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But again, we'll save that for the next hour when Viva joins us. And I want to begin today, since it's Friday, you know, it's the end of the week, yet another week of chaos and criminality and misery and everything else, bad under the sun. So we're gonna, so I want to be more uplifting. So we're gonna show some good stuff to start us off. And this video really is something to behold. I consider it beautiful to tell you the truth. If I could find it, if I could tell you which one it is. But this is one of the sort of more subtle effects. And I got to give Donald Trump credit for this, clip 36. This guy went, it was basically kicked off of food stamps. And lo and behold, it improved his life. I really think this is something we, you say, like we speak and say this all we want. And tell somebody actually experiences it. You know, who's gonna believe us? The idea that like, no, giving you things is actually bad for you.

Getting things without earning it doesn't actually help you. It's actually a, you know, set of golden handcuffs. It's a present for you. Put it around your neck, you know, like a leash. Let's go to clip 36 here. You gotta give credit to Trump for this. And hopefully this type of transformation is happening all over the country as people, whether they like it or not, are being forced to recognize how powerful they truly are. Let's watch. It's been about four months since I've been living without no food stamps. Been having to pay cash at the market. I mean, doing the shopping and whatever. They said no shade to nobody. Don't get any f**king fillings at start. I mean, getting your panties in a bunch of the comments. This is just, y'all know this is my personal journal. This is G, BZ's journal. I'm talking about my f**king. What I've recognized down that I've been paying cash at the market these last four months. I used to think that we would be struggling if we didn't have food stamps.

Even in my previous relationship with my daughter's mom, we used to be for England, for lessons in Germany, trying to run it one, two to be able to even get food stamps. And I've been living a life of karmic retribution. Meaning, I'm putting out what I want to receive in return. I'm very fearful of doing anything backhanded or back doors on the strip. I think f**king the fall back on me. Because I have been manifesting my reality. I haven't been doing those schemes. No sh** type of form of fashion. Now, that's the way. I've been going to the market spending cash probably like $200 a week. I mean, to give the things that we need. But I'm recognizing that when I had food stamps, we was shopping gluttonous f**king. We was buying a bunch of f**king. We really honestly didn't need. We was shopping with our eyes f**king. I mean, just because. But now that we got a few on the strip budget, and we just buy what we need to last during the week, mature we got. I mean f**king.

I didn't have food, so I f**king like that. It's like, bro, we really don't need food stamps. I never needed f**king. Now only did I never need f**king. I never was doubting my own power, my own power of being able to survive and accomplish things off my own hand, thinking that I needed f**king. Being fair for what I've even tried to survive without f**king. And it's like, I thought about that with the food stamps. But f**king. When it comes to government assistance in general, f**king stunts your growth. It definitely starts your growth. It starts our growth. Being dependent upon government assistance, it takes away you believing in your own power to be able to take care of yourself and accomplish your goal, whatever f**king need for it. It's like, bro, in four months, I ain't even realized that it's been four months since we haven't had f**king. Now don't mind you. I can recognize that having new food stamps and being able to put that $500, $500, $800,

I'm wanting that I'm spending at the market back into the household will definitely help go over to other places. No doubt. But at the same time, between time, I just don't want to live a certain lifestyle. Now at this age where I'm speaking and living in a way that I want to find me in return. Breeze's journal on TikTok. Yeah, just absolutely incredible. Incredible stuff. He's literally just like, I didn't know my own power. He literally has spent his whole life being dependent on the government, thinking he was getting the good end of the deal. When he says, you know, I realize now how gluttonous we were shopping, right? Just add you want it, get it, why not, it's not your money. It just goes on the government bill, do it. You think your benefit, you're like, I could do you whatever I want. I could just not even think about it and buy things and I just get stuff myself. I mean, I don't think I can elaborate on what he said anymore that he did.

But you see what I mean where it's like, we can kind of make this case. We can kind of be like, you know, spiritually. And in the long term, it's actually bad to give people subsidies. It's not helpful. It's not good. It's not good for them. It's not good for the system. That can just, that can sound like an excuse. That can sound like, you know, a lie just because I want to keep my money. But like, no, it actually, this is actually hugely damaging. Generation over generation of people being dependent, feeling that their helpless feeling they couldn't survive without the help. I love it. I absolutely love it. This guy's saying the same thing. Who's that guy? And I recognize him. Just grocery vial. So I love that. That was very uplifting video that I saw this morning, which is like, you couldn't have, you couldn't have, you know, Thomas Sol couldn't have scripted it better, folks. Milton Freeman could not have scripted it better. The poison pill of government assistance.

And that is the reason. Like it's not an accident, right? Snap in section 8 costs. US taxpayers 138 billion dollars last year. And that's before Medicaid, SSI and the rest. Food is expensive in part because 42 million people are buying groceries with a card. Somebody else funds. The damage is not only the bill with tens of millions of people organize their mouth around a government check. They stop voting on a, on the country and start voting on the benefits. Borders crime and debt become background noise to the one question that matters to them. Who will keep the groceries and the rent vouchers flowing? Milton Freeman put it plainly. You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state. Well, that's a whole, that's a whole other issue. The open border welfare state is just. Throwing gasoline on an already dangerous fire. So again, you know, I don't know. I feel like I don't know how to express the depth of like spiritual truth that we just witness there.

It's the type of thing that like we got to, we got to really internalize the consequences that we're witnessing right here. You understand that I mean, how many times have we talked about American greatness right here. Smelling out EVT with the snack cakes. Gluttony manifest. Good Lord. But I mean, you get this was that this was the plan. How many times have I said the same, I always say the same thing that like for a hundred years between Abject absolute, you're not allowed to learn to read slavery to basic parody with white America in a hundred years. Black people made incredible gains in a right as they, you know, looking around going, I think we did. I think we made it. I think, hey guys, can we be equal now? I think we've kind of proven that where it's like, well, how about the government helps you the last couple of steps? We'll carry you over the finish line.

It's just just downhill ever since. And that's why that's why right there. The second and third. Effects that come later. I really would like to stay with the fun stuff because most of the stuff is not fun at all. But on Fridays, I hate just like being a downer right before the weekend. But I guess that's what we have to do, although we do have a lot of good flock news. Like flocks being destroyed. A man claims to have taken down every flock camera in Bernalillo County, New Mexico moments before he was arrested. In a video shared on social media, Jeff on Martinez said he was on his way to drop off all the cameras at the local sheriff's office. He filmed a video of himself with a truck that is truck that is full of flock cameras. It's got an American flag laying on top. This man is a patriot. And I think we should build a statue for him.

It's going to clip number four here. This is Jeff on Martinez, our new founding father. Welcome to the ranks, sir. Let's watch. I decided to liberate the people at Bernalillo. Bernalillo County Sheriff's Department has unsubscribe from flock cameras, which like commend you. It's a smart move. But I know you guys are busy. So I went and took them all down for you. I guess I'll right now to drop them off. I'm going to do this at 111. Yeah, our time. But yeah, they've been seeing us. So I love you guys. You guys are awesome. I'm on the record for the record and let the record show. I'm simply not breaking them. I'm not still a ****. There's some more you gotta edit me. Oh, it's like they already had a pre-planned. Look at the ****. They're tearing each tree. They're tearing each tree. I'm not cutting the lines like I usually do. There we go. He's a lumberjack harvesting the tyranny trees.

It's getting more. Those of you watching. I'm not breaking them. I'm not still in them. I'm returning. That's all I'm doing. Not in my city, not in my state. I'm right there. Here's getting pulled over. He's got his hands out. They're ordering him to turn around. He's wearing a Hawaiian shirt. It's being approached by the sheriff's in their undercover vehicle told the walk backwards. They're pretending like this guy's dangerous. Now he's been asked to go down to his knees. He's got his hands up. Man with truck full of flat cameras arrested in Albuquerque. I'm sorry. I think you mean hero. I think you mean hero patriot with truck full of tyranny trees arrested in Albuquerque by jack booted thugs. His license plate says diplomat. Is he a diplomat? I wonder if he's like a sovereign citizen type.

Looks like he's got a princess mononoki shirt on. I knew it was a cool guy. I don't understand why is he being arrested. He didn't break a law. According to him, he's like, well, because what happens? Because here's what happens. Here's the secret behind this video. Flop cameras get put up by flock when your city signs up for flock. You pay and they put them up. Then they leave them up. Even if you cancel flock, those cameras remain up. Most of them have solar panels. It's not like the city has to provide them electricity. They just run perpetually. Once they're up, flock doesn't take them down. The city usually doesn't take them down. Even if your city cancels its flock contract, the overall nationwide flock network will still have access to your area. They'll still be able to access those cameras or the archives of those cameras. They cancel the flock contract. They're not doing flock anymore. This guy just goes around. He's not damaging the cameras. He's not keeping them. He's returning them to the sheriff's office.

He's not vandalizing and taking down a piece of city property. The city doesn't want them anymore. The city voted to not have flock cameras. It sounds like he just did the city's job for them. They should be thanking him. It sounds like they should perhaps give them a per-dem and let him do it all over the country because he's clearly very good at this. Even if you're one of these people, there's lots of views on flock and some people love them. It's always predicated on, well, they don't like them. They've got to go to their city council and get them done. It's like, all right, well, city council did vote to take them down. You can't really be mad about that. You can't really be mad about people who are like, oh, I'm against flock cameras, but I don't think we should be chopping them down because you're putting your life at risk. Young guys being sent to jail for felonies over coming down from the city council. felonies over coming down flock cameras, but like, he didn't cut them down. He just unscrewed them and took them down.

He didn't damage them. I don't know who could be against this. I don't know who would be against this. I'm for it personally. Richie from Boston at Inu Look Refinish on X, clip number nine. Posted these videos of night vision filter over flock cameras. We can go to clip number nine here. It plays, we were all just a few seconds long. But you may have seen this. You can actually see it in your own cell phone camera. A lot of times, if you look through your cell phone camera at something like a camera with night vision, you'll see the flashes. Yeah, we can play this next one too. We can roll right into clip 10 because it's the same thing. But what this is is these are sort of infrared flashes capturing people walking by. So those people are not in a car just walking by and you can see the infrared flashing, taking pictures of them. So obviously it proves it's not just scanning license plates. It's obviously taking pictures of just the people walking around.

And you wouldn't see that. Normally, if you'd walk by, you wouldn't see the flashes. But when you look through a night vision camera or even through your cell phone, sometimes you can see the flashes that occur. A little bit concerning, a little bit. Support is available 24-7 with verbo care. We're here day or night, ready whenever you need help. Because a great trip starts with the right support. McDonald's is putting value back on the menu. Whether you're craving a big mac, McNuggets or sausage egg and cheese, McGrittles, make it a meal and save. Your favorite is now your wallet's favorite too. Extra value meals are back. Sun rises, prices fall, get a sausage McMuffin with egg or sausage egg and cheese, McGrittles, small hot coffee and hash frowns for just six dollars. Price and participation may vary, promotion pricing may be lower than meal pricing.

Meet the Red Bull Dragonberry Emergizer. It's one of the many new drinks out now. Who knew ice cold drinks could be so fire? Try them all only at McDonald's. So more people are turning against the flat cameras. It's not just flock, obviously. It's all of these. It's their competitors as well, axon and others. And I know that I think Josh Hawley is the senator who is basically trying to make them a legal nationwide. And he's now added their competitors to flat cameras as well. We got a lot of news about Lindsay Clancy. And we'll be talking with Viva Fry about that later today. Here's the story by the way of this guy. Futurism.com. Well, most vandals ripping down automatic license plate readers prefer to go incognito and albuquerque character named Yvonne Martinez or Jevon Martinez wasn't afraid to show his face. Weeks after Bernillo, Bernal Lilo,

county officials canceled their contract with the controversial surveillance company flock earlier this year. Martinez noticed the automatic license plate readers were still up. In a series of videos posted on social media and flagged by K-O-B-4, Martinez filmed himself tearing the camera towers down in order to return them to the rightful owners. It's doing a service. I'm telling you. I love this. Can we get this guy on the show? We got to reach out to this guy. We got to find out what this guy's socials are so we can actually reach out to him. Although it wasn't armed and hadn't committed any violent offense, officers made a dramatic show for us as they arrested him, clad with ballistic resistant plate carriers, the deputies surrounded Martinez's truck, trying their guns and forcing him into cuffs. Because that's what the flock cameras are for. They're for catching people that are against flock cameras, obviously. And again, I mean, you know, yeah, I says I'm just liberating my people from tyranny. It's not, we just keep making the same argument over and over again,

because the same thing over and over again, the flock cameras are not the reason that crime doesn't get solved. They're not going to help lower crime if the criminals that are captured on flock cameras are just let out again as happens over and over. There's nothing that's going to reduce crime by just having high definition footage of the crimes they go unpunished. No, they're going to be used for other things. We can go clip 35 here. This is the type of stuff. flock cameras will be used to solve. These are the types of events that our law enforcement will prioritize over and above things like the teen takeovers that almost inevitably end in gunfire and violence and always end in property destruction and general disturbing of the peace. They're not going to use flock cameras to go after the homeless dude that's been arrested 175 times and they let him out in hand to him on the way. It's not going to help with that sort of stuff. It will help to stop you from carrying out your own acts of justice.

If you defend yourself, flock cameras will be very helpful in charging you with that murder for defending yourself. We've got a lot of problems in the justice system, in the justice system. Lack of perpetual surveillance is not one of them. Let's go now to clip 35. This is the priority of law enforcement in America these days. Two of the kids were here on this swing while several others twisted it so that when it untwisted, the kids would be dizzy. Well, that's when this swing fell to the ground and Husk tells me her 10 and 12 year old daughters were charged with a crime. They were super scared. You are looking at the criminal charges filed against Katie Husk's young girls, each charged with criminal mischief and ordered to court. For breaking the swing, they were playing on their good little girls. They go out and they play their 10 and 12. They're not doing anything crazy.

To husk these charges were baffling but expected. She tells me after the swing was broken police came to her door asking she pay for the repairs. And when she asked for evidence, the girls broke the swing intentionally and proof the park was inspected prior. Husk says she was warned that things would get worse. Makes a comment that they are just trying to resolve this civilly and not jam the kids up with a citation or criminal charges. That's when Husk says they found themselves in court. This is a copy of the transcripts showing the Springdale police officer who charged the girls testified that they were negligently not using the swing properly. And the burrow solicitor Craig Alexander told the judge, people do things all the time for the thrill to get a kick out of something and knowing that they're breaking the law. Husk says ultimately her girls were found not responsible because there was no intent.

But she fears this is not the end. Husk says she was told the burrow is considering filing civilly and she says she will continue to fight back. I'm still waiting to find out if they're going to escalate it further as they promised. I'm not going to give in. So there you go folks. And 11 and 12 year old girl or 10 and 12 year old girl dragged into court. Apparently where surveillance camera footage was shown trying to charge them over breaking a swing by swinging on it. They twisted up a swing and so they were being charged at 10 and 12 years old. It's just do not have anything better to do. You've solved all of the crime in the city. And there's not a single outstanding criminal charge needs to be investigated. You're bothering 10 and 12 year olds like this is the future of flock cameras.

And the future of flock cameras. I mean they won't be sitting as the officer to deliver a citation to your door. No, no, no, they'll be it'll simply show up as a demarrot on your central bank digital currency account. You want to have a chance to question the surveillance footage. You'll just be. Find a certain amount. And you'll just have to accept that Matt Van Swole posted this. A mother is furious after a Pennsylvania town criminally charged her two young girls 10 and 12 and dragged them into court because because a playground swing broke while they were spinning on it. Like I think the correct thing actually to do is for the mother to sue the city and say that the kid broke her neck. Put the kid in a neck brace, sue the city for $10 million for having an unsafe swing. I think that is the answer actually. I think if they're going to want to give your kid a ticket for playing on a swing that broke and the data center requirements to manage that grid.

Because it's all the same talk because it's obviously the very same topic. And the black rock CEO Larry Fink has says the US will have to spend roughly $10 trillion over the next decade to build out AI infrastructure. $10 trillion over the next decade. Now, where's he going to get that money? Obviously your pockets, your retirement funds. That's who it's going to go to. That's where he's going to get it. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink openly announced that ordinary people savings would be seized to build AI data centers. Mandatory forced, done deal except that's not what he said. What Fink actually predicted is more nuanced instead of with your attention, especially if you hold a 401k. The gap between viral version and the source reality is wide enough to drive a data center through. That's the article. Let's find out. First of all, let's watch the video. Clip number 13 here. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink just openly stated that the trillions of dollars being used to build data centers and power grids will come from ordinary people's savings accounts and pension funds.

Calling it mandatory that people will be forced to invest in, quote, unquote, invest in their own prison being built. Watch Clip number 13 now. If we can get more and more Americans to think about growing with the United States, we will have far than enough money to invest in this infrastructure. But as the governor was talking about the need for electrons is growing every day. If we're going to be the leader in technology, which we are, if we are going to be the leader in AI, which we presently are, it's just going to require trillions of dollars of investments. And if we don't invest in it, China will be the global leader of this. And so to me, it's not weather. This is a must. And if you think about how that translates into a more dynamic economy, we need the United States economy to grow over 2%.

We need the US economy to grow at 3%. Especially with the growing deficits the federal government has. And so much of this money, not just the private sector, is going to be coming from the private sector, from saving his accounts, from pension accounts, from insurance companies on and on. The whole world is in need of improving the infrastructure. We have to. I mean, it's for the sake of the world. The $10 trillion AI revolution, why it's bigger than the industrial revolution. Because the industrial revolution did not, in fact, create a prison planet to enslave the world. That's what the AI revolution is promising. We can just not listen to him. Like I could argue against him, but at the end of the day he's simply asserting things without evidence that can be dismissed without evidence. When he says there is no question, we must do this.

The answer is no, we don't. Oh, but we must. Oh, but no, we don't. No, we must do it. We just don't like I don't know what else to tell you. It's just we we don't need the data centers. We don't need the extra space. We don't need any of that. Again, China beating us today. I attend as many data centers. They run a social credit system for 1.4 billion people. One tenth number of data centers. The American data centers do service the entire world, the entire world when they get on the internet. Accesses American data servers. Why do we do that for them? And where is the benefit to us? Because all we get are the negatives. Now, let's be clear. I don't know when that video is from. I don't know. I don't think it's a reason why I think I've seen it before. Regardless, this article is the new one and they're obviously doing this. Maybe it is a new video.

All I know is that several months ago we were covering the private equity bailout of private retirement funds and saving accounts. In other words, private equity bought up a bunch of bad assets, you know, liquidated them, stripped them for all of the sellable parts, and then couldn't find anybody to sell it to so they'd packaged it up with something else and just sort of funnel it to another private equity group. And they would do the same thing over again. It was a giant Ponzi scheme. They made bad investments and then they went, well, we could be okay if you would just open up retirement funds for us. If you would just give us the money that individuals have saved for themselves, then we wouldn't have to suffer the consequences of our own bad greedy destructive decisions. And so that's what happened. Trump administration seeks to bail out private equity credit, private equity and private credit with workers 401K savings, PSP warns. So this was all the way back in March 25th of this year. Trump admin bails out private equity, private credit with 401K's.

New rule expands access to private equity despite evidence of underperformance high fees and ill-equidity risk. The Trump administration, the Trump White House yesterday, March 24th, 2026, concluded a review of a new rule expanding access to private equity investments in 401K retirement plans. Following the White House completion of this review, the private equity stakeholder project warned that the move could expose tens of millions of workers to higher fees, lower returns and opaque risks that are poorly suited to retirement savings. This rule follows President Trump's push to open 401K plans to private equity and other alternative assets, a shift that could weaken logstanding, a few dictionary protection for retirement savers that benefit Wall Street firms. And so this is what the Trump administration says, is especially concerned about proposals to provide regulatory safe harbor for private equity investments in 401K plans. President Trump's executive order directed the Department of Labor to explore safe harbors that would limit the ability of consumers to sue if private equity managers or 401K managers or providers make recommendations that are contrary to their fear dishiery duty to retirement savers and multiple US senators have pressed the department to formalize those.

Do you understand like the real long term point of this is that if you tie up people's retirement funds into private equity, then if private equity gets in trouble, they'll be able to turn around and go, you have to bail us out again or else all of these people are going to lose their retirement funds. So not only is it bailing them out with your money without your permission, but it's tying up your retirement with their funds. So if their funds do badly, it'll be you that suffers. If everybody in America has their retirement fund liquidated and emptied, the government's going to have to step in. They're not going to bail out the retirement funds are going to bail out the private equity to keep them afloat so they can give you the returns on your quote unquote investment, which was actually just a theft by them. We covered this extensively with Tiffany Cianci.

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This idea that Larry think said and that the White House wrote about think argued that the US will need will need roughly $10 trillion of the next decade to build out AI infrastructure data centers power grids the whole backbone. Speaking at the milk and institute global conference he predicted that quote much of this money is going to be coming from the private sector from savings accounts from pension accounts from insurance companies. That's a prediction about capital flows not an executive order fact checkers confirmed the quote is genuine that the quote mandatory framing is not. Well he's saying that you don't have the ability to opt out I mean that that is what mandatory me essentially if you don't go in and direct your 401k to not be invested in this stuff then it will automatically be invested in this stuff because the way that this works is you know basically private equity was not considered a safe enough bet for 401k's to be put on I mean if you it's your retirement. This isn't like some high risk high yield quick turnaround we're going to flip some stocks and make a ton of money I mean that's not what you want to do with your retirement fund because you depend on it you want something that grows steadily and you know over a long period of time you want to invest in just the general market private equity is a different beast entirely so was never considered safe enough to be a location for 401k funds and basically just recategorize and actually now it can be invested in that and so it will be so.

Your money manager will just basically follow that instruction just like they did with ESG right even though ESG and DEI you deliberately prioritized the ethnic makeup of the boardroom rather than the profitability of the company that still was suddenly the instruction I was followed by the money managers they'll do the same thing in this regard. So the key distinction the fact checkers confirmed think made a prediction about where capital will likely come from not a policy announcement okay kind of here's the problem he's the guy he's the guy that's ahead of the black rock he's the guy that decides he's the CEO of black rock so when he says this it is in fact in order from black rock like black rock is receiving these orders he's not telling his executives at black rock something different. So what do you mean he's like is just a prediction about where capital will come from not really know now they worked very hard to open up the funnel into this pool of money that they're now siphoning out you think was an accident he's just predicting.

You know there's always had like they're all you know the people who are in charge make their decisions look like predictions have you ever noticed that. What they're actually telling you is we are taking your money we will be siphoning out the cash of your 401k's because we need it because we so poorly managed you know the previous chunk of money we had in our hands that we need you to bail us out and it won't be optional and we are doing it and then you know you get a fact checker to come in and go well he was just predicting he was just making a prediction about what might happen no he wasn't I shouldn't have to tell you that the word mandatory does not appear in the source quote. Fact checkers found it originated from social media commentary not things remarks nobody said it's not an option which is a synonym for mandatory so thank you for the semantic nitpicking black rock clarified that savings accounts refer to long term retirement style accounts like 401k's not checking or demand deposit savings well not yet I mean for now.

And in fact I don't know if I had the video I don't know if I ever brought it in maybe the crew can find it I believe those are so a vanderland talking about this and basically being like you know Germans have a lot of money in their savings in their like checking accounts and they're they're greedily holding onto it when it could be used to help expand our markets. So I mean they are going after all of the accounts those go after your savings first. Your long term retirement savings the 10 trillion dollar figure reflects finks own estimate not an independently verified projection the underlying concern retirement savers being steered into high risk private market assets is legitimate even if the quote unquote forced framing isn't. Yeah, but it is and again I don't remember the exact details but we talked about it with Tiffany Cianci last time she was in here where like yes if you want to not be in these high risk private equity you have to get in contact with the company the manages your 401k and specifically tell them not to invest in this sort of stuff some 401k's don't even have that option.

So it is mandatory for people like that you know your company chooses who your 401k is with your the money the company they go with terms what rights you have to dictate where that money goes I mean. Kitchen and bathroom professionals know what goes behind the tile matters that's why trade pros trust fiber cement party backer board to keep tile firmly in place resist cracking and help block moisture. Chosen over 40 million kitchens and bathrooms party backer board what the best build on shop now participating home depot lows and floor into core stores for more information visit James Hardy dot com slash party backer. It's mandatory it is mandatory in fact it is forced yes you are forced to do it. I found the clip all right let's go to a Ursula Vanderlain saying this must have been earlier this week right let's watch. She said savings unfortunately are lazy 10 year trillion euros of household savings hey there's that number again remain in bank deposits.

And a significant portion of European savings is invested outside our continent. Europe must now put these savings at the service of these companies and that is the goal of the savings and investment union. We have put forward proposals on securitization on investments by banks and insurance companies on the integration of our markets their operation and their supervision together they can unlock up to 470 billion euros of additional investment. So again I mean I don't think she's talking about retirement savings that's how she said she said bank deposits. And how how curious is that 10 trillion euros it's the exact number.

Gosh what are the odds what a coincidence that here in America private equity is getting access to retirement funds at the same time that Europe is opening up their savings accounts to plundering by these private equity companies and they both do it for 10 trillion dollars. It's almost like we're not too distinct nations or political organizations but rather it's almost like we're both being managed by the same super national unelected corporate oversight. Tire ends in that crazy. When I be crazy if that was the case. And this is why they want to have things like expiring money they want all of your money to be digital and they want you to be required to spend it in a certain amount of time they literally don't want you saving they don't want you saving up they don't want you making big purchases they don't want you owning anything. Do you know that have they told you that enough have we told you that enough they don't want you owning anything ever. And this is just a precursor to that.

But they have the technological ability to do it and nobody stopping them so I guess you know it's moral in their view now. Obviously he's talking about taking all that money to build data centers and the infrastructure for AI. The data center companies have in certain cases learned how to appeal to people at least ostensibly and there are examples now of places where they're actually benefiting from data centers arriving basically data centers go well we'll make this many billions of dollars with it so we'll cut you off a slice. And it's sizeable enough to convince people to do it that's not been the case up till now that's only the case because of the outrage that we've been expressing. And you got to remember that to because the way this stuff works is. They'll turn around in a couple months and they'll say the data center outrage was so stupid they wanted you to not get a ten thousand dollar check from the data company center the data center company right. They wanted you to miss out on this prosperity it's like you only made that offer because of the average if we hadn't said anything if the data centers adjustment built in the background they never would have made agreements with cities to actually provide benefits.

To the city the pressure was necessary these people wanted the data centers to go in basically paid for by tax dollars or the money they get out of your retirement fund paid for by your money in other words and then they would reap all of the benefits entirely. And not only would they build it with your money the taxes or the accounts that they plunder for it not only that but then your electricity and utility prices skyrocket we have a video of that let's go to clip number eight here. From Wall Street apes my jaw literally dropped American shows the increase in her power and water bill since her state became the data center capital of the world this is Virginia power from twenty twenty four twenty five. And then they built the data centers and you see the consequence let's watch. I live in Virginia which is the data center capital of the United States apparently this was our power bill for August of twenty twenty four. Three hundred five three hundred seventy five dollars.

Four hundred and fifty dollars. This is our two month water bill five sixty one. This increase in bills is really mind blowing this woman lives in Virginia about seventy percent of the internet traffic in the world goes through Virginia they are the data center capital of the world as more data centers get built you see these massive increases in electricity bills for residents and also in the water bill that water bill was just insane how many data centers are in Virginia currently there's an estimate of about three hundred seventy three hundred and forty four of them are confirmed to be operating but take a look at this. There is six hundred eight hundred fifty plus that are planned or under construction so residents that are already seeing these insane increases on their power bills it's only going to go up up and up and how many data centers were built during the specific time period it was from twenty twenty four to twenty twenty six. There is no exact figure but in just one year there was a thirty seven percent jump in power usage so who's paying for that it is definitely not the data centers we can take one look at these bills and see it is the residents who are paying for this power increase.

So there you go so not only data centers in northern Virginia consume almost thirty percent of electricity in the Commonwealth. So your tax dollars will be going to build it your retirement fund will be plundered to pay for it then your bills will go up and for all of this you know the return to you is that somebody somewhere is going to benefit. I mean you get to you know make silly videos with AI so that's good isn't it. And it's like just imagine I mean what would be what what would you have to get for this all to be worth it for you to be paying twice as much every month for your electricity. You think you'd have some sort of benefit that would be tangible but no no no no we don't know we don't have money to fix the potholes outside your house we don't have the money to rebuild the Baltimore bridge that some Indian dude knocked over five years ago whenever it was. You know they sell them even like they just finished clearing the debris from that you know. In the meantime China has built the tallest bridge in the world and could have done it many times over the bridges that we bombed in Iran have been rebuilt did you know that.

We can't rebuild this though no no because we don't have money we're spending all of our money on data centers and legal immigration we don't have the money to repair let alone in. Prove the actual infrastructure that matters to you and you interact with on a daily basis. Just why a lot of people are feeling like this clip number 14 again from Wall Street Apes American in her car breaking down in tears over the state of our economy and our future as we get older let's watch. I don't have a clue what is going on in America anymore but I just came out of the Walmart out of my local Walmart. And this little lady little little hudged over lady was ringing me up at my ask her if she was having a good day and she said I don't know I just got here she said I just came from my other job. This lady was like 70 plus. She already worked at the college for six hours and she was going to be here at 316 she was going to be here until 11 o'clock tonight.

Like what? I don't want to do this anymore. Obviously we need to keep raising awareness about the cost of living and that seniors are no longer able to retire and some seniors are now forced to work multiple jobs but there's a whole another issue that we need to also talk about and that is the propaganda comment spam where you get anti-republicant and anti-Trump comments and then you get huge engagement on those comments and I swear it's boss. Just look at the comments on this post it's horrible what Trump has done to this country thousand likes. This is Republicans America this is what Republicans want keep voting red and our seniors will continue to work until their last breath. I feel like we're in hell this is what Republicans want and all the comments are the same all the way down. Of course we need the cost of living to come down but by the comments you would think oh this is a Republicans issue but that is not at all the cases.

Let's just look at the data right here during Biden's term in office we saw a 21.5% CPI raise that is a true inflation right there okay 21.5% okay well how does that compared Trump Trump was actually able to slow that down Trump's current term is shorter because only for two years but the rate so far has been just 2.3 to 4.2% year over year. So who is the actual problem here is it Biden who skyrocket is over 21% or is it the person who slows it down to around 2.3% per year you know based on the comments you would think oh this is a Republican issue but really Democrats are the ones destroying our economy they destroyed our way of living our cost of living rents one of 30% under them during Biden. So he's right but it's both of them it's both sides nearly half of us households can't make ends meet. And the problem of those comments is mostly a messaging problem that it mostly is the Republicans fault how many times if you heard Republican I mean Trump himself is like I don't care about the economy who cares.

Pull yourself up by your bootstraps I mean that this is the message you're getting meanwhile videos like that keep coming out. And the only people actually responding to it are the socialists going we know we know this is the Republicans fault they're doing it the reality is as Wall Street apes points out the opposite. However whose fault is it I don't know the Republicans aren't getting rid of the illegal immigrants to any sizeable degree they aren't actually you know tangibly. Kitchen and bathroom professionals know what goes behind the tile matters that's why trade pros trust fiber cement party backer board to keep tile firmly in place resist cracking and help block moisture. Chosen over 40 million kitchens and bathrooms party backer board what the best build on shop now at participating home depot lows and floor into core stores for more information visit James Hardy dot com slash party backer.

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