29 Oct 2026
120: Pentagon 90 days off the grid. 2 Things you don't know about why. Would a blackout even be bad
The Pentagon is building toward a requirement that every major base in the continental United States can run on its own for ninety days. No civilian power, no civilian water, no civilian fuel, no civilian communications. There are nuclear microreactors going in at five installations. Across the ocean, the British government spent the same week telling families to keep three days of food and water and some cash on hand for when the card readers stop working.
Ninety days for the bases. Three days for you. I have some thoughts about that ratio.
I will tell you what is actually documented about China and the American grid, what prepositioning means in plain words, and why the volume on a three year old advisory got turned all the way up six days before an election. Fear is a product. Somebody is selling it and I will tell you what they are buying with it.
Then what I actually want you to do about it, which costs less than a night out and has nothing to do with panic. Water, rice, beans, a flashlight, some cash in a drawer. My gun people already know their part.
On the board: an eight month old left in a running bathtub. A man who traded a child drugs for a sexual act and she was dead the next day. A mother of three found in a shallow grave in Queens. A husband charged with murdering his wife while out on one thousand dollars bail in an earlier case involving her. Three brothers sentenced to thirty years apiece. A school shooting plot in Georgia that ended with nothing happening, which is why you did not hear about it.
Michigan votes in six days and I am telling you exactly where I stand and why. And New York published a tax plan with a skin color in it, in writing, on purpose, so we are going to talk about covetousness and about the fact that nobody owes you anything.
Then the one a lot of you have been sending me. There are conversations about moving American power onto something private, and the name attached to it is Elon Musk. I am going to take that possibility seriously and walk you through what is already sitting on the public record, starting with the billion dollars in filings for a company whose turbines have wheels on them. Battery plants, grid storage, a networked fleet of home batteries under one software system, a retail electricity company, satellites, rockets, and tunnels. None of it hidden. All of it unnoticed. Including the darker version, where a handover is the attack itself.
And China is still my answer. I have put that question to high ranking military officials to their faces on my interview show and it has never once come back different.
And what actually happens if the grid goes down, hour by hour, no movie version. Then the part nobody says, which is that we are fat and happy in this country, and I am not sure a week in the dark would be the worst thing that ever happened to us.
Bible lesson is Hebrews 11, the roll call. Every entry starts with the same two words. Some of them stopped the mouths of lions and some of them were sawn in half, and the writer refuses to rank them.
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