America First Report: JD Rucker

The video by journalist Tayler Hansen of uniformed San Antonio Police officers working for Non-Government Organizations to facilitate human trafficking is one of the most important stories in a long time. Unfortunately, it will get zero coverage from corporate media which is why it is incumbent on American patriots to spread the word.This isn't just about the law being broken or law enforcement being compromised. It isn't just about our sovereignty being stolen through the border invasion or the human toll being ignored as women and children are raped incessantly on their way to grab what Joe Biden promised them. All of that is important but there's a subtext here that must be understood.Some Americans are waking up. I don't know if it's 0.1%, 1%, or 10%, but it's not nearly enough. The biggest obstacle to getting "normies" to appreciate that the powers-that-be are working against us is making them suspend disbelief in the scope of the conspiracy. Sadly, Americans have been trained to think "crazy" when they hear the word "conspiracy" but the reality is this: There ARE those conspiring against us.Understanding that the scope is tremendous is a prerequisite for people to wake up to the reality of our situation. If they believe that most in power are simply greedy, then they'll miss the heart-wrenching truth that the people with the real power want us either completely under their control or dead. The depopulation and control agenda is happening around us and the biggest reason people fail to see it is because they cannot accept a scenario in which the Powers and Principalities really do have everything they need to make it happen.Far too many assume that if really bad things are being done then someone will stop it. They cannot grasp a world in which corporate media is completely compromised. They cannot fathom a society in which any "good" politicians are removed and the handful with honor who are allowed to stay are neutered. They cannot accept that an army of unsuspecting useful idiots are helping to bring about their own demise.The cops depicted in this video aren't thinking about the damage they're doing to their own community and their own nation. They see a sweet gig in which they get to sit around with no risks and make a lot of money. They probably get paid more to be NGO security guards than they do when they're actually putting their lives on the line for the sake of a citizenry that doesn't appreciate them.To suspend disbelief in the systematic destruction of our nation requires Americans to realize just how much power is being wielded around us. They need to realize that it doesn't take a million globalists to subvert the foundations of our country. It takes a few thousand dedicated people in power plus a whole lot of useful idiots like these San Antonio cops.Until more Americans understand this harsh reality, they will still be expecting someone else to save them. Until more Americans wake up, they will not be preparing themselves for the fight that's coming. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

I support President Donald Trump for reelection. I'm not a sycophant by any means. In fact, I've been extremely critical of him on multiple fronts, most notably the lockdowns and Operation Warp Speed. But after comparing and contrasting him to other candidates, I believe he is still our best bet to sit in the Oval Office while we all try to save this nation.If the Deep State wasn't so involved in trying to take out Trump through lawfare or other means, I wouldn't even be paying attention to what was happening with the other candidates. None of them have a chance of beating Trump in the primaries. But with the Deep State doing their thing and no way to know for sure if they'll succeed in preventing Trump from being the Republican nominee, we have to look at the other options to select our best "backup quarterback."Ron DeSantis has been a decent governor and, unlike many Trump supporters, I can accept him as the nominee if the Deep State has their way. I don't trust Vivek Ramaswamy but I like many of the things he says so he would be my third choice. The rest aren't even a consideration and I would probably force myself to look at RFK Jr despite his many radical leftist policies, most notably for the economy. The way I see it, if we're going to be stuck with an awful president it might as well be someone who's going to expose the jabs.Sadly, among "the rest" who I would never consider is the UniParty Swamp's anointed champion, Nikki Haley. She is quickly usurping DeSantis as the runner up with the help of Wall Street, corporate media, and the GOP Establishment. Having her as the nominee should the Deep State stop Trump would be an unmitigated disaster, as I explained on today's episode of The JD Rucker Show. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

During a recent interview, Vanessa Kerry explained why she believes climate change must be classified as a public health predicament. As founder of Seed Global Health and daughter of Climate Czar John Kerry, it makes sense for her to be harping about this.But there is a much more nefarious reason Kerry and others are calling on climate change to be included as a health issue. The push to make the World Health Organization the supreme ruling body over all nations through multiple agendas, including the Pandemic Treaty, is the globalist's ultimate play for worldwide control. Centralizing health decision through a single global entity is bad enough. Giving them the "skeleton key" of climate change at their disposal is checkmate against freedom.With climate change, the globalists can bring literally everything under their umbrella. Every decision from the food we eat to the cars we drive to the clothes we wear will fall under the rules set by the World Health Organization and enforced by governments after they willfully give away sovereignty.This is already in motion. We must pray that God intervenes. We must spread the word. But second only to prayer, we must prepare ourselves by becoming as independent and self-reliant as possible. We must do whatever we can to protect ourselves and our families by removing any dependence on government regardless of the situation.Get ready now. Just don't forget to pray along the way. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

Editor's Commentary: On yesterday's episode of The JD Rucker Show, I discussed the article below by Brandon Smith over at Alt-Market. It ended up taking two full segments of the show, demonstrating just how important this news is.Most of us have been aware that Central Bank Digital Currencies will be extremely dangerous and represent the next step toward complete centralization of the world consolidated under a single tyrannical government. What most seem to be missing is that CBDCs are not the endgame; I've seen stories from multiple news outlets claiming that to be the case.The reality is the "endgame" is depopulation and complete control. To get there, the powers-that-be will need ONE Central Bank Digital Currency. As we watch dozens at various degrees of readiness being rolled out across the globe, we have to understand that bringing them all under one umbrella is necessary for the globalist elite cabal to win. This is what Project Icebreaker represents.I covered this challenge last year, but since few other than Brandon Smith and me are even talking about it, I thought now would be a good time to reinforce and reinform. With that said, here's Brandon's article in its entirety. The only change I made was in the headline. He had a question mark at the end. I took the question mark away because whether Project Icebreaker is successful or not, we can assume that this is the intended beginning of their evil machinations.There has been extensive discussion in the past couple of years within alternative media circles about the dangers of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs); a currency framework very similar to blockchain based products like Bitcoin but directly controlled by central bankers. It’s a threat that some analysts including myself have been writing about for more than a decade, so it’s good to finally see the issue being addressed more in the mainstream.The Orwellian nature of CBDCs cannot be overstated. In a cashless society most people would be dependent on digital products for exchanging goods and labor, and this would of course mean the end of all privacy in trade. Everything you buy or sell or work for in your life would be recorded, and this lack of anonymity could be used to stifle your freedoms in the future.For example, say you like to eat steak regularly, but the increasingly authoritarian government decides to list red meat as a health risk and a “climate change risk” due to carbon emissions from cows. They determine by your purchase history (which they have full access to) that you have contributed more carbon pollution than most people by eating red meat often. They declare that you must pay a retroactive carbon tax on your past purchases of red meat. Not only that, but your insurance company sends you a letter indicating that you are a medical risk and they cut off your health coverage.Products you consume and services you use can be tracked to create a psychological profile on you, which could then become a factor in determining your social credit score, just as CCP authorities do in China today. Maybe you refuse to purchase an annual mRNA booster shot, and the tracking algorithm makes a note of this. Now you are under suspicion for being “anti-vax” and your social credit score plummets, cutting you off from various public venues. Maybe you are even fired from your job.In the worst case scenario, though, economic access is the greatest oppressive tool. With CBDCs in place and no physical cash in existence, your savings will never be truly yours and you’ll never be able to hold your purchasing power in your hands. The means of exchange would be bottle-necked by the banks, and governments would have the option to freeze your ability to transact. If one day you get angry about a particular government policy and openly call the system corrupt on social media, they can simply shut off your option to transfer your digital money to others until you submit, or die.CBDCs give establishment officials the leverage to starve their political opponents with algorithmic precision. It would be a new world of technocratic oppression.It’s important to understand that central bankers are moving at breakneck speed to develop and introduce digital currencies. It’s not a matter of experimentation, they already have these systems ready to implement. The Federal Reserve’s instant transfer program “FedNow” is set to debut this July, which is not a CBDC but it is an intermediary step towards instituting CBDCs in the near term.In my investigations of various CBDC programs and how quickly they are progressing I came across an interesting program called “Project Icebreaker” being run by the Bank for International Settlements (BIS). For those not aware, the BIS is a globalist institution with a clandestine past known as the “central bank of central banks.” It is the policy making hub for most of the central banks in the world. If you ever wondered how it was possible for so many national central banks to operate in tandem with each other instead of acting in the interests of the countries they reside in, the BIS is the answer. In other words, organizations like the Federal Reserve are not necessarily loyal to Americans or to American officials, they are loyal to the dictates of the BIS.The BIS is at the forefront of the movement towards the adoption of CBDCs. They have been funding a vast array of projects to test and refine CBDC technology and as of this year they estimate that at least 81 central banks around the world are in the midst of introducing digital currency systems.Project Icebreaker in particular grabbed my attention for a number of reasons. The BIS describes the project as a foreign exchange clearing house for Retail CBDCs (retail CBDCs are digital currencies used by the regular public and businesses), enabling the currencies to be traded from country to country quickly and efficiently. This is accomplished using the “Icebreaker Hub”, a BIS controlled mechanism which facilitates data transfers for an array of transactions while connecting banks to other banks.Investigating further I realized that the Icebreaker Hub in theory functions almost exactly like the SWIFT payment system used currently by governments and international banks. More than 10,000 financial institutions in 212 different countries use the SWIFT network to transfer funds overseas for their clients; it is an incredible centralization bottleneck that gives its shareholders considerable power.As a point of reference, after the start of the war between Ukraine and Russia, the expulsion of Russia from the SWIFT network was used as a weapon in an attempt to crash the Russian economy. Russia has found ways around using SWIFT because of their trade relationships with major economies like China and India, but some damage has still been done to their financial structure.Consider this, however – What if all monetary transactions were centralized through CBDCs and the BIS controlled the hub in which all retail CBDCs are exchanged globally? This is what Icebreaker is.Now imagine that you operate a business that relies on overseas transactions; say you need to pay manufacturers in Vietnam or Taiwan to produce your products. With CBDCs in place you will most likely be completely dependent on a system similar to the Icebreaker Hub to move than digital money to Vietnamese banks and into the accounts of your manufacturers. Say officials at the BIS, for whatever reason, decide they don’t like you and they initiate Russian-style sanctions denying your access to the hub. Your business is now dead.What if you had to meet certain standards in order to be allowed use of the hub, and the BIS dictates the standards? What if the BIS decides that your company needs to meet woke ESG related categories before you can get permission for Icebreaker transactions? Now the BIS has the ability to manipulate social and cultural trends using your business and millions of other businesses as forced messengers.For the average consumer that does most of their transactions within their home country this might not sound like a big deal. But, for the business world, a SWIFT-like hub for retail CBDCs could be used to dominate all international trade. Running any kind of larger organization or company would mean bowing to the whims of the BIS.It gets worse, though…Part of the process of the “spoke and wheel” exchange method used by the Icebreaker Hub includes the exploitation of a “bridge currency” to fill gaps in exchange rates and liquidity. On the surface this seems like a clever way to speed up transactions by avoiding cross-currency shortages at banks. That said, I want readers to think about the long term path that this kind of “bridging” sets in motion in the realm of CBDCs.Let’s say there is a global scale economic crisis event which causes many currencies to fluctuate wildly. Lets say, for example, that the US dollar loses its world reserve status and petro-status and this sends FX (foreign exchange) markets into a panic. Price inflation becomes rampant and banking institutions falter under liquidity pressures. Lets say that central bankers introduce CBDCs as a solution to the problem, and the BIS Icebreaker Hub as the intermediary for international trade. The populace is so frightened by the economic crash that they then embrace the digital framework. Now let’s say that the BIS claims they still can’t find a currency they consider stable enough to act as a means to bridge most global transactions. What happens then?Well, “luckily” for all of us the BIS and IMF have been working on their own GLOBAL CBDC. In the case of the IMF, this one-world currency would be based around the Special Drawing Rights basket system they have been using for decades to broker currency transfers between national governments. The BIS then uses this one world currency product as the bridge for Ice Breaker going forward.Eventually the BIS, IMF and various central banks will ask the public the

The war against the faith has been ongoing for many years. There was a time not too long ago when Democrat lawmakers would embrace faith and allow for faith-driven policies. That may be hard to imagine in today's world, but even Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton originally ran in 2008 against gay marriage. Oh, how times have changed.Washington Governor Jay Inslee is a stereotypical leftist Democrat. Some might even say we can look at him as the standard for the modern Democrat Party — radically woke, militantly anti-freedom, and devoid of any public attachments to reality. That's why his Tweets about Ramadan and Easter are so different. They give us a clear view into the collective mentality of today's Democrats.Here's what he said about Ramadan:In observation of Ramadan, we extend our warmest wishes to our Muslim friends and neighbors. May your fasting and prayers bring peace, happiness, and prosperity. Ramadan Mubarak! #Ramadan #RamadanMubarak #RamadanKareemhttps://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1638586953896710147It's a respectful post that highlights his reverence and appreciation. He mentioned specific aspects of the Muslim holiday, demonstrating that this wasn't just a passing, "Happy Ramadan" Tweet.Now, compare to how he noted Passover:To all those gathering around a Seder table this evening, Trudi and I wish you a happy Passover. Chag Sameach!https://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1643764638318747648This was far less involved and far more generic. Clearly, he holds the Jewish holiday in lower regard than its Muslim counterpart. At least he mentioned Seder.Now, compare to what he said about Easter:Hopping into Easter Sunday with joy and laughter - Trudi and I wish everyone a hoppy and egg-citing Easter! 🐰🥚🌷 #HappyEasterhttps://twitter.com/GovInslee/status/1645091448268750849He is mocking us. He didn't mention anything about the actual holy day. Instead, he made a conspicuous and clumsy attempt to make this a rabbit holiday.To anyone who might think the disparity is unintentional, let me state this with absolute clarity. All three Tweets were meticulously crafted to send the exact message Democrats want portrayed. They desperately want to downplay Christianity and to a lesser extent Judaism while bowing to Islam and steering everyone into their true religions of Climate Change Hysteria and the LBGTQIA+ Supremacy Cult.The war against the faith is accelerating. This is our one and only warning. Within years — not decades — Christianity will be all but outlawed in the United States if Democrats have their way. I am not being an alarmist. This is the path they are on and they won't stop themselves.This isn't new. As mentioned before, Barack Obama used to be mild about abortions, allegedly against gay marriage, and at least pretending to be Christian. Today, he demands as many abortions and gay marriages as possible while ramping up direct attacks against the Bible.Even Inslee demonstrated pro-Muslim tendencies before. As Todd Hermann noted on Twitter, Inslee's 2021 Ramadan Tweet even had a revering video:https://twitter.com/toddeherman/status/1645266188782694400Nearly everything Democrats are doing against freedom, conservatism, patriotism, and sovereignty in the United States ties directly to their war against the faith. Until more people acknowledge this, we will not be able to mount a proper counter-offensive. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

The recent surge in "After School Satan Clubs" popping up in public school districts across the country has sparked outrage among conservative and Christian parents. As a result, corporate media is doing whatever it can to make the demonic indoctrination groups seem harmless and even beneficial.An article over at KOIN, Portland's CBS affiliate, positioned the actions of The Satanic Temple in the most positive light imaginable. I discussed this for an upcoming episode of The JD Rucker Show.According to the news outlet, there's nothing to worry about because The Satanic Temple isn't really about Satan. It's just an advocacy group:First, some background: The club is a project of The Satanic Temple (TST), which, despite its name, doesn’t worship the Biblical figure — or even believe Satan exists. Instead, TST says Satan is a literary figure representing “rejecting tyranny over the human mind and spirit.”The organization operates as more of an advocacy group, saying it aims to “encourage empathy, reject tyrannical authority,” in addition to promoting “common sense” and “opposing injustice.” The group has made many court challenges to (often conservative) laws that may only protect or promote Christianity, as The Hill reports.They really think we're stupid. At least they hope we are. This corporate media outlet and the Temple itself want us to believe they picked Satan to be their mascot because he was the best representation of "rejecting tyranny." The statement itself is insane because the tyranny they're referring to is the sovereignty of God.It's like opening up a restaurant called "The Chicken Place," but when you go in they say they don't actually serve chicken. They serve "flightless foul" because they don't actually believe that chickens exist but since chickens represent scrumptious protein, they named their restaurant after the fictional birds.But they're not just trying to normalize The Satanic Temple. More importantly, they're trying to normalize the "After School Satan Clubs" administered by the Temple. And while they claim this is not a religious organization, they are doing this in response to OTHER religious organizations. According to the article:According to TST, After School Satan Club chapters are opened at public schools in response to other religious groups opening or operating clubs at schools. (The Chesapeake club was opened after an Evangelical Good News Club began operating at B.M. Williams.) The organization says After School Satan Clubs “provide a safe and inclusive alternative” to Christian-based groups that may seek to “convert school children to their belief system.”TST says its After School Satan Clubs encourage critical thinking, rationalism, creative artistry and science. Children ages 5-12 are allowed to attend with parental permission, the Temple says.“Proselytization is not our goal, and we’re not interested in converting children to Satanism,” writes TST. “We prefer to give children an appreciation of the natural wonders surrounding them, not a fear of everlasting other-worldly horrors.”They want our kids to appreciate nature but to disregard eternal damnation in Hell. Unfortunately, this makes sense to far too many people. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

It's important to know something up front. I have NOT been a "Chicken Little" who was screaming about economic collapse for years. I didn't panic for Y2K. I didn't panic during the economic downturn of 2008-2009. I didn't freak out over Obamacare, at least not from an economic perspective. I believed that we could recover from the 2020 lockdowns. But by mid-2021 I finally started getting truly concerned and throughout 2022 I've been monitoring the nation's economy very closely.Now, I'm ringing the alarm bells because the threat of full-blown global economic collapse is real as we go into 2023.On today's episode of The JD Rucker Show, I covered several stories that highlight the dangerous trends we're seeing. Unfortunately, the Biden-Harris regime seems bent on making things even worse and the new Republican majority in the House doesn't seem willing or able to do much to stop it.One of the prevailing stories giving people hope for the past couple of months is better-than-expected stock performance. Is this a sign that the tide is turning? According to Bloomberg and Zero Hedge, no. It's just a sign that markets expected good things to happen. Since they haven't, we shouldn't anticipate a stock market that continues to overperform:Two Great Months for US Stocks Promise Too Much for Own GoodThe markets have been front-running the idea of a Fed pivot for some time now. While that is far-fetched, one must still admit that a Fed pause after its funds rate reaches circa 5%-5.25% is very much on the cards. While pretty much everyone in the markets is primed for the idea of a US recession, November’s non-farm payroll numbers (and perhaps even more importantly, the hourly earnings rising at twice the forecast pace) suggest that this inflationary episode may be around longer than realized.And that is a worse denouement than any stock investor would wish. Not only do you have a scenario where inflation is corroding the nominal coupon on stocks, but you also have to factor in a slowing economy where presumably there is also a drag on earnings. A scenario that weighs on both the numerator and denominator (a high interest-rate recession) is hardly a prescription for a stellar rally month after month.At current levels, the S&P 500 offers an estimated earnings yield of around 5.40% and the Nasdaq 100 around 4.32%, hardly anything to write home about in an environment where you can invest in two-year Treasuries that offer 4.27%.Yes, there may be something to be said for being a part of that smart-money brigade that has made a grand return of 20%+ within a quarter and fleeing to where the honey is next, but that is predicated more on getting the timing right -- an iffy proposition even with the most seasoned investors. For every one idea that works out as per plan, the nine that follow come a cropper. [read more]Costco Reports Large-Scale Shortages as Essential Items Are Impossible to Find at StoresOn the second segment of today's show, I turned to the "Epic Economist" to deliver a dose of reality about Costco. It's a financial indicator some use to see what's really happening with the supply chain and the retain market. Here's a transcript followed by the individual video I played during today's show:The pantry of most American families today is probably looking a lot different than it was just a few months ago when grocery prices were lower and we still could find the majority of the products we usually rely on in our day-to-day lives. But now, shoppers are increasingly noticing the ongoing shortages at their favorite stores. With supply chain problems still impacting the production and delivery of goods, and mass migrations of employees searching for better wages resulting in labor shortages in the food sector, many of our favorite staple items are becoming harder to find. And that’s especially true at Costco.In fact, new reports reveal that Costco warehouses are facing many different shortages, and dozens of products are about to be discontinued. Costco customers are getting more and more frustrated as they see essential items disappearing from the store’s shelves and start facing purchase limits once again. Today, we decided to track some of the most severe product stockouts and also expose which items may disappear next.In recent months, American shoppers have been repeatedly reporting missing grocery items at their local Costco warehouse. But things seem to have taken a turn for the worse in October when several food products that were supposed to enter our food supply chains never arrived. We had a year of historical crop losses due to extreme weather conditions. The worst drought ever seen in this century resulted in some of the weakest harvest seasons in nearly five decades.The scorching temperatures also led our beef cow herd to rapidly shrink, as farmers sent their animals to slaughter earlier than they typically do to prevent them from dying of thirst and starvation amid dwindling supplies of water and cow feed. You also probably heard about the avian flu epidemic, which is not only leading to shortages of chicken but also pushing poultry and egg prices to skyrocket The result of all of these losses is now being seen at the stores in the form of empty shelves.Even major grocers like Costco are struggling to keep shelves fully stocked and announcing that in the coming months, many items will be discontinued. That’s why we decided to analyze data provided by Eat This, Not That, a leading news outlet in food, nutrition, and health, to track which are the most persistent grocery shortages at the retailer’s locations and what items are about to go out of stock.The company just announced that dozens of products are being discontinued over the next few months. This means that your favorite treats may disappear from the store and not come back. A new report exposed that you may have to say goodbye to a wide range of treats that the retailer decided it will no longer sell. Knowing that some of your favorite items are going to be discontinued is one of the most disappointing experiences as a grocery shopper.At the same time, it looks like purchasing limits are back with a vengeance. When searching the warehouse's website for "limit", we found dozens of items, ranging from active dry yeast at five per member, to almond flour at one per member, to acetaminophen at one per member, several types of wild canned tuna at one per member, mac and cheese at 10 per member, to soy milk at two per member, and many more. Retailers haven’t been able to catch a breath these days. The environment for most businesses remains tough, and as this downturn accelerates, they will continue to see their bottom lines getting hurt, and the same will be true for our personal finances.Could 65 Trillion Dollars in “Hidden” Derivatives Cause the Entire Global Financial System to Crash?If you thought that the collapse of FTX was something, just wait until the entire global financial system comes crashing down all around us.  Most people just assume that the system is being managed by rational people that behave in rational ways, but of course countless investors assumed the same things about FTX.  Sadly, the global financial system has slowly but surely been transformed into the largest casino in the history of the world.  It is a colossal Ponzi scheme, and once in a while authorities give us a little peek into what is really going on behind the curtain.For example, this week the Bank for International Settlements released a report that warned that 65 trillion dollars in “hidden” currency derivatives could potentially be a major threat to the stability of the entire system…There’s a hidden risk to the global financial system embedded in the $65 trillion of dollar debt being held by non-US institutions via currency derivatives, according to the Bank for International Settlements.In a paper with the title “huge, missing and growing,” the BIS said a lack of information is making it harder for policy makers to anticipate the next financial crisis. In particular, they raised concern with the fact that the debt is going unrecorded on balance sheets because of accounting conventions on how to track derivative positions.Last year, the total value of all goods and services produced in the entire world was just 96 trillion dollars.So we are talking about an amount of money that is almost unimaginable. [read more]The Bubble Economy's Credit-Asset Death SpiralUnderstanding why those in the financial industry aren't ringing the alarm bell takes one simple revelation. Even as economies begin collapsing, THEY'RE still making plenty of money. The messes that are being made are mostly affecting the middle class. Even those with modest wealth are feeling the crunch. But the real money players are benefitting greatly. We discussed this a bit on the episode with an article by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds via Lew Rockwell:Who believed that central banks’ financial perpetual motion machine was anything more than trickery designed to generate phantom wealth? Central banks seem to have perfected the ideal financial perpetual motion machine: as credit expands, money pours into risk assets, which shoot higher under the pressure of expanding demand for assets that yield either hefty returns (junk bonds) or hefty capital gains as the soaring assets suck in more capital chasing returns.As assets soar in value, they serve as collateral for more credit. Higher valuations = more collateral to borrow against. This open spigot of additional credit sluices capital right back into the assets that are climbing in value, pushing them higher–which then creates even more collateral to support even more credit.This self-reinforcing feedback of expanding credit feeding expanding valuations feeding expanding collateral which then feeds expanding credit has no apparent end. Modest houses once worth $100,000 are now worth $1,000,000, and nobody’s complaining except those priced out of the inf

Editor's Commentary: A reader on one of my Substacks asked a question that I haven't really thought about answering until now: "...when to get out of the traditional market for those still clinging to the idea that the market will normalize." I'm often guilty of assuming everyone's seeing things that I believe are crystal clear. In this case, it's as close to 100% as possible that there will NOT be a normalization of the markets anytime in the near future. And by near future, I believe it would take an act of God to reverse the course of western economies, including ours, before we reach a sustained and deep recession, possibly even a depression.Possibly even a full-blown economic collapse.The reason this is so clear to me is because I see the actions of leaders across the globe, including the Biden-Harris regime, and realize they are NOT going to do anything to prevent the collapse from happening. They WANT it to happen. Only when the system is irreversibly broken can the globalist elite cabal achieve The Great Reset.Some point to the midterm elections as a way to reverse course. At best, a red wave will slow the bleeding. Even if they take both the House and Senate, they will not be able to pass meaningful economic legislation that doesn't get vetoed by Joe Biden. They can prevent new legislation similar to the Inflation Reduction Act from getting through, but that's about it. And unfortunately the feckless Republican Establishment will still be in control with Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy calling the shots, so anyone looking to a post-election economic surge is missing the point.This is why I'm so bullish about moving investments, wealth, and retirement to precious metals. Those who are familiar with my past work know that I was never big on gold and silver until about a little over a year ago. In the past, I had panned gold and silver because I believed the Trump economy would remain strong, rebounding well after Pandemic Panic Theater ended. I did not expect Biden to "win," nor did I realize just how rapidly his regime would act to destroy the economy. I'm late to the precious metals game, but I'm trying to make up for it by recommending three America First precious metals companies.The vast majority of companies that sell gold and silver are either donating to Democrats, working with proxies of the Chinese Communist Party, or both. This is why I only found three out of the two dozen that I vetted that I can recommend because they're ideologically aligned. As fate would have it, they come in three sizes. Our Gold Guy is a small, family-owned precious metals shop that offers personal service. Genesis Gold Group is mid-sized and is the first one I found that focuses on Christian fellowship. Goldco is the big one.On today's episode of The JD Rucker Show, I dove into what to expect with the election. But the portion pertinent to the economy was the final segment, which you can see here if you don't want to watch the whole show. I referenced the article below by Michael Snyder over at The Economic Collapse Blog...Things haven’t looked this bad for the U.S. economy since 2008.  We are in the midst of the worst inflation crisis in decades, the housing market has started to collapse, some of the largest companies in America have begun laying off workers, and economic activity is slowing down all around us.  Of course Joe Biden is telling us that our economy is “strong as hell”, but that is just because he wants his party to do well in the upcoming elections.  Ultimately, anyone that takes a truly objective view of things is forced to admit that the outlook for the months ahead is incredibly bleak.  The following are 12 reasons why it is impossible for any rational person to be optimistic about the U.S. economy at this point…#1 According to a recent Gallup survey, two-thirds of Americans believe that economic conditions are getting worse.  When such a large proportion of the population starts behaving as though an economic downturn is coming, that actually makes an economic downturn even more likely.  So many Americans are starting to hold on to their money more tightly, and that is having lots of ripple effects.#2 The second largest auto lender in the United States just announced that it “saw charge-offs for retail auto loans quadruple in the third quarter”.  We are also seeing credit card delinquencies start to rise.  We certainly aren’t at 2008 levels yet, but we are moving in that direction.#3 Cargo traffic at the Port of Los Angeles just declined to the lowest level that we have seen since the early days of the pandemic.  As I noted earlier, economic activity is beginning to slow down all over the nation.  One recent survey discovered that 98 percent of corporate CEOs believe that a recession is coming, and those CEOs are behaving accordingly.#4 Major retailers such as Walmart and Target have been canceling billions of dollars in orders as they seek to cut back inventory levels.  In all my years, I have never seen our largest retailers cancel so many orders just prior to the holiday season.  Are they expecting the next couple of months to be a total bust?#5 Existing home sales just fell to a 10 year low.  We all knew that the housing market was going to implode once the Federal Reserve started to aggressively raise interest rates, but at this point that implosion is happening faster than most of the experts had anticipated.#6 U.S. homebuilder sentiment has declined for 10 months in a row.  That is a brand new record.  I really feel sorry for you if you are a homebuilder or if you work for one.  The months ahead are not going to be pleasant for you.#7 60,000 real estate deals were called off in the month of September alone.  I was stunned when I first saw that number.  All over the country buyers are realizing that they agreed to pay too much and are feverishly trying to back out of deals while they still can.#8 Mortgage demand has plunged to the lowest level in 25 years.  Things never even got this bad during the downturn of 2008 and 2009.  To me, this is a really troubling sign.#9 Ian Sheperdson, the chief economist at Pantheon Macroeconomics, is projecting that home prices could fall 20 percent over the next year.  Hopefully that will not happen, but there is also a possibility that they could fall even further than that.  We will just have to wait and see how rapidly this new crisis plays out.#10 U.S. diesel inventories have fallen to the lowest level since 2008.  This is something that we will want to watch very carefully, because the U.S. economy runs on diesel.#11 The core consumer price index has just surged to “the highest level since 1982”.  Even though the Federal Reserve has been on an insane rate hiking spree, our inflation crisis continues to rage out of control.  And as prices continue to soar, our standard of living is being absolutely eviscerated.#12 A model created by Bloomberg economists Anna Wong and Eliza Winger indicates that there is a 100 percent chance of a recession within the next 12 months.  Of course it is entirely possible that their model could be wrong.  But without a doubt this is not a good sign.Right now, even some of our society’s most relentless optimists are warning that tough economic times are ahead.For instance, in a post on Twitter Elon Musk just suggested that we could be suffering through a recession until the spring of 2024…If Elon Musk is any type of financial prognosticator, the market and economy could be in trouble for more than a year to come.When prompted in a Twitter thread early on Friday morning, the Tesla CEO said that he thought the current recession would last “probably until spring of ’24”.Because he is such an optimist, Musk believes that economic conditions will turn around eventually.But what if they don’t?What if the “perfect storm” that we are currently enduring ultimately results in the collapse of everything?Are you prepared for such a scenario?Previous generations of Americans handed us the keys to the most prosperous economy that the world has ever seen.But instead of managing it carefully, we have piled up the biggest mountain of debt in the history of the planet, we have transformed Wall Street into the globe’s largest casino, and we have systematically destroyed the reserve currency of the world.Thanks to a very long series of incredibly foolish decisions by our leaders, we are now facing a war with Russia, a collapse of the housing market, a global food crisis, a global inflation crisis and a worldwide financial meltdown simultaneously.The entire system is starting to crumble all around us, but most people still believe that things will “return to normal” at some point.Personally, I would love to see things “return to normal”, but unfortunately it appears that is not likely to happen any time soon.***It is finally here! 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One of the keys to discernment is to question everything. And by everything, I mean we shouldn't just question what happens but why it happens in the first place. Those of us who know there is a cabal of globalist elites and their numerous proxies who are trying to destroy America and take over the world are often the ones who need discernment the most. We're good at getting on the right track but we can be easily made to miss the real point.Such is the case of Konnech, the tiny election logistics company out of Michigan. Their CEO, Eugene Yu, was arrested Tuesday for storing sensitive personal data of around two million election workers on servers housed in China. This was, of course, big news because it partially confirms what many have been saying for a long time. More on those details later, but I want to talk about the wrinkle in the story first.Just a day before the arrest, the NY Times posted an article attempting to debunk claims that Konnech and their CEO were storing confidential data in China. Conservative media pounced on the story, as we are wont to do, because it was a total embarrassment for the leftist news outlet. It's standard operating procedure for conservative journalists to "own the leftists" whenever they make such embarrassing mistakes. Conservatives on social media were virtually chuckling, offering each other high five emojis.In reality, we were conned once again.I'm discussing all of this on today's episode of The JD Rucker Show. Here's what really went down. The arrest was made on orders of LA District Attorney George Gascon, an embattled disciple of George Soros. While nearly every conservative and alternative media outlet out there howled in delight that not only was a massive voter fraud conspiracy theory partially confirmed, but that the NY Times owned itself by publishing a "debunking" story the day before. "What a crazy, awesome, inexplicable turn of events," one conservative journalist noted in her article on the subject.As I noted in the beginning, conservatives in media desperately need discernment. The powers-that-be know how to manipulate us. They can practically write our headlines for us through their selective leaks and perfect coordination between corporate media, the Deep State, and other proxies of the globalist elite cabal. The timing of the NY Times story was not fortuitous. It does not benefit conservatives or America one bit. It served two very important purposes. And yes, it was dropped exactly when it was supposed to be dropped and said exactly what it was supposed to say based on orders from the Cabal.The first purpose was to get ahead of the arrest that the NY Times knew was coming. We have to remember how the vast majority of Americans, even many conservatives, operate. Once a piece of "news" is relayed into their minds, it's hard to convince them of anything other than the original narrative. The notion that Konnech and their CEO were involved in a massive voter fraud scheme by working with the Chinese Communist Party was declared a "conspiracy theory."If recent history has taught us anything, it's that this huge story about potential election manipulation will be swept under the rug by corporate media. But it's worse than just corporate media ignoring it. The NY Times story planted the seed that not only is Konnech's involvement just a conspiracy theory, but that "election deniers" like True the Vote are somehow dangerous. That's going to be the takeaway from many who even hear about the story at all. Unfortunately, not many Americans will.The second purpose is more important. Like I said, conservatives in media are easy to manipulate. This is a perfect example of the Cabal switching the focus of those of us who are trying to pay attention. Go to your favorite conservative news outlet and search for Konnech. You'll probably find two stories. One will be about the arrest. The other will be about the NY Times and their "humiliating" story the day before. Both stories are important to conservatives because one deals with voter fraud and other deals with corporate media. But just because they're both important to us doesn't mean they're both important in the grand scheme of things.Konnech stored personal data for the most important people during any election: Poll workers. We've seen how much power they can have in close elections. We all saw videos from the 2020 election when poll workers were counting, double-counting, and triple-counting ballots. We saw videos of them bringing out boxes hidden under tables after media was told to leave. Controlling those who are counting the vote is the easiest path to stealing an election, and these people had their personal data housed by a company affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party.That's the story. Unfortunately, around half of the conservatives who would have learned more about it are busy with their high five emojis because of the ludicrous and "embarrassing" article in the NY Times the day before. We are being distracted from a big story with a completely irrelevant one. For many if not most conservative readers, the "fun" story about the NY Times is getting shared more than the bombshell arrest that happened.It's not a coincidence that the story came out the day before the arrest. Keep in mind, this story wasn't breaking. The events the NY Times highlighted happened in August. Yet there will be those who tell me I sound crazy when I say it was coordinated. To those people, I'll remind them to look at the facts. A story hit mockingbird media the day before a Soros-backed District Attorney arrested a CEO of a company that is accused of housing personal poll worker data in Communist China. As a result, more attention is being paid to the NY Times than to the company that appears to be at the heart of the voter fraud that stole the 2020 election.Sure, that's all just a coincidence.We desperately need more discernment in conservative, alternative, and Christian media, which is why we are launching Discern.tv. If you would like to help us, please consider a generous donation at GiveSendGo. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

Look around you. Something very wrong is happening to our nation. It's as if most Americans are lost and the people who are supposed to be helping them find their way are leading us toward oblivion. It's not just government. It's media. It's Big Tech. It's doctors. It's clergy. The vast majority of political, cultural, and spiritual leaders in this nation are either oblivious to the real challenges we're facing or they're willfully conspiring to bring our nation down.There are plenty of excuses we can make and villains at which we can point our fingers. We can blame Covid. We can blame Democrats. We can blame globalists, climate change fearmongers, or groomers. We can blame China or Russia. We can blame bad policies, stolen elections, or tough luck. But at the end of the day this is OUR nation and WE must take responsibility for the disastrous direction we are be heading.My name is JD Rucker, and I'm done with simply pointing fingers.I am a Christian. I'm a husband and a dad. I'm an America First patriot born abroad who came to this nation legally. I've always voted for Republicans, but there are more members of the GOP that I wouldn't support today than those that I would. The Republican Establishment is a big part of the problem.I'm a journalist, though I'm reluctant to admit that considering how corporate media has tarnished the profession. I became a journalist to help bring the truth to light, but I've found that I am the exception to the rule in today's corrupted and oftentimes radical media landscape. Everyone with a newsroom and corporate money backing them is propagandizing the agenda du jour that their puppet-masters instruct them to regurgitate.We need better and we need it now. We need to expect more from the supposed "good guys" in media, the ones who are patriotic, the ones who love this nation. We need to expect more from Christian media as well. It seems many have either gone "woke" or they're no longer willing to speak the Biblical truth for fear of being canceled.This nation and this planet face more existential threats than we've ever faced. Even during World War II when 80 million people died, there was hope that if the enemy could be defeated, then normalcy could return. Today, we're having a hard time identifying exactly who the enemy is and we do not have a clear picture of the plans they have for the world. We have ideas. We can look at Klaus Schwab, Barack Obama, George Soros, Bill Gates, and others who seem bent on depopulation and seizing complete control over those who remain. At this stage, I'm not even sure if the known powers-that-be are really at the top of the food chain of evil. Are they answering directly to Satan? Are there principalities and powers who are managing them? We do not know for certain, though we have a pretty good idea that the forces behind The Great Reset and other machinations are demonic in nature.Some will tell me that I go too far with my accusations, but I often think I don't go far enough. Evil must be called out for what it is. Do I believe those grooming children to enter the LGBTQIA+ lifestyle are just misguided, or do I think they're evil? Anyone who has read or heard my feelings on the topic before knows that I consider it to be driven by pure evil. These groomers want to separate people from their connection with God and hitting them at as early of an age as possible is the path of least resistance. If they can convince a young boy that he's actually just a girl in a male body, they can convince that young boy that God either made a mistake when He created him, or there is no God at all. That's the ultimate goal of those driving the LBGTQIA+ supremacy agenda. So, no, I do not think they are simply misguided. I believe they are driven by evil whether they realize it or not.That's just one example. We can look at the Covid agenda, the stolen 2020 election, climate change hysteria, the massive invasion at our southern border, manufactured food shortages, attacks on energy infrastructure, the intentional decimation of our economy, or any of a dozen other grotesque threats to western society and realize that evil abounds. Perhaps it always has and we just weren't paying enough attention. Or, perhaps they're ramping things up for a culmination that may or may not be Biblical in nature.Saying such things in today's media landscape is anathema. This is why even conservative and Christian media often go soft on such topics. They oppose them in safe ways as they attempt to paint the threats within the guidelines set forth by Google, Facebook, fact-checkers, and their corporate sponsors, but they do not call evil for what it is. They dance around the core problem like it's a landmine that will blow their careers to smithereens if they get too close to the truth.The greatest weapon being wielded by radical leftists today is not their control over the White House and Congress. It's not their control over corporate media or Big Tech. It's not even their ability to break their own rules without risking being called out by anyone. No, their greatest weapon is invoking the nebulous phrase "hate speech" against anyone they disagree with them and any argument that opposes their ideology.This is why we're building Discern.tv and a network of media properties that can, Lord willing, be resistant if not immune to the evils of cancel culture, censorship, and restrictions that permeate the current media landscape. We will not have a Facebook page or a YouTube channel. What's the point when the content we publish will be instantly removed and our accounts will be quickly banned? We will not run Google ads, buy traffic through Big Tech platforms, or have apps on Apple or Android. This is important because keeping our network off of the various censorship platforms will give us the freedom to speak the truth without framing it in the guidelines set forth by radical progressives in Big Tech.The best-kept secret in conservative and Christian media is that most are beholden in multiple ways to the very people who hate patriots and American freedoms. Google ads are by far the most lucrative but they will not allow their ads on sites that speak the truth about important topics. Facebook is by far the best traffic-driver for most media sites but they will censor news outlets who post "misinformation" like the vaccines are neither safe nor effective or the 2020 election was rigged. Android and Apple won't allow apps that do not self-censor; even mentioning the words "groomer" or "climate change hoax" can get a popular app suspended or removed from the app stores.If you've ever wondered why top players in conservative and Christian media seem milquetoast on certain topics, this is it. They can't risk getting booted from Google, Apple, or Facebook teats.The Discern Media Network will operate without being beholden to those who hate us. We already know they'll come after us and we're doing everything we can to build the network with no connections that are likely to be censored or cancelled. The powers-that-be are trying to keep the truth from coming to light on multiple fronts. This is why I am doing my fundraising for the project on GiveSendGo. We wouldn't last a week on GoFundMe, Patreon, or any of the other woke crowdfunding platforms.There's a quote that is often misattributed to George Orwell, likely because it sounds like something he would have said. "In times of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." We are there. This is a time of universal deceit.We cannot abide by the plans of politicians to help with society's recovery when they are the ones who created the very problems we're facing.We cannot tune in to the self-appointed arbiters of truth in corporate media because their reports are tilted toward the agenda they've been instructed to promote.We cannot trust doctors who tell us the so-called "vaccines" are safe and effective when all the evidence says they're neither.We cannot let our children be taught by teachers or professors who believe everything must be learned through the lens of social justice.We cannot listen to clergy who are reticent to preach about the many parts of the Bible that aren't woke enough for modern progressive sensibilities.And unfortunately, we cannot keep getting our news from conservative or Christian media companies who bow to Google, Facebook, Apple, fact-checkers, and their other overlords in Big Tech and corporate media.Lies are everywhere, which means liars are everywhere. So when I say we are in a time of universal deceit, that is not hyperbole. And when I say that telling the truth is a revolutionary act, it's because the only way for the truth to come to light is through bold actions that would put us at risk of cancellation. Nobody ever said a revolution would be easy.To those of you listening who are Bible-believing Christians, I know you're probably seeing what I'm seeing. While the world devolves into chaos and embraces the evil that is being presented to us, many in the church as well as those in Christian media are playing it safe. They're doing everything they can to not make people upset at a time when we need to get in people's faces if necessary. While the noise of the world gets louder, those who are supposed to be sharing the Gospel are letting their voices get softer and softer.Today, we need one thing more than anything else. We need discernment. The enemies we see aren't necessarily the enemies we really fight. The events that are taking place across the street and around the globe are all leading toward a culminating event. Whether that's implementation of The Great Reset or something even worse, we cannot know for sure. Not yet. We do, however, know that we must fight it with everything we've got.I am not a politician. I am not a pastor. I am not the leader of the revolution that we need in order to fight back against the pervasive evil of this world. But I am a journalist, so it's no surprise th

Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman isn't really running for U.S. Senate. He's on the ballot. He's doing some campaign stops. He's dodging a debate against Dr. Mehmet Oz. But he's just a placeholder. The real candidate that nobody outside of the powerbrokers in the Democrat Party know about is his radical leftist wife, Gisele Barreto Fetterman.The official candidate has been making the news lately with his odd behavior. Just before the primary election, he suffered a stroke and was away from the public eye for over a month. But now that he's back on the campaign trail, a whole lot of people have a whole lot of questions. He was even featured on Tucker Carlson's recent show, and more specifically, the odd lump on the back of his neck was featured.Democrats are doing everything they can to keep him out of the spotlight. It's the Joe Biden campaign technique — stick him in the basement and hope his proxies and advocates can con enough people to make the race close so they can cheat their way to victory. This is Pennsylvania, after all, where it takes a couple of weeks to manufacture the votes Democrats need to win, as they demonstrated during the 2020 election.But John Fetterman is just a placeholder. The real person they intend to make Senator is his wife. Gisele Barreto Fetterman is the ultimate representation of the worst parts of the Democrat Party. She came into this nation as an illegal alien, a "Dreamer" before such a term was coined by the Obama regime. She got her green card, became a citizen, and married John Fetterman.Since then, her entire career has been built around woke activism and race-targeted philanthropy. She has built a resume that people like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez or Ilhan Omar could only dream of having. According to the candidate's website:Gisele has devoted her life to helping others, with a focus on nutrition, food equity and meeting Pennsylvanians’ basic needs. With just an empty shipping container and an open lot, Gisele opened the Free Store, distributing household goods, baby items and bicycles to those in need. In addition, she co-founded 412 Food Rescue, which sends volunteers to retailers who have surplus food that risks going bad and delivers it to nonprofits that serve the hungry. Gisele also co-founded the nonprofit For Good PGH which drives numerous initiatives on inclusion including “Hello Hijab,” which produces miniature hijabs for dolls, promoting tolerance and diversity. Most recently Gisele founded The Hollander Project, a business incubator for female entrepreneurs.If the Democrats are able to win in Pennsylvania, they will likely win both the Senate seat and the governorship. They need to win both for their plan to work. If John Fetterman wins, he will quickly resign due to health reasons. If Josh Shapiro defeats Doug Mastriano in the gubernatorial race, it will be on Shapiro to pick Fetterman's replacement and I'll tell you with 90% certainty that pick will be Fetterman's Neo-Marxist wife.I discussed this in some more detail on today's episode of America First Report.If you have the means, please help us to continue to spread the truth with a generous donation or by purchasing a premium subscription. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

Many conservative commentators and show hosts have tackled the TikTok problem over the past couple of years. It's an indoctrination tool used by the radical left to push kids and even young adults into destructive ideologies like LGBTQIA+ supremacy, Critical Race Theory, and general sexual depravity. Some say it's a brainwashing tool, and I believe it is.The world's most popular app by far, TikTok presents short videos in a never-ending stream. Users are greeted with a new video the moment they open the app and they can swipe up endlessly until hours have passed. It's truly addictive and the algorithms are geared toward pushing users more and more to the left. Sometimes, it's incremental. Other times, it's in giant leaps.An imam in Great Britain who I was unable to identify told of the reality of TikTok and how the Chinese algorithm is very much different from the algorithm used in western cultures. Instead of serving kids videos of stupid pranks or scantily clad teens doing provocative dances, they're served videos of people demonstrating their accomplishments. It's still indoctrination and brainwashing, but the Chinese Communist Party makes sure they're indoctrinating their children to grow to be good citizens rather than the losers they're trying to turn our kids into.Watch.On today's episode of America First Report, I broke down what this means and why parents must do everything they can to prevent kids from being exposed to this extremely dangerous app. Unfortunately, we're in a society that embraces groupthink so far too many parents see nothing wrong with TikTok since so many people are using it. In fact, there are many parents who have become addicted to the app themselves. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

For nearly two years, many of us have been trying to spread the truth about the Covid jabs. We were told they are effective. They are not. We were told they are safe. They are not. But anyone who tried to share these truths were hit by cancel culture at the least and deplatformed at worst. We know this personally as we were hit by massive censorship multiple times, including losing a popular YouTube channel that I'd had since 2009.For the last month or so, the restrictions against speaking the truth regarding Covid jabs have been relieved a bit. Big Tech platforms have changed their rules to allow for some claims about the injections they didn't allow last month. Corporate media is even talking about adverse reactions from time to time. The CDC and FDA have made changes to their websites, removing certain claims such as the spike proteins are short-term and are removed from the bloodstream quickly. They aren't.While many of us have been cheering these minor victories, there are two reasons to be very upset and at least a little concerned. First, it's like they closed the stable door after the horse had bolted. Millions, perhaps tens of millions of Americans have been jabbed a varying number of times who definitely would NOT have if there were no mandates or if the truth was allowed to reach them. I'm not one to make excuses for people; the information was out there and nobody was forced to take the shots at gunpoint. People made choices, but it would have been nice if the "normies" were able to see the information we were putting out there.The second concern is far greater. What's next? That's the real question we should be asking because this isn't a good sign. They could continue to gaslight and lie through their teeth about the jabs almost indefinitely. As long as everyone in government, corporate media, Big Tech, and Big Pharma kept echoing the same false narrative, they could have continued to suspend disbelief in the "safe and effective" jabs for at least another couple of years. Why are they suddenly and uniformly creeping the truth out there? Do they have something else planned?I believe they do. On today's episode of America First Report, I explained why I believe they have something new planned for us. I went over the article by Jennifer Marfulis and Joe Wang from our premium news partners at The Epoch Times (below) the represents arguably the most important study to date regarding the jabs. It's important because it's actually being reported. There are other more shocking jab-debunking studies out there, but this one is actually being talked about by corporate media which is a new development.Are they planning on letting the cat out of the bag and admitting the jabs are causing real damage to people? That's possible, especially if they intend to pin it all on Donald Trump and Operation Warp Speed. "We were rushed to get it out before the election," they'll say.It would also be useful for them to do this if they have a way to "repair" the damage with NEW jabs. I know what you're thinking. Who will trust the people who caused the problem to offer a solution that requires more shots? Unfortunately, we'll likely be shocked at how many will rush to get essentially inoculated and "treated" for the original jabs by the same people who did the harm in the first place.Whatever they have planned, remember two things. First, they will only admit the truth if they believe doing so will further their long-term plans. Second, those who have been jabbed or those who are regularly exposed to people who have been jabbed should strongly consider getting ZDtox by my good friend, the late Dr. Vladimir Zelenko. Here's the article from The Epoch Times that I covered on the show...‘Unethical’ and up to 98 Times Worse Than the Disease: Top Scientists Publish Paradigm-Shifting Study About COVID-19 VaccinesA team of nine experts from Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and other top universities has published paradigm-shifting research about the efficacy and safety of the COVID-19 vaccines and why mandating vaccines for college students is unethical.This 50-page study, which was published on The Social Science Research Network at the end of August, analyzed CDC and industry-sponsored data on vaccine adverse events, and concluded that mandates for COVID-19 boosters for young people may cause 18 to 98 actual serious adverse events for each COVID-19 infection-related hospitalization theoretically prevented.The paper is co-authored by Dr. Stefan Baral, an epidemiology professor at Johns Hopkins University; surgeon Martin Adel Makary, M.D., a professor at Johns Hopkins known for his books exposing medical malfeasance, including “Unaccountable: What Hospitals Won’t Tell You and How Transparency Can Revolutionize Heath Care”; and Dr. Vinayak Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist, who is a professor in the UCSF Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, as well as the author of over 350 academic and peer-reviewed articles.But among this team of high-profile international experts who authored this paper, perhaps the most notable is Salmaan Keshavjee, M.D., Ph.D., current Director of the Harvard Medical School Center for Global Health Delivery, and professor of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. Keshavjee has also worked extensively with Partners In Health, a Boston-based non-profit co-founded by the late Dr. Paul Farmer, on treating drug-resistant tuberculosis, according to his online biography.Risking DisenrollmentAs the study pointed out, students at universities in America, Canada, and Mexico are being told they must have a third dose of the vaccines against COVID-19 or be disenrolled. Unvaccinated high school students who are just starting college are also being told the COVID-19 vaccines are “mandatory” for attendance.These mandates are widespread. There are currently 15 states which continue to honor philosophical (personal belief) exemptions, and 44 states and Washington, D.C. allow religious exemptions to vaccines. But even in these states, private universities are telling parents they will not accept state-recognized vaccine exemptions.Based on personal interviews with some half a dozen families, The Epoch Times has learned that administrators at some colleges and universities are informing students that they have their own university-employed medical teams to scrutinize the medical exemptions submitted by students and signed by private doctors. These doctors, families are being told, will decide whether the health reasons given are medically valid.5 Ethical Arguments Against Mandated BoostersThough rarely reported on in the mainstream media, COVID-19 vaccine boosters have been generating a lot of controversy.While some countries are quietly compensating people for devastating vaccine injuries, and other countries are limiting COVID-19 vaccine recommendations, the United States is now recommending children 12 and older get Pfizer-BioNTech’s Omicron-specific booster, and young adults over the age of 18 get Moderna’s updated shot.At the same time, public health authorities in Canada are suggesting Canadians will need COVID-19 vaccines every 90 days.Against a backdrop of confusing and often changing public health recommendations and booster fatigue, the authors of this new paper argue that university booster mandates are unethical. They give five specific reasons for this bold claim:* Lack of policymaking transparency. The scientists pointed out that no formal and scientifically rigorous risk-benefit analysis of whether boosters are helpful in preventing severe infections and hospitalizations exists for young adults.* Expected harm. A look at the currently available data shows that mandates will result in what the authors call a “net expected harm” to young people. This expected harm will exceed the potential benefit from the boosters.* Lack of efficacy. The vaccines have not effectively prevented transmission of COVID-19. Given how poorly they work—the authors call this “modest and transient effectiveness”—the expected harms caused by the boosters likely outweigh any benefits to public health.* No recourse for vaccine-injured young adults. Forcing vaccination as a prerequisite to attend college is especially problematic because young people injured by these vaccines will likely not be able to receive compensation for these injuries.* Harm to society. Mandates, the authors insisted, ostracize unvaccinated young adults, excluding them from education and university employment opportunities. Coerced vaccination entails “major infringements to free choice of occupation and freedom of association,” the scientists wrote, especially when “mandates are not supported by compelling public health justification.”The consequences of non-compliance include being unenrolled, losing internet privileges, losing access to the gym and other athletic facilities, and being kicked out of campus housing, among other things. These punitive approaches, according to the authors, have resulted in unnecessary psychosocial stress, reputation damage, loss of income, and fear of being deported, to name just a few.22,000 to 30,000 Previously Unaffected Young Adults Must be Vaccinated to Prevent Just 1 HospitalizationThe lack of effectiveness of the vaccines is a major concern to these researchers. Based on their analysis of the public data provided to the CDC, they estimated that between 22,000 and 30,000 previously uninfected young adults would need to be boosted with an mRNA vaccine to prevent just a single hospitalization.However, this estimate does not take into account the protection conferred by a previous infection. So, the authors insisted, “this should be considered a conservative and optimistic assessment of benefit.”In other words, the mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 are essentially useless.Mandated Booster Shots Cause More Harm Than GoodBut the documented lack of efficacy is only part of the problem. The researchers further found that

Editor's Commentary: The Fed is not your friend. They're not the White House's friend. They're not even the American bankers' friend. They're definitely not Wall Street's friend. The Federal Reserve is a globalist organization posing as financial middle managers for over a century with the sole purpose of keeping the U.S. economy in a position of vulnerability to the powers-that-be.Yet since the inception of the "neutral" "apolitical" organization, they have been viewed by most as being somehow beholden to the goal of keeping western capitalism afloat. This is partially true, but only if we acknowledge that they have been setting a trap for decades. This trap is one that allows them to have full control which they willingly hand over to the globalist elites. They are suicide bombers, as Brandon Smith from Alt-Market notes in the article below. They're just waiting until the moment they're instructed by their true masters to light the fuse.On today's episode of America First Report, I dove into this article and explained how Americans, even many patriots, are being conned into not recognizing our true financial enemies. This is the big one. As society rocks back and forth between the various crises such as food shortages, energy shortages, border invasion, and a dozen other massive threats, the one that has the potential to send us into complete societal collapse in a matter of days is the Fed and their plans to force Central Bank Digital Currencies upon us.Though I didn't mention it in the show, it's important to note that this is the reason I finally accepted precious metals sponsors after years of denying offers. I didn't think it was important before. Now, I realize just how important it is for Americans to move their wealth and retirement away from various markets or banking institutions and into precious metals. We recommend two companies for this. Here's my show and Brandon's article...It’s a Fact That Needs Repeating: The Federal Reserve Is a Suicide BomberFor many years now I have been examining the policies and behaviors of the Federal Reserve because they are in fact the most powerful institution in the US, with far more influence over the fate of America than any single president or branch of government. They have the power to end the economic life of our country in a matter of moments. They hold their finger on the button of multiple financial nuclear bombs, and to this day there are people that still pretend as if they are a mere moderating presence subservient to the White House or Congress.This is a fallacy proven by history and the admissions from central bankers own mouths. The Fed answers to no one in our government. They answer to a different set of masters, and the blame for the consequences of their policies falls to them and their cohorts.Last year I published an article titled ‘The Fed’s Catch-22 Taper Is A Weapon, Not A Policy Error.’ In that article I predicted that the Fed would embark on a hiking spree on interest rates in response to inflationary/stagflationary events. I noted that:“We are now at that stage again where price inflation tied to money printing is clashing with the stock market’s complete reliance on stimulus to stay afloat. There are some that continue to claim the Fed will never sacrifice the markets by tapering. I say the Fed does not actually care, it is only waiting for the right time to pull the plug on the US economy.”At the time I received a lot of resistance to the idea. The usual argument was: “The fed will never raise rates and put stock markets at risk. Why would they destroy the golden goose?”This position showcases a common misconception about the central bank and its purpose. You see, a lot of people think the Fed exists to keep the US economy afloat, and specifically to keep stock markets afloat. This is incorrect. Every single policy of the Fed since its inception has been a long train of abuses designed to slowly and scientifically whittle down the US economy and bring it to the point of extinction.The next most common argument is: “Wouldn’t the fed sabotaging the economy eventually destroy them as well?”The answer is YES, and they don’t care. If you have read my previous work on this issue then you know that the Fed is inexorably tied to the Bank for International Settlements (the “central bank of central banks”) and that they call the shots in terms of coordinated global banking initiatives. The BIS is a globalist institution, not an American one, and its agenda is ideologically globalist in nature. The Fed is a servant of globalism; and if the US economy or our currency need to be brought down through a controlled demolition in order to make the globalist dream of a one world socialist “Utopia” come true, that is exactly what the Fed will do.I was able to predict that the Fed would continue onward with its interest rate hikes and hawkish position only because I acknowledge what the Fed really is: A suicide bomber. And, they have decided the time is ripe to hike interest rates into economic weakness, just like they did at the onset of the Great Depression.At the beginning of the Depression the Fed increased interest rates after years of artificially stimulating markets with low cost debt. This prolonged the deflationary crash for many years after. It was not until decades later when former Fed chair Ben Bernanke gave a speech celebrating economist Milton Friedman’s 90th birthday that a central bank official finally admitted that the organization was culpable for the Depression debacle.“In short, according to Friedman and Schwartz, because of institutional changes and misguided doctrines, the banking panics of the Great Contraction were much more severe and widespread than would have normally occurred during a downturn.Let me end my talk by abusing slightly my status as an official representative of the Federal Reserve. I would like to say to Milton and Anna: Regarding the Great Depression. You’re right, we did it. We’re very sorry. But thanks to you, we won’t do it again.” – Ben Bernanke, 2002What Ben Bernanke did not admit to was that the engineered deflationary crisis greatly benefited the allies of the Fed – The international corporate bankers. Companies like JP Morgan and Chase National were suddenly in a prime position to seize unlimited power in the US.So, they’ve done it before, why wouldn’t they do it again?The next argument that I hear constantly is that the Fed is “ignorant” and they don’t know what they are doing. This is nonsense. Jerome Powell knows EXACTLY what he is doing, and here is the proof – In October of 2012 the Fed held a meeting in which Powell warned that markets and corporations had become addicted to the Fed’s easy money policies. If they decided to taper their stimulus measures and raise rates, there would be potentially disastrous blowback. Powell argued that:“…I think we are actually at a point of encouraging risk-taking, and that should give us pause. Investors really do understand now that we will be there to prevent serious losses. It is not that it is easy for them to make money but that they have every incentive to take more risk, and they are doing so. Meanwhile, we look like we are blowing a fixed-income duration bubble right across the credit spectrum that will result in big losses when rates come up down the road. You can almost say that that is our strategy.” – Jerome PowellAs he admitted, it is indeed their strategy. Powell was not the Fed chairman at the time, so he may not have been aware of the full agenda, but he is certainly aware now. Why would Powell undertake the exact policy action he once warned would result in a full spectrum implosion of the credit bubble? Probably because he was told to.Powell knows the history of the Great Depression and he knows what will happen when the Fed raises rates into economic weakness and he is doing it anyway. He already tried a test run of rate hikes back in 2018 and the results were not hard to figure out; markets began to tank. We should never forget that the central banks are fully cognizant of the effects of their endeavors. As I stated back in February:“The rate hikes of 2018 were a test run for a more aggressive and deliberately engineered crisis down the road. The Fed has its own agenda, it does not care about protecting U.S. markets, nor does it even care about protecting the U.S. economy in general.I hold that the Fed is a weapon for social and political change within America and part of its job is to greatly reduce the standard of living of the population while making it appear as if this decline is a “natural” consequence of the U.S. System.”This leads us to the final question – What happens next?That’s easy to answer: The fed continues to hike rates well into next year and will not reverse course or capitulate and return to stimulus. The dovish predictions were wrong. The people that said the Fed would not raise rates were wrong. The people that said the Fed would never remove support from stock markets were wrong. This process is ongoing and the effects will grow as the months pass, but those that were hoping for a manic return to the days of bailouts and QE are going to be deeply disappointed.This is a stagflationary crash, and as such we are going to experience the worst of both deflationary and inflationary worlds. Prices will remain high while GDP goes negative. Sales will decline and jobs will decline as we enter into the end of this year. There is no way around this. The Fed will have all kinds of theories and misdirections on why these things are happening, and they will try to distract the public as much as possible in the meantime.What the Fed will never do is admit that a crash is happening until it is too late for people to act. They will never warn the populace of the dangers and they will never tell people to prepare. Watch as they tap dance and tell the public that all the pain is “transitory.” Then, watch as the dust settles and they tell

There were many contributing factors to the economic downturn of 2008-09, but there was one major challenge in the subprime mortgage market that was the singular catalyst. All of the other factors could have been remedied pretty easily if the housing market hadn't sent shockwaves across every financial sector. As a result, I've always considered the downturn to be a one-cause event.What we're facing going into 2023 is very different. Instead of one major factor exacerbated by many smaller factors, we're seeing multiple existential threats to the sanctity of the western economic structure. Individually, these factors could be catastrophic much like subprime mortgages were catastrophic 14 years ago. Unfortunately, there are at least six major factors that are individually catastrophic which puts us in the perfect storm.The boat is ready to sink and most of the lifejackets are either gone or faulty.On today's episode of The JD Rucker Political Report on America Out Loud as well as America First Report, I discussed an article by Michael Snyder over at The Economic Collapse Blog, cross-posted to one of my Substacks. He listed 12 numbers pointing to an economic collapse between now and the end of 2023. It doesn't take a degree in economics to realize that everything he pointed out should be of major concern to every American and pretty much every member of western society.For reference, here is his list:* The government is telling us that the unemployment rate only went up to 3.7 percent in August.* According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if honest numbers were being used the real rate of unemployment in the United States would be over 24 percent.* About half of all U.S. companies say that they will be eliminating jobs within the next 12 months.* The government is telling us that the inflation rate in the United States is only 8.5 percent.* According to John Williams of shadowstats.com, if the rate of inflation was still calculated the way that it was back in 1980, the real rate of inflation would be somewhere around 17 percent right now.  That is worse than anything that we experienced during the Jimmy Carter era.* At one company, the number of Americans taking out short-term loans for groceries has nearly doubled this year.* One out of every five home sellers in the United States dropped their asking price last month.  This is more evidence that home prices are starting to rapidly move in a downward direction.* Sales of previously-owned homes were about 20 percent lower this July than they were last July.* One recent survey found that 3.8 million Americans believe that they could be evicted from their homes within the next two months.* According to the National Energy Assistance Directors Association, approximately 20 million U.S. households are currently behind on their utility bills.* The Dow Jones Industrial Average has fallen for three weeks in a row.  We also witnessed this sort of a gradual slide just prior to the big crash of 2008.* In August, a whopping 2,150 corporate executives sold off shares in their companies.  Are they trying to cash in while they still can?I absolutely respect Snyder's understanding of the economy and collapses. He has been writing about economic collapses for longer than I've been writing about politics in general. But on this topic, I take exception to one notion.He continues to reference how bad things were in 2008-09 as something we may face. I think he's dramatically understanding the challenge.I think the possible upcoming economic collapse will make 2008-09 seem like great fiscal times.Critics will likely point out that Snyder is selling his book. They'll say I have gold sponsors so it behooves me to promote the notion of a coming economic collapse. In other words, they'll get on comments here and say we're fearmongering for profit.Let me be perfectly clear. I do NOT want an economic collapse. I am not hoping things keep going south so I can sell more precious metals. Unlike the vast majority of conservative pundits and commentators out there, I have not been promoting gold for years. I started BECAUSE of the challenges I believe are coming. This isn't about fearmongering. The possibility of an economic collapse is real. I do not believe it's a foregone conclusion... at least I pray it isn't. But I also would never paint a rosy picture of an economy when I believe things are anything but rosy.I'm just calling it how I see it.Beyond the multiple existential threats that I believe are causing a perfect storm to form around us, there is the motivation component. It seems the powers-that-be and their puppets are pushing for collapse. The World Economic Forum, Club of Rome, and Council for Inclusive Capitalism, among others, have been doing everything they can to launch The Great Reset. You don't need to reset something that hasn't crashed. If it ain't broke, it's hard to convince the people to make sacrifices to fix it. In other words, they need capitalism to break.Then, there are the "failing" world leaders, including the Biden-Harris regime. I put "failing" in scare-quotes because I think pretty much every conservative commentator is wrong to declare the regime's policies have been failing. They're working exactly as they're intended to work. Yes, they're supposed to increase inflation dramatically. Yes, they're supposed to make driving gas vehicles cost-prohibitive. Yes, they're supposed to launch an energy crisis, food crisis, and every other possible crisis they can muster.This is an intentional, semi-controlled demolition of western capitalism.There are three things we should do in order to salvage what we can and possibly prevent the economic collapse. First and foremost, we must take our righteous objections to damaging policies to the highest possible level. It's not just about griping on social media. We need protests. We need lawsuits. We need our voices to be heard.Second, we need a red wave in November, one that is much bigger than is even being predicted. If the GOP takes back control of the House, Senate, or both, the best they can do is prevent further damaging policies from coming forward. Unless we unleash a massive red wave that can actually get veto-proof legislation passed, all we're doing is slowing the bleeding. Having Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy in charge is only marginally better than Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, but at least it's something.Last but not least, we must prepare locally. That means many should strongly consider becoming "preppers." It means feeding as many of our purchases into our local economy as possible. Stop buying through Amazon. Stop buying through companies aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. Strengthen your local economy because if an economic collapse comes, having a localized infrastructure upon which you can rely is far better than needing to stand in government breadlines.Eventually those breadlines will become cricketlines.Pray for America, folks. We're facing hard times ahead and a federal government bent on taking advantage of our hardships. Become as self-reliant as possible before you no longer have that option. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

Bank of America announced a program that will target specific communities in certain cities across the nation with zero-down, zero closing cost mortgages. This is being declared as racist by many conservative pundits, and it definitely is. But it's actually not racist for the reason most are saying and definitely IS racist for an even worse reason.Reports coming from many pundits indicate the loans are only for Black and Hispanic borrowers. That's not true, but it's actually worse than that. Here are the details according to NBC News [emphasis added]:Bank of America said it is now offering first-time homebuyers in a select group of cities zero down payment, zero closing cost mortgages to help grow homeownership among Black and Hispanic/Latino communities.The option will first become available in certain neighborhoods in Charlotte, Dallas, Detroit, Los Angeles and Miami. The new mortgage, called the Community Affordable Loan Solution, aims to help eligible individuals and families obtain an affordable loan to purchase a home, the bank said.Applicants do not have to be Black or Hispanic to qualify for the product, a bank representative said.“Homeownership strengthens our communities and can help individuals and families to build wealth over time,” AJ Barkley, head of neighborhood and community lending for Bank of America, said in a release. “Our Community Affordable Loan Solution will help make the dream of sustained homeownership attainable for more Black and Hispanic families, and it is part of our broader commitment to the communities that we serve.”The loans require no mortgage insurance — the additional fee typically charged to buyers who put down less than 20% of the purchase price — and no minimum credit score. Instead, eligibility will be based on factors like timely rent payments and on-time utility bill, phone and auto insurance payments. Prospective buyers must also complete a homebuyer certification course provided by Bank of America and federally approved housing counseling partners before they apply for the loan program, the bank said.The notion that this is for Black or Hispanic borrowers only is incorrect. Whites, Asians, or anyone else living in these Black and Hispanic communities are eligible, and that makes this even MORE racist than had they just done an affirmative action move. By isolating specific communities, they are basically saying that they'll "help" people in poor communities to stay in their poor communities.This isn't just a race-based program. That alone would be terribly racist. This is about segregation. They are taking poor people and telling them to stay in their poor neighborhoods if they want to get a super-special loan.As I noted in a short episode of today's America First Report show, Democrats and leftists are inherently racist and often don't even realize it. By pushing poor people in poor communities to stay in their poor communities, somehow Bank of America feels justified for their racism.Here’s the video from today’s show.As noted in today’s show, we strongly recommend moving wealth or retirement to precious metals while the prices are so low. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

Mike Pence gave a seemingly heartfelt speech the other day to defend the "rank-and-file" at the FBI and to call on people to stop attacking them. We can only assume he means we need to stop criticizing them since I do not recall physical attacks against FBI agents recently. So Pence wants us to accept what they do, blame Merrick Garland for political bias, and move on as if there isn't really anything wrong with the bureau itself.He said, "Our party stands with the men and women who stand on the thin blue line at the federal and state and local level, and these attacks on the FBI must stop. Calls to defund the FBI are just as wrong as calls to defund the police. I also want to remind my fellow Republicans, we can hold the attorney general accountable for the decision he made without attacking the rank-and-file law enforcement personnel at the FBI."Listen:Pence claimed the Republican Party is the party of law and order. This is mostly true, especially compared to the lawless Democrat Party. But the FBI has demonstrated time and again that they are not an organization of law and order. They unleash their devious tactics on the American people in a way that can only be seen as a trial run for a near-future police state. Today's FBI operates under the vision of Barack Obama who pictured a federal enforcement unit dedicated to keeping law-abiding citizens in line with the Deep State's nefarious goals.Pence claimed calls to defund the FBI are like calls to defund the police. This is absolutely wrong. The stark difference here is that the uniformity of tactics and goals of our centralized FBI are fundamentally corrupt. Actions of individual FBI agents are defended by the organization even when they're universally opposed by the people.On the flip side, actions by individual cops who go over the line are disavowed by their departments. Cops get fired for doing their jobs wrong. FBI agents get promoted for doing what the people believe to be wrong. Most problems we have with police are diverse and truly one-off while the problems we have with the FBI are systemic.This is not about holding Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray, or a few "bad apples" at the top accountable, as Pence would have us believe. The reason that so many are calling to defund the FBI is because the rot pervades throughout the bureau.A majority of Americans believe the FBI is the "personal gestapo" of the Biden regime, but this is inaccurate. Pence and others would have you believe that Biden and Garland have somehow transformed the FBI into what it is today, but they seem to forget that the Gretchen Whitmer fednapping plot happened under Donald Trump and Bill Barr. They forget that people like Ron Paul have been calling out the anti-American foundation of the FBI itself for decades, or that we've seen Gestapo-like actions from the FBI since its inception.There have been about two dozen whistleblowers at the FBI that have come out in recent days. That may seem like a lot, but that means there are around 7,800 special agents and 11,000 other FBI employees who are either too weak to speak out against corruption, too incompetent to realize the corruption exists, or are political hacks themselves who relish in it all.Julie Kelly over at American Greatness put out an important thread Thursday that highlights why Pence is wrong to say the problems at the FBI are limited and that the rank-and-file are just cops doing their jobs.Hey @Mike_Pence you should have a chat with these women, tell them to stop criticizing the FBI!And you need to defend the FBI investigator in the Whitmer case who beat up his wife in a drunken rage and was arrested after driving around town drunk before cops caught him. GOP must defend law enforcement no matter what!And you should tell Brandon Caserta, one of the 2 men acquitted in Whitmer hoax, that he shouldn't complain that he spent 18 months in prison after FBI entrapped him. He's innocent but BACK THE BLUE!Hey @Mike_Pence hundreds of Americans have been tormented by FBI over Jan 6. Here's one: Tom Caldwell, a former Navy Lt. Comm, dragged out of his house, watched FBI agents point rifles at his wife standing in her nightgown. Who are they to complain?Those four examples are telling and when I was putting together today's show I started making a list of other clear-cut examples of total corruption within the organization itself. After finding a dozen incidents that proved the point, I realized that chances are strong our audience is already well-aware that the FBI makes political decisions to determine not only which cases they need to pursue, but which ones require a full-blown coverup in order to prevent others from pursuing them.We saw this in its starkest form with the Hunter Biden laptop coverup. Lest we forget, they had the laptop in their possession since 2019. Under Bill Barr, they chose not to pursue it. Instead, they went after Rudy Giuliani, John Paul Mac Isaac, and others who wanted the truth to get out about Joe Biden. Hammering home more examples of FBI malfeasance simply isn't necessary for an America First audience who knows the corruption runs deep.Before aborting that angle of discussion, a few conspiratorial thoughts crossed my mind. Mike Pence may be a backstabbing RINO and a compromised politician, but he's not an idiot. He had to realize that coming forth now in defense of the FBI would be politically damaging. He could have just as easily skipped the calls to stop attacking the FBI by simply saying Merrick Garland should be held accountable. That's the type of milquetoast statement he's made in the past. Why would he risk losing political points to defend the FBI?The possible reason is not good. As both an agent of the Uniparty Swamp and a minion of the globalist elites, Pence is a tool to spread the messages the powers-that-be want heard. It was conspicuous to me when I first heard it that he said we must stop "attacking the rank-and-file," but I couldn't put my finger on what bothered me about it until I stepped back and put more pieces together. We've heard warnings since shortly after the Mar-a-Lago raid that domestic terrorists may target FBI headquarters or other federal buildings. We even heard an odd warning from the FBI and DHS about a possible dirty bomb attack. Looking at it all as a whole, it made me wonder if they have something planned.If nothing happens, then Pence's defense of the FBI will hang over him every time the bureau does something bad. But what if something happens? What if there are literal attacks against the rank-and-file at the FBI? Donald Trump has been hitting the FBI hard for their raid and his supporters have been outraged by the clear political bias they've demonstrated. If an actual terrorist attack DOES happen, Pence will be viewed as being on the right side of the matter for calling on people to stop attacking while Trump would be blamed for inciting the attacks.Average Americans do not want to believe our own government would engage in false flag attacks despite decades of evidence that they do. Today, the United States is a powder keg of division that's ready to blow up in the streets of cities across the country with one major inciting incident. Were the Mar-a-Lago raid, subsequent warnings of domestic terrorism, and Pence's politically inexplicable statement of support for the FBI all seeds planted in preparation for a false flag attack that would put a target on the backs of every America First patriot?God forbid.Dividing America has been one of the intentions of the globalist elites for some time. The riots of the summer of 2020 were a trial run. Imagine if both sides of the political aisle were prompted to act out. Imagine if the civil war most Americans desperately want to avoid is prompted by a false flag attack and subsequent crackdown on America First patriots. In such a scenario, Mike Pence would have the opportunity to be "the great uniter" of the nation. He would be positioned to be installed into the White House in 2025.They say when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. It seems all the machinations and moving parts in the various plots against America bring me back to The Great Reset as the end goal. It's possible that my single-mindedness to prevent that ugly future makes me see conspiracies in every shadow. Then again, perhaps the reason I and others see it like that is because it's true.So many Americans are struggling right now. We’re among them. 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There is nothing in politics more vulnerable than a confident Republican base. Time and again we've seen the GOP with what they perceived to be leads going into an election, only to be shocked by the results. On October 20, 2012, Mitt Romney was ahead of Barack Obama by 6 points in the polls. That changed very, very quickly.Instead of bragging about the coming "red wave," Republicans should be acting like they're on the verge of massive defeat. Some will argue that confidence is important in driving fundraising and voter turnout, and in most years I would agree. But we are faced with a massively emotional voting population right now who are feeling the economic heat more than most have felt in their lifetimes. That means that whoever they blame for their problems will be who they vote against. Conventional wisdom says they'll blame Democrats since they're in control of the House, Senate, and White House.Throw conventional wisdom out the door. Here are three reasons why:Yes, the polls lieAnyone who's read my work over the past few years knows I am not a fan of polling. I believe polls are used more to manipulate sentiment than to report on it. Currently, the polls are showing Democrats making up some of the ground they lost in recent months.Considering I said the polls lie, why would I use this as an example of why we need to be concerned? Because reality today may not reflect what they're saying, but clearly that's the direction they want people to think they're going. We don't have to trust polls to appreciate the manipulation they're currently being used for to promote their chosen narrative.Never underestimate gaslighting and propagandaGaslighting works on voters. Propaganda is powerful in shaping voter sentiment. Add in a third component — low-information voter ignorance — and it's easy to see that we may not be in as good of a position as many think we are.Corporate media and Big Tech are extremely powerful. They shape the mindsets and even the worldviews of millions of Americans. One can argue that the only reason the Democrat Party hasn't imploded from their massive failures in recent years is because corporate media and Big Tech have propped them up. The same can hold true come Election Day.They will cheatThe 2020 election was stolen. As of today, nobody has been held accountable and only a handful of measures have been put in place to prevent the same type of theft from happening this year.If we are to have our wins recorded by a small margin, we will have to win by a large margin. They will already have a certain percentage point advantage over many Republican candidates before a single legitimate vote is cast. This, perhaps more than the previous two reasons to get fired up, is what could make the difference between winning and losing. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

The fate of the America First movement, the Republican Party, and the nation itself is on the line in a single state's primary. It is not hyperbole to say the results of the Arizona Republican Primary will determine the direction of the country moving forward.It's no secret that I have endorsed Kari Lake for Arizona Governor. But this article and the attached segment from an episode of The JD Rucker Show will not dive into the pros or cons of Lake or her nearest opponent, Karrin Taylor Robson. Instead, I am going to address the scenarios surrounding this primary and what the results of it will mean going forward.Mike Pence and other RINOs have circled the wagons in an attempt to prop up Robson. She is way behind Kari Lake in the polls with less than two weeks to go, but some say she's "surging" in large part due to massive media buys and a scorched earth campaign of negative ads. If Robson overtakes Lake and wins the primary, it will be a massive blow to MAGA.Donald Trump and other America First patriots have backed Lake. A Robson win will be turned into several narratives that corporate media will blast out to the masses. They will say Trump and the MAGA movement have lost control of the party. They will say that "mainstream conservatives" like Pence are back in charge of the GOP. They will say that January 6 left a mark with Republican voters and a rebuke against Lake will represent a rebuke against Trump as a result.Some fellow America First patriots will argue that the people won't view it like that, that Americans will see through those lies, but here's the thing. Those of us who are adamant MAGA proponents often operate in a bubble where we only see the sentiment of our passionate peers. But your average "Republican normie" voter is quite susceptible to the gaslighting and propaganda spewed by corporate media. Show hosts and pundits will say a Lake loss is a Trump loss. They'll say a Robson win is a Pence win. Many current MAGA supporters will begin to question whether there really is a future for the movement.In a sane world, I wouldn't be too worried. I don't believe Robson is actually "surging," but the fact that many are starting to echo that sentiment tells me we should DEFINITELY be worried about the same type of shenanigans that stole the 2020 election from President Trump. This all has the traits of a setup in which they're staging a surge by Robson so few will question if they cheat their way to victory.To be perfectly clear, I am NOT accusing the Robson campaign of participating in an upcoming election theft. Her campaign has engaged in very devious acts and have continuously spread blatant lies, but that's just nasty politics that does not constitute fraud. What I am seeing is a high potential for full-blown voter fraud and I seriously doubt the campaign would be privy to such moves by the Uniparty Swamp.It's conspicuous that Pence made the endorsement now. Was he made aware of a plan to steal the election? Even if I do not believe the Robson campaign is directly involved, I would not be shocked to learn that Pence is. Though I've never reported on it in the past because I have not been able to corroborate it, I have heard credible reports that Pence and other Republicans, even many within the Trump White House, may have participated in the 2020 election theft. I'll fall just shy of making an accusation, but the evidence I've seen in compelling.Pence has very little to lose. If Robson wins, he'll be a hero for the Establishment and we'll witness Uniparty media shills like Fox News and Washington Examiner declare that MAGA is dying. They'll say Pence is the future of the GOP as they maneuver him and likely Nikki Haley into a manufactured "2024 frontrunner" status.By no means am I recommending any Arizona voters take this into account. How one votes is personal and should be based on who they believe will serve them best. It's important that we know the series of events that will follow the primary, but I would never tell someone to vote based on anything other than what's in their best interests. With that said, those of us who are outside of Arizona and who want the America First movement to drive the Republican Party going forward should be rooting for Kari Lake, even if only to prevent Mike Pence and the Uniparty Swamp from using Arizona as a launching point for their RINO campaign to destroy MAGA.You can watch this show, which is a segment from yesterday’s episode of The JD Rucker Political Report, on Rumble.We greatly appreciate donations and premium subscriptions, but those only help us without offering anything in return other than our continued push to spread the truth. But charity isn’t for everyone. An easy way to support us AND get something great out of it is to use promo code “JDR” at MyPillow.com or call 800-862-0382. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe

A man tried to stab Congressman and gubernatorial candidate Lee Zeldin in the neck with a sharp metal object yesterday after New York Governor Kathy Hochul sent out locations of her opponent's rallies, encouraging supporters to "RSVP" where "far-right extremists" will be gathering. It was a crystal clear dog whistle intended to stoke disruptions, but one supporter took it to the next level.I discussed this in detail on today's episode of America First Report. Kathy Hochul is not alone. Prominent Democrats like Maxine Waters, Rashida Tlaib, and Eric Swalwell have used similar language as Hochul in prompting their supporters to get "aggressive" with MAGA supporters. It has resulted in multiple incidents over the past six years where America First patriots have been assaulted for something as harmless as wearing a red hat.Hochul's dog whistles were particularly egregious. According to Breitbart:While Zeldin spoke at a campaign event in Fairport, New York, a man reportedly rushed the stage with a weapon in an apparent attempt to stab him on Thursday evening. Fortunately, Zeldin grabbed the attacker’s wrist long enough for other event attendees to step in and subdue the attacker.However, as people like GOP strategist Arthur Schwartz and New York GOP Chairman Nick Langworthy pointed out, Hochul’s campaign sent out a press release just hours before the failed attack on Zeldin that blasted out the time and location of several of Zeldin campaign’s upcoming stops.Hochul claimed that Zeldin and his team would spread “dangerous lies, misinformation, and his far-right agenda at these campaign events.”“‘Big Lie’ Lee and his entourage of extremists kick off the statewide ‘MAGA Republican’ Bus Tour, which will make stops across the state peddling dangerous lies, misinformation, and his far-right agenda,” Hochul’s release read.The New York governor also claimed that Zeldin “will be joined by top anti-abortion advocates, NRA enthusiasts, and a cast of extremist groups.”Hochul urged her supporters to “RSVP to hear about Zeldin’s ‘Election Integrity Task Force,’ and his recent election fraud scandal in which his campaign photocopied over 11,000 duplicate petition signatures.”This is exponentially worse than any semblance of encouragement Donald Trump allegedly gave the January 6 mostly peaceful protesters, but don't expect leftists or corporate media to make a fuss. Instead of congressional hearings or media hit pieces, the complicit left will sweep this incident under the rug.Just as they do with Antifa and BLM.Just as they do with thugs in Democrat-run cities.Just as they do whenever their supporters attempt to harm America First patriots.Some of them are literally trying to kill us, yet we're the ones who are supposedly dangerous. As is almost always the case, the radical left has projected their own penchant for violence instead of acknowledging that they're far worse.You can help support what we do here by donating or purchasing a premium subscription. Get full access to America First Report at jdrucker.substack.com/subscribe