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April 13, 2023 - The Lindell Report - Mike Lindell
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This is the Lindell Report.
Bringing you news combined with hope by offering practical and achievable action points
to assist you in defending and preserving faith and freedoms.
And now, here is your host, Mike Lindell.
Alright, Brannon House in for Mike Lindell, who is out on business and will be, he said,
a little bit off and on over the next few weeks.
But we'll hold down the fort and keep going.
My guests tonight are going to be Joe Hoft with an historic victory, a win A win, a major lawsuit win against the Maricopa County Board.
We'll find out about that tonight.
And then we also have attorney and constitutional expert Dan Eastman.
We got a ruling in today.
The Supreme Court, I guess the Supreme Court is going to allow the write-off of $6 billion.
Supreme Court allows $6 billion in student loan forgiveness.
What does that mean for you?
For me?
For our country?
For the American dollar?
And then how about the war on your, well, auto mechanic?
The war on the auto industry?
There are now reports that Joe Biden has released some of the strictest measures ever related to emission rules.
What will this do to the free market system?
And how many jobs will it destroy?
And how many families will it hurt?
Will they actually be able to afford to even have a car?
Or maybe that's the goal.
Get you back on riding a bike and living in a 15-minute city as proposed by the World Economic Forum.
A 15-minute city.
Ron Paul came out this week in an excellent clip saying what, well, many of you that are regulars of my show know I've been saying for many, many, many years.
That a coup d'etat occurred in America in November of 1963 when the CIA murdered a sitting president and blew his brains out in broad daylight on film.
Of course, I'm speaking about the murder of President John F. Kennedy.
Yeah, Ron Paul has now said publicly that was a coup d'etat.
He's right.
And again, regulars of my broadcast know I've been saying for a long time that other than Ronald Reagan, who I think they tried to kill, I'm sorry, not buying the hinkley Jodie Foster Propaganda.
I think there was something more going on there.
You mean the Hinkley's actually were friends with the Bushes?
You mean the Hinkley's brother was supposed to have dinner that night with one of the Bush boys?
No.
Well, anyway, other than Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump, I think the CIA has been controlling our Occupants of the White House for many years and when they couldn't get control of it Apparently I think and that's my opinion They were involved in the stealing of the election and I put it back at the doorstep of the CIA Working in conjunction likely with their CCP partners and many others so the coup d'etat started in 63 and other than a
Eight-year reprieve with Ronald Reagan.
Oh, by the way, they were sure to put George H. Bush, the former CIA director, right there next to Ronald Reagan, right?
Mr. New World Order himself, as he spouted that phrase before Congress and in an Oval Office address.
And sign America, did George H. Bush.
Sign America into the, well, Agenda 21.
Agenda 2030, as it's called now.
Sustainable Development.
The Global Earth Summit in Rio, 1992.
That was George H. Bush, Mr. New World Order, former CIA director.
We'll play that clip by Ron Paul today.
Also, the Patriot Act for the Internet.
We're continuing to warn About the Patriot Act for the Internet.
The Restrict Act as it's known.
It's again being promoted like so many pieces of legislation with a facade.
Camouflage.
It's really about stopping the CCP from collecting our data through TikTok.
Really?
Not for that.
But if we're so concerned about the CCP, why did they let Joe Biden get into office?
And why is he still there, even though millions of dollars have been reportedly documented going to the Biden family from the CCP?
But you're telling me we're all of a sudden worried about the CCP and a social media app feeding junk to our kids?
Yeah, I'm worried about that.
But that's a smoke screen.
The Restrict Act is really about upwards of $1 million fine or 20 years in prison for accessing the wrong data.
And soon that wrong data might be this broadcast, this network.
What's the Patriot Act?
For the Internet, some are calling it.
Well, what is the Patriot Act really all about?
How is it we have seen these unconstitutional raids on Mar-a-Lago and on the homes of private citizens by our FBI?
Who approves these Search warrants and raids.
I'm going to play a very instructive clip tonight from my friend Judge Napolitano.
Real short clip, but very, very instructive.
You know, the organic documents of our nation say that we are to be governed by the people.
We're governed, the people govern through consent.
We consent to the laws by which we're governed under.
When was the last time you approved or consented of the laws that you're living under now?
Very important question.
We'll talk to constitutional attorney Dan Eastman tonight on these and many other issues.
And we may endeavor to take a few of your phone calls tonight.
Before we go to our first guest, hey, we got some good news.
Let me show you the picture of that billboard.
Remember me showing you the billboard yesterday with Michael and Del at the beginning of the show?
A great group of American patriots out there helping fund these billboards.
These are in Detroit, Michigan.
I guess they're on I-75.
About a half a million daily viewers that currently stop in the traffic and have to see that.
So again, we want to thank Ben and Christine and Eric for making this happen.
And apparently, thanks to the billboard company actually allowing this, there may be more coming soon.
Well, take a look at that.
Election Crime Bureau Also today I saw where the information was confirmed for the next big event with Mike Lindell this coming August.
This coming August he's going to do another big event, a big Election Crime Bureau event symposium again in August.
We'll be telling you more about that.
Look forward to seeing a lot of you again in person in August.
Well, that's some good news, that billboard right there.
All right, let's go to our first guest, Joe Hoff.
Joe, another good news story here today.
Who says we don't report good news?
Another good news story, Joe Hoff and the Gateway Pundit win a very important case against Maricopa County, historic lawsuit, First Amendment lawsuit.
Hi, Joe, and congratulations.
Congratulations. Welcome back.
I'm not hearing him for some reason.
There we go.
There we go.
I got you now.
Congratulations, by the way.
Thanks a lot, Brennan.
Thanks.
It's nice to be here, too.
Yeah, we had a big win.
It was really announced yesterday over the last 24 hours or so.
We won this case against the Maricopa County Board of Commissioners, and it was pretty big, and we're pretty happy about it, too.
And I can fill you in on what this kind of surrounded.
It's really a First Amendment right issue.
We have a reporter, Jordan Conrad, and you've probably talked to Jordan.
He's out in Arizona.
He's done some great work out there.
He's pretty bold, pretty fearless.
He's not afraid to ask tough questions.
And they don't like that, I believe.
And so eventually, there was an effort by the county to prevent him from coming into press briefings.
What they did is they put into place a new process where each individual of the press had to fill out some forms and or forms online and share the information of who they wrote with and for and some particulars of that organization.
Well, after this was done, Jordan was not given his press pass.
He was the only one that we're aware of.
I believe Ben Berquam may have asked from Rav from Real America's Voice, may also have been one other individual who was prevented from going in to these press briefings.
Now, this was a pretty important time, as you recall, the 2022 election in Arizona was a big deal.
It turned into a real big deal after, well, on Election Day and after the election, especially Election Day, where, as you know, just all the Anomalies that occurred that day that were just beyond belief on the machines and what 60% of the precincts or something weren't working.
Tabulators weren't working.
We found out later that the printers had issues.
The ballots had issues, just a chain of custody issues, you know, all sorts of stuff.
So this was a really, this became not just a big story in Arizona.
It became a big story nationally and even internationally.
And our writer, our reporter, couldn't attend some of these press briefings.
So Gateway Pundit sued the county and this case went to court.
And we expressed our desire to do it quickly because of the big story that was going on in Arizona.
We didn't want our reporter sitting on the sideline when all this was going on.
We did get some efforts through the court to move this forward.
And shortly before Thanksgiving, the case was heard.
So now you can, that's what, two, three weeks after the election.
And we did go in front of an Obama judge in Maricopa County, a federal judge, and he heard the case.
And then on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, Wednesday late afternoon, He issued his ruling, and his ruling was that basically it's fine that this reporter from the Gateway Pundit is not allowed into the press briefings.
Well, we appealed that immediately, I believe on the Friday after Thanksgiving, and within a very short order, a very few days, the 9th District came back and said, hey, Jordan needs to go to these press briefings until we have our hearing, but until that time you need to allow him in.
And so there was a hearing eventually, and then the Ninth Circuit ruled in our favor.
They said, no, no, no, no, no.
The press has rights.
It's in our constitution.
And the belief by the county and their actions in evaluating and ascertaining who could and could not come.
to these press briefings was flawed and therefore Jordan Conradson should be allowed back into the
press briefing. So in addition to that we asked for some of the expenses to be paid back to us
for this hassle and we ended up, you know, we won the case and the county as we're reported
to date by ironically the Washington Post that says conspiracy site gateway pundit.
This is the same entity that for three, four years, every day wrote garbage pieces about Trump and Russia and how he was connected to Russia.
They have the audacity to call anybody else conspiracy site.
That's how they labeled it for us.
They called us the conspiracy site and how we, how we won and how we won this case in Maricopa.
And they agreed to pay some fees back to the Gateway Pundit.
So it was a win for the First Amendment and a win for reporters and the press across the country in really standing up for our rights to free speech and our rights to perform our jobs.
So yeah, it was a big win for the Gateway Pundit and really for the country.
It is not good news for the country.
This is something we've been warning about for some time, and you've got a new article out about it.
The Biden administration is trying to push all 194 nations to give up their sovereignty to the WHO, the World Health Organization, and you're reporting on my friend of almost 30 years, Michelle Bachman.
Michelle and I were working together in the early 90s out of Minneapolis-St.
Paul, and we watched her go on to become state senator and then U.S.
Congresswoman, now the dean of the law school there at Regents University, Regent Law School, but you've got an article about that today.
Warn our audience please again about this because this is really so scary.
It really is and it's really neat to hear that you knew Michelle that long.
We really like Michelle as well.
She grew up in Iowa so she's another Iowa girl.
She's about our age and And we've chatted with her quite a few times since the 2020 election and have a lot of admiration for her, for sure.
So she was on Bannon on his show and he, and they talked about this, this effort by the Biden administration to push through the WHO, basically what they're calling an amendment to this treaty that the U.S.
signed with the WHO.
And they're trying to get 194 countries all to jump on board.
This is the same effort that they did last year.
And fortunately, we were saved.
The American people were saved by a couple of African nations.
Michelle goes on to mention this in her discussion with Steve.
These African countries said, no, we don't think we're going to do this.
And because of that, apparently the votes weren't there or whatever.
And this effort by the Biden administration was sidetracked.
Now they're doing it again.
They won't let go.
What they're hoping to do is to get the countries to join in with them and basically handing over our sovereignty, as Michelle Bachmann says, not just our sovereignty during pandemics, but basically our sovereignty, period, to this group of people from the WHO that have no interest in the United States.
I can't believe that this is constitutional.
There's arguments that how can Biden do this?
This is a treaty he needs to bring in front of the Senate.
The Biden gang is saying we don't have to do that.
It's just an amendment to an existing treaty.
But it basically takes away all our rights.
In a pandemic, we hand over our rights to the WHO.
Now, who can trust the WHO?
We learned in early 2020.
That they're owned by China, even though the U.S.
was funding the W.H.O.
and sending all the money there, China was the big influencer of the W.H.O.
And we learned that Tedros, the head of the W.H.O., not only was close with China, but we found some stuff at the Gateway Pundit where Tedros is number fourth in line in an African country to be the head.
This African country is led by a group of terrorists and somehow He made it over to the head of the WHO and, um, and he's not, I wouldn't say that he's, uh, he's, he's the right person for that job by any means.
And so we, so we saw what Tedrus did.
He came out and said immediately, first of all, he said, well, COVID won't transfer between people.
Of course, that was a lie.
Then he said it's 3.4% mortality, which also was a lie.
I wrote on that early on in March, 2020.
And we got attacked for that and fact checked for that.
But it was absolutely true.
It had a morbidity closer to the flu than this massive number that Ted Ross was reporting.
They just made so many mistakes.
And yet we're going to hand over our sovereignty.
And so what this means is if there is another pandemic and this thing goes through and the WHO says that, hey, You know, we've got a major, you know, pandemic here.
You guys all have to get in line.
That means that the WHO would set up the standards for the U S that we perhaps would have to take vaccines or take, do masks, shut down our businesses, whatever it is that they want to do.
We're going to have to abide by that because we won't have any more rights here in the U S.
We're going to hand these rights over to WHO.
They could put us in an ever never ending pandemic for that matter and hand over our rights for good.
And then, you know, there's no protection.
They can enforce it.
And this is the thing that Michelle mentioned as well.
This doesn't just make WHO an advisor.
It makes the WHO an enforcer as well.
And so if someone doesn't comply, Well, we're going to have, we're going to have maybe some type of pass, something connected to your phone, whatever, that won't allow you then to travel because we will only allow people that comply with our, you know, whatever the, whatever it might be, to travel.
Things like that, that they will enforce and prevent people from maybe flying or whatever they have to do to basically try to mandate their will upon the people, especially in this country.
And it's like, It's so anti-American, it's unbelievable.
This is what you get when you get a stolen election.
This is the kind of people that Biden's got in place right now.
It's frightening, and it does seem like we'd be handing basically, I think, our constitutional rights over to China.
Absolutely.
That's not a good idea.
No, it's definitely not.
I want to go to one more article real quick.
I don't know if you've heard this one today, Joe.
Klaus Schwab hires millions of information warriors to seize control of the internet.
The World Economic Forum put out not too long ago, we will purge the internet of conspiracies and hate.
And apparently, according to Klaus Schwab's World Economic Forum, misinformation on the Internet is infomatic, that is, potentially deadly, and requires a cure.
The definition of misinformation, according to the World Economic Forum, is any content on the Internet that they disagree with.
This means the WHO is hiring hundreds of thousands of information warriors who will be engaged in the act of shutting down dissent against the globalist elite.
And this is the People's Voice website describing how they plan on doing this.
And Poshwab warned us last month that whoever controls AI will control the future.
And again, apparently the World Economic Forum is one of the groups, the public-private partnership, one of the groups that is wanting to basically see the end of Lindell TV and the Gateway Pundit, among others.
What are your thoughts on this?
Dang, they're already doing this.
We just uncovered last week from a friend of mine, Bob Bishop, who's a fellow auditor in his prior life.
He'd started looking into this CGI.
It's a global entity that's doing just that.
What they've been doing in their mission is to go and destroy those advertisers for conservative media.
And so this, and we're seeing it, and we've seen it over the last few years, Brendan.
The Gateway Pundit, you know, they just attacked our, and we're on the list of this entity, and they just attack your advertisers and say, hey, you can't go there.
They're saying hate speech.
And so it's a real slanderous way what they're doing.
They're trying to label you.
It puts you in this box, call you hate speech for sharing the truth.
And it's really an upside down world because these people, they hate individual rights.
They hate America.
They hate Americans.
They hate the truth.
They hate our constitution.
They hate our Christianity.
And that's what they want to stop.
And yet they call us hate speech.
Well, I do hate people that don't like those things.
And I will stand up against them and report on their acts, which are constitutional.
This group we found out is a nonprofit.
They say they're out of New York and yet they're not.
When you write them, you find out, no, no, they're not out of New York.
They're out of Texas.
That way they don't have to comply with New York's laws for nonprofits.
And then what we found is that it's just a mailbox in Texas that sends you to Oregon, but ultimately they're skirting the nonprofit rules in New York through this entity and they're claiming to be out of Texas.
And it's really, uh, um, Pretty sleazy what they're doing.
We think there's a, there's definitely a lawsuit where a number of us conservative media groups could get together and just sue these guys for what they're doing to us and to our advertisers, attacking them and preventing, you know, encouraging them and threatening them not to, not to advertise with us.
Because if you do, we're going to, we're going to, we're going to share with the world that you're out there supporting hate speech.
And this is how they do it.
They've been doing it for some time.
And so Klaus Schwab's just pushing more.
I heard Alex Jones say something yesterday with Steve Bannon.
I hadn't heard before to make sense.
The information war is where we're going to win.
And we are winning.
And we just continue to be strong.
But that's what Alex Jones said.
He'd heard that that's like 95% of the war now is information.
And so we've got to stand strong, and we really are going to have to encourage our conservatives in government to start backing us in these fights, because these are unconstitutional.
Again, it's another attack on free speech and an attack on the press that we cannot allow to happen.
This is not right.
Absolutely.
JoeHoff.com, JoeHoff.com, and of course, TheGatewayPundit.com.
As always, Joe, thanks for being with us.
Thank you, Brandon.
You take care.
Have a great evening.
You too.
Have a great night.
Check out his website, folks.
JoeHoff.com, JoeHoff.com, and The Gateway Pundit.
All right.
Joining me now is attorney Dan Eastman.
Dan, welcome back to the broadcast.
Thanks for joining us.
Hi Brandon, thanks so much for having me on.
It's great to be back with you and great to be thinking about all these hot topics tonight.
It's exciting.
Yeah, there are hot topics tonight.
I want to get to one related to the Supreme Court that is out tonight.
It's kind of a breaking news story and that is that the Supreme Court is apparently going to allow, I don't know if you even had time to, I know you just touched down from a plane flight, but apparently the Supreme Court is going to allow It's hard to believe the figure.
It's so high, you're like, is that really a real figure?
But the report is $6 billion student loan forgiveness.
Have you heard this tonight?
Have you had a chance to look at this?
I did.
I was traveling today.
I had to do a rerun on my TV show this afternoon, but I had some travel issues.
Which, by the way, Which, by the way, he has a show with us at WVWTV.com over my channel.
He has a daily 30-minute show every day.
WVWTV.com.
He's an attorney, a constitutional expert, He is an economist.
He's a professor of economics.
And so if you want to catch a fast-paced, informative, 30-minute show every day, wvwtv.com.
You can catch his show on demand over there.
You brought it up.
I wanted to plug it.
Well, thank you.
I appreciate that.
I appreciate it.
My job is to explain to the people in the middle, in the middle of the continent.
I live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
I'm in the middle and trying to explain economic news on a daily basis to people so that they really start to understand What it means and how it affects them as citizens because the economy is a big deal and we have a lot of political risk.
You know, we never used to have political risk in America, but political risk has become a huge thing and it impacts all of us.
And my job is to read the tea leaves and explain to everybody what's happening.
And, uh, and I think we're making great progress.
I'm happy to be doing that.
So yeah, I did read the Supreme Court ruling that came out today.
It was very interesting.
This goes back to an issue that has been circulating concerning student loan debt.
And of course, we have Students all over the country who basically financed their education, which was not just tuition and books.
Unfortunately, in many cases, it was also financing the life of Riley.
And now they have these great big student loans and they graduate.
And of course, the job market is, in fact, a free market.
And you find out very quickly, going from college senior status, when you're on top of the heap, They're going to the very bottom of the heap in an entry-level job, and of course when you look at how much in income taxes are taken off your first paycheck, you suddenly realize that paying back your student loans, driving a car, living in an apartment, is beyond your means.
So of course everybody wants their student loans forgiven, and that becomes a very interesting policy decision in the United States.
Well, this case arose in a series of negotiations.
There are Unfortunately in the U.S.
certain accredited institutions that issue degrees that are less than standard, they're substandard, they issue degrees that are not necessarily valuable in the marketplace.
And the idea was if you were a student that was defrauded, then you would be able to seek relief from your student loans.
And there's some legal argument to that because, you know, fraud vitiates everything except elections.
But if you are defrauded as a student, then perhaps there should be some remedy.
And that's what this case was about.
And what the Supreme Court did was basically nothing.
They allowed This compromise to go forward where the Biden administration wants to forgive six billion dollars in student loans taken out by people who wake up two days after graduation and find out their degree is basically worthless.
The question is how do you define that element?
And if you look at most of the universities today and many of the offerings that I taught at a very fine liberal arts college for nine years and Some, you know, some degrees are more valuable than others in the marketplace, but I would submit that across the country from Harvard right on down to wherever, there are degrees that aren't worth a lot of money.
So this is really the nose, the camel's nose under the tent, you know, they lift the nose and actually, you know, the whole camel's in the tent.
And this is how I think that that process comes along.
And of course the question is, if you forgive these student loans, now you could, if they're declared to be fraudulent, and then they would be rolled back against these universities, and the universities had to refund the money, well that might be an interesting legal argument.
But as I said, a lot of students were financing not only the tuition and books, but also the glam hotel, or the glam apartments, and the BMW, and the You know, the spring break on the Riviera and all the other things that middle America simply can't fathom.
So it really is an interesting problem.
But what it does is it allows the Supreme Court has basically said that this is a legal concept.
This this can work.
And now it becomes a question of who pays.
And if it's the American Treasury that is going to pay and forgive six billion in loans Well, that's the American taxpayers.
And one of the problems with student loans is that if you look at the demographics of people who borrow the money, they tend to be the higher income people in the country.
We like to think the student loans are available for the poorest of the poor who can enter a university and gain a degree and, you know, enter the workforce and enter the economy and become prosperous.
And that happens all the time.
But frankly, there are different elements at play.
When you look at who actually holds student debt, these are pretty well-off people.
And I'll tell you, there's nothing better than, you know, having debt forgiven.
I think if you go back to biblical times, you have seven years times seven years, 49 years.
So in the 50th year, under Leviticus, you were supposed to forgive everybody's debt, and everybody gets to start over.
Well, that's a great concept, but it's not built into American culture and American law.
So it really raises the issue, who's going to pay for that?
And of course, we know.
I mean, it's going to be the American Treasury.
But keep in mind, the American Treasury has been on a binge since World War II.
We have racked up $32 trillion in debt.
And our annual spending deficit, they spend more than the taxes they take in, is over a trillion dollars.
It's about trillion two this year.
So it just keeps getting bigger and bigger and bigger.
So at some point, The national debt becomes irrelevant because it's beyond the ability of any society to pay.
And that's the fear that we have.
It just goes to push the dollar toward extinction.
Because when the music stops and everybody races to grab a chair and the whole crowd figures out there's no chairs, everybody loses the game of musical chairs and the dollar collapses.
And that's a really serious problem that we have.
We cannot continue to live on this debt-based society.
You can't consume based on debt.
Federal government is spending, you know, incredible amounts of money, and it's always for the social good.
I mean, obviously, we don't pass government programs to penalize people.
Yes, we do.
We passed government programs for the social good.
It's good to spend money on this.
It's good to spend money on that, even if you don't have it.
And that's where we are right now.
So I think this really is the camel's nose under the tent, lifting it up, and you're going to see blanket forgiveness.
So what would be the next thing?
What would be the next thing to come?
If they can forgive student loans, what's the next You know, government loan or debt that's going to be forgiven.
Surely this is a test case, right?
It really is.
And I'll tell you who's watching this is the small businesses in the United States because during COVID, everybody's business stopped.
Again, you know, the metaphor of musical chairs, and that's where they used to teach this in grade school.
They don't anymore because it hurts people's feelings.
But the lessons learned is that you've got to pay attention to what's going on or you're going to be out.
Well, the problem is in the small business world during COVID, it was a disaster.
Revenue stopped on the dime.
In Wisconsin, amazingly, on St.
Patrick's Day at 2 o'clock or 2.30 in the afternoon, our beloved Governor Evers, somebody shook him and woke him up.
Hey, wake up!
He ordered the whole state to shut down at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on St.
Patrick's Day.
He goes, you know, everybody's going to go out.
And this is like 90% German up here.
And we all enjoy a good glass of Guinness on St.
Patrick's Day.
But his idea was that we're going to shut the whole state down.
So St.
Patrick's Day has sort of become a watershed era.
Well, out came PPP loans, which effectively were payroll protection loans, and the SBA would give you those, and if you spent them on payroll and maybe the electric bill, they were forgiven.
But they also came out with the EIDL, the Emergency Defense Loan.
And the EIDL loans are basically issued when a hurricane blows through your town, or a tornado, or an earthquake.
The idea is you get money from the SBA, you rebuild your business, the community comes back, your business is stronger than ever, and you're paying the loan off.
It's a 30-year debt with low interest.
And the whole idea is to help businesses get over the hump and get back to what they were doing.
I was going to try to look up the name of that.
But what's happened is with so many small businesses, they were given money by the SBA under lending standards that were crazy.
The SBA gave way too much money to these small businesses, and these businesses are failing by the thousands and tens of thousands right now because the payback started last December, and you can't have the debt hangled.
So even though the PPP was paid off, the EIDL, it's a 30-year loan, Guess what? You can't make the payments and then suddenly
they come in and seize your assets and you're out of business.
So a government program that was supposed to help businesses survive is killing tens of thousands of
businesses right now.
And one of my colleagues who's a bankruptcy lawyer, you know, we were in mergers and acquisitions and that's kind
of the fun stuff.
But when the bankruptcy guys show up, you know, that's sort of like the undertaker rolling in.
And he's telling me he's busier than ever, because so many of these small businesses have EIDL loans, the revenues remain lower, much lower than, you know, 2020, 2019, COVID has absolutely fundamentally changed America, and you're looking at almost a trillion dollars in these types of loans across America, and they should be next.
Because why would the government forgive student loans when you can finance BMWs and, you know, Fort Lauderdale vacations?
But then you've got the flower shop.
So where we're going...
So it's a problem.
So where we're going really is modern monetary theory, modern monetary theory.
Just print, print, print and inflate away the dead and then let the whole thing collapse.
And then we go to digital currency.
And of course, this is not going to, you know, as we're on the air right now talking, gold is at twenty five, excuse me, gold is at twenty thousand, excuse me, two thousand twenty four dollars and eight cents.
Two thousand forty two dollars.
Okay, so gold is starting to touch some highs here.
Historic highs.
Silver has now moved almost to $26.
It's at $25.96 an ounce.
is at $25.96 an ounce, almost 26 bucks for silver, which of course, it's high as 50,
but it was just a few weeks ago, we were at 20, 21 bucks for silver,
and now we're at almost 26.
I was reading an article today on why is gold not at $3,000, $4,000, $5,000 an ounce with all this going on with our banking system, our inflation, with a world war, China.
Potential war there, Russia, Ukraine.
I mean, all this going on.
Why is gold not at $3,000, $4,000 an ounce?
And Jim Rickards, I think, was the one writing the article.
And he made a good point, which was, that's because for whatever reason right now, the dollar is strong and gold is often reflective.
You know, the dollar goes down, gold goes up.
Dollar goes up, gold goes down.
Well, it's all relative to how you look at it.
An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold is an ounce of gold.
I mean, Yahoo News the other night had an article saying they wouldn't be shocked to see gold
at $2,800 before the year is over. That's Yahoo Finance.
Well, it's all relative to how you look at it. An ounce of gold is an ounce of gold is an ounce
of gold. It's the same ounce in Switzerland or Russia or China or Germany or wherever.
It's how many units of local currency do you need to buy the ounce of gold?
So it's not just gold going up.
It's that it takes more American dollars to buy the same ounce.
And that's the whole problem.
And your question, why is gold not $3,000, $4,000, $5,000, is a very complex issue.
And it has very much to do with the American dollar's status as reserve currency around the world.
If the dollar floated against gold, and keep in mind, back in 1971, Nixon pulled us off the gold standard.
It was $35 for an ounce.
Now it's $2,000 something.
The problem is, if they were to let the dollar float against the real value of gold, You would see 3,000 to 4,000.
You'd also see a massive recession in the United States that would make the 1930s look like a joke.
This is not funny stuff.
I mean, it's very serious what's happening in the American economy.
And to a great degree, the price A benchmark, the spot price of gold.
There are big players.
If you think about it, China is buying a lot of gold, Russia owns a lot of gold, India, known for gold, and the United States, those are the four big gold holders.
There's a lot going on behind the curtain, but I'll tell you, if the number of dollars would equal the true representative value of gold, you'd be looking at $3,000 or $4,000.
And you would be seeing people sleeping on streets more than we see in America today.
This is a serious thing.
Very serious.
This banking crisis is not over yet, is it, Dan?
Now, the banking crisis is symptomatic of our problem.
We have $32 trillion in debt when the Federal Reserve fiddles around in the market and increases the interest rate.
The debt service on the American debt, which the Treasury has to pay, which they tax us, coming up next week is going to be tax day, they get the money coming in.
That tax burden increases because it's the cost of money.
And whenever you try to raise those interest rates at this point, it's too big.
And that's what we saw a couple of weeks ago when those banks teeter.
You know, the Fed got a little bit aggressive.
They wanted to stop this inflation.
And all of a sudden, you lost some major banks.
I mean, that really rocked the world.
Credit Suisse went down.
And of course, SVB in California and Morgan Chase had to step in.
That's symptomatic that we're in a box.
You can't raise interest rates without creating a system.
And the only way out is inflating.
And I'll tell you, you know, there will be winners and losers in inflation.
If you own stuff, That's good.
But if you own nothing and you're happy, you're going to be a lot less happy in 10 years.
Because, you know, I got off the plane today.
I'm driving along.
The gasoline was $3.69 at my local gas station.
When I left a week ago, it was $3.29.
So in a week, and I know the Saudi Arabians basically went and sidled up to the Chinese and they cut production.
Why?
Because they're supporting the Russians and the Chinese and the Americans are supporting the Ukrainians.
It turned the spigot off, and Biden's not pumping any U.S.
oil, so all of a sudden, up goes the price.
And you know why they do that?
They do that to hurt us, we the people.
Because we're the people who have to buy that gas to drive to work, or run our pickup trucks, or whatever you're doing, you know, but we're not involved.
We don't get to vote on whether we're going to go to Ukraine or not.
We've got a bunch of people in Washington doing that, and But you know, they're supposed to be representing us, but that isn't happening.
So the point is, we're left holding the bag.
And that's what basically my show is about, is how in the world did this happen?
And this is not a good place to be.
It's just not a good place to be right now.
Certainly not.
The consent of the governed.
The consent of the governed.
You know, it's such a very important phrase, isn't it?
The consent of the governed.
And as my friend Judge Napolitano, I want to play a clip from here, I'm guys in the control room, but he makes a very good point.
When was the last time that we, the governed, consented to all the garbage that's going on?
When was the last time we consented Look at where we're at, Dan.
It's like your church council.
You elect some people to run the church and they pay the bills and keep the place clean and everything.
This was the idea.
The federal government, in my view, and I take the view of an enumerated powers federal government, there were a few things that they were powered to do.
Maintain a standing army in case the Canadians invaded or the Mexicans invaded.
Or, you know, run the post office, you know, and then, you know, have a patent system so we can attract brilliant minds to the United States, which we've done.
But there was very limited powers.
But now, since World War II, I mean, it's become, the federal government is, what's the difference between George III and the federal government today?
It's hard to distinguish.
We should be controlling that.
And these powers that be, like you look at, you know, these national leaders, Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Mitch McConnell.
Nobody in Wisconsin ever voted for those people.
I'm sorry.
We don't know them, but yet they rule us.
That's not the way the system was supposed to work.
We're supposed to go to Washington, vote on the sides of the army, make sure the post office is working, and come home.
We don't do that anymore.
Now we're basically subject of this mess.
And yet I saw today what their net worth on some of these people, Mitch McConnell, Schumer, Pelosi, what their net worth was when they went into office and what their net worth is now.
And you're going, oh, and how do you do that on a salary of what, $200,000 a year as a U.S.
Senator?
Well, we know it's insider trading, right?
And it's all kinds of other sweetheart deals they should all be prosecuted for.
Well that's creepy.
I know my congressman, he's a great guy, he's a longtime friend of mine, but he gets two and a half million dollars for security.
Back home in the district, we are laughing because his mom's house is like down the block from me and it's a lovely home.
But you could buy six of those!
I mean, we're envisioning like, you know, this federal, you know, army base around Poor Mrs. Grothman's house, spending two and a half million dollars on security.
I mean, this is going to look like, you know, a federal army base around here.
The point is, Glenn's not going to do it.
But the point is, this is the kind of money they talk about in Washington.
How do you do that?
I mean, where does that money come from?
And here it is.
It's the $32 trillion.
Russia's not buying our bonds anymore.
We're beating up on them in Ukraine.
because the Federal Reserve prints it and they buy the bonds that the Federal Treasury issues.
You know, Russia's not buying our bonds anymore.
We're beating up on them in Ukraine.
China's, why would China buy our bonds?
So you get a few mutual funds and pension funds buying Federal Treasuries, but at the end of the day,
if you want to control the interest rates, the Federal Reserve has to print up the money
and buy the bonds.
And if you look at the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve system,
before 2008, it was minuscule.
I mean, it was sort of a mechanism that just kept interest rates in line.
And today, the Federal Reserve is funding American spending and it's becoming a vast number today.
This is when you know it's broken.
That's why you want to be intangible, okay?
So.
Let me go to a clip by Judge Napolitano.
This is right up your alley, Attorney, Counselor, Historian and Economist Dan Eastman.
This is right up your alley.
He's talking about the Patriot Act and yet also how so many of our rights have been taken away.
I found this clip the other day and wanted to play it.
Very instructive.
Watch this.
Your right to think as you wish, to say what you think, to publish what you say.
Your right to develop your own personality.
I've told O'Reilly a hundred times he better be grateful that that's a natural right.
Your right to worship or not to worship.
Your right to associate or not to associate.
Your right to defend yourself.
Which of course is not the right to shoot deer, it's the right to shoot at tyrants.
If they take over the government and we have to drive them away or we have to secede, just as we seceded from Great Britain.
Your right to stay in your house without the government's troops coming in, the Third Amendment, and the quintessential American right in the Fourth, the right to be left alone.
Which of course today we call privacy.
The fourth is the most unique one because it says the people.
It doesn't say the citizens, it says the people.
Shall not be interfered with in their persons, houses, papers, and effects.
Persons, houses, papers, and effects.
Except by a warrant signed by a judge based on probable cause.
Probable cause means probable cause of crime.
It doesn't mean probable cause that you're talking to a book agent in Florence.
A real case in which the NSA was listening to a conversation in Italian.
They thought they were hearing a terrorist.
They were just hearing a guy in New York trying to buy a book from the book agent in Florence.
When the case came to court, the judge said, well, there's no prosecution here.
They didn't come after you for anything you said.
Therefore, there's no violation of the Fourth Amendment.
Who wrote that opinion?
See if you've heard of this guy.
About which more later.
you.
Okay, so now we have to ask ourselves some questions.
And the questions are, is this for real?
Does the government really believe in the natural law tradition?
Is this for real?
Has anybody really consented to the government?
Do you know anybody that's consented to the Constitution?
I mean, do you consent to the Constitution by voting?
Suppose you don't vote.
Do you consent to the government if the people you voted for are not in the government?
Do you consent to the government by walking on the sidewalk?
If the government really believes that our laws are natural, then how could we have the Patriot Act Which permits federal agents to write their own search warrants, forgetting the requirement that only judges can issue search warrants under the Fourth Amendment.
I could tell you stories about the Patriot Act, but not only does it permit federal agents to write their own search warrants, so FBI agent A writes a search warrant authorizing FBI agent B, there's got to be at least two of these characters involved in this, And then B can serve the search warrant.
And when they serve the search warrant, they say, by the way, you can't tell anybody that we served this on you.
That's another violation.
You can't tell anybody.
The government's going to enforce silence?
What about Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech?
What young lawyer was the scrivener when they were putting together the Patriot Act?
There he is.
I didn't know why I was willing to get my fingers burned by pointing this out ten days ago.
Wow.
Wow.
Very powerful clip.
You want to respond to that, Attorney Eastman?
Yeah, there's a lot in that message, but I think the interesting thing is that there are students in that classroom.
If Americans understood what it meant to be Americans, That classroom would be empty.
Who would go listen to that?
We all know that already.
We already know that stuff.
Nobody knows that stuff.
And I'm finding that more and more in Wisconsin as well.
People simply don't understand how their government works.
And to his example, we had an election on April 4th, where we were basically electing a Supreme Court judge.
And on that same ballot were two constitutional amendments to fiddle with the bail system in Wisconsin.
And the idea is you want to lock up more people.
You know, people who commit crimes, you want to throw them in jail.
What people did, and of course 800,000 Wisconsinites voted yes on that referendum.
They said, oh yeah, we ought to do that.
But what they didn't understand was they weren't voting yes on the language itself.
They were voting yes on a concept.
And then bureaucrats in Madison, unelected, would draft the language and amend the Constitution.
Our legislature didn't vote on the language and the people didn't vote on the language, which is, of course, the law.
The bureaucrats, well, kind of make it up the way they want.
Of course, they're very partisan.
And then all of a sudden, somehow the Constitution is amended.
That's the point.
People don't really understand how government works in America.
It's going to teach civics.
And the problem is, you've got a very captive population of consumers.
As long as the refrigerator's full, and there's gas in the tank, and I've got entertainment, I've got music, my TV works, you know, I don't care what the politicians do.
And that's when the freedoms are lost.
I think this is what Judge Napolitano was really pointing out to you.
This is a very important concept.
If you want to remain free, you better remain vigilant.
And he's absolutely right.
Because after that Patriot Act, we all want security and safety.
But, you know, the only terrorists who are spying on us today are Americans.
I mean, they're not catching anybody.
When's the last time anybody in the federal government caught some terrorist who was ready to blow something up?
They don't.
It's been 20, what, 23 years.
And all they're doing is running around, you know, somebody at the school board shaking their fist.
Ah, he's a terrorist.
They lock him up.
It's crazy.
We've really got ourselves a problem.
And now the FBI.
And now the FBI is infiltrating Catholic churches and Protestant churches.
I mean, it's the stuff of the USSR.
I want to go to another clip before we run out of time.
This is former Congressman Ron Paul saying something we've been saying and I've been saying for so many, many, many years.
That we have been living under a deep state intelligence run government.
The CIA, aside from them getting Ronald Reagan, they weren't expecting that.
Aside from Donald Trump, they weren't expecting that.
Pretty much since 1963, when the CIA murdered a sitting president in broad daylight, John F. Kennedy, They've been running the country and I still hold to the fact and I believe I agree with Congressman Bill Posey from Florida who wrote the letter to the CIA director and the CIA inspector general.
You need to investigate the voting machine companies and their connections to the CIA.
I think there's a I think well, let me just say a retired person I've known for 15 years.
I've told the story.
I'll tell it again for 15 years.
approached me this fall after I spoke at my national conference and said when they had retired from one of the three-letter agencies and I said I believe this is a color revolution practiced overseas for years and years and then carried out by our own intelligence forces here in the U.S.
and that individual said I can't say too much or I can go to jail but you are so over the target you have no idea.
Keep saying what you're saying because you're dead on you just don't know how dead on you are.
So we've had a coup d'etat.
It started in 63.
Listen to what Ron Paul just had to say.
I think this was just this week.
Watch this.
You know, there's been a coup.
We don't have any resemblance to a government that believes in a republic.
We don't have honest money.
We don't have integrity.
We don't even have people in Washington that even pretends, you know, that you're supposed to tell the truth.
You know, remember just recently there was a congressperson that won, and he won by putting on his resume just a bunch of lies.
And the other ones got hysterical, the other congressmen.
Telling lies like this!
And I got to thinking, well, how many of these people that were complaining about this guy telling lies, how many of them lied when they raised their hand up and swore to uphold the Constitution?
Now that's a lie that really has consequences.
Actually, you could probably make fun and make a little joke because his jokes weren't, everybody knew he was fibbing, but the real lies are being told And that is our big problem.
But I do believe there has been a coup and it's been taken over.
And if I want to, if I can, I want to just put the date in my mind and you, anybody could pick probably any date in the last hundred years.
But I have picked, uh, I have picked November 22nd, 1963.
What happened on that day?
That was the day Kennedy was murdered by our government.
Wow.
You know, by the CIA.
By the CIA.
Quick comment, 30 seconds, Dan, and then your website.
We've got to make sure we've got the right website.
I'm not sure.
I just went to ProfessorEastman.com and nothing popped up.
Is that supposed to be working, Dan?
We're down with another update.
But anyway, you can find me on WBWTV.
But yeah, the problem we have is that in all societies, the elite rule, and the rest of us, the peasants, we pay.
And this is happening in the United States, where the average American is nothing more than a tax-generating entity.
Yeah, you get to own a car, and you go on a little vacation, and there's a nice restaurant down the block, but you're paying for the lifestyle of the rich and famous in this country in ways that the average American can't understand.
The difference between the elite in America and the average man hasn't been this dramatic since the 1890s, the golden age of American industrial.
We are right back there with billionaires running the government, the billionaires.
And the sad thing is, it's the average person trying to make ends meet.
You know, $3.69 gas.
Now we're looking at the EPA wants to force everybody into electric cars.
We don't all have $50,000 for a car.
So what's going to happen is that 20% of the people are going to have electric cars, and the rest of us are going to be back to horse and buggy.
Because who can afford that?
That's the problem.
This democracy that the left is trying to save I mean, this happened in the Soviet Union for 70 years.
It took four generations of Russians to finally figure out, you know what, we're getting screwed here.
And that's when it all fell apart.
So that means we've got 70 years of living in pretty shabby surroundings, while these guys are whining and dining around the globe.
You're looking at $350 bottles of wine that seem to be commodities at this stage.
You know, you're looking at $100,000 pickup trucks.
I mean, you're looking at, you know, cars that cost $80,000, which is more than housing in a lot of American markets.
This, this cannot continue.
Because people in this country, there's a, we left, surfed them in Europe to come to America.
And guess what?
We're right back in.
It's here we had rights, and we're letting them slip.
And that's what Judge Napolitano was talking about.
Interesting time.
Check out his website.
Check out his daily show, folks, on my channel.
WVWTV.com.
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