Published May 6, 2026, 9:02 a.m.
9am Billy Christensen - Florida Election Failures Billy Christensen is a Florida-based professional, veteran, and public servant with a proven record of leadership in national security, government operations, and the private sector. With nearly two decades of experience in intelligence and defense, he has supported high-stakes missions and strategic decision-making at the highest levels. -Christensen earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Troy State University and a master’s degree in International Relations from Troy University. He served in the United States Air Force from 1998 to 2007 as an intelligence analyst, completing multiple deployments in support of critical military operations. His service reflects a deep commitment to country, discipline, and mission execution under pressure. -He continued his national security career as a government civilian with U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) from 2007 to 2016, where he worked intelligence requirements supporting operations across some of the world’s most complex and volatile regions. -In 2016, Christensen transitioned into the real estate industry, where he has built a reputation as a knowledgeable and results-driven professional. He brings the same focus, integrity, and strategic mindset from his military and government service to helping clients navigate important financial decisions. -In 2024, Christensen stepped into the political arena as a candidate for State Office of Education (SOE), driven by a commitment to strengthen education, support families, and serve his community with the same dedication that defined his military career. -A devoted family man, Christensen lives in Florida with his wife and two children. Known for his resilience, work ethic, and no-nonsense approach, he brings intensity, loyalty, and a “get it done” mindset to everything he does. 10am John Ballance -John Ballance - We will be discussing a transfer of wealth to elites, risks to the dollar’s status, and threats to future generations, urging proactive solutions over reactive bailouts or unconstitutional measures, highlighting perceived media blackouts and political indifference. Note, John Ballance is not a Certified Financial Advisor. He is a normal guy with interests in this topic. Everything he will be discussing today is both researchable and formed opinion. Market strategies Plausible direction of US Financial reality Fed accountability Financial stability Congressional oversight Economic sovereignty Post the Silicone Valley Bank collapse John C. Ballance, a concerned constituent, wrote this follow-up letter to Sean Brady (Chief of Staff for Rep. Vern Buchanan, Vice chair of the Ways & Means Committee) expressing deep alarm over U.S. monetary policy, Federal Reserve actions, and lack of congressional oversight. Some of his research uncovered the following: - A 2019 Fed emergency repo loans ($4.5 trillion) that bailed out major U.S. and foreign banks (e.g., JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Barclays, BNP Paribas) without transparency or congressional involvement. - During the Biden Regime, the Federal Resrve carried an abnormally high Reverse Repo Facility usage (peaking at $2.55T). This represented hidden liquidity support propping up markets and banks amid rising debt and risks. John is critical of “self-regulated” banking/Wall Street, taxpayer-funded bailouts (including foreign entities), and investments like Sequoia Capital’s in China. John has been discussing how an impending liquidity crisis triggered by higher rates, program endings (e.g., Bank Term Funding), and Basel III, potentially leading to bank failures, Treasury bond rejection, or dollar collapse could possibly enable the Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) under emergency pretexts. John Calls for fiscal responsibility: spending cuts, ending foreign aid (Ukraine, Israel), and greater congressional accountability. He urges everyone to prepare for economic shocks and criticizes politicians, including Buchanan, for inaction. John Ballance is just a normal Joe. He spent 30 years in Corporate America in progressing roles of responsibility, beginning in Sales and ending up in Corporate Finance and Trade Management. He helped National Brands at The Dial Corporation and Kimberly Clark spend their trade dollars efficiently. He invested well throughout his career and is now retired and spends a lot of his time trying to better understand our financial markets. He does not have any certifications in Financial Planning, however his in-depth analysis are part of the intrigue of the Financial markets. After he retired, he spent about six months trying to better understand the Federal Reserve. This helped guide him to where he is today. 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Good morning and welcome to Brandenburg News Network. I am Donna Brandenburg and it's the sixth day of May, twenty twenty six. Welcome to our show today. I think this is going to be a real fun show today for a number of of reasons my first guest is billy christensen and he is an ex-intelligence officer with a lot of years a couple of decades of years of intelligence work so he's smart guy okay and then the second guy on today is at ten o'clock is john balance and we're going to be talking about markets and financials and where things look like they're going and past histories of transfer of wealth from say us to uh the bad guys okay and so that's kind of what we're going to go over today and probably talk about where things are going a little bit or where we can kind of expect things are going but let's start with with billy we're going to bring billy hey billy how you doing today good morning donna thank you for having us Yeah, this is fantastic. So we have a lot to talk about. So I met Billy at a meeting down in Florida, and then I went back a couple weeks ago to another meeting that he was involved in on election integrity. And y'all know that this is like one of my biggest issues. Out of two issues, this is one of them, right? We have to have honest elections and such. So we're going to talk about what happened, and I'm going to try to make this work. We've had a little bit of a funkiness here happening with the internet this morning, but we'll get her done. So anyhow, where do you want to start? Well, hey, good morning, Donna. And again, thank you for having us. It's a pleasure to be here. We really appreciate the opportunity to get the word out. As you know, Florida is often reported to be the gold standard of elections in our country. And I think for the most part, people accept that. However, in twenty twenty three, we got a mailer in Hillsborough County, which is Tampa, from our local supervisor of elections office saying that they had been compromised in a cyber criminal event in which. Fifty-eight thousand voters personal information was stolen from their office. And what's interesting is that immediately the case was turned over to the FBI. That case is open and remains open and to a degree that following the twenty twenty election. We had some concerns. about some of the outcomes, it really put a target on our elections offices back to where the local community asked us if we would get involved, and we did, and we decided to run for the supervisor of elections here in Hillsborough County as an outsider, as someone that has not participated in a political arena whatsoever. My past, I was enlisted in the Air Force as an intelligence analyst, spent nine years there, and then another ten years at U.S. Central Command working intelligence requirements. So beyond that, we got into real estate. So we really weren't involved in the politics, but elections are the foundation of our society. And we have some concerns when we're being told one thing, and clearly there's some issues in terms of security and our local elections. So immediately after we began to run in this campaign, we started realizing that things are not as they appear. We come to find out that there was an FDLE investigation, which is a state law enforcement organization. And one of those, there's actually three involving our Hillsborough County Supervisor of Elections Office. But the most concerning is the one in which individuals from Georgia were caught in a Tampa hotel by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office during a trespass call, and in the room it was full of vote-by-mail ballots. And these individuals admitted to being solicited online, being paid to come down to Tampa. They've done this routinely. And that case was turned over to FDLE, and there it remains and sits. And it has, for now, well over a year. and we're entering into another contentious election cycle. And we have over our elections office hanging one FBI and three FDLE investigations. And nobody in the state, at least in the leadership roles, seems to care. In fact, it's become apparent that they are likely behind the suppression of this information. So we've been warned, we've been told that we'll never be the supervisor of elections. We've been told to stop talking about election integrity during our campaign in the twenty twenty four general election. The no name supervisor of elections who's been in place for twelve years and has never had a challenger, let alone a Republican challenger. He's a Democrat in a red wave county or in a red wave in a county that turned red. The Democrat supervisor of elections won. With the most, well, he won with eight hundred more votes than Donald Trump and well over twenty thousand votes than Kamala Harris, despite losing to us by thirty five thousand votes in early and day of voting. This was all done through vote by mail. He had more vote by mail ballots than anybody else on the entirety of the ballot. So what that means is there are thousands of vote by mail ballots that were cast with just his name on it. of course we can't do an audit. So we have a slideshow that we like to present that shows this data. I mean, it's the state's data, but these are the issues that we have and they have become so apparent and so in your face that they're undeniable. Everybody wants a smoking gun. We have smoking gun after smoking gun. The fraud is undeniable, but what's more concerning is the lack of action into the fraud. That's concerning because instead of cleaning up our elections and securing them, our state continues to promote the gold standard. You know, you saw Donald Trump, President Trump, a couple months ago come out and say he's going to take executive action regarding vote-by-mail ballots. Well, immediately the next day, Governor DeSantis comes out and says, not in Florida, we are the gold standard. So there's a lot of questions, a lot of concerns. Our biggest concern is from the lack of inactivity or inaction by our leadership and kind of the threatening behavior in which the folks that are bringing up this information are receiving. I'll just add that during our campaign, right before the election, we were hit with a very aggressive slander and harassment campaign. way outside the normal political harassment. To that point, it continued well after the election, and it began targeting my family and my wife. These people, probably from within our own party, the Republican side, started signing my wife up to battered spouses, organizations across the country, pen pal groups across the country. So there is a very, very entrenched element that does not want any changes to our elections process i offer it's because they figured out and they're very comfortable with the ability to manipulate the outcomes which is why we have so many problems and we're at a point now where there's just too much information there's too many eyes on the process for accountability we have ai and we have just a very well-informed public that some of these old tactics are just inefficient and they're they're just quite frankly insulting uh to the public to the point that they're clearly manipulating our election outcomes and we're all standing around wondering what's going on what's the problem why are our communities I'll give you an example in Hillsborough County where we have a majority Republican leadership Our property taxes continue to increase. Our crime is increasing. Our infrastructure is falling apart, right? So all these issues can all be attributed to our corrupted elections. And, you know, everybody says, well, I kind of wish I had not run because I wouldn't have been a candidate. And people say, oh, you're a candidate, you lost, accept your loss. I'd be happy to, if they could show us that. We're never able to do a full audit of any of these elections. And I say, okay, well take me out of the equation. Let's look at what happened in Hillsborough County in twenty twenty four. There were three referendums, marijuana, abortion and a property tax increase. Between marijuana and the abortion issue, over two hundred million dollars was spent to get out the vote, neither of which passed. Zero dollars was spent on property tax increase in our county and that passed with an overwhelming sixty seven percent. Now, I don't know anyone. I've yet to find anyone, but I'm willing to bet I won't find anyone that's willing to raise their hand and say, yes, I voted to increase my property taxes. It just didn't happen. And if you look at the stats, that was done and accomplished through a tremendous amount of vote-by-mail ballots. So we have the ability to correct this. But where we're failing is with our leadership. Our leadership is preventing the accountability that we need. So we're on a mission to bring forth all this data. I mean, the FBI investigation alone should send chills down people's spines. But the more the public is informed, I think the better we'll be. But we've got to get to a place where You know, election integrity is no longer characterized as a conspiracy theory. And in fact, if you are anti-election integrity, we need to start asking serious questions about what your agenda and intent is. Because if there is common ground in our country, it has to be with election integrity. There is something for everyone in their future through our elections. That's why they spend so much time and so much effort trying to corrupt them and trying to convince the public that they're not corrupted. Yeah, and that's to your point. If we don't have an honest election, we don't have a country. We don't even have states at that point in time. We have no voice, no representation. And from what I've seen here in Michigan and across the United States too, that's exactly what we have. We've got the people who are monitoring and running the elections, which are supposed to be local. But at the state, at the national level and such, it's being manipulated way, way, even away from the absentee ballots. The absentee ballots is a chip shot. But when you get into signature gathering and all that other stuff, they've got a thousand ways to Taiwan to rig this election. And we don't have control of it. The sad thing is, is that in America, we all are supposed to be have an equal voice. All of us are supposed to on that one day when we vote. It's a beautiful thing of everyone coming together and having their wishes, you know, respected and put people in there that serve the people, not profit off the people, which is what we have right now. This is why this is so, so important. important. And when people, to your point too, when people deny that there's any problem with the election, why? Are they getting a payback some way? Is it raising their income because that's how they make money? There's a lot of questions that need to be asked for certain. So yeah. Yes, absolutely. And it's interesting is that the loudest advocates for us know being the gold standard or that our elections are secure and they're tight are are quite frankly the only people that are elected i mean everyone underneath is saying this is undeniably corrupted and what are we doing to fix it and kudos to the president for i mean something as simple as putting a barcode on the postal services envelopes is going to have a tremendous effect you know people need to start understanding that the The political apparatus views vote-by-mail ballots as a commodity. And as you restrict the commodity, they become more valuable. And there's going to be new tactics employed. You mentioned that vote-by-mail ballot fraud is just a chip shot. You're right. There's concerns with the machines and vote flipping, where the servers are being held. Like you mentioned, signature gathering. I'll give you an example here in Hillsborough County following the year of the fraud. We call the twenty twenty the year of the fraud. And if you recall, go back and look and encourage people to start data storing people who are the loudest because they kind of generally are the influencers that are trying to create a narrative. But if you recall, everybody in the media, all the influencers you had, you were You would almost go into prison if you said that there was fraud in the twenty twenty election. If you denied that President Biden won the election fair square just, you know, by twenty million plus votes or whatever it was, you know, anybody to question it was was was characterized as a radical and kind of thrown into like a January six bin. And that's unfair. So remember those people, because those are the folks that have kind of prevented us from getting to the places that we need to be. And quite frankly, I think it's criminal what many of them have done. So to Florida's credit, after the year of the fraud, the year President Trump was cheated, Florida instituted a series of new election integrity laws. And again, to their credit. one of which was mandating local election supervisors. Each county in Florida has an election supervisor. It's an elected position. It's a huge role in the state. It's a very understated position. They have a major influence on the future of the state because obviously they maintain control of the election process. Each one of them are elected and they were mandated to clean their voter rolls. And what that meant is somebody that has not voted in the last two elections or did not respond to a mailer that was sent out by the elections offices was was to be removed from the voter rolls. So starting in twenty twenty one up to twenty twenty four, I'll give you an example. In twenty twenty in Hillsborough County, we had nine hundred and thirty five thousand registered voters, which, by the way, is larger than about eleven states. In twenty twenty four, that number had dropped to eight hundred and fifty four thousand. Mind you, the population is increasing in Hillsborough County almost exponentially right now. So when you look at a chart, you see a population growth skyrocketing and you see our voter registration falling off. that's a that's the first red flag or a very good indicator as to how many quote ghost voters have been on our voter rolls now during the election of twenty twenty four again there were eight hundred and fifty four thousand votes as soon as july of the following year in twenty twenty five we were down to eight hundred and five thousand registered voters and now we're right up around eight hundred and eight so the point is over the last four years and one of the highest growing counties population wise, our voter registration has decreased by over a hundred and thirty thousand voters. And if you look at the numbers of twenty twenty turnout, it's very clear that some of those ghost voters returned vote by mail ballots are voted in the twenty twenty elections. That's just one change, one very simple change that was made that's really making a difference, but is also exposing how deep the fraud is. In regards to President Trump's, the bar scan on the envelopes, when we were campaigning, we opened up a post office post box here in Florida. And during that campaign, we received roughly four mailers over a year's time. Conversely, just about every meeting we would go to, we were approached by a voter and we were handed either a petition that they had signed and mailed or a donation that they had mailed. The post office was returning to sender all of our mailers because they knew we were a political candidate. So, you know, the fraud is pervasive. It's embedded in certain organizations. And I think that every little thing that we can do to increase the accountability, whether it's accepted or not, is truly in the benefit of everyone in our country. The people that want to achieve, there's a million reasons as to why, I just, I find it just fundamentally against our our principles american principles and our values to not to want to have a fair secure and honest elections we have leveled other countries and mandated that they have fair honest and secure elections i.e afghanistan remember the purple thumbs we were there for this as when we're in the military we've seen what it means for someone who's never had an opportunity to have their voice heard you know that's why we all saw the pictures of the thumbs and how hypocritical of us in our very own country to have perhaps some of the most corrupted elections in the world You know, there are dozens of countries across the world that do not have vote by mail ballots because of the amount of fraud that they, well, the inherent fraud that comes with them. And instead of setting the standard, we have a ruling class that is excusing a behavior that is continuing to keep them in place. That's the, you know, everybody asks, how are these guys winning elections? Look at your local elections. That is the only explanation. We've seen it firsthand now. We've seen the signatures. We've seen some of the votes that come in. There's a process here in Florida after every election, as a vote by mail ballot goes through the machine, if the machine triggers it for a signature or not, like it doesn't recognize the signature, it's supposed to go through a board and they do a review. We sat through that board and it's shocking. Some of these vote-by-mail ballots come in. One had some sort of Chinese writing that was scribbled all over it. Others were clearly filled out by the same people, had the same handwriting. And it's our understanding that in the past, almost all of these were accepted. It was only because we started showing up that they were being critical of some of these ballots. And when you're... People don't understand... On some of these congressional races, these national or the federal congressional races, you know, in some of these districts, you only need ten thousand votes to win. Right. So it only takes a couple hundred or a thousand votes to sway an election. So it doesn't take much. You know, here's another good example. We're just riddled with them. And let me know if I'm talking too much. Well, you know, it's one of those things that it's one of those things that this subject is so deep. It is so deep in it. And there's so many ways that most people can't get their arms around how many arms are on this cheat squid that's out there. And if you chopped off one of the tentacles off the cheese squid, it's going to grow back in another direction because the problem is not just the system. It's the people that are running it. And until we have removal prosecutions and unwavering accountability where they have to suffer some consequences for what they did. They're going to find another way to cheat. And so it kind of goes hand in hand with looking at how they're cheating so that there is a crime proven. And then we can go back and clean out the nest of of despots that have been doing this sort of thing. And one point that I want to put out that you make. When we have, what I see with people is they go, oh, but everybody needs to have their chance to vote. Okay, but let's balance this. If that is sucking us into a bad process in voting, in absentee ballots, do you realize that you're, trading your validity and importance of your vote for ten thousand people that don't exist. Correct. And so, you know, when I think when we get wrapped up in this, everybody's got a play fair in the playground. That's great until you realize that half the kids that are there aren't there at all. you know, the cardboard cutouts, you know, this is not, you know what I mean? It's like, if you want to have everything, everything equal in a playground and you want everybody to have a voice and then you really start looking at it and find out, well, half the kids here are just cardboard cutouts of kids. It's a lie. And we can't have these lies standing. And this is why this is so important, you know? But anyhow, continue on. No, thank you. And you're absolutely right. I put things into the stupid person such as myself language. That's what I do. Well, that's where I fall. So you're in great company. It resonates well. Well, good. You know, it's sort of like just simplifying things and putting them in. That's how Jesus taught. Jesus taught through parables so that people could take complex issues. He did it with spiritual issues, but taking complex issues and making it more analogous to something that we know, you know? Well, you know, for the people here in Florida, this should resonate. We have a... We have elections coming up in August, our primaries, and then we'll have very contentious elections for governor and for some other critical roles like our agricultural commissioner. At least in the governor's race, we have a candidate who's currently our lieutenant governor, who's from Hillsborough County, who's aware of these investigations and has taken no action against them. And it's to your point that like it's the people involved. There's no threat of accountability and they're under no pressure to be accountable. So, you know, what's the way forward? And that's kind of the challenge that we're constantly under. In terms, there is some good news. We mentioned there are three FDLE investigations out of Hillsborough County. We technically own two of them. are a result of the twenty twenty four general elections one is one of the new state laws made that was implemented in twenty twenty one requires a voter to request a vote by mail ballot every cycle and provide either a social security number or a driver's license number as part of that request sending out a vote by mail ballot to a voter without one of those IDs or pieces of information is a felony in the state of Florida. Our supervisor of elections sent out four thousand seemingly illegal vote by mail ballots, of which over three thousand were returned with votes on them. So that's under criminal investigation with the FDLA. The second one is more concerning and people are welcome to go check us out on YouTube. There's a video and we can get that link here after the meeting. the final report that each soe is required to send to the state the final election report is has out of hillsborough county has clearly been doctored there's remnants of the previous data it's almost as if they had taken a cut out sheet of paper and put it on top of the report and scanned over it and sent it in. I mean, it's clearly doctored. The initial investigation, when they were questioned, they blamed a dirty printer or fax machine. It's not a legitimate excuse. There's different texts. There's different shadings of text. It's a terrible edit. It's insulting. But that is also under state investigation. The concern there, though, is that, of course, the FDLE commissioner is appointed by the governor. The governor continues to believe that we are the gold standard. The Lieutenant Governor from Hillsborough County who knows all of this is telling us in not so many words that we need to move on. So, you know, herein lies the problem. Getting the people to understand that these issues are real and then finding a way to hold the people that are supposed to be responsible accountable. Well, whenever somebody says something like, you know, we've got the the the election is the gold standard, say from from the the governor and such. I think I lost your camera here. Are you there? I'm here. Give me one second. I'll be back on camera in one second. Okay, no worries. It's like when somebody says that, you know, the governor says we've got the gold standard, it sounds to me like he's trying to just make people be quiet about their concerns instead of saying, saying something like, wow, you have concerns? Guess what? I work for you. We're going to go check this out and get this honest instead of gaslighting everybody and telling them, no, we don't have any problems here. There's no problems. You know, you didn't see anything. And that seems to be the mood or the method across the United States to shut people up and stop their questioning. That's a big problem. Not to get super spook shades on, Sorry, we changed locations. So, yeah, I agree. And, you know, I didn't understand as a voter how prevalent the fraud was until we got involved. So I certainly don't expect the average voter to know. It's like you mentioned earlier, it's it's in certain cases is complex. In some cases, it's right in your face. Um, the challenge is getting the information out to the voters and making it, uh, you know, presenting it in a way that resonates and not necessarily as a conspiracy theory. And in our cases, these are not conspiracy theories. There's an FBI investigation. There's three FDLE investigations. What more do you need? Unfortunately, there's a complicity with the media here and not reporting that. And that's why, quite frankly, you know, as we know, you know, major media is kind of falling off and it's falling to people like you and these smaller networks and podcasters to get the data out. And that's why there's such a rise of all of this is because they're the only ones willing to put out the facts and not a false narrative. So kudos to you for that and helping us get this information out. The more we can do, I think the more it'll be a challenge for them to cheat and commit the fraud that they're clearly doing. I mean, it's undeniable at this point. So my question is here, is if we've proven that there's fraud in the twenty twenty, twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four elections, how do we roll back the clock and to do a reset on this because everything that was done in a fraudulent election should be absolutely nullified. Go back to where we actually had a vote or we need to do a reset on this because we can't just keep going forward. And it's kind of like a kid begging to have something that, you know, that they're not getting. And we just talk and talk and talk and say, this is wrong. This is wrong. We need this changed. And none of our elected individuals or unelected are listening to us. We have no voice. We're not we don't get a voice in the election. They're not listening to us in township meetings. They put the public comment after the vote. So we have no representation. It's it's really it's almost like Well, it's shocking, first of all, but I don't even know the word to say here. It's insulting. And, you know, if they can't bully you out, they'll try to intimidate you out. And if they can't do that, they'll just outright cheat. So, like, you know, you mentioned earlier, there's layers and layers of ways that they can manipulate the outcomes. It's a new age. and it's not all doom and gloom and that's what they want you to think and believe you know with that you don't your voice doesn't matter but your voice does matter i promise you it does we've seen it you know they have to go into overtime to find ways to kind of you know i don't like to use the word cheap but i guess that's what they're doing they have to find new ways to cheat because Good people like us and others around the country are not being fooled and are taking action and are bringing it to the public side. They're working overtime to keep that out of the public side. So it's a battle, it's a battle we have to win. To answer your question about the past elections, I don't know how healthy it is to go back and relitigate every election, even though there's clearly fraud in almost every one of them. I think we have to stop the bleeding and we have to establish an undeniable level of security in our election process. so that the people of this country have faith in it again. And then hopefully that will encourage more turnout and more participation. And unfortunately, when there's so much insecurity surrounding our elections and the apparatus and the outcomes, people just, they lose hope. And you hear it all the time. They just say, I'm not going to vote. I'm over it. I'm not going to vote. What's the point? And that's exactly where they want you. So we need to, we need to win that narrative. And know the the war front everything's asymmetric now and you the media propaganda is what it comes down to is effective it's extremely effective and we have to stay strong and work overtime to beat it and you can't you can't you can't argue with facts and at least with election integrity it's a fact-based effort right it's not a political issue it is a fact base we want clean and honest secure transparent elections either they are or they are not right now they are not so if you're in the camp that says they are then shame on you or perhaps you're just not educated on the issue and we welcome you to come check out all of our data at least here in hillsborough county because it shows quite clearly where anything but where we need to be so you know We got to stop the bleeding. And as with any problem in the world, at least solving any problems, step one is to admit or acknowledge the problem. And right now our elections are not secure. And until we can all get our heads going up and down and say, yeah, we agree, we're kind of working against, you know, we're swimming uphill or swimming against the tide. so we'll find a way and my my uh i'm kind of like the person that will just right run right into the fire i want to know what's going on so i know how to fight it right so when we see things that are not being done correctly instead of it demoralizing us that's where we put the pedal to the metal and say uh-uh this is not going in this direction anymore And I think that if people can get to that point and not just feel, you know, feel dejected and feel that way. And I hear it all the time, you know, but the reality is, is we don't have a voice and we don't have representation. So at this point in time, it's like, suck it up buttercups. That's what we got. Now it's up to you and I to get in there and hammer this thing out and, you know, hold them accountable and require them to, to provide us with a republic, to provide us with an election that matters, that our vote counts, that we don't have any dilution of our vote by ghost voters, and that these processes are going to be bombproof. I mean, when you look at it, when you look at, you say like your bank statements, how often have you ever seen a bank make a mistake on your bank statement? They don't really make mistakes, okay? If they do, it's pretty quick. how about how about your retirement account if you have a retirement account and all of a sudden oh guess what uh your retirement account just went down by twenty thousand dollars in a in a you know fifty thousand dollar you know bank account or whatever even a hundred dollars in a two hundred dollar bank account right you're gonna scream and yell and holler until you get that rectified why are we not doing this in elections why are we not demanding And, you know, kind of, you know, this is not going to happen. People can't just sit there and say, please kick me again, since I've got a kick sign on my back right now. We've got to stop and fight this and, you know, and require it to be done. Now, I know that you're running for office right now. And I'm chairman of the Constitution Party in Michigan, which is the U.S. Taxpayers Party. And I'm kind of done with the uniparty Republicans and Democrats because it's all the same. They promise things. They never deliver. It's all the same club. And until people get sick of the lies because they're being lied to and smart enough to see the lies instead of seeing the narrative, we're going to have the same old slop that we're going to be voting in. and i gotta i gotta tell you that i'm just really super proud of you because you're on the america first um uh uh party down there correct uh no we're still with the republican party oh you're still with the republican party gotcha well well then i guess it is there is a shared understanding at a minimum, at least on the local level. And people need to understand at the local level, it's, it's a hundred times worse than it is on the national level. And that's where your elections matter. Right. So, you know, and going back to this, it's like, I don't really have a lot of faith in the, in the unit party. I just don't, but there's a lot of good people that like yourself, when I see somebody that's been attacked, like you, you've been attacked and going after your wife and setting things up, Like, like to make you look bad. That's a person I'll actually listen to rather than somebody who's sitting at the table and just saying, Hey, let's have another beer. This is a great party. We need to get the work done. And I, you know, and I appreciate, you know, I appreciate what you're doing down there. I kind of like to look at the candidates, but I don't like the party system at all. I mean, George Washington told us that it was a bad idea and we just keep going into running into the same brick wall and expecting different, different, results, you know, but yeah, I wish you well on that. Do you want me to bring up that presentation that I think I can bring it up? Yeah. If you pull up the slides real quick, I'll just, I'd like to, if people want to look at some of the numbers, they're pretty, pretty telling. Some evidence here. Hang on just a minute and we'll see if I can bring this up a minute. Yeah. We started out having a few issues with the, the, with the stream here. But that's something that just sort of happens, especially when they don't want to have what we're putting out there, let's see, out in the public. Okay. So here you go. Yeah. If you go to the next slide, I think it'll go right into, these are kind of just showing, that one shows Republicans have You know, historically, Hillsborough has been a blue county until recently. It just became Republican, and we attribute a lot of that to President Trump. However, it's very likely because of the dirty voter rolls that Hillsborough County, like many other counties around the country, are very likely red or have been red for some time. So, next slide. This is a very and this is about what we were talking about earlier. This is in Hillsborough County, the voting preferences, meaning do they people early vote, vote by mail or day of voting? And as you can see, the green is early voting. Early voting is hands down the voting mechanism of choice. Vote by mail is falling off. It was only up where it was in twenty twenty because it was covid and they forced everybody to do that, obviously, so they could cheat. So, but as you can see, vote-by-mail ballots not preferred. In fact, there's numerous surveys that show, especially under the age of fifty, vote-by-mail ballots not even considered. It's merely a convenience for the older generation. And I understand there's a lot of folks that believe that if you take away vote-by-mail ballots that you restrict an entire voting sect, but prior to vote-by-mail ballot being just open to everyone. In Hillsborough County, for example, where we had nine hundred plus thousand voters, less than one thousand absentee ballots were being cast. And that's between the military and people that were infirmed for whatever reason. So the vote on bail ballots are kind of a little bit of a false narrative. Blow through the next slides real quick. I'll show you. I know we're running out of time here. This is just voter turnout in general in the primaries. You can see only no matter what the issues, no matter how much money or who the candidates are, you'll always get just twenty percent turnout. But then if you go to the next slide, you'll see in the general elections it skyrockets to seventy eight to eighty percent every time. It's ridiculous. Those are trends and statistics that should not be there. Next slide. This one's what I was talking about where you have population growth in our county skyrocketing, and you see the voter registration starting to fall off. Those were all ghost voters, and many of those were casting votes in previous elections. Next slide. This is the voter registrations by party, and what you'll see is the red is Republican, the blue is Democrat, the green is everybody else. The Democrat and MPAs, once the new state laws were implemented, fell off the cliff. So what it shows is that, obviously, most of the ghost voters were MPAs and Democrats. And more concerning is, if you look at the MPA and Democrat trends, they mirror each other. So it's almost as if one Democrat was registered, then one MPA was registered. Next slide. This slide's interesting. It just shows that in the primaries for Republicans even, despite vote by mail ballot not being the voting mechanism of choice, to win in a primary in the state of Florida, you have to have at least fifty percent of your votes be cast by vote by mail ballot. That's a dirty little secret. That is one of those things that it should be like full stop right there, right? That is so crazy because this goes back to the first question I have is, are they, you know, are the the whole system involved in rigging it at the primaries in order to change. We know that there's no way to keep absentee ballots, chain of custody or any of that. They can't keep it safe. So it sounds to me like it's the biggest way to rig an election. Right now we're in the midst of a primary season and all the gaming is going on. Most of the fraud happens in the primaries because if you can Manipulate all the candidates properly you require less fraud remember only twenty percent of the voter block is turning out so Whereas eighty percent is coming out in the generals, you know in the actual so you have a much Smaller margin they needed to manipulate the outcomes so they spent a lot of time and effort in these primaries chasing candidates out, you know making deals with the other part of the unit party and They'll even send in bad candidates on purpose to water down the votes because, again, you only need to steal a few votes to manipulate the outcome of an election. To any candidate and any consultants out there, that's the dirty sinkyard in Florida. That's to any candidate. To not discourage people, if you want to sneak in and a primary just target vote by mail ballots and you can win your primary election. If you can get fifty percent plus of your votes coming through vote by mail ballots. And I mean, it's I don't like it, but that's the reality. So if you want to beat them at their own game, get very, very aggressive with vote by mail ballots. This slide is the slide is the results slide. Again, we're a fact based organization. I told you earlier that are no name mask wearing. You know, radical leftists, supervisor of elections, ended up with eight hundred more votes than Donald Trump and well over twenty thousand in Vice President Kamala Harris, despite losing to us in early and day of voting by thirty five thousand votes. It was all done by receiving the most vote by mail ballots of anyone on the candidate. Right. Like there it is in your face. It's it's completely like. Donald Trump is the most popular candidate to ever walk the planet Earth other than Jesus. And you're telling me this guy who wears underwear, I'll show you, he wears underwear as a mask on his face with his name on it because his name is on everything. Like a four-year-old with his name on his underwear from his mommy. This is the man that got eight hundred more votes than President Trump. I want President Trump to see this. And I want him to know that there's a candidate out there that can outperform him just here in Hillsborough County. So he needs to be aware. Yeah, that's kind of insane. It is. So everybody sees this. It's undeniable. Oh, this slide, there's a picture of all the mailers we're getting, you know, via pen pal or harassment or just random ha ha ha in your face mailers. You know what's interesting about this? This is important to note. Some of these mailers are coming with return addresses from the Hillsborough Republican Executive Committee. Obviously, it's not them sending it, but they're making it look like the Republicans are sending it. It's coming from some Democrat club return addresses. It's coming from my HOA to my neighborhood community. And this was investigated by the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and was turned over. And it's currently sitting with Susie Lopez, our state attorney, who was recently elected in this twenty twenty four general election. And she was in a very contentious election with your member, Andrew Warren. He was fired by the governor. He was the Soros backed state attorney. And Susie won. And she's a Republican. And, you know, This is in her office and it's been there for a few months and we're kind of waiting for action. But what we do know is that this is being done by Republican and Republican group associates. So it's, it's a very interesting situation, but this is under criminal investigation as well as many of the other issues we're involved in. And at some point the dam is going to have to break, whether it be this or with FDLE or the FBI. whatever it may be, but the pressure is on. Which is a really good thing. And like I said, I know there's a lot of people that are just screaming, we need to see prosecutions and arrests for what's happened. And I think it's coming. I'm very positive on that, that it is coming. Nothing can stop what's coming. We just got to be a little patient. I agree. The pressure is mounting. People are waking. We all feel it. I mean, come on. We can just look out our front doors and see what's happening. It's hitting us in the face. So let's be good Americans and do what we do. Let's fix this. That sounds amazing. I think we've got one more to go. Questions? I really don't have any questions. I guess I've been immersed in this like you have for a very long time and looking at it. I was involved in the Locust Standee in investigation in Michigan here, we pulled our own records from the township and could prove that there was cheating on in that level too. I mean, it's pretty widespread, but I guess in the encouragement, bent of encouraging everybody i really do believe that we're we're going through a process to find out everything that was wrong and all the people that have been involved in this to hold them accountable and when you jump into this election fraud pit that we're in it's like a snake pit there just doesn't seem to be any bottom to it and i do really think that you know if you if you got you got a problem and you got to clean something out you can't partially clean it out you got to clean the whole thing out or it just comes back again, it reforms. And so I think that that's where we are in the process. And I would rather take a little extra time and do a good job than just sort of, you know, go after the top three in the state and feel like we've done something when we've done nothing. The people that we see out in front most likely are just mouthpieces for the criminals that sit in the shadows behind them and snipe at us from there. So all of these networks, all of the criminal networks have to be addressed. And I think what we've come to realize is it's actually, it's a transnational crime syndicate that's been running the United States and probably pretty connected across the world. And that's what I see President Trump doing across the world right now is he's liberating the whole world from these parasites that are not above doing anything to keep their power going. For example, even targeting your wife. I think that's terrible. I feel bad for your wife right now and for you. What a horrible thing. I appreciate that. And you know, My wife is originally from Colombia. She grew up in Puerto Rico. She's a naturalized citizen, is living the American dream, and is a hardened conservative and shares all of our values. And it's just, it's like, what are you guys doing? All we're asking for is clear, transparent, honest elections. And this is the kind of fervor we're met with. This is not something that we were expecting, at least not even from our own side. And it's unfortunate, but it tells you how complicit and how deep the people that are involved are are with this election fraud so it is a deep pit um i'm from i grew up in kansas in small town kansas so i know nothing but challenge so this is fine we're up for the challenge we're in the fight we're not going to stop until it's fixed there's been way too much sacrifice You know, I grew up in a military family. I was in the military. That's all I've kind of known. I refuse to believe that all that sacrifice was for nothing, whether it be for me or anyone else that's ever been a part of what this great country has done. It's just, it's unbelievable that we've let it get to this point. We're not going to let it get any further. So Donna, thank you. I'm bringing a banner for you right now that we can put up on screen. How would you like people to get a hold of you to be able to help with your campaign, with the election integrity? Do you want them to go through your website, an email, a phone number? What would you prefer? That's a great question. We recently set up an organization. It's well, my colleague, uh, John taught. If you go to his webpage, it's called WW the fleet stands for Florida election integrity group. So F L E I G the F L E I G.com. There'll be all the connect, um, contact information. If you want to donate, we have some recommended packs you can donate to. anything that helps. And if you just want to follow us, that's the main thing. We just want you to follow us. We're going to post all of this data. It'll all be there for you. So if you want to talk amongst your friends and your networks, you'll have it available to show them. And then hopefully we can just spread the word and we can get this fixed. Does that look right? Thank you, ma'am. I've got a banner on the bottom. Can you see it? Uh, I cannot, but I believe it's there. I just want to make sure that I did it right. The F L E I G.com. There it is. Yep. You got it correctly. Thank you, man. Perfect. Yeah. And you know, this is, this is one of those things that when a good candidate is willing to step up, it's every single person's responsibility to find these good candidates who have been targeted and, uh, tried to they've tried to silence them they've they've hurt their families you know they've come after camp come after all of us and in just really horrible ways but it's a responsibility to get behind them and help them they can't do it themselves and they don't owe anybody anything they're doing this as a gift and as a service and a duty to this nation you know it's like brandenburg news network nobody here takes any money for this this is another thing that shows me validity for even the news sources if you've got a news source or an influencer or anything like that who's who's taking money or making this into an income i got a lot of questions on why and who's pulling their strings nobody here gets paid for this this is just our civic duty because we believe in america we believe in the good people of America, because there's so many wonderful people out there who have been victimized by this horrible system, by these parasites, right? So just give them a shout out. Even if you want to say, I love you guys, and you're doing a good job, and we support you, and then it should be immediately followed in with, how can I help? And I'm sure that both Billy and John are going to have some great ideas on how to get involved in this election integrity in Florida, how to help Billy with his campaign, and even passing stuff around on social media, whatever it may be. I mean, you don't have to do a lot for it to matter. You just have to do something instead of watching as a spectator sport. It isn't okay. So is there anything else you want to say to everybody? We've got still about another four minutes or so, and I see John backstage. I can bring him on and say hi. Okay, John. Here, I'm going to bring you on, John. So, John, I met John at one of Billy and John's events on election integrity in Florida. And, of course, John pops up in the back and starts talking about CONIC, which is... has been one of my sore spots here in Michigan, something I've been a little upset about ever since the leak that we had here and the fraud that went through that whole nonsense with Eugene Yu and such. And so I popped up and we ended up talking for a while. It was a wonderful talk and both of these gentlemen and John have an amazing amount of information which they can back up with evidence. And so I just want to say hi to you. So you guys can say hi to each other and anything else you want to bring up is fine. Good job, Billy. Thanks, John. I'll turn out John. John is a wealth of information and we lean into him all the time. And you know what? I think by the end of he scares me. So I think by the end of your show, you're going to be terrified, too. The guy is just too smart. So we'll turn it over to John. We're out of his league. Well, I tell you what, thanks for coming on, and I really wish you well. And if there's anything else I can do for you, anytime you want to get something out, and we may just want to do like a continual update on what's going on with you down in Florida. And so, like, if you want to do something, say, like, and bring up new issues. I mean, there's so many issues. We could probably do a hundred shows and focus on individual issues so that people are really – really informed. And I'm great with that. I mean, whatever I can do to help, because there are some really good people out there and we need to stand together as one nation under God for writing this nation into something that we can be proud to hand off to our posterity, our children, our grandchildren, and in our communities, all those people that we love, you know, we're here to take care of them. And I think it's a admirable thing that we're all doing. So thanks for being on. I'm going to go to a fifty seven second break here a little bit just so I can stretch around a little bit and then we'll come back in and hit the second hour with with John. Tell your friends about this. Pass this information on and welcome them into, of course, watching what we're doing here. So have a great day, Billy, and we'll be talking soon. And thank you. Good morning and welcome to the second hour of Brandenburg News Network. I am Donna Brandenburg. And it's the sixth day of May, twenty twenty six. And welcome to our show. And now we're going to dive into the world of finance with John Balance. How are you doing, John? I'm doing very good. Thank you for the introduction. Good start to the morning. I was reading all of your creds that are out there and such. And guys, this guy's impressive, okay? John's an impressive guy. His knowledge and what he's done over his life is incredible and definitely worth the discussions. When I met him at Billy and John's event, it was like... where have you been for the last few years? And I wish I had known you a few years ago because you have a lot of knowledge and connect the dots. So as we fire hose you with information here, it's important. And I think you're going to have a lot of questions answered on what's gone on, what's going on and what's coming because the, I think we've got a little rough road ahead of us, and I've been saying that for a while. I've been praying for it for a long time because we're going to have to go through a transition and almost a reset in order to get back to how the country is supposed to work. We can't continue on the way that it's gone. Our elections are fraud, total fraud. And there's so many other ways that the really good Americans have been hurt, victimized by these horrible people that just see other people as a way to make money or take what they have. And we're not okay with that. So anyhow, where do you want to go? You want to introduce yourself and let people know who you are? I'll just start with that. And if there's any transition from the earlier conversation that you had, Billy did kind of point out that When I talk to people, unfortunately, I do scare them. Not unlike how Donna just kind of introduced me. But the reality is what I've seen, what I've unearthed and what I watch. We hear about the reset. We hear about all this stuff that's going on. But I'm old enough to know that I lived through the seventies. My dad was in the oil industry. My grandmother owned an oil company down in Kentucky. She cut contracts with the military on her own as a woman in Kentucky, in the center of Kentucky. And I watched the oil industry crush them in the eighties and nineties. So we've seen all this happen once before. And when you hear this, the term, the playbook, the reality is history does repeat itself, but a little bit more about my background and fairness to Donna's group. I am the idiot that never paid attention. I went to work. I worked for corporate America. My wife got my vote by mail ballot. She told me how to fill it out and I sent it in. I actually worked for corporate America for thirty years through sales, corporate finance, but I invested well, so I feel lucky. I lost my job in twenty twenty. It was not COVID related. It was a function that my company trusted me to go through the financials and show them how much money they were either making or losing. I saw that we were losing about four million dollars a year. I had to rewrite a business proposition that actually turned it to where we could have made two million a year. But it was a conglomerate that sold private label bleach to the basically North America. I was a small piece of that business. They didn't want to make Walmart mad by going in with a price increase. So they just shut us down. Frankly, tried to get a job through COVID. It was going nowhere. Then COVID hit. And my son, who's an accountant, he was working for an accounting firm. During the March, twenty collapse of the markets, I called him up and said, you've always wanted to get in the markets. Let's play. So when you look at what we talk about, the transfer of wealth, when you look at how things happen, when you're in the right place at the right time with the right and I'll use the term liquidity, but the reality is cash. You can actually invest and make a lot of money. My son picked it up quickly. He actually dabbles in options. I do not play in the options world. He's taught me a lot with that, but he turned like forty five hundred dollars into thirty five thousand by the end of the year. I honestly made a bunch of money as well, but I made it by following all of the same garbage that I followed throughout my life. So as I bought more Microsoft, bought NVIDIA, bought all the players, figured it out, knew where it was going, I had these premises. But during that COVID timeframe, I decided to study the history of the Federal Reserve. A lot about the Federal Reserve out there that's not necessarily out there. You can find it. When you really start to understand the Federal Reserve and you understand its correlation with the markets and government, unfortunately, you begin to see things a whole lot more clearly. The media, we know lies. So I watch CNBC on a regular basis. It basically tells you what to do. But by the time they tell you to do it, it's too late. The smart money is already in front of it. So you have to listen to who they beat down. Then you have to do the due diligence in those companies to kind of identify if they're telling us the truth. A lot of times they're not. So I did this throughout twenty twenty. And frankly, your last guest who's talking about how the elections are being stolen, Donna obviously feels the same way. because I was disconnected from all of this. I watched the election get stolen in November, and that literally lit a fire underneath me. My son and I watched Mark Zuckerberg, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, right after the election was over, dump fifteen million dollars worth of stock every day until he reached that five hundred million dollar plateau that everybody spoke about on how he paid these particular people to throw this election. So I watched all that. I got involved in the Republican Party. Again, non-political all my life. I got involved. Frankly, I don't even like what I see in the Republican Party. So I became involved. I've kind of followed all this. And ironically, I sold one hundred percent of all my positions in the stock market in February of twenty twenty one, maybe January, January, February of twenty twenty one. And I'll kind of stop there, ask Donna if she has anything else, or I'll just continue. Just continue. I like listening to what you have to say. You know, I'm just, you know, storing it. Okay, perfect. So I guess the real caveat is when I unearthed the Federal Reserve and I read about a lot of things, I saw some videos, there's a lot of conspiracy underneath it. The Creature from Jekyll Island, there's all kinds of different books out there. But the long and the short is it all started with Nixon. And when Nixon took us off the gold standard in seventy one, it's ironic the correlations to what's happening today. Nixon was what the research that I've kind of dug out. Nixon was literally against the Vietnam War. When you understand the Federal Reserve, they fund all wars when there's a problem. and they need to reset their dollars or basically print more money, they have to develop a problem. So that problem typically is war. So it enables them to print money. Nixon wanted out of that war, but they weren't ready. So they had to actually remove us from the gold standard because France was at the doorstep wanting their gold. We couldn't afford to give it to them. So they literally took us off the gold standard and put us on the petrodollar. Ironically, the same year Iran is being developed. So you can start to see a correlation. And when we talk finance, we talk correlations. What goes up if everything goes up at the same time? There seems to be something. Now, whether it's relatively accurate or not, the beginning is you have to do a little bit more digging. But when you understand how all that worked and you follow the Nixon impeachments, everybody talked about. Camilla Harris. Oh, she was never elected. She was selected. She was appointed. You know, Biden was removed at the last minute. Nobody was out there. Well, when you take a step back and you understand that happened in the seventies as well. So what happened? Nixon comes into office. He wins the popular vote. He's got over seventy percent population or popular vote. Spiro Agnew is his vice president. So what do they do? They find corruption on him and they remove him and they replace him with Gerald Ford, which I think he's from Michigan, isn't he? Yes. So they replace him. In fact, we're you know, I'm in the Grand Rapids area. He's from. OK, great. Great. So when they replace him with Gerald Ford, that means he was never elected. But he was on the Warren Commission. And the fact that he was on the Warren Commission, and now you start to see that, I think I've seen that six of the nine people that testified against Nixon for his impeachment worked for the CIA. So was Gerald Ford rewarded for covering up the JFK assassination by being appointed as our president? all at the same time some uh some observations on that having been lived and having lived in this area where he's from if you go to the the ford museum here and i've got lots of pictures of it because i was documenting things that don't make sense to me that museum is not a ford museum it's on it's on devos land it's on like amway devos land betsy devos land there okay and um The connection is there. I had all kinds of questions on this one, but when you go into the Ford museum, that's not a Ford museum. That's a Kissinger museum. And when you see all of the pictures, you know, it looks like in those pictures, Ford is angry in most of them. He's like, like this. And every time, just about every time you see one, he's got his mouth closed. And every time you see Kissinger, he's like this, like he's telling people what to do. Absolutely. Everything that happened in the seventies was driven by Kissinger. Absolutely. Yes. And then Rockefeller, Nelson Rockefeller is, is in there in the midst of the whole thing. And I mean, it's, it's pretty, it's pretty clear to me what was going on there. And I, I happened to know somebody who grew up with him and he said he was, he was good. He said he was really good when he was younger, but, but my friend, John, he says, I remember when he went bad. And I have to believe that there was a lot of threat and coercion. Like there always is. If there's a good candidate that starts out good and you wonder why they go bad, start looking at the people around them and what they're doing to threaten, to threaten or coerce them because it's going to be there. You're going to find a blackmail. You're going to find off. And most of it is a lie. Absolutely. And just a little bit more about the background. As I went through this whole thing with watching the election, watching the Republican Party, really, as you mentioned on the last conversation, we don't have good candidates. So I had the opportunity to run for property appraiser. And I had big Republican backers and donors calling me on the phone to talk me out of it. They didn't want me to run against the Democrat. So what I've in essence learned is, and General Flynn said it to me, and it was just in a bypassing, I'd have no acquaintances with him other than just meeting him one time. But he said, after I told him some of what I just said in a shorter period of time, he said, would you ever consider running for office? I said at that time, absolutely not. That was, I ran in . And what I have subsequently learned is you have to start local. And if you can prove to the establishment that you're willing. To do some things that will jeopardize your career or your jurisdiction, that's the corruption. That's how it starts. It's simple as this. Most of the people need a few dollars to get elected because, of course, money needs elections. I totally disagree. The message is what needs to win these elections. There has to be a bunch of laws changed as it comes to all election finance. But the reality is they offer you X money. And you take it. And that X is, eh, it's okay. I think it's okay. You look at it and you get a few dollars. And people justify it, but that's the problem. You cannot justify the means, justify the ends. As soon as people go down that path, you're done because they've got a leash around you and you're going to trade your entire life for compromise. Well, not only that, I'm the treasurer for the HREC, the Hillsborough Executive Committee. And the long and the short is obviously campaign finance is pages and pages of legal jargon. When you start talking legal jargon, you start talking simple interpretation. And whoever's lawyer is better to interpret the legal is who's going to win. And so you can say, okay, I'll read through all the legal jargon and I'll think I'm okay. And then the second time they come something, it's a little bit more of a stretch. And you think, I don't know. And you kind of question a little bit and you try and justify it, as you said, and you take it. And then the third time they bring you something, it's absolutely visible and it's a problem. What do they say? Well, honestly, the first two are a problem. And here's the law that points it out. So you've already gone down that path. So I could actually ruin your career if you don't take this or do this for me. And you're like, okay. So the good news is when I ran for my office, you know, we all tried to get donations. Nobody donated to me a dime. I paid for it myself. I didn't need the money. I'm frugal. So let's just be frank with that. But the long and the short is nobody gave me any money because they didn't know who I was. But the better part of that is I had somebody that actually was very powerful in the community. When they saw that I was going to win, they sent a text stream out to a group of us on, oh, it looks like you people are going to win. So that was everybody that won was on that text, except for I was on the text. And in a separate text, I got a text from him and he says, hey, I see that you're doing really well. I want to give you some money. This is one week before the election. And I'm like, okay, what fool, one, would give me money? I can't utilize it. I'd waste it. Why are they doing this? And I always like to ask the question, why? If you can't answer why, you can't do it. So I simply let them stew on it. I texted them the answer back. And I said, you know what? Thank you very much for the offer. But I'm a week out. I had money that I had already budgeted. I had a plan. I executed that plan. And if I took money from you right now, I would waste your money. Thank you, but no thank you. I'm the only one on that text list that lost. My wife continually asks me, if you would have taken that, do you think you would have won? Don't know. Don't know. So the long and the short is I watch all these kids and I love to see younger people now getting in. But all of them have debt. All of them have problems. All of them need money. All of them think that they need these donations. And I'm trying to talk to every one of them saying, you've got to be careful with where the money comes. But they hear you. But they can't do anything about it because everyone tells them the narrative is about money. And that's a problem. The good news is I didn't have to have the money. The better news is I worked in corporate America all my life, really in the marketing field. I sat with a group of what I would call consultants, which consultants is another scam in the entire industry. But I was sitting with a bunch of consultants talking about their strategies. I'm listening. I'm just kind of quiet because I thought maybe I'd go there and learn something. And they were rambling off, and there were some people that were candidates, and there were consultants, and there was probably a group of about twelve people. And I'm just sitting there, and I said, well, based on what I think I hear, what I see Trump doing is he targets... counties you got to win the counties so if i take a smaller scope of hillsborough county and say i'm going to treat my precincts as counties so which counties or in this case which precincts do i need to win i filter it off i do some downloads i see where the votes are coming from i simply say okay of the four hundred and forty eight precincts i need to win two hundred and twenty of them and here are the important ones so this is where i'm going to go and then i built simple text campaign off of that and targeted NPAs and Republicans. In this day and age, I think we could even target Democrats. But what the Republican Party will not do is target the Democrats. They think they have to go after the high propensity voters. The high propensity voters are so snowed by the media and what they've traditionally done. They can't see the forest through the trees. And literally, I got forty eight and a half percent of the vote. I think I did very well. And I only spent twenty thousand dollars. So that was that was my strategy. And what I got three hundred and twenty two thousand of the votes and I lost the my opponent got three hundred and forty something. So, yeah, it was it was fun. I learned a lot. But what I really learned is the corruption in the system top to bottom. But I know that's a different conversation than what we really originally came for. But that's OK. We can come back and revisit this, too, because, you know, running for governor and watching that being a first person witness in Michigan to the corruption and what they're willing to do to keep we the people in the dark. and and control that control the system so we don't have representation is really really shocking and when people are being attacked you've got to realize don't believe anything you hear don't believe a thing that you hear out there in the media because I guarantee you that the majority of it is a lie. They're trying to position candidates as as bad or if they've already got their candidates picked, they've been grooming them for decades before they run for an office, a higher office. Those people are groomed. They already know and they've got leverage over them, et cetera, to your point. And so they know who they can control and who they want in that seat. Now, at the local level, That's where we can start taking more ground. But the biggest ground is just forget everything you're hearing on people and look for facts, not opinions. I coined a term this week that is opinion lemmings. Don't be an opinion and a lemming. Do not follow opinion lemmings because they got nothing. There's no facts to anything they say. They just spout facts. filth out of their mouths, rumors, and they destroy people's lives for sport. Right. So, don't disagree, but... So let's go back to the core message of finances then. Yeah, what I like to try and do is, I hate to say bait people, but bait people with information to make them encouraged to go find it themselves. So I do like to throw out a few, this is kind of how it looks. You need to go understand it yourself because what you just said is if you toss out an opinion, so right now I'm giving you some opinions, right? And you know what? Some of it's fact-based. Some of it is opinion. I'm just going to be completely honest on you with that. But the long and the short is what I'm really trying to do is give people information to make them think. And if they think and it's something that intrigues them, then it's an interest and they're going to go find it. As I think I heard you say with Billy at the close of your conversation, and I truly believe this, this is such an unfortunate situation in our society today. And Republicans, more importantly, especially, is if your life is not impacted, you will not change. And unfortunately, some of the stuff that we're going through right now, I believe. is it has to impact the conservative person who typically doesn't do anything. They stay out of the way. They live their life. They don't want to be bothered. Everything's good. As long as my life's fine, I'm fine. The system can just run along. And frankly, that system has been running along on its own unchecked for too long. So I do believe that the system is going to rattle some cages. And my premise from day one on all of this stuff is that that system, unfortunately, to impact the conservatives will be in their wallet. Because nobody's going to do anything until their life is impacted. Lose your house, Paris, you know, Palisades, California. What happened in North Carolina? There's all kinds of different things that says it's all about the land grab. But the land grab is the hard asset. The money, I hate to say it, is the fiat currency. And when you understand the Federal Reserve, when you understand... It was put in there for taxes of the rich. Sound familiar? Only one to five percent of those people were taxed. Then after World War II, what happened? Our taxes went through the roof. Well, what did they say? Well, let's take a step back and say, what are they saying about Ukraine? Well, when Ukraine's done, we're going to have to rebuild it. Who? My money? Why am I rebuilding it? Well, if you go back to what happened after World War Two in nineteen forty seven, they actually got together in Brussels and they had the United States through our tax dollars and the Federal Reserve rebuild Europe. Nothing different. Nothing different at all. The only difference is time frame. So when you watch the taxes, the tax receipts jump in the forties up to where they are today, they've kind of held steady. But the reality is, and Trump has said this on numerous times, that we've been funding Europe's socialism for decades. And Trump's trying to pull that cord. Now, what I have actually looked at, and I take a lot of what I see, so here's where I will go off on some opinion, so I'll try to be as forthright as I can. Trump is very good, and I hate to say the word symbolism, but the reality is Trump is very good with giving us the information without really giving us the information. Again, kind of like what I said, let's think about this. So when you go back and look at Trump, and the first time he was in office, he has Andrew Jackson behind his desk. He's got a portrait of Andrew Jackson. Okay, first term, no big thing. We see it, yada, yada, yada. From my understanding, one of the first presentations he ever made in was literally on Andrew Jackson's property in Washington, D.C. Okay, no big thing. What does he do? He says, Tariffs made the country rich. Okay. Who was the last president to remove the Federal Reserve from existence? Well, ironically, it was Andrew Jackson. So when he comes back into office, and how did we make the money, and what does Trump always tell us? We were the richest nations we ever could be through that period, and how did we do it? We did it through tariffs. So he is literally telling us what he's going to do. Again, my opinion, he's got a picture of Andrew Jackson up. He loses the election. He comes back. The first picture he puts up again is Andrew Jackson. It's still up there. The last time he addressed the nation... when he came out, and you know he's very good with the media, he has his position of the cameras positioned to where he's walking out the door to go to address the nation, and he walks under a picture of Taft. So Taft was the last president that was in power before the Federal Reserve was actually signed. So there are way too many symbolisms that are out there that he's telling us. He comes into his second term of office and he says, what? We're going to go into the golden era. Well, that's an ironic term, isn't it? He also floats that he's going to do an audit of Fort Knox. Well, a lot of presidents may have said that, but Trump's not going to say it without probably doing it. What I learned when I ran for office is politics is timing. Elon Musk floats out that he's going to audit Fort Knox. He's actually going to film it. He's going to put it on X. All these things that you're watching. And it's just like, okay, he's telling us. What happened in that correlation between Nixon and Trump? Well... Nixon really didn't want us out of the Vietnam War. Nixon didn't really want us to leave the gold standard. It was all driven by Kissinger. And when you study and you understand a little bit more about Kissinger, as Donna mentioned, or as you mentioned, the long and the short is Kissinger actually handpicked Klaus Schwab to run the World Economic Forum. Okay, no way. It's out there. So when you understand the dynamic and really how long this has been going on, and people that I know that are Republicans say they're mad at Trump because he didn't expose the deep state in his first term. If you really think this thing went back to nineteen thirteen or less than that, maybe nineteen seventy one. That's decades of stuff you have to unravel. That takes time. So as I'm following through with all this and you understand Nixon took us off the gold standard. The only reason we're in the situation we are today with the thirty eight trillion dollars in debt is because when you come off the gold standard and you have wars so the Federal Reserve can print money. It escalates your debt. That's what the Federal Reserve was always put in place for, is to escalate the debt so it can be prepared to transition to another country when we go broke. This has happened any number of times. It's been debasement of the currency at every level of every government across societies through decades of time, all the way back to the Roman times. When you finally debase your currency so much, Rome is a great example. They only had three percent of the silver left in their currency when they were paying their soldiers. Their soldiers figured it out and it literally stopped fighting for them. So this has happened time and time again. So this is just a preparation of jumping to a new country to be the central or to be a world currency. Now, as I look at that and I understand that, you have to actually have a simultaneous economy underneath it. So they were preparing the petrodollar while we were on the gold standard. And when they pulled the plug, there was disruption. high interest rates, all these other things, wars, you name it. There was a lot of fog in here and it's the same thing that's happening today. I truly think, so this is my opinion, that what Trump's trying to do is he's building a simultaneous economy. He's ready for the fiat currency to go because the fiat currency is dead. The long and the short is you look at cryptocurrency, which I do not believe in. I do not believe in anything that's digital, but there is options. There are alternatives. And the reality is when you look at crypto space, it is digital and it's built on the blockchain. So you can track all corruption on the blockchain in a matter of a program drop. So when you see that and you understand that what we've used as a SWIFT system for years to actually cause what I would call the hegemony of all the wars that we've ever done. I talked to my dad, he voted for Biden. He's all against all this stuff. He hates Donald Trump. He's made it clear to me. And he reads everything. And I said, well, since you read everything, I'm assuming you know that the reason Japan bombed Pearl Harbor was that for the six months prior to that, that we had sanctions on them and they could only access ten percent of their oil. So we were crushing their economy. Did we give them a choice or were we pushing them to do it? And therein lies the Federal Reserve. When things go awry, you push things to do things to make countries go in debt, to print more money. And if Trump literally puts us back on the gold standard, and I listen to every politician out there saying, well, you can't do that because what about our growth? Well, our growth is why we have debt. So controlled growth needs to be more sustainable. By putting us back on the gold standard, we still will do gold mining. You will still have access to all these tools. Growth can be managed at a better level to where the debt will not occur. So I do believe that there is a date that Donald Trump will put us back on the gold standard. I do believe when you look at our treasuries, our treasury notes are basically on the books at around forty two dollars. Or I'm sorry, our gold is on the books right now at about forty two dollars an ounce. Well, gold trading for forty eight hundred dollars. Why don't they reprice it? That could actually do a lot for our debt, make us more soluble, actually sell more treasury bonds. The long and the short is politics is timing. So we're supposed to have eight point one tons worth of gold. There's a lot of people out there that say we don't have it. I'm on the camp that we have more. So here's what happens in my opinion. So keep that in mind. In my opinion, when Trump does do the audit, when Elon Musk does get involved in the audit, if we don't have the eight point one tons worth of gold, The world panics, the United States panics, people dump our treasury bonds, interest rates go through the roof, our dollar dies, literally overnight if we don't have the gold. That's why I say we have it. But what does that do to gold? There's only one place for people to go when they dump our treasuries, that's gold. The pet rock, the same people that your brokers tell us not to buy, ironically. If we do the audit and we have more gold The rest of the world panics because now their dollar, their currency is actually less valuable than they anticipated. And they buy gold. So the only thing I don't have a solution for is if we have eight point one tons worth of gold, which is what we say. There's literally, in my opinion, less than five percent chance that that will actually happen. So both ways, gold spikes. I say if we don't have the gold and again, I don't believe that gold easily gets to twenty thousand dollars an ounce. If we do have the gold, more than what they say we have in the gold, gold easily gets to fifteen thousand dollars an ounce. So when Trump is telling us every day we're going into the gold standard. or we're not the gold standard, but the golden era. He's telling us what to do. Why is gold shot up so much? Well, one, because when you see that China has a central bank digital currency, you see that Ukraine was the test in the Western world for the central bank digital currency. And you see now that Van Ursula has said that they're going to slowly remove cash from the EU and Everything's going digital. I'm not a supporter of that, but it's reality. My son is in accounting and because he understands the crypto space, he literally, and when you understand the whole vaccine thing, the depopulation, again, I'm going a little off the rails, but the long and the short is there. Cryptocurrency, the digital space can prepare society for fewer people. So in his world, and I'll use Procter & Gamble because that's the space I kind of grew up in, in that consumer packaged goods, Procter & Gamble does a quarterly update. They bring in their auditing teams. There's ten managers. There's two hundred people. They branch off in all the different proximities of the company. They do their audit. A month later, they come back. They agree to whatever the variations are. They sign off. They turn it over to the SEC, and everything's great. Well, In a crypto space, on a blockchain world, you bring in one manager, you bring in maybe eight programmers, maybe somebody else to liaison between the company. Everything's sequenced, one, two, three, four. You drop in a computer, you actually do the check without going into the branches of the company. If anything's out of sequence, you found your one error, you fix it, and you're done. I just eliminated ninety-five percent of the accounting field. Crazy. Now, remember what Billy said. I'm going to make people afraid. This is not good. That's why I do not support the crypto space. So when I actually go back and everybody's talking about AI, my son worked for a chip company. They actually tested all the chips that were coming into the United States. Not all of them. It was a company. So they had competition. But under Biden, they actually only had the rule that they had to visibly check that chip. They didn't have to physically check it. Well, that's ironic. We got planes falling out of the sky. We got ships breaking down all over the place. When Trump came into office, he said, no more visualization. I need you to physically check it. So my son thinks our business is going to grow. It did. There were people paying a hundred percent more than they were willing to pay because this company had the capacity to do the physical checks. Now, ironically, business was great in the beginning and it's dead again. So what I'm watching in the entire financial world is in the two thousand dot com bubble, everybody did what they call circular financing. Cisco actually created LLCs. So here I am, Cisco. I need more volume. So I'm going to create twenty LLCs around me. I'll fund those LLCs. I'll lend them money to buy inventory from me for future orders. That's interesting. So I can book the actual revenue, but it's not going to be booked until they actually take the order. And they're now doing that clearly out in the open with Nvidia. Nvidia created CoreWeave. They backed it with a four hundred million dollars or forty million dollars for when it actually issued its IPO. When you look at the people for CoreWeave, they were all arrested back for a Bitcoin program years ago. It's the same stuff. And I talked to my son who has now created his own company and good for him because he kind of got out of that racket. Their business is still flat. So if AI is as big as everybody says it is, why is a company that's like one in ten in the nation not blowing through the doors on this physical checks? It just doesn't make sense. So I looked back and I saw somebody on LinkedIn had actually posted something that said, if you'd bought Nvidia at this date with ten thousand dollars, it would be worth one point six million dollars. And I thought to myself, well, that's interesting. What we've learned is the charts don't really go back that far. So I went to Nvidia because Jensen Wong was caught in a scandal in two thousand, ironically. And yet he's still doing what he does. You can go back to every bubble. And NVIDIA was in the middle of it. So here we are again with NVIDIA, possibly a bubble. It's actually down sixteen percent, I think, year to date. So people are seeing it. And when you understand that and you see that, it's hard not to see. I think some people in your audience may remember the FX scandal with Sam Bankman Freed. Well, if you look at a trend. So this is what I do. I look at charts when FX, when Sam Bankman Freed was arrested. That money laundering died at the same time NVIDIA started to go up. We call that a correlation. Again, not substantiated, but auspiciously concerning. So when you follow all this stuff and you kind of see it, again, I look at things to where, okay, the media is telling me AI, AI, AI. If you go back to The market was held up by six stocks. There's some weird stocks, GE, RCA, radio stocks. But it was held up by six stocks. But there were auspiciously some key players that weren't in the market. JP Morgan, he was out of the market. Rockefeller, out of the market. Kennedy, out of the market. What do they know? They know something. So you fast forward to today. What do we hear? AI, AI, AI, AI. I could be a company starting up saying I'm using AI and I grow through the roof. It's all artificial money. The long and the short is AI right now is being held up basically by ten stocks. Those ten stocks have had a little bit of a struggle here lately because what I have watched through the political scope is that they need an event. They need a war. The war distracts the people. The war causes the markets to fall and nobody will question it. So when you understand that they're trying to start a war and literally Trump is stopping it. I was reading something a while back. I think it was back in twenty twenty two to where there was a guy saying. That Ukraine was going to bomb two nuclear sites on the border of Ukraine and Russia, and they were going to blame Russia. Well, OK. I watch gold. So when you see wars getting ready, when you see things happening about Monday, Tuesday of that week before it happens, wars always start on the weekends, ironically, that I start to see gold spike. So what they're saying is I have no idea who the winner is going to be. So I'm going to go out and buy gold because I got to get out of the treasury market because the treasuries of the United States. And if the United States loses that war, those treasuries are worth no money. Long and short, you watch the gold start to spike. We're waiting for Monday. You know, the Sunday night options open up. The market in Japan opens up, all this stuff. And it's crickets. You don't hear anything. So you're thinking, okay, interesting. And then Monday opens up and gold sells off a little bit. And that's kind of how the whole thing plays along. It doesn't sell off as much. Lower highs or higher highs and higher lows, that's kind of a trend that we watch. But the long and the short is nothing happens. Two weeks later, somebody writes an article and he's talking about how Elon Musk owns Starlink. Elon Musk is giving Ukraine one hundred percent free access to Starlink to help support their communications for their war. This guy writes this article that says because Elon Musk has access to Starlink, he's picking up this chatter, he sees it, and he literally shuts down the communications for Ukraine to stop them from blowing up those two nuclear sites. Elon Musk took that article, reposted it on X, and said, true. That was in twenty twenty two when Biden's trying to drive Ukraine and drive us into war. And that would have been the end of it. And as I watched all this happen, the ironic part is that is what we call a simple false flag. And they've tried to do it any number of times. And we're watching every one of them be thwarted. So the good news as it relates to my doom and gloom picture. I'm watching Trump stop every one of these financial calamities from happening. His hire of Scott Besson had me a little bit on pins and needles. Scott Besson broke his teeth, really, and learned under what they call the best. Besant worked under George Soros. Besant was a key contributor to actually help collapse the British pound when they forced him into the EU. Besant knows the game plan. So he understands how things work. When Trump came out with the Liberty Liberation Day and the market started to fall off and the bonds started to go up, interests were going to go up. Everybody said they called it the taco trade. I call it. Besant got on the phone with Trump and said, hey, we got a little few problems. We got to work through the details. This is what's happening. And this is how we need to stop it. Besant literally stopped the market from falling on the tariff plan. So as I watch this all unfold, I will tell you, I think that Trump is going to he has literally built a simultaneous economy just like they did under the petrodollar. And he's ready for whatever that transition is. I believe he's going to protect us as much as he can. So what I will tell you is I've been expecting the market to fall for a long time and I've been wrong, literally wrong the entire time. We watch it go up. It could be options. There's a lot of laws that are being passed underneath the scenes that nobody watches with the SEC that are saying, you know, naked shorting, all this stuff. Trump was actually opened up lawsuits in naked shorting in his own company. When you watch what happened with GameStop, all naked shorting, but a bunch of laws went in place after that was all over. So when you look at the crypto space and you look at the Genius Act, the Genius Act is literally saying, I'm going to move forward with this digital currency. Again, I'm going to use that term because I don't like it. But what Besant did was said, if you're going to be a stable coin used in the United States, You have to be one-to-one backed by U.S. treasuries. So while the world may be dumping our treasuries, Besson is saying, you want to play in this space in the United States, you've got to buy those treasuries. So they're literally doing a balancing act with our treasuries to make sure the markets don't fall. So whatever they're doing has been brilliant. I do believe you need to listen to Donald Trump because he's now saying, the markets have done much better than I expected. Okay. My original thesis was the market low was going to be March of twenty twenty because that's the game plan. But now I look at my thesis, maybe looks at a good entry point is going to be around Liberation Day because we've catapulted from that point from from that point. But he's literally telling us I think he's okay if things happen. He's going after Big Pharma. Big Pharma makes up a big portion of the S&P five hundred. He's going after the food industry. Let's say that's another big part of that. He's suing JP Morgan and Jamie Dimon for debanking him. Oh, let's say that they only own forty percent of the Federal Reserve. So there's so many things out there that said the S&P five hundred cannot get out of this. So my concern is there will be a correction. There has to be a correction. And that correction is going to impact Republicans to get them to wake up. And frankly, the only space that I feel is safe is literally gold and silver. And when I say gold and silver, I say physical gold and silver. Because as I watched the markets back in twenty twenty, there was enough evidence that showed and some of you may remember this. Back in two thousand nineteen, there was a sell off. There was a correction. The media was all over Trump. He was in office. The market's falling. What are you doing? What are you doing? Trump literally got on the phone and called Powell and said, what are you doing? Well, what they did at that time was they took what they call the reverse repo, which is banking, borrowing money from the Federal Reserve, banks borrowing money from banks, behind the scenes, all this other stuff. Really hard to explain because honestly, they don't publish much on it. But they got up to four hundred and eighty billion dollars a day and then they dropped it. And by dropping it, what they did was they pulled the liquidity. The liquidity is what makes the market move forward. So they were removing the liquidity. At the same time, Powell began to raise interest rates. That caused some disruption. Literally, the market started to fall. Trump got Powell on the phone. He said, what are you doing? Stop it. Reverse it. Do whatever you need. The media jumped all over Trump saying, you do not control the Federal Reserve. And he said, yes, I do. That's pretty key. That's key. And there's a lady named Judy Shelton who was trying to be put in the first term that Congress wouldn't let her push through. She's written book after book. She's all over the gold standard. And she's recently posted that nowhere written in any law that has to do with the Federal Reserve, even through from the nineteen thirteen act. And I think two other revisions to that Federal Reserve nowhere ever was it ever said that the Federal Reserve was to be an independent entity. And what people always overlook, Roe v. Wade. Oh my gosh, Roe v. Wade. What's going on? The reality is Roe v. Wade was just there to get the Democrat voter out, get them all mad. The long and the short, what else happened during that time frame? It was a thing that they call the Chevron deference. Chevron deference is literally the system where it says, if you're an unelected agency, imagine that, CIA, FBI, all these agencies, the ATF, all these agencies that put in artificial, really dictating laws that Congress sometimes follows, sometimes don't. But the long and the short is every one of those agencies under the Chevron deference is illegal. Right. Yes. Guess what that includes? The Federal Reserve. So when you sit back and understand, I think what Trump's game plan is, is to literally remove the Federal Reserve. He's literally telling us tariffs are where we can exist. He's got the Supreme Court going against him. He's got alternatives. They are always all our alternatives. I assume that he would end up at a ten percent straight across the board tariff for the people that are willing to play the game for the ones that don't want to that have the high tariffs on us. He's going to say, fine, I'll match your tariff. It's a tariff for tariff. And literally by removing the Federal Reserve. We will remove federal income tax. Which is unconstitutional. Which is unconstitutional. The only thing that's constitutional is gold and silver. States don't have the capacity to print money, all these other things, but it has to be backed by gold and silver. So everybody says Trump's not following the Constitution. What they really don't understand is he's following it to the letter of the law, and nobody else understands the Constitution. So I can see this happening. He's already pronounced that he's going to sign the dollar in our July two hundred and fiftieth anniversary. Literally be the first time presidents ever had a signature on a dollar beside the Federal Reserve. So are we going to see this break before then? I can't tell you. But what I will tell you is. If they controlled the crash of twenty nine with six stocks, they can control a crash with ten stocks with AI. The media is trying to now change the narrative, telling us the things that I've been seeing for the last five years. They're now telling us that AI may be a bubble. They're now telling us all these things are going on. They're trying to paint the picture, but they really need an event for it to occur. Corruption could be that event. But how does that work? I think Trump's doing what he can to investigate the behind the scenes. I think a lot of these investigations are already done. He's waiting to expose some of this stuff, just like they're waiting to expose this. So it's literally and I love the term the five D chess. It is literally five D chess between all these players. And we're just, I hate to say it, pawns in the situation. You can either be prepared for it or you can't. And I guarantee you there won't be a single Democrat that's prepared for it. But for the smart Republicans, we need to be prepared. So, you know, Klaus Schwab in the World Economic Forum talks about the next event's going to be a cyber event. Our media is telling us about cyber events all the time now. They're prepared. They're normalizing it. They're telling us what's there. So I do believe when there will be potentially a cyber event someday that will cause the markets to shut down, it'll cause our banks to shut down. We should all have a reasonable amount of cash to get us through minimally, in my opinion, a week. People say, well, how much do I need? Well, you don't need mortgage money because your mortgage is done through the bank. If you're lucky, you got enough gas, but the credit cards are all through, you know, and buying gas is all through electronics. So you just kind of need to be prepared, sit tight, have enough money, let the world evolve because there will be people that will panic. You're going to be there. Look at what happened with the toilet paper shortages that we went through. That was insane. You know, people were losing their minds. Well, it was insane, but I will tell you, I stood in line for my toilet paper and I still have extra toilet paper to this day. But what I'm saying is Trump has seen this happen. He's seen it coming. I do believe there's been a plan from day one for all this to happen. We have to be impacted somehow for us to all say never again. And if we aren't impacted... then Trump didn't win. We didn't win. This whole thing is communism from start to finish. It was all set up, in my opinion, to slowly move us off our dying dollar and literally onto China's dollar. And I see I've only got about eight minutes, so I don't know if you've got any other questions. I do have one other story that should stay. I don't have a time constraint on today, so... You know, you're the last one up. So, you know, keep going if you'd like. But we can always have you back again, too. Okay. I guess what I'd like to say is this one is where my head is. So we hear about Amazon. Amazon's the greatest thing in the world. My wife buys from Amazon. We all buy from Amazon. It's so convenient. What I have always learned is if it's convenient, they're robbing you. Amazon makes most of their money off their AWS platform. So ironically, AWS, their largest customer is the United States government. They lose money on all their retail space. Yet that's where we play. We buy from retail. If you go back to the COVID era, and when you see what Trump did, he took the market down. He said, go back to work. Don't let the economy falter. He put a V into our stock market. I do believe that plan is in place again. But when you look at what happens and you understand your audience, you say it's pretty sharp, the Fifteen Minutes City, it's all inevitably there. I no longer need to go to the store. I can order everything from Amazon. Amazon will control my life. The reality is what the government is doing by subsidizing, I hate to say that term, but that's the reality, by subsidizing the AWS platform, because the United States government is the largest customer Amazon has, they're subsidizing them to lose money every day in their retail space. So while they lose money by having lowest prices out there, because that's why we all buy, yet they even deliver the product, oh my gosh, this is great. They're helping us put out every small business grocery store out of business. They're helping us put out of business every small business, period. You look at people like Target. They've gone down the woke. They're a target. They can be taken out. Honestly, Walmart could have been removed in the equation as well. I'm seeing Macy's go down. I was out. I went to the mall this weekend just because I needed to get some more linens for, you know, bed linens and that sort of thing. And I like a brand they cover that they carry. And I walked into Macy's in Woodland Mall and I looked at I got upstairs and I'm like, this is like, you know, a closing Kmart store. And I mean, it was it was just it was just all kind of trashy exhibits and it was all fifty percent off and such. And when I was on the main floor, what I saw was they probably had less than half of the floor inventory that they normally have. And and so as I was going through this and I looked at even in the in, you know, the linens area for the bedding, I was looking at the little cubby holes they had. Half of them were empty. And, and I asked the, one of the clerks there, I said, is this store closing? No, no, it's not closing. That's not closing. I'm like, yeah, it is. I said, I saw the other one on the other side of the town go through the same thing. And I called it four years. It was, it was a slow burn at that point in time, but I called it, I called it about four years before they, before they actually closed. So this is a, this is a dying, they're, they're planning their exit right now. And so I and I saw that everywhere I went in that mall, I was seeing that same type of a vibe is that the floor space was not was not maximized. They're decreasing their inventory. People were not buying. They were walking around. It was a thing to do, but nobody was buying anything. I saw maybe one or two people that that were carrying around bags and such. Other than that, they weren't buying anything. It's a large shift. Yes. Well, growing up in the retail space and consumer packaged goods, that's what we did. We called them retail stores. Whenever there was a grocery store that actually what we said dummied up, their product they put boxes behind it to make their shelves look full that's an inventory situation that's a turn situation and frankly it's simply a liquidity situation they don't have the money to buy the inventory because their turns aren't good enough to actually support that investment so those are slow burns you're absolutely right we see it all the time in retail but the sad part of that is the largest The largest employer in the United States is retail. So if Amazon is working with the government to slowly bleed out retail, what do they really have planned for us? Mm-hmm. And I followed a guy, I don't know if people on your channel did, a guy named MonkeyWorks. He actually tracked airplanes into the United States when we were doing the whole following the illegal immigration. And he actually picked up a pattern. Again, that's what I do. I look at patterns. He picked up a pattern where he actually called out that a lot of these flights were being landed close to Amazon distribution centers. So if you take a step back and you think to yourself, okay, I'm an American citizen. I want thirty dollars an hour. I get benefits. I have to pay for my own housing. If I bring in illegal immigrants to actually fill that void, the government will pick up their housing. I don't have to pay them benefits and I can get away with paying them fifteen dollars an hour because it's ten dollars an hour better than he was getting in his country. They're happy. So if you follow that and you understand that I went to the dentist probably about five years ago. I've been there since. And the lady, we were talking a little bit about this, and the lady at the counter says, my husband is actually building, he's an engineer building the pickers that Amazon's going to replace their people with. So those people are easily disposed. The United States citizens would raise a stink, maybe labor unions, all these other things. But the long and the short is these people are all just being brought in as bodies to be prepared for when they remove us all from that work. So now what are we here? Thirty thousand people being fired from Amazon. They're putting all these robotic pickers into their DCs. Again, retail is the largest employer. Now they're moving to these warehouses to be picked, and they're all being removed by AI robots. So the saddest part about this entire equation is the government has to know this. Of course they do. When you see all this stuff, I mean, I never owned Amazon, but when you understand, like, I don't know if you're familiar with LifeLog. Yes. Okay, so LifeLog was built by the United States government, DARPA. Worked into Facebook. The world got a little upset and got concerned, and so the government said, fine, we'll get rid of it, and we'll literally launch Facebook. Do you think Zuckerberg's smart enough to create that? Not a chance. When you see Microsoft basically developed the same way, when you see all these companies, and one of the things, one of my theses is, and a great example of how I look at things, the media was all over Intel. So we have the CHIPS Act. Biden puts the CHIPS Act out. We want to do this. We want to build in the United States, blah, blah, blah. I lived in Scottsdale, Arizona in the year two thousand. That was the year or a couple of years later that Intel literally broke ground on their first plant in the United States. OK, don't think anything of it back then. But the long and the short is I'm watching all this banter on CNBC about how Intel's corrupt. They don't know what they're doing. Their P&Ls are awful. They can't do this. They don't do that. They're awful. They took Intel from sixty five dollars a share. And Biden's actually holding money from them because the way it was set up is it was supposed to be a loan. Well, those loans usually come with strings. Intel wasn't willing to accept the strings. So when the media crushed them from about sixty five down to nineteen and some change, I actually had buys at seventeen, fifty and fifteen. I missed it. I got my daughter to buy it. She bought it in nineteen eighty seven or give it a give or take in that nineteen eighty range. And I said, this is easily what's going to happen. So we've heard that Taiwan is going to be surrounded, going to cut off our chip industry, which will crush our economies, all these other things. I don't know if that's actually going to happen. But the long and the short is. NVIDIA doesn't make a single chip. They're all third-party manufactured. So I said, when this does happen, so vision, when this does happen, I know for a fact Intel has... manufacturing in the United States. Trump's pushing for manufacturing in the United States. If NVIDIA uses third-party manufacturing, they're going to be forced to use somebody in the United States. So my daughter bought a bunch of shares of Intel in the nineteen and some range. I said, it's easy sixty. It broke one hundred and eight yesterday. And ironically, about four to six months later, Trump steps in and says, well, I'm going to take part ownership. Oh, the media's, oh, the government, that's socialism. No, what he's doing is he's getting his money back. And people don't understand he's getting our tax dollars back. So he knows that by doing this at nineteen, it's going to go up. So we have to listen to what Trump's saying. NVIDIA will eventually win. And if they do decide to pop this bubble, we know that AI is important. How important? I don't know. But the long and the short is, I believe Intel is going to become the next NVIDIA. And it's going to because the corruption is going to be exposed. Jensen Wong is going to be exposed. The entire AI bubble is going to be exposed. And Trump, based on what I will call executive orders that he wrote in two thousand eighteen, enabled him to seize all assets of everybody that had any empowerment in sex trafficking and or stealing elections. And to me, it's so clear. What's interesting, you look at anthropic, he's not anthropic, but it's anthropic. Sam Altman, who's going to launch OpenAI with Elon Musk, and all this stuff's going on, he wants to make it for profit, they break up, they're in court right now. They're in San Francisco court fighting over whether Sam Altman has the right to do it, whether they have to pay him the money back, yet he's announcing all these joint ventures where this guy has given this guy, and what we've seen through some of the tin case is that these companies are actually banking on inventories that will ship later, but they're also banking on the increased value of the companies that they're co-owners with. So they're literally banking unrealized gains in their P&Ls that they're reporting to Wall Street, which... How many people can really get away with that? And everything that I've heard is this is more or less what Enron did. This is more or less what they did in the two thousands. They changed the laws and this is how it all works. They changed the laws and say, you've got to be transparent. And there are people out there saying, because they're transparent and telling us what they're doing, then it's legal. What? I mean, the whole thing is just an absolute farce. There are a couple other tips that I'm trying to offer up. I was looking at BlackBerry. And when you understand the government and the associations with companies, it should scare us all. But BlackBerry was one of the best, most secure cell phones in history. All the tech people that I know... absolutely are in awe of BlackBerry and will look for old BlackBerrys because they like that technology so much. They're used and taped up as long as they still turn on. That's exactly it. But what actually happened? Well, when we understand how corrupt Barack Obama is, when you look at BlackBerry's demise, it started when Barack Obama took office. He forced BlackBerry out of the government, forced them all in Apple. What do we know? We know Apple's not a very secure software platform. Blackberry was literally forced out of existence. They forced them out of the hardware business. So what actually happens is I call my friends in the hedge funds. They actually then put shorts against the company to drive the company out of business. So another company can come in and simply buy it up and house or put their patents on the shelf, never to be seen again. That happens every day in the pharmaceutical industry, and I can't wait for all that to be exposed. That's going to be amazing. Oh, it's going to absolutely be amazing. But the interesting thing is BlackBerry got rid of their entire industry. hardware piece, but they're still out there as a software company. So I actually had a three dollar buy. Last year, they got down to two eighty seven. So I felt I had some room. It got down to three fifteen and then it started to shoot up because BlackBerry announced their earnings and they said, well, we've got these new customers coming on board. They were kind of opaque on who those customers were. At the same time, we've got the ODNI, Tulsi Gabbard, trying to wrestle away the purchasing arrangements from the Pentagon. So my vision for BlackBerry is simple. And oh, by the way, about the same time we see Tim Cook step down because he's actually giving money to the SPLC. But the long and the short is Apple says, I only allow so much software on my phone. Okay, I get it. You're protected, blah, blah, blah. I can easily see Trump walking into Tim Cook or Apple CEO now and say, you know what, as a government, I'm going to continue to use your phone, but you're going to allow me to put BlackBerry software on there because of the encryption. It's the most powerful in the world, which will then launch BlackBerry through the roof. Now, again, speculation. This is how I see it. But I can understand BlackBerry went from that three dollars and fifteen up to six dollars just over this last quarter because of their earnings and their obsolete new customers coming on board. If that happens, it's going to damage Apple. Apple still will not move his manufacturing. Trump doesn't care. Apple needs to bring manufacturing back here. All he did was move it from China to India. He's not doing what Trump asked him to do. So I can see this is one of those opportunities down the line. I will add to that I am not a financial advisor. I have no strength in this other than what I've learned by running for office and digging into the financials and listening to the media It's like the inverse trade of what we say, the Kramer inverse trade, or we're watching the Nancy Pelosi trades. The long and the short is, if you're able to listen closely, you can see some of the dynamics. And this is what I tell my kids. You have to be passionate about where it's going. You have to understand the capacity of where it could go. And you have to understand the history of why it is where it is. Because there are bad companies. Literally, there are bad companies. I've been telling my mom to get out of Brookshire Hathaway. Again, she voted for Biden too. She now believes ninety five percent of what I'm telling her. I tell her to get out of Brookshire Hathaway. I tell her to get out of it because it's predominantly heavy in insurance. And when you understand the correlation of insurance and the banking system, it should scare us all. Absolutely. And when living here in Florida, the insurance agents, the insurance companies are literally in the pocket of the Republicans in Florida. So when you watch all of this stuff, what are they really trying to do? And I always look at it back to it's a land grab. What's really entertaining As you look at really how our national parks are set up. I had some banter on LinkedIn a while back about natural resources and the oil industry. And every bit of our inflation is driven by oil. It always has been. But if you look at our national parks, thirty percent of our land is literally national parks. So what were what was the Biden administration going to do? He was going to try and actually increase that government owned land. Well, that's interesting. Why would they do that? Well, it's because they know where our natural resources are. And they want to keep us off that land. They're clear-cutting the state of Michigan and keeping people off of the state land the DNR and EGLE is. And so then you look at Eagle as energy. And so when you when you look at all of this nonsense, it's all about the energy. It's about the land. It's hiding it from us and pushing us on smaller and smaller pieces of space. where we don't really have a choice anymore. That's where it seems where it's going. But I was saying that was the plan. I don't believe it's going to go that way because President Trump and the good guys stepped in and said, not as long as I'm alive, we're not doing this. And they started tearing this plan down. And I do believe that there's been a lot of work done. I do believe that there's actually probably been a lot of, and this is my opinion, convictions and prosecutions that have gone on because of when you're in an investigation, you're not talking about it out to the public. You can't. And so with all the investigation that's going on behind the scenes, it's happening. And we got to stop acting like people did during the toilet paper nonsense and just think about how to improve, educate yourself, become a little more independent, prepared and that sort of thing. And I think we're going to be just fine and then realize that Change sometimes seems scary, but when you're in something that's already bad, I'm not sure that it's a bad, you know, not a bad idea to be more inclined to the change, you know, and go to something that's better because what we've got right now is straight up criminality. It's most of it's unconstitutional. We're dealing with transnational crime syndicates. We're dealing with child trafficking. We're dealing with, you know, the pedophilia stuff that's going on where, and the, the other, you know, the, the weapons, the drugs, the fentanyl, all of it. Are you kidding me? Is this, we're staying where we are? Absolutely not. And I think that we can go into something that is actually the, the world that God intended us to live in, not this screwed up fake reality. We live in right now with this running. The majority of our thoughts are, Spying on us full time and controlling what we do. Right. Well, one of the things that I have positioned myself and really unfortunately believing is oil is driving all this. So when you understand they took us off the gold standard and put us on the petrodollar, every war we were ever in after that has really been over oil. But what people don't realize is most of those governments did not honor oil. The dollar is the world currency. So within the first three to six months, we had a central bank in their government, in their country. So we forced them all on that petrodollar. So when you see that and when you understand the world of fracking. So now I have, you know, this national park that's probably full of oil. I can actually drill outside that, not disrupt the park and access that oil. So I think that actually escalated some of the concerns. They tried to outlaw us fracking and all these other things. And then what really blew me away, and I've had conversation with people that live in California who don't believe any of this stuff. And my daughter, my wife had to go on a business trip in California and I was unemployed or not working at the time, retired now. And My daughter wanted to go see California. So she put us on this tour bus. We did all this other stuff. And I'm literally driving around looking on this stuff. And I'm seeing all these oil rigs idle. They're not working. Well, I guess we ran out, right? We ran out of oil. That's always the story. And then I drive this tour bus. It takes me to downtown Hollywood. And it's interesting, they've got these oil pits where there's so much oil close to the surface that the oil literally bubbles up from underneath the ground. And they've got it fenced off because animals would come there and act like it was water and get trapped in the oil. So there's so much oil in California that the stuff is bubbling up from under the ground. Yet the people in California think there's no oil. It's the scarcity that Rockefellers in, you know, basically instituted and convinced everybody by a commission of the law of scarcity and then called it fossil fuel. It's not fossil fuel. You know, I work in I work in gas and oil to a certain extent, not a lot, but have some, you know, personally on the ground. But I mean, on the ground enough to know, you know, I own the company. So it's like no enough to know how it works. and i know that there was a point in time in colorado where all the national natural gas uh you know wells and such out there were um extraction points were empty and they said oh no colorado's out of out of all natural natural gas it's gone ten years later they break the wax seal it's all full again it's the same thing with with uh you know the actual crude and such it is we are never going to run out of this This is a renewable resource. People need to understand there is no scarcity. We have more oil in Colorado than they have in Saudi Arabia. And when you look at the land west of the Mississippi, fifty two percent of that is nationally owned or federally owned now right now of that particular. Yeah, the west of the west of the Mississippi was really targeted by the federal government. You bet it was. They've got all kinds of crazy crap going out there, you know, and no drone flyovers in the land that they've got ten foot fences around it where you can't see what's over the ridge, you know, that sort of thing. I want to know what the heck's going on out there. If it's supposed to be our land, we should have access and know what's going on. But we don't. And that shadow government nonsense that's going on has got to come to an end. And be restored. And I think that's what President Trump is doing is he is in the process of restoring it. He said it. We're giving the government back to the people. Now, the next logical step is, is that the people have to step up and become a participant in. instead of watching, you know, a WWE or a WWF bout with, you know, two thug guys out there that are, that are rigging the whole thing. And it's an act for the public. We have to get in, we have to produce, we've got to become involved and we got to be able to hold people accountable. Accountability isn't optional. It's got to happen or we've got nothing. Absolutely. But again, You know, when I first joined the Republican Party in Hillsborough County, and I'm listening to a meeting and the president is standing up there or the chairman is standing up there telling us, you know, blah, blah, blah. Republicans are this, Democrats are this. I walk up to him and I say, all right, I'm new to this. I don't understand. The Democrats probably sent out an email and they've got the five bullet points and everybody gets in line and says the five bullet points for that week. It's the talking points for the week. And every week they do it. And every Democrat follows the rules. And he looks at me and says, well, that's the difference between Republicans and Democrats. Republicans are independent thinkers. You can't tell them what to do. And I'm like, okay. That doesn't necessarily mean it's right. Maybe you should educate them a little better. But then as I've gotten more involved, that's where I do come into the inevitable that, the Republicans will not get involved until their life is impacted. So I do stick to that theme. And the only place that these people are going to be impacted, they're the conservatives, they're the ones that are doing all the right things. They're raising their kids, they've got households, they have bank accounts, and some of them are actually in the stock market, probably more than the The only way to get these people off the couch, to your point, to participate, they have to be impacted. And that's why I say something's going to happen in the markets. We've got to be prepared. And I will tell you that by being out of the market, what I've told people is when you look at the manufacturing, when you look at what Trump's trying to do, bring manufacturing back to the United States. So they say, well, you're in cash. You're going to end up losing all that to inflation, blah, blah, blah. And I said, you know what? I'm okay with that because I've offset it with gold and silver. But the long and the short to that is, and I love to use P&G because I worked for Dial for years. I worked for Kimberly-Clark for years. I always competed with P&G. But the long and short is P&G doesn't make anything here. They use third-party manufacturers. They make it across the country. They are actually really entrenched in China. So... If P&G is the number one manufacturer in so many consumer packaged goods, all it's going to take is somebody as small manufacturer to actually create something that's just as good, maybe even not as good, but the tariffs will impact P&G. This guy in the United States will begin his manufacturing, and that will become what I try to convince my son on, who loves to play the options. The game of patience. You have to watch as these companies grow, as they begin to gain market share, those are the companies that you would need to invest in early on. And this is literally how the Rockefellers and the Kennedys did it in the twenty nines. It is a transfer of wealth. And hopefully we can educate enough people to be prepared for when this happens, because there will be a lot of people decimated. And one of the biggest things and one of the best opportunities that I've had is I didn't grow up with that much. I think you and I talked about that last night, seven hundred square foot house. I wanted to do better than my my parents, my mom in particularly. But the long and the short is I never went into debt. And debt is going to kill us all. Because literally, if debt comes into play and the banks need their money, they can restructure your debt. They can ask you to pay it back. The laws are set up to protect the banks. So they could actually crush you. They could actually crush you. And the more and more I watch what's happening in the world of finance, I'm watching that margin creep begin to escalate. So the younger kids are now gambling in the market. Because they don't know how. They're legalizing gambling in sports so they can steal their money that way. But the long and the short is I watch people buy more and more stock on margin. When that margin day comes, when that margin call happens, they call you up and say, you need to repay your money. Okay, I may have Intel at nineteen today and I bought it at sixty five. So that's not going to get me to repay that. I'm going to have to sell my good stuff. That's when the margin calls come in. The good stuff has to be sold with the bad stuff. And we have to do enough homework in front of that to understand when those issues hit. You've got to be ready with cash to buy those things. So that's literally my game plan. Watch manufacturing come back to the United States. Slowly invest in those worlds. But be ready for the margin call, which means have cash available. But you need, everybody needs to clear their deck of debt. And I don't know really a whole lot of people that don't have debt. We've had little soirees at our house. Of course, all the middle-aged, over-educated White House wives, their husbands are drinking beer, watching sports on the back porch. Nobody has a clue. And I'm talking about how I've never even had credit card debt. And they all just look at me with a blank stare like, how do you do that? Yeah. You never start. Stop studying for a while is a good start. You never start. I have a question about silver. You talked about gold, where gold is going to go. What about silver? What are your thoughts on that? Well, historically, silver has always followed gold. Silver is... And when I say gold, and I mentioned JP Morgan to you the other day, JP Morgan was actually found guilty of manipulating the price of precious metals through the SLV and the GLD. Those are what your brokers will tell you to go buy. That's simply the paper market. There's so many derivatives backed against that stuff that none of it's real. I think it's a bad plan, really bad plan. Well, it is a bad plan, but it was created by the banks so they could short it. By shorting it, they drive the prices down. So your broker could then tell you that gold is a pet rock, blah, blah, blah. But because gold is more universal with governments, it's less apt to be shorted as heavily as silver is. And one of the things that I will tell you about silver, and again, I built my portfolio. Again, I bought about twenty percent in physical gold and silver. The long and short is. I've got forty percent of that are in gold and sixty percent in silver because silver has been suppressed for so long because it's more of a target because it's not functioning in the governments like silver is. So that's the game they play. Historically, silver has a range or a ratio of about sixteen to one. We got as high as eighty eighty eight to eighty nine to one silver to gold. So that was back when it was around twenty five dollars an ounce and gold started to spike. So what you'll see is silver will always follow gold. Well, people say it was historically sixteen percent. Yeah. Back in the sixteen hundreds, it was since the Federal Reserve was born. It's been around forty to one. So we've dipped as low as like fifty eight, sixty to one. So it's coming down. It's coming in play. But what you'll see is gold will always go first because governments drive the price. Silver will always follow. But I do believe when this breaks, Barrier breaks, when this dam breaks, when the world goes back on a gold standard, more of a gold relationship. You hear Trump talk about natural resources. You hear him talking about this. You hear the bricks talk about baskets. We're all just trying to determine what the basket's going to be. Is the basket being X percent gold, X percent silver, X percent oil, X percent? It's all going to be natural resource backed. It's not going to be fiat, not backed by anything. So what will actually happen is that silver and people are saying that silver could and should end up back to that sixteen to one. so in my opinion you watch gold you watch it escalate you still have time with silver silver slowly catches up just like i started buying my silver around twenty four it got up to one twenty ironically when silver was up to one twenty of course everybody's happy then it gets crushed well it gets crushed for two reasons one company called jane street is a hedge fund that's actually doing all this manipulation behind the scenes they've been caught involved in a lot of illegal activity they're under investigation And they're buying a bunch of silver because you know what? They're already caught. They need to follow through because they need to crush the people that are coming after them. So they put a bunch of short positions in. But the ironic part is then comes Iran. So the fact that the Iranian war starts, the fact that Besant has got a bunch of holds on their currencies through the treasuries so they can't sell it to fund their own war, the only thing they can sell is gold and silver. So when they tell you, the media, the narrative that gold and silver are now collapsing, this is the seventies all over again. Well, if you look at the seventies charts, they all dropped, but they all spiked back up. So the reality, this is the war. This is the government's funding their war. Silver is the easiest one to dump. So they ran it up and they dumped it. Silver will get back on the bandwagon as soon as... And today was a good example. Trump comes out and says... This portion of the war is over. Now we're going to work through getting the boats through the straits. And what do you see? You see gold and silver start rerunning again. They're going to continue to go up. So as long as there's no war going on, these governments that are being sanctioned with the treasuries won't have to sell their gold and silver and they'll all get back on the bandwagon of gold and silver. What do you think is your go-to? Well, it's always been a historical go-to. But when you talk about it. What do you think silver is? You know what? So if gold gets to that fifteen to twenty thousand dollars an ounce, silver can easily be fifteen hundred. So, again, if you're looking at just simple ratios and even then it's not enough. So what actually has to happen, and here's where the problem is, and this is where the doom and gloom comes in, because I've had this conversation with my son. If the dam breaks and gold and silver do spike like this, it's because the world sold our treasuries and our dollar dies. And that's not good. It's literally not good. So I do know that Trump's working to keep that from happening. So therein lies, I think this thing should have happened a long time ago, but it's been saved for a lot of different reasons. I talked about the cryptocurrency. I talked about the stable coins. They're forcing stable coins. to buy treasury bonds, to back the stable coins. If you want to exist in the United States, be a part of the Genius Act. The Clarity Act will add even more clarity to that. When people start reading about the Clarity Act that the Senate won't pass, ironically, that that is actually the precursor to keep the central bank digital currency from coming into existence. And it actually takes a digital platform and moves it across the world to enable other countries and other citizens in those countries to stay away from their government's own central bank digital currency. So there's a whole lot of things that are happening. But if everything just fell apart and gold and silver hit what they should hit, that means we're in trouble. So I'm not sure I want that. I'm okay with not being the richest man on the block when everybody else is poor. It doesn't work. So I believe there's going to be soft transitions. The ironic part, when you look at two thousand eight, the housing crash, we all know it was manufactured by our banks. It was the United States selling mortgage backed securities around the world because we're the world currency. We bankrupted the world. I noticed in the feed that you put in there, I talked about the Basel three. The Basel three was literally put into place right after the housing crash. So in two thousand nine, they put in the Basel three. It started working for this. And what they said was when the Basel three is implemented. They will require banks to hold eighty five percent of all their liabilities in one tier one asset. That only tier one asset is gold. So it's forced the banks to buy gold. Gold has never been purchased by the central banks in such a velocity. Two thousand eleven, it started kicking out. You could go out and look at the trend of the banks that are buying gold and it's just gone straight up. What are they preparing for? And then Powell sits in front of the banking committee, and he actually sat in front of the banks, and they're all asking him about the Basel III. Well, Powell, through the Federal Reserve, is actually labeling it the Basel III endgame. Well, that's an auspicious term. What are we trying to end? So if you go back to the seventies, this thing all happened once before. What did they get rid of? They got rid of the savings and loans. So now they're looking to take out the regional banks because the regional banks are predominantly the guys that are playing in the commercial real estate. When I see commercial real estate, our vacancies are up, I think, three times what they were up during the housing crash. So if commercial real estate has trouble, the regional banks own eighty percent of commercial real estate loans. So when these when these buildings start to default, The regional bank takes that hit. The regional banks aren't big enough to be under the Federal Reserve umbrella. They have to have so many assets to be addressed or under the right scrutiny. So the regional banks don't like the Federal Reserve umbrella and the requirements they're held to because of their strictness and how they are. So you think to yourself, okay, is it strict? Is it good? Is it bad? They don't tell you. But are they literally trying to remove... the regional banks so I can bank directly with the Federal Reserve. And if you watch the thing called the FedNow, the FedNow was launched, I think, back in twenty three. The FedNow was a direct relationship with me to bank with the Federal Reserve directly. And you can actually go on the FedNow page and you can see all the banks that are playing along with it. So either you play along and a great example, I bank with Fifth Third out of Cincinnati. Lived in Cincinnati for four years. But the long and the short is they're not on the list. And they're concerned with what I talk about. They're listening. They understand. I'm sure they're listening. People are always listening. It spooks all over the place. Well, but the question is this. And I get this question all the time. Well, where do I bank? I don't know. Because here's the thing. If Fifth Third is not on the FedNow page, that means they're not playing along with the FedNow. That means they're not playing along with the program that the Federal Reserve is trying to push down. So if the Federal Reserve wins, Fifth Third will be put out of business. They're a big regional player. So the banks that are playing along, are they the right place to be? Well, if they are and we lose this battle, then I'm forced into a central bank digital currency overnight. What is the best option? I love that question. I always say everybody's financial situation is different. You need to understand what you're getting into. You need to understand where you're going to put your money. And you have to have a plan if things go awry because either side could lose. So I've been in this game since twenty one. I've been watching either side could lose. I believe Trump's going to win this battle. I believe it's been a plan in place for a long time. I believe we're going to go on the gold standard. He's going to remove us from the petrol dollar. This war in Iran is exposing how London is controlling the futures markets in oil. We get two percent of our oil from Iran. Why is my price is high? Trump's already come out and said, you guys raised your price the day the war started. I'm watching you. You better lower them when I stop it. So the people that don't lower them are a problem. Chevron just comes out and they say, well, it's going to be months before we can address our pricing. OK, if I was an investor, would I invest in Chevron? Not a chance. They're part of the corporate elite that are driving this thing. So Trump will lose. We just have to listen. We have to educate ourself and we have to be able to see the reverse correlation to what they're saying. because they're all lying to us. So I've rambled on for a long time. Well, I tell you what, let's have you come back on again because I find your information absolutely fascinating. And it all makes sense to me just, and this is my own probably bias from having watched the interactions globally as well as at home, is that I think the good guys are in charge. I really do. And I think that nothing is actually ever clean when you're in a war. We're in a war right now. It's not just with Iran. It's an internal war in the United States. We have different players that are pushing and pulling, but I think we already want it. And we're kind of in the cleanup right now. And so... Well, we're in the exposure stage to all the sheep that live in the United States. That's exactly that. And so, you know, and so... I think that a degree of calm is required right now and not to panic when you see things changing or think, oh, I got to do this right now or I'm going to lose my opportunity. There's always opportunities out there. I did a little investing years ago. I did some day trading and I made a lot of money day trading. It was just kind of one of those things I just did for fun and actually to prove something to my husband that we went into a competition. And I soundly beat him with, with the day trading that I did. And what I, what I know is that whenever things go poorly in one area, something else fills in the gap and goes good. Okay. So like, I think they're destroying right now the big, Yeah, I think they're destroying the big box stores right now, which all deserve to be, you know, to be, honestly, I think it's a good thing. Because it's all tied in with the big corporations like BlackRock, Vanguard, Arabella, State Street, all of that sort of thing. Which I think we're going to have to see a shift back to local businesses. And I am observing... that that is probably what's happening right now. So the opportunity for people who are resourceful and have some skills is to think about what would you like to do if you're not in this system of industrial system of just get on a career track. Why don't you get creative and build something? Try to think of something that's going to be necessary or sustainability, raise your own food to take that stress off of you. Because I do think that this thing is going to kind of crumble a little bit one way or another. It doesn't scare me at all. It really doesn't. It's going to happen. It's happened over and over again in history. It is an assurity because nothing ever lasts forever. There's always a mix going on. Well, there's a thing that's out there that's called the fourth turning. And the fourth turning clearly identifies these shifts occur every hundred to a hundred and twenty years. And this, okay, so this fourth turning is literally the digital age. The last fourth turning was, you know, mass production. everything the forge did, all the things with engineering. And we literally went from wooden wheels to rubber wheels. So the long and the short is this is the next fourth turning, and people need to be prepared for it. And I love what both my kids are doing. My daughter's chosen a corporate environment, but it's literally what I would call as close to government corporation as you can get. She works for a railroad. And, you know, you see, I get Social Security, but she gets this, and this is the government. Why is that one so much better? But my son has gone into business for himself, helping with M&A, and he is actually saying he's watching the Trump impact to what you said at the small business and midterm business like no tomorrow. So all these large companies work with PricewaterhouseCooper and, you know, all these big accounting firms. And he's kind of working with the smaller groups and their phone is ringing off the hook because these midterm and larger companies are saying that these smaller companies have all this opportunity because they're in the United States. And so he's having a blast. And I said, my son's name is Nick. I said, Nick, here's what I'll tell you. You understand finance. You understand cryptocurrencies. I walked around with a dollar bill in my pocket. I am literally clueless to that world. What I will tell you is when this happens, you are so positioned to your point to create a business to help so many transition because there's going to be a lot of people are lost. So I always tell people, the more you're aware, the more you understand, the more you're going to be called on to help people get through this transition. whether it's financial, whether it's physical, whether it's how to eat, it's how to survive. Psychological. It is. That's going to be the biggest. That is literally going to be the biggest thing that we're going to have to get past is the psychological panic. And I always bring it in because I raise horses, right? And I raise and do some training with horses. And I have pretty good success with rescuing and turning up. panic, neglected, abused horse around. And honestly, what I see happening in the United States is pretty much everybody's been neglected, abused as from the system. And they're so abused, they don't even know that they're abused to the point of this is just normal. No, it's not normal. And when you come out of a situation like that, and I'm just going to use a horse for an example. I have one horse that I wanted to buy for a long time. I've told this story a few times. If you've heard it, well, go get a coffee, right? Whoever's listening out there. But this one horse, and I tried to get the guy to sell me this horse because he was not in a good place. And he was a good horse. So he finally, he didn't pay his bills and asked me, he said, you've got a farrier there. Can you help me with my horses? And I'm like, absolutely. I will never watch an animal suffer, ever. And so I'm truly an animal lover and truly a human lover. I really do like people and I do like animals. I like the world that God built for us. And so I said, yeah, I said, I'll help you with a farrier, but you're going to sell me that horse. And I said, there's the trade. And he's like, okay, which was a good thing. He couldn't really take care of them. And the animals were suffering. Okay. It's hard for people to admit that. They couldn't admit it. And it's like, I gave him an easy way out. You know, I, I, and such. So went and the farrier went over there. He came back and he's like, I am so disgusted right now. He said, I never washed my hands. In winter, he goes, I'm washing my hands. So we went and got the horse. And he was standing in about an eight by ten stall in approximately twelve to fourteen inches of manure, liquid manure slop. It was disgusting. Got him up. His eyes are like this. He can't even see. He's so alone and panicked. It was absolutely painful to watch. And before that, he was a good horse, okay? But he had gotten in a situation where he was, it was like when you put a horse in, they're a herd animal, they do not like solitary confinement. There were really no windows. He never got to go outside. He didn't get to see other horses. That's torture to a horse, okay? So we brought him, we got him here and he gets off the trailer and he is a freaking mess. Took me three baths before I would even let him in my barn. Okay. Now my barn, I'll grant it, is incredibly clean. We vacuum the aisles every day. I mean, it is a clean facility. We don't have any poop sitting around me. Everything gets handled, right? He comes into the barn. We finally get him washed up. He can't pee. He can't, he hadn't been maintained. Maintained. He's absolutely in a panic. He would stand there and try to go to the bathroom and he would just sweat because he couldn't go to the bathroom. And he screamed for three months. This horse screamed. So I'd go out there. I put a halter on him, walk him down and touch noses with all the horses. They're all looking at him like going, man, what's your problem? This is like dying and going to horse heaven. And so I put him back in his stall and I take the halter off again. and walk out, and he starts shaking, and all of a sudden he's screaming, just screaming. He wants to go back outside. I put the halter back on him. We go touch noses. We go touch noses. He would try to lunge at you, to bite at you, to kick you. I mean, he was a mess, okay? Get him down, walk him back out. I did this over and over again. This is a month-long process, right? Finally, I look at him one day, and I'm like, You're a faker. So I grabbed his nose as he's looking and I grabbed his nose. I'm like, sir, you're a faker. And I kissed the end of his nose. And I'm like, OK, we're done with this right now today. I've got you figured out. Put him out in his run because they all have private runs. And I planted myself in front of the Dutch door like this. And I just looked off in the end of the distance and I never moved. And I sat there for about, oh, I'm going to say an hour, hour and a half. And I just didn't move. I'm like, we're going to stand here unwavering until you get this figured out and make him confront his fears. After a while, he starts going, okay, you're crazier than I am. He's kind of working his way back towards me, but he's like this. He's just freaked out, totally freaked out. He finally gets up close to me and he's doing like this. And I didn't move. And he finally, he brings his face a little closer, a little closer. He's like six inches from my head. Now this is a horse that's been striking. Okay. One gene to bite and strike. And I'm like, we either deal with this now and we come to terms or he's going to throw me through the, I'm a smallish person. He's going to grab me and throw me into the stall. And we're going to have to have to do it a different way, you know, or he's going to stop the snot on me for a minute, but we'll get it figured out. So anyhow, he stops and he brings his face close and he brings his eye like six inches from my eye. And I just sit there and we're looking in each other's eyes for a minute, probably a minute and a half. He never moved a muscle. I didn't move. He didn't move. And all of a sudden, takes a deep breath and boom, he puts his head and his nose on my chest. And it was like, I'm home. And trust is restored. He never bit or kicked after that again. And he's the one that we put new riders on because he'll actually look back at them and go, are you okay? I'm okay. This is a good place. And that's where the United States has to be. When people show up and they care, And they care enough. And God put it out that way. It's in the Bible. He's got the instruction manual. It's pretty clear to understand if anybody wants to look at it. That when we serve God and we serve others, everything else is given to us. You don't have to fight for it. You don't have to cheat. You don't have to lie. You don't have to manipulate. You don't have to victimize other people when you follow God and you just show up ready to help. It's unbelievable how fast you can turn around. But there's a condition on that. When you do what I did with that horse, and I've done that with several horses, many horses, because I like rescue. I don't like perfect horses. I like ones that are struggling a little bit. It's a lot more interesting and fun to me to say, hey, you know what? Let's be friends. We can do this together and then we'll have adventures that will be fun. Right. And, you know, the thing about it is, is once you go down that path and you gain the trust of others, your future has to be bomb proof and absolutely amazing. That you stand there unwavering, doing the right thing every single time you're tested. Tests are going to come. And that you're confronted with that by a hurting population. I think right now the population is ready for a leader who's actually honest. But that's going to come with some painful transparency. The only way to be honest is to say things that people don't want to hear. That's right. And right now, I'm going to tell you right now, all the candidates that I've seen in Michigan suck. They suck down here too. And they suck. And it's like, if people don't stop this crazy running around in the stall, it's the only way, it's the only way, it's the only way. And stop and look at what we have. If you're doing that, you're the problem because you can't think enough to make a good decision based on facts. And you'll follow those opinion lemmings right off the cliff and say, oh, it's only the Republican Party is the only way. Oh, the Democrat Party. Oh, this influencer, that influencer telling me the truth. They're all lying. Okay. Everything has been infiltrated. And you're going to have to get real smart real quick to figure out who's telling you the truth and who's lying to you. The quickest way from point A to point B in that is ask God for discernment and wisdom. He does give us what we ask for. But you're going to have to stop and listen and stop running around like a crazed horse who's been abandoned and victimized. You're going to have to start settling down and being the calm in the storm where we can think and make good decisions. get together with people who actually want to fix it, not for their own gain, but because they just want to leave the world a better place. Because this isn't our, this is like a temporary work assignment. I know I'm, I'm sixty two years old. I'm not planning on living forever. I don't want to be here forever. This is not my home. But while I'm here, I'm going to maximize my time and try to leave it better than what it was handed to us. Well, that's why I want to talk to the younger people much more than I want to talk to older. So you're younger than me. So congratulations. Oh, that's good to know. But understanding what you said about the horse to give you a little indication of what kind of pile onto that. I mean, I'm so far down the rabbit hole that I was waiting. I was waiting for the message that Renegade was going to win Friday night. Who is Renegade? Renegade is Obama. What is that all about? But, but what wasn't somebody named sovereign sovereignty one. So is there still a message? I'm sorry. I lived in Evansville, Indiana for a few years and there's tracks up there. And what you learned is you bet on the horses at the end of the season that are the long shots, because the long shots are also the ones that haven't paid their stall fees and the people that run the, the track need to have their money too so a lot of games out there for what's going on but i also look at and i said to some people in i said the reality is the democrats have been exposed the next few years we're going to expose the republicans and i was saying this inside the republican you know executive committee and i said we're going to watch that we're going to need to understand that so when you understand the long and the short and as deep as i go unfortunately We see immigration. Immigration's killed us. So what is the statue of liberty? We didn't stop it. It was the Republicans and the Democrats. Well, but it's worse than that. Let it go. It's worse than that. Who gave us the statue of liberty? And what's the statue of liberty? We bring in your huddled masses. The statue of liberty was given to us by France. France is pretty much where the Rothschilds existed for years. Is that the entire start of that? No, it's not the start of it. It's just kind of a continuation of it. What do they do? They pit us against each other. And I say this every day. United we stand, divided we fall. Why is there two parties? There shouldn't be two parties. We're divided. You bet. They divided us from the beginning. So the long and short is I believe this is also a function of the collapse of the two-party system. Which is wonderful. It's absolutely wonderful. But we also need to clean up or remove all campaign finance. Absolutely. The lobbyists, the donors, they're driving our elections. The citizens are not. Somehow that's got to change. And I don't know where that comes in this process, but it's got to be part of the process. I'm going to tell you where it starts is when we get rid of all money in our elections so that it doesn't become an industry. We have the technology and the ability to do that right now. I agree. We have the ability to win without the money because if there's money in it, somebody is asking for favors. They're jerking your chain. I don't care. Nobody can convince me of that otherwise. If you're taking money, like there was one of the candidates in Michigan, a Republican candidate, it was exposed that he took seven hundred thousand dollars from DTE. DTE is contributing to all. It's the energy that's the energy industry. Yeah. Yeah, to these people. So, you know, you look at that and there's no reason to have money in the elections. There is no reason to do it. We don't need to look at these fake polls or the fake who's earning the most money. Well, I'm going to bet on that person. That is absolutely ridiculous. I'm going to tell you, as the chairman of the U.S. Taxpayers Party, which is the Constitution Party in the state of Michigan, we are seeing explosive growth because the people of Michigan are like, we're done with this nonsense. You cannot win in a two-party system because they control the game. The only way you win is to leave the game and you start making up the new rules. We just had five new county committees that are setting up right now. I got three new ones yesterday. We are growing. So I'll challenge you with that option. So here's what I'll tell you. We literally have in Hillsborough County about a third, a third, a third, NPAs, Democrats, Republicans. So we're pretty evened up. And what we know for sure is the, and what I know for sure is that our leaders are chosen in the primaries and buying, being an NPA, you don't get to play in that world. You have to take, we don't have to go to a primary. No, no. I mean, it's a better process. No, there's a lot of things, but in the world that we live in today, my, my, because I'm controlling the money in the HREC, I put together budgets and I want our people to actually send out that in your face to NPAs. If you don't like your politicians being selected for you, change to a Republican. Or change to a... But in Florida, the primaries choose it. So you'll only end up with the two going at the general. Do you never have a third party on the ballot? There's a guy that's absolutely phenomenal. We call him, he goes by the nickname Matt the Welder. I don't even know his last name, but he ran for office before, knows his stuff backwards and forwards, ran as an MPA, six percent of the vote. We have third-party access here, and that's a wonderful option because you don't have to do the nonsense signature process, which is all rigged. You don't have to go to the primaries, which is also rigged because they're choosing the candidates. You can literally go on a third-party process. But they never win. Well, that's not true. Dusty Ventura is an independent. And so there is a way. Just because it hasn't won in the past. I get there's opportunity there. But until we break that paradigm. I'm pushing people to sign up as Republicans because we can control the Republicans more than we control the Democrats. Now I sound part of the problem, right? And I get it. You do, because I'm like, I have no faith that the party, that the university can work. No, I don't either, because what I've been trying to push our team for is vetting the candidates. We don't have good candidates. They're all idiots. They're all playing the money game. It's all about the money. We had a lady named Josie Tomcow. Who has been termed out. She's in our Florida house. She was termed out. She moves. She runs again. She wins. This is her third opportunity. She's moving again to run again. The people in Hillsborough County said enough's enough. They didn't vote for her. But the independents don't come anywhere close. So this guy that ran before, very sharp, had a great following on Facebook, six percent of the vote because people don't understand. He is now a Republican, so he can run for the ag commissioner. And he's going to get a whole lot more people to vote for him just because now he's under the umbrella. And I believe this is where Trump's strategy is. He chose the Republican Party because there are more conservatives in that environment. When he gets through this, that will be the deterioration of the two-party system. But you got to play in their game to change the game. Yeah, I don't believe that because I've seen how it works in Michigan here. They have done such a lousy job where it's seventy two percent of non-affiliated population is not unaffiliated voters because they hate the party so much. And they know we know what's going on here with it. And so you go to events here, the Republican Party events. It's a joke. It's absolutely a joke to see what's going on there. And so I'm we're seeing a huge uptick in third party involvement. We are. We are, too. And so, I mean, I think that our time is now, you know, one way or the other. The time is now to get a good candidate in that the Republican and Democrat parties don't control. And I'm not sure that we can get anybody in through those parties that aren't controlled, but I would like to, I don't care who, I don't care who wins as long as they're honest. Honestly, I will back a good candidate, but we do have an option here of having the constitution party, the U S taxpayers party, which is just, we're just rolling. It's amazing. The people who are into conservation are, just love us and understand how bad the DNR and EGLE has absolutely subverted this nation and how they're using that to put public-private partnerships on our state land. The Republicans watched them do it. We have four point six million acres that the DNR owns in Michigan, that they're clear cutting. Well, I think you guys, as you mentioned, you're the forefront of corruption. So I think you're farther along in the education process to the citizens. I still live in the perfect world of Florida with the gold standard of elections run by the Bush family, originally and now DeSantis, who ran against Trump, who took ten million dollars from Ken Griffin, one of the dirtiest hedge fund managers, and he runs Citadel in the country. But hey, everything's fine down here. We're about two or three steps ahead of you then, because everybody here thought that they could work within the system until we saw what You can't do within a two party system. It is impossible because they've got the game to rig. And so, you know, I really do think that Michigan is the head of the snake. And the reason being is that we are so natural resource rich. They want the water. They want the they want the timber and the water. We get extra rain here. So we have great fruit crops and vegetables and they want the water here. And and the the resources that we have were mineral and and resource rich here. And I think that's why we're always on the game. I think that's why we're so ahead of the game. And I also think that's why the people of Michigan have seen the game. They know the game and they realize that it's it's a fraud, the whole thing top to bottom. And you can't win playing the game. You got to change the game. And that's what we're seeing here. You know, and if you guys can do it through a Republican Party, I'll be a supporter of it. I don't really care. But right now we are. But I do think that it'll be a demise after this election. It is funny because, again, I see where the money comes from because I'm the treasurer. We're having our gala fundraising event. And it's ironic that the majority of the people coming are now the politicians to hear the other politicians speak. I've literally gone on record and said, at this particular point, I'm not going. Oh, the eyebrows that I got. Oh, the treasure is not even going to go to support our event. That's right. Because all the politicians that are speaking have gone to so many events that the people that the traditional politicians, there were more than what normal people were even in the audience. And so they're talking to each other and nobody else cares here. But, you know, I guess the point that we agree on. you know when you get to a point where you've got aligned values we have very aligned values we want the united states to come back we all have different ways we think that that can be accomplished that's fantastic the great thing is is that we're aligned on the values of wanting to see this nation back to one nation under God with honesty, integrity, transparency. How we get there, there may be different ways in different states, different communities. I don't really care. But the one thing that unites all of us is that everyone has to get in the game and start caring and and run for office, support good candidates who you know have checked out, not follow the opinion lemmings off the cliff, but that you know and you can get behind, and then run the race as hard as you can to help break this cycle of corruption. Which is tough, because as you said in the beginning of our show, there aren't any good ones running. And I think there are a few good ones, but And the way I unfortunately look at it, I say, like, there's a kid that we know. He's running. And I've told him, this is how it's going to work. They're going to give you money. It's going to be a little dirty. You're going to shag it off. The next one's going to be dirty or dirty or dirty. I said, so here's the thing. You got a bunch of debt. You just got out of school. You paid for all. You got a law degree. You are in debt. You're going to take money from somebody that's going to help you win this election because that's the paradigm and that's the rules that you were told. And you can't do that. And I look at it myself. And the reason I ran is because I didn't need anybody else's money. I will say again, I spent twenty grand. But to your point earlier, thirteen thousand of it went to registration. Seven thousand is all I spent on my own race. And I almost won. So money is not the concept. It is the message. And how do we get that message out there? So I'm being honest. Well, this is this is a great, great discussion. And I look forward to that. I love it. I love having discussions like this. I think it's fantastic because, you know, we come to the core of what you know, what makes America great. It's not what we believe. It's how we get there that we usually disagree with. And there's usually some merit to both, you know, and there are different nuances and, you know, that we can go to. But at any rate, well, let's come to the end of the show here. And I want to always end every show with a prayer. OK, so let's let's go ahead and do that right now. Looks like I dropped something off because I all of a sudden had had our count on one of the feeds go down from higher down to almost nothing. So we'll see what happened there. But what's that? They're tired, too. Yeah. Why is it two hours long? Yeah, well, I was here for three. So there you go. So I'm ready to go grab some lunch. Dear Heavenly Father, thank you so much for this day. Thank you for John and Billy and all the wonderful people out there that put their lives on the line for this nation and wanting to see your good purposes achieved here. We ask your blessing on every single person who's out there, every patriot who has stood unwavering against being ostracized or losing friends or family and realizing that all those sacrifices and those loss losses that have happened have not gone unnoticed by you and you know their pain you know that what's in their heart you know that they want the right things to happen just guide and direct us give us discernment and wisdom and help us to always follow you no matter what the world does that we would always follow you keeping our eyes on you knowing that you're in our corner, you're fighting for us every day. You are working for our best good all the time, and we love you for it so very much. And we want you to know that we love you. We choose you. We choose to have a relationship with you. We choose all the blessings, the gifts. and the sacrifices that you've made for us and are very thankful. In the name of Jesus Christ, we pray. Amen. So with that said, I go to this part of the show, boys and girls, ding, ding, ding, ding, go to brandenburgforgovernor.com because I'm the best non-conceder who's ever not conceded in history of the United States of America. And I'd like to have a discussion with the rightful president of the United States, President Donald J. Trump in cowboy boots. I wear them every day, so I'll wear them better. We'll have that discussion. And then we'll go and we'll fix things and have a wonderful discussion on how to best fix the United States. And the quickest path to achieve the goals that he's clearly working on. And I support President Trump. I think he's doing a wonderful job. I have nothing but good things to say about all the good guys. And and seventeen is still my favorite number. So there you go. You can take that as a word. And so with that said, God bless you all. God bless all those whom you love and God bless America. Make it a great day. It's up to you. And I will see you tomorrow. I'm going on with some people that are associated with John Birch Society. And we're going to be talking about how the government is being moved on the blockchain. and what that looks like, what that could look like, and how it's going to get rid of perhaps the corrupted FOIA process. So all good things in the works for us. Have a great day. John, stay on the line here a minute as I end this, and we'll talk a little bit. But have a great day, and we'll see you tomorrow.