Speaker 1: Do we still live in a constitutional republic. I've been
Speaker 1: pondering this question about what kind of country we're currently
Speaker 1: living in. It seems more like an authoritarian nation than
Speaker 1: it does a republic. We saw this escalate very quickly
Speaker 1: during COVID, where we saw leaders and government assume more power.
Speaker 1: We saw big businesses get bigger, and now because of
Speaker 1: the banking crisis, we're seeing big banks get bigger. The
Speaker 1: centralization of government is probably one of the biggest threats
Speaker 1: we face to this country. The more centralized we get,
Speaker 1: the further way we are from a free country. You
Speaker 1: threw on top the damage that's been done to the
Speaker 1: rule of law and an effort to try to indict
Speaker 1: and to get Donald Trump. So we're going to turn
Speaker 1: to someone who has been a fighter of liberty more
Speaker 1: than anyone else in this country, and that's doctor Ron Paul.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know that he ran for president. He
Speaker 1: was a member of Congress for quite some time as well.
Speaker 1: He's also the host of the Liberty Report. You can
Speaker 1: find it on Rumble. But we're going to turned to him.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's been warning about all of this stuff
Speaker 1: for so long, So who better to turn to to
Speaker 1: try to get some wisdom and where we are, how
Speaker 1: we got here, and where we're going. Stay tuned for
Speaker 1: doctor Ron Paul. Doctor Ron Paul, it's always an honor
Speaker 1: to have you on the show. I appreciate you making
Speaker 1: the time today. Good to be with you, Elsa. You know, sir,
Speaker 1: we've got a lot going on in the country right now.
Speaker 1: We are awaiting a potential Trump indictment from the Manhattan
Speaker 1: DA's office. What do you make of it? And if
Speaker 1: it happens, what do you think it means for the country.
Speaker 1: Not much good, But you know, it's fascinating because so
Speaker 1: far the threat of indictments doing Trump a lot of good.
Speaker 1: Because people are smarter than I guess they ever anticipated that.
Speaker 1: People who hey Trump, thought well, we'll destroy this man,
Speaker 1: but they've been doing that for five years or so.
Speaker 1: And now, of course an indictment never done before, we'll
Speaker 1: him forever. It remains to be seen. People are unpredictable,
Speaker 1: I think, because it's all based on lies, innuendos, and
Speaker 1: political shenanigans. Uh. You know, I don't think it's uh
Speaker 1: it's going to hurt Trump like the Democrats think. It
Speaker 1: may just totally backfire on him and h But in
Speaker 1: a way, this is very democratically decided. It's going to
Speaker 1: be the will of people. The impression that people have
Speaker 1: that makes all the difference. But so far it hasn't
Speaker 1: been hurting it. But it's total nonsense. But if you
Speaker 1: look at long term stability in our judicial system, it's
Speaker 1: a disaster. I mean, this whole thing going on, you know,
Speaker 1: whether this indictment and all the nonsense that went on
Speaker 1: with January sixth and h and also Russia Gay it's
Speaker 1: built with a just a mountain of lies and innuendos,
Speaker 1: so that I think it's very dangerous. I don't think
Speaker 1: we have rule law at all, but the immediate political
Speaker 1: impact it might be a little bit different, but that'll
Speaker 1: also be you know, temporary, because what really should bother
Speaker 1: all of us is what's happening to our system of
Speaker 1: the rule of law? And it really, it really doesn't exist.
Speaker 1: And I think that is one of our greatest dangers
Speaker 1: that we're facing today. I agree with you, sir, the
Speaker 1: danger to the rule of law. I mean, it does
Speaker 1: seem like we've lost it in America. Is it possible
Speaker 1: to get it back or once it's gone, or are
Speaker 1: we just veering down a dangerous road. That's the key
Speaker 1: question right now. I'm trying to sort all this out
Speaker 1: by writing a little bit on it, you know. And
Speaker 1: I it's very easy to come up with all the disasters.
Speaker 1: But then deep down in my soul, I want to
Speaker 1: be and there's a reason to say, well, the world's
Speaker 1: not coming to an end. Then I tell myself, you know,
Speaker 1: I was born during the depression. I remember the conversations
Speaker 1: about our depression. I remember the World War Two. I
Speaker 1: remember people dying, friends and neighbors and relatives in World
Speaker 1: War two, Vietnam career, in all these places, and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, uh, that's a that's a huge thing to
Speaker 1: go through. So sometimes things, uh you know, work out
Speaker 1: better than you anticipate. But I still think that fundamentally
Speaker 1: and structurally, whether it's the rule of law or moral
Speaker 1: fiber or people telling the truth, I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: I think we're worse off those fund with those fundamentals
Speaker 1: than we were when we were suffering through the depressions
Speaker 1: and world wars. So whether or not we can recover,
Speaker 1: I would say, yes, we can, we can. But but
Speaker 1: the big bud is we have to do the right thing. Uh,
Speaker 1: I you know, have spoken to a lot of college
Speaker 1: campuses during campaigns, and I would spend you know, if
Speaker 1: I spoke hour, it's spend fifteen minutes or so trying
Speaker 1: to get young people alerted to the fact is spending
Speaker 1: money and debt is bad and bankruptcies are bad and
Speaker 1: destruction of money is very, very dangerous. And then in
Speaker 1: the last ten minutes, I say, but the answers are here.
Speaker 1: We know what to do. The founders gave us good guidance,
Speaker 1: and what we need to do is just follow the
Speaker 1: rules and things we get better rather quickly. Even though
Speaker 1: I predict that's not going to happen, it's available. So
Speaker 1: if there's a few of us around that believe that
Speaker 1: understand it, and you don't want to just go hide
Speaker 1: in the mountains someplace, then the most important thing we
Speaker 1: do is try to understand it to the best of
Speaker 1: our ability, and then try to convert other people to
Speaker 1: doing it, and then finally get people to do the
Speaker 1: right thing. An incident that occurred here in the last
Speaker 1: couple of years I think should be a positive thing
Speaker 1: in that is, think of the horrible, horrible things that
Speaker 1: we're having and as an excuse of COVID. We're all
Speaker 1: going to die from COVID, and they and they had
Speaker 1: the lockdowns and all these things. But then the people
Speaker 1: started waking up. You know. A couple of years ago,
Speaker 1: I said, it's going to continue, it will never be thought.
Speaker 1: Uh And it's still uh, you know, out there, and
Speaker 1: it's still a danger. But when people wake up, that
Speaker 1: makes a difference. So in my lifetime, I've been in
Speaker 1: politics and medicine other things, but right now my whole
Speaker 1: goal is trying to reach as many people as possible
Speaker 1: to say there are answers, but we have to be motivated,
Speaker 1: you know, to find a way to spread that message.
Speaker 1: And what you do, Lisa, is part of that. And
Speaker 1: you probably don't even have any idea how many people
Speaker 1: you've influenced. So I think that is the positive things.
Speaker 1: And the other thing is, uh, you know there the
Speaker 1: remnant out there is you can't measure it, and ideas
Speaker 1: do have consequences. And I think we're winning some battles there.
Speaker 1: When we think about some of our libertarian Austrian school think, thanks,
Speaker 1: I think we've made some real progress. Well I appreciate that, sir.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I mentioned to you before that,
Speaker 1: you know, COVID was an awakening for me of just
Speaker 1: seeing the loss of liberty so quickly. It was just
Speaker 1: hard to not miss and hard to not see, and
Speaker 1: then disturbing as well. When did we lose the rule
Speaker 1: of law? Has it just been a steady erosion or
Speaker 1: are there key moments that you could point to and say, aha,
Speaker 1: you know, that's when it happened. The big picture is
Speaker 1: what I'm trying to put down and think about and
Speaker 1: all over, and that is I believe there's been a coup,
Speaker 1: a coup of the American system, the American Republic of
Speaker 1: the Constitution, and a group came in and they took
Speaker 1: it over, and they're in charge. So you don't go
Speaker 1: to war with declaration. You go to war when a
Speaker 1: president rise an executive order. And I date the real
Speaker 1: in the number one day I came up with. I
Speaker 1: had there a lot of incidents that have occurred, But
Speaker 1: the day did I come up with is when it
Speaker 1: became very obviously there has been a coup of our
Speaker 1: government and our system. And that was November twenty second,
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty three. And I remember that clearly, and that
Speaker 1: of course was when Kennedy was shot by the CIA,
Speaker 1: and then Robert Kennedy was shot and Martin Luther King
Speaker 1: was shot, and then a hundred other people that were
Speaker 1: related were shot. And the odds are most Americans now
Speaker 1: believe it was probably we ourselves that did it to us.
Speaker 1: The Russians didn't come and do it to us. So
Speaker 1: I think that's when it happened, and that exists. But
Speaker 1: that's just trying to understand it. But when you when
Speaker 1: you look at what they did, that the bad stuff
Speaker 1: they did under COVID, you know that atmosphere is there.
Speaker 1: So it's an attitude, the prevailing attitude. It's it's the
Speaker 1: sorosis of the world to take over our universities, taking
Speaker 1: over medicine. So they have been winning these battles. But
Speaker 1: once again, the only thing that we have left is
Speaker 1: trying to use the freedoms that we have to persuade
Speaker 1: other people to change their minds. And of course that's
Speaker 1: where I see bits and pieces of hope. Well, and
Speaker 1: of course we've seen this broader centralization of power since COVID.
Speaker 1: You know, the government has grown bigger, big businesses have
Speaker 1: grown bigger, and big banks as well. I mean, we're
Speaker 1: facing this global banking crisis right now, and you've had
Speaker 1: the government step in as well as other big banks
Speaker 1: getting bigger. You know, talk a little bit about how
Speaker 1: we got here and where you think that's heading. Well,
Speaker 1: we got here. There's very specific dates how we went
Speaker 1: from you know what the founders said, you know, you're
Speaker 1: going to have only gold and silver as legal tender.
Speaker 1: There was nobody there a lot of amid deals of
Speaker 1: credit or paper money, and that would be the restraining way,
Speaker 1: not allowing people to spend too much money on undeclared
Speaker 1: wars or developing a welfare state. So the big date
Speaker 1: on that, of course is nineteen thirteen because of the
Speaker 1: educational progressive system that was occurring. Uh, it was a
Speaker 1: philosophic change. And that's when we got the little Reserve
Speaker 1: and the and the income tax and then the and
Speaker 1: that's when Woodrow Wilson, when you know, to globalism and
Speaker 1: making the world safe for democracy. It's more or less
Speaker 1: being downhill for that until you know some dates. But
Speaker 1: when when when it comes to money, we had the
Speaker 1: futtle reserve and then uh, they still had their whole goal.
Speaker 1: The people who believe the liberty, the ones that were
Speaker 1: composed to delivery, had to get rid of an independent
Speaker 1: voluntary system and honest money. So they they probably they
Speaker 1: probably didn't sit down and say let's have a depression,
Speaker 1: but their policies were stupid enough to give a depression.
Speaker 1: And then the first thing that Roosevelt did was taking
Speaker 1: the gold, and that meant that we were a bankrupt country.
Speaker 1: The American people weren't a lot of own gold. And
Speaker 1: and then and that lasted for forty years, that we
Speaker 1: weren't a lot of own gold. And we were trying
Speaker 1: to keep it together amazingly well with guaranteeing our dollar
Speaker 1: overseas at thirty five dollars announced with the Brton Woods Agreement,
Speaker 1: but that was doomed to fail. Henry has said it
Speaker 1: wouldn't work even when it was started in nineteen forty five.
Speaker 1: So it collapses, and that is when we have the
Speaker 1: next stage of bankruptcy. That means we defaulted on our
Speaker 1: promise to pay and nobody was reimbursed by gold anymore.
Speaker 1: So that was a major, major event, was August fifteenth
Speaker 1: of seventy one. And it's just skyrocket and so everything
Speaker 1: has been happening in these last twenty or thirty years,
Speaker 1: really very predictive. Will Austrian economists understand it and they
Speaker 1: know where the problems are and they work hard at
Speaker 1: trying to convince people. But the obstacles are pretty great.
Speaker 1: Universities are controlled by people who are more attuned to
Speaker 1: George Soros than they are to uh, you know, on
Speaker 1: miss so that that is that is a problem. But
Speaker 1: it's uh if if if everybody said, well, it's not doable,
Speaker 1: you can't ever change people's mind. You must you see,
Speaker 1: it's an always you're joining the gang. Because the people
Speaker 1: who are our enemies don't believe in truth. They're nihilists.
Speaker 1: So if we give up and say well we can't
Speaker 1: do it, we become you know, endorser of nihilists will
Speaker 1: say we can't do it as a failure and it's
Speaker 1: beyond our control. Uh And and we don't know that
Speaker 1: ricles can happen. But everybody, my my advice is everybody
Speaker 1: that finally discovers, you know that there is a problem,
Speaker 1: and they know basically what the answer is that can
Speaker 1: be found in personal liberty and honest money, a judicial
Speaker 1: system that is honest. If everybody that knows that, I
Speaker 1: believe they personally have a moral obligation to do whatever
Speaker 1: they can to spread that message for their own for
Speaker 1: their own benefit, their families benefit, and everybody else's benefit,
Speaker 1: because the world would be better off if we have
Speaker 1: more people agreeing with it, and then also more bold people.
Speaker 1: It gives cover to other people than to step up
Speaker 1: and to speak the truth and to be brave in
Speaker 1: the face of sort of this mob mentality that we're
Speaker 1: living in now. You know, you'd mentioned George Soros a
Speaker 1: couple of times. How much damage has he done to
Speaker 1: the country. I guess if you wanted to name it
Speaker 1: and you had to vote, it would be a tough
Speaker 1: race between between George Soros and Fauci, you know, doing
Speaker 1: the home. But they're one and the same group in
Speaker 1: many ways. They believe in authoritarianism, they do not believe
Speaker 1: in a higher law, and they aren't moral as they
Speaker 1: don't believe in truth. They don't think it's possible to
Speaker 1: know truth. So therefore, if you're a nihilist, you license
Speaker 1: yourself to decide who will determine the truth. And that,
Speaker 1: of course, is what it was always said about the Soviets.
Speaker 1: The party decided the truth, and they said that at
Speaker 1: a various philosophic manner. Well, you have to have order.
Speaker 1: You can't have people everybody deciding and they had no
Speaker 1: interest in something that some people who have come around
Speaker 1: to believing is a higher law and that there it's identifiable.
Speaker 1: But if you look at an age and history from
Speaker 1: the very first book ever written, you know, thousands of
Speaker 1: years ago, there was a recognition that you shouldn't lie, cheat,
Speaker 1: and stilln't kill people. You know, there was a higher
Speaker 1: law that was determined outside you know, of the bureaucrats
Speaker 1: and the government, and we've they lost that. To your point,
Speaker 1: I do feel like when I was growing up that
Speaker 1: there were some just basic tenets that we all agreed
Speaker 1: in as Americans, and that seems to have been eroded.
Speaker 1: And there's so much you know, gray area and that
Speaker 1: How close to an authoritarian nation are we right now? Oh?
Speaker 1: I think we're very authoritarian. There's not much you do.
Speaker 1: But one thing is is, including myself, we all march
Speaker 1: to the laws and the rules and the regulations because
Speaker 1: we're not quite ready to say you have a gun
Speaker 1: and say you can't make me do that, you know,
Speaker 1: so it's very authoritarian. I mean, all you have to
Speaker 1: do is look at the Federal Register and look at
Speaker 1: the laws being passed and all the nonsense going on,
Speaker 1: and what's on our television and who runs social media.
Speaker 1: I think one big thing is much clearer now, although
Speaker 1: many of us would say this was the case coming
Speaker 1: along for many, many decades, and that is the collusion
Speaker 1: of big business and big government and uh. And you
Speaker 1: can see this especially with the lockdowns, uh and other things.
Speaker 1: It was the It was the business people that were
Speaker 1: enforcing the lockdowns and governs. Well, we believe in a
Speaker 1: free speech and First Amendment, but it was always a connection.
Speaker 1: So that that is existent and that's all authoritarian is
Speaker 1: a very sophisticated and very tricky. And the one thing
Speaker 1: is since they don't even believe there is such a
Speaker 1: thing it's truth. And they also believe that you should
Speaker 1: use truth. You're they're a lying to their benefit. Uh.
Speaker 1: That it just continues forever. So that's why I think
Speaker 1: that basically, and even the founders talked about it. You know,
Speaker 1: we've given you a constitution, but it's not going to
Speaker 1: work if you don't have a moral people. And right
Speaker 1: now I would say we're less moral people than we
Speaker 1: have been. Uh. You know, in the last one hundred,
Speaker 1: two hundred years, I think really one hundred years the
Speaker 1: progressive areas where we really started downhill. And now we're
Speaker 1: in a dilemma. We have to decide can we go deeper?
Speaker 1: Can we give more authority to the government? And uh,
Speaker 1: it's it's uh they're out there, I mean the COVID
Speaker 1: and you discovered something going on with with COVID control
Speaker 1: of people. That's what that was all. They weren't caring
Speaker 1: about medicine. They want to destroy medicine, too much independence
Speaker 1: of doctors and patient and too much natural medicine. So
Speaker 1: they had to stop that. And that's why, that's why
Speaker 1: we had so much authoritarianism in medicine, education, the whole work.
Speaker 1: So and it's it's ultimately a threat by government to
Speaker 1: punish us. I mean right now, in recent years it's
Speaker 1: been I could lose my job on this. You know,
Speaker 1: how am I going to feed my kids? So? Uh know,
Speaker 1: it's it's rampant, it's epidemic, and tourism has to be
Speaker 1: stopped or this is going to get a lot worse.
Speaker 1: I keep hoping and seeing cracks and in the savant
Speaker 1: there where where the authoritarians are losing a little bit
Speaker 1: of cloud and that we'll move in the other direction.
Speaker 1: And I still work on that assumption, but some days
Speaker 1: I have a hard time convincing anybody else than working
Speaker 1: on myself. That's one of the reasons during COVID, I
Speaker 1: was like, I'm not getting vaccinated. This makes no sense,
Speaker 1: and I made it known to the public on TV
Speaker 1: and our EDS, letting everyone know why I wasn't getting
Speaker 1: it and why we shouldn't be forced to have to
Speaker 1: get it. I always love having you on the show.
Speaker 1: Is there anything you'd like to leave us with before
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Speaker 1: Doctor Ron Paul, Thank you so much. For your time,
Speaker 1: but I really appreciate it's an honor to have you
Speaker 1: on the show. Thanks. That was Doctor Ron Paul. Always
Speaker 1: great having him on the show. Obviously, he's been warning
Speaker 1: about all of this stuff for the longest time, so
Speaker 1: it's just good to kind of hear his wisdom and
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