About this episode

The episode discusses how America's poor and middle class are funding the wealthy elite and explores various political and economic issues related to this dynamic.

Get your metals strategy in place TODAY while prices are attractive! Go to www.schiffgold.com/joy to get started. :) Today we explore how America’s poor and middle class are funding Trump’s kids, the mega-rich, tech fascists, Israel, and more. They call it ‘stake holding’ when it’s actually a shakedown. They call it a ‘backstop’ when it’s actually a bailout. They call treason a ‘strategic partnership’… and war, peace. It’s all so Orwellian it makes your head spin. Sam Altman of Open AI is begging for another government handout while they hand out tiny “equity stakes” to the American people so we can all share in their trillion-dollar losses. Taxpayers as the ultimate bag holders. We’re going to do a shallow dive on Jared Kushner whose billion dollar land deal is sparking a full scale revolt in Albania with an operation looks like Epstein Island 2.0. The Pentagon just raised the espionage threat level from Israel to CRITICAL – they’re spying on Trump’s own negotiators with Iran while we’re supposed to be “partners.” And now the DC Uniparty is trying to ram Section 224 of the NDAA down our throats to lock America into permanent war funding and full military-industrial fusion with…

People in this episode

Host: Shannon Joy

Topics covered

• politics
• economics
• government funding
• media criticism
• foreign relations
• military-industrial complex

Keywords

• Trump
• bailout
• stake holding
• espionage
• military funding
• Orwellian
• government handout
• equity stakes
• taxpayers
• foreign policy

Sponsors

Schiff Gold

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Open AI, Pentagon, Israel, DC Uniparty, NDAA

Places: Albania, America, Iran

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