Trump Tries To Bribe The American People As The Gov’t Is Choking To Death On The National Debt
Tom breaks down why Trump’s proposed $1.3 trillion in $5,000 checks is ‘the most absurd way to get back into office’ — and why the bond market is already flashing distress as the 10-year races past 4.9%. Plus: the Houthis seizing the Red Sea, Anthropic’s alarming AI threat report, and the unlearned lessons of 9/11, 25 years on.
0:00 Intro
1:07 $5K Checks & the Deficit Trap
33:03 Middle East: Straits Getting Gobbled Up
01:06:00 Anthropic’s AI Threat Report
1:24:10 Kimmel Gets FCC Threat Over Talarico Inverview
01:42:53 9/11 Twenty-Five Years Later
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@jasonhague5745
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
What does it say about our president that he would attempt to bribe Americans opinions to vote Republican with our own tax dollars, and yet if he had the money in our government coppers to give us he is literally saying he’ll only give it to us if we do what he wants us to do. This is a dictator move no question about it. I firmly believe it is a lie because all he’s worried about his maintaining control of the Congress until the end of his term so he doesn’t have anything to worry about and he doesn’t care how angry Americans are when they don’t get any checks for their votes, but on the extreme off chance that it is not a lie, I think Americans would be disappointed to find out that his promise is delivered in the form of something like a $200 tax credit spread out over the next 25yrs! If he actually mailed checks, it would only serve to inflate our money supply even more driving up the cost of everything even further so in reality, it wouldn’t even be $5000 worth of spending cause it wouldn’t stretch that far.
@tembavj
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
There is only one country that benefits from war in Iraq and war in Iran. In that lies the problem
@OreabetsoeRefiloeMosikare
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
❤️ White.
@jimcourville6722
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
3.4% inflation means our 40 trillion debt will be 3.4% easier to pay down. — 3.4% of 40 trillion $ is 1.3 trillion $. — so we break even in $. — While that $3.4 trillion dollars will strengthen the economy for long enough to build factories to produce items that we now import, and we will now be able to export, — Both of those things save us money and stimulate the economy.
@Daniel-b6q1g
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Tom you ignore history you ignore facts you throw out “word” that demonize and are meaningless. You’re an embarrassment to the real practitioners of Root Cause and Effect Analysis!
@andresll.9366
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
They bail the banks, they bail Ai techs, they bail the insurance and the hedge funds… They spend trillions doing it… But now they bail the US citizens and it is terrible?
People are about to loose what ever little they have. 5000 will help a long stretch. They will spend that trillion somewhere else … Better to give it to the people…
@henrythegreatamerican8136
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
But Tom! I thought your stable genius of a president was playing 5-D chess as he "bravely" took action against the evil middle eastern terrorists who despise the USA because of our freedoms!!!
Please tell me he is ready to unleash this 5-D chess plan at any moment. Or what about that healthcare plan he's been ready to unleash for over a decade.
And no…. I'm not watching these podcasts because time and time again you've proven your right wing bias in how you treat the wrongdoings of this administration to the previous one.
I'd honestly rather watch AI slop.
@Lisachequer
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Omg, I been thinking this way the last few days, without being how to articulate. Love this conversation that will reach so many. Thank you!!!
@HarlieQuestionsEverything
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Love you man but the whole Biden sent checks to vote for him is pure bs man. Completely wrong context 100%
@Brian-bw5hj
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
You irked me with the bad algebra last show but I can’t keep away. Sorry Tom but you should be able to explain variables better you literally deal with calculus every day even if you don’t know you do. I do love you guys. 2 new bumper stickers: (Drew’s) or (Tom’s) words do not express what I think.
@leegumprecht8633
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
One time tax on wealth will be a direct attack our economy. It will drain industry investment and innovation will stall.
Printing trillions cant work on its own either .
We must reign in spending too, or inflation will strangle our economy.
@Harv-ul9fz
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Tom read Genesis about childbirth
@tbanks777
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Hey he had someone on of the other side 10 years ago it’s fine! Lmao
@tonypascoaljr6898
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Happy AIPAC day, everybody!
As for the 5K for everyone – sounds a lot better than what they normally spend money on. Should do it three times a year and stop welfare and other garbage.
@sindsu
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Social security makes up a big part of the debt. It's common knowledge among those in the social security universe that getting rid of the social security cap of $184,500 and making people pay into social security after they get beyond that amount would solve 77% of the problem. That along with a slight raise in the retirement age would solve the problem for generations. Very simple but most politicians aren't willing to make that proposal. At this point there's one Democrat and one Republican that both back this idea. Warren and Moreno
@kaimorf6209
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Mute point. Trump is a liar.
Any one who believes him is a fool.
@c.a.mcgregor6973
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
According to AI, there is no credible evidence that Biden offered $1200 dollar checks if democrats won seats in Georgia during those elections. Come on Tom.
@Andrew_Whitney
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Just finished paying off all my debt for my lawn mowing business. doubled my revenue for the year and being extremely frugal with expenses. I left the stock market and taking all of this podcast has to offer to heart
@analyticalp3593
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Companies that loan usd against one’s assets, one of them is only making it convenient to pay them the interest and fees back using usdt or usdc when the loan matures. Where before you could pay them back in usd any time you wanted using a wire without the possibility of them liquidating any of your assets if your usd wire should not get there in time but before there wasn’t a deadline to pay back the interest and fees now there is. The new rules make people buy us treasuries by purchasing tether or usdc and if you don’t then you have to time your usd wire perfectly so you don’t get any of your asset liquidated. The paying in usdt or usdc also is a taxable event so now I have to report at tax time..
@BlackPillPirate
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Only God himself can fix this ponzi!
@geo6892000
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Kimmel has Republicans on .05% of the time. Clear grounds to take him off the air. They have been warned in the past. Next will be The View if they dont change.
@459-hmmm
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
technologies can detect buried pipelines from the air
@bigcauc7530
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
I immediately said this when I heard of his announcement about 5k. I immediately mentioned 40t in debt and said this is not happening at all. The only way this happens is if we started paying down the debt successfully. Instead, we've gone from I think 33t to 40 in a few years. At this point, the dollar will collapse in no less than a decade. We've reached a tipping point and I think we're all fucked and the rich don't care because they're building luxury bunkers to ride the fallout comfortably.
@An_Individual_On_The_Internet
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
13:15 You know taxing wealth would result in lower asset prices? Letting the middle class get on the asset ladder.
FWIW: Plan would be 2% wealth tax for people worth more than $10 million.
@BlackPillPirate
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
No bell notification again!! 🤬
@witchontheroof
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Don't worry, trump (those that control him) has a plan to force us all out of our dollars and into CBDCs. They clearly stated this is their plan to get the US out of debt in the very beginning. They will then have total control. The elite will get richer and screw the rest of us.
@shadownight117
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
@tom bilyeu
if they lose the house or senate in the mid terms, they can kiss there chances of fixing the US good bye.
if bribing the american people to get them across the finish line is needed, then thatss what they will do. because if they loose. the end of America is 100% absolute because they want to bring it about?
@evelynsfavorites7366
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Talking about dumb as a box of rocks–there are plenty of good videos and podcasts to educate you about the inside job that 911 was
@brianmrogan
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
You miss titled Trump broke the middle east
@AnotherAmerican91
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Only republicans seal clap for trump shit
@buddytaylor5679
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
It Kanaka would have been a disaster! Smh
@michaelryan3693
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
That kid with the red hair is a grade a dip shit. He seems to want to appeal to women that will never sleep with him
@ArmchairExpert76
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Civil war 2008
@r2dad282
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Nobody cares about fiscal responsibility. Everyone's convinced other people will pay for all this nonsense. By the time congress decides something should prolly be done-ish, a bond crisis will force this issue and those terms won't be favorable. This is not a Democrat/Republican issue, this is a swamp vs real economy conflict. At some point, the normies will just give up and then communists and anarchists will really have something to complain about.
@stephengee4182
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Democrats use money to help people, republicans use money to help themselves. The answer is obvious chose the party that funds healthcare, social security and others forms of economic infrastructure. That is why life expectancy is greater in democratic led states and districts than republican states and districts. That us why states with a 1% increase in effective tax rate has a 0 5% increase in life expectancy. If you can't see that, then sit the election out until you figure things out.
@dirkcauley4172
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
I don’t identify republican or democrat. But thinking that because the democrats are more “populist” they’re going to be worse for the economy, or this country, is funny. The republicans have had all three chambers and the supreme court for almost two years. Are we better off? We’re in a war nobody wanted. Have alienated most of our allies. Mainly by slapping illegal tariffs on them. Which are just a tax on us by the way. Inflation is out of control, diesel just topped $6 a gallon so that’s only going to get worse. We have an ungoverned armed group of masked men violating the constitution and rounding people up. Not to mention killing U.S. citizens. Meanwhile the president isn’t even trying to hide all the ways he’s stealing from us. The elite are getting richer and building out AI to basically replace us and control those that are left. But let’s blame the populist who aren’t in power outside of NYC.
@GenerationXennial
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Taxes aren't communism you rich prick. Another rich fuck telling us why we can't have anything nice. Piss off Tom.
@AlexHeavenOnEarth4U2C
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Trump lying. Other politicians can offer $10K for votes. They'll all lie! People hate Trump. It doesn't matter what he promises.
@scotthansen7565
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Bessent was clapping while trump was announcing the 5k checks, nobody can tell the king no.
@sherwinhulley4921
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
They will issue the $5000 as Stablecoin to get everyone onto the new system. Can’t you see that’s going on? This is their “master plan” to fix the bond crisis. Create a new bond market with Private banks as the new lenders because governments are done trusting the dollar.
@garyfaris
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Unless JK puts Paxton on, any other conservative would be seen as irrelevant.
@BULLTRONHERO
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
1. Democrats saying "vote for us and we'll give you free healthcare" is a bribe for votes as well, and would actually cost more than the $5k dividend.
2. Open borders and child sex changes are worse than overspending, thank you and have a nice day.
@Daniel-b6q1g
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
I’m 78’ on Social Security my Medicare Part B Medical Insurance is $202.90 a month my Anthem Blue Cross Medicare Supplemental Insurance is $549.00
Fuck That Shit!
@dirkcauley4172
September 11, 2026 at 10:36 pm
Anyone dumb enough to believe Trump will actually send them shouldn’t be allowed to vote. Still waiting on those tariff dividend and doge checks. Those with this new round of $5k would be $12k total promised and not delivered. He’s a con artist and all he wants is to keep lining his pockets for another two years.
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