The video correctly identifies the Ferguson Rule as a terminal metric for empires, where debt servicing inevitably hollows out the capacity for global power projection. It is a sobering reminder that fiscal insolvency, rather than mere political rhetoric, serves as the ultimate catalyst for systemic collapse.
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Okay, so the USA is at a breaking point.
We're talking about the numbers in the economy and I want to show you guys what's going on. So, first, this is the gas prices. Uh 453, that's the average in USA. It is down 1 cent, so one penny from yesterday, 454, but it's still quite elevated as you guys can see. And I want to hear from you on the ground.
Have you noticed any change in prices the last couple of days? Uh while gas prices remain high, Trump is tweeting about butterflies of all things. He says, "Drones dropping like butterflies." Great. He's got pictures of butterflies with, I guess, drones dropping with Iranian flags. Trump then says, "Bye-bye drones." You got laser beams and drones. Yes. And then Trump's got u Iranian ships, I guess, the bottom of the sea, according to him, right? And then he's tweeting off about golf courses. He got a bunch a bunch of tweets about golf. You can see it right there. And they don't hide it over at Fox News that he's out golfing here.
Trump shows up at live golf event at his Virginia course after calling for players to rejoin PGA Tour. And there he is if you want to watch Trump golf and hang out with Eric, right? He's the golf cart. And I think Eric's there as well.
Um he this whole live golf thing, it's all a scam and everything he does is a scam, but he was involved with a bunch of Saudi money to like make an alternate golf tournament thing and then the Saudi money dried up and so now I guess we're trying to recover with PJ Golf. So, doing business basically while you're president, which in my opinion should be legal and we should be talking about this like what the heck's this guy doing? But over on Fox News, they praise it as he's a great businessman, but the dude's president right now. So, there's that. Okay. So, while that's going on, regular people are are struggling. Uh, Door Dash plans to spend more than 50 million on gas price relief for its drivers this spring. And if you're in delivery, if you're in like Uber, these kind of things, you guys know this, like the price of gas goes up like crazy and it just eats all the margins. So, some companies are trying to work with their employees to help them out. But there comes a point where the math doesn't work anymore, right? Just gas prices are too high. Uh or something like this was in the um Washington Post today, how rising prices ricochet from the straight of hermuz to your gas tank and basically they just go through and your food is more expensive, your rent is more expensive, right? Getting anywhere is more expensive. This is everything costs more because energy, right? Or just post simplest terms, gas prices reflect the cost of everything. And then you take a look at like stuff like this. This is Iran uh trolling Trump because the White House and the Trump people were trying to put out new information or or I should say new because people were saying it was actually just recycled footage of supposed, you know, UFOs and stuff like that, be it on the moon or otherwise. Um, Iran writes, "If aliens are real, why don't they ever land in Iran? Simple. Their supercomputers already calculated that there's a 97% chance any crash UFO would be reverse engineered into an indigenous Iranian drone, somehow more advanced than the original spacecraft itself."
And I guess the the aliens are, "Yeah, let's not land there." Or not, they should land in uh in Iran. It's a joke.
But I mean, this is the crazy whacked out world that we're in. They're trying to get us to talk about aliens when people are struggling.
>> I got paid 9.49 and my bills equal 974.
So, I literally work to pay my bills. I never have money for groceries. Barely.
Sometimes maybe $90 if I'm lucky.
I'm going to have to go to the food pantry again, which is fine. I'm really blessed to have access to that. But I just wish that work meant something.
Like I wish I had enough. Like I don't even have enough to cover my bills. So now I can only pay half of my power bill. Hopefully they don't want to freaking shut it off on me. Like people talking about get a different job. It doesn't just work like that. I get 10 hours of sick a month and 10 hours of annual. My daughter has health conditions and I constantly have to be out of work. If I worked any other job, I'd be fired because I would have already taken seven days off. They fire you if you need more time off because we're economic slaves.
We work for this economy, but this economy doesn't work for us. Most of us are old, retired, living off of disability and security, complaining about not having enough. That's the American dream.
All of us living off of the government upset.
Yeah. Okay.
>> And I I just want you to hear that. I mean, this is what many Americans are are feeling right now. And and the system doesn't work, right? And that's why I talk about several times on on the channel that you could put a system in place that supports people, right? So, she does say there's food pantries nearby. So, I mean, it sounds like there is some help there, right? But just think about all the other costs. So she's talking about energy costs which are through the roof. The numbers don't add up for her. She's saying she paid $9.49 and my bill or so her salary is like $9.49 and then her bills that she has to pay out is $974. So basically you're short $30 and that's just going to add up. And then when you hear about say for example that many people are putting stuff on credit card that's going to compound. And so this is would be an example of the tipping point because it's just un unsustainable this kind of thing. And I think many Americans are are in this realm. And so like what are the some of the things that that you could do? Like if you make health care affordable, accessible, that helps them with her kids condition. Uh if you provide school lunches, healthy things, that also helps again with with children's health. And this something that I just think is important to take care of the future, take care of your kids, provide education, right? And and you you can't guarantee outcomes for people. You can't, right? But but you don't have to make it difficult purposely. Um, and I always mention this, public transportation. So then think about that. Like it was, let's say you didn't have to drive to work. Think all the money you would save if you could just take, you know, a bus or subway. That would be really easy to get to work. Um, and there's multiple things that we could talk about here. And and just the the war policy itself where all of our money is spent on that and and this is how regular people are feeling in USA. And so like for this particular person, do you think they walk around caring about what's going on? uh you know, oh we have to attack Iran or now we have to go, you know, attack whatever country. No, of course not. Right? They most Americans just care about putting food on their table and taking care of their family. And it's always important to to remember that >> you could feed a family of four for $5.
Let's make a meal. All right, we're going to start with some onions. We're going to look for the smallest onion in the bunch. We don't need anything too large. And then I just realized the sweet onions are the same price, so you'll get more flavor out of this. All right, let's grab some pasta. We're going to use the store brand. It's a 10 for 10, so they're a dollar. Do a folly.
Though I've always been a sauce from scratch type of guy. This is $169. It has, let me see, we got garlic and herb.
It already has the garlic in it. Has herbs in it and a sauce. We're getting an onion. So, we're building flavor now.
We're on a budget, baby. Let's make it work.
>> Okay, we got zucchinis at $1.99 a pound.
So, let's find a good one. All right, you guys may just see a couple of ingredients. What I see is I got garlic.
I got herbs. I got flavor. I got an onion, zucchini, we got pasta. We're building the flavor. We got to make it work.
>> That's essentially what they're talking about here is like, how can we feed a family of four for five bucks, which is really, really tough. Um, and even even stuff like this, I'm not quite sure if it would actually be enough. You know, I'm just showing you what what they're saying, but this is is reflective of what's happening in the average citizen's life and also what's happening in the country where the math doesn't work out, right? So, for example, this is the tipping point. When interest on national debt overtook military spending, it triggered a limit where the US may quote cease to be a great power.
And they're referring to this thing called the Ferguson rule. The Ferguson law. You can see it for yourself.
Proposed by historian Nyall Ferguson states that any great power that spends more on debt servicing, right, the national debt entrance payments. Uh if you spend more on that than your defense, risk losing its status as a great power. And if you're curious, we spend about a trillion a year on servicing the debt. And the military spend at the moment is right around that, like right around 900 billion.
national debt is servicing is more uh than the military. However, which is kind of interesting, so that would be the tipping point right there, like you're going to start to go into collapse mode. But what's interesting is that I guess maybe the government knows that and they're like, "Hey, you know, let's not break the Ferguson rule. Let's increase our military spend to change the math." Yes, it really is that dumb.
Um 1.5 trillion budget request, prioritize the services, members, and moderate modernization. But I wouldn't necessarily think, okay, ignore the fors in the world. Let's just spend more on the military to get around the math. It it doesn't really add up because when you when you spend all this stuff on on waste basically all this money from your economy, regular people don't benefit.
As you can see, regular people are struggling as we talked about with with food. Um, this is then our news. Iran war live. Israel kills 23 in Lebanon as US awaits Iran reply to deal. So, still no phone call from Iran. We talked about this before yesterday. Rubio was saying, "Oh, we're totally going to get a call on Friday. That didn't happen." And then Trump's out golfing. That's why you have to understand what's going on. Literally sitting here right now thinking about how genuinely insane the level of brainwashing needs to be to convince anybody to go to war. I will never go to war. I don't care if I'm drafted. I refuse to go. And if you're like, "You're not loyal. You're a coward."
[ __ ] you. You think these guys that sit behind a desk and sell us out to foreign nations and have no skin in the game themselves care about us? Absolutely not. They don't give a [ __ ] So, [ __ ] you. I'm not doing it. Have these people never seen a single war movie ever? Have they never read a single war book? It's terrible. You win the cosmic lottery by being born and then what? You're just going to go and like die this terrible death for a country that does not care about you at all. Never going to happen.
The only reason I would ever go to war, the one exception is if there was a direct imminent threat to my family, friends, or neighbors, and somehow me going off to war could help to prevent that threat. That is the only reason I would ever go to war. It would be for the safety of my loved ones. That is it.
Anything else that there's literally no rational opinion as to why you could ever go to It just doesn't make sense.
>> And so, as he was saying, you know, what kind of propaganda do they have to do to convince you to go fight wars? Well, this is actually Donald Trump at the White House. They put this out an hour ago. President Donald J. Trump welcomes angel moms and gold star moms to the White House for Mother's Day. Gold Heart. Today we're honored to be joined by many strong and heroic moms who stood up for their children both in life and in a prof in a very profound loss. And this is celebrating Mother's Day that basically you lost your child to Trump's war. This kind of stuff. Seriously, this is what they do in USA. And I don't know if they do this in other countries. If you have a family member that dies, they'll give you a flag with a gold star on it basically. And that's what the person was saying is like, how do we convince people to keep going along with with this stuff, right? What kind of brainwashing or whatever you want to call it. And that that's what you do.
You throw them dinners and you make it seem like it's it's a great honor to go die in Trump's war. It it's sick if if you look at this stuff. And you know, I grew up in USA and you know, it's insane because usually in the same the way that he, you know, talks about it like has anyone not seen a war movie? Like when I see this stuff, I'm just like that's the last thing I want to send, you know, my sons and daughters of of my country to go do. Do you when you guys see this, right? It's it's ridiculous. Um, and then this is what regular people are feeling and thinking about in terms of their taxes cuz remember all your money goes to fight these wars for Trump.
growing up is realizing we do actually use that math they taught us in school.
Y'all, I'm sitting here looking at this check and trying to figure out the taxes on it, how much money I'm gonna owe. And I realized that about 25% of this money goes to Uncle Sam.
If you remember math in school, that's one quarter. 1/4.
Which means that if a year has 12 months, 1/4 or one quarter of that year is 3 months.
That means that for the first three months of the year, every year I'm working just to pay Uncle Sam. We are all working just to pay Uncle Sam. We don't start making money really until about April. Now, most people get a uh a W2, the W2 worker. So you get to pay stuff and you see all the stuff. They just spread that money out over time.
But if you actually added it all up, you would realize that January through March roughly you working to pay Uncle Sam.
You don't make nam dime until April.
That should be enough to make us sick. That should be enough to make us ride in the street. So right now, what's today? Today is February 17th.
we ain't actually earning no money right now. Contrary to what we might think, if if you really look at how much money is going out, we not even earning no money right now. And so that's how regular people feel about taxes. It's like, okay, you're taxing me all this money. I don't feel like I'm earning any money until, you know, we're already into the year. And then you look at say where the money's going. Uh we want to spend all of it on the military and all of it on on Trump's wars. And then that's why I showed you guys that the math doesn't work anymore. So this is why the USA is at a tipping point. We're not investing in our citizens and we want to go fight Trump's wars for the billionaire class.
So, that's my thoughts on this.
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