Episode Details

Clint Russell of Liberty Lockdown discusses the inflation problem, the insane mortgage business, the J.D. Vance conundrum, and last but not least, that weird Israel provision in the NDAA.

In this wide-ranging conversation, Tom and Clint work through the economic devastation facing ordinary Americans — and the political class that either can't or won't fix it. A stat lit the fuse: the dollar has lost nearly 29% of its purchasing power in just six years. That's not an abstraction. It's why only 12% of Americans under 30 are both married and homeowners — compared to over 50% in the 1950s. Band-aids and rent controls won't fix it. Government-run grocery stores won't fix it. Only sound money and an end to central bank money printing will fix it — and neither party is willing to go there.

Clint draws on his years as a hard money mortgage broker to explain why the housing market is structurally broken, why mortgage rates above 7% have frozen buyers out entirely, and why the "fix" being floated — 50-year mortgages — is just a mechanism to get the next generation into permanent debt servitude rather than bring prices down.

Then the conversation turns to the NDAA. Buried in the defense bill is Section 219, a provision that would formally intertwine American and Israeli military-industrial infrastructure — co-developing defense technology, sharing IP, and making the relationship effectively permanent. Clint breaks down exactly what it means and why he called it treason.

From there: J.D. Vance's Joe Rogan appearance, the Epstein rabbit hole that went nowhere politically, Trump's pivot to the neocon establishment, the Butler, Pennsylvania assassination attempt and what it may have meant for Trump's willingness to fight back, and the future of the America First movement — including who might actually carry the torch in 2028.

(Ep. 2783 of the Tom Woods Show)

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