The David Knight Show - 17Jan24 ZERO ENERGY: Below Zero Temps Expose Grid Agenda

Episode Date: January 17, 2024

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Music Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. as the clock strikes 13 it's wednesday the 17th of january year of our lord 2024 well today we're going to focus on what davos is focused on and of course that's climate and also war they're having zielinski come in he's hitting up all these uh global banksters for cash not just getting it from the governments, but of course, from the people who are going to be setting up our global governance, the corporations that are partners in all this. We're going to take a look at the climate scam.

And of course, one extreme weather event like we're undergoing right now does not disprove it. The other people use that argument. We must be careful not to. But there's plenty of good arguments showing the trends are false. But most importantly, as we can see in this severe weather event, we can see where they're taking us. And that is not to zero emissions, but to zero energy as they get rich with their pals and their cronies. And we're going to begin with that. Stay with us.

We'll be right back. Well, I don't know how cold it is where you are, but it's pretty cold here. And we were getting these weather advisories telling us it's going to be minus 15 degrees wind chill factor. Well, that's interesting. So I looked it up and that was a different source of information. I looked it up on mine and it said essentially the same thing minus 14 minus 15 and it predicted no wind uh one mile per hour wind so that wind chill factor is all chill and not so much wind uh but it turns out this morning as i looked at it it wasn't minus 15 degrees oh and i'll just add karen has a different weather app as well.

And they vary quite a bit. Their predictions vary by a couple of different degrees, you know. And even during the day, if you look at it, they vary by a few degrees from each other on a regular basis. But rather than it being minus 15, it was plus one. They missed it by 16 degrees. And I mention this because it never ceases to amaze me uh it was i think 2013 that the american meteorological society had their annual convention in austin and i went to that and everybody i mean it was just a sea of science

fair exhibits and some of the people a lot of people were doing presentations on their particular models to try to predict the weather a couple of days in advance. And then they had this massive floor. And every single one of these was like a high school science exhibit where they had a big board up there talking about their model and all the rest of the stuff. And they were all struggling to try to predict what the weather was going to be, and nobody was exactly getting it right. And then there was this one exhibit that was done by an organization funded by George Soros.

And it was wagging the finger at these weathermen and saying, you know, people would believe in climate change if you would tell them. But the sad thing is, is that most of the meteorologists don't believe in climate change. It's like, well, why would they when they are struggling to predict what the weather is going to be in a couple of days or the next day even? And you're going to tell me that you've got a model that knows what the climate is going to be like in 50 years from now? Well, that's convenient, isn't it? An open-ended process, because that's what all these people are doing. They said, well, here's our model.

Here's why we thought this would work. And these are the factors that we're measuring and using and putting into our models. And here's how we weighted it and all this other kind of stuff. And then here's the results. And as you can see, we got it pretty good here, but we missed it over here, that type of thing. That's where you do the science. But if you predict what the weather is going to be like 50 years from now, you don't have to do any science. And you can also hide your data.

And you can pick where you want things to start and all these other tricks that they use all the time standard tricks and lies from government quote-unquote scientists that we saw during the so-called pandemic as well deadly arctic blast is um the threat in the nfl playoffs the iowa caucus is at 79% of the U S is it with below freezing temperatures and expecting to set record lows. As I say in this article from Oregon to Mississippi. And so when we look at the Arctic sea ice that they're freaking out about as well, that is surprisingly soaring and it shouldn't be a surprise.

And it's been increasing for the last 21 years. So it depends on where you pick your spot to set your trend, right? We could say, well, I'm going to start it from 21 years ago. And that means that we're going to go into a new ice age, which is what the depopulationists for the first earth day we're all talking about paul ehrlich who wrote the population bomb he wants to kill everybody that's the bottom line and all this climate stuff by the way that's what's so appealing to the globalists but it was going to be a new ice age but if you

change the starting point and you take a bigger view, what you see is a cyclical thing. And it's related to solar cycles, actually, which they can't predict that either. And they have no control over it. And it isn't because of your dishwasher or your car or anything else. The solar cycles. The dramatic, if largely unpublicized, recovery in Arctic sea ice is continuing into the new year, despite the contestable claims of the hottest year ever. You see that all over the materials from Davos to justify it, because they say this year we're going to be talking about climate and conflict.

And so they bring in Zelensky for the conflict. Maybe we should talk about climate and conflict. And so they bring in Zelensky for the conflict. Maybe we should talk about climate and coups, or just whatever the MacGuffin of the year is. Arctic sea ice on January the 8th stood at the highest level in 21 years. And in last December, this is just a month or so ago, the U.S.-based National Snow and Ice Data Center revealed that sea ice recorded its third highest monthly gain in the modern 45 year record you see we haven't been looking at it for that long

45 years and we had a record here for the last 45 years i've known karen longer than they've known what's going on in the arctic in terms of ice it ridiculous. We're coming up to our 50th anniversary of our first date. They don't. They just had their 45th anniversary, their first look at Arctic sea ice. So don't talk to me about that. I'm older than their records. A lot older than their records. So the reading up to january the 8th

has now far exceeded the average for the years 2011 2020 it also exceeds the average for the years from 2001 to 2010 and it points directly upwards with regard to the average for the years 1991 to 2000 so again you know where do you want to pick your starting point? And as they say here on the Daily Skeptic, this is only half a winter's worth of data. We must be careful not to follow the alarmist down their chosen political path of cherry picking and of warning of climate collapse on the basis of individual events.

Nevertheless, it's good to use their own arguments against them isn't it somewhat satisfying even uh even though we know these things are going through cycles and of course that was what climate gate was all about the fact that they were cherry picking their cycles you know our models are not working how do we hide the decline in temperature because at that point in time they're trying to sell global warming and now any unusual event you know even it's freezing that'll be presented as climate change every unusual weather event will be used to back up their so-called solutions and here's one of their so-called solutions the electric

cars and this is um getting a lot of attention now because there's more cold and there's more cars. We talked about this last winter. You remember Eric Peters had a car. He couldn't get it charged. Another person had a car. They couldn't get it charged. Same type of thing. You hook it up to these superchargers, but before it can begin charging the battery, the battery has to be at a certain temperature. So guess what? You can keep this thing hooked up as long as you want to. Right now in Chicago, it isn't going to charge these things. And so they've got all these different charging stations that they built with the Tesla stuff all over the place.

And they've turned into car graveyards, as they call them. Everybody gets there, they can't get a charge, and their cars are now dead. Freezing temperatures in Chicago have left many unable to get home. One person even having to get his Tesla hauled to a working charging station. Well, the charging stations are working. It's just that it's too cold for them to work as created. They're into the negative temperatures.

One person said, I was stuck here for hours. There's nothing. There's no juice. I'm still on 0% on my battery. This is like, I was stuck here for hours. There's nothing. There's no juice. I'm still on 0% on my battery. This is like three hours being out here after being out here three hours yesterday to try to get a charge. One person said, this is crazy. It's a disaster. Seriously. She added that she had to abandon her car, hitch a ride with a friend who had a, what was it? Those things, what they call them? Oh, internal combustion engines.

They kind of work. Because her car wouldn't charge. Yeah, you got to heat the battery first. One person also said, we got a bunch of dead robots out here. Another individual who came back to the airport, Chicago O'Hare, after traveling, found that his car would not start. Cold had harmed the battery and made it discharge faster. And then he had to get his car towed as well.

One spokesperson for the Chicago Auto Trade association got his dig in. But of course he's just telling the truth. You know, sometimes the truth can be very, very, uh, uh, sharp sword.

Can it, you know, he says it's not plug and go. You have to precondition the battery, meaning that you have to get the battery up to the optimal temperature in order to accept a fast charge. And as this article from the Express said, Tesla has no comment. What are they going to say about this? You know, the world could get its first trillionaire within 10 years, as I said yesterday.

And they're saying that they think that EVs are headed towards $10,000. And it's like, wow, no wonder Elon Musk is so rich if he can sell these things for six times. He's been selling them for six times, but he'll still be able to sell it for and still make a profit. You know, he's not going to sell these things for less than it cost him. And so, as I point out, the gap between the richest of the rich, as I said yesterday, five richest people, their wealth went up 114% since the globalist lockdowns

that Trump went along with. And the poorest, 5 billion people, took it on the chin. And as they put it in this article from ap interestingly enough they put in quotation marks there the gap has been supercharged since the coronavirus pandemic yeah supercharged right and they got a picture of Musk there. Bezos, Larry Ellison, Warren Buffett, Elon Musk. And of course, where did we have our first billionaire? Well, that was John D. Rockefeller. And that was in 1916.

He became the first billionaire. And now we're about to have our first trillionaire. So that's how you get rich is you sell these schemes to governments that give you subsidies. And that's what globalism is all about. The whole thing is a conspiracy between these large multinational corporations, these globalist billionaires and the governments. It's a partnership. It's what they call stakeholder capitalism. between these large multinational corporations these globalist billionaires and the governments it's a partnership it's what they call stakeholder capitalism it's what has been done and tested and proven with the corruption in china where all the companies that are there have to have a chinese official as part of it by the way you want to talk about killing people um killing them with

cold is much more effective at least five people die from hypothermia in this most recent thing. But global freezing deaths are nine times more common than people who die from heat. And you can die from both of these. I've talked about in the past when they lost power in Florida with a hurricane that went through. And a lot of times the conditions that create hurricanes will also create really hot muggy weather that's what happened with us up in north carolina hurricane fran we were so far inland and i've been through so many hurricanes on the coast growing up in tampa that kind of just alarmism and it really wasn't a big storm when it got to the Raleigh area. We had so much rain.

It was unbelievable the amount of rain that it brought. And even though the winds were only 75 miles an hour, it was knocking over big trees that were more than 100 years old. And taking out power lines everywhere. And blocking roads everywhere. And we lived in a rural area. And we were out of power for about five or six days. And it was unbelievably hot and muggy. But in Florida, when you had one of these hurricanes go through not that long ago, you had a lot of people in a nursing home died because they didn't have, you know, they build these buildings, you know, without windows, with low ceilings,

build it for air conditioning. And when the air conditioning goes out, it gets really, really hot. So I had some people die, but people have been dying for a long time from the hardship. When we were debating all this stuff back in 2000 with a climate gate, and then a couple of years after that, and when we got into the fights with the renewable mandates that came in first in Colorado, we had a lawsuit with a group I was working with at the time. I've played some of the videos that I did for them at the time. And when we talked about that, at that particular time,

they'd already gone farther, of course, in Europe than we had. And they'd made electricity so expensive that you had German pensioners who were dying of the cold because they couldn't afford to turn on the heat and so hypothermia freezing kills nine times more people than hot weather does but in Texas they're putting out a warning about more energy rationing alerts. And the interesting thing is one of the critics there, you know, who are Texas, which is rich in oil, of course, very rich in natural gas.

But from when I moved there in 2012, they were just dismantling one functional power plant. They call them fossil fuels. I call them functional fuels. Whether it was oil or whether it was gas, I don't think they did that much coal there, but they were dismantling these things left and right. I was like, wow, that's not good.

And of course, we saw the results of that three years ago. You want to talk about people dying? They had about 250, I'll get the numbers here, we'll get to in a minute, about 250 people died in that cold snap when the windmills froze. Guess what? The windmills are frozen again. Now, I'm not talking about the fact that the cold weather literally iced them up. I'm talking about the fact the wind's not blowing.

You know, I began by talking about how cold it is here. And they said wind chill factor minus 15. Well, what's the wind going to be? Zero to one miles per hour. That's not uncommon. And as one person said, it's no secret that the wind pretty much always does this as the temperature drops. And if the Texas grid managers don't understand this, then Texas needs new grid managers. Yeah.

So they don't understand that when it gets really cold, it's often the case that the wind stops. You know, not always. If you're in Chicago, they're constantly got the wind blowing. But still, you know, that's the're in chicago they're constantly got the wind blowing but still um you know that's the other way that it freezes just when the wind stops blowing so ercot is a company that are the organization the uh that runs um the power for texas which stands for electric reliability council of Texas. All the reliability.

Why don't you take that word out and then you can change what the ECOT is. It's about energy cronies of Texas, right? It's crony capitalism. It's the people that these oil billionaires who said, Hey, we're going to get on the ground floor of this new thing. And then we're going to ban the other stuff and we're going to make even more money than if we just kept selling everybody this stuff that we've been doing. Right. And so they got, um, Rick Perry and Greg Abbott, these other people to build the billions of dollars of infrastructure. So you go out and you, you know, if you build it, we will come that type of thing field of schemes and they built the infrastructure to

go out there and charged texas taxpayers to do that and we wound up with a system there that did not work ercot continues to monitor conditions and will provide updates to our communication channels at this time any outages are local in nature not related to the overall grid reliability uh but um i said 85 of the grid supply is coming from coal natural gas and nuclear wind was about 15 until the coal snap came and then it dropped to seven percent of the mix uh not as um not as bad as when they froze up uh greg abbott said on friday that the grid infrastructure and the operators are much better positioned to handle the coal snap than was the case with the 2021 winter storm and subsequent crisis that killed there are 240 people 240 people in just texas well i think they still are focused on how they can make money for the globalist billionaires, don't you?

As a matter of fact, ERCOT has issued their conservation appeal for record-breaking demand. And one of the things that they want you to do is to not turn on your washing machine. Is that desperate?'s that desperate. That's desperate. Many people say, we're going to see brownouts in major U.S. cities. Competition for electricity is now an unstoppable race. And, you know, as one person said, so why is it when we were told, and you've heard this, it used to drive me nuts a decade ago.

You know, we'd go around and um again david schnair who was with the organization uh that i was with and he had worked for the epa for 30 years and then retired and opposed them because they were no longer about stopping pollution which was their original um mission they changed their mission statement to stop emissions and um so he he would go around he'd ask people say what is your favorite form of energy and most people would say electricity he says no that that that's the end product that's and then he would get to he'd explain that to them. And then these people would say, well, I like wind and solar because they're free.

And he's like, they're not free. They're really not free. It costs a lot. It takes a lot of energy to build them. It takes a lot. What are you going to do with the broken windmills and all the rest of this stuff? But here's where we are right now. You know, one person said, why do we continue to have electricity rates going up? We have more and more solar and wind.

And they're supposed to be free. Well, here's the costs. Here's the cost. So the average cost per megawatt hour for natural gas, $38. That's very clean. For nuclear, $114. Go from $38 to $114. And, you know, growing up, I heard the same stuff with that, right?

I grew up, born in the mid-50s, growing up in the 60s. Nuclear power is going to be so plentiful and so cheap we won't even meter it you've probably heard that yourself right they looked at it and they said yeah you know we could make billions of dollars on this but nah we'll just do it for free right uh no it's not cheap and of course the big expense for nuclear is on the back end what do you do with the waste? You've got to store and protect and nurture your nuclear waste for a very, very, very long time. That was what happened at Fukushima. They didn't have a meltdown with a nuclear reactor or anything.

It was the waste pools that are typically stored on site at the nuclear reactor that were flooded that caused all that issue. So natural gas is $38 per megawatt hour um the um 114 for nuclear uh when you're talking then this is includes storage and transmission uh and then for wind between 291 and 504, and for solar, 413 to 1,548. Now look, I think solar is a good alternative, especially if you want to get off of the grid. But it's the worst alternative for the grid. It all matters how you use this.

If you want to get independent from the grid for many reasons, for surveillance reasons, you know, and all the rest of this stuff. Yeah. Solar. But not for the grid. But they're using it this way because they want to take the grid down. And, um, so, uh, again, uh, ERCOT is asking people not to use their washing machines in Texas. These guys are desperate. I guess we could call these scammers who wrecked the energy system there in Texas.

I guess we could call them desperados. But there is a solution. There is a solution. And thanks to the listener who sent me this. I had to write down his name and make him for this, but he sent me a clip of an article. He said, you know, you're right. The solution to stopping this stuff is at the local level.

So many people think, well, we're going to elect people at the federal government, and the federal government is going to stand up for american sovereignty against these globalists no they're bought and sold many times over to many different industries to the pharmaceutical industries to these other industries as well washington is completely bought and sold and the people in washington are believed that they're going to be the center of the new world order that they're building and the big multinational corporations have a huge and banks have a huge presence here as well and they are also going to be partners in this new world order so how do you stop it we stop it even at the local level green projects are often blocked at the local level. This is coming out of Michigan.

And so states have really big climate goals, but these people at the local level are working to quote unquote strip their power. And they're not talking, you see the people at the state and federal level and global level are working to strip your power in terms of energy generation. The people at local level are trying to strip their political power to starve you of energy. And so this article says a clean energy developers had planned a 75 turbine wind farm in mid Michigan's Mount's Montcalm County before local voters

shot down the idea in 2022 and then recalled seven local officials who had supported it. This can be done in a wide variety of these crony capitalist corrupt schemes. I'm talking about not just wind things, but here in North Carolina, I'm not in North Carolina, Tennessee,

the battery energy storage systems. They want to put in areas where there's a lot of forests and where there's residential areas as a massive Tesla battery backup for their

renewables. Well, you've got to have the energy before you can really back it up. And if this stuff is taken down by weather storm, even a battery energy storage system isn't going to be around for that much longer. But nevertheless, these things are massive fire hazards, and they're massive expenses, and they need to be opposed at the local level. And so you had opposition to that at the local level here in Tennessee.

And in the same way, the local people who had approved it withdrew that approval. And then the company said, well, we're going to sue you because you already approved it. So that's going to go to the courts. But still, you can recall these people if they do the wrong thing. And they understand that. About 150 miles southeast, a person in Monroe County, Michigan, found herself at the center of a similar conflict as the rising medical cost forced her and her husband to consider selling land that her family has owned for 150 years there's so many different ways that they've got to bankrupt us isn't it and of course medical bills are a very common one uh so leasing a parcel to an incoming solar farm could save the property

but neighboring residents complained so vehemently that she said the township changed its zoning to block the project. And again, that brings us back to the push going back to the 2020 election. If you remember, Andrew Yang, who was pushing universal basic income, that was initially his sole issue. And then he got on to a lot of other issues, all of them aligned with the globalist agenda. Things like getting rid of all zoning laws and having land use dictated by the federal government. Andrew Yang is a very dangerous person, but he is a puppet for the globalists. And guess who gave him his first money and gave him millions of dollars? Well, that would be your benevolent billionaire friend of the conservative movement right now, Elon Musk.

Another one of these billionaires that all these conservatives are putting their trust in. They're looking at him as some kind of a philanthropist that has saved our free speech and all the rest of this stuff. I mean, I think he looked at these i think he looked at these maga people and uh you take a look at expressions on their faces they are fawning over president trump and he goes yeah there's a lot of suckers there that i could make a power base out of and i could really fleece them as well and he's doing a good job of it getting back to this though local restrictions in michigan derailed more than two dozen utility renewable energy projects as of last may two dozen according to a study that was done by a university that's trying to push this stuff they said nationwide at least 228 in thirty five states have been imposed at the local level to stop these projects.

Folks, you're not going to get any help from the feds. And you may find, depending on your state government, you may find that the state government aligns with the feds as well, which is what they're seeing here now in Michigan. So, again, forget about this horse race between deplorable characters in Washington. Focus on what's local, local and state can make things better or much worse. The conflicts have hindered many States, aggressive timelines for transitioning to cleaner energy production with the ultimate goal of eliminating carbon pollution within two decades we have to eliminate these people

we have to have um they've got their zeros right they want to zero so many things out zero car use and all the rest of the stuff we need to uh zero out their mandates. Maybe that should be the name of the movement, the zero mandate movement. Michigan and more than a dozen other states are seeking to upend the decision-making process by grabbing the power to supersede local restrictions and to allow state authorities to approve or disapprove locations for utility state utility scale projects

so again what are they going to do political power struggle it's a power struggle we're not going to have electric power if they get the political power that's their mission to shut us down everywhere we can't allow projects of statewide importance critical to our state energy security to be vetoed on purely local concerns. Again, it's going to be necessary because they're going to be fought against at the state level. It's going to be necessary for people to understand that your real energy security lies in stopping these projects. And that's why it's now the time to talk about this during a massive storm. You want to have energy? You stop these projects that are sold as energy security.

They're anything but. They said, however, many local officials say that giving states the power to cite large-scale energy projects clashes with cherished U.S. political principles. That's right. And with the way the law is right now. Local officials, they say, are the public servants who are closest and most directly accountable to voters. They argue that it is especially important when it comes to land use and what gets built near homes.

And so they admit right there, they're the ones who are closest to the voters and what most accountable to them. One thing Elon Musk did said was right. He said, look, Soros is getting these district attorneys in and these state attorneys generals, because that's far more effective way to change the country than spending money on a presidential election. And the more local you get, the more accountable these people are, the more power you have. That's why I try to keep focusing on this. I can't tell you who's good or bad in your area.

You've got to figure that out. There may not be any good people in your area. So find some good ones and support them or run yourself and get other people to support you but when we look at this of course the windmills is not just the um the fact that they don't work the windmills of your mind also collapse catch fire and other things as i've shown many times there's one turbine in colorado wind farm collapses and then bursts into flames it really got people's attention because it's really big and it had a really big crash and a farm collapses and then bursts into flames. It really got people's attention because it's really big and it had a really big crash and a really big fire because everything, look at the size of that thing compared to the trucks in front of it, pickup truck in front of it.

Looks like a little toy truck. So I guess we haul this thing off now to the landfill because reuse, recycle doesn't work with this. But of course, the so-called environmentalists don't care about that well we're talking about fires this is sent to me by david weatherby who used to be in canada uh he said toronto and it's an article from toronto uh the fire chief warns of lithium ion battery risk after an e-bike fire on the subway on the subway i think their fire chief is going to have to tell them we don't want to have any e-bikes no molotov cocktails or other

flammable devices on board the subway can you imagine being on a subway and having one of these things that burst into fire so the fire was caused by the failure of a lithium ion battery powering an e-bike. It was put out by fire crews on Sunday afternoon. The fires that resulted from the failures of lithium-ion batteries represent a significant risk, said the fire chief, Matthew Pegg. When lithium-ion batteries fail and ignite, the response is an intense, rapidly developing fire that poses an immediate risk to anyone in the area.

If it doesn't burn you to death, the fire is toxic, of course. There's been an increase in these. He said there were 55 fires in the city last year that resulted from lithium-ion battery failures. Up from 29 the year before. It's because they have so many more of these things that are out there. And so the bottom line, and we'll finish with this. This headline from Zero Hedge. Seeking Green Utopia.

The U.S. and the EU are quietly killing vital industries. Even trying to kill our vittles. Our food, right? Eat ze bugs. German CO2 emissions are the lowest since the 1950s. So, is this a success? Or is it a failure? Well, here's what Bill Gates thinks.

I'm here in July, and of, I flew in on my private jet. Very, very important meeting. The issue of you peasants eating bugs will be discussed at length. That's never gotten the attention it deserves. The issue of COVID-19 not killing off enough poor people and my vaccines not weeding out the rest of you bastards, which is a tragedy, of course. We'll talk about using killer robots next. Chad absolutely solved that problem.

Yeah. There are some good uses for AI, aren't there? We'll be right back. If you like the Eagles, on a dark desert highway, the cars, and Huey Lewis and the News, you'll love the Classic Hits channel at APS Radio.

Download our app or listen now at APSradio.com. Terima kasih telah menonton! Thank you. You're listening to The David Knight Show. And I played that at that point in time because I had a supporter who asked me about that song. Paul D., thank you very much for the check we got. I've got a list of some other people who have sent checks. I want to read that out real quickly. About 10 people. But he said, what's the name of the mandolin composition? Well, that that you just heard there is Heart of the Heartland.

And it's by Paul Ostruka, I think is the way you pronounce his name. He was somebody that would make the rounds on PBS, Prairie Home Companion, I think. But it was because of that, I guess it was Ken Burns picked him up and he used that song in the Lewis and Clark documentary that he did. That's where I picked that up really like that song and so that's my cover of it uh i stuck very close to what he did except i had to shorten it i shortened it up a little bit i tried to shorten these things up um you know for the breaks and

so there's like another verse that he does in his arrangement that has um um a slide guitar in it but i took that out and uh and then i added strings on the finale there but i played all the instruments on that and and pull that off of the record um and then he asked what keyboard do you use i'm just curious it's a um yeah i don't even remember the name of it i've had it for years now uh but it's a midi keyboard it's weighted keyboard and so if you play piano that's what you want to get otherwise it feels like an organ so it's an 88 key weighted keyboard uh it's um my native instruments and i got it at the time because um there were so at the time that was kind of the standard for virtual instruments, although they've moved.

Everybody, I guess, got tired of paying them royalties, and so everybody is building their own construct to use for the virtual instruments. But at that time, it had a few things on it that made it work a little bit better with the um with the native instruments stuff so it's a native instruments weighted keyboards 88 keys but it's great because you can get these amazing um samples of keyboards that you can find you know from organs to pianos to electric pianos and other keyboards from the seventies and things like that, that are really, uh, really sound great and have a lot of flexibility in them, uh, and get Hammond B3 organs, or you can get

church organs and all this other kind of stuff. Uh, the controls of course, are not going to be exactly as good as the organs on, um, uh, the controls on, uh, uh, the, um, Hammond. Uh, but, um, you know, you can, you've got a lot of different changes that you can make with it um thank you oh um karen told me that it was a complete keyboard okay well that's i guess the model that they've got of it uh but um let me thank the people who sent checks real quickly of course paul d that we just mentioned uh susan l Jack H., Scott C., Leon and Glenda W., Jody E., Lloyd P., and Charlie at APS. Thank you all. And by the way, Alexander W., he sent some money with Zelle, and he wasn't sure if it was getting through, and he asked me to mention that I got it.

I've not put together a list of all the people on Zelle, but thank you very much, Alexander. That was very generous. I appreciate it. And we did get it through Zelle. So thank you. And I'd say that, you know, the money that we get through checks and through Zelle, there is no fee attached to that like there are in other things, but it is still very important for us.

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There's so many different podcasts out there. So it would be a big help to us if you listen on podcast to like the podcast, even leave a nice comment. That would help a great deal. Might help with our visibility there. Who knows? Let's talk a little bit about news before we get into uh pharmaceutical stuff and elections this is just kind of general stuff i thought this was very interesting sent to me again by listener uh and it is the fact that

feds are banning humorous electronic messages on highways now many times we've seen these um here's what this went with the article the news thing there um this is part of the sign thing and and you've seen these things hacked in the past where they'll put a warning uh zombies ahead or warning raptors ahead or something like this or a message like this i won't repeat but you get the idea that's what the signs look like right the they're not the big signs up above but they're the ones that are on the road sign and the reason that happens all the time i know because they did um a little bit of work for uh the north carolina department of transportation with the company that i was with and um they uh were laughing about what happened.

And it happened to them a lot. They put these signs out and they never change the passcode. And oh, by the way, Paul D said, please, more goat tree. And that, I forgot to read that. That reminded me of goat tree because he's talking about the fact that they typically don't change the passwords on railroad switching equipment or anything like that, which is far more serious. And if they do change the password, they'll typically write it in some booth somewhere, right? So they don't forget it and it becomes a hassle.

So typically they put these signs out there and they're still the same password that it ships with. And of course, if you got the manual, you can see what the default password that it ships with is. And so they've been doing that as hackers. OK, doing that quite a bit. But that's not about this. This is about the federal government telling the departments of transportation in each individual state that they can't put up humorous messages. For example, in Massachusetts, they'd put up, use ya blinka, right? Y-A-H-B-L-I-N-K-A-H in Massachusetts. Or in Ohio, this one, visiting in-laws slow down get there late it's just telling you don't

speed right uh in pennsylvania don't drive star spangled hammered that i don't drive drunk another one in new jersey hocus pocus drive with focus and then um this one hands on the wheel not on your meal well the feds don't like that and we're talking serious stuff here right you need to be serious with your directives and as the this new directive that has come out from the department of transportation federal highway administration uh which is part of the Department of Transportation, which is who runs the U.S. Department of Transportation? None other than Booty Gay himself, and he apparently doesn't have any sense of humor about this stuff.

They put out an 1,100-page manual, and it spells out the rules of how signs and other traffic control devices are regulated. Administration officials said overhead electronic signs with obscure meaning, references to pop culture or those intended to be funny will be banned by 2026. They're giving you just a couple of years to wipe that smile off of your face. I would suggest that what these state officials should put on the sign is something like bart simpson i will not make jokes i will not make jokes i will

do that up there hundreds of times before they pull the plug on them in 2026 and as um uh of course the government doesn't have any sense of irony or even hypocrisy when they put out an 1100 page manual and in this they demand that these signs be simple direct brief legible and clear that's what the 1100 page manual tells them and don't make any jokes. This is serious stuff here, right? I mean, come on, really. Would Adolf Hitler make jokes or Mussolini or Stalin? And they don't like people who laugh at them either, right? That's the key thing.

Arizona has more than 300 electric signs above its highways. And for the last seven years, the State Department of Transportation has held a contest to find the funniest and most creative messages anybody could submit ideas and they got more than 3 700 entries last year the winners were seat belts always pass a vibe check that doesn't seem to be too funny and i'm just a sign asking drivers to use turn signals. And so a state representative there said, the humor part of it we kind of like to have. And he says, I don't really understand why the feds are all getting so fussy about this. He said, why are you trying to have the federal government come in and tell us what we can and cannot do in our own state?

Prime example that the federal government is not focusing on what they need to be focused on. Well, again, how is the federal government going to put out their mandate for no jokes? No jokes. And seriously, you know, they don't have a sense of humor. Look, we got a guy who got a jail sentence over a Hillary Clinton meme. And it was exactly the same joke that somebody else had made about Trump and voting. He made that same joke about Hillary and voting.

Don't forget to vote on Wednesday, the day after the election. Somebody else had already done that with Trump. But, of course, the person who made the joke about Hillary gets a jail sentence. The other person doesn't even get called on that. And so how are the feds going to get this done? They don't have the authority to do this. The 10th amendment is in their way. So how will they do it? Well, they'll do it the same way that Obama put boys in the girl's bathroom with bribes and with blackmail with cash. They'll do it the same way that Trump locked everybody down, put masks on your faces and so forth. They'll do it the same way that Trump locked everybody down, put masks on your faces and so forth.

They'll do it with bribes. And then later, Biden jumps in with blackmail. It's always about the money. That is always how the government gets around the 10th Amendment. And that's why when they planned this whole thing, going back to 2001, two months before 9-11, they had the dark winter thing, and then the false flag a week after 9-11 of anthrax. And then two months later, they put out the Model State Health Emergency Powers Act, and that was telling the states, get ready to do this. Give yourself some legal authority that you don't have, but make it, you know, put it in a state law, because there's going to be a time where we're going to punt this to you. We'll give you the money, and then you run the tyranny.

That's how it's always done. This is what is so frustrating about talking to these Trump supporters. And just, you look at their, you know, the people on social media, or you listen to them talk, they hate the jab. They hate all the lockdowns and the masks and all the rest of the stuff, the social distancing from 2020, but they love the guy who gave it to them. It's insane. In Toronto, before we do that, some of the comments on weather.

Rumble, ON61, I've been locked. I've been iced in since Saturday morning. Power is currently off and water has been off for four days. Uh, rumble. Oh, and 61. I've been locked. I've been iced in since Saturday morning. Power is currently off and water has been off for four days. Oh, sorry to hear that. I don't know. Um, you need to tell us where you are. Um, on rock vent handy says it's cold and flu season.

Nothing abnormal about that. Hospital ERs are moderately busy, but again, not abnormal this time of year and of course handy has been talking about and blogging about what he saw as an ems technician there in the atlanta area and uh and it truly is criminal what was done to us it's so much bigger than even just the masks and the lockdowns as the medical protocols the bribery of the hospitals to kill people. And, of course, the drugs like remdesivir and the ventilators and the rest of the stuff. Rumble, point man patriot, says, It will be of little avail to the people that laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read or so incoherent that they cannot be understood

absolutely right and he quotes somebody i don't know who that is jay moddy but i'll i've always um and i don't know who said this quote but i've used that many times a law that is sufficiently complex is the same as no law at all. Just take a look at the IRS code, right? Call the IRS. I'm not giving you advice. I'm not jumping into that briar patch. I don't know what the law is either. I'm not telling you anything.

You're not going to get my name and use me to give you a pass. But then when you go in for an audit, oh, wow. It's all very subjective, isn't it? Do they like you or they dislike you because the law is so complex they can do whatever they want in toronto going back to toronto again they have banned tobogganing on 45 hills and put up a warning warning signs well that's pretty amazing you know uh the roman empire only had seven hills there in Rome. They got 45 in Toronto,

and you better not slide down any of them during the winter. This is from Reason Magazine. Talk about a slippery slope, they said. Toronto recently erected warning signs on 45 hills around the city that read, tobogganing is not allowed. Hazards such as trees, stumps, rocksumps rocks rivers or roads make this hill unsafe

well when we had our video store in cary north carolina you know it's kind of like it is here we we rarely have snow storms and when they do sometimes they last for a few days but even if it doesn't because people are not accustomed to the snow and there's no snow removal equipment and nobody knows how to drive in it everything comes to a halt and so close to where our video store was there was a neighborhood that had a very steep hill going down into a cul-de-sac and school was out and nobody was driving around. But the parents were out as well, and they were there with their kids. And, you know, the kids were having a great time sledding down this hill.

And again, parents all over the place. And the Cary police decided, in those days, it was probably still the same, they didn't have much of anything to do as far as crime goes. So they could kind of become like Barney Fife, you know, get, get focused on really small things and, uh, yeah, really get their, uh, the hair on the back of their neck, standing straight up. If you didn't do exactly what they said to do when they barked the orders. And so they show up to this hill and they decided like the city of Toronto

has decided that it was too dangerous for these kids to be tobogganing down. You know, car might come by and don't, don't do that. And the parents said, no, they're fine. No, I told you that you're not going to have these kids out here going down. And it got, it wound up with the parents and the, uh, and the kids throwing stone balls at the police and driving them away. And that made the paper there. Uh, it was, but you know, that's, uh, that's just what they're doing in Toronto.

Now that was 38 years ago. Uh, and Carrie, uh, so now in Toronto, the That was 38 years ago, and Carrie. So now in Toronto, the fear of liability is ruining modern childhood, said a mom of two. I used to toboggan all the time with friends when I was a kid, and it was one of my favorite parts about winter. Well, you know, you shoot your eye out, kid. There are too many nanny rules aimed at making the world so safe that people, and especially kids, are not allowed to do anything outdoors but sit on a bench.

Oh, no, don't sit on a bench outside. It's too cold. Go inside. Sit in front of the TV so we can program you. Not only do kids lose out when trees become an obstacle to outdoor fun, says Reason, but so does the city itself. Anti-tabagging legislation makes Toronto move in the direction of no fun city. Again, no jokes on signs. No tabagging allowed anywhere. Last year, the city put up bales of hay around trees on the popular hill to avoid crashes.

Now, tabagging is banned on that hill of course this reminds me of um the other extreme daytona beach where you know and i've got a clip of that that i play here sometimes and i was just amazed when we went there in 2015 i had grown up and next to uh this area where i live now that was our next go-to place to take a trip. It was fairly close. We lived in Tampa, so just right across the state. And one of the reasons that we liked Daytona Beach was because you could drive cars on the beach. And of course, that's where the Daytona 500 race originally came from. It was originally a race on the beach.

They had one leg of the race was on the beach that has hard compressed sand a return leg was on the road the highway that was there a1a i think is the name of it and then you had the curve parts where it was really soft sand and that's where things got really difficult for them but now they don't let anybody even though people were racing on this thing for the longest time before they built the stadium or whatever you want to call it, uh, that's purpose built for the Daytona 500. Um, they don't let anybody drive on that. And they charge you to drive in other areas that are far away from it. And when I say far away from it, the center of it was always the boardwalk, which was an elevated place and had a lot of restaurants and things like that.

So but people would always drive there. That was kind of the center of it, although there were hotels all the way down. And so this is what happening everywhere. Right. No fun anywhere. Locking everything down. I think it's a sign. What's going on here, isn't it?

Last year, the city put up a of hay but they're not going to do it now memories of a fun place have been yanked away from families in toronto said one person it's not just tobogganing toronto's team of experts advises that anyone crazy enough to even think about going sledding to always check for hazards like bumps and bare spots as well as ice covered areas that pretty much covers everything doesn't it as they say on the reason the city also warns any not yet daunted tobogganers to never use a plastic disc to slide down a hill and don't bring your family dog either as animals may get excited. All children should be supervised by an adult. No humans or animals are to be excited

or to have any fun whatsoever. Well, here, the other part of domination, of course, is language and purging things. What is this that you found? Okay, there we go. There's a professional's tobogganer uh the clip that travis found what's that from travis i don't remember oh christmas vacation okay haven't watched that for a while uh that's chevy jason the uh thing

he somehow has missed all the trees so far but but we know how that's going to be. Anyway, it's also about dominating people and removing history and also naming things. And that's what they're working on here in the Smoky Mountains. They want to rename Clingman's Dome. Clingman's Dome is the highest peak in the Smokies. And thank you, Jackie, for sending this to me. I've not seen this. The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, Tribal Council, wants to rename Clingman's Dome.

And Jackie comments and says, I'm fine with this as long as they cut off their utilities, crush their cars, stop using modern medicine, and go back to living in teepees. Well, Jackie, that's what they want us to do with the climate. And they'll change the name of everything as well. They voted unanimously, the Tribal Council did, on a resolution to approve a name change from Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi. And they passed that vote on january the 4th that is cherokee for mulberry place and uh but i think there may be something else involved in this

in this article uh that was done local local local paper uh they don't say um who was clingman right i think there might be some clues as to why they want to rename this peak see clingman was a u.s senator who when the civil war came around fought on the side of the confederacy as a brigadier general as a matter of fact and then after the war he led an expedition to determine the height of clingman's dome and it was something of a tradition that the people who would figure out the height of these things would have it named after them and And, um, that's what happened with this particular one. You know, it was something that the Cherokee never bothered to measure the height of these things as they're just collecting the mulberries, I guess.

But, uh, you know, they figure out the height of it. They name the hill after them or the dome or the mountain peak. And, uh, he's not the only one that did that there was another guy who is a geologist and his name was buckley and he figured out the height of the second highest peak there in the smoky mountains and they named that mount buckley and so maybe they will try to change that as well. Uh, but, um, right now they're coming after the one that was named after a Confederate general. I think we kind of know why, and which is, you know, the Cherokee were on the side of the Confederacy during the civil war.

Uh, but it follows in a tradition from the,.S. Department of the Interior. They renamed Mount McKinley Mount Denali because that was an Indian name that they had out there. So we'll see what happens with this. County commissioners in both Tennessee and North Carolina support the efforts of the Cherokee to rename this because I guess these local politicians decided that this was not a hill to die on. But we've got zoning board orders that are being overturned. I'm sorry. Zoning boards are overturning private property that is happening. This is also Reason Magazine. a town zoning board in New Hampshire, has decided that they're going to kick out two tenants

who have been living in an apartment for more than a decade. And they're not wealthy. I mean, this is not like some kind of a rent control thing in New York. This was a cluster of small apartments, and there were 13 of them and because they suddenly discovered last summer that according to their records there were 12 and now there's 13 at some point decades ago they subdivided one of these small apartments And so these two people who are going to get kicked out on the street had 500 square foot apartments, very tiny apartments. They took one of these small apartments and cut it in half.

And they've been living there for 10 weeks. But of course, that cannot be tolerated. The real estate investor who owns the apartments said, we have a major housing crisis and we've got a severe shortage of housing around the state and in this town of Claremont. But by the city's request, we have to kick two tenants out who have been there for many, many years and who have called it their home for more than a decade. And so, um, these are a hundred year old year old buildings and then again they subdivided them the response from the zoning board was uh said yeah we are in a housing crunch but that doesn't mean we can bend our codes because their rules are more important than people of course their authority their power is more important than people, of course. Their authority, their power is more important than people.

If I was to make an exception for you, I'd have to do that for everybody. That would weaken my power. It would kind of make me look like a human or something. I don't know what it is. Here in Tennessee, lawmakers are proposing legislation banning banks and credit card companies from tracking purchases of guns and ammo. Well, what is this about? We've talked about this in the past, and this is another aspect of nullification, folks. Very important.

This nullification is being done at the state level, and it's already been done in some other states, but it's coming here in Tennessee. It was in response to New York State trying to nullify your God-given rights to own and possess firearms and ammunition as protected by the Constitution. And how did New York State do it? They did it in collusion with big banks and with multinational NGOs, non-governmental organizations. What they did, if you remember that a few years ago, they came up with a scheme. New York Attorney General, California Attorney General said, you know, if we can put a code on and get them to make this part of the standard codes. This is the International Standards Organization, ISO, based in Switzerland. And they assign codes to different things that are used for financial transactions.

If we can do that, there wasn't anything there for guns or ammunition. Because, you know, it's pretty much controlled in the rest of the world, so it's pretty difficult to buy guns and ammunition, but here in the U S it was very common. And so they wanted to stop people from doing that. So they lobbied the banks and the banks lobbied the ISO and they got it put in. And so what was the response to,

and that was again, an effort led by people like leticia james that hyper political state attorney general look at how much uh chaos and manipulation money can buy from george soros when you look at these people that tells you how important these state and local elections are. And so you have a state that tries to do this end run around the Second Amendment, making it difficult using banks and international organizations. And so some other states have responded to this by putting in these prohibitions of the banks keeping track of that. So they outlawed that in their state area. And so now you've got two state reps in Tennessee.

Todd Warner is in the House and in the Senate. Joey Hensley introduced legislation last Wednesday that would prohibit banks, credit card companies, and other financial institutions from tracking purchases of firearms. And of course, they want to do this as part of an intimidation and also as part of the surveillance state. So the state bill would make it, quote, an unfair or deceptive trade practice for any financial institution to require a firearms retailer to use firearms specific transaction

codes. retailer to use firearms specific transaction codes and again the industry or i should say new york i created this new credit card merchant category uh recently and um this was previously paused in march of last year when you had companies including american express mastercard and visa abandoning their plans after legislation banning the tracking of those who buy and sell weapons and ammunition passed in several states, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Texas, Florida, West Virginia. The 10th Amendment Center notes that similar legislation also exists in Idaho, North Dakota, and Montana. And so you've got one, two, three, four, five states

that are not going to do it here. And now we've got another four that are about to do it. This is what's called nullification. And this is how you nullify the globalist agenda. This is how you nullify the conspiracies of these bankers and these Democrats and these NGOs. So federal lawmakers were very happy with this when it went through. They said, quote, a clear government expectation that networks will utilize the new merchant category code to conduct mass surveillance of constitutionally protected firearms and ammunition purchases in cooperation with law enforcement.

That's what they had previously said. The more states that ban such codes, more likely as this program gets scrapped permanently, says the 10th Amendment Center. Have you heard any presidential candidates talk about that? And there's any GOP? Did they say, you know, we've got to stop this, uh, globalist banker agenda from the Democrats to, uh, track and intimidate people and create a

database of people who are buying guns and ammunition. I mean, even if you went into a gun and ammunition store, even if you didn't buy ammunition or a gun, they still put you on the list. Have you heard any of the presidential candidates address that? Me neither. Isn't that interesting? There are so many vital issues. They're AWOL. AWOL.

And so this is why I say focus on state and local people. Get good people into office. So they're not even going to talk about it. If you want liberty, you're going to have to decentralize the power. You're going to stop this consolidation of power and the centralization that's been going on for quite some time. After the move to adopt the new merchant codes went public in 2023,

the Tennessee Firearms Association said, consumers should pay cash whenever possible, and if you can trade chickens for them, trade chickens. If you can write a check and avoid that 3% surcharge that a lot of merchants now charge for using a credit card, well, they charge even more than that. Some save everybody 3%. But absolutely, if you can avoid the credit card, just like Dave Ramsey says, do it. So trade them a chicken or whatever you can for your gun.

So we've already seen Bank of america do this right even even before leticia james going back to january the 6th they put out a um they essentially did their own geofence warrant the fbi didn't ask them for the information uh bank of america did it voluntarily and sent that to them and then they sent a list to them and said, then here are all the people who have made purchases at a firearms place. They didn't even have the code. Bank of America did that. So this story here from Reclaim the Note was how a typo and a geofence warrant endangered the privacy of a lot of people. Well, as I've said many times, Terry Gilliam's movie, Brazil, that came out in 1984 says Monty Python like take on totalitarianism and it begins with a typo error there's a typo error here and that movie you know you've got these

clunky it's a ruthless dictatorship their technology is clunky and they've got these typewriters manual typewriters and instead of big screen tvs they've got a fresnel lens in front of a small screen tv all that kind of stuff but um because you know technological innovation gets stymied in these totalitarian societies as well at the very beginning they're typing up these different warrants thank you travis for pulling this up and people get to And people can see kind of what I'm doing. But at the very beginning of it, this guy's typing this thing up. And the fly drops down off the ceiling as the guy swats it into the typewriter.

And instead of buttle, instead of tuttle, it says buttle. And they send out a SWAT team, ruthless SWAT team, to the wrong address. That's how the movie begins. And it's a particular one. They've got a geofence warrant and they've got a typo. The typo in it said two miles over San Francisco. That would include any businesses, private homes, and places of worship in the area. But again, it's not just this typo.

It's geofence warrants in general. Treating every human that happens to be in a given location as a potential suspect. What could be wrong about that? Well, besides the fact that it's an obvious violation of the Fourth Amendment, which says that if you get a search warrant, you've got to go before a judge, and you've got to be specific about the person, place, and things that you're going to be searching for and searching in, all the rest of that stuff. It turns out the rule of innocent until proven guilty is turned on its head. And this is the case of all these things.

But, of course, geospatial intelligence, which nobody ever talks about. They're now talking about geofence warrants, but really geospatial intelligence was always about mapping people's political beliefs as well as their religious beliefs and anything else that they wanted to do. It was all about mapping you, and that's been the fastest growing part of the spy agencies since the 1990s. In addition, while we're talking about guns, you have a Leticia James again, and a leading a lot of a multi-state coalition of 20 state attorneys general

to try to stop the federal government from selling five, five, six ammo to civilians. And, um, this is coming from the Lake City Army Ammunition Plant, a Missouri-based supplier for the U.S. military. So this is not something that's directly owned by the military. During the Obama administration, it was very alarming to me because Obama, for the first time in his administration, they seemed to focus on ammunition.

And so Fort Drum, New york was a place where um they started this and they decided that they would stop uh the recycling of well it wasn't even recycling of brass but spent brass from the military was frequently sold back into retail manufacturers who would use it to cut their costs down and to manufacture more ammunition. And so they just cut that off at Fort Trump. And it created a big stink. And then you got some senators involved and they reversed that. But what it showed you was uh how the obama administration is going to be focusing on ammunition because if you got a gun but you don't have any ammunition you basically got a club you know you're like davy crockett at the alamo at the very end

and that's the way they want you uh so you know they tried to stop it with that and did that temporarily. So here you've got a contractor for the U.S. military, and they want to tell them, well, we're not going to buy your stuff unless you stop selling to the public, strong-arming them in that way. So they'll go through the banks, they'll go through the contractors and all the rest of this stuff. By the way, at Fort drum, the plan was to, rather than to take that spent brass and sell it to ammunition manufacturers, they decided that they would just crush it into scrap brass and sell it to the Chinese at a tiny fraction of what they could sell it, uh, for reloading, uh, billions of rounds of military grade ammunition manufactured at lake city

armory ammunition plant have been sold on the commercial market leading to their use in many of the most tragic mass shootings in recent history said this shameful new york attorney general leticia james well i imagine um it's also been used to improve people's accuracy so they don't hit the wrong people. It's also, as every other firearm has been used, it's been used to take down some dangerous individuals, maybe even by law enforcement. And it is also there to protect innocent life. But they ignore that part of it. So they're trying to stop it and use their leverage. They said all signatories express their desire on these 21 state attorneys

general to restrict civilian access to ammunition commonly used in the AR 15 style rifles. Ammunition from Lake city is manufactured for military use and does not belong in our communities. Well, the R 15 is, you know, that's a military weapon, shouldn't be used. But of course, if you go back and look at some of the seminal unconstitutional court decisions to try to stop our possession of firearms, if you go back to the Miller case, a sawed-off shotgun, and they set that whole thing up.

The guy was a convicted felon multiple times. They had a regulation that said you can't have a sawed-off shotgun, and their rationale was that it wasn't a military weapon. Isn't that interesting? You can't have a sawed-off shotgun because it's not a military weapon and here we are 100 years later well you can't have the ar-15 because it has been used by the military and you can't have that ammunition either and of course in that particular case it was an obvious setup the defendant died before the case became before the supreme court

and it should have been a moot issue but but they went ahead and took it anyway, and there was nobody arguing the other side. And they used that to support early forms of gun control. But it was also a lie because the sawed-off shotgun had been used in both World War I and in the Civil War. But nevertheless, they said this is manufactured for military use. Well, again, in the early 20th century, the courts are saying, well, you can't have a gun if it's not for military use because the Constitution refers to the militia. A well-regulated militia, a well-regulated militia. The feds should actually be giving away this ammunition and teaching people how to use firearms and giving people firearms, giving people weapons and teaching us how to use it. That's what the militia is about. That's what a well-regulated,

well-trained, well-organized militia is really about. But Democrats want to prohibit militias altogether because they're not too fond of the Constitution either. They don't like militias and they don't like the Constitution. Senator Ed Markey and Congressman Jamie Raskin have put together this thing called the PPPAA, Preventing Private Paramilitary activity act by the way senator ed markey um back in 2012 he was a congressman and uh in north carolina where i was uh ed markey created this little dog and pony show about the epa and about they were they were trying to extend regulations to ban more diesel

emissions and things like that. And so he created this little hearing where he brought in Lisa Jackson, who was Obama's head of the EPA. And they'd worked out this little dialogue, and he even stepped on some from diesel fuel than are dying from heart attacks and cancer and all the rest of the stuff. You see, this is why it was so easy for me, at least, to see what was going on with this pandemic. I've seen all of that stuff before. They just keep running the same, because it works. It works. I mean, if you're a football team and you run this play against the other side and they just fall down and they don't know where to go, what to do. You keep running that play and they keep running this play.

And he was a congressman at the time. And Lisa Jackson was saying, yes, Senator, I'm not talking about people getting sick. I'm talking about people dying. And more people are dying from fine particulate matter than are dying from heart and cancer and all these other diseases, right? Full-face lie. As a matter of fact, did a report on it. And I still have that report, and I still have a screenshot, which they scrubbed, which showed, when they talked about fine particulate matter, they showed the Smoky Mountains, and they said,

this is an example of fine particulate matter. No, the Smoky Mountains were smoky long before we had diesel engines or internal combustion engines, long before any Europeans came, they were smoky. Anyway, she was at that very time their epa uh placed there in research triangle park where i was uh was hooking people up to diesel exhaust they took out the carbon monoxide so they wouldn't kill them outright they hooked them up to a diesel exhaust steve molloy who has junk science, I've interviewed him many times, discovered it. They were looking for people who had heart and respiratory issues to begin with.

And then they exposed them to levels of fine particulate matter that were 72 times what the EPA allowed. And they wanted to get people who were going to be sick and have to be taken to the hospital and so they could up those regulations and that's what markey was doing so now he's focused on guns as a senator and they want to prohibit privately organized groups publicly patrolling drilling or engaging in harmful or deadly paramilitary techniques they also want to prohibit interfering with or interrupting government proceedings. That's your January the 6th reference there. And of course, they outright reference the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys and the Three Percenters and their talks about this.

Or interfering in the exercise of somebody else's constitutional rights. Wait a minute. It's the Congress that's interfering with the exercise of my constitutional rights all the time, and this bill especially. The bill makes exceptions for members of the National Guard, LOL. That's not the militia. Not the militia at all. The groups formed solely to conduct military reenactments either.

Oh, okay. So, better get your Confederate uniform. And your flag for your exemption. I'm exempt! Yeah, and just keep that on hand just in case they invade us again, okay? Patrolling neighborhoods, impeding law enforcement, storming the U.S. Capitol. Private military groups like the oath keepers three percenters and proud boys are using political violence to intimidate our people and threaten democratic government and the rule of law said raskin well i don't know it seems like our government also uses political violence to intimidate people and to terrorize

people don't you think and the interesting thing is, of course, you know, before January 6th, which I don't want to talk about, as there were riots that were breaking out in various places, oath keepers went to private businesses and they protected them. They didn't have to shoot anybody. They just stood there with the business owners. Because as we know, I think it was George Washington who said, the mere presence of firearms restrains evil.

It does a great job of restraining evil looters as well, really does. Because again, Jamie Raskin and Markey are not going to do anything to restrain the looters. They call them mostly peaceful. Well, they were mostly peaceful after the armed individuals showed up and just stood there. They also point out in this Epoch Times article, they said individuals have also engaged in nonviolent protest events

while exercising their right to carry firearms in public. And, of course, that happened at the Alamo, where you had the San Antonio police were harassing people who were doing open carry, and they were doing that. This is before they passed constitutional carry. For pistols, you could still do it. For rifles, you could carry openly.

But they were harassing people and arresting them in violation of the constitution, even the state law at the time. And so there was a massive rally there and everybody showed up with their rifles there at the Alamo. And it was very peaceful. And as my sons pointed out, uh,

the only time that we covered a big, uh, demonstration and, um, and it wasn't a violent one, was when the protesters were carrying firearms. It seems to be a way to bring peace to it all. The TSA is rolling out big plans on digital ID, and I thought it was kind of interesting the way they put this, to streamline travelers' experiences. Has that been your experience with the TSA? Does it streamline your travel experiences? No, and of course, there are no threats to airports or airplanes, as they pointed out in 2011 in one of their documents that accidentally they released. And if there were any threats to airports or airplanes,

they're bunching everybody up together would be one of the biggest security threats that there are. But of course there's not any threats. And in their own tests, they show that well over 90% of the time they miss the stuff that they would normally be trying to scan. So you've got nine states now that are using digital identities and mobile licenses. But of course, they're going to ramp this up. And now you can see what the goal is, right?

You know that they want to lock us into the 15-minute area, into their smart cities, but even subdividing the smart cities into 15-minute areas. They want to completely immobilize us. And this has been the goal of all of this stuff. It's not about keeping us safe. It's about putting us in an open-air prison. And so we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back.

Whether you're feeling like the blues or bluegrass, APS Radio has you covered. Check out a wide variety of channels on our app at APSradio.com. Thank you. you're listening to the david knight show let's talk a little bit about the aftermath of the election because there's something more important here than who got how many votes something very interesting about ramaswami but i'll begin here with this letter from don who says um talks about these willfully blind trump sheeple supporters and he sent this picture to me he says

um and isaiah god complains about people who are willfully blind and very much pleased with their own delusion, a people that provokes to wrath lying children, children that will not hear, see not, and to them that behold, behold not, because those things that are right. And so when we look at this, you know, they love to talk about anybody that opposes Trump is having Trump derangement syndrome. And you see the MAGA people all the time talking about TDS. Well, I think they've got another TDS, Trump delusion, and they've got it strong. And God said, I will send a strong delusion to these people. And I think they've got a bad case of it, don't you?

And then we've got this from Mary Talley Bowden, an MD. She said, I asked Ramaswamy to add his name to a list of people opposing this jab. And she said this was his response. And this was in December 2023. Vivek Ramaswamy said, we're trying to keep our kids away from it. The Trump shot. I'm a medical choice absolutist. You should be allowed to take a medicine with full facts, even if the FDA hasn't approved it.

And you should never be forced to take something just because the FDA has approved it. Right now, it's the worst of both worlds. Well, that's true as far as it goes. But what about fraud? What about fraud from the companies? And again, this was in 2023. You might have been able to excuse this back in 2020 but not three years later when everybody knows what it is but you know fraud is something that

i guess the fda ought to be able to get away with right well it turns out that the day before the iowa caucus dr david martin and i've interviewed him once, a very interesting guy, very smart guy. And he has gone back and looked at the patents and the intellectual property rights for a lot of this pharmaceutical stuff in depth. I interviewed him in context with the second Plandemic movie. And so I interviewed both the director of that movie and David Martin, who featured prominently in that second one. And so he pointed out that Vivec's company had invested $116 million in nanoparticle delivery systems back in 2017 also according to him vivek has not so publicly disclosed his interest in every single shot that was delivered yeah he's getting a little bit of a kickback on all that

and uh so this was put out and people started you know of course there's a couple of different issues yeah he um he made his appeal he offended trump trump threw him under the bus said he's not maga don't be deceived by this guy and so forth i think that was the biggest factor i think um because everybody saw that uh but um this is something that we need to keep in mind because Vivek ain't going away. As a matter of fact, part of the payoff for endorsing Trump was to be featured in New Hampshire and other places like that. You're on the campaign trail with him. He's angling for something else. And he's not going to go away.

Just as a lot of people said after January the 6 the 6th they were angry at me leave trump alone you know he's going away leave him i said he's not going away i'm telling you vivake the snake ain't going away either all of this fight about who was going to win the horse race to get to the vaccine was happening a year, two years before the pandemic. So we didn't even have to guess who the winner was going to be. We knew that Moderna and BioNTech were the inside runners. We knew they were going to get the contracts from what ultimately became off-variation warp speed. These were things that were foregone conclusions, and you knew who the people were because they were already fighting over who was going to win.

So they lied to Congress about the patents that the back of, I don't know, a thing that accidentally came into being. And by the way, we have a presidential candidate, Vivek, right now, is the guy who funded Arbutus and Acutus. So we have a Republican candidate for president who is using for his campaign money he made on his not so publicly disclosed interests in every shot that was delivered. I wonder how that would play if, I don't know, somebody at a town hall would ask an inconvenient question like, hey Vivek, tell us about the money you made on the back of our beautis and acutus pharmaceuticals why don't we actually have that conversation well we don't have that conversation because the public is number one

uninformed and when it is informed they are too incredulous to believe that the things I just said happen to be true that's right so many times to tell people that I did that it's just too evil or that technology is too science fiction sounding. They don't have technology like that. We say that all the time. This comment here, a person says, and it's an anonymous account.

It goes by the name of clandestine. I think Vivek was always on Trump's side. No. Trump and Vivek are on the side of DARPA, big pharmaceutical companies, on the side of CDC and the World Health Organization. They're their puppets. They're their puppets. But he does have an interesting comment here.

He says, the brief media scuffle was just theater the day before the primary to create the illusion of distance. Well, they create a lot of illusions. They create the illusion that Trump is an anti-globalist, and that illusion is so strong, that delusion is so strong to the MAGA people that they can't believe that he's on the side of the

globalists, even when he goes down and checks every single box that was on the wish list of klaus schwab and he does it in synchronization with these other people around the world all this made-up garbage about social distancing and six feet they all did the same thing at exactly the same time and there's as fauci said well i don't really know where that came from it just sort of appeared. Well, he says his job was to be a Trump stand-in and to articulate Trump's agenda

effectively, because Trump can't do it effectively. Trump creates a cult of personality worship, but he can't articulate the agenda. To do it to a broader audience that might have been turned off by Trump himself. He woke up a lot of people this way and garnered a lot of support,

which has now been transferred to Trump via endorsement. Vivek did his job, and I hope he can find a role in the Trump administration because he's as sharp as they come, and I'm excited about him in the future if he proves he's for real. Well, David Martin has proved what he's about. And, you know, he is kissing the ring, and it's not just Trump's ring that he's kissing. He's been kissing the ring of the pharmaceutical companies and playing footsie with them and making a lot of money.

Here's an article from Wine Press. And they point out Vivek, even though he's dropped out of the race he's been all over social media he's routinely promoted by right-leaning alternative platforms he's always on with alex jones and uh featured by that that should tell you something he's not going to just fade away a collection of authors and journalists dug into how vivek made his money and it has been revealed that he ran a number of get rich quick schemes and scams and profited off of technology using the covet 19 vaccines and i've talked about some of this but there's some of this that i've not talked about and i would have liked to uh i've talked about it to Ramaswami. But he didn't want to.

They always refer to him as an entrepreneur or as a biotech engineer, whatever. No, Vivek is fake on those two things. After working in Silicon Valley and Wall Street, he founded a biotech company called Roivant Sciences in 2014. The following year, he raised $360 million for its subsidiary, Axovant Sciences, in order to market an Alzheimer's drug that had previously failed four separate clinical trials. He then raised another $315 million in the IPO. Shortly thereafter, the company's market value reached almost $3 billion. Two years later, their drug failed its fifth clinical trial.

The company cratered, losing over 70% of its value in a single day. Ramaswamy's investors would be the quintessential bag holders, while he made out with windfall profits at their expense just the kind of guy that you want as a populist president i've had a lot of people uh telling me how great ramaswamy is and um and by the way what they don't mention in this is he didn't create anything, right? Instead, he's buying and reselling stuff, very much like the pharmaceutical bro, Martin Skreli. As a matter of fact, he tried to bring Martin Skreli in as a kind of partnership, a joint

venture type of thing. And the other people in the company said, no way. But that's who he is like. If you want an analogy of Vivek the snake, it's Martin Scurrilli, the big pharma bro. Anyway, yet in 2017, this company that he created, Roivent, partnered with a private equity arm of the CCP's CITIC group. Again, Communist Chinese Party, to form yet another fraudulent company called SinoVant,

Sino as in Chinese. Shortly thereafter, SoftBank invested $1.1 billion in Roivant. So he buys this thing that has failed many times. He hypes it. He's really good at hype. He hypes it. He raises a bunch of money off of it. And then 70% of the value is gone in a single day. Other people are left holding the bag. He's left holding a windfall profit. Then to recover, he joins forces with a Chinese communist party company, creates something called Sinovac, and as soon as they create that, they get SoftBank jumping in with over a billion dollars. Does that bother you? I see a lot of problems there, don't you?

Anyway, Roy Bank sold its stake in five subsidiaries, and Ramaswamy pocketed $1.75 million just from that deal. Again, Roy Vant has never produced a single viable product, just kind of like Moderna, up until Warp Speed. And it's never turned a profit. In other words, Roy Vant, Ramaswamy's company, was always nothing more than a Ponzi scheme and an egregious one at that. But perhaps by his connections with government, he might be able to go the same way as Moderna. Moderna operated for 10 years. And it was one happy story on Wall Street. They'd do a pump and dump on the stock, these guys kept going doing that way and i know that last thing we had didn't pan out but this one uh this is going to cure

everything you know that type of deal and everybody would buy their stock and they would pocket the money and they did that for 10 years until they were brought in as part of this warp speed thing so perhaps that's his long-term plan. Who knows? Anyway, despite having never created anything in his life other than a series of companies engaged in various blatant scams, Forbes recently estimated his net worth to be more than $950 million. He's so close to being a billionaire, perhaps with the right connections to Donald Trump. He could follow that plan of Moderna. It has been found that Vivek was receiving funding from the likes of Black Rock, Vanguard, State Street, the unholy trinity of ESG, even as he was stumping on this, doing political

speeches, talking about how evil they are. Yeah, he truly is another. Donald Trump is me position himself as being anti-globalist positioning and positioning himself as being anti ESG and yet taking money from the people who are pushing the ESG black rock Vanguard state street, the three major investment firms that he has routinely railed against in his speeches for monopolizing and vastly influencing economic conditions to his shadow hand, but he gets funded by them.

In a resurfaced 2017 article by Forbes, it was revealed that in 2017, Ramaswamy's company invested $116 million into nanoparticle delivery systems that you just saw David Martin talking about. The same technology that would be later used in the so-called COVID-19 vaccines, the Trump shots. And therefore, Vivec would have gotten cut a check in royalties. Forbes reported that at the time.

They said Roivant said it's agreed to invest $116 million in Arbitus Biopharma, a small biotech company focusing on hepatitis B, locked in a proxy war with Moderna over liquid nanoparticle delivery system. And what they don't talk about in this article is his involvement in the pandemic scam. And how he was on the COVID team of Governor DeWine, one of the worst governors, a Republican governor there in Ohio. And also the fact that as part of that team, not only did he not push back against all the President Fauci and Vice President Trump demands for things to be done, not only did he not push back against that, but he was also there trying to angle in

and make money with contact tracing surveillance and the vaccine id stuff this guy truly is a snake and yet what is the response from somebody who truly does have Trump delusion? Strong, strongly. Laura Looney, right? Laura Loomer. And she, after he dropped out of the race, she said, thank you, Ramaswami. I knew you would do the right thing. Run in 2028 and you will have our support so long as you remain loyal to President Trump.

That's the only thing that matters. It doesn't matter if Ramaswamy is for ESG or if he's for the big pharmaceutical companies or anything else, CBDC, any of that stuff. None of that matters if he's loyal to president trump as de santa said the only thing's required in the gop now is that you got to kiss the trump ring laura looney goes on to say i always liked your policies i just wanted loyalty to trump and of course she doesn't like what happened. I guess like most of these people under Trump, but she still is loyal to him.

Looking forward to seeing you in New Hampshire with president Trump tomorrow at his rally. Yeah, exactly. So, uh, that's all that's required. Now the question is,

as we look at this election coming up, well, we can certainly see the enthusiasm in the Republican primaries and in the polls for Trump, but will they show up? You know, I talked about how low the turnout was. If you go back and look at the last competitive GOP primary in Iowa in 2016, we had, you know, about 16 or 17 different candidates on the ballot at the very beginning there. They had a turnout of 186,000. It was only 109,000 this last time. Really dropped. And only 14.4% of registered Republicans even turned out to vote. So is he going to win the general election with that kind of tepid interest?

Of course, you could always say that it was affected by the weather, but still only 14% showed up. So as we move forward, are there going to be any debates? No more debates. Newky Haley doesn't want to debate uh she said that if she does another debate she's not going to do any more debates unless it's a debate with trump and or biden and so um i guess desantis is um doesn't get to talk to anybody right maybe you can find a third party candidate that's how i got into a pbs debate when i was running for congress because by the way it was virginia fox who um voted for these bills that

the conservatives are so upset about in congress um this betrayal and she was the one that i ran against i told karen i said i'd be dead now if I had actually won that election because out of just, um, just stress living in Washington, it would have killed me. I hated that place. I did not want to go, but I did want to run against it. But anyway, I got into a PBS debate because she didn't want to debate. Uh, she had, um, she was running for her first reelection. Uh, she had gotten in, in 1994 and in 1996, she was running for her first re-election uh she had gotten in in 1994 and in 1996 she was above debating anybody and so the democrat wanted to go into a debate and so well we did that

anyway um so nikki haley says she's not going to be in any further debates and i imagine um it's probably a good thing that she doesn't get in the debates because, you know, you might have DeSantis bring this up, for example. She posted this back in April of 2020. Thank you, Bill Gates, for donating billions of dollars to construct factories that will manufacture the seven most promising vaccines. This will keep us from losing any time as potential vaccines move through the clinical trial process. Isn't that great? You know, Bill Gates, she saw Bill Gates as a benefactor. Is she really that stupid? Is she really that stupid?

See, I don't think Nikki Haley is stupid. I don't think that Trump is stupid. I think they're evil. I think they're traitors. I think they know exactly what they're doing. Yeah, thank you for giving billions of dollars and expecting nothing at all out of it. Does she not know about the ID 2020, which I've got to know your name, she says. Does she not know about the immunization agenda 2030 of Bill Gates or everybody everywhere, every vaccine, every age?

So in terms of why she doesn't want to talk anymore about any policies or about her record. She says our intent, I love this Royal we that everybody uses and they all use it. It just really grates against me. Our intent was to host a debate. Uh, so I'm sorry, that was not her. That's ABC news. Let me take that back. But they all use that.

Nevertheless, she uses it. DeSantis uses it. ABC said, well, we want to have a debate, but nobody will do it. And as Trump is taking his victory lap, he was all alone on the stage. He had his two sons, Eric and Junior, there. But he didn't have melania you know when he first went to iowa showed up for his very first event in iowa for this cycle there was a banner that's being flown around saying where's melania and she's been a wall this entire time and she wasn't there when he won the election and so what he does is you see this happening everywhere in the press, media,

this puff story that he came up with. They deflect away from the fact that Melania is absent and also Barron is also absent, his son. Here's the headline. Barron Trump has eaten his way to six feet, seven inches. But his dad says that he likes soccer over basketball. Well, there you go. Nothing to worry about.

Nothing to see there. Donald Trump is all praise for his son Barron's towering height of six feet, seven inches, which he attributes to the late Melania's mother cooking skills. Speaking, because, you you know they don't have any servants who are cooking um Donald Trump had his mother-in-law cooking for everybody at Mar-a-Lago right I guess that's why she died I think that's pretty heavy load for somebody who's elderly and then he buried his wife in his golf course to get a discount in his first wife. I guess Melania is maybe doesn't want to go into the golf course.

You know, he has already got, um, one hole taken care of. Uh, I guess he could have a three, uh, three altogether.

Uh, but anyway, speaking in his campaign headquarters in Des Moines, he spoke about Baron's relationship with his grandmother and how she took care of him and resulted in his impressive height. You think so? He quipped that Baron, who was watching the event on TV, I'm sure he was, prefers playing soccer despite his massive frame. So he makes this all about the fact that Melania is not finished with him. She's not fed up with him like all the people who worked for him.

She's not fed up with him like all the people who worked for him she's not fed up with him at all she she doesn't care about all this jeffrey epstein stuff and everything now they're good they're really good they got a solid marriage there and uh she's not ready to divorce him as soon as this election thing is over no she's not there because her mother died you know from the massive duties of feeding everybody. And his, uh, his son Baron evidently, because he got so much food from grandma, he is very distraught about, um, this, um, this death in the family that happened several weeks ago, several weeks ago. We'll take a quick break and we'll be right back. Hear news now at APSradioNews.com or get the APS Radio app and never miss another story. Succes! Thank you. Making sense common again. You're listening to The David Knight Show.

Well, we have our guests coming up in five minutes. So real quickly, I wanted to go over some financial things here. And this was sent to me by listener Mark. He said, you and Gerald Salenti have been covering this for years. And now 60 Minutes is catching on. Yeah, the commercial real estate bust. Listen to this. City without its skyline.

Monuments to commerce standing proudly shoulder to shoulder. More office space than any city in the world. But peek inside all this vertical real estate and there's a fundamental question. Where is everyone? More than 95 million square feet of New York office space currently unoccupied. The equivalent of 30 Empire State Buildings. This building had a lot of law firms, had some government tenants. Scott Reckler is CEO of RXR, a New York real estate company with more than $20 billion in holdings. We walked through his property at 61 Broadway near Wall Street. Every other floor, half the building, lies empty.

I think this is an existential moment. You know, I call it crossing the chasm. What's the chasm specifically? This post-COVID world of higher interest rates, the changing nature of how people work and live. We're not going back to where we were. It's a different world. And it's going to be turbulent. It already is. The return to office has stalled out. Fridays are dead. Mondays aren't much busier. As tenants shrink their office footprint, office landlords are confronting the fact that some of their buildings have become obsolete if not worthless ever the pragmatist reckler decided not to throw

good money after bad at 61 broadway and defaulted to his bank on a 240 million dollar loan i could see people say it's a lot of money how did he sleep last night we invest a lot of equity if it works we make if it works we make a lot of money. If it doesn't, who cares? That's not some other sucker. And of course, it's the banks that are going to be taken down by this as well. And China's stock market, as he talks about, you know, hey, this is, look at all these empty buildings. It's like 30 Empire State Buildings.

China's stock market is in free fall i mean it's going down like building seven uh so uh again it's kind of interesting to look at this because you go back and you look at um when uh the great depression kicked off and you had the wall street crash in 1929 and at that particular time really it was uh britain that was the economic powerhouse and it was kind of you know the british pound was a standard for the world and yet america was rising and america was where most of the manufacturing was done and that type of thing there's a lot of parallels there uh with um what is happening today america being in the role of great britain prior to the great depression and china being in the role of Great Britain prior to the Great Depression,

and China being in the role of America prior to the Great Depression, where all the manufacturing was happening. And so that's very troubling from a global perspective. After a rocky couple of years for the Chinese economy, the country's stock market appears to be in freefall now, with authorities asking institutional investors not to sell stocks in an attempt to stabilize share prices as foreigners are pulling out. China's market regulators have tried to stabilize the market by imposing restrictions that stop some investors from being net sellers of equities on certain days. So it's just like, you know, the oil embargo of OPEC. You can only buy gas on odd or even days, depending on your license plate, right?

Well, I guess maybe the same type of thing here. On certain days, you can't be a net seller. This strategy with authorities offering what is known as window guidance in an attempt to help the country's stock market bounce back was first introduced in October, but under pressure to try to stop the share prices from free-falling the country's market regulators have already reintroduced restrictions on some security companies, large institutional investors. China's central bank has been left with little room for maneuvering to strengthen the country's economy, as the Chinese yuan has weakened in recent months, and the bank is likely to want to avoid a further depreciation of the currency.

It has already weakened more than depreciation of the currency. It has already weakened more than 1% against the U.S. dollar this year. And so when you look at this in the background of what is happening with the commercial real estate bust because of lockdown and the rest of this stuff, we have J.P. Morgan has just racked up another conviction. Yes, Jamie Dimon, you can never say this guy has no convictions. He's got a long string of them. $18 million fine for violating whistleblower protection rules. As Zero Hedge points out, Elizabeth Warren continues to try to paint the entire crypto movement as a criminal enterprise.

And she does it when she has fundraisers with people like Jamie Dimon. He did not admit or deny the charges, but the bank paid an $18 million fine this week for violating whistleblower protection rules. What they had done was they said, well, if you're going to do business with us, you're not going to be able to contact the SEC. Zero Hedge says, doesn't the mob have a name for that?

Don't they call it hush money? Exactly right. So the SEC said, um you he says um they allege here that for several years it forced certain clients in the position of choosing between receiving settlements or credits or reporting potential security law violations to the sec this either or proposition not only undermined critical investor protections and placed investors at risk, but it was also illegal. The SEC's Division of Enforcement said, whether it's in your employment contract or a settlement agreement or anywhere else, you simply cannot include provisions that

prevent individuals from contacting the SEC with evidence of wrongdoing. And so at the same time they're doing this, Bloomberg says this too-big-to-fail bank's standardized risk-weighted assets hit $1.7 trillion. Its cash and marketable securities are $1.4 trillion. Its average loans are near there at 1.3 trillion and the bigger bank keeps getting bigger but it's not only them it's also goldman sachs dumping billions in stocks and assets as it told clients to buy by the way that's the bank that trump recruited so much of his cabinet from co got paid $250 million in a golden parachute.

So he could be part of the Trump administration. And then as Trump got rid of him, he said, yeah, he's kind of a globalist. Yeah, I guess that's why he hired him. A JP Morgan bank of America, Bridgewater CEOs, all at Davos with Zelinsky. That's right. Here's Zelinsky with the bankers getting hisky with the bankers lining up for his cash. So the bottom line with all this, and we've got our guests ready to come on, when you look at what is happening in Argentina, you have Aria Malay making a move to allow certain provinces, think of that as states, to start to circulate their own currencies. That is something that we saw during the Great Depression. You had a lot of local communities and still have it in some of the museums. People printed up wooden coins to exchange because it was necessary.

And so the bottom line is, you know, when you try to set up these state banks to try to get away from these too-big-to-fail public-private partnership stakeholder banks, whatever you want to call them crony capital and involvement with these corrupt government entities you want to have something there at the local level and whether it's going to be wooden coins certainly if you've got your own gold or silver that's going to be something that is always going to be tradable. A wooden coin is a fiat currency in a sense. So have something that is physical, that is there, and as a backup to try to stay out of this criminal system as it looks like it's about to collapse or to get much worse.

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well joining us now is john cox as i said he is a CPA. He's an attorney, and he has been a candidate for California governor. And he's written a book about Gavin Newsom, Newsom's Nightmare. And so it's good to have you on, John. I'm so sorry that you live in California. Thank you. Thank you. Well, you know, the weather's pretty darn good, David. That's why I stay out there, and that's why there's a whole bunch of great companies that are out there, despite Gavin Newsom.

And that's, I think, the message of the book. The book is called, by the way, The Newsom Nightmare. So it's available on Amazon and any place good books are sold. And I hope people get a chance to read it because I think Mr. Newsom is going to make a play to be the president of the United States. If not in 24, it'll be 28. I agree. People ought to know about his record.

They ought to know about his background. They ought to know about what he will do to the country or how he will lead the country. And I think that's very germane. I agree. And of course, we all know that even if he doesn't run for president and even if he doesn't get elected president or whatever what he does there as

governor of california has a tremendous impact across the country we'll talk about that in a moment let's talk a little bit about um his uh his possible presidency this year for example you know biden is 81 uh and he's not um a young 81 either. He's the only full effect of all those years. He'll be 86 by the end of the term. And so, you know, people are looking at this. I look at even at his running mate, Lala Harris, I call her,

but because she's kind of in Lala land, but she's, you know, I look at this, they might replace her. They might replace both of them. And, you know, Trump is also getting pretty old. He's 77. He'll be 81 by the end of this next term. So he would end up the same age as Biden, but he seems to be physically in better shape. And so there's a lot.

When you look at this, if they get rid of Biden and a lot of people in the Democrat Party are really pushing for that, the candidates i think to replace biden would be either michelle obama or gavin newsom but gavin newsom is in office and he is having effect as he is you know the things that he's doing right now are having an effect right now on everybody across the country how did you think he did in terms of the debate that he had with Hannity and DeSantis on Fox News? I think he did what he wanted to do, and that is he wanted to introduce himself more to the nation, to a different audience, frankly. I mean, he's been on MSNBC and CNN quite a bit, so he doesn't need to introduce himself to those audiences. The Fox audience, obviously, are different people that don't ordinarily see what he's doing.

They see a lot of the criticisms, but Newsom came off glib, came off well-spoken. He came off citing a whole bunch of statistics that sound great. Gee, it's no revelation that a lot of great companies have started in California. Salesforce, Apple, Google, all these great trillion dollar plus companies are based themselves in California. And who wouldn't? You know, I live in California, because I just love the weather and the ocean and the natural beauty. And if you know, if you're a smart guy with a great business idea, sure, you're going to want to start your business where you can live the best life you can.

And that's the place for the best weather. But they quickly discover, however, that the government that Newsom leads is nothing short of spectacularly involved in your life. They want to tax you to death. And so a whole bunch of those companies have decided to ultimately leave like Tesla, but Nestle, Toyota, you know, I can name a whole bunch of companies and people that have left. They've moved to Tennessee or Florida or Texas, where there's obviously zero tax and where regulation is not going to strangle their future. And, you know, they may still keep their homes, by the way, in California.

I'm sure I'm certain that most of them do. But the government of California does its best to chase productive people out of the state or productive businesses. And also make it very, very difficult for the rest of the people. If you're not in the top 1% in California, you're living a very difficult for the rest of the people if you're not in the top one percent in california you're living a very difficult life uh the cost of living uh shortages of energy water housing homelessness all over the place wildfires crime uh regulation that's what i think of when i i look at the it's the home issue, and the homelessness, but even the fact that people can't afford to buy a home. And this is absolutely amazing, the pictures of people that you see living out of RVs and just lining the road for as far as you can see living out of their RVs. And then the homeless people who don't even have an RV.

And all of that is really a function of when you've got a state that is as prosperous as that, and you see that kind of abject poverty contrasted with amazing amounts of wealth, that happens because of government policies and because the government is doing that. That's not a natural situation. I'm in the housing industry, David. That's my business. I build and manage apartments. I don't own anything in California. Right now, I'm building about 1,200 units outside of Indianapolis. Indiana is a great example of a state that treats business well, that isn't owned by trial lawyers, that doesn't have huge deficits or pension

deficits. And I can build wonderful apartments in Indiana for under $200,000 a unit, just gorgeous granite countertops, beautiful appliances. Those same units in California, David, would be $500,000, $600,000 in most of the state. And, you know, that's a very big difference in terms of your lifestyle and what you're able to afford and how competitive you are in the rest of the country. It's just so sad. And it's mostly, as you said, government that drives up that cost difference. And, you know, lumber and windows don't cost a whole lot more in Indiana than they do in California. It's the other things.

Yeah. And it's stuff like fuel, right? Fuel is more expensive in California than it is in other places. They got their own special. It's like having your own special wood or something, right? They have to have bespoke gasoline. So they got some refineries that only produce the special blend that california demands and so between that and the really high taxes as i've reported on the the prices of

gasoline going up and everything california is way ahead of even the number two and so it's even more than the taxes it's also the regulations that he has on the formulation of the of the fuel there this this gets to the essence of gavin newsom and that is he appeals to people on a on a gut level on some very high emotional issues like abortion guns and climate change he's it's part of this whole thing to scare the bejesus out of people you know the gasoline formulation that California uses, David, makes the tiniest little bit of difference in the total pollution of the world. I mean, it is a fraction of a fraction of a fraction. Yeah.

India and China are spewing carbon into the atmosphere like nobody's business these days. And the tiny little difference that California makes is ridiculously small. Yet, this is what drives Gavin Newsom. And this is what the media loves. The media loves to herald this stuff. And why? Because it gets clicks and it gets eyeballs. And this is the essence of Gavin Newsom's entire political agenda. And that is focus on these emotional scare tactics and highly emotional,

social and other issues. Ignore the stuff that truly makes a difference in people's lives, like energy, water, housing, safety, cleanliness, homelessness, all these things that really have an effect on people's lives. And he's able to roll to electoral victories because so many people just pay attention to these highly emotional issues. And they don't think that you can do anything about these other bread and butter, meat and potatoes issues. And that's what i talk about in my book and uh what i'm also proposing in my book david is a way to get the electorate to finally pay attention to these things and get involved in the process so that they they really pay attention to who they're voting for and why they're voting for these candidates it is so hard to get people to focus though on their policies right and on their

records and i beat my head against the wall trying to get republicans to do the same thing it's like okay yes you hate this policy you hated the lockdown but you're supporting the guy that did the lockdown what is going on with all this and of course you know with gavin newsom he's very telegenic you know he looks like he came out of central casting there in Hollywood. And, you know, he and his wife. And yet, you know, when you start looking at what he did, it's like, whoa, I was so disappointed to see, you know, in California, the people voted him in again, even with everything that had happened there. And yet it's not surprising because the Republicans are doing the same thing. They don't want to hold anybody accountable for anything that happened the last three years or even before that. And why is that, David? The reason is, is that most voters don't watch your podcast. They don't get any kind of a glimpse of the detailed issues

that they ought to be focused on. All they get fed is a diet, a steady diet of 20 or 30 second ads or memes on social media. They never have a chance to have a conversation like you and I are having right now. They just sit there and they mindlessly look at their phones and they see something and they say, oh, gee, I don't like that. And they vote for a guy based upon what his opponent says. They don't get a chance to actually discuss issues. So what I'm proposing in my book, and this is really important, David, is a revolution in how we elect our elected leaders. processes with regard to Congress, especially to get people more involved in getting to the essence of a lot of these issues where it's more than just a 30 second TV ad. And it's more than just a meme. It's an actual conversation that every voter can have with their representative, which they don't get a chance to now.

Yeah, that's a key thing because you lay out the problems, but you know, unlike, we've got to get past the point of just laying out problems. We've got to have some solutions because things are changing very quickly. So that's one of the reasons I wanted to talk to you about that. You've got an organization, hearthepeople.org. Tell us how that, your vision for how that would change the electoral process. The essence of this is the people's house, David, the Congress. It was intended by our founders to be the people's house. But because they limited the number to 435 about a century ago, the average

congressional district is 750,000 people people now it's just impossible for people to actually know their congressman and they don't they only see them on tv that's right so yeah let me just interject even 30 35 years or so ago when i ran uh for congress it was about a half a million and now it's gone to 750 or a half, a half a million. Now it's gone to 750,000. And so you're getting less and less, uh, uh, you know, representation as you will. Sorry. Yes.

And so, so, so, so, so the idea is very simple, David. Lice that big district into a hundred little tiny districts. Yes. So that, so that each district's only 7 500 people you're not going to use television to reach those 7 500 people you're not going to use social media you're not going to blast radio ads to all of them what you're going to be forced to do is actually go and have a conversation because 7 500 people500 people is only about 3,000 households. And you can have a conversation with a couple thousand people.

You just have to spend a few weekends doing it. But you can actually get to know your constituents. And more importantly, your constituents can know who you are, and they can know what your background is. And they can know that you have the character and the confidence and the leadership ability to actually do something now as a practical effect what ends up happening is that these hundred people who are elected in these little tiny districts they get together at a meeting and they select one person to go to washington

the other 99 stay home yeah and they don't have an office. They don't have a pension. They don't have a staff. Their entire job is to get together every two years and decide on the guy to go to Washington. And then they monitor what that guy does in Washington. But you know what that guy in Washington is not going to do, David? He's not going to spend six hours of every day on the telephone begging for money.

That's right. He's going to study the issues. He's going to communicate with his constituents. He's going to communicate with the 99 people back home who sent him there because he's got to get reelected. And those 99 hold the keys to that. Right. So he's going to keep them informed.

And each of those are going to, in turn, keep their own constituents informed. What this does, David, is it really puts the people back in charge of the people's house. And I think it would change politics up and down the political spectrum because people then would feel like their voice would be heard and their elected leaders would actually respond to their voice and would have an interest in doing that. And it wouldn't be through the media. I think the media has gotten way too much power in this country i hope you agree with that even though you're a member oh yeah no i don't consider myself to be a media a member of

the media and they don't either to be that yeah and what you're saying is so true and i remember in the early 90s we talked about the new hampshire state legislature and it had yes that's where i got this idea yeah that's where i got this idea and in the early 90s i don't know what it is right now but they said if you spent more than a thousand dollars running for office that accused you trying to buy the election and yet at that time you know it was routine and uh uh you know for for people to spend uh you know over a hundred thousand dollars running for congress at that time and and that's the problem is that we've allowed this. If you look at the Constitution, it said, well, we're going to have like 30,000 people, one representative for every 30,000 people.

We're not going to go past 50. And then they just they didn't even go with that at the very beginning. They just kind of threw that away. And then they fixed it and said, we don't care how rapidly the population grows. And we don't care about any of this, except we don't care you know about any of this except we're going to have this fixed number of representatives and i think you're exactly right that's the one of the ways that we actually get a representative government is to increase the number of people and when we would talk about this 30 years ago people say well

it's just not practical to do it and it's like no you could do it today and you could certainly do it today now that you've got the zoom technology and all the rest of the stuff that everybody had to live by over the last three years. It's not even a question as to whether or not that'd be a viable way to do it. And you'd have the people living in their district instead of maybe traveling to Washington. You know, they could still do their work by telecommuting or something like that. You're so right. The Internet actually multiplies the opportunity for this because let's say i'm the representative of

my own little tiny district of 7 500 people it's a few thousand households well you know once i've met every one of those people they know me they trust me i'll be able to send them emails i'll be able to ask them questions they'll be able to ask me. If any of them is a crackpot and ask me wild, idiotic questions, I can certainly put them in the background. But I'll be able to focus on the people of my district who have real concerns. And I'll be able to then communicate those concerns to the guy that we sent to Washington. And that guy that we send to Washington, he's going to listen to me because i'm one of the 99 who sent him there and it won't be it won't be because i gave him a whole bunch of money right like a union

boss or a big corporation or something like that he'll listen to me because he knows i'm one of those 99 and i can unelect him as much as I can elect him. And that's really accountable, responsive government, which is what we ought. And it's Republican. It's a small R, Republican government. Remember, we're not a democracy. We're a Republican. We're a representative Republican democracy,

which means that we vote for people to represent us. But that only works that only works david if those people are actually responsive to us if they're only responsible to the people that give them money for their campaigns which we know they are that's right we've we've lost our representative republic we really have and and i mean my goal here is to get it back yeah it's interesting you know when we look at what has happened in government it is so rapidly distanced itself from us and i think about you know we're just watching some old movies uh for christmas and

and you have these situations where you got you know the cop on the beat and he would walk the beat and he knew everybody you know he knew the grocer this person and he's people on the street he knew them and so you know he and if he sees somebody that he doesn't know he's kind of keeping an eye on this who's this guy you know that type of thing but we've lost that personal touch with everything but nowhere more so than with the congressional representatives we don't know these guys they don't know us and and and that's why it is so amazing when you see the details of these people's lives that are running for office that you don't know these people at all they're so distant from you and what and what do they focus on each of these people that runs for office what they focus on is getting on television yes getting famous i mean look at in

california right now i'm supporting them because i want to support a republican but you know steve garvey a former baseball player is running for the u.s senate god love him he'll be a million times better than adam schiff or barbara lee or katie porter okay right but why is he why is he running why is he the main candidate on the republican side well because he was in baseball for 30 years or 25 years he got name recognition being in baseball and so that all of a sudden makes him a great candidate for the senate yeah i'm sorry he's a celebrity probably a celebrity yeah and you know what we need people who are true leaders you know look at gavin newsom and frankly donald trump are the same kind of person they really manipulate the media why do we know donald trump so much because he's

been in the media for 40 years and you know gavin newsom grew up with the media you know his family goes back to governors in california and being part of that whole media thing so but do they really have the leadership qualities that we look to to be real leaders and real truth tellers and real competent character filled leaders? I'm sorry. We need good leaders. We need people of good character. We need people who can empathize and communicate with us and give us the background of why these policies are important not just staying close the border but tell us why that's important tell us how we're

going to do that tell us the benefits and the burdens of doing all these things we don't get those kinds of discussions David we just get some sound bites somewhere and and I think that's really really damaged our democracy and damaged our country. And I think it's one of the reasons why, you know, when you look at Iowa and New Hampshire, they don't necessarily have great track records in terms of picking who's going to go on to win, even the nomination. But in those environments, you have a situation where they go into a pizza ranch and they talk to people one on one. Yes. Or they have, you know, even the caucuses or the voters interacting with each other. Or in New Hampshire, you know, again, it's that retail touch that you can have.

And that's just not, doesn't happen anywhere else. Everywhere else it becomes about the advertising budget. And I know when I ran, the first question that anybody in the media would ask me was, what's your budget? How much money? Yeah, exactly. How much money have you raised i'm not interested because you're not going to be running ads on my uh tv show you know so i'm not interested in you anymore i can get the money somewhere else

but you know that's what it's all about the money and it's about the fundraising with the exception of those two places but we can see that you've got to have that personal touch and people have to know you but they you know when you've got a celebrity like steve garvey or you got somebody like donald trump because they've watched them for years on a program and even if it's not a reality program even if it's not sports even if it is like some scripted uh tv show they think they know that person and they think they know them exactly you see when the person dies everybody's like oh i'm in mourning for this guy that was in friends or whatever you know and it's like you don't know anything about him you know but they they get as upset about that as they do over their friends uh dying or something because they do think that they're friends with these people on tv and that's very

true with gavin newsom people think that they know this guy they really don't uh they don't know anything about his background. You know, his grandfather helped Pat Brown get elected governor. His father helped Jerry Brown get elected governor. They have fed at the trough of state politics for 40 years. The Newsom family goes back, oh gosh, actually more than 60 years at the power table of feeding off of government in california uh squaw valley which is now called the palisades big ski area used to be owned by the newsome family and why because they leveraged their political uh connections uh newsome's father

gavin newsome's father was the lawyer for jay paul getty the first billionaire and he opened doors and he maneuvered the legal system to help the getty family get you know and keep their money so you know there's so many connections here but people don't know that they just think that gavin newsom's this good-looking guy with great teeth and great hair and he spouts statistics that sound good yeah I mean if you look if you look through those statistics by the way I mean uh I think he said a whopper during that DeSantis debate he said somehow California's middle class pays lower taxes than Florida which you know I heard this and I say, what planet is he on? I mean, this is property taxes. They've got to be the same. You know,

I know Florida's property taxes are a little bit higher because they don't have an income tax, but they don't have an income tax. And I don't think that even their property taxes are as high as California. I may be wrong. Well, no, not, not when you look at the cost of housing in California. I mean, our tax, our tax rate is only 1%, but the average house here costs $2 million versus $1 million in Florida or Texas. So, I mean, that means your taxes are still 1% of $2 million, which is $20,000. In Texas, it might be 2% of $1 million, which is still $20,000.

So you're not going to be paying much of a different tax bill, but that's kind of lost on Gavin Newsom. I guess he doesn't expect people to look beyond the headlines there. Well, certainly he can get away with it. And again, it's because he's been trained and he's slick. Now, did you run for governor? Are you going to run for governor? Yes. You did run.

No, I did. I ran. The seat was open in 2018 after Jerry Brown left. And I figured people were going to be sick of Democratic policies. And so I jumped into the race. I had an idea about remaking the California legislature in the same way that I'm talking about the Congress here and unfortunately people just didn't pay attention and you know the media and Newsom raised millions tens of millions of dollars from the unions from Hollywood from Silicon Valley and you

know the people that feed at the trough and he buried me but uh i'm staying involved and i think this is the right thing uh well that's really good i absolutely and i've i've mentioned this many times over the years that is the path and when you talk about doing that in california it needs to be done at the state levels as well because the same thing happened at the state levels we've frozen the number of representatives to the state house and the state senate and that type of thing as a population everywhere has exploded. I mean, you go back and you look at the, you know, 1776 and you look at what the population was. It was just like three or four million or something like that. And, you know, and there was real representation because people really did know other people.

And that's the key thing. If it gets really big, as you pointed out, it's just going to be the people with lots of money and organizations that are going to manipulate them. That's who they're going to answer to. They don't know us. They don't share our concerns. They don't live in our area. And as I've said many times, even if you were to go back and say, we're going to limit it to 50,000 people, you'd wind up with like 8,000 congressional representatives. And that's unwieldy. Yeah. Yeah representatives. Yeah, and that's unwieldy. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, but that would be unwieldy. I mean, people would look at that and they would say, gee, a body of 8,000 congressmen would be just, you'd never get anything done. You know, there'd be just too much stuff. That might be a nice feature. That might be a nice feature. I get that.

But, you know, the structure that we've come up with here, where you have 100 sub-districts, and then you send one person who's responsive, I think that probably works in a higher population area. People can learn about this, by the way, by going to hearthepeople.org. We're going to try to get this done in a couple of states. I think we're going to start maybe with Arizona, and we're going to try to get the state legislature to enact this. By the way, that's an important thing, David. I'm sure you're a constitutionalist, but you realize the Constitution in Article I gives each state the ability to decide how to elect their congressman. Yes.

So this is entirely constitutional, and a state, all the state legislature has to do is enact this, and it will be done for the next election. So that's what I like about your plan there, because, you know, if you wanted to say, well, we're going to go back and we're going to have, you know,, maybe not 8,000, we're going to have 2,000 members of Congress. Well, they determine right now, they said, that's our determination, how many are going to be there. But with your system, it spreads out the representation in a hierarchical way, right? Instead of saying, well, now we're going to send more people to Washington, which they can't do, you still wind up getting that representation, but in a hierarchical way. That's great. In your example, it wouldn't be up to the Congress itself to change to go to

2,000 or 3,000 people, and they're not going to do that. And why wouldn't they do that? Because it would dilute their power, right? If you're one of 2,000, you're going to have a lot less power than one of 435. So that's the last thing they're going to do. You're absolutely right. They're the ones that froze it at 435 to begin with, you know, back in 1920 or so so what's this is going to be required to do is each state legislature is going to have to meet and enact this uh statute we have a model statute we've had drafted so it's very easy to do and you know think about it a second we're going to be able to make an argument that who doesn't want this change the people who will fight this are the media and the lobbyists because they stand to lose that measure of power.

I think people will look at that and say, hmm, who do we want to have the power? Do we want the people to have the power or do we want media and the lobbyists to have power? I think the people are going to say, gee, I like this idea because it gives me a greater say over my future and about our leaders, not the media or the lobbyists. And that's, I think, long overdue. So we're going to start in one state. We think that once one or two states does this and the rest of the country hears about it, every state is going to say,

hey, why don't we do this in our state? This makes a bunch of sense. I think this is a perfect time for this as well, because we're at a time right now where everybody is looking at the institutions and they're saying, you know, this just isn't working. I subscribe to the ideas of Straowels and how on the fourth turning you know that this type of thing happens like every 80 years but we can whether you see this

as a cycle or not you can see that this is really what is happening that everybody is questioning the institutions and we're seeing at the state level a lot of innovative approaches to change certain things. Let's come up with some different ways to, it's kind of a backstop of the financial system in case the Federal Reserve really screws up, as many people are worried that it's going to do. So you're seeing moves in terms of like a financial backstop to what Washington is doing, and many other things like that to nullify what they're doing.

And so I think the time is ripe for people to look at this and say, wait a minute, let's, let's change the way that we select the Congressman. We may not be able to change the number of Congressman that we have, but we can certainly change the way they're selected to make it more representative. And there's one word in all this,

David, and that word is accountability. Yeah. People don't trust the major institutions. And why? Because they don't believe that they're accountable when they mislead us or when they give us bad information or when they give us half the story. The big deal with hear the people is that you're going to have a guy or a girl in your district, 7,500 people who you know, and if that person gives you bad information or gives you information that you know is not true

or doesn't pass the smell test or is just lacks common sense, you're going to be able to hold that person accountable and you're never going to believe them again. What that means is that the person who you interact with, you're going to be able to hold accountable. And the 99 are going to be able to hold accountable that person that they've sent to Washington, D.C. at the same time. And they're going to be able to hold that congress accountable that's a really big thing we've lost accountability because it's all about media it's all about these sound bites and it's all about lobbyists and how you shade the truth and yeah telling half the story that's right we gotta we've gotta do away with that we've gotta make our leaders accountable to each one of us and i think this is a step in that direction yeah that's absolutely right yeah when you look at the We've got to do away with that. We've got to make our leaders accountable to each one of us.

And I think this is a step in that direction. Yeah, that's absolutely right. Yeah, when you look at the presidential debates are a good example. When they get together, they talk about the same issues, even though the issues have changed significantly, same issues that they talked about for decades. They skirt around the issues. They talk past each other, as we saw with newsome and and desantis um and and uh and and then they get away with this because you've only got two choices and it's like well i don't like either one of these guys but i really can't stand that guy because i've seen all these negative ads and also so i'll go for this guy even though i don't really like him and so all

these things combined together we've got to find a way to break through that and i like the bottom up approach that you've got because we've really got to take a way to break through that and i like the bottom-up approach that you've got because we've really got to take this back from the bottom up we can't take it back from the top down it's too corrupt as you just pointed out that congress isn't going to dilute their power they're not going to do anything to change what they're doing instead they're trying to put these tentacles further into our lives and to micromanage more and more aspects of our life at the local level and that's why i think you're starting to see these approaches rising up at the state level and below that are saying, no, we're not going to do that.

We're going to start taking back some of our rightful power in all this. And you're absolutely right, by the way. The answer to all this is not media that's telling us what we want to hear and sound bites it's to get the people back involved you know the Fox News was created as a reaction to the liberal bent of ABC CBS and NBC right but but now we've gone to the Fox News silo and we only hear certain things there and then we don't hear that over here and on the major networks. So we're kind of buffeted back and forth and,

and you know, the people's reaction to all this, David is to just turn off. I mean, you've seen, you've seen those interviews that they do on the street, you know, Jesse waters or Jay Leno or one of these,

they go up and they ask people, you know, name the Supreme court justices or name your U.S. senator. Most people can't do it. Most people, they have no knowledge of politics. And why? Because they're so detached from it. They've gotten moved so far away from it that they just don't even want to get involved

anymore. And you can't blame it because they don't have really any input into it right you know it's become so distant from us it doesn't really matter and i look at it even from that standpoint i've got to the point where it's like i'm trying to focus on my local elections and things like that even to the extent that you know i look at the national elections and there's lessons to be learned there about the directions that they're going to come at us with. But I'm, you know, for the real practical stuff, you got to focus on what's local.

And so we got to grow this from the bottom up. That is a great idea. I love that. And so that is also discussed in your book about Newsom. Yes. The solution. Yes. Good.

And there's also a website there as well. Hearthepeople.org. Hearthepeople.org is the plan laid out there. People can see what that looks like. But before we leave, you know, tell us a little bit more about, you know, just talk about how California, whether or not Newsom runs for president or, God forbid, gets elected president, the impact that he has on all of us, whether it is the kind of car that we drive or the appliances that we have, it falls back to the activist government in California and just how big they are compared to other states and how they can throw that weight around, isn't it? Well, listen, Gavin Newsom will survive Gavin Newsom if he gets to be president. We survived Barack Obama. I think our system is strong enough. But you know what? We won't make the same amount of progress. People won't have the same opportunities. And I think our country will get weaker. And if our country gets weaker, I think the world is worse off for that reason. You know, I'm involved in a movie

about Ronald Reagan right now. It's going to come out in a couple of months. And, you know, Reagan, you know, took over for Jimmy Carter. We were a weak nation made weaker by Jimmy Carter. We had inflation. We had an oil crisis. We had threats from the Soviet Union. Reagan turned us around and said that we could do better and we could grow and give more people opportunity. We just got to get government out of the way. That's right. Well, you're absolutely right. Gavin Newsom is one of those that wants to empower government.

You know, Hugo Chavez was the same in Venezuela. He promised people better stuff through the government. You know, Castro did the same for Cuba. Oh, you're going to get better health care. You're going to get better this and that. And guess what? Spectacular failures. I don't want to see the United States go down that route.

And let me tell you, Joe the United States go down that route. And let me tell you, Joe Biden has taken down a style that route. Jimmy Carter tried to Ronald Reagan saved us. I don't necessarily see another Reagan on the horizon to save us from Joe Biden. And if it turns out to be Gavin Newsom, I think that could lead us further down this road to more government, more mismanagement, a lower standard of living, a weaker country, a weaker, more dangerous world. I don't want to see that happen. I want to see us become a better country. And that's why I'm warning people about Gavin Newsom. That's why I'm publishing this book. That's why I'm appearing with you and getting this idea out.

We'll talk a little bit about, you know, we're all, uh, I talk about this a great deal on this program, you know, his energy policies, his car policies and things like that, that have effect on other people, but also, uh, the immigration policy that he has there, you know, the, you come in as an illegal immigrant, as you pointed out, you got, uh, Hugo Chavez and you got Castro promising all this free stuff to everybody, which is what the socialists and the Marxists do. But now we've got Gavin Newsom and other people like him promising it to people in other countries. At least Hugo Chavez was promising it to the Venezuelans.

He wasn't promising it to the people from El Salvador or Peru or Mexico or whatever. But Gavin Newsom is promising it to the world. Just come here, get across that finish line, and you're done. You can collect unemployment. You get free medical care and all the rest of this then. And, of course, that's going to bankrupt us very rapidly. I think that was the plan. You know, Cloward and Piven economists talked about this years ago,

said the welfare state's not growing quickly enough, and we can make it grow even faster and make people even more, you know, poor and more dependent on government if we can do this. And I think that's the real strategy that's there. Talk about, you know, what is happening with the immigration issues with Newsom. Yeah, the border. Well, this is a prime example of a false choice that gets demagogued all the time, David. And, you know, I'm a Jack Kemp Republican. I believe that the United States has benefited tremendously

from bringing people who want to contribute to us into the country. Most other countries do the same thing. They have a very strong immigration policy that welcomes people who want to contribute to our growth and our opportunity. But that's not what's happening with our southern border. I mean, anybody and anybody can come across that border without any restrictions and without any knowledge of who they are or what they're planning to do. That's just as wrong as a total closing of every input to our country. We need to certainly, you know, get more people. Our kids are not having enough kids. I don't want to see us end up like Japan, which has a no growth

economy and has terrific problems caring for its elderly. We need to have some growth. We need to have controlled immigration. We need to know who's coming into the country. This is a false choice. The Democrats are just letting the borders completely open, which is just so incredibly wrong for our future. And frankly, it's misleading to everybody who's coming in as well. They think they're going to come here and live a wonderful life. And a lot of them discover that they're just not going to be able to. We need, you know, we need to make sure that our borders are secure.

You can't have a secure country without it. And, you know, this is another example of politicians who just aren't leading. They're just not leveling with the people. And on both sides, frankly. I agree. I agree. Yeah, because there's a lot of, uh you know again i should point out legal immigration knowing who the people are that's one thing but no matter what they do at the border if they've got this massive welfare

magnet pulling people across and promising them free stuff that's the real issue and we shouldn't have a problem with people who want to work and people want to be contributing to the economy. But we ought to know who's coming in. You just had this massive in Ecuador, just massive prison breaks and drug cartels and everything. So what are they doing in neighboring Peru and other countries? They're saying, well, we sent police to the borders and we said, you're not coming in here unless you got some kind of paperwork from your government showing you don't have a criminal record. We don't do any of that stuff.

So they'll just come up here, you know, and come in. And they are. Yeah. And they are. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They are coming up here.

And, you know, again, the politicians just jitter and demagogue and they don't get the job done. They need to be securing the border. But then they need to make it easier for quality people, for people who are interested in working hard and contributing to America. And you're absolutely right, by the way. The welfare state in America is what's going to destroy us. I mean, we're spending, what, $6.5 trillion this year. We're only, and I say only, raising $4.5 trillion from the tax revenue, which, by the way, is a record. That's a record amount of tax revenue.

But the politicians in Washington are spending it. And what are they doing? They're maintaining a welfare state. You know, something like 80% of the people now are on Medicaid. They've expanded that all the way through all the states. And governors like Newsom have willingly taken this money. Interestingly, of course, you know, DeSantis, Abbott, a lot of red state governors have refused it. And why? Because they know it's a drug it's it's going to be there for one or two years and then it's got to go because it's unsustainable and they don't

want to get you know tied into this drug they don't want to you know balance their budgets on medicaid they want to make sure that they're sustainable and and it's not sustainable for the government to have our entire medical system supported by the government. Our medical system should be free market, just like cars, just like energy, just like every other good or service. It ought to be free market. It ought to be driven by the private sector. It ought to be driven by innovation. It ought to be driven by competition.

Putting it in the hands of the government is the surest way to destroy it. Well, I agree. And yet you look at this last three years, they don't want your physician to even have a say-so in your health care, let alone you. And when you look at the strings that come attached to this money that they give you, that was kind of the way they rolled this thing out. First, they gave them massive bonuses, you know, to follow the Fauci protocols in the hospitals uh you diagnose somebody as a covet patient we'll give you a 20 bonus and then the next year after the bribery what follows is the blackmail uh we're not only going to take away that bonus but we're going to take away all your medicare medicaid patients

and bankrupt you if you don't get all your staff shot with a vaccine. And guess who are some of the biggest supporters of Gavin Newsom in California? Healthcare. Healthcare. Healthcare entities. Yeah. That's one thing we can talk about is how they rolled out the vaccine mandates in California. And I believe that was under Newsom, wasn't it? Where they started saying you're not going to have any religious or medical exemptions for any of these childhood vaccines.

They've been laying the groundwork for this kind of stuff for a long time. And I think it's one of the reasons why Washington is pushing so hard to get everybody addicted to this Medicare, because that's going to be one of the most effective ways that they can use to control us and say, well, now you're going to have to get the ID or you're not going to get any medical care. We've already seen that done by Gates in India with the Aadhaar system. We'll give you welfare, we'll give you medical care, but you're going to have to take the digital ID. And so there's all these strings that are attached to it, but they begin by bribing people. It's always the way the federal government gets around the 10th Amendment.

And guess what, David? Everybody is going to need health care at some point in their lives. And so the more government can control a service like that, that almost everybody's going to need, the more that government then control your life. This is an old playbook. And Hugo Chavez used it. Castro used it. You know, you promise people something that they know they're going to need and they you you tell them that government's going to provide it and they'll give you their power

and this that's what this is all about david it's about a small group of people trying to control the population and it's and it's the story of human history you go back to the pharaohs it's the story of human history the united go back to the pharaohs. It's the story of human history. The United States has stood out among all the countries that ever existed as a place where government was limited. The Constitution was about limiting the scope and size of government. And along the way, we really have lost that idea. We really let that idea slip. And I think it's time to bring it back that's what our proposal is all about with here the people putting those limits back on government

and i think the people you know they they do want to run their own lives they don't want government telling them how to live that was ronald reagan's plea to. That was the key to his success and appeal. We need another Ronald Reagan. And that's in the book, too, by the way. So you'll get a chance to read that. Well, you know, when you look at the rights, and as you correctly pointed out, it was about prohibiting government from interfering with our God-given rights. That's what the Bill of Rights was about.

It's very clever. I remember when Obama was running for president, or shortly after he got elected. I can't remember exactly when he said it. It was at the very beginning. And he said, and he had taught this, and he knew exactly what he was doing, but they control the way that you perceive things

by the terminology. And so he said, well, you know, I know that this was set up and we got prohibitions there for government. We call that negative rights. And so he said, well, you know, I know that this is set up and we got prohibitions there for government. We call that negative rights. But, you know, a positive right is your right to health care or your right to an education or to housing or to this. And it's like, oh, well, I want the positive stuff. I don't want the negative stuff.

And he completely turned it upside down by using those labels. And it had absolutely nothing to do with the Constitution. He knew that, but he was great at selling stuff, isn he i i knew i know obama very well i'm from illinois i'm from chicago and i ran i ran for the u.s senate and i once debated obama for an hour and a half just on those ideas education and health care and you know david you know what his big response to me was was we need government to help people with education and health care we can't let people and these are his words fend for themselves we can't let people people are too stupid in his in his world people are too stupid to choose their own health care or their own education. Government has to do it for them.

And darned if that wasn't his program on becoming president of the United States, he convinced the media that it was a great thing, that government should control your education, government should control health care. You're too stupid to choose it on your own. My answer was people can choose their health care. People can choose education if they're given the tools to do so. And they want to choose that. And frankly, they should be able to because that means we have competition.

And when you have competition, you have quality and you have lower costs. But Obama didn't want to hear that. I mean, he disagreed with me on that and we debated on I wish I wish I had a tape of that debate by the way because it was an hour and a half and he and I were the only ones there and I wish you would have beat him I wish you would have beat him in the election I'm sure you beat him in the debate I wish you'd beat him in the election it would have been a very different world wouldn't it if we'd had John Cox instead of Barack Obama but you know that is a very that's

the same kind of argument john that uh if you go back and look at civil war history we talk about civil war a lot everybody wants to talk about the civil war now well you go back and look at it and you've got a lot of people uh who were plantation owners and slave owners and they said well we realize this really isn't a very good system and we feel bad about the fact that we're controlling these people and enslaving them but you know it's for their own good if we let them loose they just wouldn't be able to survive right you know it's that kind of paternalism that obama is selling that's a slave plantation mentality uh and and it's actually the mentality of the plantation owners uh well i have to enslave them for their own good.

And that's why Reagan's message was so wonderful because it was just so simple. You know, the eight most dangerous words in the English language is, I'm from the government and I'm here to help you. You know, the stuff that Reagan said was so true to so many people. You've got to get government out of the way. Government can't be all things to all people government should do our defense because we don't want people owning

nuclear weapons and tanks and other things like that so government should provide national defense and that's what the constitution specifically says yeah but on all these on all these other things health care education uh government shouldn't be providing those things. Government should create the avenues for private industry to be able to provide those things. And that's what we got to get back to. And yet, as I'm sure you're aware, you know, you're talking about educational, we just had Biden's education secretary. So, you know, that's our mission statement. I'm from the government. I'm here to help you. Totally oblivious to the fact that Reagan used that as the fearful words that everybody doesn't want to hear. I'm sure you're aware of that.

It was really funny that he bought into that. And so few people called him on it. It truly is amazing to see that. Well, I think you've got a great plan. I'm sure that it's a very, well, I know that it is a very relevant book. Gavin Newsom, whether there's a presidential race or not, has a tremendous impact on everything across the country. People need to understand where he's coming from. A good example of an elitist politician that we don't want to keep promulgating that system. And it's great to see that in your book, you have a plan for how we can start from the bottom up to reform this without having to beg Congress to reform themselves, which, of course, they will never do.

Hearthepeople.org is where people can see that plan. I guess they can find your book on Amazon. You also sell it at hearthepeople.org? Okay, good. Yep, yep. So great talking to you, and I'm so grateful that you come up with this plan. We need people to think outside of the box that they have put us into, and we need to look for state solutions, and so self-interested and that it can't be, it won't respond to us and it can't be reformed. So I think that's a very important way to do it.

And let me make this clear, by the way, here the people is not partisan in any way. Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump would agree on the same thing in one sense. Bernie Sanders talks about corporations and millionaires and billionaires. Donald Trump talks about the deep state and the media and the fake news, right? Well, you know, here the people gets rid of both. Here the people puts the power back in the people's hands, gets rid of the media influence, and gets rid of the big corporations. And so I think people can look at it as a bipartisan, as a solution that both sides,

that all the people can get around and believe is the right way for us to go. I agree. And even as we try to engage and debate ourselves on social media and they try to censor us, this is a way that people can get directly involved. And it is something that is a personal, direct person to person type of thing. Grassroots moving up. These are all the things that we need to be looking to.

These are all elements of what I think are going to be any successful solution. So thank you so much for doing that again. Hearthepeople.org. And the book is Newsom's Nightmare, The Newsome Nightmare, and you'll find that on Amazon. Thank you so much for joining us, John Cox. Appreciate it. Thank you, David. Really a pleasure to be with you.

Thank you. We've got just a little bit of time left and just enough time for me to thank Stephen Patterson. Thank you again, Stephen. That is very generous. I appreciate the tip on Rockfin,, we're about ready to go out. So I'll just cut this short. Uh, tomorrow we're going to talk a little bit more about the pharmaceutical stuff that I did not get to today because there's some very important updates on that.

Yes. Fox news is out there trying to sell measles panic again. And we shut that down once and for all. But that's always the way they begin. And they keep going back to that. That's their bread and butter. That's their pharmaceutical sponsors that they've got there. Thank you for joining us.

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