Investigative journalist and author Jim Simpson joins Justin to expose the coordinated efforts to destabilize America—from Marxist ideologies and radical movements like BLM and Antifa, to the weaponization of environmentalism and economic sabotage. Drawing from his latest book, Manufactured Crisis: The War to End America, Jim connects the dots and shares how these threats intersect with the political war against Donald Trump and the America First movement. It’s a must-listen for anyone who wants to understand what’s really going on—and what we can do to fight back.

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[00:00:00] Jim Simpson: If you do what they like, suddenly they love you. Right? If you do what they don’t like, then suddenly they hate you. Mm-hmm. It’s all tactical. You know, the, the, the, the true believers, if you will, which I would say are the Antifa, BLM types.

[00:00:18] Jim Simpson: A lot of the people in the media, a lot of the people, uh, the professors in universities, most of whom are Marxists, but the fact of the matter is the true believers are what Lenin called the useful idiots.

[00:00:32] Justin: Get ready to strap in, it’s going to be a heck of a ride. It’s like drinking from a fire hose. Never a dull moment. But yes, you’ll hear the stories you won’t hear anywhere else, and we appreciate you being here with us for today. I’m Justin Barclay.

[00:00:50] Justin: Yeah, welcome into it today, another big one. And, uh, look, we’re seeing a lot happened right now since President Trump’s got into the office. There’s been a number of, of really great things [00:01:00] he’s done, but he’s really up against it and what. Is it? Well, the manufactured crisis, Jim Simpson on Trump’s Battle Against America’s Enemies.

[00:01:10] Justin: Today we’re gonna dive deep, talk about some of the things you’re seeing as recent as now, and then some of the things that we’ve been seeing in the years leading up to this. Jim’s got a new book out, he’s no stranger to this program, the Glen Beck program, uh, and the folks at the Ottawa County Republicans who he’s.

[00:01:26] Justin: Uh, been visited with several times. He’s back. We’re gonna talk about that here in just a little bit as well. The new book, manufactured Crisis, the War to End America. What are we seeing? What, what has that been and what are the solutions for it all as we welcome Jim to the program today. Jim, thank you so much for taking the time to be here with us.

[00:01:47] Justin: Uh, this is. Like I said, this is something that has been going on in the background. You, you’ve been an investigative journalist and author, former White House analyst. You got decades of experience in government politics, [00:02:00] national security. You’ve written, uh, numerous books and in fact, um, you know, I, I, I think your, your work on Karl Marx, and that’s, I think that’s where I first maybe got to know you and, and Glen covered.

 

   

 

[00:02:14] Justin: All of these things that we see watching happen out in front of our face. And we’ve, as Americans kind of had that dog tilt look with our heads, kind of tilt to the side when the dog hears a noise and well, what is this? This is something weird that’s going ’cause it’s, it’s all anti common sense, which is very, very, I think, perplexing, peculiar for us.

[00:02:34] Justin: Um, but you’ve written extensively on all of these things from the rise in all of these movements, the Marxist socialist movements to the weaponization of environmentalism. Economic sabotage and some of that we’re watching right now play out with, uh, Tesla, which has been interesting to see all of it, including BLM, Antifa, all of this, it all comes back to one place and you do a fantastic job of really, [00:03:00] uh, walking us through that.

[00:03:01] Justin: So let’s talk about it today. Welcome in Jim. Good to see you. Hey Justin. Thanks for having me. 

[00:03:06] Jim Simpson: Great to be with you. Yeah, it’s crazy what is going on, but it really, I. That’s what they want. Yeah. That’s the whole, that’s the whole goal is to make us crazy. The whole idea is to take the truth and stand it on its head, and I mean, this is.

[00:03:27] Jim Simpson: Not a new strategy for the left. And when I talk about the left, what I’m really talking about is, uh, the communist movement, the worldwide communist movements, to be clear. And the American version is just a. Subculture. It’s a component of that worldwide movement, and it is in alignment with and following the Communist Chinese and the, what I still call the [00:04:00] Soviet Union, uh, even though now we’re all supposed to call it Russia, but it’s all part and parcel of the same thing.

[00:04:09] Jim Simpson: And I just wanna read real quickly, one. Excerpt from my book because this was something, uh, this is a paraphrase of what Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union said way back in the early 19 hundreds, and he said, deepen the contradictions. Exacerbate existing crises problems, social and ethnic differences, and disparities, opinions, discrepancies, et cetera.

[00:04:45] Jim Simpson: And if they don’t exist, create them. Or if you can’t create them, convincingly claim that they exist. And then deepen them. And in the process, profit the most from them in any way you can, politically, ideologically, and especially for the left, the most important, [00:05:00] uh, financially to bankroll them and make them wealthy at our expense and in the resulting chaos, blame our enemies for the whole mayhem and finally come up with solutions.

[00:05:13] Jim Simpson: That will favor us and it will be the root of new future crises to be exploited in the future and so on until the targeted capitalist society is destroyed completely to then build under Bolshevik supervision and control a socialist economy on root to communism. And that’s right where we are today.

[00:05:35] Justin: You know, it’s funny ’cause you, you, you’ll go back in the history to prove these things out. But one of the funny things is, and I can’t help, but I’m just looking at the cover of your book and I’m, I’m just floored by this, but look at it. Yeah. It literally is a picture of what we’re seeing right now in the middle.

[00:05:51] Justin: Like it, uh, it could be some sort of, you know, electric vehicle, maybe even a Tesla. And there’s fires burning everywhere. You got mobs on the streets and [00:06:00] Jim, it’s like prophetic. The book is crazy to see that. It really is. Yeah. It’s what watching play out 

[00:06:05] Jim Simpson: right now, isn’t it? Yeah, no, absolutely. And in the book, I go through pretty much every single crisis that they have inflicted on us since the 1920s.

[00:06:17] Jim Simpson: I mean, you know. The communists were targeting. Blacks in the 1920s, uh, they saw that as the perfect way to begin to, uh, divide us or to exacerbate the, uh, differences and the uh, uh, conflicts that. Already existed and that was the perfect place to start for them. I mean, most people don’t know that the, uh, national Association for the Advancement of Colored People was created by White Socialists.

[00:06:54] Jim Simpson: There was only one black on the staff at all. His name was [00:07:00] WEB Du Bois. And as you all know, he’s become, you know, sort of the icon of the, uh, left for the blacks. And, uh. Interestingly, he was the editor of their news magazine, which guess what it was called? The Crisis. Wow. Uh, yeah. And he became a communist later on in his life.

[00:07:25] Jim Simpson: And, and even the N-A-A-C-P threw him out because. He was making them look so bad because he was so obviously radical that, uh, uh, it, it, it really gave them a bad image. They had the same idea in mind, but, um, but, but they didn’t want that to be so obvious. 

[00:07:48] Justin: It really is interesting because as you, you make that point, and I, I think to myself, um, you know, this, this type of, uh, strategy has been going on for a long time now, and by the [00:08:00] way.

[00:08:00] Justin: Hmm. Um, we get the same criticism when whenever you criticize or point any of these things out, they immediately trot out the same tired thing they call you. Every, I used to say, they call you every T in the book. You’re racist, you’re sexist, you’re you. You’re aist. Yeah, you’re aist. 

[00:08:20] Jim Simpson: Yeah. Well, you know, interesting.

[00:08:22] Jim Simpson: I. Uh, a video the other night, um, a little short Instagram where one of, uh, Trump’s uh, advisors, or one guy that decided to throw his weight behind him was this leftist who was, uh, involved with the Biden administration and he was in a meeting where they described. When Harris won, what they were going to do and what they were gonna do was eliminate all small business and put a few chosen corporations [00:09:00] under the government wing.

[00:09:01] Jim Simpson: Yeah. To be totally controlled by the government and it would be the government. And these corporations that were essentially owned by the government. And what most people don’t know is that that is the exact definition of fascism, right? That’s what fascism is. Uh, that it was created, um, by Benito Mussolini.

[00:09:27] Jim Simpson: Who was a communist, but knew he couldn’t get elected as a communist in Italy back in the 1920s. So he created this new idea that, well, okay, corporations could stay, uh, in existence. They weren’t gonna confiscate everything, however, they would put them all under government control. And so it became a, a, a little bit less, uh, scary sounding than, um.

[00:09:56] Jim Simpson: Then communism. And so he was elected and [00:10:00] then, uh, Hitler followed suit and created the National Socialist Party, the Nazis, which was just the same thing. And so what the left really is, I mean, that description is a perfect description of fascism, but really at its heart, it is all communism. 

[00:10:22] Justin: This story, uh, goes back and again, uh, over time as, as, uh, as you bring the facts, you bring the history to back it up.

[00:10:29] Justin: I think it’s so important for people to understand, because we’re in a fight today. This war is, is raging in our streets. And of course in the media, we’re watching this every single day. But it has roots. It goes back and. In the history of all of this. Um, let’s talk about it. ’cause I think maybe somebody listening to this may for the first time really be coming to Grip.

[00:10:49] Justin: So that, can you tie that, the connection there, BLM, Antifa, some of these radical environmentalists, I think. It’s never been more [00:11:00] apparent in some of the memes I’ve seen Jim, that really point this out, uh, do a fantastic job saying, you know, these, these folks, they were, they were all about these electric vehicles at one point, and now all of a sudden they’re burning these things.

[00:11:16] Justin: They’re saying, we gotta save the planet, and now they’re burning this. Yeah. So these memes do a fantastic job of pointing it. It was never about the environment, it was always about control and vice versa with these other. Uh, groups. It was never about racism. You know, it was always about control. Make that tie for us so that people can understand that.

[00:11:36] Jim Simpson: Yeah, no, it, it’s always been about control and division. It’s always been about finding fractures in our society and then exacerbating them. Most importantly, attacking our Judeo-Christian culture and tearing it down because, you know, [00:12:00] while uh, Marx said that religion is the opiate of the masses, the fact of the matter was that they all recognized that our culture, our strong Christian nation.

[00:12:14] Jim Simpson: Our Judeo-Christian heritage we’re the source of our strength. They were the inspiration for the US Constitution, right? Uh, which was inspired by God in my, uh, mind. And, um, they knew that that was the best way to destroy us. And in fact, uh, in the 1920s, one of, um. Vladimir Lenin’s Close Associates was a guy named Willie Manenberg and he said, we must organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilization stink because only then when we have corrupted.

[00:12:53] Jim Simpson: All its values and made life impossible. Can we impose the dictatorship of the [00:13:00] proletariat? Of course, meaning communism, and that is what he inspired, uh, what I’m sure you know, called Frankfurt School, the School for Social Research in Frankfurt, Germany, which. Left Germany in 1933 when Hitler, um, took power and they were relocated at Columbia University Teacher’s College in New York City where they created something called Critical Ferry.

[00:13:29] Jim Simpson: I. And critical theory came out of the mind of Marx when Marx says, we are here to, we don’t care about conditions of the current world. Which is kind of ironic because, uh, when he wrote the Communist Manifesto, it was all about curing yields of the world and liberating the, uh, proletariat, but. He was really talking about was a ruthless criticism of everything existing and so critical theory, [00:14:00] which was first, uh, described in a 1937.

[00:14:04] Jim Simpson: Um. Uh, article by the CRI by the Frankfurt School, uh, communists, um, described how they would criticize everything existing about our country, and then they broke it down into ever smaller parts so they could create divisions within division. So they created critical race theory, critical legal theory, which is now the primary, um.

[00:14:36] Jim Simpson: Uh, source of legal education at institutions throughout the United States. They have stopped teaching constitutional law. Instead, they’re teaching critical legal theory, and I go into that in great depth in the, uh. In the book, it’s everywhere you look. [00:15:00] They’re looking to create division. They’re looking to create hatred.

[00:15:05] Jim Simpson: And you know, and, and as I’ve, I said in my Marks book, and as I can repeat here, you have to understand something about them, you know? If you do what they like, suddenly they love you. Right? If you do what they don’t like, then suddenly they hate you. Mm-hmm. It’s all tactical. You know, the, the, the, the true believers, if you will, which I would say are the Antifa, BLM types.

[00:15:33] Jim Simpson: A lot of the people in the media, a lot of the people, uh, the professors in universities, most of whom are Marxists, um, you know, they believe. The idea of Marxism, you know, the idea that we should all be equal and everybody should have an equal share and everybody will be happy. But the fact of the matter is the true believers are what Lenin called the useful idiots.

[00:15:59] Jim Simpson: Mm-hmm. Who are the [00:16:00] people that would promote their cause and allow them? To seize absolute power, which is all they ever cared about. And of course, the wealth that goes with it, uh, it it, it’s the same story since Adam and Eve. You know, when Satan said, ye shall be as gods, that’s what they want and that’s what motivates them.

[00:16:24] Jim Simpson: And the people, 90% of the people who are follow, uh, this, uh, leftist, uh, agitation and, uh, agenda, uh. Don’t even know what they’re really, uh, supporting. Right. ’cause if they did, they would be horrified. And this guy that listened to what they were planning in the White House before the election, he, he was asked, he was on with Joe Rogan and Joe Rogan said, so what did you do?

[00:16:56] Jim Simpson: He said, I went out and became a Trump [00:17:00] supporter because he knew what they were planning was absolutely insane. 

[00:17:08] Justin: Jim Simpson with us now. And, uh, that other book that he just mentioned, who was Karl Marx, the Men, uh, and, uh, the Motives and the Menace Behind Today’s Rampaging American left. Another great one to pick up, but Jim, I just couple things here.

[00:17:23] Justin: Yeah. The critical theory and the criticism of everything in society, in the country, and just, just everything in general. I always, I’ve always noticed that everyone that has criticism and everyone that has. Uh, problems with where we are today. It kind of feels like it really ties into me with like Maslow’s hierarchy of needs in that pyramid and the, the higher you go up.

[00:17:45] Justin: So I’ve always felt like the better you have it, the more likely you are and the more able you are to criticize things. Yeah, true. And to me it’s a, it’s [00:18:00] a, it’s an obvious, uh, failure because. If things weren’t so good, you wouldn’t be able to take the time and the energy to, to find things that you had problems with.

[00:18:11] Justin: So you, you know, you at the bottom, it’s, it’s, you know, safety and security and, and shelter and food and water and clean air and all that. But the, the higher up you go, you get to self-realization and all these things. All that stuff. Yeah. But if things were so bad, you wouldn’t be able to sit and have these conversations about I’m so oppressed.

[00:18:31] Jim Simpson: Yeah. 

[00:18:32] Justin: No, because the fact is if you were truly oppressed, you wouldn’t be able to have the conversation at all. 

[00:18:38] Jim Simpson: Yeah, no, absolutely. Right. And, uh, that’s, that’s the thing. They just don’t get, and you know, that’s the, and unfortunately, you know. They stopped teaching about communism very early on because very early on, the communists recognized that control, culture, control of society, they need to [00:19:00] control the high ground in all the institutions of culture.

[00:19:03] Jim Simpson: And of course, that was the idea of Antonio Gramsy, who wrote a three.

[00:19:12] Jim Simpson: Uh, book about it during his time in prison, an Italian communist leader who was imprisoned in the 1920s and thirties and died in prison and. His book was in Italian, so it wasn’t really read that much until the sixties when the, uh, radical left the students for a democratic society, the so-called red diaper babies got ahold of it, but it didn’t really get public distribution until it was um.

[00:19:46] Jim Simpson: Translated over 20 years by the head of the International Gian Society, a Marxist who, uh, taught at, uh, Notre Dame University, [00:20:00] and his name was Joseph Budig, father of former Transp Transportation secretary, Pete Lu. So that where we got, but the whole idea. Is to penetrate all the institutions of society and then turn them against the society.

[00:20:22] Jim Simpson: And that’s what they’ve done. And they’ve been very successful at it, unfortunately. And in fact, we’re now seeing, we saw how these local, you know, judges, these district court judges are. Pronouncing nationwide injunctions against the Trump administration, entirely unconstitutional. And, uh, I, I hope Trump, uh, ignores them, or at least continues to ignore them.

[00:20:51] Jim Simpson: And the Supreme Court damn well better get on board. And in dismissing that and saying that, that’s. [00:21:00] That does not have any legal force. Uh, and it, it, I’m frankly frightened because a recent article came out about Chief Justice Roberts. Who is apparently part of a secret society of judges, radical left judges that meet regularly.

[00:21:21] Jim Simpson: And to me, that explains what I’ve always believed about John Roberts was that he has never been a conservative, he is never been even, uh, a moderate. He, he was a plant. And, uh, so we are where we are today and, uh, it’s a very bad situation. 

[00:21:42] Justin: How do we stop that? And, and I know that one congressman has, um, has introduced articles of impeachment, uh, against, uh, Boberg, this, uh, this one of the latest, but there’s so many of ’em.

[00:21:54] Justin: Uh, what can be done? Um, and again, as you mentioned, it’s so obscene that you would even think that a district [00:22:00] court judge could have any sort of. Input it all into what the president is able to the executive office. Either he is gonna be able to execute or he is not. You can’t, every step of the way be able to step in and, and, and make these rulings and pronouncements.

[00:22:15] Justin: It’s just cr it’s just insane. 

[00:22:17] Jim Simpson: Well, it, it just shows how deeply entrenched. The communists have become in our society, and, and I’m sorry I don’t use that word lightly, but people have to get used to the C word because, you know, for decades it, it, it, it was, um. Uh, it, it, it was as bad as being called a racist to mention the C word, uh, because of the years of McCarthy and how he was discredited inappropriately because he was right about most of what he said.

[00:22:51] Jim Simpson: Even though perhaps the way he did it might not, it might have been objectionable, but he was right. On virtually every point that [00:23:00] we were being penetrated, our government was being penetrated by communists, and in fact, FDR basically opened the door to them. And we have so many, uh, uh, examples of what happened as a result of that.

[00:23:15] Jim Simpson: Most people are unaware, for example, that uh, uh, um, uh, Harry Dexter White, who was a treasury department guy, um.

[00:23:28] Jim Simpson: A agent, uh, he wrote the letter that essentially. Forced the Japanese to decide to to attack us with a surprise attack in Pearl Harbor. And his goal was to get us involved in a war on two fronts, to take the pressure off the Soviet Union, which was being attacked from the East by the Japanese while it had to fight the Nazis.[00:24:00] 

[00:24:00] Jim Simpson: West. So instead of having a two front war, they now had a one front war. That was one thing Harry Dexter White did. And Truman, instead of having him arrested and tried for treason and hanged like the Rosenbergs, like he should have been, he, uh, was, was sent off to um, create the International Monetary Fund.

[00:24:21] Jim Simpson: He was the first president of the World Bank, which has financed dictators throughout the world ever since. And there are just so many other examples of that. Uh, uh, uh, uh, I’m sorry. The guy who wrote the UN charter was the biggest, most well-known trader Alger hiss, uh, communist Soviet agent. In the State Department, he wrote the UN charter and he wrote it [00:25:00] specifically to give the Soviets an advantage.

[00:25:03] Jim Simpson: And the Soviets considered the un just an arm of the foreign policy ever since. 

[00:25:11] Justin: You’re a wealth of knowledge on these things. Um, and I gotta tell you, people just, they, they, they, I don’t think we, first of all, we’re not being taught this history in schools. 

[00:25:20] Jim Simpson: No, we’re not. We need to be. Un 

[00:25:22] Justin: unless you’re Glen, back with the chalkboard, and I know you, I know you’ve been on Glen’s show multiple times to talk about these things.

[00:25:28] Justin: People don’t have the depth, but we really do need to know these things. It’s no wonder we’re not being taught about these things because, uh, they’ve taken over in education. So many of our institutions, in fact, we’re watching right now. President Trump is in this fight trying to, to, to take that apart.

[00:25:44] Jim Simpson: Yeah. 

[00:25:44] Justin: Uh, and, and decentralize all of these things. Can you talk a little bit about that, the role there maybe in the Department of Education and how things have played out? 

[00:25:52] Jim Simpson: Oh, yeah. Well, department of Education, uh, in so many of our agencies, uh, the [00:26:00] penetration is very deep. I mean, I saw it in the 1980s and nineties when I was working at the White House, uh, budget office.

[00:26:07] Jim Simpson: Uh, you know, even then, uh, the, the, the, the, the Democrats had been in control for so much for so long, since the 1930s. They had virtually control of the government and the. Agencies weren’t quite as leftist as they are today, but they all did whatever the Democrats wanted because that’s how they would get favorable treatment in the budgets every year.

[00:26:40] Jim Simpson: I wrote the budgets, I wrote the budgets for the Bureau of Alcohol, tobacco and Firearms, uh, the custom service before it became, you know, ice, uh, secret Service. Um, and, and a number of other ones. And they all, uh, bowed to the Democratic appropriators [00:27:00] and gave them whatever they wanted simply because that’s how they increased their budgets.

[00:27:05] Jim Simpson: So, of course, you know, you always, you follow the money. And that’s where you find all the, all the bad stuff resides and how they get so deeply entrenched. And you know, it was very funny, uh, Willie Manenberg, when he said, we will organize the intellectuals. They knew that the proletariat, this, the so-called proletariat, the working class, were not going to, uh.

[00:27:32] Jim Simpson: Become part of a communist revolution. They had no interest in that. They were enjoying living in a prosperous society and, uh, raising their children and doing, going to work and doing the things they had to do. Nope. Uh, Berg said, we must organize the intellectuals. And why the intellectuals? Well, the German communist leader, a lady at the time said Willie knew one [00:28:00] thing about the intellectuals, and that was you didn’t have to pay ’em.

[00:28:04] Jim Simpson: All you had to do was flatter ’em. 

[00:28:09] Justin: And that’s truth. 

[00:28:10] Jim Simpson: Yeah, so true. And think about all these, you know, arrogant, conceited, uh, leftist professors who think they know it all and can’t be told a darn thing. And all you need to do is say, oh my, are you smart? Oh my, you’re so correct. And they just, and oh, and you can become part of the revolution while you’re sitting comfortably in your tenured positions earning hundreds of thousands a year.

[00:28:38] Jim Simpson: You don’t have, uh, anything to worry about at all, but boy, you could become part of the revolution. How exciting. 

[00:28:45] Justin: Limousine liberals. Hey, we’ve, we’ve gotta talk about cloud and pivot and, uh, I know you’ve talked about them, uh, um, numerous times of Glen. Was one of the people who, who really started to bring them out, uh, in, into the public.

[00:28:59] Justin: You’ve [00:29:00] talked about them quite a bit and the strategies that we’re seeing play out. So, um, what, what is, and do we still see that? Is Doge gonna be able to stop some of these things, but. Essentially the collapse in, in what, what the ideology was there. 

[00:29:15] Jim Simpson: Right? Yeah. No, absolutely. Let me, let me first say, uh, sort of quickly answer the question.

[00:29:20] Jim Simpson: You, I didn’t really answer the question you asked before. You know, the Trump administration faces, um. A battles on practically every front, and their job is going to have to be what they started to do. First of all, they’re gonna have to stop those, those in court injunctions, that’s ridiculous, but they have to get.

[00:29:42] Jim Simpson: Find the people who are entrenched in these various bureaucracies and get them fired, if not prosecuted, I would prefer to see them prosecuted, but at least fired and then put people in their place, not merely at the top, like they’ve done so far with [00:30:00] the, uh, directors. And the deputy director is so wonderful to see.

[00:30:04] Jim Simpson: Dan Bonino, for example, is the deputy director of the FBI. He, he’s kind of, boy is he gonna do a good job. But, but we have to get deep into those agencies to find the people who are still, uh, American patriots and give those people the power and take away the power, uh, or get rid of the people who are fighting us.

[00:30:32] Jim Simpson: And, and that’s a battle on every front. He’s gotta do that. I mean, they, they’re trying to do it. Uh, but they’ve really, I don’t, I don’t even know that they know how, how deep it is. Elon Musk has been obviously surprised, but, and, and most people have been surprised, but this is what communists do. This is exactly what they do.

[00:30:55] Jim Simpson: Uh, you know, they burn Teslas, they create riots in the street. [00:31:00] They block traffic. Uh, they do whatever they can. I. To create chaos and to prevent us from doing what we know needs to be done. Um, so getting back to the question, uh, that you had about, and they were sixties radicals. They were both Columbia University professors.

[00:31:25] Jim Simpson: So they were very familiar with critical theory. Uh, they were critical theorists themselves. They were founding members of Democratic Socialists of America, which is the largest communist organization in the country. It is not democratic, it is not socialists. It is a hardcore Trotskyite communist. Uh, actually, um, um.

[00:31:50] Jim Simpson: Malist, uh, organization. But anyway, cloud and Vin, Richard Cloud, Francis Fox, VIN were a married couple and in the [00:32:00] sixties they wrote an article, um, called The Weight of the Poor, A Strategy to End Poverty and. By weight, they didn’t mean the, um, you know, depressing bring down that, that, that the poor, uh, feel and, and create.

[00:32:18] Jim Simpson: They’re talking about the power, the weight as power of the poor that the poor didn’t know they had. And that, um, article. Describe how the poor could be used to collapse the capitalist society. And so their idea, and this is very important a point I make out in the book, you know, Johnson created the Great Society in 1965.

[00:32:45] Jim Simpson: He wrote, um, vast Expansion of Welfare. Um. And his goal was strictly political. He wanted to get as many minorities into the Democratic party as he could [00:33:00] by promising welfare. And, uh, and it worked, you know, by the time, uh, 1969 came around, the, uh, democratic registration of blacks went from about, um, 70% to 95%.

[00:33:17] Jim Simpson: And, uh. Richard Cloud was the one who inspired the welfare expansion under the Great Society, and they didn’t, they thought welfare was, uh, the opiate of the masses. They didn’t think welfare was a good thing, but what did they do? They created an organization that would pack people onto the welfare rules with every benefit possible, and the purpose being not to help the poor.

[00:33:55] Jim Simpson: The purpose was to create so much weight [00:34:00] in the, in the bureaucracy, through the expense of all these welfare programs that it would collapse. And they were partially successful in the seventies pushing New York City to virtual bankruptcy. Um, but it wasn’t a total success. Their idea, they said, was to create, um, a guaranteed annual income for all Americans, which in today’s dollars would be between 40 and $80,000.

[00:34:31] Jim Simpson: Per family of four. Now think about that. They’re trying to pack the welfare rolls with so many beneficiaries that it would collapse, but now, which would be more expensive? That, or a guaranteed annual income for all Americans. Obviously we go back to the um. Uh, the lemons idea where you create solutions, [00:35:00] but the solutions create additional crises.

[00:35:03] Jim Simpson: And of course that was the real goal ’cause it would be more expensive. And besides that, all the welfare programs in existence would not cease to exist. This would be an add-on. So that would collapse the society. And you know, today they’ve been very successful in the seventies. They were already advocating a $15 minimum wage.

[00:35:27] Jim Simpson: Now we see that in many states we see $20 minimum wages in 20 in many states, and that’s creating an economic collapse in those states. Uh, much a lot of unemployment, a lot of people moving out of those states, and they also have. Uh, a number of pilot programs for what they now call universal basic income, which is the same thing, Gary.

[00:35:54] Jim Simpson: Yeah. Annual income. So the whole idea was to create this [00:36:00] massive financial crisis, and how else could you do a better job than that? Well, they started with the subprime mortgage crisis. Where the Clinton administration forced banks to accept, uh, mortgages from uncredited worthy customers in the millions, the so-called ninja.

[00:36:23] Jim Simpson: No job, no income, no assets, uh, loans to people who couldn’t afford to pay ’em. And but then the, the carrot that they provided to the banks was that, uh. The government would underwrite the risk so. It was privatizing the profits and socializing the risk. That’s what they did, and that created the subprime mortgage crisis, which created a collapse of our economy in 2008.[00:37:00] 

[00:37:00] Jim Simpson: It was not George w Bush’s fault. It was a premeditated planned crisis by the Clinton administration. Uh, with the help of organizations like Acorn, which was created by Richard Cloud and Francis Fox, Biven. Wow. So we got there. And then what better way I. Even that didn’t work, right? Our economy is so resilient.

[00:37:30] Jim Simpson: It came back despite President Obama. You know, uh, it, we have a powerful economy and the free market is the best form of economy that there is, and it finds ways around all of these obstructions that the communists try to put up. And so what was a better idea? Opened the borders. Bring in floods of people.

[00:37:57] Jim Simpson: Floods of people that will [00:38:00] bury the welfare roles with demands for public services. Overwhelm communities with all their various needs. Overwhelm communities that now had to deal with people speaking. 400 different languages that’s in languages are spoken in public school today. Mm-hmm.

[00:38:22] Jim Simpson: At the same time, by bringing in this mass group of immigrants from all over the world, dilute our culture so that the American dream and the American way of life, our belief in the Constitution and the rule of law, it just gets watered down to the point where we are just a people among a mass of people from many different cultures.

[00:38:49] Jim Simpson: Many of which are at war with each other. So you have yet more crises. That’s the truth. You know, that’s the cloud pivot [00:39:00] strategy of manufactured crisis, which I wrote about, and Glen Beck used my materials to create his series of shows on the program. 

[00:39:09] Justin: And I wonder, Jim, um, when you said this, and even when Glen covered it mm-hmm.

[00:39:14] Justin: Uh, you’ve been saying it for years, but even when Glen covered it. I think it was kind of hard for people to maybe understand, but we’ve seen it. Play out. Yeah. And uh, look, I hate that we’ve had to go through this. I absolutely hate it, but I will tell you this, it took, it, it seems though, and, and maybe you could comment on this, is it becoming easier for people to understand and really grasp now, now that they’ve actually seen it up close and personal?

[00:39:42] Jim Simpson: Yeah. No, and, and that’s the good thing. I mean, you know, I think really 70% of the American people are now on board, although they might not be so publicly, although polls show that, uh, or, or they’re starting to show that, um. [00:40:00] These are things you can’t ignore because it’s beginning to affect everybody personally.

[00:40:08] Jim Simpson: You know, when the people send their kids to school and they find out that behind their backs, the kids are being taught about. Transgenderism and how important it is to, uh, uh, edify that and, um, how important it, and, and, and they’re not learning. They’re not learning that the kids are learning critical race theory.

[00:40:30] Jim Simpson: They’re not learning that the kids are being basically indoctrinated into becoming global citizens. Right. To become people who will follow the Marxists and ignore and. Rebel against their own parents. And of course, every generation goes through that. We are all, I was a rebellious kid, I was rebellious as hell.

[00:40:55] Jim Simpson: And most of us, uh, most generations go [00:41:00] through that when we’re in our teens, you know, hire a teenager while he still knows it all as the, uh, bumper sticker goes. But as we grow up. We begin to realize that our parents were right and we begin to fall in line and we, you know, it practically speaking, we need work, we need jobs, we need to start acting like normal, uh uh, reasonable human beings.

[00:41:26] Jim Simpson: We all have a rebellious period, but the difference is that from the sixties forward, we had radical leftists. Increasingly penetrating all of the, um, institutions of higher learning, all, all, all the secondary schools. And so, um, our children, that rebellious nature was being used and those kids were like the intellectuals.

[00:41:56] Jim Simpson: Being flattered and told, yes, [00:42:00] you know, better than your parents. Uh, don’t listen to them. We know better than you see. We’re all in agreement here. And then they provide the backup, uh, through their educational teachings. Like for example, with global warming. You know, think about that too. Think about what that means to children when they hear.

[00:42:22] Jim Simpson: That if we don’t fix global warming right now, yeah, our world will die. And now it’s like seven years they’re saying, and these. 

[00:42:33] Justin: We’ve missed their timelines. We should be gone by now 

[00:42:37] Jim Simpson: and many times over. Of course. Yeah, of course. But each generation doesn’t see that. Mm-hmm. They just hear whatever their teachers are telling them and then they’re told, you know?

[00:42:46] Jim Simpson: Yeah. This makes you smarter than everybody else. So why should you listen to your parents and mom and dad? Aren’t you concerned? Mm-hmm. We’re gonna, our nation, our world’s gonna die in 10.[00:43:00] 

[00:43:00] Jim Simpson: Cars driven by gasoline. You don’t start using electric vehicles. You know, we don’t become carbon neutral. And I have a whole section in the book where I talk about how the goals of carbon neutrality would if, if they were taken seriously, let’s say for the sake of argument, you take their argument seriously.

[00:43:23] Jim Simpson: We need to cut our carbon dioxide emissions. Carbon neutral would reduce temperature, assuming their arguments are true, would reduce temperature by, uh, uh, one, uh, fifth or one half of one degree Fahrenheit. In other words, nothing. And, but their argument is entirely fallacious. And the whole point of it is to get us to switch into, um, using.

[00:43:55] Jim Simpson: Alternative, um, sources of energy like wind and [00:44:00] solar, but all that really does is provide massive trillions of dollars of bankroll for the left. That’s the real goal. For them to become wealthy at our expense, they could care less, uh, that, you know, that, that windmills, freeze. And 500 people die in Texas because suddenly they didn’t have any power.

[00:44:23] Jim Simpson: Uh, things like that happening all the time. What it does to the environment, killing hundreds of thousands of, uh, birds every year, wind, uh, power in the seas, killing whales and, uh, disturbing sea life. They don’t care about the environment. All they care about is what’s going on. And the, the biggest joke about it, and I talk about this in the book as well, you know, the finished geological society wrote a thousand page book about, uh, what it would [00:45:00] take to become carbon neutral.

[00:45:02] Jim Simpson: And the fact of the matter is there is not enough lithium, there are not enough rare earth elements to provide the batteries necessary to run an electric economy. There’s not enough. 

[00:45:18] Justin: Yeah. It’s all, the whole thing is smoke and mirrors and I think 

[00:45:22] Jim Simpson: it’s all lies. It’s all lies. 

[00:45:24] Justin: People are waking up to it. I think it, it, it really is.

[00:45:28] Justin: There’s so much that I, I see this and I, and I, I think to myself, and so many of us have been, uh, watching this for years play out now and thinking the same things. And this is a lot of, this is common sense. Why are so many people falling for it? But I’ve gotta ask you this, um, because you’ve touched on it in, in your writing and of course in our conversation here today, but.

[00:45:49] Justin: How much of this, yeah, we hear politics and we understand that some of the weird things that are happening and of course, um, kind of what’s happening in the world is one [00:46:00] thing, but I. How much of this is a spiritual fight? I, I, I mean, I keep coming back to Ephesians six 12 and we wrestle that against flesh and blood.

[00:46:09] Jim Simpson: Right. 

[00:46:09] Justin: How, how much of that I’m hearing that theme in what you’re talking about now. 

[00:46:14] Jim Simpson: Well, you know, in the conclusion of my book, which is the, uh, longest chapter, and it has literally hundreds, hundreds lists of things that we can do, we must do to, um. Restore our nation. Uh, it’s, it’s not, you know, people say, well, what can we do?

[00:46:36] Jim Simpson: And what they want is a simple one line answer. Um, and my response is always, there is no magic pill. There are hundreds of things we have to do, but the very first thing that we have to do is pray because yeah, the reason we are where we are. Is [00:47:00] because America as a nation. Has lost its way. It has forgotten God.

[00:47:06] Jim Simpson: It is abandoned God and just like it’s nothing new. Our, the world has gone through this cycle over and over again. You know, in the book of judges. You talk about, you know, uh, the people, every man did what was right in his own eyes, and then everything around them collapsed. You know, they were taken over.

[00:47:29] Jim Simpson: They were, uh, they were defeated in battle until finally they say, they come to their sense and to say, sorry, God, please help us. And then they’re given a judge, a leader. Who can restore them, and it gets restored for 25 or 50 years or so, and then they forget all about it again. And, and things go bad again.

[00:47:50] Jim Simpson: And this is what’s happened in our nation. And it, it, it was, um, propagated. It was initiated, it was [00:48:00] promoted by the communists in the, uh, twenties. Uh, but. As we became more affluent, we also felt like, well, maybe we just don’t need God so much. You know, we became more interested in the benefits that our affluence provided, and it’s kind of a cyclical thing, but they initiated or at least promoted it, but our own sin natures, uh.

[00:48:31] Jim Simpson: Allowed that to continue to the point where as a nation now we are so far away from God. It. It is ridiculous. And you know, God gave us free will. He gave us the choice. He said, follow me and things will be good. He said, choose your own way. Good luck with that. Right? And here we are. Here we are. We’ve chosen our own path.

[00:48:58] Jim Simpson: We’ve chosen to defy [00:49:00] God and here we are. So this is absolutely at its heart, a spiritual battle and the forces of the left. The communist forces, they are satanic because there is nothing, nothing good about them. I call them the evolutionary endpoint to human depravity, but human depravity is a state that we fall into when we forget about God.

[00:49:29] Jim Simpson: That’s what happens. So it’s very much a spiritual battle, and, uh, in fact, I have my favorite, my favorite Psalm, Psalm 46, uh, quoted in the conclusion as long as, and in addition to many other, uh, quotes, initiating everything, we have to pray. We have to ask God for his help, but mostly we have to ask him for his forgiveness.

[00:49:55] Jim Simpson: We have to seek forgiveness for. How wayward we have [00:50:00] gone, and I think God has heard us and he gave us this one last chance with the election of President Trump this year or last year. 

[00:50:10] Justin: I, I am with you. And I think so many people, it had to get so bad that enough people would wake up, enough of us would turn, uh, you know, um, and, and in prayer and um, and ask for him to heal our land.

[00:50:26] Justin: And here we are. We’ve got another shot. 

[00:50:28] Jim Simpson: Yep. I. Yeah. All right. Go ahead. 

[00:50:32] Justin: No, no, but I, it, it, it doesn’t, you know, to me, again, it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see this. I mean, just a millimeter or so off. 

[00:50:40] Jim Simpson: Yeah. 

[00:50:41] Justin: And this whole thing, I mean, you talk about chaos. You, you talk about what the enemy would’ve really wanted to see.

[00:50:47] Justin: I mean, I forget about losing President Trump. That’s, that’s horrible enough in itself to think about. But what would that have done to our nation? And CN and everybody else was there streaming it live in 4K. Can you imagine watching [00:51:00] that throughout the world, what people would’ve said and done, what would’ve happened to this country?

[00:51:04] Justin: Uh, there’s no doubt about it that there was divine intervention. God’s hand was on him in our nation, and I think in the election as well, um, to watch it all play out. But this is just the beginning. Yeah, 

[00:51:16] Jim Simpson: no, that’s absolutely right. And you know, in a funny way, I’m actually sort of grateful for the Biden administration’s four years because they made everything so bad and, and if, if Trump had been elected in 2020, of course things would’ve been better, but I.

[00:51:33] Jim Simpson: Now, now given four years of this absolutely deliberately destructive chaos that we’ve experienced now, people’s eyes are really much more open than they would’ve been, and hopefully open enough that we can reverse this, uh, horrible trend we were on and come back to, uh, [00:52:00] the great society that America.

[00:52:03] Jim Simpson: Has been in the past. Yeah. Uh, and of benefit to the world because the fact of the matter is, you know, Obama complained that while we were only 3% of the world’s population, we utilized over 20% of the world’s oil, 20% of the world’s resources. Uh, that’s a true statement. The other side of that statement is we provide.

[00:52:31] Jim Simpson: A market for the entire world. Our economy supports the economy of the world. Yeah. And so, for example, in a great depression, when, um, uh, our unemployment went down, or GDP went down 25%, world industrial production went down 30%. 

[00:52:53] Justin: Mm-hmm. Now, 

[00:52:53] Jim Simpson: Obama wanted to take us from consuming 20% of the world’s resources [00:53:00] to 3%.

[00:53:02] Jim Simpson: Now that would have that, flip that onto the GDP going from 20% of the world’s GDP down to 3% of the world’s GDP, which is the other side of that equation. Remember, I’m an economist. That’s the other side of the equation. That would be a decline of 80 90% of GDP in the United States and. Throughout the world, there would be a similar economic collapse that would be like nothing anybody has ever seen before.

[00:53:40] Jim Simpson: And the the freakiest part is that the communists know this and they’re okay with it. Yeah, they’re okay with seeing that much destruction. And who else could be so willing to destroy the world? To kill so many people except [00:54:00] the Satanist. 

[00:54:01] Justin: The ends justify the means. It gotta break a few eggs to make an omelet.

[00:54:05] Justin: That’s the way they look at it. And it’s, that’s horrifying. Yeah. I’m glad we, I’m glad you, you, uh, you put that in, in those terms. I’m glad that, uh, people can understand. By the way, they’re gonna have questions, we know. Pick up the book. It’s a read. You’re definitely not gonna wanna mess. Uh, it is, it is out now a manufactured crisis.

[00:54:23] Justin: The War to End America, Jim Simpson. You’re gonna look it up as James Simpson. You’ll be able to find it online everywhere. Um, but also, 

[00:54:32] Jim Simpson: um, go to, um, go to my website crisis now.net. And that, um, picture, you can just click on that picture and I’ll take you right to my Amazon page. Much easier than having to go to Amazon and, uh, search around.

[00:54:48] Jim Simpson: But yeah, all those books. Yeah, that’s, that’s, uh. 

[00:54:52] Justin: If you wanna come out in person and actually get the book signed and have a great conversation. Yep. [00:55:00] Um, you, you’re not gonna wanna miss this because these events are always great. Uh, Steve Reman and the crew at Ottawa County Patriots do a fantastic job.

[00:55:08] Jim Simpson: Sure. And 

[00:55:10] Justin: they’ve got an event coming up Tuesday night, the 25th. At, uh, 6:00 PM six to nine, I think doors open at five 30. First floor. Main conference room there at the Howard Miller Community Center, 14th South Church Street in Zealand. And as I said, you can have questions, comments about all of these great conversation with, uh, with Jim and, uh, and the rest of the folks that are gonna be there as well.

[00:55:34] Justin: Get your book signed and, uh, enjoy that. Gonna be a, a fantastic event as they always are. But, uh, thank you Jim for taking the time with us. If folks wanna follow you online, uh, maybe they wanna pick up the book, obviously Crisis now.net is the website. Um, where else should they, should they go to connect with you and stay up to date?

[00:55:55] Jim Simpson: Well, they can find me on x uh, James M. Simpson at [00:56:00] James M. Simpson. Uh, I have a Instagram page, but it’s kind of paltry. I’m still trying to figure out how to work that. You know, I’m old school. A lot of this new social media stuff I don’t get. I also have a very good Facebook page, uh, with, uh, almost a maximum amount of followers and I do a lot of posting on, on Facebook.

[00:56:23] Jim Simpson: Um. And then occasionally I write for American Thinker and other publications. Those are all listed, or most of them anyway, are listed on my, um. On my website there, there’s an archive of, of articles going back to 2005. Uh, so that would be the best ways if they want to write to me and instead of ordering from Amazon to get a book from me directly, they can, uh, message me.

[00:56:56] Jim Simpson: Email me at Simpson [00:57:00] dot Truth. At gmail.com, Simpson dot truth@gmail.com. I used to have a blog site called Truth and Consequences. That’s where that Gmail came from. But anyway, and, and if they, uh, uh, write to me, I’ll, I’ll tell them. They can send me their address and, uh, I can tell ’em how to pay. You know, I can take.

[00:57:28] Jim Simpson: Payment over the phone or they can send me a check or whatever. But, uh, uh, contact me that way if you wanna get, uh, a book mailed to you directly. Of course, there’s extra charges for that, but, uh. Uh, you can do that too. 

[00:57:43] Justin: We’ll put it all in the stack too in our, uh, show notes so that folks can have that.

[00:57:47] Justin: James, thank you for everything you do, Jim, and, uh, and, and for fighting this, uh, but continue to stay in the fight because I think this is, uh, this is one that matters and, uh, folks are waking up. We are starting to see some of that fruit [00:58:00] and, uh, and it’s good news to see it. 

[00:58:02] Jim Simpson: Yeah, it sure is. Well, I thank you so much, uh, Justin, for having me on.

[00:58:07] Jim Simpson: And you know that book is more important now than it was even before the election because it spells out all the different things that they are doing, who’s doing them, why they’re doing them, where and how, and what we have to do to fix it. And, uh, so thank you. 

[00:58:27] Justin: I couldn’t agree more Still lots of work yet to do.

[00:58:30] Justin: We’re just getting started 

[00:58:32] Jim Simpson: beginning. Yep. That’s right. 

[00:58:34] Justin: Jim. Thank you so much. God bless 

[00:58:36] Jim Simpson: You too, Justin. Thank you. And thank your audience. 

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