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The Truth About the Inflation Crisis and the Psychopaths Lying to You About It

13 August 2026 · 1h 22m

Across the episode, Tucker Carlson and Catherine Austin Fitts argue that the visible mockery of ordinary Americans' complaints about rising food prices is not a policy disagreement but evidence of genuine contempt from a bipartisan ruling class that has spent decades consolidating wealth and control at the public's expense. They contend this same class pushes foreign wars (for Israel, against Iran) that serve elite or foreign interests rather than American ones, uses debt, predatory lending, opioids, and now digital financial controls to extract resources and manage a population it increasingly views as expendable, and rewrites history and media narratives in real time to suppress recognition of what is happening.

What was discussed

Matt Walsh's grocery price tweet0:35

Ben Shapiro as manufactured spokesman9:19

Tucker claims, without independent sourcing, that Ben Shapiro's media platform was manufactured via a special Facebook distribution deal to sell a specific worldview to young people: monopoly-friendly 'free market' economics and the idea that opposing wars for Israel is unpatriotic and antisemitic.

Contested

Shapiro clip dismisses food price complaints12:46

Media denial that Israel pushed Trump into Iran war16:12

Tucker asserts that Israel pushed Trump into a war with Iran that he describes as all downside for the United States, and claims that within days major news organizations began denying this happened, smearing anyone who noticed as antisemitic and effectively rewriting recent events in real time.

Woodstock comparison to today's youth21:03

Tucker contrasts photos of the 1969 Woodstock crowd — thin, fit, and cheerful despite lower average incomes and mothers having babies at age 20 — with today's youth, arguing this visual evidence shows Americans are materially and psychologically worse off now despite claims that living standards have improved.

Elite contempt as the real motive26:09

Tucker argues the neocon worldview's deepest flaw isn't just misguided foreign policy but genuine hatred of ordinary Americans, evidenced by the impulse to mock people struggling with food prices rather than show compassion, which he says would be the normal reaction from someone who actually cared.

Mark Levin clip on burritos and WWII sacrifice30:33

Contested

Tucker's rebuttal: Tokyo comparison and Iran assassination claim32:03

Root cause of inflation: currency mismanagement37:17

Tucker frames the pivot to the interview by asserting inflation results from policymakers mismanaging a currency that belongs to the public, for their own short-sighted benefit rather than the country's.

Fitts: 'piratization' versus privatization44:22

Bailouts entrenched monopoly pricing46:43

Fitts cites a Levy Institute figure of $29 trillion in financial bailouts following mortgage fraud, arguing bailed-out banks emerged with dramatically greater market share and monopoly pricing power, directly contributing to higher consumer prices.

Fitts targeted after exposing missing HUD funds53:53

Fitts describes being subjected to 18 audits, 12 litigation tracks, a smear campaign, and physical harassment (including, she says, being poisoned multiple times) after her firm Hamilton Securities stopped money from disappearing out of HUD; she says she later found similarly sophisticated predatory lending schemes deliberately targeting the low-income Tennessee county she moved to.

Fitts: intentional depopulation policy57:11

Fitts speculates that after a 1995 federal budget deal collapsed, financial leaders decided to address unfunded pension and fiscal obligations by lowering life expectancy rather than achieving genuine fiscal responsibility, citing the approval of OxyContin and pill mills, predatory mortgage lending, and private prisons as coordinated tools that first reduced life expectancy in lower-income groups and later, via COVID-era policy, in the middle class.

Elite transhumanist beliefs and disregard for population59:46

Digital control grid and the 'third lock'1:06:18

Fitts describes plans by the Treasury and central banks to give digital currency an automated 'third lock' beyond existing sanctions and know-your-customer rules, enabling a fully automated, individualized social credit system that could freeze accounts or apply custom rules without recourse — citing the manual version of this already used against Canadian trucker protesters.

Commodities market anomalies during the Iran war1:10:25

Closing: bipartisan depopulation agenda confirmed1:18:18

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