The David Knight Show - 19Jan23 Saudis: PetroDollar Dead. Gold Soars. Ukraine Pushes CBDC

Episode Date: January 19, 2023

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODES The petrodollar is going to disappear — US will be just one of many says Saudi foreign minister as Saudis make move to China 2:05The dollar has touched a seven... month low, gold up 13:45Ukraine announces it will do everything UN/Davos want — moving to CBDC and complete digital transformation for centralized totalitarian society 20:20WATCH: Money is what Kerry wants — for "climate" — repeats the word 7 times in case you don't get it 27:22Money is what the Military Industrial Complex wants also — as Biden depletes our weapons like he did the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) 30:08The Ukrainian official who publicly stated the plan in 2019 for Ukraine to go to war in 2022 against Russia, be totally destroyed to join NATO. Has now been fired for telling the truth again 36:01USA Today tries to establish speech rules about words such as Aloha or Shalom because many don't "understand the deeper meaning" 46:11Geraldo clearly doesn't "understand the deeper meaning" of firearms or Constitution — or even what AR-15 represents. (He thinks AR means Automatic Rifle) 54:40A taste of CBDC — Wells Fargo shuts down bank account of gun store owner just before Christmas. 57:07Illinois hit with wave of lawsuits over new gun bans. 1:02:31Seven States to Introduce Wealth Tax Legislation This Week — taxing investments on the current market price, i.e. UNREALIZED capital gains as if it had been sold 1:06:34EV's — Hummer takes FIVE DAYS to charge at home, resolution to ban EV in 2035, and Tesla's self-driving is piling up cars and lawsuits 1:12:11Scotland has a plan to force everyone into tiny villages (like The Prisoner's Village) and removing private cars 1:32:30George Santos — now revealed to have been a Brazilian drag queen, a con-man who robbed a homeless vet of money to treat his dying dog 1:47:20INTERVIEW: Susan Swift, Vice President of Legal Affairs, RightToLifeLeague.org What is the problem with the abortion pill? 1:59:23Most abortions are pre-term abortions with these drugs. 2:07:24The FDA has removed all of the restrictions that were put in place to protect women’s health. 2:10:50What’s wrong with adoption? Why do we have to kill babies? 2:19:12Cultural Marxism and the attack on motherhood. 2:22:27Pro-bort mob is characterizing pro-life clinics and homes as “pro-life”. 2:31:10Many states already have laws on the books to protect women from these dangerous pills, taken without physician oversight 2:42:07History of the Right to Life League do? 2:47:18Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.com If you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here:SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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Starting point is 00:00:27 Main market excluding specials and place bets. Terms apply. Bet responsibly. Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Thursday, the 19th of January, year of our Lord, 2023, day 1043 of the emergency. And it may be the beginning of something else. The Saudi finance minister has essentially said bye-bye to the petrodollar. Gold has soared. The dollar is down. Of course, that's also reflecting increasing interest rates.
Starting point is 00:01:39 But of course, what is really up is the deficit. So as we look at what is happening in Davos, it's perhaps our own president who weaponizes sanctions against us and uses the dollar to destroy it, to implement what the Russians and the Chinese have always wanted, a move away from the dollar. Stay with us. We'll be right back. Well, Zero Hedge is doing a, I told you so, about a month ago. They had Zoltan Pazsar, who is, as they describe him, a New York Fed repo guru.
Starting point is 00:02:48 He doesn't get cars. He's somebody who knows about the repo market, which I don't know about it. It came to my attention back in the fall of 2019. I talked about it quite a bit. And that was when we started seeing the Federal Reserve dumping massive amounts of money into this thing called the repo market. It isn't necessary to know how these made up structures work, the kind of fiat organization. This is just like the fiat currency. But what was amazing was the amount of money that they were putting
Starting point is 00:03:24 into it. That's all you needed to know. I looked at it one day, and it was a tremendous amount of money. And it's like, whoa. I looked to see how that compared to the gross domestic product of some countries. And it was the amount of the entire gross domestic product, the entire annual gross domestic product of Puerto Rico. It's like, whoa. They're putting a lot of money into this thing. And that was the fall of 2019. A few weeks later, you know, they're doing more of it. One, one
Starting point is 00:03:50 massive purchase was equivalent to the entire GDP of Switzerland. I mean, they're just throwing met. That's the kind of money they were throwing at this thing. Switzerland is the 20th largest economy in the world. That's just one day. We just buy that much in the repo market. So it's pretty amazing. Anyway, he, along with a lot of people, have been talking about the coming demise of the petrodollar.
Starting point is 00:04:16 I've been talking about it for years. Gerald Salenti talking about it for years. We knew it was coming, but now the Saudi minister has made it official, and it's really Biden's sanctions and weaponizing the dollar that has accelerated this. It was inevitable it was going to happen because of fiscal irresponsibility of all the parties involved, both political parties, all these different presidents who are spending money that they don't have and using their ability to just create money out of thin air by fiat to destroy the value of the dollar. And that's been going on for a long time. But now you have, as he was pointing out at the time, Russia moving to a gold base, a kind of a petro gold currency. As a matter of fact, Russia is in discussion
Starting point is 00:05:07 with Iran in terms of doing a cryptocurrency, kind of a CBDC, that would be backed by gold. It'd be a stable coin. So I guess it's not really a CBDC. It's not technically a fiat currency. They're talking about doing a stable coin backed by gold. But, of course, when you put the sanctions on the number two oil producer in the world, Russia, people need that oil. They're going to get it one way or the other. The way they got it was Russia would give people a 30% discount if they paid in gold or in Russia's rubles, and they were still making record profits as people in Europe and the U.S. and everywhere paying record amounts for fuel,
Starting point is 00:05:54 all because of these sanctions. The sanctions don't work. They haven't punished Putin. They've punished our own people. But, of course, perhaps that was the intention after all wasn't it don't they want to destroy everything as part of the great reset don't they want to completely restructure everything our financial system the way we eat the way we travel the way we dress where we can go if we can go anywhere everything has to be restructured they have to take us down
Starting point is 00:06:21 into medieval serfdom and then they will give us a new society, which they have frighteningly described numerous times and continue to talk about it. So you had China's president also meeting with Saudi and the Gulf Coast coalition leaders in terms of putting together their approach to all of this. And it looks like Xi has been the most successful of all this. We're supposed to be concerned about Russia and about China, and yet everything that Biden is doing is playing into their hands. China can now claim to have built a special relationship, not only with the plus sign in OPEC plus, that's Russia, that's OPEC plus Russia, but also with Iran and with all of
Starting point is 00:07:14 OPEC plus. And so the Saudi kingdom's finance ministers reported by Bloomberg said he's open to discussions about trade and currency other than the U S dollar, but he's more than open. He said, there are no issues in discussing how we settle our trade arrangements, whether it is in the U S dollar, whether it's in the Euro, whether it's in the Saudi currency, I don't think we are waving away or ruling out discussions that will help to improve trade around the world, he said. And then this statement, which I think is the most telling. We enjoy a very strategic relationship with China. And we enjoy the same strategic relationship with other nations, including the U.S.
Starting point is 00:07:59 What he said there is that China is their number one concern. The U.S. is just now one of many, one of many currencies that they will use. And it makes sense, as we've said before, it was inevitable because China is a big oil customer. They use a lot of it. They're going to be basically the only oil customer that Saudi Arabia is going to have because everybody else is trying to shut it down. Oh, well, we got oil, but you can't use it. Well, China is going to have because everybody else is trying to shut it down. Oh, well, we got oil, but you can't use it. Well, China's going to use it. China's building all kinds of oil refineries and coal power plants as well.
Starting point is 00:08:39 They're going to continue to build things and sell them to us. So they will build all these dirty, and they are dirty. Theirs are dirty. You can clean these things up. You know, it's just like a car. You can have a car that's got a lot of emissions, or you can have a car that's got virtually no emissions. And their power plants, as well as the ones in India, are very dirty. They're going to build as many of them as they want. There's no restriction on that in the Paris Climate Accord of 2015. They have more decades that they can continue to build as many power plants as they want in India and China. And there are no restrictions on how they have to be cleaned up.
Starting point is 00:09:13 We, on the other hand, are in not only a capping but a reduction mode. We've got to reduce ours, even though ours are clean. So this is going to accelerate. China is now the big customer of Saudi Arabia, not the United States. They want to please China. And of course, China wants to move away from the U.S. dollar. China has been a big part of helping Russia in this trade,
Starting point is 00:09:42 as a matter of fact. The suckers in all of this have been Europe, primarily. Also the U.S. The Europeans have been buying oil from the Chinese. Chinese don't produce oil. They buy it from Russia, and then they resell it in Europe. And everybody pretends because they've got to have it. Everybody pretends that it's been sanctified because it's now coming from the Chinese boats
Starting point is 00:10:13 instead of the Russian boats. So the Chinese are making a fortune in arbitrage. Putin is making a fortune in arbitrage. The Europeans are eating it. Americans are as well. And the way that we're going to really eat it, and it may be an even bigger shock to our society than the massive energy prices that are rolling out in Europe and the UK, the shock to us is going to be with the petrodollar disappearing. And I know most of you have heard this before. I'll just do it very briefly
Starting point is 00:10:45 in case people don't know the history. Right after World War II, the U.S. had virtually all the world's gold for the most part. We had the economy that was left standing. So everybody agreed that the U.S. dollar would be essentially the world reference on it. The problem was, is that the American politicians did not keep the dollar backed by gold. They created a lot more dollars than they had gold. And so people were getting very upset with that. And so there was a restructuring of it. They called it Bretton Woods II because the first agreement was Bretton Woods. That was Nixon and Kissinger putting together the petrodollar, where they agreed that Saudi Arabia would purchase everything only in dollars, and they would support us and our deficit by doing that. And we would support them by giving them all kinds of military equipment that they could go attack the Yemen people or anybody else that they wanted to, which is what's been going on.
Starting point is 00:11:50 And so they got the military equipment. We got the fiat currency and all of that. And so now that's why this is very important. He says, well, we have a strategic relationship. That was the strategic relationship. Saudi military equipment in support of U.S. fiat currency. But now we have a very strategic relationship with China. And we also have strategic relationships with many other countries, including the U.S. So we're just now kicked to the curb there.
Starting point is 00:12:22 It is dusk for the petrodollar, dawn for the petroyuan, as many people have said. Saudi Arabia ready to ditch the dollar in trade. This is RT, Russia Today. Very happy to see that, they said. The world's biggest oil exporter is open to diversifying away from the U.S. dollar after decades of pricing crude exports in the U.S. currency. You know, Saudi is the biggest oil exporter, but in terms of production, the United States is still number one. That's why Biden's got a lot to do. You know,
Starting point is 00:12:55 that's why he's shutting down pipelines and other things like that. Russia, by the way, is number two. So it's U.S., Russia, Saudi Arabia. Biden essentially shut down Russia, he thought. But what he did was he shut down our currency because people are going to need that. That's the real world. All this other stuff, these carbon credits and all these fantasies about unicorn farts and CO2 gases and all the rest of the stuff. We need CO2. We need nitrogen. We need oil. We need coal. We need energy. They can be burned cleanly. There is no correlation whatsoever to CO2 and global warming. If there is global warming, I don't believe that there is. There's ample evidence. I know it's a debate. People are going back and forth. There's two sides to that debate. I believe the side that says that there is no global warming and I'm willing to
Starting point is 00:13:49 debate that with anybody. It's a fraud. I've seen it in climate gate, the same fraud. We're not going to show you the data. Just go with my recommendation. I've got a chart here that I just created. And, um, uh, we're going to set public policy based on that. Now, I've seen this. That's why I said, you know, all this stuff they did with COVID, all the pronouncements from experts, I think they'd done this for decades with all the climate nonsense. So the dollar has touched a seven-month low, as people are expecting another Fed interest rate increase.
Starting point is 00:14:23 And yet, you know, now we are $30-plus trillion who counts anymore, right? To the point where it doesn't even matter whether it's $33 or $35 or $37 trillion. It doesn't even matter anymore. Just a number with a bunch of zeros after it. Nobody has a perspective on that. Well, as I mentioned, you look at our debt and it is now 100% of GDP. So now we're throwing in our economy, not just the Swiss and the Puerto Ricans. But the percentage of GDP was as low as 39% 15 years ago in 2008. So it went from 2008 to 2010, over 10 years,
Starting point is 00:15:06 it went from 39% of gross domestic product to 77%. And it's gone in five years from 77% to 100% of GDP. So we've dug a big hole for ourselves, and we're losing the reserve currency status that's a big issue big issue um let's see i've got a problem with this we're going to take a quick break and we'll at live score bet we love cheltenham just as much as we love football the excitement the roar and the chance to reward you. That's why every day of the festival,
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Starting point is 00:17:57 Thank you, Boss Chavez. Thank you very much for the tip. And Angus Mustang, thank you as well. He says, how much money do you think Hunter Biden is making from China as his dad helps him to destroy our country? Yeah, an amazing amount. That's why I say all of this stuff about the documents. That's real fishy to me. Everybody's known what's been going on with Hunter and the big guy for a long time, known
Starting point is 00:18:16 about his laptop for a long time. They look the other way and now they're scrutinizing this document thing very, very closely. And they began this nonsense with Trump. And with Trump, it really is trumped up. With Biden, there really is some corruption there. But there's been a lot of corruption there before. And I really do think that the reason they did the Mar-a-Lago raid now, it's not just, they've got enough things that they can throw at Trump and try to hit him with. They didn't really need that. That's not going to stick. But by throwing that out there,
Starting point is 00:18:50 that gives them an opportunity to come after Biden. So I think it's very suspicious. Gold price, with all this happening, with the talk about moving away from the dollar as reserve currency in Saudi Arabia and with the deficit going up and the interest rates going up, dollar is down, gold price jumps to new daily highs above $1,920. Even though we've had a lot of bad economic news in terms of retail sales in December. All these things are reflecting on the dollar. So in the U S economy, so, um, it's, it's down now. CBDC though, is really what you need to watch.
Starting point is 00:19:34 And as you look at the price of gold and you look at what is happening to the dollar, you'd look at what is happening to the, uh, the petrodollar and the rest of this stuff. Again, Tony's not going to be with us today, but this is a big day for gold, really. And it's not just those conditions. It really is CBDC. Tony has set up, I'll just mention, DavidKnight.gold if you want to get gold. Tony Arterman is a great guy to work with,
Starting point is 00:20:00 honest and knowledgeable as well. He's got the Wolfpack thing where you can set a particular level that you can buy into on a monthly basis. He's setting that up as a club where people can talk to each other as well, kind of a community there. But it's a great way to essentially buy stuff on a regular basis and store it away so that you don't have to wait until you get a whole bunch of, you know, to make a large purchase. And you can buy things at a very small amount.
Starting point is 00:20:31 You don't have to go in and spend $1,900, you know, to get a gold coin or something like that. But you can get to him through davidknight.gold and that helps us as well. Let's talk about CBDC. Ukraine is pushing itself out with CBDC plans at the World Economic Forum. It's amazing to see how Ukraine is really at the epicenter of all this stuff, as much as Davos is. Oh, look at us. We're going to implement your entire 2030 agenda. And we're going to implement CBDC.
Starting point is 00:21:09 We'll be first out there for you. During the meeting in Davos, Ukraine's vice prime minister, Zelensky's not there. His wife is there. She's got a lot of shopping to do in Switzerland. And the vice prime minister is. He said that he wants the country to be the best jurisdiction for crypto assets. He plans to receive his salary in Ukraine's CBDC. So Zelensky signed a law fully legalizing cryptocurrencies in March 2022.
Starting point is 00:21:44 What happened at that point? Well, you know, they were, that's when everything kicked off, right? With Russia. Of course, it had been going on for eight years. But at that point, when it came to a head, he signed a law to fully legalize cryptocurrencies and they had a lot of money that was channeled to them in cryptocurrencies, just like Tucker Carlson was talking about with the FAA. And the grounding of all flights last week, first time that had happened, the only other time that had since 9-11, and the only other time that it happened was with 9-11.
Starting point is 00:22:20 It's amazing to me that nobody else is interested in that. I talked about it a week ago, and then on Monday, he laid out all the reasons why he thought it was a hack. Same thing that I had said, look, you're not going to hack both the American system and the Canadian system at the same time. Actually, they were done in sequence one right after the other hacked in exactly the
Starting point is 00:22:37 same way. I said, of course, they're going to lie to us about that. And then he showed that at the time that was happening, there was a big jump in the price of Bitcoin. He said, of course, they're going to lie to us about that. And then he showed that at the time that was happening, there was a big jump in the price of Bitcoin. He said, so did they pay off these people in Bitcoin? There's a lot of back-channel stuff, a lot of money laundering and things like that
Starting point is 00:22:58 that are being done by our governments through cryptocurrency. That's why you had Zelensky legalize that. They got a tremendous amount of money, $54 million in crypto donations right away because he legalized all that and removed obstacles for it. Just last year, the BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink, said he believed the Russian-Ukraine war could be used to accelerate the use of CBDCs.
Starting point is 00:23:26 It's being used to accelerate the attack on energy. It's being used to accelerate CBDC. It'll be used to distract us from coming after them once it becomes common knowledge what they did to us with these Trump shots. It'll be used for a lot of things, the big world war that's coming. So as they're talking about this at Davos, he said, we are planning on addressing the taxation side so that we can have a comprehensive approach
Starting point is 00:23:53 to legalization of all digital assets. Well, that's an absolute lie. He knows as well as you know that Bitcoin and all the other cryptocurrencies are a competitor to their own central bank digital currency. And they will shut down all proof-of-work cryptocurrencies so they can put out their proof-of-stake fiat cryptocurrency. Neighboring adversary Russia is also looking for broader crypto adoptions. I mentioned earlier they're working with Iran to develop a gold-backed stable coin. But when you look at Ukraine and how they are offering themselves as the very model of what the UN and Davos want to see, let me play this again for you. Ukraine 2030.
Starting point is 00:24:46 After everything is destroyed, they build it back better, just like the UN and Davos want. Let's look eight years ahead. 2030. The history of the new Ukraine is studied all over the globe. Why? Because Ukraine became the most digital and convenient country in the world.
Starting point is 00:25:08 Scripts have replaced bureaucrats. 500,000 former public servants are successfully integrated in the new economy. No more red tape, but paperless. No more banknotes, but cashless. Yes, we became the first country to abandon paper money. Ukraine now has the best tax system for the IT industry and the most affordable e-residency. Thanks to Ukrainian engineers and programmers, the R&D centers of the world's top technology companies operate successfully, and Ukraine ranks first in the world by the number of startups per capita.
Starting point is 00:25:40 Ukrainian courts are guided by artificial intelligence, and all notarial acts take place online. Ukrainian customs is fully automatic and the fastest in the world. Customs clearance and car registration can now be done in three clicks from your smartphone. Because of war and internal migration, we have built the most flexible and modern digital education. Brave military and civilians get quality treatment with modern remote monitoring and e-health systems. Ukraine also has the most effective cyber defense in the world. After the horrors of 2022, Ukraine focused on security systems. Now every production facility has its air defense system, and the sleep of Ukrainians is protected by an ultra-modern
Starting point is 00:26:22 iron dome. The Ukrainian government is digital, more like an IT company in terms of the efficiency of implementing decisions. And one can register a land plot, start construction, open a business or get a license, and register a car or real estate from a smartphone. Automatically, in one click. Ukraine is the freest and digital. This is all because international partners
Starting point is 00:26:44 and the world's leading technology companies supported the Digital for Freedom initiative and united to help Ukraine recover through digitalization. Building a new Ukraine together. Free and the fastest. Brave and digital. Well, that is a dystopian vision of the future, if ever there was one, where everything is digitized. Digital, that's what theian vision of the future, if ever there was one, where everything is digitized. That's what the digitization of the world, that is what the World Economic Forum is pushing very hard,
Starting point is 00:27:12 what the UN is pushing very hard. That dystopian vision there is what they want for everybody. And the key to that is the money. Money is all... At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football the excitement the roar
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Starting point is 00:27:46 bet within 48 hours of race main market excluding specials and place bets terms apply bet responsibly 18 plus gambling care.ie weighs the key we'll be right back Thank you. Sometimes your day needs a little smoothing. Check out the Jazz Channel at APSradio.com and the APS Radio app and leave the stress behind. So how do we get there? Well, the lesson I've learned in the last year is, and I learned it as secretary and I've learned it since, reinforced in spades, is money, money, money, money, money, money, money. Yeah. He's learned it in spades. It's money me the money jerry show me the money carrie it's all about the money isn't it and that's what he said at davos we're gonna have money money money to turn everything green oh yeah the color of money and of course you got people like greta i showed this just her standing around the other day with the police because she is with a bunch of protesters at a german coal
Starting point is 00:29:57 company very upset that they're trying to keep the lights on having to open up coal mines that they had shut down before. So she's there with the protesters. And I showed you the pictures of her standing around and they're all laughing, posing for the cameras. Look at the police. Yeah, it's a really rough. They roughed her up when they took her out, didn't they? Lots of police brutality going on there. Yeah, smiling. This is just ridiculous. Bullets high. Yeah, that's what the police are doing. Yeah, they zoom in on that, and you see all the cameramen there taking pictures while they pose the stills.
Starting point is 00:30:36 But here's what you first saw. You are not alone. You are not alone. You are not alone. All the protesters. Look, they're carrying her out She's pretending that she's Pastor Ardor Polowski
Starting point is 00:30:50 Who got pulled over on the interstate Arrested by the thug police In Alberta, Canada Dragging him out Oh yeah, I'll recreate that No, it's all about the money, isn't it? We've got By the way, PBS has got a whole lineup of climate documentaries to propagandize you with.
Starting point is 00:31:13 Yeah, that federally funded propaganda news outlet, National Propaganda Radio, as well as TV. Anyway, defense contractors are raking in millions of that money as U.S. seeks to supply more weapons to Iran. These merchants of death have a lot of different products that can kill you with a jab. They can kill you with a javelin rocket. You know, they can kill you with anything. And these people are raking it in by the tens of billions, just like the Pharmakeia is raking it in the u.s army announced that it has awarded back just a month ago another 84 million dollar contract to raytheon you know uh secretary defense austin spent so many years at raytheon they actually had to waive a rule to bring him back
Starting point is 00:31:59 into the pentagon he had been working for raytheon for so long. More than 1,000 Excalibur 1B precision munitions to replenish what we've already sent to Ukraine. We're giving them all of our weapons. Just weeks before that, the Army had awarded a $432 million contract to Lockheed Martin to replace the HIMARS launchers that the U.S. and allies sent to Ukraine. The Army also awarded a $1.2 billion contract to Raytheon for six National Advanced Surfaced Air Missile System batteries for Ukraine. Much of what the U.S. has supplied to Ukraine has come from the U.S. military's own stocks. The Biden administration has dipped into those inventories 29 times using what is known as the presidential drawdown authority.
Starting point is 00:32:52 Isn't it kind of interesting that Biden has deplenished our strategic petroleum reserves and he has depleted our strategic weapons as well? It's almost like this guy's trying to destroy this country, isn't it? He took out more of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve than anybody had ever done. It had only been drawn down three times. And those were in conditions of real emergency, not a sanctions-created situation. It wasn't done for political purposes to make him look better just before an election and make the Democrats look better just before the election because gas prices have been driven sky-high by his sanctions.
Starting point is 00:33:38 They were done for things like a hurricane coming through and knocking out major refineries in the Gulf. That's when they tapped into the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. It wasn't strategic at all. It was just pure politics to benefit him. But now the flow of weapons is running up against current supplies. Imagine that in production capacity of the defense industry. Raytheon's CEO said in April in a conference call, the Pentagon had not
Starting point is 00:34:06 purchased a Stinger missile for 18 years. And some of the components were no longer even available commercially. He said, so we're going to have to go out and redesign some electronics and the missile of the Seeker head. That's going to take us a little bit of time. So they were using commercially available products, and now they're going to have to go out and redesign the stuff and make something that is custom for that using what is currently available. In addition to continuing to supply Ukraine, the U.S. military is trying to backfill what it has already sent. It'll apparently cost the American taxpayer more, of course, to arm Ukraine and to rearm us as Biden has deplenished these reserves. So when you look at what he's doing, the U.S. fleet commander even in the Navy,
Starting point is 00:34:55 the Navy expressed frustration with defense contractors missing weapons delivery dates. Why? Because Ukraine is the number one priority now. We'll protect their borders. We're not going to do anything about America. We're going to protect America, protect America's borders. We're not going to do anything, anywhere. We don't even care about having weapons to defend ourselves if we're attacked. It hasn't been about defense for a long time. It was more accurate when they called it the U.S. War Department.
Starting point is 00:35:23 They should call it the Empire Strikes Out Department. They strike out at foreign countries, and they're going to be striking out in terms of defending this country. That's for sure. So they said, he said, look, we've got defense contractors that are missing weapon delivery dates, wanting to help Ukraine. And I want to help them too, but not in a way that would, quote, destroy and put me back into the dark ages. That's the way U.S. Fleet Forces commander described this, putting us back into the dark ages.
Starting point is 00:36:01 House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last year vowed to rein in blank check spending on Ukraine when the Republicans take the majority. But the Republicans love this just as much as the Democrats do. See, that's why they do this stuff, the way they do it. That's why they go back and forth between Trump and Biden. Trump's base did not like the vaccine. They didn't like the lockdown stuff. Can you imagine if Hillary had done that or if Biden had done that? Of course, there would have been massive pushback against it. But, you know, having Trump in there, we're told he's playing 4D chess. He's on our side. So he must be doing that because
Starting point is 00:36:45 it's absolutely necessary. By the same token, the Democrat base would be more skeptical of a war than the Republican base would be. So they put Biden in there. And if Biden is doing it, hey, it must be necessary. And look at how the Democrats are cheering on the war. Never thought I'd see that. But of course, the Democrats used to always be anti-war and protesting about free speech and the rest of this stuff. They're the biggest censors of the biggest warmongers now. Except there's also people in the Republican Party like Representative Joe Wilson from South Carolina. He wants a bust of Zelensky put inside the Capitol.
Starting point is 00:37:29 And Babylon Bee talked about that in a satire. They said, yeah, Congress passes a new rule that anybody who refuses to bow down to the bust of Zelensky will be thrown into a fire, fiery furnace. It is truly idolatry, isn't it? Kissinger, meanwhile, has flipped. He says Ukraine should join NATO. Join NATO.
Starting point is 00:37:53 This is... At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football. The excitement, the roar, and the chance to reward you. That's why every day of the festival, we're giving new members money back as a free sports bet up to €10 The opposite of what he was saying last May. He was saying, let's not escalate this. Let's back this down.
Starting point is 00:38:33 I was like, whoa, that's kind of a surprise coming from Henry Kissinger. Yeah, we got all these former hippies out there pushing war and Kissinger's pushing peace. What's going on? The world is upside down. But not for long. Kissinger has pushing peace? What's going on? The world is upside down. But not for long. Kissinger has reverted to type. He says, before this war, I was opposed to membership in Ukraine and NATO because I feared it would start exactly the process that we have seen now. But now this process has reached this level. The idea of a neutral Ukraine under these conditions is no longer meaningful. So yeah, let's bring them in.
Starting point is 00:39:08 Well, of course, that was always the plan, right? The chances of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine are slim, as Ukrainian officials are demanding a complete withdrawal and for Moscow to face war crime tribunals before they'll even have talks. For their part, Russia says it's open to talks, but it maintains that any deal must involve the territories that it annexed joining the Russian Federation. These are the disputed territories that go back eight years. It's coming up to nine years now, I guess. This was after the engineered coup by the Obama administration.
Starting point is 00:39:49 And you had these areas, Donbass and Crimea, said, we don't want to secede. We don't want to be a part of Ukraine. They said, no, you will be. They began shelling them. That went on for a full five years and then something very interesting happened you had the guy who was the one who had been picked by the zelinski administration to represent them in peace talks with don bass and these other you know breakaway republics that were being shelled for five years.
Starting point is 00:40:26 Zelensky actually ran on a peace campaign promise, a peace platform. And he was supported by people in Donbass as well as people in Ukraine. They just wanted to see the war stop. They wanted to see the shelling of civilians by the Ukrainian military stopped. Zelensky promised that to them. And then when they got elected, he started jailing the opposition. He had one of his top aides,
Starting point is 00:40:53 Arestovich, go on state media. Remember, I played this before. And he says, so what do we do about this? I'll just give you the gist of this, because this is all in Ukraine. He says, no, we're not going to have peace. There's absolutely no chance for peace. She brings him on because he's the lead negotiator from Ukraine for peace.
Starting point is 00:41:19 He says, no, we're not going to have peace. As a matter of fact, in three years, in 2022, we're going to have total war with Russia. She goes, what? And he says, but that's a good thing. Even though we're going to be havoc, completely destroyed, we'll get into NATO. That's what he told her. So, you know, that was his ruthless. And he was completely candid about it.
Starting point is 00:41:47 And he told us what the plan was. You know, he's not a prophet. He's not like Julie Green. He gets it right. Julie Green gets everything wrong. He's not saying, thus saith the Lord. What he's saying is, thus saith NATO and my allies in British and U.S. intelligence. We know when we're going to kick this war off.
Starting point is 00:42:05 We know when it's going to happen because we're going to do it. And we're going to make sure this happens in 2022. Kind of puts things in a different perspective when you look at his statement that it's going to happen. We're going to go to war with Russia in 2022, and the country's going to be destroyed. But that's okay because I get into NATO, that type of thing. Pretty amazing. Now he just got fired. He just had to resign. This guy, Arestovich. Arestovich. He had to apologize because I guess he just figured he
Starting point is 00:42:40 didn't have to make any excuses. He didn't have to cover up and lie about anything he could just lay it out there candidly tell people even the worst news and he'd be okay i mean kind of look at it from his perspective if he can go on ukrainian television and say yeah we told you we campaigned on a peace platform but that's not going to happen and in three years you're going to have total war with Russia. But the end result is we get into NATO. And then in another, by 2030, they're going to have a complete digital dictatorship. Isn't that great? So if he can tell people that and stay in the government and continue to be on television, I guess he figured he could say anything. So you had a
Starting point is 00:43:22 little while ago, you had a situation where in a big missile attack, if you remember that, cruise missiles, and one of them landed on an apartment complex. Everybody was outraged because cruise missiles are so accurate. And it immediately surfaced that, hey, this one landed on the apartment complex because it was shot down by Ukrainian forces. You know, they hit this thing, and then it crashed, not where it was supposed to go. And he went on television and said, yeah, we brought down that Russian missile that hit the apartment building. Whoa.
Starting point is 00:44:00 A high-profile advisor to Zelensky has tendered his resignation, having admitted live on air that Ukrainian forces had shot down a Russian missile over the city before it reportedly landed on an apartment block, killing dozens. The remark has landed Alexei Arestovich in hot water, as commenters claimed that he was blaming the Ukrainian military for the deaths. It's kind of a fitting end for this guy, isn't it? Well, and it's kind of ironic, you know, one of the few people that didn't lie to everybody about everything, he told everybody what was going to happen. And no matter how horrible it was,
Starting point is 00:44:44 his crime was honesty. They didn't have a problem when he said we're going to destroy the entire country. But when he tells people as part of this war, we shot a missile and it fell onto an apartment. Well, you're blaming the Ukrainian government. The Ukrainian government was planning this war back in 2019, along with the United States. So that got him fired. And it truly is amazing. He became a freelance aide in early 2020. The government official in charge of that appointed him that. And for years, he had been a popular figure with Ukrainian media outlets in December 2017, two years before that
Starting point is 00:45:26 clip I played for you, he came out as a self-described propagandist who had lied a lot, quote-unquote, since 2019 to boost the morale of Ukrainians and to damage the image of Russia, he said. Russian political expert Marat Basharov suggested on his telegram feed that Zelensky's office may find it, quote, difficult to shut him up, alleging that he has patrons with British intelligence. So as we look at this and we are emptying our strategic petroleum reserve, we're emptying our weapons and we're emptying, but petroleum reserve, we're emptying our weapons, and we're emptying, but we're filling up our deficit, I guess you could say.
Starting point is 00:46:11 The UK just recently began sending modern tanks to Ukraine, a major escalation. And it was also interesting that Ukrainians are reportedly going home to Ukraine to get health care because the UK health system is so hopelessly backlogged. But they can afford to send tanks to kill people in Ukraine. It's striker armored vehicles, you know, to help to escalate the war, to move us a bit more quickly into that 20. At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football. The excitement, the roar, and the chance to reward you. That's why every day of the festival, we're giving new members money back as a free sports bet up to 10 euro if your horse loses on a selected race
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Starting point is 00:47:20 digital dystopia we'll be right back. Thank you. You're listening to The David Knight Show. APS Radio delivers multiple channels of music right to your mobile device. Get the APS Radio app today and listen wherever you go. Well, USA Today, we have a lot of discussions at Davos. Brian Stelter is leading panels on censorship. He's found a new job, right? Well, I'd heard that there were a lot of prostitutes in Davos,
Starting point is 00:48:43 and now I understand what they mean. Brian Stelter is there on the dais talking about censorship. USA Today is warning us about the language that we use and the terms that we use, and this is full-on authoritarianism. They're saying culturally sensitive words like aloha and shalom. Oh, we should not say those. Tsk, tsk. Oh, yeah? Well, I think we should tell USA Today, sayonara. Greetings such as aloha and shalom are culturally sensitive, and they could come off as mockery. That's right. Save your mockery for these self-important idiots like USA Today who think that they can dictate terms to you. We were doing just fine with everything before this crowd came along and started putting rules about what we could and could not do and what we had to say and what we could not
Starting point is 00:49:37 say and what we must say. Just because you can say something, reporter David Oliver says, just because you can say something doesn't mean it's always appropriate. Well, guess what? Just because you're a USA Today reporter and you can say things there doesn't mean that anybody cares. Doesn't mean it's appropriate. The use of certain words requires education, knowledge, and foresight, says this over-educated, underqualified person, to understand when they should or shouldn't come out of your mouth. Well, you know, maybe he should look up the deeper meanings of some of these things, such as microaggression.
Starting point is 00:50:16 You know, he talks about this could come across as a microaggression. If you were talking to somebody who is Spanish or Hebrew speaker and you use some of these terms. So now all foreign words have become shibboleths, right? So a microaggression. Does this micro-brained reporter, does he want to look up the deeper meaning of things like authoritarian or Orwellian? So urging readers to think before you speak, the author offers a list of actions to help keep your language in check.
Starting point is 00:50:54 And we just saw this with Andrea Mitchell checking her own reporter. He was quoting a person who said pro-life. He says, well, I was just quoting. Don't say pro-life. He says, well, I was just quoting. Don't say pro-life. Certain groups use that. Which groups would that be, Andrea? Would that be the pro-life groups that call themselves pro-life? You are the pro-murder babies group.
Starting point is 00:51:18 It offends people. If you say that you're pro-life, it is very offensive to Andrea Mitchell and the crowd that want to murder babies. I don't know why. But maybe Geraldo, that's what I'm going to call him, Geraldo. Let's make it that way. Not Geraldo, not Geraldo.
Starting point is 00:51:37 Let's call him Gerald-O. That should kind of make him angry, I guess. Maybe Gerald O. shouldn't tell people about guns in the Second Amendment since he clearly doesn't understand the deeper meaning of either of these things. He doesn't understand the definition of firearms. He doesn't know what he's talking about about anything, whether it's firearms or the Constitution or the law. So maybe he should just be silent
Starting point is 00:52:05 about this. Newsweek, very happy that longtime journalist and Fox News co-host Gerald O. Rivera, I guess we should care, came out talking about the AR-15 as an automatic rifle. So he doesn't know anything. Absolutely nothing. I submit to you, ladies and gentlemen, he said on Fox News, there is no legitimate reason for me to be on air. No, he says to have an AR-15. And then he keeps going. And there's a back and forth between Gerald O. and Greg Gutfeld.
Starting point is 00:52:47 Eyes, if that's a word. It makes makes macho the people who possess it. Oh, look at me. I'm a big deal. And it's not a rifle. Yes, it's a rifle. It is a machine. It is. It is. It is. It is a machine. No, no, that's not what it is. It is. Or a machine. No, that's not what it is. Well, all I know is that AR-15s have no place in American society other than sport clubs. And I agree with him on that. I also think, ironically, that we do need more IRS agents if they say we need more. No guns, more IRS agents.
Starting point is 00:53:22 There you go. There's Gerald O. Rivera. It is a sad day when you get outsmarted by Greg Gutfeld. Exactly. That's why he's there. That is a bad look. That's right. Travis, some of the people are saying,
Starting point is 00:53:33 why is he even on Fox News? Well, it's to make Greg Gutfeld look good. It's like back in the day before your time, Sean Hannity had a program with Alan Combs. Oh, yeah, that guy. What would that little nerd is up to? He was there just like Geraldo. They were there for comic relief.
Starting point is 00:53:54 You know, they make Greg and Sean look smart by comparison. Maybe they should team up with Occasional Cortex. She's got a career at fox news as well now that'd be a power couple i never saw that i never heard that ar-15 the ar stands for automatic rifle he says it's an automatic rifle he doesn't know the difference between automatic and a semi-automatic of course and uh so you know when he's corrected on that by Greg, he comes back and says, well, the AR it's automatic rifle. That's right there.
Starting point is 00:54:31 Uh, even Newsweek knows Newsweek points out that it stands for Armalite. And this is a semi-automatic weapon created in the 1950s. I didn't know it went back that far. That surprises me that the AR-15s have been around since the 1950s. I didn't know it went back that far. That surprises me that the AR-15s have been around since the 1950s. Anyway, it's an automatic rifle. It's right there in the name, AR. Now, semi-automatic fires one bullet every time you pull the trigger. These guys, so we just fall back to it being an assault weapon.
Starting point is 00:55:06 Again, he's using terms that he doesn't know the deeper meaning of, terms that don't have any meaning. You know, they just made this up. Anything that scares them, you know, if you scare somebody, you threaten somebody, well, that's an assault. So if they're afraid of these weapons, if it strikes fear into the heart of Gerald O. Rivera, then it's an assault weapon by definition. Daily Caller tweeted out, said, those most passionate about gun control tend to know the least about guns. Well, that is true.
Starting point is 00:55:45 And again, you know, why is he even there? And he kept on going, says, the point is, and he responded, and he says, everybody was hitting Geraldo. And he said, the point is, there is no place other than sporting clubs and similar skilled settings for assault rifles, their substitute appendages. Oh, oh, that's their insult. They keep coming back to that.
Starting point is 00:56:13 Well, you know, you can take pride in anything you got, you know. You could say that your car is a substitute appendage or your house is a substitute appendage or your wife is or your bank account, Gerald O, is a substitute appendage or your house is a substitute appendage or your wife is or your bank account Gerald O is a substitute appendage. I mean, come on. That's one of the most feeble. That's like yelling racist, racist, racist. That's what it stands for. A-R, a racist rifle. That's what it is. It's a racist. Now we know. Now we know. It's not automatic rifle. It's a racist rifle. And it has to be purged.
Starting point is 00:56:47 So Gerald O. Rivera later doubled down and criticized the AR-15 by tweeting video of a truck-mounted machine gun. This is from Breitbart. A.W.R. Hawkins. He's got the picture. That's what he tweeted. He thinks this is an AR-15 on the back of a semi truck. Well, you know, should we ban the truck as well? Oh, yes, we should.
Starting point is 00:57:11 And we should have 87,000 IRS agents to go door to door and confiscate wealth and everything else. So he tweeted that out. And as he escalated his war on guns. He says, all machine guns should be banned. And he captioned the video. He says, up close and personal, I have seen what assault rifles can do in many conflicts around the globe.
Starting point is 00:57:40 This is Mogadishu, Somalia, 2002. Well, again, I knew a missionary who was in Mogadishu in Somalia at that time. And he said it was a very dangerous place. And he made a decision just like Charles van Vick in South Africa who bought a revolver. He was the one who bought a revolver. He was the one who stopped that church shooting. When it was attacked, by the way, by many communist soldiers, who opened up the side door and started throwing grenades into the church,
Starting point is 00:58:19 over 1,000 people in there. They immediately killed 50 people. They threw grenades in, and then they opened up, and they did have fully automatic weapons. This guy was in the back. He had a pistol with five shots. He took one shot from the very back, and I'm never going to get him. Went around the side, took another shot, and they all ran away. And they said later on they thought there were multiple defenders. And they said they'd picked that church because it was a liberal church,
Starting point is 00:58:41 and they knew nobody would have any guns. They were surprised. Multiple defenders, they thought. God works in mysterious ways, doesn't he? So getting back to Mogadishu in Somalia, the guy that I knew said, yeah, it was amazing. He said how dangerous it was. He said he got himself an AR-15 to protect himself and to protect other people. Because he said it was so militarized.
Starting point is 00:59:10 At one point, he said an Apache helicopter went past him and he said, you know, tracks what the pilot is looking at, tracks his eyes. And it will target the guns to whatever he's looking at. So all he has to do is say fire and it's gone. And so he goes, so this guy's flying really low. He said, I look at him and he's got an AR 15 on him and the pilot looks at him. Those guns are pointed at him. It's like, oh, this may be it. Uh, but, uh, yeah, the dangerous, uh, dangerous world out there.
Starting point is 00:59:44 We have escaped a lot of this. But they want to, again, we're talking about CBDCs, talking about the loss of the petrodollar. And this goes back to Operation Chokepoint, what we've been talking about, the financial attacks on gun retailers and gun stores. This is a story from W&D. It happened just before Christmas.
Starting point is 01:00:07 Wells Fargo shut down the bank account of a guy who is a professional fireman, and he also has a gun store. And he had had that account with them and the gun store for 25 years, and just before Christmas, they shut his account down at Wells Fargo, one of the nation's wokest major corporations. No, I'd say Marxist. Marxist. This is what this is about.
Starting point is 01:00:31 This is cultural Marxism. To tell people what they can say, what they can think. It's totalitarianism. It's taken its far-left social agenda up a notch by abruptly shutting down the bank accounts of a professional firefighter and his gun store three days before Christmas. They sent a letter to Wex Gunworks, owned by Brandon Wexler in Florida, Delray Beach, Florida. Wells Fargo performs ongoing reviews of its account relationships, they said in a letter to him, in connection with the bank's responsibilities to manage risk in its banking operations. We recently reviewed your account relationship, and as a result of this review,
Starting point is 01:01:06 we'll be closing your above-referenced accounts. The bank's decision to close your accounts is final, they said. So this is why I say we look at CBDC and the rest of this stuff. The key thing for control is money, right? That's how the U.S. has been able to leverage itself. Even though we are having our manufacturing base eroded, we've had that financial leverage of the fiat currency. But the CBDC is going to be used exactly like Wells Fargo
Starting point is 01:01:40 is using this against this gun owner. Jennifer Langan, a Wells Fargo spokesperson, denied to Reload magazine that the closure had anything to do with the gun industry, instead claiming that it was based on our analysis of the risks associated with this customer. No, it's, you know, PayPal said, PayPal doesn't censor speech, just me. Wells Fargo doesn't go after gun retail. They just go after this guy, Brian Wexler.
Starting point is 01:02:11 He says, I've been with them for 25 years, professional firefighter. I do everything the right way. It's messed up, he said. It feels like it's a direct attack against gun dealers. I've never seen anything like this. And of course, it is. New York is deliberately doing that, trying to give more tools to the banks and pressure them to do that. At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football. The excitement,
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Starting point is 01:03:11 And that'll allow the credit card companies as well as banks to shut down those gun stores. And we've seen a lot of pictures of that happening just before Christmas as well. As they point out, Operation Chokepoint regulators under Obama pressured financial institutions to not do business with disfavored industries, including the firearms industry. But it'll go to the First Amendment as well. They'll shut down the accounts of people who say things that they disagree with. Whether you're talking about the vaccines or climate or politics. They will shut down the bank accounts of Christians who don't toe the line on the LGBT religion. All of this. After the program was exposed and discontinued, however, the large banks like Citibank and Bank of America
Starting point is 01:04:06 still enacted policies against working with companies that make or sell certain guns or ammunition. Wells Fargo, in 2019, committed to donating $10 million to gun violence research, quote-unquote. A year later, it said that it planned to cut ties with the NRA. Now it may be starting to quietly cut decades-long ties with small gun dealers like Wexler. Being shut out of doing business with major financial institutions, of course, limits their options for growth, even survival. That's what PayPal does to people as well. Spotify is going to do that as well.
Starting point is 01:04:46 Spotify has got a plan. Spotify is the only one to shut down this program. They got a plan to take that software and push it out to every podcast. Because podcasts are one of the few places where you still have some free speech. If you can get it through social media to other people. Wells Fargo is among the top 20 biggest banks in the world. Now, in Florida, where this guy is, and this is one of the reasons that this has come back up again,
Starting point is 01:05:13 you have a couple of state representatives, Republicans, who are introducing the Florida Arms and Ammo Act, a first-in-the-nation measure to prohibit businesses from tracking Floridians' firearms and ammunition purchases. See, all this stuff can be stopped at the state level. It can also be stopped at the local level as well. Illinois, meanwhile, has been hit with a wave of lawsuits over their gun and magazine bans. When they passed this, the Senate President, Don Harmon, told his opponents, I'll see you in court. This was a massive ban on assault weapons, just like Gerald O. Rivera wants,
Starting point is 01:05:58 and on large-capacity magazines. At least three lawsuits have been filed, taking on the new ban, with a fourth one expected to be filed early as this week sometime. In one of these lawsuits, an attorney, Thomas DeVore, focused largely on procedural issues under the state constitution, arguing that the process by which the measure was approved violated a requirement that the legislation be confined to a single subject. In the final days of their lame duck session, lawmakers took a bill that
Starting point is 01:06:32 was initially about insurance and turned it into an extensive weapons ban. That violates state law, says it should be about a single subject. But it was also something else, as the attorney said, it's an abhorrent method of excluding the public from participating in lawmaking. If you do that at the last minute, you take it and add it to another bill, rushes through at the last minute, there's no time for people to contact their elected representatives and say, vote against this, to lobby them to vote against it. One of the reasons why they did it. There's also a federal lawsuit that's been filed in Illinois against this gun control.
Starting point is 01:07:12 While the federal courts in the state have previously upheld bans on assault weapons and large capacity magazines as constitutional, those opinions were there before the recent U.S. Supreme Court case, Bruin. And the bans are not likely to hold up under the new standards that have been set with Bruin, where they look at the text. Imagine that. You look at the actual text of the law instead of people's feelings and trying to judge their motivations. You look at the text, you look at the history, and there is a tradition test as well that
Starting point is 01:07:48 the Supreme Court said is appropriate when considering the constitutionality of gun control measures. I think it's just the text. It's all you need. It's pretty clear, very explicit. To be banned, they say, under Bruin, a firearm must be both dangerous and unusual. Well, they think a firearm is dangerous, and it is. It is a dangerous thing.
Starting point is 01:08:09 A car is a dangerous thing. A ladder is a dangerous thing. So is a bathtub. Anybody can make an argument something is dangerous. Dangerous and unusual. What does that mean? That's pure BS. There's nothing in the Constitution that says the right of the people to keep and bear arms
Starting point is 01:08:30 shall not be infringed unless the firearm is dangerous and unusual. What a joke. What a joke that is. Illinois Gun Rights Alliance is also expected to file a suit of its own in federal court in coming days. And of course, they're also faced with the fact that 80% of the sheriffs in the state, they've got 102 counties, 80 counties have said, sheriffs have said, we're not enforcing that law. Pritzker says, well, I'll send my state police around to enforce it.
Starting point is 01:08:59 Well, good luck with that. And it's not just that. I like this headline here from Wirepoints. You can also find it on Zero Hedge. Illinois' newest suicide attempt. Pulled them back from the brink. Besides having high taxes and gun control and violence at the Wazoo and Chicago, now they want a wealth tax. Now, I guess maybe as we look at Illinois, maybe we should change their name as well. Ill, annoying is what this state has become. It's sick, annoying, and suicidal.
Starting point is 01:09:37 But here's what's interesting about this. It's not just Illinois, as crazy as they are. Illinois and six other crazy leftist states are all introducing wealth tax legislation this week. This was reported by the Washington Post. In a coordinated effort, legislators in seven states, including Illinois, will introduce legislation on Thursday, today, for their states to impose a wealth tax. The seven states collectively hold about 60% of the nation's wealth. California, of course,
Starting point is 01:10:16 Connecticut, Hawaii, Illinois, Maryland, New York, and Washington State. The Washington Post reports that ill-annoying proposal will be for tax on wealthy people's holdings, so-called mark-to-market taxes. This is where they tax you on unrealized capital gains. What is the current value of Elon Musk's stock holding? Well, it just changed by $200 billion. That's the paper value, the current market value of his stock, so they want to tax him on that. Always in the past, it isn't anybody that's invested in Bitcoin.
Starting point is 01:11:05 You saw your Bitcoin go up to $60,000 or whatever it was. And then it dropped back down to 17, stayed there for a while. So what do they tax you on? You haven't cashed that out. It's still there. Those are fluctuations because of the valuation compared to the dollar. So you look at that kind of a fluctuation. Do you get taxed with this wealth tax on the 60 or on the 16? Well, you guess. Which one's it going to come out to you for? Does Elon Musk get taxed on his wealth that was $200 billion more in 2021?
Starting point is 01:11:41 Would he even have the money to pay for that tax now? Washington Post put it this way, quote, left-leaning proponents of taxing assets held by American billionaires. Oh, see, this is about billionaires. Don't worry, it's not about you. How many times have they used that line? Will people ever wake up to that? You know, the income tax when it came out was on income. It wasn't on wages. And it was at such a level of income that would only affect the 1% of the 1%.
Starting point is 01:12:13 Then they were called millionaires. Now they're billionaires because of the devaluation of the fiat currency. But yeah, don't worry. This doesn't affect you. Oh, good. Yeah, it's going to get those rich guys. We hate those rich guys. And in no time at all, they've got it into a wealth tax. I mean, a wage tax. And so now this wealth tax is to come after America's billionaires. They are the target, says the Washington Post. In lieu of a federal wealth tax, these seven states want to tax billionaires where they live.
Starting point is 01:12:48 Well, guess what? They won't be living there for long because they got 43 other states that they can go to. That's why this is a suicide wish. As a matter of fact, you look at this list of seven states. They are the ones that people are moving out of in major ways. In other news, a leading ill, annoying state senator says that he will rekindle efforts for a graduated income tax, which was defeated in the polls in 2020. So they never give up trying. Better pack your bags and get out of that state.
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Starting point is 01:15:34 Check out a wide variety of channels on our app at APSradio.com. Well, I said, well, you've still got a car. Get out of the area. But, of course, if you've got an electric car, it's going to take you several days to get out of said, well, you've still got a car. Get out of the area. But, of course, if you've got an electric car, it's going to take you several days to get out of there, perhaps if you're trying to charge it at home. This is especially true if you've got a Hummer because they have tremendously large batteries.
Starting point is 01:15:57 You know, it's amazing. Everybody was concerned. Look at the fuel that is being used by these Hummers. It's like, oh, it's like it's very expensive car the people that buy them can afford to dump massive amounts of money into the thing to refuel it but look at how big and heavy and high and wasteful we hate this thing right but now if you take out the engine and you put in a battery biden loves it it to people, should buy one of these things. And everybody doesn't have a problem with it because now it's an EV.
Starting point is 01:16:29 Well, a guy bought his Hummer and here's what he found when he tried to charge it. This is a brand new Hummer EV and it's got the largest battery. You can buy 250 kilowatt hours of battery in this truck. Now, it's Sunday morning and let's see how long it takes to charge it just using the truck's charger and plugging it in into a standard wall outlet so i've got the charger i've got the plug and keep in mind it's sunday morning so let's plug her in and let's see what the truck says about how long it will take to charge time to complete charge friday at 8 30 a.m and range increase is one mile per hour and that's
Starting point is 01:17:19 what happens when you try to charge the largest battery truck using a 120 outlet. Of course, you could have a level 2 or a fast charger, which would make it a lot quicker. Yeah, it'll also take years off the life of your battery. You know, you always charge your cars on a fast charger, supercharger, something like that. As an engineer wrote and told me me who works for an automobile company, he said they've actually had discussions as to whether or not they should record and report how many times these things are used, are recharged with a supercharger, because it takes down the battery life.
Starting point is 01:18:05 And maybe we should factor that in to the warranty. How many times you put on a supercharger? So you have some things big and heavy, and you're still using the same amount of energy. Where does that energy come from? It's got to be generated somewhere. Oh, don't worry. It's coming from solar panels. Well, where do the solar panels come from?
Starting point is 01:18:20 Oh, they come from China. How does China make them? With electricity generated by the dirtiest of coal and oil plants on the planet. The whole thing is nonsense. And it's based on a rationale of lies. We have to expose this. The emperor has no clothes, has no authority. But this whole thing is a bluff in the first place. It's important to push back against these people
Starting point is 01:18:51 and their authority to ban things left and right, whether it is cars or gas ranges or you name it. We've got to push back against that. The emperor has put on the mantle of authority that he does not have. This is naked tyranny. But we also have to point out, there's also a fantasy aspect of it. He doesn't just imagine that he's got authority,
Starting point is 01:19:14 he imagines that he's got a reason to do this as well. The Hummer EV uses GM's new Ultium battery pack. Ultimum. Ultium. I guess it's like unobtainium or something when it comes to charging it. It boasts an estimated 329 miles of driving range. But in our testing, said Car and Driver, we observed 290 miles. And that was all highway driving at 75 miles per hour. You know, that's a lot of mass using a lot of energy that's being used. It's got an 800-volt electrical architecture with 350-kilowatt fast charging capability, which GMC claims will add 100 miles of range in just 10 minutes.
Starting point is 01:20:02 What he found was he was getting one mile of range per hour. Charging times may be significantly slower. This is the EV equivalent of your mileage may vary. Yeah, it may vary quite a bit, actually. The IEA, the International Energy Agency, is now at Davos and making pronouncements about how half of all cars sold in the top markets will be electric by 2030. By top markets, they mean China, Europe, and the U.S. So half of the cars sold by 2030 will all be electric. And the rest of them will be banned out of these cities that are declared ultra-low emission zones. That's what's happening with Sadiq Khan in London. Many cities in Europe, Germany, England, the U.K. already doing this. As a matter of fact, they ban you from traveling even from one part of the city to the other part with these 15-minute cities.
Starting point is 01:21:08 Some of them are 20 minutes. In Scotland, it's 20 minutes. They've relaxed it a little bit, I guess. I don't know. The IEA, however, has warned of bottlenecks and battery supply chains. So we've got bottlenecks in the supply chains of building the batteries. We've got bottlenecks in terms of chains of building the batteries. We've got bottlenecks in terms of we don't have enough charging stations. We've got bottlenecks in
Starting point is 01:21:29 terms of there's not enough energy on the grid to charge these things. And there's not enough energy on the grid to take away all of the gas furnaces and gas ranges and have everybody cook and heat their homes with electricity alone. It's guaranteed to take down the grid. That's why I say these people are sabotaging us. They're not stupid. Everybody's saying this isn't going to work. There's not sufficient capacity. The politicians know. The politicians are operating globally. Every country, doesn't matter what party, just like they did with COVID and the vaccine passports and the mandates and the bioweapon from Trump, they know what it is and they're pushing forward with it anyway.
Starting point is 01:22:16 Because it's malicious. It's premeditated. It's planned. And there isn't any reasoning with these people. You have to reason with the mass public. If the mass of the public understands this, we can peacefully nullify this. But they've got to understand it. They've got to understand it and stand up and say it isn't going to happen.
Starting point is 01:22:37 If everybody did that, they would back down. We've backed them down on some other things. We've backed them into a temporary pause on this medical dictatorship while they keep their supposed authority in place and while they secretly work on a pandemic treaty in Geneva, Switzerland, the World Health Organization. So they said every other car sold in 2030 in the three largest EV markets, China, Europe, and the U.S., will be in electric
Starting point is 01:23:05 vehicles, said the International Energy Agency at Davos. You will own no real cars, and you will go nowhere. Meanwhile, in Wyoming, you have legislators who have drafted a resolution to ban electric vehicles by 2035, and it was in Montana that they took action against these charging stations. So we don't want these things put in there. You're going to get people killed. You know, somebody's out in the middle of Montana, these vast open spaces where there's nothing, and they used to not have a speed limit.
Starting point is 01:23:42 We went out there and, what, was it 20? It was 2001, I think. And, um, um, I switched off with Karen. Kids were in the back and, um, I said, don't worry about speed limit and speed limits here. And she was doing like 110 or something and it's long stretch of highway. And here comes a police car pulls up up beside her, didn't put the lights on or anything, pulled up beside her, and says, you know, pull over to the side. And it's like, what's going on? You told me there was no speed limits. At LiveScore Bet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football.
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Starting point is 01:24:52 You may want to slow it down a little bit. Have a good day. It's like, okay, great. I love Montana for that. But they've now put a speed limit on, unfortunately. Unnecessary. But anyway, they don't like the idea of having these charging stations I remember the video that we showed of a guy at Christmas he was kept from going anywhere Eric Peters had the same experience the chargers were not superchargers were not working for the car outside being
Starting point is 01:25:22 charged because it was so cold the guy hooked his thing up and it was there for hours. And it kept saying, uh, we're heating the battery. We're heating the battery. We're heating. They had to heat the battery before they could charge the battery and they could never get the battery hot enough to charge it.
Starting point is 01:25:36 So he didn't get any charge. Same thing happened to Eric Peters. If you do that out in the middle of, you know, this vast open stretch in Montana during one of their brutal winters, you're going to die. There'll be no heat, nobody around to help you. But in Wyoming, you have a couple of legislators who have drafted a resolution to ban electric vehicles, ban electric vehicles by 2035. And a couple of state reps, state Senator Jim Anderson said,
Starting point is 01:26:06 well, if you don't like our gasoline powered cars, then we don't like your electric cars. This is really a resolution. It's not going to have any legal effect, but this is a resolution put out there by a couple of Republican state senators to, uh,
Starting point is 01:26:22 it's just a protest against California's banning all internal combustion engines by 2035. Unlike, unfortunately, the California law, this will have no effect. Phasing out new electric vehicle sales by 2035 is the resolution. It is seen as a response to laws enacted by other states that aim to phase out gas-powered vehicles. It expresses, the resolution expresses concern over the state's lack of EV charging infrastructure, says it is impractical. It also mentions several other issues in addition to the absence of infrastructure. They said EVs need six times as many minerals as a standard vehicle, including vital minerals like copper, lithium, nickel, cobalt, graphite, zinc, and rare earths.
Starting point is 01:27:16 This raises questions about the critical mineral supply in the U.S., as well as what do we do to recycle or dispose of them? They're not easily recycled or disposed of, meaning that municipal landfills in Wyoming and elsewhere will be required to develop practices to dispose of these minerals in a safe and responsible manner. I don't know what you do about the evs catching fire are you going to uh turn the massive landfills into i don't know gehenna where the fire is never quenched you know i mean this is uh they had there in jerusalem that was a reference in jerusalem they had a big garbage
Starting point is 01:28:00 dump area gehenna it was always burning with fires to burn the trash. But hey, you may wind up with a gigantic dumpster fire, but an entire dump area fire with these electric vehicles. Again, the minerals that are going to be used in them, difficult to obtain, difficult to dispose of or to recycle. They didn't even mention, at least in this article, maybe they mentioned it in their resolution, the burden on the grid. That's a problem for everybody, not just the disposal of this stuff.
Starting point is 01:28:37 Another state senator, Brian Boner, who is a co-sponsor of the resolution, noted that Wyoming's ban on electric vehicles would only be symbolic in contrast to California's ban. He added, I'm interested in making sure that the solutions that some folks want to the so-called climate crisis are actually practical in real life. I just don't appreciate it when other states try to force technology that isn't ready on us.
Starting point is 01:29:05 That's a big part of it. Tesla, by the way, talking about technology that isn't ready on us. That's a big part of it. Tesla, by the way, talking about technology that isn't ready, the self-driving technology has not been ready, still isn't ready, because we just had a massive pileup this Thanksgiving. And the car that started it, that braked suddenly, was a Tesla. A lot of people thought, well, it's the automatic braking misfired on that thing, and that now appears to be the case. It was in full self-driving mode when that happened. I remember Steve Wozniak weighing in on this a couple of years ago,
Starting point is 01:29:40 and he said, I love my Tesla, but don't turn on that self-driving thing. It's trying to kill you, is what he said. And I have a friend who has a Tesla, and he let me drive it. It's a very different kind of car to drive, and it was fun. It really was. But stay away from the self-driving mode. And so the Tesla Model S braked sharply, triggering an eight-car pileup in San Francisco on Thanksgiving Day. And now they've investigated it and found that the full self-driving
Starting point is 01:30:17 quote-unquote software was engaged. The Tesla's driver told authorities that the vehicle's full self-driving software brake unexpectedly triggering the pileup. This is not a new issue either. And it's not just limited to Tesla. The person that was killed in Phoenix, Arizona by that Uber self-driving car. Do you remember that? You know, they had the footage from the Ford looking camera and she's coming right out of the darkness. Jay walking as homeless person with a grocery cart. She walked
Starting point is 01:30:50 right in front of the car and the car ran over her and people saw that footage first. And they said, well, there's no way that she couldn't be seen for the driver to break. And I was like, no, no, this is, uh, it doesn't use visual imaging. Now, the Tesla does, but this particular car did not. It used LiDAR. And so the people who were in the industry said, no, it should have seen her. Why didn't it brake? And of course, you know, they have a human driver there, but the thing is driving along and not presented with any kind of an emergency situation.
Starting point is 01:31:25 So the human driver was sitting there playing with her phone and didn't see it either. But they said that the reason they said, yes, it did see her, but it didn't go into emergency braking because we turned that off. Why would you turn that off? They said, well, the emergency braking was firing in kind of random modes and it was really dangerous because it was slamming on the brakes at an unjustified period of time when it wasn't necessary. So that was enough of a problem that we just turned it off. This is what happened with the Tesla, the emergency brake stuff. This is why I don't
Starting point is 01:32:00 want a newer car. I don't want a car that's going to second-guess me and try to steer the car away from crossing a lane. I don't want a car that is going to try to second-guess me on braking. I'll do just fine, thank you, on my own. The Tesla's driver said that it was in full self-driving mode, so the crash happened just hours after Musk announced that the full self-driving system was available to anyone in North America who requested it and paid for it. The feature is designed to keep up with traffic, to steer within a lane,
Starting point is 01:32:35 and to follow traffic signals despite the full self-driving name it is required that human drivers be prepared to take control at any moment. Of course, that is a prescription for disaster as well, just like we're talking about the person there, the human driver backup thing. You're sitting there doing nothing. All of a sudden, an emergency happens. It takes a long time for you to figure out what's going on
Starting point is 01:32:57 and respond to it, right? You've got to come back into the moment. That never works. Drivers are reportedly warned in an in-car screen by Tesla when they install this feature, the screen says, quote, it may do the wrong thing at the worst time. That inspires confidence, doesn't it? Yeah, it turns out that that is true, at least truth in advertising.
Starting point is 01:33:23 Another sudden acceleration by a Tesla. This one in Vancouver, getting onto a ferry ramp. The Tesla suddenly accelerates, smashes into the ramp and breaks the Tesla in half. Show a picture of that car, Travis. It's pretty messed up. A Tesla vehicle suddenly accelerated into a ferry ramp at Horseshoe Bay, West Vancouver, Canada, breaking the car in half. Various government agencies have investigated instances of the Tesla reportedly suddenly accelerating in the past. And now they've got a pretty good case of it happening. The driver and passenger are cooperating with the investigation. Both were taken to the hospital with injuries, but the injuries are not life-threatening, fortunately. Tesla video, however,
Starting point is 01:34:11 that depicted a self-driving car was staged an engineer who was not working for Tesla. He's another engineer in California. He bought a Tesla. And it's one of these cases where the Tesla got confused about exit ramps. And it went straight into the concrete barrier where it makes a y kill the guy so the family is suing tesla about full self-driving mode uh they said the video depicted capabilities that tesla's technology had not yet attained and was faked this is an october 2016 video reported to showcase showcase Tesla's self-driving technology.
Starting point is 01:35:06 They said it was fake. They said, full self-driving hardware on all Teslas. On the promotional video, it began with an explanatory screen that read, the person in the driver's seat is only there for legal reasons. He's not doing anything. The car is driving itself.
Starting point is 01:35:23 When Musk promoted the video on Twitter, he implied the car was driving itself with, quote, no human input at all. This guy says that's not true. Tesla director of autopilot software, Ashok Luswami, said human drivers intervened on the test runs, and when they tried showing the Tesla parking without a driver, the car crashed into a fence in the company's parking lot. The testimony from the autopilot software director was submitted as evidence in the lawsuit against Tesla over a deadly 2018 crash.
Starting point is 01:36:06 It was obviously misleading to feature that video without any disclaimer or asterisks, said the attorney or the plaintiff. Tesla is also the focus of a U.S. Department of Justice criminal investigation. You know, when we look at how this is going to roll out, it is focused at taking away all cars. this is going to roll out. It is not. It is focused at taking away all cars. That has been the focus of the green people since the very first Earth Day. Actually, before that, they wanted to force everybody into cities.
Starting point is 01:36:38 They wanted to take away everybody's cars. That's been going on for 50 years, just like you had 20 years worth of, we're going to lock everybody down and wait for a new vaccine. And then we're going to have to have vaccine passports. That was practiced for 20 years. This has been people doing this all of my life, pretty much, but at least since 1970. And so in Scotland, you have a guy says, what has happened to my kinfolk? He said, I mean, this pasty-faced Scottish government fellow literally says...
Starting point is 01:37:14 On transport, our second strategic transport project review, published just two weeks ago, confirms that the era of catering for unconstrained growth in private car use is well and truly over. yw bod y era o gadeirio am dyfodol cynydd mewn defnydd o ffyrdd cyhoeddus yn bell ac yn hollol olaf. Mae'r adolygiad yn dilyn yr eirrarchaeth buddsoddiadol sy'n gofyn i leihau'r angen i ni fynd i'r trafod yn ddigon ddiogel ac yn brioriol i wneud cyfrif gwaith o gynyddu gweithgaredd sydd ar gael cyn hyn o ran gwneol cyn gynnal cymorth newydd. Yn fwy, rydyn ni wedi ddweud sut y byddwn yn lleihau'r cilometrau caru o 20% i 2030 yn ein ddrafft rwytmau, ymddiriedaeth sy'n arwain ar gyfer y byd a ydym yn arwain ar ein lefel o ambisiynau mewn gofynnu targedau statudol yng Nghymru. Mae Llywodraeth y Sgwrs wedi cymryd ymchwil
Starting point is 01:38:03 am ysbrydoli opsiwn rheoli cyflog i ddisgwryd defnyddio'r car, ac, drwy ddefnyddio'r gwaith ymchwil, targets. The Scottish Government have commissioned research exploring demand management options to discourage car use. And using the research findings, we will work with local and regional partners to develop a demand management framework by 2025. Yeah, well, you know, that's the, it's a conspiracy, but it's not hidden anymore, is it? Just to translate some of that for you, in case you had a hard time understanding that. I love the Scottish accent. As a matter of fact, when Karen and I went on our honeymoon, we kind of roughed it and stayed in UK and London.
Starting point is 01:38:38 And we went up to Scotland and Wales. We were there for about three months. Didn't have any money, but we had time before I started my job. And we had a good time, really good time. And at one point, we were lost. And we went over to, and London was a much different place than it is now. We went back 20 years later. That was in 2001, spring of 2001.
Starting point is 01:39:07 And boy, I couldn't believe how London had changed. It was, people were ruder than they are in New York. I mean, it was amazing. Absolutely amazing. Everybody was so nice, but we were kind of dealing with the World War II generation when Karen and I were there in 1980. And so we asked this guy, he's in a kilt. We went over to him to ask him directions. And he starts with, oh, my God. We listened to it.
Starting point is 01:39:32 I didn't even know where to start to ask him a question. I didn't understand a single word he had to say. I just said, thank you very much. And we walked off in the general direction that he had been pointing with his hand. I said to Karen, I said, do you understand that? She said, not a word. So in case you didn't understand this guy, the Scottish government plans to reduce car kilometers and discourage car use. He says, well, everybody's doing that way. We don't want you driving at all. They tell us that the end of the private car use is well and truly over. That's the takeaway quote. He says, let me translate that for you. Wave goodbye to your car.
Starting point is 01:40:15 The government will determine what travel meet sustainable thresholds. Ergo is allowable and all other travel will be on foot or bicycle or something. By the way, that's why I think, and I said this for the longest time, the experiment in a smart city that was run by Google up in Toronto, they called it Sidewalk Labs. And I said for the longest time, they call it Sidewalk Labs because you're going to be walking everywhere, not driving anywhere, may not even have a bicycle. And I said, if you don't tow the party line and say exactly what they want you to say about every issue that they care about, you will be living on the sidewalk, not just walking on it. Have you ever seen an episode of the old 60s series, says the guy, the prisoner?
Starting point is 01:41:06 And that's exactly what this is. I've mentioned this many times about the 15-minute cities. And, you know, they're putting them into Canterbury and Oxford. There's German places that are doing this as well. And so you can travel within the city. It says, lovely, all-inclusive, walkable neighborhoods just like the Prisoner's Village with everything you'd ever need. So you won't ever need your private vehicle again.
Starting point is 01:41:36 Even if you did, tough luck because they've decided that you can't have one. You know, even the Prisoner in the Village had a golf cart. That's how pathetic this dystopia is. So Scotland has set out a bold new vision for towns and cities. It aims to cut private car use by ensuring all services are within a 20-minute walk from your front door. They've stretched it out a little bit. Some of the other cities are going to make sure that you get it in 15 minutes, not everything in a 15-minute walk. And, of course, they will decide which services you need.
Starting point is 01:42:11 The planning reforms, which were approved this week, aim to create 20-minute neighborhoods as a way to prioritize tackling the climate crisis. And reaching net zero, said the planning minister, Tom Arthur. I guess we could just call him King Arthur. That's how he sees himself. This would be achieved through strong opposition to planning applications for out-of-town retail parks, drive-through fast food restaurants, other spaces that would necessitate the use of a car. Laura Young, a climate activist from Scotland, welcomed the move.
Starting point is 01:42:43 20-minute neighborhoods are a true vision, she said. Planning and sustainability and community-centered living is key to enhancing the well-being of residents across the country. And if you don't like that, you'll be declared unmutual, as they did people in the prisoners's village. And the draft documents outlining Scotland's decarbon plans, including a push on renewable energy to power the country while ditching fossil fuels. I am so sick of these labels. We've got to stop using them. These things are no more renewable than the so-called fossil fuel.
Starting point is 01:43:21 You're going to renew your solar panels and your windmills by buying them from China, where they're manufacturing them with coal and oil. That's what you're going to do. And these are not fossil fuels. That's a term that was created by the CIA. It was the CIA that started all of this peak oil nonsense. Well, that's it. We've reached peak oil, they said, in the late 1970s. We will be out of, and this is time and news week. I've got the magazines. I've shown them many times. We will be out of oil and out of natural gas by the mid 1980s.
Starting point is 01:43:54 I forget the exact, they had it down to an exact year. Both of them. Uh, they're going to be out like one of them out by 1984. They own them by 1986. Coal on the other hand, we got enough coal to last us for 666 years. So let's demonize it. It's 666. No, that's the first thing they got rid of was coal because we had too much of it.
Starting point is 01:44:17 I said, well, that tells you something right there. But I didn't believe that, of course. And so I kept those magazines. But so the government has now confirmed that they are not going to extend the date. They said they had a push on renewable energy to power the country while ditching fossil fuels. It suggested a backtrack on the 2030 date. They gave a date of 2032.
Starting point is 01:44:42 People said, oh, are they easing up? Because clearly we don't have any of these imaginary solutions to the imaginary problem. They gave a date of 2032. People said, oh, are they easing up? Because clearly we don't have any of these imaginary solutions to the imaginary problem. None of these imaginary solutions are in place and workable. So they're giving us another two years before they lock us up? And I said, no, that was a typo. We're sticking to that 2030 date. That 2030 date comes from the UN. The UN 2030 agenda for quote-unquote sustainable development goals.
Starting point is 01:45:09 And it's been promoted by Davos as their partner. They're sticking to it. Some of the text in the draft, they said, contained an incorrect reference to phase-out dates for petrol and diesel cars and vans. The wording has been reviewed and revised as necessary to reflect the correct commitment to phase out the need for new petrol and diesel cars and vans by 2030. There you go. Because I say so. So this guy in Scotland says,
Starting point is 01:45:37 um, there was a cooler head or two trying to talk sense into the fanatics as again, with the facts, we can't keep the lights on now. It costs too much. Energy Secretary Michael Matheson outlined in the plans that he had concerns over how
Starting point is 01:45:56 slowly the country's charging infrastructure was progressing, coupled with how expensive it is now to run an electric car, given the high price of electricity. And with everybody chasing a decreasing grid capacity, the prices are only going to go up. This meant that the previous 2030 target of phasing out combustion-powered vehicles was not seen as viable. The news now means that Scotland is, in fact, still aligned with the rest of the UK, which is still firmly focused on banning the sale of new pre-combustion cars by the end of the decade. But the overstepping of authority may be a call for action to some people, even though as they look at this and its implication, one replied said, well, this member of Scottish Parliament just announced the era of unrestrained private car use as well and truly over. What? Too many got high dictating to the public in COVID.
Starting point is 01:46:52 That's right. They loved that authority, didn't they? We prefer the in the era of politicians tiny aspect of our lives is over so uh one humorous uh implication of this it says that yeah um the police departments have started spending a lot of money on buying electric cars but just like the politicians running everything else by the way they don't have any way to charge them. There's no charging infrastructure there. So they said the bespoke electric cars by the police officers were unable to recharge on site. And so this is despite Police Scotland forking out almost 20 million pounds on a fleet of electric vehicles so they can provide, quote, a fit-for-purpose, efficient, effective, and sustainable 21st century police service, unquote. They said 23 police stations had these environmentally friendly cars, but they didn't have any charging
Starting point is 01:47:59 points. That's been a lot of money for custom cars and no charging stations. In addition, there are currently 21 sites which have only 28 chargers spread between the 21 sites. The party was approached by one police officer who told them, Where I work, they gave us five new electric vehicles but no charging point. We had to charge them via one cable through an office window into a domestic three-prong socket. Guess what happened to the socket? Now the five vehicles are deposited overnight in various
Starting point is 01:48:39 council car parks across the town. Probably burnt the thing up. The Scottish National Party, the SNP, is now being called the Scottish Nightmare Party. They will impose 30% cuts in road travel to end travel in all private vehicles. Nobody voted for this. The rights of free people to decide their own destiny is trampled underfoot to meet targets imposed by the UN and marketed by Davos. That is really what is happening. Gerald Smith, thank you for the tip on Rockfan. He says, we have to stop this death cult. They have a plan to consolidate their power, taking out first those who resist and driving to suicide and euthanasia those who remain,
Starting point is 01:49:25 save only those who are the sycophantic slaves. Thanks for doing your part, David. May the rest of us do the same. Well, thank you, Gerald, as well. I know Gerald does videos as well. That's the key. There's more of us than there are of them. I love the cartoon that shows this pontificating politician with a podium, and he's standing on a board that is cantilevered over a precipice. And there's a bunch of people standing on the board on the other side of that. And some of them are starting to walk away. If enough of us, if we just walk off of that board that is supporting these politicians, say not doing it, then they're just going, there it is. That's fast.
Starting point is 01:50:12 You know I was going to talk about that. That's a good job, Travis. There it is. The people don't know their true power. There's one person turning away and that politician doesn't realize how he has overextended himself, so to speak. And that is true of all of these politicians. We'll be right back. Decoding the mainstream propaganda. It's the David Knight Show. Hear news now at APSradioNews.com or get the APS Radio app and never miss another story. Well, here's some new stories about George Santos
Starting point is 01:51:24 and some new stories from George Santos. George Santos reportedly used the name Katara when he was a Brazilian drag queen. This guy just keeps racking him up here. New report from reporter Marissa Cabas says that Santos reportedly used numerous aliases before he was elected to the House in November. After campaigning on lies about his background, everything in his background is a lie. Santos is said to have used the name Anthony DeVolder, an alias that he's accused of using to allegedly swindle money from a fundraising campaign for a veteran's sick dog. More about that in a second here. That was, by the way, the last name there.
Starting point is 01:52:11 DeVolder is his mother's maiden name. So Cabas reported this, said, New, I just spoke by phone to Eula Rochard, a Brazilian drag queen who was friends with George Santos when he lived near Rio. She sent the picture, which I think you just saw there. That was 15 years ago. She said everyone knew him as Anthony, never as George, or they knew him by his drag name, Katara. Confirms that this photo is from a 2008 drag show. And so, in addition to that, it has now come out that George Santos says that his mother was at the World Trade Center on 9-11.
Starting point is 01:52:53 But records show she wasn't even in the United States. The immigration records unearthed through a Freedom of Information Act request by a genealogical researcher, first reported by the Washington Post, showed that his mother, Fatima DeVolder, was admitted into the U.S. in April of 2003, had not been in the country since 1999. She was living in Rio de Janeiro. So it's not possible that she was in the World Trade Center.
Starting point is 01:53:24 Last week, the Hill reported that Santos told reporters, I have done nothing unethical. Well, that would be yet another lie from this guy. And then what about this story about how he, uh, stole money from a disabled homeless veteran who was trying to keep his dog alive? I mean, this is how low this guy has. Do you really want this guy in Congress? Well, McCarthy does. The Republican National Committee does. They won't respond to any of this stuff from the beginning. And MTG, Marjorie Taylor Greene was the first one to talk about it. And she said, no, I said, you know, we want to have
Starting point is 01:54:02 him here. And then McCarthy, after silence, came out and said, well, people elected him. Well, they elected him based on lies that he told them. And he said, I'm not going to do anything about that. Well, we'll see about that. There are investigations into him from the Federal Election Campaign Committee about lies that he told on official forums. There's also questions from the Security and Exchange Commission about how he had represented a company that was involved in Ponzi schemes. He's not even a licensed broker. You know, if you're a Ponzi scheme company,
Starting point is 01:54:37 do you care about getting licensed brokers? I mean, it just stacks up. But now this one. George Santos took $3,000 from a dying dog's GoFundMe. Two New Jersey veterans say that Santos promised to raise funds for a life-saving surgery for the service dog and then disappeared. In May 2016, Richard Osthoff was living in a tent in an abandoned chicken coop on the side of the road in New Jersey with his beloved service dog, Sapphire. A veteran's charity gave the pit mix to him, a disabled veteran who was honorably discharged in 2002.
Starting point is 01:55:15 When Sapphire developed a life-threatening stomach tumor, Osthoff, now 47, learned the surgery would cost $3,000. A veterinary technician took him aside and told him, I know a guy who runs a pet charity that can help you. His name was Anthony DeVolder, alias George Santos. Osthoff and another New Jersey veteran, retired police Sergeant Michael Boll, tried to intervene to help Osthoff in 2016. The other veteran did. He told the news that Santos closed the GoFundMe that he set up for Sapphire the dog after it raised $3,000 on social media, and he disappeared.
Starting point is 01:56:01 He stopped answering my texts and my calls, said the disabled vet, Osthoff. So he put out a statement on social media, said to everyone who helped me and Sapphire raise the money for her surgery, I'm sorry to tell you that we were scammed by Anthony DeVolder. And this was back in 2016, he put this out, he said, and through Friends of Pets United, through a series of bad veterinary contacts and subterfuge regarding payment, Sapphire has not received veterinary care, and her growth is three to four times bigger than it was when the campaign was fulfilled. She is facing euthanasia within months. She died in January of 2017. After being out of work with a broken leg for over a year, Osthoff couldn't afford the dog's euthanasia even or
Starting point is 01:56:53 a cremation. I had to panhandle. He said it was one of the most degrading things I've ever had to do in my life. Bull, who was helping him, a retired Marine Corps veteran, founded the non-profit New Jersey Veterans Network. And so he also had shared the GoFundMe page for the dog. He said, so when I heard what happened, I tried to mediate. I contacted Santos and told him, you're messing with a veteran. He needed to give back the money or he needed to use it to get Osthoff another dog. But he was totally uncooperative on the phone. On the GoFundMe page, Santos it to get Osthoff another dog, but he was totally uncooperative on the phone. On the GoFundMe page Santos set up for Osthoff, he wrote, Dear all, when a veteran reaches out to ask for help, how can you say no? The GoFundMe was later deleted, and an internet archive website doesn't have a record of it. But this is the kind of guy that McCarthy, Marjorie Taylor
Starting point is 01:57:48 Greene, and the Republican National Committee all support. As this new low story came out, George Santos has now held a press conference and released this video. My name is Tommy Flanagan. I'm a member of Pathological Liars Anonymous. In fact, I'm the president of that organization. I didn't always lie. No, when I was a kid, I told the truth. But then one day I caught stealing money out of my mother's purse and I lied. I told her it was homework, that my teacher told me to do it, and she got fired. Yeah, that's what happened.
Starting point is 01:58:31 So after that, lying was easy for me. Lied about my age and joined the army. I was 13 at the time. Yeah. I went to Vietnam, and I was injured catching a mortar shell in my teeth. And they made me a three-star general. And then I got a job in journalism running for the National Geographic.
Starting point is 01:58:52 Yeah, I was making $20,000 a month. In fact, I won the Pulitzer Prize that year. Yeah, that's a ticket. And then my cousin died, Joe Lewis, and I took it hard. Maybe too hard. I tried to kill myself. Yeah, I did kill myself.
Starting point is 01:59:18 Sure, I was medically dead for a week and a half. Yeah, and then it was a woman that brought me out of it. It was Indira Gandhi. Yeah, that's her wife. And she told me about Pathological Liars Anonymous. Oh, you'd be surprised how many famous people belong. In fact, at one of the meetings, I met my wife, Morgan Fairchild. Yes, I'm a changed man now. And it's all because of Pathological Liars Anonymous. Why, I even have my picture on the cover of Newsweek magazine. Yeah, every day.
Starting point is 01:59:50 Yeah, that's a ticket. You bet it is. You can guarantee on that. I'm not kidding you. Pathological Liars Anonymous. We care, and that's the truth. Yeah, and I had an email from a listener, Lars, who said, yeah, the fact is Congress is full of George Santoses. As I said, you know, many people think that Congress is Santa Claus, but it's actually Santos.
Starting point is 02:00:20 He says, in fact, Mr. Santos is chump change when compared to the big guys like biden trump pelosi sure he's a crook liar thief embezzler general ne'er-do-well but the point is that this is an absolute prerequisite to become a politician in the swamp if you made a film about santos it would do very well indeed the truth outdoes fiction by quite some considerable margin the only way to reset the states is to flush literally each and every politician down the metaphorical toilet pan. I agree, and I think that the way we flush them is with nullification. We have to understand the states have their jurisdiction.
Starting point is 02:01:00 They actually created the federal government. The Ninth and Tenth Amendment show that most of what the federal government is doing is not legitimate. And I'm glad to see. Well, that's one of the best things about the Dobbs decision, which got everybody in Washington, like Lindsey Graham even, scared about that. One of the best things about it was to say, we're going to do this at the state level. And we're going to kick it back to the states because the federal government doesn't have that authority. And we have to understand that we can nullify the things that they've put in there without any authority. We have a guest that's going to be joining us, and we're going to be talking about that very thing when it comes to the abortion pills. We have the FDA came up with a tactic to try to extend abortion with abortion
Starting point is 02:01:49 pills. And it has brought in a lot of secondary and tertiary issues in terms of it being sold over the counter with a prescription at all these drugstore chains. As you pointed out, you're going to sell abortion pills over the counter now at CVS and Walgreens. Well, now you've got 18,000 abortion mills, if you want to look at it that way. So we're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back. ¶¶ In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. You're listening to The David Knight Show. If you like the Eagles, You're listening to The David Knight Show. All right, joining us now is Susan Swift. She is an attorney, a pro-life attorney.
Starting point is 02:03:30 And I want to get her on to talk about what is happening with this new move, this new FDA rule. But I want to begin with the problem with this abortion pill. So thank you for joining us, Susan. Thanks so much for having me on, David. It's a real privilege. Well, thank you. Let's talk a little bit about this abortion pill. Tell people what the issues are with it. Sure. The drug is called mithopristone. It's also referred to as RU486. And to give you just a little bit of background, RU486 was developed in France in, I believe, in the 80s, 90s. And so it was manufactured there as an abortifacient. And
Starting point is 02:04:12 it was actually introduced into this country through the Clinton administration. Bill Clinton. I remember that. It's been around for a long time. I remember Rush Limbaugh saying, RU486 is like 86ing people. It's just amazing. That's right. It's amazing how long this thing's been around. But now it's taken on a whole new level, hasn't it? Yes. Well, the Clinton administration worked with the Rockefeller Population Council to import the drug that is made in China into the United States.
Starting point is 02:04:43 So it really has an interesting history. The drug operates by interrupting the natural production of progesterone, which is the maternal hormone that maintains the placenta and the uterus, the uterine lining, so that the growing baby, the developing baby, is nourished and grows, okay? If you have a sudden drop in progesterone,
Starting point is 02:05:06 the baby starves to death, dies. Mifepristone operates in that way. Mifepristone is the first drug of the two-drug cocktail that is called a chemical abortion. The abortion cartel doesn't like to call it a chemical abortion because it sounds like drugs, because it is. So sometimes the abortion cartel calls it with a very nicer name, the medication abortion, because that sounds like you're taking medicine, right? But the purpose of this drug cocktail, mifepristone, and then followed by misoprostol, is to first starve the baby to death by depriving it of the nutrients in the placenta and the uterine lining. And then when the baby is dead, then you take misoprostol, which is about 48 hours later, and that creates premature labor. It creates very powerful uterine contractions so that you expel the dead baby or the dying baby in some cases
Starting point is 02:06:06 because mifepristone is not safe for women because it's limited to the first 10 weeks, sometimes 12 weeks. The FDA is a little fuzzy on that, but the first 12 weeks of gestation. Prior to you asking me about the FDA ruling, there's something in the FDA called REMS, which is Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies. Very fancy name for we need to weigh the benefits of the drug versus the side effects. So that's what REMS is. It's a bit of a scale, if you will. And they have been, the FDA under the Obama administration and now the Biden administration has been loosening the rules, the REMS, the risk evaluation for misappropriation, sorry, misappropriation. Okay. So misappropriation. Call it RU486. People know that. Yeah, that's easier to say.
Starting point is 02:07:03 Yeah. And they do need to know, people need to know that RU486 is an abortion drug. Yes. It's not, it's sometimes confused with Plan B, which is a different drug that tries to act as a contraceptive, but sometimes can also act as an abortifacient. I think in a way that we could remember that, it kind of, that drug kind of sounds like Mephistopheles you know yes it does, I'm going to steal that Mephistopheles Mephistopheles that's what they were aiming for
Starting point is 02:07:34 I don't know but it does seem satanic what they're doing and of course that would be one of the risk evaluation procedure would be one of the things that they would want to do to make sure that the baby is, you know, for the health of the mother they would want to do to make sure that the baby is, you know, for the health of the mother, they always want to talk about women's health. They would want to make sure that the baby's not so far along because what happens if the baby,
Starting point is 02:07:53 you know, they want to evaluate how old the baby is. What happens if the baby is more than 12 weeks? What happens to the mother at that point in time? Well, there are a lot of risks that are associated, and this is all from the FDA website. Now, the data is inconsistent because we in America, we don't collect a lot of data on abortion because the abortion cartel wants to mask it as privacy and things,
Starting point is 02:08:15 and some states collect data, some don't. So we don't have a full and complete all 50 states. But what we do know from the data that has been collected is that 26 women have died from, in association with taking this, you know, Mifeprix. That's what has happened.
Starting point is 02:08:31 We also know that there are over 3,600, there might be more adverse reactions such as hemorrhaging, sepsis, which is a blood infection that can become like toxic, toxic blood. You can have to have an additional surgical procedure to remove pieces of the fetus or the baby that did not survive. We also know from the reports in the Daily UK Mail and other places where a woman will take the drug later than 12 weeks. Sometimes women are sometimes historically just inaccurate. They don't know exactly when their period ended or when it started. And so they can self-report inaccuracy. They can say, I think I'm about 10 weeks along. Especially if they're told by the abortion cartel that the abortion pill should only be taken 12 weeks or under. Well, they're not stupid if
Starting point is 02:09:23 they want to have an abortion pill. Sometimes they genuinely don't know, or maybe they just guess and they want to come in and say, well, I think I'm 12 weeks. And then what used to happen under REMS, under this guidance that would evaluate the risk, it was required that to take mifepristone, you had to go in person to see a doctor, to see a nurse, to get an ultrasound dating of your pregnancy. So we would know how far you were along that the entire point of that was to protect the mother. So we could, we could say, Oh, well, you're 10 weeks along, I guess you can have this, you know, lethal drug. But, but if you take it after 12 weeks, the risk of complications shoot up.
Starting point is 02:10:10 In fact, I think there's another study coming out of Charlotte Lozier has this, and I don't have it at the tip of my fingers. But it's showing, you know, the data of the adverse reactions is much greater than what has been reported in the FDA. So like 500% more adverse reactions, especially the later you take it. There was one woman who took the, she was prescribed the drug by her doctor and she was 30 weeks along, 30 weeks, which is definitely past viability. And she delivered a baby boy who then died four days later. There was another woman, I believe in Alabama, who guessed wrong about her period, took the drug. She was actually 12 or 13 weeks along and took the drug, or no, farther along than that. And she delivered between 21 and 22 weeks. She thought she had taken it at the right time. She was 21 or 22 weeks. And she a baby and she said had i known that it had that the baby was farther along that i would not have taken this drug so there's a there's an issue of consent and
Starting point is 02:11:12 being informed as well but again these rems the risk evaluation it only focuses on the health of the mother because we know what this drug does to babies that the purpose is to kill the baby to starve the baby to death and then to expel the baby, either dead or dying, from the uterus. The problem is sometimes it's not all the way expelled. The baby is, part of this placenta is still left, and you can hemorrhage to death. So there are some serious risks associated with the drug. But again, we're not collecting all the data. We don't really want to report the data because, of course, that would hamper the abortion cartels business of now. It's I think, according to the Guttmacher Institute, which is the right hand arm of Planned Parenthood, it gathers a lot of data. It reported in 2020 that the that most abortions, 54, 54 percent of all abortions are chemical abortions with these drugs.
Starting point is 02:12:10 So that's big business, especially when you consider Planned Parenthood is losing market share. They've lost many, many states where they can't go in and do the surgical abortions and profit to the tune of $500 a procedure. And now they're competing with the drug cartels, right, with big pharma. And pretty soon they're going to be competing with walgreens and cbs because walgreens and cbs have said oh the rims have changed and the fda just very recently this is just in january 3rd i believe it was uh indicated oh well uh pharmacies can now dispense this drug here's how that happened it was uh they they leveraged the pandemic once again. During the pandemic, a lot of healthcare industries were closed or you couldn't go in person. And so I believe Planned Parenthood or another abortion provider brought a lawsuit to stop the requirement of the REMS to have that
Starting point is 02:13:00 in-person visit. And they wanted to have telehealth medicine because, you know, during the pandemic with so many people dying from COVID, we needed to kill more babies too. So we had to have a way to just have a telehealth visit so that the woman could self-report just on the telephone and then the doctor could prescribe these pills. That suspension of the in-person requirement was made permanent, I believe, in December 2021 by the Biden administration. And now, December 2022, now they have indicated, FDA has indicated, well, the ban on in-person is permanent now. You can prescribe, anyone can prescribe by telehealth medicine.
Starting point is 02:13:46 So we'll open this up and we will allow big box pharma like Walgreens and CVS to deliver the prescription right there. If you bring in a prescription, we'll just hand you the drug.
Starting point is 02:13:58 As you pointed out in the literature you sent to me, you characterized it as now they're going to have, they're going to be able to open up 18,000 plus new abortion centers by doing this. Exactly. It's amazing.
Starting point is 02:14:11 The reason I'm saying that is because when you can go and get this abortion drug, this mifepristone, that makes it an abortion clinic. Because that's all that you used to do. You would go into Planned Parenthood or some other provider and you'd say I want this pill and what they do in in-person interview they would scan you to make sure you were under 12 weeks and then they would have to actually give you the pill and watch you ingest it that was part of the safety protocol too because they wanted to know when do you take the first pill and then they give you the second pill to take at home 24 48 I'm sorry 48 hours later, so that you can then go into preterm labor and deliver that dead baby into the toilet.
Starting point is 02:14:50 That was their plan. But at least they knew when you took the first pill. Now that's all. Now you just go stop at your pharmacy and you take it whenever. There is no doctor supervising the woman at all to protect her health. And that's because the Biden administration through the FDA has removed all of these restrictions that were put in place to protect women, never mind the dead baby that they're trying to abort. Yeah, we've seen this happen with a rush to get the vaccines out. They don't want to look at any of the side effects. They don't want to do any testing. Health is no longer a consideration
Starting point is 02:15:25 for the FDA. It's a revolving door for these people, just like we've seen the last two FDA commissioners go straight to Moderna and Pfizer. It's just a revolving door for industry, and they just whitewash anything that they want. But I remember when Abby Johnson, who has become very active in the pro-life movement, she used to manage an abortion clinic. And while she was there, she took one of these pills and she talked about how she nearly died, you know, on the floor for a day or two by herself and nobody to help her. It was an amazing story. It's been a while since I've heard it. I talked to her once and interviewed her once and she gave me the story.
Starting point is 02:16:04 But it was truly an amazing story about what it did. And I, and now this is going to be, as you pointed out, without any supervision, without any evaluation of how far along the baby is, uh, this is something that they say that they care about women's health. That's not true at all. And the wake, uh, by the way of, um, uh, Susan, you know, this reminds me as this, this phony, uh, phony nod to women's health reminds me of what happened with Gosnell and the fact that he ran this horrible clinic. You had a woman who died there, and there were some babies that he was convicted of murdering as well. But in response to that, you had several states say, well, we want to make sure that you can get gurneys through the
Starting point is 02:16:45 hallways and through the doorways because that was part of the problem. Lady was bleeding out there and they couldn't get the emergency stretchers through. Also, he didn't have a good connection to a hospital to get emergency care. So they put those two types of stipulations in there. I was living in Texas at the time that was in and that created a massive protest because these women who said they care about women's health wanted to shut down these safeguards. And that's what's been done now by the FDA at a national level, isn't it?
Starting point is 02:17:12 That's exactly right. Because this is really, this is not about the women's health. This is, abortion has become, remember way back in the day, it used to be the chant was safe, legal, and rare. That was the feminist take on it chant was safe, legal and rare. That was the feminists take on it. Safe, legal and rare. Of course, everybody wants every medical procedure to be safe. Nobody is arguing about that.
Starting point is 02:17:35 Legal. Well, it's now abortion on demand 24-7. I shout my abortion. Now, of course, we're going to get to the point if this continues the way it is. They're going to get rid of the prescription. They're just going to say, you don't even need a prescription. We'll just sell it to you like plan B. Because again, plan B acts most of the time as a contraceptive, but can also act as an abortifacient. In fact, the FDA is rewriting the advertising on the box of Plan B, trying to say, well, you really can't call Plan B an abortifacient. And yet,
Starting point is 02:18:13 that in its literature for years, it can interfere with the, if the egg implants in the uterus, it can act as an abortifacient well it what it does is if there's already a fertilized egg that's a human being that's the start of life if it prevents implantation that is an abortifacient yeah suppressing ovulation that's a contraceptive i get it but once you've had ovulation and then that and that that egg has been fertilized and is now a human being, right, a little cell that's dividing, to prevent it from implanting, that's not contraception. That's an abortifacient.
Starting point is 02:18:53 But the FDA is trying to, they're trying to whitewash plan B as well to say, well, no, it's really just a contraceptive. You can't call it an abortifacient. So that's medical misinformation right there. And now, of course, we have the FDA with mifepristone trying to say that, well, we can just do this, just, you know, telehealth in person. And then you just go to the pharmacy. Pretty soon they're going to get rid of that probably. And they're going to probably go to, you know, over the counter.
Starting point is 02:19:22 Just go, you know, so long as you identify as a person who may become pregnant. Yeah, that's right. I guess I'd include men now as well. That's a new profit center for my parent. They can do chemical sterilizations now so they can branch out into that new area and they can branch out to a new gender as well. You know, we had a moment of clarity in this Born Alive Act that was debated and voted on in Congress. We had a Democrat congresswoman, I've played the clip a couple of times, where she gets up and talks about her Christian beliefs.
Starting point is 02:19:58 And she actually quoted, you know, I've known you, created you in the womb and that type of thing. And then says, so I want the government out of my womb as a Christian. None of it made any sense. But what it showed was when these people voted and there were 210 votes against it and all of them were Democrats, what it showed was they just support infanticide because we're not even talking about a baby that's in the womb anymore. When the baby, you've tried to kill the baby and the baby survived and it's there on the table and you're going to kill it. That shows their hand. We've always argued that this is a different person. This is not the woman's body. There's two bodies involved here. And so these people
Starting point is 02:20:40 want to take it to the extent that the mother can kill the baby even after the baby is born. That is a new threshold that's been crossed. And it's amazing to watch these people. As I said, it was a moment of clarity where they self-exposed what they really believe. It's about infanticide. We need to control the language. We need to define what this stuff is because they always use these euphemisms, as you were pointing out, they have so many of them about every aspect of this. Yes, they do, like pregnancy tissue, product of conception. They dehumanize babies. They're dehumanizing people. And to reflect back on what you just said about the congressional vote, what this bill was supposed to do,
Starting point is 02:21:22 there's already infant born alive protection under federal law. What this bill was supposed to do, there's already infant born alive protection under federal law. What this bill was trying to do was set some sort of standard of medical care so that, okay, here's the minimum. You have to do these basic things. You have to contact a hospital. So basically to define what a doctor should be doing. And that was what they stood on, that, well, we can't regulate the doctors. But I do hold out a little bit of hope because it if it it passed 220 and that was all of the republicans and one pro-life democrats so
Starting point is 02:21:54 the issue of life is truly bipartisan and i know it's imbalanced right now but we really need to appeal to all pro-life individuals because this issue is about humanity and how do we treat how do we treat individuals with compassion it's interesting i was just scrolling through you know my facebook feed and i stumbled upon an interesting story about a little a mother sheep a ewe who had delivered a baby sheep a lamb that was stillborn and was crying all night in the field because her baby lamb had died. And another sheep in the fold had twin lambs at the same time. And the farmers who were taking care of it observed that the sheep with the two lambs appeared to and had already given over to the mother who had lost the lamb,
Starting point is 02:22:47 one of her extra twin babies, so that now both sheep have, you know, one has a lamb and the other one is basically the adopted mother. And I just thought, we can learn so much from these sheep. Why not just give the baby a chance to live and hand it to someone else if you if you don't want to abstain from Activities that are going to produce babies if you don't want to kill a baby, which you never should how about adoption? What's wrong with that option because that that you don't have to parent, but why do we have to kill babies again? We're going back to the you have to track the money You have to follow the money the abortion cartel is a massive money-making machine and now we're it's joining forces with
Starting point is 02:23:31 big pharma so it really is it's all about manufacturing and making drugs that that abort these babies and then of course we can probably start selling the tissues as well because that's part of the the david dalyden has revealed a lot of that that the abortion industry is all about it. It's like we're a harvesting a crop It's very thick but it's all about the money and it probably comes through government And I know it comes through, you know state taxes and different things We are supporting an industry an industry like a like a travel agency, right? We're supporting an industry whose product is dead human babies. And we as American citizens should be horrified.
Starting point is 02:24:12 And we should put a stop to it immediately. We should do everything in our power to save, especially babies who have survived abortions. That was the purpose of that bill on the floor. And yes, you're right. Now, it was very telling. I'm so glad that the conservative wing of the majority party has forced Kevin McCarty to actually bring things like this, single issues, to the floor, because then we can actually see how these people vote and where their allegiance lies. Is it with life or is it with death?
Starting point is 02:24:45 That's true. And that was the thing that the lady who says, well, I'm a mother and so forth and so on, and she reads from the Bible and it's like, do you realize that what you just read from the Bible establishes personhood? Because that's always been the issue. Personhood. When does personhood begin?
Starting point is 02:25:00 Well, if you believe the Bible, it begins at conception and it begins when God plans this person's life. And so, you know, she violates it. Then she says, you know, you've got to get out of my womb. And again, the baby is already out of the womb. None of the stuff that she said made any sense, but it was really amazing to see that. That story that you had about the lamb, you know, as we look at that, it makes me think, what has happened to maternal instincts in our society? They have been purged out by the media, by society, by educational institutes.
Starting point is 02:25:33 It's unnatural what has happened. That's one of the most unnatural things. Everybody looks at the transgender stuff and what they're doing to kids. That's extremely and obviously unnatural. But to alienate a mother's affection for children, that is the most unnatural thing. You talk about that story, and as you're talking about it, I'm thinking of the story of Solomon. We have the two mothers, and one of them's baby dies, and the other one steals the baby because she wants to be a mother, and he has a famous decision to say, well, just cut the baby in half and give half to each of them. And the real mother steps forward who has even more love and even more maternal instinct.
Starting point is 02:26:13 We have driven that out of our society. It's amazing to me to see that. Animals know better. We're worse than base animals now at this point. The interesting thing that you're pointing out is everywhere what you're seeing is cultural marxism yes this is an attempt to separate all of the different normal things that a healthy society is based upon we are dividing men and women now we're even we're now even redefining what a woman is we have a we have
Starting point is 02:26:42 a supreme court justice who can't tell you what a woman is. Yeah. Because she's not a biologist. Yeah. I mean, for crying out loud. She's a Marxist. Yes, exactly. She won't tell you because she's a Marxist.
Starting point is 02:26:53 Exactly. These are all aspects of cultural Marxism to divide and to conquer because that is how the state takes over individual liberty. That is the real threat. And you're right, they're absolutely marginalizing motherhood. Look, we are spending billions to foment a war in Ukraine. It's a proxy war against Russia. We're spending billions everywhere. But yet we don't even have one billion to try to support women who want to have their babies but are in crisis pregnancies or who are in poverty and they don't know what to do. We can end abortion if we are much more compassionate to those women and say, well, what do you
Starting point is 02:27:37 really need? It's all about a culture of life. This is exactly what the Right to Life League does. We come alongside these different pro-life clinics, centers, and homes in California. We do anything that helps them keep their doors open because they're the boots on the ground here in California. They come alongside these women, they big sister them. They say, look, you do not have to kill your baby. We will help you with life counseling if you need it. Do you need rent? Do you need a baby car seat? What is it that you need?
Starting point is 02:28:06 Maybe you just need a friend, a compassion, somebody who's walked that walk, who's gone through it and who is a single mother alone, right? There are resources out there, and yet our government is not investing in motherhood. Our government is not investing in trying to build families. They're doing the exact opposite their pity mother against child yet right with all the the the financial stress on mothers were not helping them and then we're actually providing it through the the FDA and the Rams we're giving them the easy way out we're saying oh well you can just take a pill and you know you can afford it
Starting point is 02:28:42 in the toilet and nobody will be the wiser that that is that is so as you said it's an attack on maternal instinct it's an attack on motherhood and is it any wonder because um women are no longer um revered as women we have men competing in women's sports it's like women are not even protected as a as a class of gender anymore because that is somehow intolerant to recognize biological differences. That's what this woke culture is doing to divide us. And it is all cultural Marxism. And abortion is kind of the tip of the spear. Because, again, if you can get a mother to kill her own baby have most of them have terrible regrets sometimes
Starting point is 02:29:26 20 30 years later because they realize what they've done and they suffer for that but we're not addressing that we're putting a band-aid on and saying oh well yeah you just go ahead and have an abortion it's okay we don't counsel you about your life about you know next time let's let's you know think about what we're doing do you have better choices All of those things that build a family and a return to those kind of values that say we revere life. We revere families. We revere women. They're not to be used as sexual objects.
Starting point is 02:29:56 We can't one night stands and then discard them. But that's what we've done. And that's what these women are now doing to their own babies because they've been used and our society is not it is not responsive to the needs of these women that the most most vulnerable women in our society yet they're just given a drug and said well go go in the toilet you'll be fine in two days you'll be fine and then come back to work take the pill on friday and then on monday you'll be fine you come back to work because the corporate cogs need to be in place for our economy it's very sad and it's also sad to see the vitriol directed at crisis pregnancy centers and people who do help like uh your like right to
Starting point is 02:30:37 life league and others people are trying to help women they're trying to help the baby and and you look at elizabeth warren she just almost spits when she talks about crisis pregnancy centers. Wants to shut them all down and attack them. You have the FBI doesn't care when somebody sets one of them on fire. They don't want to investigate it at all. It's absolutely amazing to see, but it is, again, it is a very telling moment. A moment of revelation to see how they react to this. And you get a sense for what their real agenda is.
Starting point is 02:31:07 And it's certainly not about women's health. That was another bill that the Congress, I think, narrowly passed, right, I think on the same day. They passed a bill that would condemn, I believe it was to condemn the domestic violence against pro-life clinics. Just to say, look, they're being firebombed. I remember reading the bill and it just listed there was over 60 different incidences where there's graffiti or firebombing or vandalism of some kind. And they wanted to simply condemn that as an act. And again, it was, I believe, three Democrats voted in favor of the bill. So it was, I think, slightly more than the 220, so it was like 202, but most of the other Democrats voted against a bill that would at least call out and recognize,
Starting point is 02:31:53 I think it was along the lines of a resolution that said, look, we condemn these acts of violence. This is domestic terrorism. Groups like Jane's Revenge and Jane Sent Us, right, that they're going after pro-life clinics. But yet you've got to remember, our own DOJ has targeted a pro-life man who has, you know, seven kids, and they went and arrested him at the point of guns, right, at gunpoint, because he goes out to, you know to abortion centers and prays and says,
Starting point is 02:32:27 you can't come in here, please don't come in here and kill your baby. And so they're targeting pro-life activists, right, simply for exercising their First Amendment right. And then they're allowing, tacitly allowing and encouraging these terrorist groups like Jane Tre Revenge and Jane Sent Us. You know, they're sending these people out tacitly to go and attack and terrorize these pro-life clinics. We actually gave a clinic, kind of an HR training boot camp, if you will, to our member clinics
Starting point is 02:33:00 and centers and homes and kind of went through some safety protocols. This was right before the Dobbs decision came down because they didn't know what to do. What do we have to do? And do you report this to the FBI? Yes, we did. We ourselves got death threats through our emails and our phone line here, just because all we do is we advocate, please don't kill babies. Please consider adoption. Please consider other options that you might have, right? And for that, we are attacked. It boggles my mind. And yet, half of our Congress doesn't recognize this as a very dangerous threat, a serious threat to safety. Because people who work at these clinics, most of them are, a lot of them are
Starting point is 02:33:45 volunteers, most of them are very underpaid, and they just do it for the good of it because they want to give crisis, you know, basically women who are in crisis pregnancies another option to reassure them and tell them it's okay. And yet people like Senator Elizabeth Warren or our Attorney General Rob Bonta in California, they're trying now to go after these clinics by looking at their website and saying you are guilty of misinformation and mis-advertising and it might be fraudulent what you're saying on your website because if you claim that you're offering reproductive care but you don't offer abortion, well that's not comprehensive reproductive care, but you don't offer abortion. Well, that's not comprehensive reproductive care,
Starting point is 02:34:26 is it? So they're going to be crawling around up in the websites to attack and to shut down a business that simply offers hope and security and help to women who want to keep their baby. It's not like pro-life clinics drag women out of abortion clinics and say, oh, you can't do that. No, no, no. They just simply advertise and then stand outside perhaps on the sidewalk and say, I'll talk to you if you don't, you have other options. Please don't kill your baby. I'll talk to you. These are sidewalk counselors. No one is blocking entrances to Planned Parenthood. No one is threatening women not to have an abortion. They're simply trying to minister to women who are open to it. They say, okay, I'll talk to you. That's how we have
Starting point is 02:35:11 to attract them. We're not allowed to capture them and drag them in by their hair or something, but that's the way that this rabid pro-abort mob is characterizing pro-life centers, clinics, and homes. They don't want to inform choice at all. And it's going to get to the extent, as we've already seen in the UK, a woman arrested because she's standing silently. They said, are you praying? Well, I might be. Okay, you're under arrest outside of an abortion clinic. Absolutely insane what is happening.
Starting point is 02:35:35 But, of course, you're in California, and California is kind of ground zero for this collusion with big pharmaceutical companies, with Planned Parenthood. I think one of the reasons why this may be happening now, just a guess, but Javier Becerra, who used to be the attorney general there, is now head of HHS. FDA is under his umbrella there. And he took over from Kamala Harris. I call her Lala Harris. He took over from her because, you know, coming after David Daleiden.
Starting point is 02:36:08 And what we found in discovery of that, as he's going through a horrific ordeal personally, but the fruit of that has been that we found out that it was the NIH, Francis Collins and Fauci, who were one of the biggest customers of this trafficking in baby body parts, using it to create humanized mice. I mean, it's just unbelievable how evil this whole thing is and how many politicians are building their career on it. Yeah, well, we know from the documents from University of California, San Francisco, or, yeah, San Francisco, that that's kind of ahead of where they train abortionists. And they actually need baby tissues like little kidneys and brain and heart and genital organs.
Starting point is 02:36:54 They harvest and they actually have procedures. This has all been exposed by Pro-Life San Francisco. Prolifesf.org is I think their website and they've been exposing this to show what type of bizarre harvesting of fetal tissue is going on in the name of science at UCSF because that's how they're educating abortionists. Well, this is inhumane because what they want to do is they want to make sure that the tissues are very very fresh, you see. They have to be, you know, you can't give certain injections that kill the baby before you remove the tissues, right,
Starting point is 02:37:31 because that will start eroding the tissue. It's called digoxin. It's digoxin. That's it, digoxin. And that's a chemical that that you know kills the baby but it ruins the tissue and so we don't want to use that because we really want to harvest the baby's tissue very fresh and this is going on at ucsf so i i mean this is this is all a business it's a business to to to fund research as you saying, Dr. Fauci and all this. And you're absolutely right.
Starting point is 02:38:06 Becerra came out of California and is now, he was the one that, the case NIFLA versus Becerra was, NIFLA is a national organization that's pro-life, and they defeated Becerra's demand that, I believe it required pro-life clinics to advertise that they were going to have to say, well, if you want an abortion here, we'll give you referrals, I believe, if I remember the case correctly. And it went all the way to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court says, no, this is First Amendment protected speech, and you can't mandate it, Javier Becerra. So NIFLA versus Becerra is controlling Supreme Court law now. And it's a First Amendment case. They've been so hostile to informed consent, whether it is about the right to life or whether it is about the right to choose whether or not you want an abortion.
Starting point is 02:38:54 It's amazing. And the commercial aspect of it is very clear as well. You know, when you're talking about the fresh kill aspect of these abortions, We talked about that for a while. It was interesting that in the debate about redefining when brain death occurs so that they can get organ donation. And that underscored and showed, again, how they want to make sure that they grab the organs all at once. Because after the person dies, it deteriorates very rapidly. And so that underscored what we had always been saying about
Starting point is 02:39:25 the fact that the baby needed to be born alive and then they would kill it by extracting the organs. And that really shows what happens if we ignore and do not value life. They will do that to us on the back end of life as well. It's full circle. You know, when we start talking about, well, brain death and when they're going to grab the organs, if we don't defend that on babies, then it will happen to adults at the end of their life. And let's talk a little bit about the other aspect of this, because it brings up some troubling consequences for people who work as pharmacists and don't want to be involved in providing abortions. As you point out in your flyer here, I thought this was excellent. Besides opening up 18,000 plus abortion clinics nationwide by pushing this out through the big box retailers like CVS and Walgreens. And of course, I'm sure it'll be in all the different
Starting point is 02:40:14 grocery stores that have pharmacies. They will do the same thing. When I go through the grocery store, I hear all these ads about, get your COVID vaccine and so forth. It's a profit center for them. So I'm sure that they would, they got pharmacies so they could fill this prescription. But I like what you had to say here. Can I have some ivermectin? No. Can I have pain medication for my kids because they have limited purchasing of ibuprofen and acetaminophen? No, you can't have that. Can I have opioids and an abortion pill? Oh, yeah. You can have that. And you can get a vaccine, too. Right, right. It's amazing. It's amazing.
Starting point is 02:40:50 Big Pharma is all about the money now. It's really not about health. But talk about the aspect of the people who are there that are going to be forced to provide this now or get kicked out of their job. I mean, how many times are they going to say, well, I'm not forcing you to do anything. You can choose to do this or I'm going to fire you that type of thing. Uh, that's one of the big concerns is the, um, conscience protection. Yes. And I, I, I don't remember this exactly, but I, I think there's something going in through Congress on this and and I'm sorry I can't recall it, but it is a huge concern because if I am a pro-life pharmacist, right, and I don't believe that I can in good conscience prescribe an abortion pill, because I know, you know, myth of Bridgestone,
Starting point is 02:41:37 the purpose is, you know, basically it's being used for an abortion. And let's say I'm a Catholic pharmacist, I say, well, I can't dispense this drug. There are laws, I think, going through California, and I'm trying to remember exactly what it is, but they're trying to force people who have a conscience that says, I can't do this, to do it anyway. And so that you can be intimidated, you might lose your job because you say, I can't fill this prescription. Because again, now this prescription is health care.
Starting point is 02:42:08 You see, abortion is health care. You see, death is health care. That's the first lie that they started telling 50 years ago. This was Margaret Sanger and her buddy Alan Guttmacher. They tried to align health care with abortion. And that's the first lie they've been telling. And this for 50 years they've been telling women that abortion is your fundamental right as health care and now they're taking away your rights your fundamental rights and this is this is the crazy that they're
Starting point is 02:42:35 doing never mind that they're they're at we're at the threshold of requiring doctors and pharmacists to perform abortions against their own conscience. And so, you know, if you're an abortion, if you're an OBGYN, you have the training to perform an abortion. But what if you did say, I am not going to perform an abortion, that there's no, the mother's life is not in jeopardy. And that's another whole lie that they always say, well, it's the mother's health. There is always an exception, if you will, for the life of the mother, because we're about saving the life of the mother. That's never been an issue. When any doctor approaches a situation where you have two lives in jeopardy, like a mother who is pregnant and is having trouble giving birth, the doctor has to do triage, right? And he decides
Starting point is 02:43:23 what's the best way that I can get both of them safely through this, right? And at some point, yes, there is the case where perhaps the mother is in labor or there's some sort of problem, preeclampsia, who knows an ectopic pregnancy is obvious one, right? Then the doctor has to make a choice and saves the mother's life. That's not, that is not out, that is not inconsistent with our standards. And to make up some sort of claim that, well, we need an exception to abortion for the life of the mother, that already exists. What they're trying to do with abortion is saying, well, for the mental health of the mother. So she's a little stressed out, right? Okay, that's not the same thing as the life of the mother. That is just
Starting point is 02:44:08 not the same thing. And that is another one of these lies that they've been trying to sell, that abortion is somehow healthcare for the mental health of the mother. That's all a lie. And now we don't, so we're trying to elevate the right to kill a human being over the religious conscience of other people. Because I said, I can't kill a human being. I mean, I'm not Joseph Mengele. I don't experiment on babies. I'm not Hitler. I don't put people in ovens and kill them.
Starting point is 02:44:37 But you're forcing me to do that because you think you have some sort of superior right to mental health? This is what, again, this is cultural marxism this is exactly what this is and they're setting up this conflict so that they can go after and target pro-life doctors and pro-life pharmacists and anyone in the chain so that they can demonize you and then take you out that, and they can threaten you with a loss of job. So this is, it's almost a form of, um, hostile work environment or harassment in a way, but it's coming through the government through these laws, kind of a Milgram experiment. You know, what do you do for the person in authority when he tells you to do this?
Starting point is 02:45:20 That truly is a, I'm just following orders type of thing. Uh, so this is a, this is It truly is. I'm just following orders type of thing. So this is a workaround that is now being pushed and elevated, perhaps because Javier Becerra is there, but perhaps is because it's the abortionist industry's reaction to Dobbs. So this is their workaround. You're a lawyer. You are the vice president of legal affairs at the Right to Life League, and we'll talk about the work that happens there in a moment here. But what do we do to go on offense with this? I mean, you're living in California,
Starting point is 02:45:54 so you're constantly probably playing defense as the California government is coming after people left and right. But what can we do in other states to change this? I mean, we could have laws enacted at the state level that would stop this over-the-counter sell. Is that right? Well, I think Florida Governor DeSantis recently just came out with a statement, and he has sent a letter to all of the pharmacists in Florida, I understand, through this article. But he said, he warned, he said, look, Florida state law prohibits anyone from performing an abortion other than a doctor.
Starting point is 02:46:32 We have very strict laws here in Florida. They allow abortion up to 15 weeks, so long as it's performed by a doctor, the doctor has to do an ultrasound and a scan, and it has to basically make some determinations, but that's the law in Florida. And so Governor DeSantis has been very brilliant about it to go ahead and put all of these pharmacies on alert that you will be prosecuted if you violate state law. So the way to fight back is strengthening state laws. And a lot of the states have, what, 19 states have meaningful restrictions. And that is the way you play this is you say, I don't care if the FDA is passing out abortion pills like candy or fentanyl, right? This is everywhere. No, we have laws in this state, fill in the blank, Texas or whatever, and we will prosecute pharmacist chains that dispense this drug by over the
Starting point is 02:47:23 counter or not over the counter, but by prescription because we don't allow that in our state. So I would look to Florida law if I were crafting a law. I would look at Florida law and say, well, how did they do it? What are the requirements under their law for performing an abortion? It's with a doctor. I would copy all of that and I would put that in place in all of these other different states because that seems to strengthen it. And then you need to have, of course, an executive branch that has the guts to go after, you know, whether it's Walgreens or CVS or something and say, no, we're enforcing our state laws. You can't disrespect our state laws. That's right.
Starting point is 02:47:58 I would imagine a lot of state laws already define it that way and say, hey, you've got to have an ultrasound. You've got to have a physician who actually does this. This does not qualify. But as you point out, you got to have somebody who is actually going to enforce that. I said for years, and I was really, I was so surprised when the Dobbs decision came out because I thought it was just a political football for these people. I said for years, look, you had Roe v. Wade and the Supreme Court came in and said, well, that's a state law, but we don't care what the state law is. We're going to redefine when life begins and all the rest of this stuff. And I said, well, the appropriate response would have been for the Texas governor at the time to say, well, you made your decision.
Starting point is 02:48:35 Let's see you enforce it. We have the 10th Amendment, which says we make these laws at the local level. And after saying that for years, the Supreme Court agreed with me on Dobbs. So this is a state issue after all. And I knew it was a state issue. We've had, you know, all of these Republicans who had campaigned on being pro-life and yet they sat there passively for 50 plus years while over 60 million kids or whatever, I think it's around that.
Starting point is 02:49:01 Yeah, 65. Yeah, were murdered, you know, because they didn't have the guts or the backbone to actually enforce their own law, to enforce the powers that they have under the Constitution on the Tenth Amendment. So that's what we need. Most states probably have that type of thing, saying you have to have a physician do the abortion, and it has to be an ultrasound or something like that, or, you know, at least a clinic or something, you know, somebody that is trained evidently with credentials. I would imagine most States have that. You just have to have somebody who's
Starting point is 02:49:32 going to enforce it. I think. Well, yeah. And that, and there you go. We're back to the executive grants and DOJ and things like that. And we have a, we have a federal government that is at odds with the laws of our States. It's, it's odds with the laws of our states. It's disrespecting the laws of our states. That's the only thing that Dobbs really did is just said, look, this is not our issue. We have overstepped our bounds as a Supreme Court because we are a court of limited jurisdiction. We really can't handle this. This is a state's matter.
Starting point is 02:50:01 I wish, frankly, they had gone farther. I wish that they had looked at the U.S. Declaration of Independence and said, oh, our rights come from God, not government. We believe that our creator has endowed us with certain inalienable rights, among those being the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Huh. That informs our Constitution. The right to life is the very first right. And from that flows freedom.
Starting point is 02:50:23 And from freedom allows you to pursue happiness. So without life, you don't have freedom. You don't have liberty. You don't have anything else. So I wish they had looked to, instead of looking back into the common law and all of the different states, it was very good what Alito did, because he documented the history of our laws, that we have never been a pro-abortion nation. And that put the lie to all of the people who said we were. But I wish he had looked at the Declaration of Independence and said the right to life. That is what informs our constitution, because we are a republic and we believe that God gives us these rights. And then as individuals,
Starting point is 02:51:01 we collectively dispose those rights upon the states. But he didn't. And that is why we need men and women in our Congress to have a backbone, find one, rent one if necessary, and actually enact a personhood amendment in our Constitution. That's the only way we're going to get this done. Yeah. And it ultimately does come down to personhood. Tell us a little bit about the Right to Life League. Tell us a little bit about your work and what your organization does. Well, the Right to Life League was founded in 1967. So that's long before Roe v. Wade was even a thing.
Starting point is 02:51:35 It's like six years before. And it was formed by a group of doctors and lawyers and concerned citizens who wanted to lobby then-Governor Ronald Reagan against signing the very first therapeutic abortion bill. It's called the Beilenson Bill. And so they went up to Sacramento. They had a 15-minute conference with Governor Reagan, which ended up going over an hour, I'm told. And in that conference, he was educated because he learned what an abortion really was. This is before ultrasound, before we have the science that tells us that this is a human being, separate DNA, everything. And when he understood from these doctors and lawyers really what an abortion truly is, that it's the murdering of a child in the womb, he was very dismayed because he'd already given his word to the Democrats to sign the Bielansson
Starting point is 02:52:25 bill and he said, well, I can't break my word, but I give you, the Right to Life League, my word that I will never again sign another piece of pro-abortion legislation. And he kept his word all the way through his presidency. So that's how we got started. And from that, so we've always tried to fight against bad laws. The second thing that we have done is always tried to educate the public, as we did with Reagan, about the truth of abortion. Abortion is not health care. Again, if we were talking about saving the life of the mother, you deliver her. You can deliver a woman in mere moments, right? And that will end preeclampsia or whatever the stress is.
Starting point is 02:53:01 You don't have to kill the baby. And in fact, in later situations with the second and third trimester, an abortion takes days because you have to insert laminaria to expand and soften the cervix so that you can get the tools up in there to rip the baby apart. So that takes days, which risks the mother's health. If you're really talking about life-saving actions, it's delivery of the baby, and that would count with an ectopic pregnancy because that's not going to be viable and you can remove the ectopic pregnancy surgically and safely. So that's why abortion is never necessary. Abortion is not healthcare.
Starting point is 02:53:36 And then the third thing we do, which is our signature, our flagship that I believe no one else in the United States does, is that we help pro-life clinics, centers, and maternity homes in California keep their doors open so that they can minister to these abortion-minded women and change their mind hopefully, right, and come alongside them. So we fund their operations, give them ultrasound machines, we give them all kinds of legal trainings, HR boot camps, and answer questions about, well, how can I stay in compliance with all of the corporate laws of California, and there are a lot, and also operate as a medically licensed clinic? Because that is something that you're doing if you're offering a pregnancy test or an ultrasound. In fact, Gloria Allred sued us long back in the day, claiming that these clinics were,
Starting point is 02:54:29 because they were all centers, pro-life centers. None of them were clinics. They were all centers run by a lot of nice church ladies saying, well, we'll offer you a pregnancy test, which back in the day you had to kill a rabbit or something and it cost 50 bucks, I don't know. So it wasn't, it was not easy. It wasn't something that you could just get over the counter.
Starting point is 02:54:46 And so young women would want to get a pregnancy test. These pregnancy centers said, well, we'll give you the test for free, right? And then give them the results in a week or however long it took. Gloria Allred sued these centers and said, you are practicing medicine without a license. And so the Right to Life League stepped up
Starting point is 02:55:03 to defend these centers. We lost that case. And Gloria Allred prevailed. And so all of the medical, like pro-life clinics, if you say you're a clinic, you're a medically licensed clinic in the state of California. That means you have, there's certain hoops you got to jump through. So now we have pro-life wonderful people who a lot of sometimes volunteer coming out of maybe a church or faith communities, and they find themselves the head of, you know, an executive director, the head of a corporate, you know, board, and they're running a medical clinic. And how do they do that? And they don't
Starting point is 02:55:33 have the training. So they have to reach out to somebody, right? Who do they call? They call the Right to Life League so that they can get the help they need to keep their doors open. That's what we do. That's really important because there's so many traps laid for them in the law. As you pointed out, it really is a trap. My wife worked as a volunteer for a crisis pregnancy center years ago, and I told her, I said, the most important thing is ultrasound. I said, people need to start making ultrasound better so that people can really understand what they're looking at.
Starting point is 02:56:06 You know, that's a very powerful animated film. I'm sure you've seen it. Kevin Sorbo, what's his name? The actor. Yeah. And he said it was called a procedure. Yes. And in that, they animated it so that you could see what was happening.
Starting point is 02:56:20 But it was based on the experience of an ultrasound guy who knew exactly what he was looking at because he was trained and it was horrific for them. So the brilliance of that was that they animated that so that we could all see that in detail. But as the technology has advanced, people can see how they're being lied to. And I think that is the fundamental thing there. But you've got to run defense for them. You've got to stand in the gap. You've got to help them. And that's what Right to Life League does.
Starting point is 02:56:50 Because, again, they're coming after them with the knives out, every kind of legal trap that they can do. And it's amazing to me because these people in the clinics are just trying to tell people the truth about what is happening. They don't have any benefit out of this thing. They're not making money out of this thing like Planned Parenthood is. People could understand the motivations of all this stuff. It truly is amazing to see the difference between these two different groups. Yes, and really these men and women that are sometimes just volunteering, they don't benefit from any of it.
Starting point is 02:57:23 Most of them aren't volunteers. A lot of them don't get paid very well at all. And they're always under attack by Jane's Revenge or people like that. Or Rob Bonta, our attorney general, who is now threatening to come after all of that, you know, because you're being fraudulent and you're using misinformation to describe what you're doing. What? We're just trying to convince people not to kill their babies. We're trying to give them hope, right? So I guess he's's under attack i guess he's angling to become senator or vice president or the head of hhs or something right yeah he just wants to be like senator uh elizabeth warren right he just wants to be that yeah they're i'm sure they're angling for something but that
Starting point is 02:57:58 it's just despicable because that that is that the legal arm is targeting an entire business which is built just on generosity and charity. And it doesn't sell anything. You can go to our website, righttolifeleague.org. Righttolifeleague.org. We don't sell any merchandise. We're not in a profit position. We're a non-profit, right? And all of these pro-life clinics and centers,
Starting point is 02:58:23 they're not for profit. They're all trying to just do good. And yet they're being attacked. They're being in the media. They're being smeared and now being threatened with legal actions, all because they oppose abortion. And that, again, follow the money. This is a multi-billion dollar industry, I believe, because states right and now they're competing with big pharma and the abortion pill because that's a lot you know it's a lot cheaper and you don't get to do the you don't get to do the surgeries right so what is Planned Parenthood going to do they are revising their business model to now suggest and market transgender services well what does that mean that means you have to advertise to kids on Tik TOK or different places,
Starting point is 02:59:25 right? And suggested that you might not be a boy, or if you feel uncomfortable as a girl and you're 12, you might want to consider transgender therapy. We'll chop off your breasts and, and mutilate your genitals and you'll feel better. I mean, that's what they're doing and they're profiting from this. Well, they have a lot of experience in doing that to kids and telling them to hide stuff
Starting point is 02:59:46 from their parents, don't they? Of course. They're going to capitalize on that. Yeah, it's amazing. Absolutely amazing. Well, you are in California. Your organization started in California, but you go beyond California. Is that correct?
Starting point is 02:59:58 Well, we confine our services to pro-life clinic centers and homes in California because that is, look, this is where abortion started and as you said Becerra came from California all of these different you know Kamala Harris right all of these luminaries in the abortion field they're starting in California and so this is the tip of the spear um we we you know we I'm pleased to go on shows like yours that have a national reach and different things but that that's where we're trying to get the word out. We want to educate nationally, but the action is in California to stop this in California and to save babies here. That's right. Yeah, they're kind of the tip of the spear with that.
Starting point is 03:00:34 You know, as you were talking about saving the life of the mother and how that has never really been an issue, that is kind of a canard that they throw out there. It reminded me at the beginning of we just had, I don't know, there's a continuation of Game of Thrones and another network had another one that was kind of a canard that they throw out there. It reminded me at the beginning of, we just had, I don't know, there's a continuation of Game of Thrones and another network had another one that was kind of like that. And I forget which one of the two it was because I don't watch either one of them. But I saw the reports about how they had this bloody birth
Starting point is 03:00:56 because the king decided that he wanted the baby and they killed the mother. That's what Hollywood and California is selling to people. This ruthless patriarch decides that he's going to kill his wife because there's a complication. He's got to decide between one of them. So, yeah, kill her. I'll take the baby. It's absolutely upside down. And it's the way that they sell this.
Starting point is 03:01:18 And you're right. This really does come from that. It's kind of the epicenter of all this stuff in California. It truly is amazing. That's the media, the narrative, and all the entertainment business, all of it, it's all tied in together. And there, there must be some sort of really dark money or some sort of seedy underbelly that we're just not very aware of because it, it, it foments itself and they come, I have not seen either of these shows that you're talking about, but it sounds horrific. And then,
Starting point is 03:01:43 but the subliminal message is, um, it's dangerous to be pregnant. And if you're talking about, but it sounds horrific. And then, but the subliminal message is it's dangerous to be pregnant. And if you have a problem, your husband might kill you, right? Or you, your life will be sacrificed for the baby. Instead of the truth of the matter is what, what medical doctors do is they save lives. They are committed by the Hippocratic oath to save the mother's life and the baby's life. And yes, if there's a choice to be made, he's going to do the very best he can or she will do the best she can to save lives. But it's all about saving life.
Starting point is 03:02:11 And yet we're throwing away half of the life. We don't even consider the baby when we're talking about abortion chemicals. Right. And now we're not even considering the health of the mother. Right. Because we know 26 women have died because of, you know, associated with the use of this Mifepristol. So this is not safe for abortion is unnatural. That's something else about California really intrigued me. Everybody here is into organic chicken and eggs and everything's gotta be, you know, we're all
Starting point is 03:02:40 holistic and we're doing our yoga and we have to have purified water and everything is very holistic. And yet here are these women willing to gulp down pills that actually interfere with the basic biology. It shuts down your ovaries in the case of like Planned Parenthood. I mean, sorry, Plan B, sorry, but to suppress ovulation, right? Or if you've already conceived a baby, right, you want to abort it, you're taking some drug that interferes with the natural process of your body, right? It interferes with progesterone. It starves the baby. Well, you know, I just think if we had, and again,
Starting point is 03:03:17 there was so much stuff in terms of mandating abortions over people's religious objections and things beginning in California, that type of thing. If we had stood on protecting life, if we had understood the principles involved here a long time ago, that would have been a very powerful tool to wield against these people who held a hypodermic needle to our head and said, take this or you're out. So it's very important, the work that you're doing. Thank you so much, Susan Swift. She is the Vice President of Legal Affairs at the Right to Life League. That's righttolifeleague.org. Is that correct? That's right. Thank you very much,
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