Property, Power, And The Price Of Freedom

What does it mean to “own” anything when the bill never ends? I take you from election shockwaves and a prolonged federal shutdown to the everyday reality of property taxes, business assessments, and an IRS so complex most people need a guide. Through the lens of my childhood in Cuba, I connect the dots between systems that promise security and the slow erosion of real ownership. We talk about how interest rates and real estate are shifting, why supplemental tax bills feel like exit tolls, and how replacement-cost assessments turn aging equipment into annual liabilities.

From there, we press into the big pivot: the rise of the income tax after 1913, the growth of the tax code, and the argument for simpler, transparent funding models that respect personal sovereignty. Tariffs versus income taxes isn’t just a policy debate; it’s about whether families keep what they earn without living in fear of audits and moving goalposts. I share a fresh example from my own home: a sudden administrative forbearance on student loans pushed to 2028—and what that timing might signal about where we’re headed.

This is also a practical conversation. If the grid is fragile and politics stays hot, preparation isn’t paranoia; it’s responsibility. We cover power backups, neighborhood trust, and how to reduce dependence on brittle systems. The throughline is freedom: clear rules, true consent, and the right to build, save, and pass something on without being taxed out of it. If you’ve felt like an eternal tenant in a country that calls you an owner, this one will give you language, history, and steps to push back.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Setting The Stage: Elections & Shutdown
• 5:03 Interest Rates, Markets, And “America Inc.”
• 8:03 From Cuba To Constitutions: A Personal Lens
• 12:03 Property Taxes And The Meaning Of Ownership
• 18:33 Texas, Schools, And Paying Twice
• 23:33 Business Property Taxes And Replacement Rates
• 28:03 Supplemental Bills And The Perpetual Lease
• 32:33 IRS, 1913, And Income Tax Expansion
• 39:03 Shutdown Leverage, Borders, And Big Government
• 44:03 Tariffs Versus Taxes And Ending The IRS
• 50:03 Caliphate Fears, Global Trends, And Control
• 56:03 Sovereignty, Natural Law, And Consent

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 2:04

Welcome to Unchained Radio Podcast. This is your host, Armando Gonzalez. Welcome, everybody. Hope you guys have had a good, good week so far. So today, I want to go ahead and talk to you guys about something that uh I just had to come on the air and speak about. Very, very important that I get this out there to you guys. And what's it about? Well, technically, going to be talking to you guys today about the whole election fiasco up in uh New York City with uh Kami Mandami, as I call him. You know, the uh the victory in New Jersey and Virginia, California, but Minnesota. The Somali guy over there did not get elected, according to reports that I've gotten. Okay, but we still have something else that's going on right now. So government shutdown, right? Government shut down, what, day 38 or something like that already? And it doesn't look like you know it's gonna reopen anytime soon based on reports I'm getting in. There are rumors floating around out there that there is a possibility it may happen by the end of next week, uh, which would make it somewhere around November 14th, I guess. Uh, but again, I'm gonna be play devil's advocate here and just tell you guys that uh I highly doubt it. Now, on the uh on Truth Table News World, right, the uh broadcast that I do over on Rumble channel, uh we had a little conversation. We had a little, well, let's not really conspiracy theory, but it was more like, well, let's just play uh devil's advocate here again, right? And uh just some theories, right? Some theories, some opinions. And I poised it to the uh round table discussion and to folks, you know, that were in the chat at the time. What if? What happens? What if the government does not reopen ever again? What would that look like? What does that mean? Well, in my opinion, I think that what that means is that America Inc. is officially done. It's over, and the transition going back over to the republic as it once was is currently underway and full steam ahead, if you will. Okay. Um, and it needs to go away. It needs to go away for a lot of reasons. Okay, so I'm just gonna leave it there, but I'm gonna tell you something that basically caught my eye. So the Fed has basically cut interest rates. Uh, the first time was a quarter, uh uh a quarter uh percent. Recently he cut it again, another quarter percent. Interest rates have come down. Uh, you know, the real estate market is seeing an uptick right now uh as far as home selling, home purchasing, and stuff like that. So uh the problem is we're still not out of the woods yet, in my opinion. Uh, and I did an entire series uh again over on uh Truth Table News World on the channel. You guys can feel free to go over there and check out the series, which has to do with what? Has to do not only with the uh with the restoration of the republic, but also uh natural law or common law, right? To get away from you know the fraud and this uh maritime law current you know law system that we have in place right now. So where am I going with this exactly? Well, having to do with real estate. So I'm gonna give you a little bit of a background. So when I was growing up as a child in Cuba, uh uh my dad was very flu, was fluent in English, you know. Um, he could read it, he could write it. I mean, the guy was good, he was on point, knew the constitution of this country better than any scholar I ever had in school, honestly. And uh dad was always telling me that uh our constitution before communism ever set foot in there, in other words, it was let me see, it was Castro before Castro. Um, you know, it was uh the other dictator that was there, his name doesn't come to mind right now. Uh Batista, sorry. But before that, it was President Prio, which is P-R-I-O, Prio, right? He was our Donald Trump of that era. Okay, the guy was just amazing. And per my dad, he's always used to tell me that the constitution that we had during and under that presidency, in his opinion, was probably a tad better, a tad better than the Americans' constitution under the Republic. And of course, that all changed in 1913 when we had the introduction of uh the Internal Revenue Service or the International Revenue Service, which is actually, in my opinion, of what it really means. But, and here's where I'm going with this. So let's say that, you know, you were living in those times and you purchased a home, or you purchased an apartment, you know, but home. Let's just go with a house. You purchased a house, right? Uh, you put down your down payment, you started paying your mortgage, you know, and whenever the mortgage was completely paid off, you had ownership, complete ownership. You paid zero taxes, not only on the structure, but also on the land, meaning that is real and true ownership. Okay, just let that sit in a little bit because now I'm going to draw a comparison. So the comparison is this. So when do we truly own anything? You know, the property tax scheme that keeps us, you know, paying forever, okay, um, is something that needs to be talked about, right? Um, and here's where I'm going with this. You know, Texas is famous for its wide open land and independence and its promise of freedom. Yet the truth is that Texans pay some of the highest property tax rates in the country. Yeah, you would think it would be New York, right? No, no, no, no, Texas, right? The state itself doesn't collect property tax, but local governments make up for it many times over. Even with agricultural and wildlife exemptions, the real burden still falls on the commercial buildings, apartment complexes, and single family homes, the very places where most people live and work. Every year, uh, you know, people write a check for, you know, average, let's say$24,000 in property taxes in Texas. Over half of that typically goes toward public education, as is true here where I reside. Okay, our our county taxes where I reside, uh, the majority of it, which is almost 80%, goes to schools, right? Now, in some sometimes in some counties, you know, going back to Texas here, it's even up to 70% in certain ones, okay? Not all. Now, the irony is that none of it goes towards educate educating your children. None of it. You know, some folks decide to homeschool their kids, you know. Uh, some people that have a farm, okay. They they'll, you know, they build a small barn with electricity, air conditioning, and nearby restroom, right? Uh families, parents, right? They teach their children farming, entrepreneurship, and money management, you know, or they could hire a teacher three days a week for reading, writing, and math, and a tutor for additional help, you know, with reading, which is great. It's fantastic, right? If you can afford to do that and you can have the means to do that, you know, uh get your kids out of the public school system. I'm telling you right now, you'll you'll be better off, right? So we pay entirely out of pocket for it. Okay. If you decide to homeschool, these people that do do this, they'd pay out of pocket entirely, right? And with that, um, you know, they're still forced to pay tens of thousands of dollars to fund a system that they fundamentally disagree with. Think about that for a second, right? Most folks don't believe the public school system nurtures creativity, curiosity, or courage. It creates workers, not thinkers. It rewards compliance, not conviction. I often joke that uh, you know, I don't co-parent with the government, but in truth, the property tax system makes uh me do exactly that, right? It forces me and others to contribute to a system that, you know, in my view, often indoctrinates children rather than inspire them. Now, I'll tell you, I've been in education now for 20 years in the tech space, right? Not teaching. And I've seen this indoctrination process, and I recognize it. Well, how could I say that? Because I was once part of that indoctrination system, but not here in America, but in Cuba. The brainwashing, okay, the socialism to communism, you know, steps until it goes full on, as we currently have now in New York City, you know, coming soon to other cities around the country if we don't get a grip on this situation, in my opinion. Now, it feeds them food I consider unhealthy, okay. It trains uh them to fit in rather than think for themselves. All right, school food sucks. I'm not gonna lie. It's the same thing, uh the same kind of food that you are allowed to buy with food stamps. All right, but that's not the discussion for today. Now, last year alone, some property tax bills increased by eleven thousand dollars. All right, some people pay extra to bring electricity and internet to rural property, right? They maintain the land, the buildings, and the utilities. Yet every year, these folks have to pay again just for the right to keep what they already own. Even if the mortgage is paid off, you still have to pay property taxes. So it's really never yours, right? You don't own it, right? Because you still have to pay property taxes. And if you don't pay the taxes, it goes bye-bye. So that means you never truly own your home. The government can raise taxes whenever it wants, and if I can't pay, right, it can take the property away. How is that ownership? How is that freedom? Now, in contrast, you have some states like Florida that are exploring exploring ways to phase out property taxes altogether. If that ever happens, people will move there in droves. Well, technically they're already probably starting to move there from New York City, okay, and going to Florida for that very reason. But uh last I heard, uh, Governor DeSantis is uh playing around with the idea of creating an EO to uh impose tariffs on people that come from New York down to Florida because they bring their politics, they bring their poison, and he's not going to stand for spreading that poison in the state of Florida. So thumbs up to him if he can, you know, get get them tariffed, you know, so high where they're like, yeah, yeah, we might think about maybe we should move to New Jersey or maybe we should go to, I don't know, some other state. And don't come to mine either. It's already halfway freaking cooked anyway. All right. So because this isn't just about money, it's about ownership, autonomy, and legacy. So how can we build generational wealth or pass down land to our children if the government can simply tax us out of it? It's a good question, right? And does it stop with homes? Texas, like California, taxes what's called business personal property. That includes machinery, equipment, furniture, fixtures, and even inventory, all the physical items a business uses to operate. Each year, business owners are required to list and report these assets to the county so they can be taxed. It is essentially a yearly penalty for owning tools of your trade. Now, uh reminds me of the old man. Uh, so you know, dad once owned a restaurant, you know, and actually when California wasn't full on commie, this is many, many years ago. Uh, you know, ancestors, assessors would come in every year to evaluate, you know, the kitchen equipment. All right. They uh, you know, they made they made a decision one time where the stoves, the ovens, the refrigerators, and furniture were worth uh, you know,$70,000 a year after, you know, year after year, even though they were old, worn out, and often in need of replacement. Their justification was replacement rate. Yeah, replacement rate. Meaning they taxed uh dad based on what it could cost to replace the equipment. Okay, not on what it was actually worth. So he paid taxes on the theoretical cost of replacing items he already owned. What service exactly is the government providing for my stoves, you know, for you know, for his stoves, fryers, and refrigerators that justifies an annual payment? None. Yet they collect anyway. And even when you sell a property, they still find a way to come after you. All right. Other people sold, you know, sell homes in a in a certain county, you know, uh, you know, in the state that they uh that they reside in, you know. Even though, and then when you go to closing table, right? Supposedly all the taxes were paid through escrow at closing. So one would think you'd be done. But months later, the county will send you a new bill for, you know, who knows,$5,000, maybe more, based on updated assessments they claim to have made from looking at the interior photos, right, from a real estate listing. I'll stop there for a minute. So if you're selling your home, right, and you want to put it on the market, right, you hire a realtor, realtor comes in, right? And you know, you got to clean up the clutter, you got to clean up a mess, you know, may have to do some paint, put some paint on the walls. Uh, and in some cases, if the furniture is already gone or old or whatever, you may have to stage that home, which means what? You go rent furniture that is nice looking, whatever style it is, you know, uh contemporary, modern, whatever have you, right? And you stage the home and then you take your photos. So now they're using these exact photos, all right, and then they call it a supplemental tax, you know, which is really an exit tax, right? They're still trying to collect on a property that you probably no longer own, right? So property tax is marketed as a way to fund communities, but in reality, it is a perpetual lease from the state. You never stop paying for something you thought you owned. That's not ownership, that is modern feudalism dressed up as civic duty. What if we did things differently? What if every family took responsibility for educating their own children or choose who they wanted to pay to do it? What if communities were funded transparently and voluntarily instead of through cohesion? Perhaps then we could finally reclaim what is ours, our homes, our business, our freedom. Until that day, we are all tenants on the land we supposedly own. So you may be asking yourself, like I asked, you know, asked myself, right? Let's shut down the IRS. Right? Makes sense, doesn't it? Well, going back to what I initially stated in the beginning, well, what if the Fed, you know, my my theory, right, on that broadcast I did, what if the federal government, since it shut down, uh never reopened? What if the federal government, you know, shut down indefinitely and nobody cared? I know what you're thinking. How can we possibly survive without m millions of government bureaucrats micromanaging our lives? It's another good question, right? Is life even worth living if some self-important cubicle king isn't putting me on hold before demanding that I resubmit the revised form K-12.6.2 of the updated rules and regulations regarding how I may and may not use my private property on odd numbered days within the calendar months that include Hindu holidays, right? Because, you know, we just celebrated DiWali. That's that Hindu holiday, which I have no idea still to this day what the hell it's for. I know that they put up Christmas lights in certain areas because we're inundated here where I live with uh India. I call it now New Delhi, where I'm at, right? I mean shit. I walked into a public supermarket local here to me, and you know how they had those uh fireworks uh displays all over the place, like for 4th of July or New Year's or stuff like that. Oh no, no, they had they had the same fireworks displays all over the store, right? Selling your typical fireworks, and it said, happy Diwali. I'm like, what the hell is that? Diwali. I don't know. I confused it for Denali. That's a truck. I'm like, anyway, whatever. You guys get what I'm talking about. So let me say something here. So, as a descendant of those who crossed the American wilderness and settled the frontier, I'd I like to think that my ancestors weren't risking their lives for the sake of bureaucracy. If anything, they were most likely running from bureaucracy. You know, they left Europe to escape monarchs who restricted how they, you know, uh could pray and what they could own. They explored the American frontier to build lives, beholden to none. I've never found a diary entry in the family records that moaned, if only the federal government would establish an internal revenue service to take half of everything we have so that it can pay the salaries of an army of environmental protection agency know-nothings, willing to instruct us on how we can legally use our land. Get the drift? Yeah. So when you think about it, the people who built this country did so to get away from the very thing Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries insist we must fund big government. Right? You don't venture out into no man's land to build a whole new world from scratch unless the old rules and regulations are so oppressive that risking death each day is preferable to living under the yoke of government. All right, and I mentioned earlier, prior to 1913, Woodrow Wilson, okay, and the Internal Revenue Service, how did America get by? How did we survive? Right? Well, we had a thing that's called tariffs, right? Oh, wait, that's a dirty word for some people, tariffs, right? Isn't that isn't that the same thing that Trump Trump's doing right now? Tariffs? Yeah, yeah, he is tariffs, but we still have income tax, you know, so it's a double whammy. No, it's not. He has taken in more money than any president combined in the history of this country since its inception. Let that sink in for a moment. That's one. Two, he also has hinted multiple times, okay, on getting rid of the IRS. Okay. He said that. He said, we're gonna get rid of the IR of the Internal Revenue Service, which is really now gonna be the external revenue service. And he was pointing towards tariffs, right? No tax on tips, doing away with the whole thing away, uh, completely, including uh, you know, payroll tax, income tax, right? Just getting rid of your income. Well, you know, what you work for, what you make, you keep. Tariffs will take care of everything else. And we were doing just fine until after 1913. And it has never changed, ever. We've been getting cheated and swindled, okay, uh, by the system of fraud. Right? So the Democrats shut down the federal government because they want American taxpayers to continue paying for free health care for illegal aliens. They have bet the Americans will cry uncle and agree to subsidize Democrats, destructive open border policies in exchange for bringing the rest of the bureaucracy back online. The kind of extortion makes no sense to me. It really doesn't. So it's like a robber telling me that if I don't give him what's in my wallet today, he's going to rob me tomorrow. Well, well, good luck. See you tomorrow, I guess, right? In my mind, we have been headed for ruin ever since the 16th Amendment. Here we go, legalized a federal income tax when? Again, that year, 1913, right? An income tax is a cancer on society that discourages hard work and self-sufficiency and gives authorities a free hand to steal from some Americans and by the votes of others, as we currently have right now. Another example, right? How do you think Mandami won the elections in New York? How? The guy's been out there preaching socialism, communism, you know, Islam and you know, Islam, you know, and stuff like that, which is another separate problem that we're facing right now across the country. I mean, look at Texas again, right? Look at New York, right? Look at Pennsylvania, look at Wisconsin, look at Michigan. This thing is spreading like cancer, right? It's the caliphate, and it's on a global level. I mean, look at look at the UK, right? Look at France, look at Germany. I'm telling you, this is a global caliphate, and this has been planned for a long, long time. So what was his campaign about? Well, what he did is he took all of these, you know, uh Palestinian demonstrators from the schools, you know, the ones that drank the Kool-Aid that are for socialism and communism. He took all of these illegals that are here and he basically said, if you want to win and you want to be free and you want free stuff, get out there, campaign for me, and go get the vote. Right? That's how he did it. That's how he overwhelmed New York City and garnished a 53 plus percent uh of tallies. And he won. He won. And people are starting to wake up here really quick, right? So, anyway, uh, you know, it was birthed as it all big government monstrosities are birthed. Okay, uh that that's how this thing starts, with false promises that it powers, uh, that its powers would never be abused. Going back to 1913, less than 1% of the population paid income tax, and the rate was 1%. A century later, the most productive members of society hand over a third or more of their earnings to federal bureaucrats who routinely get caught using government-issued credit cards to go boozing it up in strip clubs, right? So, once state income taxes, uh, you know, property taxes, sales taxes, regulatory burdens, and dozens of other government fees are added to the tab, hardworking Americans are lucky to keep half of what they earn. Right? Ask a New Yorker, what are they paying, you know, in taxes? Ask a cali uh uh somebody in California what they pay in taxes. I guarantee you it's 50% or better of what they earn goes to taxes and they live on the balance, right? That might seem like a bargain. Uh, you know, you know, 1%, that 1% right back in the day. If you live in a socialist France, but to the descendants of Americans who chucked the British redcoats back across the pond over a relatively low tax imposed without their permission, the effective tax rate for working Americans today is obscene. If General George Washington were still around, he would already be marching on the city that cloaks its ignomity under the public's respect for his name. Have you ever read the Internal Revenue Code? Have you? It's roughly 10,000 pages long. When you include regulations and official tax guidance, it's over 75,000 pages long. An average reader would require four months to page through all the different ways the federal government legalizes its theft of what you thought you owned. Within a labyrinth of chapters, subchapters, parts, sections, revisions, and steady growth of additional regulations and guidances, that sprouts like weeds. The federal government makes it almost makes it almost impossible for a layperson to understand his legal obligations to the Internal Revenue Service. That leaves most people three choices. The first being pay whatever the government demands, which most do. Two, uh pay a professional to figure out what is owed, which most people do, or say a quiet prayer to avoid an audit, which everybody does. It's a system designed to keep the public confused, backed by threats of fines and imprisonment. It empowers the federal bureaucracy to snoop into every American's private affairs. No taxation without representation used to mean that a person has no obligation to pay a tax if he's denied a representative voice in government. Now it means that most people have no idea how much they owe the government without at least a lawyer and an accountant representing their interests. Folks, as long as the federal government is shut down, let's disband the IRS. There's a novel idea.

unknown: 30:14

Right?

SPEAKER_00: 30:14

They're shut down. Let's just disband them. Right? It is nothing more than a bureaucratic weapon that allows government agents to spy on Americans' private transactions while keeping them in a permanent state of legal jeopardy. Democrats want to use this shutdown to coerce taxpayers to fund an even bigger government. It makes much more sense to take advantage of the government's time out by slashing the bureaucracy and returning a little freedom to the people. What say you? Make any sense? You get it? So, in essence, from my interpretation, after fleeing a communist country, what this really tells me is are you truly free? Are you truly free? I'd beg to differ different, right? I don't think so. We have we have privileges, large privileges, not rights. And those privileges can be taken away at any time. At any time. True freedom. True freedom, in my mind, starts with what? Sovereignty above all. But not just sovereignty for the country that you reside in, but personal sovereignty. Because under natural law, God's law, common law, whatever you want to coin it, you're only responsible for three things. Number one, did you commit murder? No. Okay. Number two, did you do harm to property? No. Number three, did you swindle anybody? No. That's it. Case closed. If none of those three apply to you, you're free. You're free to go. No more statutorial jurisdiction. Right? Traffic fines. You know, policeman pulls you over. Hey, uh, your tail light's out. I'm gonna write you a ticket. No. Sorry, this is private property. Have a nice day. You can't find this. That's their way of making commerce. They're they're here for one thing and one thing only to make money. They all are. The courts, officers of the courts, police officers that work, not and nothing bad against police officers. I love, I love my policemen, but I'm talking about the aspect of the law component here. Okay. Anything that you go to for court is your chances are if you don't have a representative, which is a lawyer, meaning you just gave up your right to speak. That's why they tell you remain silent, right? Let me do the talking because you just lost all your rights. You are a dead entity in front of the judge. You don't exist. Don't believe me? You're a straw man. We talk, I've talked about this on broadcast before, right? Go and check it out if you want to learn more. You're a dead entity. Right? You are a uh, let's see. You are a franchise of America Incorporated. Right? You're a franchisee. Okay. Meaning you're gonna pay. You're gonna pay. I don't care if it's fines, I don't care if it's taxes, I don't care, uh, you know, utility bills, uh, I don't care what it is, right? A mortgage, a house that you buy. It's a it's a false contract. There is no wet ink on it anywhere. Most of this shit's done electronically, but you gave consent. Once you give consent, you're screwed. Right? Same thing with automobiles, loans, all that stuff. Everything that we live for, everything that we purchase, everything. Right? I mean, you know, you go here, I'll give you an example. You go to the appliance shop. I need a microwave. Great, fantastic. Right? You purchase the microwave, you pay sales tax, right? Then later on, you pay, if it applies to where you live, you pay a county tax, then you pay a state tax, then you pay a federal tax. Right? Any transaction, any movement that you make that involves currency, you're gonna get taxed. It's not a one-time deal.

unknown: 34:40

Right?

SPEAKER_00: 34:40

Well, I paid sales tax. Oh, yeah, yeah, but it doesn't end there. You'll get taxed three or four times on the same thing that you just acquired, whatever the case may be. Right? Plus tax, plus tax, plus tax, plus tax, right? This entire system was created by these gangsters, in my opinion, for one thing and one thing only. To keep you under their thumb, keep you controlled, and keep you living from paycheck to paycheck, always slightly behind the eight ball. They're always in your back pocket. Always for something. Well, Armando, that's not necessarily true because you have wealthy people out there, you got rich people out there. Yeah, there are. Right? They figured stuff out, they worked hard, they came up with an invention, they came up with a patent, they they did something, and they amounted, you know, a lot of wealth. Um, and and that's the way it goes. But guess what? They pay taxes too. They do. Even they pay taxes. Well, unless you're, I think it was during uh uh Obama's uh tenure, you know, where he gave GE a complete pass on federal income taxes. I mean they paid zero, if you guys remember that. Uh, but um I'm telling you, it this this system needs to go away. It just does. It needs to go away. So I'm just gonna tell you this. If the federal government does not reopen again, if it never opens again, what that tells me is something is going on. Something is going on. And I'll give you a personal example. I just came across yesterday, right? So yesterday here in my household was bill pay uh day, right? It's beginning of the month, it's the seventh. Bill pay day, right? So I'm going through the bills, okay, power bill, gas bill, blah, blah, blah, you know, mortgage, the whole, the whole shebang, right? And I get to my favorite one, my kids' student loans, right? My kids' student loans. 17 grand left on that, all right? 120 bucks a month. And I don't mind sharing the numbers with you because this is true. I this is really true. So, Fed.gov, under the last administration, Biden's administration, uh, you know, put a lot of propaganda about there about debt relief, student debt relief, student uh loan debt relief. Yeah. Some people got it, some people didn't. Okay, but that wasn't foolproof. Supreme Court came down, hammered it, and said, nah, no, no, can't do it. Okay, so that went by the wayside. They still kept sending you mailers and emails and text messages saying, hey, want to get rid of your student debt? Apply here. You may qualify. No, didn't work. Here's what did happen. So when I get now into the third-party company, because Fed.gov went away and now went either stateside or it's now administered by an affiliate for uh uh for the government, right? I'm not gonna say the name of the company, but I log in and I'm looking at my student loan. Let me see, uh last balance. Yeah, last month. Yeah, yeah, last month was paid. Okay, great. All of a sudden, on there, I'm looking at the current balance due, right? Because it's due every month, usually on at the same, you know, on the same date. Um and I read a little note that is up there in the uh on the website there. And here's what it says no balance due at this time. Your loan has been put in admin forbearance. This is a temporary pause or reduction in federal student loan payments that is automatically applied by the loan servicer or department of education, which doesn't exist anymore. Okay, it was abolished. It is not something you request. In other words, I didn't ask for it, but rather is initiated by the lender, ready, due to administrative or technical issues, such as billing errors, processing delays, or my favorite, policy changes. Policy changes. During this period, payments are suspended and no interest accrues. Your loan will be activated and enforced once again, ready, July 1st of 2028. Folks, that's a little bit over three and a half years away. Which tells me what? What happens in 2028 presidential elections? Mm-hmm. Starting to connect the dots. What if it doesn't open again? Is it gonna go away? No tax on tips, no income tax, payroll tax, whatever kind of tax you want to talk about, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, so on and so forth. Folks, in my opinion, we are in a current transition back to the Republic. We got tariffs, right? I'm telling you, Trump is hellbent on getting us back to how we were. Maybe not with all the technology that we have and the current situation, you know, geopolitical shit and stuff like that. But constitutionally, it is in my humble opinion that that is the plan because shit like this does not happen by chance. I could understand them doing an admin forbearance for the above-stated, you had technical issues, or it's billing issues, or something whatever, internal to the company. Well, they would give it to another, they would, you know, some other company would take up the debt, would buy the debt, okay, and they would go ahead and start managing it. That usually takes what, 30 to 60 days. Legally, everything in the government happens. You they you're given 30 days time to resolve whatever it is, right? 30 days. That's that's that's common. That's the way it goes. But three and a half years in forbearance? Sorry, I find that a little bit hard to swallow. But anyway, I took a snapshot of the screen just in case, right? So technically I now have$120 more every month as mad money, right? To go do whatever$120 will get me today. You know? Um, I'm just saying, folks, start being a little bit more aware of your surroundings and what's going on uh with your everyday ins and outs. Things are changing. Things are changing and are changing at a very, very accelerated rate and not in a negative, but in the positive. Do we have negative stuff out there? Yeah, we do. Right? We got wars, we got drug trafficking, boats being blown up out in the in the in the ocean, you know, preventing drugs from getting in here, which is not a bad thing. It's a good thing, in my opinion, but it creates fear, it creates panic, it creates uncertainty that we're gonna go to war, which we're not. Okay, this is all smoke and mirrors. This is just power moves and power play because Trump ran on no wars. This is fifth-dimensional chess, is what he's playing right here. And he's three steps ahead of everywhere, right? He's going all around the world making deals, brokering this, brokering that, okay, and tariffs and money's pouring in. Peace. Eight wars done by this man. And he's done all this stuff in under a year's time, but people still hate him, people still talk bad about him. Because unfortunately, as I witnessed people in my former country when I was a kid growing up, okay, uh, when you drink enough of the Kool-Aid and you get used to getting free shit because you see no other way out of your current situation. Like, as an example, here in this country, currently, right now, the new generation, man, I got to shack up with three or four people or five because I can't afford my own place. It's too expensive. I can't afford to buy a home because it's too expensive. My job is not paying me enough money. Okay. That's where they're at. So when you're out there and you're preaching free this and free that and free this and no more taxes and no more this and no way, we're gonna give you everything for free. Which way are you gonna go? They're like, well, fuck it. You know, uh, I'm gonna go that route. Not knowing, not knowing that that is a band-aid on a wound that is gonna need stitches. Okay, take that from personal experience. Everything is sunshine and lollipops for the first, you know, 120 days, maybe six months, you know, it'll be a slow transition because it is America, right? They don't, it's not just a flip of a switch, right? Just to get people used to the free stuff so they continue, they can continue backing whoever is in charge, okay. In other words, wind them over times three, okay, and do their bidding and they don't care because they're getting free stuff, right? Free transportation, free rent, free food, you know, free whatever, right? No police, right? So I can go out and do whatever the hell I want. Empty jails. Boy, that's a good one, isn't it? Whatever. Everything comes at a price, everything comes at a cost. Communism only works for those that are in charge of it. But the people, sorry, they get the short end of the stick at the end of the day. You know, that's why my my one of my favorite sayings is I I would prefer to die standing than to live on my knees. I already lived on my knees. Lived on my knees until I was eight years old. Lost a lot of family members to this system. I know it like the back of my hand, and I see it coming. I've been watching it for a very, very long time, fester into what it is today. You don't want any of it. The people that are standing behind this commie in New York, they don't know what they're asking for. But you wait and see. When they run out of money, other people's money, when they run out of resources, it's gonna be put on the people to figure it out. And that next phase is what? Bartering under the table, black market operations, nothing to the state, no payments, no nothing, scrounging for everything, standing in long ass lines outside of the government-run grocery stores, just waiting to get inside to see if they can find something that they can buy if you can get in. If you can get in. Because no trucking is coming in, bringing supplies, so whatever. Take that from personal experience too. I stood on those long ass lines with my mom, okay, under a hot scorching sun all day. Sometimes we would get relief from a family member to take our place in line so we wouldn't lose our place. We would go home and get some sleep and then come back and relieve them because it was a two-day process only to find out that nothing came in. So everybody goes home. It's head games, right? Psychological psyops. It's keep you dependent, keep you fooled, continuous lying, giving you hope when there is no hope. This is what it is. This is what the system eventually becomes. Don't believe me? Look at the current situation right now in Venezuela. What the people are living under, and worse yet, look at the current people situation in Cuba right now. Okay, look at YouTube videos, life in Cuba today. Look at it. Garbage dumps, buildings decaying, people standing outside a baker or or or or a store waiting for hours just to get in and find something. Okay. 16 and 17-year-old girls selling themselves to tourists to be able to make money to buy something. They pimp out their own daughters. This is communism. That's the reality of the shit that it is. Oh, on paper, it's beautiful, man. But it doesn't work only for those in charge of it. And you have people like AOC, the squad, and all these idiots, you know, Schumer and all these, you know, and you know, uh, these idiots that I mentioned earlier, okay, that are behind the system. Why? Because they're in a panic mode. They're they're in fear that they're gonna lose control and a grip over we the people. They're gonna lose power. And if they lose power, they lose money. And that's what they don't want. We are in a spiritual revolution, ladies and gentlemen, and it's not just here in America. This is a global situation. Understand that. There is no difference between uh Sharia law, Islam, whatever the hell you want to call it, between that and communism. They are both the same. One's a zebra, one's a donkey or a horse, right? Their colors are a little different, but at its core, it's poisoned. That's what we're looking at here. This is what we have currently, right now. And it's being exposed. The mainstream media is just now starting to talk about, you know. Oh my god, look at this. Oh my god, that he won. Really? Yeah. That communist in New York won. Myself and others on my round table on this broadcast, not this, not this broadcast because it's new, but on my on my uh on my rumble channel. Okay. We've been talking about this for years. For years, ever since Obama's first term. Ever since his first term. I I'll never forget the day before he was elected for his first term, when he came out in the public space, national television, and he said, We are just five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America. My wife and I looked at each other and we went, oh shit, this guy's a communist. Transforming it into what? Into what we have currently today. Understand, we had eight years of that piece of shit. Then we had four years of, you know, weekend at Bernie's, you know, Sleepy Joe, you know, bite me, right? Who was the cherry on top, but who was really behind the scenes running everything? The agencies and Obama with the deep state, the NGOs, okay? The money people. You're the ones that got us to this point. Understand that. What we are up against, what's coming here in 2026, you had better be ready. You had better be prepared. You had better know and be very, very big on situational awareness. Because these people are not gonna go down without a fight. They already are fighting, they're already fighting. Okay, you need to keep a defensive posture, protect your family, protect your home, but you better prepare because darkness is coming. What do I mean by that? The lights are gonna go out. The lights are gonna go out. Understand who just took over our power grid. That would be BlackRock. You know, you have State Street, BlackRock, and Vanguard. They own everything on the planet, and I mean everything. So BlackRock just acquired our power grid. Well, what happens if they were to flip the switch? You know, at any given moment. And then say, well, the grid is down, part of the grid is down, so many people are affected. Uh, we're gonna work on it, and we're the only ones that can fix it because it's old, it's frail, and it was, you know, very vulnerable. Uh so we have the money, we have the means to go ahead and fix it and get it back online. When? How long is it gonna take? Is it wintertime? Are you gonna freeze to death? Or is it summertime? You have air conditioning or a fan. Well, no shit, and not unless it's running on batteries, right? Get yourself a solar generator. If you have no way of getting a solar generator, at least get yourself a gas powered generator. But just know this gasoline generators, and I have one myself, right? Because I don't like, I don't like the solar ones. They are they are good, but they're expensive. I got a gas generator, gasoline powered generator. And yes, they're noisy. You're basically sending a beacon that you have a generator, you have power, so therefore you might have food, you might have something. You're gonna get visitors. This is why it's important also to have firearms and lots of ammo, because you're gonna have to defend what's yours. Okay, I'm just telling you, I'm being real here. All right, be prepared, ladies and gentlemen. That whole thing about 10 days of darkness is now up to 30 days, or maybe even longer than that. But the probability, anything is possible. Anything is possible, right? But the probability based on metrics, on that being a reality, is very high up there right now as we speak. Right? You have former military, former uh intel agency people, right, all over X that have been sounding the alarm, ringing the bells. Prepare, prepare, prepare, prepare, get ready, get ready, get ready, get ready. Because the caliphate's here. It's coming. It's already started. The violence is already here. Everybody's seen it. We are living what we talked about five years ago and what we warned about five years ago. It is currently happening right now. But eh, you know, people are like, yeah, Armando, but you know, but that happens in the other places. It can't happen here, you know. Uh you know, this is kabuki theater. You know, that happens in the in the inner cities and stuff. Really? In the inner cities? No, not just the inner cities. It's gonna start happening more in rural areas. Why? Less cameras, less police presence, uh, more naive people. Okay, they're going to Mayberry RFD, where you can leave your bicycles in your front yard, nobody's gonna steal it, you know, your garage door open to keys in your pickup truck or in your car, you know, above the visor. Yeah, you better rethink that if you live in one of these areas. These people are coming to these areas because they know it's easy pickings. You know what I mean? And they're gonna come armed. You had better be ready. And I don't care where you live in the world, not just here in America. I don't care what country you live in right now. Everybody needs to be prepared because they're not gonna be in the inner cities too much longer. They will expand their reach and they're gonna be coming to rural areas. Just know that. Soft targets is what they want to hit. Shopping malls, flea markets, churches, wherever there's large sporting events, right? Wherever there's large people, large gatherings of people to inflict maximum harm. All right, and I don't want to be the fear-porn guy to spread that. I am just giving you reality. I'm giving you facts based on personal experience of what I went through when I was living under communism. Because I'm starting to see this freaking movie all over again. I've already watched the whole film, all of it. Most Americans have not watched the entire movie of what communism really is, or experienced it for that matter. They're starting to get the preview right now, the trailer is what they're actually seeing right now. The movie hasn't begun, but it will. And I am telling you, you better be ready. You had better be ready. For your dependency, for your family's dependency, for your well-being. Just know that it's coming. That's all I got for today, folks. Please like, share, subscribe, and above all, you know, give me a follow. Uh leave a comment, give it an honest review over on Spotify and over on Apple Podcasts. Okay, I would really appreciate it. It uh actually helps the show a lot. And uh, if you got value out of this, by all means, drop me an email. It's everything is in the description here on Buzz Sprout on the website there. And uh we'll see what happens. We'll come back next week and I'll give you a follow-up on some more uh juicy material as it unveils. And there is some juicy material coming next week. I promise you that because I already know I'm just waiting for clearance to be given to me so I can go to air with it. So, with that, as usual, my friends, thank you for stopping by. Thank you for listening. Keep your head on a swivel. As always, I always say this you know, keep your powder dry. And above all, God bless, and we will catch you guys on the next one. Take care.