The David Knight Show - 26May23 Debates Will Not Be Televised, But They've Already Started on Social Media

Episode Date: May 26, 2023

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODES"The revolution will not be televised" and neither will the debates since this year Trump and Biden don't want to debate issues. But the debate has already begun... on social media with some pretty hard-hitting jabs taken DeSantis: "Trump destroyed the lives of millions of people" — and he's only talking lockdown, not the Warp Speed injections (3:09) LinkedIn purges presidential candidate Ramaswamy for exposing Climate MacGuffin lies (7:48) Wondering where Tim Scott is on issues? Count him in on CBDC as he's previously joined with Elizabeth Warren to oppose crypto (13:50) Trump cheerleader, Darren Beattie, Revolver, applauds Trump for joining ballot-harvesting corruption instead of reform and transparency. Do we want honest government or "may the best criminal WIN!" government? (19:20) Trump says "even Cuomo did better than DeSantis" with Covid deaths. Do stats support that? Does Trump REALLY want to run on his 2020 plandemic record? (26:06) Trump supports Disney over Parental Rights that he characterizes as "sanctimonious". Is that a winning strategy? Target just lost $9B in stock value doing that (29:12) Thomas Massie, the only Congressman who opposed Trump's $4T test run of UBI, says Trump can't run against inflation and neither can the GOP with him at the top (31:42) LISTENER COMMENTS Listener asks: Why cover elections when they're hopelessly corrupt? My answer has to do with where our hope, our target, our foundation for our country lies and who will lay it? (48:10) Two New SCOTUS decisions — Victory for citizens over rapacious government, both EPA and local government (52:44) INTERVIEW Pushing Back Against WHO Plan for Global Control James Roguski, jamesroguski.substack.com The massive bureaucracy of the WHO, World Health Organization, is pumping out rules worthy of Orwell or Kaufka. James looks at single article as an example but most importantly — HOW YOU CAN PUSH BACK against this at SilenceEqualsConsent.com and ExitTheWHO.com (1:01:44) Italian central banker says to achieve Net Zero, historical buildings must be torn down. Do you see what's happening yet? (1:32:59) Shostakovich 2.0 — Just like the persecution of Shostakovich by the cancel mob in Stalin's regime, Marxist political correctness has taken out a musician and professor in academia who used to live by it. Now she's died by it. (1:39:20) EU will fund theft of Netherlands farms — for an average "compensation" of 500,000 euros each (1:45:59) Elon Musk is an evangelist for Pharmakeia hallucinogenic drugs used in a spiritual sense. (2:02:47) Death by Drug Overdose in PRISONS is Exploding If they can't stop it by law enforcement, even in prison, what kind of prison society are WE building on the outside — that will FAIL. But one sheriff found the answer and it had nothing to do with law enforcement. (2:05:46) INTERVIEW Pistol Braces & Stopping Fed Overreach at State Level State Senator Frank Niceley onTN-3 insurrection and whether it will be repeated in the Special SessionState measures to protect the people from Fed Reserve financial contagionnullification of federal bureaucratic overreachATF hopes to make millions of gun owners into felons by their "rule" banning pistol braces. The Tennessee legislature has already moved to protect gun owners from pistol brace felonies. But will Gov Lee (R) successfully twist arms to get gun control in a Special Session he's called for August?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-showOr you can send a donation through Mail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @DavidKnightShow@protonmail.comCash App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

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Starting point is 00:01:54 It's now begun in the Republican Party and I think that there are some important things to learn in the debate that will not be held probably in person, but will be held over the competing interviews and social media posts. We're also going to take a look at this verdict that came in on Stuart Rhodes, 18 years in prison. Other court decisions in the Supreme Court went the right way. This one, I think, is a great injustice. DeSantis talked about pardons with that. I think, who knows what Trump would do? Do they have $2 million to get out of jail?
Starting point is 00:02:27 I don't know. But we will also be talking in the third hour to Senator Frank Nicely here in Tennessee, talking about what may happen in the special session coming up in August that the governor wants to have to push gun control. Is that an open invitation to insurrection-type behavior? And also, James Roguski will be joining us to talk about what is happening with the WHO regulations, treaties, things like that.
Starting point is 00:02:54 We'll be right back. Well, let's begin with some of the election and policy issues before we get into the court decisions. Biden says that anyone can crash Twitter, but it takes a real leader to crash the economy. That's a Babylon Bee headline. That's right. The crashing Twitter, that's for amateurs, folks. I crashed the economy. Top that. And what is Twitter? That's a bad one, B. Well, let me tell you. Yeah, Biden crashed the economy, and he did what he could with the oil sanctions and the rest of this stuff.
Starting point is 00:03:35 Major damage with that. But the economy began crashing under Trump. Do you remember the lockdown? Of course, Babylon B and Republican alternative media people aren't going to talk about that because that's suicidal to talk about that. I guess I'm just suicidal because I'm not going to let this injustice stand and I'm not going to cover up for that sorry piece of filth. Look, Trump did it in 2020.
Starting point is 00:04:02 He crashed the economy big time with his lockdown. Should we forget about that? Well, I was very glad to see DeSantis is not cutting him any slack. Go for it. I think he did great for three years, but when he turned the country over to Fauci in March of 2020, that destroyed millions of people's lives. And in Florida, we were one of the few that stood up, cut against the grain, took incoming fire from media, bureaucracy, the left, even a lot of Republicans. Yeah, he destroyed millions of people's lives without lockdown. Let's not forget that. And then he killed millions of people worldwide with his jab that he is so proud of.
Starting point is 00:04:42 Both of those things he's so proud of. I locked this down so quick. I protected anything. I did it more than Fauci wanted to do the lockdown. I did it before Fauci. Yeah, let's not forget that. Let's not forget that Hillary Clinton called us deplorable and Trump called us non-essential. You want to remember that? You're going to vote for Trump again.
Starting point is 00:05:08 Unbelievable. I wouldn't vote. I would vote for Stalin before I'd vote for Trump. At least you know who Stalin is instead of a backstabbing traitor. Twitter's head of engineering resigned the day after the disastrous launch interview for DeSantis. Uh, and of course, uh, yeah, it was really more, as I said, I thought it was more of a failure for Twitter than it was for DeSantis. It wasn't the only thing that DeSantis immediately had many, many other interviews lined up with everybody. Uh, but, um, uh, it was a big issue for Twitter and I still find it interesting.
Starting point is 00:05:45 I guess I'll write a sub stack about it. I can find the time. Uh, it has big implications for Tucker Carlson. Everybody keeps talking about it. You know, there's all these articles about how well, you know, Fox news is declining and the conservatives are now moving to Twitter and so forth. So maybe, you know, with Tucker Carlson doing his program there, can Tucker Carlson do his programming there? Can they handle it? Now I'm sure he's
Starting point is 00:06:10 not going to do it using spaces, right? I don't know though, how many people they could handle watching a live video stream. I don't know if that's why I had problems on the video stream. I know that they did focus on my video stream after I wanted to start putting up full clips of the show, 10-minute clips or whatever that we cut out of the show on a daily basis. So I got the, you know, paid the $8 for the blue checkmark, and they spent several weeks vetting me, and towards the end of that, they put warning labels on one of my shows. Never had a warning label on my show ever.
Starting point is 00:06:46 Uh, been doing the show for six years, never had a warning label put on there, but they did after they've edited it. And then they, uh, you know, they have not done that since then, but we all have also had problems with people watching the stream on Twitter, the live stream on Twitter, uh, with it dropping out. So I don't know if they've got the capacity to do a regular live stream. They certainly showed they didn't have the capacity to do a Spaces. They initially had 500,000 people, and it crashed.
Starting point is 00:07:17 And some of the people who were talking about it from a technical standpoint said Spaces was never really intended for anything like that. Aaron Moss, nobody crashes the economy better than me. The Trump voice. Yeah. Yeah. I can do it. So wonderful. You know, it was like nobody, nobody could do it like me. Yeah. Trump was a New York Democrat for decades. Then Presto he's Republican. Exactly. Exactly. Um, so, uh, when we look at this again, I think, uh, you know, this is a big deal. Where, where is, uh, Tucker going to do his program? Uh, is it going to be capable of handling the millions of people that tune in to watch Tucker live?
Starting point is 00:08:03 Because, you know, especially the first show. First show that he does, everybody, whether they like Tucker or not, are going to tune in to see what it is. His enemies are going to tune in to grab stuff. The people who like him are going to tune in. But then people are just going to be curious as to what's going on. It's going to really bust Twitter, I think, first time he does a show. Unless they do extensive testing and Musk is not known for doing extensive testing as we just saw with his launch.
Starting point is 00:08:30 He just did where he basically trashed a town miles away, trashed his own launch site. Uh, and then the thing blew up and they cheered. Yeah. At least we got it off the ground. So I don't know. LinkedIn has jumped in with election censorship already. They purged Vivek Ramaswamy for his climate views.
Starting point is 00:08:54 His climate views, you see. This is not going to end. Big Tech, he said, election interference has begun. Well, it's begun for him. It's begun for the 2024 cycle. Aaron Moss replying to Yona says, Trump was a New York Democrat for decades and pressed through as Republican.
Starting point is 00:09:16 Yeah, you don't do business in New York in the 80s without the approval of the mob. That's right. Giuliani had the inside scoop, so to speak. He knew a lot of mob people, didn't he? Friends for years. Got to pay to play. Then lock them up with Rico if they don't.
Starting point is 00:09:31 That's right. Yeah. Anyway, LinkedIn and Ramaswamy, he said they locked my account. I expressed fact-based views as a presidential candidate about climate policy. Here's what they take exception to. And unlike YouTube, they actually told him why they were kicking him off, which, you know, they didn't tell me why they kicked me off first time. They didn't tell me the last time they kicked me off when it was a channel that I set up just to put up music.
Starting point is 00:10:01 I had my Christmas songs up there that I'd played. And they took that down. It took them six months to figure out it was me. And then they took it down. But I didn't last that long. When I started this program, I thought, well, maybe I won't be guilty by association, you know, since I'm independent now. And so I started a YouTube channel, but it only lasted less than a month before they kicked me off. Because, you know, you get the first strike and then they lock it up for, you know, a few days or something like that. You get the second strike and they lock you up for a couple of weeks. And then you get the third strike and you're gone. And so I didn't really post that
Starting point is 00:10:42 many videos up there. The first video that they took exception to was the beginning of 2021. And the title was 2020, the year the world became China. Well, they didn't like that because I was talking about the pandemic and all the rest of stuff. Well, here's what LinkedIn did not like about Ramaswamy's videos. First one, he said it was a video posted along with a comment. Comment was, the CCP, Chinese Communist Party, is playing the Biden administration like a Chinese mandolin. China has weaponized the woke pandemic to stay one step ahead of us and it's working. Well, that's pretty mild. It's true.
Starting point is 00:11:30 Pretty mild, actually. Second one and the third one were about climate. He said, if the climate religion was really about climate change, then they'd be worried about, say, shifting oil production from the U.S. to places like Russia and China. Again, absolutely true. Actually, they've shifted oil production from the U.S. to Russia and China and other places like that. But the fuel use, not production, but the use has been shifted to China and India. And people who are true believers in the climate religion have criticized from the very beginning the Paris Climate Accord.
Starting point is 00:12:16 So wait a minute, this is global warming. Why are you letting the two countries that have the biggest population and the dirtiest power plants, why are you allowing them to build as many power plants as they want without any measures to keep them clean or anything? Make them cheap, make them dirty, make as many as you want. This doesn't make any sense. This isn't about saving the planet. This is about transferring industry from America and Europe to China and to India. And so the true believers of the climate religion have called that out. But anyway, third one, he said the climate agenda is a lie.
Starting point is 00:13:03 Fossil fuels are a requirement for human prosperity. Well, he's right about that as well. You know, the person who did this, this is pointed out in the article at Zero Hedge, LinkedIn's founder, Reid Hoffman, funded a Russian bot hoax against GOP candidate Roy Moore. And he underwrote Trump accuser E. Jean Carroll's lawsuit. And now he has locked Vivek Ramaswamy for telling the truth about the climate change lies. And so Ramaswamy said, two years ago, big tech censored people
Starting point is 00:13:46 who argued that we shouldn't close schools for COVID. Yeah, I remember that when it happened to me. Now they're censoring presidential candidates for arguing that fossil fuels are required for prosperity. They didn't censor me because it's false. They censored me because it's false. They censored me because it's true. Well, they censored him because it's telling the truth about their lies. Their agenda, their narrative is false, is a lie.
Starting point is 00:14:17 Anyway, he says, we have connectivity to the people that we need to talk to to be able to get my LinkedIn account back, but I'm not bringing this about because it's about me. I'm bringing this up because if they can do it to me, they can really do it to anybody. I guess I'm the anybody. Me and Coppa. For making statements about climate change movement
Starting point is 00:14:40 and the agenda in this country that are grounded in facts. Yeah, exactly. By the way, while we're talking about presidential candidates, I said, you know, it's really kind of hard to find out anything on Tim Scott because he's kind of this, you know, he's a nice guy. He's got a great story and he does have a great story in his life. And he does seem to be a nice guy. But what is it about him that he's gotten so much support from some really big guys like Larry Ellison, Oracle billionaire? And then I came across this.
Starting point is 00:15:16 This is back in February, February the 2nd this year. Top Republican on the U.S. Senate panel, ready to work on crypto rules. This is the Senate's banking committee. Now, Tim Scott is on that committee with Elizabeth Warren and others. And he is the top-ranking Republican. If the Republicans had a majority, he would be the one who was chair of it. He's not because they are not in control of the Senate, but he is still the top ranking Republican. And he shares Elizabeth Warren and the rest of these people's hatred of crypto.
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Starting point is 00:16:25 T's and C's apply. 18 plus bet responsibly. Gamblingcare.ie. Which tells you that he loves CBDC, that he's a part of this. Tim Scott is a part of this effort to ban crypto and to push CBDC. He's been silent on it. As a matter of fact, all the candidates have been silent on this, except for DeSantis and RFKJ and Ramaswamy. The three of them have come out in opposition to CBDC.
Starting point is 00:16:56 The rest of them are not saying anything. And Tim Scott is on the Senate Banking Committee that is trying to outlaw, by regulation, crypto. You know, death by regulation. He put out a brief statement back at the beginning of February, after they wrote this article, after he put it out. Saying he wants to start working on a bipartisan regulatory framework for cryptocurrency. Yeah, it's kind of like Hang cryptocurrency. Yeah. What's there? It's kind of like hangman. You ever play hangman? You know, he adds a piece and Elizabeth Warren adds a piece
Starting point is 00:17:30 and pretty soon, you know, you've got some gallows there and you can hang crypto from the gallows. He had a brief statement and it included digital asset regulation as one of his seven priorities. So it's a priority for him. And he said in a statement, recent years have been seen an expansive growth in the digital assets industry, including an increasing number of consumers interacting with cryptocurrencies. Several high profile failures resulted in lost consumer assets, exposed regulatory gaps, and highlighted concerns with illicit finance. Now, if I hadn't told you that that was Tim Scott, you would think that was Elizabeth Warren, and you would be right because they're on the same committee. It's a club, and you ain't in it, and they don't want you to be in it, and they don't want you to be in the game. They don't
Starting point is 00:18:23 want you to be a stakeholder. They don't want you to be holding it, and they don't want you to be in the game. They don't want you to be a stakeholder. They don't want you to be holding anything. U.S. lawmakers expect to get to work on the first significant pieces of crypto legislation this year. The chair of that committee, the chairman, is Senator Sherrod Brown, Democrat of Ohio, who paved the way for crypto legislation in November, sending a letter to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, revealing his willingness to work toward a wide-ranging regulatory framework. That's what these people are about.
Starting point is 00:18:56 Newt Gingrich, this is funny, he went on with Laura Ingraham, and the headline here is, Newt Gingrich is unintentional. Burn of Donald Trump is priceless. He said, one of Trump's greatest advantages is that he talks at a level where third and fourth and fifth grade educations can say, Oh yeah,
Starting point is 00:19:15 I get that. I understand it. Do they really, do they really? I think that's part of the problem. You know, apparently that's where MAGA is. And they, for whatever reason, he speaks
Starting point is 00:19:27 to them and they can't connect the dots on what he did in 2020 with a pandemic. They can't connect the dots on what he did to ruin the election with a lockdown as well. It was a lockdown election. It was run according to his rules. You're going to have to vote by mail. And the Democrats said, okay, we can do that. We can vote early. We can vote often by mail, make it even easier. So this is in the context of Gingrich and Ingram. Gingrich praised the Florida governor's intelligence but questioned his communication skills after Ingram played a clip of DeSantis making a convoluted comparison
Starting point is 00:20:13 involving financial institutions and elections. Well, whatever. I mean, the big problem is that, you know, Donald Trump has put himself in as a martyr and a victim. And all of these bogus things, the charges that they're bringing against him with the election. The charges that they're bringing against him with all this paperwork stuff. It's just elevating him in everybody's eyes. And they're not stupid.
Starting point is 00:20:43 They're doing that on purpose. Revolver says, RFK Jr. sparks a wildfire. U.S. election fraud becomes a blazing issue for 2024. And they begin it by talking about Trump, of course, because this is Revolver. Good news, he says, Trump isn't shying away from ballot harvesting and ballot curing. And so, you remember I had an interview with a guy who wrote a book about this. He was an auditor. And he went back and looked at all this stuff. He's absolutely convinced of the
Starting point is 00:21:26 fraud that was there, but he said that it is absolutely the wrong thing to do to think that you're going to win at this ballot harvesting and ballot curing. Absolutely not going to do it because they're not your constituents. And it, but it is a morally wrong thing to do as well. If you've got something that is cheating, instead of saying that I'm going to do a better job of cheating than the other side does, why don't you fix it? You see,
Starting point is 00:21:56 it tells us a great deal about Trump's morality. Trump is laser focused as Darren Beatty at revolver. Trump is laser focused on becoming the Beattie at Revolver. Trump is laser focused on becoming the best ballot harvesters in the business. There you go. What would you expect from a casino operator? He looks at this and says, I can rig the game so that we win, right? That's his approach. Darren Beattie says, is this situation ideal? No. In a normal country, one wouldn't need to resort to these extreme measures.
Starting point is 00:22:32 It's not a normal country. What you're saying is in an honest country, in an honest election, in a just country, you wouldn't need to cheat and out-cheat the other cheaters. This is what Trump is doing. And this is what the people are embracing. Just like used to be only the Democrats who embrace the idea that we have to get every problem has to be solved in Washington. And now conservatives in general embrace that. They even want to take abortion back to Washington so they can cut the baby into three semesters, trimesters.
Starting point is 00:23:09 So he says, normally you wouldn't have to resort to these kind of extreme measures. But we have no choice but to master the art of ballot harvesting and curing. This is the same kind of corrupt logic that was pushed by Alex and a lot of people in the alternative media about, well, Trump, I know he's betraying what he said he was going to do, but it's just 4D chess and we got to do whatever it takes to win. If we have to lie, cheat, and steal, we'll lie, cheat, and steal to win. That's what they've embraced. They deserve to lose. I don't want to be a part of a movement that lies, cheats, and steals to win, even if they win.
Starting point is 00:23:49 There's no honor in that. There's no justice in that. And if you believe there's God, there's going to be no victory in that either. God hates dishonest scales. And boy, this is a big scale. It's giant, a big giant thing here. Lots of stuff weighing on us. And then he goes on to RFK Jr.
Starting point is 00:24:20 He says he's lit a fire and placed election integrity at the forefront of his campaign season. He's not only presented a strong argument, but has shown a genuine desire to implement a system that instills confidence in every American that their votes are lawfully counted. And then he's got a long quote from him. I'll just read you this part of it. Without 100% transparent and accurate elections, says RFKJ, there will always be a fundamental doubt about whether elections actually embody the people's will. When votes are tabulated by hidden algorithms inside black boxes, inaccessible to third-party verification, there will always be questions and doubts. We don't need to do, and he's right about that, we don't need to out-cheat the other people using their measures. We need to have transparency, honesty in our elections. And I think it should be a big, you want to talk about a red flag?
Starting point is 00:25:15 The red flag is about Trump's character when he says, no, we'll out-cheat the other people here. By the way, I'm not cheering RFKJ, which is why I said, you know, Tim Scott, he's working with the people, the banking committee and Senate to try to shut down crypto and the whole purpose of that, especially right now.
Starting point is 00:25:36 Why are they doing that now? Yeah, well, it's to put CBDC out there, of course. But it's important to know where these guys are coming from. And I've talked in the past about how RFKJ wanted to lock up climate skeptics. He's also called the NRA a terrorist organization, as recently as the Parkland shooting. You know, he had David Hogg out there grabbing the spotlight, but RFKJ was saying, well, the NRA is a terrorist organization,
Starting point is 00:26:07 a terrorist organization. He wanted to lock up people but disagreed with him on climate. Remember that? And he hasn't walked that back. When Hugo Chavez died, RFKJ declared his deep grief and love and respect for Hugo Chavez. So there's some big red flags. Abortion is another one of them in terms of RFKJ.
Starting point is 00:26:32 Getting back to the Trump-DeSantis thing. Trump says, again, they're trading barbs back and forth yesterday. So the debate is going to take place. It's not going to be held on. See, that's the interesting thing. Everybody wants to talk about, oh, look, everybody's moving from Fox news and they're going to go to social media and Twitter, especially. And DeSantis is doing his big announcement and crash. You know, it goes down.
Starting point is 00:26:58 But let me tell you where the debate is going to be held. The debate's not going to be held on Fox news or anywhere else because Trump doesn't want to debate held. The debate's not going to be held on, um, on Fox news or anywhere else because Trump doesn't want to debate anybody, but the debate will be on social media. That's where the debate is going to be. It isn't going to be announcements. It isn't necessarily going to be Tucker Carlson's program unless they can fix their technical issues, but the debate will be held on social media. The revolution will not be televised and neither will the debates, as they say. So anyway, Trump says, even Cuomo did better than DeSantis on COVID-19. Oh, he's getting desperate, isn't he?
Starting point is 00:27:39 Desperate liar. He said, how about the fact that he had the third most deaths of any state? Even Cuomo did better. Cuomo was number four, he said. Well, Florida was number three. New York was number four in terms of deaths. How did New York get that high? Well, you know, they did certain things to certain people, elderly people in the rest homes and things like that. What state has the most elderly people? I wonder. You think it might be Florida?
Starting point is 00:28:12 They're going to be there with a lot of comorbidities. Can we trust the lying numbers from Fauci and from the Trump administration about this stuff? Of course we can't. I said that about China. I said, don't believe anything they tell you in terms of the statistics that are there. You're not going to know anything because they're proven liars. Well, the same thing is true of the Biden administration and the FDA and the CDC and the NIH. They're proven liars. And so if you believe any of this stuff you understand you don't understand how
Starting point is 00:28:46 cooked the covid stats were in the first place uh but uh you don't even have to understand it from that standpoint i just discount all of this covid death stuff look people were dying from the ventilators we now know more than anything else in the hospitals they were dying from the ventilators. We now know. More than anything else in the hospitals. They were dying from bacterial pneumonia. That's not a virus. Bacterial pneumonia that they got from the ventilators that Trump leaned on companies to build. Berated companies for not building enough of them,
Starting point is 00:29:21 quickly enough, and all the rest of this stuff. He and Peter Navarro, the entire Trump administration, it's hard to tell the difference, right? Trump, Biden, the entire Trump administration was locking everything down and pushing out these ventilators that kill so many people until they could get their vaccine out that killed even more people. So don't believe any of these COVID stats. Take a look at the ventilators. But even if you look at the government's own statistics that Trump is talking about, Trump is, um, uh,
Starting point is 00:29:56 not adjusting for the population. If you adjust for the population and say how many deaths that were labeled as COVID and Probably not at all. I don't believe that they were. But how many deaths that were labeled as COVID. And if you adjust it for population, Florida is not number three, it's number 18. And so he lies even with the lying statistics. This lies on top of lies. It's absolutely amazing. And then in this
Starting point is 00:30:26 article, they talk about how DeSantis was one of the last governors to do what the Trump administration wanted, which was to lock everybody down. He didn't do it until April. And then he was toward the end of that month, he began lifting the lockdown order and ended it entirely by September. But Trump loves his lockdown. He thinks that he still tells us that he saved lives with his lockdown. He still tells us that his genetic code injection saved lives. And people who know better still want to support him. Absolutely amazing. People that he called non-essential.
Starting point is 00:31:12 People whose lives were destroyed, in many cases, by this. And then he went on. Trump said, and look at Disney. What a mess. I could have worked out an easy settlement. Yeah, he and Nikki Haley. Just give me some cash. Come on.
Starting point is 00:31:22 We can work something out, okay? No, I tell you what. Trump loves the LGBT. He has celebrated them over and over again. He's bragged about his woke credentials with LGBT over and over again. And by the way, while we talk about this, how's that working out for Target, Trump? You think that's going to work for you in an election? Target has lost 12% of their stock market value. That's $9 billion in the week since they started all of this pride stuff,
Starting point is 00:31:55 satanic pride stuff, tucking suits for little kids. They've lost $9 billion in their stock market capitalization. And now, of course, you've got yet another corporation out there doing that. You've got North Face out there. They didn't learn a lesson from Dylan Mulvaney when the entire country said, this bud ain't for me. I'm not following the Mulvaney bud. Uh, so, um, they're, they're going to do it as well. And, uh, Trump says that when DeSantis talks about parental rights and opposes grooming in schools, child porn being shown to kids in school,
Starting point is 00:32:42 when he opposes that Trump calls him sanctimonious. Well, of course, we understand this is coming from somebody who used to party with Jeffrey Epstein. So I guess certainly, you know, any normal person would be sanctimonious compared to Trump and the people that he hung out with. You know, Giuliani and Trump doing the drag queen thing. It's just absolutely amazing. So when a DeSantis attacked Trump, as I played for, he said,
Starting point is 00:33:11 he destroyed millions of dollars for three years. But when he turned the country over to Fauci in March of 2020, that destroyed millions of people's lives. And in Florida, we were one of the few that stood up, cut against the grain, took incoming fire from media, bureaucracy, the left, even a lot of Republicans. And he's still taking incoming fire.
Starting point is 00:33:33 When he did that, Rolling Stone jumped on him for it. Rolling Stone started cheering Trump as being the responsible one. So he's still taking fire for what he did after we know what he did was right. After we know what Trump did was wrong. He got Rolling Stone coming after him, even with that. So Thomas Massey has come out, and he was a supporter of, has been a supporter from the beginning of DeSantis. He says Trump can't run on inflation because he urged trillions of dollars in spending.
Starting point is 00:34:08 He said DeSantis doesn't have that problem. And do you remember when Thomas Massey was the heir to Ron Paul, when he stood alone against everyone else in Washington, including Trump, to oppose this nearly $4 trillion in spending that Trump wanted to do? Do you remember that? I remember that. And I remember how furious Trump was. He could not control his anger. And so we're going to primary him out.
Starting point is 00:34:38 Well, he didn't, fortunately. He wanted to get rid of the best congressman we've got there, the only one who would stand up to this trial run for universal basic income that Trump put out there. And so Massey said, this hurt Republicans in the 2022 midterm elections because, quote, we couldn't run against inflation because most of my colleagues were urged by Trump to spend trillions of dollars. But DeSantis won't have that problem. Well, he's being nice. All of his colleagues joined. All the Republicans joined with Trump, except for Massey.
Starting point is 00:35:17 He's the only one who kept his integrity. And then Trump spewed an amazing amount of hate at him. He said the reason Trump can't run on inflation is he's the one who pushed the cares act. I was in Congress and I got screamed at by president Trump. By the way, if he wins a nomination, I'll vote for him enthusiastically. I won't, I will never forgive him or pardon him for what he did to us in 2020. And for that vaccine, I will never forget that as a politician, he's done as far as I'm concerned. And I don't care if it burns my show down.
Starting point is 00:35:49 I'm going to tell the truth about Trump as long as that son of a gun is around. He says, but he was for the trillions of dollars CARES Act. And one of the reasons we did, we had a lackluster performance in the midterms because we couldn't run against inflation because most of my colleagues were urged by Trump to spend three or $4 trillion that we didn't have that caused inflation. Ron DeSantis doesn't have that problem. And guess what? Where did that money go to his PPP stuff?
Starting point is 00:36:19 It was supposed to help small, medium sized businesses. His Goldman Sachs banker, Mnuchin redefined what a small business was. And more than 50% of the money went to less than 5% of the companies that went to the big companies, not to the small. Everything about Trump was a outright lie. And, uh, 2020, uh, DeSantis, I had an interview. They asked him about pardons, and we're going to talk about what happened with Stuart Rhodes here. And he said, yeah, I'll look at that. He said, it looks like we've had unequal application of justice. He said, we have to do these things on a case-by-case basis.
Starting point is 00:37:01 And he said, there's a lot of people that have not been high profile individuals who have been really, uh, you know, run over by the system. I'm paraphrasing what he had to say here, but he said, there's a lot of people that you haven't heard about that have had a great injustice done to them. And he said, we're going to look at this on a case by case basis. And he goes, but even if there's somebody out there who committed a crime, did they get the same kind of treatment as say somebody who is politically aligned with Antifa? That's a big part of it as well. And then they ask him, would you pardon Trump? He said, well, we'll take a look at everybody and we'll do this on a case by case basis.
Starting point is 00:37:37 Look, what is happening with this persecution of Trump? And I don't agree with that. Look, I can disagree with somebody without saying they need to be purged off of social media. You understand the difference? I can have big disagreements with somebody, but I don't want to have them canceled. If somebody turns into a troll, I will mute them or ban them off of my personal account. I don't want to hear it, but that's a different thing than having somebody canceled, um, their free speech canceled, their financial abilities canceled, all these different types of things. But, um, you know how I disagree with
Starting point is 00:38:19 Trump, but I really disagree with these political persecutions that are happening with Alvin Bragg and others. You know, Alvin Bragg has gone back now and opened up the case with Steve Bannon. Steve Bannon had this, you know, build a wall because Trump wasn't getting it done. They started a private funding of it. And then there were allegations that the money was not being used properly. Brian, I think his name was Brian Kolfagi. He was a vet who had lost multiple limbs. I think he'd lost both of his legs, maybe one arm. I can't remember, but he was in a wheelchair.
Starting point is 00:39:00 And he kind of spearheaded that. And so he was charged. Steve Bannon was charged. And they'd not had a trial yet. But he pardoned Bannon before the trial took place. And so now Alvin Bragg is coming back and saying, well, he wasn't found guilty and he was pardoned. So I can charge him and not violate the double jeopardy rule. That's a real stretch, frankly. That's going to be an interesting case,
Starting point is 00:39:35 and I'm sure that that will go to the Supreme Court. And hopefully the Supreme Court will agree to hear it. They don't have to hear everything that is appealed to them, for sure. Everything gets appealed to them, pretty much. But I think that'd be a significant case about pardons. And maybe too much of a political hot potato for the Supreme Court to want to handle, because they punted on all the election stuff as well this time around. They didn't want to have a replay of the 2000 election where they were accused of picking the winner. So the court system just said, we're not going to listen to any of this stuff in the 2020 aftermath.
Starting point is 00:40:10 But, um, you know, this is political persecution. All this stuff about papers is just garbage. We had Sandy Berger. I used to call him Sandy burglar who went into the national archives. And because he was a former national security director, whatever his official tie, I forget what his office was in the Biden and the Clinton administration, he went in and stuffed a bunch of papers about nine 11 into his pants, the national archives, they allowed him to walk out and then he destroyed
Starting point is 00:40:44 those things. And they came back and, you know, he got disbarred or something like that. He basically got his hands slapped about that. But he didn't go to jail for 20 years or something like that, like Stuart Rhodes. And with all these papers, you see that Biden did it. You see that Pence did it. But now we're going to have a special prosecutor to come after Trump. It's pretty obvious what is going on and their motivations are pretty obvious. They want to build up Trump
Starting point is 00:41:08 because they know that he can win the nomination and lose the general. And that's what's going to happen. And so that's why they're doing this kind of stuff. But anyway, uh, it is not a legitimate what is happening here. When you go back and you look at what has happened with January the 6th stuff, I think the real crimes of January the 6th were what were done to the Trump supporters. The real crimes are the fraud and the deception and throwing these people under the bus for their political purposes and for their money that was done by Stop the Steal, Alex and Roger, the stuff that was done by Trump with Save America. That was a fraud on those people, and they ought to sue the pants off of them. Of course, Alex's response would be get in line.
Starting point is 00:41:57 But they ought to sue Trump at least. But it's not a crime. This is not an insurrection by any means. And so I think this punishment for Stuart Rhodes is way over the top. The Mexican president has weighed in on our election. Did you know Mexican presidents can now vote in American elections? I guess, right? He doesn't even have to cross the border.
Starting point is 00:42:20 He can just interfere with the election from where he is. This is foreign interference. Where is Alejandro Mallorca to stop this foreign influence into our elections? Well, interestingly enough, he jumped into the election here against DeSantis, not against Trump. I guess he's not worried about Trump. I guess he realizes that Trump is all talk and no action on the border. I guess he realizes that Trump is a paper tiger on that issue as well. Um, we have, um, we just finished with this and say, um, who flew on Jeffrey Epstein's plane?
Starting point is 00:42:59 Well, Bill Clinton, Kevin Spacey. We had, um, Bill Gates, John Glenn, an astronaut. I mean, who would think that astronauts would lie to you? We all know the moon landing was real, right? But we also have Donald Trump and RFKJ who are on the Epstein flights. And certainly with Donald Trump, all the pictures that we have of him. You know what? Did it ever occur to you that maybe all of these QAnon lies about Trump
Starting point is 00:43:32 rounding up all these pedophile networks, and it was all just as fabricated as Steve Pachinik's lies about the sting and how they were, oh, yeah, we put out blockchain watermark ballots, and we have quantum computing that's tracking that. We've got 20,000 National Guard have spread out over the country and they're arresting people right now, two days after the election. Did it ever occur to you that all the QAnon lies about Trump busting these pedophile organizations
Starting point is 00:43:58 was just more of that same BS? Did it ever occur to you that maybe they put that out there to inoculate Trump from all these accusations of being a pedo with Epstein? Did it ever occur to you that they put that stuff out there, they portray him as a savior, saving people, saving kids from these pedophiles when he's actually saving kids from these pedophiles when he's actually hanging out with the pedophiles. Did it ever occur to you that they put out a narrative of Trump being the ultimate anti-globalist
Starting point is 00:44:33 and they had their fake professional wrestling thing going back and forth for years until Trump did more for the globalist agenda than any other politician ever in any other country. I mean, he did the vaccine and all the rest of it. Everybody, you know, following his example, following Fauci's advice. Yeah, they put this guy out there as preconditioning. They put this narrative about him being the anti-globalist.
Starting point is 00:45:02 They put this narrative about him being the anti-PEDbalist. They put this narrative about him being the anti-PEDO. They put that out there as preconditioning. And then he talks to the people like a third grader. And they can't connect the dots. Geesebusters, thank you very much for the tip. I appreciate that, Ron Rockfin. Locking the doors by our wonderful healthcare workers was murder. That's right.
Starting point is 00:45:28 Not COVID. That's right. Financially incentivized medical malpractice, and who financially incentivized it? It was Trump. It was Trump. Jason Barker. Hey, Jason. We actually need Trump back so we can go ahead and file bankruptcy.
Starting point is 00:45:44 Nobody is better than Trump at that. That's actually true. And I made that joke at the beginning of the Trump administration. But boy, I was too mad to laugh about it when it happened in 2020. Denver Attaway, I'll reply to Jason. He says he's got a lot of relevant experience. We can divorce the UN. He's good at divorce as well.
Starting point is 00:46:09 There you go. Declare bankruptcy, divorce the UN. Harps, I hope you're feeling better, Harps. I've been praying for you. The debate will just be memes and mockery. Yep, that's right. But sometimes you'll have this type that'll expose what a liar he is. So we'll see what happens with it.
Starting point is 00:46:28 It is going to be interesting. Occult priestess. Why have debates when we know that voting doesn't matter? Well, I think the issues do matter. And I don't think that the voting does matter. And I don't think whoever gets in there as president matters. But I think that we need to have a discussion about it. I've had people say the same thing.
Starting point is 00:46:47 Why even talk about the constitution when it's dead? Well, you need to know what a good constitution would look like. We need to know what an honest leader would look like. And we need to call out this stuff when it's dishonest and when it's illegal and when it violates the document that is their source of authority frankly you know we were talking about this the other day with guard yesterday I think it was and he said something about the constitution you know like and the social contract type of stuff and as I don't know was it Lysander Spooner who said the social contract is a document on
Starting point is 00:47:24 which I cannot find my signature or something like that. It said that basically about the constitution. And, um, no, as I, when I was a kid, we used to say the pledge of allegiance all the time, but we never had a pledge to the constitution or to the bill of rights or anything like that. And I thought, even when I was in school, I thought that's kind of strange. You know, why are we pledging allegiance to a flag instead of two principles? Why are we, I thought, that's kind of strange. Why are we pledging allegiance to a flag instead of to principles? Why are we pledging allegiance to a government instead of principles? But certainly that government, the king, is the Constitution. And even though I haven't signed
Starting point is 00:47:59 the Constitution, and even though I haven't taken an oath to the constitution, cause I never worked for the government in any capacity, civilian or military, the people who are in government have signed an oath to the constitution and the constitution provides a framework for how they're supposed to conduct government. And it also has some restrictions on what they cannot do. We call that the Bill of Rights. And if they're going to violate the framework that they pledged and swore to, and if they're going to violate their oath to not infringe on our God-given rights and to not protect our God-given rights, then they may have power, but they have no authority.
Starting point is 00:48:44 And so these things are very important. I think that's the reason we talk about the Constitution. And that's the reason I talk about the presidential elections. Because I also want to tell people, hey, do you see this guy that you're following here? Do you understand what he did just three years ago? Is your memory that short? Your attention span that short that you can't figure out what happened three years ago? It's just amazing to me that he is leading in the polls and all the rest of this stuff.
Starting point is 00:49:13 On Rockfin, thank you, Info1776. Thank you very much. I really do appreciate that. He says, tell the truth, David, about Pfizer, Trump, and the January 6th setup march. Don't get me started on the CIA,ogenic. Thank you for always sticking to your principles. Well, thank you for your support. I appreciate that. Greg Talent, thank you. I appreciate that as well.
Starting point is 00:49:35 That is on Rockfin. And another comment on Rumble. The days of honest men winning any election trying to restore what our founding fathers envisioned ended with JFK's assassination. In my opinion, I agree. We're going to bring it back though. Let's understand that we have powerful weapons.
Starting point is 00:49:56 And one of them is to not live by lies. If we're going to rebuild, this country is going to be done from the ground up. We are the foundation of this country, not the people on top. If you're going to build a building, do you start with the roof? No, you start with the foundation. And, um, if you've ever been around and we did the, uh, we were the general contractor for a house that we built. Um, just going, it took us forever to do it because we didn't have any leverage with the people who we were going to hire to do the work.
Starting point is 00:50:29 So it took us forever to get somebody to come there. But we watched this thing. And you know, there's a lot of groundwork preparation that goes in. And then there's a lot of time that is spent on putting in those footers. And you feel like we're never going to get anywhere with this thing. Because you got to have a good foundation. Because if you don't have a good foundation, it all falls apart. And what we're seeing now is this country falling apart
Starting point is 00:50:55 because we've moved the building onto a different foundation. And it didn't fall apart in the move. It fell apart when it got on that foundation. And it didn't fall apart in the move. It fell apart when it got on that foundation. And so we need to build a foundation. We need to do it from the ground up. And that means that it's got to start with us, each of us as individuals.
Starting point is 00:51:18 And so we start building the foundation ourselves, to be honest men. And then we work with other people. Nick Ellen Becker. DC is such a toxic mess. Yep. I just,
Starting point is 00:51:38 I'm trying to get a job. There must be just as toxic. Thomas Massey may be the lone bright spot, but who knows? Yeah. I haven't seen anything yet. Uh, that would be a negative. Thomas Massey may be the lone bright spot, but who knows? Yeah, I haven't seen anything yet that would be a negative on Thomas Massey. Yeah. Ron Paul was there for a long time. The one person.
Starting point is 00:51:53 Yeah. Rand Paul is not the successor to Ron Paul. The successor to Ron Paul is Thomas Massey. Interesting that both Thomas Massey and Rand Paul are in Kentucky. One of them is a true successor to Ron. One, three wolf. David, I didn't go to DC because of you. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:52:14 Well, I thank you for letting me know that. I just couldn't stress it enough with people to not go there. And I even said it the morning, get away from that place. It's a trap. I knew it was a trap. I knew the people who were running it. And they knew it was a trap. We'll be right back.
Starting point is 00:52:42 The Common Man. They created Common Core to dumb down our children. They created common past to track and control us. Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing. And the communist future. They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary. But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God. That is what we have in common.
Starting point is 00:53:15 That is what they want to take away. Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation. They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us. It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide. Please share the information and links you'll find at thed, please keep us in your prayers. A couple of decisions in the Supreme Court thing that were released yesterday that are good decisions and dispensed justice. Great wrongs that were done to people. One of them done, one of the cases was a horrific situation
Starting point is 00:54:25 from the EPA. Another one was a local government. And it was, they were trying to take away everything, including all of the equity of a 94-year-old woman because of unpaid taxes. They seized her house, sold it, but they didn't just take what they said they were owed in taxes. They took all of it. And she fought it all the way to the Supreme Court. And they sided unanimously with this 94-year-old woman, which is good. I was glad to see that happen. This has happened. That is not an isolated case.
Starting point is 00:54:59 There have been many cases like that. And this particular, this case with the EPA was over the Clean Waters Act and how they have expanded this with the EPA into waters of the U.S. Just like we talk about SCOTUS, the Supreme Court of the U.S. So we're talking about POTUS, the president of the U.S. Well, they talk about the Clean Waters Act and they call it WOTUS, the waters of the U.S. And they think they all belong to them, right? And it is woe to us if they get away with that. And so the Supreme Court sharply divided a 5-4 decision. And boy, they strongly disagreed on this, but the majority decision slapped the EPA back a little bit. It pitted Michael and Chantel Sackett against EPA
Starting point is 00:55:54 regulators over a bid to build a family home adjacent to Priest Lake in northern Idaho. There was another case that was very much like this, and I don't know how that one turned out. I didn't have time to look at it. The other case, I don't think it was this case. It wasn't building a family home. And the other case, I think it was in Montana. And the family had eight acres, and they wanted to build a small pond. They had eight acres, and they had like a cow or something like that, maybe a couple of animals, livestock on that eight acres.
Starting point is 00:56:30 And so they dug out an area where it was all dry and lined it, like you will, with a pond, with some of the stuff that will keep the water from seeping into the ground, and then put a pond there. And they wanted it for their recreational use and for the livestock to water. The city, county, well, it wasn't the city, but the county, the state, didn't have any problem with it. But the EPA got involved and came after them and fought them for years
Starting point is 00:56:58 and ran up unbelievable amounts of fines, just astronomical, violation of the Bill of Rights, excessive punishment. But they had no jurisdiction there. They said, this doesn't connect to anything. It's a pond. Oh, but it's water, and so it could somehow get out there into the waters of the U.S. that we own, said the EPA. And they even got to the point where they tried to garnish his wages because he had a job.
Starting point is 00:57:26 He wasn't a farmer or anything. I mean, this is just a pond to swim in and a pond for a couple of, a couple of livestock that were there. They tried to garnish his wages and that got slapped down. And when I first saw this, I thought it was that case, but I think it's different because these people are trying to build a home and they're in Northern Idaho. And I think the other one was in Montana. But anyway, the family argued that the property is not directly connected to the lake. It is a different case. And that the broad EPA regulations are an overreach. In 2017, a fractured Supreme Court said that the EPA can regulate any wetlands with a significant nexus to navigable waters like rivers, lakes, and oceans.
Starting point is 00:58:12 Thursday, however, Alito, writing for a five-justice majority, said the existing standard is too broad, too difficult to enforce, and too precarious for property owners. Well, it's just unjust. And, of course, the government will do anything that they can to control everything. I mean, to me, this is the same type of thing that is happening where the government says we own everything and you own nothing. You're not going to be a stakeholder.
Starting point is 00:58:45 In a sense, it's very similar to what is being done to the farmers in the Netherlands. Of course, that is directly about the UN 2030 agenda and taking away food supply, coming after the Netherlands, the second largest exporter of food in the world after the United States. So they want to push us into starvation and into slavery and austerity and all the rest of this. Interestingly, Kavanaugh joined with the liberal justices in this. It wasn't Roberts, but it was Kavanaugh who was there as the 5-4. That's usually the way things split is with Roberts joining them. But it looks like, as I've said before, that Kavanaugh is a younger version of John Roberts.
Starting point is 00:59:32 Somebody that they think is a conservative that was put in by a Republican, but he's really a closet liberal. Agents claim that the residential building land in Priest Lake was protected wetlands, even though it wasn't wet and even though it wasn't attached to any waters. And it was surrounded by homes on other lots. So why would they single these people out? Again, it's absolutely amazing. They said it was a second straight victory at the high court for the Sacketts who earlier had to go all the way to the top because EPA said they couldn't even challenge the decision in court.
Starting point is 01:00:14 You see, that's how arrogant the bureaucracy has become. Uh, and our politicians are largely to blame. You know, they have Congress, both the House and the Senate, have abdicated their power and pushed everything that they can over to the bureaucracy. It's one of the reasons why when they were talking about Obamacare, remember how Nancy Pelosi said, we've got to pass it to find out what's in it. And that was one of the most truthful things that she ever said. And she was laughed at by conservatives. Oh, she doesn't even know what she in it. And that was one of the most truthful things that she ever said. And she was laughed at by conservatives. Oh, she doesn't even know what she's getting old and see now. No,
Starting point is 01:00:51 she was telling you the truth, telling you the truth. Uh, so we're going to come back to this, um, uh, a little bit later, but we have our guest who is ready at the moment. And so let's go directly to him. We won't even take a break. James Roguski is joining us. And I don't know any, okay, we're going to take a break and then we're going to come back with James. And I just say, I've had him on the show before. Nobody has done more research about what is happening with the World Health Organization and the skullduggery
Starting point is 01:01:22 that they are enacting in order to try to take over all of our countries the next time they imagine or declare a pandemic. We'll be right back. The common man. They created common core to dumb down our children. They created common past to track and control us. Their commons project to make sure the commoners own nothing. And the communist future.
Starting point is 01:02:02 They see the common man as simple, unsophisticated, ordinary. But each of us has worth and dignity created in the image of God. That is what we have in common. That is what they want to take away. Their most powerful weapons are isolation, deception, intimidation. They desire to know everything about us while they hide everything from us. It's time to turn that around and expose what they want to hide. Please share the information and links you'll find at thedavidknightshow.com. Thank you for listening. Thank you for sharing.
Starting point is 01:02:46 If you can't support us financially, please keep us in your prayers. TheDavidKnightShow.com Welcome back, folks. You know, one thing that we have to really fight hard against is complacency. There's a narrative out there, oh, we've won. You know, we've got the masks off of our face and so forth. Well, they haven't taken away any of these pandemic rules, even at the local level. But while all of this is happening, we have the World Health Organization very busy weaving new nets to ensnare us. And as I said before, went to break, James Roguski knows about this better than anybody else. So I'm going to kind of turn this over to James and let him update you as to what is happening at the World Health Organization
Starting point is 01:03:46 in terms of the ways that they're changing the rules and all the rest of this. Thank you for joining us, James. Oh, David, you know, you're the first one to give me a chance to talk last year, and I appreciate that. And so I want this conversation actually to be hilarious because what is going on here um but let's focus on sarcasm and um satire and snarky reactions to what they're doing because it's like drinking from a fire hose the who last year put out their financials and they spent 3.8.8 billion, which in the grand scheme of things, though, is a drop in the bucket. But 30% of that was spent on salaries. They had 8,851 employees who earned an average of $120,000.
Starting point is 01:04:47 I got to put in my job application because I'm not being paid that much. Okay. And David, I don't want to make you throw up. Okay. But imagine that you were the director general of the World Health Organization and you had a workforce of 8,851 people and you could pay them $120,000 a year. Here's a rhetorical question for you. How much propaganda could you generate? Yeah. And now they got chat GPT to help them, right? You know what? I want to get somebody, I don't really have time. I want somebody to use chat GPT to write a pandemic treaty. Okay. Because what will probably happen is it'll access the final version that I'm sure already exists. Right. And then we'll, we'll know where we're headed. You know, thank you, chat GPT. If somebody knows how to do that, please, please go right
Starting point is 01:05:35 ahead. Okay. I want to talk about the elephants that are in the room and the elephants that, you know, are not in the room, but really should be. Okay. And, and so keeping with the elephant theme, there's a saying, you know, how do you eat an elephant one bite at a time? Okay. So what the WHO has been doing this week and this month and, and, you know, with all of their meetings and their documents, they are just throwing, you know, millions of words at us and eating it one bite at a time. I just want to talk about one article of what I was able to obtain, thank you to my friends on Twitter who found it out there in Twitter land. they've been quietly circulating an unedited draft of the Bureau's text, and I'll explain that in a minute, of the proposed Convention Agreement Plus, okay? And to put that in English,
Starting point is 01:06:41 the Bureau refers to the intergovernmental negotiating body. It's a bunch of people, and they have their own little secretariat, which is their own little secretaries, right? A little bureaucracy to craft this piece of work. I'll just put it that way. So it's kind of a bureaucracy inside of a bureaucracy, and all of these things are nested like Madrioski, right? We've got to come back to that before we end this session. And so they keep saying that this is a member-led, you know, member-nation-led negotiating process.
Starting point is 01:07:29 But, you know, this Bureau's text is essentially written by the WHO's secretariat that's assigned to work on this project. And so one of the sections is communication and public awareness. David, they wrote this about you. OK, or maybe, you know, I'm not sure, keeping with the snark here, I'm not sure maybe you've been working with them. Because here's what the secretariat employees that make a lot of money are very skilled at doing. They're very skilled at writing and using language that when one person looks at it, they see what they want to see. When another person looks at it, they see what they want to see. When another person looks at it, they see what they want to see. When a good person reads the sustainable development goals, right? And you have the highest belief in your mind of what you want to do to save the world, you read the SDGs
Starting point is 01:08:20 and you go, well, you know, these aren't all that okay but if you're if you're an evil overlord and and you've had your minions craft language that when it comes down to you know implementation right you know how you can interpret it and implement it right that's right there's the devils and the details you know they got these high lofty goals about how we want to have everything clean and sustainable. But then when you look at it, it's like, oh, you got to take everything from you. Right. Okay. So, um, keeping with the elephant theme, um, there's a story of, you know, numerous blind people touching an elephant.
Starting point is 01:08:57 One, one person touches the ear, right. And they think it's a fan. Another person touches the trunk. They think it's a snake. One person touches the trunk. They think it's a snake. One person touches the leg and they think it's a tree trunk and so forth, the tusk and all that sort of thing. Okay, so what I would love to do
Starting point is 01:09:14 is go over Article 18 with you as much detail as we can in the next 20 minutes with the attitude of how would this apply to David Knight in David Knight's world? And how would this apply to David Knight, looking back over what happened over the last three and a half years? And if you're an evil overlord and you get to implement this, how could you interpret it? And so Article 18 is about communication and public awareness.
Starting point is 01:09:48 Well, when I read that, I read censorship. This is not public awareness. David Knight has been working real hard to communicate and raise the awareness of the public. Is that what they mean? hard to communicate and raise the awareness of the public. Okay. Is that what they mean? Is this good? Maybe you should apply for funding, David, because I think we can see in here, if we read this appropriately, they're talking about you and many other people in the industry who try to do similar things.
Starting point is 01:10:18 Okay. The parties, I don't know if you can pop up the graphic, you know, in and out, maybe we can talk and show some of the text. It says the parties, which means whoever, whatever nation would decide to sign on to the treaty. So it's a party to the agreement, right? The parties shall strengthen science. Okay. I mean, we got to go have Anthony Fauci work out.
Starting point is 01:10:48 I mean, what does strengthen science mean, David? It means skepticism. That's how you strengthen science. It's like, prove it, show me. They don't like that. Okay, all right. So we got to add another S. We got satire, sarcasm, snark, and there you go.
Starting point is 01:11:04 Okay. So the parties shall strengthen science, public health, and pandemic literacy. David, you've got to strengthen pandemic literacy. Okay. Well, in another part, we won't go into the details, but in Article 1 of this, they have a definition of a pandemic. So I want to see a show, you know, this week where, you know, you're strengthening people's literacy about their new definition of a pandemic. I think what they're talking when they say pandemic, I would guess as code word for pushing this to kids in school. Uh, but the good news is, is that the kids in school don't read their illiterate.
Starting point is 01:11:43 So maybe it won't get through if they do it there i don't okay as well we got a lot of we got a lot of stuff to get to just in this just in this one nibble of an elephant okay this is just one page out of a 42 page document out of 10 000 documents right um um as well as access to information on dav, you got to help people get access to information on pandemics, right? The European Union submitted an addition, the last article or the last paragraph of this document said, oh, yeah, by the way, this isn't the compilation document. There's more coming, right? And so I reported a month and a half ago,
Starting point is 01:12:25 the European Union submitted a bunch of text that was supposed to be in here, and they wanted to define and in the treaty, as opposed to the amendments, give the director general the authority to declare a pandemic situation. So you're going to have to get on the stick, David, and define the difference between a public health emergency of international concern, a public health emergency of regional concern. So it's either a fake or a FERC, right? Or a PHE, which is what Javier Becerra can do, which is a public health emergency, and a pandemic situation. Well, because currently we are in an inter-pandemic period. We're post-pandemic.
Starting point is 01:13:20 So we've got a lot of teaching to do with people to raise their awareness and information on pandemics. We have to combat the infodemic. David, you're a carrier and a transmitter of infodemics. So, you know, mind your P's and Q's, okay? And you have to tackle, so we're going to have to either play football or rugby, right? We're going to have to tackle false, misleading misinformation or disinformation, okay? Now, never mind that most of that actually comes from three-letter organizations. David, let me give you a pat on the back. You've been
Starting point is 01:13:52 tackling false, misleading, misinformation, or disinformation. Let me pat you on the back. If you see misinformation, you tackle it, right? So keep up the good work. Put in for a grant. I mean, they've got billions of dollars coming. And including through promotion of international cooperation. And in that regard, each party shall. I don't know if you're showing the videos. Yes, we've got it up. It's going back and forth as you're reading it.
Starting point is 01:14:21 He puts it up. Beautiful. Okay. So you're supposed to promote and facilitate in accordance with national approaches. Oh, okay. So maybe you have to do a show in the UK or Australia and adjust your message appropriately so that you can get your point across.
Starting point is 01:14:39 Oh, wait a minute. Laws and regulations and the development and implementation of risk communication. So, David, you have to make sure that people understand the risks. Yeah. Whatever's going on. Okay. Community engagement. David, you got to engage with your community. Infodemic management. Okay. There's a lot of information out there, David. You got to make sure that you manage it well. And educational and public awareness programs on pandemics and their
Starting point is 01:15:11 effects in a way that is broadly accessible. You might want to add your program to more platforms. Okay. Now, see, here's the point. If you were an evil overlord, what would that look like? If you had 8,851 employees and you were paying them 120 grand a year, or you were part of the Trusted News Initiative, okay, how would you read this? Which part of the elephant is this for those people, right? If you're with the Wall Street Journal or the Washington Post or the New York Times or MSNBC, how do you read this? Keep going. You have to conduct regular community outreach, social listening. You've got to be watching what's going on in society and on social media, Dave.
Starting point is 01:16:09 Periodic analysis and consultations with civil society organizations. Dave, you're dropping the ball. You got to get Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation representatives on the show. You got to communicate with all of these folks who are involved in these public-private partnerships, which is essentially fascism, and you're just not talking to those kind of people, David. You've got to do outreach to civil society, because people like me, I'm not civilized. I'm not part of an organization. I'm not a member of civil society. I'm not considered to be a relevant stakeholder. I don't have an ongoing relationship in their capacity with the WHO, so I don't get a seat at the table. I guess that's why we're not essential.
Starting point is 01:16:56 Exactly, exactly. Medialis, to identify the prevalence and profiles of misinformation. Well, Matt did a video, I don't know if you've seen it, it's like 11 minutes of all of the propaganda that, you know, Fauci and Rochelle Walensky and all of those, you know, all of the things they said, how, oh, if you get the jab, you know, you're not going to get sick, and, you know, all of the things they said, how, oh, if you get the jab, you're not going to get sick, and all of the many things. We have to identify the prevalence and profiles of misinformation. So maybe you could run a weekly series and profile, you know how they do in a lot of these news shows, right? Profiles encourage, okay? You could do profiles in misinformation and just feature, you know, whatever it is you've observed, which contribute, it's a little weird wording, but you have to
Starting point is 01:17:52 design communications and messaging strategies for the public to counteract misinformation, disinformation, and false news. That might be Travis. He might be the one who's, you know, designing the messaging strategies, right? To strengthen public trust. Because, you know, David, the problem was all of this vaccine hesitancy. That's right. You've got to trust the science and they are the science. Well, step number one is you have to strengthen the science first. So go put it through a workout, right? And promoting adherence to public health and social measures so people have to adhere to public health and social measures so you know if you see those blue fit footprints six feet away from each other you know at the grocery store checkout line you've got to adhere you know to
Starting point is 01:18:43 that dictate make sure you're not getting closer to that dictate. Make sure you're not getting closer to the person in front of you, right? I think we might actually get through this, David. We're halfway through and we're about halfway through. You have to promote communications on scientific engineering and technological advances that are relevant to the development and implementation of national and international rules and guidelines for pandemic preparedness, I'm sorry, prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery of health systems based on science and available evidence when appropriate. Now, David, you know that a good, healthy diet is important. And I have to
Starting point is 01:19:16 tell you, for the last year, I've been living on the WHO's word salad. Because that's what they it's it's i don't mean you know to um you know i'll put it this way you know how some um ethnic foods only have a handful of ingredients but they they come up with all kinds of different meals out of just a small subset of of um types of food sure the who has a handful of terminology right you knowPR, we've got to deal with pandemic prevention, preparedness, response, and recovery. We've got to have a whole of society and a whole government approach. We've got to use the one health approach. You know, David, no one is safe until everyone is safe, and nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and if you learn their lingo you can literally just throw that word salad out there and probably get yourself a grant yeah okay all right
Starting point is 01:20:12 then keep going here take effective measures to increase digital health literacy david digital health you need to have your audience have digital health literacy among the public and within the health sector through education and meaningful engagement, including clinicians, health sector stakeholders. That's the key. To summarize, this is just one article in the 42-page proposed treaty. This is really not a treaty about health. This is a prospectus for venture capital, for organized crime, to redistribute wealth and build out what I call the pharmaceutical hospital emergency industrial complex. What they're doing is they're saying, look, we have to build the industry
Starting point is 01:21:13 because if we have in every nation more laboratories that can do genomic testing, we won't fail like we did last time. We could really create a case-demic because they didn't have enough testing. They didn't have enough people going into your chicken coop or your waste treatment plant or the river, you know, the LA river, because we could find pathogens that could cause a pandemic almost anywhere we look. And what we need to build is the capacity to do PCR tests at 45 cycles on everything on the planet so that we can have an early warning that there could be, you know, a deadly pathogen out there. You might want to test, like, you know, do a ring around all of the level four labs because, you know, you probably have good luck finding something. You can find everything, anything that you want.
Starting point is 01:22:10 Crank up the cycles as high as you want and you get everything. All right. We've only got two more to go. I think we're going to make it. Yeah. The parties shall, as appropriate, conduct research and inform policies. Well, hold on a second. The parties shall, as appropriate.
Starting point is 01:22:25 David, you know, do The parties shall as appropriate. David, you know, do whatever you think is appropriate. Yeah. So you don't have to, you don't have to conduct research only if it's appropriate. Right. Okay. And, and, and that phrase, you know, it's all throughout this, you know, you got to do this kind of, if you want to, right? Conduct research and inform policies. I don't even know what that means. You have to inform your policy, not inform your people. They have this Pratt thing where essentially what they want to do, I think you're maybe familiar with the group ALEC that writes legislation and then they
Starting point is 01:23:06 clone it and then all of a sudden... American Legislative Exchange Council, that's right. Okay. I think they're doing a similar thing where they're saying, look, here's the policy. Oh, look, we wrote it for you. You might have to change a couple of words for your province or state, but we're going to inform... Why don't you inform your policy with our template? Okay. And here's the thing. They're already doing that and they have been for years. One of the quotes in another document said that they're operationalizing the things that
Starting point is 01:23:41 are being negotiated. The Global Digital Health Certification Network is being built, right? the things that are being negotiated. The global digital health certification network is being built, right? The vaccine passports, the testing passports, all that sort of thing. And so I'll give you this analogy. I'm going to step away from the elephants just for a moment.
Starting point is 01:23:57 If you had six people in a room and you said, hey, we're going to order a pizza. Tell me what toppings you want on the pizza. But you throw the pizza in the oven because you've already decided what kind of pizza you want. You've thrown all kinds of toppings on it, right? You put a couple here and a couple there. You could have the pizza ready before the six people decide what kind of pizza they want. And they're arguing amongst themselves. And the pizza comes out of the oven you go hey here's the pizza and you can have it you can take it or leave it well whatever it is they thought they
Starting point is 01:24:34 wanted right um they're gonna eat the pizza that you give them that's right and that's what's going on here now there's 194 member nations going through the facade going through the charade of a member nation-led negotiating process they all think that you know they have forgotten that chat gt gpt already wrote the final version and we're going through these iterations, right? This is being, you know, the nations are being led by a ring in their nose by the World Health Organization and their secretariat and their bureau. They know where this is going because they're already building the networks. They're building the digital network for the tracking and tracing system. They're building out the pathogen laboratories that every nation is going to have to send all their pathogens and genomic sequences to. You know, this is a fait accompli.
Starting point is 01:25:34 They're building it while they're saying, why don't you guys negotiate it? And next year, they're going to hand them the finished pizza. And they're going to sign on. And every nation around the world will have already written the legislation implementing what they're building. The negotiations are a scam. And I'm only talking about the treaty because they're talking about the treaty and you haven't heard boo about the proposed amendments to the
Starting point is 01:26:03 international health regulations. And before we move on, you know, they the Rand corporation came up with this thing called the Delphi technique and they were going around in the early two thousands when it was still called agenda 21 before it became UN 2030 agenda. And they would have these community meetings and they would rig it. So they'd already worked out what they wanted to do, but they would get the people that were there to think that it was their idea.
Starting point is 01:26:27 They would have a phony consensus, but they'd already cooked the pizza, as you just pointed out. There you go. Let's plow through this. I think we're going to make it. Yeah. You have to inform your policies on factors that hinder adherence to public health and social measures in a pandemic, including
Starting point is 01:26:47 confidence, right? Uptake and demand of vaccines. There you go. There's the kernel in here. That's the root of it all. Use of appropriate therapeutics, not that ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine and vitamin C and D. Don't be doing that. It's not appropriate. Use of non-pharmaceutical interventions. Wow. Maybe there's something there for me to bite into and think that this is on my side. And trust in science and government institutions. Well, good luck there.
Starting point is 01:27:21 That's not making a comeback. The parties shall promote a science and evidence-informed approach to effective and timely risk assessment. Oh, we're supposed to do risk assessment on the decisions that we make? I don't know. That's going to be trouble. Mindful of the uncertainty and evolving nature of data and evidence during a pandemic. You know, Fauci wasn't wrong. Biden wasn't wrong. Rochelle Walensky wasn't wrong. The data evolved, which it does.
Starting point is 01:27:54 But, you know, don't ignore that. When communicating such risk to the public. So here's what I'd like to communicate to the public, right? If you can see in here things that could apply to David Knight, but you can see things in here that might apply to the government agencies and the Trusted News Initiative, the skill in writing language that anyone, like the blind people touching an elephant, what do you see? You know, it's like a Rorschach test, right? You know, here's one article. David, what do you see in here? What do you see in here? Well, all of the relevant stakeholders see the potential for grant money. Oh, we're going to implement, and this is just one article, we're going to be busy implementing, you know, article 17 or 20 or whatever. Give us money, give us money, give us money, give us money.
Starting point is 01:28:51 Okay, they're talking about billions and billions of dollars here. But then someone else can come along and you can look at this and you can go, you know, what would I do? What would I do if I had a billion dollars and I can pay 8,800 people 120 grand a year? I think I would do some good. Well, I know we're tight on time. And so here's what I want to say to everybody. Give me a phone call, right? My phone number is 310-619-3055.
Starting point is 01:29:22 If you want to take a bite out of this elephant and have some fun with it, there's plenty more to talk about. What's coming up in June, I'm going to give everybody early advance warning. I'm not psychic. I just read the Federal Register and I see their calendar of events. If people go to silence equals consent.com, it's all spelled spelled out you don't put an equal sign in the url don't do a search for it just go straight there silence equals consent.com they've opened up what they call a listening um session and the last time we had one of these, a good friend of mine absolutely ripped them a new one. And I was able to record that and publish it about a month ago. They're going to have,
Starting point is 01:30:14 or we are all going to have the opportunity to put in, and please do it yourself, David, go there, send them an email. They're having a listening session. We will be able to speak directly to the Office of Global Affairs at the Department of Health and Human Services about the treaty
Starting point is 01:30:32 and the amendments, two separate listening sessions. Send in your application. You can send in written comment. And that is the department that pays the salaries and writes the checks for your delegates to the WHO. Wow. Learn all about this. Understand what it is you believe and what you feel about this. And in June, we get to rip them a new one. So silence equals consent will show you where you can go to get into this process and get
Starting point is 01:31:02 into, you know, it's a domain. It's a domain name that points to an article on my sub stack, James Roguski dot sub stack.com J A M E S R O G U S K I dot sub stack.com. Um, it's an article. What I encourage people to do is record video, put it up on whatever platform you want, say whatever you want to say, and then send that to your Congress people. You go to exitthewho.com and yell and scream at your Congress people. We're going to have an opportunity in June to do the same to our delegates and share it with the world. Tell everybody what you think and have some fun with it. You know, if you're not having fun, you're doing it wrong. That's right. And if you're not speaking up, you're doing it wrong as well.
Starting point is 01:31:46 And so that's a very important thing. And people really do underestimate the importance and the influence that it makes on people when a lot of people do it. And so just, you know, you don't have to do something that's going to be award-winning argument. Just do something and put it up there. And it's just the weight of all of these different responses is what they send it and send it to me. I will add it to the collection. I've got several hundred videos that people around the world have done and
Starting point is 01:32:13 it's all on screw the who.com screw the who.com, uh, exit the who.com, but you know, consent, uh, equals or silence equals consent. Yeah. And give me a phone call. 310-619-3055.
Starting point is 01:32:29 James, thank you so much. You have done so much work on this. You have been tireless. Nobody has done more detailed work. No, I'm tired. I'm tired. I bet you are. I bet you are.
Starting point is 01:32:40 That kind of stuff that you went through right there, that is really a heavy lift to go through all that bureaucratic language. But it is just, you can look at that and you can understand that Tedros, you know, a Marxist is running the organization that would put up something like that because it just reeks. I never thought word salad could be so nutritious. It's been sustaining me. It just reeks of all that stuff, doesn't it? Okay, we're going to take a break, folks, and we'll be right back. Thank you, James. James Roguesco. Always okay we're gonna take a break folks and we'll be right back thank you james james for guest always a pleasure thank you all right we'll be right back Thank you. You're listening to The David Knight Show. Well, folks, we have to burn everything down.
Starting point is 01:34:32 The greatest reset Europe could achieve net zero by demolishing its historic buildings, says an Italian central banker. Yes, that is the goal. It is to eradicate Western civilization. That is what this is really about. It's about eradicating Western civilization. That is what this is really about. It's about eradicating Western civilization. And of course, it is also about taking everything from us, not just our civilization. All of our food, transportation, clothing, you name it. Top central banker is warned of the damage that the rush to net zero risks doing to Europe's economy. And illustrates the point by noting that erasing Europe's built heritage would be necessary in order to meet extreme green demands.
Starting point is 01:35:15 Paolo Angelini, deputy governor of the Bank of Italy, was commenting about the European net zero targets. He said we risk doing more harm than good. He's not in favor of this, by the way. But he says, hey, if you really want to get serious about it, let's tear it down. And he said, the level of change that would actually be needed would actually cause more harm than good.
Starting point is 01:35:40 He said, when he was being interviewed by Politico, he said, they told me if you allow us to tear down all of our historical buildings and build energy efficient ones, then we can do it. He says, do we really want to go there? This is a central banker who is saying this. He said the Bank of Italy wouldn't be committing itself to net zero anytime soon, not because he didn't believe in the cause, but simply because with the technology presently available, he didn't think it was physically possible. And you could
Starting point is 01:36:10 say this about every aspect of burning down the country. Not physically possible. For the time being, I'm refraining from raising my hand and saying that the Bank of Italy, we're going to go to net zero because I don't have the technology, the ability to be certain about the pledge. And the Bank of Italy itself is headquartered in Palazzo Koch in Italy, an impressively grand 19th century palace named for its architect, which features a money museum and significant interiors and staterooms. And if they're successful, these people put both religion and money into a museum. That's what they always wanted to do. Turn the churches into museums. Well, they can
Starting point is 01:36:57 turn our money will be existing only in museums. So he's not going to go there with this bank. He says, we don't have the technology. We don't have the ability to be certain about this pledge, but in New York, they are going to go there. New York city is coming after banks. If they don't come after gun, um, owners, gun shops and, um, gun retailers, if they don't follow the climate agenda, if they don't follow the DEI, or I think more appropriately the DIE, the DIE agenda, if they don't do that, they've already told some very large banks that are perfectly sound that they're not going to be putting any more money with them, even though they're getting
Starting point is 01:37:43 tens of millions of dollars from New York City. They're using that as leverage and that kind of ESG approach, essentially saying we're going to purge you out of the financial system. We're going to put you out of business if you don't fall in line with this. Well, in the Bank of Italy, they're not going to do that. They love their impressive buildings that they have there. In the UK, an advisor to London Mayor Sadiq Khan said that traditional architecture is offensive because, in her view, it harkens back to oppression.
Starting point is 01:38:16 She doesn't have any problem with oppression. She just has a problem with other people's oppression. She's not. This whole thing is oppression. Recent modern grand projects to create homes for large government organizations, says Breitbart, have run considerably over budget and over time compared to their traditional architecture alternatives. And they're ugly.
Starting point is 01:38:38 In one particularly egregious case, the Scottish Parliament cost four times its budget and has needed remedial work on its roof since, as the aggressively modernist design failed to meet the most basic and ancient requirements for building, that it keep the rain out. Yeah, that's the real issue about this stuff. It's not functional. And that's a metaphor for everything that is happening with the climate agenda. The cancellation of classical music is part of it as well. And this is an example of how you cannot appease these people. Heather MacDonald had a piece in Spike about a woman, Donna Vaughan, longtime artistic director of opera at the Manhattan School of Music, and that was until August of 2020.
Starting point is 01:39:28 She has done, she has singing, acting, and even directing on and off Broadway and on opera. And so in 2020, when everything was locked down, she was doing a Zoom class. And part of her background, besides this extensive professional experience, she was also a true believer in all this woke stuff. She wanted minority musicians to get involved and understand and be exposed to classical music. So she endowed a scholarship for minorities, minority musicians. She, besides the classics, she produced socially conscious contemporary works, and she was part of the tribe, you know, just like Robespierre, who eventually was beheaded by the
Starting point is 01:40:13 French mob on the guillotines that he had championed. And that's kind of what happened to her. She had done a feminist opera about a 17th century nun. It got performance and so forth. But it was in this Zoom class that she was teaching on musical theater. An unidentified participant, whose name and image were blacked out, asked her, out of the blue, how could she justify having produced Franz Lehar's allegedly racist operetta, The Land of Smiles. Well, they said it was racist because they said that they didn't like the way it depicted Asians.
Starting point is 01:40:55 Franz Lehar goes back a long way, if I remember correctly. I think he was a contemporary of Johann Strauss. But anyway, I may be wrong about that. But anyway, Vaughn cut the questioner off. She said, that's irrelevant to what we're talking about. She just cut him off. Well, that was proof of guilt right there to these people. So the Manhattan School of Music student petition was immediately forthcoming. She had to be fired because she was, quote, a danger to the arts community.
Starting point is 01:41:25 She wasn't part of the tribe. She didn't denounce this sufficiently. This is all textbook Marxism. You see all of this stuff throughout the Russian Revolution, the Lenin, and the rest of these people. You can't be neutral. Now, you have to denounce yourself. You have to denounce other people. You have to hate what they do.
Starting point is 01:41:47 And if you don't, they come for you as well. She, they started going back into her production, accused her or said she had cast a black singer as a butler. And that that proved her racism. There you go. So she was fired and replaced by a black male i guess you could say they were blackmailing her already a different way no when you go back this reminds me of nothing as much as it does the trials of the russian composer shostakovich who stalin came after did not like his music had a music. Didn't think that his music was appropriate for them.
Starting point is 01:42:33 And everything that he did after Stalin went to one of his concerts, disliked the piece, all the critics loved it. Stalin made his disapproval known. And then overnight, all the critics turned against him. This is just authoritarianism writ large, just like that treaty we just saw there. These people are going to bring everybody into submission. Well, you're not alone. Anger is building across the world, says Advancing Time blog. If you are tired of watching your government grow increasingly oppressive and corrupt, people around the world are.
Starting point is 01:43:12 And this is coming together, coming in a fourth turning. And this is both good news and troubling news. Because we know that if people wake up enough that they're going to take us to war, to try to tamp this down, I think is what's going to happen. But we take one thing at a time. I'd rather die on my feet than to live on my knees. And so we need to keep that perspective in front of us. Mass media has perfected the fine art of dividing us and at the same time keeping us in the dark.
Starting point is 01:43:43 The greatest risk we face may be AI that is coming at us fast and furious. And once it's here, getting real information is going to be almost impossible. That is the key thing. That's why I began talking about all the hallucinations of chat GPT. I said, this is very convincing, but it is also untrue. And when you look at what is happening on social media, this is a mainstream media article that is wringing their hands about how climate scientists are fleeing Twitter
Starting point is 01:44:25 as hostility, they said, is surging. Yeah, they're being, as I say, ratioed. They're not doing a very good job of convincing people, and people are coming back at them. As a matter of fact, there was a tweet yesterday, and it showed this volcano. And they were saying, well, since this thing is spewing more climate-changing gases into the atmosphere than my SUV, why are we so focused on my SUV? Is it because they haven't figured out how to tax volcanoes yet? This is an eruption at Mount Etna in Italy. But of course, there's another one that is happening on the cusp of happening, or maybe it's going on right now, in Mexico that they're very concerned about. Scientists are suffering insults and mass spam, and they're abandoning
Starting point is 01:45:18 Twitter for alternative social networks because of hostile climate change denialism. And so that person put that tweet up, another individual, and I retweeted the other tweet, and I responded to his criticism. He goes, well, you have no idea what you're talking about. You know, you're just, and he was somebody who had written a book about the climate hoax. And so he engaged her with just, you're just ignorant. And so I said, oh, really? And so I responded to him.
Starting point is 01:45:56 And he came back, and he was very condescending about it. And I said, no, you know, I'm just sick and tired of the lies coming from people who have, um, just want to scare the people and want to hide the truth and who keep changing their stories. And, um, you know, I've seen it, I've seen it with Michael Mann and all the rest of this stuff. And so, um, anyway,, anyway, the adversarial actors at home and abroad, that's how they see you, as adversarial actors. Which non-foreign adversaries do the elites have in mind when they promote domestic censorship and blocking of the news?
Starting point is 01:46:38 Well, we know. You know, it is now the main focus for what they're going to go back to is the climate MacGuffin. And they're going to go back and forth. It's going to be left, right, left, right. Both the pandemic and the climate allow them to scare people with a fake existential threat. And it justifies them taking everything from us if you buy into the fear. And that's why we can't say, this is not the right way to, we've got a better way to handle the emissions. You've got to tackle it head on. You've got to say, look, this whole thing is a lie. Look at what they're doing to the PCR test.
Starting point is 01:47:18 Look at the statistics, how they're rigging all this stuff. Look at what they're doing in terms of measuring temperatures. All of these MacGuffins are a direct war against each and every one of us and our way of life. The EU has approved one and a half billion to forcibly confiscate land from the Dutch farmers. Now that may sound like a lot of money, but that's going to be spread out over 3,000 farms. So we're talking about an average of only a half a million dollars. This is theft. This is as bad as the EPA trying to take over the property.
Starting point is 01:47:57 These people have a couple of acres in Idaho or Montana. This is much worse than that. You know that these farms are worth many, many multiples of $500,000. And of course, it's going to help to create a global food issue because they are the second largest exporter of food, second only to the United States. of one and a half billion euros to buy out Dutch farmers. Uh, the EU has signaled its intention to go through with a forcible closure of up to 3000 Dutch farms. And, uh, it is simply theft, simply theft. One of the rules that has come out as a matter of fact, as well, uh, for the farms that they would allow to continue, they got a limit of two cows per field. And we're talking, well, how big is a field? Well, it's about the size of a soccer field,
Starting point is 01:48:53 what we would say. They call it a football pitch. So, you know, about the size of a football field here in the United States, an American football field. You can only have two cows on that amount of land and so um it's all about the particular gas with this is going to be methane right how much stuff is released by these volcanoes and you don't think that that really changes the climate i mean we've had uh you know he was saying well this is nothing as a matter of fact on that particular tweet when i first saw it there wasn't anything there but then there was a a climate note that was attached to it um on twitter you know because they have this um thing where people who disagree with something can uh put a disclaimer at the bottom of it. That's their approach to doing it rather than outright censoring it.
Starting point is 01:49:46 And so somebody put something there and said, well, you know, actually the man-made CO2 is more than 100 times the amount of gas that is put out there by all of the volcanoes combined. Now, you know that's just nonsense. That is absolute nonsense. We had just one volcano, a very large one, Krakatoa east of Java, and the 19th century blew up and it affected climate around the globe for several years. They had a little mini ice age, very, very severe winters for several years. It ejects so much gas and other material that it affects the climate. And they want you to believe
Starting point is 01:50:35 that these volcanoes, that all the volcanoes releasing CO2 gas and everything else, that that is going to be not anything that affects the climate, but humans will. Again, go back to the fact that only 0.4% of the atmosphere has CO2. And that's from all natural as well as man-made sources. And they don't have and won't show you the data to prove otherwise. We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. Stay with us. Joe, we've got a problem. What?
Starting point is 01:51:15 Who are you? It's the new mug they're selling at the David Knight show dot com. Right. So basically, a mug is something that holds liquid, right? Because basically you can't hold coffee with your hands, right? I'm scattingly, but anyone tries
Starting point is 01:51:33 to mug me, I be ready for it. You dog-faced pony soldier. They say the mug can help patriots drink coffee, then save the world. This could be bad for us. Save the world? But we
Starting point is 01:51:50 owe the world. These people, they're supporting free speech with every mug they buy. Come on. These people, I tell you, will anyway. You're listening to The David Knight Show. Henry Kissinger, oh I'm missing you.
Starting point is 01:52:23 You're the doctor of my dreams With your crinkly hair And your glassy stir And your macula And your schemes All right, so people say that you don't care But you've got nicer legs than Hitler And bigger than Schiller Henry Kissinger But you don't care. But you've got nicer legs than Hitler.
Starting point is 01:52:47 And bigger than Schiller. Henry Kissinger. Oh, I'm missing you. And wishing you were here. Yeah, we don't know where Henry Kissinger is now. I guess he's gone back to his lair. He was at Bilderberg just a week ago. And I wanted to cover what Charlie Skelton said before we get too far away from the actual event. And he had a great picture there at Bilderberg. And if I can find it here on the thing. Yeah,
Starting point is 01:53:19 here it is right here. That was the picture that they had in his article. Really posh settings there in Lisbon. And he said, at Bilderberg, the big wig bash, two things are guaranteed, Kissinger and secrecy. So we don't know where Kissinger is now. We did know where his whereabouts for a couple of days, and that's basically it. He said, the Portuguese sun was doing its cheery best to make this year's Bilderberg meeting seem warm and welcome, but, uh, nothing could take the deathly chill out of the official agenda, the secretive shindig for some of the world's most powerful people, Charlie Skelton, uh, great writer, nice guy, uh, got to talk to him at all the different Bilderbergs that I went to. And, um, he does it every single year, never misses them. And he always has some interesting insights on this. He said, Ukraine, Russia, NATO weighed
Starting point is 01:54:13 heavily on the schedule, fiscal challenges, and transnational threats seemed like light relief because the war effort here, he said, He said the head of NATO, Jen Stoltenberg, arrived in Lisbon to attend the talks, said our security environment is more dangerous than it has been since the Cold War.
Starting point is 01:54:33 Well, that's inspiring, isn't it? The annual three-day conference that was last weekend, an elite networking event, a diplomatic summit, a lobbying opportunity for transnational financial interests, an intense focus of conspiracy theory gossip.
Starting point is 01:54:51 But above all, the 69th Bilderberg Conference at the glorious Pestana Palace appeared like a council of war. Very true, very true. A comment from Brian and Deb McCartney about what we just talked about, the farms. They're culling chickens and poultry in Russia due to a new scariant. Yeah, like a variant, a scary variant. A bird brain flu. I like that.
Starting point is 01:55:17 On one farm, they culled over 800,000 birds for nothing but the agenda. And understand that Redfield, the guy who was Trump's CDC stooge, is out there, keeps pushing bird flu for us. And you look at what they are saying now even about monkeypox. We had to change it to mpox. Why did they do that? Well, because it is associated with the homosexual community. It is associated, like AIDS, with certain activities, but they want to make it about a virus so they can produce a vaccine, right?
Starting point is 01:55:50 That was Fauci's original scam was the HIV virus is a cause of AIDS. Let's forget about the activity that people are engaged in. As they talk about this, they say, well, we've got to have this new vaccine that we're going to rush to market because why? Well, because summer is coming around, and these people are going to get more active in their activities, and so we need to have a vaccine ready for them. I'm surprised since these are things that these diseases have civil liberties, and you've got to be very careful about what you say
Starting point is 01:56:25 about AIDS. I'm surprised that they don't push back and say you're targeting the LGBT community for death. That's what he's doing with this monkey pox stuff. Yeah. So again, um, it is an agenda for extreme tax and control. Yeah, says Nick Allen Becker. He's right. But getting back to Bilderberg, which is another agenda for control, he said Ukraine's foreign minister had not come to Lisbon because he loves the happy clatter of trams
Starting point is 01:56:57 and the Supreme Allied Commander of Europe wasn't here for the custard tarts, which was a shame because they're excellent. He said, I guess they can't risk dusting them with cinnamon and Henry Kissinger's presence since one sneeze might be enough to carry him off to his reward. But on the eve of his 100th birthday, think about that. The next time, if he's still around, when Bilderberg turns 70, Kissinger will be turning 100. Now that's going to be a big birthday celebration.
Starting point is 01:57:28 The former U.S. Secretary of State, the former president more accurately, and longtime Bilderberg kingpin will be delighted, or whatever dull ache he feels instead of delight, to see so many intelligence officials at this meeting because they're Kissinger's kind of people. China's overarching aim is to rearrange the world, said Lisbon attendee Elizabeth Economy. That's her name, Economy, senior advisor for China at the Department of Commerce. How about that? Ironically, the only economy that you will find at the Commerce Department
Starting point is 01:58:04 is a woman named Elizabeth Economy. Maybe that's why they put her there. They don't mind a new world order, but they want it to be manufactured at Bilderberg and not made in China. The twin threats of Chinese technology are intertwined in the thinking of Eric Schmidt. And, of course, that was one of the key insights, I think, from Peter Charret's book uh the four battlegrounds
Starting point is 01:58:27 how are we going to be battling china in ways of artificial intelligence and technology and eric schmidt is now the elephant in the room for sure with the pentagon and the military industrial complex and he has a big influence in that but the entire military industrial complex. And he has a big influence in that, but the entire military industrial complex. And again, Peter Charre who wrote the book is very interesting insights about artificial intelligence, but also they give their insights as to what they think is important.
Starting point is 01:58:57 And it's important to know what they are pushing and what they're pushing is war with China in every way. And as well as artificial intelligence. So Eric Schmidt told a congressional hearing that AI is very much at the center of the competition between China and the U.S., that China is now dedicating enormous resources to outpace the U.S. in technology. So it's an arms race or a brain race. And give me more money. That was what Sam Altman was doing there as well. Stoking fear, pushing for a monopoly, and pushing the Senate to protect his business
Starting point is 01:59:37 and to make sure that he didn't get competition. So he was there at Bilderberg as well. And so Charlie Skelton says, Smich says that AI needs appropriate guardrails. But he caused a stir last week for suggesting snoodily that AI companies should be self-regulating because, quote, there's no way a non-industry person can understand what is possible. So Kissinger's been there on and off since 1957.
Starting point is 02:00:07 His preoccupation with secrecy and personal diplomacy was what he wrote in a 1975 profile, or somebody else wrote about him, but I'm sure he had a lot of input into that. It's the desire for privacy in these annual talks sometimes tumbles over into paranoia. On Thursday, listen to this. The Guardian met the European head of Bilderberg, Victor Halberstadt, coming out of a pharmacy in Lisbon, clutching a packet of barrier skin cream. Halberstadt didn't just ignore a polite media approach. He flat out denied that he was Victor Halberstadt didn't just ignore a polite media approach. He flat out denied that he was Victor Halberstadt and then hopped into a Mercedes, which whisked him off through the security cordon.
Starting point is 02:00:54 And that's the way these guys are. It is truly amazing. Talk about the paranoia that exists with the elite. They are scared to death of us because they know what they're planning. And they know that we've got even just an inkling of just a portion of what they're planning for us, that their freedom and perhaps their lives are at stake.
Starting point is 02:01:15 That's the reality of this. This kind of Cold War cloak and daggerism seems oddly anachronistic for a conference that is hosting a cutting edge conversation. That's all it is. Just no business being done. I've told you this story many times about, you know, the UK attendee who, you know, was trying to get his credentials out. Karen was right there filming it. And when he opened up his luggage, everything spilled out was paperwork. All papers. Bags full of papers. No clothes, no toothbrush, nothing. So it had three prime ministers, two deputy PMs,
Starting point is 02:01:52 the president of the European Parliament, the president of Eurogroup, vice president of the European Commission, two EU commissioners, an MP, an MEP rather, any number of European ministers and members of the House of Lords. Big Pharma was there, Merck, Pfizer, the director of AstraZeneca, and of course big media was there as well. The president of Goldman Sachs, a lot of big finance.
Starting point is 02:02:16 These are two of the most powerful financial lobbyists in the world. They had the president of Goldman Sachs and one other person he talks about. And yet they get three luxurious days to chew the fat with policymakers. No conflict of interest there. No corruption there. No need to have any disclosure about it. It's just a party. We're not doing any business. We just got a suitcase full of papers. This is the dark heart of Bilderberg's accountability problem. Just because a conference plays out in private doesn't mean that the talks take place in some kind of sanctified orb in which the commercial concerns of Luxembourg-based hedge fund boss like Raleigh Van Rappard, the co-chair of CBC Capital Partners, are somehow temporarily suspended. When the Spanish foreign minister is mulling over Ukraine with the head of NATO,
Starting point is 02:03:09 he's doing it with an earshot of some of the world's most rapacious investors, like Henry Kravis of KKR, or David Petraeus works. These are people whose billions depend on having the informational edge over their competitors. And it's hard to know what the Griffins and the Van Rappards are even doing there except to pick up geostrategic tidbits to help them make a quick buck. Yet that doesn't seem to raise any ethical red flags with any of the politicians who trot to the talks. They're quite happy to talk turkey behind the Bougainvilles and the bunch of billionaires
Starting point is 02:03:46 and the profiteers. Well, yesterday you talk about how the elites party. Elon Musk wasn't there, at least not this time. You know, his friend Peter Thiel has been there many times. Alex Karp, who is the guy who was involved in PayPal, but he was the founder of Palantir, big spy thing. He's always there. But yesterday we saw stories coming out about Elon Musk taking, not going to Bilderberg, but taking exploratory journeys of the psychological kind. Talking about psychedelic mushrooms and ecstasy, MDMA. He prefers those, he says, over alcohol, over pharmaceutical drugs.
Starting point is 02:04:41 But this really is the true meaning of the pharmakia in the biblical sense. I talk about these people and how it literally is broad enough just to mean drugs, pharmakia, but it's usually translated in the Bible as sorcery because it was a kind of drugs that would give people hallucinogenic effects. It would open them up to other influences, let's just say. And Elon Musk, it turns out, from what people are saying, is somewhat of an evangelist for the pharmakia, for the sorcery, for the hallucinogenic drugs, as well as people like Joe Rogan. Times spoke with over 40 people, New York Times, who have spent time with him over the last decade and a half
Starting point is 02:05:29 said that they had to speak under terms of anonymity because they were worried about repercussions as well as non-disclosure agreements that they were required to sign to go to the parties that Musk was going to now ask yourself how many parties have you gone to where you need to sign a non-disclosure agreement? I think that would be a non-sequitur for me. If somebody is, okay, welcome to the party,
Starting point is 02:05:56 but before you come in, you've got to sign this NDA. I was like, well, I don't know what's going on in here, but I don't want to be a part of this. I would be running for the exits at that point. I've been with him on mild exploratory journeys of the pharmakia type. I had a Bay Area lawyer who met him at Burning Man 20 years ago, and he has been at nearly every Burning Man festival. I've talked to some people who have attended it. I've talked to some people who have attended it. I've talked to some people who reported on it. It is a, there are a lot of people who think that they are channeling spirits from another universe.
Starting point is 02:06:37 You know, we would look at it as Christians. That would be demons. But they think they're getting technology from them. And there's a lot of Silicon Valley billionaires, not just Musk, a lot of them who go there and think that they're getting insights into technology. So they said it wasn't just Elon Musk, it was also Steve Jobs.
Starting point is 02:06:58 He used to like to microdose psychedelics like LSD or psilocybin mushrooms. I guess that's why he could think different, right, when you look at all this stuff. But I spoke yesterday briefly about drug prohibition when I was talking about DeSantis' view of it. And John Stossel pointed out alcohol prohibition didn't work. Yeah, but, you know, drinking beer was a very common thing, but we need to continue down this. And so before I cut out to do the interview with Senator Nicely, which is, I think you're really going to enjoy this interview. We talked about a lot of different things, but before I get to that, this article caught my attention. I've talked
Starting point is 02:07:41 about this topic many times in the past, the fact that you have so many overdoses in prison and people dying from overdoses in prison. Now, when I talk about this, I say, think about what it's going to require to stop drug use if you can't stop it in prison. What kind of a world do these people want to create for us? They want to create a prison. And even if they create a prison, they won't be able to stop it, as we see.
Starting point is 02:08:15 They can't even stop it. You're going to build a wall to control the drugs at the border? I think you've got a wall at the prison, don't you? You've got a prison, you've got bars, all these walls everywhere. And yet even with all the walls and the bars and the prisons, they can't stop the drugs there. Why is it? Well, we know, because of corruption. People can be bribed and they can get it in there. You're never going to stop drug abuse by interdiction and by law enforcement. And so just to give you an idea of how widespread this is, last week in northwestern Washington state, jail staff rushed seven inmates to the hospital after
Starting point is 02:08:53 they apparently overdosed on fentanyl. Two weeks ago, five prisoners at the Maricopa County Jail in Arizona were hospitalized after overdosing. In the span of one week, in March, 13 inmates in Milpitas, California, overdosed on fentanyl. So far this year, at least three jail inmates have died from fentanyl in Dayton, Ohio, and Sheriff's Department staff are investigating what they call a troubling trend. Well, yeah, you can get all of this stuff and you can get it in prison. About 353,000 inmates, or about one in every five incarcerated people, are there for crimes
Starting point is 02:09:33 related to addiction. Most inmates never get the opportunity to enroll in a rehabilitation program. And even the rehabilitation programs that are there, most of them are not effective, but they talk about the point of this article is to talk about one that is effective. But to give you an idea of how bad this is, as I said, federal data indicates that the drug and alcohol overdose deaths climbed more than 600% between 2001 and 2018. Deaths spiked 381% in local jails. Prisons have become drug dens.
Starting point is 02:10:11 Law enforcement cannot solve the drug addiction problem, and the prisons are evidence of that. So what has worked? One sheriff, after he had some deaths there, put together what he called the Heroin Addiction Recovery Program, HARP, for short. And he included in that mental health treatment, but he also partnered with faith-based groups. He said, I have more church volunteers than I know what to do with. It's really beautiful, he said. You see, these addicts are in a prison, but they're in a prison within a prison.
Starting point is 02:10:48 They're in the prison of drug addiction. It is something that people do not recognize. You know, even if they're walking about freely on the outside, they're still imprisoned, enslaved into that addiction. And there's a lot of different things that can addict us. We can be addicted to drugs, we can be addicted to sex, we can be addicted to money, a lot of these different things. But he said the faith programs are the key to treating inmates holistically. They, quote, introduce people to the possibility of redemption while at the same time providing people with a sympathetic community
Starting point is 02:11:26 that is willing to work with him. They learn the possibility that forgiveness is available from the very first step. And you know, it was Christ who said, I was in prison and you did not visit me. I was hungry and you did not feed me. And people say, well, we never did anything. I said, when you did it to the least of these, you did it for me. That's the key. That is what is missing in our society. We've forgotten God.
Starting point is 02:11:56 And we think we can fix our problems ourselves. And typically we think we can fix them with force. We're going to take a quick break. Or maybe I should just go straight to the interview. Do we have enough time to take a break, or should I just go straight to it? Okay, we're going to take a quick break, and when we come back, we'll play the interview with Senator Nicely. I think you're going to find it very interesting. We talked about a lot of different things.
Starting point is 02:12:20 We talked about CBDC finances. We also talked about the upcoming pistol brace. They've got a solution for that. And he also talked about the special session that is coming up. And what many people feel like is going to be a bit of a danger, but I'll let him give you not just a danger to the Second Amendment, but a danger to the legislators if you see what happened there. 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 all right joining us now is Senator Frank Nicely he is in the Senate here he sits on the Commerce Commission as well as the Transportation Commission I believe believe, but you also, I think, are the number two on the Commerce Commission.
Starting point is 02:13:47 And as part of that, he's been very interested in trying to make sure that Tennessee is going to stay fiscally sound and have an option for people in case the Federal Reserve takes us off the rails, which looks like it's starting to happen. But thank you for joining us, Senator. It's always great, Dave. It's a lot to talk about., but I thank you for joining us, Senator. It's always a pleasure to talk about it. Yeah. And we've had a good session.
Starting point is 02:14:09 We, in spite of the, uh, Tennessee three and the excitement they caused, and you know, I started out in minority party and when you're in the minority party, especially a super minority about all you do, so bombs and wreak havoc. And those boys were really good. I admire their ability to cause trouble. I don't agree with the thing they stand for, but they are good. I want to talk about that. I want to talk about that.
Starting point is 02:14:35 And I want to talk about the August special session, but I got to give you credit because as DeSantis was talking about Florida, he said, you know, Florida has the second lowest per capita debt of any state I said, I bet the first one is Tennessee and I looked it up and it was, uh, so you guys have done a great job and to keep in taxes low and spending low and, uh, we've got the best record in terms of per capita debt. So we want to keep it that way.
Starting point is 02:15:02 Well, David, the Democrats ran this state for 150 years and they, the old school Democrats, the old Southern gentlemen, Democrats, you pro-business Democrats. Uh, they're all gone now. None of them left. And they, uh, the state almost went broke, burned a great depression and they were determined not to let that happen again. And I've got a lot of admiration, admiration for some of the old time
Starting point is 02:15:23 Democrats that I knew when I first went there in 1988. And they did a great job. When we inherited the state 11, 12 years ago, we were in pretty good shape. The difference was the Democrats would raise some kind of little tax every year, your marriage tax, your hunting license. They just couldn't have it. We were just barely getting by. But they didn't waste money. But when we took over, we, we started cutting taxes.
Starting point is 02:15:47 Art Laffer told us that if you want more money cut taxes, well, we, we believed him and we tried it and it worked. And within a couple of years, we would have a billion dollar surpluses. So, uh, uh, we inherited a state in pretty good shape and we inherited a good state and made a great state out of it. I agree. Yeah. And so you're trying to get some of that surplus and it's something that's going to be kind of a hedge
Starting point is 02:16:11 against bad actions or incompetence by the federal reserve trying to get them to put more and more that into gold you've had some success where do they stand uh in terms of tennessee state uh owning gold and the efforts to create a bullion there. And of course, we want to talk about the efforts to set up a state bank, or as you call it, Tennessee Reserve System. But let's talk first about the gold. How are they doing in terms of taking some of that surplus and putting it into gold? We passed the bill this year.
Starting point is 02:16:41 I sponsored it, and luckily we passed it. The buttholes we carried in the house, it allows the treasurer to buy gold and silver. And we've been working on the treasurer for seven or eight years, maybe. And he wrote the bill, and he put in there what I thought might possibly be a poison pill. It set up on appropriation. But rather than try to change it, I thought we better run with what we had. So we did.
Starting point is 02:17:10 And then we asked the Speaker of the Senate about it. He said, oh, that's no problem. He said, everything's appropriated. The rainy day fund is appropriated. You know, the retirement fund, everything's appropriated. So he said, that's no problem. So we got that passed. The Speaker of the Senate, Randy McNally,
Starting point is 02:17:24 doing a great job. They're having a meeting on June 8th and they will decide at that time how we're going to move forward on this gold and silver. And we're working with a group up in Greenville, Tennessee called Artisan, ZN on the end. It's an old zinc company. They made zinc jar lids back in the old days when the cannon jars had zinc lids. That's how they got started. And of course that played out. Now they make pennies, zinc pennies, seven billion a year for the, for the feds and, uh, there's some talk about doing away with the pennies.
Starting point is 02:18:00 So if they do with pennies, these boys need somewhere to go. So they want to become the company that makes silver rounds troy ounce rounds for the various states and hype rounds and they want to build a facility and have a have a depository hopefully that could be the place where if you wanted to pay yourself your taxes and gold and silver hopefully you could go to them make an asset make sure it's real they could take accept your gold and silver hopefully you could go to them they could ask that make sure it's real they could take accept your gold and silver and uh the state give it to the state and the state can send the county the money uh we tried to we're working on making uh gold and silver legal tender we're uh we're gonna have a study committee this summer and talk more about that other states have done it but
Starting point is 02:18:42 we've got lots of questions from other people. I mean, we don't have the question, but other people have questions. And we're moving in the right direction. I had about four different states, Southern states that are interested in what we're doing. And we're going to Charleston in July with the Southern Legislative Council. And we're going to try to get, Catherine's going to be there, Catherine Austin Pitts. We're going to try to talk Catherine's going to be there Catherine Austin Pitts we're going to try to talk to some of these other states and get a compact
Starting point is 02:19:08 with these other states where we can all get on the same page so if we issue a dollar and Mississippi issues a dollar we would honor their dollar they'd honor ours and it's Catherine worries about financial transaction freedom.
Starting point is 02:19:25 Yes. Yeah. And some of these routes that we have to use to pay everybody are entangled with the federal reserve routes. And we want to get our routes. We want to have an alternative set of routes where the feds try to stop everything, then we can, we'll have routes where we can pay our retirees, pay our help and transfer money between these compact States without defense.
Starting point is 02:19:48 Now we're not wanting to leave the union. We're wanting to get it in a position of strength to where we can show the union. Listen, if you don't keep your, your end of the bargain, we'll move on without you, but we want to stay with you. That's right. But we want you to do the right thing. Well, and of course, yeah, the constitution says, uh States aren't going to use anything except gold and silver anyway, so it's a bit awkward for them if they want to start
Starting point is 02:20:11 playing legal games with things like that. But, uh, what about, uh, the approach that DeSantis took in terms of UCC? Has there been any thought or talk about doing something like that here in Tennessee, because he basically reversed what you're about. Well, he basically reversed why sorry, go ahead. You don't know much. I don't know too much about what the scientists, I do know that. Like you said, he, he, he doesn't like CBD safe, which we don't like either.
Starting point is 02:20:40 Nobody likes CBD, see central bank did currency and the central bank difficulty doesn't like bitcoins and other cryptos so uh one's centralized and one's not centralized and the one that's centralized doesn't like the ones that's not centralized so um you know i like the status like a lot of things that he says to me status has three problems, Harvard Yale and, and Jim Bush, uh, or Santa's three big problems. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. He's got, but other than that, it's fine.
Starting point is 02:21:12 I understand. Well, what he did was, and I think, um, uh, last time we talked, uh, you had, uh, Kristi Noem governor of South Dakota said, uh, she went on Tucker. Uh, that's how far back it's been tucker's been gone for a month but she went on with tucker and um she said uh there was uh it was being floated around to about half of the states the idea that was going to they were going to put in the ucc uh the universal commercial uh, crypto was not going to be allowed, but it would explicitly embrace CBDC. She said, I vetoed that. And it's, but it's been put out to a lot of different States and people need to be on the lookout as to what's happening in their state.
Starting point is 02:21:54 Shortly after that, DeSantis did the opposite. What he did was he said, well, we're going to stop CBDC and we're going to enable crypto. So I was just wondering if there was any talk about that UCC approach in Tennessee. I guess not. People haven't talked about that. There was a bill. There was a bill introduced, and we realized what it was, and we made sure they pulled the bill. It did not pass in Tennessee.
Starting point is 02:22:20 There was a bill introduced to do that we um we caught on to it pretty early good you know the amazing thing the tennessee legislature is a it's an interesting bunch of people i mean it's uh if you're not it's you can't explain it to anyone who's never been there uh just wasting your time but um we've got some pretty sharp characters down there that pay attention and we but it's's a, that's good. You would be impressed with how they do a lot. They do crazy things every now and then, but at the end of the day, we do more good things if we do crazy things.
Starting point is 02:22:53 That's good. So you guys got that many people up all winter. You guys caught that. You guys caught that trap. So, uh, yeah, as we look at the candidates coming out, you know, DeSantis is against it. It's good to see that we had RFK Jr. on the other side because now it's a bipartisan thing. We don't want this to be, you know, something that becomes partisan so everybody opposes it or supports it simply because it's in their party.
Starting point is 02:23:18 And then Ramaswamy has also come out for it. A lot of the other candidates have not. They have either been silent or in support of CBDC. So that's concerning. That's why it's important for us to do something at state level, important for us to try to have a parallel system. And I loved what you did when you said you're going to call it the Tennessee Reserve System, because when you call it a public bank, the small to medium-sized banks get concerned about it. They think you're going to compete with them. And it's not about competition with
Starting point is 02:23:45 them. Is it? No, no. It's about supporting them. But in Tennessee we have, uh, we have what we call the Tennessee investment pool and we may have $30 billion in it at a time. And we loan that money to banks, small local banks, and we'll buy their CDs. They need money while we'll buy CDs, give them some money of short term term. It works real good and it's not a bank. See, if we create a bank, banks have rules, regulations, restrictions, and are hamstrung. They do this, they can't do that. But this investment of Poole is controlled by the treasurer. The legislature elects the treasurer. If he gets
Starting point is 02:24:23 out of hand, we'll pick somebody else. The people elect the legislature. So it's like an indirect election. Tocqueville really liked indirect elections, by the way. He thought that was the best way to go. Elect some good people and then let them elect some excellent people. But by doing it with letting the treasurer be in control of it, we get out from all these rules and regulations that the banking industry has been saddled with through the years.
Starting point is 02:24:48 And we can pretty much do, do anything that they could do. We can do anything they can do. We can call it, uh, we can call it the Tennessee reserve system. That's, uh, that's something everybody seems to, um, this actually would be a Tennessee system. I would actually be a reserve, unlike the federal reserve system, which is not federal and has no reserve. That's right. So you do have a already something that has a lot of the elements of, let's say the North Dakota state bank and that we do, we basically have the equivalent
Starting point is 02:25:18 of North Dakota state bank, except you can't make deposits and, um, but they can make loan to banks. The main thing the state that North Dakota bank does is supports its local banks. They have more local banks and credit unions per capita than any other state. That's because the local banks have an option. They can go with the Federal Reserve or they can go with the Bank of North Dakota. They've got an option. That's the hardest thing to explain to these local banks. And I think the problem is, I think the federal reserve comes in and sours the well on us, feeds them a lot of nonsense.
Starting point is 02:25:52 You know, when North Dakota started its bank, the federal reserve was just six years old and didn't have the, the lobbyists to send around to North South Dakota or North Dakota and, and, uh, lobby the legislature. So they were able to get it pushed North Dakota and, and, uh, lobby the legislature. So they were able to get it pushed through.
Starting point is 02:26:07 Now then the federal reserve is so powerful. They can come in here with some slick tongue lobbyists and, uh, sound well on us, but since we've already got this investment pool and we're, we're happy with it, we know how it works. I think we're pretty good shape.
Starting point is 02:26:22 That's good. That's good. Uh, you know, I just saw this article in new york city uh they're taking the esg the environmental and societal governance rules to the local banks and they're saying uh we're not going to do business with you anymore unless you guarantee to us that you're going to follow our rules in terms of climate you're going
Starting point is 02:26:42 to follow our rules in terms of gun control and things like that. So they're putting, you know, all kinds of financial pressure, uh, on the system in order to enact, uh, what they want to do. And I guess that's one of the reasons why it's important for us to have, uh, you know, certainly to have, uh, politicians that are not going to do that type of thing, but also to have this parallel system that's there because that could very easily come from Washington as well and put these banks out of business because that's what the New York City is trying to do. Capital One, Key Bank, some big banks there that they've currently got tens of millions of dollars with. They said, you're not going to get another cent from us. And these banks are saying, that's fine. We're not going to comply with it, which is kind of surprising. These two in particular,
Starting point is 02:27:23 they had five banks. They're completely sound in terms of fiscal audits, but they're putting this kind of social governance on them. Well, what can I say? I mean, that's just one more reason why people are moving from New York to Tennessee. Exactly. Exactly. Well, let's talk a little bit about this August session that has been called by the governor.
Starting point is 02:27:45 I call it Lee's surrender. What is in there? And do you think he's going to get this through? I mean, didn't he call a special session once before and then he didn't get what he wanted? And so my understanding was he was engaging everybody on a one-to-one basis to make sure that he had the votes to do whatever he wanted so he wouldn't be embarrassed again. So that's my question. Uh, what does that look like?
Starting point is 02:28:08 What, what is on the agenda for the special session? And do you think that it's going to pass? Well, supposedly he wants a, he's got some kind of version of red flag laws, which, uh, takes away due process. And, uh, it's not going to pass. I mean, the House told him it wasn't going to pass. The Senate told him it wasn't going to pass. He wants to do it anyway.
Starting point is 02:28:31 He's setting up a dangerous situation. Now, these protesters are from out of state. See, when we have a regular session, everybody else is in session. But in August, nobody's in session. So all these crazies from these other States can all come here and protest us. And then they, they've already announced that they're going to have armed security. Well, we've already had people announce out here in the countryside that they're
Starting point is 02:28:55 going to come down and protect us. Um, so what could possibly go wrong? That's one of the things that happened the happened the week after after i went there and you know to watch that i thought that it was pretty amazing i called it the tennessee insurrection because they got much further than anybody did on january the 6th they got their hands on legislators they were pushing uh you know they had police uh state police were using themselves as bodyguards essentially but they were getting shoved. And they kept their cool. They didn't come after the crowd.
Starting point is 02:29:27 They didn't send out anybody there with shields and body armor to engage people because that would have just escalated it. But still, it was pretty – I thought it was more than what we saw really at January 6th because even though you didn't have the physical combat they were shoving legislators and they got right up there to them so I thought it was a very dangerous thing I thought it was amazing that these three legislators got down there and took over the floor with the bullhorn and all the rest of that stuff as I liked the comment of one guy said hey if you got a problem file bill. That's the way this works. Well, one lawyer, you don't want lawyers in legislature, maybe one or two to ask the question, but they overthink things. They try to think too much.
Starting point is 02:30:13 And we had a young lawyer down that switched his vote on the lady from a lady legislator from Knoxville, Gloria Johnson. And so that's, uh, when, when we did, when they didn't remove her, which she probably should have been removed, then that made it look racist. But then the Northern states try to say that Tennessee's the racist. So what I tell my. Yeah. A friend from up in the frozen tundra, I say, Tennessee is the only state in the
Starting point is 02:30:39 nation where a young black, uh, graduate high school graduate boy or girl, or any, any, any child in Tennessee can go to two years of tech school or two years of community college for free, absolutely free. And the last two years, they get the HOPE scholarship, which is $4,000 or $5,000 toward the last two years. So when Tennessee is sending young black children of any color to college for free, does that sound like a racist state? We're the only state in the nation that does that. You can give Governor Haslam credit for that. I had my doubts when it first started.
Starting point is 02:31:16 I thought, well, these kids need a little skin in the game. But it's actually working pretty good. It's not being taken advantage of the way it should. I mean, there's no reason why a high school graduate doesn't go to tech school and learn to be a plumber, heat and air, you know, whatever. These are mechanics are going to be a lawyer or talk show host or a farmer or whatever else to do. There's no reason. So, uh, we're definitely not a racist state.
Starting point is 02:31:44 Um, but some of our Northern friends like to label us that. There's no reason. So we're definitely not a racist state. But some of our northern friends like to label us that. Well, it is, as you point out, it is. They're creating a flashpoint there. And you have to ask yourself, you know, what is going on. I saw some comments from NBC. They had a quote from Ramesh Akbari, the Democrat minority leader of the Senate. I guess you know who that is. He's a fine young lawyer, black lawyer from Memphis.
Starting point is 02:32:08 Said it really is starting to feel like we're on the same team with the governor. And then you had a spokesperson for Gabby Gifford's gun control organization essentially saying the same thing. What he's doing here is commendable. It's an act of political courage. Is it or is it an act? Is he trying to virtue signal to the left? I don't, you know, is it, you don't know yet exactly what the bills are or have they told the legislature? No, we don't, we don't know. Um, one strategy we have is when he opens
Starting point is 02:32:38 up the code, he will limit the special session to a certain section of the code. One strategy is we'll open up, we'll introduce bills that open up that same section. And then we can, you know, we, then we can push our bills instead of his bills. Uh, another strategy is when he, when we gather a sand, we make a motion to adjourn, uh, take 66 votes or two thirds vote the first day, uh, separate majority the second and the third day and go back home. I mean, there's, um, the governor could call us in, but he can't keep us there. He's not a colonial governor, right? Well, that's good.
Starting point is 02:33:19 That's good. Uh, so I guess, uh, so you don't know what it is and did he give you a call to talk to you to see if he's invited me to the residence. I was going to be on vacation that day. I luckily go another day, I guess, but you know, that same week that, that, that was a terrible thing. Six people killed plus the shooter.
Starting point is 02:33:42 The day before we had six people killed in a car wreck on I-24, three kids, three adults. We had nine people killed in helicopter crash up at Fort Campbell. And we had 21 people killed in a tornado. Now that weatherman didn't cause that tornado anymore than those guns caused that shooting. But you know what they'll tell you is that the SUV caused the tornado,
Starting point is 02:34:04 right? Well, I think there were nine, eight people in, in that car. I guess what it was, it was a sedan and it flipped through people out of the car and three, um,
Starting point is 02:34:17 three kids and three adults were killed in the car wreck. And, and what does that show? Life's risky. That's right. I mean, every day you get up and feel good. You just thank the good Lord that he's going to give you another day.
Starting point is 02:34:28 But before this happened, the governor had in his budget, I'll give the governor a little credit here. Before this happened, he had put enough money in the budget, I think $223 million to provide an SRO security agent for every school that doesn't have one. And about 14 million of that was for private schools. And the rest of it was by bulletproof glass and everything else we need. And so it's not like we haven't done anything. Ten years ago, I passed a bill to allow the teacher to take training and be armed in the school.
Starting point is 02:35:07 And I allowed them to schools to hire retired law enforcement, which they can hire the fraction of what an active law enforcement. And a few schools have done it, but not a lot. But what we have now, talking to the sheriff the other day, we have these magnetic locks on the school doors and the teachers have got little thumbnail-sized magnets and put in there to keep the door open and keep it from locking. So when some kid goes to the restroom, the teacher doesn't have to get up and go open the door to let her back in. Well, same thing happened in Texas. They had a automatic locking door, and well, the teachers had left it open. So what good is it for the legislature to spend all this money on this high tech security and the locals circumvent it by putting magnets in the doors or
Starting point is 02:35:58 propping the door open, letting the liar in? We're all in the same together, and the only thing that's going to stop a bad person with a gun is a good person with a gun that's right that's right you can't blame the guns if there's more guns in this country our people if the guns were involved it would all be dead that's right that's right yeah going back to your analogy of the car i talked about the waukesha christmas parade where you had a guy using his SUV. It wasn't an accident using his SUV to target people. Uh, he wasn't, uh, just didn't happen to just drive into a crowd. He was, you know, uh, changing, running them down. And so, you know, what are you supposed to do after that? Are you supposed to ban Fords or are you supposed
Starting point is 02:36:41 to ban SUVs? Do you ban automatic transmissions or power steering? And that's what they do with the guns. Whenever something like that happens, they don't look at the person. And that's a big part of the problem with red flag gun laws as well. It's not just, if you've got somebody who's a murderer, they can use their bare hands to kill somebody. Or a hatchet. Yeah. More people kill with bare hands than, than with anything else pretty much. So they could use their bare hands. The person is the problem and we have to give due process to people. So, you know, none of this to me, the red flag stuff is really just a, a non-starter. I think what you did in terms of allowing teachers who get training and that type of thing to carry guns, I think that is by far the most effective thing because that doesn't,
Starting point is 02:37:26 you have somebody there who is going to be in a situation where they're defending their own life and also the life of the kids that are there. It isn't even a situation where you've got a school officer who has to put his life at danger to save other people. That's a heroic thing. And there are a lot of people who will do that, but there's some people that have decided that they don't want to do that, like at Uvalde and, uh,
Starting point is 02:37:49 at the, you know, uh, Parkman Douglas school there in Florida. Uh, so sometimes people will look at that and say, well, I don't want to be a hero. Uh, but if you're in this classroom and you're a teacher and you know how to use that thing, that's not being a hero. That's just self preservation. So I think that's the most effective way to do it. Well, you got to admire these three young police officers who were there in 14 minutes, they didn't know each other prior to this, they went in there, they'd been
Starting point is 02:38:14 trained, they fell in just like they were a team and ran in there, ran to the bullet fire and took her out and compare that to Texas and Florida. That's right. You know, my wife's a text and you're, you're living in Texas and Florida. That's right. You know, my wife's a text and I, you're, you're living in Texas long time. You don't have these texts to brag all the time, but they did it the right way. They did. That's very heroic.
Starting point is 02:38:34 What they did. That's what I'm saying. It is. You got three incidents here and one of them, uh, they acted quickly and heroically the other two, they didn't. And so that's the, you know, it's very important. Like you, you know, gave, uh, had the law that you sponsored there for teachers to take, um, take the place.
Starting point is 02:38:50 You know, it also occurs to me that before the special session starts, there's going to be a lot of grief, uh, with this pistol brace rule that's been put out by the ATF. And I think that's going to really activate the gun people on that side of the issue. I know they've already put out, the left has already put out a call, as you point out, they want people to come. I was, you know, covering the fact that they were giving sessions and telling people how to hector legislators, how to embarrass them, and putting out a call for all these activists to come. So that's going to be one side of it.
Starting point is 02:39:22 But I think that the people who want to support the second amendment are going to be pretty upset about this pistol brace rule. That's been put out by the ATF. Is there anything, uh, in Tennessee that would, um, that anybody's talking about that would get in the way of the ATF or executive orders from the president, uh, doing infringement of the second amendment, like the pistol brace or like the bump stocks and things like that. I passed a bill last year, I think it was, that made pistol braces legal in Tennessee. So T-Rex Arms, shout out to them out in West Tennessee, they make lots of holsters and braces and what they know.
Starting point is 02:40:01 So they're illegal federally, but in the state won't stop you from having it. Cause it's, we don't have to enforce federal law. Good. Yeah, that's right. That's one of our best ways out on these things. We just make it legal in Tennessee and it's illegal federally. Uh, so if the feds want to take up these braces, they're going to have to come
Starting point is 02:40:22 and do it because our sheriff or TBI can't do it because we made it illegal. It is legal to own one in Tennessee. That's great. That's great. So a few years ago, we passed a bill that said this, no state personnel money or energy can be used in forcing a federal gun law that is more strict than our state gun law.
Starting point is 02:40:41 We kind of real proactive there. We got ahead of them a little bit. You did. Absolutely. That's great. And of course that's called non-commandeering and that's been established and and uh supported by the supreme court that the feds can't come in and order local law enforcement to enforce laws that if they don't want to enforce those laws but you made it even more forceful by shutting it down at the state level uh let's let's talk a little bit about, uh, what's going on with, um, as now everything is, is rolling down with the masks and all that, uh, hysteria. Is there anything in Tennessee law that is going to stop, uh, the public health officials,
Starting point is 02:41:19 bureaucrats from doing that kind of stuff again, or, or, or, or, um, uh, business mandates on customers or on employees. Is there anything like that? Because I know that in the wake of, um, you know, we had, um, nine 11, two months before that they had their first germ game. They called it dark winter. And then a week after nine 11, they had the anthrax attack. And then two months later, they put out model legislation to all the states. And a lot of them, you know, passed a lot of the different things that they wanted passed. And then they had their annual practice games for 20 years.
Starting point is 02:41:54 But I don't know what is the situation in Tennessee in terms of legislation that supports the public health officials? How did that work since I wasn't here when that was, we passed a bill where it's illegal for a business to ask a customer or an employee, the vaccination status. Good. Good. Good. That's excellent.
Starting point is 02:42:16 Um, you know, Dave, we've done so many good things, but the liberal press report on them and we don't have new anymore. It's uh, well, that's why I want to get you here because I'm looking at this stuff and it's like, wait a minute, are we going to go through all this stuff again? You guys have already taken care of it. That's great news. That's good news. Um, let's talk a little bit about, you know, the CBDC, we understand the, the control that's involved with that and, um, uh, all of the ID aspects of it, how dangerous that is. But you know,
Starting point is 02:42:43 there's a lot of different ways that they can go. The way I look at it, CBDC is the one that takes us to where they want to go the fastest. It's like the direct express route. But there's other ways that they can do it through the back door. I was very concerned to see the mandate for E-Verify. Now, E-Verify has been around for a while, and it's been voluntary. People did not have to comply with it. In Florida, DeSantis and the Republicans put it through as a mandate,
Starting point is 02:43:10 and I thought they kind of got it backwards. It seems to me like you would want to stop the welfare state for people who are foreign citizens and here illegally. You'd want to stop the welfare state before you'd start trying to stop them from working, but it makes me very concerned that we'd have to get government permission uh to get a job and that it would be yet another form of id another form of of tracking what we do what is the situation on e-verify in tennessee do you know you know i don't really know that's uh i um, I'm not as the legal immigrants. I like legal evidence. They, they work, they pay taxes, uh, go to Walmart and on Saturday and you see
Starting point is 02:43:52 them shopping and they're spending money and are being taxed Tennessee operation on sales tax. Um, we don't have an income tax. We don't have a whole income tax. So these are the illegals when they go to Walmart or when they buy a new lawnmower and a trailer and a truck to come out here and mow the yard, they paid sales tax on all that. So, um, uh, this, this a little legal immigration is good, illegal, bad. But what we've got now is not, it's, that's an invasion.
Starting point is 02:44:21 What we've got now going on is an invasion. That's not immigration. And that, that, that's a terrible end of it. We, you know, we're a melting pot, but you put it up cold water and It's an invasion. What we've got now going on is an invasion. That's not immigration. That's a terrible end. We're a melting pot, but you put enough cold water in boiling water, it'll kill it all at once. You just melt so much at once, and I'm afraid they're overwhelming the boiling pot right now.
Starting point is 02:44:42 Even the people who call themselves sanctuary cities or sanctuary states, they're saying, wait a minute, stop sending us people. We can't handle that. And they're only getting a small percentage of what's coming across the border and Texas. Uh, so it clearly is something that nobody can handle. Uh, and yet you see states like California coming out and saying, well, now we're going to give them, uh, unemployment, you know? So if you come here without a job, you can collect unemployment that happened at the same time that Florida is saying, we're not going to let you work. That just didn't make any sense to me.
Starting point is 02:45:08 I talked to a guy who is about criminal justice, and he was talking about waves of immigration and waves of crime. And he said, you know, in the late 19th century, the early 20th century, we had these big waves of immigrants coming from Europe. And they were so many of them. They were sleeping, a lot of them, in the police stations because they didn't have anywhere to go. There wasn't any welfare system to help anybody. When they came here, they were going to make it on their own,
Starting point is 02:45:36 work hard, and they were going to earn every penny that they had. And I don't have a problem with that. What I think is the problem is the welfare magnet that's pulling people in. And so when you have states like California saying, we're going to give you, even though they're insolvent, we're going to give everybody unemployment, even if you're a foreign citizen. You have Illinois giving other benefits to people, even though they are overspending, they're going to give all kinds of benefits to people who are foreign citizens. This is a magnet that's going to pull people in regardless of what you do at the border, if you're going to give all kinds of benefits to people who are foreign citizens. This is a magnet that's going to pull people in, regardless of what you do at the border, if you're going to have that.
Starting point is 02:46:07 But to me, the work aspect of it, that is something that has been there as part of the melting pot. And so I think that you're right. We can't sustain this mass of people that are coming in here. But we've got to understand what's pulling them in. And I think that's one of the good things. Uh, hopefully there's not a, a giant welfare magnet here in Tennessee, like there is in Illinois, New York and California.
Starting point is 02:46:35 That's where they're going to have the biggest problems. I think. Well, Illinois and California, you have retired state employees making a half a million dollars a year retired. Illinois, you haven't making $350,000 retired. We don't have any state employees making that much work, much less retired. How they think they can, you know, what are they thinking? I mean, I don't know.
Starting point is 02:47:03 I don't understand how they think. Well, they got saved with all the COVID cash there. thinking. I mean, I just, I don't know. I don't understand how they think. Well, they got saved with all the COVID cash there. They were about to go bankrupt. And then when the pandemic was rolling out, they got all this free COVID cash and that kicked the can down the road for another couple of years. Well, they went through that real quickly. And so now they're there in financial straits again, but Tennessee has a, we had $70 billion invested to take care of our retirees.
Starting point is 02:47:24 Of course it's down to about 61 now. But what's even worse is by the feds printing money with all this inflation, they're bailing out Illinois and California, and they're stealing the purchasing power from our retirement fund. Our retirement fund won't buy near as many bags of groceries this year as it did last year. Even though we still got $61 billion in it, that $61 billion won't buy as many bags of groceries as $61 billion would last year.
Starting point is 02:47:53 So they figured out a way to steal our savings. That's right. Benjamin Franklin talked about inflation being an invisible tax, and it is. They're stealing our purchasing power, and they're stealing the money that all retirees have earned and invested over the years by this inflation. Yeah. And that's the thing that's really concerning
Starting point is 02:48:16 because it looks like that could get out of control. And that's one of the reasons why I know that you've been working so hard trying to open up channels for people and for the state to have gold, which is going to be there as a hedge against that kind of inflation. And that's one of the reasons why they're out there trying to shut down any competition right now focusing on crypto. They say that we don't want to have any proof of work that's there. We're just going to have essentially crypto that is a fiat.
Starting point is 02:48:44 It's going to be proof of stake. This is worth what it is because we say it's worth what it is so they just want to flip this over to a digital form of the fiat currency that the fed's been running on us and that's not really going to solve anything it's just going to put more chains digital chains and surveillance on each and every one of us well Well, you remember the old Austin Power shows and his nemesis was Dr. Frickin' Evil. And that's a long, long time ago. Well, there is a Dr. Evil in the world. I mean, there's several of them, Soros and different ones around.
Starting point is 02:49:17 And they're trying to take over the world with this central bank digital currency. The fly on the ultimate is the American South and armed citizens. Now they can't take over until they disarm us. So that's a big push on these school shootings. There are people, I've got intelligent friends and thanks to the FBI behind some of these school shootings, ruining these kids, these shooters. They get on the internet, they find a kid that's mentally unstable. Where did this girl get all the money to buy the guns? In Texas, where did that boy, he didn't have a job.
Starting point is 02:49:46 Where did he get the new pickup truck and $5,000, $6,000 worth of guns all of a sudden to go in there and do this? So Dr. Evil was trying to take over. Catherine calls him Mr. Global. They work together, Mr. Global and Dr. Evil. But they can't take over until they get the guns out of our hand and they subdue the American South. Well, we're not going to let that happen. We don't want to until they get the guns out of our hand and they subdue the american south well we're not gonna let that happen we don't want to secede from the union we don't want to
Starting point is 02:50:09 cause any trouble the best way to save the union is show the union that the south is strong uh we're not going along with you and i've said for years if america is saved it will be by the states it won't be by the feds that's right the The states have to do it. And America, the amazing thing, the founding fathers gave the states everything we need to take control. We just need leadership backbone and perseverance and get the job done. But, um, we can call our Congressman in. We can redistrict our Congress from every two years. Spring court said we, we have to redistrict them every 10 years, but
Starting point is 02:50:43 we can redistrict them every two years. We can call our nine congressmen in, set them down at the Capitol, say, now listen, here's what we want you to do, and here's what we want you to not do. And by the way, here's a map of your district next year if you don't do okay. We can put nine of them in three districts and have a new set of, uh, Congressman. We could do. And as far as our senators go, I've had this bill several times to let them instead of having a primary 17th amendment says you have to have an election for us centers, but it doesn't address how you select your, your, uh, nominees.
Starting point is 02:51:22 So we could let the state legislature be the caucus that nominates our US senators. The Democrats could nominate their nominee, Republicans could nominate our nominee. They run against each other in November, and that would satisfy the 17th Amendment. But the fact that we nominate them, they would pay attention to the states. See, originally the Senate was supposed to be the state's house. That's right. The House of Representatives was a people's house. Well, now they're both houses of people's house and the states get very little respect.
Starting point is 02:51:55 But if we were starting nominating our U.S. senators. That's great. I think what that would do. That's a great idea. That's a great idea because I always thought that that was, you know, as you point out, uh, that was there to break the power of the States. And, um, we need to have that kind of division, uh, because I got that bill to the Senate floor one time.
Starting point is 02:52:14 Of course I did. I had a week house sponsor, but, um, I'll probably bring it back again. Oh, you should. That's a great idea. It's an other, the average knee jerk reaction from, uh, is that people say, well, you're taking away my right to vote. I said, no, I'm giving you Constitution back. I said, you're still going to vote, but I'm going to give part of your Constitution back. You know, up until 1913, the state legislature elected their U.S. senators.
Starting point is 02:52:43 Very few people know that now because they don't teach it. So in the last 110 years, we've let the people, and how's it worked out for us? It's not that good. If you put our success on a graph, 1913 was the turning point. I've always said when
Starting point is 02:52:59 America's gone and a historian's right about what happened to America, I think 1913 will be the year that made them made the difference. We quit. We quit letting the States elect their senators. We got the federal reserve, you know, the IRS, the trust. Yeah. That was a very unlucky year.
Starting point is 02:53:19 You're absolutely right about all that stuff. Uh, yeah. When we, um, um, yeah, my son says two wolves and a sheep. That's a, what we do not want to have. We want to have a Republic, don't we? Uh, it is, um, it is interesting to, uh, think about how we could take power back. And of course, when we looked at the Dobbs decision, uh, Roe v. Wade, taking that back, I had said for the longest time, uh, before the Supreme court agreed with me, They didn't know I was saying it, but I said, you know, we ought to go back to Andrew Jackson here in Tennessee. You know, he,
Starting point is 02:53:49 the Supreme Court had said that he could move the Cherokee and he started moving the Cherokee. They didn't like what it looked like. And I think it was a bad policy, but they said, all right, they met within a year and said, no, we take it back. You know, we got a new opinion and you can't do it. And he said, well, you've given me your opinion. Let's see you enforce it. And that there is a check and balance. That's the important part about that is that there's checks and balances. And so with Roe v. Wade, that was a Texas case. I've said for the longest time, I said, well, the, the Texas state should have said, well,
Starting point is 02:54:21 the Supreme court's made their decision about when life begins. Um, that's kind of interesting, but it doesn't really have anything to do with us. We're going to make our laws about that. And that's essentially what the Dobb situation has done. And it raised a lot of alarms because it started pointing to the 10th Amendment. And I think that is the key thing, that states need to have the backbone to take this. But for the most part, they don't want, nobody wants to make these decisions. They want to pass it off to somebody else. And so they don't, it's a hot potato and they would like to use it as an election issue, but they don't actually want to do anything with it.
Starting point is 02:54:57 And ultimately it gets passed off to either the bureaucracy, which doesn't have to run for election, or it gets passed off to the Supreme Court, which doesn't have to run for election or it gets passed off to the Supreme court, which doesn't have to run for election. You know, notification people say, well, we tried that in 1860. Didn't work. Um, uh, you know, I was never a dope smoker. I was always a better highlight man myself, but, uh, I greatly admire the dope smokers for nullifying the federal law on marijuana. I mean, they, you can call it what you want.
Starting point is 02:55:22 I wanted, well, they nullify it. They said they told the federal government, you know, off we're going to sell marijuana on the on the street and regardless what you say and people say notification won't work notification will work yes you just have the backbone to make it work that's right and uh and that's a great example too because it's always whenever you start talking about well we need to make some of these decisions locally it's usually the left that freaks out and then starts talking about civil war and secession, all the rest of the stuff.
Starting point is 02:55:49 And if you bring up the issue that they actually want to have, which is medical marijuana or recreational marijuana, even Jeff Sessions, as much as he hated it, he never came after it because he didn't want to, I think he didn't want everybody to see that it had basically been a bluff that they'd been running for a long time, right? It is. It is bluffing.
Starting point is 02:56:07 We didn't talk about that. You know, that, um, that was a rebirth of notification. Yes. And you know, if I dad, we can notify other things and we just, we just need to, to do it. And I can say, it's kind of strange that it came from the left and all the way to the left, the dope smoking left were the ones that successfully notified the federal law. Got to buy those boys.
Starting point is 02:56:28 They may not know they did it. That's right. They don't know that they did it because they're smoking dope. We didn't tell them we did it. We'd have to wait until they sober up so we can explain to them what they really did. That's great. Well, I'm glad that it's been taken care of in terms of pistol brace and things like that. It's going to have a big impact. It still is going to be something that people are going
Starting point is 02:56:48 to be talking about around the country. And I think it's going to energize people before this August special session. So I hope you guys hang in there and don't let that happen because we've got a good group of people in the Tennessee legislature, and I don't want to see them discredited by doing something that is just a bunch of virtue signaling to celebrities and leftists. You don't have to worry about it. The House told him and the Senate told him, you don't have the votes.
Starting point is 02:57:15 We're not passing red flag laws. That's third world stuff. In America, you listen until you're proven guilty. We're not going to go there and let you be guilty. I have to go to court and prove that I'm not crazy. How can I prove I'm not crazy? If you know know i'm crazy i wouldn't be serving in the legislature i mean so automatically crazy right off the bat but um yeah it's going to be interesting is you need to come back that's um i felt like i was at a really busy time when you were there and i didn't have enough time to spend with you, but I'd like to show you through the capital. You didn't come back this day. I'd love to do that.
Starting point is 02:57:49 But I'd be glad to do that. Thank you. Thank you so much. And it's always great to have you back on. We want to keep track of what's going on, but a lot of good news there about what is happening. I like the fact that you've already taken care of the non-commandeering aspect of it. If you don't call it that, whatever. You guys have got that taken care of in terms of gun control because it really is off the rails. It's not just the elected representatives in Congress who were talking about infringing the Second Amendment, but now it's just become a bureaucratic prerogative that they've claimed they've got. You guys have got that check.
Starting point is 02:58:22 Good to hear that, and I hope you guys hang tough on this August special session. One last little thing. Everybody talks about the checks and balances between the legislative rights and executive rights and the judicial rights, but the ultimate check, the one that works good, you don't even think about it. The one that the check down to all check is a second amendment. When you've got a an armed citizen to check on the armed government that's the that's the ultimate check in a system
Starting point is 02:58:51 of checks and balances and and these civics teachers don't even mention it but that's the one that keeps us free that's one that keeps dr evil from coming in on us that's right the south may save the world that's right that. That's right. And refusing to comply, you know, and that's one of the things that we saw when we came here in August of 2020, we had to go to North Carolina for a relative and we came back through Tennessee and it's like, these people are not wearing the masks.
Starting point is 02:59:14 That is really, they're not complying with this stuff. So that means that they, they haven't been. I'll tell people that smart people took the vaccine, but the wise people did. That's a good way to put it. The people who have had too much education and they've been sitting in the classroom for too long looking at somebody lecturing them at the front of the class and they bought into that argument from authority.
Starting point is 02:59:37 That's exactly right. Well, David, my battery's about to go out, so I'm going to say goodbye and we'll do it again. All right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Senator Frank Nicely in Tennessee, doing a great right. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Senator Frank nicely in Tennessee. You've done a great job. Thank you very much. Thank you. The common man. They created common core to dumb down our children.
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