The David Knight Show - 1Jan24 David Knight Show Unabridged

Episode Date: January 1, 2024

Gard Goldsmith, Liberty Conspiracy, hosts As 2024 begins, a look at war in its many facets in Ukraine, Israel from Col MacGregor, Chris Hedges and moreINTERVIEW Jason Barker - AI as a Censorship Tool AI will take censorship to the next level. Jason Barker, Knights of the Storm (TheKnightsOfTheStorm.com) and Foxhole Report (JasonBarker.substack.com) joins GardJohn Locke and the "social contract"INTERVIEW Your Car as Government Surveillance Eric Peters, EricPetersAutos.com, joins Gard. New Dodge Dart test — a weak battery requires dealer "reboot". Spy satellites to spot emissions and ever more surveillance devices and nanny tech being added to carsFind out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf 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 throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13 here on Airstrip One, we usher in a new year. Happy New Year 2024 everyone. Welcome to the David Knight Show for January 1st, 2024. I'm Gardner Goldsmith, getting the opportunity to fill in for David on his last day of vacation. It's great to be here and welcome you to the new year. We've got a massive, great, busy, upbeat show for you.

And thank you for being part of a great team of people believing in freedom. smiles and blessings to all of you in the audience and yes i got all dolled up today in fact i even brought my top hat to celebrate the new year everyone thank you so much for being part of this wonderful group of people who enjoy each other's company on rockman on rumble on d live and on david knight's twitter feed which is at libertarian of course and you can watch this program every monday through friday from 9 a.m. to noon. And I'm just delighted and I am blessed and I want to send out blessings to you all for a great 2024. I hope your year is fruitful and fun and full of love and peace. Thank you so much for joining us. We've got amazing things planned for the show today.

I can't wait. January 1st has become one of my favorite days, partly or almost mostly because I get to watch the Rose Parade, but now I get to add to it because I get to be with you. Today on the program, we've got so much in store. I want to invite you, if you want to comment, I see already on Twitter, we've got a very nice comment from Huxley Orwell. That's quite a combination. You can now comment on David Knight's Twitter feed as well. The people at X have opened that up. And if you want to get into the chat rooms, Rumble and Rockman are both terrific places to be.

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And I also host the Liberty Conspiracy Program every Monday through Friday, starting at six on Rockfin and on Rumble. the pop media and i also host the liberty conspiracy program every monday through friday starting at six on rockfin and on rumble we have segments on youtube we have segments on bit shoot but rockfin and rumble are where we go live as well as my twitter feed which is at guard goldsmith that's at guard goldsmith g-a-r-d goldsmith and uh please hop over there drop me a line on the back end of things and let me know what you thought of today or if there are any issues that you think might be pertinent regarding you or your neighbor's liberty, your or your neighbor's liberty. opportunity to give you news. You can always find it in my Twitter feed and on my Sunday morning Sunday News Assembly at my Substack, which is, of course, Gardner Goldsmith Substack. Let's find out what's going to be on tap for today, New Year's Day 2024 on the David Knight Show. Well, and with

our background of the dragon that they put out a couple of years ago and the Rose Parade, I actually take still shots of the Rose Parade. That's how much I like it. I lived in Pasadena when I worked at a television show in Los Angeles, and I just love the Rose Parade, and I've never even seen it in person, but I walked that street, Colorado Boulevard, many times. Today on the program, we're going to be taking a look at the big chapters, the big stories from 2023 in the ongoing book of history. New chapters coming in all the time. So we haven't exactly closed the book, but we close new chapters and start new ones. We're going to be looking at the war, a big story in Ukraine, and the war, a big story in Gaza.

And how is the South African government in the mix? Well, we'll talk about that. We'll also discuss the Biden administration slipping out new fascist regulation news. They did it holiday style, of course, everyone, as they often do, going back 110 years to when they created the Federal Reserve, they do it when people aren't paying as much attention to the news. They do it over the holidays. The holidays, as they might say euphemistically. Christmastime, Hanukkah, and of course, Michelle Kwanzaa. Then Governor DeWine from Ohio. Yeah, DeWine is not delightful in Ohio for parents because he vetoed something a couple days ago that was a big bill for many parents having to do with transgenderism, my friends. Yes, yes. And whether or not kids would actually be protected. Well, we'll talk about that and the idea of getting protection from an agency of force like the Mafia of the state.

We'll also discuss on the border. In fact, I might move that one up on the border off the bus. Well, we'll talk about this story out of New York City with Mayor Eric Adams now cracking down on buses coming in from Texas. And we're going to open that one with a quick story coming out of Boston, just to make sure that we give fair and balanced coverage to the two northeastern cities that seem to be most affected by this. And we'll also talk about monumental Supreme Court cases. Plus, today on the program, at 10 o'clock, Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos will join us. Jason Barker is probably going to be with us as well.

And Tony Arteburn. Looks like Tony is going to try to join me to start the year off right from Wise Wolf Gold and Silver Exchange. So thanks for joining me, everybody. And please don't forget, decency is on the ballot. And what does it get you? Well, it gets you things like the National Defense Authorization Act, $886 billion taken from you and your progeny

by a government that's now almost $34 trillion in debt and every quarter accruing approximately another trillion in debt servicing. Ha ha ha, all right. Sorry, it's supposed to be a happy new year. Happy new year, everybody. Okay. Yeah, the hangover is coming for some people who have to pay the bill. It also includes a 5.2% pay raise for members of the military who have not been involved in the United States defense since the end of World War II.

Unconstitutional actions. Remember that, servicemen. Also includes short-term extension of warrantless surveillance of foreign nationals. Yes, it does. Yes, it does. And that short-term FISA extension will just continue to be extended because that's the way the Speaker set it up. Yeah, he's a real Christian. And of course, don't forget everybody. It also includes some very, very good stuff like

continuing funding for Ukraine and continuing funding for Israel to blast Gaza to pieces, where there are estimates of 20,000 dead. So there you go. Sorry to give you the harsh news, but yes, we are going to start with the big stories, as Joe Piscopo might have said. And so therefore, let's go to a theme from Edwin Starr, because in my estimation, and perhaps you have a different view, in my estimation on this New Year's Day 2024. And of course, you two could have sung a song about it. All is not quiet on New Year's Day. In fact, all seems to be oriented towards warfare all around the state. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Uh-huh. What?

Huh. Yeah. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Say it again, y'all. What? Huh. Huh. Yeah.

What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Listen to me. Oh. Edwin Starr getting into the beat. Yes, he's got the beat. He's got the go-go's. Oh, man, what a fantastic song.

And, of course, a real call out to people from the 60s generation to try to block what was going on with the United States, pushing Americans over to Vietnam for something that was just a meat grinder, just terrible stuff. So let me show you what the meat grinder looks like in Gaza right now. And here's a story from antiwar.com. And by the way, antiwar.com is now broadcasting with, I believe it's daily updates from Dave DeCamp on YouTube. Hopefully YouTube will not just completely crush them, but they do great work. Here's one from Brett Wilkins. Just to give you an idea of what this is like. Cashing in on genocide.

Israeli firm pitches beachfront real estate in leveled Gaza. Now, this got a little bit of pushback, but it indicates, I think it is indicative or illustrative of some of the mindset that pervades many of the people in the major Likud party in the Knesset and throughout Israeli history, actually, if we look at some of the things that have been done to the people in Gaza. And I've got some history, some information on that that I can provide to you. Cashing in on genocide, Israeli firm pitches beachfront real estate in leveled Gaza. A house on the beach is not a dream, reads an advertisement from a company notorious for building in the occupied West Bank. Palestine Defenders this week, this came out on the 20th, condemned,

and this is part of the anti-war blog, by the way, so you just click over on their blog section in their thumbnails, in their menu, and you'll find it. Palestine Defenders this week condemned a proposal by an Israeli real estate developer specializing in the construction of illegal settlements to build beachfront homes for Jewish colonists over the bombed out ruins of Gaza. A house on the beach is not a dream, reads an advertisement published by Hare Zahav, an Israeli company notorious for building settlements in the illegally occupied West Bank. And it drew international attention following last week's practical preparation for Gaza settlement conference in Tel Aviv. The ad depicts an artist's rendering of luxury homes superimposed over an actual photograph of a Gaza neighborhood destroyed by Israeli attacks. No, this is not a joke. No, this is not a drill. The attacks that have killed nearly 20,000 people, half of them women and children in the population.

We don't know how many exactly killed were women and children in the five by 25 mile square mile area, a five mile area, and which has been made that small after decades of encroachment by the state of Israel. And of course, to criticize a state does not mean that you are criticizing the people living under the power of the state. We don't conflate the two because I would not want to be associated with the power ruling over me. I try to oppose it every day with my voice. And it's of course displaced 85% of the embattled people living there. 2.3 million, as I mentioned, in an area that's approximately the size of what they call the tip of New Hampshire near the Canadian border. So here is the picture.

And kudos to Code Pink, actually, for putting this out there. Now, there's going to be some brutal stuff here. It's all about war in many facets. For the first 45 minutes or half hour of the program, to give you a quick recap, I've put together a presentation of video clips for you, and I'd like to get your opinions in Rockfin and Rumble Chat, and also now invite your opinions on The David Knight Show

inside David Knight's Twitter feed, where the show is being broadcast on Twitter slash X. Here's more, and I'm sorry it's so brutal, but I'm going to give it to you. Start of the year. Over 1,000 children in Gaza have had one or both legs amputated since October 7th. This coming from UNICEF, United Nations. So you see what you think of this. International aid workers. This is Kyle Anzalone. Good job, Kyle. Happy New Year to you, Kyle. International aid workers visiting the Gaza Strip are relaying the horrific situation Israel is inflicting on the Palestinians. UNICEF reports over 1,000 children have lost legs. Israel is forcing the 2.3 million residents of Gaza into increasingly small areas that lack the ability to accommodate basic needs for survival.

UNICEF spokesman James Elder said around 1,000 children in Gaza have lost one or both legs, he told journalists in Geneva, every single child is enduring these 10 weeks of hell and not one of them can escape. So I'd like to show you a little something I put together for you, everyone. And we're going to start things off with George Galloway with his program, The Moat. And I want to give you something that I think frames and describes exactly why I chose this as the big story from 2023. And I think so far it's the big story from 2024. And it will bleed into, of course, the elections in the United States. Here's George Galloway, the man with the best hats in the business. And here we go. Was a well-received guest on this show.

And as a Scotsman, why shouldn't he join me? His guest is Douglas McGregor, one and all. Douglas McGregor, who could have stayed in politics, but got out. Good for him. He's trying to speak for peace. This is the best of Colonel Douglas McGregor. Take a look. Welcome, Colonel, to the headlines of the top people's papers, hasn't quite filtered down to the news they give to the masses yet, but all the top people's papers, all the top people's fora are all now preparing each other and ultimately they'll have to prepare us, the public, for a cataclysmic Russian victory in Ukraine. You predicted this all along. Do you feel vindicated? I'd feel better about it if this had ended earlier and fewer Ukrainians and Russians

had lost their lives in what is really a pointless conflict that never needed to happen. It's true, isn't it, that every death since the Ankara initialed draft peace agreement has, in a sense, been a death that our governments, yours and mine, bear responsibility for. Because this could all have been over when hundreds of thousands of people that are dead today would still have been alive. Oh, absolutely. If anything, I would describe this as a Washington vanity project. Lots of people in Washington, supported by friends in London and

some other European capitals decided that they had an opportunity to destroy Russia and that they would use Ukraine for that purpose. And they've been building up to this for many, many years, not just the eight years before the war broke out, but actually even earlier, which helps to explain the coup that that occurred and the installation of the zelensky government later on all of it was was fantasy it made no sense all the underlying assumptions were wrong and the usual suspects in the department of defense all of your retired generals and active generals very few of whom ever had any practical military experience and seldom, if ever, bothered to study their professions, all jumped on the bandwagon predicting imminent victory for Ukraine.

And everyone lied prolifically and with great convincing rhetoric day after day that the Russians were awful, they were losing, they had no chance to win. They still haven't admitted the truth, which is we're looking at roughly half a million dead Ukrainian soldiers. This evening, I heard a retired general say, well, perhaps 125,000. Well, that's a fraction of what we know has happened. And he's still trying to make the argument that if we just spend more money and send more equipment, Ukraine will triumph. In reality, the Russians are advancing deliberately but slowly. I think Mr. Putin is looking for a negotiating partner among the European states. He's not interested in marching to the Polish border. But as I keep telling everyone, if we're stupid enough to refuse to

negotiate, if we won't bring this stupid and pointless war to an end, not only will we destroy the Ukrainian nation, but we'll end up moving Russian forces that much further towards the West, which I thought was the very thing we wanted to avoid. Well, folks, I have a different opinion. I think they're going to try to maintain some sort of conflict status, low-level conflict status, as they see Ukraine partitioned. Iron Curtain and turn that bit of Ukraine that is left after Putin is victorious and Ukraine sues for peace. And they're going to continue to have some sort of always simmering, always bubbling conflict to make Russia become its bogeyman ad infinitum. Starting in 2016, of course, they really started to push this for no reason whatsoever. And now they're adding that new chapter.

As perhaps they closed that chapter of the Ukraine war, as Douglas McGregor mentions, they're opening up the Gaza chapter, new chapters in that after decades of attacks. And so let's shift over into some very good information from, again, George Galloway, this time with Christopher Hedges. And I think he frames the new side of things over in Gaza with Israel and describes precisely what all of this is like right now. Gaza, Chris, we both have been across this course many times before, but there's a particular frenzy and scale to the current slaughter, even by comparison with previous ones, wouldn't you say? Yes, it really at this point rivals the massive ethnic cleansing campaigns of 1948 and 1949 when 750,000 Palestinians were pushed from their homes, a series of mass independent Palestinian territory, about 22% of Palestinian land in the West Bank and Gaza.

It rivals that in terms of its brutality the noises out of Jerusalem on the part of the Netanyahu government as well as the long calls for the removal of Palestinians not only from the West Bank and Gaza but from inside Israel the Palestinians with Israeli citizenship that has been a central tenant of many of the senior ministers in this far-right government, the most extreme government in Israel's history. I don't think the word genocide at this point is inappropriate. Cutting off food, water, medicine, fuel. Hospitals now are on the cusp of some have already shut down. I mean, this is just absolutely appalling. And of course, what's even more appalling is the complicity of the international community, or let's call those certainly Washington and Europe. Washington, as the Biden administration has vetoed, as you know, the calls for ceasefire,

even a pause to get supplies in. It's really absolutely stunning. And I think it's clear that either all or part of the Gaza Strip will be bombed into rubble. The northern area, the area where 1.1 million Palestinians had to evacuate is being smashed, pounded day in and day out. I was in Sarajevo during the war. We were being hit with about 300 or 400 shells a day, but the numbers of dead and wounded were nothing, such as we see in Gaza, hundreds, 500 a day, 700 a day, and then thousands of wounded. Of course, we have to always remember that half of the residents in Gaza, roughly 2.2, 2.3 million people, over half of them are children. So it's, I'm like you, you know, extremely upset as somebody who spent, I spent seven years covering Gaza,

months of my life in Gaza, but I'm also just, it's jaw dropping on the part of Washington and European capitals as they sit there and do nothing in front of this letter. Indeed, if you try and speak out against it, you're censored. You're attacked as an anti-Semite. And I mean, we've gone from the absurdity of criticizing Israel as a form of anti-Semitism to criticizing genocide as a form of anti-Semitism. I think he's absolutely right. And I have to tell you, you know, as I've mentioned previously, I went to Boston University. My last name is Goldsmith. Boston University's population is 85% Jewish students. And I

encountered a lot of Zionist, non-secular, non-practicing, religiously Jewish people there who were very Zionist, non-practicing Jewish people who really could care less about their religion, but cared more about Israel. And many of the things that I would hear about the Palestinians were just shocking. It was amazing while I was there. And of course, they thought I was Jewish. But then after they found out it's an English and Irish name, I didn't hear that from those people again. It was very, very strange, very strange stuff. And I'm seeing this manifested now 20 something years later or more. And it's stunning. I'm just revisiting that mindset that I saw so many times. And I'd like to visit some other information for you too, here in the David Knight show. My name is Gardner Goldsmith.

It's good to have you here, everyone. And I want to give you some information that oftentimes I've heard conservatives on talk radio say, well, if the, if people are going to say that the Israelis are starving and, and shutting down the water of the Palestinians, the Gazans have been in charge. It's their fault. Really, after, of course, the Israeli government and Benjamin Netanyahu intentionally, openly, more than once have been caught saying they wanted the Gazans in there because they wanted to have an oppositional force that would not negotiate with them. But in addition to that, let's look at some of the history about the water crisis. This coming from 1998. I dug this one up from the Palestine Israel Journal. A Palestinian perspective on the water crisis. Total water resources in the Middle East region are made up of two components, surface water and groundwater. The main surface water resource is the Jordan River Basin, with the Sea of Galilee as the major regional water reservoir. It has a storage capacity of 4,000 million cubic meters MCM or about 1 trillion U.S. gallons and receives an average annual replenishment of about 840 cm.

So that'd be cubic meters. The Yarmouk River is also an integral part of the Jordan River Basin. Its headwaters join the Jordan River 10 kilometers, 6.6 miles, below the Sea of Galilee, 6.1 miles. Groundwater is the most important source of freshwater supply in the area, very important, and consists of the main West Bank aquifer systems, as well as the Gaza Strip aquifer. About 600 million cubic meters of the annual rainfall is estimated to infiltrate the soil to replenish the aquifers,

and about 40 million cubic meters of rain each year percolates to recharge the coastal aquifer underlying the strip. Israel currently has control, this is in 1998, over a major part of the Jordan Basin waters. Israel, Syria, and Jordan abstract 450 million cubic meters annually from the Yarmouk River, and Israel siphons a further 470 million cubic meters from the Sea of Galilee. This reduces the downstream Jordan to a fetid trickle. In Gaza, groundwater is the only source of fresh water, with an estimated potential of 65 million cubic meters per year. At present, though, the aquifer is being over-pumped

100 million cubic meters annually in quantities exceeding the replenishment rate, resulting in the gradual invasion of seawater. Following its occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, Israel implemented stringent policies that prevented Palestinians from fully utilizing the West Bank's groundwater. These included the expropriation of wells belonging to absentee owners. And don't forget, of course, the Israeli government can make anyone they want an absentee. As we noted last week, they were holding hundreds of people for over a year without charge. Those would be called hostages in many areas. So if the Israelis can use the argument that they are going into Gaza and killing innocent civilians to rescue hostages, then is it possible that someone could make the argument that the Gazan authority is also

perfectly justified to go in and kill Israeli civilians because they're rescuing hostages that the Israelis have held without trial? Could they use that as well? Because it's very perverse. And the problem that I see as a person who lives in the United States and has to pay taxes or else go to prison here, the problem that I see is that they force all of us to be implicated in this problem. We either continue to pay to see people slaughtered and have all sorts of disparate arguments about who is right and who is wrong in this decades-long battle once a nation-state was established by Western authorities and land was taken, but they took land, to use the active voice there, year after year, and killed thousands year after year.

I would rather not have to be part of this. I don't want to be in that philosophy class where they say you are part of a jungle tour group and you are waylaid by a warlord, you have 20 people in the group, the warlord hands you a gun and tells you, and you can't shoot the warlord for some reason, and tells you, you must kill one of the other 19 or all of them will die. I don't want to be a person who is put in that situation. I want to be able to refuse without going to prison. I would have to make a decision to kill. And people can say, well, you do it under duress. I'm still pulling the trigger. It's my actions. And a little bit later, I'm going to go through something that Richard Grove did. He did a fantastic job last night on Grand Theft World covering the writings of a Frenchman, Etienne de la Boite, called... We'll just tell you about it real quick here. Let me show you.

Where is this? Got it. here it is It's The Politics of Involuntary Servitude And he wrote it, I think, before he was even 20 years old And it is about how even when you are under duress You still have to make a moral choice And that is about how even when you are under duress, you still have to make a moral choice. And that is difficult. Here is a last bit on this story about the water. There's a lot here. I will repost this on my Twitter. I haven't done this yet because I want to phrase this right when I put this out. In sum, due to restrictions on water allocations imposed by Israel, the water situation

in Palestine is approaching a critical phase, that was in 1998, that hinders economic development and threatens the livelihood of the Palestinian population. It is clear that an apportionment of water rights between the conflicting parties should be considered on a more equitable basis. Now let's get into a little bit more about what's going on in the Middle East. Here is Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté of the Gray Zone describing some of the on the ground situation. The news, which is that the government of South Africa has invoked the genocide convention. And this is highly significant.

There it is. Thanks for getting that up. Um, I don't know if you have anything you want to say about this, Aaron, or what you think about the significance of this invocation. Well, it's obviously long overdue. This should have happened months ago, but it's good it's finally happening now. And of course, it's fitting that it comes from South Africa, which, like Israel, was once a U.S. client state whose crimes were protected by the U.S.

And so Africa, having liberated itself from that, knows a lot about apartheid and living under a supremacist regime. So good for them for taking the leadership, finally, the moral leadership, and invoking international law to protect the people of Gaza from this genocidal regime. And again, having, and there's another historical overlap here in that Israel was a key supporter of the apartheid regime in South Africa, especially when the U wasn't able to provide all the support to the apartheid regime that it wanted to because of public criticism and oversight. It got Israel to do the dirty work for it, as Israel did all around the world for the US when it needed to evade scrutiny. So really symbolic and important that South Africa is taking this measure. Yeah, actually, fun fact. Arnon Milton, who is one of the most famous Mossad agents who ran a studio in Hollywood called Regent Studios, where he employed and mentored the future Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid, helped South Africa get nuclear technology through the nuclear technology that israel obtained yes um

israel's very very sorry that south africa is no longer an apartheid state they work together very closely they shared a lot of values and israel is anachronistic in history as the last real apartheid state in implementing genocide in order to preserve its own ethnic purity. So I do want to mention, we can leave it there, but I do want to make sure that because Max offered such a powerful punch there, that was quite a jab to the jaw. I do want to mention a couple of things. First, regarding South Africa, of course, I've a long time admired the Zulu tribe there. They did not join up with the ANC. So obviously, even within the give and take between the South African apartheid regime, which did some terrible things

in South Africa, and then what emerged from that, which was the pro-collectivist seizure of property ANC. And of course we know that Nelson Mandela's wife, Winnie, was an absolute criminal element. They've got her on video talking about how they were going to necklace people, which has put tires around people who are tied up, tires filled with gasoline or kerosene or diesel fuel, and then light them on fire and just kill people. I've actually seen video of it. It's terrible. I mean, you know, seeing video of, you know, that sort of thing. Nowadays, there's so much video available of atrocities that it doesn't mean very much, but it is not good to see, that's for sure. And I'm just seeing video, you know, I'm not there on the ground. I don't experience this sort of thing from family members losing family members, that sort of stuff.

But it does really bring it home. However, Max mentioned, you know, their their ethnic purity in Israel. And this is something I want to allow him to embellish on this because there's more here. And I don't want to leave that just hanging there and of course it's quite a mixed bag when you look at various powers and policies coming out of South Africa but he makes an excellent point there. The last real apartheid state implementing genocide in order to preserve its own ethnic purity. That's exactly what's happening right now. So the moral force of this invocation by South Africa is highly significant. It's an 84-page document. It came out like two hours ago, so I haven't had a chance to, and I'm probably not going to read all 84 pages. It's not going to happen.

Yeah, he's a busy dude, but I always admire his excellent, excellent work. Now I want to turn to Scott Ritter talking about Palestine as well. And he was on with George Galloway. And here's what Scott Ritter said, of course, Scott Ritter, formerly in the military, former nuclear, uh, inspector. And, uh, it looks like, you know, some people don't like some of his personal background or something like that. Um, uh, I, I am not going to judge him one way or another, and even saying that, uh, you know, might make people wonder what's guard talking about. Um, it, you know, there was some, some, some case case where evidently, like, he was accused of trying to talk to an underage young woman. And it was like a sting operation.

It could have been a setup. I don't know. But he is just excellent on this stuff. And I don't think he was ever charged with anything. So I look at it as this guy's been working in politics for a long time. He's got a lot of enemies. I don't think they were able to make that thing stick. And I take him for his word here. So here we go. Oh, then they withdrew to prepared positions. That's the final act of a raid. They're prepared positions. He's talking about the Hamas fighters after October 7th.

They went back into the city, and that is typical of a well-performed raid. And they went back, and now he's talking about the Israeli response. Then they withdrew to prepared positions. That's the final act of a raid. Their prepared positions happen to be underground, as they are wont to be if you want to survive with Israeli air supremacy, etc. And Israel has gone into Gaza knowing that they're not going to close with and destroy the Hamas enemy through firepower maneuver in classic military terms, that they're going to instead carry out collective punishment against the

citizens of Gaza the innocent Palestinian people and um they're not even hiding it now in addition to these horrific visuals I mean you know raising the flag over a hospital really look I come from an organization whose defining moment is characterized by Marines raising the flag on Mount Suribachi. Of the 250 Marines that went up that mountain, 27 lived. 27 out of 250 because it was a real war, a real war. We earned the right to plant that flag on Mount Suribachi. These Israelis that put the flag above the al-Shefa hospital, they should be ashamed of themselves. I hope that their pictures are taken, that their faces are recognized and broadcast around the world. So wherever they go to try and get somebody to buy them a beer for being a man, for raising the flag,

instead people will spit in their face because that's all they deserve if they can walk out of Gaza alive. Because this battle ain't over yet. Hamas is still there. There's a lot of fighting left. George, I don't want to sound like I'm glorifying war. I'm not. My ideal solution right now is a ceasefire that brings an end to this conflict. It gets the Israeli troops out of Gaza.

It's peacekeeper troops in Gaza and gets humanitarian supplies to the people that so desperately need it so that the international community can begin the business of talking about how do we make sure that this never happens again. That should be everybody's priority. It should have been Israel's priority on October 8th, not to say how do we exact revenge, but how do we prevent this from happening again? How do prevent in october 7th from ever happening again because everything that's transpired since october 7th has turned international opinion away from israel had israel taken a different stance on october 8th a stance that said we understand why this happened this is painful for us but we need now to recognize that the

Palestinian people have to have a homeland the only way to disarm Hamas is to give the Palestinian people a homeland and then Hamas loses its right its need for militancy but that's not what Israel is doing they claim they're trying to defeat hamas but understand this hamas isn't just fighters to be killed it's an idea it's an ideology it has this area called the philadelphia corridor i want to pause it right there we'll get back to uh more of the gray zone in just a minute folks but you know uh one of the things i want to mention there is, and again, hats off.

I took off my top hat a little while ago, but hats off to the people at the Young Turks. Again, you know, I've never been a massive fan. And by the way, Huxley Orwell mentions Ask Ritter about Pat Tillman.

Yes, I'd like to investigate that a little bit more. But thank you. Thank you, Huxley Orwell over at Twitter on the David Knight Libertarian Twitter feed. Appreciate your comments there, Huxley. And I do want to mention, I try to remind myself to try to address some of these things in a way that would be skeptical of myself, obviously, but also to be open to people that in the past I might've found, maybe I, I, I disagree with them a lot, but all of a sudden, you know, I'm getting some good information. I try to keep the doors open and at Young Turks, uh, you know, uh, Cenk Uygur, uh, was very good in his, uh, debate against, um, uh, what's his, what's his name from, um, uh, Douglas Murray from England on from England on the show Uncensored. And he brought up some very good points about the numbers of deaths and things like that.

And Douglas Murray was just full of invective. And I won't go through it. I've shown it in the past if you want to watch this. I went through a large segment of it on Thursday on The David Knight Show and also on Liberty Conspiracy that night at six o'clock. So you can find either one on Rumble, Rockfin. But I also want to bring up something else, which is that he mentions the hospital there and you see he gets very fired up there uh he has that sort of you know he's been in the military and he recognizes what soldiers are supposed to do or not supposed to do that sort of thing it seems he has this is this fire in him and um i i want to mention he's absolutely right about that hospital and not only that the folks at the

young turks have correctly reported i made sure I made a note of this, in the northern region, there are no hospitals left in Gaza. And 75% of the hospitals have been destroyed or they're not working anymore. They were destroyed. The Israelis destroyed them, not to use the passive voice. So there's much more, everyone. And I want to take a second here just to turn to the Rockfin chat and welcome you on this first day of 2024. Denver Attaway, thank you for being there. And I know a lot of people say, Atta boy, Attawayaway, or attaway, a way to go. But thanks for being there. Birdhouse Blues, also, thank you very much.

And I'm checking on Rumble. According to the streaming system, it says that we are going out on Rumble, but I'm not able to watch and monitor Rumble right now. So, Birdhouse, I know that you are often on the Rumble chat for my show. So I wonder if you are in Rockfin because we might not be streaming on Rumble. We will see. I certainly hope so because we get so many great viewers there. And one of the people who is always a great person to have with us is coming in with us right now for a few minutes because I want to discuss something that I think could be coming in the future.

And it's censorship about things beyond the jabs, censorship about things beyond the so-called elections that were so honest. And perhaps it might even be, oh, if you are critical of the state of Israel, and you can't be that in Florida because you could get fined. Want to bring in Jason Barker right now. Jason Barker, Knights of the Storm. Happy New Year, Jason. How are you? Hey, good morning. Happy New Year. I need to send you a monocle to go with that top hat. I know. Monopoly man, right? Yeah, there you go. Hi, Mammy. How are you? Absolutely. Hey, happy New Year, man. And thank you very much for joining me on the David Knight Show. It's good to have you here, my friend.

Awesome. I'm looking forward to this year. You know, we're starting with a dumpster fully engulfed in flame. So, you know, I don't know how they keep it going with the cost of fuel, but let's keep that dumpster burning. I know. I think John Kerry's going to be there to rescue us all from that terrible additive to climate change, right? Wink, wink. Right.

Unbelievable. Jason, I specifically am very curious. As we start this year, last night, Angry Tiger was broadcasting live. And you brought up something that you brought up also on Nights of the Storm on Saturday. And people can check out nights of the storm. Why don't you let them know where they can find you first of all to the folks who might not be familiar with you and when they can find you. Well,

if you just go to the nights of the storm.com and you go to our little schedule page or whatever, it's going to tell you when you can find us, what time, what platforms, and then also yourself Gardner and other people, other great people. So that's the easiest way to find out where to watch us. It's a great site, and the artwork's great.

You've got talent. You've got so many different skills. It's awesome. I want to mention right off the bat that you mentioned something last night on Angry Tiger Show. Chris Graves was in there to speculate as well. And it is purely speculation right now, but it's based on a certain amount of information that you have, things that have happened to you on YouTube.

And again, we know that YouTube has been censorious of channels, but now we're talking about live chat. Tell us what happened. And I think we'll go to the top of the hour and then Eric Peters will join us. I mean, he'll probably have some opinions, but I'd love to get your explanation of this and any theories you might have. And I left a comment in there. He was talking about bombastic reporting. You know how that makes us look stupid. Yeah. We're trying to get the truth out there, but we get lumped in with these folks that report on hollow earth, flat earth.

You know, hey, that may be true. I don't know, but we can't prove it. You know, so that's kind of. So anyway, I had made a comment something to along the lines of you know uh you know Pfizer's killing kids and you report on that and then you get you get censored like you're like nobody follows your channel but then you report on this bombastic stuff and you get tens of thousands of views you know and they censored it in real time in other words what happened was I hit the go button you know make the comment and it was grayed out and only I could see it.

So then and I was out in the garage with my phone at the time. So then I come back in and I'm sitting here watching on my computer and two comments were made under my account that I didn't make talking about guns. And in the context of what we were talking about, it's almost like it was a call to violence. But I didn't make those comments. The scary thing is that that conversation where I think I was talking to harps or somebody, you know, who harps is from the chat. Sure. This was comments made on rock fin months ago when we were discussing what a good, reliable handgun was that wasn't too expensive. And they clipped those.

I don't know. I assume it's AI. It's kind of monitoring what we're doing and kind of putting that stuff in their back pocket. And it'll be weaponized against us in the future. Now, I know Chris Graves speculated that it could potentially be someone who was just trying to mess with you. But that would require you had two different devices on two different ISPs. So that would require some pretty intense focus on you. And then it would require a some sort of search that this person could have done to get old comments from you to put those comments in there. Well, I think that the you know, whether it's a person or whether it's AI, it's the same thing. And I think I could do it a lot more efficiently. And as we're rolling out 5G and Starlink and boosting our AI, boosting it up, I think we're going to see more things like this where people are kind of set up.

Yeah. Could be targeted. Yeah. Well, let me ask you, Jason. I should ask for my own distinction here. Maybe the audience is thinking the same thing. When we're talking AI, I was assuming ai involved with youtube and google and alphabet just to just to mess with people do you mean maybe ai that someone else is using another

individual not associated with the corporation uh i don't know it could be either or uh but i know youtube is part of the whole google conglomerate uh i i just find it strange that the comments that they chose to to take that I made in the past in a completely different context was from Rockfin. So that's a completely different platform. So I think everything's going to get married and integrated. It could be a government agency. It could be a person using AI. I don't know, but I don't think anywhere is going to be safe. Well, Max B on Rockfin says, I saw Jason and Angus talking about this Saturday. Pretty creepy.

And yeah, absolutely. And Birdhouse Blue says, I think Geesebusters experienced the same thing last week. That is strange. Well, you know, if word starts getting out, then people are going to start to investigate it. And word is going to start getting out if this continues. So I wonder why it's unless people, you know, if the corporation is doing this, they're probing, they're seeing what sort of reaction they're getting.

And if individuals are doing this, they're probing they're they're seeing what sort of reaction they're getting and if individuals are doing this they're going to get caught so i don't understand do you have any thoughts on why they might be doing this uh well i think it's to set people up i mean i was expecting to get a knock on the door you know the next day saying hey why are you doing a call to violence on online you know um because they can they can weaponize your free speech against you uh for things you actually say but what can they can weaponize your free speech against you for things you actually say. But what if they can put words in your mouth? Can they do that?

And that's what I'm thinking. And maybe they're kind of testing it out to see. And I don't know why they picked me. Maybe it's because I made the Pfizer comment. Yeah, that's what got me kicked off YouTube for our channel. Right, right. Wow. This is absolutely this is strange um well i'm glad you got the

information out jason and let me let me just ask you jason you know as as david knows a lot of people were introduced to you because of your great work in the military uh to try to work to get people informed about how they could get exceptions, exemptions to the jab. Tell people about what you're seeing now with the jabs and the military and what the status is for people who are in there now or the military asking people to come back? Is it still mandatory for people in the military to have to get the mRNA jab? Can they get these exceptions, these exemptions? Is it still pretty much the way it was when you left or is it that they're not going to be mandating them and they're asking these people to come back? So as far as I know, it's not mandated anymore. It's been repealed. There was an executive order that they pretty much pulled the plug on, but you know, they still suggest it, you know, they want people to do the right thing. So they say the right thing. But the problem is that's that, that particular vaccine,

what happens when it's another vaccine, right. You know, and, and I think the people, they're not getting the numbers they need right now because people are a little bit bitter about it. You might get a couple of people that go back in because, you know, they, they got to feed their families. We got this massive inflation going on right now and people may have gotten out and maybe they, they couldn't get a good job. So some of them may go back, but I think it's going to be like a last resort thing for them because, you know, we we got treated really bad, like really bad. I'm not just talking about people that got kicked out. It's like while you were in, we got treated bad. Right.

You know, like a second class citizen. But there's nothing to stop them from just rolling out a different vaccine and making that mandatory, which is, again, I've taken a lot of vaccines in the military and I didn't have a problem with it. I kind of would now, now that I know more about vaccines, but it was the fact that it was an mRNA and I knew it was not good. So that's why, you know, I really dug into that one. And then I found out about, about, you know, the, uh, using the, the hamburger, they call them the BLT mice with spliced baby parts in it. And I was like, no, I can't do this. I can't be part of this. Well, I'm sure it'll be fine in the future.

They'll just aerosolize it and everything will be totally fine for you. You know, they'll put it in dust in the air. And, you know, Jason, the thing that gets me is I was the same as you. You know, as you know, I had to take hydroxychloroquine in the 90s because I had an elevated immune system. So I understand what autoimmune diseases are like, you know, I've met tons of people with lupus. I've met women who have had, uh, reactions to silicone breast implants, the Dow Corning silicone, which they knew in the sixties was an adjuvant that would spur up the immune system and cause lupus like symptoms.

They knew it, they knew this stuff. And, um what I found just absolutely disturbing was I knew that the mRNA could could inspire transfection and get into the cells and start making the body its own machine against itself. So there was no way I was going to take one of those things. That's exactly what I thought would happen as well. When you talk about it, like David always says, and like I always say, how do you turn it off? And if you're constantly making an enemy to fight, it's almost like the United States government. You know, we're going to create our own enemies to fight. That's what your body is doing. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Well, Jason, look, I will let you go, but I want to wish you a merry, merry, happy, happy New Year.

And let me just ask you, what do you like to do on new year's day? As, uh, maybe Bono would sing is all quiet on new year's day, or what do you do? It's going to be quiet around here. Um, I'm going to be watching these guys are building a new shed for me outside. So I'll be watching them do the work and, you know, kind of geeking out on the heavy equipment. They kind of like that stuff. Yeah. Oh, that's great stuff, man. And congratulations on, uh, doing what you did. And congratulations on doing what you did. And thank you for doing what you did in the military. I can't, you know, I can't speak for others in the military, but I can speak as a person who saw a man of principle acting on principle.

And I know my dad served in the Navy. If he were around today, I think he would have asked me to thank you as well. And he would have stood up in your presence and approached you, even though he had a bum hit towards towards the end of his life. He would have stood up and greeted you at the door and said, thank you, sir. Well, I do want to say one thing. My friend, Zach, he's he made it. He didn't get the shot. And, you know, that support. He was my first battle buddy or my first deployment battle buddy that he spent time with me down range. And we talked to each other.

And without that support network, there were people in there who did support me. I don't know if I could have made it. And I'm glad to hear that he's going to make it. He put in his retirement paperwork and he's got like maybe a month left and he will get his retirement. And he didn't get the shot. So there were people that did it. I'm not the only one. There were people out there. So hats off to them and salute to them.

Well, hats off to you, Jason. I've got the hat over there. And it was funny, Jason, you know, I put the hat on earlier today just to see if I looked completely ridiculous with the bald head. And, you know, the lighting, I keep it, and it's a little bit low here. It's not super, super bright. The screen provides certain lighting based on whatever screen you're looking at. If you're if you're watching a very bright screen, then, of course, you'll be more lit up like this, that sort of thing. So I had it on. I was like, yeah, I look like I'm from a Dickens story, but I wanted to do something special and something fun. And I appreciate everything that you've done, sir.

And, uh, my hat is off to you. It's, it's great to know you're here. And by the way, after I take the hat off, I get a little red mark there. So maybe it's just my brain burning up. I really appreciate everything you've done, Jason. Happy 2024 brother. All right. Take care of God. You got it, man. You got it. Jason Barker. Good man. man good man and i want to continue with our coverage of some of what is happening in the middle east and so for that i want to now turn to more from the gray zone as they give us some insight into what happens behind the scenes there that sometimes we might not see, but because there are cameras available, now we can't. And of course, this is some heavy stuff. And in a little bit, we'll be hopefully joined by Eric Peters. And I see someone's trying to reach me on my phone,

so we'll see whether or not Eric Peters can join us. But here is a little something more from the gray zone. This area called the Philadelphia Corridor. You probably know about that. I remember back in the day, Democracy Now!, they always used to report on Israel's, one of the only networks then reporting on Israel's occupation of this area between Gaza's Rafah city and the Egyptian side, the Philadelphia corridor. That's where Rachel Corey was killed. Bulldozers were taking out all the homes there. That's when they created that corridor. So if the Israeli military gets there again, they can trap the Palestinian population there and put political pressure on Egypt and say we're not going to

you're all dying you need to get out to Egypt we're only going to let this happen if you take hundreds of thousands of people and then they start to drain the sea because they couldn't catch the fish and they assume that Hamas will be drained as well because they are the people, they're among the people. So the strategy in this three-tiered military assault on Gaza, which has not achieved its objectives yet, the strategy is genocide. And we need to see it for what it is. The hospitals are key to that because without the hospitals, there's no way of anyone getting treatment unless they go out to Egypt. You know, Max, on your point about Hamas's fighting capabilities, I'm wondering if you saw this quote from Giora Island, who's a retired major general, former head of Israel's National Security Council. He said, from a professional point of view, I must give credit to their resilience.

I cannot see any signs of collapse of the military abilities of Hamas, nor in their political strength to continue to lead Gaza. Yeah, that's Giori Aland, who is a former major general, very high ranking figure in the Israeli military, who's now at the Israeli stateored think tank, the Institute for National Security Studies. And he's the guy who, by the way, recommended that Israel create not only famine, but spawn disease across Gaza to force the population to leave. But, you know, I mean, you get candor from these characters. And he is acknowledging that Hamas cannot be militarily defeated. It can't be confronted head on. But if you understand who Giora Eland is, I mean, this is someone who's always recommended disproportionate force against civilians.

Then you understand he's not calling for an end to the war or a ceasefire. He's calling for an intensification of the war against civilians, then you understand he's not calling for an end to the war or a ceasefire. He's calling for an intensification of the war against civilians. At the same time, you have this acknowledgement that wasn't present before among key veterans, like the highest ranking figures in the Israeli military elite, that the objective of eradicating Hamas or defeating Hamas as the U.S. and the Biden administration understand it is delusional. Here's Dan Halutz, the former Israeli army chief of staff, former head of the Israeli air force. He says that Israel has lost the war against Hamas in Gaza. He means they've lost the military war and he said that the real victory will be the removal of Netanyahu,

who there's a consensus within the Israeli military intelligence apparatus, the military elite that Netanyahu is at fault for October 7th and for this failure and they want him out. Here's one more. This is Michael Milstein, former senior Israeli intelligence officer, criticizing statements from Israeli leaders that Hamas is at a breaking point. He said, quote, they've been saying this for a while, that Hamas is collapsing, but it's just not true. Every day we're facing tough battles. Yeah. And the question is, how much longer can Israel go attempting to implement this three-tiered plan while it's taking so many casualties in the Gaza

Strip this is a very casualty adverse Society I always make the point that Israel pioneered UAV unmanned aerial vehicle drone technology because it could not withstand casualties this started during the Lebanon invasion when it entered the Lebanese civil war. It disrupts Israeli politics and Israeli society too much to take hundreds of casualties. They're now well over the 160 mark and they're hiding casualties for sure. Many of the casualties they're hiding are people on the verge of death in Israeli hospitals, which have the highest level of technology and are keeping likely hundreds of men barely alive. We'll pause it right there. Obviously, very terrible stuff to see. And of course, there are more points to bring up that I want to discuss in a more philosophical way. When we talk about war, the idea of warfare percolates, to use that term, all through philosophy, going back to people like John Locke.

And I'll just mention this now, and I'll bring this up again later in the program here on The David Knight Show. I'm Gardner Goldsmith, filling in for David Knight here on this 1st of 2024. And I just want to mention John Locke, in his second treatise of government, tried to arrange what he thought was a logical, syllogistic approach towards the justification for the state. He is called a natural rights philosopher, but he actually is not. He actually is coming up with natural rights excuses and beards for the so-called social contract, which is actually a government imposition. It's not a contract in any way whatsoever. In society, outside of the state, society is the set of bonds and cultures,

cultural things that we create ourselves through voluntary interaction. That's society, philosophically. And in linguistics, government is, or the state, the polis, is that which requires us to join it. It's that which is the political entity and forces us to pay for it. It is involuntary.

So if we look at the impositions on society, it is always understandable and arguable to say that the state is sociopathic. It runs contrary to that which we can create ourselves through society, and it is always imposed on us against our will. So Locke tried to come up with a justification claiming that if we lived in the so-called state of nature, we would be at each other's throats, and we would be in what he called a state of war against each other and so he then came up with his his excuse which was and it was erroneous an erroneous statement he says therefore people come together to form the state for their mutual protection well if it is voluntary it's not a state that's actually a business arrangement we're coming together to form our own arrangement that voluntary, it's not a state. That's actually a business arrangement. We're coming together to form our own arrangement. That's voluntary. It's not a state.

That's an agreement. That's a club. It's whatever. It's not the state. The state exists when there is someone forced to pay for it. When there is someone who doesn't want to be part of it, that is the state. And so he claims that they come together to stop this state of war where people can prey on each other, perpetual predation within the state of nature. But what he doesn't understand is from within the state of nature, we can come up with our own arrangements, and we often do. We don't necessarily not have rules in the state of nature. The rules are imposed on us under the state, which means that the state is perpetual war against us. The state is the very thing that John Locke claimed the state was there to prevent. Predation. Perpetual predation. I want to take an opportunity now to

give you a little something for the holiday. Last bit of music that I think you might enjoy. And also to bring up something from David Knight a little bit later. But right now I put together a little something that you might like. And since we're closing off the holidays, here it is. Terima kasih telah menonton Hello, hello, hello. Ketika kita berada di kota, kita akan berjalan ke kota yang terbaik. Happy New Year, everyone. You know, it's funny looking at the animals there. I actually, I remember a lot of my dreams, and I dreamt that a caracal cat, which is an African cat that they've domesticated in some cases, they actually have an overabundance of them. They kill a lot of fowl in Africa that they would rather see alive. I dreamt that a caracal cat had come into our house and was sleeping on my pillow.

And it was wild. But for some reason, it got along great with me and it was playing around with me and stuff. And I thought, oh, this is terrific. So with those with those dreams in mind, I just want to bring back the concept that the idea that the state is your friend is a dream. And the idea that the state, when they say Israel has a right to protect itself, which later on Liberty Conspiracy, I'll play you some of the Vivek Ramaswamy argument about that. That is an erroneous statement.

No state has any rights. Only individuals have rights. And so finally, to round things off before we are joined by Eric Peters, and it was my mistake. I didn't send Eric the right link to be able to hook up with us on video. And I'll be apologetic to Eric. Thank you for joining us, Eric. But here is Max Blumenthal talking about the right for Israel to exist. Oh, sorry about that. That's that's Aaron Mate, by the way. Let me go back because you're not seeing the screen. OK, here we go yeah all right here we go

l recognize israel's so-called right to exist why should anybody have to affirm the right to exist of this insane state that is hell-bent on killing everybody that's not in its own ethnic group it's just such an insane demand. And that's a demand that guarantees there will never be any peace because, you know, people have the right to exist. They don't have the right to exist, especially if their existence is premised on destroying everyone else's existence. And so Biden is complicit in all this and they've decided they're going to just, you know, it doesn't matter to them even though biden's approval ratings now are the lowest uh of any modern presidency heading into a tough election that gallup just put that out they don't care that that's how

committed he is to to israeli dominance yeah i mean what they don't have it shows they don't have a right to exist i mean first of all states countries they don't have a right to exist. I mean, first of all, states, countries, they don't have rights like individuals do. That's just phony. So Israel's right to self-defense, these are just phony talking points. But when they say Israel's right to exist, they don't mean a right to exist. They mean a right to exist as a Jewish exclusivist apartheid state. Yeah. The Palestinian Liberation Organization in 1988, ahead of, sorry, in 1990, ahead of the Madrid talks, the beginning of the failed and calamitous peace process, recognized Israel's right to exist, but they would not recognize Israel's right to exist as a Jewish

state. Why? Because, well, just within Israel's 1948 borders, to the extent they even exist, there are some 1.5 to 2 million Palestinian citizens whose rights would be formally subjugated if the Palestinian Authority, representing its Palestinians before the world, were to recognize Israel as a so-called Jewish state. I'll leave it there, folks. And of course, the main point there is that then goes to the personal rights of individuals to defend themselves, the way people conflate we civilians, us civilians with the state, even some of the foreign terrorists who have been caught and have been actually real terrorists. They think the same thing that the government is by the people, for the people, of the people, which it is not. And so I need to make sure that I mention that in so many areas of our lives, the ability to control our own lives has been taken from us. You know, whether it's communications being run by the FCC or it's products that you buy or even the way that those products are transported or that even now the cars, they're going after our cars, which actually is a pretty darn good transition for our guest,

who has pulled through despite my earlier error and should have been with us about 10 o'clock today, but I didn't send him the right link. And so we get to introduce with a nice theme, a man who can talk about being on the road. On the road again. I just can't wait to get on the road. Thank you, Willie Nelson. And now let's bring in our guest. He is none other than Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos. And he is a very decent man for coming in the way he has. Eric, welcome and Happy New Year.

I'm so glad that I get to see you. And I apologize for messing up on the link earlier. It's okay. At least we were able to fix it between ourselves. Unlike that Dodge Dart that I had to deal with last week. Tell people what you experienced. This is beautiful. Oh, it's incredible. Okay. So, you know, the test car, the car that I was test driving for purposes of reviewing last week was a brand new 2024 Dodge Dart. First couple of days went fine. The third day I went out to drive it and it wouldn't start. You push the start button and

the headlights flashed. And so my immediate instinctual response was, okay, it probably has a dead and or weak battery. So I go to my toolbox, I get out the old multimeter and I check the battery and sure enough, it's down to nine volts for whatever reason. Now it's a brand new car. You'd think it has a brand new battery. Why is the battery low? But in any event, the battery's low. And typically with modern computer controlled cars, if the computer doesn't sense 12 volts at the the reasonable thing to do, which is to charge up the battery. So I hooked up to my trickle charger. And in the process, I disconnected. And this is going to become important. I disconnected the negative cable.

OK, then when I charged up the battery, it was showing 12 volts. I put the negative cable back on the battery and the car went berserk. Lights flashing, alarms clanging, all the lights on the interior dashboard flashing on and off. Apparently, it has some kind of cataleptic response to any interruption of its voltage. Now, initially, I thought, okay, I just need to know the secret process. Sometimes you have, like on the key fob, you can push the lock, unlock the panic button in a certain sequence to get the alarm to shut off. Yeah, I tried that to no avail. It would not work. Could not find any procedure in the owner's manual or anywhere else.

So I called up the the the press fleet company, which then in turn called up Dodge Engineering, you know, to try to figure out what was wrong with the thing. This is directly in communication with the manufacturer. And long story short, that once the vehicle has this interruption of current, you lose. You can't fix it. You have to have it dragged to the dealer to get them to, I guess, reboot the computer. And you have to have specialized equipment in order to do that. So word of the wise, you know, do not disconnect the battery of a modern computer controlled car unless you're ready for some pretty serious repercussions. And then I found out something even more interesting. And I did not know this. You know, you have to keep up with things. And even I sometimes don't keep up with things.

So why did the battery have less than 12 volts current to begin with? New car, new battery. Well, it turns out that the culprit was probably the second battery. This is not an electric car, but nonetheless, it had two batteries. The main 12-volt starter battery that we're all familiar with that starts the engine when you push the button or turn the key. But in addition to that, these new cars that have automated stop-start technology, as they market it, the acronym acronym being ass, A-S-S. Yeah. They have a secondary battery that is designed to operate with that system because of those,

you know, those repeated stop, start cycles, you know, that, that, that's hard on a battery, right? Yeah, absolutely. The understanding of the thing is that, you know, if that is going to create a power draw, so if that draws enough power from the battery and the battery hasn't had enough time to recharge from driving, you might see this reduction in the battery, the main starter battery's voltage, and then kaput, the car doesn't work. And then when that happens, if you do something like take the cables off the battery, then you have to have the car dragged to a dealer to get it fixed. That's progress for you, huh?

Oh, man. fixed. That's progress for you, huh? Oh man, I have to, I want to show people the website because I love this. We're speaking with Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos folks. It's ericpetersautos.com. I'm Gardner Goldsmith filling in for David Knight and Eric Peters is with us. And you had, it had to be dragged. When my computer crashes, I call Dos Techies. And you talk, this is an update, a final report about the issue I experienced with a new car, 2024 Dodge Hornet. I was test driving. Just a dead battery. Just ridiculous.

Unbelievable. And as you say, the car had to be flat bedded to the dealer to deal with it. And that's one of the things when I read your articles, you have this sly sense of humor about all the absurdities that you see in these designs, Eric. You and I have talked before about the seen and the unseen in economics. Well, here's a really good example of that. Now, what is the benefit to you and I or anybody who buys one of these cars? Does the car start any better with

all of this technology? I mean, I can get into my 22 year old truck, you know, and I turn the key and the engine starts, you know, it doesn't start any in any way that's inferior to the way the new car starts. And in many ways it's superior because if it doesn't start, I can disconnect the battery. I can put a new battery in and the car will start. I don't have to call a tow truck or roadside assistance to have the thing dragged to a dealership to have something that's profoundly simple, like changing a battery, handled by a dealership at $100 an hour. Yeah, I agree with you. And it's interesting, Eric, you talk about complex integration versus simple integration. And in many cases, when you get

complex integration, sometimes you get better efficiency, that sort of thing. But to repair something, you want simple integration. You want to be able to take the pieces out, replace the pieces, get pieces worked on without having to wait a month to get a piece in and not have it be done through algorithms, every part of which has its own piece, because there's no way you could do enough research to really even understand how to make it work. And that's where they're going all the time. And there's another aspect to this too. It's the question bag, which is, well, why? What is the reason for all of this? And the only reason for it, again, is the unseen hand of government, of the regulatory apparatus. The only reason

that almost all new cars have that ASS system I mentioned earlier, the automated stop start. I don't know whether you've driven a late model car, but what happens, you come to a traffic light, let's say the light's red, the engine shuts off automatically, you know, and then when you put your foot, take your foot off of the brake and put your foot on the gas pedal, then the engine restarts. So in the course of your morning commute, the engine might stop, start a dozen times or more. Okay. And nobody wants that.

Who wants to have that chug, chug, chug feeling, you know, when there's a slight delay, you know, in between light turns green and instead of just, you know, going, you have to wait that little moment for the engine to start before the car can go. Nobody wants this. Nobody in the market asked for this. So why do we have it? Why is it not only in cars, but it's standard in cars? It's not like it's an option. Oh, I think that's a great idea.

I think I'll check that box because I want my car to do that. The only reason it's in new cars is because of the pressure that is being brought to bear on the manufacturers of vehicles to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as they market that. Because, you know, because when the engine is not running, you know, you shut the car off at a traffic light. It's not about saving gas. Gas savings is trivial. But the idea is that if the engine shuts off at a traffic light, then, you know, it's at that moment a zero emissions in terms of carbon dioxide vehicle. So that's one of the effects of the regulatory apparatus that you about something that Al Gore is involved with. And he is he's part of and in fact, he's connected with Google on this thing called Trace that he put seed money into this. Google put seed money into this. It is an online system to collect data that now is, there's a corporation and a number of corporations, but there's one I wrote about this firm, RCTV. There's one that has

been using basically spy planes and they want to get up with the EPA's help up into satellites to use camera technology and infrared to be able to detect emissions coming from virtually anything and then report it to the EPA. And then the EPA, without any trial, without any jurisprudence in any way whatsoever or due process, will just fine people for their emissions. And they keep using this canard of the so-called climate, the carbon so-called emissions. And as you said, they don't just talk about carbon dioxide. They try to make it sound like soot, like, oh, it's carbon that's going out there. Like this is going to destroy the LA basin,

which they cleaned up a long time ago. You know, um, it's just ridiculous to see this. And they keep putting these electronic devices in the cars that will measure our output, that will report back. And this is the way that they're going. And I drew this up on the screen. People could see me drawing this up. If you could tell us, could you tell us a little bit about a preview of things to come? This article over here, and I want to show this on the website, a preview of things to come at ericpetersautos.com. Yeah, that's not so much with regard to emissions, as they put it. This has to do with behavior. It has to do with the pending come 2026 federal requirement that cars have technology embedded in them to deal with impaired driving. And again, it's this sleight of hand. It's this verbiage. In fact, if you dig into it, it's not that they're going after so-called drunk drivers.

And never mind whether you've actually been convicted of drunk driving. They're just going to say that everybody's presumed to be a drunk driver. In fact, it's about measuring what they call driver performance. That's the actual terminology that's used. So what does that mean? Well, it means that any performance that falls outside of the parameters that they consider to be acceptable, so driving faster than the speed limit. So, you know, whether you're looking at the thing that they want you to look at. I was test driving another car that has elements of this technology. That's something people ought to know is that the cars

that are already in production and that have been in production for the past several years already have some of the bits and pieces of this technology embedded in them. For example, this thing called a drowsy driver monitor. Essentially, the car is looking at your eyes. And if it thinks that you're not looking straight ahead at all times, this box pops up in the gauge cluster that says, you know, driver inattention detected or pay more attention or stop for a coffee break or something like that. Now I ride motorcycles and one of the reasons that I'm still alive and talking to you right now is that I maintain awareness of what's going on around me, not just tunnel vision

of what's in front of me. So I'll glance to the left and I'll glance to the right and I'll look in my rear view mirror. I'm just trying to keep aware of what's around me. That's kept me from wrecking the car too. But yet when I drive these cars, I get this constant serial pop-up about how I'm drowsy and distracted because my eyes are not looking tunnel vision straight ahead. Now, as annoying as that is, what's going to happen come 2026 and going forward is that in addition to annoying you, it's going to punish you. And that punishment will probably come in one of two forms. Either the car itself will somehow deactivate or maybe it will go into gimp mode and you'll be limping along the side of the road at five miles an hour, or more probably because the car is connected and it's connected

to the government and the insurance mafia, you will get hit with a fine or a done every time you do something that falls outside of the parameters of what they say is safe driving. And we've seen previews of this with the insurance companies that will say that, oh, we'll give you a discount if you plug this into your OBD port in the car. You know, and what they're doing is every single time that you change lanes too abruptly, you accelerate too aggressively, things of that nature, you find that your insurance premium has gone up. That's the model. That's what they're going to do. It doesn't matter that you don't wreck, that you never have an accident, that you have a perfect driving record. I've got a 30-year record of not having wrecked a car absolutely you know they'll they'll

say they'll say or your your habits show that you're unsafe and so we have to raise your rates accordingly you know it reminds me of in a way it reminds me of the uh taken to absurd extremes brazil uh and you know by terryiam. What a brilliant, brilliant film. Just how they controlled the heating systems. And it shows the ninja black market heating AV repairman coming in the middle of the night to repair the guy's heating system because it won't stop. And it's all run by some interior organization. And I worked at the New Hampshire community college system for a while. And in the springtime, you know, you're coming from the colder days, but you can get some warmer days. And so you want to be able

to definitely regulate that temperature because it's going to get too hot for the students. They're going to get tired. And it was just incredibly hot. And I asked someone else, I said, where's the thermostat? Why can't we do something? And they said, oh, no, the temperature for this building. I said, yeah. They said, that's controlled from the central building in the capital of the state in Concord, New Hampshire, 35 miles away. And I was like, what? They said, yeah, we can't control the temperature in this

building. I was like, that is Terry Gilliamville. That's insane. And to bring it back home, when you have a person to person sort of thing, my dad and I were driving along. My dad was driving once, Eric, you remind me of a little anecdote from my childhood. And my dad, we're on these really bad roads and he would dodge potholes to save the undercarriage of the toyota you know for a while we had a renault with the torsion bar suspension that was very interesting and um so you know he would dodge the potholes make it sort of a game he gets pulled over and then he says uh sir i noticed you were driving erratically and he says um he goes have you been drinking and i'm with i'm with the guy i was like

my dad says no you know i was just dodging the potholes and then the police officer to his credit said oh i'm so sorry i'm so sorry about that yeah the roads are terrible i'm really sorry about that and then he went on his way you've got a system now that is building up all these errors within programming and systems permanently attached to the cars. You can't get rid of these things. It's so stupid. The story that you just told, very similar in my area, the roads are often terrible. I live in a rural area. So it's common for people to straddle the center line because that way you don't hit these bumps all the time and destroy the undercarriage of your car and your suspension, your tires. But the technology is one size fits all, you know, and it's the size that the government says that you'll fit into, period.

You know, and it's part of this effort to manage and control and micro control absolutely everything that we do. I was listening to a news story the other day that bears on this. It had something to do with North Korea and the North Korean government has issued its plan, you know, for the next year, apparently. And that's what we're talking about. There's always a central plan, controlled by central planners. You and I apparently are unfit to plan our own affairs. Everybody, you know, a mass has to be sort of compressed together and then sluiced and directed in a path that is decided by the central planners. And nobody seems to ever question, well, who are these people? I mean, how is it that these people somehow have acquired the power and in some sense, you know, the moral acquiescence of people that, OK, yeah, sure.

You know, I'm here just to do what you tell me to do. And I'm waiting. Tell me what to do. Tell me how to behave. It's amazing. I'm so glad you brought up the Seinfeld thing. That was one of the, one of the things I picked up from Gilbert Gottfried, because he used to do a terrific Seinfeld impression. And he was the first person I ever, I ever heard do the Seinfeld, who are these people? You know, it's the classic Seinfeld, uh, Seinfeld line. And Eric, I want to mention, uh, kudos to you also, by the way, for putting the picture of the Kawasaki over there, you mentioned you ride bikes. And, uh, when I was a kid, it was Hondas

and Kawasaki motorbikes, you know, out there in the dirt and chasing each other around and stuff. And, uh, my friends had those things. I was always on the back, dragging my sneakers, putting up dust, dust and stuff. So the guys behind us couldn't see, I was like, oh, we're getting chased by the cops. Come on. You know, we would have races and stuff and it was a lot of fun. And also on this subject, you know, you talk about the, uh, the drowsy driver thing and stuff you mentioned here, Eric over at Eric Peters autos, everybody, and follow him at libertarian car G libertarian Car G on Twitter slash X.

You mentioned here, you say about two thirds of the way down, you say, for instance, almost all cars sold in 2023 and 24 have a system that can tell whether you have used a turn signal before making a lane change that will proceed to correct your attempt to change lanes if you haven't signaled first by electronically trying to steer the car back into the lane you're trying to leave for the one adjacent and i think you and david have touched on this it is just scary to think about and then with these speed controller things that they're going to put on various trucks that they want to have, that's going to be even more dangerous because trucks are going to be side by side with each other and they're going to have a really hard time passing each other. There's two aspects to this that I think are interesting. The first one is just the mindlessness of it. Instead of being mindful, you know, some people think, well, you should signal every time you turn, but that is mindless. I think it's far more, I think it's more beneficial and sound to be aware of your driving environment. If there is a car, you know, you're driving forward, there's a car up ahead or adjacent to you. Of course, it makes sense to signal your intentions, but it makes no sense at all to signal your intentions if you're clearly the only car on

the road and you're out in the middle of nowhere just because you're supposed to pavlovian style like a dog be trained to do this the signaling and that somehow you know alleviates you the responsibility of being aware of your driving environment there's that that aspect of it and there's another aspect of it and it's it goes to these unanticipated consequences that these central planners always neglect to plan for. It's all well and good to turn your signal when you have a planned lane change. You want to plan to move into the next lane. What if a kid runs out in front of your car, an unplanned event, you know, and you move the steering wheel to get out of it, to not hit the kid. But now the car is trying to fight you to get back in the lane that you're trying to steer out of. And I'm amazed that there hasn't been more mayhem caused by this.

You know, I'm a man and I've got decent hand strength, but I could just see an older person, let's say, or a woman with small hands, you know, holding that steering wheel and all of a sudden the steering wheel jerks. And if you've experienced it, that's what it feels like. The steering wheel will jerk in the opposite direction and it can be really unnerving and unsettling. And it's exactly the sort of thing that they used to teach kids not to do uh in driver's ed they would tell you you know

if a wheel drops off like if you're driving down the road and uh the right side wheel drops off the road and you know the car will feel like it's going to go off the road the last thing you want to do is jerk the wheel hard you want to try to maintain the car's directional stability and ease back into the road well this this countermands of that, and it's being done by electronics and programming. It's unbelievable. You know, Eric, you bring up so many good points, and I don't know how, you know, I asked you once before, you write so much, and they're always fascinating, fascinating topics.

And how how often do you shoot video, do you think, each week? Because now you're providing video and people can find you on Rumble as well. Tell people how they can find you on Rumble. And you often embed these videos inside your articles, right? You know, I'm embarrassed to admit I don't really know what my handle is. I think it might be on Rumble. But if you go to most of my articles, there'll be a video in it, and you can find it that way. But I try to do a video of every new car that I test drive, and I often do monologues while I'm driving a car about things that seem to me to be important to talk about. Well, how about we hit on this one, Eric? This is another good one.

Automotive dissonance. And you have the picture of the woman with the Pinto, keep off my rear, I'm explosive. Great Michigan license plate, car probably built in Michigan, the Pinto. The Pinto became, of course, synonymous with rear engine explosion or rear gas tank explosion. And can you give people some information about that and why it comes to mind when you're thinking about EVs nowadays? Sure. Well, there was a big hullabaloo back in the 70s. Ford made the Pinto, which was an economy car, and they made millions of these things. Well, the initial run of them had a poorly designed gas tank filler neck.

The filler on the car was mounted on the side of the car, and then it went to the gas tank, which was, you know, inside behind the backseat area underneath the car. Anyway, if the car was hit very hard in the rear, the impact could shear the filler neck away from the tank, and that could cause gas to spill out. And if there was a spark resulting from, say, metal-to-metal contact and that could cause gas to spill out and if there was a spark resulting from say metal to metal contact that could trigger a fire and there was a recall when there was a big hullabaloo about that even though relatively speaking millions of pintos a handful of fires and it wasn't an inherent defect it was just a not particularly good design which was corrected and once it was corrected it was no longer problem. So we've got that on the one hand, and then we juxtapose that with these EVs that can catch fire just sitting still, not being hit, parked outside, parked in your garage on a container ship.

And that's because there is an inherent built-in problem with lithium ion batteries that can't be fixed. They have an inherent built-in tendency to automatically, spontaneously combust. The difference with the Pinto was you had to have a spark in addition to the gas leaking in order for there to be a fire. And you had to have an outside physical force, such as an impact, in order to trigger that cascading chain of events. So it was rather improbable that you were going to be burned to death in a Pinto. Very, very slight chance of that. Am I mistaken, Eric? Because I was small when they did these things. I think they had some of this on NBC News. Didn't they have to put flares into the back of, was it the Pinto or was it a different car to actually make the combustion happen on camera?

They tried to do something. There was something called GM pickups, I believe, with what was called the side saddle fuel tank. It was mounted in a particular part of the frame where it was vulnerable to impact. The problem was they were trying to create this gore story and they would keep hitting the thing and it wouldn't blow up. So they actually had to put a flare there to cause the fire. And that's the point. Gasoline is combustible, but it's actually unlikely to burn. If you can just spill it and pour it on the ground, every one of us has done that. When you go to a gas station, you fill your car up. And sometimes when you pull the filler out, there's some gas that drips. It almost never catches fire because you have to have a spark. So you almost have to be deliberately stupid in

order for there to be a gas fire with these EVs. On the other hand, you can be the most responsible person in the world. You drive your EV home and you park it in your, in your, your driveway or in your garage. And it just spontaneously catches fire.

And you linked to a story from ericpetersautos.com. Everybody you linked to a story from automotive news from april 28th kurt nagel writes a main headline vehicle that caught fire at chrysler tech center was ev prototype and then the subhead ev related fires have erupted at two of the detroit three automakers in recent weeks gm's Factory Zero reported a fire last week. And this is one of the things that in addition to the weight factor inside public garages now, or even private garages, if they don't handle these things properly, I'm very worried about parking even in any enclosed area or nearby outside any EV,

because they could just start up and just burst into flames. Yeah. These aren't just prototypes either. A couple of, I guess it was a month, maybe two, three months, I lose track of time. Some Ford Lightnings that had been held at a storage lot after they left the assembly line. In other words, these were finished vehicles. These were ready to be shipped out to dealers. There was a fire there. You know, this is not an uncommon occurrence. And it will become a more common occurrence because of compounding factors. You know, an electric vehicle doesn't just catch fire potentially when it's sitting still. If it's struck, you know, if the battery case is damaged and damages the battery, that can cause a fire.

If and I went to this in my article, if it gets wet, particularly with saltwater, you know, as in the aftermath of a flood, as in Florida, the saltwater gets into the, there's a vent on top of the battery. If the water gets into that vent, that saltwater then causes the thermal runaway, the short circuit, and the thing goes up in smoke, you know, and we haven't even gotten into the effect of time and mileage and use, you know, over time. This is a car. It's not something that sits on your desk at home, you know, like a laptop or a computer. This is a car that is subjected to extremes of heat and cold. It hits potholes, you know, and it wears out over time. So we can expect

to see even more of these fires. And to the point of the article, it's just, it's interesting because it points out the motives of the article, it's interesting because it points out the motives of the government in its famed concern for our safety. You know, this is a demonstrable inherent risk that cannot be corrected, at least not without changing fundamentally the type of battery chemistry that's used in electric vehicles. It cannot be dealt with. It is going to adhere in the vehicle, and it's a risk that the government is imposing on you by force. Whereas in the case of this Pinto, you know, where there was a very slight risk, potentially, if a series of events happened, that the car might catch fire if you got hit from behind by somebody driving very fast.

There was a huge hue and cry, and we must recall all these Pintos. You know, there was a massive class action lawsuit. But in this case, apparently, yeah, don't worry about it it's fine everything's good i love your line here but no pinto ever caught fire while parked right and yeah you you nail it eric and you know the thing that that really gets me is that uh so many journalists are willing to cover up this stuff like we saw that report from Automotive News, and they tried to stress that they were prototypes. Well, this is not necessarily the case, as you say.

This is happening all over the place. And that point that you bring up is the wear and tear. As you say, we're just talking about potholes. Eventually, there are going to be cracks that appear, and condensation is going to get inside those systems and once that condensation gets in there those batteries are gone and the fire is the fire um potential just skyrockets as you said you know with the salt water that came into florida during some of the hurricanes into georgia as well uh just terrible

terrible stuff that people saw they can't put these fires out. It's just, it's insane. It's absolutely crazy. They burn under water. I think I've got some videos in that article where you can see, I mean, literally the car, like somebody was trying to back up their boat, I guess, at a boat ramp and lost control and the car goes in the water. I think it was a Tesla Model Y, the one with the gull wings.

Anyway, it is completely submerged and it's still on fire. Unbelievable. Let's do this here and we'll see there might be an ad that pops up. This is one of many videos that is embedded in this piece at ericpetersautos.com. And Eric, thanks again. I really appreciate it. You're a trooper and seeing that email that doesn't have the link in it and saying, how am I going to get on the show? Well, maybe it's that email that doesn't have the link in it and saying how am i going to get on the show well maybe it's like magic we'll have the pixie dust just like the uh we'll use carbon and that will do it right but let's yeah let's show this one there might be an ad but we'll see take a look at this right here this is why state and local officials are warning

you not to drive electric vehicles impacted by storm surge and to park it away from your home. And this is what's left of an electric car that ignited as is being towed in Pinellas Park today. Fire crews said it was parked in a lot that was flooded during Hurricane Italia 10. Tampa Bay anchor Josh Adores verifies what makes EVs and saltwater

such a dangerous combination. These electric vehicles, when they get saltwater intrusion, can catch on fire. And those are very difficult fires to put out. That was Governor DeSantis' warning just days ago ahead of Hurricane Adalia. And several local agencies have issued similar warnings here like this one. So let's verify what makes electric vehicles so vulnerable to not just flood water, but salt water. Here are our sources, including FEMA, the U.S. Fire Administration, and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

According to NHTSA, residual salt within an EV's lithium-ion battery or battery components can form conductive bridges that can lead to short circuit and self-heating of the battery, causing a fire. But when a damaged lithium-ion battery can ignite, that varies widely. After Hurricane Ian last year, there were at least a dozen reports of EVs that had been submerged or partially submerged in saltwater, igniting weeks after the fact. And considering Florida now has the second most registered EVs in the country, it is becoming a growing concern for first responders because these fires also burn a lot hotter. Traditional car fires burn around 1500 degrees, where an electric vehicle battery fire can burn close to 5000 degrees. With your Verify, I'm Josh Sidorov. All right, Josh, that's really good information there. If you see something you'd like us to verify, you can email your questions to us.

Verify. Yeah. How about they verify the fact that most everybody should know that ions are involved with the conduction of electricity? It's like, oh, salt. Duh. Yeah. Jeez. They need somebody to, you know, I should say that. You know, maybe some people are young people just learning about the conductivity of salt water. But I mean, please, salt, ions. There you go.

There's another aspect of this too. And it's another one of these EV catch-22s. I harp on this a lot because I think it's important to harp on it. In order to make an EV practical at all, you have to use these so-called fast chargers. Otherwise, you're literally going to spend all day waiting for the thing to recover any kind of a charge. Well, the fast charger increases the fire risk because you're talking about conduiting an enormous amount of voltage into this battery. And that creates heat in the process. And that's why these things often catch fire while they are hooked up to these fast chargers.

And then there's another issue. In order to limit or mitigate the potential fire damage, you can only charge one of these things up to 80% of its capacity at a fast charger. And they never tell you that. They never explain that. They always talk about the fast charger. Oh, you can be on your way in 30 minutes. Well, yeah, maybe, but you'll be 20% shy of a full tank. So, I mean, you know, it's like, so you already start out with not much range in one of these things.

Now you get 20% less range. And so now you're going to have to fast charge again and more regularly. You see how this cycle works. Yeah. risk of fire. And also you increase the, you decrease the life of the battery by subjecting it to constant heavy discharging and then fast charging cycles. And that's not my opinion. You can actually read that. In fact, in my latest article from a Tesla, it's right there on the screen. The car tells you, you know, avoid depleting the battery excessively and avoid subjecting it to repeated fast charging sessions. Man, this is just incredible. And you've got this. I love this. January 1st. What a way to

start the year. Check it out. Would you buy this car? And you have the clip there 32% of range lost in 7 years You see a man buys a Tesla and says We never get what was promised We get way less He refers to the range advertised by the manufacturer of his battery powered device A 2017 Model X Tesla's advertising has proved seriously false He did not get what he paid for, in other words.

Yet the man is not angry that he has arguably been, what's the appropriate phrase? Ripped off by Tesla. How would you describe it if the vehicle you bought was advertised as being capable of taking you 40 miles on a gallon of gas and it only went miles, or about 20% less than advertised. How dare you deal with math? This is the typical disparity in advertising versus actual range

when it comes to battery-powered vehicles. So let's talk about this Hyundai Class Action suit, Eric. Yeah, that goes back a few years ago, and Hyundai had some advertising where it touted that its vehicles, I think it was this entire lineup, got better than 40 miles per gallon. And there was some quibbling in there. It wasn't maybe perhaps as accurate because they were referring to the highway rather than the city number. And I guess the implication was that they averaged 40 miles an hour, when in fact, they really didn't. They averaged, I don't know,

32, something like that. Anyway, it was a difference that was far less significant than the disparity uh in the ev between the the touted range and the actual range that you get and and there were there was a recall and a massive lawsuit directed against hyundai because people were angry understandably you know you buy the vehicle and it says it can do this and the government affirms that it can do this and then you buy it and you find out, well, no, it can't. And maybe part of the reason you bought it was because you expected it to do what they said it was going to do. And it didn't, but somehow EVs get it passed. And, you know, everybody concedes this point now, you know, that the EV, even under the ideal circumstances, typically will get 10 to

20% less range than what is indicated. And if the conditions are anything less than optimum, if it's very cold out, if it's very hot out, you know, you're using accessories and the thermal management system is having to try to keep the battery warm or try to prevent it from getting too hot. And if you drive any faster than a crawl, basically, you know, gimp it along, you know, like you have an eggshell, an egg and the accelerator pedal, your range will be much less than that. And somehow there isn't a class action lawsuit. Somehow it's apologized for and rationalized. This whole article, it took me a few hours to even be able to prepare to write for it because I was just so brain numbed by this guy. This guy did a video in which he talked about the

fact that his vehicle that he bought, his 2017 Tesla that he bought, after seven years, it now gets 32% less range than it did when it was new. And he estimates that its value, he paid $100,000 for this thing, and now he estimates it's worth about $25,000. And you'd think he would be like, I really feel stupid about having bought this vehicle. I would never buy another vehicle like this. Instead, he goes on and on about how wonderful it is and how he's ready to buy another one. And it reminds me of these people.

They continue to catch COVID, but they keep getting their boosters. Yes, exactly, exactly. My brain hurts thinking about this mindset. You just got punched in the face. Why are you continuing to put your face in front of the fist punch back for god's sake it's just insane the whole thing at least rhetorically address the problems address reality it's a new year let's start off with a new year's resolution

don't be a dupe. How about that? I've been trying to plumb this. And I think like in the case of this individual, clearly, he's very affluent. If you look at some of his other videos, he talks about selling one of his houses. And if you look at the house, the house looks like it's got to be at least a couple million dollars. And he seems like he's not a bad guy from what I can tell. He seems like he's a nice enough guy. But I think this let them eat cake aspect of people who are very, very affluent. If you're somebody who lives in a million dollar house, you can afford a toy like a hundred thousand dollar electric car, right?

He probably has multiple cars. He probably has other cars that aren't electric. And maybe for them, it just doesn't register. They live in this entirely different economic realm and world than we do. And for them, you know, maybe this is, oh, it's just fun. It's great. You know, just like having my this guy's got some kind of like Olympic style swimming pool in his backyard, too. Doesn't everybody have one of those? Oh, man, it's just unbelievable it's absolutely crazy oh boy eric look as we as we start off uh the new year i want to welcome people to go to ericpetersautos.com and um i want to just ask you

a little bit more on the abstract sort of thing you You know, as I was closing off that segment about Israel, Gaza, you know, very, very brutal information. And of course, we're all implicated in this. I brought up some philosophy, you know, like I was in the lecture hall and I was, you know, hanging out with the students. OK, let one of the students get up there, you know, do their comments and we'll take some comments from the Rockman chat, that sort of thing. And I talked about how John Locke used to, you know, he he made up his so-called natural rights argument, which really was just a beard to hide what he really was doing, which was I'm going to force the state and the majority rule or whatever, the constitutional representative democracy sort of thing, whatever it is, the state is going to impose its will on you. It's not real self-governance, which is you governing yourself and coming up with your own arrangements. You will be excluded if you're a jerk. You'll be sued in private adjudication systems, that sort of thing, if you're a jerk. And no one will want to deal with you, just like

the old British common law system was operated. But this idea that Locke had when he said, man in the state of nature, uh, is just can't trust each other and men will be in perpetual states of war. And when a man initiates a state of war against you, uh, you have the right to defend yourself, that sort of thing. And, um said states are instituted among men, as Jefferson paraphrased, as if all the men agree. So now the state is legitimate for the guy who didn't like, hey, I don't want to be part of your club. No, sorry. We have welcomed you into our club. Now pay your dues. I don't want this. We're protecting you. No, you're forcing me to pay for something I don't want. What if I don't want it in this much? You know, this sort of thing. Notice the passive language. They use that term instituted as if it's just sort of a happenstance. It's instituted. It's imposed. It is. Yes. Yes. Again, the flowery use of language rather than using the, they use the passive voice rather than the active voice, which is governments are imposed on people. That is the only way a government exists is by imposing

on someone. And so what I think is interesting is, as I mentioned earlier, philosophically, logically, in any sort of way that someone can look at it. The government itself, which is purported to stop this state of war of man against man, which might not exist if we're actually able to leave each other alone. And if someone does do that, then we can create our own private systems of protection to say, OK, I'm going to work with this group of people voluntarily to protect ourselves. The state says, no, you can't do that yourself all the way you want to do it because we're going to extract a certain portion of your money to give you protection. So really the state is the state of war and it is perpetual war against you. And if you don't like it, just try

not paying for it sometime and you'll find out what the war is. And this goes towards the roads. This goes towards all the ways they keep metastasizing this cancer of the state, making decisions for us about the products we're going to buy, whether they're appliances or cars or anything. And I have an article from MRCTV that's coming out today about the new mountain of announcements of appliance regulations that the Department of Energy, Jennifer Granholm's gang, which, of course, she made a bunch of money off that company Proterra when they gave her stock options. They brought her back. They brought her onto the board. After she was governor of Michigan, she got about six million dollars to go to Proterra. That was given to GM from the feds during the Obama administration that went to Proterra that was given to GM from the feds during the Obama

administration that went to Proterra then Proterra brought her on their board after she left the governorship and then when she left the board they gave her stock options that she traded in just a few months before they announced bankruptcy so she made almost two million dollars and she's still the head of this unconstitutional department of energy. It's mind blowing. It's absolutely flabbergasting, but they do all these things. They take away our opportunities. And yet people use this soft language and they don't say what's going on. You're being ripped off and it's a state of war against you. And it always, as an anarchist, a voluntarist, libertarian Christian, I have to say the state is always at war with people.

And they have to recognize this. I hope they will. Well, not only is it at war, but it's institutionalized and legalized. And that's an important point to make in that you don't have a right in this paradigm to defend yourself against the depredations of the state. That is defined as criminal somehow if you simply wish to be left alone. There's also another aspect that I think is interesting, and it's this utopian premise that the statists will bring out. They'll point to the supposed brutish state of nature.

If we didn't have government, well, people would be at each other's throats. There would be chaos. Everybody would be trying to take everybody else's things and kill everybody and so on, but at least you can defend yourself first of all. And secondly, uh, I think you, you know, you would have, you wouldn't have this institutionalized systematized violence that we're stuck with now. Yeah. There might be some violence, but it wouldn't be a structure that you have to kowtow to. And if you don't kowtow to it, then somehow by some weird ledger domain, you're the criminal. You know, I can't keep my stuff, you know, I can prevent somebody else from taking what I've earned that's mine. And that

makes me a criminal somehow. And, and, you know, Eric, it also goes towards the platonic, uh, idiocy of who watches the watchers you know if you are incapable of making legitimate decisions about yourself and only the state has legitimate power for the policing and things like that then how can the state derive legitimacy from supposedly deriving its power from people who inherently individually are illegitimate in making their own decisions. Sure. So it makes no sense. You know, what's that? Now you're thinking and that's dangerous. And the other thing is, you've people are, you know, who presume to assume the power to to manage us on the premise that we are too ignorant and selfish and short sighted and so on to competently handle our own affairs as they are. Look at the mess that they have made of the world, of everything, you know, the catastrophic mess that they've made of everything.

I don't think we could possibly do any worse. In fact, that's literally true. You and I as individuals, even if we were of the worst sort imaginable, there's only so much damage that you and I can do as an individual. A state, on the other hand, can damage tens of millions, if not hundreds of millions of lives. Absolutely. The adoption of this legal authority is just, it's ridiculous. And I do want to bring up again, some people and many libertarians will do this. They'll say, well, there's no constitutional authority for that. And I just have to remind people, I never signed the constitution. It has no authority over me. And it's an absolutely important point.

It's a philosophical, moral point to stress. Eric, on that point, this is something I was going to bring up later in the program, but it actually has something to do with on the road again. And since we're here on the first of the year, 2024 with Eric Peters, everybody on the David Knight show, before we turn to the Rockfin and Rumble questions, and we are streaming on Rumble, which is great. I did a double check while we were doing a few things here. I want to bring this up if I can, Eric. This is a piece that I have over at my Sunday News Assembly on Substack. Yeah, we got the prisoner declared unmutual, of course, because he just wanted to be left alone. He wouldn't he

wouldn't kowtow to what the what the government on the island demanded of him. But in this Sunday News Assembly, I have a piece that at first blush might strike some people as being very obvious. Well, you know, it's clearly some ne'er-do-wells who got involved with sabotage. They messed around with, as you can see, there's probably some light streaming on my face here as I get it up on the screen.

They messed around with a road sign. That screen. They messed around with a road sign. How dare you mess around with a road sign? Those are things out there for public information about driving and things that need to be used, that sort of thing. Drivers need to get this information. It's very important. But what I pointed out here was it actually opens up a thought process to something that's much bigger. And I think this is down towards the end of my sub stack. It's number 22. In fact, I thought we only had 21 stories.

I publicized this 21 stories, 21 jump street uh but here it is uh it says after hate group's message appeared on roadside sign city says it won't tolerate bigotry and hatred so evidently they're called the patriot front and they were you know putting up finest patriot front.us i i was unaware of the patriot front maybe i had heard about somewhere. Maybe a news story or two might have mentioned the Patriot Front. I don't know. I just don't know about them. The message was just, I guess, just the Patriot Front. It wasn't something that was necessarily offensive to people. But again, offense is in the eye of the beholder, just like beauty is, like the Twilight Zone episode, which they shot with such incredible alacrity. But as I brought this up, I'd like to read this to you. This sort of paraphrases things in a nice quick bundle. I said, finally, we have this, a story that beneath the surface asks many questions about how it's at all possible to operate state-run systems. If, as the Anti-Defamation League claims, and of course they often claim things that aren't true,

if, as the ADL claims, this is offensive to some, this organization, yet people have a supposed right to freedom of speech in an abstract sense, we'll get to the constitutional level in a moment someday, then how can the state-run system take money from all these people of various feelings and opinions, cut out the free speech of some in this public tax-funded system, and still claim that it allows for free speech? This sign is funded with tax cash. So why can't everyone who wants to use the tax-funded sign say that he or

she has a claim on what the sign will say? Perhaps no one can be excluded from such a system if, of course, they're paying taxes. Of course, the government will try to restrict, and it runs into arguments from people as to how the government property will actually be run. This sign, regardless of its original intent for highway use, is a perfect example of the ethical problem the state creates. And it's unmanageable. It's intractable. What do you think about that? Well, it's well said. And it also goes in the opposite direction in that, you know, It's what do you think about that? books that present a point of view that we may not like. And, you know, it's even more egregious now that they've come out with this, this like the LBGTQ plus stuff, the propaganda, propagandization of children about sexual topics in schools. If you're, for example, troubled by abortion,

you know, you're compelled to help finance these things through the taxes that you pay. Right, right, right. Absolutely right. It's even worse in a way, in my opinion, than being denied an opportunity to express your point of view and being made to pay for it. Absolutely. You know, Eric, the thing that struck me when I was maybe 11 years old, I was starting to get aware of this stuff. And I would say, why is it that people are getting upset about the minutia of the overall thing that should be upsetting them? The fact that they're getting their money taken from them to be pulled into this system. Why isn't that the first prima facie blush of offense?

And you don't need to go any further than that. You know? I mean, it's simple. I think probably because the system has been designed in such a way as to prevent that question from even arising. You know, you have a system that snatches kids up, by and large, at kindergarten age. And, you know, as the Jesuits say, you know, give me a kid for the first 10 years, I think it is,

and he'll be mine for life. You know, if you can stymie the development of the critical faculty, you know, back in the olden days, the Romans talked about the trivium, you know, which was teaching a child to think, to have that critical ability, that capacity to reason. And then you teach them particular things, but first you teach them how to think, not what to think. The government system is exactly the opposite. It imparts what to think, not how to think. And a lot of people, I think, just they develop this habit of rote, you know, because that's what the system encourages. You are expected to assimilate certain information that's provided to you.

And then you regurgitate this information. And that's how you get good grades. Right. So you proceed along the path and you go even to the point where you get to college. And even in highly specialized academic disciplines, it's not that these are dumb people. They're just trained almost like a seal to be very good at assimilating information and regurgitating information, not necessarily to think. A really good example of this during the event that was called the pandemic, you had medical doctors, and these are obviously not dumb people. You can't be a dummy and get through medical school. But still, their critical, the critical faculty seemed to have been short circuit. They were they were unable to evaluate the information and then respond to it in a way that contradicted what they had been told is the dogma that they must repeat.

I flashed that photograph of our friend who seems to be very happy getting ripped off and of course being fooled into the climate canard i think yeah and um you know eric it's it's it's really cool um when i was in touch with travis and david and so on and uh david gave me a ring last night and wasn't able to connect and texted me and you know was thanking me doing the show and everything i i'm just so grateful over the past year and i actually hadn't planned to bring this up, but I was just realizing like, wow, it's been a year.

It's been absolutely awesome to chat with you. And the work you do at Eric Peters Autos is just, it's fun. And it's also really, really informative and, and absolutely breaking breakneck pace, breaking news. And of course,

I hope people will check out what they can buy at Eric Peters Autos to lend you a hand. And they can always, you know, submit a donation, that sort of thing. You do great, great stuff. And they can find you at LibertarianCarG on X. And let's go back to the website

and show that off again real quick. And then I'll give you a little something for the new year again from Willie to say say farewell there's our friend having a great time in his car and if they go down a little further on the website they'll see some of the great items that they can get at the store right there at the bach cap great stuff i love it and I've got a black one but I want to get the gray one gotta get them gotta get them Eric awesome stuff

so Eric as we go any final thoughts for the new year and you know the David Knight team and audience and stuff like that and I'll turn to Rockfin get any questions you want in for Eric or compliments to Eric anything like that let me know. Harps is watching from Australia, of course,

where the roads are straight and flat in most areas, unless you're out maybe in Toowoomba or something like that. But Harps, nice to have you there. Little John is there as well. And yeah, feel free to put your comments in there. Jason Barker says, when you are not wearing a Trivium t-shirt. Yes, is there a band named Trivium? I wonder if there is one. Yeah, we'll, we'll find out. But yeah, the Trivium, I'm glad you mentioned that because I was going to teach with a private school this, this winter, but ended up not doing that, taking a little time to take, take away from

teaching. And one of the key things for them is teaching of the trivium. It's absolutely essential. And there's no possible way that even a public school system can approach teaching the trivium because they have seized the opportunity of the parents to pull away from what is important for the students. So the public school system is always deciding for people and that immediately removes the ability to be able to teach people how to think. It's it's pretty scary stuff. And Harp says, nice SKS, Eric. Oh, yeah. He recognized it. Mine is a check model, actually. You might see the grenade launcher attachment on it. Yeah, let's put you in the full screen there. Hold on a second. I'm gonna put you in the full screen.

Okay, and... Can you see it okay? Let's see if I can hold it. Let's see, how's that? Oh, now I'm going to get swatted for sure. Probably. That's the, this is the grenade attachment that came with these. I do not have a grenade to go with it, though. And it's, it's chiefly for display purposes only. Hey, Gar, are we still there? Jason would like to know, Eric, what your daily driver is. Okay.

Well, I have several. I've got a 2002 Nissan Frontier pickup, which I esteem and love very much because it does not have any advanced driver assistance technology. And when I need to replace the battery, I don't need to have it flat bedded to a dealer to get it done either. Yeah. I've also got a bunch of motorcycles. And when the weather's nice, I have my old muscle car that I take out every once in a while, the Great Pumpkin, my 76 Pontiac Trans Am. That's awesome. That is awesome. You know, I think about some of those cars, the muscle cars and stuff, and that gets me thinking about, you know, cars that I might have seen in Cannonball Run or that sort of thing, and then you always hear about the General Lee. I wonder how many copies of the general lee they had you know because they were always pulling stunts and if some of them i mean they just they bash those

things up so much it was absolutely crazy uh you know mopar people uh know about this they trashed an astounding number of 69 uh dodge chargers because you know every time you watch the car jump you know you can see they cut the scene when the car lands because that's been frame bent and it's it's tragic the way they destroyed those cars but you know back in the day you know when they what the Dukes of Hazzard was what I think it came out in like 1979 I guess yeah I think at that time the Charger was just an old car right I mean I mean, it wasn't this highly desirable relic of the before time that it is now. Unfortunately, those cars are gone. And the same with Smoking the Bandit.

They trashed a bunch of Trans Ams in filming that. The famous jump over the pond, that was the end of that Trans Am. It's crazy. It's absolutely crazy all i could think of is um you know watching stunts when i was a kid wanting to be a stunt driver glad that i'm not a stunt driver and uh just loving watching you know bash up derby things and as you mentioned that charger you know the charger by that time most of the charges that were around were you you know, seven, 10 years old, they were beater cars and they weren't considered, as you say, the highly collectible before times vehicles. And I love watching those things now. And I never even watched that show when I was a

kid because we couldn't get CBS in on the antennas very well. It was always, you know, the ant parade. So we couldn't see anything. You know, and one of the aspects of it, we all know about this, it's really just despicable, is the way the left has tried to frame the show, the Dukes of Hazzard, as somehow being a racist show because the car had the Confederate battle flag on the roof. And of course, it was the farthest thing from that. But they try to make that association. It's very important for them to do that because if the topic gets discussed at any depth, you find out that what the states of the Southern Confederacy were trying to do was essentially the same thing that the American

colonies did do successfully, which was to secede from a union that they didn't want to be part of. Oh, now, come on. What are you talking about? It's government by the people, for the people, and of the people. It's not in any way imposed. It's we, and I'm paraphrasing here, as one of the most stupendous pieces of poetry and dissembling that has ever been produced, ever. In which he talks about the people of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from this earth. I mean, the whole point of this slaughter that occurred was to do exactly the opposite, to prevent the states of the Southern Confederacy from establishing a government of their people by their people. Perfectly stated. That is so true, Eric. And as a guy who had to play Abraham Lincoln in fourth grade and recite the Gettysburg

Address on the bicentennial, I don't know how many times for different audiences all around the town. And I had, and in fact, it's funny that I have, I had a hat similar to this, similar to this hat. I have my stove pipe hat. And I think this is the, this is the way that it goes. And I had a fake beard that looped around my ears with elastic bands.

And it went down like this. And I had to do that stupid address over and over and over again because I was the tall kid, you know? Some interesting stuff about Lincoln. Hitler admired him greatly. Yes. If you read, there's a section in Mein Kampf

where Hitler talks about Lincoln and how he consolidated the central government of the United States and turned what had been largely independent states in the old school sense, as in independent countries, into essentially administrative districts controlled by a centralized authority, which is exactly what he did. Yes, exactly. Exactly. And David is the one who brought it up to my attention about how Italy, which had been, you know, city states for so, so long around that same time, saw consolidation into the nation state. All around the world, there was this tendency to see things consolidating into the nation states and the growth of these larger hegemonic areas. And we can see this now. And my brother went to Washington and Lee University for

law school. And it was until he was there, he had not been aware of the sense of the people in the South and how they really understand that their push for independence was utterly crushed by a demonic, evil person named Abraham Lincoln. And that really opens a lot of eyes when you find out. And again, I'll recommend Tom DiLorenzo's book, The Real Lincoln. Me too. Anybody who's interested in this topic should read. He's written several books on the topic and he's a fantastic scholar. And in addition to that, he's a great storyteller too. Oh yeah. His prose is really top shelf and it's a good read as well as being an educational read absolutely well eric thank you so much happy new year and thanks again coming in a little bit after

time that was promised i'm glad we were able to bring you in it's so great to have you here i'll give you a little a little something for going away uh this will be of course i could play cars by gary newman but i'll do that on my show we'll do it on liberty conspiracy right now we'll go with something a little more universally accepted again a little willie nelson I could play Cars by Gary Newman, but I'll do that on my show. We'll do it on Liberty Conspiracy. Right now we'll go with something a little more universally accepted. Again, a little Willie Nelson. Here he comes. Got to get the volume up here.

There we go. On the road again. I just can't wait to get on the road again. The life I love is making music with my friends. I can't wait to get on the road again. Eric, thank you. Thank you, my friend. And thank you for a great year of being a stalwart buddy, a good man, and a real defender of freedom,

and a great friend to The David Knight Show. Thanks so much. Likewise, Bart. I'm looking forward, hopefully, to a better year this year. I tip my cap to you, my friend. And this is no Abraham Lincoln right here. Think of this as a man out on the, out on the town.

I'm a highly sophisticated man about town. Thanks, Eric. We'll talk to you again soon. I really appreciate it. You got it, buddy. Take care.

Well, everyone, we're coming up in our last, towards our last half hour together as I fill in for David on the program. And thanks for all your comments inside Rockman. Don't forget and feel free. If you want to donate to this, everything goes to the David Knight show.

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x now let's take the opportunity to do a little something else here uh let's talk about an issue that i think might be pertinent and you'll see this on the back side of mrc tv i'll show you the back side inside and i don't know whether this piece has been published, but this could be a little preview for you. So let's go with a little more music, one and all, from none other than Al Stewart, On the Border. Great stuff. What a great, great song. Spanish Civil War here. The fishing boats go out across the evening water. Spanish Civil War here. Oh, man, oh, man.

I love that song. And again, one of my favorite portions of the song is when he says, In the village where I grew up, nothing seems the same. It's just the patterns that remain, an empty shell. And maybe that happens to some people over time. I'm not sure. But first, we're going to turn to a place where I went to college, Boston University, as I say, Boston, and how some people are using the term Happy Woo Year when it comes to the issue of immigration. Here is the mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, the same woman who had her party where she only invited people, as she said, of color. And then when they got caught doing that

for their holiday party, they apologized without apologizing, saying, oh, sorry, we didn't mean to send that invitation out to people who might be, oh, I don't know, Caucasian skinned or something like that. Sorry about that. You're not invited. So here's Michelle Wu talking about immigration, and she makes some points that I think would be very agreeable. Many people would find this, they'd be in agreement to say absolutely. But the problem is that she kind of misleads about the way that this central planning government immigration system from the feds over to and on down to the states is being managed. Here we go. Every person, every human being has the legal right to come to the United States and seek asylum or shelter and those policies have been in place

for a long time but when the review of that individual's particular situation and the then decision to allow the pathway to stay and or work authorization that comes along with that when that process is so drawn out people are stuck they. They are looking to work, looking to contribute, looking to be in a safe democracy where they can raise their families. And we at the city level are now dealing with many of the impacts of the processes, having people fall through the cracks at the federal level. So we're working very closely with the state. This is affecting municipalities across the Commonwealth to be able to triage the situation, create temporary housing so that families can get settled. Every person, every human being has the legal right to- So of course, she's going to use that term triage, which I hear from a lot

of leftists, which is bureaucracy has got to look at this and we'll get back to you on it. We're triaging. I love that. We're triaging. It makes us sound sophisticated. Okay, you sophist, go for it. But the other thing about it is that wouldn't that be wonderful if that's actually what we're going on? First, one of the big misapprehensions, misnomers, or erroneous assumptions she promulgates is that, first, I don't get paid for my move. And she is neglecting to mention that the governor of the state of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, declared an emergency, which kicked in a Dukakis era statute in Massachusetts that allows the state to take tax money from other people to pay for migrants to live in hotels, get medical and food care,

and get lawyers because, you know, they're here to work. Now, if someone wants to move for work, I, as a libertarian voluntarist and anarchist, I will point out again that because government does not allow us to express our own valuation in a free market, nothing government says anyone can claim, nothing government does can anyone say has any value. No one can say what government does is good because no one is allowed to determine good all the way up the chain. The politicians are taking money. They're not using their own, so they're not deciding for themselves what is good or bad and risking their own earnings. And the people are going to go to jail. They're doing it under duress.

So the actual concept of good is completely removed from everything, everything the state does, the state in its generic form, in its normative sense. So that's just an impossibility to claim that. So that then applies to the borders. As I said, with Al Stewart's theme, you can't actually say that where the government places a border wall is where anyone wanted the border wall we don't know we just don't know valuation has been removed any critical analysis of this comes up to this conclusion it's impossible to reach any other conclusion logically it's just not possible because subjective valuation is destroyed by the state's coercion, by their assumption of the legal authority to use aggressive violence.

Everything's done by threats. And if you want to see what people actually want, then you have to allow for private property and people to put up their own fences on their private property. Then that shows that somebody actually wants a border there. That's all, right? Now, the other thing about this is, again, the government doesn't subsidize my life. Do they subsidize your life when you want to move? No. Do they create temporary housing for you when you want to move? No, of course not. The central authority is something that now they're not only saying that, well, Massachusetts is a sanctuary state, Boston's a sanctuary city, whatever the city might be, San Francisco, wherever it might be. Right. And the leftists, New York, for example, the leftists are claiming, well, you know, we're still in favor of of migrants. You saw that I put up another screen here. It just flashed on my face. So let's show this. We're still in favor of the sanctuary, sanctuary city comment approach or label and the system behind it, which is that the feds will move people to these places. But the system that we have right now,

according to people like Michelle Wu and the mayor of Boston, and happy Wu year, and are you with me, Michelle Wu, as Steely Dan would say, and Maura Healey and others like Eric Adams, the mayor of New York City, or Governor Hochul of New York,

it's all, well, now there's an emergency. So do you want any more migrants? Well, we want money and power to be able to handle the migrants. So let's look at this one. I mentioned this Friday on Liberty Conspiracy, and here it is. This is on the backside of MRCTV. It should be coming out soon. I don't know whether it's been published yet, but here's the headline. New York City mayor issues executive order targeting migrant buses with seizure. We're not talking brain seizures either. My hat would hold that in. Here's some more. Perhaps due to the daily barrage of stories revealing vast immigration disputes in the U.S., many Americans might feel twisted, darkly ironic satisfaction seeing one of the highest profile proponents of so-called sanctuary cities and unchecked immigration appear month by month to be changing his proverbial tune.

Indeed, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Democrat, seems to be growing more averse to unlimited immigration. And on December 27th, the big honcho of the Big Apple once more went high profile, announcing his issuance of an executive order that appears to be part of a showy game of chicken with Texas Governor Greg Abbott, Republican, that looks like another desperate attempt to get the $34 trillion in debt feds to hand his city more cash and which risks easy challenge on constitutional grounds. Adams, and this, I'm trying to warn some of the people who might be conservatives who are saying, oh, I'm getting satisfaction out of this. Well, Adams is targeting chartered buses from Texas,

which may or may not carry migrants put on those buses by agents of the Lone Star government under orders by Abbott. And the New York City mayor said, quote, today I'm announcing an executive order requiring charter buses. In fact, why don't we go with this? Just last week, 14 buses arrived in a single day, the most ever recorded by officials at our intake center. We are in close contact with other cities and state leaders across the country who are seeing a similar increase in arrivals. To better coordinate these arrivals today, I'm announcing an executive order requiring charter buses transporting migrants, those often contracted by the state of Texas, to provide 32-hour notice in advance of their arrival into New York City. All right, we'll pause it right there and continue.

I wrote, if the buses fail to comply, Adams has declared it a Class B misdemeanor that could result in fines and or the impounding of the violating buses. On a practical level, Adams's executive order easily can be circumvented. As Leah Barkoukis reports for Town Hall, after Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, let's go Brandon, Democrat, instituted a similar Gestapo-like edict last month, bus drivers simply changed their destinations. Quote, bus operators in Chicago have gone around the new rules by dropping illegal border crossers off in suburbs. And Governor Abbott has also flown them to the city instead. I wrote, additionally, charter buses from Texas can stop outside the city or state of New York and allow new buses from other states to take the passengers to New York City. Adams' claim to be able to issue, simply issue, an order also seems to be completely decoupled from any mayoral responsibilities the city, state, or federal statutes and constitutions might allow. Likewise, any decent lawyer will have a field day pointing out the numerous ways in which Adams' plan flouts nearly half the Bill of Rights. Regardless, Adams added, to make sure we have sufficient staffing,

we're also requiring that these charter buses arrive only between 8.30 a.m. and 12 p.m. Monday through Friday and only drop off passengers at one spot unless directed otherwise by New York City emergency management, end quote, which is about as moral, constitutional, and practically enforceable as commanding Uber drivers to not pick up people outside those morning hours and telling drivers and riders where they may and may not disembark. And those listening or reading with me, you're probably aware that government agents continually try to do that, which is immoral and, of course, massively unconstitutional because they have to know where you're going and they have no reason to wonder where you're going. They have no warrant. Where are they going? How do they know? And, of course, I wrote,

as End Wokeness posted, and by the way, my impression of the mayor might've taken that information and sort of couched it underneath the impression, made it more difficult to absorb. So I'll just mention again, they're requiring charter buses that arrive. They arrive only between 8.30 AM and 12 PM and that they drop off passengers at one spot. So I said, as NWokeness posted on December 29th, bus drivers and passengers aren't paying Adams any heed. Quote, two days ago, New York Mayor Adams, Eric Adams, signed an executive order to curb the flow of migrant buses from Texas. For the second night in a row, buses from Texas are defying his order.

And we can check out the Twitter feed on that one, and you can see. Here is the video. Oh my goodness, what's this? This is a video provided by Viral News New York City. Now, I'm curious as to where they're going. And, of course, there's the perpetual question of where did they get the money to make their moves? How is it that they just had backpacks? Where did they get the money to make their moves? How is it that they just had backpacks? Where did they get the money for food and shelter, toiletries and things like that as they traveled typically through Panama, up from Guatemala? Who's paying for all that? I don't know. It's very strange. I said, regardless of Adams' lack of forethought and stunning lack of enforcement demand papers, please, of anyone driving a bus into the city.

Clearly, his tactic is reminiscent of a totalitarian state, and it might prompt a few freedom backers to wonder how American cities and states got to the point where without judge issued public warrants, police agents of government can demand IDs, demand license, permission slips, stop and frisk people as they tried in New York a few years ago, contrary to the Fourth Amendment, and prohibit business operation without a trial or accusation of a crime against other people. If you're doing something that the state prohibits just because the state prohibits it, that's not a crime against people. Those all are not only contrary to the Fourth Amendment, all of those things are contrary to the fifth, sixth, and eighth amendments.

We're talking jurisprudence before a jury of your peers, a speedy trial, the ability to be able to address your accusers, and the prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. If they're going to take away licenses without a trial, that is punishment. How can you be punished unless you've been tried? I said, Adams doesn't seem concerned with the Constitution. Admittedly, the Biden administration's lack of border enforcement can inspire feelings of anger and frustration among those who see a bankrupt U.S. government adding human burdens to welfarism, police needs, and other day-to-day factors in the operation of the nation and the various states. But despite it appearing to be minutiae, a close reading of the U.S. Constitution during this explosive time also allows us to see a peculiar difference between what the feds are allowed to do for immigration policing in Texas versus what the Constitution might be claimed to grant for the feds to do in New York.

So I mentioned this previously on David's show. I'll bring it up again because it's a perennial subject here with the borders. Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution is the only portion of the U.S. Constitution that might be misinterpreted as pertaining to migration, but it only applies to the original 13 states and really focuses on the importation of slaves, reading, quote, the migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding $10 for each person. And I'll just quickly show you here, you'll be able to see the hyperlink for my story right there, which goes to, this is constitution annotated

from the Congress itself. And it says here, of course, it is restrictions on the slave trade. So that's what the government itself acknowledges. They don't even acknowledge any power over migration or immigration from foreign people coming from other countries. It's very important to keep this in mind. And then I brought up this little bit here. I said there's a lot to learn from the current immigration conflagration. Now, they cut a little bit out here, whereas I mentioned Texas is supposed to be up to Texas because it's not one of the original 13 states. The Texas constitution has a Bureau of Immigration in it. And they cut this out for brevity, obviously, because it was over a thousand words long. So this is ready to go out.

If it hasn't already gone out, the editor has seen it and done some work on it already, I can see. There's a lot to learn in the current immigration conflagration, a lot of legal scholarship that lets one see what the founders intended and how utterly screwed up the current look to D.C. for answers is. But in a world where, after being so overtly pro-open borders, people like Adams now grandstand and even call on the federal government to hand them more money to handle the crisis, it's important to see how and why this problem exists. Biden's mismanagement of the immigration matter might be intentional, but the reliance on federal answers for what is supposed to be a state issue is not going to see long-term security. And moves like Adams will simply see more erosion of the Bill of Rights.

So let me know your thoughts inside Rock, Fin, and Rumble, everybody, on this January 1st. And thank you so much for donating. I really appreciate it. Wow, I see Harps and Duggalug. Thank you both so much. Hey, I appreciate that. I thought they were going to compliment David's show. Harps says, great job, Gard.

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thank you. And it's nice to be able to say hello, even wearing my silly top hat. I want to turn with one more piece of information for you to that idea of big things coming in the new year. So while we have the opportunity, I'm going to just do this. Give us a little new theme, perhaps we'll do. How about we go with what's coming in, oh, I don't know, maybe,

how about we look at what's coming in the Supreme Court? For that, we need a very important, very important theme. You know it, you got to love it. It's coming to us from old time TV, from a creator named Earl Stanley Gardner. I don't know if we were related or not, but let's hear from, you know it. It's time for the Perry Mason theme. Oh my, yes. Okay. Well, I want to give you a quick recap. And also, since I work for the Media Research Center, MRCTV, and of course they try to cover left-wing bias, I'll also be able to give you a maybe a taste of some of the things that the pop media find to be the important stories and some of the stories that

they don't think are that important. So let's turn now to Newsweek as they have the Supreme Court's biggest 2024 decisions. You might notice that there's something pretty darn big missing from this, especially if you're familiar with the Great Barrington Declaration or RFK Jr.'s Children's Health Defense. Here they have Sean O'Driscoll's piece. The Supreme Court is to pronounce key decisions on 2024. They're going to pronounce them on issues ranging from gun control to presidential immunity. The justices will also decide, otherwise known as split infinity, also will decide on the court's first abortion case since they overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022. Here are some of the key cases. United States versus Rahimi. The story of Zaki Rahimi pushes gun rights to the very edge of what courts will

tolerate. The justices are to decide whether a federal law prohibiting people who are under a domestic violence civil restraining order from possessing firearms is constitutional under the Second Amendment. Let me see. Restriction? Persons out of jail? Oh, no. Answer's no. Thanks. Let's go to lunch again. That was a quick one. Yeah. And again, it goes towards the idea that if someone is too dangerous to put out on the streets, therefore you're going to restrict and so-called restrict his right to keep and bear arms, then why is that person released to the streets? Why is that person on the road again? As Willie Nelson might say, maybe you want to keep that person in prison. Simply put, if the person is deemed safe

enough to go on the streets and not be inside a prison, it shows you the mismanagement system of the prison. Then, oh, and by the way, when prisoners escape the prison, is the state held liable for what the prisoners might do to people? No. If a private system, say, let's say they're supposed to be holding onto dogs and a rabid dog gets out, they will be held liable, right? Absolutely. And so we have here, Zachy Rahimi, the Zachy Rahimi case also pertains to Hunter Biden and it's the 1968 so-called Gun Control Act. And he was, as they say, an alleged small-time Texas marijuana and cocaine dealer. He was assaulting his girlfriend when he fired a shot at an onlooker, according to a solicitor general petition to the Supreme Court. His girlfriend fled in the commotion, and he phoned her and threatened to shoot her if she told anyone about what happened. In February 2020,

the Texas state court granted her a restraining order, which prevented him from owning a shotgun. Well, it didn't prevent him. It just told him he shouldn't. It didn't prevent him at all. Many people who have had restraining orders against people. Women in particular have gone to get firearms, but the waiting period has left them vulnerable. They couldn't get their firearms legally, but the guys with the restraining orders still got their firearms and they killed them. This has happened. This is real. I wrote about it in my book, Live Free or Die. This really happened. So the idea that they won't get their hands on guns runs against the very idea that crimin support it and actually say that it is moral in any way to engage in prostitution. But I don't have anything to do with it, and I'm not going to tax my neighbor to create a police force to stop other people from engaging in it because I'm not part of their decision process. That's up to them and their own morals and their own souls. And if I'm going to take somebody else's money, that means I'm stealing.

It doesn't matter how many people say that it's okay and give it their, what would you call that? Their standard, they strike their standard on it of okay okay They hit it with their approved Stamp Stamp of approval No, so the guy had this against him He had a restraining order Just like they had in the 1968 Gun Control Act

They say drug users Not someone who might be intoxicated That someone might want to disarm immediately on the spot But so called drug users. And that's where Hunter Biden comes in. So there's that story. Now we've also got another one, which is a fairly big one. Cargill versus Garland.

What might this be? this case is one that will decide how far a government agency can extend its powers and could have major implications for several branches of government, including the so-called Chevron standard, where they give deference to so-called regulatory agencies if various courts, especially beneath the Supreme Court, find that the agencies were working in what they could assume to be their purview as granted by Congress, even when they're unconstitutional agencies. They never question the constitutionality of the agencies. They just look at whether or not, well, now that the agency has been created,

is it operating under what the Congress said it can do? Well, here is a situation where the ATF, under the Chevron decision, and similarly, they've got another case with fishermen who are challenging the ability of the federal government to force them to pay for so-called fish counters. That's not this case, but it's very close to it. And there's another case that I'll talk about, which has to do with that. But in this case, we'll talk about the ATF, but in the fisherman's case, which I won't show you on the screen, they've got a regulatory agency that already imposes

fish counters on their boats who sleep with them, housing of these state agents, much like housing of soldiers, which is supposed to be prohibited by the federal government. And the counters count the fish. They literally count the fish. Originally, when I started to report on this for MRCTV, I thought it was a machine or something, which would be ridiculous. It's not a machine. It's people. Now the feds want the fishermen to pay the $700 to $800 a day that these guys get in salary from you, the taxpayers, even if you're not eating fish. The whole system is blatantly corrupt and unconstitutional. It's mafia-ism. So now here's this story about this Supreme Court case. As they say here, Cargill versus Garland. This is a case

that will decide how far a government agency can extend its powers and could have major implications for several branches of government. The Supreme Court will rule whether a government agency can ban bump stocks, which are attached to a semi-automatic, to enable it to fire bullets more rapidly. Well, semi-automatic is just a gun that on one pull of the trigger, it just fires. It's not semi-automatic. It's just one shot, one pull. That's all. And the bump stock allows the recoil to bring that trigger back up against your finger more rapidly so that it can fire almost like an automatic. Okay. So again, the question is, thanks to Donald Trump, whether or not a so-called regulatory agency can do this. But there are other big ones that I want to mention to you. So here is this one. This one

is a big one that is in the appeals court, and I'm waiting to see if this goes to the Supreme Court. Court revives doctor's lawsuit saying FDA overstepped its authority with anti ivermectin campaign. A federal appeals court in New Orleans has revived a lawsuit by three doctors who say the Food and Drug Administration overstepped its authority. Oh, no, this is this is the one that I'm talking about. This is up in the Supreme Court. This is the Missouri v. Biden and this is the combined Missouri v. Biden RFK Jr. Children's Health Defense case, which is Jay Bhattacharya and others from the Great Barrington Declaration and other doctors who said that this got in the way of their profession.

They lost jobs, and they want compensation from the feds, and They have been harmed by the feds. It's a very, very important story. And I hope that people will recognize that the federal government engaged in censorship. And I've got more on Missouri v. Biden over here. This is the Supreme Court when it agreed to hear it in October. This is from the Volokh so-called conspiracy at Reason. And here is the order from Murthy v. Missouri.

The application for stay is granted. So what happens? Until the Supreme Court comes out with its decision, they granted the federal government certain branches of it, like the FDA, the ability to continue to promulgate falsehoods and lies on social media and to call for social media to pull down various posts about things like the jab, even though we have been proven correct. We knew we were correct the whole time, and the government just continues to engage in more propaganda. And Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas and Justice Gorsuch join, dissented from the grant of application for a stay until the court hears it coming up this session, and they will decide on it. So right now, the stay is in place, stopping an injunction against the federal government's so-called actions. So the government can continue to take its actions.

And writes Justice Alito, this case concerns what two lower courts found to be a coordinated campaign by high-level federal officials to suppress the expression of disfavored views on important public issues. To prevent the continuation of this campaign, these officials were enjoined from either coercing social media companies to engage in such censorship or cajoling them. Today, however, a majority of the court, without undertaking a full review, I paraphrase their apologies, a full review of the record and without any explanation, suspends the effect of that injunction until the court completes its review of this case, an event that may not occur until late in the spring of next

year, our new year. Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government. It's not democratic, guys. And therefore, today's decision is highly disturbing. In this case, this case began when two states, Missouri and Louisiana, and various private parties filed suit. That would be people at the Great Barrington Declaration and Children's Health Defense, CHD, filed suit alleging that popular social media companies had either blocked their use of the company's platforms or had downgraded their posts on a host of controversial subjects, including COVID-19 lab leak theory, pandemic lockdown we go, everybody, has to do with the regulatory state. And MRCTV just released this one.

Typically tyrannical, Biden administration slips out a slew of regulations over the holidays. So get ready, everybody. I'll discuss this more tonight on Liberty Conspiracy at 6 on Rumble and Rockfin. A little plug there, of course. As tyrants so often do, on December 29th, the Biden administration quietly slid out a slow news holiday hidden announcement of many more regulations it is imposing on your market choices of home appliances. And to add insult to injury, it's all for their religion-like claim to be preventing Kali-esque, that's the Hindu goddess, Kali-esque demigod anthropogenic climate change from destroying the world.

It's a false religion backed by fake claims of science and false claims of savings that they're imposing on you. Merry Christmas. Happy New Year. stock options received from palsy corporations, DOE head Jennifer Granholm and her cult released The Song of Kali. Nick Pope reports, that's a reference to the Dan Simmons novel, by the way, Nick Pope reports on it for Daily Caller. The Department of Energy, DOE, finalized or proposed a bevy of regulatory actions cracking down on numerous appliances on Friday. So it's like I said, we haven't closed the book. We're just writing new chapters in the ongoing book of the fight for freedom. The DOE proposed new rules designed to promote so-called energy efficient commercial fans and blowers, and also finalized energy efficiency standards for

refrigerators and freezers. The agency announced on Friday the regulatory actions are the latest in a string of moves by the Biden administration intended to phase out a host of fossil fuel powered appliances and replace them on the market with more energy-efficient so-called and often electric equivalents. I suspect that you too might be wondering where their vaunted U.S. Constitution hides the so-called authority for the feds to create a DOE, let alone tell private makers of appliances what they can and cannot offer you to freely purchase or leave on the showroom floor. Perhaps you also might be scratching your head over the easy way elitist bureaucrats and politicians claim to define for us what is efficient. Well, you'd better extend the sentiment of Silent Night to your potential protestations about those matters,

because, of course, the mandates are for your own good, so be silent. They're for your own good to stop their magic monster of anthropogenic climate change. And if you should question either their mandates or their faulty claims of science. You are an apostate to the new religion. And if you want an idea of what is targeted, even as you see how efficient the tax-fed writers of DOE are, here is the subhead of their announcement. Quote, DOE proposes new rule for energy efficient commercial fans and blowers and finalizes refrigerator and freezer standards with strong industry and stakeholder support, bolstering Biden-Harris administration efforts to strengthen outdated efficiency standards to save Americans approximately $1 trillion over 30 years. And I wrote, and now that she has pocketed almost $2 million in stock options

given to her by an electric vehicle bus company that she helped get fed money when she was governor of Michigan, that company just filed for bankruptcy just after she got to sell her stock, DOE head Jennifer Granholm has some holiday cheer to force on you in all its propagandistic glory. Quote, today's announcement is a testament to the Biden-Harris administration's commitment to lowering utility costs for working families, which is helping to simultaneously strengthen energy independence and combat the climate crisis. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm said of her agency's actions, DOE will continue to move quickly in 2024 together with industry partners and stakeholders to update and strengthen outdated energy efficiency standards,

which is critical to innovation, more consumer options, and healthier communities. And so, folks, as we start 2024, I'll leave you with this. A little comment from the MRCTV piece to you, to her. Just some items for us to remember. Curiously, all her cozy fascist terms like partners and stakeholders and standards are warmed over populist pablum. And we've got working families, consumer options, and healthier communities. Those are, under this paradigm, defined and controlled by the government, and they represent favoritism and force. The government uses terms such as regulation and rule and standards as replacements for the term state threats.

And to cloud their moves, to push around makers, sellers and buyers who have their own goals and their own calculations about what is efficient and about their own freedom to be left the heck alone, they employed this rhetoric. I said, regardless of ethics, regardless of economics being fueled by the freedom of consumers and sellers to show their preferences and inspire suppliers to keep reducing costs and improving their products in order to beat other suppliers, Granny Granholm seems to think she knows best. Rather than choice, she imposes mandates and she makes threats. Well, everyone, thank you so much for joining me. I've had a great time filling in for David, and I hope you had a great time watching the show or parts of the show while I got to fill in for David.

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