What's going on with the price and silver? And go. Ugh. It was a simple question. And my local coin shop dealer Tim Martiner is such an amazingly patient person. He answers everyone's questions, whether it be in person or over the phone. And I really appreciate how helpful he is. But sometimes Tim Martiner goes off. So I have to warn you right now. If you're the type of person who gets easily triggered over political speech, you may want to just stop watching this video right now. And I mean it. Don't like it. Don't subscribe. Don't comment. Don't watch. If you're going to get all hot and bothered over what Tim is about to say, it's best he just move on. All right. I mean, this channel of mine, which I started back in August of 2018, was primarily about the stacking of physical precious metals, silver, and gold. But there is a small portion of macroeconomics that I love to talk about on this channel. And a little bit of political speech. Now I'm a registered independent. I'm not a Republican. I'm not a Democrat. I am a conservative. I'm a constitutionalist. Tim is a patriot and loves this country. And he has some strong opinions, I guess I could say. And I love hearing him out. So I'm going to let him roll. This is going to be Tim unfiltered. He's going to say what he wants to say. He wants to talk about precious metals, but then quickly about the state of our country, the state of our government, the inflation that we're seeing, the fiscal craziness coming out of Washington. I'm going to let him go. And I hope you can appreciate it. If you do, you can hit the like, okay? But be warned. This is a Tim Martiner rant. What is going on with the price and silver and gold? Well, the comics proved that they have a lot of, should I say, participation in the price? I think they, they're once in needs, sometimes come into play. And I think they needed to stay low. Just saying they may need to build a reserve or something. You trying not to use the M word manipulation? I wouldn't say they're necessarily manipulating it, but maybe controlling what happens. Is that, is that different from manipulation? It's really hard to say because it doesn't make any sense. You would assume because there's such a difference between supply and the man and what's going on in the comics, it doesn't make any sense. You would think that somebody down there in New York would be questioning their motives, especially the people who want a short silver. They're not getting a chance to. And I would assume that many people like the short silver. It's pretty risky. So, you know, investors, day traders make their money on cycles, ups and downs. And we don't seem to be getting much of that, although the downs usually come abruptly. And they're loosely related to some event like the jobs report. Although if they look into the last jobs report, they'll find that a lot of people are now not working from home. And where the company that's paying thousands of dollars a month for rent in a high-rise building are saying, okay, we're paying rent for this building. So once you get to work by the end here, right? And I think there's a lot of that. A lot of the jobs report was people returning to work. But the government will say they'll insist these are 943,000 new jobs. Prove it. What I can't understand is why any Republicans would vote for either bill considering where the money is actually going. And nobody wants to talk about that. But there's so little it's going to infrastructure. And they're probably just going to build a couple of bridges over the Rio Grande. I mean, it's something that's necessarily going to be infrastructure around the country. It'll make it easier for people to get here. But you know, the situation on the border is catastrophic. It's not funny. I mean, there are hundreds of people who have been found dead on our side of the border. And multiply that by tens on how many people have died on the other side of the border. And that's not right. I don't see, you know, when we had a president to say we're compassionate people, that's not compassionate. Okay. And then when you see in two of these detention centers, I heard on the radio this morning that one of the boarded patrol people was saying 40% of the people in these two detention centers are COVID-19 positive, 40%. And they're being dispersed around the country. That's not right. There's so much going on that's bad for this country and bad for the people who are coming into this country. I mean, it's not compassionate. And you know, that plus all the things they want to pay for and these bills on me have an infrastructure bill and it's going to contain a path to citizenship. And it's going to be, you know, we're going to throw money around in a green new deal without anything specific. We're just going to throw money around and call it green. It's crazy, crazy stuff, you know. Show me try to get this thing passed without anybody ever reading any part of it. And then he says, well, it's in this 2700 pages, you know, a week later. Well, is anybody read that? It's probably not. I mean, who actually reads anything in the Senate? You know, maybe Rand Paul does and maybe, you know, you know, the guys who are making a little bit of noise, but why isn't the whole Senate? Why are they even considering there might not be something in here that's good for the people? The next bill, you know, 3 1 1 2 4 1 1 2 5 6 trillion, whatever the hell it is, I would have to be convinced that there's something in that bill that's really good for this public that is not going to tax the middle class to death because there's one thing that's absolutely true about Congress and taxes. They never, ever, ever raise taxes on themselves, which includes millionaires and billionaires. They never raise taxes on millionaires and billionaires. Whatever they consider their fair share, it will never happen. It never has and it never will. Because millionaires and billionaires are smarter than that, okay? Warren Buffett's salary is equal to his expenses. So what's he paying taxes on? His salary, okay? We doesn't have to pay any taxes. Billionaires are all the same. Their money is investments. Their wealth is investments. And they will never come up with a wealth tax no matter how many times they say they're going to. But they rather put a gizmo in your car to track your miles and has a built in breathalyzer and it also has a built in carbon detector so you can see what your carbon footprint is. I mean, sure, they'll put a gizmo in your car and affect everybody and then they'll start to find people or charge you carbon taxes or whatever other garbage they have in mind. But they're not doing anything for the American public. Not any part of the American public and that includes the middle class which will be destroyed by the taxes. Yes. Are we talking about gold and silver?