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Sept. 18, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Steve Poplar warns Mike Adams: The food supply chain is COLLAPSING in real time
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Alright, welcome to today's interview folks here on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.
And today we have a new guest, someone who I've enjoyed many of his videos on YouTube and he's on Twitter and some other places.
His name is Steve Poplar and he's with the Poplar Report.
He's an accountant and he's careful to state that at the beginning of every one of his reports.
And he compiles a lot of We're good to go.
I feel free right here on this platform.
This is amazing.
You are indeed free.
You do not have to censor or hold back in any way.
You can say whatever you want.
But tell people a little bit about what you do since this is your first time on my show.
I mean, I described it, but you can probably describe it better.
And also a little bit of your background and how you got into this.
Sure, sure.
So my background is in disaster relief and then in accounting.
We have just this idea that To kind of push back on government is all about us having to build our own systems, like you're building the network here at Brighteon, and just all the news reporting that is out there.
We all know how garbage it is.
On the mainstream media, it's just absolute garbage.
They're just puppets for the CIA, really.
They're waging this info war against anyone who disagrees with them.
And we don't have freedom of thought in the mainstream media.
And that's really what kind of drove me to be a part of this community.
First, I was a viewer on a lot of the channels on YouTube that are kind of speaking out and providing alternative narratives to what's going on.
And when I got on, I was like, you know, maybe I can do that too.
And so that's what I did.
I started posting some videos.
And a lot of folks really appreciate what I had to say.
Kind of the analytical, no BS, straight at you perspective, but with principles.
And that's kind of where we got started and how I am here, I guess.
And just we post a lot of videos on what's going on, but then adding context to that.
And then also, like you said, we do a lot of videos where we're posting what the viewers are sharing with us.
And that's kind of strategic on my part, for sure.
It's because I want people in the community to feel like they're contributing.
I want them to be taking ownership of pushing back and not just watching somebody on the YouTube or the TV screen doing something but rather they're all participating in this network of information gathering and sharing vital information.
And I think that we need these networks more now than ever before.
Yeah, yeah, completely agree.
And plus, all those people who are reporting to you, you know, they're everywhere.
They're all over the country, different cities.
And, you know, I've watched some of your reports where you'll say, you know, here in, let's say, oh, in Los Angeles, you know, the Costco's have run out of, you know, canned chicken meat or whatever.
Like it's very granular in terms of the reporting of the scarcity that's going on at all the different food retailers across the country right now.
And that's that's a trend that you've really reported on a lot recently, as I understand it.
Yeah.
And and to I want to.
Open up the data to people.
And I think that's one of the things that really drives me nuts about the media and everything.
They claim something, but then they never show us the data.
They never give us the data sets.
And I think that people are just hungry for being able to look at the numbers, look at the reports themselves, and make a decision for themselves and not have someone tell them what they're supposed to think and then just not give them the data.
And I've said it on several occasions.
And, you know, the quiet part out loud, so to speak, that right now we're reporting on food shortages and empty shelves, but maybe this is a practice run for us gathering information for other things in the future.
Absolutely.
Yeah, well, in fact, may I ask you, you said your background was in disaster relief.
Can you share any more details about what you did or you currently do?
Sure.
I served overseas with a non-profit in the Afghanistan region for two years.
I almost went back for two more years in the heart of Afghanistan.
But while I was still in training, my team actually got taken hostage by the Taliban.
So that kind of didn't pan out.
So were you taken hostage also?
No, I was in training in Switzerland when that happened with a Christian group called Medair.
They had the team that I was actually supposed to join was actually taken hostage.
And they were rescued, but, you know...
That kind of hit pretty close to home.
It was in the region that I was working in before for two years, but I've done a bunch of disaster relief here in the United States, particularly with Southern Baptist Disaster Relief, Superstorm Sandy, Cape Coral in Florida for Irma, Hurricane Matthew, North Carolina, Kentucky last year for the flooding, Hurricane Ian last year.
Wow.
I've traveled pretty extensively around the world, 50 countries now, actually.
As I've traveled, one of the big things that was always on my mind and heart was the disasters that happened in those places.
So really trying to understand the catastrophes that befell these countries.
So I spent a lot of time in Sarajevo, taking the tours there and really asking a lot of questions.
Cambodia, the killing fields, Phnom Penh.
We have spent some time in Vietnam.
In South Africa, too.
Really just asking the question, like, how does this society get to those really, really bad places?
Well, I think that's an invaluable experience to see all of that firsthand.
I mean, nothing replaces that.
Sure.
And so when people start talking about SHTF, I want to keep fighting back.
That is stuff hitting the fan, okay?
Let's clean that up, right?
But...
When I'm talking about disasters, when I'm talking about these serious devolutions of society, these are things that I've either seen firsthand or I've talked to people who have been through those processes in years past in maybe a dozen countries now, I guess.
It's just what people don't realize is that we're not talking about some...
We're talking about things that are happening in other countries right now and have happened in hundreds of countries in the last 50 years.
I mean, we're not talking about some theoretical thing.
We're talking about very practical reality for most of the world.
So...
Yeah, it gets me a little fired up, for sure.
When we're talking about these, people are like, well, I don't need to stock up.
I don't need to get prepared.
I don't need to watch what's going on in the world.
I can just assume that everything's going to be fine and good for forever.
That's just not the way it is.
Empires come and fall, and we've had it so good here in America.
I know a lot of your viewers are in America, but even in the Western world, much of Europe has had it very, very good since the end of World War II. Oh, yeah.
No kidding.
Well, we've been living in an artificial economy of money printing, artificially low interest rates, and global reserve currency status, which we're losing.
But maybe we can come back to that.
But I want to ask you then, given your rather vast experience in disaster relief, Have you noticed the anomalies at Lahaina in Maui?
I mean, I don't know if you've even spoken about that, but has anything come to your mind about, whoa, that's out of the ordinary, like the fact that the authorities still won't release the numbers of children that are missing?
Like, what?
Why not?
Yeah, that's super, super concerning, for sure.
A lot of the stuff, I know a lot of people are always kind of like, well, where's FEMA? Where's FEMA? Where's FEMA? And being at disaster relief zones in the United States, you realize that FEMA doesn't really do all that much.
They're bureaucrats with clipboards that come wandering around and just kind of criticizing everyone who's actually doing any work.
Yeah, but they just asked for $16 billion and more funding from Biden.
I think it was $16 billion.
That's a boatload of money.
I guess they've got to pay for all the luxury hotels.
Their budget is $28 billion for the year, and they're asking for another $16 billion.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah, what are they doing with all that?
Where's this money going?
Now, we have had a lot of disasters this year.
I believe it's like 25 disasters so far this year of over a billion dollars.
But still, what are they doing?
Are they just writing checks for everybody that's getting some damage done to their homes?
And you know all that money is not mostly going to people who are on the ground struggling.
Most of that's going to corporations.
Most of that's going to businesses.
Very wealthy people.
And just...
Whenever you see money being dispersed, you just know that a small percentage of it is actually going to those who are really in need, and a lot of it's going to pay off special interests and all sorts of things.
I mean, the contractors that are sitting at warehouses and selling things for ridiculous markups to the federal government for these disaster zones, they're the ones who are making all this money.
Yeah, clearly.
But Lahaina just...
It's hard to dig into these things because it's like, once again, they don't give you the actual data.
And they built a wall around, I mean, a blackout fence around the areas that burned.
It's kind of like you're not allowed to look in there.
Yeah, I was actually trying to dig into the numbers on sea level rise.
I guess that was one late night, I, you know...
Nerds like me in accounting will do this kind of thing.
I was like, I'm going to go dig into those title charts for the last 100 years and all over the world.
I was looking at title charts for the past 100 years in Venice.
I was finding these...
I was finding these data sets.
It's like, warning, do not use this without proper context.
Like, that was stamped on the data set.
I was like, what?
Wow.
Like, this is crazy.
You know, I was like, I wonder if I can just catch them cherry picking information, but they're taking like whole decades off the chart.
And just like, that's super sketchy.
Why can't they trust us with the data?
Yeah, right.
But the thing is, they have to withhold the data and just provide us the proper context.
And that's what just drives, I think, all of us nuts.
Give me the truth.
Maybe I won't like the truth, but don't lie to me.
Don't lie to me and don't hide the truth from me because that's just infuriating.
I think we're all infuriated by that.
And as an accountant, you are a data-driven person.
That's your mindset, right?
You're kind of like, show me the facts, show me the data, which I think is really critical.
And yet...
I would say we're living in a time right now where whether we're talking about COVID or vaccines or It's all being rigged.
It's all fiction.
They don't want to show you any real data.
And you've even got people like Ocasio-Cortez out there saying that inflation is a right-wing conspiracy theory.
Like, hey, pardon my language, but, bitch, have you gone to the grocery store recently?
I mean, you know, it's very expensive right now.
You know?
How does she think that...
That's a conspiracy theory.
Well, when she drives her Tesla to the Whole Foods and doesn't park in a parking spot, I think that gives you a little bit of information about where her head is at.
And it just...
You know, when she first got elected to Congress, I remember her whining about how she couldn't afford a house in Washington, D.C. True.
And what, congressmen get like $220-some-thousand dollars, I think it is?
That's the last time, before they probably gave themselves a bunch of upgrades since then.
But, I mean, $200-plus-thousand dollars and you want to complain to us about it?
You can't get a house.
You can't rent an apartment.
Like, seriously?
Yep.
No, exactly.
But just shifting gears a little bit, one of the things I like about your report, Steve, is that you don't just focus on problems.
I mean, you do point them out and kind of like a forewarning of what's coming, you know, food scarcity, price inflation, these other things.
But what also comes across is that you have a strong philosophy of believing in, you know, local organizing, community strength and self-reliance.
Can you speak about that for a minute?
Sure.
I've said before that, you know, when it comes to like the woke mind virus, when it comes to these bad ideas, the only thing that supplants a bad idea is a good idea, a better idea.
And I believe that truthfully, the best idea is the gospel of Jesus Christ.
And that is the idea that will drive out anything else.
But the idea that we also have local Non-centralized organizations is so critical.
And that is from farmers markets to personal relationships that people have.
I think churches are extremely powerful.
I think that's why the government keeps waging war on churches as best they can, is because...
And having these local autonomous bodies of groups of people that are working together for the good of themselves and for the good of their community, I mean, that just scares the pants off the government because you're not supposed to be going to a church to get food at their food pantry.
You're supposed to be going to the government food pantry and giving away all your information so that they can run the tax numbers on you.
They can capture your social security numbers so they can...
The number of hoops you have to jump through nowadays to go to a government food bank is growing.
Now, I'm all about accountability and making sure that the people that are getting support are the people who need it, but you can see that there's nefarious things afoot here.
They are trying to capture people's information, and they're really trying to close down all the loopholes because what I see coming for sure is that they are going to be coming after Just as they say, you're spending more than your fair share.
And then they've started saying that with carbon now, too.
Like, you're using more than your fair share of carbon dioxide, right?
You're producing more than your fair share.
And pretty soon, and they're already talking about it, is that you're buying more than your fair share of food.
And they already started talking about that in New York City.
So it's not...
It's not crazy.
They want to control everything, and we need to be pushing back at every level.
You have to ask yourself the question, what power do they have, or what power are they trying to gather, and how can we kind of push back?
How can we take that power back?
You see what they're doing in the schools.
We should be asking ourselves the question, my church asks ourselves the question, how can we counteract a lot of the damage that's being done in these public schools to the kids?
We have the kids like one hour a week, you know, two hours a week.
And then the schools have them for just the rest.
And how do we...
Well, they need drag queen story time hour time, you know, every day, apparently.
No, it's an abomination.
It's insane.
It's like Sodom and Gomorrah in the schools now.
Sure.
Sure.
But yeah, so local networks, I believe that a bunch of these YouTubers are building networks too, and I think that that's important for us.
But one of the things I push back a little bit on is when people start getting all like, we need to organize.
And I push back on that because I think we should have decentralized organizations.
You saw this with the Proud Boys, right?
I'm amazed what I can say here freely.
Yeah, you can say it all.
Go for it.
People were leaders that weren't even there.
They weren't even there, and yet they're being arrested because they're part of this network, because they're part of this organization.
The government loves when people stand up to them.
Because then they have the opportunity to slam them down, lock them away for forever, to send the troops out on the streets.
They love it when you stand directly up to them.
What they hate is you hiding in the shadows and just sniping at them.
They do something and you run after them and you take them down.
The Blade Runners in London are a perfect example.
London decided to set up all these cameras to enforce their very low admission zone.
If you're not paying the tax, you get hit with a $200 penalty every time one of their cameras takes a picture of you.
And so the Blade Runner, so they call themselves, are going out there and they're vandalizing these cameras.
They're taking these cameras down.
They're taking down hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of these cameras.
So oftentimes out in the broad daylight, you see videos of them out there just going up there and just cutting the wires and pulling these things down or using grinders to cut down the poles.
And people are just done with it.
And they're finding creative ways to say, you want to automate this?
Well, we'll just de-automate it for you.
Wow.
A lot of people think of resistance in binary terms.
It's like either you're going to go all full revolution or something, which is just pure suicide.
And I've seen war.
I've seen the results of civil war in countries, and we don't want that.
I promise you.
We do not want that.
But we do have power to just hear something like what they're doing in New Mexico.
They pass this unconstitutional emergency action.
Sorry, New Mexico.
And they said, you know, you're not allowed to have guns out in the open.
You're not allowed to have concealed carry, even though we issued you these permits.
We're just going to suspend that.
And the people are just like, no.
Yeah, they came out and just rallied openly carrying firearms and telling Governor Grisham to go pound sand.
And the sheriff is like, I'm not going to enforce that.
That's crazy.
And when people are just like, no, we're not going to do that.
really have is a piece of paper that's as worthless as their federal reserve note, right?
Well, right.
But it also goes to show you that the whole idea of applying for permission to carry concealed is a pointless exercise anyway, if government can just revoke that permission.
You know, it's a constitutional right to carry.
You don't need government permission to exercise your constitutional rights.
Yeah, but the guys with all the sticks and all the guns are telling us what our rights now are, regardless of what the Constitution has ever said.
And that's really where we come to the crux of it, is they are trying to usurp more and more authority, more and more power in our everyday lives.
They're trying to mess with what you're growing in your garden.
They're telling you you can't have chickens in your backyard.
They're telling you all these different things that they're doing.
And, you know, we have to push back on these things.
We have to go ahead and flaunt them when they when they overreach.
We have to organize with others to do that.
Yeah.
But we have to be creative about it.
And that's one of the things that these morons, they're gluing themselves to roads and throwing paint on art pieces and stuff like that.
Um, What they don't get is that the purpose of protest, the purpose of pushing back is that you're supposed to be trying to win the hearts of the people.
That's right.
Not just annoying everybody by blocking traffic.
When you block traffic, you just piss people off.
I mean, just people get mad at you.
And they're not on your side anymore.
Well, because regular people have to get to work, you know, or get something done.
They need to use the roads.
By the way, sorry to interrupt, Steve, but I wanted to let you know, I mean, I really admire all your work all around the world in these rescue missions and humanitarian aid, however you describe it.
But I wanted to let you know, we've done a lot of donations in that space, too.
And we gave, I don't know how long ago it was, maybe six months or something, Shipping, I think it was $140,000 plus worth of actual food on pallets.
We donated to Harvest Time Ministries International and then Convoy of Hope.
And I'm sure you've heard of these groups.
Very good folks.
We wanted to connect with Christian-oriented groups because they actually get the food to the people instead of writing a check to some group that just ends up pocketing it and paying fat salaries to their corrupt executives.
We wanted to get food into the hands of people.
And we find that these Christian groups are by far the best at getting that done.
Is that also what you've noticed?
Sure, sure.
And I don't want to talk smack about any of the less Christian nonprofits out there, and there's a big one that we won't mention here, but you can read between the lines on that one.
And they do great work.
They do great work, but the efficiency there is not the greatest.
They get lots and lots of money, but they only pass through...
A small portion of that, their volunteers are paid and stuff like that.
You see that with a lot of these organizations.
But the Christian organizations, pretty much all of them, really.
I mean, from the, you know, trying to think of all the other ones that I've run into on the ground.
Southern Baptists are the biggest.
Them and Salvation Army are fantastic.
Convoy of Hope is fantastic.
Samaritan's Purse is fantastic.
Is Samaritan's Purse active in the U.S., or is that the convoy I have?
No, I think they are active, yeah.
Yeah, I just think they go by something else in the States here.
Anyway, yeah, these Christian organizations, different denominations, all those ones, they work hard at making sure that the money is donated goes right to the ground.
And so like a lot of these Christian organizations, everyone's volunteering their time.
They're paying their own gas to drive down there.
Wow.
And then they're working for free.
And so when you go to these disaster zones, like in Kentucky, Red Cross did not deploy to Eastern Kentucky for political reasons, it appears like.
like.
And that's really frustrating.
Yeah.
Because the global warming crowd said the people in Eastern Kentucky deserved it because they were too conservative and they voted the wrong way.
Wow.
Wow.
I mean, that's yeah, that that's that truly is unbelievable.
But, you know, politics shouldn't come into play when we're just trying to save lives.
Right.
Just trying to rescue people from horrible circumstances.
I don't care if they're left-wing, right-wing, independent.
I don't care about their skin color, even their sexual orientation.
If we're here to save people's lives who are innocent victims, then let's get to work and get that done.
But you'd be shocked, Steve, or maybe you wouldn't be shocked, but it was very hard for us to find groups that would take actual food.
You know, pallets of food that we commercially ship to them.
Almost everybody said we don't want any food.
We don't want any supplements, not even vitamin C. All we want is money.
Send us money or send us nothing.
And that's not what we do, you know, for all the reasons that we've just talked about.
But most groups out there do not want actual food.
Tells you something.
Well, I worked on logistics for a number of these deployments, and the logistics is just ridiculous.
And so you're getting all these trucks in, and you're trying to figure out what you have and what's in there, and trying to make sure that you're doing some quality control.
And so that's why a lot of the organizations actually just prefer just to set up direct purchase agreements with the local warehouses and such.
So basically the grocery stores are shut down.
So these warehouses have all this food there that's not going to the stores.
And so what they do is they start selling it at discount or to the disaster relief organizations there.
Then they don't have to worry about hauling it all across the country.
But yeah, so in a disaster zone, it's kind of – You have to take control of the chaos.
But there's definitely organizations out there that do like that.
I don't know if you've heard of Grindstone Ministries with Bear Independent.
He's a YouTuber there too.
They do a bunch of that.
But doing what you can, I think, is just really important.
Too many people see the news and they just go, oh, that's awful.
And maybe they pray for them.
Maybe.
A lot of times they just feel bad for them and then change the channel.
And I think it's important for us to see what's happening in the news and try to take action, even if it is in a small way.
If it's you, just get down on your knees and praying for the people there.
Do that.
If it's you sending a little check to somewhere or you being part of a food drive or some kind of gathering of resources for the people in need in that area, please do that.
Every little bit helps.
And I think more than that, it helps our souls.
It helps us as people.
To not see something...
To get into the habit of seeing people in distress and in pain and closing our hearts to them.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, we have to remember we're fighting for team humanity here.
We're fighting for the survival of the human race.
In fact, let me shift gears, but along those same lines, you as an accountant, you understand the long-term implications of money printing and debt and how we have this debt-based global economy.
So I want to ask you, Steve...
Where do you think this is going?
We are, what, $32 trillion in debt officially, and I think $190 trillion in unfunded entitlements owed to the American people over time.
I mean, we're talking insane numbers that, frankly, almost nobody can even really grasp.
What is $200 trillion?
What does that even mean?
But what's your take on where this is all headed, fiscally or with the currency?
So, back when Trump first got elected, I remember saying, it's like, we've gone off the cliff.
Now we're just enjoying the ride before we hit the bottom.
And not because of Trump, but because of all the stuff that led up to that.
We had such...
Bad money printing up to that point.
Now we've just gone to just stupidity, just flat-out stupidity.
Like, no one can look at these numbers with any serious sense and say, no one can even justify them.
It's funny to listen to the talking heads on some of these market reports and stuff like that, and they're trying to explain away how our federal debt isn't really that bad.
And everyone looks at the federal debt, but what about the state debt?
What about the municipality's debt?
What about the public and the debt of corporations?
What about all the personal debt?
I mean, the federal government's not alone in this.
Everyone's borrowing up to their eyeballs.
The people are up to their eyeballs in credit card debt and car debt and student loan debt.
Whether they actually have to ever pay back the student loans, that's a whole other conversation.
But we just have debt out the wazoo.
And as I've said, our number one export in the United States is paper bills.
We print money and we export them to the world.
And that's how we've been funding everything.
And more and more of the world are just like, we don't want your money anymore.
Like we don't want it.
We'll take your money, but then we immediately want to transfer it over to something a little more real, like actual goods or gold.
And that's what we're seeing a lot of the world taking delivery of gold in their central banks.
And people are just done with it.
The BRICS countries came together and they're like, we need to stop this.
We need to get off this.
We can't have the United States using this dollar bill as a club to beat us over the head with.
Every time we do something they don't like, whoever it is, is going to get clubbed over the head with sanctions.
We're going to get kicked out of SWIFT.
And most of the world is just – whether they agree with Iran or whether they agree with Russia or they agree with any of these other countries like Cuba or not or North Korea, they just realize they could be next.
All it is is just them making one decision that the president of the United States doesn't like and boom, they're off SWIFT.
And they can't transfer money around.
But now, with the CBDCs being rolled out probably at some point here soon, they can do that on the individual level.
So they can sanction you as a person the same way they just sanctioned Russia.
And by the way, there's 600 billion British pounds worth of Russian money that's being held by Western central banks.
And Western countries are filing lawsuits to try to just take that money, just loot it.
I mean, it's piracy.
It's just straight up piracy of the high seas of finance.
Just, hey, let's just steal 600 billion worth from Russia.
It gets us into the question of, is it a war crime if you're not technically at war?
It's just I mean, when you start asking those crazy type questions, is it a war crime if we're not at war?
Because seizing individuals' private property during wartime without a military necessity is a war crime.
And yet we're doing that and we're not even at war with Russia.
Like, what sense does that make?
And nothing about what we're doing nowadays makes sense other than we're the ones with the biggest stick and so therefore we're going to do whatever we want to do.
And everyone's going to have to either get along with it or they're going to have to shut up.
And that's what we see with the world.
Most of the world is going along with it and some of the world is shutting up about it.
We're seeing countries that should be in our corner are more and more just kind of sneaking off to the side because they don't agree with what we're doing and they're afraid that they'll be next.
Well, and clearly the U.S. over the last 25-30 years has sent that message that if you don't agree with us, we're going to assassinate your leaders, we're going to bomb your country.
I mean, look at Libya, look at Iraq, look at Vietnam.
I mean, just over and over and over again, it's like you either do what we say and you sell oil in dollars or we're going to militarily or economically destroy your nation and And or cause a color revolution, a civil war, a revolution, you know, a takeover.
Look at Ukraine, 2014, right?
So this is the message from the U.S. And it seems like the world has really become fed up with it, or at least many countries around the world.
Even worse than that, they've learned from it.
And we're seeing Russia doing that right now across Africa.
They're doing their own color revolution across Africa.
I think it's four countries now.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Four countries now that have now collapsed and they've been overthrown from being Western allied to being pro-Russia.
And Russia has been not hiding this.
They're going across Africa.
They're trying to flip as many countries as possible to being puppet states for them.
They've learned right from the CIA. They said, yeah, that's pretty good.
You know, bang for your buck.
You put in this much money, you can flip a country to being your trade partner, and then you can use them for military and staging your military bases and all this kind of stuff like that.
And we're seeing that going down right now in Niger.
And it's...
The last time...
What was it?
It wasn't Blinken.
It was, I think, the assistant...
The Secretary of State was in Africa doing their tour, and it was like she was going around like a beggar.
Are you talking about Newland?
Yeah, Newland.
She's a piece of work right there.
She was going around like Oliver Twist, like, please, sir, may I have some more?
And everyone kind of saw the weakness that she was displaying across Africa as Russia's flipping countries, and the United States is just like they're whining.
Yeah.
I'm not saying that we should be playing those games, but here's the fact is that you reap what you sow, right?
And we've sown chaos and insurrections and coups all over the world, and now we're starting to see that Russia is starting to learn how to play that game, too.
And how long before China starts playing that game?
And when China and Russia are playing that game, what chance do we have then?
Yeah, good question.
But you mentioned you reap what you sow.
So let me bring up another topic along those same lines.
And recently, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that New York City would be destroyed by illegal immigration.
And then a few days later, he announced massive budget cuts across the city, which has obviously a very large budget, a multibillion-dollar budget.
But they have to cut the budget because they need more money to pay for the illegals.
And then also the mayor of Chicago, Johnson, I think is his name, just announced that the people of Chicago are going to have to, quote, sacrifice more because they have to pay for the money and the care and the infrastructure for the illegals that are coming to Chicago.
But both of these cities are sanctuary cities that said, hey, you can come here.
Well, they went there, and now it's a catastrophe.
So just fiscally speaking, how are these cities going to stay solvent when they can't print money, by the way?
I mean, they can issue bonds, yes, but there's a limit to that.
They have been, and they're getting to the point where they're going to start defaulting on those, too.
Exactly.
If you want to make a whole bunch of money, just start buying bond swaps on these cities like Chicago and stuff.
It's insane.
Sooner or later, it's going to blow up in their face.
I mean they wanted open borders so that they could bring as many Democrats across the southern border as possible, and then they were going to just figure out how to get them votes sooner or later.
But really what they're doing is they're bringing them all into all these cities, and they're finding that some of their – The constituents, the historical preferences of some of these minority groups and such like that, that have been voting consistently Democrat, are starting to ask questions.
And they're not liking the answers they're getting from their political leaders.
And they're pushing back now.
And it's kind of funny that they were bringing all these people across the border in order to make them Democrats.
But it's starting to be that they're...
The Democrats that they already have are starting to get really, really upset with them.
It's like a comedy sketch.
They're begging for this, and now they're getting what they asked for.
They're getting what they voted for, and now they're crying as if it's a horrible catastrophe.
But you asked for that.
Sure.
These cities, many of them are insolvent.
I mean, look at Illinois, right?
I'm sure you've looked at some of the financial numbers of the state of Illinois.
That state's bankrupt.
The state keeps bailing out Chicago.
So, I mean, it's like...
My brother was actually looking at moving out to Illinois.
I was like, you don't really want to do anything.
He's like, oh, we won't be near the city.
I was like, yeah, but you'll be still funding Chicago.
That's right.
That's just insane.
What do they say the problem with communism is, right?
That eventually you run out of everyone else's money?
Uh-huh.
Was that Reagan?
I believe it was.
Well, and we've also seen states, I think California was talking about this, maybe New York, where they want to financially penalize you if you sell your home and leave the state.
And at one point, somebody in California, some bureaucrat was saying that they want to maintain the power to tax former Californians.
No matter where they go across America, it's like, you can't escape.
They're gonna, what, hunt you down, chase you down in Arizona and say, pay us in California?
You know, how's that gonna work?
New York is famous for doing that.
New York City is famous for going after people after they've left.
It's ridiculous.
It's whatever it takes to fill up their budgets.
And they're not even trying to balance their budgets.
They're just trying to get enough revenue that they can claim that they have that revenue so that they can then borrow more money against that revenue.
Good point.
They're just like a bank like that.
You deposit $100,000 in the bank, and maybe not you or I, but some rich person goes and deposits $100,000 at a bank, and the bank then starts borrowing against that, and they buy $18,000.
$100,000 you put in the bank, they borrow $1.8 million of different assets that they're buying up.
And then you go to the bank and you're like, I want my $100,000 back.
They're in trouble, especially if those investments have gone down, which is where most of the banks are these days.
They have, I think, $3 trillion worth of unrealized losses.
They refuse to sell these bonds and stocks.
So they can keep saying that they're still at the purchase price value.
Right.
And the bonds are becoming worthless because of rising interest rates.
Because they've borrowed money against all the value of these stocks and bonds and all the kind of stuff like that.
And so that's why we saw Signature Bank go down.
We saw Silicon Valley Bank go down the same way.
It's like they're so over-leveraged.
And when their investments came down...
They're in the hole, but then they turn around and somebody comes in and says, I want my deposits back.
And they're like, we don't have them.
And it was like, you know, it's a wonderful life except without the heartwarmingness.
And that's where we are with all these things is that they cannot give everyone their money back.
And yet people are going into the bank and taking their money out by the billions.
People don't realize that when they transfer their money from checking account over to money market, it's a different classification inside their banking system.
They can borrow 18 to 1 against your deposits in the checking account.
They can't borrow 18 to 1 against your money sitting in the money market.
And so that's effectively like you taking that money out of the bank and stuffing it under your mattress from the bank's perspective.
And that's what's happening.
Because people are just like, why would I get 0% interest in my checking account when I can get 5% interest in a money market?
Like, why wouldn't I do that?
And people are moving their billions and tens of billions and hundreds of billions of dollars over into money market accounts, and the banks are...
I mean, they're in so much trouble.
We're just waiting for the next ones to start collapsing.
Well, I'm sure that's going to be happening soon, by the way.
But in the few minutes we have left here, Steve, and I want to mention your website again, thepoplarreport.com is where people can follow your work there and also your channels on YouTube and Twitter.
But what would you say are the safest asset classes that people might want to look at in order to survive the destruction of capital that is clearly underway right now?
The best asset class is stuff you're going to use anyway.
So buying stuff that you would buy next year that you can buy now, like food, food preps, Paper towels, all these type of things.
I think that's very, very accessible for all of us to do is just to buy more of what you're going to buy anyway.
Because those things we've seen, one of the best performing asset classes in the past year, the last two years, has been things like toilet paper and canned food and all these type of things like that.
So getting prepared like that.
And then once you have enough of the stuff that you're going to buy anyway, then you start looking at buying things that are similar to that, like silver, gold, platinum, palladium.
Buying metals that are going to go up in value that are not going to be subject to inflation is really the best way of doing that.
If you want to play games and you want to get into the market and you want to get into streaming companies, like mining streaming companies, that's an interesting play.
Just don't put any money into a brokerage account.
Or into the stock market that you are not prepared to lose.
Because if you can't hold it in your hand, it's not really yours.
Yeah.
You're just holding a promise of it.
You're holding a promise.
It's just IOUs.
Sure.
Yeah, that's what I tell people who, you know, they go into someplace like Fidelity and they buy something.
They might buy stocks.
They can buy Bitcoin.
They can buy, you know, gold shares.
But it's just IOUs.
You don't have it.
You don't have the stock certificates.
Right.
You ask these people, do you trust bankers?
And they'll say no.
You say, well then, where's all your money?
Yeah, exactly.
They don't have self-custody.
What do you mean you don't trust bankers?
You clearly do trust bankers because you're giving them all your money.
I was watching The Big Short last night.
It's one of my favorite movies of all time, right?
I just wish they could bleep out more of those words, but yeah, other than that.
That is filled with profanity.
That is true.
No question about it.
But that's a Wall Street culture, is just profanity everywhere, all day long in Wall Street.
But they were talking about how this cover-up was so extensive that even the ratings agencies lied and committed fraud to try to claim that the crisis wasn't happening so that they themselves could get out from underneath it and sell the bad debt to other banks.
So even the people who run the system were committing massive fraud, which tells you that if you trust the banks, you're a fool, right?
The system is fraudulent and they will commit fraud in order to steal your money even while the whole thing is collapsing.
They will do that.
And they're doing it right now.
I mean, you look at the credit rating agency's ratings on U.S. government debt, it's absurd.
The backflips that they're doing to try to say that the U.S. federal government debt is investment grade is just stupid.
The U.S. government is not going to pay back this debt.
The U.S. government doesn't even have a plan to pay back the debt.
That's right.
I mean, there isn't a conceivable way No one can actually get out a piece of paper and show me how the US government is going to pay off its debt.
It's not going to happen.
The only way they can do that is by printing vast amounts of money and paying it off through inflation.
And that's exactly what they're going to do.
And that means that basically the people who have loaned money at the current rate Yeah, Anyone who loans money to the federal government right now over a long haul, I mean, you're dumber than a rock.
I mean, you're just giving money.
But this is the history of currency collapse, and it's just repeating again.
And you're right.
You'd have to be dumber than a rock to put your money in dollars in a bank right now.
And what do the balance sheets of these banks look like?
Exactly.
A sizable percentage of their investments are U.S. Treasury bills.
It's just ridiculous.
Long-term U.S. Treasury bills.
It's all one giant Ponzi scheme, and they're just hoping that the federal government and the Federal Reserve will bail them out yet again, as long as they're in the right camp.
Yeah, well, you know where that ends.
At some point, it's too big to bail, not just too big to fail.
But Steve Poplar, we really appreciate you, Steve, for joining us today.
Thank you so much.
And I want to encourage people to check out your website and also your channel on YouTube, where you give these multiple reports each day, I'm pretty sure.
I don't know.
How many videos do you actually put out a week?
Two a day.
Two a day.
On this channel, and then a lot of times I do one Bible study a day on my other channel, the Bible study channel.
Yep.
All right.
Well, Steve, we appreciate you, and keep up the great work and all the intel that you're bringing people, and I'd love to check out your videos from time to time as well.
I would also invite you, of course.
You're always welcome at brighttown.com if you want to expand your channels.
People would love to see you there, and just keep doing what you're doing.
Thank you so much for your service to America.
Thank you so much.
All right.
Thank you, Steve.
All right, folks, that was Steve Poplar again from thepoplarreport.com.
Definitely worth tuning into.
And I really enjoyed being able to meet him here for the first time and have a conversation.
And, you know, look, there are a lot of good people out there who have good information that can help empower you and help you survive and navigate what's coming.
And Steve is one of them.
So be sure to share this video.
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Of course, I'm Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com.
Thank you for watching today.
God bless you all, and I think Steve will agree with me, God bless America.
Let's see if we can actually keep this country intact as the others try to tear it down.
Thank you for watching today.
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