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So one of the insiders just wrote into the show and said, you know, we don't have the Epstein files. We're never going to have all of the EBS files and nobody's even going to go to jail. I think you're absolutely right on that. I think those things were destroyed long ago. You know, they've been floating around with both parties for, you know, more than a decade. So that that's been cleansed. But the really problem, the biggest problem is the last comment from the listener and that is no one's ever going to go to jail. You know, I said when Trump first got in, I'm going to give them a year. I'll give Pam Bondi a year. We're approaching now the year in January, it'll be a year. January 20th, it'll be a year. And I said, if nobody has gone to jail or there's no trials, significant trials that have started, I'm gonna unleash. And that's the problem. You know, we have investigations in the House, investigations in the senate. 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There is a great story in the Federalists, also the Wall Street Journal about how the average person cannot keep up with the persistent inflation. What does this mean? And what does this mean to the Republicans? And more importantly, what does it mean to the Republic and you? We've just crossed a Rubicon, if you will, a place we're very close to getting off of the bridge onto the other side where you cannot undo what has been done. We're very close to that. And I want to take you through the cycles of debt. There is a cycle of debt and it has happened over and over again in history several different times. So we know exactly how it happened, what comes next, and we can chart where we are. There are five different parts, phases in this cycle of debt and I'll show you what they are historically and then where we are. And then I, I want to show you what's being done because, well, you'll understand. And then what do you do? We'll do that this hour. Stand by. 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Dutch Republic did the same thing. They invented modern finance while keeping spending in check, turning a swamp into the world's largest trading hub. Then the British Empire did it after the glorious revolution. It brought fiscal stability and a gold backed pound that the world trusted for over 200 years. When that fell, America did it after World War II. Our debts were manageable, our currency was solid, we were backed by gold. Our productivity was unmatched, attached, and we prospered. That stage one, discipline into prosperity. And prosperity, if not guarded, always leads to the second stage, complacency into excess. Okay, so success creates this fatal illusion. The moment you know that where we all look at each other and go like this is great. It's going to be like this forever. It's always been like this and it'll always be like that. That Rome began borrowing heavily to pay for endless bread and circuses. France funded the palaces and the pensions and the perpetual wars through loans it could never repay. Britain in the late 19th century took its global empire for granted and levered, levered itself into World War I. Then came World War II. And then America, beginning in the 1970s, untethered from. Untethered the dollar from gold and discovered that debt could replace discipline. So the second stage of the debt cycle is the age of entitlement expansion. Imperial overreach, cheap credit, and political bribery disguised as compassion. Any of that sound like we've been there, done that? The Dutch called it Wynnhandel, the trade in the wind. Paper promises that replace real production. We call it stimulus. Easy money, deficit spending. Different words, same exact sin. That leads you into stage three, financialization that goes into fragility. This is the most seductive stage. Rome debased its money until it was worth Less than 2% of the original silver. The Byzantines watered down their unshakable dollar, if you will, and confidence collapsed. France printed their money backed by land until they were worth less and used as wallpaper. Weimar Germany did the same thing. They destroyed a thousand years of savings in 18 months. Japan, 1990, papered over its real estate collapse with 30 years of zero interest rates. And America after 2008 discovered this intoxicating illusion started by George W. Bush. I can violate the free market system to save the free market system. That's quantitative easing. Money conjured up without Cost without any restraint, without any consequence. In stage three, nations convince themselves they're immune to any kind of gravity. Okay, this time it's different. We can manage this debt while modern tools. You just don't understand that, that they'll, you know, the rules no longer apply. You don't understand, really don't understand. The old rules always apply because math is math. And stage three always ends exactly the same way. Wherever it's tried, the markets no longer trust the promises they're being fed. Which leads us into stage four, the breaking point. Every empire eventually reaches a moment where its debts cannot be serviced. They can't be inflated away quietly. They can't be rolled over without consequence. Rome reached it when they froze prices and shattered the last productive parts of its economy. France reached it in 1788 when it can no longer borrow. And that whole thing, you know, came to a head. Britain reached it in 1931 when it abandoned the gold standard. Weimar reached it when inflation ate the soul of the nation and extremism took over. Japan reached it when its bond market effectively became nationalized, propped up by its own central bank. And right now, America, Europe, China, Japan and every other major power listen to this carefully. Have all hit stage four at the same time. Never before in human history has this happened. The bond markets are shaking, the currencies are all volatile. Politicians are praying that no one notices the numbers, you know, that they no longer add up. Stage four is not coming. We are now living inside the opening act. This is so important. Yesterday there was a story that said. Said that this is going to be the biggest Christmas season ever. And I'm wondering to myself, I see the prices. I go to McDonald's, I go to the grocery store. I was in Walmart this weekend. I see the prices and I'm looking at the prices, and every time I see the prices, I'm like, how do the. How does the average person afford any of this? And yet we're spending, spending, spending, and I don't understand it. And I fear that we are doing what the government is doing. We're just spending because we can. We think we can get out of it. Then comes stage five. It's called the reset. Every debt system ends in one of three ways. They inflate the money so they can pay off the debt. And that's just an absolute wipeout. Weimar Republic did it, France did it, Rome did it. Just a wipeout out. Then there's a hard default and political upheaval. Russia did that in 1917. Argentina did it over and over again. War leading to a new monetary order. That's another one. The Neopolitan, the, the Napoleonic wars, the British gold Standard, World War II, Bretton woods, all of that. But there is always a reset, always a new order that is born from the ashes of the old. And here's what makes this moment unprecedented. Rome collapsed by itself. France collapsed alone. Weimar collapsed by itself. Britain declined, while America rose. It was always one country coming down and another country coming up. This time, all countries, all countries on both sides. The free world and the not so free world, there's no one rising. China is drowning in its local government debt. It's never going to say this, but it is a paper. It's a paper tiger. Europe is fractured and coming apart at the seams. Japan, democratic time bomb. America is politically frozen and insolvent fiscally. So for the very first time in world history, every major civilization has reached its peak of the debt cycle. This time, all at the same moment, no one's coming up. So what does that mean? Well, for the very first time in human history, it means when it arrives, it's not going to be regional, it will be global. It's not going to be slow, it'll be systemic. It'll be everywhere. Now, the hope the history books don't tell and nobody in the media will tell you. This is with every one of those resets, every collapse, every crisis, it created the conditions for renewal. Rome, its fall opened the door for a new Christian civilization. France, the revolution there birthed the modern nation state. Britain's decline cleared space for America's rise. The devastation of World War II led to the great expansion of prosperity, the greatest that the world has ever seen. So the next chapter is not written. What happens to us is not written. And whether we rise or fall from what's coming depends not on Washington, not on Wall street, but on us in our homes and our families and our churches and our communities. The debt cycle is not prophecy. It is a warning. You cannot borrow your way out of moral, fiscal or spiritual bankruptcy. Now, I don't feel like I chose this path. I mean, this, this with Bretton woods and then 1972 coming off the gold standard and what they did in 2008 to bail out all the banks. I didn't have anything to say. Did you have anything to say about that? Because I didn't. I didn't. I wouldn't have chosen those things. But the world is putting something together and I want to show you what our choices are. Because right now people say, ah, you know, I Don't like what Donald Trump is doing or I don't like the World Economic Forum or I don't like what China. Okay, great. But I want you to know it's going to be one of these systems because it's being built. It always happens when one is coming down, some new system, usually a country, but not a country this time. A new system begins to rise and it happens before the fall. So I've been telling you for a long time about the World Economic Forum, but there are others that are rising and I want to show those to you because you need to understand what tomorrow may look like and then choose carefully which one you want. Personally, I don't like any of them, but one of them is definitely better than the others. I'll go there here in just a second. Standby. First, let me tell you about our sponsor. It's the burner launcher. This Christmas you want to give somebody a gift that will truly protect them. Take a look at the Burner compact launcher. 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Because there's architecture that is being built by in several different ways. Let me start with what Trump is doing. Trump is trying to rebuild the national engine, okay? Whatever you think about Donald Trump, he represents a counter movement to the system that, you know, has dominated the west since the 1990s. Reindustrialization. He's the first president to do it, and now he's accelerating it. And the idea is really simple. A nation cannot lead if a nation cannot build. We exported everything. So he's trying to bring everything back. Every major power shift in history from Rome and their roads to Britain's steel to America's assembly line, it was won by nations that could make things. So he's trying to get us to a point to where we can make things again. This is long term strategy. Strategy, then a strategic decoupling from China. Not isolation, but selective retreat in gradual stages. Okay? Every reset in history involves the great powers pulling supply chains back behind their borders to prepare for instability. That's what he's trying to do, then return us to a commodities based leverage. Right now, our dollar is not backed by anything. Anything. Our country is not backed by anything because we don't produce anything. And we were getting off of oil and gas and everything else. So he's trying to get us back onto commodities. Oil, gas, you know, rare earth minerals, industrial capacity. This is the quiet beginning of a new, if you will, Bretton woods, but with energy, not gold, as the centerpiece. That's why we weren't at cop 30. He's also moving towards a multi tiered dollar system. $1 for domestic use, another hard dollar for international trade and commodities. This is how Britain survived its resets. This is how America, he hopes, and I hope, will survive our own collapse. If we succeed, the next system will be nationalist leaning, commodity anchored, productivity based revival. This is what he's hoping on, is that AI, robotics, all of this stuff, energy, it will all be done here in America. And that will grow our GDP by, instead of like by 2 or 3% by 20% a year. Okay. But this is only one faction in a global struggle because Europe and China and the World Economic Forum have very different visions. And I want to share this these with you because they're really important. What Europe is doing is absolutely terrifying to me. They are making a technocratic fortress. They have the same debt cycle we have and China has and everybody else. But their answer is not decentralization. It's consolidation. Look at what they're building. They're building a digital identity system. A centralized continent wide digital passport controlling access to all your finances, health care, digital services. They are putting together programmable CBDCs. The European Central bank is openly discussing money that can expire or be restricted or directed towards approved spending. Okay. Roman emperors tried price controls. It doesn't work. That's, that's what Europe is doing. Except digital ones. They also are putting in net zero enforcement mechanisms, not incentives mandates control carbon quotas, digital tracking, cross border card carbon tariffs. Tariffs. This is not environmental policy. This is the blueprint for a new managed society. From the top down. It is a terrifying thing. The consolidation of military and industrial policy. Europe sees war on the horizon and their solution is a super state that can act without the veto of individual nations. They desire a future that is tightly integrated and centrally administered. Block they'll act as one and the people be damned. Okay, that one's a little terrifying. No, thank you. Now China is doing something entirely different. Their vision is ancient and modern. They're reviving the imperial tribute system. Except they're doing it with ports and railways and fiber optics and mineral rights. Instead of vassal states. They're closer to what we're kind of trying to do. The belt. And road is not infrastructure. It's a 21st century version of Roman roads or the British telegraph lines that were installed. They're putting together a skeleton. A future geopolitical. Geopolitical sphere. They're, they're spreading out. They're putting a dual currency system in there. It's going to have really internal control. A hard commodity backed by digital one for international trade. Trade. This is what they, they did long long time ago. And then state directed industrial dominance. What, what they're doing is building a fascistic society. And it too will be a, a controlled state. One other is left. I'll tell you about that and what to do about it next. First let me tell you about our sponsor. It's rough greens. 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And I took you through what everybody is building, I let me just take you through quickly the other, the other possibility that because structure is always built in these cycles, they've happened several times over in history. When an empire falls, the debt cycle starts in and it always ends the same way and then it always falls into some rising power and there is no nation state. That's why all of these things are global in nature. Because the World Economic Forum and the global NGOs, they're the other ones and they, they also have a post national vision. This one doesn't have any borders, this doesn't have any elections, but enormous influence over the elites. And the, the vision that is coming from the World Economic Forum is administrative world, not nations, but stakeholder regions, not citizens, but global participants. It's a. I mean, it's a continuation, a soft continuation of the medieval church model, you know, where this transnational authority comes above all local sovereignty and certainly above yours. And money is tied to behavior. ESG scores and carbon budgets and social impact credits and all of that. And so freedom is curtailed and it's all controlled by a group of elites. So those are the systems. When you say, I don't like this, well, which one do you like? Because those are the only systems being built right now. And that's why I am a supporter on what Donald Trump is trying to do. And, you know, Elon Musk just came out and he said AI and robotics are the only way to solve the $38 trillion in the US debt crisis prices. He is right. What that is looking for is something new that we can own that will make our economy grow tenfold because we need all of that extra tax revenue to pay down the debt. And if we don't do that, then we get into all kinds of problems with the debt that you don't even want to think about. Really bad. So that's why Trump is pushing for all of this. But if you lose the House and the Senate or he doesn't. Doesn't get enough of this electricity, these new electricity plants built, by the time he gets out of office, it's going to be too late. We have to, we have to step up. He has to step up the pace of, of building this, these electricity plants that we have. Because unfortunately, the problem will be if AI is real, AI will take the energy first and it will take it over the people, it'll take it over you, and you will be cold and you will be in the dark, and those power plants will be making all that energy for AI and that's just the way it will be. So that can't happen. All right, so what do you do to prepare? Because I know Stu's very excited. He's like, well, this is happy news.
