Some of the deepest political analysis
is the most simple, the most
straightforward. People who note obvious
truths sometimes trigger the most
profound thoughts in the rest of us. So
with that in mind, it is not criticism
to say that the following tweet was one
of the most simple and obvious and yet
meaningful sin in a long time. This is
from last week on the Twitter app X on
your phone and it's from Matt Walsh of
the Daily Wire. And here's the totality
of what he wrote. Here's the whole
tweet.
and see if you agree or disagree.
Grocery prices are insane. They're still
rising. Addressing this problem should
be the number one priority of every
elected leader. End the stupid foreign
wars and focus on this issue. It's one
of the main reasons socialists are
gaining power.
So, we can go through line by line and
assess the veracity of each one of them,
but it's just obvious looking at that
every single word of that is true. Yes,
grocery prices are rising. They're
insane. who hasn't gone to the grocery
store in the last year and said, "Woo,
really? 200 bucks? You know, I didn't
fill my cart. They're higher than they
were." Now, there all kinds of measures
of inflation, famously the consumer
product index, the CPI,
and a lot of them are skewed. Some
intentionally skewed, designed to hide
the truth rather than illuminate it. But
you don't need to consult any of them to
get to what's actually happening. All
you got to do is buy the things that
you've always bought. A tube of crushed
toothpaste, a jar of Skippy peanut
butter, whatever's in your cart every
week is more expensive than it was a
year ago, 2 years ago, certainly more
than it was 5 years ago. There is
inflation in real terms, whether or not
the government admits it, whether or not
our political leaders want to own up to
it or claim much reserved responsibility
for it. Cuz yes, it's not organic. It's
their fault, but it's real. You know,
it's real. So why is this a problem?
Well, it's a problem because for a lot
of people, it makes it hard to live
here. The United States is suddenly an
expensive country.
If you've lived here your whole life,
you probably have for the most of your
life thought of it as a rich country.
But an expensive country, that's the
kind of place you go on vacation. That's
Monaco or Barcelona. That's Tokyo.
That's some place you take your family
and then get home and say, "Woof, I
don't have to pay those prices every
day." Well, suddenly you live in that
country. Do you live in an expensive
country where people are worried about
having enough money to pay the basic
bills? Housing, food, insurance,
medical,
cars. It's all much more expensive than
it was. Then he goes on to say, "Stop
these stupid foreign wars and focus on
this issue." Well, that's obvious. Why
wouldn't you want to do that? Now, why
would you want to do that? Because in a
democracy, your job if you're a leader
is to represent the people who elected
you, which is to say to take their
concerns to Washington and try and do
something about them, fix their
problems. That's why you're there.
That's the whole purpose of our
government. Doesn't exist to serve
itself, much less a foreign country. It
exists to serve its population. That's
literally the whole point. There is no
other point.
And so if people across the country of
all parties are saying grocery prices
are insane, then you should probably
think long and hard about what to do
about that if you can. And there's no
poll taken in the last year that shows
that people are more concerned about the
Iranian nuclear program or Islamic jihad
or some Muslim group far away than they
are about the price of Skippy peanut
butter. There's just there's no poll
that shows that because the majority
doesn't feel that way. And why would it?
Who cares about Islamic jihad? Honestly,
who really cares about the Iranian
nuclear program? Not compared to your
ability to live here
or remain solvent through an illness or
send your kids to school or even go on
vacation.
Those are the real concerns that people
have. And why wouldn't they be? And then
the final line, the reason socialists
are succeeding, and they are, says Matt
Walsh, is because the people in charge,
which would be Republicans at this
point, are ignoring these issues.
He's blaming inattention by our leaders
for the rise of socialism. Is that a
controversial thing to say? Is that
untrue? Of course, it's entirely true,
and it's always been true.
There has always been a movement for
socialism, however defined
in the United States. Certainly, since
the mass migration of the turn of the
last century, there has been a vibrant
socialist movement, small but active.
And one of the aims of both parties, and
they both agree on this, is to keep it
at bay. Now, how do you do that? Well,
mostly not with force, by stealing the
issues. So the claim that socialists
make is we care about you and we want to
make sure you have enough money to live
here without worrying unduly. That's the
core claim. And they may be against
Thanksgiving and for transgenderism or
whatever insane idea they're for. And a
lot of them are for those ideas, but
their fundamental pitch is an economic
pitch. And the pitch itself is not
crazy. Their solutions may not work, but
the pitch they make to voters is very
straightforward. And anybody can
understand it. You don't have to be a
socialist to agree. I'm certainly not a
socialist, but why wouldn't I want
leaders who care what Skippy peanut
butter costs? Well, of course I would.
And this has been recognized forever.
A chicken in every pot. I mean, that was
the promise of the Herbert Hoover for
president campaign in 1928. His
supporters said, "Elect Herbert Hoover
and there'll be a chicken in every pot."
In other words, we'll lower the price of
Doritos. Let's give you peanut butter.
Now, he made that claim one year before
the Great Depression. made it a lot
harder to put a chicken in every pot.
But even before the depression, Hoover
supporters knew just like any awake
person would know that economic concerns
are the core concerns of voters and
ignore them at your peril. And by the
way, there was a socialist candidate
that year in 1928, Norman Thomas, who by
modern standards was totally moderate,
by the way. He was a Presbyterian
minister. He was kind of a wet liberal.
He was hardly a transgender activist or
an anti-white hater or anything like
that. He didn't want to ban
Thanksgiving, but he wanted to make sure
that people's material needs were met.
And that's not a crazy goal. So to keep
him from getting into power, people like
him.
The Hoover campaign promised that they
would pay attention to food prices
doesn't mean that they were tools of
socialism.
actually meant they were opponents of
socialism because they knew that if they
didn't pay attention, you could
conceivably get a socialist.
Norman Thomas didn't do very well that
year, probably because Herbert Hoover
took the threat seriously.
So, this is not a new idea at all. It's
the oldest idea because it's the most
obvious idea. If you don't attend to
people's actual concerns, they will go
elsewhere. And in a purportedly
democratic system, they have a whole
range of options. by the way, most of
which we haven't been presented with in
recent history, but it could get pretty
radical here. Why wouldn't it? And so,
you probably shouldn't ignore those
concerns.
That's all Matt Walsh was trying to say.
He works at the Daily Wire. He's not a
wildeyed radical, but you would have
thought he was reading the Communist
Manifesto on air and burning an American
flag given the response from his fellow
conservatives, other elements of the
MAGA coalition
rather than just well ignoring him. If
you disagree with someone, you always
have the option just ignore him. Didn't
hear what you said. Sorry.
Rather than just ignoring him or maybe
even smarter, paying lip service to
agreement. Yeah, know Matt Walsh makes a
smart point like people people care what
their groceries cost. Normal people
care.
Maybe you even find out what groceries
cost and then play a more elaborate role
and oh I was at the grocery yesterday
and boy prices are high. We're going to
do something about that. You would think
they would do that.
But that's the opposite of what they
did. And by they I mean the neocons, the
people who are in charge of the Trump
administration now. Not the people who
came in with Trump, but the people who
somehow took control of the Trump
administration and turned it in a
totally different direction from the one
most of us voted for. Those people
attacked Matt Walsh. And not just Matt
Walsh, but the idea that it is
legitimate, that it's allowed, that it's
within bounds to complain about food
prices. What's wrong with you
complaining about food prices?
We're going to play you a clip from
someone from whom we try not to play a
lot of clips. It's Ben Shapiro. We're
going to play it in just a sec. But
before we do, just a caveat. We're not
playing this to suggest that Ben Shapiro
was like a shaper of history, a mover in
American politics. He's not. He's an
employee like most everybody else. He's
doing what he's told. He represents
larger interests obviously. So why
bother to replay and then rebut
something that Ben Shapiro said? Well,
in an effort to speak to the people who
put him up to it. So the whole point of
Ben Shapiro and there is a point to Ben
Shapiro. This is not like some organic
phenomenon like Ben Shapiro was just so
charming and brilliant that he somehow
got into Harvard Law School and then
eyebrows and all emerged as a social
media titan. No, of course not.
Ben Shapiro had a deal with Facebook,
a deal no one else got. And so the point
of Ben Shapiro was here's a way to send
a very specific message to outline and
sell a very specific worldview to young
people. Ben Shapiro is an old person's
idea of a young person. He is a
spokesman
for a group of older people aimed at
younger people. I have an idea. Let's
get Ben Shapiro. This guy Ben Shapiro,
he's he's brilliant. He's a really
promising young kid. And we'll get him
to sell free market economics and a
robust Reaganite foreign policy to the
young folks.
And by the way, it kind of worked for a
while thanks to the trans movement,
which you suspect they also kind of
concocted this same group. But whatever,
wherever that came from, for a while,
Ben Shapiro seemed like he was on the
side of common sense and he's for free
speech and he's against the trans
lunacy, etc., etc. But always from day
one, the point was Ben Shapiro is going
to sell this very specific
version of economics. Not capitalism.
It bears no resemblance to anything Adam
Smith advocated for. But the kind of
modern American monopoly arrangement
where six countries companies can behave
like countries have sovereignty unlike
our own nation and control every part of
your life through debt which is kind of
broad but fairly accurate definition of
our current economic system. So, sell
that and then sell the even harder to
pitch idea
that it's unpatriotic to oppose wars for
Israel. Like, first of all, it's
obviously anti-Semitic. I mean, it's
just an expression of hate if you don't
want to regime change some country you
can't find on a map. Obviously, you're a
bigot. You're basically a Nazi. In fact,
you must be for Hitler. You probably are
opposed to the Second World War, too.
You probably have problems with
Churchill.
It's literally immoral to oppose Ben
Shapiro's employers
foreign policy, but it's also
unAmerican. Like this country was
founded to fight wars for Israel. That's
why we're here. I mean, our founders
said explicitly, America exists as a
Judeo-Christian country to support
Israel. Okay? So, whatever whatever
prime minister of that country wants,
we're doing. I mean, that's why we're
here. So if you're against it, you don't
believe in America. You're against
America. Why don't you just leave? Maybe
we'll revoke your green card. Oh, don't
have a green card. We'll strip you your
citizenship. And that's what ICE exists
to do. Now, in any case, you should know
watching this that these are not just
Ben Shapiro's opinions. The extent he
actually has opinions, who knows? But
these are the opinions of the people who
prop up Ben Shapiro, who created Ben
Shapiro. And this is what they think.
This is the argument they sincerely
believe apparently is going to appeal to
young people who are worried about the
price of burritos. Watch this.
Unfortunately, this has become the mode
for a lot of young people. Why can't I
afford what my parents could afford when
they were my age? Spoiler alert, when it
comes to groceries, you can. And in
areas, by the way, for housing where
deregulation has been the rule, you
still can. In fact, you have today more
restaurant options. Your food costs less
of your disposable income and it is
probably significantly better. Here in
the United States of America, we are
fatter, richer, have nicer houses, nicer
cars, and the food we eat is much, much
better than it was for our parents in
general.
Our parents probably would have
considered a 450 burrito at Del Taco a
gourmet meal.
Your parents would have considered a 450
taco at Del Taco a deal because your
parents were pros. They were pathetic.
They were disgusting people and anything
was enough for them. You don't want to
use the term go slop, but it does seem
kind of appropriate in this specific
instance. They would be grateful for a
Del Taco. What are you complaining
about?
It's hilarious, but it's the first line
that really does catch your attention.
He says, "It is fashionable this mode
among young people to complain that life
is more expensive than it was for their
parents." So here you have this whole
new generation, this entitled, fat,
lazy, tattooed, drugaddicted,
screen mesmerized generation that has no
idea what's good for itself, but is all
about entitlement, whining, and
entitlement. And the main thing they
think they're entitled to is a life as
good as the life their parents led. Who
gave them that idea?
Of course, that used to be, I think it
was referred to euphemistically as the
American dream. And the American dream
was the idea that your children might
have a better life than you had. And
yes, not just spiritually, but
materially. They might have the things
that you wanted but couldn't have.
That's why you work hard to give them
opportunities.
But Ben Shapiro is telling you what? We
never said that. Who told you that was a
real promise? How dare you want what
your parents had? Who do you think you
are? Eat your Dell Taco and be happy.
$450 FOR A DEL TACO. WHAT A DEAL. AND
YOU KNOW how we know it's a good deal?
You know how you know America's
thriving? Cuz it's fatter.
And by the way, if you live in China
during one of the recent famines, during
the cultural revolution, obesity was a
sign of affluence. But of course, we
don't live in China during a famine. We
live in latestage empire in the United
States where obesity is not a sign of
affluence, but instead a sign of
discouragement and poverty. That's the
truth. It's a sign most of the time of
sadness, not of a thyroid condition, but
of depression. So people who are
depressed get fat. So if you want to
know how your population is doing,
measure their BMI.
So a little weird for Ben Shapiro to
say, "We're doing great. We're fat." But
what is actually going on here is what
is happening across our society on so
many different issues, which is a
rewriting of history in real time. You
just saw something happen. You saw, I
don't know, let's just pick an example.
Israel pushed Donald Trump into a war
that hurts the United States that we
cannot possibly win. That is all
downside for us, but potentially upside
for Israel. That would be the war with
Iran, the regime change war that no one
in America supported.
And you watch that happen at the end of
February of this year. But within days
they were telling you, "What? Are you an
anti-semite? That didn't happen. Israel
didn't push Trump to war with Iran? Were
you saying Trump has no agency? Are you
saying Trump's weak?" Well, obviously
Trump is weak. That's why he allowed the
Israelis to push him to war. I mean, who
doesn't know that? Of course, he's weak.
But it doesn't matter weak or strong.
That's what happened. And they admitted
it happened and we saw it happen. And
anyone who paid any attention at all had
no doubt at all because it was true that
that's what happened. Israel pushed
Trump to war with Iran. It's not like
there were critical American interests
at stake. There weren't. There are now.
But what's interesting is that almost
immediately after every big news
organization in the United States
started telling you what you just saw is
not what you just saw. And if you
thought you just saw that, the problem
is you. There's something wrong with
your brain and with your heart. You're a
hater. You must hate Jews. Well, no, we
don't hate Jews at all. But that just
happened. Shut up. And by the way, we
haven't seen polling on it, but it's
probably been pretty successful. If you
scream at people long enough and
persistently enough and tell them lies
consistently enough,
after a while,
they kind of give up and believe those
lies. You can change the collective
memory about an event pretty quickly
after that event occurred and then you
can encode it forever in what we used to
call the history books and we now refer
to as AI which is our collective
consciousness
and forever after something that didn't
happen will be recorded as historical
truth
that can happen. We're watching it right
now. So, one of the things that Ben
Shapiro's employers are trying to tell
you is that actually your life is way
better than previous generations. You've
got it so good, you don't know how good
you've got it. And if you can't see
that, the problem is you. So, stop
complaining, You little whiner.
Get to work.
Retirement. What? That's for ungrateful
people. Get back to work. Eat your Del
Taco. They're only 450. Your parents
would have been grateful for a 450 Del
Taco
getting out after 18 hours in the
spinning mill. They were only 9 years
old. They didn't have Del Taco then.
That's what they're trying to tell you.
Your parents' generation lived through.
But did it?
You know, we could make a detailed case
based on the statistics which are still
publicly available from say two
generations ago. Let's just pick the
biggest generation in American history,
the baby boom. And we could tell you
everything about their lives. Do you
know the average age
at which
people had babies in? Let's just pick a
year. I'll pick the year I was born.
1969. Women had babies in the United
States on average the age of 20. 20
years old. How' they do that? How could
you afford a baby at 20? You can't
afford a baby at 20. Child care is so
expensive. Do you know how much it costs
to hire someone from Central America to
watch your child while you work as a
bank teller? It doesn't make any sense.
That couldn't have happened. Oh, but it
did.
It did happen. And it's provable. But
maybe a more telling
picture of what life was like in let's
just pick that same year, 1969, is an
actual picture from 1969.
Let's pick the biggest event that year
in the United States. Certainly the most
celebrated and lovingly cataloged event,
not simply of that year, the summer of
1969, the same year as the moon landing,
but of that entire generation, the baby
boom, the famous baby boom that everyone
loves to despise, and for good reason.
People born between 1946 and 1964, right
smack in the middle. 1969 was the year
of the Woodstock Music Festival in
Woodstock, New York.
And numbers kind of vary about how many
people went. 400,000, 600,000, hundreds
of thousands of Americans went to that
event and there are a lot of pictures of
it and they're all on the internet.
We've got a couple not great pictures of
it, but take 10 minutes tonight and look
at the pictures. Not of the performers,
Sly, the Family Stone and the Grateful
Dead and Richie Havens and all the rest,
most of them long dead. But take a look
at the crowd.
There it is right there. That's the
crowd at Woodstock. Now, that that's a
that's a far away shot.
So you kind of get a sense of the scale
of it, but you kind of get a sense of
the demographic composition of it. So
1969, this country was about 90% white.
9 89 88 89% white, about 10 or 11%
black. And interestingly, or maybe not
surprisingly, the crowd at this mass
event is about that. It's probably a
little more than 90% white, maybe 95%
white, but then it was at least 5%
black. So it was on some basic level
representative of the American
population. 90% white, 10% black. But
zoom in a little bit.
What do you notice? That's not a great
shot. They're more on the internet and
you should definitely look them up. But
those are shirtless people. And if you
look carefully, then they're leaned
over.
The first thing you notice, what's the
first thing you notice? Well, the
complexion of the skin. Again, 90%
white. But after that, the first thing
you notice is you can see the ribs on
almost every single person at that
event. These are thin, fit people with
muscle definition and not a single hint
of what we call now a love handle.
These are people who look like
triathletes. And this is a broad
cross-section. In fact, it's probably
not even the healthiest cross-section of
American society in 1969. These were the
drug users of 1969. These were the party
people. They're sleeping outside for
three days in a field in upstate New
York. I mean, these are not probably the
captain of every track team on the
eastern seabboard. These are like the
Stoners.
And yet, even the Stoners in 1969 looked
well fit, prim and happy. Of course,
they were dippy and they had stupid
ideas and they were running around naked
in the field and doesn't sound entirely
bad, but they were misguided and dumb
and probably had opinions that were
maybe even malicious.
But they certainly looked happy. They
looked cheerful. They looked like they
thought the future was going to be
great, better than today. They had not
been lectured by their leaders to be
grateful for a Dell Taco. In fact, they
weren't eating Del Tacos. And you can
tell by the way they look.
And so you can't look at those pictures
and thousands more like them on the
internet of this country before this era
that we're living in now and say the
people are better off. They're gravely
worse off. And you can see it in their
faces and in their tattoos and in their
piercings and in their demeanor. And
they're not all failing, of course.
They're amazing young people who are
brighteyed and hopeful, optimistic,
on it, so impressive.
But you can't say they're more confident
about their future than their parents
were because they're not. And they're
right not to be. So if you cared about
them, you would consider that a tragedy.
As a matter of public policy, you would
consider it a disaster. It's exactly the
opposite of what you're charged with
doing. Your job if you run the American
government or if you seek to influence
the running of the American government,
your job is really simple. Help the
people thrive. That's it. And by the
way, once again, if you don't do it,
someone else will. Maybe someone with an
economic program that doesn't work.
Maybe someone with deep racial animus
that's going to split the country along
racial lines. Maybe someone who hates
white people or thinks that men can
become women or something crazy. That
person's going to win anyway. Why? one
reason because he at least pretends to
care about the people who live here
and not just their material well-being
but their spiritual well-being. Are they
happy? Can you imagine four or 500,000
American 18year-olds plucked at random
from cities across the country in a
field this summer, this month, August,
57 years after Woodstock? Can you
imagine what they would look like with
their shirts off? Which is not to make
fun of their lumpy physiques. That
happens to a lot of us over time.
But can you imagine what their faces
would look like? Would they look as
cheerful as the kids you see in the
pictures of Woodstock? You hope so.
Probably not. So maybe the last thing
they need is to be lectured by people
who are clearly the beneficiaries of
unearned privilege like Ben Shapiro who
somehow got into Harvard Law School
despite a middling IQ. How did that
happen? Never asked.
People like that have no standing at all
to lecture the rest of America's young
people
about whether or not they complain about
their clearly declining standard of
living and their future prospects. They
have no standing at all, but they do it
anyway. Now, why do they do it? Well,
there are two reasons they do it. First,
because they feel it. Now, the second
Matt Wall sent that tweet out, there was
a chorus of people making exactly the
same noises Ben Shapiro made.
Shut up. Burritos are enough for you. A
$20 burrito is a good deal. Eat your
burrito and be quiet. Eat your burrito
and be happy. No chalupas for you.
So, there was that.
So, it's clearly coordinated.
But it's not just coordination that gets
us to a talking point like that. There
was deep feeling behind it and that
feeling was contempt.
That was loathing of the people
complaining. That was loathing of the
population. And that is part and parcel
of this whole program. And this
ultimately is the reason that the neocon
worldview is a cancerous worldview. Not
simply because it's wrong about which
countries we ought to invade, which
leaders we ought to topple, which
democracies we ought to erect in
countries whose languages we don't
speak. Okay, that's obviously all wrong,
but that's not the worst thing about it.
The worst thing about it is not just its
inattention to the fortunes of actual
Americans. It's its hostility, its
hatred
of Americans. Because there's no other
way to describe the kind of feelings
that could get you to give a lecture
like the one Ben Shapiro gave. If
someone you loved turned to you and
said, you know, man, I'm overwhelmed by
the cost of food.
If you love that person, you know, you
might ultimately explain, well, maybe
you're buying the wrong food and I have
like a solution for you. But would your
first impulse be to tell the person to
shut up and be grateful for a burrito
from Del Taco? Probably not. That's the
way you speak to people you hate, who
you resent, whose degradation pleases
you. That was the most revealing moment
because it showed you the true motive of
Ben Shapiro and people like Ben Shapiro.
They don't like you and if they did,
they wouldn't talk like that to you.
They would show compassion, but they
don't ever.
It shouldn't surprise you, by the way.
Anyone pushing for a war like the war
with Iran clearly hates you. Clearly, no
matter what they say. And keep in mind
that every attack on your interests
always comes gued as a liberation
movement. We're going to liberate you.
Liberates you from the fear you
doubtless feel from Islamic Shihad. You
probably worrying about Hezbollah a lot.
What? No. Hezbollah? What? You worry a
lot about Hezbollah, but we're going to
save you from that. You know, the Iran
nuclear program is a massive threat.
Well, where's Iran? It is. Trust me,
they've killed thousands of Americans.
What? Who? Shut up. They have. And so,
they tell you, of course, that whatever
they're doing is to save you from
something you probably didn't feel a
threat from before, like, I don't know,
marriage or cheap food. Think of all the
liberation movements, decent schools,
safe neighborhoods. We're going to
liberate you from that in the name of
civil rights. Oh, yeah. We're going to
liberate you from marriage. It's really
a prison. Yeah, big prison. Mhm. We're
going to set you alone in an apartment
by yourself with your cat. You can order
your food online. We've got 450
burritos. You're going to feel a lot
better. You're going to be free finally.
Okay.
So, of course, you say that because
that's kind of what liars tell you.
Whatever they're doing to hurt you is
actually in your interest. No, it's
medicine. Just take it. You won't get
co.
But behind the lie is what? Why would
you lie to someone like that? Why would
you tell them that? Why would you tell
them what's killing them is saving them?
Because you hate them, obviously.
Now, in the question of food prices,
something so fundamental, something
every single human being deals with
because everybody has to eat. It's out
in the open. It's all revealed. You can
lecture me about the Iranian nuclear
program or the threat of Hezbollah, but
if you're lecturing about food prices at
my grocery store, you clearly hate me.
And they clearly do. You should know
that. And as if we need more evidence,
well, here's Mark Levin on the internet.
Something very weird happened last week
and I was watching this. The price of a
burrito.
Now, I'm not really into burritos. Every
now and then, I'll go to Taco Bell and
I'll have one or two. Pretty cheap if
you ask me. That is the price. Now, all
that said, this debate was about
affordability.
Now, he doesn't have to pay $20 for a
burrito. He can make it for a lot less.
But I'm thinking, what the hell has
happened to our society?
Where is our can do it mentality? We sit
here with a war in Iran against an enemy
that has killed thousands of Americans,
ma thousands of Americans. I remember a
time when America would say, "Let's go.
Let's destroy that country. Destroy that
government. You don't get to kill
thousands of our fellow citizens,
military or civilians. You don't get to
try to assassinate our president. You
don't get to threaten us with potential
nuclear weapons either. Now it's a
debate. Should we take him out?
Shouldn't we? Are you a neocon or a
wararmonger? Is this a war of choice?
We don't even have a draft.
Would a draft even work with young
people today? I wonder. Could we even
fight World War II today? We're whining
about a dollar
a gasoline. 12%
of the United States population served
in the military during World War II.
Over 16 million Americans joined the
armed forces out of a total national
population of about 130 million people.
Roughly one out of every eight Americans
wore a uniform. We don't have that
today. And people are still whining and
complaining.
It's getting embarrassing to be
perfectly honest with you. It's
embarrassing.
Your unwillingness, your reluctance,
your hesitation in the face of fighting
for Israel. It's just embarrassing. It's
disgusting.
Huge percentage of Americans served
during World War II. Of course, they had
no choice because there was a draft. Why
aren't they serving now? Well, that's a
question actually Mark Levin ought to
ask himself. A man who didn't serve, who
could be serving now, by the way, could
be on the front lines in Kev or for that
matter in the Gulf, but isn't.
But why aren't Americans serving?
80 years after the great victory of
World War II.
Well, I don't know. Maybe they look
around at the country that won that war
and they ask the obvious question. Is
this what a victorious country looks
like? If we won, why are we living like
this?
If we won, why aren't things getting
better? Why are they getting worse? Why
are we so in debt? Why does the federal
government spend 7 trillion a year but
only takes in 5 trillion in tax revenue?
What's the plan there? How do we get
there? This is what victory looks like.
Just for fun sometime, you ought to fly
from Kennedy Airport in New York to
Narita Airport in Tokyo. Spend a day
wandering around New York. Do the whole
city. How about just Manhattan? Just
Washington Heights to Tribeca. Just walk
it. You can do it. It's not very long.
It's a day walk. And then go to Tokyo,
one of the biggest cities in the world.
Now, Tokyo is the city that lost.
Actually, we dropped two nuclear weapons
on Japan. So, they really lost. We
actually vaporized them. all their kids,
too. No, no country's ever lost like
Japan lost in the summer of 1945.
But walk around Tokyo after a day of
walking around New York. Which city
looks like it lost a war?
It's not Tokyo.
So, in order to convince people to go
die for a cause, probably you should
convince them the cause is worth dying
for. But which cause has been worth
dying for? Honestly, dying. Like
actually dying. Or how about getting
your face blown off? How about your ears
melted off your head? Losing all your
fingers. How about having your genitals
shredded?
What cause is worth that?
Well, if it's worth it, tell me how.
Tell me how it's worth it. Cuz we don't
speak German. A lot of Americans don't
speak English at this point. These are
tired and stupid, in fact, nonsensical
talking points, but they're also more
than that. They're deeply insulting.
You are lecturing a population that you
personally have taken advantage of,
whose total destruction you have
overseen and you've done nothing to stop
it. You did nothing when the Sacklers
flooded
Appalachia, the part of the country that
disproportionately fought the wars that
you called for
and destroyed them with opioids. You
said nothing.
You said nothing when this country was
invaded and its trillion dollar military
didn't stop that invasion.
and for you to lecture the rest of the
nation about a can do attitude. What do
you make my freaking burritos then?
It's too much. And then to cap it off
with the lie that you and every other
person the media is now repeating that
Iran is trying to assassinate President
Trump as a statement of fact. That is
not true. So they're now telling us that
Donald Trump was the target of an
assassination attempt by a guy with a
man pad, a surface terror missile inside
the security perimeter in Anchora,
Turkey during the NATO summit. That's
not true. That's factually untrue. And
they'll lie about you don't have the
intel. Well, you know, actually some of
us have called around. Untrue.
So why are they reporting that? Well, of
course, like so much that you read and
see on television or on the internet, it
is the product of a propaganda campaign
designed to change the course of events
on the ground. A propaganda campaign
designed to convince Donald Trump that
he has to restart major combat
operations against Iran because they're
trying to kill him personally. And so
they tell him, as they have been for
more than a year, ever since the butler
shooting Iran did it, you need to get in
a separate aircraft. You need to be
moved on the tarmac inside a drink cart
because they're going to assassinate you
at any second.
And why are they telling Trump that, who
apparently believes it, it's not true,
by the way. That is a lie. They're
telling him that because they think that
if they can make it personal that Trump
will have a stake, an emotional stake in
continuing this war against Iran, which
the United States to restate, cannot
win. How do we know we can't win it?
Because we haven't been able to open the
straight of Hormuz despite having a
fleet of vessels that can't even
approach the Iranian coast. So rather
than pausing and ask why are we spending
$1.5 trillion a year on a defense budget
or now a war budget that is unable to
beat what we were told is a second rate
or third rate military a third world
country run by primitives who murder
gays by throwing them off the roof and
we can't even open a piece of water so
20% of the world's energy can flow
through. How's our military doing? Shut
up. Not one moment
of reflection or self-awareness even.
Not one moment of asking the obvious
questions about our own failures,
failures that the rest of us paid for,
have gone into debt for. One of the
reasons you can't buy
a cheap burrito unless Mark Levin makes
one for you, and we hope he will. We
hope he has that can do attitude that
gets him in your kitchen rolling you a
burrito for free. But in the event he
doesn't do that, it's going to cost you
more than it used to to buy a burrito.
Why? Because the country's too in debt.
Why? Well, the main driver of debt,
foreign wars. That that's a fact. The
main driver of debt, foreign wars. Our
discretionary budget, it all goes to
war. Wars we don't win. Wars that are
being waged not because the public wants
them, but because Mark Leavvin is
calling for them on behalf of the
interest of a foreign country. That's a
fact. And to continue that, they're now
laying this lie, this head trip on the
president. Oh, they're trying to
assassinate you in the tarmac. Better
get in the drink cart and sneak on to
another aircraft.
And a lot of Americans are just like
believing it because they're telling him
that. Oh, Mark Levvenia assassinating
the president. Okay. Killed thousands of
Americans. Okay.
You must have missed that part
where they were sending opioids into
Appalachia. I don't think that was the
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of who's got a clearer handle on this or
a more longitudinal view gained over
many years beginning at the Treasury
Department on this question than
Katherine Austin Fitz. And she joins us
now to explain why burritos are 20
bucks. Katherine Austin Fitz.
Katherine Austin Fitz, thank you so much
for doing this. I have a lot of
questions. I'll keep them short. Are we
experiencing inflation in the United
States? Do you believe?
Yes, we are experienced inflation and it
there is a reasonable chance that the
inflation at least the increase in
household goods is going to get much
much worse.
>> Why?
>> So it is because we've been going
through a restructuring of the economy
for many decades. This has been building
for many decades. one, we start off with
a model where uh we have a debt-based
currency and that debt basing forces
huge expenses that you don't have to
have. Um that's number one. But number
two, we've run our fiscal economy in
ways that I would describe as a
financial coup d'eta. And as we've we've
pulled resources out of the economy, we
have consolidated ownership and control
in a way that uh forces expenses or it
lowers the income for the general
population and it raises their expenses.
And this has been a intentional
consolidation of ownership and control.
And now you're seeing the results that
result in people being squeezed in a
variety of ways. So I'm describing a
change in the financial model um this
centralization of of power and economic
control. Um and it involves many
different things throughout the economy.
But the important thing to understand is
it was a plan. It's intentional. And if
you look at where we are, it's going to
take many many things to change it
because it comes um it comes with
tremendous and explosive changes in
technology which can be used to create
great prosperity but can also be used to
consolidate control in a way that
benefit the few and destroy the many.
So, as I as I hear your big picture
description of this transition uh
through which we're moving, the first
thought that comes to mind is, boy, that
sounds a little bit like what happened
after the Soviet Union collapsed in the
summer of 1991 and all of a sudden
Russians woke up 10 years later and all
state industries were owned by a small
group of people. It was
>> correct.
>> That's kind of what it sounds like.
Well, if you generally I mean I'm
grossly oversimplifying, but if you look
at the people who did the it's called
the rape of Russia.
>> Yes.
>> You know, it's a similar group and I'll
I'll give you a story. I was in the city
of London making a presentation in 2001
and I'd been asked to speak about what I
call piratization in the United States,
the consolidation of the real estate and
housing market. So, I'd been the
assistant secretary of housing and I
gave the presentation and two
presentations followed. one by Anne
Williamson who had been covering Russia
for the Wall Street Journal during the
rape of Russia and she got up and gave a
presentation and then John Lachland
who's a remarkable um British
commentator now in Paris stood up and
did the same on what had happened in
Eastern Europe and the three of us went
into shock as did many of the investors
in the room because we realized it was
the same firms the same law firms the
same intelligence agencies
and and what they were doing in Eastern
Europe and in Russia and in the United
States was a very similar game. We have
a big presentation slurry called
plunder, but they were basically going
in and plundering and it was one plan.
It wasn't three different plans or three
different groups. It was a process of of
consolidation of the economies in all
three places
>> and basically a privatization of the
nation's resources.
Well, here's the thing. Privatization,
Tucker, is when I transfer an asset or
involve uh corporations in a service at
a market price. Piratization is when I
transfer an asset to a private party at
10 cents on the dollar.
>> Yes.
>> So, at a below market price. And what
we've been watching by and large around
the world is piratization, not
privatization or plunder. that alluding
and thank you for that distinction
because that seems important. So it's
it's not simply a matter. So I think
many of us on the right were sold on the
idea that government is inefficient
which is a easy case to make because
it's true and in order to make the
system the government more efficient we
need to privatize things and the public
benefits and the market rules apply and
so it's fair and transparent and it just
works better. that that is the case I
think that free market economists made
throughout the 80s and 90s.
So, it was so funny. I wrote a I wrote a
piece about um uh this sort of
piratization at the time and it later
became an online book I wrote called
Dylan Reed in the aristocracy of stock
profits. And when I first sent it to the
I was working with this firm in London
um the head of research just started
laughing and he said I've always believe
that government is inefficient and the
solution is to bring in more private you
know more private capacity and he said
I'm reading this and what I realize is
you know what is going on is the private
guys are just using the government to
pay themselves huge and hideous profits
above market in a way that's destroying
ing markets.
So, so we have these public private
partnerships that involve huge
corruption, huge grift, and aren't
productive at all. But the spin they use
is the what you just described.
>> Boy, it's a very effective argument, and
it certainly fooled me. Um, definitely
fooled me. So, how does that trend that
you just described cause inflation?
So, so for example, and and there are
thousands of different examples, but one
of the things that drive prices up is
when you have consolidation into
monopolies or duopolies. And so, if the
Department of Justice is simply not
enforcing
um antirust, you're going to get
consolidation and monopoly pricing. Um
the best example, of course, is the
bailouts. So, according to the Levy
Institute, there were $29 trillion on
the bailouts. And what did we see? Um,
we saw a group of financial institutions
engage in massive mortgage fraud and
financial fraud. As a result, we had $29
trillion of bailings which does run up
the debt quite quite a certain amount.
And then um what happens? They get the
benefit of more access to the federal
credit, special all sorts of special
dispensations. And coming out of the
financial crisis, they have a major much
bigger market share, right?
>> Yeah.
>> So, not only did they get $29 trillion
of bailouts, but suddenly they shifted
their market share up dramatically in a
way that gives them monopoly pricing
power. Okay? And so you know and that
was combined for example in the
financial area with changing the laws in
7980 to allow essentially
usery.
So, so for example, when I, as I told
you, I I went from a process of being a
multi-millionaire to having a very rich
cash flow every month to having to live
on $2,000 a month and run my and bring
down my companies and run my companies
with that on the $2,000. And and when
things are really desperate, I used to
always get a credit card in the mail
from JP Morgan Chase for $300
um with a $50 signup fee and then 30%
interest rate.
And it was you're in the corner, you you
know, according to the Department of
Justice, you have to be in Washington in
two days and suddenly you magically get
this credit card which will finance your
trip for 50% interest rates when you
combine in the fee.
>> So th this is when you were being
assailed, prosecuted by the Department
of Justice after you left government
yourself.
>> Yeah. So my comp I had a company
Hamilton Securities Group which was
working as the lead financial adviser to
the Department of Housing and Urban
Development and um and we were
essentially responsible for making sure
portfolio strategy was done properly as
well as doing loan sales and we were
essentially stopping money from
disappearing out of the back door of
HUD. And so to get rid of us, we were
targeted in this process. And um
interestingly enough, after they did get
rid of us and the public officials we
were working with, um suddenly massive
amounts of money started disappearing
from the HUD financial
um systems. And you know, it's it's
typical in government. You've got to get
the honest people out if you're going to
grift in a major major way. And that's
what happened anyway. But we had 18
audits and investigations, 12 tracks of
litigation, a smear campaign, and
physical harassment. And the goal of
course was to to catch us doing
something, was to prove that we had done
something wrong. And um and it got very
uh it went on for a long time because
they could never prove anything and they
tried to falsify documentation. We
caught them, you know, and then it it
turned into a very long process. So, and
ultimately we won the big litigation.
So, we were able to win. And one of the
reasons I refused to settle and insisted
on going to, you know, because they try
and keep you out of court. I couldn't
get into court. Um, it really started in
'95. I couldn't get into court on the
main case until 20 uh 2004.
So, uh you know, so they try and keep
you out of court because of course they
have no evidence of any wrong. And it
was very funny, Tucker. I wish I'd had a
video of it on the um three times they
cancelled on the eve of trial. So my
lawyers were the most overprepared
people in the world. They were being
paid by the insurance company. And so we
got to the final uh the first day of the
final trial and I wouldn't settle and I
kept, you know, insisting and they
constantly I was poisoned many times
when I wouldn't settle because they
wanted to sort of exhaust me. Anyway, I
come in on on the last trial on uh on
the first day and and essentially the
other side has nothing. They have
absolutely nothing. And all the lawyers
on the other side are fighting. It's the
whistleblower attorney and the
Department of Justice attorney and the
HUD attorney. They're all fighting. And
at the end of the day, my attorney turns
to me and he's white as a sheet and he
says, "Oh my god, they had absolutely
nothing."
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So, but at the depth of this when you
had no money and you're trying to run
everything, your life and business on
$2,000 a month, you're getting credit
card offers from JP Morgan Chase.
>> And that's kind of a metaphor for the
entire how the entire economy works,
right? It's
>> people profiting off desperation.
So, I live in um one of the first things
I did is I sold my big mansion in
Washington and bought a country home in
Hickory Valley, Tennessee. And I moved
to Hickory Valley, Tennessee. I have
cousins who are cotton farmers in
Hickory Valley, Tennessee. And I moved
to Hickory Valley, Tennessee because I
knew that the cost of living was much
much lower. And um so the county I live
in in in Tennessee has a per capita
income of $24,000
a year. Yeah. very very low income. And
one of the things when I as soon as I
moved there, what I realized is we were
targeted for predatory lending by all
the big banks and lenders. And so one of
the ways I used to entertain myself, you
know, I was trained on Wall Street and I
was trained by the top some of the best
lawyers on Wall Street how to negotiate.
It was really fun for me because I would
pick up the phone and they would just
assume I was another person with $24,000
a year income, which you know $2,000 a
month I was. And and and so I would
start to ask them about their offers and
negotiate with them and I learned all
their tricks. And what was amazing to me
is is the people in my county were
targeted by some of the smartest legal
strategimms I've ever dealt with in my
life. you know, but it was it was war.
It was a financial onslaught of trying
to trick people into debt. Of course,
debt is one of the greatest ways you can
destroy a family's finances, addiction
and debt. And if you look at the
targeting of American communities during
that period, they were specifically
targeted with both addiction and debt.
And it was an onslaught. And I got to
learn a lot about it living there.
>> What do you think the purpose was? Why
would any American want to destroy an
American community and kill people and
enslave them with debt?
So if I want to change the economy and I
want to change it from a de a democratic
republic to a um essentially an
oligarchy,
then what I need to do is I need to
um consolidate wealth and I need to
reduce the general population to a group
of people who are much easier to
control. So let me go back in in 1995
there was an effort made by the people
who I would describe as leading the
financial system to try and put the
country on a financially sound basis and
it failed and ended up at the end of
1995 in a 3-week shutdown of the
government. I don't know if you remember
that was during the Clinton
administration
>> and it was described to me by the
president of the largest pension fund in
the country several years later. He
said, "You don't understand. They've
given up. They've given up on the
country and they're moving all the money
out starting in the fall." And that was
when the $21 trillion started to go
missing, you know, compounded by the 29
trillion that went out on the bailouts.
I think what happened was when they
failed to to achieve a real fiscal a
fiscally responsible
um approach to the federal balance sheet
that they decided to do two things. One,
they decided to do a financial coup
um in a process where instead of the
bankers just running monetary policy,
they could then run fiscal policy. And I
think the second thing they decided to
do is if you can't balance the budget
with financial responsibility, you can
balance the budget by lowering life
expectancy. So if you if you can't fund
the pension and retirement system with
enough money to meet your obligations,
you can meet your obligations by
lowering life expectancy.
And I think a conscious decision was
made to do that. that literally right
after the budget deal sort of busted,
two decisions were made. One was to
approve Oxycontton and open the pill
mills. The second was uh all sorts of
policies that uh permitted HUD and other
mortgage predatory lending. And that
happened right as they also made the
decision to do the private prisons and
they kept flooding the neighborhoods
with drugs. And if you look at the
combination of the pill mills, the
predatory lending, narcotics trafficking
coming in. Again, this is all covered in
my online book, you know, it
dramatically started to to steadily
reduce life expectancy, particularly in
the lower income groups. And I knew it
was coming. One of the reasons I kept
talking with everybody about the missing
money is I knew that it would hit the
middle income groups. It was just a
matter of time. And I remember I always
tell the story of talking to Dr. Mark
Skidmore who had worked with me on the
missing money. We were sitting I was
sitting in a car in Boliver, Tennessee.
I was doing errands and he kept saying
to me, "Why do you keep bringing up all
the money that's going missing from the
federal government? Why don't you give
up on this?" And I said, "Don't you
understand, Mark? If we don't do
something about this, they're they're
going to take radical steps of lowering
life expectancy." And that was in 2018.
And of course, you know, CO hit in 2020
and what did we get? We we got a whole
series of actions that continued to
lower life expectancy, but this time in
the middle and upper middle class
groups,
it it's so obvious to me that reducing
population either through shortening
their lives or preventing them from
being born in the first place, I mean,
that's official US policy, of course,
right?
>> Abortion, youth in Asia, drugs. Um,
but I I've always sort of wondered why
and and do you think it's because that's
the only way to get the country solvent?
>> So I think it's a combination of things.
First of all, you have um again we have
this explosive new technology and I
think you have a lot of people in the
leadership who believe first of all it's
very difficult to manage people
particularly if they get their hands on
this technology but they also believe
they're going to live for a long long
time. Um you know Jared Kushner when he
left the first Trump administration did
a podcast and said I'm the first
generation to live forever, the last
generation to you know not live forever.
Um Sean Parker, one of the co-founders
of Facebook, said, "I'm g I'm a
billionaire, so I'm going to live to
145." If if the oligarchs are going to
live to 145, one of the things they know
is not everybody can do that or you're
going to have an environmental problem.
Right. Right. So, so, so part of it is
that, but I also think with robotics and
automation,
they think they don't need a lot of
people and a lot of people are hard to
manage. Now they uh you know they if you
look at what they're doing to build a
control grid clearly they think if they
can accomplish that uh it's going to
make it much easier to manage a lot of
people but frankly they don't
necessarily want them around they don't
need them and so uh I do believe that
that many of them feel they would be
much better off with much lower
populations.
>> I think that's obviously true. May I ask
though about what role a global war
would play in that? So like on the one
hand obviously war reduces population
and if you wanted to clear the
Ukrainians out of Ukraine leaving only
the resources and Indian immigrants you
would do what they did are doing. I get
it. But once you start pushing up
against the possibility of a nuclear
exchange, a total war, a global war,
then don't you, and which they are doing
knowingly, and I don't know if it's
reckless or intentional or what exactly
it is, but they know that we're moving
toward global war and they're not
slowing down the Trump administration
and all the people who support it,
>> right?
>> Don't you kind of risk your own plans by
doing that? That seems very much like a
dice roll.
So there are a couple theories. I I
think there's some people who, you know,
do want to bring on Armageddon. That's a
cultural and religious
cross-section of some of some of the
people involved. Um but the other thing
is if if you've been responsible for the
dollar system and you know how
um a how dangerous an improper or or a
difficult unraveling of the dollar
system could be for most of the
countries around the world. you know how
an unraveling could could could kill and
hurt and maim then you will go to
extreme lengths and kill many many
people to avoid that um you know and
part of it is if you're used to having
power you do not want to convert to a
meritocracy I mean the way to solve you
know I told you I just told you the
thing you just did on how to save
America I think is one of the best
things you've ever done and if In
theory, we all woke up tomorrow and
followed year 10 principles of, you
know, in our own lives, in our own
family, in our own community, we could
see an unbelievably explosive wealth
creation. I mean, one of the things I
want to stress is tyranny is very, very
wasteful. And the potential for wealth
explosion if we could somehow, you know,
behave like we were an advanced
civilization is an extraordinary
opportunity. But it's going to result in
a meritocracy. And if you look at the
people running things, they have no
interest in competing in a meritocracy.
>> Yes.
>> Because they're going to lose, right?
>> Yeah.
>> And and the nature of their situation
is, you know, when people in their
situation lose, they get killed and
their families get killed.
>> So So you know, they they are at the
point where they would do control. I
remember one group telling me about the
a group during the 80s when Iran Contra
was really getting out of hand talking
about they had started to make plans
about dropping a suit, you know,
exploding a suitcase nuke in the middle
of Chicago, you know, just to distract.
Remember, one of the goals of war is to
control the domestic population. And we
are now approaching a time where whether
whether you get the you have a war, you
get the control grid, controlling the
domestic population is getting is going
to be very difficult.
>> So
won't won't that control grid make it
easier?
>> Yeah, if they can get it,
>> if they can put it into place. So, I
mean, let's look at what they're hoping
to do. What they're hoping to do first
of all is to use stable coins and
digital tokens to bring four billion
people around the world and and this is
the retail market into the treasury
market and into the US stock and bond
market and and literally take the US
market share for example in the stock
market up from 70% to 90% of the global
stock market. So they're hoping to
essentially tender for all the citizens
in the world and bring them into our
financial system. Um you know that what
they've said is we're going to do 24/7
trading on the on the global stock
markets using digital tokens and we're
going to offer 20 times margin. You know
everybody right now is really worried
about we're in a bubble. If you look at
the tools that are being amassed to
bubble using crypto, I mean, arguably if
they succeed, and I'm not saying that
they will, but if they do, it'll be the
biggest bubble I've ever seen. And I've
lived through a lot of bubbles. So um
you know you bring another four billion
people into the US currency, the US bond
market, the US stock market,
you know, and and you do it with 24/7
trading with 20 times margin, it's going
to be extraordinary because those are
networks you can also pump out more debt
on.
>> Yeah.
>> Right. So now what's interesting is the
clarity act it appears is not going to
pass this year which was one of the sort
of legal infrastructures they wanted to
do this. So I find the sort of the
potential crash and burn this fall of
the clarity act to be quite remarkable.
Okay. So so they think through these
mechanisms they have tools that can
consider this wave and this bubble going
forward. Now,
if you look at what they want to do, um
what they want to do is put on your
currency, your bank deposits, and your
stocks and bonds, what I call a manual,
um an automatic third lock, do you know
what a third lock is?
>> No.
>> Okay, let me describe this. If you and I
do a transaction and I want to buy a
Tucker Carlson hat and you want to sell
it to me, I give you cash, I get the
hat. That's a two lock transaction. You
have a lock. I have a lock. If one of us
says no, it can't happen. Okay.
Let's say we have money in the bank and
I want to buy the hat. I'm going to
transfer money. I'll do an a to you for
the cost of the hat. The bank has rules
from the Treasury Department. It has
sanctions. It has to know your customer
rules. It has other regulations. And it
has the ability to intercede and stop
the transaction for those reasons. Okay?
and and that's a sort of what I call a
manual third lock. So they the bank gets
a third lock implementing the government
regulations. Um and so if you look at
what happened to the truckers in Canada,
they had all not all but most of the
banks exercise that manual third lock
under the direction of the government.
What the government wants to do and and
what the Treasury and the central banks
want is they want an automatic third
lock. So you don't have to go through
the bank and not only can you apply
sanctions and know your customer and
money laundering laws, you can apply a
full-blown social credit system, right?
So I can make up a hugely complex rule
system for Tucker and his kids and his
grandkids. I can I can customize it for
each one of you and I can give you
incentives and I can give you rules and
unless you do exactly what I say, I can
turn off your money or I can apply
negative interest rates to your money or
positive interest rates, I can raise
your taxes without anybody having any
say about it. So, let me give you an
example. Go back to the pandemic. If I
say you're locked down and you and your
family can't leave your house, your
money won't work outside your house. If
I have an all digital system with an
automatic third lock and let's say I
freeze your bank account, you can't go
to your bank and talk to them. It's
above their head. They won't be
implementing it. Okay, that gives them
that's what the data centers are for.
That's what the AI is for, at least in
North America. You know, the goal of
that because if you if you look at
spatial control, it involves uh
tremendous data because of the videos
and the cameras and you've got lots of
video footage. But then you can imagine
financial transactions all over the
world. If they're going to bring four
billion customers from around the world
into the dollar markets or the the our
stock market, that's a huge amount of
data for spatial and financial control.
And and but with AI, what is AI great
at? AI is fabulous at processing
enormous amounts of mathematical
information which is most of the
information the data we're talking about
and so if they can put a manual third
lock in a social credit system for every
individual and and and essentially
automate the whole process with AI then
then they have the ability in fact to
control many many people now here's the
question why would four billion people
want to come into that system. It's very
interesting. The Secretary of the
Treasury during the was I think about a
month or two ago said uh you know they
had seized a billion dollar of Iranian
wallets and he was bragging about how
easy it was to do it. And I thought well
you know I'm not sure if you're going to
go out and try and persuade four billion
people to come into our markets that you
really want to
have them realize that we can seize
their wallets with that kind of speed
and ease.
No, that would be a disincentive to
participation. There's no doubt about
it.
>> I think so.
>> May I ask you just since we're we're on
markets and I I don't want to get
sidetracked, but I think you might be
able to answer this. I'm baffled by the
behavior of various commodities markets.
>> Since this war began, they've moved in
the opposite direction from what you
would expect if supply and demand was
real. So, let's just start with oil
prices. Brent crude use that as a
measure.
they've not gone straight up and they've
kind of gone up and down but not very up
in some cases down
>> and I think we can say part of that is
because China decided to stop its energy
imports which is bizarre behavior and
then gold
>> has also I mean since this spring has
dropped $1,000 an ounce at exactly the
moment when the US dollar is clearly
headed to a much weaker position. So
that doesn't make any sense at all. Is
it possible?
>> No, that makes a that makes a lot.
>> It does. Tell me how.
>> So yeah. So let's look at oil first. So
the Chinese have done a remarkable job
of just cutting their imports in half.
And um to me there's not a lot of
reliable information about we know
they've built a lot of nuclear capacity
and renewable uh capacity. They say the
last time I looked they say they're not
using their oil reserves which are
significant is my understanding. But um
you know it's hard to believe they
haven't. The Japanese had a fair amount
of oil reserves. They've run down their
reserves. My understanding is our
reserves are now below the amount, you
know, that threatens the whole
infrastructure of the of the strategic
reserve which is frightening, but we've
run our reserves down tremendously. So,
so part of what's been happening in the
oil market is I suspect that the the
shorting and the and the things they do
to manage the price have managed the
price down, but that's combined with
enormous
relief of pressure on the market because
of what the Chinese did and because of
ours and the Japanese strategic reserve.
Now, um, but if you look at the US
strategy, the US strategy is designed to
replace the petro dollar with what some
people call the pro gas dollar. And
between bottlenecking the trade routes
and and sabotaging energy capacity all
over the world, they're trying to build
a much bigger market share for US LG.
Remember, we're a net exporter now. And
if you look at how much LG for example
we're selling into Asia, you know, our
our oil and gas industry is making a lot
of money. Now the question is now that
the war is continuing and we don't have
the Japanese and US reserves to run down
a lot, there's a real expectation that
the price could continue to go higher.
Now, here's the other thing, Tucker.
when you shut down when you do what's
been done to the global economy since um
since February you create a lot of
inflation uh deflation because you you
know you are shutting down I call this
CO 2.0 No, you're wiping out a lot of
little guys and again it consolidates
into the big guys. But but this is very
depressing for the global economy,
right? And that's deflationary. Now, let
me let me talk about gold.
You know, ever since I started covering
gold in say 2000 and on, whenever
there's a war kind of situation, you see
gold drop. It's very typical. And one of
the reasons is people get short and they
have to sell their gold. But the other
is people want liquidity. So they, you
know, they go into treasuries, they go
into the short-term bond market even if
the dollar's weak. So So they're looking
to go to cash, so to speak, and and and
you'll see them leave gold. So it
doesn't surprise me that probably a lot
of people in the Gulf area and globally
needed to sell gold. But gold's in a
long-term bull market and this is just,
you know, this is the normal volatility
of gold in these kinds of situations.
>> May I ask why would China slash its oil
imports and and import as much gold as
it has, which is a lot. Why is China
importing gold and not?
>> Excellent question. And I don't I don't
know why. Um I suspect they think they
have
um they have the nuclear and renewable
and other capacity to do that for some
period of time. Um I mean clearly
Venezuela you know cut them and clearly
the situation has cut them. Um but I
think that's a big question mark and one
of the question one of the reasons might
be you know they understood that it was
very important to to you know let that
stealth they're helping the global
economy tremendously
if if the price was running up you know
where where many people thought it would
go the pain in the global economy would
be absolutely enormous.
>> Yeah. I mean, you could easily see $7 a
gallon gasoline in the US.
And but it I guess what I'm saying is it
seems like the Chinese government has
done the Trump administration a huge
favor by
>> keeping things kind of status quo when
they wouldn't normally be.
>> Yes, that is that is absolutely correct.
And if you look at the um if you look at
who's purchasing what in Asia
um the US is clearly making a lot of
money exporting LG to Asia.
So
>> so you know this is I mean this has been
very very good for the US oil and gas
industry.
>> So my last question has to do with
attitudes and I'm confused by this and
you may have an answer. So, consumer
prices have risen. Inflation is real.
It's the product of long-term changes,
the ones you just described, but it's
also the product of this war of choice
begun at the end of February. That's all
it's obvious. Anybody can understand it
without an economics degree.
Prices of food have gone up. That's
detectable to everybody because
everybody eats. Somebody notes this the
other day and says, "Gee whiz, you know,
$20 burritos are a lot." And immediately
the same people, many of them who
advocated for this war of choice attack
anyone who complains about rising food
prices. And what I see there is like
pure contempt if not hatred for ordinary
people. Like what else could explain
that kind of response? But I also see a
kind of crazy recklessness because
normally in a functioning society with
with normal motives, the people in
charge, the rich people, don't make fun
of the poor people for overpaying for
food cuz that's dangerous. Like they
could rise up and bite you if you keep
mocking them. The let let them eat cake
thing doesn't work as a long-term
strategy. Why are they doing that? Why
are they showing contempt for the
population?
>> So I think they think the best defense
is a good offense.
>> Huh? and and they're attacking people
for lazy being lazy or not working and
they describe how they made it to where
they are and
>> you know it it's simply
um
it's simply what psychopaths do.
>> Yes.
>> I mean here's the thing and and I'll
just be blunt. One of the one of the
things uh you know we had many people in
our network all excited about the new
administration and they they
participated in Maha groups and worked
very hard to do everything they could to
get Washington to change its policies.
And one of the great things about
watching what has happened because it's
in in most respects it's completely gone
the other way is it's proved beyond a
shadow of a doubt that there is a
bipartisan commitment to depopulation.
Yes,
>> it's extraordinary.
>> Yeah.
>> Um, we had a wonderful uh uh scientist
on the other day who uh has been very
instrumental in trying to stop the
liability shield for pesticides.
And she got to the end of the show and
you could see she was frustrated. She's
very careful scientist, very thorough.
And she said um so she she really wanted
to get her point across. She said, "You
have to understand that if this
liability shield happens and they do
what they say they're going to do, if
they get it, I consider that as a
scientist to be an extinction level
event given the impact on female
fertility.
You know, it was it was a showstopper."
And so if you look at the policies
coming through the sausage factory in
Washington, these are these are
intentional policies to depopulate. An
enormous effort has been made for almost
my entire lifetime to come up with any
strategy that can obiscate or stop
people from seeing the obvious. And
something marvelous is happening,
Tucker. And what is marvelous and it's
the first time in my lifetime I've seen
it that people are finally saying oh
you know they really do they really are
trying to kill us and and that's very
freeing because once you know it you
know to get as far away from your from
them as possible and protect yourself
and the the thing that's very healthy
about it and one of the reasons I loved
your you know 10 principles to save
America
Real solutions come when we let go. When
we let go of hoping that there's some
way we can go into that machinery and
turn it around, it's not going to work.
So, we need to leave. We need to get
away from the diseased animal and go do
things that can work. And if enough of
us do that, what is possible is
absolutely fantastic. The little secret
here is if you look at that machinery,
it is so destructive of wealth at the
state and local level that if we could
begin to reverse it, even 5% or 10%, you
don't need everybody.
The possibilities are enormous,
particularly with the blessing of new
technology. So, it doesn't have to it
doesn't have to go bad here. It can be
transformative.
But what it requires is we've got to
stop hoping, you know, that the people
who would, you know, attack you for a
$20 burrito.
I mean, seriously, can anybody take Ben
Shapiro seriously ever again?
>> No.
>> So,
>> we need to laugh. We need to laugh. We
need to just laugh and turn it off,
right? It It's a joke. He's not serious.
He's not relevant.
That is the most that's that's the most
hopeful thing I've heard in a long time.
Katherine Austin Fitz. No, I I I think
you have obviously deep knowledge but
also a beautiful perspective. So, thank
you very much for sharing it.
>> Thank you, Tucker. You have a great day.
>> You too. Thank you.