A message for folks who are still contemplating voting for Kamala Harris and a machine that created her and Jazz hand Waltz. You know who has general. You know who has free meals, free housing, and free healthcare. That would be prisoners and slaves and animals in the zoo. Take your pick, which do you want to be.
I'd like to be the animal in the zoo, because at least people would find me interesting.
You are interesting. I've spent most of my life general voting between the two parties. I am not beholden to one party. I'm not what we'd say a party loyalist, very much an independent thinker. And if you're a regular listener to the show, thanks for continuing to listen. But I've not hidden the fact that I voted. Here's my
voting history since I turned eighteen. Reagan eighty eight, Pro ninety two, Pro ninety six, Bush two thousand, Bush Oh for Obama Obama twelve and then I did have one of my little girls press the button for Hurricane Hillary and sixteen I did tell her, I said, honey, I want you to press a button for the first female president of the United States. I truly I think most of us thought she was going to win in sixteen.
Well, I think that you also wanted plausible deniability and you achieved it.
And then Trump and twenty and it's sure as hell is not going to be Kamala and Jazz hands in twenty four. But I've spent most of my life voting between the two parties, and we consider ourselves to be kind of original conservatives. We believe that our natural that our rights as rights as Americans, their rights as human beings, come from our creator, from God, not the state, not government. What the government gives, the government could take away, and
that's what we're against. Government was created by free men to protect these rights, not take them or trick us into thinking government and distant elites know better how to run our family, our home, our village. Those words right there were written in seventeen ninety three by one of the lesser known founders, God by the last name of Yates. And by seventeen ninety three we're six years into this new government. We got the battle between the federals and
the anti Federalists. Within six years, they were already already problems distrust of this new creature, this new federal government, and you had a tug of war. We didn't want this centralized government, a strong federal government. The Hamiltonians and federalist way, which is why we love our Virginian Bagrarian Republican small R Jefferson, Madison Monroe, our old Hickory out of Tennessee, the first populist right. Jury's out on Abe. You know, we can do a show and Abe, we
can talk about him. I'm a fan of Teddy, a tr rather, but.
I'm on the fence on him. And of course he had some famous saying about being on the fence. Yeah, I fence straddlers.
Yeah, I mean he was. He was a trustbuster, He was an anti monopolist. He wanted government to step in because he saw crony capitalism and I do believe that. But I also saw the rise of the imperialism.
His critics would say that he would go in a certain direction or give a sign that he was going in a certain direction until they bought him off.
But what I get that, and I don't doubt that. I don't doubt that. The real problem I have with tr is what he did in nineteen twelve. He ran against his buddy Taft, who just wanted to be on the Supreme Court, which he eventually became chief of But he ran at his third party, sucked votes away from Republican Taft and put this horrible president in power nineteen twelve, Woodrow Wilson. And we've done shows talking about what happened under Woodrow Wilson's presidency. I'm not going to say at
the hands of Woodrow Wilson. There were other men's hands doing the creation. His whole his whole doctorate. He was our first president with a doctorate. His whole doctorate was on making Congress stronger centralized government.
Interestingly enough, Taft scholars say that the years that he hated the most were his years as president, and that was actually the only time when he ballooned up to his top weight. When he was on the Supreme Court and when he was before he was the president, he did not have a weight problem.
We've done shows on you can go into our show and I think you can search. You can type in Woodrow Wilson, you can type in the Federal Reserve, and we've nibbled on the edges. We're going to wander into this, and we kind of promoted this show at the end of our last show. We really want to get the American people, and we're trying to be the voice of the American people to understand why we're here where we are, and to think about things a little differently, and we're
going to channel Dutch. Ronald Reagan and I spent in preparation for this show, spent a significant amount of time reading and listening to Reagan's speeches. He gave thirty four to thirty five speeches as president. I listened to his inaugural address in eighty one, his farewell address in eighty nine. I listened to his debates with Walter Mondale in eighty four.
The Carter debates weren't bad either.
I listened to his sixty four speech on behalf of Goldwater Well.
And one thing most people don't realize there's a recording of radio three minute radio broadcast that he did between nineteen seventy six, I think and nineteen eighty.
Yeah, and you owe me these recordings. Say you're gonna put this on a thumb drive and get.
Them to me, right, And he wrote all those no speech writers during that time.
All right, And just as a footnote here on the show, we've lost my wife, So somewhere along the way on the show, we lost her. She's just like, look, it's history. I don't care. I don't understand what you guys were talking about. Can you make it a little more USA Today version. I'm like, you know, I know we may lose some listeners, but there are people that love this stuff and it's just for them. And she said, you know, you guys need to promote the show and do more
marketing and advertising. We don't want to, we want you know, we're not here to do it. We just want to be a signal for the folks that are interested that get it. Yeah, we're not. Look, we have no illusions that we're going to be able to turn this this tanker around in the harbor. This tanker is headed straight out. Doesn't matter how you vote, what I think, what the
general says, this tanker is moving on without us. So, but the issues confronting us the American people, both left and right, I would say, since Woodrow Wilson took office in nineteen twelve, and his whole idea and this was the age of new schools of thought, new schools of economic thought, this is before political science. But he got a PhD. I think in history from JOHNS. Hopkins, he was a president of became Princeton, but it was the College of New Jersey, and he really didn't have aspirations
to become president. He became a useful smarty pants for the men, the robber barons, the Titans that wanted their monopoly on banking and a monopoly on printing money. That's what today's about. And we've nibbled around the edges on this. We've done shows talking about the Rothschilds and banking and the whole first hundred and twenty five years of American history.
There were big battles at the federal level about a central bank and about an income tax, and the constitution specifically forbatis a direct tax on the people right, and the constitutionally the constitutionally specifically for it's Congress from doing what with currency? Sorry, doing what with currency?
Well, the Congress is the only one who's given power to coin, to set up the coin, the currency, to mint the currency.
But the banking itself became private, and we gave them a monopoly to Federal Reserve, which is just a bank, a private bank.
It's not a banking No.
It's a. It was set up as a bank of last resort because you had you had a lot of crashes and run on banks which were caused by these same men. You know, there are ways to control the economy when you control the gold.
Well, how about the market will sort these things out.
Right, right, that's the whole point. So this show, after the break, we're going to pick up on the the this this we've gone. We've seen the march through the institutions that's behind us. Now you now see Orwell's nineteen eighty four on full display. We talked about that a little bit on the last show, and now we're going to prove to you you really are in an American feudal system general. When do you think in American history the American people started to think we were told that big
government knows best. When do you think this kicked off?
Well, I think it was a growing seed ever since people back after the Articles of Confederation were done away with and they included in the Constitution of the Necessary and Proper powers. That was a seed that was planted there. And then of course it was the interstate Commerce clause that of course grew everything beyond recognition.
Started with courts.
Yes, and it did. And that you know the courts are you know, at least on the federal level, they're all appointed, they're not elected. They've got no terms. They don't need to stand for anything, which is an advantage in some things with a disadvantage in others.
I would I would peg either Woodrow Wilson's two terms because it was the first time a president had gone to Congress and asked for a declaration of war, and we trusted the man. There are a lot of reasons not to get into the Great War. Of course, they didn't call.
It World War One, they didn't reason number it yet.
So it has a lot of reason to get into that. It was still a feudal system in Europe that never really went away. You had some the feudal system that started to get replaced a little bit by mercantilism and capitalism in the seventeen hundreds and eighteen hundreds, but really a true feudal system was gelling with the robber barons here in the US and of course their compatriots in England.
And I don't want to sound Marxist. I'm not trying to sound like Karl Marx, but there was they jumped to tracks from the private big business to public big government.
And that's the difference, isn't it. When you've gotten no matter how powerful, no matter how rich Bill Gates or Elon Musk gets, they can't force you to use their products. But once they get enmeshed in the government, they can correct.
So you have the Great Depression. We'll do a show on the Great Depression. You have the Roaring twenties and the Great Depression, and things were so bad the American people were we didn't.
Have a choice.
It was FDR and his public works projects, and with the printing of more money and the you know, we had a recession in thirty seven kind of slipped back into it and then World War Two.
Well, Milton Friedman and Thomas Soul would argue that we did have a choice in nineteen twenty nine, and that the choice was taken badly.
We have been told since FDR's time, which we thought should have been situational, temporary. Coming out of World War Two, you have the birth of the Pentagon, you have the growth of the military industrial complex. We had to spend we had to put a lot of money into Europe, We had to rebuild it. We need allies a lot of money. So the government spent sound like Trump. A lot of money goes to Europe, and a lot of people made a lot of money following on World War
Two and rebuilding Europe and the Middle East, Africa. And then by the time Ike's done in sixty one, he warns us this is no Hina. You have the growth of a military industrial complex. JFK sneaks. He gets in in.
Sixty realized Ike knew what he was talking about.
And then someone wipes JFK off the face of the earth. We can do a show on that.
They weren't aiming for his ear.
We have Lbj's Great Society. I believe this was the first big footprint of big government that wrecked the American family.
You have the.
Man at home rule for welfare. If there's a man at home, you don't get a check.
That's right.
If there's a man at home, you don't get a check. There were welfare agents that would go and do random investigations to see if there was any evidence of a man living in the home. It didn't take long for people to realize that you could make the same or more getting your government checked. And then you realize that each kid comes with eighteen years of monthly checks a bonus.
You've got to read and you really have to read the contraran view to Lbj's Great Society to understand the prophetic senators that were opposing this that said, you're ruining the American family, and the American family is the backbone of America, and that's across races. You've got to have moms and dads at home. You look at the unwed the percentage of unwed Americans after sixty four versus before it's inescapable. You have the cultural revolt against the military
industrial complexes war on communism. We were opposing centralized state planning that what's communism is while we're doing the same damn thing.
Here, there's money in that.
The military industrial complex is endless, not wars conflicts. At this point in time, they're not sending the president to Congress for authority to go to war. That's done. We haven't had that.
They even passed the War Powers Act. About that.
You have Republican big business that got together and we've mentioned the pal Memo in the early seventies seventy three. I think that gave big business the playbook on how to push back against this cultural phenomenon known as this new Left, This are left and big business came out with K Street lobbyists buying politicians. The Republican sorry, the Republican Party started this NS well, they do it too,
And now we have the fusion of all three. The great society, welfare state, the military industrial complex, and the big business is fusing with the new kid on the block, big tech. Once hailed as the land of opportunity, the United States is devolved into a modern form of feudalism. And medieval times feudal lords rolled over their lands and they took the fruits of the peasants labor. How we doing, well, it's we're right.
It's ironic. Interestingly that you say feudalism, and we need to specify that that's f e U D E A L I S M and not just f U T I L.
Yeah, good point, feudalism.
It's ironic.
So today's the American feudal system. The lords don't reside in castles and valleys or on hilltops or mountains.
Some of their places they.
Sit, oh they have them, but they sit on each other's corporate boards. It's an interconnected network.
Yes, that's their court.
They have their the they have their university system that is set up to build new walks, mathematicians in doctrinates and UH to build out new ways to monetize Fiat currency. Their Ivy League educated business school associates that work eighty hours a week prepping pitch decks flying in and out of Teeterborough, White Plains, Opa, Loaca, Scottsdale, Santa Anna, Naples, Palm Beach. The new feudal lords are flying private with
public dollars. They're flying private with your retirement investments. They're flying private with your inflated dollars. They're flying private with the ability to monetize debt.
So is it really private?
This new wealth? This new wealth? We have the modern economic theory of Canes. This is Keynesian economics. Fiat currency, fractional reserve banking, the discount window, coupled with compbuts derivatives. There is an entirely new super economy or super economy that is controlling America and keeping it out of reach of ninety percent of the American people. All Right, I'm turny Brad Kaffel. That is the general we are powered by Chess Round Automotive Group. If you like what we hear,
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Yeah, I want to. I also want to echo my Navy Sealed buddy. I'm going to keep saying this. Seals say get hard, stay hard. And then I add to that, get small, stay small. And that's the mantra for today. You're gonna have to put the crack pipe of credit down. You're gonna have to get small, and you're gonna have to get your assets, your money. You're gonna have to get it put away somewhere because this is unsustainable. This
is the There's a couple of issues. Number one is you have a grotesque expansion of the wealth gap that mirrors the gap of medieval nobility and their serfs. And the last segment I talked about this new world of high finance. In the eighties, you went to school for ECON. In the nineties it was ECON, and you know, in eighties it was computer science and ECON. Nineties you start to get in Econ's going out and and you're moving into some more specific business school stuff and now it's, uh,
it's all high finance. If your son or grandson, your daughter or granddaughter is not in the high finance world, if they're not in the banking world or in the tech world or the AI world, then they're there. I don't know what they're gonna do. I'm hoping they get small, stay small, and they don't chase that laser pointer of wealth because it's phony, it's artificial. It's a sugar high and it it corrupts and it will ruin your kid, their family. Uh, it'll it'll play tremendous uh mind games
with them because it you can never have enough. And are the greatest generation knew this? You know, the people that knew how to frugal, grew up with nothing. The men who don't want war are the men that fought in war. We now have neither leading us. We don't have leaders right now that went through the depression, and we don't have leaders right now that have been in war. I'm not saying what we've been doing in the Middle East is rather asymmetrical. I'm not talking what I'm talking about.
Guys have been in the trenches.
We don't have that.
We have special operators that have, and I respect the hell out of those guys. But Americans are still disillusioned by the rhetoric of the American dream, meritocracy and economic mobility. Now you're going to hear the Orwellians out of the Imperial City, out of Wall Street, and specifically Kamala Harris talk about an economic equal economic opportunity. You're going to
hear this catchphrase. It's already out there. Equal economic opportunity is just another or welly and buzzword like memory hole. It means nothing. In fact, it means the opposite of what it says. Your kids. My kids are going to graduate with maybe student loans if they're if they are fortunate enough to parents that pay for their college, your grandparents that put the bill, they don't have to worry about student loans, but they're gonna deal with credit card
debt immediately. Immediately you're twenty two to twenty three, you get a credit card, you start building your credit instantly. You're dealing with credit card debt. And the kids don't know how it works.
I remember, even back in the eighties, you'd be walking down on high Street and there'd be people walking up to you with a credit card application.
You can't, you just and I couldn't understand why you'd want to give credit to some with no money. It's because it's not about getting paid back. It's about them paying interest. They don't want the principle back. Why because they didn't lend you the money to begin with. What, No, they made it. It's Chuckbrook. They just put the digits in your bank account. They don't have the money. They just put the digits in your bank account. It's fake.
What they want is your interest. Then your kid gets into their mid to late twenties and they have and they're not in high finance and they're not in big tech. Now they got to find affordable.
Housing, which isn't easy when you're bringing in a lot of people from other countries.
And this isn't just this is no longer the story of the undereducated, the economically poor, or the politically disenfranchised. For those Americans that are born after nine eleven, they're going to be locked in perpetual financial servitude. Those of us born in the fifties, sixties, and seventies had a completely different economy to pick jobs and careers froms from. This new feudal contract is different. Wages of stagnated real
inflation is high, not J. Powell's political inflation. The American worker, both blue and white collar, is getting reduced to a precarious existence, surviving paycheck to paycheck with no real hope of accumulating wealth or financial independence. And if you're lucky enough to have some money left over, you're told to give a percentage to this helper, this four oh one K helper, this financial advisor helper who sets up your
four oh one K or your pension. That helper takes the cut and sends your money along to another helper, maybe a fund manager, who takes the cut and sends your money to another helper, maybe where the stocks are actually the seat on the exchange where the stocks are actually traded, and they take a cut and then your assets grow. And now this new American economy that's being suggested by the establishment and Kamala is to tax those gains that you haven't even banked yet.
Right.
They want to tax your unrecognized or unrealized gains.
Now, then the question is is that a direct tax since it hasn't happened yet.
The American dream of buying your own home. Home ownership, a cornerstone of the American dream, is now out of reach for many. I bought my first home, a condo when I was twenty five twenty six, right out of law school. I was able to I was able to do it. I wasn't making a lot of money. I don't know what my kids are going to do. They're
they're they're in college and graduating. Millions of us cannot afford to buy a home, so they rent massive private equity backed landlords who drive up prices exploit their tenants because they're gobbling up all the supply. All this spins up into political power. Now are elected representatives a message for you. You should be beholden to the will of the people. You are in your job by our consent. Instead, you're
serving your wealthy patrons. You go on debates, you go on the campaign trail, and you keep talking about your humble beginnings proudly. You talk about Kamala talks about her middle class background, whatever. But you jettison it as soon as you have the ring on your finger, or you're trying to get your ring on the finger. And then once you get into the imperial city, then you find real money. Seven figure campaign contributions, lobbying. There's six lobbyists
for every representative, jobs for your relatives, super packs. This group, this political financial elite, has bought the American political system. Your voice is drowned out by the deafening roar of corporate dollars unless you listen to our show or some other shows. We have moved away from the land of economic opportunities to the land of survival and subjugation. The feudal system that was in Europe for a thousand years
or more and never left. It just changed shapes. It wrapped itself in the illusion of freedom, freedom of speech, freedom to vote, freedom to pursue happiness illusions. When a handful of mega corporations control mainstream media, your freedom to vote is meaningless. When major corporate donors trouts on you and your volk get deluded by the importation of millions of the global poor who are taking jobs, driving down wages, getting driver's licenses, running over people, and ultimately they will
get their right to vote. All right, we are talking about we are living in an American proto beutle system. If you don't think you are, you are, or you are already in the high finance, investment banking world, the private equity world, and good for you because you made the right decisions somewhere along the way. And we're not trying to talk like Marxist. We're not asking for a revolution and a redistribution of wealth. We're just asking that our government live like we do, which is, you don't
spend more than you make. And if you want to go to war, get to Congress, pitch it. And and our congressmen and women need to listen to the American people, because the American people are overwhelmingly going to tell you, no, we are not ever going to agree to a draft again. No, we are not sending our boys and girls to the Middle East, or to Ukraine, or to Africa. And that's
a non starter. That'll be the be that'll be the equivalent of the shot heard around the world when the Brits came for our our guns and AMMO in seventeen seventy five. S done, you come for our kids. Done. You can take our money, you can lie to us, you can inflate the dollar because you're afraid to raise taxes, but you're not taking our kids hard. Stop. You asked for a vote. But who do you really represent now?
I just looked at the Congressional Budget Offices website. General you probably have that saved as your homescreen.
I do, actually, yes, it's always near to my finger.
The US federal government's budget deficit for twenty twenty four is one point nine trillion. I think that's low, but that's what CBO is saying, one point nine trillion. How much is that one point nine trillion? I don't have a calculator big enough. I had to do chat GPT on this one. One point nine trillion divided by three hundred and sixty five days is five point two billion
dollars per day is added to our debt. This means that if this was the federal government's credit card, which it is every day, five point two billion dollars gets added to our credit card.
And that does not include Social Security, the obligations.
Our government continues to spend five point two billion dollars a day, more than our government takes in. We've balanced our budget only four times in the last twenty six years, and not once in twenty three years. We've raised our debt limit thirty four times since George Bush the first. When Reagan took over in eighty our nation's debt as a percentage of our income was thirty four percent. When Bush one took over in ninety, our debt was fifty
two percent of our income. When Bush two took over in two thousand, it was fifty five percent.
There seems to be a pattern emerging.
Right now We're at one hundred and twenty four percent. We have much more debt than income. We are out spending what we make. It gets worse, guys. The interest payment we pay on this debt is now larger than our defense budget. The interest payment. You get nothing out of an interest payment, No mouths fed, no care for the elderly, not even a buck for a battleship. Not a penny goes back into the community for the people. It goes to the banks and foreign investors, and we're
losing them. More and more foreign investors are going, ah, we're not going to do We're we're not buying government bonds anymore. So who's gobbling up all our government bonds? The Federal Reserve. What we really don't know, everybody, is how much money is going out the door to NGOs who are facilitating this invasion of main Street USA. And we don't know how much money is going out to foreign country trees whose interests are not aligned with Main
Street USA. Example, we know now that we gave money to the Taliban, We know now that we gave money to revolutionaries in Nicaragua. We are giving money to drug lords, war lords. We're giving money all over the place. It's your money in pallets, pallets on C one thirties of cash as the speaking of which, as the most recent data available in twenty twenty four, the United States holds
six hundred and seventy eight billion dollars in gold. At least there's something tangible there with real value, unlike this silken linen piece of pillow case that says Federal Reserve note six hundred and seventy eight billion dollars in gold, apparently stuffed in vaults around the United States, making it the large gold largest gold reserve in the world general. How much of that six hundred and seventy eight billion dollars in gold does the United States government actually own?
That would be zero.
We don't own an ounce. How can that be it's in our vaults? No foreign dollar claims are seven point five trillion. They are lending this money knowing that we have some gold but not nearly enough, and hoping that our American economy keeps going. But the feign dollars are dripping off. Look at it another way. Tell me you're not living. We're not moving into a proto feudalistic America. How many hours is do the math? Back to chat
ept because I'm not that smart. How many hours did a salesman, a teacher, a firefighter, a tradesmen need to work to afford a middle class home in nineteen fifty? So in nineteen fifty, the median price of a middle class home in the United States was approximately seven four hundred dollars. The average hourly wage for non farm workers was a dollars sixty an hour. Again nineteen fifty calculation cost of home divide by hourly rage four thousand, six
hundred and twenty five hours. If you break it from dollars into hours of labor, six hundred and twenty five hours to afford that middle class American home today? How many hours does an American need to work to afford a middle class home? The statistics I found the median price of a middle class home in the United States is four hundred and sixteen thousand. It seems a little high, but let's go with it. The average hourly rent wage
for non farm workers is twenty eight dollars and fifty cents. Calculation, how many hours do you now need to work a middle class economically middle class to afford a middle class home? Fourteen thousand, six hundred hours. In nineteen fifty it was four thousand, six hundred.
Just an extra ten thousand hours. That's all.
So where are we in twenty four? Are you still a believer that the intellectual elite in the Imperial City and Wall Street can plan and the universities can plan your lives better for you than we can plan them for ourselves. And as Ronald Reagan liked to say, you and I are told increasingly we have to choose between the left or right. There is no such thing as left or right. There's only an up and down. And
here's what Dutch said. Up the ultimate and individual freedom consistent with law and order are down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. As we come under more and more control of our government, I e. Are creditors. So in this vote harvesting time, you'll hear Kamala and Jazz hand Waltz say the words that are written for them by the internationalist, by the globalist, by the status talk about equal opportunity economy. Let me tell you what equal opportunity
economy means. It means we must accept more government spending, not less, More government taxation and confiscation of our earnings and savings not less. It means more government intrusion into the private marketplace, not less. And it is now looking more and more like sending our boys and girls off to die for another country's independence. Absurd, absurd. Thanks for listening for the defense share the show. I'm Brad Koppel. That's the general support Chasren Automotive Group.