The David Knight Show - 24Oct22 Hu's Gone First, Xi Consolidates Power; UK PM Rishi, WEF's Newest Young Puppet

Episode Date: October 24, 2022

* Hu's Gone First — as Xi visibly removes his predecessor. What can we learn about his priorities as he sets himself up as absolute dictator?* New UK PM Rishi ("Conservative" Party) hits accelerator on Davos "green" agenda. Another WEF puppet competing with Trudeau and Rutter for Klaus Schwab's favor* Dominion CEO on 60 Minutes says fraud impossible, as CISA points out 9 vulnerabilities* SHTF in SanFran as single public toilet takes $1.7 MILLION and years to install* Is the DeepState going to block Musk's purchase of Twitter? Is that what he was setting up?* Taxes hit near record high as percent of GDP but can't keep up with spending — bring on UBI (Universal Basic Income)* Most Americans trust government more than God — what is the proper relationship of Christians to politics?* Is Biden repeating Obama's Solyndra debacle, but this time with EV batteries? With damage done to grid by climate gremlins, it's already cheaper to use internal combustion engines than charge EVs in Germany.Find 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-show Or you can send a donation throughZelle: @[e-mail] App at:  $davidknightshowBTC to:  bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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Main market excluding specials and place bets. Terms apply. Bet responsibly. Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Monday, the 24th of October, year of our Lord 2022. Today we're going to take a look at what's happened in other countries, in the UK, in China, how that is going to affect us, and how it all falls in together again into the Great Reset Plan. Pretty amazing, the display of power that happened in China, but there's something that is a little bit more subtle that is happening in the UK. So we're going to take a look at that. What is the status of the mandates for children with vaccines? How do we parse this? Are these

GOP governors that say we're not going to mandate the COVID vaccine and yet they continue to allow it to be used to poison children. They continue to mandate other vaccines as requirements for education. How do we understand that? We'll be right back. Stay with us. Well, before we get into those topics, I want to hit the news today, the beginning of the hour here. We have federal tax receipts have hit a record high share of GDP, near record high, not quite as high in terms of a percentage, but very, very close to the record. They've surged this year. They're now up to nearly 20% of gross domestic product, one fifth. The government thinks it's twice as important as God.

He only asked for 10%. They want 20. It has been, typically on average, for the last several decades, it's been about 17%. But now they're getting up to knocking on the door of 20%. The government took in $303 billion in August alone. Well, that's good because they're spending $6 trillion every year. So the deficit is still climbing. Why? Because they're spending more money. As Ronald Reagan said, don't compare them to, don't say the government is spending money like a drunken sailor. That's unfair to drunken sailors.

They don't have that kind of money to spend anyway. So the real question we should all be asking is why? Because if deficits don't matter, why are they continuing to raise taxes? Well, it's because they want to dispose of your disposable income. Disposable income is by definition, the amount of money that you have left over after you pay your taxes. They call that disposable income. I always thought it was funny. They didn't call it discretionary income. This is a income that they they're looking at thinking, you know, we could dispose of that. You remember when we had the last batch of tax cuts, or at least they were sold as tax cuts anyway. Bernie Sanders was

furious. They're looting the treasury, right? They're stealing the money from us. All of that belongs to us. That's the mentality of these people. They own the plantation. You're just the slaves working on it. All of that stuff belongs to them. They own the plantation. You're just the slaves working on it. All of that stuff belongs to them. They already think of you as owning nothing. It was just in 2015, they said, we're going to make sure that you literally have nothing that you can call your own. But they already thought that they own everything, that you own nothing. That's nothing new. And so the increase of the size of the IRS, you know, giving them an increase that is seven times the current budget, an increase that is seven times the current budget, adding 80,000 IRS agents. What's the

purpose of all this? It's to rob you blind, to make sure that you have nothing. I mean, there's a lot of different things that they can do. Biden is destroying our energy infrastructure in every way possible. We're talking about Vision Zero or Net Zero. What that means is zero for you, zero energy is the key thing because energy is what underlies everything. And so they can wreak havoc with your personal income and your liberty by doing those types of things with sanctions and regulations, as we've been seeing the Biden administration furiously, furiously accelerating the Great Reset to zero.

But it's really the tax thing. It really is that. So as the economy is not doing well, essentially tanking, hopefully the government is going to, if the Republicans get in, maybe they will do something about taxes and that would be a key improvement, but, um, you never know what they're going to do. Whatever they say, they don't necessarily do it. If the government is taking in near record levels of taxes, how is it running massive deficits? And of course it's a spending Milton Friedman said,

history shows that over a long period of time, government will spend whatever the tax system raises plus as much more as it can get away with. That's why we've had universal deficits. And so for this year, in August, even though they were bringing in a little over $300 billion, they brought in $303 billion. What did they do? They spent $523 billion, spending it almost twice as fast as they bring it in.

But that's okay because this is macroeconomics, and they would tell you 50 years ago when I was in college, well, macroeconomics operates under completely different rules. It's like something like, you know, quantum mechanics. Well, you know, we have the real world that we operate. And then the quantum world, everything is totally different. You can't understand anything. Well, that's the way that macroeconomics is.

So when we're talking about physical reality, when you get super small, you can't understand anything that's going on. And when you get super big in economics, you can't understand anything that's going on. So don't even try. Yeah, just trust us. I know this wouldn't work for you if you're spending twice as much every month that you're making. But for us, it's okay because it's just money that we owe ourselves or money that we owe China or Saudi Arabia or something like that, right? That's the reality. I mentioned this on Saturday's show, Jason, who helped to put together the coin. I really like this coin and we haven't got it on the website yet, but i had uh my son whistler uh put together a 3d 3d printed a little thing that we could um fold flat to ship it and that works as a stand and of course we're going to uh

they will be black uh when we finish with it but it works nice but um so we're going to ship that out with the coins when we get them ready. But the key thing is the coin. And since Jason designed it, found the people to do it, in the military, challenge coins are very common. And so he thought, that'd be kind of cool to have it. I think it's really cool. And he found the people to make it, and he actually paid for the first run of that

so i sent him uh some samples of it and um he was uh really amazed at the quality he wrote me an email and he said a hat tip to the people coins for anything he says i've been presented with dozens of coins in my career but nothing of this quality uh and it really is amazing the detail that they have that really pops out when you look at it um the the starburst that's behind it um he said um that they um he contacted them and um they wanted a video clip of me talking about it um so he's already sent that that's not why i'm doing this it's just doing it because uh um we have this uh stand that that was put together and um so it's it's starting to come together we're still focused on trying to get caught up on um all of the orders that we got for the other things like the coffee cups and pins and

things like that and pretty close to being caught up on that and then we'll get these on but we're you know looking at how to ship them and that type of thing they don't have any intrinsic value this is not a silver it doesn't have any silver in it if you want intrinsic value you can go to davidknight.gold it'll take you to where you can get real silver coins and real gold coins from tony arteman at wisewolf.gold but this is just a challenge coin. And, um, and I mentioned this primarily because I wanted to talk about what else Jason had to say about what he saw with coworkers.

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He said, I mentioned it briefly in chat, but didn't have time, didn't know what the cause was, had my suspicions, and unfortunately I was correct. The cause was an unexpected and rare heart problem. The guy had been in the Army for over 30 years,

first in the National Guard, later 19 years active duty service. When we get over 40, he says an EKG is required every so often as part of the regular physical checkup. So I don't know how there would be an issue that went undetected for so long, he said. The same is true for the medic that died earlier this year.

His heart issue was also unexpected and rare. In his case, he was competing in a rigorous challenge at the time, but the latest heart attack was not, this is not the case. He was just doing some housework. I've also lost no less than three of my high school friends in the last year and a half. I don't know what got them. I just know they passed because my mom keeps up with hometown events and tells me. Anyway, that's a lot of people from a class of 75, three people out of a class of 75 that are still relatively young. As I look around the formation, he said,

my feelings of frustration with the Army have turned into sorrow. It truly saddens me to know that there will be more, more deaths. I wonder who will be next. It's like looking at The Walking Dead. I get the feeling that they know what's going on deep inside, and they're probably scared. All I can do is pray for them and their families. Sorry to welcome back with sad news, but it's important that we all look at this, and it is.

It is sad. Few people who have been deceived by this really want to tackle it. I mean, you've got the people who have been injured by it and are suffering severe health issues, can't work anymore. Of course, they're focused on it. But, you know, look at Steve Kirsch. I interviewed him once. He's someone who was a true believer in all this stuff, a multimillionaire, very successful entrepreneur and engineer.

And he was working at the beginning of this, believed that there was a pandemic and all the rest of this stuff. He may still now believe there's this pandemic, I don't know. But he's focused on the vaccines and the obvious harm that they're doing to people. He's fundraising for a billboard to put right across the street from the CDC Atlanta. So I think that's a good thing. But yeah,

he, he got it early on and all of his family. And now he's looking at this and, you know, his response to this is that it hasn't, so far he hasn't had any health effects and his family hasn't had any health effects, but it has focused him on this and it has now become the complete focus of his life now. San Francisco, meanwhile, as we're looking at our wonderful government and how it provides

for us and how it spends unlimited amounts of money, right? How does it spend twice as much as it brings in? Well, things like this. You know, we used to talk about decades ago, people talk about the $600 toilet that the military would put in a plane because it had to be specialized and all this kind of stuff, right? Uh, because I had to have, uh, you know, titanium screws or something like that. Uh, but that's not the case in San Francisco where they're trying to put in a public toilet that costs $1.7 million, $1.7 million. And a writer there says, so what are they making it out of gold? You know, it's, it's funny how, you know, when anybody talks about something that has intrinsic value, they always mention gold.

They say, what are they making it out of? Central bank digital currency? What are they making it out of? Fiat paper? No. Are they making it out of gold? Well, she did this article and then shortly afterwards, she had an update. Said, well, they've canceled this because of massive backlash and people saying this cost is absolutely insane.

But this is really a excrement hits the fan scenario. The excrement's been hitting the streets in san francisco so you can understand why they would want to have uh more uh toilets right uh that city has just a very very wealthy city and uh it's been completely corrupted by all that of course it's nancy pelosi's home district is there in San Francisco. So nothing really should surprise you. No, the government is just so corrupt and so inefficient, it can't even build public toilets anymore.

That's especially true in San Francisco. This is the place where you have Nancy Pelosi. At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football. The excitement, the roar, and the chance to reward you. That's why every day of the festival, we're giving new members money back as a free sports bet up to €10 if your horse loses on a selected race. That's how we celebrate the biggest week in racing. Cheltenham with LiveScore Bet.

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You have their representative of the state government is Wiener, the guy who is constantly coming after the kids and trying to legalize one predatory act against minors after the other. San Francisco politicians will gather at the town square Wednesday afternoon to dedicate this. Again, this is the original article before they canceled it. To congratulate themselves for securing state money for a long-desired toilet. A single toilet. A single toilet. A single toilet.

In the northeast corner of the charming plaza. Another public toilet in a city with far too few of them is an excellent idea. But the details of this particular commode? Well, they're mind-boggling, maddening, and they encapsulate so much of what is wrong with our city government. The toilet, just one loo and 150 square feet of space, is projected to cost $1.7 million. About the same as a single-family home in this wildly overpriced city. Wow. Nearly $2 million for a single-family home.

And it won't be ready for use until 2025. There you go. I mean, they're not even going to be able to do it until 2025 um talk about cost overrun i'm sure that's going to happen as well it's going to be overrunning in a lot of different ways probably assemblyman matt haney democrat of, of course, from San Francisco, secured the $1.7 million from the state for the toilet after hearing, quote, loud and clear from the community that the families needed a bathroom because they're living on the street, because they can't afford a $2 million house,

because San Francisco has added so much regulation and all the rest of this stuff, restricted people building that nobody can afford the houses anymore, so they're living on the streets if they're there, and they need to have a bathroom. But the bathroom's going to cost $2 million. The plumbing is already there, so it's still going to cost $1.7 million. The plumbing was put in when they added the plaza six years ago so all they got to do is hook that up um and he was bragging about it matt haney was he said well they told me it was going to be 1.7 million dollars so i got 1.7 million dollars how about that aren't you proud of me the funny thing is that, this is being controlled by recreation and parks department, you know,

parks and rec. I never saw that, but my family, when I was, uh, when I first moved to Austin, I was there for several months while the family came and, um, uh, they watched the, uh, parks and recs, uh, thing. And, uh, they, uh, told me you, you gotta see this. There's a guy on there just like you, Ron Swanson. I'm assuming that's a, that's a compliment. Uh, cause he was very, very indie. So I don't know, maybe this is a joke from Ron Swanson at parks and recs. I know what I'll do. I'll put the price tag of this toilet at 1.7 million dollars but now this is for real uh it said instead we have a toilet maybe in more than two years they could have been used to pay for a to house a family instead so why is a public bathroom so insanely expensive and why does it take so long to build in San Francisco?

Well, parks and recs, as they point out, they've got a certain preciousness to the process of building anything in San Francisco. So the time frame that is there is, you know, because of all the red tape and the process, and they're not going to change anything with that. And, of course, the cost to build it there. Again, San Francisco is the most expensive city in the world to build anything. It's more expensive to build something there than it is to build it in Tokyo

or Hong Kong or New York, anywhere. It is the most expensive city to build. You want to know why? Well, because of this type of thing. The same thing that's making it take so long to get the approval process. Regulation. It's important to note that public projects and their overall cost estimates don't just reflect the price of erecting structures.

They include planning, drawing, permits, reviews, and public outreach, even for a toilet. An architect will draw plans for the toilet that the city will share with the community for feedback for the toilet. It will head to the Arts Commission, where they'll have architects and the landscape architect carefully review the plans for the toilet. Two other design professionals who, under a city charter, conduct a multi-phase review of all city projects on public land. And as she puts it out, this writer's name is Heather Knight, no relation. She said, sorry, kid, I know you got to go, but have you considered the context of the urban environment? You're just going to have to wait a couple of years there. Once we start the project, we'll have to make a clear, we'll have a clear timeline,

but we expect to be able to complete the project in 2025. 2025. The city said that the $1.7 million estimate is, quote, extremely rough. In other words, it could be a lot more money. Budgets for the worst case scenario, due to the onerous demands and the unpredictable costs levied by PG&E, that's the power company that they're fighting. Now, it has nothing to do with the Democrats. It has nothing to do with corruption, regulation, bureaucracy, nothing to do with any of that. So this writer says, I emailed Tom Hardiman, executive director of Modular Buildings Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia,

and I asked him to guess what San Francisco is going to spend to build one toilet in 150 square feet of space. He says, well, I'm going to guess high. I think, let's say $200,000. He says, I seem to nearly give him a heart attack by telling him that the actual figure in a subsequent phone call he said this is to build one public restroom what are they making it out of gold and italian marble it would be comical if it wasn't so tragically flawed he then said he'd do some research he found a cheaper option within minutes

he said chad kaufman ce Public Restroom Company, just delivered and installed seven modular bathrooms in LA. I mean, we're talking about here in California. Big corruption, high taxes, high regulation in California, but even in LA, they could build a single toilet for one-seventh of the cost in San Francisco. So he said these are not porta-potties. They have concrete walls, stucco exteriors, nice fixtures, and plumbing. And he said they could be delivered in eight months. Well, of course, you could do all of that, but you can't in San Francisco have a toilet without the appropriate paperwork.

And that's why people are defecating on the streets. So anyway, Scott Wiener was going to be at the meeting. But now that meeting has been canceled, and the toilet has taken a back seat. In Alexandria, Virginia, you think this is just California? No, the insanity is everywhere. Another heavily Democrat area. They're going to initiate a guaranteed income program

to provide $500 a month to people for two years. And as this is being breathlessly reported by the local media there, WTOP, they say, yeah, mayors across the U.S. are doing this. Many, many different places. Cook County near Chicago, another place known for its corruption. And they said, and near Chicago, they had 206,000 people applied for only 3,000 spots. Well, imagine that. Why wouldn't you apply to get free money every month? The only requirement in Alexandria is that you have to be 18 years old and breathing because there's no work requirements. Of course, this is universal basic income,

just free money for doing nothing. And there is no citizenship requirement either. You don't have to be a U.S. citizen. They just give you free money. This is the essence of why we have the border issue. We have a giant magnet that is pulling people in, and in all different types of ways, pulling people in. And the problem with that is that some people are coming in because they want to make money, because they want to work. I've known a lot of people like that, but a lot of people are coming in

because they are criminals, and that's being facilitated. I mean, when I grew up in Florida, I knew a lot of people from a Cuban background. Their parents had come in when Castro was taking power. They were staunchly anti-communist, very hard workers, a lot of entrepreneurs. And yet, it was when I was in college, I think they had the, I don't remember exactly when it happened, but remember they had the Cuban government emptied out its prisons and sent a bunch of dangerous prisoners to the United States and to Florida. And that is exactly what we're looking at. You have to have control of your borders because of that. It wasn't that the Cubans were bad people.

But as Trump said, they weren't sending us their best people. They're sending prisoners. At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football. The excitement, the roar, and the chance to reward you. That's why every day of the festival, we're giving new members money back as a free sports bet up to €10 if your horse loses on a selected race.

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Bet responsibly. 18plusgamblingcare.ie Dangerous prisoners. And if you don't have any control over the borders, I've said many times, the father who up in Long Island, New York, his daughter was killed by MS-13 kids at school. They had tattoos all over their faces. It was literally on their face, MS-13.

And there was some kind of a dispute, and they just killed his daughter. He said, I left El Salvador to get away from these people. But if there's no control at the border, the criminals will be coming in. And they were known to be illegal immigrants. Uh, they were known to be as an MS 13 and yet border patrol would not do anything about it. Why? Because the department of justice had DACA.

We're going, not going to do anything. They called it deferred action. Well, they were never going to take action plan was to never do anything. And of course, Trump never did anything about that either. It was a political hot potato. He didn't want to be seen as, uh know, he wanted to talk about closing the border, and he wanted to talk about foreign criminals coming into this country when it was time to get elected. But he didn't want to do anything about it, and he wasn't going to fight for the

border. So when we get back to this universal basic income program, the interesting thing I think about is there's no citizenship requirement. There's no work requirement, but it is a welfare program as evidenced by the fact that they are not, they're going to discriminate against people based on their income. You have to be low income in order to be able to apply for getting on the universal basic income thing. And that is a hallmark across the country. Why are they doing that? Well, ultimately the theory is that universal basic income should be something that's given to everybody regardless of your income level. It's like the stimulus checks were our first taste of universal basic income. And so it's supposed to be given to everybody.

But right now, they understand that there's going to be a big pushback if they start handing wealthy people free money every month. No, they don't need that. Well, nobody needs to be on a handout from the government. That doesn't help anybody. And we know exactly what this is going to work out as. So, you know, if you have an annual income of just under $50,000, $49,850, and you have one person in your household,

you could qualify for universal basic income. And you could go up to, if you got six people in your household, you could have an income as high as $82,500 and still get universal basic income. But there's still means testing it. So it's technically not universal, is it? But the purpose is to make sure that we all have no income and that we're all dependent on a government handout, on a stimulus check. You know, I had told you about a relative who wanted to engage me about climate stuff.

So we had quite a bit of discussion. One of the things we got into was, you know, the wedding, was universal basic income. And what has happened to all the employees? I said, well, they're training them. I said, you've got a lot of, I really didn't want to focus on the death aspect. I think that's a big part of it. But I didn't want to focus on that because this relative, a deep believer in government,

big time Democrat, had already gotten his vaccines and has rapid advancing cancer as well. Just showed up a few months after, well, I guess it was almost a year after he got his shot. So I didn't want to get into that. But his idea was that it was not giving people bigger unemployment benefits and extended unemployment benefits and stimulus checks and all the rest of the stuff and giving them a taste of money for nothing and your kicks for free and just sit there all day and watch the MTV. No, it wasn't that. It was the retiring baby boomers. And I said, well, you know,

we're at the very end of the baby boom retirement ages now. So this isn't anything that happened until after the lockdown. So I don't think that that's what's driving it. You know, if this were the case, if it really was the baby boomers retiring, we would have seen this ramping up quite a bit before this. I mean, again, that demographic is tailing off right now. No, there's just too much debt in the world, and they are going to inflate it away, and that's all you really need to know, says Eric Peters of One River Asset Management, and he's exactly right. That's what they're in the process of doing. They are going to inflate it away. They must have inflation. This is why everybody is so

confident that they're going to do the pivot, which means that they're going to cave. They're going to give up on raising interest rates as they raise interest rates and damage the economy. At some point, there's going to be too much for them. They're not going to do enough quickly enough. There really isn't anything that they could do because they built such a mountain of debt. And so once they come to that realization that it is going to be too painful,

that it'd be a revolutionary act, they will pivot away from it and start lowering interest rates again. But when they will do it, nobody knows. When will Biden leave? Well, Biden says that his wife does not want him to, quote, walk away from the job. There's a lot of people who must be telling him, walk away. A lot of people who must be telling him, you should be thinking about retirement.

As a matter of fact, when he was running, it was pretty obvious that he wasn't all there. I remember Rush Limbaugh going off on Dr. Jill. He has a PhD in education. And people of the view think she's a medical doctor. They treat her that way. Anyway, Rush was saying she should be ashamed of herself for pushing him into doing this. If she knew anything, had any regard for him, she would help him to maintain his reputational respect that he's had for years from the Democrats, at least,

certainly not from me, and get him out of there. But she wants him to run and become president because she's enjoying the power trip. First Lady is viewed as having significant say over whether Biden, who is already the oldest man to hold office of the presidency, will seek another four years in the White House. She told NBC News in an interview published earlier, published earlier on Friday, that she would support a 2024 run. She said he understands government better than anybody else. Well, you know, he does have a view of government that says that government is God. As I've said many times

listening to the Clarence Thomas confirmation hearings, I was absolutely astounded when he was coming after Clarence Thomas because Clarence Thomas supported natural rights as defined in the Declaration of Independence. Biden is one of the most authoritarian, as well as one of the most corrupt, as we see with he and his family, one of the most authoritarian, corrupt presidents we've ever had. He has nothing but open contempt for rights of any kind. And so from that standpoint, I guess she is right when she says that he understands government better than anybody else. He wants government to act as God. He is the guy to have in place if you want to run the country by executive order. When we talk about elections, we have a New York judge declaring that vote-by-mail law in New York is unconstitutional.

Well, isn't that interesting? When we come back, we're going to talk about that, and we're going to talk about what has happened. We've had an interesting puff piece that was done on 60 Minutes with the CEO of Dominion. And at the same time, embarrassingly, that that was coming out, you had CISA, the cybersecurity organization, saying, we found nine vulnerabilities in Dominion voting machines. But don't worry, none of them have been exploited. I'm sure there was never any issue.

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They will talk about the electronic voting companies, but they don't do it accurately. That's the biggest problem. So they're throwing a bunch of accusations around that are poorly researched. We have seen that the vote-by-mail stuff, in terms of the mule documentary that was done by Dinesh D'Souza, we know that that is open corruption. That's no surprise. That was a new wrinkle, by the way, that was done by Dinesh D'Souza. We know that that is open corruption.

That's no surprise. That was a new wrinkle, by the way, that was added by Trump. How does Trump complain about that when Trump made that possible? It was all made possible because we locked everybody down. Said, no, you're going to have to vote by mail. And everybody said, well, this is what's going to happen. And everybody knew what was going to happen. You had everybody from Bannon to Bernie saying,

well, you know, the Republicans are going to take an early lead in all this, be reported that way. But then as they continue to count this stuff, you'll see it flip the other way. And Bannon even told a group of wealthy Chinese supporters, yeah, we're going to, we know that's going to happen. And so we're going to, we know that's going to happen. And so we're going to announce that Trump won preemptively before they get all their votes in. And then we're going to contest

all this stuff. So that was the plan. You know, they deliberately put that in. We've always had problems with the election. As I've said, it begins with ballot access. It begins with access to the debates and all the rest of this stuff. And then it only gets worse as you get to the end. But now you have a state Supreme Court justice in New York, Diane Freestone, has sided with Republicans in a lawsuit that was brought in September. Freestone ruled that the new process for canvassing, so they call it, or ensuring that absentee ballots are inspected and prepared for counting violates the rights of candidates in several ways, including making it more difficult to raise a legal challenge when there are questions over the ballot's validity.

She said the framers of the Constitution did not intend to grant and did not grant the legislature carte blanche to enact legislation over absentee voting. So she had a 28-page ruling, came out on Friday. It fell just short of invalidating hundreds of thousands

of absentee ballots, right, zero hedge, that have already been put in. For now, the ruling means that local election officials will have to soon pause the inspection of absentee ballots. A Democrat-led state legislature had approved the new process in 2021. The law was meant to expedite the state's notoriously slow procedures for counting mail-in ballots.

So without getting into the details, you can imagine that what they did was just hand wave any ability to do any inspection of this. But look, we've seen this. This is not just a Democrat problem. This is not just a problem in New York. In Texas, we had situations, and we've talked about this from multiple election cycles. That's why it didn't surprise me that there was corruption. At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football. The excitement, the roar, and the chance to reward you.

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Bet within 48 hours of race. Main market excluding specials and place bets. Terms apply. Bet responsibly. 18plusgamblingcare.ie. As I had said before, after 2016, because of other issues that we'd had and because of things that were happening with various electronic voting machine companies, I said 2020 is going to be a hacking contest.

And we had seen at DEF CON and the Black Hat Conference, the two of them take place every summer except during lockdown. But every summer we would see these conferences where they were talking about cybersecurity and hacking. It would happen in, I think it was in August in Vegas. And one of the things that they would do on an annual basis, they called it Voter Village, and they would show how easy it is to exploit these machines and how to hack into them is very, very easy. And how it's very, very easy to hack into the websites of state boards of election. They had replicas of that. And they had a bunch of kids from 16 down compete to see how long it took them to do it.

And all of these kids, there's about a dozen of them, all of them were able to do it, except for one or two. The one who did it the fastest was an 11-year-old girl, was able to hack into a state board of election thing in just no time at all. So there's a lot of different places where it's vulnerable. It's not just in the machines, but it definitely is in the machines. You're going to have to go low-tech. I mean, you look at when they want to run an honest election in Iraq,

what'd they do that? All the voting on one day. And when you show up to vote, they dyed your thumb purple. So you couldn't do it again. And then you hand count, uh, the ballots with lots of people standing around looking at them.

That's it. Now in Texas, you had a guy who was running the state board of election. And he was, he was hired from the Rose Law Firm, Hillary Clinton's friends, by Republicans to run the state board of election there in Texas. And as he came in to run the board of Elections, he instituted a new tradition. Every election, he would send out a memo to every one of the counties telling them not to keep a facsimile copy of the ballots electronically. They were supposed to keep copies of the ballots so it could be audited.

Think about that. Every election, he tells copies of the ballot so it could be audited. Think about that. Every election he tells them, don't keep it. Now that's a clear violation of the Texas Constitution, which says that they must be kept. So you've got a guy running the State Board of Elections in Texas, again, somebody Republican, put in there, because I don't remember if it was Perry or Abbott.

I think it was Rick Perry put him in, uh, brought him in from Hillary Clinton's law firm and his, you know, key thing that he does with every election is to tell everybody, uh, don't, um, don't keep any records, destroy everything after the election, burn it down. So I went to talk to him and they said, sure. Yeah, I can get an interview with them. And, and so I go there and they let him know. And as he comes down, I've got on the mic flag, it says info wars. And he looks at it.

He goes, no, no, no. And he runs back up the stairs with me chasing him and yelling, you know, come back, come back. Uh, he did not want to talk about that. He didn't know what I was going to talk to him about, but, um, you know, he was willing more than willing. You know, he's going to give us a story about how, Oh, there's so much interest in this election. Great turnout. Everybody should show up. You know, this is the type of thing they do. It's kind of like, uh, the prisoner series.

It's running for office. Uh, they want him to run for office. They want him to run for office. They want him to run for number two. He's number six. So he's got a slogan, six for two. But the whole thing is just that whole episode, Free For All, is just about the farce of elections. And it is a total farce. Anyway, going back to New York, the judge, Freestone, said the Democrat-controlled legislature, quote, appears poised to continue the expanded absentee voting provisions of New York state election law in an Orwellian perpetual state of health emergency. That's what I say. 956 days into this.

What are we into? We're into an Orwellian perpetual state of health emergency. And of course, again, it's not being extended just by the Democrats. You had a Greg Abbott in Texas extended it at the end of March for what? For power. Once they grasp the power, they don't want to let it go.

I mean, it's almost like, you know, when you grab a live alternating current, you may want to let go, but you can't let go many times. It's got you there, alternately going back and forth. But, you know, once they get a hold of that power, that political power, they can't let go of it any more than they could if it was a live wire. Just like their illegal non-citizen voting schemes, says the GOP, the New York State GOP chairman, just like their illegal non-citizen voting scheme,

Democrats' attempts to rig our election has now been slapped down by the courts. Absentee ballot voters have had the right in the past to amend their votes on election day for decades, for decades. But they are stripping them of those rights as part of this. So there's a whole bunch of different things that were put in to rig this election. This was sent to me by Michael. He says, hey, check this out. Thanks, Michael.

Dominion CEO lies on 60 Minutes. And at the same time, the government is issuing an advisory on these same machine, the Dominion machine. So first of all, this is what happened. It was on an Anderson Cooper is doing 60 minutes now. He had the CEO of Dominion voting systems, John Polis, and Polis is taking the Sandy Hook approach. He says people have been put into danger. Their families have been put into danger because they've said bad things about us.

He said, my kids are not even allowed to go to the door to accept a package. Unless we know it's from a verified center. We are under attack. Yeah, they're going to go. So we need to shut down Fox news. I need billions of dollars from Fox news and others because these people said some things about me and, um, things about me and it's affected my safety.

But this is what they have been arguing against all of us, really, is the basis of a lot of this social media censorship. You hurt my feelings. And even beyond that, this is dangerous. The kind of things that you're saying could get people hurt or killed. And so we have to shut down your speech. Again, I don't support this Sandy Hook lawsuit. I am upset equally, though, with Alex because he didn't defend the First Amendment.

Instead, he chose not to comply with the lawsuit process. And we know that. I mean, it's, you know, we know that because of the Perry Mason moment, among other things. I mean, you know, the narrative was, no, we did comply with it, and they're crooked, so they said we didn't comply with it. But then you had the Perry Mason moment when his lawyer sent the texts and emails that they claimed they didn't have.

Were you associated with a late Hugo Chavez? Asks Anderson Cooper. He says, absolutely not. Do you use a Venezuelan company's software that has been used to steal elections in other countries? Said Anderson Cooper. And what is he referring to? Anderson Cooper doesn't want to use the name Smartmatic.

Now that's what, you know, Smartmatic was one of the first electronic companies and it was created by some friends of Hugo Chavez. He used it to rig the elections in Venezuela and it has been involved in, this is all a matter of historical record. This is, Smartmatic has been accused in countries all over the world,

several provinces in Mexico, in Brazil, other Latin American countries, the Philippines, over and over again. You've seen them seeing accusations that they manipulated the election for leftist parties. And so that's what Cooper is referring to. He says, I can cut all this short, says the CEO of Dominion.

He says, we were founded in Toronto, which is where my family was from, and there's nothing to do with Venezuela. So Cooper said, well, can you flip votes in the computer system? Can you add votes that did not exist? He says, absolutely not. Now, that is not really necessarily, well, maybe that is the accusation some of these people are making.

I mean, they're saying that Dominion flipped the votes or whatever, and they're making accusations that because of connections between Dominion and Democrat politicians that this was in play. But the real issue is not whether or not Dominion can do it, but whether other people can do it.

Is it easy to hack into these machines? Yes, it is. It's been shown time and again. Even before you had the situations I've been talking about with DEF CON and Black Hat Conference in Vegas, you would have on a regular basis, I've got clips that I showed from the early 2000s, where you had a local news broadcast brought in a community college professor. At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football. The excitement, the roar, and the chance to reward you.

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Main market excluding specials and place bets. Terms apply. Bet responsibly. 18plusgamblingcare.ie Computer science professor and a couple of his kids. And on live TV, they showed, well, you know, we can insert this thumb drive. And this is like 20 years ago. We insert a thumb drive and it'll put a program on here,

the run in the background. And we've already preloaded what we want the ratio to be. So he pulls up some candidates there, places the votes, and he goes, you know, and you watch him vote for that one. It says, got it. But then what it reports is something completely different. It reports what was already pre-programmed in there. And he says, once it pushes out the response and everything, it will erase itself.

So if you don't have a way to go back and monitor the results, which is a big tell, when they do that in Texas, when they do that in New York and say, we don't want you to be able to see what the original votes were, when they want to destroy the audit process, well, you know, there's something fraudulent. And this is how we know that there's something fraudulent with the climate, McGuffin, because it wouldn't show us the data. Even when they got caught, some of the emails were released. I said, well, our models don't work.

We actually have a decline in temperature. How are we going to rig this? How are we going to hide the decline and so forth? Same thing with COVID. Look at how they have guarded the information. Look at how they tried to hide the information not only about COVID, but also about the vaccine. The FDA and Pfizer colluded.

Colluded. You want to talk about, is there any question that we have these government agencies have been completely corrupted and taken over in a partnership? They tried to hide it for 75 years. So if you try to hide the data, if you try to get rid of any auditing stuff, that is a big tell that this is all corrupt. So the question is can other people do it? Can other countries do it?

It could be people that are there locally. It could be people that are rigging these results at a national level. It could be somebody from another country that is doing it. And the answer to that is absolutely yes. Absolutely yes, they can be rigged by other people. So he says, we have paper ballots. So he says, you know, as people are saying, well, we've got to have paper ballots. He says, oh, we have paper ballots. What the machines do is they count those paper ballots in a way that makes it very easy for people to verify after the fact through means of audits and recounts.

Well, the problem is the machines are counting the ballots, right? And if the machines are counting the ballots and they're totaling them up internally, well, at that point, you can change it at that point. Or you can change it even when it's reported to the state boards of elections. You see, it's not who votes that counts, but it's who counts or what counts the vote that matters.

That was some advice from Stalin about how he got his super majorities. So as they point out here, they said, well, Dominion makes two types of machines. One is called a ballot marker. The other is called a scanner. So we have paper ballots, they said, well, uh, the reality is, you know, and he says, look, um, he said, I got into this because I watched the contested election in 2000 with the hanging chads and all that stuff. And he says, I got him interested in improving how paper ballots were marked and counted so there

you go that's his invention he had an idea he had an epiphany as he's looking at the hanging chads he thought you know we could take paper and we could mark it that's that's what he's trying to pretend that's all his machines are that's not all they are that's not all they are and that's not the essence of what is going on there uh no the you know his innovation was not that he realized that instead of punching a hole you could actually Mark on the paper with a pen uh that was not as innovation and by the way you know we look at this other article that came out at exactly the same time Western Journal you have Dominion voting machines have the potential to be breached, according to an advisory from the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, that's CISA.

These, of course, are the machines that caused controversy in the 2000 election, part of it, and that's just it. I mean, see, that's the problem I have with this election grift being run by the stop the steal people and Trump and all the rest of them. Save America and all the rest of that stuff. They have a very narrow, limited hangout. You want to talk about hanging chads. This is a limited hangout of this election.

They focus on a few things and they don't really offer any true solutions. Instead, they want to focus on, you know, a couple of the solution. As I said, well, before the election, I said, well, this whole thing is going to be meaningless because of the ballots that are being mailed out to everybody and all the rest of that stuff. The solution to it was to stop the charade of the lockdown. But of course, Trump wasn't going to do that. So he deserved to lose.

He deserved to lose. He was a loser who stole our freedom, who destroyed our Constitution, used it like toilet paper. And he deserved to lose for that alone. Not a second chance. Anyway, the Dominion machines says CISA are now shown to have nine vulnerabilities. How does that happen if all it is is just marking down a piece of paper and scanning in it? How could it have nine vulnerabilities?

You know, that's a total lie, what he said with 60 Minutes. And, of course, 60 Minutes is known for doing that. I can give you two other quick examples of where 60 Minutes has been used as propaganda for the establishment real quickly. One of them was, of course, the fact that they had cut their puff piece on Operation Warp Speed

and how the military was going to deliver it just like that as soon as they got the go-ahead. And when did they run that? Well, we had the election on Tuesday. On Saturday, the media coronated Biden. And then the next day on Sunday, they had that piece there and they ran it and said, we're ready to go as soon as they release it. The very next day, Pfizer says, we're ready to go. Who knew, right? I mean you know 60 minutes is just so incredibly dishonest you know another another one that i was personally involved in because i had my name added to the lawsuit when it got uh you know uh again the problem i had at info wars is that whenever i

would do a report uh they would if they they would either bury it or they would grab it and add sensational details to it to make it essentially false. And so there was Hamdi Ulukaya, who owns Chobani Yogurt, was somebody who was brought in from another country, set up by Chuckie Schumer and the Obamas and Gillibrand in New York. They essentially gave them for free, gave them for free a yogurt factory, like Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Well, this is, I'm the illogia, and the yogurt factory. And so they set this guy up in business, and then Michelle Obama decides that she wants healthy school lunches, and so you shouldn't have soda pop drinks. Instead, you should have Greek yogurt. Notice, Greek yogurt. This is what he specialized in. And set up a big contract for them and omitted the fact that most of his yogurt has as much sugar in it as a can of soda.

But that aside, yeah, he set up this factory out in Idaho. And there was an issue there was some of the people hits his preferred way to run his factories was to essentially get slave labor by bringing in people who didn't speak English to work in his factories and the Democrats loved that the virtue signal oh look at the good work that he's doing you know he just can't find any Americans to work in his in his factories but he can bring in these people from other countries. They bragged about the fact that he had so many different languages that were spoken on the manufacturing floor that they hired translators.

Because they don't want them to learn English. If they learn English, they could get a job somewhere else. He wants to keep them there. So anyway, all that stuff was happening. And so that trial that happened with some of these people that he brought in was hanging over the company. 60 Minutes had prepared a puff piece about what a wonderful man and entrepreneur he was. And they had that in the can. And as soon as the case was dismissed over these immigrants that they brought in that, uh, you know, were accused of raping some children, as soon as, uh, they, you know, kind of shove that to the side on, on a technicality or whatever,

as soon as that happened, 60 minutes ran its piece. And so my report was about the collusion between government and big media, specifically 60 Minutes. It was, I called it Chobani's own private Idaho. And dude didn't like that. So he made it about bringing in child rapists, which is not at all what happened. And he put that out and I changed it back and then he changed it back. And then we got sued because that's what InfoWars does. They make the truth unbelievable. They redirect you away from what is essentially the story.

And it's something that is false and gets you sued. And they, you know, anyway, that's their business model. So anyway, so, so far, nothing has happened, says CISA. Even though we got nine vulnerabilities trust us, it wasn't a factor. It wasn't a factor in the election. And we're going to fix this, but nothing has happened. You can believe us.

Hacking the machines would require both physical access to the devices and the election management system or the ability to alter files before being uploaded to the machine, said CISA. Well, that's not a problem. That's very easy to do, any of that. As a matter of fact, we found that when they did some of the investigation, all these voting machines are supposed to be air-gapped from the Internet. They're not supposed to have any connections to the Internet. But they found that a lot of them were. They also found that a lot of the machines were left unguarded.

They saw evidence that people had access to the machines. And again, if you have access to the machines, you can put your hacking software on a thumb drive and stick it on there, and you're done. And it can propagate because they're all networked together in an area. You only have to have access typically to a couple of machines in order to do that. The CISA advisory is based on a report by computer scientists. See, they didn't find it. You know, we got this big bureaucracy that was created for cybersecurity.

And again, this is simply to, the whole purpose of this thing was they took the P out of it. It was CISPA for the longest time. The purpose was to protect companies who are going to be the hired spies for the government and to make sure that those companies can't be sued by you for turning over information about you. So they called it CISPA, CISPA, CISPA for a long time. Then they took the P out and got it passed. But the P was for protection, And it wasn't your protection. It wasn't your privacy that they were trying to protect. It was your privacy that they were coming after.

And essentially deputizing these corporations and taking away, which they've already done, but taking away any possible legal liability they had. Because it was always a difficult thing for the corporations. They would get a notification from the government saying, you know, you got information on David Knight. We'd like to have that. Well, I don't know. He might sue me if I turn over his private information. And so there was that tension back and forth.

So now they can say, no, he can't do that. We've got the CISA Act. But it also created a bureaucracy, which wasn't able, interestingly enough, for the last two years, even though there was a lot of discussion about this, this agency of hacking specialists and cybersecurity specialists were not able to find this vulnerability. And so somebody else did and pointed out there's nine vulnerabilities.

So they have to report it, but then they lie to people and say, well, I'm sure it wasn't exploited. I'm sure nobody knew about it except this computer scientist, J. Alex Halderman of the University of Michigan. He has previously argued for multiple safeguards to be put in place for voting machines and has said that hand-marked paper ballots are the most secure way to vote. And, of course, hand-counting them is equally important. We're going to take a quick break, and when we come back,

we're going to talk about what is going on with free speech, with Elon Musk. Did he do a very, very clever move? Zero Hedge thinks that he did, in terms of maybe he's found a way to get out of the Twitter purchase yet again. And yet it also brings up issues that even if he does purchase it. At LiveScoreBet, we love Cheltenham just as much as we love football.

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Everybody would think that I actually knew the answers to everything. Well, if you were the richest man in the world, if I were an Elon, everybody would write articles about everything that I have to say. So Elon Musk predicts that the U.S. will be in recession until the end of, until spring of 2024. And I guess at that point in time, you know, he's looking at that and maybe he's thinking, well, you know, 2024, if they end the recession, oh, that'll put them in good stead for the election in 2024. Look at this.

We got everything turned around six months ago, right? The problem with all that is that I don't know what magic wand the government has that they can make this happen. I mean, I've seen what happened when the government let inflation get out of control. And I know how desperately Jimmy Carter and Nixon and Gerald Ford all wanted to fix it. But all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put it together again

after that egg got knocked off of the wall of inflation. You know, they can break things, but they can't necessarily fix them. They can start wars, but, um, you know, it's ending them is another issue, just like inflation. So, uh, Elon Musk says the U S actually is in, he says, of course, in North America, we're pretty good health. He says a little bit of what of that is raising interest rates more than they should. But he says, I think they'll eventually realize that and bring them down, I think. So again, like everybody else, he believes that they're going to cave, that they'll do a pivot. As I said before, the question

is, at what point will they do it? Raising the interest rates, as Gerald Sunte points out every time we talk, they're down at a fraction of what the actual inflation rate is. I mean, even if you go with the official inflation rate, it's a fraction of the official inflation rate. But the actual inflation rate is twice that. Remember, they changed the way they reported inflation and calculated inflation back in the 90s. They changed it a couple of times to make themselves look better. And so it's not an honest reporting of the inflation rate, but even at the dishonest lower rate that is half of what the actual rate is, if you calculate it the way they always used to,

they're still only setting the interest rates up at a fraction of what it is. But look at the damage that does to the economy as they're putting in these big jumps of, uh, you know, nearly a basis point each time. So, um, he goes on to say, it's foolish to buy a new gasoline car at this point. So buy my cars. Why is it foolish to buy a new gasoline car? Um, well, simply because of government prohibition. That's the only reason that you wouldn't get a gasoline car.

I mean, we have the capability to get all the oil that we need. It's not fossil fuels. Don't let them gaslight you with that term. There's more than enough that is out there. It's not a shortage of it. Well, we don't have a shortage of fuel. We have an abundance of regulation. And so what we need to do is we need to end government, not internal combustion engines, because government is the engine of destruction and they're trying to destroy everything in our lives. So getting to Twitter, Musk is planning to fire 75% of the Twitter staff says Washington post. They think that's a bad thing.

I think they're probably pretty bloated if they've got about 10,000 workers. I think they're bloated for what they're doing, but of course, you know, they have to have people that are dedicated to, uh, to following me. And I doing. But of course, you know, they have to have people that are dedicated to following me. And I know, I've seen this, you know, they would remove bunches of people from me Monday through Friday, and then it would go up over the weekend, and then they would come back to work and then start taking people off again. I'm not even interested in playing in that space anymore. I'm going to wait and see. I mean, I put up the shows there, but I'm not interested in in playing in that space anymore. I'm going to wait and see.

I mean, I put up the shows there, but I'm not interested in social media in general, specifically in Twitter. The Washington Post also managed to find a number of experts willing to damn Musk's reported plan, apparently forgetting that, number one, he already runs a number of successful companies very well, and two, you don't become the richest man in the world by making business decisions that would hurt the products that customers want. Well, I disagree with that. That's Zero Hedge saying that.

I think they're wrong about that. Number one, he's the king of crony capitalism. If the government's going to give you, and this is the case when I first started talking to Eric Peters probably about eight years ago. At that point in time, the LA Times talked about how Elon Musk was the king of crony capitalism. They had given him about the amount, you know, it was like $4 or $5 billion at that point in time, which is pretty close to the net worth of Donald Trump. Just imagine having all that money, you know, the entire net worth of Donald Trump as rich

as he is just given to you by the government. You have to be pretty bad in order to fail with that kind of stuff. All you have to do is go out and hire the right people to do your work for you. You don't have to. Anyway, um, so, you know, it's, it's pretty hard to fail when they're giving you billions of dollars. And, uh, secondly, um, the business decisions, you know, he's been making a product that only 1% of the people can afford to buy or wanted to buy. They're being driven into this, that the products that he makes, not as the government, you

know, subsidizing everything they does, they're rewarding other people to buy his product. They're punishing other people who don't buy his product. So what will he do with Twitter? That is the real issue here. And sorry, hang on a second. The real issue is how he's going to get out of this thing, frankly. You know, the Biden administration has begun a national security review of Elon Musk's ventures.

We need to look at him because he has made a couple of statements about how we should try to have peace in Ukraine, which I absolutely agreed with what he had to say. He was spot on about it, but it got his allies and the deep state and in the Pentagon, got them very upset about that. It also got them very upset when he said, Hey, we're bleeding a tremendous amount of money here with Starlink,

and we need to get paid by the Pentagon. And then he backtracked within a day or so. He said, never mind, you know, I'll just do my patriotic duty. They expect him to lose money because they've been channeling massive amounts of money to him over the longest time. So he said, yeah, the number one goal here is to try to not go bankrupt. But no, the number one goal is to please the government. That's what ESG is all about. Elon Musk is the prime example of it. It's about crony capitalism.

It's about corruption. It's about making sure that the government, your customer, is satisfied. Well, now the government is not happy about that because of the things that he's said. So one month ago, Zero Hedge joked that should the Delaware judge force Musk to buy Twitter, then none other than the U.S. government would step in and prevent him from gaining control over the echo chamber of record, the one social media network which congressional testimony after congressional testimony has argued it can manipulate the outcome of elections. Well, that prediction is about to come true. According to Bloomberg, the Biden administration is discussing whether the U.S. should subject some of Musk's ventures to national security reviews, including the deal for Twitter and also SpaceX's Starlink satellite network. In short, not only is the deep state

preparing to block Musk's acquisition of Twitter on national security grounds unclear what that would achieve as the stock would crater to single digits, especially after the snap earnings and so forth. Anyway, they said, but it may expropriate Musk's satellite pet project too, all for daring to ask a question about the U.S. involvement in Ukraine. You understand how that works?

See, this is the system that we have here. When you look at this, and this is the reality, they partnered with Elon Musk in the same way that Fauci partnered with Pfizer and he partnered with GlaxoSmithKline in the past and partnered with Moderna. You have these government officials and they partner with them. Same thing that happens in Chinese Communist Party. You have to have a Communist Chinese Party member that is going to be sitting on the board. They can steal the plans of what you're going to do. But they also get to share in the profit. Or you don't have a company.

And so that's really what we're looking at here. If you have a situation where you come in and your company is run on environmental, social, government goals, ESG, then when you don't follow those goals, they will take that away from you. And so that's what they're saying here. They might expropriate, quote unquote. In other words, steal, nationalize. Our government has become like Venezuela. It's become like China.

He develops a Starlink satellite system. They are his customer. They decide that they don't want to rely on him anymore. They just confiscate it in the name of national security, of course, because you can do anything in the name of national security. So as Bloomberg puts it, U.S. officials have grown uncomfortable over Musk's recent threat to stop supplying the Starlink satellite service to Ukraine.

He says it's cost him $80 million so far. And what they see as his increasingly Russian-friendly stance following a series of tweets that outlined a peace proposal favorable to Putin. So you become an enemy of the deep state an enemy of the pentagon if you talk about peace can't talk about peace what does that tell you what does that tell you who wants war the people who punish the people who talk about peace are the people who want war. The people who have provoked a war in so many different ways. They're also concerned by his plans to buy Twitter with a group of foreign investors. Now, Zero Hedge has an interesting take on this.

They see this as a masterstroke by Elon Musk. And I agree with him. Did Musk want this kind of result? Not necessarily losing Starlink, but does he want them blocking his purchase of Twitter? Why would he want to buy Twitter at that inflated price? In short, Musk created just enough pro-Putin innuendo around himself, ostensibly even telling Ian Bremmer that he spoke directly with Putin. He then denied this after it

was published. But he created just enough pro-Putin innuendo about himself to provoke the U.S. government to intervene on security grounds. After all, you can't have the world's most valuable public forum in the hands of a pro-Putin fanatic. Yeah, it's got to be in the hands of people who are going to censor on behalf of the U.S. government. Censor the people that we want you to censor, which is the way Rubio put it in his hearings. You will censor who we tell you to censor, right? Which may have been precisely what Musk wanted. As we said 10 days ago, when news of Musk's Putin phone call first

emerged, they said there's no easier way to kill the Twitter deal than to have the Department of Justice step in and prohibit it. And while the world's richest man would never come out and confirm any of this, he did the next best thing late on Thursday when in response to a fellow reader's reaction to the Bloomberg article, he said, quote, it would be hysterical if the government stopped Elon from overpaying for Twitter, unquote. And somebody said that. And Musk responded simply by typing in 100% and a laughing emoji. Because the collapse of the deal would be just what Musk wanted and what he intended from the very beginning.

So this whole thing could be an elaborate scam in order for him to get out of, uh, of, uh, purchasing Twitter. Now I had a sheriff Hathaway, David Hathaway. I've talked to him many times and he had excellent op-ed piece that he wrote

about the Mennonites and voluntary society last week that I spent a good deal of time on. And he sent this to me. This was sent around. You can now become a certified social media intelligence expert. Oh. He said, take a look at this. I thought you'd get a laugh out of it.

And it is funny. This is the ad. It says, become a social media intelligence expert and you can do it now for 80% off. Yeah. Look at that. There's, there's the ad there and, um, and it's being run by, get this by the McAfee Institute.

And that's how I looked at this. And I thought, you know, what would John McAfee say about this? Since I thought, well, you'd probably appreciate the scam, I think, and laugh at the scam. McAfee Institute's Social Media Intelligence Expert Certification. A certified expert. In what? In spying on people on social media. You can become,

I think they just ought to shorten it up and call it Karen spies. You know, you can be a Karen and a spy at the same time. Uh, again, I don't know. Karen does not like the fact that it's become, and I understand,

I think we should call them Gladys's, you know, as in, uh, Gladys Kravitz or more contemporary reference would be Gladys Bergiculian, you know, from Australia. She's more of a Karen than anybody. But no, certification makes it easy and affordable

to gain the credentials necessary to be recognized as one of the most elite cyber investigators around the world. What does it take to become an elite expert? That's just a couple of days. That's part of their self pitch. You know, you can, it's not going to take you years. It's not going to take you months. It'll take you days and you can become an expert. And they use that term over and over and over. Position yourself as an industry recognized expert with this social media expert course. Just like that, you're an expert. And presumably there's going to be some kind of a ceremony like the Wizard of Oz, you know, where they come out and he hands you a medal that looks like that medallion there.

And by the authority invested in me, e pluribus unum, or whatever other Latin phrase he thinks he's heard of at some point in time. You can earn your certification just a few short weeks instead of months. And you can learn how to spy on people's cell phones and mobile phones, how to search and monitor social networks, Google advanced search techniques, deep web and dark net investigations. You can explore cryptocurrency and you can investigate terrorism

on social media, all of this. Uh, and, and so there's multiple appeals. They use the term expert over and over again. And, um, and how easy it is to become an expert. And now you can do, you can become an expert at 80% off and repeated over and over again. So what are you waiting for? What are you? And just like climate stuff, just like the pandemic, just like the vaccine.

Got to do it right now. There's no time, no time left. Absolutely no time. So thanks for sending that to me, David. That is very funny in a really dark Orwellian way. When we come back, I'm going to finish up the news here. We have some updates on Biden and his student loan forgiveness program. It's on again.

It's off again. And now it's off again. We'll be right back. Stay with us. Decoding decoding the mainstream propaganda it's the david knight show all right and uh i was just taking a sip out of my certified expert coffee cup here the david knight show coffee cup here uh and i really like this i've started using this now fits better in my cup holder in my car than the one i was using it's made by koozie one of the things i like about it's got a um a rubber thing on the bottom just like the one that i used to

have so it doesn't clank and and slide around but does a great job of keeping the coffee hot talk about biden's's student loan forgiveness program, the first of several court challenges to achieve any level of success. The Supreme Court rejected a separate challenge on Friday, but a day earlier, a federal district judge

had rejected a challenge that was brought by a group of Republican attorneys general from six different states. That federal district judge said state governments don't have any standing. That decision was immediately appealed to the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, which issued the administrative stay on Friday night. Now, we also have another case that clearly does have standing. One of the conservative law firms has an individual that works with him for them.

And as he points out, he was part of a forgiveness program because he was doing public service legal things. And he said that this would actually be, he would actually be harmed by this because the results or the forgiveness that he would get from Biden's loan program would be taxable. He'd have to pay tax on that. Whereas the current program that's there that he's already getting forgiveness from, he doesn't have to pay taxes on. So he clearly has a standing in this. It affects him personally. But the key issue, again, is this executive order, this perpetual Orwellian medical martial law that goes on and on and on. And these six attorneys general need to focus on that. That was the legal prevarication that Biden based this on.

He said, I got the authority for this because there's this COVID emergency that's there. Even though he says that it's all over. He said it's all over. And yet the dictator, because that's what he is, the law comes it's all over. He said it's all over, and yet the dictator, because that's what he is, the law comes out of his mouth. The law is whatever he dictates. So the dictator then says, no, we do have an emergency, and I'm going to use it to buy votes just before the election.

So anyway, see in this story here from Reason, they're still using the figure of $400 billion. Nowhere close to that. If you go back and you look at the different categories of what they were doing years ago, and you look at the overall, you take the pie that they had of the non-performing loans and what percentage they were, and if you apply that now to the size of the pie that is bigger and say, well, you know, if we had X number of non-performing loans before the pandemic, now after the pandemic, we're going to have at least that many or more. If we have at least that many, that percentage of the bigger pie is going to be nearly a trillion dollars.

So that's something that constantly annoys me whenever I see even the people who are opposed to this program, A, don't understand the core issue of it, and that's the Trump order, 956 days old. Number two, they under-report how much this is going to be. And I'll say this, number three, you've got a welfare program, a major entitlement program. Anybody that they don't know, see, that's the whole point of an entitlement program. You don't know how many people are going to qualify for it. You can guess, but you don't know.

Anybody who meets these qualifications gets the money. They're entitled to the money. That's what you mean by an entitlement program. Well, he created an entitlement program, a massive one, just by dictate. How in the world do we get to a situation where the president can do gun control by executive order. The president can create welfare programs by executive order. I'm sick and tired of the president as dictator. And Donald Trump did a great deal to push that can down the road with his

stimulus checks, with his saying, well, I take the guns and do the due process later. But he's the first one to do gun control by executive branch Fiat. Last mile automation carnage as both FedEx and Amazon are giving up on delivery robots. They talk about the last mile delivery. And I've watched this, as I've seen lately, packages being sent. I noticed that even if it was something that was international

like this um paperless thing that i'm using now uh i was amazed at how quickly it got to the u.s and then every and i could watch the progress of it through dhl every step it got exponentially longer um and so it's like oh wow it got here but they're saying it's going to take another you know week to 10 days or something to get here and uh then it takes a lot longer to go a very short distance it keeps getting slower and slower and slower i don't know if it's ever going to get here. It's like the, uh, the asymptote, you know, where it constantly approaches, it approaches zero, but it never quite gets there in terms of speed. But, um, as you, as they start handing it off to other people to take the next

part of the delivery, it would get slower and slower. And so they're talking about the last mile of delivery. They had a FedEx had an interesting robot, which could carry a hundred pounds worth of stuff and had a bunch of wheels all over. It had, it was looked like it was a vertically, uh, uh, you know, challenged, looked like it was top heavy, but, uh, it had wheels in the back. And so it had a whole bunch of different wheels. So it can navigate things like curbs and stuff like that. And even if it got into trouble, they could remotely control it with humans controlling it. But now FedEx and Amazon have, within one week, abruptly changed all this stuff. But just understand that it may be a different story when it comes to drones. That's one of the reasons why Jeff Bezos has positioned himself like Elon Musk,

you know, to be a partner of government. You know, they're not going to shut them down when they lock the rest of us down, as you saw with Trump. When it comes to drone delivery, everybody knows that Amazon's going to be allowed to do it. But the question is, how many other people will be? There'll probably be another one or two companies that are authorized to do that. But they've already said, no, we can't have everybody doing this. So we'll let the big guys do it, just like we let the big guys stay open during the pandemic. Everybody else will be locked down. Again, as we look at the lockdowns, remember it was the CDC under Trump that took the amazing

step of saying, we will put a moratorium on all evictions and foreclosures. And they extended it under Trump at least once, maybe twice. And then they started doing it multiple times under Biden. And then even the Supreme had a lot, a lot of lawsuits obviously about that. And the Supreme court said, well, clearly they don't have the authority, but Kavanaugh was the deciding vote. And he said, I'm not going to,

they said that they're going to stop it this month. So I'm going to let them end it instead of us doing it. Why would you do that? Well, because, you know, we want to establish the fact that they've got the power to do whatever they want. That's why Kavanaugh would do that. But they didn't end it that month. They extended it again. And so then they came back to the Supreme Court. And that time his hand was forced.

And so they did forcefully end it. However, it's still going on in California, in L.A., L.A. County. And a judge is now blocked by what the judge says is unconstitutionally vague eviction moratorium. There is no rational basis for LA County to keep its eviction moratorium in effect for nearly three years, especially since the health crisis ended long ago, says the president of an apartment owners association in California. But again,

like I said before, it's about grasping power. And it's just like that other court case where they said this is a perpetual Orwellian dictatorship. Yes, just like the loan forgiveness. It is all about that. Unless we understand what is fundamental to this, we're never going to fix this. And that's the problem.

Nobody's talking about this. We've got an election going. Why don't we have it? And this is the thing that amazed me. In 2020, in the middle of all that, yeah, you had a lot of people who were scared. So you could look at it and you could say, well, the politicians are afraid to take this on

because everybody thinks there's a pandemic out there. But now that there is no pandemic and the orders are still there and we've got yet another election, virtually none of these candidates are taking this on and saying, we've got to stop this. 19 states are going to be investigating banks for ESG-style commitment to a UN alliance. You want to know where all this stuff is coming from? Of course, it's the alliance between the UN and Davos, but there's also a net zero

banking alliance, and that is something that is coming out of the UN. The alliance's website states that its members control roughly 40% of the world's banking assets, and they're committed to aligning their lending and investment portfolios with net-zero emissions by 2050. As the website says, the net-zero banking alliance is a massive worldwide agreement by major banking institutions overseen by the UN to starve companies engaged in fossil fuel-related activities of credit on national and international markets. That's a press release, actually, from the Missouri Attorney General. But that's the whole point.

And a large part of that are the big hedge funds, like BlackRock, run by Larry Fink. The three big ones have about 30% of it, and the rest of this stuff is coming from these other ones. So this coalition of state attorneys general said, we are leading a coalition investigating banks for ceding authority to the UN. That's exactly what has happened, which will only result in the killing of American companies

that don't subscribe to the woke climate agenda. In other words, this is like Operation Chokepoint that Obama started doing for gun manufacturers and gun retailers saying, well, we're not going to let them have any banking services. We've seen it being pushed out there by PayPal, Venmo, and others. We're not going to allow you to use our banking services. We're going to shut you off of the digital public square. And now, if you don't push the climate agenda, we are going to make sure you can't do any financial business.

So the states that are involved in this, Arizona, Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia are the states that are now investigating these banks through a powerful tool known as a civil investigative demand. Now, when you look at what they're doing, there's also another approach to shutting down this ESG choke point, financial choke point. And that has been put out there by a couple of state attorneys general as well. And that is to come after them for violation of their fiduciary responsibility.

If you are an investor in a company, you invest because you believe that they're going to do their best to make the company profitable. That is their goal. The company is supposed to make money. And so as a stockholder, you invest in a company because they've made you promises about how their priority is to make money. And when all of a sudden, after you've invested in them, they change their priorities and now their priority is not to serve customers, but to push a woke agenda. You know, you got Coca-Cola that wants to tell us that all white people are racist, or you got NASCAR essentially doing the same thing. They're not interested in making money.

They're interested in serving the government agenda or the UN agenda, whatever the agenda might be. And so you've had some state attorneys general who have come after them saying, this is financial deception. They're putting themselves out here as a corporation, but they're not acting as a corporation. They're not trying to make money. So that's another way to attack this. But anyway, this particular investigative demand, one demand encompasses the following request, quote, describe your involvement in each global climate initiative in which you participate, including the date you first began participating, any promises, pledges, or other commitments that you made to the Global Climate Initiative,

or any actions you made or took pursuant to or consistent with such commitments, or your initial or ongoing participation, and the employee is responsible for managing your relationship with each Global Climate Initiative. In other words, when did you start doing this? What have you promised to do, and to whom did you promise to do this? That's good. I hope they get somewhere with that. But there's so many different areas to look at.

Thank you, Mary Russell. I appreciate the tip. Thank you very much. She writes, God bless you and your family. Key thoughts, prayers, and strive to live as God intended for us. I so appreciate you being away from Infowars. Well, thank you. It has been a blessing. It really has. To not be involved in any of that stuff that is happening. And seeing some of the people who are still there, I'm very concerned for them because, you know, it rots from the top down

just like any other institution, and it is getting pretty rotten. Anyway, what is happening with our taxpayer? We want to talk about ESG. Let's talk about it on steroids. Here's the State Department is giving tens of thousands of dollars to a very poor country, Ecuador, in order to push drag performances. Stop and think about this. This is what our country has become. We have become a dissemination point for corruption. And we see this in so many different ways. When we had the beginning of all this stuff with Putin in Ukraine, even before Putin made his

move, you had both officials in the US as well as in the UK openly talking about, these are our values, LGBT and the rainbow flag. They're more interested in that, far more interested in the rainbow flag than they are in the U.S. flag. They're far more interested in the LGBT agenda than they are in the Constitution or anything else, and they certainly don't want peace. Their agenda is to push this stuff everywhere, worldwide. I mean, we know that for the longest time, America has been essentially, you know, the

Sodom and Gomorrah cesspool of the world coming out of Hollywood. Very, very effective propaganda, you know, a real degeneracy for the entire world's culture coming out of America. It would have been dominant in terms of culture, and the dominant culture, of course, coming out of Hollywood and pushing these Hollywood values. But here we have the U.S. government, as they're talking about, you know, our values are LGBT and all the rest of this stuff,

now pushing this into Ecuador. Twelve drag theater performances, $20,000 in taxpayer money into this poor country in Ecuador. The money for the initiatives besides the drag theater performance also includes three workshops and a two-minute documentary film. A two-minute documentary film. How do you call something that's a two-minute clip? A documentary. How do you call something that's a two-minute clip a documentary?

The program's goal is to promote tolerance and to let people express themselves freely and safely, said a spokesperson. This is the beard under which they do all of this sexualization of children. All of this perversion is done in the name of tolerance. Do they seem to be very tolerant to you? Are they tolerant of anybody who disagrees with them? Of course not. They demand you celebrate what they do and not get in their way. You have a federal judge has sided with DeSantis in blocking a bill, refuses to block a bill that will ban sexual content in Florida's classrooms.

And this is really only for the very young. Remember, we talked about this. I don't know what it is that, you know, once you get past eight or nine, it's now okay for the government to define what sex is and to teach sexual practices and to expose minors to pornography and all the rest of the stuff. Why is that okay? Anybody that's in the Florida school system, K through 12, is still a minor for the most part. So why is it okay to sexualize the kids that are older than third grade?

I don't understand that. In many different ways, this is very much like the virtue signaling that we see. And look, I'm glad they're stopping it for the very, very young. It's something at least. And I'm glad that they're not going to mandate the COVID vaccine in order to go to school in Florida and in some other places.

But look at all the vaccines that they are mandating, that Trump was pushing. And look at how, vaccines that they are mandating, that Trump was pushing. And look at how, when you hear these people talk about it, when you hear DeSantis talk about the vaccines, and he says, well, you know, if we want to get it, we're not stopping you from getting it. You want to get it and give it to your kids, we'll still let you do that. We're just not going to be involved in that as part of the government, but we have no duty to protect children. Really? You don't have any duty to protect children from a toxic genetic code injection? You have no duty to protect against that? Yes, you do.

Children are a special thing. I mean, you know, if, again, they are minors, and if the parents will not protect them, the state needs to step in and protect them and to pretend that this is you know well you know it it doesn't really you know it adds a lot of risk to their life it doesn't really do anything for them but hey if you want to do that to your kid go for it no no so they're going to prevent the prohibit sexual content in school curricula for young children, but they will allow it for older children, minors, all the way up to graduation. That's the sad part about all of this.

In Tennessee, there was a rally on Friday, a rally to end child mutilation. This took place in downtown Nashville. Nashville is a pretty, uh, liberal area. Uh, probably maybe one of the most liberal areas of, um, Tennessee because of the massive amount of money that's there. I don't know. Memphis is, I think, also pretty liberal. You had some guy who's been there forever and ever, a Democrat who was the chair of the January 6th committee.

And what a joke he is. So, you know, Memphis is pretty solid core Democrat. But Nashville is pretty liberal as well. This is led by Matt Walsh there in Nashville. They had about 2,000 people turned out for a rally to end child mutilation. A group of counter-protesters, favoring what they call transgender rights for children, tried to shout down the speakers by chanting, screaming profanities, and using sirens. No, they don't have, children do not have transgender rights.

But when we look at the appropriate response to this, government should step in and stop this for the same reason that government is going to say, well, we're going to not let teachers give kids alcohol. We're not going to let parents give kids alcohol. We're not going to let kids smoke or drive cars or own guns or shoot guns or whatever at a particular age. Why?

Because they're kids. And so the government has a duty to protect, but they don't, they don't do that. Stacey Abrams, meanwhile, was defending abortion, quote-unquote, rights in a sermon at a Baptist church. What is this about church and state? Well, I thought the liberals didn't want to have any connection between church and state. I thought you weren't allowed to mix those two in any way. I thought candidates were not allowed to talk about what their religious beliefs are. And yet we have Stacey Abrams doing this, and they celebrate it, of course. When it's done by liberals, liberals are allowed to have the free exercise of religion and free speech and all the rest of the stuff.

They're just the rest of us that are not allowed to have that. So she was at the Elizabeth Baptist Church. At first I thought this was the Ebenezer Baptist Church, which we're talking about. That's the one where Warnock, who's running for Senate, actually has Senate, he's running for re-election. But his Ebenezer Baptist Church, which is the church that Martin Luther King Jr. was at,

it's a very wealthy church. They own an apartment building, and one of the uncomfortable things for him, as pointed out by the Herschel Walker campaign, were all these people that were being evicted from the apartment building that was owned by the church for petty amounts. I mean, we're talking about 28 to 100 bucks,

and they were evicting people. Herschel Walker showed up with the paperwork. He showed up with the people who'd got the notices and all the rest of the stuff. Press didn't believe it, wouldn't report it for the most part. But Wilshire said, yeah, we should call it the Ebenezer Scrooge Baptist Church.

I mean, if you've got a church that's gonna buy an apartment building, you would think that they would be somewhat loving in terms of extending the dates and things like that. But these people were talking about how we got absolutely no notice, so we got behind a petty amount. They were kicking us out on the street. But anyway, last month, Stacey Abrams told MSNBC that she grew up in a, quote,

very religious family, unquote, who taught her that abortion was wrong. According to Abrams, her views altered after she went to college. Oh, imagine that. Yeah, that's the usual story, isn't it? And she met people who espoused Christian beliefs but supported keeping abortion legal. Over the course of the next few years, I really started thinking about what role should the legislature play? What role should government play? She said abortion is health care. And we got to talk about a woman's right to control her body. Suit and Wire because she has promoted and supported taking away your health care choices for the last couple of years when it comes to an imagined pandemic.

When we come back, we're going to take a look at something pretty amazing that has happened both in China and in the UK. Stay with us. We'll be right back. In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. You're listening to The David Knight Show. Strangely, they seem to give ballplayers nowadays very peculiar names. Funny names? Nicknames, pet names.

Not as funny as my name, Sebastian Dinwiddie. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Funnier than that? Oh, absolutely. Yes, now, on the St. Louis team, we have who's on first, what's on second, I don't know's on third. That's what I want to find out. I want you to tell me the names of the fellas on the St. Louis team. I'm telling you, who's on first, what's on second, I don't know who's on third. You know the fellas names? Yes. Well then who's playing first? Yes. I mean the fellas name on first base. Who? The fella playing first base for St. Louis. Who? The guy on first base. Who is on first? What are you asking me for? I'm not asking you, I'm telling you, who is on first? I'm asking you who's on first. That's the man's name. That's who's name? Yes. Well go ahead and tell me. Who? The guy on first. Who? The first base. who is on first i'm asking you who's on first that's the man's name that's whose name yeah well go ahead and tell me who the guy on first who the first base who is on first have you got a first baseman on first certainly then who's playing first absolutely

yeah okay who's on first well who's gone first out of the chinese communist party uh who was on first and then she came on second. I don't know what she's got against too. Well, actually you do have an idea of what she's got against who, uh, and it wasn't the fact that who didn't use she's preferred pronouns either. Um, I don't know how you pronounce that. X I is pronounced as she, well, they just, uh, put it as S-H-I or something like that, right? But yeah, X-I is she.

I think we just ought to call the guy 11. 11. Anyway, maybe 11 knows what's going on. But this footage came out of the Communist Party, Central Party, had their national conference. There's the guy sitting to the left of Xi. That's who. And they're pulling him up.

He doesn't want to get up. And the other guy said, and then he tries to take his paperwork with him. It's there in front of him. And Xi put his hand down on the paperwork so he couldn't get it. And it's like, come on, get up. You got to go. Your time is up. We're taking you out of here.

I don't know if they're escorting him out to give him a baseball bat treatment or something like that. But anyway, he still doesn't want to go. He doesn't want to go. So now a second guy has been pulled over there. And all these people are sitting there thinking, oh, maybe this is going to happen to me someday when I'm no longer in favor of the dictator. And there is Xi with his smirk on his face sitting right there. This guy still doesn't want to go. It's amazing, isn't it?

Yeah, this is what our country is about to become as well. Look at this. Go this way. He goes, no, no, no. I don't want to go that way. He still doesn't want to go. So, yeah, what is going on with this? This guy, Hu, is 79.

And they said, this is midway through the otherwise carefully choreographed closing session of the Chinese Communist Party Central Committee here. And, again, he's not happy at all. And he's looking, look at him. He's like, is this your idea? Yeah, yeah, it is, says the Xi.

You got to go. Other people pretend not to notice. That's life under an authoritarian dictatorship. And you know, the day is coming when the same thing will happen to Xi if he lives that long. He'll be shown the door or whatever else they're going to be showing this guy. That is the way it goes with these types of authoritarian governments. Footage shot by foreign media in the hall, which was

not included in the official China Central TV broadcast, showed Mr. Hu seemingly reluctant or unable to stand up when an aide tried to lift him off his chair. I don't know if that was an aide. I think it was a security guard. She leaned toward Hu and appeared to speak with him and also made sure he didn't take his paperwork with him either. You're not going to be needing that where you're going. The incident has gone unmentioned in Chinese state media coverage of the event.

By Saturday evening, however, the comments section of almost all Weibo posts containing Hu's name were no longer visible. They memory-holed the guy. Yeah. Yeah, authoritarian, Orwellian. they memory hold the guy. Yeah. Yeah. Authoritarian or William. It was a good thing that that didn't happen with our social media. Isn't it?

And it's great that we here in the free West, we don't make people disappear. Do we? And we don't purge people out of society. Do we? I'm afraid we do. And it's going to get more and more obvious. On Twitter, the Chinese news agency suggested that Mr. Hu's issue was health-related. They said Mr. Hu was not feeling

well during the session. Did he look like he was from who to who? Yeah, from HU to WHO. Mr. Hu was not feeling well during the session. He left the room to rest in a room. He left to rest. Now he is feeling much better. Thank you very much for your concerns. As some Chinese watchers have noted, if Hu were really purged, as some are speculating, the person said, I highly doubt that Chinese Communist TV would have shown him in the first place there because, uh,

as they began the Chinese communist TV report, they started panning across the room and they showed him, but, pull up that, uh, they've got a snapshot, their frozen frame, uh, in this story on zero hedge.

They said, still, does this look like the face of a man who wants to leave for health reasons? Look at him. He's angry and looking at she, she has now set the stage to extend his rule into a second decade. He's already done two terms, two five-year terms, because communists love five years, just like the Democrats do.

Everything is about five years. Magic number. He's already done 10 years, so this is going to be his third one. They did have a term limit where you could only do two terms. He got rid of that in 2018. But, you know, I have seen the Western press, especially the BBC and other people, maybe you're familiar with it,

I've shown some clips. It's actually some pretty funny puppet stuff that they do, making fun of the royal family, making fun of politicians. And, of course, they do American politicians as well. Very savage satire of politicians. They have a very funny Boris Johnson I've seen clips of, buffoon with the big hair and everything. And then they will portray certain calculating people in his cabinet

that they didn't like. They would portray them as a vampire or as a space alien. Uh, they would portray Trump, uh, very spot on, but they did have his, his Trump had a to pay that had a life of its own. It was a living, breathing, thinking, animated character. And that was sometimes do his own thing. So, I mean, they would do that type of stuff to everybody. But of course, you know, when they came to Biden or to Obama, they would show them as kind of, you know, not knowing what they were doing, but with a big perpetual grin on their face, friendly, you know. And when

they portrayed, but the only person that they didn't characterize, even, again, the cartoon character appearance of both Biden and Obama was muted and not derogatory in the way that they did Trump or Boris Johnson. But when they portrayed she, they didn't do anything cartoon about him. And I remember looking at that and said, well, that tells you something, doesn't it? They're afraid or they're owned by this guy. They do not want to mock president. She at all, not even on this vicious satire program, spitting image. So, um, so why was Hu taken out? Well, as a reminder, Zero Hedge says,

Hu advocated maintaining good relations with the U.S. And he was also an opponent of a military solution to the Taiwan issue. So if you are going to purge somebody along those issues, maybe that indicates something. The former CPC chairman being escorted out of the hall is a clear demonstration of the renewed anti-Western foreign policy of Beijing, which apparently is ready for all measures to defend its imagined sovereignty and its role as a superpower. The question remains, though, is it now in the deep state's favor

to make it seem like there is political discord at the top of China? Remember, an unstable China is a dangerous China, and that will require much bigger state and defense department budgets to battle, not to mention serve as a generous source of revenue for the Lockheeds and the Raytheons of the world, you know, Austin's company that he was working at. So it does look like that is perhaps what is actually happening, but of course it is going to be played up significantly by the U.S. so they can grow the relevant bureaucracies and funnel cash to their allies in the military industrial complex.

Yang Zhang had a commentary about this. He said, what we just saw was the making of an all Xi's men team, the breaking of a decade-long rules, and the birth of an unlimited supreme leader, the new Mao. These are not entirely surprising, but Xi's grab of power is still beyond our expectation. He is now a truly modern emperor. Xi will rule China for not one, but at least two, and likely three terms. He is now only 69 years old. Mao ruled China until his death at 83.

Deng kept the CMC chair until 1989 when he was 85. So don't expect Xi to retire anytime soon. There is no successor. Nobody has been mentioned. Nobody is going to put their name out there or they're going to be escorted out just like who. Xi is too young to pick a successor. His ministers have no interest in suggesting one. Potential candidates dare not imply.

And Xi's future successor is now a nobody who is not even in the Central Committee at this time. Succession may not be an issue for at least another five years. The rule of age limit is now gone completely, as well as the multiple, uh, term limits that we have seen. And the guy that, uh,

replaced, uh, the guy that is the number two is somebody who is nothing other than just a sycophant, uh, to she, the guy with no qualifications that, uh,

anybody can notice the China Congress has ended with a dictator for life. As some are putting it, he's stacked the inner circle with loyalists. One day after they took out who, she walked into the Great Hall of the People, followed by members of the Communist Party's new Politburo Standing Committee. And they came in in descending ranking order. Well, that's exactly what it looks like in an authoritarian regime. And that really is where we are headed as well.

Despite, during the Congress, rather, Xi called for faster military developments, self-reliance and strength in technology, defense of China's interests abroad, which raises the likelihood of further conflict. The party has tightened control over entrepreneurs who generate jobs and wealth, prompting warnings that rolling back black market-oriented reforms will weigh on economic growth that sank to 2.2% in the first half of this year. You see, as we go into a worldwide recession, China is having growth which would,

typically, that's the max that would be allowed for our society before the Federal Reserve would step in and the government would step in and cap it. But they're still allowed to grow while everybody else is contracting. Clearly, it is a return to a much more state-controlled type of economy. This means for private businesses that they'll be on an even shorter leash with party committees everywhere. But isn't this what we're seeing here in America?

That's why I say this is coming to America, right? You're kept on a very short leash by the government. Increasingly, the only companies that are allowed to prosper are the ones who have a lot of government ties and friends in government. That's one of the reasons why you're seeing billions of dollars being given to politicians for this election. That is a metric of corruption. It is a metric of how much influence and control the government is exerting over the economy. We don't have a free market economy. We have an economy where the people who please the government will succeed and those who don't won't. And that's the kind of system that has been

developed and practiced and perfected in China, and they want that for everybody. China has become the beta site for testing all of these different things. Under a revived 1950s propaganda slogan, Common Prosperity, Xi is pressing entrepreneurs to help to narrow China's wealth gap by raising wages and paying for rural job creation and other initiatives. Don't they sound like Democrats? It's exactly the same thing that Democrats are doing. Xi, in a report to Congress last week,

called for regulating the mechanism of wealth accumulation, suggesting that entrepreneurs might face still more political pressure, but gave no details. An economist said, I would worry if I were a very wealthy individual in China. Well, you know, the only thing that we could look at with this and say that perhaps this might be good for us is that the more they centralize their economy, the weaker they become.

But the same thing is true of us as well. Take a look at what is happening with electric vehicles, for example. Take it easy. Take it easy. They'll take it any way they can get it. Biden's energy strategy is already backfiring ahead of this election, as Mike Shedlock says,

Democrat odds in the November election are plummeting fast because of energy, crime, inflation. Those are three reasons. Well, actually, energy and inflation are one issue. That is, they're tied together. Yes, we've had quantitative easing. Yes, we've had zero interest rates and everything, but the inflation has, as I pointed out, kicked off this dumpster fire and now Biden is pouring our fuel on it.

There is a doctored YouTube video showing Biden's press secretary, Jean Pierre, walking out after she's being questioned by Peter Doocy. Peter Doocy said, you're asking oil companies to further lower gas prices? What makes you think that they're likely, that they're going to listen to an administration that is ultimately trying to put them out of business? And she kind of stops and goes, how is the administration trying to put them out of business? So she doesn't know. And he said, well, they produce fossil fuels. And the president says that he wants to end fossil fuels. And she's kind of taken back by that. And she reads some

prepared responses. She flips through her page or their book there. And she says, so like you kind of asked this question yesterday. Here's what we would say. U S oil production is up and it's on a track to reach a record high next year. Oh, well, uh, if, uh, oil production is at a record high, then why are there record high prices, right? Well, these people don't believe in supply and demand anymore, right? And first of all, why is she bragging about production being up when they don't want any production, right? They do want to shut down fossil fuels.

But if production is at a record high, then what about Biden's pledge to kill the industry? And he's made that point over and over again. Listen to this. So you're asking oil companies to further lower gas prices. What makes you think that they are going to listen to an administration that is ultimately trying to put them out of business? How is the administration trying to put them out of business? We are getting rid of fossil fuels. How is the administration trying to put them out of business? I guarantee, I guarantee

we're going to end fossil fuel. How is the administration trying to put them out of business? No more, no new fracking. How is the administration trying to put them out of business? There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. Soacking. How is the administration trying to put them out of business? There's no question I'm in favor of banning fracking. So, yeah. How is the administration trying to put them out of business? Well, what about, say, stopping fracking and stopping the pipeline infrastructure? New pipeline, exactly. Yeah, yeah.

First thing he did was get rid of the pipeline, right? Very first thing. And now he's put sanctions on the number two producer of oil for the war. But of course, it's not working either. All that's doing is raising the price for American and European consumers. While Putin, the person that this is supposedly aimed at, is making far more money selling far less oil. How is that helpful? How is that helpful? How is that working? Well, how is all this happening?

When you say, well, they're producing, production is up and on a track to reach a record high next year, but of course it hasn't reached that record high. But the real issue is refining capacity, as we've said before. This is why you've got, even as they produce more, you wind up with a bottleneck there. That's what the problem is in California. They have a very specific blend that they are demanding. And that's why the gap between California and the rest of the country, even number two, Oregon, which has very, very high taxes. California is way beyond that because of refining issues.

So it's refining capacity. It's regulations. It's the threat and the demand that they're going to kill fossil fuel. And they made it very clear. And he is on his way to killing the strategic petroleum reserve. If you look at this going back to 1982, uh, it is headed down to nearly the point at which it was starting. It's amazing how much has been taken out. We are now 44% down from peak reserves, and 36% of that decline came from the Biden regime.

The administration said Wednesday it may continue releases as long as quote-unquote conditions require. In other words, political conditions. But this is unsustainable. The SBR, the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, has fallen by about 210 million barrels since last fall. The administration says that the 400 million or so barrels that remain are more than ready to respond to energy security needs today. In other words, they've taken down about a third of it. The administration is fast depleting the particular grade of crude that is used in U.S. refineries.

What is not being taken out is the grade of crude, light, sweet, crude, light, sweet, crude, that comes from Shell, and that is being exported. But listen to the way this, there's only been three other times when the Strategic Petroleum Reserve has been drawn down. Now, Biden has taken out 210 million barrels. And here's what happened in the other three times when they took it down. It was a real emergency. It wasn't being used for political purposes to try to temporarily, before the election, take the price down because they're not doing anything to get their foot off the throat of producers.

But it was done during operation desert storm in 1991. They drew out 17 million barrels for operation desert storm. Biden has taken out 210, not 17, but 210 hurricane Katrina. When that happened and it took out a bunch of oil refineries, right? It came through there. That was in 2005.

At that point in time, they took out 21 million. Biden has taken out 10 times what was taken out for Hurricane Katrina, 210 million. The Libyan oil disruptions of 2011, Obama did not resort to emergency drawdowns to reduce gas prices. He took out 31 or 30.6 million for the Libyan crisis. Biden has taken out 210 for a crisis that he created in order to cover up temporarily before the election. The administration now says that it plans to encourage near-term production by announcing its intent to repurchase oil for the reserve when the price of West Texas Intermediate Crude falls to about $67 to $72 a barrel.

Who knows when this will happen, since the Saudis have indicated their intent to keep prices at about $90 to $100 per barrel. Who knows when this will happen, since the Saudis have indicated their intent to keep prices at about $90 to $100 per barrel. So again, he's going to pay way more than Trump did when he topped it up in 2020. I don't know if it's going to drop to that point. It's just an intent to do it. But how is that going to increase production? How is that going to increase refineries when he's telling everybody, I'm going to put you out of business? That's why the CEO of Chevron said there'll never be another refinery built in America. Not unless we can shut down this unconstitutional action

based on fear and panic from the UN Davos agenda about climate. So Zero Hedge says, we've been writing for months that Biden could deflate oil prices simply by giving a simple speech declaring an end to his political war on fossil fuels. That's all he has to do.

It's like, okay, the war is over. But he's not going to stop that war against fossil fuels anymore and he's going to, the war is over. But he's not going to stop that war against fossil fuels anymore, and he's going to stop the war against Russia. Instead, he resorts to gimmicks, like the SPR releases. He cozies up to dictators. Hours after OPEC announced its production cut, news leaked that the White House plans to ease restrictions on Venezuela

to liberate its oil production. Yeah, because that's fine if we get it from those communists, right? It's equally clear that Biden wants to shut down the industry while blaming them for a lack of production. Meanwhile, the White House press secretary is still bragging about record production. It's absolutely amazing. Biden will be a lame duck for the next two years, after which the damage that he can do is by executive orders,

damage by decree. And that could still be substantial, as we have seen over and over again. Just take a look at what is happening in terms of subsidies being handed out to electric vehicle companies. Obama handed out billions of dollars to solar and to wind power projects. The most famous of them was Solyndra. Remember that? It was $500 billion, half a trillion dollars, handed out to Solyndra. And you had a lot of politicians

who had their hands in that pie. But it was, I'm sorry, not half a trillion, it was half a billion. It was $535 million. And that is the same amount that Biden is now going to hand out to battery manufacturers. It went bankrupt. And are these going to hand out to battery manufacturers. Uh, it went bankrupt and, uh, are these going to go bankrupt as well? The report, uh, Warren, the Biden administration has plans to send a total of $2.8 billion to 20 companies. And of course, uh, some of these bigger companies are up in Massachusetts. We've got Ed Markey, Elizabeth Warren, senators who are pushing this hard. Markey was the guy who was pushing this climate stuff

from the very beginning 10 years ago. He was on with Obama's EPA head, Lisa Jackson, lying about diesel fuel killing more people than cancer and heart attacks. Same kind of stuff you heard from the CDC about COVID a couple of years ago. They were doing that about diesel stuff. That's why I say it was so obvious if you've watched these people operate. Oh yeah, we got something that's got to be stopped. It's killing more people than heart disease and cancer.

Yeah, well, that wasn't true then of diesel, of the fine particulate matter, but he has now been richly rewarded. He was just a congressman at the time that he and Lisa Jackson scripted that. And they did script it because he stepped over her lines and they had to back it up. It was so obvious the whole thing was scripted. But he was rewarded. He became a senator. And now, you know, the senators from Massachusetts are being rewarded with all this. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm

said this is truly a remarkable time for manufacturing in America, as long as you're going to manufacture what the government dictates, the centrally planned economy. So I say, it's a race between China. It wouldn't even be an issue if America had a free market and we could unleash competition, ingenuity, entrepreneurship.

It wouldn't even be close with China, no matter what they have, if they're going to try to centrally plan it. But we're centrally planning our economy in the same way. It's a race to the bottom. It's a race to the bottom of the reset. So one of these companies is getting $480 million. Another one is going to get $50 million for a demonstration project. The problem, though, is what it's always been, and that is there's no electric grid to charge the batteries

because they're shutting down the electric grid. What good does it do to have batteries without having the power and the grid? You see, these people are putting the cart before the horse, aren't they? We're going to have batteries. Oh, great. Have you got any horsepower to put into those batteries? You've got the batteries before the power grid. It's all profiteering.

Gatestone Institute says the vendor who sells ordinary rocks, here's an example. You sell ordinary rocks, right? Well, you can't make any money selling rocks unless you come up with some kind of a fiction like a pet rock or something like that. In their analogy, they say, well, imagine that you take the rocks that you find everywhere and you paint them gold and you pass it off as a real stuff. Well, there's a risk to that, right? It's fraudulent and you could be found out. So there's a better way to do that. And this is how it's being done with the greenwashing. What you do is you just pretend that these common rocks are rare. And the way that you pull that off, that's one way. The key way that you're going to do that is to go to the government and say, make it rare.

So you could pretend that it is something that's really valuable. You could pretend that it's rare, or you could go to the government and the government by fiat and by regulations could make it rare. And they could give you something of a monopoly on that as well. He says the safest way would be to turn ordinary rocks into valuable commodities. You could petition the king of the realm for an exclusive right to gather and to sell ordinary rocks. If granted such an extraordinary license, whereby ordinary rocks may only be possessed if first stamped with a vendor's mark, then an abundantly available natural resource becomes scarce overnight. And what was once free now costs whatever the vendor and the king's tax collectors decide to charge for these highly regulated rocks.

We've seen this played out in so many different areas, haven't we? How much are licensed rocks worth if they're the only ones that can be legally owned? When a king and a vendor conspire to make only a small fraction of available rocks legal, then their manufactured unavailability makes them extremely valuable. By the way, this is one of the reasons why the oil companies are heavily into this green stuff. You see, there's a misunderstanding by the public. And both the oil companies, as well as the government, like to propagate this idea that they are enemies of each other.

You know, just like the Republicans and Democrats are enemies on all issues, right? Well, no, they're not. On the key issues, they're allies. And so while the government is regulating oil companies the biggest oil companies are also a part of this environmental social governance when rex tillerson was tapped by trump to be a secretary of state um i was all over twitter and i knew that alex had um had had a way to communicate with Roger and with Trump. And so I was tweeting stuff at Alex as well as Trump.

And I said, you know, look at what he has done in terms of the green agenda. Rex Tillerson, if Trump is about what candidate Trump said he was going to do, he shouldn't even consider Rex Tillerson. This is as everybody was saying, well, you know, the rumors are that Rex Tillerson's got the inside track to become secretary of state. And it's like, well, we better tell him what the thing is, you know, what the real deal is here, because if he's authentic, he needs to know. And this will tell us a lot about the guy if he goes ahead with this. And of course he went ahead and put Rex Tillerson in, and Rex Tillerson pushed back against any, you know,

the Paris Climate Treaty had been, quote-unquote, self-ratified by Obama and by John Kerry, which they had no authority to do. It's only the Senate that ratifies those types of things. But they pretended that they had ratified it. Mitch McConnell would not hold a vote, so you could say, you know, well, pretended that they had ratified it. Mitch McConnell would not hold a vote. So you could say, you know, well, let's hold a vote on it. Oh, you say you ratified this.

Let's hold a vote. If they would have done that, they could have shut it down at any point in time. But Mitch McConnell didn't do it because Mitch McConnell is on the same page with these people. He pretends that he's in opposition to them. And so, um, you know, I had all these people when I was tweeting that stuff out, I had all these people on Twitter say, you idiot, Rex Tillerson was CEO of Exxon and he doesn't want to have climate change stuff in there. Oh, really? No, they do. They want to become to oil. First of all, these big companies like Exxon have bought in on the ground floor

of the new quote-unquote renewables, the greens and things like that. So they've bought in cheap, and they're going to ride that up. Secondly, though, they're going to continue to produce oil. You'll need it for plastics and for other things like that, even if you're not allowed to use it for fuel. But they want to be like the De Beers of oil, just like De Beers is to diamonds, right? They pretty much have a monopoly on it.

They don't have to produce much of it, and they make big money doing it. They would like to see that. That's what the big oil companies like to do. So they buy in on the ground level and the green stuff, and then they're going to sell their existing stuff dearly. And, of course, Alex was upset with me as well. Don't bother me and make Trump look bad. So, yeah, and we saw what Rex Tillerson was all about

in terms of environmentalism as well. So legally imposed scarcity comes with much fewer personal risks. You don't have to worry about going to jail because you defrauded people and lied to them about this, or you took rocks and painted them as gold and tried to pass them off as the real thing. So you don't have any personal risks if you get the government to give you a monopoly, or to give you an inside track on all this stuff. Licensed monopoly on high demand commodities is a license to print money. So from this lens, it's easy to see why so many investors love government intervention in markets, especially in energy markets.

And it also lets you know why there's billions of dollars being spent on this election when it's an off-year election. There's not even, you know, the presidency is not even involved, and that's when it gets really big because everybody knows that the president has become a dictator, so you've got to curry favor with this guy. When governments limit drilling and mining for hydrocarbons in the ground, they are manufacturing scarcity. That's why Exxon likes that.

They like that regulation. You know, the big car companies love the regulations as well because that kept away their competitors. Make all these requirements for internal combustion engines. That's really what we want. When only certain wealthy individuals and companies can afford artificially expensive hydrocarbon energies as regular business costs, then budding entrepreneurs and small firms can no longer compete. A war on fossil fuels is a superb tactic for protecting private market share. That's what this truly is about.

Can the global population stave off famine and starvation if farmers are forced to overhaul agricultural and livestock production methods in order to abide by green laws limiting the use or release of carbon dioxide or methane or nitrogen? You know, any of these things that are very common, that are ubiquitous everywhere? Well, that's the way that they do this. And, you know, when you look at the massive propaganda campaign somebody sent this picture to me uh look at this high school look at the name of this high school it is the high school

for climate justice the high now does anything smack of mar Marxism more than that? I mean, you're looking at government takeover and centrally planning the economy based on a phony climate emergency. And then how they're going to run this economy that they've taken over is going to be on the basis of their quote-unquote justice ideas diversity inclusivity equity right that's how we die this is basically crt plus climate all together that's what this truly is um so it is uh it is a system that is going to starve us, impoverish us. And yet, in Germany, a dose of reality is starting to happen. And this move to electric cars. Current energy crisis in Europe could put the brakes on electric mobility in Germany, make electric vehicles unattractive to potential customers.

Why? Again, it's the grid. Because they're destroying the inputs into the grid, what difference does it make if you put up a bunch of charging stations if you've got no juice? Well, electricity getting ever more expensive, charging an electric vehicle is sometimes pricier than filling up a petrol or diesel vehicle.

Think about that. With everything they've done to drive up the cost of fuel, because they have done so much damage, I mean, the cost of fuel has gone up for the companies that are driving the grid. But for the most part, they've taken out any of the power generation that's using fuel. And so what you're paying for here is this is the high cost of things like solar power for the grid or the high cost of wind and these types of things. And even though they are doing their best to make fuel expensive,

you have, it's actually cheaper to do that. That is to use these renewables because of the scarcity that they've created with their renewables more than anything. The newspaper Der Spiegel writes the combustion engine is more than 30 euros cheaper per month on average if you're going to be driving 15,000 kilometers. By the end of next year, they said the electric car should clearly be at a disadvantage, even with corrupt politicians, even with them pushing up the price of fuel more and more with sanctions, regulations, war.

The state bonuses for buying electric vehicles have also been reduced by 25%. So even with all of that, there's no longer any state subsidy for any hybrid cars because they've got to go with complete zero emissions. In the current climate, pun intended, I guess, consumers may have little desire to buy a new car. The situation was described as a toxic mixture of energy crisis and inflation by a person who works for ZF, Germany's second largest car systems supplier. Electric car production will collapse in Europe next year, she predicts, as only 11 million cars will roll off the assembly line instead of the planned 18 million. I mean, people are not looking for cars in Europe because of energy poverty.

They're not looking for cars in general, but certainly not the more expensive ones. And the subsidies are disappearing. Another ZF representative described the EU plans to stop selling petrol and diesel cars by 2035 as, quote, illusory. it makes absolutely no sense. But since when in the 2020s has anything that any government has done in any country made sense, it is all suicidal and destructive. There's also a shortage of public charging stations across Germany. In some metropolitan areas, a single station has to be shared with as many as 60 vehicles. Well, how's your charging time going to be with that?

Right. Now you've got an appointment. Um, you know, we'd be able to charge my car next week or something like that. I mean, this is like the old joke about the Soviet union that Reagan told, you know, the guy goes in to buy his little lot of car and he says, um, when's it going to be delivered? And the guy says, uh, you know, 20 years from now. And he goes, is that in the morning or the afternoon? He goes, what do you mean?

I just told you it's 20 years from now. He goes, well, the refrigerator guy is going to be delivering the refrigerator in 20 years in the morning. That's what we're looking at here. It's absolutely insane when the government takes it over. But let's, you know, just as a passing shot to a technology that is not quite ready yet. Take a look at, this is DeWalt. Now DeWalt has been selling battery operated power tools for a while, right? You'd think they'd have a handle on this. They've got electric vehicle mower, and this is at a trade show um and uh this is what happened at the trade show to dewalt's electric zero turn mower just battery technology is trying to get

its foot in the door it goes ahead and catches on fire at one of the largest trade shows for the industry in the world so apparently this dewalt electric mower caught fire at the Equip Expo in a statement from Equip Expo's Facebook page. Nobody got hurt. They removed the mower and the grounds are open back up again. But yeah, I don't think anyone could think of a worse PR nightmare for their electric mower lineup than this. Well, you know, we've talked about the fires in Florida from the electric vehicles that got exposed to saltwater that corrupted the batteries. And now as they're being corrupted, they're starting to ignite one by one. But we have an update to that story. who is working on this and put out a press release,

Jimmy Patronus, Florida's top financial officer and fire marshal, said that they've looked at the fire risks from these EVs that have saltwater damage from flooding from Hurricane Ian, and they said there were over 4,100 EVs in the area that suffered this massive flooding. So it's a good chance that most of them may start to have these battery fires. Earlier this month, he said there's a ton of EVs disabled. And he said these batteries corrode and fires start. So now he is putting a number on that, 4,100 of them. Petronas pointed out that firefighters in Florida are not prepared for lithium battery fires.

Local governments have already towed flooded EVs into sandy fields to avoid the risk of fire harming people and or burning down building structures. So that's a developing story. We'll be watching what happens with that. But again, this is all about a rush to technology and trying to force this from a political standpoint instead of allowing it to evolve. As I said before, when I had these discussions with my relatives, well, everybody was pushing back on cars when they came out. I said, no, they weren't. I said it was the government was lagging in all this.

The government didn't build an infrastructure until there were a lot of cars out there, and they were kind of forced to do it. And you had some of the people who were driving carriages who didn't like the people driving cars, but people were very anxious to get cars. They didn't have the government prohibiting people from using horses. They didn't have the government outlawing feed to horses.

They didn't have the government subsidizing people buying cars. None of that was happening. We'll be right back. Thank you. You're listening to The David Knight Show. I saw this article, Christian evangelist has now been paid $11,300 for wrongful arrest. This is something that happened on Speaker's Corner, of all things. If you don't know what happens on Speaker's Corner, every Sunday they will have people literally get on a soapbox or any kind of a box that they can bring.

It's Hyde Park, and it's a corner of Hyde Park. And it was always a favorite thing for Karen and I to do when we were there. We went to London when we were there. Um, we went to, uh, uh, to London, uh, when we got married in 1980 and spent a great deal of time there. I mean, we didn't have any money, but we had time, uh, in between college and beginning work. And, um, so we just lived on the cheap and we did things that were free. And so we went to, uh, watch questions with prime minister and we'd go to speaker corner and hang out. And in 1980, pretty much people that would show up,

they would be presenting their point of view about religion or about philosophy or politics or something like that. And it was a tradition that you would stand there on this soapbox and you'd say whatever you wanted. You could criticize the queen, anything, right? Criticize government. And you had, it was a great exercise and free speech and the police would be there to protect you from the crowd. Now we went back in 2001 and took my sons.

Of course we took them to speaker's corner so they could see this thing. And it was completely different than the way it had been 20 years earlier. 20 years ago, this is what had happened. By that time, it was, you would have spirited debate when we saw it in 1980 between people in the crowd and what somebody was saying. And it was often the case that, uh, you know, you would develop an argument or something like that. But when we went back in,

uh, 2001, uh, the Christian speakers that were there, they would be surrounded by a very, very large group of angry Muslim males who wanted to just fight. And so there was a discussion. We were there, the four of us, and we were watching this.

And, you know, it was a bit of a debate. But then you could tell that several of these Muslim guys, there was a crowd of probably about 30 or 40 around this one speaker. And they were getting more and more angry and more and more agitated. And then we noticed that the police officers started coming up around the side, and they've got their microphones and are talking to them. I need some more people here. And so at that point, I said, all right, let's go.

We're going to get out of here before this happens. And, uh, and yet that's not the way it happens. That was 20 years ago. So 40 years ago, you know, people be able to speak and there'd be heated conversations and disagreements, but no physical violence threatened. 20 years ago, there was a threat of physical violence. And now, 20 years after that, what happens is if you get a group of angry people, Muslims, around a Christian speaker, they arrest the Christian speaker. And that pretty much is a metaphor for what we have on social media and other things like that, right? I don't like what you're saying. Okay, well, the government will shut you down then. And is what happened to um this christian evangelist um and uh she um has 700 000 youtube

followers she was assaulted abused and harassed by islamic men over her t-shirt which had a picture of muhammad but the report said police told the harassers to leave the park, but they responded by telling the police to go away. And so the officers, instead of dealing with those who were harassing the evangelist, told her she would be arrested if she didn't leave. And she said, well, I'm not going to leave.

I'm going to stand here and I'm going to talk. And again, if you're going to, that might not be the best way to persuade people to begin by mocking what they believe. But nevertheless, that was what she did. And it was her right to do it. However, she wished to do it. The police should have protected her free speech by bringing in more officers to Speaker's Corner to facilitate her rights, said the people who won this and challenged the arrest. But anyway, she got $11,300. And when I saw that, I thought, well, that's too bad. I mean, if you get arrested for telling people about Christ, there's a bigger reward out there for you than that. But the good news is that she gave up the money. She didn't keep the money. She gave it to a charity. She said,

police need to protect my rights as I tell others the good news. My hope is that many Muslims will come to faith in Jesus, she said as she did that. So again, it's a commentary on where we are with free speech. If it's something controversial, they will shut down the controversy. They don't care about free speech. It used to be that we would protect free speech, even against controversy. We would protect it, not against controversy, but against violence. And now the government itself has become the instigator of violence against free speech. Here in America, Americans in a recent Barna survey have said that they trust government to make meaningful change, not the church and not God. Well, we saw this in spades, didn't we, over the last couple of years? 52% of U.S. adults believe the national government is responsible for creating meaningful change,

while only 26%, about half, exactly half, answered that way about religious organizations. 25% about Christian churches. Respondents could list multiple answers. So government at all levels, 52 percent for the federal government, 51 percent for the state government, 46 percent said local government should be able to make meaningful change. We've made a god out of government, haven't we? It is a false idol. It is a crutch that, as it's been said, if you lean on it, you will find that it pierces your hand. Half of all adults say they believe that individuals

have more influence to create meaningful change than institutions do. So we don't trust institutions, except for government. Why do we trust government so much? Well, because we've got a lot of institutions that are telling us that, you know, they're the only thing that's going to save us. And we believe that because of the massive amount of propaganda. Americans say they still would trust a Christian pastor for guidance when dealing with conversations about sensitive topics. That's the only good news out of that thing.

But still, when you look at it, what do we put our trust in? Well, we trust in government ethics. And what has that done to our society? I want to thank Harps. Thank you for the tip. He says, LOL at that school, David. That'd be the one, the Institute for Climate, the High School for Climate Justice. They don't practice what they teach.

Did you see the air conditioner to the right of the school name? I didn't see that. Let's pull that picture back up. I'm going to look at that again. I'm not getting the picture to come. Oh, there we are. Okay. Yep, there we go.

Look at that. I got a window air conditioning right over there. Uh, that's a good find. Thanks. Thanks. Harp. I didn't see that. Yeah.

Amazon has, um, uh, been asked by China, you know, because, uh, president Xi is a very much in terms of, uh, not only stopping, um, his not only stopping his opponents politically, but also he doesn't like any free speech. He doesn't like the free exercise of religion. And so he has had a lot of crackdowns on churches there. But one of the ways that they do it is through Amazon. In 2018, Bezos wanted to do business in China. He was told that he couldn't sell Bibles on Amazon.

So he complied with that. And he was able to sell everything else except Bibles in China. So now they have started banning books left and right. Once you set the example there, and what was the first one they wanted to go for? Well, of course, that was the Bible. Because Xi wants to be seen as God. the example there. And what was the first one they wanted to go for? Well, of course, that was the Bible. Because she wants to be

seen as God. And he made that very clear. He went into the authorized churches. If you would cut up your Bible the way they wanted you to cut up your Bible, and if you would bow the knee to government and say that it was above the church

and so forth, they would allow you to have a church building, the church of the three-person self. Of course, that was in the previous regimes, like who? But now under she, they decided that they didn't even want to honor that. He first came in with some regulations that if you wanted to put up a crucifix of Christ, you had to put Mal on one side and you had to put she on the other side. And I said, little does he realize that he's just created the situation of Christ with the two thieves on either side. But that was the first thing. Then they went in and just started tearing down

these church buildings. And of course, the persecution against the underground house church has always been and remains ruthless. But they began by stopping the Bible. And now they have a cancer culture that is going to allow the government in China is banning the sale of books left and right. And Amazon is more than willing to comply with it. It was kind of funny. Years ago, Amazon, with Kindle, when Kindle was still pretty new, they had a situation where all of a sudden all of Orwell's 1984 Kindle edition were removed from people's accounts. So that's kind of Orwellian. I don't know why they did that.

It's odd that it would be that book and that book only that they would purge. But that truly was the case. That really was what happened. And so, you know, uh, that's, that's the way that, um, the, uh, the, uh, censorship always rolls out and they always come for the key things that were the foundation for our free speech in the first place. And that really was the Bible. When we look at the state of the church and what is happening, and there's a lot of back and forth as to, you know, well, if you, now that we have election season, it's okay for Stacey Abrams to go to a church and to preach abortion.

But if somebody not even at a church talks about their faith, that is violating the separation of church and state, and that cannot be allowed. So, you know, if we look at how this unfolds, there was an interesting article that talked about what does Christianity, the title of the article is Does Christianity Transcend All of Our Political Disagreements? And what I thought was interesting about this was the four possibilities that this author put in. He said, well, the first one is Christianity

against politics. He says Christians with this approach are usually happy to blast both parties or all parties, if you've got more than two. They may believe that politics is important and that voting matters. And certain issues really do matter, but Christianity is largely seen as something that stands opposed to the messy, often idolatrous world of politics. Yeah, that pretty much sums up my approach. I see Christianity against politics. Yeah, I think that's a pretty good way to sum it.

It's not exactly my position. I'll tell you what my position is. It says on the positive side, this understands that the gospel of Christ is not mainly about fixing the social order, that the Bible is not written to lay out a political system. The Christianity against politics approach is strong on warning Christians against putting too much hope in kings and in earthly kingdoms. But on the negative side, Christians with this approach are often interested in learning the intellectual contours of political

science or in the long history of moral philosophy, so they don't really care about that. The Christians who see Christianity against politics may be unrealistic about how political and social change happens. You know, we always hear, well, politics is the art of the compromise, right? Well, I'm sorry, but when it comes to your religious beliefs, when it comes to the things that are the foundation to your character, there is no room for compromise. So I don't see that as an issue. I see that as a, yeah, and I think that it's always a tireless minority that changes society. I mean, secular people have noticed that as well. It's a tireless minority that keeps at it, that's going to change society.

It's not the people who compromise. They don't make any significant changes to our society. So I'm not about compromise. The next one he offers is Christianity above politics, where it's seen as the truth that transcends all earthly systems. Christians with this approach are uninterested in the study of politics and the various historicalisms that have been tried in the political realm. He said this Christian approach ends up being the supposed golden mean

between conservatism and progressivism, or the imaginary midpoint between Marxism and capitalism. Again, this author has a flawed political map. The political map, as I've said many times, is not a line. With fascism on the extreme right and Marxism, socialism on the extreme left, no. Because if you look at these authoritarian leaders of both the left and the right living in a society under Stalin or under Hitler, it's essentially the same because they're authoritarian. So that is a flawed model. You need a two-dimensional space.

And down at the bottom, you have a situation where nobody has any freedom at all. So the less freedom you get, you go down to the bottom, and that's where both of these two extremes go. And so in terms of trying to come up with something, compromise between left and right, you need to understand that it is not left and right. It's not a line. It is a two-dimensional space.

Anyway, he says, well, we do need to have an approach to politics that is engaged, but it's not idolatrous. So the Christianity above politics, people might pull themselves out of it. You hear frequently, well, the world's going to end soon, and so I don't care. As a matter of fact, as I see everything getting worse and worse, that just tells me that the end is near, and maybe I won't have to die, that type of approach. How about Christianity as politics? Now, this is the Christian nationalism thing. The message of Christianity, the task of the individual Christian seen as irreducibly political. Some Christians, for some of them, this entails a kind of civil religion that blends

elements of American history, democratic sensibilities, national patriotism, orthodox Christianity. For others, Christianity as politics looks like a bold plan for social transformation. This is what we have seen, first of all, from the left, in terms of liberation theology, that was very popular with these Marxist Catholic theologians, especially in Latin America. That's the tradition, by the way, that this current Pope Francis comes out of. And we've seen that with the mainline Protestant denominations that are very liberal. They become all about social justice and all the rest of this stuff. But now we're starting to see this on the right. And you're starting to see it from people like Flynn and others who are saying,

well, if we're going to have one nation under God, we've got to have one religion. That means, you know, and he doesn't even mention Christianity. It is when you take that approach, you wind up with politics and you don't wind up with Christianity. Finally, he says that Christianity under politics. Christian ideas and Christian communities are seen as essential to healthy political order, but they only use it for that standpoint. So you've had a lot of people who are not believers who wisely said, well, if we have, if encourage christianity that's going to

make people it's going to give us more solid families in general uh it's going to mean that they're you know because people believe that they are accountable for what they do it's going to cut down crime and things like that so let's embrace christianity out of a pragmatic reason. So that's Christianity under politics. I think he's missing, and he's got all these different prepositions about where Christianity is. Is it Christianity, is it going to be under politics? Is it going to be above politics? Is it going to be against politics? Is it going to be against politics? Is it going to be Christianity as politics?

I think there's one thing here that he's not seeing. And I think that is Christianity in the people. The people. Because if you have a real transformation in society, which is, and this is kind of interesting because this is a Christian publication this guy is talking about. What he completely misses society, which is, and this is kind of interesting because this is a Christian publication this guy is talking about. What he completely misses is how important it is for the, first of all, for the people

to be Christians for their own good, for their eternal good. And so he misses that. He doesn't have any understanding of different spheres of authority that Abraham Kuyper did such a great job of talking about. He was a guy who was both a theologian and he was also the prime minister of the Netherlands about 100 years ago. And he said there's different spheres of authority. The family is one sphere of authority and the government is is another one, and the church is another one, and so forth. And they have different areas of responsibility, and they need to stay in their lane. There is no understanding of that.

That was very much the understanding of the founders of this country as well. He formalized it a bit better. But if you put Christianity in the people, you're not just going to have, you know, a better society. But if you have those values, if the people don't compromise, which is what he was saying, well, some of these people, they're just ideologues and they're not practical. No, if you actually have values that you truly believe, that you internalize, that is going to transform the society. That's what we saw, by the way, when we had the founding of this country. That was really founded on the Great Awakening that had happened.

There had been a massive revival in this country. And out of that, you had a country that was based on Christian principles. Why? Because there were so many people who had internalized those principles that genuinely believed that, and that informed the way that society worked. It's really strange to me that even as we look at this, we even have people who are Christian writers who don't believe in the power of Christ to change people and then change society. We are so enamored of government. It truly is amazing.

I'm not going to take a break here because I want to get into what is happening in the UK with trusts being gone. I guess you could say they now have a lack of trust. Uh, and, and it was kind of interesting because people started talking about Boris Johnson coming back and I thought, oh, please, is the bench that shallow that they got to bring back Boris Johnson? He is suddenly backed out, uh, whether this is because he got a call from Davos or whether or not he read the handwriting on the wall

and it looked like he didn't have the voters. But the guy that they have coalesced behind, who has, you know, there were basically three people that were kind of in the running. This guy, Rishi Sunak, Boris Johnson, and Penny Mordant. And Sunak, Boris Johnson, and Penny Mordant.

And Sunak had 146, whereas the other two supposedly had 57 and 24. So 81 combined. They were about half of what this guy Rishi Sunak had. And if you remember when Liz Truss became prime minister, he nearly won it. Most people thought he was going to win it at that point in time. She only lasted for like 44, 45 days, record low amount of time. The establishment was not happy with her getting in place. The globalists were not happy with her getting in place, and they pushed her out. And so when you look at what has happened there, this particular guy, Sunak, has very close ties. His father-in-law is one of

the key guys running the World Economic Forum, Davos. And listen to what he had to say about his program. It is straight out of the talking points, the World Economic Forum in Davos. Announcing three new steps today. First, we're announcing the UK's intention to mandate climate disclosures by large companies and financial services firms across the economy by 2025. Mandated. Going further than recommended by the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures, the first G20 country to do so. Second, we're implementing a new Green Taxonomy, robustly classifying what we mean by green

to help firms and investors better understand the impact of their investments on the environment. And third, to meet growing investor demand for projects that can achieve environmental and climate goals in the UK, next year we will issue our first ever sovereign green bond, the first in a green curve of new issuances. I don't know what that was in the background. Those hydraulic brakes of a bus, or if that was an elephant snorting. He's out there. It looks like he's in a jungle. Maybe he's doing that at a zoo or something.

Put this guy in the zoo. Did you hear that? Everything is about green. And it's all about what I was talking about earlier. We're going to have the ESG. We're going to have a rating system about that. We're going to use that to reward and punish people financially. This is straight out of the world economic forum.

I mean, it's not, this is beyond the fact that his father-in-law is one of the key guys there at the world economic forum. This is all straight out of that. And I have a hunch. This is one of the reasons why they kicked out a trust. I don't follow, didn't follow it that closely for the month and a half that she was there, but I know this guy was the globalist, and she was as well. She had some connections with him, but she was not pushing it to the extent that he is,

as you just heard there. Absolutely amazing. And his previous experience was he was chancellor of the Exchequer under Boris Johnson. He fought tooth and nail to stop any tax relief there. As chancellor of the Exchequer, he increased the country's tax burden to its highest taxation in 70 years. So yeah, he is pushing for a reset.

And one of his supporters, a guy by the name of Tobias Elwood, he's a senior Tory, he tweeted out, he said, the free market experiment is over. He's a senior Tory. He tweeted out, he said, the free market experiment is over. It's over. And we're ready for the reset.

Here's what he said in the tweet. He said, quote, the free market experiment is over. It's been a low point in our party's great history. The reset begins. Time for centrist, stable, fiscally responsible government offering credible domestic and international leadership. Well, I guess a credible domestic leadership is to increase taxes and to push the Great Reset, push people into poverty.

I guess the international leadership is to lead into war, which, of course, Liz Truss was very happy to do as well. She talked about how she's willing to push the nuclear button, the rest of this. But the idea that the conservative party actually engaged in a free market experiment under Liz Truss is questionable. Given her attempts to introduce small market reforms and tax cuts were abandoned before they were even allowed to be implemented. This tells you how even the conservative party that's supposed to be for low taxes, low government regulation, just the opposite. And it's the same thing we saw under Trump. It's the same thing we see everywhere. Every party, every person within the party is going to be pushing the globalist agenda of lockdown, taxation, great reset. And they were not happy that she was not doing it as quickly as he was.

So the counter-revolution was organized by Jeremy Hunt, who has tremendous number of links to China. He reversed all the key policies before Liz Trust was forced a mere month and a half into what will be the shortest premiership in British history. So Tobias Elwood, the senior Tory guy was raised and educated in Germany and Austria. He was a fervent remainer into the EU. He opposed Brexit. As a matter of fact, this summer, he was saying that the Brits had to rejoin the EU.

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