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She's not even responding to you.

No.

She hasn't said it.

We're talking about.

Yeah, we're talking about Sarah.

Pipe down in there.

We're talking about Sarah Sullivan, who's been with us, she claims, for about 20 years.

I don't remember any of it.

I don't remember.

I've never seen her in years.

Yeah, I know.

She just all of a sudden popped up behind us and she's giving us heck.

You got to do the podcast intro.

Shut up.

Shut up, stranger.

Let's talk about what we did because we chose to talk about the podcast.

We did the podcast today.

We talked a lot about the border

and had some disturbing reports.

Todd Bensman was on with us, and he's down at the border and tell you exactly what's going on.

Also, we had Elijah and Sidney on from You Are Here.

It's a new Blaze program.

Sort of.

I don't know if it's a New Blaze program because it basically got banned after four shows.

Not from the Blaze.

Not from the Blaze.

No, from YouTube, of course.

Big Tech is taking it down.

They have cleared this, but they go into the details of it.

And it's frightening, not just for people with giant followings like they have, but for people.

Oh, the silencing, the silencing of these guys is astounding.

And you don't want to miss that.

And so much more news of the day, all on today's podcast.

Done, Sarah.

You're listening to the best of the Blandbeck program.

Pat Gray is joining us from Pat Gray Unleashed now.

Pat, I just thought I'd give you some breaking news.

Haiti is very upset with us now.

Oh, no.

Yeah, they're saying that it was inhumane to just put people on a plane and ship them over.

Wow.

I kind of agree with them, actually, because these people were not from Haiti.

They had gone.

Many of them.

Many of them

had gone away from Haiti, and now they're going to a place that they really don't know.

They were already going to a place they don't know.

We should be clear.

That's true.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't have, it's hard to have all that much sympathy for someone who is trying to come here to break our laws and get into our country and winds up back in their home country.

Except our own nation is inviting them.

Yes,

it's more complicated than that.

It's more complicated than that.

I just wanted to point out another country is mad at us.

Wait, no, no.

Actually,

we're back.

America's back.

Oh, really?

Yeah.

We're back.

People love us again.

The respect we demand is now here after Donald Trump ruined it.

You sure he didn't say America is turning its back?

No.

I don't think so.

America is back, and that's why you can keep continuing to kick us in the ass.

Because that's another face.

That's our back.

A kick-me sign on the back of us.

It's not good.

So

yesterday there was a White House squabble with Boris Johnson.

You know, they took the questions

and Boris said, yeah, BBC.

And he takes a question.

Like any leader would do in this situation.

Happens all the time.

No, I've never seen it.

Has it ever happened?

I don't think so.

Questions from the media?

No, questions from another.

He taking charge of it and then asking for the questions.

Has that ever happened before?

Where he takes over for the American president and just starts inviting questions.

Well, usually what happens is they both get questions.

Yes, right.

Yes, but it's usually the president who would say, yeah, let's open it.

But he's so out of it that I think boredom

control.

I don't think he is that out of it.

You know, I am comfortable saying he is out of it.

I am comfortable saying that.

But

I don't know.

I go back and forth a little bit on this.

Yeah, I'm not convinced that he's not very lucid when they

jack him up with drugs or something like that.

Oh, at some points of the day, yes.

But if you go later in the day,

which is why he doesn't, then he's, you know, the medication is worn off.

He's getting a little tired, and then the dementia creeps back in.

Yeah, I mean, he's, there's definitely moments where he's having major problems with this stuff.

Oh, yeah.

I'm reading Peril, this Bob Woodward Robert Costa book that's out, and, you know, the one that talked about Mark Milley calling over to China.

That's kind of what that's how the book starts, that whole exchange.

But if you were to say that, what is the one defining characteristic that this book is trying to

push across, like what is it trying to communicate to you?

Obviously, there's stuff about Trump in there and how bad he is, because that's a large focus of it.

But if there's one thing they're trying to push down your throat in this book, I would say is that Joe Biden is totally engaged in all of this.

Oh, you gotta be kidding me.

I mean, that is every single one of these scenarios.

They go on and on and on and on about how engaged he is, how many questions he asked, how much he wanted to know every little detail.

His staff staff was so annoyed with him because he kept asking for all of the little minuscule details.

B.S.

That's B.S.

I don't believe it.

So then it's Bob Woodward, who, you know, I don't have a problem saying, you know,

doesn't necessarily tell the truth and shows.

Right.

Could just be fake, right?

It could just be what they're trying to get across.

Now, what's interesting is that that makes him just a tool, though.

That makes that whole book simply a tool and Bob Woodward a tool.

Yeah,

I don't think I'm the first one that said that Bob Woodward's a tool.

Woodward, though, takes real sources

and basically believes what they tell him.

No matter what.

Yeah, and mostly, and mostly no matter what.

So like he'll get five aides from the Biden administration, right, that tell him Joe Biden is super engaged and hears all these stories.

What I found interesting about it, though, was the book was written, for example, before Afghanistan turns into a catastrophe, right?

Yeah.

Before

the fourth wave of COVID, right?

At this point, they're thinking, oh, he's solved these problems.

Oh, he's going to get us out of Afghanistan.

And it's a way of showing Biden as super engaged to take credit for all the wonderful things he's about to accomplish.

Well, we now know all those things fell apart.

Well, his aides are liars, and you know they are.

Yeah, I think that's true, though.

That's a legitimate thing.

And you look at the Boris Johnson, Joe Biden meeting the other day.

As soon as Johnson takes a breath, his people are ushering the press out of there because they don't want Biden to be subjected to any kind of questioning.

They know he can't do it.

He's incapable of handling it.

And so, as soon as they can jump in, in mid-sentence from Boris Johnson, they rush everybody out of it so nobody has a chance to get it.

Look at that audio.

Here's the audio.

It is.

Here's the audio.

That's the

one that's a little bit of a damn thing.

Okay, we're all done.

All right, we're going to get out.

Okay, get out.

And Biden just looks at it like he's confused.

Yeah.

Explain to like, okay, the press conference is over.

You stand up, you shake Boris's hand, you say something into his ear, you act like you're on your phone.

I don't know, anything other than just sitting there staring.

But they know they must prevent disaster.

And so that's how they handle it.

They're shutting off his...

Sometimes in the middle of his,

well, it's not in the middle, but at the end of his press conferences, when he starts to go off of script, they will just turn off the feed.

Yeah, and it's...

They've done that multiple times.

And to go back to this book for a quick second,

they do show him as hyper-engaged in the policy details, the behind-the-scenes negotiations, all that.

However, they also, the book confirms something that we said throughout the entire campaign, which was they, yes, they literally did build a wall around him so that he would not have moments with the press.

He would not have questions that would surprise him.

They said they built a wall around him to avoid longer interviews because they knew eventually he would say something that got into the press and screwed something up.

And they basically confirmed that, yes, he was hiding and using COVID to hide.

In his basement.

In his basement so that none of this stuff would happen.

Oh, my God.

And just let Donald Trump

be the focus of the campaign.

Let him say his stuff.

Let him tweet his stuff.

Let him do everything.

Don't make news.

And that was the...

Look, and we said at the time, I think think that's a smart way for Joe Biden to run a campaign because he's obviously terrible.

And anytime anyone thinks about him, they can't vote for him.

So the only hope was make this all about Donald Trump 24 hours a day and act as if you're not even running for president.

And that's what they did.

So I think the next shoe to fall, and

I don't know.

I mean, he could screw anything up.

We could be in nuclear war tomorrow

with France.

The next shoe-to-fall, I think, is the economy.

If you look at at what's happening, yesterday the Fed announced, now the Fed came out, the Fed chair came out, what, six months ago and said, we're not even going to think of interest rates until 2022, 2023.

Okay, that's a long way off.

Yesterday, they said they were going to end tapering, which is, you know, end the free money giveaway.

They're going to end tapering.

The nightly thing that they give away to the 12 banks?

No, not that tax.

They're not going to end that.

They don't want to end that.

No, this is the.

the $50 billion a night to 12 banks.

I know, I know.

Trillion dollars a night.

Still, they are

going to taper off on their buying of stocks and bonds

to keep the thing going.

The last time they did that, the stock market went down dramatically and everything took a bath.

So that's a bad sign.

Then at the same time, they said,

we're going to end this, we're also going to raise interest rates next year.

Wow.

So they're going a year early,

and they've already made this statement where it's not even on the table.

Now, suddenly it's on the table and they're going to do it next year.

The economy is inflation is through the roof.

5.3% that they're admitting to.

It's probably worse than that.

And it will be worse than that by the end of the year.

I mean, we're fortunate that it's not 40%

right now.

And, you know,

that could be in the future.

I mean, and I think probably this was the first show that anyone in the audience, unless you're super into finance, heard about this Chinese company that is going under, it seems.

Evergrande, is it?

Yeah.

And they

are now not paying employees.

Like, this thing seems like it's,

you know,

it's going out of control.

And it's the Lehman brothers of China.

They have hundreds of billions of dollars in debt, and it it looks like they're not going to be able to make payments on it.

Right.

And just that sort of force

with an economy that's tied in like it is now, it's going to affect

you an empty city.

They're the ones who are building an empty city.

That's the reason why they're going to be able to do it.

I just feel like they want to build a new giant city that no one will live in.

There's always a solution.

So if they go down, we have almost 90 ships off the coast of California trying to get into the Los Angeles port.

90 cargo ships.

For Los Los Angeles to get backed up,

they used to say one cargo ship is a really bad thing, one cargo ship waiting.

They want to move these things in and move them out.

They can't get people to truck it.

They can't get people to move it.

No employees.

No employees.

We have 90 cargo ships.

So if you're waiting for something.

Has anybody else noticed you're waiting all the time?

Somebody came to the house because, you know, I'm two weeks away from finishing construction at my house Oh really?

Yeah Wow

So finally it's gonna there's light at the end of the light at the end of the tunnel So somebody came yesterday And they were giving me an estimate on something that will definitely happen in the next two weeks.

So we're all done right right and And I said

well when when when is this they said

no idea and I said what do you mean no idea?

And they said I know I hate saying that because I seem incompetent, but I'm telling you the

suppliers will not even give us an estimate on when it will come in.

My gosh.

And I said,

have you ever lived in a time in America where this has happened?

And she's like, no, never.

Never.

No, I started thinking today about

if you're going to do Christmas shopping, I want to get that done early this year.

Yeah.

You know, they're going to be shortages.

There are going to be shortages of all these things, right?

When we get, when if you're trying to buy toys for kids and stuff, it's already difficult if it's a hot toy.

This might be, I'm a total procrastinator when it comes to Christmas shopping, but this is the year I think I might pull the trigger on.

I'm having a really hard time finding a Teddy Ruxpin.

I really

don't find them anywhere.

Wow.

Really?

Wow.

And I've been shopping early for it.

I know 12.

For my adult children.

I mean, actually.

Teddy Ruxpin.

Don't your adult children run your cookie company?

They actually do.

And you're buying them Teddy Ruxpens?

Yes.

Yeah.

They just run the company, but they're not that mature.

Well, they are making that company.

It's a cookie.

It's a cookie company.

I think this cookie should be four pounds.

That's the sort of decision-making you're getting over that.

And those are good decisions.

Very good decisions.

Oh, we're getting that time of year when people are thinking about football and tailgating parties.

Maybe you've got the game on the big screen.

Friends and family are gathering around to cheer for their team and have a good time.

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The author of America's Covert Border War, senior national security fellow, the Center for Immigration Studies.

His name is Todd Bensman.

Welcome back to the program, Todd.

How are you?

Oh, I'm doing great.

A little bit tired, but doing well.

Thank you.

Yeah.

So you have been on the border.

Tell us what the media is not showing us.

There are a few things.

One is that the camp is almost empty.

Well, it's about a quarter of what it was, or about 4,000 left in it.

It's going to close up here probably in the next week or so.

But the other thing is that

most of the Haitians that are coming are not fleeing earthquakes in Haiti and they're not fleeing presidential assassination or even grinding poverty.

They

have been living in Chile and Brazil for many years, the ones that are coming.

in prosperity, relative prosperity, and with resident cards and with permission to work in those countries.

And they saw the Biden

opening, the Biden administration opening the border back in January, February, and they started to come en masse.

And that is really what is behind this, that these people are not asylum seekers like a lot of Democrats are saying, lawmakers on the progressive left talking about, you know, we have to bring in these poor people who are in dire straits.

They are not in dire straits at all.

And I think people need to understand that when they apply for asylum, they will be lying and committing mass asylum fraud because they're going to skip over the fact that they were living safely and securely in these other countries.

And that is why I'm finding identification cards all over the Mexican bank.

I see these cards you took a picture of yesterday.

They're all IDs.

They all seem to be from Chile.

A few passports from Brazil.

They just discard them.

Why all of a sudden in Chile?

I mean, Chile is a good country.

It's a nice place to live.

Why all of a sudden is everybody trying to abandon Chile to come to the Haitians to come to America?

Well, I'll put it this way.

I was in Costa Rica reporting on

the international nature and makeup of the new migration that's coming to the border from 100 different countries, including the Arab Middle East and countries of terrorism concern all over the world coming right through that area.

And I interviewed a Haitian who I asked him that question.

I said, you know, what's...

What's the difference between Haiti and Chile?

And he says, well, life is 1,000 times better here in Chile.

I said, well, why would you leave a life that's a thousand times better in Chile?

And he says, because life in America is a million times better.

I mean, in Haiti, it is a million times better than in Chile.

So

it's an upgrade.

They're just simply going from good to what they think will be better.

And that is a far cry from an asylum claim of government persecution.

And it's a really far cry from what progressive lawmakers and immigration advocates are claiming is desperate poverty and dire straits.

None of these people were in desperate poverty.

They were making a living.

They may not have been rich, but they were working class and middle class.

And some of them did really quite well.

You can see it.

They're flying around the country on aerotickets.

Did they organize this on their own?

Why?

It seems weird that all of a sudden all these Haitians show up at the same place at the same time.

Okay, I can explain that.

I spent a lot of time with Haitians really drilling down into their stories, their very recent stories.

Here's, I'm going to try to give you the quick version because I know you've got only so much time.

But

the Biden administration asked the Mexican government some time ago to station its National Guard on the southern border with Guatemala to slow and to slow roll the number of immigrants coming from Mexico, from Guatemala through Mexico to the U.S.

border.

And the Mexicans did that with a kind of bureaucratic

molasses,

requiring

these Haitians to apply for temporary permission slips to be in Mexico and asylum and different kinds of things.

And they weren't getting an answer for months on end.

They're just stuck down in Tapachula on the border there until thousands of them built up.

And what they told me is that on September 12th, while they were all waiting three, four, five, six months, and they were getting very antsy and causing disruptions in the area, they were told that the Mexican government said

that the Mexican government just said, forget it.

You can all go now for the Mexican independence holiday of the week of

September 16.

You can go without papers, just forget your claims here, go.

And so

this particular, because they needed to clear them out,

they were backlogged up in Mexico.

Mexico did not want them.

They passed that problem to the Americans in violation of whatever diplomatic agreement they had, by the way, with the Biden administration.

So these particular Haitians, this particular group of 15,000, and there's supposedly more on the way,

were just simply released.

They all have the same story independently about El Grito, which is the Mexican holiday of that week.

And I'm thinking the Mexican government probably intended to provide that holiday gift to their own people because,

you know, yeah.

So

that's the short-term story.

The bigger picture is they were all headed to the U.S.-Biden border anyway because they knew it was open.

And they're still coming in large numbers in other parts of Texas outside of the media lens

range.

So I've read about two buses that have been hijacked as they are being taken someplace.

Is that true?

And is there more than two?

And what's happening there?

Okay.

I can explain that.

The Biden administration did something very weird for the Biden administration, and it shows how desperate they were to make this political blot go away fast.

They took a card, they took a play from the Trump playbook and started doing repatriation flights of these migrants from Texas all the way to Port-au-Prince.

Now, remember, these people have been living for years away from Haiti in these other countries, And so to have to go to be deported to Port of Prince was especially acutely painful for them.

I talked to a lot of immigrants yesterday and the day before in Mexico because they were fleeing the camp in terror of having of the possibility that they might get deported.

And what the Haitian friends who have been deported were telling them is stay away from the buses, don't get on the buses, don't get on the buses.

Those buses are going to the airport, and you're going to end up where we ended up.

And right about that time is when the violence started on the buses.

So

my speculation, my informed speculation, is that these seizures of buses and the violence on the buses,

and there are other cases of violence against ICE officers.

They are attacking ICE officers every day now

because they do not want to be repatriated to Haiti.

But having said that,

repatriation to home countries like this is incredibly effective.

More than anything else, that is probably what has shut down this camp.

It stopped anybody new coming in.

And all of the Haitians that I talked to, at least a thousand that I saw on the Acuna side of the river, the city of Acuna,

were

fleeing this idea that they could be deported.

And I also spent time in the bus station in Acuña filled with Haitians buying bus tickets back to Tapachula, Mexico, back to where they came from.

That is happening, Glenn.

But the question is whether the Biden administration will hang on to that policy and keep using it because it would shut this crisis down if he applied it to all nationalities across all of the border.

But he's under huge pressure from his left.

They are killing him.

They are clubbing him for

using that policy.

So tell me about the

number of

people that have come in

illegally from other countries other than Mexico and south of the border, terrorist states.

Right.

Every year there are thousands of people coming from 35 to 40 countries of national, what we would regard the intelligence community as

a national security concern.

That's going to be Afghanistan.

They are coming from Afghanistan in small numbers.

I expect greater numbers in the coming months from Afghanistan.

Pakistan,

Bangladesh, Syria, Iraq, Iran, all of those countries have people coming through the same route that the Haitians are coming.

I met just the other day in Mexico an Angolan who flew into Brazil from, there's like a visa waiver between Brazil and Angola, and he came in and he was telling me about all these other African countries, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, Mauritania, and I've met immigrants from all of those places on their way here.

Lots of Yemenis.

Intelligence community sources tell me that the Yemeni problem is so grave because quite a few of them are on the U.S.

terror watch list that have been caught at the border.

that there is a special unit that has been formed in ICE Homeland Security Investigations just to deal with the terrorist concern in the Yemeni population coming over that border.

That is a true thing.

They caught two in California this year, earlier this year, who were on the FBI's terror watch list.

One of them was on the no-fly list in Colexico, California.

CBP put a press release out about that.

It was taken down within 24 hours by the Biden administration saying, what?

You can't talk about this right now when we've got all

this crisis collapsing our border management systems.

Jeez.

Rodney, have you talked to any of the

Border Patrol agents themselves?

What is their morale like?

It is just,

it's been in the toilet for months and months.

Keep in mind that this migrant camp that has attracted all of this attention is only 15,000.

And I say only

because you have to keep that in context with the fact that more than 50,000 a week are crossing that border.

50,000, 200,000 a month, every month for four months straight over 200,000 and close to 200,000 for many more months, 1.5 million.

so far.

And so it's a little bit

hard to believe that the media is concentrating on these 15,000 when

that's just a typical morning in Texas.

Jeez.

Todd, thank you so much.

I'm sorry to call you Rodney.

I was thinking about the former chief that has come out

that has just come out and released something,

I think it was yesterday.

It was sent into Washington, a report, and it is terrifying.

It is terrifying.

I read that.

Yes, it is.

And, you know, he's finally free to speak.

And I think everybody should listen to him and read what he's saying.

And by the way, you know, he, even before this, released a video to the troops as he was leaving, farewell kind of thing.

And he said he has never seen more terrorists crossing the border than he did in his final months.

And if you want to know more about that, you know, the way that works and how they come through and what we do as a country about it, pick up my book, America's Covert Border War.

It's all revealed in there,

what we do as a nation programmatically.

And the fact that we are having this horrendous border crisis is really threatening those counterterrorism programs that we have down there.

Unbelievable.

Todd Bensman, thank you so much.

Author of America's Covert Border War.

He is on the border now.

Thank you so much.

We'll check in with you again.

I appreciate it.

The best of the Glenbeck program.

So last night on the TV show, I did a three-chalkboard show.

And

it was first describing what America is going to be like.

when

this all comes down.

And it's coming down faster than you think.

And you already are feeling it.

Do you remember when they said, just gonna have to get used to the new normal?

And we were like, I don't want the new normal.

What are you talking about?

New normal?

I don't want the new normal.

I want normal.

But they have promised us normal with the president, right?

Donald Trump, throw him out, and things will go back to normal.

Is this normal?

Is this the way our president is supposed to behave?

Are these decisions that he's making normal?

No, of course, no, it's not.

So

then why are we listening to them when they tell us they're going to bring normalcy back?

They're not going to bring normalcy back.

They're bringing something very, very different.

They are recreating and transforming America into something that you will not recognize at all, even from today.

And it's going to start happening faster and faster and

i i laid out a chalkboard last night that that shows that we're headed for massive shortages

and you need to prepare for this

massive shortages in energy in food in the things that you already are feeling you're going to a you're going to a store and you want to just pick something up and they're saying we're all out of that we don't have that it'll be i don't know maybe a couple of months before we get that in are you kidding me

this is preparing you for a much lower standard of living

and i don't know how low it could go it could go to venezuela and don't laugh that off we have been on this course now for almost 20 years

i'm telling you that we could be venezuela in the next five to ten

that is not unreasonable I think we could be Venezuela, quite honestly, in the next four.

So prepare yourself for a much lower living standard.

Prepare yourself for shortages of energy, beef, fruits, and vegetables.

Prepare yourself for blackouts and brownouts.

Prepare yourself for your savings devalued by about,

hmm, let's say 40%.

I'm being kind.

Zero privacy on your money.

Zero privacy.

Your banks will become a big brother.

You're going to have to get used to collective rules.

This is good for the collective, but it's horrible for me and my community.

Doesn't matter.

Prepare for that.

Prepare for schools to be only teaching your kids to be activists or to work for a giant corporation.

Those are the things that you have to prepare for.

And by 2030, prepare for no ownership.

And

no one to blame.

No one to vote out.

Have you noticed, let's start there, nobody takes blame for anything anymore?

On Afghanistan, who's really responsible?

I mean, Joe Biden says the buck stops with him, but does it?

Is there any ramification?

The buck stops with me means

I'm responsible.

I'm not only going to take the blame, but I will take the repercussions of that.

There's only one repercussion for Joe Biden right now, and that is his poll numbers numbers are abysmal.

He is now

less popular than Kamala Harris.

Do you remember just a couple of months ago, they were talking about how dramatically low her rate is and how

nobody could expect her to do anything in her career if she doesn't get her approval rating up?

And they had big meetings in Washington.

How are we going to get her approval ratings up?

He's now less popular than she is.

But is that affecting anything really?

Do you hear anybody calling for him to be held accountable for the border?

For Afghanistan?

For inflation that is going through the roof?

For the fact that we can't seem to go places that we've always gone to and do things that we've always done because nobody will work there anymore?

Because it's better for so many Americans just to stay at home rather than go back to work?

Is this normal?

Well, it is the beginning of the new normal.

There were five things that made America truly remarkable.

And

they all worked together, especially in the 20th century.

We had cheap and abundant energy.

You go anywhere else in the world, and energy is very expensive.

Here, we have more natural gas than anybody else.

With the new oil reserves that have just recently been discovered and through fracking and everything else, we have more oil here than they did in Saudi Arabia.

We have energy like nobody's business.

We also have rare earth minerals.

These are really important.

Computer chips.

You know the shortage we have?

Computer chips, solar panels, all of those things need rare earth metals and rare earth minerals, and we have them.

But because of environmental reasons, we're letting China

mine all of theirs.

And we're not mining for ours.

It's off limits.

We're no longer going to be looking for oil.

That's a thing of the past.

We decided we're not going to have the XL pipeline.

We're going after our big oil companies.

We just had a new board member or two added to, what was it, Exxon's board, where they decided they're going to be a clean energy group, that they're going to be environmentally friendly, which is wonderful and everything.

But you're an oil oil company.

The price of gasoline has gone up 72 cents, I'm sorry, 72%

since January.

72%.

It's gone up a dollar.

Energy is being slaughtered by this administration.

And believe me, they will not care if gasoline is $8 a gallon.

They will not care because it will force you into a new green car.

I've talked about this before.

I don't think people understand.

Do your homework.

The gasoline engine is over.

This year is the last year for models to have pure gas engines.

It's all going electric.

By 2030, that's out.

So what are you going to replace it with?

We can't build any new nuclear power plants.

We can't have any new coal plants.

We're really left with solar and wind.

Who controls all of that?

As I laid out in my program last night, that's China.

So you don't have cheap, abundant energy.

In fact, you're going to have rolling blackouts.

Mark my words.

Massive, massive problems with energy.

Let me hit a couple of things that you should do on energy right now.

If you are building a house or remodeling a house, double up on the insulation.

Do everything you can.

Get your houses

weather stripped.

Do all of that now.

before there's a rush on all of that stuff and the price goes up.

Because believe me when I tell you,

you are going to be paying extra

if you don't do those things.

They're going to make homeownership extraordinarily difficult.

And it's all going to be based on going green.

So make your house as efficient as you can right now.

When it comes to energy,

You better have some sort of a generator.

Now you can go out and get a generator, a diesel generator, but diesel, remember, is going to get harder and harder to come by.

The only other option that I know of is natural gas.

That's going to be harder to come by, but it's cleaner than diesel or gas.

And, you know, maybe you already have natural gas, but find a generator.

And if you can afford one, one that will run your house.

Because you're going to, in the future, have rolling blackouts.

When it comes to your business, because the next thing that was on my chart was cheap, abundant energy.

That was number one.

There are five.

Number two is the American workforce.

Number three was abundant land and farming.

Number four is a strong dollar.

Number five is a stable government.

That's what made America great.

Those five things.

But we don't have any of those five things anymore.

Cheap and abundant energy is going away.

Look at the American workforce today.

You're killing your entrepreneurs.

You're calling anybody that is paying taxes now a thief.

Remember, 61% of the people that paid, sorry, 61% of the American public did not pay any federal income tax in 2020.

Or is it 2021?

2020.

2020.

So no federal income.

61%.

Now, I would say, well, that's because of COVID and everything else.

But are they doing things to get people back to work to pay taxes?

The answer is no.

And what are they doing?

The 39% that did pay tax, those are entrepreneurs to the billionaires.

Those people, they're under attack.

Their businesses are under attack, unless you're you're a big home depot style business if you're a local entrepreneur you have been under attack by this government you to the point to where you can't even find workers now to help you

so the workforce is being slowly destroyed

here's what you need to do

If you have a business, you need to begin

local groups.

They did this in California, and that was the only reason why they could push back on some of these COVID rules is because they got into groups and they invited attorneys to be part of the group.

And it was just a local, it was,

I don't remember, it was named after one of the streets.

We had them on once talking about it, but it was just a local group of people who were all businesses on one street.

And they all started to push back and they got an attorney and they made headway.

They kept their businesses alive.

You need to stand together right now.

You need to start to gather as a local group right now.

The American workforce, you just got to go to work.

You have to go to work.

The more you depend on the government, the more they will have control over you.

Get yourself untangled from the government as much as you can.

I told you years ago, spit yourself out of the system.

It's pretty difficult to do, but very obvious on where you are in the system.