The David Knight Show - 8Feb23 The David Knight Show - Unabridged

Episode Date: February 8, 2023

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along with Gard Goldsmith. It's good to see everyone. I've got my David Knight mug. I've got my David Knight thermos. I even have my David Knight t-shirt just off camera. And I've got Beans the Brave, my Chihuahua mix, and of course, Charlie the Chocolate Labrador is here in the Wise Wolf Gold and Silver.com studios in beautiful Branson, Missouri, where it's currently raining a bit, but still beautiful outside. Well, we're going to jump right into the headlines, folks. I'll first set the table. I'm going to do the first hour here.

And once we get through with that, Gar Goldsmith is going to take over for the last two, but I'll be in the background. I've just got lots of work here at the shop and we've got gold and silver products to get out as well as Wolfpack. So I'm loaded for bear today. We're going to go over some headlines in history. Did you like your state of the disunion we can get get into that i saw the headlines on drudge here uh state of disunion 43 approval and i have to admit folks i i didn't watch the state of the union um i'm a fan of thomas jefferson just delivering it in writing so i think uh i think that worked well for us. We could have saved ourselves in our lifetime. That's all we know because of Woodrow Wilson. Thank you.

The first PhD and only PhD president for bringing that back. I mean, Thomas Jefferson had a great idea, deliver it in writing. All the pomp and circumstances would be a null and void, but that's that, that wasn't what a Woodrow Wilson wanted. He wanted a, well, he, he wanted the income tax and the Federal Reserve and the war to end all wars. And he brought back the State of the Union. So we have to suffer through it. So blame Woodrow. All right. So, well, this is the headline of Drudge. And of course, if you want to pivot to Summit News. And of course, this is about Biden's pivot. It's you. The headline on this summit.news article is interesting. Let's pull this all up so you guys can see it. In pivot, Biden shifts from condemning MAGA extremists to putting forward his own MAGA agenda. That's interesting.

Does he have a Buffalo guy too? In his State of the Union address on Tuesday night, White House occupant Joe Biden, shifted from condemning MAGA extremists to putting forward his own bi-American MAGA agenda. Of course, this is by Chris Mahan from Information Liberation. Biden says he's ordering all future federal infrastructure projects to

be made in America. Well, where else would they be made if they're if they're infrastructure projects for America? Buying American has been the law of the land since 1933, Biden said. OK, I'm not sure I understand that statement, But for too long, past administrations have found ways to get around it Is he talking about the New Deal? Not anymore, he continued Tonight I'm also announcing new standards to require all construction materials Used in federal infrastructure projects to be made in America American-made lumber, glass, drywall, fiber optics cables

And on my watch, American roads, American bridges, and American highways will be made with American products. Well, he's currently in a time warp. This should have been done 40, 50 years ago, but I don't believe him. And I think this is a political ploy. Somebody's triangulating here. Of course, my economic plan is about investing in places and people that have been forgotten. Oh, so everyone Biden said the channeling Trump's MAGA message. So this article, by the way, I went through it just warning you at the end, the writer, Chris, is talking about how we got to get Trump to accept the anti-war position and infrastructure deal and pivot away from being a

balloon nationalist. And we'll get to that in a second. I was amused by that phraseology. Amid the economic upheaval of the past four decades, too many people have been left behind or treated like they're invisible. We're building an economy where no one is left behind. Well, that's interesting. Joe Biden was instrumental in NAFTA and CAFTA, in the TPP. Remember the Trans-Pacific Partnership? The bill's so good that you couldn't read it and you had to go into a special basement and get access, but you couldn't make copies of anything. to go into a special basement and get access, but you couldn't make copies of anything. And Paul Ryan wouldn't let you have a debate on the floor about it. There was no discussion. Remember that? It was going to be great for America, this huge

free trade deal. Joe Biden said jobs are coming back. Pride is coming back. Well, something like that. Pride parades, perhaps. Because of the choices we made in the last two years, this is a blue-collar blueprint to rebuild America and make a real difference in your lives, he said. Biden handlers claimed before he took office they were going to try to depoliticize the presidency and try to get people to tune out of politics. They appear to be succeeding. Poor Biden's dark Brandon speech, framing his MAGA opponents as domestic terrorists in September, triggered widespread outrage. This State of the Union speech triggered mostly yawns.

Biden's focus on America First issues, everyone can agree on for the first half, and it didn't touch on a woke issue like lgbtism and abortion until the second half somewhat endearingly he botched the lgbtq acronym and had to correct himself first of all i'm going to get down this is the strangest and i didn't watch it live i've been watching the uh the clips here prepping for the show. But this is something, and I'm a connoisseur of American political history, and I find this to be somewhat of a first when we get, you know, we had, if you remember Joe Wilson back, and I think it was like 2010 or so with Obama, Joe Wilson is a congressman, a big Ukraine supporter now, but he stood up and told Barack Obama, he says, you lie in the State of the Union.

But it was fairly quiet. This was a raucous. And Marjorie Taylor Greene shows up again. And this is another thing he threw in there, and this has to do with the Equality Act. And this has been knocking at our door for decades. And again, you guys know, if you're a David Knight listener, you know what this is all about, this agenda. It says, let's also pass the Bipartisan Equality Act to ensure LGBTQ Americans, especially

transgender young people, can live in safety and dignity. Well, can they not do that now? Is there something I'm missing? Of course there is. There's an agenda there. Biden's moderate tone made balloon nationalist. I don't know. I hadn't seen this till today. Balloon nationalist Marjorie Taylor Greene come across as a, as classless when she screamed at him while wearing a gaudy all white outfit. All right. Let's see if we can find that clip. And so this is Marjorie Taylor green. I had the,

I had the video earlier. Let's see if this is the video. I'm sorry, folks. I'm my own producer on this show. So we, we almost, we almost had it. Hold on. My mouse is going, I have to let the mouse correct itself. This is,

this is the pitfalls of running, running your own production. Let's see if we can get it to come up here. All right. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans, some Republicans want Medicare and social security to sunset. I'm not saying it's a majority. Let me give you anybody who doubts it. Contact my office. I'll give you a copy.

I'll give you a copy of the proposal. That means Congress doesn't vote. Well, I'm glad to see you. I tell you, I enjoy conversion. You know, it means if Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, they'd go away. Other Republicans say, I'm not saying it's the majority of you. I don't even think it's even a significant. But it's being proposed by individuals.

I'm not politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by some of you. The clown show. Look, folks, the idea is... At this year's Cheltenham, glory rests in the lap of the gods. Curses. Alas, our hero hasn't placed. But there are still divine offerings

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bet responsibly gamblingcare.ie. We're not going to be moved into being threatened to default on the debt if we don't respond. Folks. What sort of high strangeness was that? He said that instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset. Who's he talking about? I mean, even Ron Paul, his solution was you could opt out.

You could opt out of the income tax by opting out of the benefits. Even Ron Paul, I don't think was calling to let all of these things. I mean, you know, in theory, but that wasn't policy. So who's he, who's he talking about? Again, this, the, the boldness and the lies coming from this political class or this administration or whatever you want to call it is unprecedented. I can't think of a time and possibly you could go back to the civil war. And I know David's mentioned this many times, but we had, there was, you know, they had sword cane fights sometimes in the halls of Congress. And, and, you know, there was always the threat of a duel. And, you know,

I talk about if you go back to the 1830s, Sam Houston, who would eventually become the first president of Texas, was in political exile. He came back to Washington, D.C. His mentor was Andrew Jackson, who was president at the time. And some congressmen insulted Andrew Jackson's late wife. This was a big running thing because Andrew Jackson, and I think accidentally they committed bigamy because his wife wasn't truly divorced when they got married. So that was a long running thing and that was an insult. So Sam Houston found this congressman who was speaking ill of the president and they got into a fight. The, the Congressman pulled out of a pistol shot Sam Houston in the chest, but there wasn't enough powder to get the gun to fire properly. So the,

the ball, you know, the, the bullet bounced off of Sam Houston and he beat the Congressman to a bloody pulp with his cane. And he had to go on trial before Congress. And his defense attorney was Francis Scott key Scott Key, the man who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner. So anyway, we've always had this kind of, well, and again, we've had periods

of calm, relative calm, but this is something new. And did you look at the crowd? We don't look like a first-rate power. I mean, Insults in the past, they might have had some weight. They were poetic, possibly. But there's something very third-rate about all of this. The term with Christopher Hitchens, I think, coined was a banana republic with nuclear weapons. That's what we're running up against here. GOP House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told Republicans not to do outbursts during Biden's speech and was shushing Greene and other GOP reps for interrupting. The war posture taken by Trump doesn't work very well when the leader of the GOP,

whom Greene gave her full support, is essentially a de-radicalizer. Well, Trumpism didn't work either because it's a false opposition. Whereas Republicans spent the last week calling for war with China over whatever appears to be a weather balloon, Biden advocated for de-escalation. Not really, though. Of course, it's all lies. The Biden regime is surrounding China with additional military bases as we speak and push the whole weaponized spy balloon just to generate anti-Chinese sentiment.

That is interesting. You got to understand this country, you know, behind the scenes has been building up China since 1972. You know, Kissinger, Nixon meeting with Mao, it's a huge event. This, uh, that very few people expected that, uh, Nixon opened China, but they gave Mao a lot of inside information. And at the time, again, the media doesn't cover this, but the Chinese and the Soviets were having border disputes, actually had shooting wars there on their borders. And again, it wasn't like they were exactly monolithic, but Nixon gave Mao a verbal promise about a one-China policy.

That was something that was very important to Mao, was getting back Formosa. That's where Chiang Kai-shek fled to in 1949 when the Rockefellers and the Rothschilds and our own elites pushed up the regime of Mao and the communists. So anyway, that was seeded in 72 verbally. And then you see the formation of the Trilateral Commission in 1973, Zygmunt Brzezinski. And by 1979, he's a national security advisor for Jimmy Carter. And they put it in writing,

January 1st, 1979, put that in writing that the policy of the United States of America was centered and again, advocating a one China policy, which means Taiwan eventually going back to mainland China. And again, I've gone over that and there's much more here to go over how we've built them up. I mean, you look at our free trade policies, which are, I mean, I wrote an article years ago called the free traders, T-R-A-I-T-O-R-S, right? And again, that's the Trojan horse of global government is free trade. And we gave the store away. We gave the, we pawned America's soul and decades of that was the largest wealth transfer in the history of mankind prior to COVID 1984. Anyway, you go look at what we did 90 days after 9-11. On December 11th, we gave China most favored trade status and let them join the WTO. And then after that, you have the massive reduction in workers. 55, thousand factories are gone. I think it's one in three manufacturing jobs under George W.

Bush were gone. I repeat this all the time, but it's worth repeating because there's something to this new narrative of being belligerent with China. Not that I'm saying China is innocent in all this. I mean, obviously they want they want to dominate the world. They want a I mean, they want to be the leader of the new world order. Let's face it. That's what the BRICS nations are really all about, is creating a new economic military

world order. That's Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, and soon to be Saudi Arabia. That's what they want. But let's not forget that this was put into motion by our elite. So I'm skeptical of anything that they're putting forward on tensions with China. How much of it is real? I don't know. But there's something to it. I mean, we're going to talk a little bit about the war in Ukraine and the possibilities there.

There's an article up on Zero Hedge that I linked to that I think was, it's an important read because it's something that I've been saying for a while about the commonalities and the things that this period of history shares with World War I. We're worse off, by the way. The people that ran, the statesmen of World War I, they blundered. They blundered badly. But these are people that spoke multiple languages.

And these were people, I think, of better character and I think a whole lot smarter in general. And again, the term was sleepwalking and sleepwalking into war is the head of the article. We'll go over that here in a second. But as you know, I'm in the head of the article. We'll go over that here in a second. But as you know, I'm in the precious metals business proudly. Sometimes I think about that, just how my life went into that area of business. And I can't say that I planned it that way. I've always been interested in history, always been interested in coins and sound money because I've been reading about that theory for most of my life. And now that we're entering this period of history and this fourth turning, we're watching the end game of the reality created by fiat currency. And I just happen to be in alternative media

i happen to have the honor and privilege of filling in for the man who really is the the true tip of the spear for the truth in this current reality and the and the challenges that we face and it's i mean sometimes i just think wow this is insane i can't believe i'm actually here i can't believe I'm doing this. So reading articles like this, and again, we've talked about this on when I've appeared with David, but these are the signs of our time. These little key articles, folks, and this is, again, this is my opinion. This is Tony's opinion. But these are the things, these are the warning signs, and they're subtle, right? Because they're not going to flash all over the screen. Again, you're not going to get a singing telegram to tell you about the end of the dollar or

the end of American hegemonic dominance. You're not going to get that. It's just going to show up one day. And again, sometimes it's gradually, then suddenly. But here we are looking at these headlines. Central Bank gold reserves chart second highest increase since 1950 in 2022. And again, this is shiftgold.com. Central banks closed out 2022 with reported net purchase of 28 tons of gold in December, including large unreported purchases. We'll talk about that in a second.

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Because central banks understand that they need value. They don't want you owning gold. They don't want you in that business. They don't want you holding assets. They want you chasing the fake monopoly money that they create because that enhances their system. That makes their system possible. Why do you think we're always talking about the U.S. ending up like the Weimar Republic? And it very well may be because, again, the reason

it's not is because it has 700 bases in 132 countries and it's the world's reserve currency. It's the petrodollar. But when that ends, when the Ponzi scheme comes to an end, and make no mistake, it's a Ponzi scheme. You need people to participate. Again, you look at the amount of paper currency. The amount of paper currency printed, and again, this is for the US only, 65% of all that paper currency is not in the continental United States. I mean, you just, I mean, you look at, uh, whenever we invaded Iraq and there was just pallets of also Saddam had lots of gold, but there was pallets of a hundred dollar bills, massive pallets. And again, 80% of all the $100 bills are not in the United States of America.

They're outside of this country. The reason is because people use it. It's accepted. It's the petrodollar. But as you see the headlines starting to pivot away, and the reason that these countries are pivoting away is because we've weaponized the dollar. And one of the facts that I went over on David's show a few weeks ago, we have 40 different economic sanctions in 36 different countries. I was trying to think of how many, and I just looked this up because I wanted to know, I know we, you know, there's obviously Iran and Russia, right? And I start thinking, okay, well,

maybe there's some African countries, 36 different countries that we sanction. We've completely weaponized the dollar. So there is a, we've given these other countries that want to form the BRICS nations and create a new basket of currencies and a new global currency or a new petro currency. We've given them the reasons. We've motivated them to break away from the dollar. So we're sowing the seeds of our own destruction. And again, this probably is on purpose because those in the know are going to be able to profit from this. I think it'll be quick. That's the way history happens now. I talked about yesterday on the show when I was 11 years old, or actually the day before I turned 11, December 25th, 1991, Gorbachev goes live on television and announces the end of the Soviet Union. Decades of Cold War?

Gone. Just in an instant. Think about that. The day I was born in 1979, the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, a war that I would eventually, or a place I'd eventually fight in on behalf of the U.S. And right after my birthday, by the way, so many years later, 22 years later. And so the mighty Soviet Union, nobody would have predicted in 1979 that it would just disappear, but it certainly did.

And it was, again, we were looking really bad off. I mean, the United States, Jimmy Carter called it malaise, if you remember. And then, um, you know, it was morning in America, Ronald Reagan came in and there was a, uh, uh, well, you know, a lot of times economics is, is, is psychological. You had the art laugher and the laugher curve, which is, you know, you cut the top marginal tax rate and it was trickle down economics, all that. Uh, it was also a massive time of debt and we kept exporting our jobs, But again, we go back to somebody like Biden talking about America first. It's such a lie. I mean, you talk about a real lie.

That's the biggest lie. The elites, they've long since written off this country. We don't have infrastructure projects anymore on purpose. We're supposed to be third rate. That's the whole point. That's the supposed to be third rate. That's the whole point. That's the point of the 1970s. It's the point of taking our currency, our dollar off the gold standard. It's the point of opening China. It's the point of giving away our manufacturing and again, pawning our soul. But I want you to understand this phenomenon is only going to increase of central banks buying gold. That's what's driving the price, in my opinion. We talked about it the other day. You know, electronic demand is down for gold. Jewelry is down for gold, right? The demand for

these type of products made by gold, it's down year over year. But central bank buying is up. And that's because there's going to be a currency reset. I mean, they tell you there's going to be a great reset. I mean, that's all admitted. That's documented. But the central banks know that there's going to be new players on them. They're stocking up.

They're getting ready for that revaluation, and it's going to happen. China officially started buying gold again in November and made another large purchase of 30 tons in December. That raised China's total gold reserves to over 2,000 tons for the first time. The Chinese central bank accumulated 1,448 tons of gold between 2002 and 2019 and then suddenly went silent many speculate the chinese continue to add gold to its holdings off the books during those silent years there's always been speculations that china holds far more gold than it officially reveals as jim rickards pointed out in the Mises Daily back in 2015,

many people speculate that China keeps several thousand tons of gold off the books in a separate entity called the State Administration of Foreign Exchange, SAFE. Well, of course it does. There was an article not too long ago on Zero Hedge, and they just, who bought 300 tons of gold? Who was it? Some mystery buyer? That was the mystery buyer?

Yeah, it was China. Robert Kiyosaki famously tells the story. He was a billionaire for a little while. He said because he'd go and find gold mines. And one of the first, I mean, the biggest find he ever came across, and this wasn't too long ago, was in communist China. And he found the gold mine and he was going to start production and he had investors and everything was set. And the Chinese government came in and said, thank you very much for finding that. Good day. And took his gold.

And it was gone in an instant. Yeah, China, you know, again, you look at these countries, and we'll go over some more here. But this is the signpost. This is the warning. There's something on the road ahead, and it has to do with a revaluation. There's always been, oh, we have to talk about that. Sorry, that was the last sentence. The Central Bank of Turkey continued its consistent buying in December, adding another 25 tons to its swelling gold reserves over the course of 2022. Turkey added about 150 tons

of gold to its board. Croatia bought two tons of gold after having not reported any changes to its gold reserves since 2001. After a pause in November, the Reserve Bank of India resumed purchases in gold, while with a modest one-ton purchase, India ranks as the ninth largest gold-holding country in the world. Since resuming buying in 2017, the Reserve Bank of India has purchased over 200 tons of gold.

In August 2020, there were reports that the RBI was considering significantly raising its gold reserves. Everyone is. The purchases were partially offset by sales by Kazakhstan, 29 tons, and Uzbekistan, 1 ton. It's not uncommon for banks that buy from domestic production such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan to switch between buying and selling. December purchases brought the total net increase in central bank gold reserves in q4 to 417 tons the total increase in reserves was a combination of reported buying along with the estimate of significant unreported buying see that's the thing what's on the books and what's off the books if you add those numbers together

we're way past breaking any records after Breton Woods. This is a whole new reality. Total 2022 central bank purchases of 1,136 tons reported a 152% increase from 2021. It was the highest level of annual net bank gold purchases since the suspension of the dollar convertibility into gold in 1971. And the second highest annual total on record. The record was in 1967. Now, what was happening then? That was when de Gaulle, the president of France, sent over destroyers, sent over warships to pick up his gold from the U.S.

According to the World Gold Council, there are two main drivers behind central bank gold buying its performance during times of crisis and its role as a long-term store of value yeah it's something you know david talks about too we know where the nukes are they tell you but they don't tell you where their gold is. That's what makes their economy work. Yeah, behind the scenes. That's what they can fall back on. That's what's going to matter.

That's their bargaining chip. Gold is money. The dollar is not money. There's a difference between currency and money. You know that old bankster, Jster, JP Morgan, his famous quote. And by the way, side note, just a little history. JP Morgan was born in 1836. He died in 1913. It was the exact lifespan between having no central bank and a central bank. Kind of weird, huh? I've always thought that was strange. Well, again, he said that gold is money and everything else is credit.

That's not true anymore. They used to be based on credit. You'd have the fractional reserve banking. You'd have a gold note. You could have that convertibility, but it's not credit anymore. It's debt. Every time currency is created now, it's debt. That's why with a Federal Reserve, the rabbit hole that you go down, the first thing you learn when you understand what the Federal Reserve is, is that you can never pay down the debt, you'd have to create new currency, which is in itself new debt. That's why these figures, we talk about debt to GDP. And as long as this holds true, as long as our dollar is what it is, a fiat currency tied to nothing, and it's, again, created by the central bank, created by the Federal Reserve, it will always be debt. You cannot get out of it. The cycle continues forever. And that's why they talk about paying down the debt. It's really not possible. It's not possible in this system. It creates a new, every time it creates new currency, when you borrow, again, that's why the elites, why do you think that debt, and again, the elites live off debt? You know why?

Because debt is tax-free. You get rewarded under this system for creating new currency, creating new debt. That's why the elites buy assets or they leverage debt. They use debt to buy assets to make more debt to live off of in a perpetual circle, a cycle of that. We're over here getting audited, having to pay massive capital gains and anything that we make.

They want to know if you got $600 in Venmo or Cash App. And the elites are living off and devaluing the currency by creating more debt. Globally, central banks have added net reserves for 13 straight years. In that time, they have bought over 6,800 tons of gold. After record years 2018 and 2019, central banks' gold buying slowed in 2020 with net purchases totaling about 273 tons. That's interesting. All central banks in that time, 273 tons. China in the last quarter of 2022, about 300 tons.

The lower rate of purchases in 2020 was expected given the strength of central bank buying in both 2018 and 2019. The economic chaos caused by the coronavirus pandemic has also impacted the market. Well, you mean the plandemic. Central bank demand came in at 653 tons in 2019. At the time, the second highest level of annual purchase for 50 years, just below the 2018. You know, you often go back and look at the timeline prior to the great deception, right, the emergency, and you can see not only things like event 201, but there was also key indicators. There was the, and I've talked about this on the David Knight show with David, one of

my first appearances, these, the central banks, the fed bailing out the repo market and these overnights, they were putting it in mass trillions. It was estimated 6 trillion in the overnights, uhights trying to keep that liquidity going. But there was also something else. And I talked about it on my show at the time. I thought it was odd. And I think this still holds the record. It was the largest mass exodus of CEOs in the history of finance.

The largest mass exodus of multinational CEOs ever. Interesting. All right, we'll possibly go over spot prices here. I'll make sure I plug for DavidKnight.gold before we end the transmission. We're going to talk a little bit about foreign policy, but I wanted to announce today. Yesterday, Travis gave me the code to set the Rumble stream, and for whatever reason, I plugged it in this morning. I saved it, but it didn't go through, and I apologize for that. So we aren't streaming on Rumble, and I'm guessing we can load the show up later.

We are on Odyssey, Rockfin, DLive, and Twitter. I put it up on my personal Facebook as well. My apologies to the listeners. I got it done yesterday. Everything was fine, but it didn't stream today. I'm sure they will load that back up. I will go to the Rockfin chat, especially when Guard Goldsmith takes it. Guard's going to do the last two hours.

And I really appreciate that. I I'm just behind schedule and I always love hosting or producing. I'll always be here and it's a great honor, but I want to make sure I did the first hour when you and I could have a conversation and, and I'll turn it over to the great and magnificent guard Goldsmith who, uh, who always comes so prepared and has links. And, and I mean, I don't, the guy must, I don't think he sleeps. I don't think that I think his mind never rests. And, uh, he's always, uh, always very thoughtful with everything he says and everything he does in broadcasting. And I'm, I'm looking forward to having him here. Uh, I can see him in the back office, by the way. Um, let's, uh, let's jump around here to some other headlines that I found interesting.

And again, it's fun to put together an hour of radio because you can cover a lot. If you don't do any commercials, if you don't have a lot of breaks, you can get a lot done in an hour. Let's just go through some headlines here. I won't spend too much time on each one because I want to talk a little foreign policy and then close out with a couple of plugs and some gold and silver prices. But these are things that I find interesting. I wanted to talk about this yesterday. This was on summit.news. And what do you know? A fire at New Zealand's largest egg farm kills 75,000 hens amid national shortage. Oh, they're having a national shortage of eggs in New Zealand.

The latest major food supplier to go up in flames after decades of food suppliers not going up in flames is New Zealand's largest egg producer after a blaze broke out on Monday killing around 75,000 hens. The fire at Z Gold Farm had taken the better part of the day to contain, according to the company, adding that 12 workers on site were unharmed but very distressed. Prior to the fire, New Zealand farmers estimated the country needed another 300,000 hens to deal with a national egg shortage. So they have one too. That's interesting, isn't it? I mean, are they having planes flown into their food processing plants too?

I mean, they're starting to get the treatment, it looks like. The spokesperson added that while it was still too early to assess how much the fire would affect the supply chain, there will be some impact, obviously. It's not a great thing to happen in the middle of a shortage. You think so, huh? Wow. Egg suppliers are tight, so this will not assist in any way, said Michael Brooks, executive director of the Egg Producers Federation.

The fire comes roughly one week after one of America's top egg suppliers, Hillendale, burned down, killing up to 100,000 chickens. This is on purpose. I mean, how many examples do we need to see that something's going on here? We're being told. You look back, there was an article on technocracy.news last week. We covered it on America Unplugged. I mean, if you want to know what's happening, they have this new fund. It makes me laugh because I thought of it too.

But they have a new fund, an ETF that you can buy into that does the exact opposite of everything that Jim Cramer does from CNBC. So you can buy into that and whatever he predicts, it shorts it. And it's been doing pretty well from what I understand. They should do the same thing with Bill Gates because whatever Bill Gates is talking about or doing is the next thing. And Bill Gates was investing in artificial eggs. Artificial eggs. He likes artificial meat. He likes artificial health care.

He wants to give you your jabs. He wants artificial human existence. He's pretty much artificial. He, he, he said himself last week in an interview with the daily mirror. I think that he says, I'm not a robot, but if we do a really good job with vaccines, we'll get that number down. We'll get that billion people gone. Somebody needs to do a fund or some sort of prognostication program. Just whatever Bill Gates is into.

What is it? August, 2019, about the same time, Carrie Mullins, you know, passed away or whatever happened to his pneumonia. He was lobbying Congress for vaccine IDs,

buying up all the farmland event. 201. This guy is a, he's like some kind, he's like some kind of Nostradamus, but even better than those quatrains. He's just telling you what's going to happen by his own actions. Now, this is something.

We're watching this in real time. Now, how can I prove this, that it's all linked together? I don't know. I'm not a coincidence theorist. I don't know. I'm not a coincidence theorist. I don't know how to do that. All I know is that you look in the United States and you see planes. And again, I covered this on my show. I covered on America Unplugged. It's even hard for me to wrap my back.

Wait a minute. There's more than one plane that hit a food processing plant? Yes. In the U.S. And fires breaking out randomly all over. And then the egg shortage. And you have to couple that. Of course, Bill Gates, uh, looking in and investing into artificial eggs, but you also have the phenomenon of the feed and these, some of these commercial feeds, supposedly a lot of people couldn't get their eggs to lay or the hens to lay eggs. I,

fortunately, Melissa does a great job with the chickens. And I think most of the feeds organic, she gets from a locally sourced feed store or their free range. So my hens are laying eggs. As a matter of fact, I gave the ladies that work here at my shop at Wise Wolf, I was able to give them three dozen eggs that we had over the last two or three days. So we're okay. But there's a lot of people that are experiencing just no eggs. And again, the cold does affect that. I mean, you're going to get less eggs, especially if you're in a climate where, especially if the chickens don't have external heat sources or something, but not zero.

And that's what's happening to a lot of people. So I tend to think that I take these people at their word. You know, if you look at the evil, and let's just call it what it is. You talk about anyone who is in a position of power to be at Davos or the world economic forum or any that circle of elites, they're all depopulation enthusiasts. They all worship the great reset. That's what they want. That's their God.

You know, that's their Luciferian dream is to have a great reset. And it involves making you dependent on them for fake things, you know, getting in your pod and eating bugs for Greta. They tell you what they're going to do. So I don't think that any of these things are a coincidence. How do you have these massive fires? Just this didn't happen before.

It's kind of like when you have people dying suddenly, they have to create an entirely new acronym. You have sudden adult death syndrome. He got, he has SADS. It has nothing to do with anything that we introduced into the reality of your body, into the economy of people. This has nothing to do with what we introduced in 2021.

It's everything to, it's your imagination. You have sats. This is the same thing. It's your imagination. Just it's, it's a, it's commonplace for the foods processing plants. It's commonplace for them to go up in flames. It's commonplace for your chickens not to lay eggs but uh bill gates has an artificial uh egg investment so let's all get behind that right all right folks we got a little just about 15 minutes left in this uh portion of the show and then we're going to get guard goldsmith here to uh i mean he's going to bring some weapons, great truth. That's what he usually does. It just hits you. He machine guns through the headlines. So he'll be here in a second. And I appreciate you sticking with me. I had some great articles up, but I can't get to them all. The World Economic Forum wants to hack your brain. That's something. Maybe I'll

go over that on the Arterburn radio transmission on Friday. That's something that grabbed me. And maybe, of course, David could cover it. David will be back, by the way. I should have announced that first off. But yeah, David will be back tomorrow, just getting a couple of days rest. And so no need to worry about that. All right.

Let's see if I can pull this up. This is off the realclearwire.com, and I found this. This was a link on Zero Hedge. But I wanted to bring this up to you because this is something that I've mentioned before, and I use the same phraseology. America sleepwalks into war with Russia. The United States and its NATO allies are slowly drifting into war with Russia. The United States and its NATO allies are slowly drifting into war against Russia. The Biden administration and some of our NATO allies, while feigning

caution and prudence, have gradually increased their involvement in Ukraine's war effort. Some Western strategists talk of defeating Russia and forcing Vladimir Putin from power, even trying him as a war criminal. Victory, they say, is just around the corner as long as we continue to arm Ukraine. Again, this article is from Francis P. Simpa. He says, I'm reminded of a memorable scene in the movie Nicholas and Alexandra. Russia's generals and politicians are confidently planning the mobilization of millions of troops against Germany on a huge table-sized map. Against the advice of elder statesman Sergei White, brilliantly played by Sir Lawrence

Olivier, Tsar Nicholas II orders a general mobilization. White, old and gray, slumps in his chair and softly responds the word madness i'll have to go and watch that scene but there's so much there it was madness the uh world war one was just surrounded by madness again a, a manufactured war. I talk about this all the time. One of the books that JFK was reading during the Cuban Missile Crisis was The Guns of August by Barbara Tuchman. And it's one of the reasons he wanted to stop the chain of events that were going on because he knew where it was going to lead. Everybody was telling him airstrikes followed by invasion. They even brought in the former Secretary of State Dean Acheson,

who, by the way, was an attorney for the Soviets, but he wanted airstrikes followed by invasion. And JFK did the back-channel communique with Khrushchev, and they traded the Jupiter missiles in Turkey. Just insane. It's one of the reasons I think the portrait of JFK, his presidential portrait is the only one of presidents that is thinking. He has his head down, his arms crossed, and he's thinking. And thank God he thought because there was not a wasn't the popular opinion, but at least we had a leader.

We're going to get to that in a second. They didn't want war. Witt had convinced the Czar in 1905 to negotiate an end to the Russo-Japanese war that was driving Russia to revolution. If Russia mobilized in late July 1914, Germany, France, and England would mobilize too. No one would be able to stop, warned Witt. I should go back. I know that I pronounced it white. I don't know if it's exactly white or Witt, but we'll go with Witt.

And when Witt senses that the Tsar and his generals are not listening to him, he prophetically warns, none of you will be here when this war ends. Everything we fought for will be lost. Everything we love will be broken. Traditional virtue, restraint, they all go, and the world will be full of fanatics and trivial fools. Well, that's right. World War I didn't make the world safe for democracy,

as Woodrow Wilson said. It made the world safe for Hitler and Stalin. It opened up the slaughter pens that would eventually be World War II. And by the way, what was World War I? It was a third turning. That's what that was. Kind of like maybe what the war on terror is. Although a manufactured war.

Historians will debate the causes and origins of World War I. George Kennan traced the origins of what an earlier generation called the Great War to the end of German Chancellor Bismarck's European order and fateful alliance between Russia and France. Robert Massey pointed to Germany's naval challenge to Great Britain. Still others, such as German historian Fritz Fischer, blame Russia's hegemonic ambitions. Or excuse me, Germany's hegemonic ambitions. More recently, British historian Christopher Clark argued that European statemen sleepwalked into the war.

There was something to that. This topic has assumed relevance today with the United States and NATO getting closer and closer to co-belligerent status with Ukraine. Newsweek reports that 12 NATO countries, including the United States and Germany, have agreed to supply more tanks to Ukraine. The Biden administration will send 31 M1 Abram tanks while Germany is sending 14 of its Leopard 2 tanks. Ukraine's ambassador to France said that Western countries have agreed to supply Ukraine with 321 tanks. Russia called this last move a blatant provocation and more evident of a direct involvement in the war by Western powers.

Yeah, this is definitely an escalation. You're talking about ground war. This is, I mean, the terrible ifs accumulate, as Winston Churchill would say. Despite the seriousness of these decisions, some Western observers are acting like Russia's generals in the lead-up to World War I. The Guardian columnist Martin Kettle claims that the new tanks will give Ukraine a military advantage that could transform the war to Ukraine's favor. By the way, Ukraine is responsible.

They were shelling people in the Donbass regions. And I was reading about this a few days ago. I mean, the casualties on the Russian speaking side. So to say that Russia started the war, that's just not true. And you can go back and look at the our intelligence community's involvement in these color revolutions, the Orange Revolution. And then you go into the. The coup that overthrew their democratically elected president in 2014, I believe, and he fled to Russia. Again threat on our border by world nuclear power that was intervening in our politics, wouldn't we be justified? Like, say it was Mexico and China and some economic and military alliance. Would we be justified in declaring war and doing something even preemptively on a border dispute?

Of course we would. The economist opines that sending Ukraine tanks and long-range missiles will enable it to withstand the next Russian offensive to take back the territory that is theirs. American war hawk Max Boot is confident that the supply of tanks will enable Ukraine to mount a successful offensive. Well, anything that, this is another one, he should bet on anything against what Max Boot says. If there was a neocon of the highest order, a goblin, it's Max Boot. I mean, this guy has been wrong, wrong, wrong about everything. It's funny. Even George Bush called him the bomber boys. George W. Bush.

And he did almost everything they wanted him to do. Booth asserts that the tanks, along with long-range rockets and advanced fighter planes supplied by the West, will determine the course of the war. Which leads me to ask, where are the American count wits? There don't seem to be any in the Biden administration. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin are all in for co-belligerency in order to preserve the rules-based international order. Or as Joe Biden said, there's going to be a new world order out there. He's talking about George Kennan, who wrote the long telegram. And that's what started the policy of what's he called containment of the Truman Doctrine. It was Kennan who warned in 1997 that NATO expansion would revive the worst aspects of Russian nationalist and imperialist traditions. That same year, in an open letter to then-President Bill Clinton,

a large group of elder statesmen, including Paul Nitz, Fred Eichel, Robert Bowie, Arthur Hartman, Gordon Humphrey, and others, Sam Nunn being one, voiced opposition to NATO expansion. Former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, Jack Matlock, agreed with this sentiment and has urged the U.S. to press for a ceasefire in the war. International relations scholar John Mershmer has provided wit-like warnings about the risk of catastrophic escalation in the Ukrainian war. But these modern-day wits are all outsiders.

They are not even on the fringes of power like elder statesman Witt in 1914, and Witt failed. Are there any Democratic Party elder statesmen who will rise to this challenge? If not, it may soon be too late. I don't see any. I vacillate back and forth between how much is this real, how much is this manufactured, because I mean, you talk about a perfect recipe for catastrophic

bloodletting. And you're getting it here with these moves by our government. Bismarck, who waged brief wars to unify Germany between 1864 and 1871 and who worked thereafter to establish a structure of peace in Europe, lamented that some damn fool thing in the Balkans would ignite the next big war. And once his steady hand was removed from the scene in 1890, lamented that some damn fool thing in the Balkans would ignite the next big war. And once his steady hand was removed from the scene in 1890, the structure of European peace gradually but inexorably fell apart.

The result was the cataclysmic First World War that set into motion its Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia in the spread of communism. Well, just as the banksters wanted. I mean, the chaos of war is all about new policy. It's about remaking society. A great war equals a great reset. You know, you had the Carnegie Foundation famously in 1910. It was doing this big study about how do we implement all these new progressive policies that we now as a foundation, you know, because of our wealth and tied to the banking houses, how do we implement this

top-down socialistic society? How do we get there? And then all of the people in the think tank, they finally came up with a solution. Well, you need a war. And this was in 1910. And then the conclusion after that was, well, if we need a war, how do we get one? Well, conveniently, you had the guns of August. You had what I think was the key piece missing in that, which was the Federal Reserve Act of 1913. They needed that before they could get to the war, and then you had the Black Hand. It was the Serbian anarchist group that had ties to British intelligence taking out the Archduke Ferdinand. Afghanistan and Iraq should have taught us that wars sometimes generate their own momentum.

The prognostications of proponents of war usually fall apart once the fighting starts. Klauschwitz called it friction. Edward Ludwig calls it the paradoxical logic of strategy. The statesmen of Europe who sent their countries to war in the summer of 19 thought that the fighting would be over by Christmas. For years, both sides had used poison gas. More than 10 million were dead. Three empires collapsed, and as Count Witt predicted, tradition, virtue, and restraint went away. The United States and its NATO allies are risking a wider European war involving nuclear

powers for Ukraine to take back two eastern provinces in the Crimea. The author goes on to quote John Quincy Adams, our greatest secretary of state, once said, America goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to the freedom and independence of all she is the champion and vindicator only of her own sentiment and emotion on behalf of the ukrainian people are no substitutes for hard-headed geopolitics well that's a warning in our elite are sleepwalking, it appears. I don't wish that, but that's where we're headed if there isn't a change.

So pray for peace, ladies and gentlemen. These are strange times and serious times. I'm going to pull up the gold prices, and then we're going to pull in silver prices, and then we'll get Guard Goldsmith here to take over. This is according to goldprice.org. The yellow metal, 1,881 Luciferian Bankster notes per troy ounce, 1,881 federal fiat dollars per troy ounce. Silver is up 27 cents, the cheapest.

I can't believe silver is so cheap. If you knew what I know about the supply and about mining and about demand, it is crazy, but it has to do, in my opinion, ladies and gentlemen, with massive manipulation on behalf of the multinational banks and central banks and interested parties. Let's put it that way. $22.49 per troy ounce for the white metal. And again, davidknight.gold, if you would like to learn more or buy direct and get out of those Luciferian Bankster notes, put some real value in your savings. A hedge against inflation, a hedge against the central bank digital currency, more importantly. And we've set up davidknight.gold, but you also have the ability to join Wolfpack. And that is a, we have hundreds of members now and we are growing daily, but the more

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commercial break, Gar. How are you doing, my friend? Hey, I'm doing great, Tony. Thanks so much for letting me walk right in after you have beaten the path on such a busy busy day and uh everybody's hoping that dave is going to be feeling much better you look fantastic super sharp i wish i could grow the facial hair that you do man you look great well i used to have my longer beard and then i just i just so gray and i was like okay well i'm not 60 yet'm not, I'm not competing to be the oldest guy yet. So anyway, I, I, I just, uh, I got a little, I'm going to grow it back out.

We'll see where it goes, but I appreciate that guard. Hey man, as Telly, as Telly Savala said, anybody with hair, that's just great. As he used to say, and you know, actually shaving my head is actually advantageous to me because as people, my age start to gray, nobody can really see it for me. I just, you know, blind people when the sun is out. I think you rock it really well, my friend. I don't think I could do as well as you with the, with that particular haircut. Oh, well, thanks a lot. It's cold in the winter. That's all. All right. Well, we're going to use that big brain of his is going to give you the next two hours of the David Knight show.

And again, a great honor to to be here. I'll be in the background. What would you like me to do? Do you want me to share your two screens? Let's just do this in real time. Let me remove. Yeah, I tell you what, I'll I'll switch out from you and I looking so we don't get the infinity screen. I'll say farewell to looking at you right now and i'll be talking to the audience and then if you want to uh if you can switch me over to just showing me and a medium-sized screen of what is on my computer screen then i'll be able to share pretty much anything with the audience and then anytime you want to come back and you know insert pictures of porky pig or anything like that you go go for it, producer. You'll be the man. It's funny. This is live radio, live podcasting, and we're just discussing text. But anyway, we'll get guard up here real quick. We're our own producers, ladies and gentlemen. We don't

have a Travis. It's just us. So let me add you to the screen. So this is when I add you. That's what we see. All right. Add your screen. All right. Yes, there's the infinity and I'm out and that'll be it. That that looks great, Tony. I really appreciate it. And if you want to come back, you can make me bigger or smaller. But that ought to do it just right, because I've got a lot of things to present to people. And I can't see you now because, of course, I've switched away from the screen. So it won't show on the screen for the audience and so on. But Tony, before you go, I want to toast you with my vitamin water. No, this is not the sweat of Sam Smith. No, it is not. And I am now going to pour it into my David Knight mug. I've got apple cider mixed in with some vitamins and stuff like that so it's my little uh breakfast

uh stuff and it's not hard cider uh but this is in honor of david knight and folks yes indeed it was well played you can get this mug at the david knight show dot com it's a good plug my friend i'll let you have at it i'm gonna leave you in this uh screen mode and uh if it i don't think you'll need to change it because people can see you and they can see the screen. So I think that's a good way to go. All right. Given our current technical difficulties, we'll just let this rock. Okay. You have a great show, my friend. I'll be back to close out and I'll be listening. All right. Have a great time working and we will be imparting good information and good vibes on your part to you and to David and the family. Thanks a lot, Tony.

Thanks, brother. And toast to Tony Arterburn, everybody. It should be a right-handed toast, but I want to show you the mug once more, the great mug, which you can get at thedavidknightshow.com. And good stuff. I used to press cider when I worked at a farm stand, and I used to enjoy that very, very much. Really good stuff. And it was a great lesson in economics as I got to press that apple cider because we would have leftover apple skins that would be between the burlap. The burlap would go down. You'd pour this sort

of crushed out, mashed up cider apples would get mashed up. They'd come out in a tube. You'd pour this sort of crushed out, mashed up cider apples would get mashed up. They'd come out in a tube. You'd put it all over it. And then you'd put the burlap, seal it over, do another layer, another layer. And then the hydraulic press would press all that wonderful apple cider out. Best apples for apple cider are Macintosh. You want the tartness. You don't want Red Delicious.

You want Mac's or Spartan's. Spartan's are good and sour. And one of the nice things afterwards was there was a pig farmer whose pigs loved that compressed fiber of the apple's skins and the apple pulp. So that was a great way for the market to be able to handle it. We just handed it off to the pig farmer and his pigs got to enjoy it because you want to make as much off of your resources as possible in the private industry, in the private sphere, when you own your private property. And in government, they don't operate that way. Hey, listen, good to have you here, everybody. Just want to do one thing here as I

get started up on the David Knight program. We're going to be talking a little bit more about this State of the Union. And I got to say, I'm going to start things off with a little bit of what I saw last night as I watched the clips and give you a little personal story just to give you an idea of what I have seen and what perhaps you have seen and what a friend of mine saw when she came from a very far away country. So here is what it looked like on the floor of the House last night as Biden entered the room. What a great visage. He's got his escorts. There's Chuck Schumer. And right there, that's Jeanne Shaheen on the right. She's the senator, one of the two senators from New Hampshire.

And I have had personal experience with Jeanne Shaheen when she almost bit my head off when she was governor. And I happened to ask her a question she didn't like. And she literally lied to my face. It was pretty awesome. There she is. Yes, surrounded by all those great folks, uh, worshipful attention that people gave to this state of the onion address and the onion is smelling pretty rank. Uh, uh, I happened to record commentary from people or, and I'll show you from one, uh, from one particular person. I've eliminated the other options because it's just not worth devoting too much time to the actual topic they're discussing. the first lady. And I don't really understand why that is drawing attention. But this, I think, shows you the level to which some people are willing to discuss the actual substance of what the federal government is doing. This is what has drawn a lot of attention out of the

State of the Union address. The only person who has a looser mouth than our Vice President Kamala Harris is our President's wife, Jill Biden's lips when it comes to our Vice President's husband's lips. Watch. Excuse me? Is this? Oh, this is for real.

Okay. Got it, got it. I guess our President's lips or his wife's lips are almost as loose as Kamala Harris's, okay? Clearly, this is not the first time that these two have locked lips. I'm appalled. Actually, what's going on? Why are they kissing on the lips? Do they not know of COVID?

What the heckaroonie is going on here? Why did Joe Biden's wife just kiss Kamala Harris's husband? The only person with looser lips than Kamala Harris is Joe Biden's wife. Amazing America. We are looking amazing on the national world stage. Okay. So we'll get into a little bit of what Joe Biden had to say, but I want to take the opportunity right now to ask why people are focusing on that rather than actual. And this really was done to the exclusion to which a certain portion of the U.S. population is going to rise in the analysis of the largest hegemonic organization of criminals in the history of the planet Earth has ever seen, I mean, we're talking for the longest stretch, far longer than the Soviet Union, far longer than Hitler's Germany, far longer than Mao's China, and even communist China, which has gone through variations.

The United States hegemony has lasted longer than that and been more dominant than that. Now, there are other arguments about how insidious and evil many of those leaders are compared to leaders so-called in the United States. But I want to draw your attention to this. This is the second volume in the debate on the Constitution. And this was put out by the Library of America. And I have both volumes. In fact, I have two copies of both volumes. And I like to check out the anti-federalists most of all. But I'm going to read to you from Federalist 38. Federalist 38. Okay, so this appears to have been written by Alexander Hamilton, but there is some debate because it was discovered later that Hamilton was such a low-down, unscrupulous individual, he actually claimed to have written some of the Federalist papers that were actually written by James Madison. So he claimed credit for those. But here is a little bit about the Electoral College. He says, all of these advantages will be happily combined

in the plan devised by the convention. And as I've mentioned, as other people know, the Constitutional Convention was seen by many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence and many of the leaders of the revolutionary movement in colonial America as a usurpation of the Articles of Confederation. It took a 100% vote to even revise the Articles of Confederation, and Hamilton and his friends were able to successfully have the Articles completely tossed out. Originally, they said they were just going to try to revise the Articles of Convention, and they went with a completely different plan, which was their plan from the start, to replace it with something that centralized power much more and gave a president a lot more

power. So this is one of the ways that they claimed everything would be A-OK. All these advantages will be happily combined in the plan devised by the convention, which is that the people of each state shall choose a number of persons as electors, equal to the number of senators and representatives of each state in the national government, who shall assemble within the state and vote for some fit person as president. And get this, this will show you the icon worship that he wanted to instill, the way that he wanted something that was a cipher to a king. Their votes thus given are to be transmitted to the seat of the national government, and the person who may happen to have a majority of the whole number of votes will be the president.

But as a majority of the votes might not always happen to center on one man, and as it might be unsafe to permit less than a majority to be conclusive, it is provided that in such a contingency the House of Representatives shall select out of the candidates who shall have the five highest number of votes, the man who, in their opinion, may be best qualified for the office. And you see him right there. Isn't that awesome? Now, I in no way, by bringing this up, I in no way want to impart any sense of patriotism, any sense of American history, or anything whatsoever other than the intellectual connection to icon worship and the idea that somehow someone special is better to rule over you than yourself. And this comes in the next section. This process of election affords a moral certainty that the office of president will never fall to the lot of any man who is not, in an imminent degree, endowed with the requisite qualifications. Talents of low intrigue and

the little arts of popularity may alone suffice to elevate a man to the first honors in a single state, but it will require other talents and a different kind of merit to establish him in the esteem and confidence of... Very thin pages here. The whole union, or of so considerable a portion of it as would be necessary to make him a successful candidate for the distinguished office of President of the United States. Amtrak Joe, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, FDR, Johnson. We could go on and on, couldn't we? Yeah.

This is swell, Mom. Couldn't get any better than this. It will not be too strong to say that there will be a constant probability of seeing the station filled by characters preeminent for ability and virtue, and this will be thought no inconsiderable recommendation of the Constitution by those who are able to estimate the share which the executive in every government must necessarily have in its good or ill administration. Though we cannot acquiesce in the political heresy of the poet who says, the forms of government let facts contest that which is best administered is best. I'm sure Stalin would have agreed, Mr. Hamilton. I'm sure. What a dirtbag. What an absolute filthy criminal Alexander Hamilton

was. And for those people who admire or think that there are these wonderful trappings of red, white, and blue history that bring us from that vaunted period of usurpation to today with the red, white, and blue and those three wonderful figures up there, I will draw your attention to a very small little item to be redundant. And that is, where is it? Right over here. Here's a little something about the opposition. Kevin McCarthy. You might have seen this. I think Tony has spoken about this. This is from Summit News. Chris Minahan originally brought it up for information liberation. Kevin McCarthy says coward cop who shot Ashley Babbitt did his job. This is from the 3rd of February. And this one tells us that Kevin

McCarthy is unwilling to admit that the person who shot that woman did not just do his job. He did evil. His job is paid for by taxes, which are evil, and he murdered a woman. This, again, from a few days ago, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy told the media on Thursday that the coward cop who shot and killed unarmed 14-year Air Force veteran Ashley Babbitt in the Capitol on January 6th, quote, did his job. He was asked by a reporter during a press conference at the Capitol, do you think Ashley Babbitt was murdered or do you think the police officer who shot her was doing his job? I think the police officer did his job, McCarthy responded. I could play for you that item. In fact, why don't we watch it right now? Check it out. One of the first things Marjorie Taylor Greene said from the oversight diets was that Ashley Babbitt was murdered. Do you think Ashley Babbitt was murdered or do you think the police officer who shot her was doing his job?

I think the police officer did his job. Okay, that's nice. Now, Ashley Babbitt and Marjorie Taylor Greene. We're going to talk about Marjorie Taylor Greene in just a minute, but I did want to bring up that McCarthy quote as we go back to looking at these heroic figures, and we can see the system has worked so well, regardless of whether people think that there was some fishy action in the way that the votes were handled. All all opened up thanks to, of course, Donald Trump's March 13th, 2020 so-called emergency announcement of executive order, which he doesn't have any constitutional power to do in the first place. And again, I'm critical of people who push the Constitution and pushed out the Articles of Confederation and centralized things even more. But at least within the Constitution, it spells out what is supposed to happen on the federal government level and what

the states are allowed to do, but nobody pays attention to it. So we have three figures there who generally avoid all of that reality, even though their seats and their salaries are provided by the document that, I would be arrested or perhaps I'd be shot like Ashley Babbitt. But that would be their argument is, well, the constitution says that I hold this seat. And then you could say to them, but you don't pay any attention to the constitution. So why should I? Right. So I think that's an interesting thing to bring up. And I want to turn now to some information that Joe Biden offered us about his glorious record. Here we go. After we've created with the help of many people in this room, 12 million new jobs, more jobs created in two years than any president's created in four years because of you all, because of the American people. Round of applause. Let's freeze frame on that round of applause. And I want to give you this

personal story. I've mentioned this on my program. I've mentioned this sitting in as a guest with guys on America Unplugged on Saturdays at noontime on Rockfin. Little plug for America Unplugged. Tony and Billy Ray Valentine and Donald Jeffries. If you watched David's show yesterday, we all got to sit together and have great conversation. I really enjoyed yesterday's program, and I hope you're enjoying today's program. And so just a little personal story. A friend of mine comes from Siberia. Her name is Nadia, and she was dating another friend of mine. They split up. She wanted to move to the United States

and go to law school. So she and I had stayed friends. Nothing romantic was going to be involved or anything like that. But I helped bring her over you know, got a ticket. She flew into JFK airport in 2008, I think, 2007, yeah, about 2007, 2008. And so she wanted to look around at some schools and I brought her around to some of the schools and helped her talk to some people. I had friends who had gone to a couple of these schools who were able to talk to some of the staff members and so on. We talked to an immigration attorney about what the best approach would be for her. So pretty solid. She was there for about a week in the winter. Very, very cold.

And one of the funniest things about it was when she got into the car and we were driving back north from JFK, we're going through Connecticut. It was just massive amounts of snow, unbelievable amounts of snow. And it was really cold, frigid. And she's like, oh, this is just massive amounts of snow, unbelievable amounts of snow. It was really cold, frigid. And she's like, oh, this is just like Siberia. Now, if you've heard the story before, I apologize for the repeated patterns or whatever. But I just thought, oh no, no, please, please don't let it be just like Siberia. I don't want to be living in an American version of Siberia. But I guess we get that once or twice a winter when we get Siberian style storms or something here in New Hampshire. But when we got in, we had a great time visiting the schools and we would go to a visit with friends.

One of my buddies was playing music and so on. We had a really nice time. And she noticed things. We went to go sledding on the sledding hill where I used to go, Bragdon's Hill in my town, which used to be owned by the Bragdon family. And then it was sold. The town itself bought that and they forced taxpayers to pay for it to preserve the hill, which if people wanted to show what they interest, how they actually valued things, if they liked it as a sledding hill and as a place to perhaps hike or picnic or whatever, they could have actually invested their own money and done it that way and charge people for entering it or perhaps not even charge people. Just keep it open for people, ask for donations, whatever they want. But that's not the way it worked. The town had

to take it over to so-called preserve it the way that the town's people wanted it done, that portion who voted to have that done. The other people would be charged no matter what, unless they fled to another town where another group of predators would do the same sort of thing. These carnivores hacking at their heels, these jackals, the hyenas. So we were sledding on the hill nonetheless at night and there was a light that came up on the hill. We had gone down there'll be sort of like the pinkish sodium lights reflecting off the clouds. So you can see pretty well, you know, and I just, you know, I grew up doing it anyway and just sledding at night and, you know, wiping out. And I knocked myself out one time sledding and it's, you know, you go rough and tumble sometimes. It's fun. So anyway, it's like, oh, that's a police spotlight guard. And I said, what are you talking about now? No, that's just the highway. There's a road near it.

That's the headlights of a car. She goes, no, look, that's police. I know this. I know police spotlights. I lived in this USSR. And I was like, oh, yeah, you're right. And sure enough, police officer was chasing us out because now that the town owned it, we couldn't do what we used to do there. The town set all sorts of barriers to its use. And that's because it's the tragedy of the commons. So towards the end of her visit, after it looked like she looked pretty good to be able to get into one law school, She was heading back down the next day to JFK. I was doing my talk radio program at a station in the capital city of New Hampshire. That's called Concord, or as some people from outside the state call it, Concord, as if it's a supersonic jet. And so she was looking over my shoulder as I was doing essentially what I'm doing here with you, except I was recording audio clips to put them out. Before the show, I was recording audio clips

to put them out and play them during my program. I was playing the State of the State Address by Democrat Governor John Lynch. And as I went through it, she started laughing. And the first time she laughed, she was looking at everybody rising when they introduced the governor. They said, you know, the governor of New Hampshire and everybody's applauding. And she starts laughing. I said, Nadia, what's so funny? She goes, oh, it's just like the Soviet Union. It's just like the Communist Party.

All their gatherings, they would have these on television. It's just people applauding the functions of the state. They're just statists. They're applauding how great they are in this august body, which only exists through predatory means. How wonderful. Let's all clap like trained seals. That's what got her really focused on that. And I said, you know, Nadia, would you like to come on in the last half hour of the show and talk about the things you've noticed that we've become acclimated to, to leave a preposition dangling, so that you can tell people just how bad things are? You're coming from the Soviet Union? She goes, oh, absolutely, sure. And she came on and it was devastating.

We got so many phone calls. It was unbelievable. And I said, I've mentioned this before on the radio. After the program, we saw my mom who was kind of sick at that time. She was sort of in her bed and she would listen to my show every day. And I would come back and I'd visit with her and we would talk about the show and about other things that might be on her mind. And Nadia came with me and my mom started crying because of what she had heard. So it was, sorry, I get choked up because Nadia could see what was happening. She had seen it in the Soviet Union. and as I'll mention to you, as I've mentioned before,

the, some of the people at the radio station, good guys, generally conservative guys came and said at, at the end, when we were at the radio station, before we came to visit with my mom, we I'd finished the show.

And they said, did your girlfriend just compare our governor to a Soviet leader? And I said, yeah, that was amazing. You see all those calls. They said, well, that's not going to happen again. And I said, well, what do you mean? They said, guard, you don't understand. We want these people to advertise with us when they run for office. They're never going to do that if you're slamming them like that. And I said, well,

I'm not going to stop. And of course, I didn't last there that long. And I'm friends with a number of the guys there. They understood where I was coming from and I understood where they were coming from. is an example of not just partisanship, but the very idea that everybody's got to go attend this thing. Every one of those people in that arena, except for just a few guests like Bono, has derived a large portion of their salary over X number of years from the sweat and toil of other people, it has been expropriated from them. Most every one of them has operated in such a fashion, except for perhaps Thomas Massey and maybe a couple others, in such a fashion as to be utterly contemptuous of the document, the U.S. Constitution, as bad as it is compared to the Articles of Confederation, which is still not as good as what I would like to have, which is zero political power over people in the first place. Every one of those people,

as you know, well, you know where I'm going with it. So I just wanted to bring it up. So we go from the absurd, mindless attention given to two people kissing and conversation about that stuff that has taken up time. I am commenting about the people commenting on it, so I hope you don't mind that, but I wanted to bring that observation up. I'm not talking about, obviously, the kiss. I could care talking about, obviously, the kiss. I could care less about that. But the very fact that people devote attention to that, I think, is indicative of a systemic sickness, which is always part of the human condition. For a vast number of people, they look at this lightly.

It's abstract to them. And even amongst some people who are political commentators, they will take advantage of that as a way to be partisan, to show how ridiculous something is, or to take time up on a program to talk about the president's wife kissing the vice president's husband. Who cares? Who cares? Aren't there more important things like what Joe Biden just said? Let's go back to hear what Joe Biden said there again and get a quick overview of his claim. All right. Because his claim is not exactly true. After we've created with the help of many people in this room, 12 million new jobs,

more jobs created in two years than any president's created in four years because of you all, because of the American people. So the president has created the jobs and then he adds the little footnote, because of you all, because of the American people, because of you all. Oh, I see. Thank you so much for giving me that left-handed compliment. We could only have done it thanks to you, huh, Joe? All right. Well, let's actually check out to see whether or not what he is saying is actually true. I'm going to go to my Substack and show you. And if you want to check out, it's GardnerGoldsmith.Substack. And show you and if you want to check out his Gardner Goldsmith dot Substack dot com, American thinker had a really good report on the American on the so-called jobs report. And you'll see this headline from Thomas Lifson, and it's actually a piece from February 4th, but they this is just when the jobs report was coming out. But I think they could figure that Biden was going to try to utilize it in the State of the Onion address. So they say,

Bloomberg, which exists to serve active traders on Wall Street and also exists to propagandize people, is throwing shade, at least in this one, Bloomberg did a decent job on the January jobs report that surprised, in quotes, a lot of people with its positive numbers. Before addressing the technical factors used to produce the rosy numbers, and by the way, this is a little bit technical, but it'll just go to show it'll show you a little bit of something. And then I'll give you some other information about the economy that I think is important. Before addressing the technical factors used to produce the rosy numbers, consider the buried lead hundreds of words into the piece. Stripped of all the technical jargon is this stark reality. Quote, on an unadjusted basis, payrolls actually fell by 2.5 million last month. Joe, all these people love you. How can they not know? Molly Smith writes, employers added 517,000 jobs in January, nearly double the prior month's advance, and above all estimates in a Bloomberg survey. So remember, nearly double the prior month's advance and above all estimates in a Bloomberg survey.

So remember, nearly double the prior month's advance. Remember that. The unemployment rate also unexpectedly retreated to 3.4%. Now, just to let you know, folks, don't forget that the unemployment rate does not factor in people who drop out of the job market, who stop looking for jobs. Once they stop looking for jobs and they're no longer claiming unemployment, they're no longer listed. And the ratio is not what people might think as far as how many people are not working. The number is now lacking a large portion of the population set that would be put in there. The unemployment rate also unexpectedly retreated to 3.4%, the lowest since 1969, according to Labor Department data released Friday. Do you really think it's that low,

everybody? No. Those are the numbers that grabbed headlines and enabled Team Biden to claim credit for what they want to bamboozle the public into thinking we have a great economy. But it turns out that there were changes in the way the data were gathered and reported that made things look rosier. Quote, seasonal adjustment factors appear to have flattened the headline as smaller-than-usual holiday layoffs bolstered the payroll numbers. Wells Fargo and company economists Sarah House and Michael Puglisi said in a note, quote, FOMC will take January's blowout employment report with somewhat a grain of salt, they said, referring to the Federal Open Market Committee that sets monetary policy. What Bloomberg Economics says, quote, if it seems too good to be true, that's because it is too good to be true. The gain, and this is the key, is mostly due to seasonal factors and revisions

to past data. Still, it can't be denied that the labor market remains tight. Again, a lot of people have dropped out of searching for jobs, and that is a major factor. The Fed won't place too much weight on this headline jobs number when formulating policy. Again, I want to go back. Seasonal adjusted factors appear to have flattered, not flattened, flattered the headline as smaller than usual post-holiday layoffs bolstered the payroll numbers. So, what do you think? I don't think that Joe Biden can be claiming such a great recovery in the economy. Payrolls actually fell on an adjusted basis by $2.5 million in January. All right. What I'd like to do now is go to the other item that got a lot of attention, and that is the you lie quote, which I believe I have next after we have Joe Biden spouting off more of his nonsense about the economy. So let's head over there.

Here we go. At this point, Joe Biden says that he knows that certain Republicans want to gut Social Security. In fact, they want to end it. They want to end Social Security. And the reaction from some, in particular Marjorie Taylor Greene, is being applauded by tons and tons of people. You lie. You see Republicans shaking their heads. You lie. Here we go. Instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, some Republicans, some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset. I'm not saying it's a majority.

You see McCarthy shaking his head. Oh, no. Oh, no. And of course, Biden has to get in his instead of making the wealthy pay their fair share, which is just riddled with whatever he wants to define as wealthy and fair share. All of that government arbitrary decision making will come from them. But we'll get into that in a moment. Let's continue. As McCarthy shakes his head and the Republicans respond. They want to what? No, no. Let me give you anybody who doubts it. Contact my office. I'll give you a copy. I'll give you a copy of the proposal. That means Congress doesn't vote. I'm glad you see. There goes Marjorie Taylor Greene saying liar. And she's not terrible. She's good on a bunch of issues, but she's shouting out

liar. Well, perhaps, perhaps he is lying. If he is lying, that makes it even worse for the Republicans. Because the proper response for any individual who is in that office, in that building, who has sworn an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, and you know where I'm going, is to say, hey man, if you're not lying and you're telling the truth, round of applause to eliminate those unconstitutional, immoral levers of theft and redistribution of wealth. Generational slavery. They call this the land of the free, and yet people born today will be paying, working, toiling to pay the retirement of people who are in their 50s right now because they don't have enough money. And the people in their 50s right now are paying off the retirements of people in their 70s

right now who are getting things. From the first year that Social Security started operating under Roosevelt, it was a Ponzi theft scheme predicated on the idea that other people who were younger, who would not yet be making their Social Security so-called claims, would have to continue paying in and the politicians could play favorites with the older people and claim that they were protecting them, that they were helping their retirements. By what? By enslaving the young people to pay for their retirements. The first woman who received social security got more than she paid into it back in the Roosevelt era. But let's continue with these heroic Republicans.

I tell you, I enjoy conversion. And I got to say, you know, I constantly hear people talking about how Joe Biden is not with it. He's out to lunch. He's shaking hands in invisible space. I almost every instance I've seen of that, it's either something similar to the way Joe Biden has behaved in the past, maybe a little bit more accentuated now that he's older. He might say the wrong word or might flub his tongue a little bit. There have been very rare occasions like when he forgot that a woman had passed away and he went to announce her. Okay. All right. But he's still got some sharps. And and as much as I hate to admit it, he's he's a vicious, vicious person. You know, it means if Congress doesn't keep the programs the way they are, they'd go away. Other Republicans say I'm not saying it's a majority of you. I don't even think it's even a significant.

But it's being proposed by individuals. I'm not politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by individuals. I'm politely not naming them, but it's being proposed by some of you. Look, folks, the idea is that we're not going to be moved into being threatened to default on the debt if we don't respond. Okay. To default on the debt if we don't respond. Okay. Look, the U.S. government debt is always going to grow. They're always going to raise the debt ceiling. They will facilitate it with more bond sales, changing the value of the bonds that have already been purchased, and the Fed will facilitate it. In fact, not just the Fed will facilitate it, but some of the largest purchasers of government debt are government offices. Federal government agencies buy federal government debt in addition to the Federal Reserve buying federal government debt. So that's something to keep in mind. The default idea, there's already been an invisible default,

and that is that all of this is based on, whether it's the Social Security system or Medicare or Medicaid, it's all based on a giant Ponzi scheme, which can only be facilitated by taxation and borrowing. And that borrowing requires the Federal Reserve to buy up U.S. Treasuries or government agencies will buy up U.S. Treasuries and it will come from invented money. That's why they want to go to the CBDC so they can start to hide this and try to reset, the Great Reset, the value of the currency. And you're going to get it, big time. And it's going to be very interesting to see because they can't tax enough because there will be a revolt. But they can do everything they can to try to get the Federal Reserve

to give the money to the people who can spend it first, those people being the ones who will buy up government debt and those people being the ones who are connected to the banks that will then facilitate it with the giant banks and other organizations that are so close to the U.S. government. So this idea of fearing the debt and that there's going to be some government default, when it will default is when the dollar is recognized as being as valueless as it is. That's when the government will default, when nobody will buy the dollar anymore. So I think that that is a rather important bit to bring up. Now, I want to go back over to some of the stories and go now to Sarah Huckabee Sanders'

response. And I have a couple items to bring up here. First, we're going to go to her opening. And I want to show you one of the ways that I think you can recognize a politician. You probably have seen this before. It's the hand clicker. They're instructed by their handlers, don't point with your fingers because that's accusatory. That's aggressive in their eyes, right? So instead, they have people go like this, the clicker. You got to use the clicker, which is totally unnatural. What are you doing? What is this? People don't normally do that. That's artificial, just like politicians, just like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. And I know she's been through some tough stuff. But when it comes to people entering the political realm,

they're supposed to, according to American tradition and all the vaunted things were fed, they're supposed to sign on to certain rules of operation. And here you'll see Sarah Huckabee Sanders utilizing some of Joe Biden's statements to then lever it for herself to show how she is so distinguished from him. And she is for the people. And she is very different than he is. But is she really? Watch the clicker and then think about some of the things she has to say and actually, in her position as the governor of Arkansas, find out whether or not she's actually comporting with what she says she's supposed to do. Here she opens. This is from townhall.com. Of course, it was the Republican response. And just look at the background for her. All the wonderful furniture in the governor's

offices. Yeah. Don't you wish you had that? Oh, that's, yeah, if you live in Arkansas, that's your house, right? It's the people's house, right? Just like Congress. Just try to go in it sometime and get shot like Ashley Babbitt, perhaps. Being a mom to three young children taught me not to believe every story I hear. So forgive me for not believing much of anything I heard tonight from President Biden, from out of control inflation and violent crime to the dangerous border crisis and threat from China. Okay, so she loads a lot in there, right? So what role is the federal government supposed to play when it comes to violent crime? And then we'll get to immigration again in a little bit. You know, I've covered this before.

As most of us know, violent crime is supposed to be a local and state issue, according to the U.S. Constitution. The legislature or the governor of a state can request that the executive branch come in with federal power if the legislature says that they are at risk of losing their Republican form of government or there is an insurrection. They have to request it. And so far, the only time I've seen anybody do anything close to this has been Greg Abbott over the past couple months in Texas claiming that there is an invasion on the border and asking for the federal government to do something. And then saying that the federal government is not responding to his request. That's pretty close. Now, we'll get into the border and invasion and

things like that later, but it still isn't quite what I would see as constitutionally provided. And of course, immigration, as I've mentioned before, is not a federal purview. It's a state purview. Naturalization is a federal purview. So Sarah Huckabee Sanders already has strayed from the Constitution. Okay, so we'll move along. Biden and the Democrats have failed you. They know it, and you know it. And it's time for a change. Tonight, let us reaffirm our commitment to a timeless American idea,

that government exists not to rule the people, but to serve the people. Democrats want to rule us with more government control, but that's not who we are. America is the greatest country. Ah, we had the clicker. It just almost popped up there. The world has ever known because we're the freest country the world has ever known. I'll go back. I'll go back so you can see it on the screen. Here we go.

But that's not who we are. America is the greatest country. There it is. Yeah. Well, I thought I could bring it down, but no. Because we're the freest country the world has ever known with a people who are strong and resilient. Five months ago, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. It was a hard time for our family, particularly our kids, Scarlett, Huck, and George. But we kept our faith and persevered. Thanks to exceptional doctors here in Arkansas, a successful surgery, and the grace of God, I am cancer-free. Okay, so she goes from personal information about herself and her struggles and her family, and she uses that as a lever to flip into criticism of Biden and the radical left, as many conservatives have observed. And there is plenty of criticism to offer about the radical left. So I'm going to go back.

I want to see if I can find that thumb again. Obviously, their little mini screen only comes down at a certain point. So we'll go back. Tonight from President Biden. From out of control inflation and violent crime to the dangerous border crisis and threat from China. Biden and the Democrats have failed you. There it is. Okay, so let's stop it right there. So government exists not to rule the people, but to serve the people. Okay, so let's stop it right there. So government exists not to rule the people, but to serve the people. So again, as a free market voluntarist anarchist, a Christian anarchist, I have to say that that is utterly, completely,

and ridiculously false. Government by definition rules people. You cannot get a government that serves people because it serves some people at the expense of other people. It's the only way it can operate because it is involuntary. It's not a service. It is force, as George Washington said. And he made plenty of darn mistakes listening to Alexander Hamilton. So this mythology that the government is there to serve people has got to be utterly crushed and demolished. It has to be extinguished. It is not there to serve anybody,

but the people who will get their hands on the levers of power. And as many rules as they try to put up in the U.S. Constitution to try to warn people against the use of the powers that are granted, they will not only use the powers granted, they will do even more than what is granted by the Constitution. And those powers are never, ever authentic. There is no so-called authority over Americans, any person. There's no legitimate authority that is granted by the Constitution because government is illegitimate. The only way that you can get legitimacy is if the other party has voluntarily acceded to the arrangement. And therefore, that cannot be a governmental system because when you agree to work with a

system, that's not the state, that's not the polis. That is a voluntary societal business transaction or personal anarchic agreement. It has nothing to do with the state. The state only operates through forcing those who don't want to participate into having to participate. It doesn't do it for the people. It does it to the people. Always, by definition, philosophically axiomatic. You can't get away from this. Democrats want to rule us with more government control, but that's not who we are. Okay, now we're going to pause it right there. Democrats want to rule us with more government control. Generally true that conservatives want to reduce the controls of the political sphere on people. Is that the case? Have we actually seen a reduction

in the size of government under so-called conservatives in Washington or even in your state? Generally speaking, no. We have seen under Donald Trump a reduction in things like corporate taxes and some regulations. We did see close to a period where the budget was so-called balanced, and the deficit would have drawn down the debt a little bit. But that didn't actually equate to the government reducing in size. It didn't. It has never reduced in size. It has always grown. And it's not just influencing those of us who are alive now. This is on the backs of people who haven't even been born. And they ought to rise up in protest, in armed protest, and stand for their individual rights and sovereignty because they've been enslaved before they were even conceived by people like her

when she worked for Donald Trump. I didn't see her speaking up so strongly against all the lockdowns and so on as being a result of Donald Trump and his executive order, March 13th, 2020. I didn't see Sarah Huckabee doing that. And again, personally, she seems like a very pleasant person and she's been through some rough stuff, but this is the sphere of political controls. And people seem to have

this curtain that they put up where they say, well, she's an okay person. So yeah, I feel comfortable with her. No, don't ever feel comfortable with the state. And I'll give you more reasons. And perhaps you're with me on this, everybody. America is the greatest country the world has ever known. Because we're the freest country the world has ever known. Well, at periods, yes. But since the late 1800s, no. No, sorry.

The people who are strong and resilient. Five months ago, I was diagnosed with thyroid cancer. It was a hard time for our family, particularly our kids, Scarlett, Huck, and George, but we kept our faith and persevered. Thanks to exceptional doctors here in Arkansas, a successful surgery, and the grace of God, I am cancer-free. Through it all, I couldn't help but think about my mom. She was 20 years old and in her first year of marriage

when she was diagnosed with spinal cancer. The doctors told her she might not live and if she did live they said she'd never walk again and if she did walk she'd definitely never have children the daughter she was told she'd never have was just sworn in as the new governor of Arkansas and is speaking to you tonight. Now, you know, as much as some people might look at that as wonderful, the ending part, that somehow that's something to delight, to provide delight. The daughter that she never thought she had has just been sworn in as governor. Well, I know I have a differing opinion

there. To me, that's a major step down. I think, why don't you just talk about your family? Don't talk about taking over a governmental position that can only exist off of taking money from people. I mean, that's like saying, in a way, that's like saying, and the daughter that she had just became the head of a, you know, the assistant to a mafia don, you know. Perversity and fear of the unknown can paralyze us, but faith propels us to charge boldly ahead. We can't stand still in the face of great challenges. You and I were put on this earth for such a time as this to charge boldly ahead. I'll be the first to admit, President Biden and I don't have a lot in common. I'm for freedom. He's for government control. Now she starts to lever her personal story into Joe Biden with a mixture of policy differences, supposedly,

and the personal weirdness of the Biden administration and the left that, of course, support the Biden administration so strongly. And they do. And, you know, she makes a good point here. But this is all done to facilitate bolstering the Republican Party, which really is just going to use these cultural things in ways that in many cases will federalize them and again, breach the very strictures of the Constitution that they supposedly hold so dear. At 40, I'm the youngest governor in the country. And at 80, he's the oldest president in American history. I'm the first woman to lead my state, and he's the first man to surrender his presidency to a woke mob that can't even tell you what a woman is. In the radical left's America, Washington taxes you and lights your hard-earned money on fire. But you get

crushed with high gas prices, empty grocery shelves, and our children are taught to hate one another on account of their race, but not to love one another or our great country. Whether Joe Biden believes this madness or is simply too weak to resist it. His administration has been completely hijacked by the radical left. The dividing line in America is no longer between right or left. The choice is between normal or crazy. It's time for a new generation of Republican leadership. Okay, so she makes some valid points, clearly. If you look at things like Rachel's so-called Levine, Richard Levine. If you look at the nuclear code maniac, who evidently didn't just like working for the Biden administration, but also liked working for himself, posing as a woman

and stealing ladies' handbags in airports, allegedly. Allegedly. So she makes some good points here. We look at radical CRT in schools and things like that, and she's going to get into those things. Sometimes those are seen as, you know, left wingers will say, oh, they're used as as trigger words and phrases just to pull conservatives in. Look, as you and I know, these are valid concerns on a local level and on a federal level. As I mentioned, I wrote a piece just a little while ago about how Congressman Jim Jordan, I wrote this for MRC TV and I shot a video for it. Congressman Jim Jordan has actually had to subpoena members of the Biden School Boards Association, that left-wing group that back in the fall of 2021 coordinated, and a whistleblower released information about this, coordinated with the Biden administration. And it was the Biden administration that appears to have tried to

solicit them to do this, to make it look as if parents going to local school board meetings and bringing up concerns about LGBT or CRT, critical race theory being taught in schools to eight year old, nine year old kids as those people as being terrorists, portraying them as terrorists if they spoke out at local school boards. So we know that the federal government has been involved in this, but there are many areas where this criticism is right, but they don't see that they themselves are getting involved as conservatives where they shouldn't in their own ways. So we'll continue and look at that. On taking office just a few weeks ago, I signed executive orders to ban CRT, Okay. So she wants to say never again. She's signed an executive order to say never again to mandatory shutdowns and mandates, things like that. Now, I'll go back into the school stuff in just a minute.

Actually, I'll do the school stuff first. She talks about how she signed this executive order to make sure that those types of that type of pedagogy will not be included in the schools, that will not be mandated on the kids in the schools. But the school system itself is a mandate on taxpayers. So where does she get off in saying, this is my point of departure from the mandate bus? Mandating for all these other things, that's perfectly fine. And, oh, it means we all care about kids. But mandating this means we don't care about kids. Mandate, mandate. How about caring about not mandating people to pay for it? How about that? How about recognizing the fallacy of so-called care that is the word that is imbued into the system of tax-funded

schools, which causes everyone to argue over what will be taught. As I said, to the understanding of those people who look at critical race theory as much as I think it is incorrect, there are a number of taxpayers who now will have their tax money extracted from them to pay for a school system supported by the state of Arkansas, which doesn't include something that they think is really important. LGBTQ people, as I mentioned, people who see the history of state encroachment into what is supposed to be a religious practice of marriage, don't recognize that when the state initially, they started pushing the state to license marriages and they started to hand the ability to do marriages to certain select people and then prefer benefits onto the married people

like visitation rights and wills and things like that and trusts and things, those sorts of easy government ways to handle your lives, those were preferred benefits that were given to the people that the government said were okay to get married. No wonder gay people would feel resentment and feeling as if, well, I love X, Y, or Z person, but our coupling is not being treated the same way. People don't distinguish the fact that religious marriage is marriage, and the government licensing marriage is not marriage. That's the government licensing a bond, and they mixed it all up. And that is why so many gay people get upset because they see this double standard in their eyes. So it's a similar sort of thing for education.

If certain people are getting benefits from this government system, there are always going to be small factions that feel that they're being mistreated because they're paying into the system too. Why don't they get what they want? Because it's not a market. That's the thing. Why don't they get what they want? Because it's not a market. That's the thing. Government can't give everything to everybody.

It doesn't work that way. It's the tragedy of the commons. First come, first serve. Everybody grabs what they can out of it. Just like in government-run lands. As I mentioned, government-run forest lands where they rent out to forest companies, the company's going in and they clear-cut everything. Soil erodes. They have no reason to husband it for any other use. People go in later. It's valueless. The government devalues everything by claiming that they value things. And this is what Sarah Huckabee Sanders is doing here. She's claiming that she signed this executive order to stop CRT and LGBTQ pedagogy in schools that already are predicated because, of course, people don't like that. They think that it's immoral to show to the kids. Well, how moral is it to show to the kids that it's okay to pick your neighbor's pocket to the fruits of anybody else's labor. That means you have a claim on another person. That means that that other person is, by definition, your slave. You can enslave that person. So what they do is they put a secondary in there. They put the government in, and the government taxes person A to provide the money

to allow person B's child to be taught by a teacher in the government system, right? With all these arguments in between CRT, LGBTQ pedagogy, how long are they going to go to school? Are they going to read Huck Finn or is that somehow racist now, even though the story is about two people from different races actually becoming friends? All of that nonsensical argument overlooks the fundamental immoral problem, which causes all this dissent, which is that the government is taking people's money. It's stealing people's money. It is the machinery of perpetual theft. And so what happens is you see them arguing, and in the end result, what are kids being taught?

That it's acceptable to take money from people to pay. So if it's acceptable to do that, to force person A to work so that person B's child can get the money through the school system, we're going to enslave person A. Then why not remove the middleman and enslave the teacher? Make the teacher give up his or her labor instead of person A, the taxpayer over here. If there is a right to education, if there is a right to food, enslave the farmers. Oh, that didn't work so well in Soviet Russia or China, did it? It didn't help that Ukraine had been the former breadbasket, but then under Stalin, people starved because they enslaved the farmers, right?

Slavery isn't really the best thing to get good production. So what Sarah Huckabee Sanders says there is really off base because she's not addressing the core of the problem. But the other part of this that I think is important is that Sarah Huckabee Sanders starts to talk about the government not doing lockdowns. She is going to stop lockdowns with her executive order. Okay, this is the big thing I wanted to mention. And you probably know where I'm going with this. This, to me, indicates that Sarah Huckabee Sanders doesn't have a clue about what she should be saying to people

about lockdowns and mandates during that so-called COVID pandemic, which wasn't a pandemic, emergency. Anybody worth his or her salts in her position who swears an oath to the Arkansas and the U.S. constitutions, had better wake up and recognize that claiming some great pride and saying, I signed an executive order to say that'll never happen again. Guess what? You didn't need to sign a stinking executive order, Sarah. You didn't have to do that because the constitution already prohibits it. As I've mentioned, the U.S. Constitution prohibits state legislatures from infringing on the fulfillment of private contract. It's the contract clause.

The Bill of Rights is supposed to protect the right to free assembly, the right to worship, the right to free speech. You can't just go shutting down businesses. That's a form of taking. That's a punishment without even any accusation of a crime or a trial. All of those are breaches of the first, second, fourth, fifth, sixth, and eighth amendments, Sarah. You swore an oath to uphold all of those things. Why is it that some guy who listens to punk rock in his car has to remind you of this? And I know you're not listening, Sarah. You haven't been listening for a long time. And yet she's being roundly applauded by conservatives. The laudits she has gotten from conservatives, you can see it on the screen,

she killed it, says townhall.com. What did she kill? The Constitution? That's been dead for a long time. This is the problem. They're not paying attention to their own oaths. And then they're patting themselves on the back, claiming some sort of paladin status that they're protecting the people. Well, what happens when another executive of your state comes in and revokes your executive order, Sarah? And this gets us to the deeper point, which goes to the Constitution. As I've mentioned, Aristotle had three forms of government that would be tyrannical and three forms of government that wouldn't be tyrannical. He said all of them that would be tyrannical were the ones that didn't have a written set of rules that put up barriers about what the state could do or not do. So if you had a single ruler,

you would have a tyranny. If you had a multiple number of rulers with no set of barriers under a written constitution, you'd have an oligarchy. And if you had many, many people, the bulk of the people without any constraints over what the people could do when they voted in the majority, it was called democracy. Which is why the founders disliked democracy, because it's simply majority rule, right? The two wolves in a sheep voting over dinner. On the other side, he said you could have three that could be positive or function properly. And you could have, you could have, what was it? I'm trying to remember the first one.

Anyway, I'll skip that. I'll see if I can find it elsewhere. Let me see. What was it he had? It was... Yeah, I'll skip it. I'll skip it for now. The key thing is that you had to have a constitution, right? Oh, yeah. There was monarchy, there was aristocracy, or there was republic, monarchy, aristocracy, or republic. Sorry for the delay. And J.R.R. Tolkien said, I would either call myself an anarchist or a monarchist. And he makes a good point. He said, look, I'd rather have no state at all. I'd rather have, the old style, tribal reputation, ostracism, that sort of thing, with chieftains and so on and elders seen as the final arbiters for adjudication. But regardless of that, if we can't get that, I think monarchy might be better because at least people know that the government, they're not being hoodwinked into thinking the government is them because it's not.

The royalty they know is their enemy if it's operating wrong. And he said, and maybe there's an incentive for the royals to try to function in some proper way because they are seen as possibly isolated and they want to perpetuate a kingdom that will be good for their children. Well, I think as you can see under the royal fiefdoms and the bloodlines and the feudal system, maybe that's not really the case. I would prefer to have real anarchy. But I think you made a good point about so-called democracy. The problem with Aristotle was that Aristotle and people like Sarah Huckabee Sanders, even if we look at Sarah Huckabee Sanders coming up with her executive orders and knowing that she didn't need to put out any executive orders because she already swore an oath to uphold the Constitution and should have said, I don't have the power to do this. No state legislature has the power to shut down businesses, to give them new rules about how they'll operate with their employees or anything like that.

Federal mandates, those are unconstitutional. We are against all of these things. Rather than doing that, she issues an executive order. Well, what does that mean? It means that in the future, there can be another executive order that goes in the opposite direction. Right. She's not mentioning the constitution. She's saying, well, it's almost as if it's assumed that they can do this in Washington and the constitution is completely out of the picture here. She's not even educating people, which she has a great

opportunity to do. She could actually show people, this is what the constitution says. Here's this up on the screen. I'll show you And so on and so forth. Here's what they did. We people, I've been doing this. David Knight has done this. Tony Arterburn has done this. A lot of people have done this. James Corbett has done this. A lot of people have explained this is the way the government is supposed to function according to the Constitution. But her type of people in politics, they don't do this. Is it because they want to think that there is this power in Washington? Is it they don't want to bring up the fact that social security is massively unconstitutional and shouldn't exist? They're just going to say, oh yeah, no, you're lying about us. We support Social Security and perpetual generational theft.

What is this with the GOP? What the heck is wrong with you? What are you thinking? You're that's completely contrary to the very things you said you would do as you took your oath to this document. And again, we go back to the Constitution. If she can impose, Sarah Huckabee Sanders can come up with an executive order that says, we're not going to do this anymore. We're not going to answer these federal lockdown guidelines or jab mandates. We're not going to institute these in the state of Arkansas, whether it's a federal mandate or it's a state mandate, no more. We won't execute these things on the executive branch. Well, she could already say that. I'm not going to execute these things because they're unconstitutional.

She swore an oath. She has a duty to say that. She doesn't need to do an executive order. And this, again, if they can revoke the executive order, some other person can come in and revoke it, then what does that mean? It just depends on who's in charge. And now we look at the Constitution. People say, are we, are we? I love that all-inclusive we. I didn't sign on to this,

but I'm part of it. It's part of the royal we now, right? It's that facade that they hand to people. Are we a nation of rules or a nation of men or a nation of laws? As they say, are we a nation of men or a nation of laws? Well, the men write the laws. And by laws, they mean the Constitution. Well, men wrote that. I wasn't party to that. Were you party to the negotiations of the Constitution? Did you sign on to the Constitution?

No, it's all imposed on you. So Aristotle himself had it wrong. As illuminating, and I don't mean that in any sort of illuminati way, as brilliant as Aristotle was, and Thomas Aquinas called him the philosopher because he covered so many areas, everything from marine biology to drama, right? Aristotle had it wrong about written constitutions because typically they become fraudulent documents. People don't pay attention to them as we see in places like the United States and Canada, right? They don't have necessarily a document called the constitution, but they have

the charter of rights and freedoms. They don't pay attention to it. It's all conditional. You look at the French statement of rights during the French Revolution. Everything's contingent. It's the state decides. But even in the United States, the state still decided. The people who appeared at the Constitutional Convention and usurped the Articles of Confederation were statists. They were establishing a new state and forcing that on people. And again, as many parameters and barriers as people put up that people want to applaud, and I will bring them up, not as necessarily a person who believes the Constitution has any moral authority over anyone, but as a person who wants to remind people like Sarah Huckabee Sanders of their oaths and say, hey, at least you could try to play fair about your oaths. Why bother

giving it then? Well, the only reason is because they wouldn't be able to get into the office if they didn't give their bogus oath. They lie all the time, and she's not even one of the worst. You saw Joe Biden. He's liar supremo. I mean, just absolutely throughout his life made so many stumbling, bumbling errors in his life and become so corrupt that one wonders if he will ever find a way to redeem himself and find a way to find some forgiveness by God to really ask for it. And, you know, everybody has differing opinions, but I'm trying to stick very close to what they tell us they will do. Okay. I'm not telling Sarah Huckabee Sanders do X, Y, and Z with the government. I'm saying you told us you wouldn't do X, Y, or Z with the

government. And yet you allow these things. You're not bringing up what was done. I think that does a massive disservice to future generations who could learn from a person like her who actually could bring things up. But no, she digs the hole further. She says, I issued an executive order. Okay, well, even if we go by the Constitution, we know that the Constitution could be changed. So again, are we a nation of law? We are a nation of men. It's men. There's only one real ruler, the one who created all of us. And if we can try to stick as closely to the commandments of God as possible, we will see that the state

abrogates most of the Ten Commandments. The state claims authority. Even in marriage now, people turn to the state rather than God. Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Americans want common sense from their leaders, but in Washington... Really? I think we're done with her. Now, let's turn to a couple other items. This is from Chris Minahan. In Pivot, Biden shifts from condemning MAGA extremists to putting forward his own MAGA agenda. And here is another excellent example of where people, I think, have in some cases, they have tried to do right and showing hypocrisy of Biden.

But in fact, they have reinforced a mythology. OK, two mythologies. One is an economic myth and the other is a fundamental constitutional myth. Or I should say a myth that suborns the Constitution. This comes from Chris Minahan of Information Liberation. And Chris is generally great. In his State of the Onion address on Tuesday night, White House occupant Joe Biden shifted from condemning MAGA extremists to putting forward his own Buy American MAGA agenda. Biden said he is ordering all future federal infrastructure projects to be made in America. Buy American has been the law of the land since 1933, Biden said. Yeah, Joe, put on the hard hat and go hang out with some union members. Awesome. But for too long, past administrations have found ways to get around it.

Not anymore. From now on, we're going to buy from Ukraine. No more Russia. We're going to buy from Ukraine. I'm sorry. I just thought that was another state. We've been handing them so much cash. So the point about the hypocrisy is very good. He says, tonight I am announcing new standards to require all construction materials used in federal infrastructure projects to be made in

America. Sounding like Donald Trump. American made lumber, glass, drywall, fiber optic cables, and on my watch, American roads, American bridges, and American highways will be made with American products. All right. So we'll talk about the economics of only buying American in just a moment. But first, I want to go to the most obvious thing. People who are bringing up that Joe Biden has shifted to this MAGA agenda are correct, but I think they do a disservice in mentioning, by the way, infrastructure projects have nothing to do with the federal government. There should be no such term unless you are in Washington, D.C., or it is a territory, or it is on a federal military garrison.

There should be no such term as federal infrastructure project. So the entire basis of this is faulty. I haven't been seeing people talk about this. Why not bring up the deeper lesson, which is that, Joe, all of your bluster about bringing in American-made products for your infrastructure projects, none of that infrastructure that you're supposedly funding is supposed to be done by the federal government. That's like saying, well, the federal government is going to be creating donuts and sending them out. I didn't see donut in the Constitution. And I certainly didn't see school lunch, by the way, which, as you know, they're now pushing for.

New revisions to make the already poisonous, nasty, awful school lunch programs for kids even better thanks to federal help. No, thank you. So that's a big deal. Now, when we go into the economics of it, I think it's very important to draw out this idea of only buying American. Because as I said, there are two major points to bring up when we talk about so-called buying American. Oftentimes people talk about the trade deficit. There is never a trade deficit. By definition, trade means there is no deficit. What they're talking about there are the goods and services, which are called the current accounts, and the fact that if the dollar is relatively strong compared to other

things, Americans will be able to buy more products and services from foreign countries than those foreign countries will buy of American things because it's relatively more expensive. So as I mentioned, if you're going to go on a trip to England, it's great to be able to go when the dollar is strong relative to the pound. Usually the pound is worth more than a dollar, but there could be an opportunity for you to go when it's really strong. You'll be able to get more with your dollar when you trade it in at the airport to get pounds. You'll get more pounds for that. Okay. You'll be able to buy more stuff. That's a function of productivity and GDP, right? And we'll get to how bad that is in a moment. But if the dollar represents something

strong, something valuable, which is a stronger GDP, stronger US economy, not done through federal reserve inflation and money going into all sorts of very risky ventures, which then will collapse because they've had their price bid up by the federal reserve notes that have been pumped out there. If it's real value, then the money that we send over there comes back to us and we bought a lot of goods. So people look at that as a trade deficit. And again, I say by definition, there is no such thing as a trade deficit, both through lexicography and linguistics and logic, because you've traded. When I buy something from you, are you only getting my money or am I actually getting something from you?

We make a trade. We've traded. It's just a step different from barter. We're using a currency of exchange rather than direct exchange. Right? So that you can use that currency of exchange to exchange with somebody else rather than having to go through second and third party bartering money facilitates easier trade among people because people find some common thing that they value it could have been salt that was money for a while it could have been all sorts of things became precious metals eventually and metals that people could use for for making things right and

so people found these commonly valued things and they traded those rather than saying, well, you know, I want to get my lawn mowed. But the guy who mows the lawns, I have brownies that I could get to him, but he's allergic to chocolate. So he needs wool. So maybe I could go to the guy who has sheep and see if he wants my chocolate. Then I could get a deal from him and bring that over. No, if you find common things that you value, then that inspires trade and a monetary system, right? It shouldn't be imposed through fiat by force by the government, right? Because that is something where the government is constantly going to make sure that the money that either it makes or that its monopoly bank makes constantly helps feed the

government, which can't tax you enough, and feeds all these government programs. And that reduces the power of the dollar. But when it is stronger relative to other currencies, the dollar is going to be able to buy more overseas. That money doesn't transform into yen or yuan or pounds or anything. It doesn't melt into those things. It remains in the hands of people over there, and they want to do something with it. Most of the time, that money, eventually, all the time, it comes back to the United States. It might exchange a few hands, say, in Finland first, or Sweden first, or somewhere. Or under the contemporary corporate central banking system, it might get waylaid into central banks, which is the problem. But in a real economy,

what you've got is you've got people buying products overseas. That money comes back in the form of investments and employing more people, which is a good thing. They will find ways to invest in American businesses and say, I would like to put this in in this venture, right? It's not going to sit fallow. It's not going to be hanging out in people's mattresses out in China. It's not going to happen. Now, one of the things that's important is this so-called trade deficit, when they see that Americans have bought more of a foreign good, say from China or Japan or whatever. And we need to talk at a different time about possible slave labor or conditions. That is both a conservative, paleo-conservative argument, and in some cases, a left-wing argument that unions use a great deal to say, well, don't buy Chinese, they use slave labor. Don't buy Mexicans because their standard of living isn't as high and

people are being exploited. Well, what do you want them to do? Not have any work? What's going to happen to their standard of living then? You need to give them opportunities, right? It's just like saying, don't employ young people at a minimum wage. How are they going to get a start? That's essentially what you're doing to Mexican people or foreign people when you're saying, don't employ those people because they work for less. Employ the Americans because they work for more. Well, that means the consumer is going to have to pay more. And that is exactly what Joe Biden is doing here. He's going to be costing the American government and the American taxpayers more by not buying foreign stuff. Now, I know there are a lot of different factors to consider there. There's corruption. There's all sorts of things playing with different governments.

But this is the problem when you get the government involved. On a strict economic basis, the idea of not buying a foreign good is as silly as not buying a good from another town or in some cases not buying the services of somebody else who through the division division of labor, has started to do something that you're not doing. It is just macro division of labor. And that is something that, as I mentioned in the past, when I teach students in economics, even Paleolithic man did division of labor. Long before there was settled agriculture, cave people weren't sending pregnant women out on the hunt. They weren't sending toddlers out on the hunt, and't sending pregnant women out on the hunt. They weren't sending toddlers out on the hunt and old people weren't out on the hunt. They divided their labor and people back at the cave or wherever they happen to stop for that period of time, you're a river or whatever, would do other things. And of course, with division of labor comes greater practice. You get better at what you're doing and then you get surplus. At a certain point with each one,

you get a margin of diminishing returns. So putting your efforts into more of those things becomes less worthwhile and you start to trade. And as I mentioned, when I start my economics classes with students, I show them the basic machines, the inclined plane, the lever, the wheel, things like that. Now, why did people keep using those things? And again, even ancient man, they didn't somehow come up with a genius idea. I'm going to invent the inclined plane. They would just use those things and see, oh yeah, it's easier to do it because I'm increasing distance and not pulling something straight up. The distance allows me to put smaller amounts of effort over into a larger space, and one man can now get the work

done of two men or three men in the past. That frees up labor. You don't want to make everything harder for people. You want to make everything easier for people so that they can devote less time and efforts to those things, make them easier to do, so they can move on to address other things in their lives that might need addressing and make life better. That's how living standards are raised, not by making people work more, by allowing them to work less and save their money. So in this way, what Biden is actually doing here on this infrastructure thing is, again, reinforcing the fallacious idea that the federal government should be involved in infrastructure, which it should not, unless it is in a territory, it is on a garrison, or it is in Washington, D.C. And those are the

only three land areas that the federal government is constitutionally sanctioned to run. No such thing as parks or national monuments or leasing the oceans or anything like that. That's all supposed to be left up to the states and the individuals and possible private property owners in the states and with the shorelines there. And if there are disputes between the states because of some sort of pollution, then they can use the Interstate Commerce Clause to address the problem after the fact in Congress. State on state problems, just like if they impose tariffs on each other because tariffs raise costs. Tariffs block goods from getting to people. So should we have a tariff between me and this other town so that I

can't get my car repaired in the other town? I have to only go to the guys down the street. I can't go to the guys down the street plus another quarter mile. Of course not. I can't get peaches from Georgia because they're easier to grow and they're actually cheaper than peaches in New Hampshire where I live. That's insane. During the winter, I can't get oranges from Florida. Why? I should try to grow them in a greenhouse in New Hampshire with all the energy that would require? That's insane. So if we translate that, why does it only have to be the American ethos that has to be within America? That's destructive to productivity. And this guy, Joe Biden, is playing on this Americana for Americans first because we've got to save American jobs. Well, then we can make everybody work if we just remove the inclined plane and make life harder. If we've got people who aren't super skilled and they're willing to do the work of X, Y, or Z, why not let them do it for less?

And that allows the government in all its va wisdom, to then spend more on other things. Right. So in my book, In Live Free or Die, I explain that now some people say, well, strategically, guard, if you look over the long term, that could leave America vulnerable for military reasons and things like that. So you want to have some sort of flourishing, evergreen sources for things like national defense and things like that. Perhaps that's the case. But somebody is going to have to draw that fine line. First of all, eliminate infrastructure from this entirely. Somebody is going to have to draw that fine line between saying, how much is too much when we look at expense? Are we going to have an $8,000 screwdriver

versus taking all that money and being able to lever it better by getting foreign goods and being better prepared? So there's that fine line, right? Now that's up to people who want to get involved with politics. But I wanted to bring up that the sheer fundamental economics of it are very, very clear. You don't want to block people. And the other part of it is when you look at this mindset of buy American, it's perfectly fine if an American individual wants to just buy American. You want to go local. You want to keep it local.

Stay close. There are lots of different reasons, but that's up to the individual. You see here, even here, people are arguing about what is the state going to do with the money it takes from me. I want it only spent on Americans. I want it only spent on Japanese products. I want it only spent on Americans. I want it only spent on Japanese products. I want it only spent on Canadian products. I want it half and half.

So many different people have different opinions. And again, I'll bring up when Donald Trump imposed his tariffs against Chinese washing machines and dishwashers and dryers, he did that to favor the businesses in Ohio, like Whirlpool and Maytag. They're based in Ohio. That is Senator Rob Portman's state. Portman lobbied very strongly, as did those manufacturers, for the tariffs against the Chinese goods. Reason Magazine, shortly thereafter, a couple of years after, reported on what a disaster that was, how that cost so much to the consumers, which it could have allowed them if they could have bought the foreign products for the cheaper price to have money left over to spend on something else, just like the inclined plane allows that other person to go and work on something else. Now there's an opportunity that's

been completely lost. It's been completely destroyed. Why? Because you wanted to make sure that the washing machine manufacturers in Ohio didn't lose to the competition. And this goes towards Frederick Bastiat's 19th century essay called The Parable of the Broken Window. The genius. Frederick Bastiat was great from France. Bastiat explained that these attempts to try to give work or maintain some sort of industry for X, Y, or Z industry run counter to the interests of the assembly in France, is arguing that the storm that came and broke these windows is actually a benefit. It is a good thing because it will give the glazier work. And he says, if that's the case and that's so great, then let's think about that. What are we not seeing? And one of the great things in Bastia is he's one of the first people, as far as economics goes, to say, try to think about what's not seen, the opportunity costs that are imposed

on people. So he would say, what's not seen? What's not seen now is the thing that the owner of the house would have gotten with the money that he now has to spend on repairing that window. Maybe he was going to get a new window put in. Maybe he was going to buy something for his dog. Maybe he was going to take his wife out. Maybe he was going to invest in eventually getting a fireplace put into his place, a new pair of shoes, whatever it might be, new suit, new tie, whatever, right? New turkey for Thanksgiving, fresh turkey. We don't know, right? It's not our place to judge for him. And so what we are seeing in this idea of, well, you must be restricted from making your own choices about buying foreign goods, from looking into whether or not that might be slave labor, from looking into the working conditions of those places. You're too stupid to figure it out. We're going

to leave it in the hands of other people who have completely perverse incentives, like, oh, I don't know, maybe getting political donations from manufacturers in Ohio. Unions, right? Like Bernie Sanders, blocking competition. Can't have that. Can't have foreign milk because the dairy farmers in America have to be bolstered. We can't get sugar from foreign countries because the American sugar, corn syrup, Archer's, Daniel's, Midland, the corn conglomerate has to have corn syrup in everything. So we need to have a tariff against that. That's one of the major reasons why corn syrup is in everybody's sodas now and sweetens so much stuff because they block foreign sugar. Yeah. So we look at these things. Bastia said, what government policy does when it restricts people's choices is it's breaking their windows.

It's forcing them to have to spend more on something that they in the past wouldn't have had to spend money on just to be even where they were before. And this is exactly what this type of policy on a national front is doing. And again, you can feel free to mix in the arguments about whether or not a nation state might be prepared or not prepared if it relied solely or to a large extent on getting foreign items. But this is so-called infrastructure, not national defense. And of course, the argument was that the interstate highway system, they gave us this spurious argument that it's for national defense. So we can get things across the country and defend ourselves very well. I don't buy that at all. I think that's ridiculous.

Now, a couple other items in the news I just wanted to mention when we talk about political donations. You'll see this on the screen, everybody. And thanks for hanging around. I'm Gardner Goldsmith. If you're just joining us, I'm filling in for David Knight on the David Knight program. David Knight's show, Monday through Friday, 9 to noon. David has been sick the past couple of days, so Tony Arterburn and I filled in. Tony had the first hour and I'm finishing off the program. I can't see the Rockfin chat right now. So I just want to let you know, if you do want to donate at Rockfin, please do so. And you can watch on Odyssey Live, Rumble typically live. I don't think Tony was able

to set that up. And on David's Libertarian Twitter feed, as well as live over audio feeds all over the place. So check that out on Podbean and also on other audio streaming platforms. Please check that out. David Knight Show. And go to TheDavidKnightShow.com to find out what you can get over at the David Knight Show website. Like I said, I've got my David Knight Show mug right here with my little vitamin water in there. So, all right, let's look at this one because as you know, the Bankman-Fried situation with FTX has come back to bite certain politicians. So let's go with a little bit of information here.

This comes from Investopedia. FTX and Bankman Freed was the second biggest donor to the Democrats of the last election cycle. And here is more information about what's happening there right now. FTX to politicians, return our donations or we will sue. FTX and its officers have donated $93 million to politicians and political groups, according to lawyers. And don't forget, what was one of the biggest investors in FTX? Ukraine. FTX, the crypto trading platform whose bankruptcies sent shutters through the industry, has a message for the politicians who took its political donations. Show us the money.

Bankruptcy court appointed officers of FTX, which doled out as much as $93 million to politicians, are demanding the money back by the end of the month and threaten legal consequences otherwise. So they want their donations back because they have declared bankruptcy and they need to pay off those people to whom they owe money. FTX said, and there are a lot, FTX said in a news release that it would privately contact the recipients of political donations made in its name, including from some of the company's top ranking officials, to get the millions donated to them returned. If the money isn't returned, FTX said it would take the recipients to court to get the funds back. And that means a lot of disclosures,

and people don't want that when they are politically involved. To the extent such payments are not returned voluntarily, the FTX, this is a quote the company wrote, the FTX debtors reserve the right to commence actions before the bankruptcy court in New York to require, oh no, it's in Baltimore, Maryland, to require the return of such payments with interest accruing from the date any action is commenced, the company wrote in its release. It also said that any charity or other third-party donations and the amount of any payment received from an FTX contributor doesn't prevent the company from attempting to get the original donation return. Of course, Sam Bankman-Fried pled not guilty to eight counts of fraud and conspiracy in January. The new court-appointed executive of the FTX estate said that the scandal seems to be a case of old-fashioned embezzlement, adding that it was unlikely that investors and creditors would be able to get their money back.

They have an estimated 1 million creditors. Wow. Amazing. That is something else. Sanders and about Joe Biden and about some of the trade things, just to throw some of that in. So people will hopefully think about some of those edges, dig down a little bit, that sort of thing. And again, you can find some of this information over my sub stack. And there's a lot of other information as well. The story about Tom Jones and the Wells soccer rugby team, I should say, saying that they don't want people to sing the Tom Jones song Delilah anymore. But I want to go over to this information from New York. New York City ends its so-called vaccine mandate for city workers on the eve of the court hearing on lawsuits challenging the city's rejection of religious exemptions. And I brought this up on my Rockfin show last night. And oh, by the way, if you want to watch that, it's every night, Monday through Friday, starting at six o'clock at Rockfin. Just look up Liberty Conspiracy

or my name, Gardner Goldsmith, and you'll find it. You can also find the Liberty Conspiracy videos at Rumble under Liberty Conspiracy, Odyssey as well, and BitChute. And we're hoping to, I have some at YouTube, but not all of them are at YouTube. And you can also go to my Gardner Goldsmith sub stack and find those as well. But as you'll see here, New York Mayor Eric Adams on Monday announced COVID-19 vaccines will no longer be mandatory for city employees beginning February 10th. The announcement came on the eve of tomorrow's scheduled hearing, that being today, of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on multiple lawsuits, including two sponsored by the Children's Health Defense, CHD. This is the defender, their output. And they do a pretty good job, generally speaking. They're really quite something. RFK Jr. is he's really stepped it up, challenging the city's near blanket refusal of religious exemption requests to the mandate. Commenting on the timing of the mayor's news, Mary Holland, CHD president and general counsel, told the defender,

while we appreciate New York City's announcement that it will drop its COVID-19 shot mandate for public employees as of February 10th, kind of arbitrary, sort of like Joe Biden deciding that all of a sudden the emergency is going to end in March. Well, there'll be no emergency then. We are deeply concerned that the mayor's timing in this announcement suggests that he is dropping it in anticipation of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals oral argument on Wednesday that will consider the constitutionality of the city's religious exemption process. The last bit here, I think, is very important. I wanted to make sure I got this to you because these are the sorts of tricks they try to pull a lot with gun laws, and then they go back and they just claim the power

all over again. To the extent that the city may be trying to escape judicial oversight of its unlawful actions by asserting the case is now moot, I hope and trust that the Second Circuit will see through this ploy. COVID-19 is unlikely to be the last declared pandemic, so nothing about what has happened is moot. And it's exactly like what I brought up about Sarah Sanders. Somebody can just go and revoke the executive order. People got to recognize that even under the constitutional structures, they get around it. But even the Constitution itself can be overlooked or written and changed. So how do you answer this? It's a difficult question.

I think it opens up some deep philosophical answers and some really cool exploration into history. As I often mention, you look at ancient Ireland, ancient Vikings, very interesting non-statist systems. Now, with that said, let's go over to see some of the damage that it looks like the Jabs have done in Canada. Latest news, January 27th out of Canada. This comes from Mark Crispin Miller's substack. Canada's 2020 excess deaths are on pace to shatter 2021 and 2020. You know, when everybody was dying from that so-called pandemic. This out January 27th, 2023. Excess deaths is the term that indicates whether a region had more or fewer deaths than expected,

given demographics and historical trends. I'm going to make this larger for you all. Canada's reporting lags behind most other first world countries. The current total for excess deaths in 2022 is only recorded up to week 35. She writes, Pandemic Refusenik writes, imagine a pandemic so deadly, the highest rates of excess deaths took place in 2022 up to this point, and that was August 27th. At week 35 in 2021, the total excess deaths was 10,057. In other words, the 2022 excess death total with an 85% vaccinated so-called population is on pace to far surpass the total from 2020 when no one was vaccinated in Canada. Brazil, Sao Paulo registers 15% more deaths until October 2022 than in the same period of 2019. Heart problems and sepsis are high. What a shock.

Amazing. And one more item that I brought up last night on my program to show you a slight shift for RFK Jr.'s group, The Defender. Compliments to them again Jr. believes that there is a so-called climate emergency, but they're wondering about addressing this so-called emergency. I wish they would look into the bogus nature of the data, the bogus way that government has facilitated so many corrupt so-called university professors and many agencies like NOAA and NASA to fudge the data, public speakers going with the fudge data, unconstitutional so-called climate czars like John Kerry, hypocritical cheese meisters flying in private jets with multiple homes and yachts. And by the way, in order to avoid the dock taxes and the taxes on his yacht that the government of Massachusetts would have taken from him, he got lower taxes by docking his yacht in Rhode Island. John Kerry, what a guy.

Because, you know, it's all about making sure that the rich so-called pay their fair share. Right. So they're saying here there are better ways to address climate change. Again, they're being assumptive here.'ll just go a little further to say there is no power to declare that. Including building a left-right coalition that can work together to build resilience to the environmental challenges of the 21st century while preserving democracy, civil liberties, and human rights. Well, democracy is part of the problem here. Whether or not it even is democracy, the politicians in our fascist system are claiming that they represent democracy when they really don't. And I'll turn over here very quickly to mention a couple big items. I'm going to be writing about this for MRCTV very soon. Just grab this real quick here. Oh, by the way, one other thing.

As we see, February 6th, Republicans are pressuring Biden to send more advanced weapons to Ukraine. Unbelievable. But. And they already sent new two point two billion dollar arms package. So they want even more. But we'll see here. There has been,

there have been a pair. There is a pair of circuit court cases that are very important. One is the ban on so-called marijuana users owning guns that has been ruled unconstitutional. And then the other one is that Merrick Garland, the Attorney General, is, as they say, going to go on the offensive to so-called protect firearms ban. This is the one about people who have been convicted of felonies or in some cases misdemeanors, and they serve their time and they're out. And yet, since the 1968 Gun Control Act,

they have been prohibited from carrying firearms. So what I'd like to do here, see if I can find this, is go to the actual... Where's my ruling? I'm looking for my ruling. Here it is. This is the actual ruling on this case. This is an appeal to the U.S. District Court of Appeals

in the Northern District of Texas. And the case is United States of America versus Zaki Rahimi. And this will show you that in some cases, these people aren't good guys. And it calls into question whether or not under the government paradigm, people really are being protected. Because this guy who won in this court case, which now overturns the traditional position of government being able to ban people. And of course, if they want to get a gun and they want to commit a crime, they're just going to do it anyway from carrying firearms after they've served their time. If they're released to the public, then why are they not safe enough to be able to

exercise their so-called right their supposed evident right i should say to self-defense and here's a little bit as we close things off the question presented in this case is not whether prohibiting the possession of firearms by someone subject to a domestic violence restraining order is a laudable policy goal the question is under the 1968 gun control act whether a specific statute, that statute, does so, whether it's constitutional under the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Zaki Ramehi levies a facial challenge to the 1968 Gun Control Act. Court and a prior panel upheld the statute applying this court pre-Bruin from last year and the United States v. Rahimi and so on and so forth from 2022. Rahimi filed a petition for hearing on bank for the whole group of judges while the petition was pending. The Supreme Court

decided Bruin. Now, between December 2020 and January 2021, Rahimi was involved in five shootings all in and around Arlington, Texas. On December 1st, after selling narcotics to an individual, he fired multiple shots into that individual's residence. The following day, Rahimi was involved in a car accident. He exited his vehicle, shot at the other driver, allegedly, and fled the scene. He returned to the scene in a different vehicle and shot at the other driver's vehicle, allegedly. On December 22nd, Rahimi shot at a constable's vehicle. And on January 7th, Rahimi fired multiple shots in the air

after his friend's credit card was declined at a Watt Burger. Officers in the Arlington Police Department identified Rahimi as a suspect in the Arlington Police Department identified Rahimi as a suspect in the shootings and obtained a warrant to search his home. Officers executed the warrant and found a rifle and pistol. Rahimi admitted that he possessed the firearms. He also admitted that he was subject to an agreed civil protective order. And this was the key. This is where they said, you can't have your firearms. But the thing here, as we close off the show, everybody was, he hadn't been convicted.

He was out. He was outside and not convicted of a crime. So very clearly, if you're outside prison, based on American history, based on the Second Amendment, the government is not supposed to infringe on your ability to be able to keep and bear arms. You're God-given right. I see Tony is bringing up our farewell music. Thank you. And prayers to David Knight for feeling better and having no discomfort. Hopefully he's doing well.

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