MarkZ (Uncut) 02-04-2025

Coffee with MarkZ. 02/04/2025

Hello all. I’m reading some of you guys’ comments this morning. Hello Jordan, hello Mike, hello Sharon Buzz, Rocket Media.

Hello Rabble Peasant Diane Hertz, good to see you in the house. Reading some of those, hello Mile High. Hello Cody Boy, hello Vegas Waymaker, hello LFK.

Wait, this went too fast. Hello Jubilant Goblin. Hello Brad, pretty confident Brad.

It’s getting those numbers constantly now on the north side. So, hopefully at least I’ll keep sharing what I’m hearing you guys. You’re going to have to make your own conclusions as to what it means.

I’ll give you my thoughts, but hello, how is the Happy Hound doing? Hello Polly, Freedom Fighter. Yeah, the vote for RFK Jr. is supposed to start. A proper row will be occurring in the halls of Congress this morning.

Hello Robert Texas Twin, Flight Level. Hello Miss Owens. The money’s been sent to the Kurds, it’s getting fun.

No fund bond update yet this morning, unfortunately. Guys, not for lack of looking. Hello Mr. Fullard.

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Links in the description of the video. Hello, Robert G.T. Moose. Good to see you in the house, Ren wife.

I have not heard that from any of my redemption wealth management or banking contacts, that once you get over $20 million that your rate goes down. I’ve just not heard that from anybody. I guess that’d be kind of like if you had $1,000 and every $100 you had over there was only worth $50.

It just doesn’t make sense. Seven-year-old granddaughter legacy. She is a legacy.

I like that name. Reading some of these. Just reading a few.

Ooh, moving fast. Homeland Security emergency management spotted in D.C. yesterday. Huge black buses every day blocked roads.

I smell arrests. I think we’d all come unglued in a positive way if it started in mass. Belinda says other chats are saying 10th of March.

I don’t know what they’re saying. I don’t look at any of the others. Most of what I’m hearing now is around February 10th.

Hello, Mr. Coons, Florida Gator. Did you see Article Capital One? But gee, no. Sue, I’m not.

You didn’t give me enough to go on there. But it does not in any way ring a bell. New Hampshire to Arizona one.

It says why do so many people worry about what the rate is? How about we just worry about when it starts? I’m with you on that one. I firmly believe the rates are going to be absolutely acceptable and everybody’s going to be tickled with them. Well, anybody realistic? Bernard, I would be all about the best Valentines ever.

Tristan. Oh, Tris does. 21st.

That’s exciting. Happy birthday. Are you going to get to go meet her for her first wink wink adult beverage? Yeah.

Who knew there were hostages in Columbia they’re now getting? I mean, there’s so much going on. Carla from says the banks all received an email about rates. My banker confirmed that is you’re not the first person I’ve heard that from.

I’ve heard that from some of mine. They’re saying, hey, I can’t share this, but we’re excited because we’re seeing what to expect now. Somebody is going to squeal.

Somebody is going to post it all over the Internet. Just not going to be me getting anybody’s career job or myself in trouble. And honestly, I don’t know what it is.

Nobody’s told me so. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. See, Bob, I would be OK with that, Mr. Hofford.

All right. Twitch is getting edified right now. Tim is Biden still in charge? No, Biden’s definitely still not in charge.

He never will. I got one video clip with Speaker Johnson talking about his conversation when Biden removed everybody else and said, hey, look, we just need to have a conversation. And he had no idea what he had signed in his executive orders.

He had no idea that he had frozen liquid natural gas shipments to Europe. I mean, he had no idea what he had done. Oh, no, we’re just going to do a study.

Mr. President, that’s not what you signed. Would you like to see it? He had no idea. None.

Let’s see. Barefoot Gypsy said John Dowling had a good bank story. A customer of a credit union was called in because they suspected she owned foreign currency.

Told her they were in training. I’ve gotten that one. I also have a higher profile so they know who to reach out for or who to reach out to.

Dr. Carly’s 26th birthday today. And the niece, Alicia. I’m enjoying reading these.

New sovereign funds, MAGA, Pilot, Rust. This is something when the world operated on a real monetary standard. Pretty much every nation had a global or a sovereign wealth fund where the wealth of the nation was invested for the future.

You start, how many more countries have we suddenly seen saying, hey, we need a sovereign wealth fund? I think it’s part of just Sarah. That’s my belief anyways. Libby, it’s a good reminder.

Not every bank or location know or will be doing this exactly. That is spot on. Be easy.

Be easy. You’re not that old. Not that that is very old in today’s world, guys.

The world is a changing. Happy birthday, Beheasy. Reading through, enjoying these.

I’m just reading through, reading through. And we’re going to dive in. I’m going to try to leave time today to answer some of these questions.

I need to make it a priority for the next, at least for the next few, or this week. Manhattan born, 68, the new 48. And Sherry M., birthday, happy birthday.

Sister Becky doing the 44th. Bowler, whoa, whoa, slow it down, Bowler. DJT issues an executive order stating that all anti-Israel protesters and pro-Hamas supporters are now on notice.

Trump said they will be deported. Now, I don’t know if Trump means from now or he has authorized finding them now and get them out of our country. The EU is a result of the Columbia University riots.

Wow. I mean, the anti-Israeli protesters. I got a tough one on that one because I still believe in free speech, even when I don’t want to hear it.

I believe they have a right to peacefully protest, even if they’re idiots when they do it. That one, to me, is a little dangerous on that front. At the same time, some of the anti-Semitism that has grown in many communities has gotten downright dangerous.

The rhetoric is, well, if they were talking about anybody else but the Jewish community, they would be locked up. The outrage from social media to mainstream media would be enormous. But because it is focused at the Jewish community, for some reason, mainstream media is OK with it.

That one is kind of a tough one for me. Joseph, I don’t know if you are, but if you are, it’s OK. Take it up with the big man later.

Davey, no fun news on lower notes. All we’ve got are the articles telling us they’re printing new notes and also adding security features. Oh, yeah, that’s a whole different one.

That’s what I said. Peacefully, if you peacefully protest, it’s OK. But, yeah, violent ones, especially if they’re not a citizen.

Have you guys seen what El Salvador offered? They’re like, yeah, you can send us your dangerous criminals. We’ll take them. We’ll do it for a fee, cheaper than you can house them, and you don’t have to worry about them anymore.

That’ll be a fun one to talk about this morning. No fun Zim news, unfortunately. So should non-citizens be provided the same rights as U.S. citizens? That’s something – actually, that’s a fun one for us to discuss because if you follow our Declaration of Independence, it says we’re all created equal and endowed by God with our creator.

So these rights are from our creator, whoever you think your creator is. Theoretically, constitutional rights, meaning protections, should go to all when they’re in the country. Of course, at the same time, that doesn’t mean because they’re non-citizens doesn’t mean we have any responsibility to provide any freebies for them or keep them in the nation.

If they’re a lawbreaker, we have – in my opinion, we have – you have every right to physically remove them from your country. That is what makes sense, common sense, constitutional sense, legal sense, all sense. Kurdistan Regional Government receives nearly $1 trillion from Baghdad last month’s salaries.

We’re talking about for January. They’re already on it. They are upholding their promises with Erbil.

These are very important, guys. Crucial parliamentary session. Vote on important laws.

Welcome to amend budget. I want you to know that today they are indeed moving forward. After the bottleneck was removed big days yesterday, they have had sit-downs.

They are working through their budget tables. I think it has the potential to be a great week. Today, new meeting of two Kurdish parties on the formation of government.

The space for difference is narrowing. It seems that things are getting worked out in the Kurdish region. Common sense is starting to prevail.

Some of the corrupt are starting to be removed. They are coming to agreements quickly. Of course, could that be real? If they need to, I don’t know, install anything or change – yeah, it’s possible.

But I love watching all this suddenly coming together. Oh, I love this one. Great one for you guys.

The decline in oil by $1. Dollar barrel will incur an annual loss of up to this extent. Roughly a billion dollars.

Every dollar that goes down, that’s about another billion bucks that is going to be out of their budget. So what they’re saying here is it’s okay. We have a plan.

We just have to execute it. We have to increase the amount of oil we are pumping to offset it. So they have a clear plan on how they can attain their economic future, maintain or support their projects, lift the purchasing power of all Iraqis, and provide for safety and stability.

They just get to pump more. So there are negotiations to bypass OPEC so that they can sell more whenever oil drops. I think this one is a very key thing because it’s showing you that the American government is working with them so that they can support the changes that we expect.

I thought this one was just great. There’s some really good stuff out of Iraq this morning. Here’s another one.

Praise for government’s efforts in preserving public funds. This is that whole thing we’re seeing around the globe now. The sudden doge, worldwide doge, Department of Government Efficiency.

Praise as they’re going in line by line and looking at what they’re spending, making certain the money is going where it’s supposed to go, and getting rid of corruption and waste. 99% of the time, guys, waste is corruption, meaning they know it’s wasteful spending, but somebody is getting a kickback. Kind of like the, what is it, like millions of dollars that the, oh, which government, oh, I believe it’s the IRS.

Was it the IRS? Millions of dollars in coffee pods, even though they’re working from home, but they’re somehow still spending millions of dollars in Keurig K-cups, but nobody’s in the office to drink them. Got that somewhere in our articles. It’s going to start getting really fun as doge is exposing the wasteful spending.

And my God, the squeals from Schumer and everybody else has been just hilarious. How do you defend that? I mean, we were putting on trans plays in like Paraguay or Peru or something. We were putting on, we were, our government was paying for some really questionable stuff through USAID and other locations.

Tim, I don’t see it going into the Gazette Wednesday. I see a very good possibility of it making the Gazette on Saturday. They’re still discussing the budget tables and in order for it to go.

And today’s business in Iraq is already concluded. It’s over. It’s done because of the time difference.

So they don’t have the budget tables done. And they’ve already slated more meetings tomorrow for some more of those budget discussions over the tables. So to me, it is illogical that it could make it tomorrow morning.

Trapper. Well, Nancy’s son really enjoyed those billions that were dumped into the solar industry that disappeared. You know what it was like? Well, I forget the number, but it was very sizable that went to his company that never did anything.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Let’s see. Jerry’s mom having a 91st.

Isn’t that awesome? Happy birthday to your mom, Jerry. Oh, seriously. I mean, this doesn’t surprise me.

Ten million bucks on a study. How do they put lead in pencils? Why don’t they just go to the factory? Why don’t they just watch it? Have you ever seen How It’s Made, that television show that’s, to me, really cool and awfully just calming to watch? I watched an episode on that. They could have just like watched.

I think it was on Nat Geo or History or something and just watched an episode where they made pencils. And I learned how they put lead in pencils. And I didn’t have to spend $10 million.

That’s just crazy. Nothing fresh from Jeff Fromm. Oysters.

All right. It took me a minute to get that joke. Now, I did not see that, but I had somebody else point this out.

In El Salvador, Rubio said he’s been Secretary of State for two years, but he hasn’t been Secretary of State for two years. Or has he, behind the scenes? Has there been more going on in continuity of government? I don’t know. I know what’s in front of me, and I know what makes the most logical sense.

No, and he just became. But then I look at some things like slipped comments, and slipped comments happen, period. I mean, it happens.

But at the same time, you see other evidences that there has been activity going on. It does. It makes you question, what’s the truth? And I think we’d be foolish not to question it.

I think we’d be foolish to accept everything at face value. Fit for Tech. China strikes back with tariffs on U.S. goods.

Google probe. Probing Google and their responses there, but also they are responding back. Some 15% tariffs since Trump did 10, but they are very small and very targeted under certain ones.

They do hit coal pretty hard with tariffs, American coal specifically. China’s industrial growth dies without that same coal. Most of it is metallurgical, coking coal.

Very rarely do we send just power plant coal. I shouldn’t say that. We do send a sizable – at least we used to when I was still in the industry.

But most of the coal we send to or sell to China is used in the steel industry and turning it from iron into steel. Or for carbon. I’m really surprised they picked coal, but it could be a way of disguising the sudden drop in their manufacturing output.

Hey, look, I’m sorry. Blame America. We’ve had to start shutting down the factories.

In other words, they can blame what’s already happening because of a lack of sales and people turning a little more away from China and turning to Vietnam. India and some other countries for some of this manufacturing equipment, et cetera. So what do you guys think? Because that’s one of the few they targeted.

They targeted specifically so they could blame something similar to how the Biden administration blamed – I mean, it was already running crazy. It had already happened. Inflation had already started running.

But then they said, oh, we get to blame Putin because of Ukraine. It was already occurring. We’d already overprinted.

We already had it. But then suddenly people that had been suffering it for some time were like, oh, yeah, we can blame Putin. Putin.

It was Putin. So I’m wondering if the Chinese government is playing a little bit of a shell game. And the tariffs against that American coal is specifically to cover the manufacturing crisis that has started occurring in China.

I see Dave having a birthday, a 66th. Jason, amen, brother. And I know how difficult it is.

I’ve got – just like you, you know, you survive at home. You have this belief set. Everybody else has a different one.

And what do you do? My suggestion is try to hold the tongue. Be secure in your own thoughts and opinions. They’ll see it when we get out the other end.

But you’re right. We keep losing more and more, which is sad because now we’re finally winning. And now is when we’re losing them.

It sucks. Cody Boy, Andy is supposed to be with us. Don’t know what to tell you on Venezuelan bonds.

I do know that some of their government bonds, their international bonds, have suddenly become more valuable because it looks like they will be more capable or more – more capable of actually paying the bonds as we remove some of the sanctions, buy more oil from them to refine, to turn into products to sell around the world. And that is something that I wonder if people have noticed. The U.S. has started bringing in to – because they’re upping production at refineries.

They’re expanding. But they have already started putting together petroleum products and more crude so that we can start exporting more finished products. This is really big.

This will add enormous dollars to the U.S. economy and provide many, many, many, many jobs and offset foreign trade imbalances. I am going to double-check with Andy right now just because I’ve had – this is probably the sixth time between the platforms I’ve seen somebody ask. So, I just want to see if I can get a confirmation while we are live this morning.

Let’s see. RFK proposes – let’s see. AI nurses for remote areas.

We have always said we are not opposed to new technologies. Is the way you use these technologies for good or bad? That’s the truth. Trying to keep up.

Let’s take the banner down. I think there’s a little more, but I just want it out of the way. Rain man.

Boulevard is still looking – boulevard is looking better now. Yesterday, to me, was a big one because I was getting uncertain. I was still being told that the boulevard was going in the first one.

But that brought a lot of comfort to me yesterday because they did not come to those conclusions overnight. That wasn’t a three-hour whatever they called up and said, hey, we want to do this, this, this. Specifically, it is clear that channels that they have been working on that deal for some time.

So, it’s obvious that Trump already had people in communication and working with Venezuela. So, that made me feel really good because that means it’s been an ongoing operation to get them up to speed and to change things. No, we haven’t had any fresh Vietnam news.

We got news in the last week and a half, I believe in the last week and a half, that they want to cut 20 percent of their government to increase government efficiency. Of course, we know they have been tenaciously going after grift and corruption and now waste. And then we hear that they are printing more notes with more security features.

No updates on St. Germain Trust. And Todd said, yeah, a year ago, I saw a picture of the president of Venezuela holding a red folder, nothing to see here. That’s interesting.

Peachy keen, it’s my understanding because of the trade cooperation between Vietnam and Dong that it would raise the Dong to some degree. I don’t know how much. Robin, I don’t know what article you’re referring to.

Tahoe, I was at a place called Costa. My friend’s niece has been in town and she is leaving. So, I was asked to join to do a family kind of function.

So, I stepped away from it to to join you guys remotely. My thoughts about the Sovereign Wealth Fund. I think it’s a big sign of despair because it’s not just the U.S. Many countries around the world have suddenly decided that they need a Sovereign Wealth Fund.

And we haven’t seen those since we were on a gold standard in many countries. Mark, they’re shutting down a huge solar farm in the Mojave. It costs four to five times more to make the same power from standard methods.

We are all paying for that here in California. Yeah, it’s a mess what you guys have. RFK moves to a full Senate vote.

It’s going to be a tough one. It’s going to be a tough one. Simply put, that’s the conversation we were having last night.

Many of my sources now are telling, I’ve not gotten an update on DONG, but many of my sources are telling me I’m a couple of dollars low on the NAR right now. So, I am hopeful that’s accurate. I mean, anything under, anything over a dollar and I’m gone.

Good, good, gone. Confirming right now. Keep me posted, guys, if they get the entire vote in.

Shelly, things are getting pretty dire in the UK. We need to, you do. I am very concerned whether the UK is going to survive as any form of republic or democracy or, I’m very worried about the folks in the UK.

Paige saying he is in, he is in. Easy chair, I want seven bucks too. Kathy, I want 17.

What do you guys want? Just throw it out there. Realistically, what do you guys think? We don’t know the answer. I don’t know the answer, but it might be fun.

I occasionally hear about the PENGO being good, but I can’t find anybody that has specific information on it amongst my banking contacts, Mary. So, for me, I consider it a crapshoot. Crapshoot that’s really cheap.

So, worst case, I got a nice collectible. Best case, I got a lot of dollars from it, but it’s not much of a risk. So, to me, it’s worth rolling the dice.

It’s kind of the way I look at things. I look at the risk versus the potential reward. If it’s low risk, high reward, why not roll the dice? Yeah, Jameson, I think it’s going to be, because I keep having all my banking contacts tell me it will not be a float.

It will be, if there is any float, it will be extremely managed so that it does not cause fluctuations. All right. RFK Jr. is clear.

The Senate Finance Committee vote, 14 to 13. I like that one. Kathy Laney, 16 for 4B.

Come on. Boulevard for a dollar. Oh, God, could you imagine? Deb P., I am still hearing $1.47 for the Indonesian rupiah.

That’s been very consistent with pretty much zero fluctuation. Yeah, that’s kind of my question, Jill. On the vote thing, and right side broadcasting network saying 14 to 13, yes, out of committee.

So now I think he goes for a full Senate vote. I think he had to make it out of the committee before he could go to the full Senate. At least that’s how I think it operates, guys.

Richard said, since we know Sudan, he said they’re going to go back to their glory days as the strongest currency in the world yet. Anything over $3.50? Has anybody done any recent looks at what Kuwait’s worth right now? Mr. Bill, I think we need to get cash in before. What is the update? When do we get cash? When do we get that vote? Is that tomorrow? Is that Thursday? Aussie Mom, thank you.

Wendy W., let me know. I haven’t lost it. Non-Republican Stern.

A number, of course, overwhelmingly Democrats are going to vote against him just because he made the mistake supporting Trump. But there are a number of Democrats that have said they will support him. So is it going to be enough to offset the Republicans that will be primaried and removed? If you’re on the Republican side, if you think for two seconds that you will not be fiercely and strongly primaried, you’re an idiot.

It is political suicide in the Republican Party right now not to confirm RFK Jr. Tim, what does it mean if it goes in the Gazette that makes it official to the Iraqi people? There’d be no hiding it anymore. Think of it as the public announcement of an RV. That’s why everybody wants to know if it’s going in.

Isn’t that a great question, Charlie? How soon after cash do we get the Epstein list? I hope immediately. There’s so much fun stuff to talk about. See, I saw that Lindsey Graham stated he would be voting yes for all three.

I guess myself and the other 100,000 people that called and left him a testy voice message got through to him. Matt, amen. And any senator that says they’re not voting for him, you need to go ahead and start calling them now throughout the day and let them know your thoughts.

This is a representative government. It is a republic. They are voted to see to your best interests.

You bring them in. They are there to represent you. They work for you.

You do not work for them. You do not kiss their ass. They kiss your ass.

This is how it is supposed to work. They’re supposed to go in there and fight for the will of their constituents, what their people want. And their people voted overwhelmingly for our FK Jr. Yes, I know.

They didn’t actually go cast a ballot for our FK. They went and cast it for Trump. They cast one for Trump, many on the middle and the independents, folks that were sitting in the fence.

Many of them’s decisions were made because Trump had Elon Musk and RFK Jr. and Vivek in his corner. So, in effect, we did indeed vote for them. We did indeed vote for Doge.

We did indeed vote to make America healthy again. Seems to be very confusing for Democrats on that point. Mark, I am planning on answering questions and taking more time.

Sorry about that. Had an itch on the leg, guys. Planning on taking more questions from folks like, hey, what do you think the process is going to be like? We do not know for certain what the process is going to be.

We have some very good ideas. So, I think it’s better we just openly talk about it. What ifs? And, hey, it’s this, I’ll do that.

But I was thinking on that front, I want to make certain I get to that one. I was thinking about doing a, because I need to put some content on the backup channel over at Trolling News to keep it live so they don’t shut it down. I need to take some time.

So, I was thinking setting aside maybe an hour once or twice this week just to let you guys ask questions. Zero prepared. We just go in.

We ask questions. What it might look like. I’m in Spain.

I’m in the UK. I’m sitting in Peru, wherever it is, and ask questions on that front. That’s my plan.

Go north. I have never had John on a show. He’s got a lot going on.

I do talk to him fairly often. I do like Mr. Dowling. I believe him to be a good human being with a big heart.

Ellen, I just have to disagree with him. Because if all they do is delete the zeros without increasing value, it doesn’t cure any of the woes for the Iraqi people. It doesn’t fulfill any of the promises that Sudan, Shabibi, Barzani, any of them have given the people.

It would not fit in any way. And historically, that’s not how it has worked when they come out of war and they revalue after being devalued. It just isn’t how it works.

But he’s welcome to have the opinion. But why would anybody follow him for currency news if he said that there’s not going to be revaluation, there’s going to print new notes? If you’re following this, why in the world? I don’t get it, but you guys do you. Leroy, Maggie, once again, this is going to be probably the 100th millionth time on Bolivar.

Will certain years pay more or less? Absolutely. Different years are going to pay more or less because they represent different values. This is like there is a chart here, currency diagrams, and it shows you the number of zeros added.

You can look at it yourself. You can look at the years. You can figure out how many they’ve added, how many it represents or doesn’t represent.

So yes, absolutely, it’s going to be different based on which year. I don’t know why I get that question so often. Are we talking about Elizabeth Warren? Yes, she’s cuckoo.

Melinda, I don’t have an update on Rod. I do know he’s going to have some very difficult financial times unless we get a reset knocked out very quickly. Ah, we do not have Andy tomorrow.

He is still in Aspen skiing. Wow, good for him. So it looks like he took like a two-week vacation or a week and a half.

Yeah, good for him. I really need to suck it up and do something fun too. I’m not going to spend that kind of money though.

It wouldn’t be fun for me. Mark, do you ever listen to… I have listened to a lot of David Icke or David Ike. How do you pronounce that, Icke or Ike? Anybody? Sound off.

I have no information on the Telegram app on YouTube. Are you looking for our like info room on Telegram? Now guys, I do not use Telegram. Let’s just be very clear.

If somebody ever messages you claiming to be me, I don’t use it. I despise Telegram. But do we have one? Yes, if you want to make certain you’re in the actual real one, go to the originalmarkz.com, look for the little Telegram button, click it, and there will be links that will take you directly to the different Telegram rooms.

Super easy to find. Ike, no E sound. Ike, all right, Ike.

Thanks, guys. And Telegram, it’s horrendous with trolls and folks that keep, hey, this is Mark with the QFS group. This is your only chance.

Send us your money. Just give us these details from your digital wallet. We’ll make certain that your XRP is in the new QFS system.

1. They’re stealing from everybody. Yeah, God’s chosen.

A lot of people do enjoy Telegram. You just have to be very cognizant that there’s going to be a lot of BS there and a lot of people trying to swindle you. But as long as you are on top of your game, you’re not the type that’s going to fall for crap, I can see where you would have fun in Telegram.

Chicken flock, as you know, that’s the truth. Telegram’s an IQ test to see if you’re smart enough not to get swindled. And if you do get swindled, guys, don’t beat yourself up.

Learn from it. Now you’re talking, Kathy. I could do an Irish coffee by the fire.

I thought about that last night. I was like, you know, it’s been a long time since I had, like, a little Irish cream in a coffee with a splash of Jameson, a millionaire’s coffee or something. It is kind of a decadent thing, like an aperitif after a great meal with friends.

I’m not a big wine drinker, but a nice bottle of wine when you’re all together as a group enjoying time or family. Pretty cool. Jay, dude, Jay, I like your style.

Jay said, I screw with the scammers all the time on Telegram. It’s actually therapeutic. Yes, it is.

I do the same thing when they call me. Hey, it’s open enrollment season. Hey, it’s this.

When I have time, I do the same thing, Jay, just for a little comic relief. Seven to Z, this is the period we are in in the human history. We are in the discernment period where we need to discern everything.

I like that one. Freedom Forged. Hey, Jeremy, I put Grand Marnier in my coffee from time to time.

Hey, Jeremy, while you’re in there, do we have any? I mean, it’s shameless plug. It’s, you know, Jeremy’s part of it. I’m part of this one.

My son, part of this coffee company, and we love it. We are passionate about it. And one of the reasons we did Freedom Forged, a couple of us were drinking Black Rifle until we found out where Black Rifle was sending their money.

I mean, it felt good, right? Black Rifle veterans. Oh, all America. America felt really good.

And then we found out who they were giving their money to and what they thought about us conservatives. That was one of our series. So we love coffee.

And one of our big deciding factors was just that. And then as we started researching and finding and sourcing and trying many different coffees, we figured out where they were getting theirs, too. And then we figured out, of course, we figured out before then where they were spending their profits and who they were giving them to politically.

And that was enough for us. And I know it is penance. It is small.

We don’t sell much coffee. We’re not a big company. Our coffee’s better.

You actually have some people that do love America running a country that do believe in the Constitution, apple pie, God, family. Oh, Joanda. All right, you guys.

No, Crypto Kenny, we do not have K-Cups. We do not have K-Cups. We’ve tried it in K-Cup style things.

And so many folks, if you’re making your coffee in a K-Cup, many of the older ones don’t heat as hot. So the coffee just comes out like blackish water that doesn’t taste very good because the temperature just doesn’t hit on most of the K-Cup ones because they’re blasting it through so quickly. Not all of them.

Some of the nicer K-Cups do a great job. Newer ones do a great job. But even using the refillable, so we’re just like, is it going to be a good product if we do something like that? Thinking an El Salvador special may be in order since they went to Guantanamo Bay 2.0. Yeah, that’s not a bad idea.

Bearded, yeah, we saw that. But he was confirmed. He still has to go to a full Senate vote, Bearded.

He made it through the first phase through committee. So now he is allowed to go for a full Senate vote. LSU girl, right? That’s a lot of zeros on that chart.

That’s why I keep saying it’s going to change and it’s going to be different. Network, Militiaman’s advertising your coffee with a discount. Isn’t it awesome? I’m excited, Network Fisher, to have them join us over there and help spread the word because I really would like to make a difference.

Our goal with Freedom Forged is to grow it so that we can afford to start developing and working with coffee farmers in Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and Guam. We want, at some point, we would like for the bulk of our coffee to be American made, American roasted, American consumed, et cetera. We’re not dissing on other coffees from around the world.

I mean, some of them are really cool and really neat and all that. We just would like to make it financially make sense to have made in America, grown in America. After these next four years, nobody in their right mind will vote for Republican.

Mary Jo, it’s working exactly opposite. After the last four years, nobody in their right mind would vote Democrat again, but some of them still did. After 40% increase in the cost of your groceries, after, what is it, 26% or 27% increase in your housing cost, they still voted.

Still voted Democrat again. I mean, it is quite literally the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and getting the exact same results. It’s a failure.

The results were a failure, and the people spoke overwhelmingly. What more likely is going to happen, things are going to get fixed. I mean, what have we found? We found enormous waste, 50 million to condoms for Gaza.

What was it, 45 million for DEI, gender, whatever, something, college degrees in, trying to remember which country. I mean, absolutely insane spending. I mean, did you know you were putting on drag plays in other countries on your dime? They’re definitely hating life right now over on the left.

Linda, crypto’s going to be ups down. It’s a future. It’s going to have an ugly growth period.

Mary, if it makes you feel any better, if he indeed is everything that you have been brainwashed into thinking he is, I will scream from the top. I will be his biggest detractor, detractor. I will not support a tyrant.

I will support somebody that gives us the hard medicine that we need to take to get better as a country. Will you do the same? Will you admit you’re wrong if it is proven that you are wrong? I will. Linda, we are working on a decaf coffee option.

We are trying different ones, trying to find one that we approve of. Trudy Burns, I agree with you. Foreign people should not be able to come to our country and protest, just like we should not be able to go to their country and protest.

Totally agree with you. There is that whole like microplastics that the K-Cups put in your coffee. Long Beach, I am supposed to get not a list of centers, but a list of contacts for them so that you can find out and reach out to them.

Oh, boy. Let’s just go ahead and save this one. Not worth the effort.

Dictators, we got no. Dictators, what we just had. Remember the ones that would tell you you couldn’t go to work, told you what you could and couldn’t do with your body, that if you didn’t take it, you weren’t allowed to do this.

Heck, they even use child protective services to go after people that wouldn’t take it. And guess what? We were right. They were wrong.

Yeah, horse whisperer, just get good with it. Do you remember the old days when you could disagree politically and still be friends? I remember those fondly. None of my friends on the left remember it.

Simply put, no, no, no, no, no. Your explanation is simple. It’s not going to be worth a dollar.

It’ll most likely be worth pennies that will still add up to impressive stuff. You’re seeing the logic, simply put. Exactly, that’s a hyperinflation number.

And then you’ve got to rein it in, you’ve got to control it, and then you can have value again. As your currency loses value because your government overspends, similar to what happened in our country over the last four years as we had runaway inflation. Now, sometimes inflation’s okay.

And I know, I am not a fan because it’s a hidden tax on the working class. But it’s a hidden tax on the working class. But if it’s a temporary for a reason, we saw this with John Kennedy.

We saw this with Reagan. We’ve seen this throughout history in other countries too. Or sometimes you can cause temporary inflation as you fix this one, the tariff specifically, if you focus on bringing manufacturing to the U.S., back to the U.S., production in the U.S., you will have temporary inflation.

It will be offset by an increase in the amount of goods, employment, and lifting of the working class lower middle up. So you just weigh it. You got to do the pros and cons.

But you do know that if executed properly, it is a temporary inflation that adds more security and revenue domestically. And then prices come down because purchasing power of your currency increases. Frank, I do not believe there is any chance that the Belizean currency will be a full U.S. dollar because theirs is specifically pegged.

They hold for every two Belizean dollars they print, they hold $1 in their reserves, in their central bank. So there to me is zero chance that it will be equal $1 unless they cut their supply and re-denominate their money. Theirs, I do not expect it to fluctuate against the U.S. dollar at all.

The mechanism in which it is pegged doesn’t allow it to. Beach lover, right? Money laundering. What about people in tents in North Carolina? What about people that are still in tents in Florida? Northern Georgia? Eastern Tennessee? What about all the folks still in tents all over California and we keep spending billions and billions of dollars and sending them everywhere else? It’s criminal.

Not yours. It’s good to see you in the house. Mark, with all the evidence about JAB being bad, my parents and sisters still get all the booze because my brother-in-law has prostate cancer.

I mean, what’s his point? Was it 30-some percent according to, well, I think we’re up to like three different double-blind peer-reviewed studies showing that it causes, was it 30-some percent increase in circulation and heart? I mean, it’s crazy and people still go do it. I mean, absolute insanity. Here, this shot, you may not get the sniffles, but you’re probably gonna die 11 years earlier from heart-related problems and have a shitty quality of life, but go hit it.

I just suggest everybody find a doctor that is willing to really read the science, study the science. Oh, man. Cheryl, I would love to be able to go to New Orleans for the Super Bowl.

One, I like the people of New Orleans and I like the food and it always gives me a chance to have a fight with them about Cajun or Creole and which one is better, which is always fun. I shouldn’t say a fight, a spirited discussion while you get to eat a lot of good food. All right, we did that one.

There’s more. I can’t believe it. This has been fun, though.

There’s your sovereign fund again. We already talked about China and tariffs. Trump orders creation of U.S. sovereign wealth fund, says goodbye to TikTok.

This is actually, I thought about it, I was like, no, that’s a bad idea. And then I was like, you know what? It’s actually a good idea. If these conglomerate companies wanna come in, then part of it being held, this is a business model that used to be used more in the past, historically around the globe, where the country would have some business interest in some of these companies.

It runs the line on the whole socialist, possible socialist lean towards that government involvement in business. And I am generally a free market person, but you’ve gotta weigh things and look at them logically and say, okay, in an ideal world, if everybody worked with great ideals and great character and all those things, we could have this kind of system, but people are human. So I’m not opposed in any, any way to this one.

Trump pauses tariffs on Mexico and Canada after border agreements reached. China is the only one still holding out. My guess is Trump is supposed to have, well, I shouldn’t say my guess.

Trump is supposed to have a conversation this week with Xi Jinping. My guess is after that conversation, there will be agreements on curbing the precursors and the money, dollars, drug stuff headed towards cartels. I think you are about to see reversal and tariffs dropped in China.

My guess is before Monday next week, if not sooner, most likely Thursday or Friday of this week. It works. The whole world out there, they just don’t, I just assume that they are, they hate Trump so much that they will not take the time to buy or read art of the deal.

If they did, they would understand exactly what he’s doing and they wouldn’t be freaked out. They would understand. They would also understand that it is a very legitimate business approach to negotiations.

Angry Democratic lawmakers blocked by security from entering the USAID headquarters. It’s a lot of drama. What’s legal? What’s not? They may hate it, but he’s using many of their own rules to dismantle the machine.

Many of the rules that the Democrats put into position because they wanted an overpowered executive. Now he’s using the overpowered executive that they created during the Clinton administration, during the Bush Jr. administration, and especially the Obama administration and come home to roost. There is a reason why we have separation of power and hopefully after this four years, if the Democrats learn nothing else, they learn that separations of powers is a good thing because they are missing it right now.

I kind of like it where they have to pay the price for what they did and that’s what they’re doing right now. As long as it’s not the American people that have to pay the price because their Trump derangement syndrome, they are so willing to wound him that they’re willing to wound the American people, their fellow neighbors, their own family, because they hate Trump so much. Their hate of Trump is stronger than their love for America.

U.S. cattle inventory has hit a staggering low, falling for the sixth consecutive year to 86.7 million. This marks the lowest head count in 74 years. I want you to think about that, guys.

As you go to the grocery store, lowest head count in 74 years. Let’s have a little bit of fun. Let’s do a little search.

What was the population in America 74 years ago? Let’s see what the old Google Meister tells us. Population in the United States 74 years ago in 1974 was 213,333,635 people. Roughly about 120 million fewer people with the same amount of meat.

Cows. Anybody doing the math here? Anybody doing the math on the avian flu here, avian flu there, they’re the ones that have very little effect on humans, but might have a cold. Maybe somebody that is very compromised could die.

It is true. It is possible. It’s also possible an asteroid could lodge in your rectal cavities while you’re walking down the road.

But do you stop living? Do you stop eating because you’re worried that an asteroid might hit you? No, you keep living. And unfortunately, we are crippling the food supply. I understand if it is a reasonable, reasonable in any way concern, but they are brutalizing in many liberal states, the food supply and going after and using it to shut down and they love doing it.

They are perfectly willing to shut it down. So the cost of eggs or the cost of stuff goes up and they can say, look, bad Trump. They’re screwing you, they’re screwing me and you’ve got to weigh and measure safety.

Do you shut down the entire produce industry in California because somebody got salmonella? No, you do your best, you clean it up, you make appropriate changes, but you don’t shut down all of it and then people starve. Logic, logic, logic. Asteroid flu, it’s a thing, man.

Where are we at here? We did the Sovereign Fund. We did the tariffs. We did the angry lawmakers.

Yeah, they’re not happy, guys. They’re rolling in and meeting the same consequences, the same behavior that they were doing. It’s just flipped on the other side now.

They’re not happy about this one and they are really upset. All right, here’s a fun one. They’re upset that Doge went in and had been cleaning up systems, checking for, I mean, they’ve already found billions of dollars in automatic payments that were going to either dead people, tariffs or whatever.

This should never have been being paid. They found government contracts to companies that quit doing business with the government some time ago, but were still getting checks. They’re finding out what we funded at USAID and they’re really mad now.

They’re saying, oh my God, now they have my personal, now somebody at the government has my personal information. Guys, they always had your personal information. Dear God, are you that stupid? They always had it.

And they always had access to it. How do I know that? Edward Snowden told us. Patriot Act told us.

They all have the information. But now suddenly the Democrats are worried about them having the information that they already had. Oh, we did the cattle inventory.

Oh, special kind of stupid. New Jersey governor sheltering an illegal alien at his home above his garage. And he’s doubling down, talking about how cool it is.

Yeah, I dare him. I dare him to come in here. I dare him.

I foresee some pretty ugly lawsuits in the making. Excuse me, prosecutions. Sounds like the cattle shrinkage started.

It went into overdrive in 2000. I believe it was 2009 is when they really started aggressively going after herd size in the US. I think it’s time to raid his house.

RW, yeah, no, I read it all the time. Whenever I have downtime, I roll through the book. I enjoy it.

You guys are wondering what I’m talking about. There is RW and his book. RW, you should tell them if it is.

It’s inspiring. It’s easy. It’s not difficult reading.

Just have some cool pictures of him and everything in his life. So if you guys want to dive into the life and the brain of RW, our resident philosopher, look the book up. Oh, God, I forgot all about Hillary suggesting fart bags on cows.

I forgot all about that one, Miss Jeannie. Oh, well, not Miss Jeannie. That was Denard, dude.

I’m just reading many of these. Yeah, I’m waving the other country’s flag in America. I think that would very much depend on what and where.

Freedom of expression to me, if you want to wear a flag shirt. If you are from Great Britain, you want to wear the Yukon Jack. I mean, you want to, you know, on your gear, just like if I want to wear a patriotic looking American hat while I’m on vacation in Panama or something, I don’t see a problem with that.

Now, government buildings, unless they are embassies, I don’t believe should fly a foreign flag. I could see for like dignitary reasons, you’re, you know, you’re greeting a dignitary from, I don’t know, France. So putting up, you know, a couple of flags in the area when you’re meeting along with American flags, to me, that’s okay.

Yeah, I definitely hope for good security at the Super Bowl. It is a, any of those big ones made for television events are pretty scary in my book. I mean, I’m still going to keep living, but I would definitely be there with a head on the swivel.

Yeah, I forgot all about that when they tried to arrest the cattle guard. I mean, that really, there’s some insanity. There has been a lot of insanity.

I mean, still, they continue to go after Amos and the guy, you know, some of the Amish farmers, I mean, tenaciously, because they have the audacity to sell their food, their organic, all natural food. Let’s see, it’s breaking. This, I don’t know if this is funny or not, Lily.

Senator Elizabeth Warren is upset that RFK Jr. passed the initial Senate Finance Committee vote, arguing that allowing lawsuits against vaccine manufacturers is dangerous. That, to me, is the most obscene, there’s a good word I’m looking for, as to just how stupid that comment is from her. What happens if they knowingly hide the data, they knowingly put out a product because they can make billions of dollars, and this has happened in the past, where they’ve hidden the studies and some of the results.

I mean, how many lawsuits? Every time you turn around, there’s another one, class action suit, or the government suing pharmaceutical companies. So I guess it’s only okay if the government gets to sue them. It’s not okay if the actual victims get to sue them.

No, that mechanism is what keeps them honest, keeps them doing the right thing because they don’t seem to want to do the right thing on their own. If they would have revealed all of the studies, if they would have shared the data they had on the jab for COVID, many people would have made the logical conclusion not to take it. They would have said it’s not worth the potential, the risk is so low for me because I’m a younger, I’m a healthier person, I’m 40 but in great shape or whatever it is.

They would not have even considered taking it if they knew the risks. Now, it’s a totally different conversation if you are 85 with COPD, it might be worth it. You’re not worried about what’s going to happen in 20 years if it causes you heart issues down the road, et cetera.

Very different discussion, but so unless the pharmaceutical companies are willing to come out and be absolutely transparent above the board and allow everybody to see it, not hide it, not put in a blank paper along with the drugs that tells you all of the complications, all the whatever and it’s just a blank piece of paper. When they’re willing to play like real ball, maybe we can have the conversation, but until then, wow, the entire thought of not being able to sell them. That’s a special kind of, she’s nutty.

All right, guys, I appreciate every one of you. I will be with you this evening, 7 p.m., looking forward to it. We have Legacy, Trista, Carla and Alicia, Beheasy, Beheavy, Sherry, Becky, Dave, the Birthday Crew.

So they tell me it’s your birthday. Well, happy birthday, darling. May you live, may you love.

May all your dreams come true. Happy birthday, happy birthday, happy birthday to you. Wait, Hunter Biden, I forgot to sing to Hunter Biden.

Gone fishing, life is good. That’s the shirt today. Somebody was asking.

All right, guys, see you this evening at seven.