Sovereignty: How America Became Israel's Client State

0:00No new wars. That was the promise. That was the deal. That's what Maggie was supposed to mean. But we're now at war with Iran. We've got six American soldiers are dead so far. We've got over a thousand Iranian civilians dead, including 181 children who are under 10 years old. And when Secretary of State Marco Rubio was asked, why? Why we launched these strikes, why American kids are dying in the Middle East again. He now famously, or infamously, it's probably the better way to say it said, we knew there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces. And we knew that if we didn't preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties. So you don't even need to read into that. We knew that Israel was going to attack. So we were in the Trump administration's view forced to join them. Well, that's not America first. That's not sovereignty. That's a client state doing what it's told. Then you had Senator

1:00Angus King who asked the question that's on many of our minds. This is, quote, have we now delegated the most solemn decision that could be made in our society, the decision to go to war to another country? And the answer is clearly yes. And it's not something that started last week. So then what else can we conclude? But that American sovereignty has been completely compromised that we don't control our own foreign policy in that the decisions about whether American soldiers liver die are being made by a foreign government and enforced by a donor class that owns our politicians. And further, I think the case is conclusive that Donald Trump, the man who was supposed to tear this machine apart has been captured by it. I didn't vote for him, but I understood and understand why people did. I hoped he would deliver on his promises during the swamp, no new wars, abstained accountability, stopping his wheels of tack dog, but he didn't. And I need to understand why I think most of us do. So this topic isn't easy for me to talk about because

2:01it's overwhelming to think about forces way beyond our control. But if we ever want a post captured society to evolve past this situation where and where we've got these elites controlling warring nation states, if we want to get past that, we have to look at these things with open eyes. So much of what I'm going to talk about in this episode is indisputable. We've got a bunch of documented facts, receipts, quotes, financial disclosures, etc. But some of it is informed speculation about what's really happening behind closed doors. And I'm speculating because I need to figure out a way to put this in some sort of perspective that makes sense. But as I go through, I'll be clear about which is which. But I do think it's important to try to figure out what is most probably happening now so that we can better anticipate where we're going. And that way we can we know how to deal with it. We can do something about it. Because even with all the darkness around here,

3:02there is hope for the future. It's like not all bleak. And even at an individual level, there's much that we can do. For example, much of the world fell into tyranny during the COVID hysteria. But in America, no matter how hard they tried, you know, the Biden administration, the deep state, big pharma and all the other powerful actors, no matter how hard they tried, they could not completely subjugate us. I gave me a lot of hope. They tried really hard. But there was this point at which Americans would not budge. You're like, no, we're not doing this anymore. And that saved us. And it also served as a wake up call to the powers that be. So, you know, when we're committed, when we're reasonable, when we're discerning, Americans are still a very powerful culture. And we, in recent past, put a stop to encroaching madness. We did that. But it's also very important for you to understand what we're dealing with here that there are people being threatened right now for saying what I'm about to say. I mean,

4:05they've got much bigger platforms than me. So, you know, I can pretty much say whatever I want, get away with it, I think. But people like Tucker Carlson, when he called this war with Iran, absolutely disgusting and evil. Within 48 hours, the president of the United States said he had quote, lost his way that he's not a man that he's quote, not smart enough to understand. And then you got billionaires like Bill Ackman saying that Tucker's going to get someone killed. You've got Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin. Levin, I mean, I was pronouncing his name wrong. Levin, was he French? But the entire machine turned on him. And then, you know, you think about that in context, in the background, this background of what happened to Charlie Kirk. I mean, the machine is willing to kill you if you're influential enough and oppose their goals, which Charlie Kirk clearly was. Like, we know that from his last interviews and texts and letters and things. And so Tucker, I think, is likely in danger as are many other folks with big audiences

5:07who are opposing this action, which is why it's vital that as many people will talk about it as possible. So, with all of that as a preface, what I want to do today is talk about sovereignty, what it means, how you lose it, and whether we can get it back. Okay, let's define what I mean by sovereignty. Because the work is to run around a lot, national sovereignty, state sovereignty, personal sovereignty, and it can start to feel really subtract, really abstract. So, let's make it concrete. In a simple sense, sovereignty means you have the power to make your own decisions. That's it. You decide what you do, who you associate with, what you're willing to fight for and what you're not. A sovereign nation decides when to go to war,

6:08a sovereign nation decides who to trade with, a sovereign nation decides how to spend its resources. And the opposite is a captured nation. The captured nation means someone else decides. The captured nation is different than a subjugated nation, though, because a subjugated nation is controlled through empire, whereas a captured nation provides the money, the soldiers, the flags, as the dominant force, you know, military, industrial, whatever. But this decisions are made elsewhere, either by another country or by some super national cabal, some elite, you know, a group with power, influence, resources, great enough to infiltrate any nation on the planet. And here's a simple test to know if your nation, if America has been captured, when America goes to war, ask whose interests does this serve? If the answer is American interests, we're defending our borders, protecting our citizens, securing our trade. Well, that's sovereignty. We might disagree

7:09about whether the war is wise, but at least it's ours. It's about us. It's about the American people. But if the answer is someone else's interests, if we're fighting for another country's regional dominance or another country's enemies or another country's expansion, that's not sovereignty, that's service. A sovereign nation has a foreign policy, a captured nation has orders. Now, how does a country like the U.S. lose sovereignty? Well, typically not all at once. And I think that was the case here, not a country this size and strength. It doesn't happen with an invasion or a coup. If it did, people would notice they'd resist. For example, if an invasion happened here in American soil, I have no doubt you'd have 50 million Americans picking up arms to defend our borders. Like we have the weapons. We do it. I would do it. No one would stand for that. If some invading force touches down on the Florida coast, the east coast of the United States, no one would stand for that. That's it would never work here. So instead, it wasn't an invasion. It happened

8:16gradually. It was one compromise at a time, one dependency at a time, one loyalty at a time. Think about how it works at a personal level. Like how does someone lose their own independence? First, maybe they take on debt. And the debt seems manageable at first. Got a bunch of credit card debt. Maybe it couldn't make ends meet. But what that debt does is it creates an obligation. And now they've got to keep a job that they hate because they can't afford to lose it. And then now they have to stay in the city they want to leave because there are mortgages underwater. They can't sell their house. And every decision gets filtered through that initial debt and then come the relationships, like maybe a business partner who's a little too controlling or a spouse who holds the money or a boss who knows something that they shouldn't. Each relationship adds another constraint, another consideration, another voice in the room when decisions get made. And then, and this is the key, they stop noticing, right? The constraints become normal. They forget what freedom is like. They convince themselves that this is just how life works. They're still, you know, making choices, but the choices are always within the boundaries of someone else's. What someone else

9:23said. So that's how you capture a person. And it's exactly how you capture a nation. And Americans have lived through this for decades and decades and decades, like gradually. And also because of two major events in my lifetime, like first 9-11. After 9-11, we were told we had to sacrifice some freedom for security, temporary measures, emergency powers. You know, the Patriot Act was ratified and it let the government surveil Americans without warrants. And you had the TSA, which made us take off our shoes and submit to searches just to travel. And then you have the NSA NSA who collected every phone call, every email, which we only found out about because of whistleblowers, like Snowden. American citizens were put on no flylists without any trial, no due process, no way to appeal. And then 25 years later, none of it has been rescinded. The emergency became permanent. And most Americans forgot that air travel didn't always mean being treated like a

10:24suspect. That was the first one. And then the other major event was COVID, of course. So two weeks to flatten the curve. Of course, everybody remembers that. Two weeks became two years. You were told where you could go, who you could see, whether your business was essential or had to close, whether you could attend your mother's funeral, then there was vaccines, your body, your choice, unless you chose wrong, then it was your job, your education, your ability to persist to participate in society. They froze bank accounts of people who donated to the wrong protest. And then the gold posts as happens, the gold post kept moving. Masks don't work and then masks are mandatory and then two masks and then vaccine stop transmission. Okay, they don't stop transmission, but they reduce severity. And then there's boosters and more boosters. And if you questioned any of it, you were banned from social media and called conspiracy theorists. You know, many of you probably watching me are here because of COVID. I woke up. That's when you realized something was wrong. That's when you saw how quickly freedom could disappear and how many people wouldn't stand up and how few people would stand up. There was crisis, fear, emergency powers, normalization. That was personal sovereignty

11:32being stripped away in real time. And the playbook was identical to what I'm describing at the national level. You have crisis, fear, emergency powers, normalization. Just take the fact that Congress won't even challenge Trump on starting this war. The only branch of the government who can declare war is Congress and they have abdicated their authority and responsibility to the executive branch. That way, no matter which way it goes, the war goes bad, it goes good. They're not on the record for where they stood on it. Crisis, fear, emergency powers, normalization. Now apply that same pattern to foreign policy and you'll understand how we got here. So let's look at America's relationship with Israel, the debt. So we've sent over 300 billion dollars to Israel in the last two decades. We fund their military. We guarantee their security. We give them weapons that we don't give anyone else, including our other close allies. And that creates dependency, right? I mean, it creates their dependency on our money and our weapons and our political cover, which means we

12:32have leverage, right? You think so, but we don't. The Trump administration, as I said, in the opening that they admitted last week that we're at war right now with Iran because of Israel. So what happened? Why is this leverage inverted? You know, we should have leverage on them. But why do they, why does Israel have leverage over US foreign policy? Well, for one, the politicians who vote for that funding, they're dependent on money from the lobby that demands it. They depend on the donors who fund their campaigns. They depend on the media voices who will support them if they promote the greater welfare of Israel, even over the welfare of their own country. And on the flip side, they get campaign money flowing against them. And they're called anti-Semitic if they vote no. So it was dependent on whom. These are the relationships. You've got APAC, which is the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, basically a foreign lobby. Don't know how they don't armed force to register that way, but basically a foreign lobby. They touch 80% of congressional races, 30 plus packs flooding money into primaries. Then you've got the Adelson

13:34network. Is this the donors who gave Trump north of $200 million? You get the donor class who's funding both parties. They don't care about what party you're in as long as you deliver on the issue that matters the most to them. So these aren't relationships. These are leashes. And the leash doesn't go around Israel's neck. It tugs on the next of the US political class. How is this normalized? Well, this is the part that's hardest to see because we're living in it. So we've been at war in the Middle East my entire adult life. We've been sending money and weapons to Israel since before I was born. We've been told that Israel's enemies are our enemies that their security is our security for so long that most Americans just don't question it anymore. It's just how things are. But how things are is not how things have to be or should be. It's not America first. How things are was designed by specific people for specific reasons over decades. So here's what we all need to understand. Losing sovereignty. It doesn't mean you stop having elections. It doesn't mean you stop having

14:36a flag or an anthem or a military. It doesn't mean that these things disappear. It means patriotism or allegiance to your home country becomes hollow. The elections still happen. But the options are pre-filtered. The debates happen. But certain questions are off limits. The votes happen. But the outcomes are predetermined on the issues that matter most. Ask yourself. When was the last time Americans voted on whether or not to fund Israel? We didn't. We've never been asked. Funding continues automatically year after year under every president with overwhelming bipartisan support in Congress because the politicians who vote on it are pre-selected to vote. Yes. Anyone who might vote now gets removed in the primary. By the time you see their names on the ballot, the decision has already been made. That's not democracy. That's the theater of democracy. That's this play where Americans pretend that we have a choice while the script was written before we entered the building. I, of course, have lost my faith in the political process so I don't typically vote national elections, but I'm not going to lie. I did think we would be substantially

15:36better under Trump than Kamala Harris. I mean, I hoped. But Trump may have proven worse or at least the same as Harris, except maybe where it comes to the border. But Harris and Trump on all other ways might be equal when it comes to their subjugation to Israel. We'll never know, but Harris did receive $10 million from Apex. So there you go. Now, it is important for me to say that my criticism is towards my government first. Like, this is my home. They represent me. It should not be owned by Israel. That's their fault. But I'm also deeply critical of the government of Israel for being corrupt and belligerent and having their claws, you know, in American government. The Netanyahu government and the political operation that serves his interests and their interests. But I do know

16:36that plenty of Israeli citizens oppose Netanyahu, plenty of Jewish Americans opposed the war in Gaza and opposed this war with Iran. I hope that they take action for the benefit of themselves, their country and the world. I also hope Americans take action for the benefit of our country and the benefit of the world. Okay, so that's the framework. Sovereignty means you own your own decisions, capture means someone else makes them for you while you provide the resources, crisis, fear, emergency powers, normalization. That's the playbook. We've seen it work on us in dramatic ways in the last couple decades. Now you're seeing it work on the country as a whole. So it's clear that America in 2026 is captured. So the next question is specifically how did it happen? How did the most powerful nation in the history of the world end up serving the interests of a country the size of New Jersey? Let's start with what we can prove. And this is just going to get into some of the details that I outlined before. So in 2024, the, in the 2024 election cycle, APAC, who I described

17:40before, spent a hundred million dollars on congressional races. That touched over 80% of the 469 seats up for election. And APAC is just one organization. There are over 30 pro-Israel packs that fund candidates. There's NorPAC. There's DMFI. There's the Republican Jewish coalition and dozens more. And when you put them all together with bundlers, which are individuals who donate to pro-Israel packs and then bundle contributions to candidates, the Israel lobby delivered over $58 million to the sitting members of Congress, just in one single cycle. 349 members of Congress, 65% took money from APAC alone. House Speaker Mike Johnson, he took $654,000. House Minority Leader, Hakeem Jeffries, $933,000. Both parties same donor. And here's what tells you that it's not just influence, it's control. In 2024, representatives Cory Bush and Jamal Bowman, both Democrats, both

18:40members of the squad, called for a ceasefire and Gaza. That's it. They said, maybe we should stop funding the bombing of civilians. I don't like either of those candidates. We don't agree on anything except for maybe that one issue. But what happened to them? Well, APAC spent 20 million dollars combined to unseat them in their primaries, 20 million dollars. Not the general election, the primary. They funded primary challengers, challengers ran attack ads and removed two sitting members of Congress for the crime of suggesting the Palestinians lives matter, both lost. That's not lobbying. That's enforcement. And it works because every other member of Congress watched it happen. The message was received across us and we will end your career. And if you think it's just progressives who get targeted, no, we all know about Thomas Massey. Most of you have heard him talk about the Epstein Files stuff. He forced to vote in Congress and largely responsible with him with Rokana for us seeing all the Epstein Files that we're seeing now.

19:41He's also against this Warner Ron. He, of course, is a Republican Congressman from Kentucky, is libertarian, second amendment, absolutist, become way closer philosophically to Massey than probably any other member of Congress. He votes against all foreign aid to everyone because we shouldn't be giving it out. He's right. He voted with Biden 1.8% of the time. That's tied for the least of any member of Congress. And he also refused us to take a pack money. He's been vocal about why he said, a pack spent $400,000 against me my last election and is banned from my office. Good for him. But what's happening now? Miriam Adelson, the same billionaire who gave Trump, I think it's 250 million. I said 200 earlier. It's like something like $250 million. $250 million. That's crazy. Is leading a $20 million or $20 million campaign to unseat Massey in his 2026 primary. There's a super pack called Maga Kentucky run by Chris, I don't know how to say his last

20:47name, Lissivita, I guess those Trump's campaign strategist. I don't know who this guy is. But run by him is raised over $2 million from three billionaires, Paul Singer, John Paulson, and Edelson's preserve America pack. Not a member from Kentucky. Lissivita said this publicly said, Maga KY Kentucky is committed to spending whatever is necessary to defeat Thomas Massey, whatever is necessary to remove a sitting Republican congressman because he won't take their money and won't vote for their wars. Trump himself called Massey a quote, pathetic loser, a moron, a low life Republican. The president of the United States is actively trying to destroy a member of his own party because that member puts America first. So now let's go to the war. So when Trump and Israel launch strikes in Iran, a bipartisan group in Congress immediately moved to invoke the War Powers Act, which would force a vote to assert that the president can't start a war without congressional approval. It's in the Constitution.

21:48The resolution was co-sponsored by Thomas Massey and Rokana, both very different. Massey had described. Kana is a progressive Democrat from Silicon Valley who supports expanded government and economic reform. We're not on the same side and a lot of stuff. Kana said this about Massey. He said, quote, he sent me a Christmas card with his family holding a machine gun in front of a Christmas tree. We don't agree. I'm for an assault weapons ban. He is the biggest proponent of the Second Amendment, but we came together on issues of war and peace. That's what principle looks like. Two people who fundamentally disagree on almost everything united on the one thing that matters most. Congress decides when we go to war, not the president and not a foreign government. But then a different resolution appeared. A softer one. It would give Trump a 30-day extension to continue the war before Congress had to vote. This was a compromise. What happened? It's six Democrats crossover to support the extended war powers for Trump. It's six Democrats who were supposed to oppose an authorized military action who probably had TDS four years ago,

22:50probably accused Trump of being a dictator, now supports him in engaging in a war without a congressional declaration of war. Every single one of them, everyone had received somewhere between $300,000 and $3 million from APAC. That's not a coincidence. That's a receipt. So when Rubio says we knew there was going to be an Israeli action, understand what he's admitting. He's admitting that Israel made a decision that the United States responded to that decision that American soldiers are now dying because of a choice made in Jerusalem, not Washington, and he's admitting it casually. It's obvious. Of course, that's how it works. Senator Angus King, who I mentioned before, have we now delegated the most solemn decision that can be made in our society decision to go to war to another country? He later added that Rubio inadvertently told the truth. He told the inadvertent truth. That's what we're dealing with. They don't even care enough about us to lie to us anymore. At the national level, sovereignty means you control your own decisions, your borders, your currency, your military, your foreign policy, no outside power dictates what you do when another

23:52country can determine whether your soldiers live or die, you are not sovereign, your client state. Rome had client kinks. The British Empire had protectors. The Soviet Union had satellite states. The formula is always the same in history. You keep the appearance of independence while the real power flows from somewhere else. And the traditional framing of the US-Israel relationship is that we're the patron and they're the client. We give them $4 billion a year. We provide weapons. We veto UN resolutions on their behalf where their big brother. But that's not what the power dynamic shows. Who decides when we go to war? Israel strikes, we follow. Rubio admitted it. Who funds our politicians? The Israel lobby touches 80% of congressional races and members who dissent get removed. Who sets the boundaries of acceptable discourse? Tucker Carlson criticized the war. And with 48 hours, he's excommunicated from MAGA by the president himself. That's not a patron client relationship. As it should be, that's inversion. We have the guns and the money,

24:53but they have the control. What I am describing is a specific political operation happening within our borders centered on APAC and other organizations like them, funded by billionaires like Miriam Ailsen, aligned with the Lecude government in Israel that has captured the American political system that operates in the open. It brags about its influence and it punishes anyone who resists it. APAC and other orcs like it are finding people who do not like the warneron or criticizing Israel on X. They are then going and finding those people's information, personal information by using X's back end. They are sending the opponent's information to organizations like stop anti-semitism who then call their bank and force them to drop you. That's not a conspiracy theory. That's shit is happening. They know that support for Israel has inverted since they began killing innocent people in Gaza after October 7th. The American public is against that just like we are against this war in Iran. So owning the politicians used to be enough when the captured corporate media would also

25:55tow the line. You have these two very strong, powerful forces all moving in the same direction. It was enough, but we don't listen to corporate media anymore. So it's not enough to have the politicians and the corporate media captured. It's not enough to do. It doesn't, it's not persuading the public anymore. So they began trying to hurt prominent figures with an audience standing against them. This is the same playbook that the woke left used five years ago. If you have an unapproved opinion, they will attack you, your bank, your employer. They're ruthless and they're doing it because they know their ideas can't win. Their ideas aren't winning, especially with Americans under 50. So who benefits from this arrangement will clearly Israel benefits. Obviously they get an attack dog with the most powerful military on earth. They get four billion dollars a year in military aid. They get diplomatic cover at the UN. They get regime change operations against the regional enemies, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and now Iran. Defense contractors benefit. Lockheed Martin is at all time highs, Raytheon, Northrop Grunman. Every bomb we drop every missile we fire,

26:59someone's getting paid and those same contractors don't need to the same politicians who vote for the wars. Donor class benefits. You got Miriam Adelson, given Trump $250 million. What did she want? She wanted the embassy moved to Jerusalem. Done. She wanted the Golan Heights recognized as Israeli territory done. She wanted a war with Iran to ensure Israeli regional hegemony done. Trump himself said at a Hanukkah event, quote, when someone can give you $250 million, I think we should give her the opportunity to say hello. He's not hiding it. Hey, when who loses? American soldiers lose six dead in a week. And we're told that this war is going to last four to five weeks, maybe longer. We'll see. I mean, flirting with boots on the ground. Who also loses American taxpayers, funding another forever war while infrastructure crumbles at home. Who also loses Iranian civilians over a thousand are dead already that we know of women and children too. Who else loses? The American people we voted for no new wars. We got this instead.

28:00So that's the capture of America. That's our reality. The Israel lobby funds the majority of Congress. They remove members who dissent. They set the terms of acceptable debate. And when they decide to launch a military operation, the United States follows, that's captured. And so that's the 30,000 foot view. That's a national view. What about the individual view? What about Trump? Donald Trump had every reason to tear this machine apart. The intelligence agency's spy on his campaign. They fabricated the Russian hoax, ran it for years. They impeached him twice. They raided his home. They tried to put him in prison and then they tried to kill him twice. If anyone had motivation to burn it all down to expose the people who did this to him to drain this one for real, it was Donald Trump. And yet, where it wore with Iran, the Epstein files are being dripped released and redacted.

29:01The same people who tried to destroy him are walking free. The never trumpers are on his side like Shapiro live in. And the promises that got him elected, the No New Wars, America first, accountability for the elite, they're broken. What happened to him? Well, there is money. I mean, I don't think that this is the biggest reason for Trump. He was already a billionaire, but still. Mary Adelson, who I've mentioned a few times this episode. She is the widow of Casino billionaire, Sheldon Adelson, owner of the Dallas Mavericks. And the single largest donor to Republican politics. Gave Trump $250 million in the 2024 cycle. But she also supports and supported Marco Rubio, our current Secretary of State, the man who admitted we went to war because we knew there was going to be an Israeli action. He is also an Edelsen protege. Back in 2015, before Trump

30:02on the nomination, he tweeted this quote, Sheldon Adelson is looking to give big dollars to Rubio because he feels he can mold him into his perfect little puppet. I agree. That was Trump. Calling Rubio a puppet for the Edelsens. And now, Rubio is his Secretary of State appointed, according to multiple reports at the behest of Miriam Adelson. So in 2015, Trump knew he told us he was right. And then he hired the puppet anyway. Now, the money is real. I mean, the influence is documented, but I don't think the money is the most important part. He was already rich before this happened. He didn't need $250 million to live or to launch a political campaign. He's been a billionaire for decades. So why would money capture him now? I don't think it would. I think that there is much more to it. That's a part of the puzzle, but just a very small, small part. So let's just look at the timeline. So first term, Trump is under siege from day one. You get the Russia investigation, you get the leaks, you got the impeachment over Ukraine,

31:08his own generals are lying to him. We know now that military officials misled him about troop levels in Syria because they didn't trust his judgment. So you've got the entire apparatus of the state working against him in the media. 2020, he loses the election under disputed circumstances. January 6th happens. He's impeached again. And he's banned from social media. He's a pariah. Then from 2021 through 2023, the legal assault begins. We all remember the mug shot indictments in New York, Georgia, federal court. They're trying to put him in prison. His businesses are under attack. His family is under pressure. Then he runs again, 2024 to assassination attempts. Someone tried to kill him twice. Almost did. Got real close. But then something shifts. He wins the election. He takes office. And suddenly, the machine that was trying to destroy him stops the prosecution's fade, the media softens the intelligence agencies fall in line and Trump. He starts doing exactly what the

32:12machine wants. Worth Ron Epstein files buried. No accountability for the people who targeted him. Swamp isn't drained. It's staffed with the same people who tried to destroy him in the the daily wire ink. Never Trumpers fall in line to support him. So what happened between 2020 and 2025? Why did this change? Well, I think that the only the only explanation that I can come up with is he made a deal. Don't know who he made it with. Maybe it was some cabal, you know, with Netanyahu and who he represents. Maybe intelligence agencies, maybe a coalition of interests that all wanted the same thing. But at some point during his darkest hour, when he was facing prison and death, I think Donald Trump made a deal. The terms protection in exchange for compliance. Stop the prosecutions. Stop the assassination attempts. Let him win. Let him have his victory lap. He's a narcissist. He wants to win. And in exchange, he does what they want on the things that matter most

33:20to them. Or the Ron continued to support for Israel. No exposure of the networks that actually run things. That's what the Epstein file show us. No more exposure of the superstructure. The cabal seems to influence everything. And it shows it in the Epstein files. Like this week, the House oversight committee released emails from Jeffrey Epstein's personal correspondence. They've been sitting in the Department of Justice in their custody for years. And what they reveal is extraordinary. In 2011, Epstein wrote to Julian Maxwell, quote, I want you to realize that the dog that hasn't barked is Trump. And then he mentions a victim spent hours at my house with him. He has never once been mentioned, end quote, the dog that hasn't barked. Trump was at Epstein's house with a victim. And he's never mentioned, you know, Epstein saying, I have something on him and I haven't used it. And then 2018, Epstein wrote to author Michael Wolfe, quote, of course he knew about the girls as he asked Elaine to stop. So Trump knew. And in 2015, before Trump even announced his campaign,

34:22Epstein and Wolfe exchanged emails about an upcoming CNN interview and Wolf wrote this, quote, if he says he hasn't been on the plane or in the House, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you. Or if it really looks like he could win, you could save him generating a debt, right? What's Wolf saying to Epstein saying if Trump lies about his connection to you, you have leverage. You can destroy him or you can save him and he'll owe you. It's blackmail. It's how it works. That's the currency of power at the highest levels. Epstein's dead. He was killed, obviously. But the files aren't gone. Someone has them. Someone inherited that leverage. Now the White House says that these allegations are false and baseless and maybe they are, but why they've been fighting so hard to keep all these files buried. If Trump was innocent, there's nothing there. He released everything. He'd say, look, they tried to frame me. And here's the proof I did nothing wrong. Instead, he signed the Epstein Transparency Act under pressure from Massey and Kahana and then his DOJ slow-walked it,

35:22redacted it with help key documents. There's still many left, as I said. That's not the behavior of an innocent man. That's the behavior of someone with something to hide. So here's what I think. Trump's capture. Not about money. Money's the receipt. But it's not the cause. To me, Trump's capture is about three things. One, Compromat. Someone has files on him. Maybe it's the Epstein material. Maybe it's something else. But someone has leverage. And that leverage keeps him in line. Two, threats. They tried to kill him twice. They tried to imprison him. They went after his family, his business, his legacy. At some point, the message was received, comply or we will destroy you. And then three, some sort of deal. At his lowest moment, someone offered him a way out. Protection, victory, legacy, maybe even a dynasty. Baron, maybe as the future will make Baron the President in exchange. He does what, you do what we want and the things that matter. I don't know which of these are true. All of them, some of them are true. Maybe all three are. Maybe there's something I'm not seeing. I don't know.

36:23But what I do know is this. The Donald Trump of 2016, the one who called Rubio a puppet, who said that we were being ripped off by foreign entanglements who promised no new wars. That man does not exist anymore. The man in the White House today is serving interests that are not America's interests. And whether he's doing it because he was bought, threatened or compromised, the result is the same. We are not sovereign. And neither is he. There's, there's an old phrase. Most of you've heard it. I'm sure it's canary in the coal mine. And where it started was miners would bring canaries underground because the birds were more sensitive to toxic gases. And if the canary died, then you knew the air was poisoned. So you would get out. Well, Tucker Carlson is the canary right now. When the bomb started following in an on Iran, Tucker called it what it was. He said the attack was absolutely disgusting and evil. He said this is Israel's war, not America's war. And he said we were being dragged into a conflict that served someone else's interests within 48 hours. Entire machine turned against him. I mean,

37:26they were already at him, but really turned on on the juices. He's maybe the biggest podcaster in America right now. Maybe Joe Rogan is, I don't know, but just like Rogan, the machine went after him. Like when Rogan didn't told the line during COVID, the whole machine went after him. And the Israeli lobby is not going to let this slide from Tucker. Trump told ABC News this, quote, Tucker's lost his way. I knew that a long time ago and he's not maga. Maga is saving our country. Maga is making our country great again. Maga is America first. And Tucker is none of those things. And Tucker is really not smart enough to understand that end quote. Crazy thing is Tucker Carlson, Donald Trump or France, like personal France, Tucker spoke with the Republican National Convention. He's interviewed Trump dozens of times. He's defended Trump through his end through his indictments, the raids, the assassination attempts. And now Trump is calling him not smart enough and not maga because he opposes this war. Wasn't just Trump, Bill Acman, who I mentioned earlier in this episode, he posted that Tucker is

38:30quote, going to get someone killed and needs to stop this now. Mark Levin called him a Nazi promoter and accused him of quote, backstabbing the president. The Republican Jewish coalition said Tucker is quote, not maga, Laura Loamer. So he should be excommunicated from the Republican party for opposing a war of choice. That what Republicans should be all about. But luckily Tucker isn't alone. You've got Megan Kelly, been vocal in her opposition to the war, Dave Smith, of course, relentless. And even Matt Walsh, who works for Ben Shapiro at the daily wire. Shapiro has been one of Tucker's harshest critics, evil little imp. Even Matt Walsh is starting to speak out against the war, defying his boss. There's a split happening in conservative media. The machine wants everyone in line, but not everybody will do it. And the more they attack Tucker, the more obvious it becomes that this isn't about maga or America first. It's about one issue, one loyalty test. And we've seen what happens when you fail the test. Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA, Trump loyalist from the beginning, built the largest conservative

39:32youth organization in the country. In the months before his death, leaked text messages show that Kirk was losing donors millions of dollars because he wouldn't cancel Tucker Carlson. And he texted that donors were, quote, leaving me no choice but to leave the pro-Israel cause, because his movement, the youth of this country, were against the war in Gaza. And then, of course, on September 10th of last year, he was assassinated. Now, I don't know what happened. I think that the official story doesn't make any sense. And after the Epstein lies, the Iran lies, I don't believe the official story here at all. His Israel first friends lied about the texts too. And Netanyahu lied about the letter that Kirk sent him. So to me, it seems that there is a likely scenario that happened. And that is this, that the lessons is clear that the scent has consequences. And that there's no line to those consequences.

40:34Tucker, for his part, responded to Trump's attacks with grace. He said, quote, I'll always love him no matter what he says about me. I think that takes a lot of strength. The character is probably a better man than me. I wouldn't react that way. But what it appears is the cases, he's not going to be baited into some sort of personal war with Trump. But he's also not going to stop telling the truth about the actual war. And that's why he's dangerous to them. He can't be bought, can't be bullied. He has a largest independent audience and conservative media. And he's using it to say what he believes. But the machine's trying to isolate him to cut him off from the mainstream right to make him toxic, to make other voices afraid to agree with him publicly. They threaten his family. They threatened his team while on location in Israel interviewing Huckabee. But it's not working. Megan Kelly is standing with him. Dave Smith is standing with him. Daryl Cooper, Matt Walsh is breaking ranks. And Tucker keeps having the most meaningful discussions in media right now. Everyone with a voice or a platform needs to support Tucker right now. He's in harm's way. From a group that will go after you in every way,

41:37there is no line that they won't cross. Okay, everything I've described so far, the lobby, the money, the leverage, the punishment for dissent. None of this is new. This is how empires have always worked. The only thing that's changed is who's the empire and who's the client. I mentioned these before, but I'll get into a little bit more detail. In the Roman Empire, you had client states that were kingdoms that Rome allowed to exist as long as they served Roman interests. They get to keep their kings, their flags, their illusion of independence, but semi autonomy on the local level, of course. But when Rome wanted something, troops resources of war fought, the client state delivered. And if they didn't, Rome replaced the king. And the British empire ran the same playbook. India had its princes, Africa had its chiefs. They were the crowns, but Britain pulled the strings. The Soviet Union had its satellite states, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary. They had their own governments, their own flags. But everyone knew who was really in charge when Hungary tried to assert independence in 1956,

42:40Soviet tanks rolled into Budapest. That's the pattern. The client state keeps its symbols of sovereignty, but the empire keeps the control. In every historical example, the empire is the one with the power. Rome had the legions. Britain had the navy. The Soviets had the tanks. America has the most powerful military in human history. We have to betably the largest economy, perhaps number two to China now. We have the reserve currency. We have 750 military bases in 80 countries. And yet we are acting like the client state. We're fighting wars for another country's interests. We're sending hundreds of billions in aid and weapons. We're letting a foreign government's lobby dictate who wins and loses our elections. Our Secretary of State admits we went to war because we knew there was going to be an Israeli action. This isn't Rome and Judea. This is Judea running Rome. I don't know of another example in the history of the world where the smaller power captures the larger one so completely. When the client state becomes the patron and the patron becomes a client while still providing all the money and all

43:42the guns. Like what do we get from this? It's extraordinary. And it happened gradually enough where most Americans didn't even see it. What they do see, what they've all seen is the endless wars. In 2007, General Wesley Clark gave an interview where he described a conversation. He had the Pentagon shortly after 9-11, a general showed him a memo, classified memo that outlined the plan. Quote, we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off with Iran. Seven countries, five years, that was weeks after 9-11 before we ever even invaded Afghanistan. Well, they didn't get it all done in five years, but look at the list. Iraq invaded in 2003, regime toppled. Libya bombed 2011, Gaddafi killed. Brutally, Syria, civil war fueled by United States and allies, still ongoing, Somalia, drone strikes for two decades, Sudan split in two ongoing instability. Lebanon currently being bombed by Israel, Iran, right now. Seven countries,

44:43it took 20 years instead of five, but they're working right through the list. And every single time the justification changes. Iraq was weapons of mass destruction, didn't exist. Libya was humanitarian intervention. Now it's open air slave markets. Syria was chemical weapons. The evidence was contested, but we bombed them anyway. Iran nuclear weapons. The same intelligence agencies that lied about Iraq are now telling us Iran is weeks away from a bomb for the last 30 years. And then we obliterated their capacity to make nuclear weapons last June. So, you know, they can't make them, they don't have them. What is that as a justification? It's not. You've got moving goal posts. They have a goal. And they'll say whatever they need to say to achieve it, except what it actually is. The goal is in stopping terrorism. The goal is in spreading democracy. The goal is in protecting America. The goal is regional, a Germany for Israel and endless contracts for the defense industry. Everything else is narrative. And here's the pattern that terrifies me. Every empire that overextended the thought wars it couldn't afford that served interests other than its own people

45:45collapsed. Rome didn't fall to barbarians. Rome fell because it hollowed itself out. The legions were filled with mercenaries who had no loyalty to Rome. The treasury was drained by endless frontier wars. The citizens lost faith in institutions that no longer served them. The British Empire didn't lose to a military defeat. One, World War One and World War Two. But it bankrupted itself and couldn't hold all the pieces together anymore. The Soviet Union didn't lose a war, collapsed from within. The gap between the propaganda and the reality became too large to sustain. America is $39 trillion in debt. We're fighting wars on multiple fronts, on multiple continents. Our infrastructure is crumbling while we send billions overseas. Most of the country doesn't trust the elections or its institutions. We are running the collapse playbook and the people running the empire don't care because they'll be fine. They have their bunkers in New Zealand. They have their money and offshore accounts. They have their exit plans. They have their generational hegemony. The question is, do you because I don't? So where does that leave us? I know listening to this, some of you are probably thinking, okay, Matt, I hear you,

46:48it's bad, but we just need to elect better people. We need to primary the rhinos. We need to get more America first candidates in there. But I'm sorry to say if the political system could fix this, then why hasn't it? We elected Trump twice. The most anti-establishment candidate in modern history. The guy who called Rubio a puppet. The guy who said we were getting ripped off. The guy who promised no new wars into draining the swamp. And what happened? He hired the puppet of Secretary State. We're at war with Iran. The swamp is fully staffed. The Epstein files are being buried by his own DOJ. So if Trump couldn't do it or wouldn't do it, what makes you think the next candidate will? They won't. They can't. By the time you see a name on the ballot, they've already been vetted, the filtering happened long before the election ever did. Now, APAC, touching 80% of congressional races, that's not just spending money for candidates, that's spending money against candidates, they're making sure anyone who might vote the wrong way never makes it through the primary. The system, it doesn't need to control every politician. It doesn't control messy, it seems. It just needs to control who gets to become a politician in the first place.

47:51And it needs to have the majority. And by the time you're choosing between the Republican and the Democrat, you're choosing between two people who have already passed the loyalty test. That's not a choice that's a menu designed by someone else. Let's just be honest about voting itself. You vote every two years, maybe four. If you only care about the presidency, you spend an hour at the polling station, you feel like you've done your civic duty. You go home. But meanwhile, APAC has full-time staff year-round tracking every vote, maintaining relationships, bundling donations, running ads, recruiting primary challenges. You show up once every two years, but they show up every single day. That's not a fair fight. It's not even the same sport. Political engagement for most people is a pressure release valve. You get angry, you vote, you feel like it did something, you go back to your life and nothing changes because the people actually run things, aren't waiting for election day. They're working the system 365 days a year, decade after decade. The system isn't broken. That's the hard truth. The system is working exactly as designed. It's just not designed for you or me. It's designed to maintain the interest of the

48:52people who built it, the donors, the lobbyists, the defense contractors, the foreign governments who've learned how to play it. And no matter how many times you vote, you're not going to out-organize the people from whom this is a full-time job and a multi-generational project. Now, I don't mean this to be a black pill. It should be a level set. As I mentioned earlier on, like, there's hope. Everything I've described is real. The capture is real. The corruption is real. The inability of electoral politics to fix it. That's all real. But here's what's also real. We vastly outnumber them. And for the first time in human history, we have tools. They can't control. But change doesn't come from politics. It comes from somewhere else. It comes from our ability to be creative, to build community, and to leverage technology in our favor. So let me give you some examples of that. Every system of control depends on choke points, places where they can intercept you, surveil you, stop you. The financial system is a choke point.

49:57They can freeze your bank accounts. They can cut you off from payment processors. They can make it impossible to buy or sell if you're on the wrong list. We saw this in Canada with the truckers. We've seen it with people debanked for their political views. So the financial systems won. The media is another one that can ban you from social media. They can de-platform you. They can make sure your message never reaches anyone. Communication is a checkpoint. They can read your emails. They can listen to your calls. They can track your location through your phone. For most of human history, there was no way around these choke points. If the king controlled the roads, you couldn't trade. The church controlled the printing press. You couldn't publish. If the state controlled the banks, you couldn't transact. That's no longer true. For example, humans made Bitcoin in crypto, which is an exit from the financial choke point. No government controls it. No one can freeze it. No inflate it. No one can stop you from sending it to anyone anywhere in the world. When Canada froze bank accounts, Bitcoin kept working. When payment processors banned people for their politics, Bitcoin kept working. When government printed trillions of dollars and destroyed your purchasing

50:59power, Bitcoin kept working. The dollar is controlled by the Fed. The Fed reserves the interests and serves the interests of the people who capture the government. Every time you use their money you're playing in their casino, but crypto is the exit. We have that now. Encryption is the exit from the surveillance checkpoint. End to end encrypted messages means they can't read your conversations. Not the government, not tech companies. No one except you in the person you're talking to. Use signal, use encrypted email, use a VPN. These aren't paranoid measures. These are basic digital hygiene things you can do in a world where everything you type is collected and stored forever. These tools are easy to use now. The same government that lied about Iraq, that lied about COVID, that's lying about Iran right now, that government has access to every text message, every email, every search query you've made unless you encrypt. Privacy, your own privacy isn't about having something to hide. Privacy is about having something to protect. Decentralized media is the exit from the information checkpoint. Independent media is how we

52:02broke the narrative monopoly. It's how talker reaches people even after being fired from Fox. So Joe Rogan has more reach than all of mainstream media combined. It's how the regime lost control the COVID narrative despite every institution pushing the same line. They're trying to close that window. They're pressuring platforms to censor. They're labeling independent voices as misinformation. They're working on it, but right now that window is open. And then there's also community. Adamized individuals are easy to control. You pick them off on by one. You make them afraid to speak. You isolate them until they have nothing and that they're alone. But community is the counter. Find your people build together. For example, the free state project understands this. 20,000 people committed to moving to New Hampshire to build a community of liberty-minded people in one place. And what's the result? It's the free state in America. It's also probably the freest place in the world right now because of that concentration because they're not alone. You don't have to move to New Hampshire, although I would encourage you to do so, but you do have to build something somewhere with someone. And then technology standpoint, there's sovereign AI.

53:07Imagine an AI partner completely loyal to you and incorruptible by outside influences. Always on the lookout, protecting you from adversarial AI sent by powerful, coordinated networks. Those feeding you misinformation or rage bait or trying to hack you, expose you or steal your money. The Department of War is using AI guided weapons to destroy targets in Iran, including destroying the school that claimed 180 children's lives. Sovereign AI is necessary to protect us against all threats. So that's the response. You can't fix the system, but you can circumvent it. And the technology is increasingly getting better and better to allow us to do that to a greater degree. You can't reform the institutions, but you can build parallel ones. You can't vote your way to freedom, but you can build it one tool to time, one relationship at a time, one decision at a time. So there's hope grounded in reality. So I'd like to end where I began. No new wars.

54:07That was a promise. That's what millions of Americans voted for. That's what I hope for. But they always break their promises no matter who they are. You see why it doesn't matter which party wins. You see why the wars never end and the money never stops flowing in the same types of people stay in power no matter how many times we vote. The system isn't broken. The system is captured. Sovereignty is taking back control of your money, your information, your community, your life. They capture America, but that doesn't mean they get to capture you.