Chapter 1: What is the primal scream of a dying regime?
This is the primal scream of a dying regime. Pray for our enemies, because we're going medieval on these people. You're just not going to free shot all these networks lying about the people. The people have had a belly full of it. I know you don't like hearing that.
Chapter 2: Why is it important to pray for our enemies?
I know you've tried to do everything in the world to stop that, but you're not going to stop it. It's going to happen.
And where do people like that go to share the big line? Mega media. I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
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Chapter 3: What geopolitical turbulence is discussed in relation to the dollar?
Welcome. Thank you for the word. We're going to get into our more traditional descent into hell, which we do every Holy Saturday. We'll get to that part of the program in a while, but I want to start. That was very important to start with Philip Patrick. Hey, Philip. We've come up with the eighth installment of End of the Dollar Empire.
It's during a time of pretty unique turbulence geopolitically, maybe the most turbulence we've had since Vietnam War, maybe even going back to World War II, given the broad nature of this situation. a war that we're fighting in the Middle East right now. And of course, you got the situation in Ukraine and you've got the dollar.
Chapter 4: How is the petrodollar's future being challenged?
We have obviously enemies against the United States that are using the weapon to weaponize other currencies against us. We now know that in the Strait of Hormuz, which is clearly the center of battle, the center of gravity of this conflict, the tolling, we're now told, is being done in Chinese currency, in Chinese yuan. And that people are saying this is a fight over the petrodollar.
At the same time, and we haven't had enough time to go through this and present it, so it'll probably be... Monday or Tuesday of next week. We understand the new 2027 budget is coming out from the Trump administration. Bloomberg's already got a copy of it, but it talks about pretty significant deficits. I don't think we're going to get to
Scott Besson, a former contributor here, his target of going from 6% to GDP to 3%. I think these deficits are going to be quite large. And I believe the Congressional Budget Office is actually projecting the 10-year increase in deficits is going to be the tune of $16 to $20 trillion.
So that the fiscal cliff we've been talking about seems like we're going, it appears from the math that we're going with the pedal to the metal. Put it in perspective, what does that mean for when people think of precious metals, they think of alternatives to more traditional investments they've got, and particularly investments that are directly tied to the dollar?
Where do you think that puts us?
It puts us in a very tough situation.
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Chapter 5: What is the significance of the harrowing of hell in Christian tradition?
We've been talking about this for a long time, and it's playing out in front of our eyes. Every new crisis turns or sort of reverts back to the debt. We see it with the Iranians now waging financial war against the United States. It's a very smart way to do it. They see their Achilles heel or Achilles heel, and they know how to attack. It's a big concern.
We can't get a handle on deficit spending, and it's a reflection of how tough the situation President Trump and the team inherited was. We have to remember, prior to this administration, there was no talk of debt or deficit from the Democratic administration. They didn't even recognize it was a problem. We came in very much focused on this. We had a department of external revenue.
We had Doge initially. And the idea was to try and curb spending. But it's very difficult to slow a machine that is addicted to cheap money. And as you rightly point out, the deficit has expanded. We have tax cuts, which we needed to stimulate economic growth, but obviously they reduce revenue. That was mitigated by tariff revenue, but there's some question marks there.
And of course, defense spending now has escalated, which means the deficit has expanded. Ultimately, if we do not get a handle on this and it's looking less and less likely, we know how this thing plays out.
Chapter 6: How does the concept of redemption apply to Holy Saturday?
We continue to print money to meet debt service, and it only goes one way longer term. That's really what series eight of the end of the dollar empire was about. It wasn't a suggestion that the dollar is collapsing tomorrow, but it's more of a warning of if we continue down this path, and it seems more and more inevitable as time goes on, how can people navigate those climates?
How can they protect themselves heading in? That was the key topic for end of the dollar empire series eight. And like I said, it's never been more topical than today. And looking at the current situation, it reminds me of what Admiral Mullen said back in 2010. And that is that the national debt is the biggest national security risk that we have as a country.
And that was $30 trillion of debt ago. But you can see it today. Listen, this war with Iran, from a military standpoint, should be very simple. They cannot compete with us in any way. Their military is a joke, pales in comparison to ours. But we're going to struggle with this, because all they have to do is not lose and cause enough
financial distress globally to force a change domestically here in the united states they know the goal and it's a tough enemy to fight when you have a debt level like we do you bring up admiral mullins uh the chief of naval operations at at the time in the in the chairman i believe the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff um he had uh you know a lot of prominence as being an out now you got criticism etc for being one of obama's chiefs but
he was a uh he's a pretty broad and deep thinker you may not agree with everything the guy is to say but i want to just go back and put it in a time frame when he warned uh and they were doing the national security strategy memo and the pentagon by law uh is uh is required by statute to come out and put a strategy together
They kind of shocked people that year in saying, hey, look, we have these threats around the world. Things are happening.
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Chapter 7: What lessons can Christians learn from the harrowing of hell?
Back then, it was almost more of still the global war on terror was there. But he said the biggest ticking time bomb we have that's going to cripple the United States and limit our ability to actually provide security to our people is the national debt. When he said that, you said that was $30 trillion. What was the national debt when he said that?
Literally, what was it, 38 trillion? It was eight and a bit trillion. It must have been 29 and some change. This was a colossal amount. I think, yeah, it was a colossal increase since then. I think from memory it was about 13 trillion back then.
But this is the point, is that we have a system now that structurally it's so tough.
to make changes and you don't have the political will to do it in the republic side more importantly folks the democrats literally don't care i mean they want to just spend with no restraints at all what does that mean for what does that mean for the dollar because then i'm going to get to the specifics now of there is a flight to quality the dollar is seeing some strengthening because people are panicked throughout the world but just overall
On the arc that you see of this spending, which it looks like in the congressional budget, we've had enough commissions of people warning us about. The world's financial system continues to buy. The central banks continue to buy gold to try to get away from dollar-denominated securities.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. We saw 860 tons of gold bought last year. By the way, that was a dip from the previous years, but it is double the average central bank purchases in the decade prior to 2022. So we've just seen a massive escalation.
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Chapter 8: How can faith influence our actions in the public square?
JP Morgan predict at least another 800 tons of this year. So in this climate, we're doubling the typical central bank purchases. from the decade 2022 and prior. And I think that trend will continue. As I've said from the beginning, this isn't going to be a linear decline.
The dollar has a lot of benefits, a lot of strength, huge network effects, and it's still the currency of choice for short-term movements. And that's why we saw dollar strengthening on the back of the Iran war. But for me, this will be short lived.
Like I said, if this was a longer term position in the dollar, people would have moved to longer term dollar exposure, which would have been government debt. We saw yields increase, which means people aren't looking at it as a long term hold. For me, the trend with gold will continue for central banks.
At the end of the day, they want something that cannot be printed, cannot be seized, cannot be devalued. Right now, I think the world realizes we're in an unsolvable mess. And I think that we'll continue to finance deficits, continue to devalue currency. And at the end of the day, if I'm a foreign central bank with a long-term view, doesn't make sense for me to hold dollars.
And if I'm going to, I'm going to need a risk premium. And that's what we're starting to see.
Talk about that for a second, because at first you saw the strengthening, because as soon as the balloon goes up, as soon as they start shooting, particularly on a broader scale and particularly some places as sensitive as the Middle East to the flow of oil, people naturally, money managers, governments naturally pile into the dollar, at least for a short term, for safety.
It's considered a safe haven. And that's one of the reasons I think you didn't see the pop in gold. Also, the fact that I do believe some of the central banks, maybe the Saudis and whatever, might have been monetizing some of their holdings to just pay bills and understand they might not be able to monetize oil for a while. But I want just to go back.
It's not a shift to long term because you're not seeing them pile into longer term government debt, correct?
It's absolutely correct. Like I said, we see things like this very typically when we see major crises. With wars, typically when the shooting starts, people move into dollars temporarily because they need the liquidity, but they don't normally keep those dollars. They either spend them or they move them into safer assets. And I think that's what we're seeing.
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