America on the Brink: $5000 Trump Payouts, Middle East Mayhem & 9/11’s Forgotten Lessons | Tom Bilyeu Show
Tom Bilyeu's Impact Theory
September 11, 2026
Welcome to a pivotal episode of The Tom Bilyeu Show Live, recorded on September 11th—a day etched into American memory.
Speakers Tom Bilyeu
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Tom Bilyeu (0:01)
Evening, buyer's remorse.
SPEAKER_2 (0:03)
Buy a new car, I'll be moving in.
Tom Bilyeu (0:06)
Let's get started.
SPEAKER_3 (0:07)
Uh, sorry, I think there's been a mistake.
SPEAKER_2 (0:09)
I bought it from Carvana.
SPEAKER_3 (0:11)
You what?
SPEAKER_2 (0:11)
Yeah, great price. I even have seven days to love it or return it.
SPEAKER_3 (0:14)
So there's no... No, no buyer's remorse.
Tom Bilyeu (0:17)
More like buyer's rejoice.
SPEAKER_2 (0:20)
I guess I'll let myself out.
Tom Bilyeu (0:22)
Congratulations, I mean it.
SPEAKER_2 (0:24)
Buyer's rejoice, buy your car today on Carvana.
Tom Bilyeu (0:27)
Limitations and exclusions may apply.
SPEAKER_2 (0:28)
See our seven-day return policy at carvana.com.
Tom Bilyeu (0:30)
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The level of insanity is absolutely mind-boggling.
Boy are we gonna talk about that. The war in Iran is escalating in super dangerous fashion in a way that people really do not understand just how bad it is getting. Oil is over $109 and Saudi Arabia and the UAE are likely to escalate after the Houthis have humiliated them, blew up their pipelines and captured a ton of their soldiers.
Inflation numbers, they're in. And the whole bond situation is getting way out of hand. People are going to get blindsided unless they figure out what this actually means. We're going to talk about exactly that. The AI situation gets more insane by the day, by the second. And we've got Anthropix new threat assessment report. It's far crazier than you think. Wait till you hear some of the specifics. And like I said, it's 9-11. We're going to be talking about what lessons we need to learn from a tragedy that led to a far more tragic response. So thank you guys so much for being here. Right now, we are being abused by our politicians. They are using the economy to beat us to death. The economic abuse in this country is getting so bad, it is truly nearing fatal for our way of life, for the very way that our nation operates. We've got Trump promising that if Republicans win the House and Senate at the midterms, that he'll cut $5,000 checks to everyone at the cost of $1.3 trillion.
That level of insanity is almost hard to quantify. That is the most absurd way to get back into office I have ever heard. It is so reckless, it is so dangerous. It is such an abuse of the American people and they're gonna seal clap for it and they're gonna be really excited for it. People are gonna want them checks, but we've already put ourselves in a position where we are running $2 trillion in deficits every year by promising free stuff. None of that stuff comes for free. Your deficits are paid for by inflation. It is stolen purchasing power directly from you and everyone that you know. This makes things worse and yet somehow every country that has ever been in the position that we're in to be the world's reserve currency, they find themselves doing the same thing. The world over, people are money printing like crazy. We are in a period where the developing nations are committing sepuku. Like this is so wild to watch us make these decisions. The world is racing away from the dollar right now because they can see how insane we are being. And our response is to be more insane? Like it is patently ridiculous. Everybody has to wake up and make sure that when you are looking at policy, when you're evaluating a politician, that you are asking one thing. Are you beating our kids to death with stupid policy? And if the answer is yes, then that person is absolutely not the kind of person that we want to see get elected. Now the problem is, if you think this is just Trump or you think it's just the Republicans, your memory is short. Biden did this exact same thing when he wanted to make sure that the Democrats won in Georgia. He said, this is a paraphrase, but send Ossoff and Warnock to Washington, and I send $2,000 checks out.
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