Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal is attacking Trump's tariffs as a GOP civil war erupts. Mike Steger examines Wall Street's opposition to the American System, the battle for American industry, and what's at stake heading into 2028.
The fight that put Donald Trump in office didn't end on election night. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda on Moscow, APEC, three-dollar gas, and why the real battle got lost in the tactical storm.
Today's live show is over. Watch the replay and join us next week! Hegseth's impeachment, the Iran and Ukraine talks, and a possible Trump–Xi–Putin meeting at APEC are on the table.
The fight that put Donald Trump in office didn't end on election night. Barbara Boyd and Susan Kokinda on Moscow, APEC, three-dollar gas, and why the real battle got lost in the tactical storm.
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were in Moscow this week meeting with President Putin. Emmanuel Macron was out saying there's no more United States support for Ukraine, and that all the U.S. wants to talk about is peace.
Talk is also building of a possible meeting among Trump, Putin and Xi at the next APEC summit. It's not locked. But Barbara Boyd's enormous hope is a grand bargain among Russia, the United States and China. That would mean peace in Europe, an end to the war in Iran, and a basis for peace in the Middle East.
Then there's this. Right after the midterm result was declared, Barbara's gas in Virginia dropped to three bucks a gallon. In her view that price is rigged, and it has everything to do with the City of London, Wall Street and big oil, not the Strait.
Susan Kokinda took it to the system underneath. People voted for Donald Trump three times because they felt it in their bones: the system is rigged against them. She doesn't mean the voting machines. She means the financial system, and this administration is actually fighting it.
That was the spine of yesterday's LIVE with Barbara Boyd, Susan Kokinda and me, Adam Sturman. The midterms didn't change the fight between sovereign nations and the British imperial system. They just made it easier to lose sight of.
“The real battle, as Barbara just indicated, is sovereign nations of the world against the British imperial system, which takes the generic form of globalism today.”
— Susan Kokinda
The replay runs 2 hours, 4 minutes. Jump straight to the questions that matter to you below.
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Susan didn't sugarcoat it. The battle was lost, “at least in terms of what was counted at the ballot box,” and “one of the biggest casualties in election campaigns is the ability to think big.”
She gave two reasons. First, people don't feel the new jobs yet: “It's coming, but it did not affect in visceral terms how people voted.” Second, Republican consultants were “flooding the airwaves with idiotic commercials.” Meanwhile the Democrats and their NGOs ran “full spectrum warfare,” including “a psychological warfare operation, which had an enormous effect on the young people.”
That's not a blackpill. It's a battle plan. Susan believes what Trump is building “can break people out of the matrix.” Her question is this: “How do we activate the Promethean creativity that exists in every single human being?”
The imperial financial apparatus took its current form in 1971, and Susan said it “has been unchallenged until less than two years ago.” Trump came back in 2024 with “a killer team.” Judy Shelton, now advising Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, says to watch APEC and the summits and “buckle up.”
Susan didn't oversell it. The first step is a partnership and lines of communication among Trump, Putin and Xi on Ukraine, Iran and nuclear disarmament. Still, “the very fact that it looks like they are meeting is sending tremors throughout the global financier elite.”
Barbara added that British elites have feared exactly this since Trump returned. The National Security Strategy says the United States is done with forever wars and makes denuclearization a primary objective. In her view, foreign interference aimed at the midterms was meant to kill one potential above all: a different financial system agreed among the United States, Russia and China.
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Barbara has investigated ballot fraud since 1976. She thinks there was vote fraud. She also thinks the overturn fantasy has to end.
“Let's stop essentially hypothecating that we're gonna overturn the election. It ain't going to happen in that form unless there's something out there which can actually prove it up to the legal standard that it actually changed the result.”
— Barbara Boyd
Susan spent two years on election integrity in Michigan. “It's really easy to put in the chat. It was stolen. Okay. So then what.” A statistical anomaly won't win in court. “If you wanna do something about it, find your local election integrity apparatus… go join it.”
Barbara laid out the terrain ahead:
“We're gonna be in war with the Congress and with the courts.” The presidency is “the place of the last stand.”
Promethean Action will have a booth at the Turning Point Conference in Phoenix in December, and a community section for younger people is coming. Susan's advice on tone was to drop the lecture: “This last election was run from the standpoint of a Boomer matrix. Guess what didn't work?” The goal is to inspire young people, “aha, I hadn't thought of it that way” moment.
Barbara noted that Stephen Miller is 41 and JD Vance is 42. Behind them is a generation that has suffered “deliberate operations to rob them of any potential of using their minds.”
“The young people are gonna have to solve it, because I'm increasingly convinced that boomers cannot.”
— Barbara Boyd
Each link jumps straight to that part of the replay.
Think big, then have one real conversation this week.
If election integrity is your passion, don't post “it was stolen” and stop there. Find your local election-integrity effort and join it.
If you're a younger reader, we want you in this fight. Join our efforts.
And join us for the American System Bootcamp on November 30.
“We made it too big to rig. So we overwhelmed 'em in 2024. We underwhelmed them in 2026. We have to figure out how to overwhelm them again by thinking big.”
— Susan Kokinda
See you live next Thursday,
Adam Sturman
Producer, Promethean Action
https://x.com/AdamSturman23
Rupert Murdoch's Wall Street Journal is attacking Trump's tariffs as a GOP civil war erupts. Mike Steger examines Wall Street's opposition to the American System, the battle for American industry, and what's at stake heading into 2028.
Today's live show is over. Watch the replay and join us next week! Hegseth's impeachment, the Iran and Ukraine talks, and a possible Trump–Xi–Putin meeting at APEC are on the table.
On the eve of Veterans Day, House Democrats and Rep. Thomas Massie tried to impeach Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, and the House voted 211–204 to send the resolution to committee. Susan Kokinda shows why, and the third way President Trump chose on Iran.
The 2026 midterms exposed the growing divide between Trump's MAGA movement and the old GOP. From political warfare and American manufacturing to Ukraine and a new global order, the battle for America's future is entering a new phase.
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