The Jason Stapleton Program

It's caucus season!

Tonight, we find out who will be right.

Jason says Bernie's support skews young. His voters talk a big game, so he polls well. But they won't show up to actually vote for him. Because they're lazy… which is why they're so enamored with the laziest man in politics.

So he'll probably flop tonight, says Jason.

Matt, on the other hand, says people underestimate Bernie's broad appeal. He's generally likable, in a grouchy old man sort of way. And lots of people see him as a principled man who's fighting the machine. Plus, a guy like Joe Rogan saying he'd probably vote for him is a big deal.

So he should be the current favorite, says Matt.

However, both guys agree on Andrew Yang. His supporters are rabid. And his message is simple, positive, and easy to support for a lot of people. I mean, who doesn't want an extra thousand bucks?!

No matter what happens tonight, people are probably underestimating the impact Yang will have.

What do you think?

Do you agree with Mr. Don't Doubt Me? Or does Matt have the edge here?

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America currently has around $98 trillion in total household wealth. And, according to a study from the National Bureau Of Economic Research, the wealthiest 20 percent of the country owns 90 percent of that wealth.

However, is that a bad thing? Bernie Sanders thinks so, of course. He says it's a sign of the injustice of the American economy.

But there's nothing wrong with a fraction of people owning most of the wealth. As long as they earned it.

And that's the key point right there. No one cares if other people are rich. No one complains when movie stars, athletes, and musicians make millions and millions of dollars. In fact, no one cares that Bernie himself is a millionaire. People are perfectly fine with rich people if they think they earned their wealth.

Bernie is right, in a sense. America DOES have a problem of wealthy elites sitting on piles of unearned wealth. The problem is, he's one of them. And he's running on a platform that would just empower them even more.

People like Bernie want to convince you that you're screwed without him there to point a gun at someone and tell them to pay for your stuff. Because that's how he makes his living: through lies and extortion in the pursuit of power.

The real measure of health in an economy is economic mobility. Are you trapped in your income bracket? Or do you control just how far into that top 20 percent you can go?

You won't hear this anywhere else. But you don't need politicians to save you from poverty. If you're reading this, you're already wealthier than the vast majority of humans in all of history. And you have the tools at your disposal RIGHT NOW to teach yourself the skills you need to ensure your freedom.

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Have you been paying attention lately? If so, you've watched the media teach a master class on propaganda.

Russiagate was the silly conspiracy theory that dominated the news since 2016. It taught us all a valuable lesson. The corporate press is in the business of clickbait and manufactured hysteria. They use it for two reasons. First, to boost their bottom line. And second, to amplify propaganda based in fear & manipulation to control your mind in order to further the interests of the political elite.

So that context must inform the way you interpret the reporting surrounding the now-infamous coronavirus.

Because of that, I want to teach you about a concept called "number manipulation." For years, marketers have used this technique to control the way you perceive new information. And now I'm seeing it all over the news.

To me, that's a big red flag. It means someone has a specific narrative they want you to believe so they can get something from you.

So what I want to know is, whose narrative is the corporate press spreading? And what do they want from you & me?

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First things first. If you're on Twitter, you probably saw yesterday that I stirred up some controversy with my tweets about Kobe Bryant. Nobody understood what I was saying, so I clarified my position on the show today. 

Kobe's tragic death was the big news of the weekend, but today everyone was abuzz about the release of a new book.

You see, the DC Beltway in the post-Russiagate world is a land of unprecedented levels of shameless grifting. American politics has always been a honeypot for con men. But when they realized they're sitting upon an immense cash cow, everyone lined up to cash in.

And the next man up is former National Security Advisor and perpetual warmonger John Bolton.

The Mustache is FINALLY releasing his new memoir, awkwardly titled The Room Where It Happened. I don't know about you guys, but I've DEFINITELY been waiting anxiously to hear what John Bolton has to say about Trump's Ukraine call!

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The corporate press is in the business of manufacturing hysteria and profiting from clickbait. Their business model demands it, because their incentives demand it.

This is doubly true in the internet age. So many things are fighting for your attention around the clock. It's getting harder & harder for each outlet to stand out from the crowd.

That's why you need to view the narrative surrounding this Chinese coronavirus "pandemic" through a very skeptical lens.

Words like "PANDEMIC" and phrases like "65 MILLION COULD DIE" are guaranteed to get your attention. After all, that's why we used them in today's title!

But you need to understand why the corporate press uses them. It's not because they're concerned with accurately reporting the news. It's because they're trying to manipulate you.

Meanwhile, the Democrats and the media have united in declaring that Trump is guilty of "abuse of power." And that's why he should be impeached, they say.

Here's the problem: those people don't care about reporting honest facts any more than the people reporting on the Chinese "pandemic."

In fact, in many cases, it's the exact same people! They're just seeking to manipulate you and your beliefs to suit their own ends. For some of them, that means incentivizing you to click on their headlines. For others, it means motivating you to vote for their favorite politicians.

Here is the great irony of the impeachment hearings:

Trump is accused of abusing his power by manipulating others to promote his own interests ahead of the interests of the American people. Yet his accusers are guilty of THE EXACT SAME THING.

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When Donald Trump first announced his run for president way back in 2015, everyone laughed at the idea of a "reality TV show president."

Well, now the joke's on them. Because this whole impeachment charade is just a silly reality TV show, with dumber, older, uglier contestants.

We touched on it briefly on today's show. Then we moved on to more interesting topics!

Have you heard about Tulsi Gabbard's defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton? It tells us a lot about the state of the legal system. Plus, we pushed back against the recent hysteria about a Chinese flu pandemic.

Finally, we wrapped with a discussion about the American housing market.

The recession is coming. Most people are going to focus on everything they have to lose. But if your mind is right, there's no better time to make yourself extremely wealthy than during a recession. You have to train yourself to know where to look. Once you do, you'll see opportunities all around you.

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That title probably made you double take. If so, mission accomplished: I got your attention.

Wealthy powerful Americans use all sorts of schemes to game the system. Michael Bloomberg is using one of the most profitable schemes of all.

He spoke out against "racial income inequality" on Sunday at an African episcopal church in Tulsa, the day before MLK Jr Day. The former mayor announced his new economic plan for "incentivizing investment in underserved communities."

But let's cut through the euphemisms.

Bloomberg's not talking about cutting a check to poor inner-city Americans. Like every politician before him, he plans to take money from other Americans to bribe rich developers to build businesses & housing that inner-city residents could never afford.

In this current scheme, the target is black Americans. But the principle is the same for anyone.

Those who have succeeded in gaming the system--like Bloomberg--don't want you to know that your success is entirely in your own hands. They want you to believe that you're dependent, that you need a political messiah to rescue you.

Meanwhile, the system they claim represents your best interests is the very system that gave Willie Nash 12 years in a cage for having a cell phone.

It's a story as infuriating as it is hard to read.

Your freedom is a consequence of your power, and your wealth determines your power.

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Over the course of the next year, you will be inundated with sales pitches.

Your mind will be under attack from every political party. Every one of them wants you to believe that they alone hold the key to true freedom. They will promise you the moon.

But they won't tell you what it costs. Because they don't want you to realize that you already hold the key to acquiring whatever degree of freedom you desire.

In fact, it's a simple formula. Your freedom is directly tied to your wealth. And your wealth is measured in time.

So today I want to introduce you to a new way to think about money.

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It's election season!

Yet another Democratic primary debate. Yet another round of losers outdoing each other to see who can bankrupt America the fastest.

Make up a problem in our society, and I guarantee Bernie Sanders has a government program to "solve" it!

In fact, his latest scheme might be his most laughable. He recognizes that his Medicare-for-All scam would eliminate millions of insurance jobs. Not to worry! He'll just create a government re-education program to train them in new industries.

Of course, we're the ones who are going to pick up the tab for it.

That's right: the man who has never generated a single thing of value in his life thinks he has the right to outlaw private health insurance, plunder us to pay for Medicare-for-All, and then plunder us even further to pay for retraining everyone he just put out of work.

All of these elected professional crooks know one thing very well: money is power. As long as they can invent enough schemes to separate you from your money, they can keep themselves in power over you.

It's up to you to make yourself so valuable that nothing they can do can touch your ability to generate money for yourself.

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One of Donald Trump's most unique traits is the connection between his brain and his mouth. In other words, whatever enters his brain exits his mouth.

People think he makes the presidency look bad.

But I think it's a good thing. Here's why.

He occupies an office with a long history of blatant lies & propaganda. For years, we've listened to presidents obscure the truth. They certainly have great sales pitches as they appeal to our patriotism. But they're lying all the same.

Generations of young Americans have died believing they were fighting for "freedom & democracy." But really, they're just fighting wars for oil rights and dying for the expansion of the American empire.

Now, we finally have a president who tells it like it is. I'm sure whomever is elected after him will get right back to the lies & propaganda.

So I'm going to enjoy hearing the truth while it lasts.

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