hemp would be a phenomenal crop.
It would create jobs.
It would be better for the earth, better for the soil.
That's, in my view, what's the real powers of beer trying to stop?
Marijuana is just a distraction.
Just play around over there.
Heaven forbid, don't go for the hemp.
Just don't go there.
Well, listen.
That's my view.
It's a volume cash crop.
You know, not just for all the reasons that you just said, but let's say you have the psychoactive activity.
And obviously, there's been a lot of THCA.
I know that you probably saw that bill that Rand Paul warns that now that it's passed, they can federally regulate it out of existence.
I am worried about that.
I think it's going to be selective enforcement.
But the other thing about this plant is it's very durable.
In most cases, you're growing it indoors and you can grow it year-round.
In many places, outdoors, you can either grow it year-round or close to, you know, in environments that don't get harsh winters.
And I just want people to think about the value, the physical value of something that you pay for, like corn, like you just mentioned.
Husk of corn, you know, you know, what, again, like a buck?
Husk of weed that big and that dense, you know, you could bring it down in price.
I don't know that it's ever going to get to corn, but again, it could be.
People have been so accustomed to paying exorbitant prices, just like we said about Illinois.
Michigan has broke some of those barriers.
Colorado has broke some of those barriers because they were one of the first inceptions, et cetera.
I think those are good barriers to break.
I think that's what true capitalism is, right?
You bring people in.
There's real competition.
That competition drives prices down, especially on something you just, like you just mentioned, can be grown and replenished at a very quick clip.
I don't see what the issue is other than not wanting to empower the people and control that industry in a monopolistic fashion that we see far too often in industries that are highly profitable.
I was talking to a farmer the other day and asked him about soy and why that what the Chinese do with the soy, you know what, soybeans, I should say.
And he said, well, they actually use it for cooking oil and they and they the husk after they've extracted the oil out of it, they feed to their pigs and livestock.
And then once they burn the oil for cooking and so forth, they sell it back to us in America so we can convert it to diesel.
And he said, it's the dirty little secret.
He said, the Chinese figured out, they don't buy corn from us because they figured out that per square per cubic foot of transportation, you could get more protein out of per cubic foot of soy than you can corn.
And so they did the calculus on the shipping and back and forth and so forth.
It's like, we'll grow corn.
We'll just have the vassal state of the United States give us our soy.
That's what's going on.
Well, it doesn't surprise me.
Again, we also subsidize corn through our government here.
Oh, yeah.
Look, the agro situation, agriculture in generally in this country and globally, I think we're still in big trouble.
I'm hoping we can move in the right direction with RFK Jr. because we constantly talk about soybean oil or seed oils.
And look, soy may not be the best to ingest over and over again.
But as far as seed oils, the real problem is the process and how highly processed they are and what we're really putting on our body at that point.
I'm hoping, again, and I don't like the hopium train.
I'm hoping that we can continue on that RFK Jr. direction.
I'm hoping by the 2028 elections, hopefully things are not disastrous enough where we just fall into a Vance or some other neoconnish kind of political figure.
And RFK Jr. delivers, and he's the Republican Party nominee.
And this time they can't keep him out like they did the first time around via the Democrats.
Again, we got a lot of time on that, but who knows?
Go ahead.
Can you do me a favor and pull up the reader website?
There's two articles I want to direct some of your listeners or guys to, if you don't mind.
And one of them is, if you could pull it up there.
I got it in front of me.
Go ahead.
Oh, that said on the screen, though.
Well, which articles do you want?
Let's go to the piece on Don't Kill the Messenger, the piece with Militich and under commentary.
It's under commentary, yeah.
Under commentary.
Okay.
I got you.
Yeah, I can't see it.
Okay, so news and commentary.
You know, I'm on the front page.
Hold on.
So it's not on the front page.
I can't see what you see.
Sorry, man.
Yeah, let's go there.
No, not on.
Don't kill the messenger.
This one right here, guys.
Click on news and comment.
Yeah, it's right there.
I got it.
Tell us about it.
Cool.
Well, that's a piece that you mentioned RFK.
Well, Maha had a second report come out in September.
And the reader, we received a news release from the Fertilizer Institute, the TFI, which I don't never really paid attention to.
But the headlines in the subject line of the email said, you know, TFI supports Maha Report Number Two.
I'm like, wow, the Fertilizer Institute is sidelined up to Maha.
So I went and looked at, read it, and they're all about the four Rs and all this different stuff and how they align with, and I went and looked at TFI's membership.
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They've been around since the 30s.
And it's got BNSFF, the railroads, it's got Monsanto.
It's got all the big ag players, right?
And I'm thinking, this sounds like virtue signaling to me.
So we worked with Rochelle Arnold, one of our freelancers, and she interviewed the TFI spokesperson.
She interviewed Pat Militich with Soil Saviors about the Fulmic and Humic Acid for Regenerative Soil Generation and Monty Bottons, who lives in Cambridge, Illinois, just across the river, who has Grateful Grays.
Really interesting article.
I would highly encourage you to check it out.
The guy from TFI, you know, and the dandelion is the hook on this story because we're trained to think that the dandelion is a terrible weed that we should all kill and go spray some poisonous stuff on it on your lawn.
And it's in actuality, it's as Militich put it, it's the messenger.
It's the canary in the coal mine.
It's telling you that that soil needs regeneration.
It pulls the nutrients out of the air, and the dandelion is actually regenerative to the place that's there.
And if you look into it, people make all kinds of food and wine out of dandelion.
And it's actually a good plant.
It's not a terrible weed.
So that's another piece I encourage you to look at.
And the RFK made me think of that.
And then lately, in the news, has been the new mayor of New York, who's a vowed socialist and so forth.
And Joel Lorenzen, who has a substat calling called Uncommon Sense.
He's a business owner, semi-retired, lives here in Rock Island.
He occasionally writes for us.
He's got a piece in there called Urbanization, the New American Divide.
And if you go to that, that is on the front page, I think.
And the subheader spells it out.
Yeah, there it is right there.
Scroll down just a little bit, will you, please, to the subheader.
Yeah, his thesis, which he thinks is unique and novel, and I think it is, is that political ideology is not driving socialism's rise in global cities and the big urban centers.
It's structural stability amidst unseen resources that is driving the socialists.
Listen, it's a smokescreen, man.
I don't think this mamondi or whatever is momdani, I don't think he's a socialist.
I don't think he's a Democrat.
I don't think he's a liberal.
I think he's a globalist.
I think what we're pushing towards now, again, like we were texting back and forth, are the AI data centers.
They're going to be pushing in automation.
They're going to try to bring the free Wi-Fi.
New York City is going to try to have more of these congestion zones where you just drive somewhere and forget about tolls, guys, like for a bridge or something.
No, you're in the wrong part of the city and you're getting charged.
And I think we're seeing, I think Pritzker's one of those people.
We're not quite as far along the congestion pricing of New York City, but we are there for the automation with the driving and the tolls.
And hey, Iowa's just next door.
Let's get it down with Domino after Domino after domino.
Look, they're after our water.
They're about to change the energy system.
Our currencies ain't doing so good.
And guess what?
Gold and silver are skyrocketing, especially silver.
All of those, to me, scream that there is going to be a new redistribution of many of these important resources and infrastructures that we've grown accustomed to.
Mr. McGreevy, we have run out of time.
I want everybody to go check out the River City Reader, rcreader.com.
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