The David Knight Show - 2Aug23 Battle of Athens, TN — and Lessons for Today

Episode Date: August 2, 2023

OUTLINE of today's show with TIMECODES Although people only want to talk about Trump or Biden — the government is weaponized AGAINST US. Here's a couple of examples. One of FBI entrapment, the other about a new aspect of the Drug War…(7:20) Trump's newest indictments…what does it mean for the election (26:05) Thomas Massie on the "indictment gap"…DeSantis needs an indictment quickly (35:20)Several point out that the Trump J6 indictment is an indictment of the First Amendment (42:21 Bribing Bidens — Devon Archer, Rand Paul, Democrats and GOP leaders comment on the other leading criminal running for re-election as president (56:55)77th Anniversary of the "Battle of Athens (TN)" where GI's returning from WW2 fought corruption (literally) and won (1:11:54)Kratom possession, a draconian sentence, and murder in prison being suspiciously covered up (1:32:08)Gov Bill Lee — toll roads ("choice lanes"), secret meetings, hidden agendas, and a special sessions to appease the Republican governor's liberal Nashville supporters on gun control (1:46:03)WorldCoin Shows Coming CBDC Coercion TacticsWorldCoin is a high tech version of Marxist totalitarianism, promising equality while some animals on Animal Farm get rich & powerful. But what tactics will they use on the poor, and what tactics will they use on the middle class? (1:55:53) SEC demands Coinbase delist EVERY cryptocurrency EXCEPT Bitcoin (2:09:18)Australian banks now rolling out the tactics to NUDGE us into a cashless society (2:16:19)Remdesivir — Medical Murder Say Families of Victims What you must know about the "hospital death protocol" — the financial incentivization of not just malpractice, but MURDER (2:29:41) Andrew Tate's Screwtape Text Msgs Desc: As conservatives celebrate "Sound of Freedom", are the blind to the root cause of our society turning into Sodom & Gomorrah? Text messages of Andrew Tate to his PhD (Pimipin' Hoes Degree) followers how to use and destroy women looks like a real life version of conspiring devils in CS Lewis' fictional "Screwtape Letters". But are men destroying THEMSELVES by following his advice? (2:43:01) 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 throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

Music Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. Well, it's Wednesday, the 2nd of August, Year of Our Lord 2023. I'm back. It was great to have Guard Goldsmith fill in for us, but it's good to be back. I'm going to tell you a little bit about that, but we've got a lot of news to cover today. And it's interesting how everyone is totally obsessed with the two most corrupt people we've had in politics in my lifetime. The two frontrunners.

We have to talk about that. I've got other things I prefer to talk about, and we will get to those. But we will begin with that, and we'll be right back. Stay with us. Well, before I get into the top stories, it's kind of interesting to see how the media is divided. If you go to mainstream media and leftist media, you'll see everything about Trump and his indictments. If you go to conservative media, alternative media, you'll see everything about Biden and his indictments. Truly amazing, isn't it i mean we are devolving into a civil war over this partisan politics and these guys are the

front runners absolutely amazing but i want to say before we get into it thank you so much to guard goldsmith uh did a fantastic job uh covering uh the what was breaking last week, as well as great guests that he had in. Great discussions. I was not able to catch most of the program. We had some issues with it being posted on Twitter. We could not get guards signed in for some reason. Must be something about the new X, or I don't know what's going on with Twitter. But I was able to get transcripts after I got back last night

and take a look at what he'd covered. It was great. And, of course, you know that if you saw the program. I especially want to thank, for the love of the road, for the assistance, and for everyone who contributed in the last week here. We went from 62%, I think, up to 89% in just the last five days. And so thank you to all of you for your support. And it was interesting on the way.

My sons stopped by and saw Tony Arterburn in Denton, Texas, and Tony graciously took them out to eat. Denison. What did I say, Denton? Yeah. Okay, Denison, Texas. They're both kind of close to each other, I think. Yeah, yeah, okay. I'd to eat. Denison. What did I say, Denton? Yeah. Okay, Denison. They're both kind of close to each other, I think. Yeah, yeah, okay. I'd never heard of Denison.

I thought I'd heard of Denton, so that was fixed in my mind. Anyway, they had a very nice dinner, didn't you? Absolutely. Tony took us out for dinner and snuck the bill away from me before it even showed up. So thank you, Tony. You're far too kind. Yes, yes. And we did not stop by there. We left earlier. We had things we had to do, of course, for the wedding. We took the last week off for my daughter's wedding, drove cross country,

and came back because I will not get on a plane. I'm done with the planes. But anyway, it was a beautiful wedding. It is amazing to see your daughter grown up like that. And the thing that just kept going through my head was Sunrise Sunset from Fiddle on the Roof, the lyrics of that. I even began what I was going to say to them, the public speech and toast, but I was pimped by audio feedback that would not stop. Finally, I just gave up and passed them.

I gone and the next person said a couple of things and gave up. It was the PA system was a bit of a problem. Whoever was operating that, the PA system was a bit of a problem. Uh, operating that Travis's wife, it was so incredibly loud that we had feedback. I'm going to have to record this. And that's my intention this weekend is to record what I wanted to say to them and give it to them. It'll be, uh, better for them to keep anyway. And there were some things that I wanted to say to them, some blessings and advice. Kids don't always want advice, but as parents, we give it anyway. That's our job. But it was so loud and persistent. My other son, fortunately for him, he had headphone earbuds that he could stick in to cancel out the noise. I was not so fortunate.

And Travis's wife got a picture of me sticking bits of paper napkins into my ears. I thought I was being discreet about it, but I had to do something to cut the sound down. And they were very kind about it. I think my new son-in-law realized what was happening as well. He came over and said, is there some other kind of music that you would like to listen to? I was very tempted to ask if he had any John Williams in the playlist, but I thought, well, I don't think so, probably. But thank you to all of you who have supported us. Thank you to Guard, who really supported us, doing double time. Again, you know, he's got his own programs.

He's got Liberty Conspiracy every night at 6 p.m. on Rockfin, so you can get more of Guard every day. And he was doing double duty with that, as a matter of fact, triple duty, because he also works for MRCTV. He's got other things that he's doing as well. So I really do appreciate that. I know how exhausting that is. Whenever I do a program, especially if it's a different time of day. It really does exhaust me. So I really do appreciate that extra effort. Let's talk a little bit about what's going on with Trump first. That's what everybody wants to talk about. So we need to address this. But let me begin by saying this. Our government is not just weaponized against Donald Trump, and it is weaponized. This is a political persecution, and we all know that.

But it's weaponized against everybody. Why can't we do something about that? And the amazing thing to me about all of this is that nothing is even really being done about the January 6th people. The injustice has been done to so many people. The excessive, over-the-top charging and convictions. The kangaroo courts, and now this indictment is in D.C., so you can expect a district of criminals kangaroo court there as well.

Why can't we do something to protect the ordinary people? Why isn't MAGA so concerned about their own people who have been sent to jail? Many have committed suicide. Looking at lifetime prison sentences for many people, some of the elderly people, like I talked about before I left, a couple of guys who were there, they didn't have anything to do with any violence. One of them, an elderly pastor, his elderly friend, and then the elderly pastor's son, they're there, and they see everybody going in, and the doors are open,

and the police are there. Can I use the restroom? Sure. Ten minutes in there to use the restroom and then back out again. And they had a cop, when they asked for directions, try to direct them onto the house floor. Is that not entrapment? The whole thing was entrapment. And I said that from the very beginning, I said, this is a grift from Trump, from Alex. This is entrapment. Do not go. And they'll not only entrap you, but they will entrap the entire movement. They'll use it to demonize anybody who is opposed to the government agenda.

So why can't we push back against that? Tens of millions of dollars raised for Trump. And we see Melania just in the first six months has spent $108,000 on her dress designer. But nothing for the January 6th people. Nothing to pardon them. And Trump had two weeks to pardon them. No concern whatsoever about the people he had robbed, grifted, and thrown under the bus. So why do we care about him? I frankly don't. He's not essential. He's not essential to our lives.

He's not essential, certainly, to the Constitution. He's in opposition to all of these things. This is the guy who pushed the hospital protocol, financed it, rewarded them killing people. Why do we care about him? All he cares about is himself. He continues to portray that as if he saved humanity with his shot, that it's killing celebrities now left and right. Every day, you see a couple more celebrities dropping dead. Athletes, celebrities dropping dead on stage in public.

Nobody does anything about it. Blood clots, this and that. I mean, it's just young people. It's just amazing. Nobody cares. All they care about is Trump. The Democrats want to put him in jail. The Republicans want to put him in the White House. And that's all they care about is Trump. The Democrats want to put him in jail. The Republicans want to put him in the White House.

And that's all they care about. Here's another example. Mom accuses the FBI of entrapping her neurodiverse teenager in a terrorism scheme. That's what they call it. She's mentally ill. 17-year-old. And she made the mistake, as many people do, when somebody in the family starts to have a mental

episode or something you call the police also can i just point out diversity makes everything worse in euros the culture no matter what it is yeah exactly yeah uh so uh maybe he's a neuro equity as well neuro inclusivity well. No inclusivity. Well, they included him in a terrorist list is what they wound up doing. She called the police. I need some help with my son. So many times I've covered,

I see this over and over again in the news, the police show up and they execute the person. Hey, I'm having trouble with this person. We need your help to control them. They show up and we'll help you. They shoot the person, right? Well, in this particular case, they turn him over to the FBI and the FBI set up a sting with him and encouraged him along and manufactured that we've seen this

scheme over and over again. That's what the FBI does. But the politicians like Trump don't care when they do it to ordinary people. And the Trump supporters don't care when they do it to ordinary people. They only care when they do it to Trump. And that's the problem. That's the problem. It's only a problem when Trump gets kicked off of Twitter. It wasn't a problem years before that, when other people were being kicked off and he did nothing to support free speech in the digital public square. And the public square, said the

Supreme Court in 1946, even if it is privately owned, you cannot censor speech in that. But we all knew what the game was and now we've got the documents. We've all seen the documents about how they were actually being driven completely by the government. We knew that, but now we've got the documentary proof. Does it make any difference? Are the Republicans doing anything about it? No,

they're interested in defending Trump and they're interested in impeaching Biden. That's it in the house. And then in the Senate, they're just trying to stay alive between Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein. They just want to stay in power

as long as they can. This is a hallmark of dictatorships, by the way. Where's the spirit of George Washington who refused a second term and went home like Cincinnatus in Rome. And because of that, King George III said, you know, this is the greatest man I've seen. To turn down that power, go home.

Well, we don't have people like that anymore. We have people who not only don't have a sense of their mortality, but what this tells you about people like Mitch McConnell, who had the freezing incident while I was gone, you know, he's elderly, he's in poor health. I thought it was amazing the same day that that happened with Mitch McConnell. He's like the same age as Mick Jagger, who prances around on stage while he sings satanic music. And Mick Jagger doesn't look like he's skipped a beat, but exercise is a key thing. I keep telling myself that, but I don't follow that advice.

But you look at the desperation of Mitch McConnell and Dianne Feinstein to grasp onto power. Why? Because that's the only thing in their life that has any meaning. They have no meaning other than that. They're to be pitied, not for their physical condition or their age, but for their spiritual condition and the fact that they cannot come to terms with reality even at the very end of their life. They want to grasp onto that.

It's one of the things I've said many times about Hillary Clinton. Remember she used to talk about the politics of meaning? And I said the problem is that people like Hillary Clinton have no meaning in their life outside of politics. And of course we can all fall into that trap. We can all make something, our work or whatever it is, the primary thing so we don't have enough time for other things. We can always tell ourself, well, just this time, and then I'll do it differently. I'll make time for the important things. But right now, this is very

urgent. And of course, that's the same type of problem that we see with people who are excused for violating what they said they were going to do, violating their principles, violating the Constitution. We're told that Trump is playing 4D chess. Well, you know, when you make those kind of compromises, the first couple of compromises, you have to think about it. But it's easier every time you do it. And the problem is that when you live by a lie, each subsequent lie becomes easier and easier. It's just like any kind of addiction. So in this particular case, it was the FBI who, again, a child who's 18 years old, has no friends,

suffers from numerous mental health issues, including autism, depression, anxiety, according to the mother. At a detention hearing on Friday, she expressed remorse that she'd ever sought help from law enforcement, blaming the FBI for encouraging her son in a phony terrorism plot. This has gone on for years. It was probably about a decade ago that Judge Napolitano did that long essay recounting all of these staged FBI plots,

none of which were real, all of them designed to make them look good, like the fireman who sets fire to a building and then puts it out himself. I'm the hero, right? It's just their M.O. Why are we talking about reforming the FBI? It needs to be ended. In the discussion we had before I left with the 33-year FBI veteran, I just, you know, I wanted to hear what he had to say. I absolutely do not

believe that there is any way possible for the FBI to reform itself seriously. Uh, and of course I did not argue with him about the history of the FBI, you know, for where he was, he seems like a reasonable, honest guy. And in his opinion, and with the people that he worked, he believed that it was sincere and it's law enforcement stuff. But that is not the way that this has been from the very beginning. J. Edgar Hoover used this as a political vehicle to get power and to blackmail politicians. And you had everybody saying it from Truman to Nixon that he was blackmailing everybody. And his secretary went in and cleaned out his files when he died,

quietly, to keep the illusion going. He created the FBI with Efren Zimbalist Jr. as a program. He created that. It was a big PR ploy to make people think that this was essential. I don't know how we survived in America for 200 years before Jerry Gover and the FBI. Somehow we managed to keep track of criminals. Could it be that it was the sheriff who was elected along with the posse comitatus? The power of the community is what that means.

A sheriff, an elected sheriff with the power of the community to keep law and order. And I want to talk as soon as I finish with this Trump thing. This is the important story today. Yesterday was the 77th anniversary of the battle of athens now if you know what that was about that truly was the power of the community and the power of the community to take down a corrupt sheriff and so we're going to talk about that coming up but she went on to say i bet my life he would never do that

without the encouragement from the FBI informants. Well, I don't know what the FBI informants encouraged people to do on January the 6th. I do know that even as all this stuff is happening,

you've got it as the new indictments come out January the 6th for Trump. You have Darren Beattie doubling down again on Ray Epps. It's just so obvious. That's right. It was Ray Epps who raised hundreds of millions of dollars from the Trump supporters. You know, Trump got $250 million. And as I said before, the first $8,000 that everybody gave, not a penny of it,

of the first $8,000 went to contesting the election. The first $8,000 went to Trump and he gave a cut to the RNC. And of course, none of the money that you gave to Alex's Stop the Steal did anything whatsoever except to find Alex. But it was Ray Epps. It was Ray Epps who got all that money, right? No, it wasn't Ray Epps. It was Ray Epps who told everybody to go to Washington.

No, it wasn't Ray Epps. It was Ray Epps who told everybody this election will not stand. No, it wasn't Ray Epps. Isn't it obvious that regardless of whether Ray Epps is an FBI informant or not, he's not the one who put people there in jeopardy. He's not the one. He did nothing that wasn't already done by these other people, frankly. It was a riot, punished the people who got violent at the riot, but the whole thing was entrapment for the very people who are now going to empty their pockets again into Trump's campaign coffers.

It disgusts me. The stupidity and the partisanship and the idolatry just disgusts me. An innocent woman is facing life in prison for legally purchasing Kratom and driving 200 feet into Atlanta. She bought it in Florida, and as the Free Thought Project points out in a disgusting display of what's fundamentally wrong with America's drug war, Shania Brown, an entirely innocent woman who harmed no one, finds herself locked up behind bars, slapped with an egregious $1 million bail. Later, they lowered it to a still absurdly high $250,000 bail,

all for the mere possession of a plant that she bought legally, 200 feet away from where she was arrested. The plant in question is Kratom, a botanical supplement that has been vilified by a select few states and the federal government, despite it being perfectly legal in the majority of the U.S., including where she had bought it, in Florida. To show just how insidious the state's war on Kratom actually is, we compared some of the recent bail amounts in Escambia County to Shania's case. People with crimes like strangulation, assault, battery, murder, sexual abuse,

all have lower bonds than shania on april 1st 2023 she crossed over the unmarked state line from florida where kratom is legal into alabama where it is not for those who are not aware kratom is ground up tea leaves that are consumed by millions worldwide for its therapeutic benefits her mistake was to unknowingly bring it into a state that has criminalized it, and they transformed her instantly from a law-abiding citizen into a felon with potential charges carrying a sentence of 10 years to life in prison. Will the Republicans work on fixing this? No.

You know, we had, it's very similar in many ways to what's been going on for the longest time with marijuana. And I remember Boehner, John Boehner, saying, I am unalterably opposed to legalizing marijuana. And then when he got out, he became a spokesperson for medical marijuana. Isn't that interesting? You know, the issue is, and of course there's different forms of kratom. These were the tea leaves. You know, there's a, because of prohibition, there are weaponized versions of this that people are selling,

basically ground into powder, a very high intense form of it. But, you know, they treat it all the same. But regardless of its effect on people, criminalizing this, something that is a medical, psychological, and above all, a spiritual issue, is not the solution. And we've done this for 50 years, and we've got a bigger drug problem now than we've ever had before. And we've got weaponized cartels

who've got like Mad Max tanks in Mexico that they're driving. How much longer before they pull that stuff in the U.S. with the open border that Biden has put in, of course. What has this done? It's turned Mexico into a narco state. It's corrupted our police, our judiciary. It's filled our prisons. For what purpose? If you try to attack something that is a spiritual problem with law enforcement, you know, like using your hammer because everything looked like a nail to you, right?

The charges are shocking considering her history of minor offenses. She had a solitary speeding ticket and she had a bad check that was written in 2014 for under $500. She's not a hardened criminal, but she's now facing the prospect of losing years of her life for all for unknowingly quote-unquote trafficking tea powder in Alabama. Evidently, it's the quantity of it. Now, here's the key thing. They don't tell the jury in Alabama. They're not informed as to what this was that she's accused of having. They simply say, this is a Schedule I substance. Well, I believe that marijuana is still a Schedule I substance as well. And so again, exculpatory evidence, you can't tell them what you are. They look at this and think,

well, maybe it's something like fentanyl. But again, the answer to this problem is spiritual. It's not law enforcement. And many people who've worked the drug war for a long time have pointed that out. But the mainstream media is all silent, whether it is left or right media, they're all silent about this type of thing but this is what they're all focused on today donald trump indicted jack smith says lies by the defendant led to january the 6th no it was all ray epps according to darren beattie yeah you understand he's being used as the red herring. You know, we got everybody's on the track of this big deception that was run by Trump.

And so what he does, and they're worried, you know, because they were the ones who were cheerleading and they were pushing and pushing everybody into this thing. So what they do, they go out and they get a stinky dead fish called Ray Epps and they drag him across the trail of the Fox, the fox as the hounds are coming. It was fueled by lies, lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the U.S. government. What was that? Free speech? No, no, no, no.

It was the election, the election. Well, you know, elections are implied, but the real bedrock foundation of our Constitution is your ability to say what you wish without some ministry of truth saying it was a lie or disinformation. The bedrock of our society is that we are allowed to peacefully redress grievances that we have, and we're allowed to say something, even if it's wrong and it should not be

a crime, you know, if it is something that is egregious and deliberate and causes other people harm. And I believe that the people who got ensnared by this, who were misled into this, not by Ray Epps, but by Trump and Alex and the rest of the people, I think that'll sue their pants off for the harm that was done. Of course, you know, you're not going to get anything from these deadbeats, but I think that's the damage. The damage is not to the government. This is not a crime. This is a civil matter.

The people who were harmed by this are Trump's supporters, not the government, not Biden, not the Democrats. It was Trump's own supporters who, after he fleeced them, locked them down, masked them up, took their businesses, took their jobs. Told them they couldn't show up to vote. Yeah, those are people. To finish off 2020, as a parting shot, these people who had pulled all of this on all of us and trashed the Constitution as a parting shot,

he ripped off his own supporters. And they haven't had enough. And they're going to get it good and hard. Unfortunately, the rest of us are as well. We're in the same boat with these people, unfortunately. So he said, from honor about November the 14th, 2020, through on or about January the 20th, 2021. Well, no, actually, it started Thursday, two days after the election.

Thursday, November the 5th, 2020. That was when Steve Pachinik and Owen began this stop the steel BS. That was a big issue. You know, 4 million views, Rush Limbaugh was talking about it. You had Clarence Thomas's wife sent, uh, sent it to Mark Meadows. We now know. I hope this is true. Well, it was that hopium.

It wasn't kratom. It was hopium that lured these people in and their addiction to Trump and his personality. So they say Trump did knowingly combine, conspire, confederate, and agree with co-conspirators known and unknown, the grand jury, to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate one or more persons in the free exercise and enjoyment of a right and privilege secured to them by the Constitution. That is the right to vote. Well, what about the right to free speech, peacefully assemble, redress grievances?

You know, most of the people even, people who are looking at life sentences now, like this elderly pastor, you know, they want to come after him for 10 years because he went into the, he was asked, the police who were standing at the door, can I use the bathroom? Yes, right in here. Ten years in jail. Wow. Wow. Where are the Republicans?

Where are your saviors? Where is Trump with all of this stuff? I mean, just go back and look at what Roger Stone said when Trump left office without issuing a pardon. I won't repeat the language that he used. But frankly, he was right. He said he was going to oppose Trump and made some remarks about Trump's daughter. He was right about all those remarks.

But he's saying just the opposite now, isn't he? Because all these people are looking, these same grifters, these same people who use other people as scapegoats and red herring, the same people who fleeced their own supporters. Now they see that Trump is their only hope. Trump will pardon us, they say, because Biden is going to weaponize all of these prosecutions politically. And that's the key thing that people see. So as he's indicted again, comments from Ron DeSantis, who I guess learned his lesson when he did the, it was Trump's first indictment with the Manhattan DA, and DeSantis was doing a press conference about Big Brother digital money.

That was all about CBDC. That was his sign. Does 20 minutes telling people about the evil of it, what they're going to do about the UCC code. We're going to ban the use of CBDC. We're going to explicitly allow the use of cryptocurrency as payment for services and the universal, uh, commercial code. First question is, but what about Trump?

What about Trump? What are you going to do about it? And he wasn't strong enough defending him. So Trump made it look like the indictment was coming from DeSantis and his followers just ate it up. And so, uh, Thomas Massey and interview, uh, interview, talked about that. DeSantis tweeted, we have to, quote, end the weaponization of the government, replace the FBI director, and ensure a single standard of justice for all Americans. He said, D.C. is a swamp and it's unfair to have to stand trial

before a jury that is reflective of the swamp mentality. Unfortunately, just replacing the FBI director isn't going to do anything. Trump did that. He got rid of several people within the FBI, showing that he knows that he can fire people like Anthony Fascist, but he chose not to. He chose to support him to the end and beyond. Still doesn't criticize Anthony Fauci, a fascist.

But yeah, he knew that he could fire people. He showed that he could fire people with the FBI. Didn't change anything. Because it's a den of thieves and snakes and you've got to clear the thing out. Even if you look at it as law enforcement, it is so incredibly redundant with local law enforcement, with state bureaus of investigation, and now with its new function of spying on the American people. We've already got multiple agencies that spy on the American people. What do we need the FBI for? We got the CIA, we got the NSA, and all the rest of these.

Is it because the FBI is under the president? More so than the CIA and the NSA? CIA, of course, being over the president. The president needs to have his own praetorian guard that are going to spy on Americans. Is that why they're keeping this thing around and just changing the person at the top? Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries call this January the 6th indictment

the most serious, most consequential thus far. Quite frankly, I don't think so. I think they've got a real problem with this. But the issue is serious because it's being held in D.C., not because there's, at the core of this, a serious

crime. I think that the documents case is far more concerning for him. But I think they may wind up getting process charges on this against Trump as well, as some of the document cases. But the document cases are very damning, I think. I think the Georgia case that is about to break is total BS. I think it's nothing more than a social climbing career politician who, as soon as she got elected, I'll make a name for myself, the Democrat DA did, by going after Trump in the same way that Manhattan DA did. I don't think that, and everybody understands how overblown, overcharged these things are,

compared especially to the fact that Hunter Biden's getting a pass. And as many people point out, did you notice that this is happening at the same time? We've got Devin Archer giving testimony about Biden, and we'll get to Biden in a moment. But I like what this interview with Thomas Massey, he said as he was being interviewed, he said it was with McClatchy, D.C. He says, I've said we've got to figure out, we've got to find some judge in Florida that will indict DeSantis quickly to close this indictment gap, he said as a joke. But that's exactly what is happening. And everybody knows it. Many, many Republicans have said this. I've said it. Democrats have said it as well. They know exactly what they're doing. Ask yourself, why do they want Trump as a nominee so badly? And that's exactly what they're getting. It's amazing to

me to see how all these 40 chess people are being played like pawns and they fall for it every time, every time. They just keep falling for the same gag over and over again. So when he had the interview,omas massey they asked him they said well you once memorably memorably said in 2017 and again they're talking to him because he's one of the few elected officials who has endorsed desantis over trump and you remember they didn't bring this up. But, of course, when Trump wanted to throw us into the debt abyss with $3.5 trillion after he locked us down and told us we couldn't work, couldn't do anything.

Remember, Thomas Massey opposed him, and Trump was furious and said we've got to primary him out. He was the only one in Congress who had the guts to stand up to Trump. And, fortunately, he was not primary now. But they said, well, he once memorably said in 2017, referring to libertarian and Republican voters, that they voted for Trump because they were looking for, quote, the craziest SOB in the race. Is Trump still that guy? He said, well, just to clarify a little bit, I think I said they

weren't looking for libertarian principles, but yes, he still is. There's no doubt, but he's also the most indicted candidate. And I think that's our problem right now. So they said to him, well, there's been a response from some Republican voters that Trump's indictments are an example of what they see as unfair prosecution. And that seemingly makes them want to support Trump's campaign even more. If you're Ron DeSantis or any GOP candidate in this race, how do you navigate that? He says, well, it's very difficult. I feel sympathy for Trump, and I understand why people are gravitating toward him in this time. It's a referendum on the swamp versus Trump. He understands that the Democrats understand that. And I'm sure you understand that the people who don't get it are the problem. Anyway, he says,

and it's seen as if, if you don't support Trump in this moment, then you're with a swamp, right? I tell you, there's two kinds of people in this world. The people who say there's two kinds of people, and there's people who don't say that. And these people are saying in the same way as George W. Bush. You're either with us or you're with them. See, the dividing line is Trump. The Civil War will be over Trump, perhaps. I hope not. I hope people come to their

senses. So if you're not with him, you got to be with the other guys. And it makes it tough. He said, we've got to figure this out. We've got to find some judge in Florida that will indict DeSantis quickly. They close this indictment gap. It's a truism that anytime someone is being persecuted, their camp rallies to their defense, and he laughs. And they said, well, short of DeSantis being indicted, though, how can he regain momentum in the race? His poll numbers have sagged over the course of the year. He says, well, it feels weird to say this, but I'm just going to say it. DeSantis has to weather out these indictments.

I think Ron's taken the right path, which is to be sympathetic to the former president's plight. But to fully answer your question, they're retooling the dissentist campaign. He's made some changes. And so then they talk to him about, well, you know, but what about his personality? You know, doesn't he have doesn't he need more personality and all the rest of stuff? Why is that an issue? Why is that an issue? Why is that an issue? And why is that an issue that's being brought up by Republicans who defended Trump?

And they said, well, I don't care if he's, you know, hanging out with DeSantis, if he's talking about grabbing women, if he's talking about all he's got to do is flash his wallet at him and, you know, they're his or whatever. I don't care about any of that. I don't care about his multiple wives and how he threw each of the wives under the bus publicly, as you've seen him do with all the people that he's fired in his apprentice administration. They didn't care about any of that stuff. They said, well, if I need a plumber, I don't ask him about his personal life. They say people are saying, well, but we need a personality. We need somebody who doesn't just talk about policy. We need a personality. And look, and I'm not,

I'm not endorsing anybody. I've got my concerns about DeSantis, but what he should have done, I think the first name, nickname that Trump came up with him for besides, uh, hitting him because he was Italian. What, what, how is that supposed to work? Right.

Called him meatball, uh, as an Italian slur. But the first thing that Trump said, he called him the St. Demonious. And I think the problem is that the Santas and the people around him don't engage it. He should have owned that. And he should have owned what it tells

people about Trump. Oh, he says, I'm sanctimonious because I want to protect kids from being groomed by the government institution we call school in defiance of their parents' wishes, kept from their parents, not being told by their parents? He calls me sanctimonious for that? He calls me sanctimonious because we've got a law that stops babies from being ripped apart when they've got a heartbeat? He thinks that's too harsh? He thinks that's too sanctimonious?

Well, Donald Trump has been pushing this LGBT stuff and this tranny stuff for decades. He campaigned in favor of it in the last election. And so, of course, he thinks I'm sanctimonious. That's what he should say. He should own that and use that to define who Trump really is. But instead they made that ridiculous video, that ridiculous video. Uh, hopefully he could get his money back. Of course he can't. Uh, but anyway, anyway, they said, yeah, he's stiff in private conversations. What about this? And it's like, who cares? Who cares if he's stiff? What about policies? And again, my concern with DeSantis is free speech issues, especially.

Hate crimes and other things, but also making it a crime to criticize the state of Israel. Look, we can criticize our own government. That's what January the 6th was about. I certainly can criticize the state of Israel's government, and you're going to go to them and sign a bill in that country, stopping any speech about that country? That was obviously done for money, and that's a big red flag in two different areas.

A, he's for sale. B, he will sell our God-given rights protected under the Constitution to foreigners who will give him cash. You know, people like Sheldon Adelson's widow. People like that. So, anyway, when we look at this, Turley says this is,

we should call this, and it is, the disinformation indictment. This is the real issue. The criminalization of speech, criminalization of the First Amendment. And this is what I think the defense needs to focus around. But I also think that Trump can't keep his mouth shut. And it's going to be some kind of a process crime It's going to be tacked on to this as well. Melania Trump, as I pointed out, $260,000 in campaign cash since the start of 2022. See, he's still grifting.

He's still paying, even this year, first six months of this year, $108,000 to her dress designer, the one who designed her inaugural ball gown for the, you know, 2017. Supposedly, this is for strategic consulting, but Melania is not even campaigning this time around. The guy's name is Hervé Pierre Brilliard. He goes by his dress brand is Hervé Pierre. Well, isn't that nice that she can afford to spend $108,000 on dresses?

His other clients have included Hillary Clinton. See, they share something else besides Jeffrey Epstein. They got the same dress designer. They're not. It's a club, and you ain't in it. Stop believing that this billionaire politician is on your team. He's not. This is a game of thrones between these guys.

Yes, it's corrupt. What is going on between Biden and Trump? Who cares? I have no more interest in what they're doing than I have with internal struggles in the Soviet Union or Russia or whatever. I don't care. I don't care. I don't care.

$6,000 payment in April, a $2,500 year end bonus. Yeah. Well, there you go. Still, still grifting. And of course his campaign finances are strained just as DeSantis's are. They took in $53 million since his indictments began, but they've already spent $43 million of it.

A lot of it for legal fees. And so that's where your money is going. Isn't it ironic? I find it very ironic that after the election, supposedly Save America was about funding legal challenges to the election, supposedly Save America was about funding legal challenges to the election. And yet no money was really given to the lawyers.

Very tiny amount. And yet here we are, and now finally the money is going to the lawyers. But not to challenge the election. To defend Trump. Isn't that interesting? It's still a grift. It's really just a question for his donors, said one person, who was a longtime campaign finance attorney in Washington.

For his donors, do they want to be just funding lawyers? Well, I guess maybe they do. They wanted to fund lawyers, but he didn't give them the money in 2020. Uh, so, uh, when we look at how these people are blowing through cash, is it any wonder, uh, that, uh, we're not going to get anything from it. I'll just end with this in terms of talking about Trump. Uh was NBC News, and they pointed out how many people, they contacted 44 of the dozens of people that served as Trump's cabinet. And understand, he went through people probably at a faster rate,

I would guess, than any other president, even in modern times. I'm just, I haven't looked that up but that's just my impression firing people left and right but of course he couldn't fire Anthony fascist he had to stay there no control said his MAGA supporters he just can't get rid of him you know he put him his head of the you know put him on his head of it that was Monsef Slaoui but that was the, you know, put him on his head of it. That was Monsef Slaoui, but that was the guy, you know, Fauci was really running the show. But he had him on that. He certainly could have gotten rid of him there. Could have fired him as a government employee as he fired the FBI people,

but he kept him there. But out of the dozens of people that they, that have served there, they contacted 44 of them. Only four support his reelection. And we're not talking even about people like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the now governor, the former press secretary for Trump is now governor of Arkansas or Kayleigh McEnany that he went after because she misread a couple of poll numbers. It wasn't an intentional slight, but boy. One thing Donald Trump is about, and that is his perceived self-interest in revenge.

And so he went after her with the knives out. They've not endorsed him, but the press secretaries are not even part of Trump's cabinet. And so they said a total of four have said publicly that they support his run for reelection. Most of them, when they contacted them, said, we're not going to comment on that. So everybody's afraid to talk about Trump. And I can tell you why.

I can tell you from personal experience why. The letters I get for telling people what I believe is true about Trump, they don't argue with me about what I say. They argue with me because I don't support him. Oh, you're with the swamp then. Oh, there's two kinds of people. Yeah, those who support Trump and those who don't. And you're bad.

Then there are those who outright push back on it. Again, you know, John Kelly, who said about Trump, he was there. He was his chief of staff for two years. Trump said when Kelly criticized him, said Kelly was born with a very small brain. If I was Kelly, I would have said, well, what does that say about Trump? He appointed me and he kept me there for two years. So what size brain does he have? He did say that Trump is the most flawed person I've ever met.

And he would know because as they point out, a president's cabinet gets a unique window and do his priorities and to his temperament and to his managerial style. And Kelly, who was his chief of staff for two years, said, he was the most flawed person I have ever met. Tasked with running the administration on a day-to-day basis, cabinet members see firsthand the impact of policies that he touted on the campaign trail and then put forward in office, or they see how he betrayed what he had to say on the campaign trail. They sit with him at regular meetings in the White House. They listen to him vent.

They act as surrogates and they crisscross the country to amplify his message. So the only response is that we asked the Trump campaign to reply to this. We contacted 44 people and only four would say that they support Trump. That's one out of 11. That's 9%. The Trump campaign declined to comment beyond pointing to three former cabinet members and said, well, you can contact them. They said, well, we did. One of them has endorsed Trump and the two others, when asked, would not commit to endorsing him. So even other people, they said, well, these are the guys that like us. Well, no, actually they don't. We're going to take a break

and we're going to come back. Before I go to break, I want to respond to some of the things on Rockfin. Rockfin, Charles Solomon, thank you so much for the tip. I really do appreciate that. And again, I just want to thank everybody who has helped us in this last month, especially in the last week. On Rockfin, Max B. Also, thank you very much for the tip. He says, welcome back, Mr. Knight.

Well, thank you. It's good to be back. And it's great to have somebody like guard and also Tony who can fill in for us that both of them do an excellent job on Rockfin. Audi MRR, thank you very much. He said, I would be utterly shocked if anyone on team Biden never saw meaningful accountability. No, of course not. Government is a system of criminals protecting other criminals. That's right.

That's Audi of modern retro radio. We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. Thank you. Making sense common again. You're listening to The David Knight Show. I'm back, and before I get back in the news, I'm going to give Biden some equal time here. How he was talking about it on retro radio. You know, let's give him a little bit of time. We'll talk about what has surfaced in the last couple of days with that briefly.

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And again, thank you for Love of the Road for matching people who've donated online over the last five days. $200 a day he would match, and so a big donation from him. Thank you very much. Appreciate that. Let's talk about Biden. It was interesting to see Rand Paul going on with Maria Bartiromo, and she asked him about impeaching Biden, and she played a clip where you had Kevin McCarthy talking about impeachment and a Democrat, Adam Schiff, of course, saying the Republicans, quote, are descending into chaos. He laughed

about that. He said it was a lot of irony there, calling the kettle black. The guy who impeached Trump with no hearings, they just went straight to the floor and impeached the president. This is a guy who had no respect for the fourth amendment rights of his colleagues who illegally searched their phone records of republicans in the house this is a man without any semblance of any kind of respect for the rule of law but then he went on to warn against falling into the same trap that democrats did with former president trump he said the democrats immediately rushed into impeachment without hearings warn against falling into the same trap that Democrats did with former President Trump. He said the Democrats immediately rushed into impeachment without hearings. He says, I think that there needs to be a continued investigation. And so then Maria

Bartiromo pushed back on the idea that there wasn't enough evidence. Quite frankly, this case has been around since before the 2020 election for quite some time. And even before the 2020 election, we had the clips of Risma and Biden saying, well, I went over there and I told that investigating criminal attorney, lay off of these guys, right? And we knew about all this stuff. That was enough right there. They waited for the Hunter laptop. They had that. They thought they were going to do it. As I said at the time, I said, wait, don't they do something about this? And he was so hopelessly compromised with all this stuff. They could have easily have shut that down. But I think they pulled it back and thought they were going to release it. The Biden laptop as an October surprise. And then, of course, with the control over the press that the Democrats have,

they completely shut that down. The New York Post broke it for the Republicans, but it was overwhelmingly shut down by the mainstream media. And, of course, this is Rand Paul, and he's focusing, he wants a criminal referral for Anthony fascist, but, uh, he's just virtue signaling with this. They're not going to do anything about that. Again, fascist lied to Congress, just like Clapper did.

Clapper went for five years and nobody even filed a criminal referral on him. When he said, well, we're not intentionally spying on Mr. and Mrs. America. Well, you did. You did it intentionally. Rand Paul didn't do a criminal referral for him. Rand Paul, again, by focusing exclusively on Anthony Fascist, he's essentially defending the actions of Trump and big pharmaceutical companies. He's covering for them. So all he wants to do is talk about the fascist and not the fascist actions of Trump or Trump's involvement with any of this stuff.

That's the safe thing for him to do. It's the partisan thing for him to do. He can keep his name up front with his dog and pony show stuff that they pull, and he knows that nothing is going to come of it, but he's not going to offend big pharmaceutical companies. As a matter of fact, he attacked Anthony Fascist for saying, he said, because of what you're telling people about this vaccine, you're going to cause vaccine hesitancy, you know, for our big pharma sponsors.

He didn't say that last part, but that's what he meant. And of course, his wife was buying Gilead stock, selling remdesivir at the time. Bartiromo pushed back on the idea that it wasn't enough evidence. She said, so you don't feel like you have enough evidence? She said flatly. You've got whistleblower testimony. You've got bank records indicating millions of dollars coming from foreigners to shell companies that eventually made their way to the Biden family member accounts.

This has all been known for years. I don't think it would be a rush to judgment at all to impeach Biden. Remember, the impeachment is simply a grand jury hearing. In other words, they've got all this information here. This is more than enough to convene a grand jury and to present your evidence to the grand jury. And then if the House impeaches, that is like a grand jury returning an indictment.

And the trial then actually happens in the Senate. He says all that is somewhat persuasive, he said. Somewhat persuasive. But I would want to find out more and I would keep pressuring the FBI. What? Rand Paul trusts the FBI

to get to the bottom of this? What a joke. What a joke this is. The people that should be indicted, as I've said all along, Trump should be indicted for the poisonous shot that's still killing people. Biden ought to be indicted for mandating it. And then, of course, you could add all the ancillary crimes associated with that,

the lockdowns and the mask mandates and all the rest of the stuff that they were running with executive orders that they were financing. They both produced it. They're flip sides of the same coin. And they're traitors to our country. They're the ones who ought to be going to jail for life sentences or executed, in my opinion, if they found what was, if they actually revealed was, if they

actually revealed what they've actually done. But getting back to Biden, the Devin Archer thing, more than 20 conversations, he said, and of course, this is breaking. The mainstream media doesn't have to cover it because they can all cover Trump. And then as the Trump indictments are breaking, Breitbart and conservative press doesn't have to cover that because they can cover Biden. It's just perfect. This is Hegelian 4D chess, folks. This is the Hegelian criminals. And this country is going to Hegelian.

That's for sure. Archer told the House Oversight and Accountability Committee that Hunter Biden was hired to sit on the board of Burisma because his family's brand, quote unquote, had value at the time when the firm was facing corruption allegations from not only Ukraine's own prosecutor. And again, this is Hunter Biden's business partner at Burisma. What was it that he was selling? I found it interesting in the transcripts that I get of the program. When I talk about Burisma, it changes it to charisma.

That's why they hired Hunter, right? It was his charisma. Because he didn't know anything about the oil business or anything else. He knows about drugs, he knows about sex, and that's it. But he's got charisma. It's not what you know is who you know, right?

And the charisma that Hunter Biden had. So he said there was an investigation that was happening in Ukraine, but also in the U S and great Britain as well. And so that was the key thing that we knew was well publicized. We talked about it extensively before the 2020 election, Biden bragging about how he shut all that stuff down, told the prosecutor in Ukraine, shut this thing down. And that also shut down the investigations in the U.S. and Great Britain.

Devin Archer testified the value of adding Hunter Biden to Burisma's board was the brand and confirmed that then-Vice President Joe brought the most value to the brand, an anonymous source said. Archer also stated that Burisma would have gone under, if not for, quote, the brand, unquote. Archer also contradicted Biden's claims that he never met with Biden's foreign business associates, telling the committee that Biden had gotten on a speakerphone over 20 times with his son's business clients, not to engage in specific business, but, you know, he was put on the phone to, quote-unquote, sell the brand. So Marjorie Taylor Greene, and again, this is coming from Just the News sources,

talking about the testimony. This is a testimony that was given and then was essentially leaked to Just the News. So Marjorie Taylor Greene quoted what they said. It said, the biggest significant thing that's come out of this so far is that we now have proof that Biden lied. He's been telling everyone for years now that he knows nothing about Hunter Biden's business deals, that he's never talked to his son about it. Well, this morning, Devin Archer confirmed for all of us that that is not true. Well, good luck impeaching Biden for lying.

If that's the biggest thing you got out of it. Uh, I think that there's more there, but again, you're going to have to, it's one thing to get an indictment from what is essentially a grand jury or Republican controlled house. It's not even a given there since they've got such a narrow lead. One or two people defect because they're in a district where that might affect them. You may try that indictment and you may fail. It's all politics. This is not blind justice.

This impeachment process and the subsequent trial in the Senate is not going to be blind justice. This impeachment process and the subsequent trial in the Senate is, is not going to be blind justice. There's going to be all kinds of political calculations being made by people. And it's going to be decided on that. And look, folks, same thing has happened to the January six people on the other side. This is not about the evidence anymore than when when I talked about that poor lady who's

facing trial for Kratom. They skew the information as they see fit. Now you can't talk about that, as I've mentioned many times, the Bundy Ranch. They showed the picture of the guy that you've all seen, mainstream media put that, he's got a laying in a prone position with his rifle between a couple of concrete barriers pointing it down at the uh the blm agents who are pointing guns at us on the ground threatening to shoot us and he said um and then next to him you know the defense could show that or the prosecution could show that but the next

to him was a woman who was crouching down. I said, so who's she hiding from? Oh, you can't ask that. Strike that question. Can't ask that. Can't talk about the BLM having guns pointing at people and threatening over the bullhorn to shoot us. Can't talk about that.

So they control these trials. Holding these trials in Washington, D.C. is how they're getting all these people convicted for these outrageous crimes and these political appointee judges giving life sentences to these people left and right. And I'm supposed to care about Trump? Why do you care about Trump if you do? He told us in his transcribed interview that he heard Hunter Biden speak to Joe Biden more than 20 times about their business deals, not about anything else, but about business deals, she said. But you have the Democrats putting a spin on it. This is, well, before we get to that, he also testified that in

December 2015, the co-founder of Burisma, Mikola Vlochevsky and Vadim Pozarsky, executives of Burisma, put pressure on Hunter Biden to get help from Washington, D.C., regarding the Ukrainian prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who was investigating Burisma for corruption. Of course, that was what Biden was bragging about, how he shut down Shokin for the prosecution. Devin Archer's testimony today confirms that Biden lied to the American people, said James Comer, who is the House Oversight Committee chair.

Proves that he lied to the American people when he said he had no knowledge about his son's business dealings and was not involved. But here's how the Democrats are trying to spend this. You've got, um, uh, Jim Himes, Democrat from Connecticut, the house permanent select committee on intelligence. He's the ranking member there. Uh, and he says he fired back at Republicans Tuesday saying they've not

presented any evidence that Biden engaged in corruption, despite Archer's testimony. He said, have the Republicans pointed to anything to suggest that Biden engaged in a corrupt behavior? No, he said. They would just deny it. Just keep denying it. Doesn't matter how dead to rights they've caught you. He said they were just exchanging pleasantries, right? Well, that's essentially the same thing.

If you remember, we've talked about it a couple of times. I talked to Kiriakou when it happened, when he wanted to get a pardon. He'd served the time for exposing the lies about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the lies that lied us into the Iraq war, the lies that were produced by torture. The same person who ran that, who covered that up, was put as the head of the CIA by Trump. But he served the time, but he wanted to get his record clear so he could get his pension and so that other things could be, other obstacles that are there as a former felon could be cleared. And so he talks to Giuliani. And they just exchanged pleasantries, just like what this Democrat is saying about Joe Biden.

And so as soon as he said, well, I've got to talk about the party. Oh, excuse me, I've got to go to the restroom. And then the other guy said, well, it'll be $2 million. Well, I haven't got $2 million, and I'm not going to pay $2 million to get a $900,000 pension or whatever, and so that's the way they run this game. So he said, so it's the most innocent thing you can imagine, right? He said, on the contrary, Hunter Biden's business partner said, yeah, he was on some phone calls. He was talking about the weather and exchanging pleasantries. That's not a crime. They're just in this box of their own making. Well, there you go. See,

it's just talking about the weather and how because because of the weather we got to ban cars and power plants and you know air conditioning and heaters and all the rest of this stuff so uh james comer and jim jordan get on fox news's hannity with him to do some more publicity raising for themselves. That's all this is. So Sean Hannity is like, well, will you both answer yes or no? Do you believe this is now officially the Joe Biden bribery allegation? And do you believe that you will be able to prove that? Jim Comer.

Jim Comer says, well, I sure hope so. Jim Jordan, do you believe that? Do you believe that the Department of Justice has been helping to cover it up? Jim Jordan, well, sure looks that way. A real definitive yes or no answer there, isn't it? Yes, the dog and pony show, the theatrics are going to continue for quite some time, aren't they? We'll be right back. Unlike most revolutions, where the people rise against a real economic oppression,

in our case here in Boston, we are fighting for purely an abstract principle. It is, however, not nearly so abstract as the young gentleman supposes. The issue involved here is one of monopoly. Today the British government will monopolize the sale of tea in our country. Tomorrow it will be something else. ¶¶ Liberty. It's your move. You're listening to The David Knight Show. Well, it was Thomas Jefferson who said the tree of liberty must be watered from time to time with the blood of tyrants and patriots. And it was 77 years ago yesterday that we had World War II veterans take back a corrupt town, Athens, Tennessee. There's been movies made about this. I think it's a made-for-TV

movie, but a pretty famous story. But it went pretty much unnoticed, the anniversary did, except by the Free Thought Project. And I'm glad that they called attention to it because I had not remembered the date either. 77th anniversary of the Battle of Athens. In terms of fighting political corruption, let me just read you the story because it's very well written from the Free Thought Project. In the summer of 1946, war-weary GIs began to return home from World War II battlefronts in Europe and Japan, ready to resume life in their sleepy Tennessee town. But what they found instead infuriated them to the core.

A power-hungry Democrat and his associates had since usurped local government and law enforcement and imposed a maniacal chokehold on the county town through extortive fines, excessive laws, and arrests of anyone who opposed them. Does this sound familiar? What do you think these people would have done in 2020 when Republican Trump did it? Or what would they do in 2021 and 2022 and 2023 when Biden did this? What would they have done to him? But of course, that's another generation. Battle-hardened troops coming back from World War II.

While the soldiers were away fighting power-hungry foreign enemies in 1936, Paul Cantrell, a Democrat from a wealthy, prominent family, used that influence to win the position of sheriff. Though many Athens citizens strongly suspected Cantrell hadn't been elected through entirely legal means, there appeared to be no way to challenge the results. Again, another amazing parallel to our current time, isn't it? As the years passed, Cantrell and his deputies took full advantage of the Tennessee law,

which gave the unscrupulous men a fee for each person arrested, jailed, and released. According to some accounts, the sheriff even pulled over buses that happened to pass through town, summarily arrested everyone on board for drunkenness, whether or not they actually were, in order to profit handily from the misfortune. But such arrests and fines required paperwork, which meant traceable money, and to some degree, it hindered their ability to rake in cash. Well, now, this is something that we also have a parallel to in our time. Civil asset forfeiture, where the government tells local sheriffs, well, if you arrest these people, you can confiscate any of their property.

You can take their car. You can take their cash. Maybe you go to their house, you see a marijuana, but there, the teenage son left, well, you can confiscate that family's home. That's a real example. One of the most egregious examples has happened is even in California where marijuana was made legal. You had the San Bernardino sheriff's Department doing armed robbery of an armored car under the pretense that it had picked up cash from a marijuana state legal store.

And so they were taking the cash from this store that was legally selling marijuana in California. And they were taking that to the bank. The corrupt sheriff in California intercepted that and stole the money. And they did it not once, but three times. You know, second time they didn't have as much cash on there. Third time they had nothing on there and they caught the deputy saying, wait, we were told there's going to be a lot of cash here. They get to keep it. So you see, we have gone beyond that. That was small potatoes, what these guys were doing in Tennessee,

compared to the war on drugs, compared to civil asset forfeiture and the rest of that stuff today. Back to the story. American Heritage explained it was less troublesome to collect kickbacks for allowing roadhouses to operate openly. Cooperative owners would point out influential patrons. They were not bothered, but the rest of them were subject to shakedowns. Roadhouses where they had prostitution, illegal liquor, gambling. That all became so prevalent that it became common knowledge in Tennessee that Athens was, quote, wide open, unquote. Because Sheriff Cantrell and his cronies faced only limited opposition,

they thwarted subsequent elections by transporting ballot boxes from every precinct to the county jail to be counted behind closed doors. I guess you could say it was a lockdown election. Like Trump ran, right? Neutral election observers became the enemy and were frequently forcefully ejected from polling sites if not arrested. Again. I understand election corruption, as I've said many times,

it begins with who gets on the ballot. Controlled by the Democrat and Republican parties at every level, they choose who gets on the ballot. They make it virtually impossible for third parties or independent candidates to get on the ballot for any office. And that's just the beginning. Then it's the debates, And then you look at all the other ways that they have perfected over the years to rig elections, whether you're talking

about a paper ballot or you're talking about election machines, driving them around in the trunks of their cars. But now it's become so much easier with the electronic voting, with the ability to be able to tap into them with a thumb drive or if they're put on the internet. All these things happened in the 2020 election. But Trump added a new wrinkle to all of it with his lockdown. And he knew what was going to happen. Many people, not just me, many people said that.

You had people from William Barr to Bernie Sanders talking about exactly what was going to happen. talking about exactly what was going to happen. We all knew what was going to happen. That's why the only thing I was surprised about was the reaction of Trump's supporters. Astonished. Couldn't believe that this had actually happened. You created a whole new category of corruption,

and now his response is, well, let's double down. We'll do that corruption better than the Democrats do. And so they're already starting pushing early voting and all the rest of this stuff. So neutral election observers became the enemy, were frequently ejected from polling sites, sometimes arrested. Sheriff Cantrell eventually moved on to become a state senator, leaving behind Pat Mansfield to become his successor as sheriff, exactly as they had planned. But by the time the soldiers arrived home, Cantrell intended to resume his position as the county sheriff.

By 1946, most GIs had returned home to find the liberties and freedoms that they had assumed that they'd fought for, quashed by a succession of zealous sheriffs and their deputies who made a racket of roughing up and arresting former soldiers. But the profiteering scheme was not exactly well received. They did not accept this. And these are guys battle-hardened again. The GIs decided to remove the despised kleptocrats from power by running for office on a non-partisan platform.

Let's all of us run for office. We'll get them out of there. Cantrell responded by publicly accusing the former soldiers of plotting to stuff ballot boxes in their favor, to which the GIs offered a $1,000 reward for verifiable proof that no one ever collected. Fully aware of their opponent's own ballot stuffing, the military men employed car-mounted loudspeakers to roll through Athens, repeating one of their popular campaign slogans,

your vote will be counted as cast. So on election day, August 1st, 1946, and notice that it was an election day, a single day, not months of elections, and of course no electronic voting and all the rest of this stuff. But again, this is an example of how crooked people can and will rig elections. Sheriff Mansfield had bolstered his staff of deputies by hiring law enforcement from other cities and even from other states. Now they had 300 lawmen. Let's put that in quotes, air quotes,

guarding the voting precincts, but rather than looking out for fraud, they roughed up veterans who were serving as poll watchers and anybody else that they consider to be troublemakers. Legally appointed GI representative Walter Ellis became the first person arrested by Mansfield's goons after he protested, quote, irregularities, unquote. Observed in the courthouse precinct, several others soon followed and all arrested without cause. But one of the worst incidents occurred when an elderly black farmer, Tom Gillespie, attempted to cast his vote. They yelled at him with an epithet and said, you can't vote here. Then they punched him with brass knuckles.

He dropped his ballot and moved to leave at the door, and the guy shot him in the back. Yeah, deputies. During the gunshot, crowds swarmed into the streets, and Mansfield responded by shutting down the precinct and positioning armed guards to prevent access.

The shooting of Gillespie and the sheriff's actions enraged the veterans, and one of them shouted, Let's go get our guns. This is why they're so adamant about taking your guns. After the former soldiers retrieved pistols, shotguns, and various other weapons, throngs of citizens joined them and surrounded the county jail

where at least 25 deputies had run for cover. Scroll up and show the picture at the very top of this article. You can see young people, young kids with guns. As a matter of fact, look at that. Big riot there, yeah. The GIs began firing in an attempt to draw the errant lawmen out,

but it wasn't until around 4 a.m. that these 25 deputies finally surrendered. Many called for them to be hanged, but ultimately they were taken to the edge of town, tied to trees, stripped naked, and told not to come back. No tar, no feather, none of that stuff. And they complied.

But this did not stop Sheriff Cantrell. He ordered all polling sites to be closed early. One fed-up veteran, Bill White, who had fought on the Pacific Theater, grew more irate as the day went on and decided to rally his compatriots to action. So his rethought project. He said, you call yourselves GIs? You go over there and you fight for three or four years. You come back and you let a bunch of draft dodgers who stayed here where it's safe, and you're making it safe for them?

You let them push you around? If you people don't stop this, and now is the time and the place, you people wouldn't make a pimple on a fighting G.I.'s behind. Get your guns. So he and several others proceeded to raid the National and State Guard armories and returned heavily armed to the jail where Cantrell and his few cronies he had left remained barricaded inside. They demanded that Cantrell exit with the ballot boxes, but there was no response, just silence.

After unleashing an ultimately ineffective barrage of gunfire on the jail, the men procured a, quote, healthy supply of dynamite, quote, unquote, and that did the trick. They surrendered, Cantrell and his men. Astonishingly, despite all the gunfires, explosives, and the brutal force, there were no casualties in the Battle of Athens, and even Gillespie, the black man who was shot in the back, survived. And so they point out these events were extreme, and though this

momentous victory of citizens over corrupt crony politicians proved something, however, can be done to fight the establishment, to fight armed revolt certainly isn't realistic or justifiable option now, but other options, when instituted on a large scale could prove just as fruitful. And let me just say this. Why did the masking end? Why did the social distancing end and then the masking? It's simply because we refused to comply. People just quietly, you know, I mean, they said, no, not going to do that.

Not going to do it. And they realized the people weren't going to go along with him, and so they declared victory and said, all right, now we're going to take off the mask because they've saved everybody. That type of thing. There has to be more of a pushback against this, but one of the things that that tells you is that we have the power.

The people have the power. I love that cartoon that shows somebody standing on a plank, right? And it's off over the edge of a cliff. And there's a guy standing there, and he's got a podium, and he's speaking in a suit. And there's all these people who are standing there and they're standing on the plank. And you see one or two people start to walk away.

That's what's necessary. It's not the point right now where we need to get guns. But it's going to get to that position if we quietly go along. We have to refuse to comply. And that's exactly what Free Thought Project says in the rest of their comments here. They say one of the most effective ways to vote does not involve elections or polls at all. Withdraw your money from the corporatist system. Hit politicians where it hurts them the most, their wallets. Grow your own food. Participate in barter and trade.

Refuse to vote in their national elections or opt in for a third-party candidate. Be creative. Refuse to validate their system that directly permits such corruption. Because if you don't, even worse is to come. And they finish by saying this, when the law becomes so twisted that it allows criminals to operate with impunity, that law is little more than a hollow ordinance. Let me just say, what we have seen is that it wasn't a law at all. It was orders. It was orders from people who weren't even elected. You know, you have this crooked sheriff who rigged

the election. But look, these health officials who pushed us around, who are empowered by Trump and Anthony Fascist and Biden, they were not even elected. We don't have to do what they say. We don't have to trade with the businesses that do what they say, the businesses that want to make themselves the deputies. They're no different from these deputies that were hired by Sheriff Cantrell who were brought in. The deputized state can include your local restaurant during the lockdown.

I want to show you, and I get these guys always mixed up, Jeremy and Piers Corbin. One of them is a socialist, the other one is an activist. Here's what he did at a cashless Aldi because he's pushing back against this system. I'm not trapped and apt to buy anything. I'm going to buy some strawberries,

and I'm offering exactly the right amount of money here on the help desk. So you people take that money, £1.90, and I will take my strawberries outside. You can't take that. Call the police. You can't take that. Call the police. You can't take that. You can't take that. You can't take that. You can't take that. I paid my legal tender in this dystopian place.

Okay. Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Because you should be able to spit. Yeah, I've won here. You should be able to spit. He's spitting out the strawberries he just bought. It's an absolute joke.

You want one, mate? No, there you go. Well, that's exactly what you need to do. You have to stand up to this stuff. Again, that is Piers Corbin. I always get him mixed up with Jeremy Corbin. Jeremy Corbin was a former leader of the Labor Party, hardcore socialist.

I don't know what Piers Corbin's politics are, but I applaud him for what he did with that. Again, a pint of strawberries. He had the exact change. They said, we're not going to take that. We're cashless here. We're not going to take that. We're cashless here. We're not going to take it. This is legal tender, he said. And he left it there and left the strawberries. They said, we're going to call the police. Storm boys report him to the police for

stealing the produce. But he says, I'm offering exactly the right amount of money here. I have paid my legal tender. And again, that's very important. That's one of the reasons why, uh, DeSantis, when he talked about stopping CBDC and the cashless society, of course, uh, the UCC, the universal commercial code helps define what is legal tender. Right. And so if you say that you can't pay with, you know, what they wanted to do from, I think it was American Legislative Exchange Council. I'm not sure that they did it, but since it was being offered in Republican states, they said, we want to change the UCC to make CBDCs legal tender and to deny that status to crypto. DeSantis

did just the opposite. And that's a real key thing. If that is legal tender, then they have to accept that. So that's a key issue. He got that right. Starting last year, Aldi, of course we have them here in the U.S. as well, began opening a series of cashless outlets in the U.K. One of the reasons was to offer a touchless experience in light of the COVID pandemic, which was still ongoing at the time, said the BBC. Just as Gerald Cilenti said, they began all this fear campaign back in 2020, you know, the beginning of 2020. And he said from dirty cash to digital trash,

don't touch the money. It's going to pass disease around that type of thing. Right now we've got Amazon, uh, using their Amazon one payment system at Whole Foods where they scan your palm and that type of thing. That's already now at 500 stores. And so, um, you know, they sell it as a feature, but we understand exactly what this is. This is a sure way for government to take a whole list of freedoms away from citizens. That's exactly what this is. Uh, but going back. And so we get two different topics here, and I'm going to come back to the money side of things. But I want to go back to the criminalizing side of things. I've talked about the lady who's facing perhaps life in prison because she had some banned tea leaves. And then there's another guy who got life in prison already.

His life didn't last too long after he got into prison. His name was Marshall Price, another victim of the war on drugs and its new target, Kratom. He took this into Arkansas. Her situation was taking it into Alabama. So he went into Arkansas, and they arrested him, and while he was in jail, he was killed. So they point out, it's important to point out, the massive disinformation campaign that's being waged by the media

and the government over this plant, kratom. And I'm not pushing this just like I don't push marijuana for anybody. There's a lot of testimonials about how medical marijuana has helped a lot of people. I know a very conservative state representative, David Simpson in Texas, who tried to get marijuana removed from the criminal code in Texas because of the abuses of the government and because he had constituents who had children who had uncontrollable seizures. And the only thing that worked for that was marijuana. And they could get it at the time in Colorado, but if they brought it back to their home there in his jurisdiction, his constituents were facing significant prison sentences

simply because this was the only thing that helped their children. So he tried to stop it altogether, but at least David Simpson was able to get through an exemption for that use of medical marijuana. They did have, as a condition of that, you had to have doctor's notes saying that you had tried all the big pharmaceutical solutions, and of course they didn't work. But it was an acknowledgment in a state where marijuana is, I believe still, a Schedule I drug. It was an acknowledgment that it had a medical use. And Schedule I drugs, by definition, are drugs that have no medical use. So the law is a lie in Texas.

Now, I don't know the situation with Kratom. People have taken it for various things, and don't write me about how wonderful Kratom is. I don't really care. That's not the issue. The issue is the prohibition. Prohibition doesn't really care. That's not the issue. The issue is the prohibition. Prohibition doesn't solve anything. You know, if people take Kratom because it's going to, you know,

let them drop out of society, that's a spiritual issue, medical issue, psychological issues, not a law enforcement issue. And we don't make it that. You know, we had Sherlock Holmes was taking cocaine. They didn't lock him. Inspector Lestrade did not ever try to lock him up. And that's not to say that cocaine is harmless, especially not in the forms that we have it now.

It can turn you into something like Hunter Biden, a depraved, addicted sex criminal or something like that, looking to scam cash wherever you can get it. No, it's a different thing, though. You understand that it's the prohibition itself that not only does not address the addiction issues, but it gives us a whole universe of adverse effects, like the Trump shot. So it doesn't address the original problem.

It actually exacerbates the original problem, like many of the pharmaceutical drugs do. And then it gives us a whole universe of adverse effects in addition to it. So as I point out, a recent story by the press, which is really pushing hard to try to criminalize Kratom in the public's mind. Recent story out of Florida is gaining traction, serves as a perfect example, writes the Free Thought Project, of this propaganda after a judge awarded the family of Crystal Talavera $11 million in a lawsuit. Talavera, who had life-threatening pre-existing conditions,

died after ingesting a substance in a baggie that had, quote, space dust, unquote, written on it with a sharpie. According to the media, this is Kratom, which is unwilling to do even 30 seconds of research to find out that it wasn't. And again, why is this being done? Well, because in Florida it's not criminal, and so the media is conducting a propaganda campaign to try to criminalize Kratom in Florida.

The court ruled that Talavera died from Kratom, and the media ran with it. But this is simply not the case. Talavera ingested a highly potent and concentrated alkaloid extract from the Kratom plant, not kratom leaves. This is the equivalent of extracting lethal doses of caffeine from a coffee bean and calling it coffee so that you can criminalize the consumption of coffee. But that's not all. The corporate press also failed to report the results of her autopsy, which were glaring.

Her autopsy reported that she had an enlarged heart, an enlarged liver associated with liver or heart disease, a widened metastinum, which can be related to life-threatening dysfunction of the aorta, nephrosclerosis, hardening of the arteries in the kidneys caused by long-term untreated high blood pressure, and gastritis. Furthermore, she had cardiac pathology in her family. Her biological father had had heart valve disease and other

things like that. So she had a lot of coexisting conditions, but as we saw through the so-called pandemic, they will label the cause of death, whatever they need to, to advance their political agenda. So back to Marshall Price, the guy who was arrested for having Kratom in Arkansas. He was a 46-year-old resident of Arkansas who found himself at the center of the war on drugs. His only crime was purchasing kratom from a Missouri gas station and returning to his home state where the herbal extract is classified as a Schedule I substance. The consequence was a draconian 10-year sentence. He met with tragic and suspicious end in the Greene County Jail

even before his sentence could properly begin. His post-mortem report indicated a ruptured spleen, multiple broken ribs, a brain stem injury, and various other injuries suspiciously inconsistent with the official explanation given by the Sheriff's Department. No, they did not claim that he died from kratom, but it was equally ridiculous what they had to say. According to the authorities, Marshall's injuries were the result of a consensual boxing match, quote-unquote, in jail where the other participant allegedly had toilet paper and socks wrapped around his hands

and landed just two punches. The individual, allegedly responsible for Marshall's fatal injuries, has faced no charges. Physical evidence, including original arrest footage, appears to have been tampered with or destroyed, further obfuscating the truth. Now, you look at his multiple injuries, a ruptured spleen, multiple broken ribs, brain, stem injury, various other injuries, and they claim that this other guy hit him twice. This is like the magic bullet, right, of the JFK assassination. So an organization that has been fighting against Kratom Prohibition, the Botanical

Action Network ban, has shared a petition to raise awareness and to apply pressure on the Arkansas Attorney General to prosecute Marshall's case. They're asking that the person who killed him be prosecuted. But perhaps the person who killed him wasn't one of the prisoners. Then here in Tennessee, just as you look at our benevolent dictators and law enforcement,

police watched as a man drowned and they discouraged bystanders from helping. Says a new lawsuit. A Tennessee man drowned last year in Knoxville, Tennessee. Not too far from here., actively discouraged others from helping the man. Now the man's mother has filed a lawsuit against the officers.

Mika Klebo was a 30-year-old man who had been experiencing mental health crisis when he ran into the Tennessee River in Knoxville on the morning of July 25, 2022. A few minutes after falling into the water, which was murky and filled with vines and branches, four police officers and two EMTs arrived on the scene. According to the suit, Clabo, quote, yelled out several times, gasping, groaning, desperate for help as he tried in vain to pull himself up or free himself from the vines that snared him. For approximately 15 minutes, other than coaxing Mika on by yelling at him to swim

or to get out, nobody helped him. As the first responders, the police and the EMT people, arrived, they watched. Several employees from a nearby restaurant offered to help. One man even offered to give the officers

access to a storage area that held flotation devices and a small boat, but was refused. No lifeline for this guy. Nobody helped him. These men and others were warned off by the Knoxville Police Department officers against making any effort to help Miko, with one officer repeatedly telling them, he'll drown you too, in words to that effect. Instead, the officer said they were waiting for a rescue boat, but it came too late.

Of course. And he drowned after 13 minutes. Um, though the rescue boat arrived a few minutes later, he had drowned. His body was so entangled in the vines that it would not be recovered for two hours. Uh,

this by the way, is from Reason Magazine. A similar story from my uncle, who was the forestry professor. When he was a kid, they had a friend, and you know, this is back in the day when people wouldn't just sit in the house and watch TV or play video games, actually went out and did stuff. And so my uncle and my mother were out in their friend, um, was, uh, mentally handicapped and, uh, he got out and he started to drown. He couldn't swim. And so my uncle went out to get him and he almost drowned my uncle. Um, my uncle punched him in the face to bring him to his senses.

And when he got him on shore, he was like, he was, he still didn't understand what had happened. And, you know, he was yelling for help and everything. And then, you know, he starts to pull my uncle down and he punched him to stop him. And I said, why did you hit me so hard? He had no idea what was going on. But when you look at what is happening here, right,

we have the governor here in Tennessee, again, is still planning on a special session on Travis's birthday, August the 21st, not to honor Travis, but to try to take our Second Amendment rights by deception in order to appease the leftist crowds in Nashville and Memphis. There's a lot of very rich people in Nashville, of course, and they want gun control, and he wants their money and their support. So he's trying to find some way that he can please them and not offend his Republican base. This is the same governor, by the way, who calls toll roads choice lanes.

Tennessee, one of only 14 states that does not have tolls, and this governor, Bill Lee, is trying to get toll roads here. I tell you, we just got back from Austin. I could not believe how much the place had changed in one year. And one of the key things that changed about it, and besides massive construction by Elon Musk everywhere around where we used to live. I mean, he's got massive Tesla plant that is expanding all over the place and they're adding traffic lights for that. And then he's got real close to our house where it used to be um he's got um the boring company and spacex and he's built you know gonna have an estate of his own there and all the rest of this

stuff and there's been a lot of articles about that wall street journal how he's just defiantly thumbing his nose at um the you know where the department of Transportation wants the curb cuts for his places of business. He's like, I'm not going to hook up to your sewer system and pay you. I'm just going to dump it into the Colorado River and all the rest of this stuff. So it doesn't surprise me to see what happened in San Francisco with the Twitter X files. It puts out the big sign and it's a big flashing sign. He put it up without getting

permits from them. They refused to let the people go up to inspect it. Now they've taken it down, that type of thing. Babylon Bee had a funny take on it. They said San Francisco takes down the new X sign saying it's so bright that people who are defecating on the street are complaining.

It's just too bright. Got to get that light off of us. But it also illustrates Elon Musk's attitude to all this stuff. He's just too big to regulate. He doesn't care about the fines in Texas. He'll do whatever he wants. But getting back to why I was talking about this, because the toll roads, they are metastasizing everywhere. And the thing that was particularly annoying to me, and of course, you know,

I had two different ways that I could get to work from where I lived. One of them I started avoiding because it was a four lane road with a median down the middle. And it was heavily trafficked. Even the wee hours of the morning, I'd much rather go to the back roads. Safer one morning I was going in at four o'clock in the morning to work and see these headlights. It's like, that's not my side of the road. And it started to get, I go to the right-hand side. This guy goes flying down, you know, this is a, you know, four lane road to the big median center. And he's going the wrong direction

in the left lane. I mean, that's, you know, it'd have been a head-on collision anyway, you know, it's just crazy stuff like that, even in the wee hours of the morning, so I always took my chances on the back roads. But that highway, they're in the process of taking that entire center strip and turning it into a toll road all the way into Austin, and then making what is currently the existing road to be feeder roads and running parallel to it. And of course, they will put traffic lights all along, which is what they're already doing, to force you to go on, force you to pay for the toll roads.

There was a story coming out, I think it was Maine, where they were talking about traffic cameras or speed cameras and things like that, how it was victimizing poor people. The toll roads victimized poor people. The tolls are pretty expensive. And the thing that really annoyed me about it

was the fact that I had set up my map situation. So if I was going somewhere in Austin and I didn't know, I've never been there before, I didn't know where it was, it can be pretty complicated in Austin because of all the flyovers, all that you can't in one way streets that they got around the interstate system and stuff. So I would use, um, you know, uh, uh, a map app and I set it up on Google's app so that I had a preference, no tolls. And, uh, so it started to route me on a toll. I was like, wait a minute, I had this set up and they've updated the program

and if they moved it, or I don't know if they moved it or they just took it off altogether, but I couldn't find it. And that was really annoying. And of course, they will always route you onto a toll road, even if it's the same amount of time that they estimate.

And I've seen it do it even when the toll road is slower. They'll still route you on the toll road. Now they will tell you, well, it's going to cost you X amount of dollars, you know, for the toll road. But they also put in there the price of their estimated price of gas. Now, how do they know that? They don't, of course. They don't know what the mileage is for your car.

They don't know even what level of, do you use regular, do you use premium? They don't know anything about that. That's just total nonsense. But they're using that in order to push you onto the toll roads. And they're metastasizing everywhere there. So Bill Lee wants to push toll roads, and he wants to push gun control on us as well. As a Tennessean newspaper reported on Friday, Lee's holding a special series of closed-door meetings with lawmakers over the past few weeks,

both informal get-togethers with lawmakers from both parties, as well as, quote, a core group of between 12 and 15 House and Senate members, unquote, who have been advising Lee on what bills could potentially be introduced in the coming weeks, of course, in the special session. How can we, you know, get something by the people? How can we slice off some of their Second Amendment rights and not alienate them completely? Existence of the group does not appear to be widely known or acknowledged among rank-and-file members, and meetings of the advisory panel are not publicly scheduled or open to the public or the media.

Oh, fine. That's great, isn't it? Who's got a problem with that? I do. While some group members and staff have acknowledged their participation, the governor's office declined multiple times to confirm to the Tennessean that such a group even exists. Now, this is coming from bearing arms, talking about the Second Amendment aspect of it. And the writer says, I've got to say,

if Lee's hoping to build buy-in amongst Republicans and, more importantly, their constituents, this is a terrible way to go about it. Holding hush-hush meetings to discuss undisclosed legislation that they apparently want to keep away from the public until the last possible moment. Honestly, it reminds me of what Representative Michael Day and anti-gun Democrats tried to do with HD4420 in Massachusetts, waiting until the last minute to drop a massive gun control bill, then try to ram it through the legislature as quickly as possible before mounting opposition had a chance to weigh in and to potentially derail their scheme. That's exactly right. So the Tennessean also points out, well, you know, he has not reached out to the Tennessee

Firearms Association, perhaps because their agenda would not measure up so well, because they have a no compromise position on Second Amendment issues, which of course, Governor Bill Lee does not. But as he is ready to throw the Second Amendment and our God-given rights under the bus, well, the Democrats in Tennessee are providing the bus, literally. They've got a gun control bus tour to lead up to the special session. Come on, it's going to be a parade, you know. Tennessee Democrat elected officials will embark on a statewide bus tour to discuss gun violence, which will end at the state capitol

on the first day of August's special session on gun control. You see, these are people who staged a real insurrection. These are people who got violent real insurrection. These are people who got violent and nothing happened to them. As I said before, when the state police were there protecting the legislators trying to get to the floor and you had this massive crowd that had come in, they were yelling and screaming and pushing and shoving the cops. The cops did not push back. They didn't come in there armored up for confrontation like the Capitol Police did in Washington on January the 6th.

They handled it the right way. But there need to be consequences. And, of course, the small consequences that happened with two of them getting kicked out and the third one should have gotten kicked out, they escaped any consequences because even though they were kicked out, they were promptly reinstated by the people in Nashville and Memphis. But here's the issue, right?

And here's why all these red flag gun laws are wrong. Because dangerous people are the danger. It doesn't matter what they can get. Dangerous people are the danger. It doesn't matter what they can get. Dangerous people are the danger. There are, look at the number of people that are killed with bare hands or knives, or look at the dangerous people that get a car or an SUV and drive it through a parade or other things like that. The people are the issue. And there needs to be due process. That's the issue as well. And thanks to Trump, I think we can safely write off the idea of any of these red flag gun laws because he very succinctly told us what it's about.

It's about taking the gun and doing the due process later. Well, if you do it that way, it ain't due process. If the person is dangerous, you do that due process. It doesn't matter about the gun. This is about taking the gun. They always have a problem and their phony solution, which is usually not a solution. I'll just say like Jefferson, I prefer dangerous liberty to peaceful slavery. We'll be right back. ¶¶ Thank you. Analyzing the globalist's next move. And now, The David Knight Show. Well, I had a listener, Martin, who wrote me and said that I've not covered WorldCoin. Well, I'll read you what he wrote.

He said, have you spent many years talking about universal basic income and how to be married to an embedded brain chip and a digital ID, now world coin, an AI run, eyeball scanning, quote, verified human, straight out of Tom Cruise's minority report, digital cryptocurrency has made the dystopian insanity a reality. However, you have yet to cover it. Well, as maybe, you know, look, I understand that everybody doesn't, uh, uh, see every program, uh, perhaps. And I try to, you know, index, uh, what I have, um, you know, things by subject, maybe, you know, this person, somebody who watches the show. And I spent a lot of time trying to give you time codes into where the subject changes. And maybe since I didn't specifically mention world coin, maybe he thinks

that I didn't cover it, but I have covered it. As a matter of fact, I covered it a couple of years ago. First time I covered it, I was talking to goat tree about it. I remember a goat tree saying, uh, yeah, world coin has been around for quite a while. And I said, yeah, but it's changing now, you know, now you got Sam Altman guy. And,man guy and um and so i've talked about it especially the last couple months because they've now started to roll this thing out and as uh blockworks.com says world coin isn't as bad as it sounds it It's worse. Yeah, it's actually a lot worse. Terrible does not do it justice, they said. And so what they're talking about is the fact that they have now played a game by going

to the quote unquote global South. In other words, poor countries. And we've seen this game before. As a matter of fact, you know, if take a look at what Bill Gates did to get a universal ID for all the people in India, the Aadhaar system. I've talked about that many times. And the way they ran that was to tell people who were poor and dependent on money from the government and from health care for the government and that type of thing to tell them, well, you're not going to get this unless you get the Aadhaar system. And so, you know, you take the number, you're not going to have anything.

Well, Whirlcoin is turning this up and they're adding the universal basic income wrinkle to it as well, saying, if you let us scan your eyeball so that we've got something that is, you know, biometric ID and, you know, we've got you in the system and so forth, you want to trade your soul? You know, many people say the eye is the window into the soul. Well, you know, give us your eyeball, give us your retinal scan, and we will give you some cash. Well, the problem is, is that as they're now doing this to the people in the poor countries and what they call in this article, the global South, quote unquote, they are now this is not something that I anticipated. I have to say in all honesty, I had not anticipated a black market and eyeballs. Uh, you can now seemingly buy a world ID for as little as $30. Anyone then with more than $30 on hand can command more than

one digital identity. Oh, that could be very useful for a lot of reasons, right? Especially if they're going to shut you down preemptively. And I've said this, you know, the key thing about all this identification to use the internet. Well, we got to have ID to use the internet because, you know, there's a lot of porn out there that kids are getting. Okay, so you're not going to shut down the porn and you're not going to put some kind of identification or something on them. No, you're going to put it on us. You know, here's your problem. Your solution is an ID for us. Or since this is world coin and you know, it's a Altman who is doing the same Altman open AI is also part of the world coin thing. That doesn't, that connection there doesn't raise any bells with you, does it? I mean, is this guy going to be taking the place of Bill Gates and Soros

who are getting old? No, you better believe he is. Right there at the center of all this. This is the same guy, Sam Altman, running OpenAI, who was there at Congress and saying, well, you know, artificial intelligence is so important that we have to have it limited to just a few of us. Only a few of us should be allowed to do this. It's just too dangerous and too important. So let me, maybe one or two other people, you know, but we've

got to shut down all these other people out there. Don't let them have access to this. And so this is a guy who's pushing world coin. Now we're talking about artificial intelligence. They say, well, AI is making deep fakes very convincing. So we're going to have to have a way to identify these real people out there. So let's make everybody have a global ID. You notice there's always a problem. You have to get the ID. We got a problem with porn on the internet and kids. So you get an ID.

We got a problem with deep fakes and artificial intelligence. So you get the ID. We got a problem with deep fakes and artificial intelligence. So you get the ID, not AI. AI programs don't have to identify themselves or their data. We got a problem with an open border that they created. So you have to get E-Verify mandated. So you have to get government permission to get a job. Always comes back to whatever problem there is, whether it's real or imagined, whether it's something that they created or somebody else created,

it always comes back to their agenda, and their agenda is always a global ID, a mark of the beast, a mark of the government, a mark of the world government, world coin, and of course, universal basic income. And so, as I point out, nothing in the design of WorldCoin can stop professional attackers farming eyeballs on the ground level. That conjures up some really bad images here. Uh,

oral coins, promotional materials are full of promises to delete sensitive biometric information or keep it hidden from view. But, um, you know, the connection to Sam Altman, open AI, uh,

he's another one of these guys, just like Gates pushing India to do the odd horse system. You know, Gates said, well, the big problem that most people have in this world is that they don't have an ID. Because, you know, they need to have an ID so they can do business with banks. Except that the banks are now kicking people out that they don't like. Funny how that works.

Funny how the banks will then use that ID to debank you and to kick you out of the financial system and all the rest of this stuff. So I'm going to give the poor some universal basic income. You know, when Trump did it, he called it a stimulus check and he did it for the middle class. And so, you know, how do you do this in the first world countries and the countries that are not the poor global south? Well, you do it in terms of making people feel safe, or you do it in terms of convenience. As I points out in this article here, taking your shoes off at the airport makes it look like important precautions are being taken, but it doesn't actually make you any safer. You know, one of our really good friends from North Carolina that we've known for many decades,

and they were largely responsible for us adopting my daughter from China. They came to the wedding kind of, if you will, in a sense, godfathers of her. Well, we don't do that, but, you know. Largely responsible for us moving ahead, told us what the procedures were like because they'd adopted a couple of daughters from China. And so they've always been very close to our family. They flew to Austin from North Carolina. And he was telling me that the line for the TSA,

from one end of the airport to the other one, a whole bunch of back and forth to the other, and then comes back and all this stuff. He said the line was so long, the TSA announced, all right, today we're going to do everything in reverse. Keep your shoes on. No, no, just walk in. The same type of thing that they did that first

Thanksgiving holiday after they had instituted the naked body scanners or a pat-down procedure. And there was a grassroots effort to push back against that and to opt out on Thanksgiving travel, the busiest day of the year. And so to stop that, on the busiest day of the year. And so to stop that, on the busiest day of the year, the TSA just said, well, we're going to shut down. Nobody gets scanned. Nobody gets pat. No pat downs, nothing.

Just walk on in. It's all theater. And I mentioned that at the wedding to one of my Democrat relatives. She said, yeah, but it just makes me feel safer. I was like, what? What are you talking about? But I didn't press it. You know, I mean, it's just, but, you know, it is,

so you feel safer because you've got this roll coin and you've got, Trump is there. He's going to give you a stimulus check. Or, you know, Bloomberg is there. He's going to give you universal basic income so that you don't get the guillotine and come after him because he took your job and everything that you've gotten. Elon Musk, of course, supporter of universal basic income from the very beginning. Maybe what they should do is they should call this the non-essential coin. For all of us who are non-essential, all of us that they can take our jobs, they can take our

small business, they can take our freedoms, they can take our small business, they can take our freedoms and our constitution because we're not essential to their agenda. We're not stakeholders. So, you know, here's your non-essential coin. This is the coin that we give to the people who are non-essential. But it's interesting when you look at how this is nothing other than a communist plot. The world government is about communism. Plain and simple. Universal basic income. And that's why it's so disappointing to see people like Charles Murray who pointed out how contradictory to its stated goals the welfare system was. How it had destroyed poor families, especially black communities. The welfare system had destroyed them.

And again, we're looking at something that even goes back, I would compare it to the Indian reservation system. That's what it's really comparable to. Taking away your job, your ability, your independence, your freedom, taking away and restructuring your society, taking your kids from you and re-educating them into a different culture that you have decided that you want to have. That's what this is all really about. It really goes back to the Indian reservation system, which predates the concentration camps of the Nazis and all the rest of this stuff. It certainly predates all the things that we're seeing right now, but that's essentially what they're setting up.

And as I point out, it's billed as a network that is owned by everybody. So you give them a scan of your retina and you get some world coin. There you go. What is your freedom worth? What is your birthright of freedom worth? So we give you a world coin. It's going to be, quote, unquote, owned by everyone. Now, what is that?

That's the same old lies of communism. Communism. Nobody owns any property. We all have everything in common and you don't need anything and you're going to be so much happier. But it doesn't just stop there. This is communism that is global.

Every person, quote unquote, every person on the planet gets an equal share of new cryptocurrencies, the way they describe the project. So every person gets this on the planet. It's owned by everybody. But as they say in this thing, saying, yeah, this is much worse even than it seems. Because the actual plan for distributing tokens casts doubt on whether equal distribution is even the aim of the project at all,

much less one that it will achieve. Oh, well, in that respect, it's just like communism, isn't it? Oh yeah, we're all going to have, you know, from each according to his ability to each according to his need, except some animals on animal farm are more equal than others, and they get everything. And that's the plan here as well. First of all, rolled coin isn't available in the United States, Turkey, Sudan, or China. And if equal distribution is a goal, allocating a significant chunk of all the tokens that will exist to insiders, another common characteristic to communism. At first they said, well, the insiders are going to get 20% of world coin. Then they said, now it's going to be 25%.

He said, it's exactly, exactly like communism. We're all going to own everything jointly and everybody will be equal, except we'll get 25% of everything and expect that to go up. Now, maybe one of the reasons why it's not being offered in the United States is because you have the SEC is busy carving out its little regulatory empire and trying to expand into crypto. Think about the fact that there is absolutely no opposition to the regulatory state. That's the real swamp.

And for all of the posturing and the speechifying that these Republicans do, they are not opposed one whit to the deep state. They don't want to do anything to rein in the unelected, out-of-control bureaucracy that does taxation without representation, that does regulation without representation. The only restraint on the bureaucracy, which is underneath the executive branch, the deep swamp worked for Trump for four years. They were underneath him.

He was their boss. He could have fired any of them, but he chose not to, including Anthony Fascist. But the only opposition to the expanding regulatory state is from competing bureaucracies fighting each other over turf, over new areas that they can control. And you see that happening now with crypto. So there's this fight. Who's going to control crypto?

Is it going to be the SEC? Is it going to be some other agency that's out there? And so Coinbase, which is one of the largest crypto exchanges, was told by the U.S. securities regulator to delist all cryptocurrencies on its platform except for Bitcoin. That's interesting. Everything gone except for Bitcoin.

In a July 31st interview with the Financial Times, the CEO revealed that the SEC wanted Coinbase to delist nearly 250 tokens on its platform prior to filing a lawsuit against the SEC. So when you look at this, there's a lot of small coins that are out there. On Rockfin, for example, they have a, you know, you pay in dollars, but it gets converted before we get it into a cryptocurrency called REI, R-E-I, for whatever reason.

That's the way they do it. And so we have to deal with Coinbase to get that out. And there's not, you know, Coinbase is one of the few companies out there that deal with all these smaller crypto tokens. And so, you know, it is a big issue for a lot of people. At the time, the SEC reportedly said it believes, quote, every asset other than Bitcoin is a security. We said, well, how are you coming to that conclusion, said the CEO of Coinbase, because that's not our interpretation of the law. He said the regulator said, quote, we're not going to explain it to you. You need to delist every asset other than Bitcoin.

And of course, the chair of the SEC, Gary Gensler, said in February in a New York Magazine interview, quote, everything other than Bitcoin is a security under the agency's remit. And so my question is, why not Bitcoin? What is it different about Bitcoin? I'll tell you why I think they're doing it. This is my opinion.

I think their goal is to stop all crypto. We've talked about this many times. I've talked with Tony Arderman about it many times, as he points out, that it's killing the entrance and the exit ramps to crypto by getting rid of these exchanges. And we know they have refused to allow, you know, they're shutting down, literally shutting down banks that deal with crypto.

They're refusing to allow banks into the system that would deal with crypto. And then they're shutting down these exchanges like Coinbase. But why would they exempt Bitcoin? Well, because they don't want to take on the biggest number of people. They can establish the precedent without taking on the mass of people. And just as we were talking about the Battle of Athens, it is the mass of people standing up to them and saying, no, we're not going to let you do that. That's the only thing that they fear. And that is why they are coming after free speech so incessantly. They have to be able to control the narrative because if they don't, if they can control the narrative, they can control the people

and the opposition to their part of their policies. And, uh, if we cannot get the information out, then, uh, these people win because everybody will be isolated. They won't know that other people see the same problems that they do and they won't all exit this thing. They'll think, well, I'm the only person who's doing this. I'm just going to have to go along with the crowd. They want to leave Bitcoin there because that's the biggest group of people. Our strength is in numbers. As you saw with the crowd. They want to leave Bitcoin there because that's the biggest group of people. Our strength is in numbers. As you saw with the battle of Athens, and it doesn't mean that we even have to do violence.

As I pointed out, it is walking away from the mask regulations, walking away from the six feet, uh, you know, regulations and all the rest of this. That's where our power is. But that comes from information. That comes from education. That comes from free speech and exposing the lies that these people use to control us. So he said, so look, if they can shut down everything, then Bitcoin will go as well. If they shut down everything but Bitcoin, probably take down Coinbase and mission accomplished. And they don't have to take on the mass of people to do it.

That's why I think they're making the exemption for Bitcoin. Armstrong said that agreeing to the SEC's request could have set a precedent. That's exactly the purpose. And quote, it would have essentially meant the end of crypto industry in the United States. That's right. So he said it made it an easy choice for us. Let's go to court and find out what the court says. Well, that's the problem I have, you know, judicial supremacy. So if the

court says that they can end crypto, oh, okay, they can end crypto. Politically appointed judges say, you can't have this. Well, then you can't have it. So they sued Coinbase, the SEC did, in early June, alleging that it's operating as an unregistered exchange, and of course they won't register exchanges for crypto. Nice sketch 22 there, isn't it? The banking system, Federal Reserve, they won't register banks there either. They named 13 cryptocurrencies that said Coinbase offered as an unregistered security.

Days earlier, the regulator filed a similar complaint against Binance. The SEC told the Financial Times that its enforcement division does not make formal requests for, quote, companies to delist crypto assets, but that its staff may share its view on what actions could violate securities law. So there you go. That's not, they didn't actually do that. According to them, they played the same kind of little games that Biden plays. You know, when he gets, oh, hey, yeah, I'm here.

This is the big guy. Well, how's the weather? Yeah. That type of thing. Or Rudy Giuliani. Yeah. I've got to go to the restroom. These guys will talk to you about your part.

I'm not going to get involved in that. Australia is going completely cashless. Banks are now beginning to ban and to limit cash withdrawals while continually increasing digital ID issuance. This is from the Wine Press. Megabanks in Australia abruptly clamping down on cash, furthering the push to allow Australia to become a cashless society. And this is important because they're going to use the same tactics everywhere.

So if you're in Australia, you're already seeing this. If you're not in Australia, it's coming. And this is the way they're going to do it in the non-global South. In the poor countries, what they'll do is they'll bribe people to get into CBDC. They'll do it with free stuff, the same way they're doing it with WorldCoin right now, the same way they did it with Aadhaar in India. They will do it that way for the poor people. For the middle class and the vast number of people in the developed countries, they will do it. They'll sell you convenience, and then they'll use the banks to make it really, really inconvenient.

In the same way that when they want to push toll roads on you in Austin, they put traffic lights everywhere, where there were no traffic lights. So these are the obstacles in Australia that they're now putting on everybody's path. In late March, Wine Press reported that one of these banks, ANZ Bank, one of the largest in Australia, announced that they would be ending cash withdrawals at a small number of locations, and then it grows. And then other banks joined. Channel News 9 added cash transactions around the country are on the decline, with Australians ditching the payment method at the fastest rate in history. With the rise of contactless payments and the boom of buy-now-pay-later schemes, the use of physical money has also drastically reduced around the world. So you'll have the mainstream media will be selling you the narrative.

The banks will be selling you easy payment plans. They'll also kick in some universal basic income or stimulus checks or other things like that to sweeten the deal. And all you have to do is buy into it. The credit. You buy into the slavery. You make yourself indentured servants to this banking system. Many analysts and economists worried if this would influence the other three mega banks to do something similar, and they have in Australia.

And so now they have put limits of things like you can only take out $500 a day in cash. This is something that has been an issue for some small businesses. And so one small business, she needed to get $3,500 out of the bank. They said, no, can't do it. So she later said in a statement, if you can't get your own money out of a branch bank, what's the point of a bank? Exactly, what is the point of a bank?

As Tony Arterburn has said over and over again, you're going to keep your money in this shaky fiat currency, which now they're setting this stuff up to completely control what you can do. Again, Tony has set up DavidKnight.gold if you want to get gold and silver to get out of this.

This is where I see the biggest threat coming. Yeah, you can make an economic case for gold and silver being undervalued, being a hedge against inflation, being a hedge against the collapse of the dollar and all these other types of things. But to me, the certainty is this financial control system of the CBDC.

Another person, Australian poker player, uh, sounded off on his frustrations after the bank froze his accounts without any explanation. And again, this happened with me and PayPal back in May of 2021. The show was only five months old.

PayPal and Venmo kicked me out. No explanation would give me no explanation. Spent hours on the phone with a guy. Finally came back and said, the only thing I can find is I said, shut down this account immediately. No reason given. Well, we know the reason. He said he was way, way under the $10,000

threshold that financial regulators have established as a trigger for suspicious transactions, but the issue arose when he tried to pay a bill at a hotel with his bank card and it was denied. He said the only reason the bank gave for having flagged the account was because the deposit was made in a different state from where he opened it. He took to social media to warn that the use of cash is now stigmatized and could soon be criminalized. And he says, eventually, even valuing the concept of personal privacy will be viewed as seditious. And he's absolutely right.

It's privacy that they're coming after. We've heard this for the longest time. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google, said, well, you know, we want privacy. What are you afraid of? What are you doing that you need to hide? Well, you might want to ask that of the Tennessee governor when he's conspiring to put in some kind of a red flag law. You can ask this about the Bidens. You can ask this about anybody.

But privacy is not a crime. But they want to make it a crime. A reporter there said the banks are treating people with absolute disdain, quote-unquote. Following reports that customers are being denied their money, she said it kind of leaves you feeling like you might be better off stashing your cash under the bet or exchanging your government-run fiat currency for gold or silver. Again, take a look, Tony Aardman, davidknight.gold.

So in the rich countries, it's going to be nudging people, you know, gradually pushing this way, selling it as a convenience, creating artificial inconveniences, making it difficult to deal with it, as you saw, you know, with Corbin. No, we're not going to let you buy anything in the grocery store. We're going to call the police if you try to pay with cash. You know, that type of thing just keeps going. And the poor countries, it'll be bribery that's going to happen. And so these are the patterns that they're going to use to push this on. So meanwhile, as we look at the financial side of the gold stuff, and again, that's not the thing to me that is, you know, that may be an issue, but it is such a manipulated

market. As Tony always says, the core thing about gold and silver is to have a, something that is outside of this system, a barter type of, you know, setting yourself up to be able to barter. And of course, a big part of what you're going to barter with is going to be your skills. It was a great interview that Guard had with Jack Lawson, who does civildefensemanual.com. And again, if you've got skills, that's a very important thing to be able to barter with. You've got to have skills or something to be able to barter with. And so I was glad to see that they were talking about CBDC in terms of that stuff,

as well as the other things, you know, what do I do for food and water? What do I do for protecting myself? And that means that you also have other people around you, uh, not just people that you elect because you can't, uh, you know, these elected officials are like trying to push on a rope and you can't really tell where these guys are going to be when push comes to shove. So it's really the neighbors and people like that that you know. But great tips at civildefensemanual.com. J.P. Morgan, in terms of talking about goal prices,

they forecast a $2,000 goal by the end of the year with record highs in 2024. According to them, they're calculating an 11% increase in the current price by the fourth quarter of 2024. And they said, the analyst for J.P. Morgan, so there's even further upside potential for gold if the U.S. economy falls into recession. The deeper the recession, the more the Fed will have to cut interest rates. Well, it may be the case, but I think that they're going to try to preserve their hegemony regardless of how much pain it costs us. You look at this and say, well, they're on the horns of a dilemma.

What do they do? Do they crash the economy or do they save their dollar and their power? Well, that's an easy decision for them. It really is. So, again, you've got the thing to fear, more so even than inflation, I think. And inflation is devastating to everything that you save. So make sure that you've got something that is going to preserve its value, which is something like gold. But it's also to preserve your freedom against this CBDC slavery. Coin and

gold coin and gold bar demand had a 6% increase over the same quarter last year. Coin demand came in at a 25% increase year over year. And it's kind of interesting that even though you've got industrial gold lagging because of weakness in the consumer electronics market it was still up over-the-counter gold demand was still up seven percent year over year as this is happening so the question is when you look at this you know where are we with a CBDC And you see these assurances over and over again. Well, Fed now is not CBDC. And they're right. It's not CBDC.

But it is an intermediate step to CBDC. And so this article that was on Zero Hedge from Headline USA actually pulls back on that. It takes that same approach. Well, you don't have to worry about this. You don't have to worry about FedNow. Well, I disagree, and I disagree because of what they said at the very beginning of their article. They said, fund transfers between banks made through FedNow

will settle directly in accounts at the central bank. Once Fed accounts become widely adopted and used for payments, critics fear it's only one additional step to convert the dollars used in the transactions into Fed coin. Now, if CBDC is not imminent, if it's not something that Biden had everybody in his administration writing papers on one aspect of it, you know, how are we going to to redesign completely redesign the financial system that was task number one given to some of the three-letter agencies under the executive branch another one is how are you going to force people to do this let's give that to the department of justice and people like that how are you going to actually write the code to handle it and then how are you going to sell it to people well that's about climate change and so in those

four different areas they've been working on that. That was a year ago, March, March of 2022. And so that's out. As soon as they turned that in, they began the next step, which is the Fed now at the wholesale level. Fed coin is the retail level. That's the full CBDC. So, you know, it's just one step away from that. And as we've seen over and over again, the people who are advocating CBDC, you know, it's just one step away from that. And as we've seen over and over again, the people who are advocating CBDC, you know, the Bank of International Settlements, the IMF, the Atlantic, all these are in terms of the press, they're all showing that, you know, it goes through different stages. You know, you have the feasibility studies.

You have the studies about implementation. Then you have the wholesale step where you have, you know, the banks are dealing with the central bank. And then the final one is the retail step. It's a series. It's, you know, it's a series of steps. And so we're at the next to the last step. That's reality. But in this article, they say, well, FedNow system is really just a major upgrade to the highly deficient ACH payment system that has limped along for decades. Well, that's not how they're selling it. They're selling it to consumers, saying, oh, you'll be able to do the kind of stuff that you can do now if you haven't been kicked out by PayPal. You know, you can do that with Venmo

and PayPal and Cash App and Zelle and all these different things. They're selling it already to consumers that way. So I disagree with this article. I don't think that's what it is about at all. We're going to take a quick break and we'll be right back. Thank you. You're listening to The David Knight Show. An interesting article from Brownstone. How did remdesivir obtain approval for kidney disease? How did they do that? How is it that the FDA has got no problem with remdesivir? They got problems with ivermectin. They got problems with HCQ, even though these things were evaluated for safety and they'd been in use for 60 years. And so, you know, the adverse effects of it, and of course there's adverse

effects with any drug, but the adverse effects are very well known. It was simply being used in a way that they had not specifically evaluated it for. That's called off-label use. That's a very common thing. But then they started this campaign. Don't y'all use ivermectin? Y'all know this is horse medicine, right? Well, that was a bunch of horse excrement from the FDA.

You take a look at what we were talking about earlier, kratom or pot or any of these other things. How is it that remdesivir gets approved? How is it that Rand Paul doesn't have a problem with it? As a matter of fact, he bought stock in Gilead because of remdesivir. Actually, he had his wife do it, so it wouldn't be quite so obvious. Brownstone says remdesivir may be the most despised drug in American history, earning the nickname, run, death is near. That's right, run, death is near.

For its lethal record during COVID, experts, that would be people like Anthony Fascist, claimed that it would stop COVID, but instead it stopped kidneys. This person said, I've been joining online support groups for people who've lost loved ones to the remdesivir protocol, a nightmarish sequence in which a patient is isolated in the hospital, bullied into taking remdesivir ventilated, and then sedated to death. See, this is a Trump protocol. You can call it the hospital protocol. It came from Anthony fascist and the guy who was in charge of him, Donald Trump.

And they financed all of this stuff. They paid for it. I've been calling it financially incentivized medical malpractice. No, it's financially incentivized murder. Murder. That's what Trump ought to be investigated for. But, of course, that won't happen in the district of criminals. They'll just use their Game of Thrones things. Thousands of Americans were killed this way, possibly hundreds of thousands.

We don't know because these people are covering it up, the big cover-up. These support groups are deeply somber business. Grieving faces fill the screen of people who lost a parent, a spouse, a sibling, or a child. They're doing it through Zoom, essentially. Some speak with icy anger. Some choke back sobs as they tell of the deadly abuse inflicted on their loved ones, shattering their families forever. I asked them what they thought about the FDA's decision to approve remdesivir

for people with severe renal impairment, including dialysis. In other words, they know that this shuts down kidney function, and for people who have diseased kidneys, they even approve it. Morally, how can you do that, said Joyce Wilson. It's a death sentence. They didn't care if people had kidney issues or not. My husband went into the hospital in kidney distress, and they exacerbated it with remdesivir. Then they ventilated him, and he died. Because this isn't aboutir. Then they ventilated him and he died. Because this isn't about medicine. This is about martial law and profits.

It's about money. It's about power. And the people in Washington and their corporate partners, it's a public-private partnership for government murder. It has been and it still is. Three and a half years of this stuff. Done by Trump, done by Biden. This is absurd. Tracy Bird told me the FDA can no longer be trusted with any drug

under any circumstances. It's all conflicts of interest. My husband, Jeff, had strong kidney function when he went into the hospital. They gave him remdesivir, and three days later, he was in kidney failure. My daughter's story is no different from anyone else's, says Denise Fritter. Jamie was 36 and looking forward to getting married. The hospital refused to consider any other modalities of treatment for her. They insisted on remdesivir.

Then they put her on a vent and they murdered her. Remember how Trump pushed the ventilators? Remember how he harangued the CEO of GM because they didn't shut down their production and get the ventilator production up quickly enough? And they were killing everybody on the ventilators. That's not Trump. It's the Democrat governors. Say the MAGA cult. Well, you keep telling yourself that, and I'm going to keep going to tell you the truth. Maybe it'll get through someday to these people. I think the FDA is using remdesivir

to fulfill their own agenda. Hey, Rand, Rand Paul, why don't you investigate this? No, you're not. You're going to go investigate Anthony Fascist, right? Well, you know, one of the things that you can investigate about Anthony Fascist is why he changed the rules for evaluating a therapeutic, which is what remdesivir is,

and why he pronounced it the standard of care saying admitting that he didn't cure anything but hey you know if you can beat this uh you get better faster yeah a little bit faster 30 percent faster absolute nonsense i can't believe the fda would approve this said mary lou my son was 37 years old he went into the hospital with two blood clots, but his kidneys were functioning. They gave him remdesivir, and in 12 hours, his kidneys stopped working. Kidneys, plural. And his organs began to fail. We never saw him open his eyes again. Would you stop and think about that? You know it's the drug because it's killing both kidneys within 12 hours.

A woman I'll call Maya joined the support group for the first time to share her story. She's a survivor of the hospital protocol. The Trump protocol. Call it the Trump protocol. Everybody's afraid to criticize this guy. He's a murderer. He's a grifter. He's a mafia figure. Throw him in jail. He's a murderer. He's a grifter. He's a mafia figure. Throw him in jail.

I don't care. Why are they afraid to criticize this guy when he's murdering people? Hospital protocol. She said, I refused. Remdesivir, I refused. The ventilator that Trump wanted. Both of those things. But they find other ways to take you out.

She said, the doctors were pissed at me. They called my husband to pressure him. They fear monger you with all these lies. And then they pull your loved ones away from you. I was all by myself trying to make decisions. See, that's the key reason. Perfect. Take the family away. And then when this person loses consciousness, well, then you kill them. The discussion often turned to the weird carelessness and indifference to the standard medical procedures and hospitals during COVID. Lisa said multiple times in my husband's record, it said he was not a candidate for remdesivir, but they gave it to him anyway. And then he went into renal failure and died.

Michelle Strasberg said, the remdesivir fact sheet clearly states that it may cause kidney and liver failure, and that's exactly what happened to my husband Richard. They're doubling down on this preposterous decision. I'm at a loss for words, she said. Everyone in the group knows about the financial incentives that drove the hospital's insistence on remdesivir. This is the first time I have seen this in print.

I have talked about this since August of 2020, and that is the 20% bonus that Trump paid the hospitals to kill people. Everything they did, they got a 20% bonus. And again, I knew it in August of 2020, because the American Hospital Association complained that they weren't getting their blood money from CMS, so the Medicare, Medicaid people. You promised us at the beginning of this, you said, we don't have enough tests and the tests don't work anyway. So you make a clinical diagnosis. You point the finger at somebody and say, they got COVID. I'll give you $13,000. You put them on a ventilator.

I'll give you $39,000. And I'll give you 20% bonus for everything that you do to them while they're in the hospital if you have labeled them as a COVID patient. And then they came back, CMS, and said, well, I don't know. We've got to see the test. That's when it went public. And I have not seen anybody talk about this until this Brownstone article. The federal government paid hospitals a staggering 20% bonus on the entire hospital bill of patients treated with remdesivir.

But it's not just remdesivir. Again, it's anybody that they identified as COVID. They also handed out lavish extra payments for ventilating patients. Talked about that. And this is one I've not talked about. Perhaps most tellingly, the feds rewarded hospitals with more money for patients who died than they did for patients who survived. Well, you want to talk about an incentive to kill people.

That's it. It's's right there it's all there more money if you kill them and then oh by the way to get the relatives to buy into this you agree with us that your relative died of covid and we'll pay for the funeral expenses. That type of thing. Gregory Gendron, treasurer of the Republican report, Republican party in California understands these financial incentives as well. He explained the money behind his hospitalization. He said they gave me $37,000 worth of remdesivir, but it obviously didn't help because I wound up on a ventilator and my hospital bill was 90, $922,000 worth of remdesivir, but it obviously didn't help because I wound up on a ventilator

and my hospital bill was $922,000 for 44 days I was there. Nobody offered me ivermectin, which is cheap, effective, has no side effects, and you can take it at home. A million dollars per patient. Well, some of them died earlier, but of course you get more money if they die early. Many in the group expressed frustration trying to get justice. They said the PrEP Act, which was put in by George W. Bush, indemnified the medical institutions for many actions they took during a federally declared COVID emergency. After the support group, I spoke with Jamie Shear,

who told me that her legal team was ready to file a complaint against Gilead today. But, you know, they made billions of dollars off of this. Finally, she said, I confess after these support groups, I find it difficult to sleep. I keep reliving the anguish of these wonderful people. One person said they think we're stupid. But why did God take my daughter from me? I'll never know. I do know that we're all warriors in a spiritual battle, and I believe we're going to get justice. I do too. I don't just believe I

know it. There'll be justice meted out. Maybe not in this life, but there will be justice meted out. The new CDC director says to expect an annual flu shot, just like, rather, an annual COVID shot, just like the annual flu vaccine. This is always the agenda. They ran this thing because I'd been fighting them on the flu shots for a long time. The COVID agenda was exactly the same thing, except that they had, you know, they cranked it up to 11 and they had a Republican president and that people would trust. But it was always the same thing.

And as I have pointed out many times, going back to October, 2019, the Milken Institute, this is what was said. You have to prove that this works. And then you've got to go through all of the clinical trials, phase ones, phase twos, phase three, and then show that this particular product is going to be good over a period of years. That alone, if it works perfectly, is going to take a decade. Why don't we blow the system up?

I mean, obviously we can't just turn off the spigot on the system we have and then say, hey, everyone in the world should get this new vaccine we haven't given to anyone yet. It's going to be very difficult to change that unless you do it from within and say, I don't care what your perception is, we're going to address the problem in a disruptive way and in an iterative way, because you do need both.

But it is not too crazy to think that an outbreak of a novel avian virus could occur in China somewhere. Yeah, well, we're going to be right back. Using free speech to free minds. It's the David Knight Show. It's kind of interesting. Nobody wants to credit Trump as being the executive producer of the pandemic and remdesivir and the vaccine and all the rest of the stuff, and he's desperate to get that credit.

But they do want to give him credit for the sound of freedom. Both CNBC and Breitbart and many others are saying, well, Trump endorsed and sound of freedom is now making so much money. And talking about how successful it's been at the box office, but giving Trump the credit for it nobody wants to give him credit for producing the phony pandemic and the vaccine as i've said before it's very much like a movie fauci was the director trump was the producer and i guess we were all the audience, right? Trump endorsed Sound of Freedom has outgrossed Mission Impossible and The Flash.

Over the last four weeks, Sound of Freedom, an indie movie, has drawn the support of former President Donald Trump, says CNBC. And when they talk about how it's done, they said, yeah, it's smaller than what Barbie has done and what Super Mario Brothers have done. But the film only cost $14.5 million and it's already made 10 times that. 10 times that. It's especially impressive considering that Tom Cruise's Mission Impossible Dead Reckoning Part 1 has only made $140 million since its release. Warner Brothers' tentpole, and by that they mean this is something

they were going to build their other movies around. The Flash barely topped $100 million domestically, and this is up at $150. Sound of Freedom, also on the heels of Disney's Indiana Jones and Dial of Destiny, which has only generated about $167 billion. So it is the big surprise. I mean, even when you look at Super Mario Brothers and Barbie, they had a lot of screens.

They had a lot of promotion. And the interesting thing about it is that it's growing. That's not common. Typically, and we used to have. Uh, that's not common typically. And then we used to have video stores and I used to watch the box office figures very closely. Typically what would happen is a rapidly as well. No, they rapidly drop off very quickly. Uh, typically blockbuster feature films will see a 50% drop off each week, but that didn't happen. First couple of weeks, it was actually building. And one of the reasons for that was because it opened up at less than half of the screens that these other ones have.

And now that it's gotten, gotten up to three quarters of the screens that the other ones have never achieved the full distribution of the other films. But even after, after it got to three quarters of them, it's still dropping at only 40 a week now and so it initially ran only 2600 theaters but now it's gotten up to 3400 but the other movies open up at more than 4 000 screens each so part of its success is a campaign where people buy tickets and pay it forward and let other people see it for free. So it's also been some creative marketing. Angel Studios, when they got this from Disney, because it was, again,

as I pointed out in the past, it was made by 20th Century Fox. They shelved it when Walt Disney bought it. It had already been made and it was sitting on the shelf and there was no reason not to release it. They would have made money.alt disney doesn't want to release a movie about child trafficking because they want to do the trafficking right with your kids and so they said on the shelf but they were able to uh get five million dollars to buy it from uh disney and put it out and so um uh disney left that money sitting there but the reason that they're talking about trump is because they had the showing at bedminster they had steve bannon there and carrie lake and usual suspects and as i pointed out last week it was amazing to me to see jim caviezel, yeah, we solved this by, you know,

putting Trump back in office. And you had even Brian Kilmeade said, what? Yeah. Yeah. How is that going to help? In other words, he, he said that he said, he's going to fix all this. Well, no, we just know he's going to do it. And so, you know, Breitbart is also same headline, essentially sound of freedom surpasses mission impossible in the flash of the box office following a Trump endorsement. No, it was doing just fine before trump endorsed it but everybody's got to cheer him or attack him by the way you know when we look at this what was it that trump is going to do i mean when you look at the fact that you know jim jim caviezel said well there's a lot of different epstein islands in that interview with Brian Kilmeade.

Well, did Trump tell you that? Has he been to those islands as he was flying around with Jeffrey Epstein? $1.1 million from Epstein to, quote, girls or women, unquote, as part of the J.C. Morgan Chase lawsuit. This happened after they said they were no longer dealing with Jeffrey Epstein. They'd gotten rid of him as a client, but this still happened. So I guess the question is, so Epstein paid the girls? Well, is that consensual?

See, I'm not a libertarian in that sense. I don't think that it's okay to do this if it's quote-unquote consensual. So, again, more than $2.5 billion they paid out to people, and only about a million of this goes out to women and girls, who he actually used. An attorney, Singer, said that J.P. Morgan may not have disclosed everything. Oh, you think? Has asked the judge to force the bank to produce all documents and information concerning its 2019 review, including all financial records

for any newly disclosed girls or women to whom Epstein made payments. But you know what they're not asking for? They're not asking for the names of the clients, the rich and the powerful. But we know the names of some of them, don't we? Trump, RFK Jr. Why are we supporting these people? Why are we supporting somebody like Andrew Tate? Now, you know, Andrew Tate will say, hey, I paid the girls and it's consensual. Does that make it okay? We've now got leaked texts that show his trafficking tactics. The Romanian agency argued that Tate and his brother Tristan used the, quote, lover boy method, unquote,

to lure women to their compound in Bucharest under the guise of having a relationship with them before forcing them to do sex work. Is this not grooming? Why is it the conservatives, again, as people pointed out, Tucker Carlson, before the Trump stuff, Tucker Carlson did this two-and-a-half-hour interview with Andrew Tate, flew to Romania to interview him.

I said, when we're looking at the sound of freedom and sex trafficking, sex trafficking of children, why are we now celebrating Andrew Tate? Why is Tucker Carlson doing that? Why is MAGA celebrating an Epstein friend, Donald Trump and Melania? And he's seen the pictures. Yeah. They're at Mar-a-Lago and rest. And, um, you know, why do we oppose grooming of kids? Well, we should oppose grooming of kids by the school, but we don't oppose the grooming of young women or even adult women by Andrew Tate.

Why? Because he's got an R behind his name or he likes people who have R's behind their name? Is that it? Is that all that matters? Tate argued that he had never at any point has had to coerce any of his partners into doing sex work for him and recently telling Tucker Carlson that he had no financial motivation to force women into making porn for him. He's never had to force them. Does this sound like what the schools are doing to the kids? We're not forcing them. We're not grooming them. We're simply helping them to reach their fulfillment, right? And to be who they are. So in these messages, these text messages, that tate appears to be boasting about

manipulating one of his girlfriends into doing sex work for him again doesn't this sound like trump doesn't sound like trump who talks about how women throw themselves at him because of his wealth because of his celebrity status is it okay if it's consensual? Well, I don't think so. Take a look at what he's doing. Some of the screen grabs that were reported by Rolling Stone appear to be from a channel that was called War Room PhD. And let me just insert here, you know?

Bannon's got a war room, Kate's got a war room, Trump's daughter had a war room. And yeah, we had a war room at Infowars. Nobody is suing each other. When I set up my, um, my program, um, you know, when we set it up, we went with, um, what was it? I don't even remember the name of it anymore. Um, but we set it up with a generic name. Okay. And we immediately got sued by a leftist company and Alex wanted to do anything other than call it the David Knight show.

I think I'm coming up with other, other things, uh, you know, to, uh, to talk about, uh, to give it a title and every one of them already had something out there, but yeah, I mean, everybody's got a war room and nobody was suing anybody. It was just my program that they sued me, you know, real news. And so there was another real news. It was a leftist organization. Uh, but, uh, again, I thought it was strange, but it was, I don't know, whatever it was. But anyway, he called his thing War Room PhD.

What did the PhD stand for? Pimpin Ho's Degree. And he said in his description of it, My job is to meet a girl, to get her to fall in love with me, to where she'd do anything I say, and then get her on a webcam so we could become rich together. Is that grooming? Is that vicious manipulation of somebody's emotions?

Get her to fall in love with me so I can pimp her and turn her into a hoe. Give me an average moron with no skills who's blindly loyal, he wrote. I judge basically all females by loyalty. If they're loyal, they won't leave, and in the end, they'll do everything you want. Does that not sound like Trump? Forget the female part. Trump does that with everybody, male and female. They are the same.

Why are we making people like Donald Trump and Andrew Tate role models for quote-unquote conservatives? What's the matter with this country? It truly has become Sodom and Gomorrah. So Trump, as a matter of fact,

back in March, he took the side of Andrew Tate March the 7th. He called for peaceful protests at the embassies for Tate's thing and says, we must demand that they be released immediately. So go do a protest. And basically nobody did because they remembered how that January the 6th thing turned out. But Trump wanted to protest Andrew Tate being arrested for this stuff. And let me say, I don't care if it's consensual or not.

The guy is full-on Satan. He absolutely is. He said the real goal is for her to agree to never go anywhere without me, not even her hometown. I need her working. He then includes what appears to be a screen grab of a text conversation between him and a woman, in which he explicitly tells her,

you're never going back to your hometown, even to visit, and you don't need to leave the house in Bucharest. We're together, always. And she replies, yes, I understand. Will you talk about some kind of a cult leader? This is the kind of power people like Andrew Tate and Donald Trump have over people. In later messages, he appears to recount in detail the process by which he recruited women to work for him. In the thread, he includes a screen grab of what appears to be a text from her

in which she protests against sending him any sexy photos or cams or doing OnlyFans, quote, because my body is intimate and only my husband should be able to touch and see it. But then he used this and it is an example for the people taking his pimp and hose degree. And he says, this is a good example. This is the maximum difficulty you're going to experience. And I'm going to show you how to do this. And when I saw this, this reminds me of nothing so much as C.S. Lewis's screw tape letters. We have demons who are talking about how they can manipulate people. Andrew Tate is literally acting as a demon in this stuff, straight

out of the screw tape letters. He says, uh, this is about the maximum difficulty you're going to experience in this business. He told his pimp and hose degree candidates. He says, I'll give you a play-by-play of what I try. And then he solicits feedback from other war room members, asking them what they would do to convince their partner to do sex work for them. Well, I would use a good cop, bad cop route, said one person.

I would act deeply hurt by her refusal. Then I'd flip it on her and get her to start feeling guilty or cry. See, it's just like the screw tape letters. Just like the screw tape letters. Just like the screw tape letters. These people are evil. Why are they so dearly loved by conservatives? Since she moved to Bucharest, she's been fed, but nothing else. She's broke.

She can't go home. She can't leave the house. Man, says Andrew Tate, man, I sound almost evil. Yeah, you do. You do, Phil. And you know it. He said, but I'm not. I'm a shepherd.

I'm leading the sheep. She doesn't realize that following me makes life better for her. Satan couldn't say it or do it any better. Hath God not said, I only want what's best for you and then he talks about a woman that he has working with him and he uses her to exploit women the same tactics that Jeffrey Epstein used with Ghislaine Maxwell he says just thought why doesn't she work for me? Only fans, she'll make a lot of money. Tate said, I don't want her to think that's why she came to Bucharest.

He says, hey, if you're rich, just tell her, I'm rich already. I don't need you for money. She can work for me and make $3,000 a month and live in Bucharest with you. She's taking pictures all the time. Why can't we sell them? In the war room chat logs, he explains the purpose of staging such a ploy as well as why he is outlining it in such detail to his followers. He says, you guys can use your bottom, and I won't use the term he uses, female to do whatever mine is doing here. And so when we look at this, this isn't simply about Andrew Tate and Donald Trump. It's not simply about our applauding of them.

Here's where it comes down to it, folks. I want to say men and women. Nick Vujicic is maybe the way you pronounce his name. He says, let's talk about your pornographic addiction. More than half of Americans watch pornography. That's why Andrew Tate makes so much money. Yet in many churches, it's still a taboo topic. In 2018, they estimated that 91.5% of men and 60% of women consume pornography at varying degrees of regularity.

Countless studies have revealed just how damaging it can be. And I'm not talking about your rebellion to God. I'm talking about what it does to your rebellion to God. I'm talking about what it does to your relationship to people, what it does to you personally. Not only can it consumption, porn consumption, significantly erode the person's body confidence and self-esteem, it often leads to normalization of accepting and perpetrating sexually abusive behaviors. Do you want to know why we got people doing all the stuff that the trainees and the LGBT people are doing?

It's because it's a drug, and you're always looking for the next high. It's an addiction. It's an addiction. That's it for today. Thank you for joining us. The David Knight Show is a critical thinking super spreader. If you've been exposed to logic by listening to The David Knight Show, please do your part and try not to spread it. Financial support or simply telling others about the show causes this dangerous information to trust me. I mean, trust the science. Wear your mask.

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