Robert Barnes Exposes Jerome Powell's Criminal Investigation and Trump's Disastrous Foreign Policy Obsessions Destroying His Political Capital

not be a voice on earth more nauseating than that of Justin Trudeau, the illegitimate bastard child of Fidel Castro. Just joking. # no defamation. We have a man whose voice is more nauseating than the bastard child of Fidel Castro. I present to you Mark J. Carney ostensibly threatening war against these United States of America over Greenland. Behold >> Greenland. Uh the future of Greenland is a decision for the for Greenland and uh for the Kingdom of Denmark. Uh we are NATO partners with Denmark. Uh and so our full partnership uh stands uh our obligations on art article 5, article two of NATO stand and we stand fuller square behind those Greenland. >> I got to pause it one more time. It's a it's a short clip. It's only 20 seconds. I'm going to ding with the bell every time this buffoon, this globalist three passport carrying wh and it's going to annoy you. The bell is going to annoy you. Sorry, not yet. Not yet. Belle, let's go. >> Greenland uh the future of Greenland is a decision for the for Greenland and uh for the Kingdom of Denmark. Uh we are NATO partners uh with Denmark. Uh and so our full partnership uh stands uh our obligations on art article 5, article two of NATO stand. >> All right, we'll stop it there. Everybody knows what article 5 is. That's the pact of mutual aggression. You know, if if one NATO member gets attacked, then all NATO members come to the defense. This jackass I love how he says like it's a it's a decision for the Kingdom of Denmark. Um, you know, not to sound too imperialist because it's not to sound imperialist. No, no. Sometimes at some point, uh, if it's, you know, between Russia, China, and or America saying that's a nice little island you got up there in the Arctic Circle. Uh, you know, it's it's it might no longer it might be the decision of subject to the veto powers of. And that's not to say, you know, we we now know or at least, you know, we've we've allegedly been told that neither China nor Russia have displayed an interest in acquiring the land of Greenland. Uh that doesn't mean, however, that it's not a strategic national importance. We're going to get there. There was some chat over in Rumble before the show went live as to uh you know, how do you say you're America first while proclaiming any form of an interest in the land of Greenland? And I say that's a lot easier of an argument to make than say war in Iran or than say war in Ukraine. There is a very very strong argument that can be made whether you like it or not just from a real politique perspective that Greenland is actually much more in the interest of America first than say ousting Maduro from Venezuela. But you can make a good argument for that as well. Now, I struggled with the intro video because I wanted to uh start with something really funny, but maybe something that needed a bit of a warning uh versus something that I just have to poke fun at that globalist buffoon. This was the alternative intro clip that I came across and I had to do a little bit of a deep dive verification into the factchecking nature of that which is so good it's almost too good to be true. Check out this this video. For no apparent reason, we're going to get into AI bikinis and the sponsor for tonight's show. But first, watch this. >> SHOULD BE BURNING FIRE. THAT'S WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN. SHE'LL BE BURNT in fire for that disgustingness. BUT THAT'S NASTY. NASTY. >> YOU'RE NASTY. POINTING AT ME. HELP ME. HELP ME, SON. LISTEN, SON. YOU [ __ ] POINTED ME AGAIN, YOU [ __ ] I'M DRIVING YOU. ALL RIGHT. [ __ ] JOG ON. AND YOU, YOU PRICK. >> [clears throat] [laughter] >> NOW, by the way, >> it's a skit. I had to double check because it's too glorious for words. It's a skit. I said I found the actual outright link for it and they cut out the best line afterwards where, you know, the dude picks up the phone and goes, "Hello, Trish." Yeah, I'm I'm doing fine. Uh, let's get into this. This is not a real picture. There's a whole big discussion about the risks and peril of AI on X on the internet. And now at least the I couldn't find the the the video that or the meme that our locals community put up with me in an American bikini in front of my Bronco. And I said I didn't like that one because it lacked the muscle tone that actually exists in my body. Now, I don't like this one either because it gives me a little bit too much chest hair. I don't have chest hair. And some people say, "Well, that makes you less of a man, Viva." and I say no, that makes me more of an evolved man. I've got a very small nail on my pinky toe and I believe that that is a sign of evolution. [laughter] All that to say, this is an AI image. 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The daily show is 3:00 on Rumble in the Rumble lineup. The Sunday show is across all platforms and we are also currently simultaneously live on Rumble, Comedy Tube, Locals, and X. And we have a great community over at vivabarnslaw.locals.com. Since Trevor should gray101 is our resident sarcastic and insightful individual and the only question is which one is it going to be? And I don't know before I start reading it. I am reading what gay 101 has said here. Since Trump covers for the Epstein predators, what did he also cover up in his hotels and business properties? Uh, see now I don't know if this is supposed to be sarcastic as in if anything untoward ever happened that Trump was aware of and concealed in any of his business ventures, it would have already been out there. That being said, some people are taking some flak for lack of results on certain elements um of uh promises made that might not have been delivered just yet. How do I get out of here? Hell yeah. Get let me just get this out of here. Okay, there we go. There we go. And now before Barnes gets here, there was one other rumble rant. If I miss your commie tube chat question, and you're going to be angry about it, don't do it. I would recommend coming over to viva barnslaw.locals.com. And if I miss it anyhow, it might happen. I would do my best to get to all of them. Sean 487 said, "This is for Barnes. Does he see the hypocrisy of America's Americans screaming America first yet in favor of America's naked aggression in Greenland? The Dutch have had Greenland for a thousand years." What? Right. I don't know if that was a question about the what right, but is this guy Canadian? I am Canadian, currently living in Florida. My real name is David Fryhe for anybody who doesn't yet know that I ran for federal office in Canada for the People's Party of Canada. I have since moved to America to Florida, the free state of Florida. I have, according to many, become the Florida man. And um Bill Brown says he's the resident [ __ ] Bill is not an [ __ ] Bill is actually a very wonderful person, veteran in our vivabarsaw.locals.com community. And um that's it. Let's get into this without any further ado. There was one other clip. Oh, this was the one that I had to double check. Robert, have you have you The warning comes. It's short, Robert. It's beautiful and it there's a lot of gratuitous see you next Tuesday words in it, but I'm told in Aussie talk uh it's totally normal and it's actual sign of affection. I thought this was AI and I had to look it up and it's not. But it's a good lesson for uh leading into today's show. Let's just play this uninterrupted. >> Hey [ __ ] So a bottle of water will cost you 50 cents at the supermarket, two bucks at the gym, three bucks at the [ __ ] movies, or six bucks on a [ __ ] plane. [ __ ] It's the same [ __ ] bottle of water, same [ __ ] water. Nothing's [ __ ] changed. The only thing that's changed its value is its [ __ ] location, [ __ ] [laughter] The next time you're feeling you've got no [ __ ] selfworth, maybe you need to change your location, [ __ ] location talk. >> No, no, [ __ ] Love you. >> It's so good and it's true and it's funny. And Robert, how goes the battle? >> Good. Good. The eventful week in the practice of law and [clears throat] around the world as we figure out what country we might invade next or take next or try to buy next or something else. The uh the administration uh you know one step forward uh two steps back uh though at least we it dodged a uh another Middle Eastern war middle of the week. So, and I saw my old adversary Heheim Sabon [clears throat] uh with Miriam Adlesen taking credit uh for owning Washington DC and reminded me of uh some other [clears throat] history with Heim Sabon. But, uh >> hold on, Robert. I didn't >> a lawyer in court apparently said about Heim Saban that he has bragged about being able to use MSAD to assassinate his economic enemies. They said it about Heim Sabon ended up in news articles all around the world. He couldn't do anything about it because the lawyer spoke about it in court and they were just covering court proceedings and by coincidence they happened to be in the courtroom, federal courtroom that day when that conversation was had. Now the lawyer might have been that might have mentioned this might have been uh me [laughter] the uh that did it. You ran into him years later at the restaurant like man these lawyers get away with all these kind of statements in court. Just shocking. Just shocking. He just smirked and went on the uh though I think he's had a I'm probably on a list that's [laughter] not a good one to be on and I'm so but the uh yeah eventful week and we got you know big cases out of Scotas uh you know we've got uh the we've got are is the insurrection act going to be invoked in uh the Twin Cities as chaos consumes the town? the we've got the ICE being sued again uh for its activities in the Twin Cities by the ACLU and other groups. We've got a big Second Amendment oral argument that's going to take place this week in the Supreme Court. We've got Fourth Amendment election cases, standing cases, uh sec uh the the Second Amendment case that's upcoming and a good criminal law case out of Supreme Court this past week, but no tariff decision yet. Uh, we've got Elon Musk versus Sam Alman and Open AI might by the end of this Elon Musk own a a open AI or a huge percentage of it because they forgot the never in writing rule [laughter] here at Barnes Law School. The uh we've got Trump's administration facing sanctions over its deportation policy related to uh pro Palestinian or anti-Israel speakers. uh the case we've covered before, but now the court is moving to the remedies and sanctions stage of the case. While Har Dylan was busy telling all the Israeli lobbyists how much the Justice Department is working hard for them. Har be nice if we got some other cases to it like one of them uh is Tina Peters went up before the Colorado Court of Appeals. uh and the even the Democratic governor is considering clemency because of enough of the court of public opinion has had its voice heard and the court of appeals sounded potentially uh empathetic at least a little more open-minded than the uh the state court that I was in front of on behalf of Kurt Benu as that case continues to go through the appellet chain involving broad constitutional and civil rights and liberties. Uh we have the uh when you know you you get subscribed and automatically renewed without your consent. Well, sometimes that can lead to a class action under like California law and other law. A big company got caught doing that this past week. Pam Bondi's corruption list and litany keeps getting wider and deeper. But even uh but all from a wide range of organizations independent of my own have identified which companies she's the most solicitous and corrupt in favor of. And if you guessed Fizer, uh, you guessed right once again as payforplay Pam continues to run him up. And last but not least, we have the unconstitutional Federal Reserve and its rogue criminal chairman demanding that his institutional independence doesn't exist under the law and makes it unconstitutional under the law means he cannot be criminally investigated or prosecuted for lying to Congress about overbilling taxpayers in the tune of billions of dollars. So that and answering your questions live on this law for the people Sunday's show. >> Let's uh let's just start actually with the Greenland question because it was the Rumble rant over on Rumble. And actually by the way before we even get into that everybody I I I forget to mention it and I and I and I should >> because Rumble that's me right there. Uh you can tip by the way in crypto if you go to download Rumble wallet from either Google Play or the Apple App Store. Down if you have a Rumble account you can automatically sync it up. Remember your 12 seedword password thing because if you lose it, you lose access to your wallet. It's a non-custodial wallet. And if you want to tip in crypto, you can do it here. Going to leave I'll leave that up for one second here. Boom, bada bing, bada boom. So download the wallet, everybody. But there was a tip question out there earlier uh about Greenland. How can anybody say they're America first while talking about taking over Greenland? And I mean, the discussion has reached something I don't want to say a fevered pitch. It's interesting like there's people online who are hearing it for the first time. Admittedly, you know, Trump talked about it in 2019. It was not as anywhere near of a big issue back then, but the world was much different back then. Also, it was 2019, right towards the tail end of his first term, but people have been talking about the strategic importance of Greenland in the Western Hemisphere for someone corrected me. It was I said 200 years. It was intended to be an overestimate. It's about 100 since 1860s. Greenland has been an element of importance for various reasons in the west as far as you know hemispheric interest is concerned. Uh Trump is not joking anymore. It's quite obvious. My issue is I don't know if he's planning for war and then taking the appropriate steps to plan forward or if the steps he's taking are going to trigger it. That will be a question of perspective. But it's a serious discussion. Now, Greenland, as far as Arctic interests are concerned, as far as ensuring hemispheric safety, I don't think anybody can undermine or downplay its importance. And he's like, one way or another, we'll buy it or we won't. And it's a nice piece of land you have up there. Uh, it's a very easy argument to make as to why this is necessarily America first, maybe even more so than ousting Maduro. >> Uh, I think it's well, I think it it depends on which voter group you're looking at. So the I would say amongst the independent voters, the new voters that came into the Trump uh campaign in 2024, sort of new MAGA for a lot of those voters, any foreign policy focus is a distraction and is a negative. So Richard Baris started polling on this People's Pundant Daily several months ago and other pollsters started picking up on it. uh now even you know CBS, yuggov, Wall Street Journal and it's do you think President Trump is paying enough attention to domestic issues or do you think he's too distracted by foreign issues? So for that voter group any foreign policy focus is a losing issue and it's not considered for them American first meant domestic priorities first domestic policies first domestic issues first and Greenland does not fit into that for them. Now there's different arguments about its geopolitical strategic import. The question is why do you need to own it? We already have US military bases there. So it from a national security perspective if you're talking about route shipment and other countries being there that's already conserved by the existing arrangement. So the only reason you would need to own it is if you think there's a bunch of minerals there that you want to extract and own 100% of or the US companies to own 100% of and you don't want them to be subject to uh Denmark's regulation or EU regulation. So that would be you think there's some economic re because the national security part's already met by the existing military cooperation agreement already military bases there on the ground. the Trump's kind of misrepresenting that to make his sound Denmark's only got these dog sleds out there and can't def that. That's a complete mis that's a complete red herring. But God bless him, but it's a red herring. Uh it we have our own military bases there. We we have for a long time. We've even had nuclear bases there in the past. So this that's a uh it's meant to drive up the theory is that security will get a lot of people to support this. Um the reality is that you know Patrick Basham of the Democracy Institute has generally been a very Trump friendly MAGA friendly pollster. His publications are often published in the Daily Express in the United Kingdom. He's pulled this precise question and it's even split on buying Greenland. Militarily invading for Greenland is uh totally unpopular. That's not well liked by anybody other than Boomercons. So unless you're Fox News Boomercons, people they're like, "What? Why do we need to invade Greenland? Why why do we need to be mil? So they don't buy that that that that he it's split on whether he physic just materially buys. >> Now the question is going to be while ordinary people are economically struggling. What does it look like when he spends billions of dollars to buy Greenland so a bunch of billionaire oligarchs can develop it and get rich off of it? Because that's kind of what it looks like. It's not how is owning Greenland going to help ordinary Americans. Not clear at all. They definitely haven't made the case that it will or how it will because they stay so vague about it. if I can I mean I is there talk I know there has been talk I don't know what the realistic assessments are of the necessary rare earth minerals for I don't know lithium batteries or microchips and then I don't even know how you set aside how you would actually extract them but is that argument there that they there's good resources >> they won't make it publicly and maybe because they don't want to highlight who owns those interests it's a lot of the same oligarchs that are Israeli first oligarchs but you get the added bonus if you like of Bill Gates being involved so they have bought up you know Louder and these other guys that are connected to Venezuela operations, connected to Israel operations, connected to this board of peace that's getting way out of control. I mean, Trump's basically he is perceived as running the White House like it's a Gambino crime operation, right? Hey, uh, it's a nice little island you got there. It'd be too bad if you lost it, you know? I mean, we got to have a can we pull back a little bit of this? I mean, people like some of that. They weren't voting for full Gambino in the White House. the uh uh but you know Trump's grown accustomed to this kind of language that that's I don't know if they even understand how it's perceived around the world. The but you know you know that's you know its own animal. So the uh but the here the theory is the only explanation I've heard for why you want to own Greenland as opposed to have military security with Greenland which we already have which we could amplify if we wanted. That's not really in debate or dispute. the is why do you want is is if you want the resources of it if you want the the only resources that have been identified are these rare earths the problem is the legit it's a logistical nightmare uh to to get that up the only other advantage is potentially you could put a bunch of AI data centers there because natural cooling you you don't have local environmental complaints because nobody lives in the whole for people that don't know the whole history Iceland and Greenland are misnamed Iceland is greenland is ice the uh you know by the old Vikings, my voy my vi my Viking forebears uh who wanted to mislead all the the shnookers and the the shooks the shnooks and the suckers. Uh but the so but but you know it's that that's not uh my understanding is what they're banking on these big tech oligarchs is they believe AI will revolutionize things so much so that robotics will be able to extract these elements. So the reason what would make the elements economically competitive to to mine in the first place is that the demand will continue to skyrocket for it in the belief that AI and robotics will continue to take off and that the AI and robotics in addition to that will be able to help you mine the rare earths at a much more economical scale. But part of it feels like Venezuela part two. Trump has finally figured out he was completely misled by what would happen in Venezuela. He thought Venezuelan oil was easy to extract, easy to make, and all the oil companies couldn't wait to go down there. Turns out they're like, "No, we're not interested at all." So, this huge profit mine that he was talking about turns out to be more of a money pit than a profit mine. And I mean, what's the odds they're saying the same thing? I mean, they're pitching Gaz, they think the Gazna strip is going to make tons of money. He's Trump's out there saying billion bucks if you want to be on the border of peace. A billion bucks to the entrance fee. I mean, board of peace, billion dollar interest fee, you know, some of these things don't don't sound very congruent. The I don't know who comes up with this stuff in the White House. Some of the script writing is just poor. The uh if we're in a simulation, it's we got, you know, Disney writers writing this because it's not the most persuasive or compelling. But you know how much is it these all these you know some of these people are misleading him into doing deep state agenda business uh with the that is not actually in the interest of the US and does and by giving him fake pitches about the economic profit of something. I'm starting because it's starting to show up again and again and again where he thinks it's going to benefit something that it doesn't. I I can say announcing you're going to tariff everybody related to it probably was the final nail in his any chance he was going to win with Scotas. He's been convinced by people that are against his interest that by saying national security is at stake. So sanction, you know, issue tariffs related to Iran, issue tariffs related to Ukraine, issue tariffs related to Venezuela, now issue tariffs related to Greenland will help him. No, it doesn't. It completely guts his e his entire legal argument. This is based on an economic emergency of exceptional kind built over time. the when you're doing it to because you want to grab Greenland and you want to help Israel and you wanna the undermine Iran or Ukraine uh the or hurt Venezuela uh you're you're making it clear it's just it's whatever you want it to be and then when you're out there saying dumb stuff like oh there is no international law and like Steven Miller saying even more moronic stuff which by the way then he was back to citing the law this week he was saying the law is unless you can defend a place it's not yours what law is that Stephen didn't you just say the law doesn't matter Didn't you just say Mike makes right? Now you're back to citing international law that you said doesn't exist, Stephen. And what international law did they teach you at Duke Law School, Stephen? That said that if you can't defend something, all your property rights are gone. Well, what sort of This is just more he the guy's a [ __ ] When he's not busy laughing, Stephen Miller gets really excited when Palestinians are getting killed. That's when he gets really excited and real happy along with his wife there. uh Katie Miller doing that ridiculous podcast. So, these are not persuasive arguments to me politically. Uh the uh I I'm not sold on it at all. And I and from all of the polling data, nor the American people. I mean, it just ref could Could we focus for a month on America? Just at least a month. A month without going into war someplace, bombing someplace, kidnapping somebody someplace, invading someplace, thinking about invading someplace. Just for a month. For one month. Can the Trump administration keep its word to the American people? Open question. >> I was following the chat if it looked like I was laughing because I'm following it. So, Robert, people in the chat are angry that you're using I didn't realize that MSM MSM Yeah, mainstream media was using the term mafy. Oh, Barnes, why are you using that term? Uh, first of all, it's I don't even think that Trump would would disagree with that with that description of of of what it is. It's team America. >> He thinks it's leverage. He thinks that's power. It's the part of the world he grew up in. I get it. It's just getting excessive. >> Like him saying that the only thing that restrains him is his own morality is not the pitch to make to the world. We'll get into it with ICE. Why is why is ICE now more controversial than it's ever been? Well, you know, why are the these raids that should be very popular, why are they deeply unpopular in large parts of the country? Why are they now at legal risk related to these issues? Um, it's because when you go around doing things like black bagging foreign presidents in foreign nations, that creates a perception here at home that people start to think of you as this guy who does whatever he wants. He says his own morality is his only limit. He's not limited by the these are not good marketing messages. You can support Trump all you want. You can be in favor of all these policies all you want. This is bad marketing. Bad marketing. Boomer con team America world police slop is something that is seen satirically as something to be to mock uh amongst many of the independent voter groups that are going to determine and decide the 2026 elections and again the 2028 elections and in the process shape Trump's perceived political capital. Now people like well how does it matter what happens in November? Very simple. If a bunch of members of Congress think Trump is radioactive he won't be able to get Jack done. That's why it all has I if courts see him as vulnerable, they'll feel more uh political leverage to run right over him and run right over the executive branch. These people that are ignoring the American people is one guy was responding to Richard Bar because Baris was making the same point I was making. You're seeing all these young influential podcasters with young independent nonpartisan voters go off the Trump train. Andrew Schultz off the Trump train. Tim Dylan off the Trump train. He had a he had a big rant about this about this foreign focus this week. Same thing. Uh Joe Rogan off the Trump train. Uh Tiovan off the Trump train. And people like, "Oh, who cares?" Uh and I was like, "Well, they're representative of their audience, which is a lot of young independent voters who we won and were key to the future of the Trump populist coalition uh for any Republican candidate." And some people responded, "Oh, Barnes, all the young men there, they're still fully on the Trump train." It's like, dude, have you not talked to anybody? Have you not watched or read a single survey? They're underwater by 20 to 30 points with young men. That's where Trump is. I >> a while back I had seen uh you know there was a meme going around that even CNN had to acknowledge Trump's you know gaining numbers and I I just saw it literally live last week where they were it's it's double digit whether or not you believe them because I don't believe these polls. I do I do believe and rely much more heavily on Richard Bars's methodology because he's been accurate and that's all you can ask for in a pollster. Um it it is it is a problem and it is having an impact. The only question is can you, you know, turn the ship around uh come November. >> You don't turn the ship around is obsessing over foreign nations, foreign countries, foreign policies, foreign priorities, foreign issues. That's how you don't turn it around. And the and we we thought that message was received about a week and a half ago and he's right back to it right away. >> I mean, thinking about going into Iran off a bogus color revolution, the amount of fake news Americans believe about Iran is just preposterous. The these were BLM style riots being run by foreign intelligence agencies and operations. You don't have to take my word for it. MSAD and Israel bragged about it. Bragged about that they were the ones sponsoring and instigating the riots in Iran. It was not. They took organic protest that arose because we and the Soros crowd and others have been trying to sink the Iranian economy by sinking its currency for the last 6 months. And those e precipitated economic protests that were then infiltrated by outright by by terrorist groups. We're we're aligning people should look I mean the Kurds you can make different arguments about. Uh but the Kurds are going to trigger a negative reaction from the Turks. Then you got the these other groups, whether it's MEK, whether it's the Sha's former allies, uh the Sha's son's former allies, whether it's these other like Sunni Islamic groups. By the way, that they're all like terroristoriented and they're either Marxist or more Islamist than the regime is. And it's like, how this is a good idea is beyond me as well. But we were going to go in there and and start bombing and having and boots on the ground. By the way, the plan was to send special forces in this past week. and the under the and finally Trump woke up that was you know because of various people got information to him. The state department CIA was saying all he had and MSAD was saying all you had to do was go in do these bombs do these special force operations like Maduro the whole regime would collapse and some liberal democracy regime would emerge in its place and then there would be no retaliation. Don't have to worry about our bases getting hit in the region. don't have to worry about Israel being unable to defend itself from an Iranian ballistic missile attack barrage because hey uh we got it all solved and finally Vance and some other people pointed out to him well ask everybody in the room and and finally Tulsi Gabbard got to be in the room and ask everybody in the room who will say that this military attack will lead to regime change and no retaliation against Iran or our bases and all these people that had been misleading him all this time weren't willing to raise their hand a single one of them and that's when Trump all of a sudden at the last minute realize, oh, this is going to be a big L. Now, it's a big L. Even talking about foreign policy at this moment, being distracted by foreign policy. Think about it. How many people even know Trump had a very good positive healthc care reform proposal this week? Almost nobody. I was watching normies are talking about, oh, I was going through my media screen. It's all Iran. Once again, he he has these good good domestic policy announcements and it gets buried by this foreign policy obsession that is driving him. I mean, the the Israel lobby is and the CIA are running Trump and it it's to his own demise politically, domestically, uh that this is happening, but the that was an Iranian color revolution and and now we're going to give NE more money than they ever had before. Mike Benz was putting out jokes and comedic about how he was feeling about everything because all of a sudden the censorship comp and deep state financing moneyaundering complex that Doge took apart is now being refunded by Congress and apparently Trump's going to sign on to it. The it's going to give the National Endowment for Democracy run, you know, people like Victoria Nuland are there. It's a disgrace. This this is an organization that s spent the whole last eight years sabotaging Trump as much as anybody and now he's going to turn around and give him a half a billion dollar check. while demanding about a half a trillion for the defense and milit military-industrial complex. These are not the things that the independent voter that put him over the top voted for at all. Uh we'll see what he can avoid for another week or two. >> Well, the the the America first argument I think can be made more easily with Greenland. The Iranian thing, I mean, it's it's um it's wild to see who just hasn't learned about anything. whether or not you believe that the regime, the Iranian regime, the IRG, you know, IRGC should be overthrown, you know, and people say, well, it be good for Israel, first of all, good, will it be good for America? Then you say, well, by by proxy, if it's good for Israel, it's good for America. And then the question is, you know, how I mean, it'll be good for a certain demographic in America or at least certain interests. But what I've realized, I actually started a deep thought to our local community and never finished it. the Israeli wedge and not not anti-semitism just the Israeli interest wedge is like the Ukrainian one except more divisive within the GOP itself. It seems like you know the Ukrainian everyone at some point said enough with this foreign war, enough with this moneyaundering, enough with this Ukraine is our ally in in Eastern Europe and it was sort of divided among Republicans and uh Democrats. when it comes to Israel, there's a there's a divide within the Democrat party itself, which has sort of led to, you know, some certain amount of confusion. But that becomes a harder thing to to to convince America is America first. But I you appreciate everybody saying it's not America only and America first means having your useful ally Israel in the Middle East. But at some point I mean you could maybe tamp down on that and focus on on on domestic issues which they don't seem to >> especially when you gave up your first year your first term to serve Israel first. >> The and I mean now what is this Gaza border peace becoming? They're talking about it becoming a replacement for the UN. What? and people get to buy their way in and it's going to be influential p what is this? And and Gaza is going to be made into into Dubai. How is that how is that going to work? How's that going to serve the local population? BB's back to talking about ethnic cleansing again. Let's ethnically cleanse all these and now he's saying it openly. Uh you know, normally he would let his wacky defense minister say it. Now he's yippi about it. >> No, no. They they said it when they basically entertained the idea of displacing all them and and putting up hotels. This is 1962. Polar over on comic tube says the midterms is the last chance for the deep state and Dems to take Trump out. And the more he looks off his original message, the easier it will be. That's on comics. >> Absolutely will be. I mean, the the whatever you think of these policies, I personally am skeptical of them. Politically, they are are are poison. Poison. Right now, America first means America first. Literally, it means I want domestic issues being the focus. That's what these voters want. Anytime you're talking about foreign policy is a day you lost. It's what I told the vice president and the people in the White House. Every single day, any day you you can mark whether you won or lost by whether you were talking about domestic issues or foreign issues. If you're talking about foreign issues, you lost that day politically. And the and and they keep doing it. They can't seem to avoid it. And then can the Israeli lobby quit doing conferences bragging about how they influence and control and want to gatekeep everybody and can steal any candidate they want? This has got to be the dumbest PR campaign known to man. It's almost as as dumb as Mark Levan trying to go out there and gatekeeper. I mean, this is just embarrassing. You have to be as stupid as Klay Travis to think this is popular. >> Two things. First of all, that that article that I brought up, what's amazing is, you know, when they're doing a fact check on Mossad involvement in Iran, they're going to confirm it and it's going to be wordsmithing of the devil. They they've confirmed a certain element of MSAD involvement, but >> that's because Mike Pompeo was bragging about it. They Here's what they thought. They thought by telling Iranians that Msad was implicated and the US was coming that it would inspire mass. >> Yeah. The problem is the regime is not that weak anymore. And after the attacks in the summer, the regime is probably politically stronger than ever because what we did is we took the people who opposed the regime and we made them patriotic defenders of the regime in the name of patriotism. This was almost guaranteed to happen. it it uh Iran is nowhere as weak as Iraq, as Syria, as Libya, as any of them, as Lebanon. So the and of course what we created in those places was chaotic nightmares uh that for the whole world. It it did not serve our interest for Iraq to be what it is today, for what Syria to be it is and or Libya. I'm quoting Donald Trump from 2015, 2016. He said, "Yeah, they're killers, but it was stupid to replace them given what was so why is he back doing the exact same thing in Iran? It makes no sense at all. I thought, "Hey, Steven Crowder," I thought you said, "Don't worry, it was only about the nuclear weapons." And that's the only reason Trump went in in the summer, and that's why you justified it. You look like a joke now, Stephen, because it was never about nuclear weapons programs. It was always about regime change. And now it's exposed for what it is. And Trump looks like a liar and a hypocrite because, didn't he say he took out the nuclear weapons? Didn't he say that was his only reason? Then why is he going back in now? Did you hear talk about? No, it was purely for regime change to police world to police another country's protest, which by the way, there wasn't mass execution of civilians. It was these terrorist riers going around killing cops. It's all on video. They were lighting PEOPLE ON FIRE. THEY WERE BOMBING MOSS. They were grabbing people out of ambulances and beating them to death. I mean, this is comes from a wide range of sources. Basically, anybody but the Western Press and Barry Weiss running Israeli propaganda non-stop at CBS. So, I mean, this is just a this is politically disastrous. Policy-wise, it's dumb in my opinion. I think it would backfire like every other regime change war has backfired since the end of World War II. Uh, and I find it, you know, mindboggling. The uh but the defenses being raised, I think, are are weak legally, weak politically, and weak policy in my opinion. >> I didn't realize this is Katie Miller. This is this is Steven Miller's wife. >> This is Steven Miller's wife. boosting her. That's why she's her podcast. That's why what do you think Robert Kennedy sits down with somebody that's a no-name podcaster who just started it six months ago. It's because of Steven Miller's wife trying to create a own little niche. Uh and you know, Steven Miller's become an Israel first lobbyist. He's become a warhore lobbyist. uh the and him being in charge of immigration and the rest of this at the same time is hurting the po political dis popularity of the domestic immigration agenda to where you get the disaster you now have brewing in the Twin Cities. >> Let me uh read some of the tipped questions before we get too far behind here. We I'll get to tipped then we're going to do Rumble Rants. Viva, you and Barnes got to get with the China guy, China show guys and get them over to Rumble Locals, etc. I screenshotted that. I'm going to reach out to them. Trump is have that's from Quellin. Trump is having the military exercise at this moment on the shores of Greenland and it closes off Canada's access to the Arctic, a national threat. Troublemaker Jonas says, "Let's talk about the eugenics of Denmark against the Greenland Aboriginal population." Tropical Rocket says Trump has to choose between the people and the money. He may want to help the people, but never at the expense of the money. 808 Scotty says the golden page was the turning point. Trump stop Trump started kissing up to BB immediately after then telling Israel to pardon BBE. that was uh had to be a threat. Um but I mean I don't this one would segue into a few other things. Did you see I I don't know if it's a very bad sign to be on MMFA, the Media Matters for America's website, and I didn't realize I had been on there before. Um but uh they they clipped the part of my Friday interview with with Stuart Rhodess, the uh founder of Oathkeepers, and that was one hell of a good interview. Everybody should go check it out if you haven't seen it. Uh I don't know why they clipped that. It was the part where Stuart Rhodess uh was saying in his view that Cash Patel has now become a little hbay of the deep state and has crossed over to the dark side. Now that might be hyperbolic. Um but it might be also difficult to discuss, you know, difficult to deny given the action or lack of action of the FBI. >> Well, you pointed out that Bonino seemed to be confirming your prior assumption about the Epstein files. This one >> nobody got back. I didn't get a response to that. I'm going to bring that up in a second just to show everybody because Bonino put out a tweet that was a Grock summary and it said something effectively like, you know, Grock is declaring war on the black pillars and be, you know, and the anti-Trumpers and it was saying, "No, Dan Bonino did not participate in the coverup. He had a falling out with the heads up of the DOJ as relates to redactions, etc., and therefore and left in 2025." And I'm like, I just want to say like >> he's retweeting it. I mean I mean so I mean this would be confirmation because even though Todd Blanch said everybody signed on Bonino never confirmed that ever in any setting and here he is retweeting a Groc statement saying that basically he was carved out and his objections overruled about the whole way the administration has handled the Epstein files. I mean and he's resharing it and almost nobody's covering it that the the you're one of the only people to point this out. I thought because you never know like Twitter is made for uh ambiguity. It's made for misunderstandings. I didn't know if he was saying look even Grock is not, you know, even Grock is politically biased in the results that it that it generates. Bonjino put out Grock versus anti-Trump doomers trying to destroy his administration. Friends don't let friends fall for doomer [ __ ] 2026 will be one of the best years in the country. Ecstatic to be back on and the the screenshot which I it seems that it says no that's not what I meant. Bonjino advocated for releasing the Epstein files multiple times before 2025. As FBI deputy director, he pushed for transparency but clashed with the DOJ over redactions leading to his resignation in late 2025. That's a that's something that's not >> I mean that's been a major news story on the right. >> I I I legit asked cuz I'm not trying to be sassy or sarcastic. Are was he posting it because he agreed with it? And then someone says eat [ __ ] black pilling grifter. Uh okay, that's good. That doesn't answer the question. He never really answered. So, because that would seem to me, like not to say that that would undermine the Trump administration, that would be an open critique on the DOJ. And incidentally, for everyone out there, I'll pat myself on the back with my short, stubby little arms. It's exactly what I've been saying for about eight months now. I still haven't gotten an answer. Maybe, and I say maybe we'll find something out in in February, but I still don't think Bonino is going to do anything to uh, you know, that might hurt the administration because it's an existential close to it. I mean I mean this was a way to say that this was true without him officially affirming it's true. But again he chose to share this saying this is right what Grock is saying not what the doomers are saying. In other words I Dan Bonino disagreed with the administration's cover up the Epstein files the and disagreed with it all along and that's why he never signed the document and that's why and that was the beginning of the end of me working at the FBI. That's what he appears to be confirming. Then when he lost out on that, he just gave up all hope on the FBI and was planning his exit from that day forward. Remember, it's not long there after Andrew Bailey comes in as code. Now, of course, as you pointed out this week, and [snorts] as Kyle Sarifan who's like he's like the executioner of corrupt [laughter] deep state action, you know, he's just going door to door. You got the meme out there, Kyle Sarah, taking that one out, taking that one out, taking that one out. But, you know, how embarrassing that counterfeit cash, as I like to call him these days, the uh uh you know, digging into some of his lobbying history in the six months leading up to his FBI appointment might reveal some interesting connections. Just saying. the uh but he appoints as the new replacement for Ponino, a complete deep state hack who uh who you know may or may not have mental health and other issues, but beyond that is someone who was a leader instigator and and and a key decision maker over harassing of falsely accused January 6 Catholic school teachers. And this is who Cash, Counterfeit Cash, just nominated to be replacement for Bonino. I it's I so Kyle was on I think it was Friday afternoon and uh because you know like I understood the allegations that he was in the FBI when that ongoing investigation persecution of of Crowder not any relation to Steven Crowder but the woman Crowder was placed on a cuades her husband who was an air marshal uh you know I I I don't know when he got wind of this but it was an outright persecution. They knew they had no basis for any investigation into her, let alone surveilling her social media. And the FBI nonetheless did it over a two-year period. Christopher Rehea was uh I forget what his what his ASAC at the Texas field office or the the yeah the Texas field office for the FBI over that period of time. And then the you know they say you just promoted the guy that was overseeing if he wasn't outright participating in this persecution. And then their retort is no no he was in in charge of the I don't know violent act or you know the violence division but as Kyle explained and it's compelling unless somebody can retort to it. He was so high up he was effectively the partner that would have partner meetings where they would go over all of their persecutions, prosecutions, whatever. And for two years he had to have known that this investigation was going on, said nothing, did nothing, and then gets promoted. So, you got Jocelyn Ballentine, who's still the prosecutor of the Paty pipe bomber. You've got this guy who just gets promoted to the deputy director position to replace Bonino, who partook in the persecution of the former FBI. I mean, I I I do hope Bonino talks about this and maybe if they were button heads this much, maybe he will be a little more aggressive with with Patel when he's got the mic. We'll see. But, um, it's a big it's a big flipping mistake. It's indefensible. H I mean the guy just continues to be a disaster and it correlates to the utter disaster that is Pam pay-for-p Pam Bonnie. Uh she should already be out. She's not out yet. She's relationship. >> She's announced some big invest big investigations. They're going after Powell. They're going after Jacob Fry. They're going after They haven't done anything yet. Oh, they they only did that after we we created a bit of a storm the week or two before when when Richard Baris and I and a few others were up in DC and she should be on her way out. Uh but so late stage trying to grab something on PAL case that she had let do nothing after the congressional referral. Um promising something's coming in the southern district of Florida. Uh even though nothing has been forthcoming as yet. promising the uh you have Trump complaining again. He's like, well, why on the autopin scandal where you have other people independent of Biden that committed crimes by their own admission from again another congressional referral? It's like we got to prosecute these people. Well, well, just have fire your attorney general and get a real one in there, Mr. President, because until then, all that's going to be is talking into the truth space. So the there's no ev because the uh public citizen a Ralph nater group has been following and tracking all the big corporations getting sweetheart deals uh under the uh under pam bonding pay-forplay pay. It's now up to over 150 corporations had more than 150 because they were many of them were subject to multiple civil investigations, key TAM cases, criminal investigations, fraud overseas. Much of it, by the way, connected to CO in one way, shape or form. And payforplay Pam has shut them all down. And as the as the report uh notes, when they looked for one company, uh which company above all others had received the most uh benefits under Pam Bondi has had literally every single civil and criminal case domestically in the United States shut down by her in her first year. And they did one with uh uh over about a half dozen different investigations, fraud overseas, fraud domestically, kam cases, uh all kinds of other illegalities that they're involved in was Fizer. She has done she has basically shut down. She's become Fizer's personal counsel with the power of the attorney general's office. And so the why that's why we're going to see that's why she doesn't care if counterfeit cash is doing his job or letting the deep state uh dog walk him on a daily basis because she's got a deal to cover for the deep state as long as they cover for her so she can all do her quid proquo with all these big corporations and outside rogue lobbyists like Arthur Schwarz like uh uh the like Mike Davis like these kind of people lining their pockets uh with cash on because they're MAGA lobbyists when they're not. They're undermining Labia. They're betraying him on a daily basis. Uh unless Trump gets ahead of this and fixes this, it's going to continue to be a disaster for him on the accountability issue that many voters are still uh unhappy with his administration. >> And that we knew that there was a grand jury convening up in Fort Pierce, Florida last week on Monday. We haven't heard Bobkiss about it since. Uh there has not been James Comey's um uh uh what are the charges are not going to be reinstated because they're appealing it because they're going to have statute of limitations issues because of when they brought it. So we'll see what happens there. Uh James Brennan, we haven't heard whatever in a little while. Um who's the other guy? Their mustache man, the the chicken guy. >> Clapper. >> No, no, no. The other one Bolton. >> I mean I mean Bolton's out there yeping on the media demanding that uh we get, you know, invade Iran tomorrow. the uh I don't think Jake Tapper mentioned his criminal case that's pending against him. >> No, but but it's it we've seen and it's not to be there's been good progress on crime at large which was already tapering down and at some point you know the FBI and the DOJ doesn't get to say we did our job therefore excuse us for not doing our job on the other issues. there's been zero deep state accountability, but you know, the the the lowhanging fruit, here's a little chunk of meat for the for the dogs, us being the dogs, was uh announcing or at least announcing of a criminal investigation into Jerome Powell of the feds, which I mean, it'll make people happy, but it's not what you know, that's a expost facto because what the, you know, what the Trump administration was um elected on was going after those who parttook in stealing the election. ction in 2020. COVID tyranny, January 6 tyranny, we've seen none of it. But if we can touch on Jerome Powell being investigated criminally for allegedly lying to what was it Congress or the Senate oversight? >> I mean, >> yeah. I mean, basically, they only did their So, you know, Baris and some other people were up there causing a storm and then finally they take action on an a referral that came many months before, like seven, six, seven months before back June, July. Congresswoman Luna is doing very good work. Congresswoman Luna is trying to ban stock trading by the insiders on in Congress. Congresswoman Luna is exposing Ukraine's uh religious discrimination against Orthodox Christians in their country. Uh she's called for peace and diplomacy involving Russia. Congresswoman Luna opposed the funding of the NE. So she's doing a lot of good work. She was outraged that Jerome Pal, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, a a appointed official by the president with the consent of the Senate, uh, came before them and told them that he was not doing all these big billion dollar plus charges for their new Fed building, all paid for by taxpayer money, private banks that own the subdivision, federal individual federal banks, Federal Reserve banks. uh the in terms of it's a complicated structure but they have a incentive and a they should be paying for this not the American taxpayer anyway but I mean talking about like marble floors and marble this and marble that and special fountains and I mean over over a billion dollar overrun and then he lied about it to Congress and this comes from a Federal Reserve that has board members that that he was part of recommending that had committed mortgage fraud like Lisa Cook that have committed insider trading again and again and again without criminal prosecution. And he goes out last Sunday night in order to try to sink the markets and say I mean all they all they did was send him a subpoena because they had sent him investigative requests and he refused to answer any of them, refused to talk to any of them because he's he's the Federal Reserve chairman. He's Mr. Central Bankster. You don't get to dictate to him. You don't get to control. You don't get any authority, any accountability with him. The uh just like you. That's why we've had all these insider traders, rogue banksters, mortgage fraudsters, uh, running our economy into the ground like the Fed has done for the last two decade plus, uh, doing things that were never constitutionally or congressionally authorized anyway. But he tries to sink the markets as punishment for them simply sending him a subpoena to produce the evidence and information that he should have produced honestly to Congress 6 months ago. And he's like, this is an assault on the independence of the central bank. There is no independent central bank in the constitution. To have an independent central bank makes it unconstitutional by definition. There's many law. If you look at the non-legation doctrine, you look at the principal officer doctrine. Uh you you look at separation of powers doctrine, you look at the political control over elected officials and the removal power doctrine that has been we've been talking about now that's been more robustly developing for the last four or five years. The Fed shouldn't exist. >> The Fed period. back it up just a little bit because people have to appreciate this. The Federal Reserve is not a government entity. It's not a government body. And so the argument >> parts of it are and parts of it are not. And that that's what makes it a disaster. >> Okay? >> Created by the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. But let's remember first central bank, first national bank in the United States, President Thomas Jefferson, one of our founders got rid of it because he realized what a scam it was. you know, go back and read what he said about the risk of having these central banksters print print your currency. Then the second national bank comes along and President Andrew Jackson shut that bank down. Thank God. Another great populist American. So, we didn't have any of these central banksters until JP Morgan decided to hang out. You can read a great book uh by my friend G. Edward Griffin uh The Creature from Jackal Island. Uh beautiful little island by the way. been there for a George Gammon event, some other events, uh, talking about the whole nasty, pernicious, sneaky history of the Federal Reserve. I mean, in 1913, we get the inauguration of Woodwell Wilson, which brings us World War I, by the way. Uh, the and the Birth of a Nation launched in the beginnings of the Klux Clan. Thanks to Woodward Wilson, he first only movie ever first movie ever shown in the White House was Birth of a Nation, which is like one battle after another, which is being used by the Oscars in Hollywood to try to promote these ICE attacks and terrorism that we're seeing against ICE across the country that we'll get to in a bit. The uh same 1913, they passed the income tax. They proposed the 16th amendment. I'm sure it's just a a big coincidence that they get the 16th Amendment income tax through the same year they do the Federal Reserve Act. And the people crafting and drafting this Federal Reserve Act are a bunch of banksters. But it was disguised as ways to regulate those Wall Street people. We need to regulate them even though it was written by the biggest Wall Streeters of them all. Probably a sign it wasn't there for. But the Federal Reserve Act creates all these unconstitutional provisions. It creates the Federal Open Market Committee which has on it almost half the people on it. Five of the 12 people on it are not appointed by the president are not appointed with confirmed by the Senate and are not removable by the president. They create a law that says the board of governors, that's the government entity is the board of governors. So you got a Federal Reserve that's not quite government, but you got a board of governors that is, and then you got the Federal Reserve Bank, individual banks, which are capitalized by private banks, which helps select who serves as board of directors on those banks. So you got a a a you you got a true creature from Jackal Island. You got a legislative nightmare that appears to have no constitutional tethers or roots. And in my opinion, it violates the non-legation doctrine because they're given boundless standards to do whatever they want. This is legislative power. They're making rules governing our monetary system that should be determined by Congress. It violates the major questions doctrine. It violates the non-legation doctrine for an executive branch body to be doing Congress's business, the legislative body's business. Second, it's violates the principal officer doctrine which means any principal officer which has major influence over our government policy has to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. Mo many of the people that are on the Federal Reserve board are not that they have never received approval or or the rest. Third, you have uh the removal doctrine which is that everybody that has principal officer power must be removable at will and >> by the president of the United States. This is the crux of the entire uh you know scandal so to speak is that people are saying well Trump can't fire Jerome Powell uh because you know he's he's appointed and and technically I don't is not a member of the executive so he can't be fired by the president although he can be removed for you know bad behavior and people are saying well this is pretextual Trump is trying to manufacture some lying under oath or lying to Congress to get rid of him others are saying his his his term is up if I'm not mistaken Robert his term is up Jerome Powell in this year as ch as chair. There's chair and then his term on the board itself which he could continue on. >> Okay. >> But the other problem is so I mean this is Congress created this this nightmare creature >> an unaccountable blob is what it is >> completely and give you an idea of how unaccountable they are. The Federal Reserve is exempt from many FOYA laws. I have foyed the Federal Reserve so been at it for for a long time. Cam and I have been doing this for about four years. They they deny it. We come back make another request. They deny it. We come back make another request. We figure out it's here. It's here. They're hiding it there. They're hiding it over here. But one of the things they always rely upon is that many of their subdivisions. Ah, hold on a second. I got to get this. >> Yeah, I was actually just going to bring this up in our viva barnslaw.locals.com community, which is a good meme. And the Fed. Um, what happened to George Gamut taking on the Fed seems like he's given up on that. I don't know that they've given up. Barnes will get back to it in a second. Uh, I'm actually curious as to what phone call he had to take in that point. Uh, and I'll just I'll I'll I'll continue with with um Jerome Powell. Jerome. I'm pronouncing like a French Canadian because his name is Jerome and my best friend up in Canada's name Jerome. Is that the people are hypothesizing this is to get Jerome Powell out of out of his position because he can't be fired, but like Barn says, he could still stay on the board. And then the other subsidiary argument is that Trump is sending a message to any future appointee that he does appoint when Jerome Powell's um tenure is over. That is saying you better you better do what is in my administration's policies best interest or we'll find a reason to get you out as well. I don't think this is quite as pretextual when we get into the nature of the charges of the dishonesty and just the abject grotesque incompetence. Jerome Pal should be nowhere near governing other people's money. Sorry, Robert. What were you saying? Oh, exactly. But here's here's what Congress has exempted the Federal Reserve from from many FOYA laws. They've exempted him from the sunshine laws. That's what allows them to meet in secret at these open market committee meetings. The even though that is a entirely controls government monetary policy that radically and dramatically influences us in the world. The if anything should be subject to sunshine laws, they should be. They are exempt from congressional because they receive their money from private banks and self-unding. They're exempt from the entire congressional appropriations process which means they're outside much of congressional oversight not the including audits and financial reviews. The they are also exempt from the government accountability office. So they can't be audited by the government. The uh so this is why you know people like Ron Paul and Rand Paul and Thomas Massie and others have been calling for auditing the Fed for a long time. It was something Doge was going to