The David Knight Show - Fri 27Dec24 UNABRIDGED - Guest Host Gard Goldsmith

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Starting point is 00:02:17 On this program today, we'll be discussing a lot of breaking stories that might have slipped past a lot of folks because they were with family, with friends, going to church and enjoying Christmas. And we'll recap some of those items and get your opinions on Rumble, on Rockfin, on Odyssey, on DLive, and of course on David Knight's ex at Libertarian. I'm Gardner Goldsmith, and you might know my work from MRCTV. Thank you for joining us if you're coming over from there. And of course, Liberty Conspiracy, Monday through Friday at 6 p.m. Eastern time. But I always say whatever time zone you call home is okay with me. Thank you very much for being here as I get to fill in for David on an absolutely wonderful day here in the deepest part of Russia where we spread the Russian propaganda. That is our business here.

Starting point is 00:03:10 My brain chip receiver is working very well. And Vladimir Putin is speaking to me, giving me all the instructions. Yes, he's written in Cyrillic to me. I hope you have a great, great rest of the day. And let's get started. We've got much to discuss. I want to welcome everyone, and if you're watching on X, you can give us your comments inside X, and the Russian team can post your comments on the screen.

Starting point is 00:03:37 Also, you can watch us on Rumble and on Rockfin, and don't forget, while I get to fill in for David coming over from the Liberty Conspiracy or MRCTV, I want to remind you that you can donate to The David Knight Show. This is how his program works, and it works well, thanks to you. Go to The David Knight Show store and check everything out there, because there's some great items. And the Christmas Night album is great. It's so much fun to listen to. So heartwarming. And it's just amazing.

Starting point is 00:04:10 His talent and integrity. So thanks for being here everybody. I'm honored to be filling in for David. Had a little abbreviated theme there. And we're going to get started right away. We've got a lot to cover to recap after Christmas. And in fact on my program. What I often do is. I show fact, on my program, what I

Starting point is 00:04:25 often do is I show a little billboard on what we're going to be discussing, that sort of thing. So we'll do that. And we'll play a little music here and there, maybe some Christmas music. I'm in my Christmas sweater. The theme is still with me. The season is still with me. So let's see what's on tap for the David Knight Show, Friday, December 27th, 2024. What a beautiful time of the year. Anytime is great. As Jason Barker of Nights of the Storm says, any day is Christmas Day for me. So I love that. That's a great sentiment.

Starting point is 00:04:59 Well, today on the program, in fact, on my show, I should mention on my show, I often have tonight on there. And I'll say tonight, tonight, tonight, like Genesis. But I can't do that today. And I use it as a way to actually make sure that the Russian team is able to get the audio from computer to going through to you. And you give the five by five and so on. And so I can't do that because it's not Genesis singing tonight, tonight, tonight. Sometimes we even have other musicians sneak through on this. So let's see if we have some other guest musicians stopping by. Yes, I get it. It's Genesis with Humpty D, a special guest. Just let me know if you got the audio okay.

Starting point is 00:05:51 We'll check in on the five by five. And I see already the Russian team is telling me we have commenters over on X Populating X. I appreciate it, everybody. I can't believe it's there. That is his nom de guerre. And we've also got good morning guard uh glad uh glad i'm here glad i'm glad i'm here putin i think is what it says martin thorne thank you martin and happy morning to you my friend great to see you there and uh i've got something else

Starting point is 00:06:20 there and i'm not quite sure what that is but but you can check out the link if you want to over there on X. And I also want to say hi to the great Rockfin crowd and the Rumble crowd and everybody who goes to visit after the fact. If you do get the chance, check out David Knight's Gab feed because he posts, the whole team at the David Knight show posts the shows and segments and the entire shows and audios as well and you can check that out on his gab lots of people follow david on gab and of course on his ex at libertarian lots of people follow him there and i want to say hello to octo spook and karen carpenter and greg talent

Starting point is 00:06:57 and so many of the wonderful folks who are oh dougalug hi dougalug are populating rockfin what a great home as well as all the folks over at Rumble. I always say it looks like fruit stripe gum at Rumble. All the colors. It gets me thinking of those wonderful flavors of fruit stripe gum. So let's look at what is on tap today. At 1030, we're going to be joined by Eric Peters of ericpetersautos.com. I highly recommend going to Eric's website every morning. Maybe it's over breakfast or it's at lunch

Starting point is 00:07:29 or maybe you're just hanging out, waiting somewhere in some government line, a line created by government. And who knows, there are a lot of lines that are created by government. We might not even realize it, like the waiting line to get nitrogen fertilizer or a baby formula.

Starting point is 00:07:47 Those lines, you know, sort of like Frederick Bossier, the economist from the 19th century in France, said, it is what is seen and what is not seen, the opportunities lost due to government. Well, what are our opportunities today on the program? We'll start things off with the big story, recapping post-Christmas stories and Christmas stories. A couple major ones that are breaking just over the past day that David didn't get the opportunity to discuss with you yesterday live. So I want to give you one of the major ones that has a bearing on the socialistic welfare state in the United States that one of the major domestic policies that started up under FDR. And if you can guess it, throw it into the chat. Yes, you might call it a

Starting point is 00:08:34 Ponzi scheme. That'll give you a hint. And then we'll look at do Trumpers adore Donald so much that they blind themselves to the latest evidence of his errors and the legacy of them. I've got some samples that I showed on my streaming show on Liberty Conspiracy last night at six o'clock, Monday through Friday. Check us out at Rumble and Rockfin. And my ex is at Guard Goldsmith. That's at Guard Goldsmith. But on Liberty Conspiracy last night, we checked it out and I thought there were some terrific observations from the folks in the chats. And hopefully I had some salient observations as well. So let me know. I didn't want to attack this person too much. Trump was sort of emblematic of how people will, they pull their blinders over their eyes and are just counting on one guy to do so much. And to me, that reflects a really dangerous position

Starting point is 00:09:33 of so much collectivism that has arisen on the United States system, like tarnish on silver over the years, just layer upon layer, strata upon strata of collectivism that even many conservatives accept. And now they want the one guy to fix everything. You know, I might be going a little bit too far. Maybe I'm being unfair, but we'll see. We'll talk about Trump's Christmas message and whether or not it lacks or has any sort of authenticity or any believability. We'll look at the chaos in Syria. We'll also, I know, also connected to Donald Trump, which many people don't want to discuss. And we'll also discuss, and I'll show you on an MRCTV video,

Starting point is 00:10:18 the reactions on YouTube are a perfect example of it. It's an exercise in societal blindness, I think, in many cases. Not to say that I am blessed with any sort of great insight, but I have a different viewpoint and I think they're not seeing what I'm seeing. So we'll look at ABC avoiding the New York City, that should be New York City, subway murder by fire while the immigration issue grows more intense. Give me some breaking news on that. And we'll look at climate cult fascism. I discussed this on the program last night and there's a new piece that I got to write for MRC TV and it's out there and I want to thank the editors. I don't think they changed anything in that piece. It just went so smoothly. It was so

Starting point is 00:11:02 much fun to do. And unfortunately, it's about a very troubling subject. Again, the rise of fascism in the United States and how they steer people's behavior and habits by getting the central bank funding and then sending that money out for their special favors. everybody for being here on the David Knight show. And I hope my attire is okay. I was going to wear my jacket, but I thought, no, you know, it's, it's holiday time. It's Christmas time. They even gave me a Christmas hat from TD bank. I know one of my old high school friends works there. And, uh, so I hope that you are ready for a terrific day. i hope that your christmas time was very very special and i do highly recommend david's record it is just christmas night is just so good it's really good he's got amazing talent so thanks for being there everybody let's get started and let's discuss as joe piscopo would say from New Jersey, the big story. The big story.

Starting point is 00:12:07 The big story. The big story. The big story. Yes, I used to do impressions of Joe because we both had curly hair. What is the big story? Well, we've got a couple big stories, actually. So let me give you the first one, which is a breaking story, and it has to do with how people want something off of other people.

Starting point is 00:12:28 And for that, I often play something like Gimme Gimme Gimme by Black Flag, which is pretty intense for morning time on The David Knight Show. But I also play another song by a band from Austin, Texas. It's a little intro theme called Gimme Gimme Gimme Some. The Sons of Hercules. There's a whole thing that's even just a line on my back Can't get up cause there's something that I lack It's like the torture me and stretch me on the rack When I think about it, I never have a heart attack I'm the other guy that I follow You don't like to be outlawed If you're ever in San Antonio, Texas, check out the Sons of Hercules. They are fantastic.

Starting point is 00:13:52 I love the name of the band. And I saw them at this thing called the Vegas Shakedown. And it was a bunch of garage rock bands. And I tell you, boy, it was great. Their lead singer is this six foot five American Indian Italian guy. And he has like the old 60s mop top hair. And he's just, there's a documentary.

Starting point is 00:14:16 Someone's making a documentary that's going to be coming out at the beginning of next year about the Sons of Hercules. Can't recommend them more highly. That album is called Hits for the Misses. It's great. So, gimme, gimme, gimme some. Well, at the expense of drawing out, unfortunately, the guess is too long. Let's go with, you got it, it's Social Security. Social Security. Yes, the Social Security, wink, wink, Fairness Act. They passed it. They passed the so-called bipartisan. So, you know, it's got to be great. Both wings of the vulture have come down and they swooped down towards you. So you know the delivery of this parasitic thing has got to be fine. Well, unfortunately, no.

Starting point is 00:15:10 Because of course, FDR started the social security system. It's unconstitutional for those people who sign onto the constitution and claim it has authority over anybody. It doesn't have authority over me. I didn't sign it. That's just, you know, I can't sign commands to say, I've got a group of people and we're going to have control over anybody. It doesn't have authority over me. I didn't sign it. That's just, you know, I can't sign commands to say, I've got a group of people and we're going to have control over you. And we've written a piece of paper, but for the politicians who swear the oath to abide by it,

Starting point is 00:15:35 maybe they may want to read it once in a while, or at least if they've read it, they might want to actually have the integrity to abide by their oaths. Well, social security, of course, with FDR, a big gimme. It was a Ponzi scheme from the start. The first year of social security began, the first woman who got her social security benefits got more than she paid into it. And this is just another cartoonish manifestation of it. Why? Because as I suspected, when I first saw this, I saw that it was for public workers who don't pay, these particular workers don't pay social security taxes. It's not drawn from their income. So like the earned income tax credit, this is actually money that is just being handed to people. So here's the story. It's one of these little slideshow things. It starts with a picture of Rand Paul. So of course,

Starting point is 00:16:32 we can always ask, why does Rand Paul's wife have stock in Rendezavir? But Congress, I do love his Festivus list. And I'm friends with him. I haven't spoken to him for quite a while, but he approached me before he ran for Senate. We were at the Green Dragon Inn in Boston at the very first tea party since the tea parties that sort of brought things back. And we were at the – that's where the Sons of Liberty did all their plotting, you know, Sam Adams and all those guys. And it was the Green Dragon Inn. And they've moved it in Boston. It's about a hundred feet from where it originally stood, but it's essentially the same building. And, and he said, do you think I should run for Senate? And I was like, I don't

Starting point is 00:17:13 know, Rand, I don't know. And we used to talk on the phone because his dad was friends with my dad. I didn't know that I interviewed Rand when his father was running. And after the interview, we walked out of the radio station and say, Hey, did your father know my dad? And we started talking and he's like, yeah, your dad was Paul Goldsmith, right? And I was like, yeah, how'd you know that? He goes, yeah, yeah, they were friends. So I haven't, I haven't met Ron. Well, here's the story. Congress passed this thing called the bipartisan social security fairness act. So, you know, it's gotta be absolutely palatable despite opposition from some Republicans. Some? There you go, GOPers. I know, you know that there are lots of rhinos, but this is just ridiculous.

Starting point is 00:17:53 And I think it's a manifestation of so much of the normalcy bias that people have. When they hear about this, they say, well, of course, these people aren't going to get their Social Security. No, it's not theirs. It's not theirs. In fact, the social security people are receiving now isn't actually theirs. It's taken from younger people because it's all drawn away to put into the larger budget. The bill repeals the windfall elimination provision that's from the 80s. That was during the Reagan administration. And I discussed this on Liberty Conspiracy when it was before it was to hit a final vote. And so what they did was they said, well, these government employees don't have to pay their social security, their social security.

Starting point is 00:18:38 So why should they be getting social security benefits for something they haven't paid? Yeah. How about that? Well, it goes towards the first year of social security benefits for something they haven't paid yeah how about that well it goes towards the first year of social security again for more than 40 years these two laws have reduced benefits for approximately 2.8 million public service employees you see the way that they frame this the legislation passed both chambers of congress that's the way they frame it. Okay. But the congressional budget office estimated that this is going to cost $190 billion over the next decade in a nation that already has 36 trillion in debt. So for those retired government, they're already government parasites. They already work as government employees. And they call them things like first responders. I'm sorry, but police officers are not first responders, statistically. Armed civilians are first responders. And as much as I appreciate many of my friends who are police officers, I don't see logically, philosophically, or morally that working for a system that tells

Starting point is 00:19:54 people they must pay for their own protection or else armed thugs are going to come to their house and take them away or take away their house, I don't see that as protection. Do you? No, I call that a protection racket. It's not good. $190 billion over the next decade to go to people who didn't have that amount of money drawn from their salaries in the first place, it's a gimme and the Congress passed it. So you might want to check in to see how your Congress person or Senate person voted on that because it's not good. And Rand Paul spoke out against it. Here is what he said. Before passing the legislation, Paul warned, it speeds the bankruptcy of Social Security. Social Security is due to go bankrupt in 2034. That's just for demographics. It's already

Starting point is 00:20:54 being drawn from, like the vampires of DC will do. This will speed it up by a year or so. It's $200 billion added to a program that is already short of money. And he added, if you're going to add to its mandate by expanding it, you should pay for it. Well, look, they're very busy trying to buy weapons for the military industrial complex or give other nation states money to buy weapons from the military industrial complex. So who am I to complain? Right? It's all in there in article 8,000 of the constitution. I read it one time on the back of a cereal box. Oh, it's dark laughter. It's dark laughter. But let's do a quick recap of a couple of the items that have come up since Christmas and during Christmas, actually.

Starting point is 00:21:49 So Christmas Day and the day after. Let's discuss a couple of the major stories. I want to offer these to you to get your thoughts on this. Because there are a couple that I'd like to bring back. And one of them actually has a direct bearing on christmas as we celebrate it in society and i think it reflects something about society that um perhaps just like the acceptance of social security as if that that is part of the american tradition you know welching off of somebody else uh having the government take your money for your protection when you could have

Starting point is 00:22:25 invested it yourself and done much better. Yeah, that's okay. And I love these people who say they'll change social security so that the social security money has to be invested in stocks. Well, in that case, why don't you, again, just leave it with the people rather than possibly gaming the system and investing it in stocks of corporations that are government favored. How about that? Well, let's discuss something that is cultural, societal, and also lets us remember some great work of, no Illuminati pun intended, great work of David Knight. We're going to go with Sanford and Son to bring back the memory. ¶¶ Fred Sanford, he was always on the edge of retirement, wasn't he? He was always on the edge of the heart attack.

Starting point is 00:24:02 It's the big one, Elizabeth. I'm coming. With his son, Lamont. He always called him Big Dummy. Oh, man, that was based on a British television show. Yeah, it was called Upstairs, Downstairs. No, just kidding. It's called Doctor Who. Because Fred Sanford's, the interior of his junk building was bigger on the inside than it was on the outside. By the way, I flew to England for the return of Doctor Who. Flew over to England with a friend of mine. Because I had friends who were going to start up working on the show. And I was disappointed.

Starting point is 00:24:34 Nothing touches the Tom Baker era. And then right after that is the John Pertwee era of Doctor Who. And they have just destroyed Doctor Who. It's really, really sad. It's all about wokeism. Oh, yes. Let's talk about that cultural stuff here in the United States and the wokeism. Yes, you might be familiar. If you watch the David Knight show, you might be familiar with the fact that David Knight got knocked off of YouTube a while back, quite a while back, because he produced a fantastic film, which was heartwarming.

Starting point is 00:25:09 It was instructional about the film, It's a Wonderful Life, and it was instructional about the lie of the Federal Reserve, central banking, fractional reserve banking, and the fraud of inflation that builds up the money supply and reduces the buying power of all the units that are out there makes them all more and more units bidding on items drives up the prices very simple causes the boom bust cycle and malinvestment because people who get the money at low interest will will invest in it more recklessly they'll hire new people expecting more demand. And then eventually all the prices get bid up, people pull back their spending, and you get the

Starting point is 00:25:51 bust where everything's got to be liquidated like at the end of The Wizard of Oz. You liquidated her, eh? That's an intentional line. So David produced It's a Wonderful Lie. And as we know, banned by Google, It's a Wonderful Lie, Federal Reserve, the 111th anniversary. He put this out a while ago and he showed it on the program, December of the shenanigans that passed the Federal Reserve Act when much of the Congress had left for Christmas vacation. Many of the actions of J.P. Morgan were paralleled in It's a Wonderful Life by the banker Mr. Potter. And by the way, Mr. Potter, as I mentioned, was played by, I can't remember, what was that actor? I mentioned it last night in the program I'll think of it later selected clips used in the commentary are covered under

Starting point is 00:26:52 fair use but there's nothing fair about Google Barrymore Lionel Barrymore there's nothing fair about Google or YouTube by the way the clips they claimed copyright strike on were taken from the entire movie that was up on YouTube and remained up even after they struck the InfoWars channel in David's production. It had been there for seven years. I remember seeing it and had over a million views

Starting point is 00:27:18 at the time. I might've been one of them who had been watching. And so David produced this, and it has a reference to this cultural item in the news today. Over the last 100 years, the Federal Reserve has created bubbles and burst them, enslaved us with debt, and destroyed our purchasing power through inflation. Yes, it's been a wonderful lie for the bankers. There are striking parallels in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life to the lies and tricks that real bankers use to create the Federal Reserve. Human nature doesn't change, and the greedy elite of 1913 and 2013 look and act a lot like Potter, the banker in the movie. And many Americans are left like George Bailey, staring into the abyss as their dreams collapse and they face financial ruin.

Starting point is 00:28:08 Do we live in a country that looks a lot more like Pottersville than Bedford Falls? All right. So there you go. Absolutely wonderful production. The story about how it got produced and David's knowledge of it is just phenomenal. And so I'd like to add something to that because you might've heard about this yesterday. A few talk radio hosts were talking, discussing it. And I brought it up for discussion on Liberty conspiracy last night, six o'clock Monday through Friday on rumble and rock pin. And of course you can go to my sub stack too. I should mention the Gardner Goldsmith sub stack because the audios are available there

Starting point is 00:28:37 and you can check out my Sunday news assembly every, uh, every, uh, Friday. Now every Sunday, I should do that sometime and put out a Sunday News Assembly on a different day just to mess around. But you can check out. I always put out probably about 18 to 20 stories on Sundays that are breaking stories with a lot of context from my teaching in philosophy and economics and political science and stuff like that. I also have a background in script writing and so on. So sometimes you'll see some cultural stuff there. I won't be giving any secrets of Star Trek out anytime soon, but working at Star Trek Voyager was a lot of fun. And The Outer Limits was a lot of fun. That was great. But Amazon is in the news.

Starting point is 00:29:18 And as a person who worked in television, this is just, I mean, as a fan of the movie, It's a wonderful life this just disgusts me i don't understand i i just i okay so here's the story we're going to go over to fox news here's the story morning glory all right amazon sparks outrage after cutting important scene from film classic it It's a Wonderful Life. And I thought of some things as I was on the air last night, and I just thought, well, maybe this is a good analogy.

Starting point is 00:29:53 I suppose I'll offer them to you. So fans of the Christmas, this is insane. I don't even understand. Fans of the Christmas classic, It's a Wonderful Life, are livid over amazon's abridged version of the movie on its streaming service abridged like where does that even again i've been in production studios i've been at the tables right as they're forming the ideas for shows i was there at the outer limits as brad wright and some of the other guys started the Stargate SG-1 series. And they were doing interviews and stuff for staff members and

Starting point is 00:30:31 things like that. And they were heading up Outer Limits. So they started this. I've been there. You don't sit there and say, hmm, you know, I really like that story. How can we, you know, make an abridged version of it? hey writer thanks a lot let's just pull the heart out of this now i know sometimes there are editorial decisions that's for the people who make the movie and i know that sometimes some people will do things like dubbing out or silencing out swear words or something like that. This is a completely different ball game. This is wokeism on acid. They abridged the movie. The 1946 hit film, which follows the life of businessman and banker George Bailey, sparked outrage after Amazon cut a pivotal portion,

Starting point is 00:31:23 like the pivotal portion. Otherwise, there's no meaning for the movie. Amazon's abridged version doesn't include what many consider the most important scene, known as the Pottersville scene, in which George wishes he had never been born, prompting his guardian angel to remind him that he needs to earn his angel wings. That's Clarence. Clarence! Clarence! Right?

Starting point is 00:31:49 Outraged fans said the scene sets up the rest of the movie. Exactly! That's the whole point of the movie. That's the point of the movie! They said it abruptly jumps between scenes without the full context of the story. And I mentioned last night, that would be like watching Wizard of Oz. And when Dorothy goes to open the door to the colorful land of Oz after the storm, she wakes up, there's the storm, the house is a wreck. She opens the door, she's in Oz. You wouldn't have that. She'd just wake up, look around the messed up house, and then you'd

Starting point is 00:32:20 see her in bed again. And all her buddies are there. Hey, how's it going there, Dorothy? Wow, that was some storm last night, huh? You wouldn't have the story. The whole point of It's a Wonderful Life is in the title. It's a Wonderful Life. He's going to take his own life. parents' help and showing them what life would be like if he weren't there. How all these people exist because he helped them and their lives are better and they love him and he loves them. And that's the point of the movie. And, you know, spoilers if you haven't seen it, in the end, he's in financial trouble and his financial trouble because he's tried to help so many people. He's overextended himself and Potter is out to aggressively and predatorily take his bank, his savings and loan away. And the next thing you know, all these people who love him, who show how much they appreciate him, those local bonds are there and it's wonderful. And they come to his rescue. They come to his aid and his wife and his daughter are there and the bell rings and Clarence, the angel, has earned his wings.

Starting point is 00:33:29 It's so heartwarming. How could anybody not like that? I don't even understand. It's ridiculous. That would be like Rocky going from training to being the champ instantly. The whole point of the movie is the process of him working to get over the hurdles and overcome things and his relationships with people as he tries and struggles to even overcome his own self-doubt. Gosh, I don't know. It's just ridiculous.

Starting point is 00:34:02 So people are really, really angry about this. And I think appropriately so. And it just I think it just serves to remind a person about how wonderful that movie is. that clip from uh david's show that is over at his uh x feed remember if you go to the at liberty terry and x feed you can see a nice takeoff of the film just an ad for that he produced with cg with a ai that he and the family produced to promote at the david knightightshow.com store how you can pick up his christmas album and it's a wonderful little takeoff of the film so i want to play just a section of this because here in the david knight show uh if i can come in as not just a a host filling in for david but someone who just offers enthusiastic delight for what david does and what the entire team does and what all the people in the chat do. And remember, you can contribute as a member of the Goldsmith family to the Knight family. I say Merry Christmas to you and to all in the audience.

Starting point is 00:35:18 Here is a sample of what they were able to do. It's wonderful. I wish I had the Christmas night album. Hot dog! You can get the Christmas night album at thedavidnightshow.com for just $13.99. It's right in the second floor there, see? What did you wish, George? Well, not just one. I wish a whole hat for him.

Starting point is 00:35:41 First, I'm going to thedavidnightshow.com and purchase the Christmas night album. Then I'm going to listen to Christmas classics, like, are'm going to the davidnightshow.com and purchase the Christmas night album. Then I'm going to listen to Christmas classics like... Are you going to throw her up? I want the Christmas night album too. Hey, that's pretty good. David's Christmas night album includes 21 instrumental christmas melodies like god rest ye merry gentlemen silent night and as all new i'll be home for christmas what do you want you you want the moon just say the word and i'll throw a lasso around and pull it down i'll take it and what And then I'll buy you your own download of David Knight's

Starting point is 00:36:27 Christmas Night album. Субтитры создавал DimaTorzok Thank you. Субтитры создавал DimaTorzok ¶¶ You're listening to The David Knight Show. Wonderful stuff from David Knight. Now I'm Gardner Goldsmith filling in for David. And I want to thank everyone who is watching on X. Please spread the word. Hit the likes. Share as much as possible. And, of course, if you have comments the

Starting point is 00:38:45 russian team can get those comments up on the screen i also want to thank the wonderful folks inside rockfin iq micro dots saying howdy guard thanks for awakening at oh dark 30 and giving the five by five thank you so much i love the candy icon as well it's just great and of course dougaluck giving the five by five and i also want to thank uh i think it's sheila sheila or sheil a over on rumble who offers this comment and i do want to mention if you want to donate to the david knight show as a fill-in host i hope i can engender and entice people to do so. That would be great. But a great comment from Sheila or Sheila A. over on Rumble. The fruit, stripe, gum colors are jumping over there. They're sparkling. Amazon did that about that film on purpose to cause outrage. We are in the demoralization phase of the Mao revolution. And isn't it

Starting point is 00:39:48 interesting how cultural icons are the types of things that collectivists often try to destroy, especially local flavor, local bonds, and replace it with bureaucracy and the larger idea of national identity, which oftentimes can't cover all those local things. All that becomes homogenized and destroyed for the greater good. And I want to get into that next topic actually about the greater good and this icon worship of Donald Trump. And as I mentioned, I don't want to be too critical, too harsh, because many of these people really seem like nice folks, right? And it's not like I have any grand enlightenment. I have a different perspective. I'm a Christian anarchist. I don't believe that any political structure that is formed through

Starting point is 00:40:37 coercion and mandates is at all ethical. So I oppose all forms of statism. I favor voluntarism. In fact, the term voluntarism applies to an anarchist. And anarchy is really not what the violent anarchists who were really socialists promoted, especially in the United States in the 1920s, 1930s in the United States and in Europe. Anarchy is technically, you know, breaking it down. Anarchy, no human ruler, only God. We're all created equally. I have no right to claim rule over you. Even if I sign a piece of paper with a bunch of other people, that doesn't give me any authority. Pieces of paper don't give people authority. Voluntary free will and agreements, those are what actually bring our bonds together. And as the United States, this large hegemonic

Starting point is 00:41:32 creature has grown across the continent, across so many areas of the economy and into our private lives. I think so many people get normalcy bias. They become accustomed to the government controlling many of these types of things. And so we have control over air routes. We have control over speech on the Internet, over television waves. None of that stuff conforms with what the founders actually designed. They have something in there called the interstate commerce clause, but even James Madison warned people, he said essentially that that is supposed to be a remedial clause in the constitution to allow for Congress to handle disputes between states over trade problems. So if a state was putting up a trade barrier against products from another state, they could go to Congress and get that fixed. He said it wasn't to give them control over anything that goes over state borders to regulate anything in trade that someone might be selling from one person to another. And in fact, you'll see inside the clause

Starting point is 00:42:41 states is capitalized. So it only applies to those political bodies. So with all these things that have been added up, I keep seeing, unfortunately, many conservatives looking to the central authority as the fix it man. Or as Monty Python would say, bicycle repair man, we're saved. Right. Everything has to come from Donald Trump now. And they're overlooking the fact that they themselves call themselves conservatives. And yet many of the things that Donald Trump favors, like, for example, he says he's not going to allow foreign students to criticize Israel or even support a peace in the Middle East, in Gaza, for the occupying nation of Israel to stop blasting people apart and killing reporters. They killed five reporters yesterday. They killed four people near a hospital. All that stuff, even if they're

Starting point is 00:43:39 foreigners and they call for that, he's going to make the universities get rid of them. And they're considering deporting those people. So why won't a conservative, rather than applauding that, say, hey, why should you be holding the money from the federal government over the universities? That's how you're going to make them do it. Why don't you allow for real privacy, private property, rather than collegiate fascism, which is what we've got in so many areas of the economy, whether it's the green handouts, whether it's climate change, whether it's tariffs that are going to go towards certain

Starting point is 00:44:20 businesses that are favored, like the dishwashing manufacturers in Ohio with Portman under Trump, whatever it might be. And tariffs are in the constitution, but they're economically bad and they're immoral. They're a form of taxation. Taxation is wrong. It's a way that groups of people try to take other people's stuff. That's wrong. It's just baseline wrong. There's no arguing about saying, well, yeah, but we have to fund the government. How are you going to do it? Oh, I'm going to force people to pay for it. Well, then it's wrong, isn't it? You're not going to come up with an answer that says it's right because then you're justifying theft. That's incorrect. You're justifying theft,

Starting point is 00:44:58 coercion, extortion. That's not right. It's wrong. So I want to show you a quick example of a way that American Trump supporters seem to forget what Donald Trump has wrought. And this is going international, not to Israel and Palestine and Gaza. Although Donald Trump, a couple of weeks ago, had dinner with Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, who's up on charges, the wife of a man who internationally is being recognized as a person who's conducting genocide and is up for war crimes charges and would be arrested in many nations, can't even go back to Poland. He's not Semitic. He's Eastern European. He comes from, his family comes from Poland, Netanyahu. And so he can't go back for the remembrance of the Holocaust because the Polish

Starting point is 00:45:52 authorities say that they will arrest him for what he's doing with his own form of a Holocaust in Gaza. And people might look at that as inflammatory. Well, you know, anybody I think who's been watching this very closely knows the genocide that the IDF has been conducting with our money. And I find it repulsive. It's absolutely, utterly unacceptable. It's morally, constitutionally, ethically unacceptable. So, and it's a historic black mark on the United States. And anybody, anybody who supports that in the Congress should be ashamed of himself or herself. And Joe Biden, I know he's got mental problems, but he's been back in this for a long time too. Let's talk about another area though. And the area I want to bring up to discuss this strange blindness and this hero worship of Donald Trump is Syria.

Starting point is 00:46:44 And I've got a segment from RT that I recorded that shows you the chaos that's happening in Syria. Let's check this out. As they talk about this now sectarian violence and even the Alawites, who are in the area where Assad used to live, they're having problems, of course, and they're fighting with each other as United States-backed forces that at the time that the United States was giving them money, they were calling them terrorists. which is now, what is it? It's the Hayat Tar Al-Sham. And their leader, who used to go by Al-Golani or Al-Jolani, because he was born in the Golan Heights, who's now called Al-Shara. Muhammad Golani, Abu Muhammad Golani, now Muhammad Al-Shara. This man was on the most wanted list until last week from the United States government. But at the same time, both Israel and the United States were working with him,

Starting point is 00:47:55 and the United States was occupying a third of Syria. So let's see the chaos that has been wrought, not just by Joe Biden. And this is where I want to go on this hero worship. Let's check out some of the chaos in Syria right now. These poor, innocent civilians who might be there caught up in all of this as Israel moves past the Golan Heights. Don't know how far in they're going to take land as Turkey wants land as the Kurds in the northeast want their land. And of course, as the Uniteds in the northeast want their land, and of course, as the United States continues to play favorites there. On the ground in Syria, specifically in the coastal areas of Latakia and Atartus,

Starting point is 00:48:39 HTS terrorists have clashed with the forces of the ousted president. The country's current militant-led administration confirmed that there were casualties. Fourteen interior ministry personnel were killed and ten others wounded after a treacherous ambush by remnants of the criminal regime while performingattled region are Alawites, an ethno-religious group in the country which Bashar al-Assad himself belonged to. Syrian-American journalist and writer Stephen Sakhwinia believes this sectarian violence is being incited by third parties. In the protests in Homs, in central Syria, there was a third party that shot on the protesters and killed and injured. That made sure to everyone that there is a third party

Starting point is 00:49:37 trying to make it a sectarian war. And immediately the opposition forces started a curfew. At night, about 10, 11 o'clock, the village of Bisnada in the suburbs of Latakia, the young men in the village captured several men who had kidnapped a Sunni boy from Latakia, a Sunni young man from Latakia, and they were going to kill him and throw his body in that village for sure to cause a sectarian tension between the Alawites and the Sinis in Latakia. There is some revenge killing because it's chaos in the country. It's big chaos.

Starting point is 00:50:23 There is some uh individual mistakes there is as i told you and at the same time there's a third party trying to killing uh also from other words then they kill like the christian then they kill us in me there so there is the p as i said the third party trying to cause a care uh sectarian war in syria and unrest uh revenge, of course, there is revenge killing happening because, as I said, because it is chaos in Syria, the opposition did not have, they never just had time to take control as a police and arrest all of these people doing all of this.

Starting point is 00:51:02 All right, so we'll pause that. I think that gives just one snapshot of one of the things that's happening in the Alawite region where Assad had grown up. And of course, his father had been a leader of the country prior to that. And for context, I've mentioned this on Liberty Conspiracy, but part of my script writing

Starting point is 00:51:22 when I was working out in Los Angeles, because of my libertarian connections here in New Hampshire and ski here in Russia. Hampshire, Glenn Jacobs, the the man who played Kane in the WWE and is now mayor of Knox County. And Glenn's been on here with me when I've filled in for David once. Glenn, great guy. Glenn had a house just a couple of towns up from here. And we met at a libertarian convention where we were both speaking. And so I was in L.A. a couple of years later and he said, hey, guard, you know, you want to get together for dinner. So one night we had a real, real nice time. Uh, went to a sushi place with, uh, with, um, uh, Freddie Prince jr. Actually, cause Freddie's worked, uh, doing a lot

Starting point is 00:52:11 of things for WWE for quite a while. And, uh, Glenn and, uh, Freddie had been friends and Freddie was really nice guy. Really, really good guy. Very pro freedom sort of guy. And, um, uh, the things he, the wonderful things he said about his wife, uh, just, it was just great. Sarah Michelle Gellar. And, uh, that was awesome. And then the next night we went to dinner at a Middle Eastern restaurant and this was around 2011. And the, uh, manager, I believe came from Turkey and, um, he came up to us later after the dinner and he said hey they're going to try to overthrow Assad and I said what this is maybe the spring of 2011 as I thought he was what what are you talking about he said look Assad's not a great guy he said but they want to stop Russian energy exports and of course I looked into it and yeah they had a pipeline they were planning and of course the United States government uh dependent on the petrodollar, the Arabs didn't want that competition. And there was the larger plan for the Greater Israel Project and the campaign for a new American century that Wesley Clark exposed. You can see the Democracy

Starting point is 00:53:18 Now! video all about that. You know, the seven countries in five years, which, you know, the timeline has been drawn out much, much longer. But that's what they're going for. Iran is the last one. And he said, you know, they're going to try to overthrow Assad. They want to overthrow Assad. And then shortly thereafter, I didn't, you know, pay that much attention to what the man said. But shortly thereafter, Obama had his red line in the sand thing. They came up with that. Assad is using chemical weapons against his own people, which was debunked by scientists and students at MIT. Seymour Hersh has written about it. Utterly bogus stuff. And even Obama had to pull back because they showed they disproved his claims.

Starting point is 00:53:55 But all of the stuff at Benghazi that that that night at Benghazi with Ambassador Stevens, that didn't just spontaneously happen. As Hillary Clinton said. You know, what difference does it make? The difference is those were weapons, as Seymour Hersh has talked about, which were supposed to be moved from Libya after she and her other absolutely demonic vultures came and overthrew the government of Libya and picked that apart, then we see that they wanted to move the weapons into Syria. And that night in Benghazi, that was supposed to be a weapons transfer. That's what happened. And Seymour Hersh has written about the rat lines. You can check that out. And I'll show you, as they started to prepare for the overthrow of the government of Assad, there is a classic picture, and I've shown this before, of John McCain in Turkey meeting with none other than

Starting point is 00:54:58 Abu Muhammad Jilani, who, yes, at that time was just attracting the attention of people like John McCain. McCain also was at the heart of the overthrow of Ukraine. This man is responsible for so much chaos in both of those countries. Both of Ukraine and Syria have seen hundreds of thousands of people dead because of him and his friends' machinations. And that is the man right there on the screen. If you're listening in audio, just look up Al-Qaeda operative Abu Muhammad Jalani, John McCain, Turkey, and you'll see the image. It'll pop up. That is a picture I've been showing over and over again for years on Liberty Conspiracy. I've emailed it to people. And John McCain is also in photographs on stage, as I mentioned on the program, probably David's show here as well, on stage in 2014 and working with them in 2013. And Joe Biden is in pictures with a man named Ole Tianybak, leader of the Slovodov party,

Starting point is 00:56:07 which is the Nazi party in Ukraine, literally on stage with Phil Murphy, the Senator from Connecticut. Amy Klobuchar was there for that trip. Lindsey Graham was there for that trip because I think he liked the military fashions and John McCain was there. And Joe Biden is in photos, shaking hands with the Nazi who formed part of the coalition government behind Yatsenyuk,

Starting point is 00:56:29 who, of course, we heard mentioned whom we heard mentioned by Victoria Nuland and Jeffreyugar put in there when they overthrew Yanukovych in 2005, 2006 in Ukraine. He got reelected later, but in 2006andists, that exposes many of those bioweapons plants in not just Ukraine, but I believe also Estonia and Latvia or Lithuania. And one of the bioweapons plants actually has Dick Lugard's name on it, if people needed any more evidence. Or, you know, if Victoria Nuland acknowledging that there were bioweapons labs to Marco Rubio, maybe that's enough as well. I don't know. I just don't know. But this is just perfect and shows you the influence of Republicans and Democrats. So let's look, and John McCain in particular, let's look at the blind side of people when it comes to Donald Trump. Because indeed, just a little while ago on Friday,

Starting point is 00:57:55 and I got to put this in my Sunday News Assembly, on Friday, a spokesperson for the Department of Defense, and of course you get to pay for your own defense. And if you don't pay for it, you'll be trying to defend yourself from people getting into your house. I love how they talk about border control. We've got to have border control. That's not in the U.S. Constitution under the powers of the Congress or the government, the executive branch or the judicial branch. It's a state issue. Jefferson and

Starting point is 00:58:25 Madison have written about it. And if you don't want to pay for their arbitrary political border, because of course, no one can actually say that a border that's put up by government is actually where anyone wants it because the people who are forced to pay for it, it's not their decision. And the politicians are using other people's money. The only borders that are actually real and show any value that anyone wants it there are on private property. But the people who want to protect the political border and look for central authority to handle the border, which isn't even in their constitution, unless states under Article 4, Section 4, ask for the militia to come in to protect their constitutional form of government. They have to ask them to come in. So you don't need posse comitatus. You don't need

Starting point is 00:59:12 posse comitatus because it's Article 4, Section 4 is only when they are asked to go in, can they go in. So it's supposed to be a state issue. So if you don't want to pay for where their political border is going to be put up, when they take private property somewhere in Texas or Arizona to put up a new wall or something like that, if you don't want to buy into their central command and control that if a new president other than Donald Trump comes in next time, it might go right back to Joe Biden actually taking your money to fund people moving. But in this case, to put up the barriers, if you don't want them to take your money for that, guess what happens to your barriers at your house? That's right. They don't care about your borders. They'll come right into your house.

Starting point is 00:59:55 They'll take you away. That's how much they care about borders. That's how much the people who are saying, I so much about the u.s border are the very ones who would force their neighbor to pay for where they want the border wall to be or how to be policed with how much how often how much money that's all part of the tragedy of the commons it's unworkable the only way you can show value is through your own decisions, not by forcing somebody else to pay for it. So let's take a look now at, again, the mistakes that many conservatives make when they look to that central authority. We'll talk about immigration a little bit more and touch on that theme again, which is a philosophical anarchist logical theme, plus touches on the constitutional framework that many conservatives just seem to overlook when they look at the central authority trying to handle this. We're going to talk a little bit about this Defense

Starting point is 01:00:50 Department spokesman, a major general Ryder, who gets up there and acts as if he's surprised to discover something. He discovers, amazingly, that there are more troops in Syria from the United States deployed, deployed from the United States than they realized. So I did a video for this and wrote about it for MRCTV, and I'd like to play it for you now. Perhaps extinguishing any flicker of confidence many Americans might still retain in the honesty of a Biden Department of Defense and the U.S. Congress that already has shown decades of utter contempt for the U.S. Constitution. Department of Defense DOD Spokesman Major General Patrick Ryder told reporters on December 19th that, well, shucks, you know how we've been telling you for almost a year that there were 900 U.S. troops in Syria? Well, we just discovered that there are more than double that number deployed there.

Starting point is 01:02:13 Hi everyone, I'm Gardner Goldsmith for MRCTV, and here's the story. Yes, Major General Ryder, he was surprised to find that his own agency, his own department, had taken certain actions. That's kind of curious, isn't it? Well, here's what he had to say in part. As you know, we have been briefing you regularly that there are approximately 900 U.S. troops deployed to Syria. In light of the situation in Syria and the significant interest, we recently learned that those numbers were higher. And so asked to look into it, I learned today that in fact, there are approximately 2000 US troops in Syria. Reuters claim of ignorance was almost as insulting as the reality that without any official declaration of war from Congress, no US troops are supposed to be deployed overseas.

Starting point is 01:03:05 Not 2,000, not 900, not one. And he made it worse by trying to normalize this stunning breach of American constitutionalism. These additional forces are considered temporary rotational forces that deploy to meet shifting mission requirements, whereas the core 900 deployers are on longer term deployments. Again, if there are any ethical people still working in D.C., could they mention to Major General Ryder that this is a distinction without a difference, the fundamental baseline being that none of them are supposed to be there, with the added recognition that the DOD has been lying to us for many months about the overall number? Journalist Michael Tracy put it succinctly on X,

Starting point is 01:03:54 posting a clip of the insufferable rioters' inane statement and writing, quote, would love to know how the Pentagon suddenly learned that it had at least 1,100 more troops deployed to Syria than it had previously acknowledged, end quote. Absolutely right. Did the soldiers walk there? Or perhaps they appeared out of hammer space, as if they were in a Mario and Luigi video game. All while the wildly unconstitutional U.S. wanders like a blind beggar into $36 trillion in debt. Of course, given the track record here, we can't even be sure we can trust this new number of 2,000 troops. But while Ryder did make a court gesture of himself and expose how much contempt the current U.S. military brass, D.C. politicians and federal bureaucrats have for us, he was honest about one thing. At the close of the clip provided by Michael Tracy, one can see Ryder admitting that the U.S. has been in Syria for a long time. Some of us have been trying to

Starting point is 01:05:08 sound the alarms about this for a long time. He said, these forces which augment the defeat ISIS mission were there before the fall of the Assad regime. No kidding. Again, some of us have known that. In fact, we've known that the U.S. has been working with ISIS affiliations and occupying nearly one third of Syria for 10 years and that the area is Syria's richest oil land and contains the best growing fields in the nation. In fact, Donald Trump himself admitted to this occupation on numerous occasions while he was president, presiding over the occupation. And he even stated during a meeting with Turkey's leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan five years ago, in part, we're keeping the oil, we have the oil, the oil is secure. And as much as supporters of Mr. Trump might try to justify this,

Starting point is 01:06:08 perhaps thinking that it represents some kind of payment for the U.S. doing something they think is beneficial in the region, there simply is no constitutional or ethical excuse for any of this, period. Not only has the U.S. Congress not offered a declaration of war to move troops overseas and possibly engage in hostility that could see them killed or see them kill others, internationally agreed treaties prohibit the occupation of foreign nations. Not, of course, that any of the federal bureaucrats and war-hungry politicians in D.C. much care, so long as they keep collecting their cushy taxpayer-funded salaries.

Starting point is 01:06:57 We don't know where they came from. Man. Thanks for watching, everyone. Please like and subscribe. Find us on Rble where they don't censor us and of course i i suppose you could hear a sense of frustration in my voice there big thanks to the mrc tv editors uh the team did a great job on that video and i really appreciate what they did and uh yeah it is it is amazing but uh i want to show you, in fact, let me do one thing here because I want to show you what the comments were on this video. Okay. So let me go down here just to give you an example because this sort of helps with the lesson of the whole thing. And it is, I think, illustrative or at least allows for some comments from people. So let me show you this and you can check it out.

Starting point is 01:07:57 And someone has here. Nice thanks and things like that. Someone says, is Ryder a DEI general officer? That's great. But then we have... So someone has an excellent point. Anyone who actually believes the the dod didn't know exactly how many troops it has in syria has quite a few screws loose do you guys seriously think the

Starting point is 01:08:31 government didn't know how many troops it had there seriously well obviously that's the point of my video and uh but some people didn't really seem to get the point uh one person said hammer space is more a Bugs Bunny thing than Mario and Luigi thing, but it's actually taken from Mario and Luigi when they would pull their hammers from out behind their backs in the video game. But I understand what he was saying about Bugs Bunny. So this is interesting. So this one person here, this is new, says, while I agree with the criticism of the DOD, I must bring scrutiny, not even paying attention to Donald Trump, I must bring scrutiny to your criticism of the U.S. declaring war argument. The U.S. Congress has not declared

Starting point is 01:09:18 war since 1941. All the other wars we have fought have not fallen under the constitutional war doctrine. That's the point that I made. It's not constitutional. What else are you going to use to run the U.S. government? You know, the rules to monopoly? I'm not sure. But some people just concentrated on Joe Biden. They thought, yeah, you know, when a new guy gets in here,

Starting point is 01:09:53 it'll be changed. It'll be different. Someone says Trump will fire his, you know what, A.S. you know what. So he writes this, Trump will fire his, you know what. Well, that's not the point. The point is that Trump also was at fault. And he says, another person here says, who's responsible for such awful record keeping? That's not the point. The point is that the United States government is deploying troops without a declaration of war and was occupying a nation contrary to the U.S. Constitution and international agreements to which the United States has signed and which are constitutional according to the U.S. Constitution. How hard is it? I don't understand. People are looking at Joe Biden and not Donald Trump. It was right there.

Starting point is 01:10:51 It was in the video. It was there, wasn't it? Didn't I put it in there? I don't understand how it is that people can look at this and they immediately switch off of recognizing the wrongdoing of Donald Trump. They won't discuss it. I thought it was valuable. It was important to bring up, and yet we don't see it. They're not discussing it. And I've got another example for you that I think you might find interesting.

Starting point is 01:11:21 So let's turn to what I wrote down on the billboard. And I showed this to the audience at Liberty Conspiracy last night. Collectivism grows. Even so-called conservatives have embraced the mindset while deluding themselves. Many, not all, you know, want to be sort of just questioning and expressing some vexation and hope that maybe we can have a conversation, that sort of a thing, and say, hey, what about this? Are you going to talk about that? Or are you just going to say, I'm putting all my chips on this? And while deluding themselves that they stand for freedom, the hits and misses come up here. And here are the hits and the misses of an example.

Starting point is 01:12:10 So I want to turn to this web channel. You can find them on Rumble. Real America's Voice, right? So this guy, Steve Gruber, comes back from Christmas. And he's a very likable host. He's got some chops when it comes to certain things. I disagree with him on other things. And yet it's this banking on Trump is going to change everything. It's going to be great.

Starting point is 01:12:37 And then for completely forgetting all these other things that he's done in the past. And in this, we're going to touch on the last little bit to sort of recap Christmas, because Trump's Christmas message is part of what I plan to discuss on the program, as you saw on the billboard earlier. Trump's Christmas message shows us, I think, how so many people are so willing to uncritically look at these people and just rely on the one guy is going to save us. How in the world did a supposedly decentralized federalist system get to that point? Well, again, not to be too critical, you know, try to pull back every once in a while here and just offer what he has to say and say, geez, you know, this makes me feel uncomfortable sometimes. And sometimes he makes very good points. Here we go. It was a terrific Christmas. Like you, we're now taking time to look forward

Starting point is 01:13:31 and really start to count our blessings as we count down the days until America has a real president again. Okay. So there you go. How, how is a guy who repeatedly with the cares act with the ppp with the with the calling for a medical emergency march 13th 2020 how is that a real president how can you call this man donald trump a real president the authentic real deal the john wayne real meat and potatoes president, real going back to the roots of a guy who respects the constitution, when this man is not even right about how many Russians have died in the Russian-Ukraine conflict. He repeats nonsense from Jake Sullivan, absolutely false. I mean, so clearly, obviously false. He said 600,000 Russians have died. It's nowhere near that. It's 600 000 russians have died it's nowhere near that it's 600 000 ukrainians have died and how any any thoughtful human being can hear that and say well

Starting point is 01:14:34 sure i believe that is beyond me there's no possible way that donald trump could believe that unless he didn't know anything about what was going on there. And it's the same thing with the PPP and care stuff, going back to the so-called pandemic. The same thing with even calling it a pandemic. When you've got a medical system that's getting incentivized by the federal government to the tune of upwards of $30,000 per patient, if they can claim that the patient has a, if they can take a positive PCR test, which has been ginned up to two to the 40th power, and then claim that someone has died from COVID-19 when they could have died from something else, they'll get paid. You don't even know how many people ever, they will never know how many people died from COVID-19. I could see that. Donald Trump's the

Starting point is 01:15:31 president working with these people. He didn't bring it up. Hey, do you think we might be sort of pumping up the numbers by sending money out to people who claim that they've got this so that they can get the money? Oh, I don't know about that. I'm Anthony Fauci. I think we're fine. By the way, put your mask back on and go back, go back to Mar-a-Lago. I mean, these are the most basic.

Starting point is 01:15:52 If you were a teenager playing a board game, you just scratch your head. Like, Hey, did I miss something here on the way this is supposed to work? No, no, no,

Starting point is 01:15:59 it's fine. Am I, how's this? I don't know how this works. So again, how is he a real president right how is it possible he's a real president even george washington breached the constitution when he marched on the whiskey whiskey makers in western pennsylvania okay they weren't invited into pennsylvania under under article 4 section 4 and i'm glad i brought it up earlier

Starting point is 01:16:24 they weren't invited in it was a judge who was a friend of Alexander Hamilton's in many of the people who had, they wanted money and they were holding onto the war bonds that Hamilton had said, you'll get paid back a hundred percent because we'll have taxing authority under the constitution. But even though they put the excise taxing authority in there, they didn't explicitly spell out how they could collect the excise tax. So people were trying to figure it out because they can't send federal troops into states unless the states invite them in. So they reached loggerheads there. And you can read the Constitution. You can check it out.

Starting point is 01:17:20 It doesn't work. Seriously. Like you can't. It doesn't work. They can't send the troops in unless they're invited in. So that's very interesting. And that it's not a standing army. It's supposed to be the militia. It's not a U.S. army, not the Marines, not the Air Force or anything like that. Right. They have a Navy. But as far as the land troops go, that's the militia. That's us. We're supposed to be in our states. If we get called up supposedly under their constitution by a declaration of war, which is the only thing they can do to send the troops under the command of the president anywhere, then we can decide if we want

Starting point is 01:17:55 to go or we don't want to go. Otherwise, we can stay. That's the militia. That's all. That's why we're all supposed to be armed. So, you you know we can fight back against guys like george washington when they come after us for making whiskey so let's continue oh and by the way great comments inside x uh for previous segments hrc's right hand man off the books sid blumenthal in deep with bengazi and Libya's destruction. Absolutely right, Jennifer. Thank you. Thank you, Russian guys for spreading the Russian propaganda. Trump was furious with Germany getting its energy from Russia. Trump wanted that stopped. Yeah, very interesting. You know, this whole play was with the Saudis that, you know, they could see starting in 2008, 2009, Jennifer, I started to really watch

Starting point is 01:18:46 what was going on with the Russians very closely because with the 2008 American Recovery Act, Obama and, you know, the rest of the crew, they created basically, you know, $20 trillion or $20 billion out of thin air. Was it 20 billion billion just to GM. So it was more like, I think it was more like $2 or $3 trillion. That's what it was. So the foreigners knew that you can't just create this money out of nothing and see the value of the monetary units remain the same. It's going to drop. So they'd started to drop their long-term bond purchases. The Chinese dropped their long-term bonds. The bonds, they weren't going to buy the 10-year bond anymore. The Russians did the same thing. They were going with short-term. They weren't doing long-terms. And the Americans

Starting point is 01:19:39 didn't like that at all. Well, why buy a long-term bond if it's going to get paid back later and the value of it's going to be even lower, right? The buying power of it? I mean, it's been watered down so much by inflation. No, thank you, right? So that's when they started to orient again towards demonizing Russia. overthrow of of uh Gaddafi if you look at the WikiLeaks emails of the Hillary Clinton emails that WikiLeaks released you can see the interior emails where she talked about how it'll be a good thing to overthrow Gaddafi because he's starting a gold-based currency Captain Sensible the guitarist of the dam my favorite band um uh he sat down at dinner with me and a friend of mine uh from the Free State Project one time down in Boston and and he's like, yeah, you know, we started talking about Gaddafi, and he knew about it. He's like, yeah, he was going to start an African

Starting point is 01:20:30 gold-based currency. That's why they knocked him out. Absolutely right. And, you know, Gaddafi had played along with the United States for quite a while, opened up he wasn't a good guy either. He'd opened up some of those rendition camps and so on that John Kiriakou exposed, and hats off.

Starting point is 01:20:45 What a great guy John is. He is such a nice guy. I've only met him once. But we just became real quick. Got along great. We got along great. And, of course, he's been on with David many, many times. So thank you very, very much.

Starting point is 01:21:00 I appreciate that. Great, great comments all the way. And also, thank you, Rushless. Let's get this up there as well. Don, Don, don't, don't, Beshi99, I'm not sure if I'm reading that right. The wicked walk on every side when the vilest men are excited. Boy, isn't that true? Yeah. So let's continue again, not too intensely critical, but just again, to sort of put on balance as we approach Donald Trump coming into office here, I think it's important to see some of the manifestations of this hero worship. And we take control of our future again. I mean, it's been the most wonderful Christmas season. Okay, so again, I'm just going to bring this up. I'm going to hop in real quick.

Starting point is 01:21:53 The use of the pronoun we is a collectivist political term. When it's used in politics, it means you are going to be part of their plans. And how can you get we take control of our future? You see the problem there. there you know it's even the declaration of independence right um we'll go with the car the constitution we the people of the united states i'm sorry but to be honest they're not speaking for all the people of the united states it's we the people who are writing this piece of paper. And Lysander Spooner in the 1800s, his treatise called No Treason, The Constitution of No Authority, spells it out very clearly. They had no authority over people to say, I'm going to

Starting point is 01:22:38 write for you what's in here. And even if they claimed representation of certain people, mathematically, it's impossible to be able to represent all the people. And it was a political system. So therefore, there's really no voluntary representation at all. So the we the people thing, we is used by politicians. It's like the royal we, but they reconstituted it to be the democratic royal we. So it's even more pernicious. In the olden days, in the old medieval days of the royal peerage system, people understood, and I mentioned this

Starting point is 01:23:13 on the Liberty Conspiracy, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote to his son and said, I would describe myself as an anarchist, or I would go with a monarchy, much like Hans Hermann Hoppe, the contemporary philosopher, because he said, democracy is a canard. They're telling you that you rule yourself, but really it's gang rule. That's what democracy is, right? You know, the two wolves and a sheep, that's the whole thing. But the royal we was, Tolkien recognized that people understood the difference between the state, as the French, you know, great King Louis said, I am the state. And when they would use, they would speak about themselves in the third person, we. Third person plural, we say this, we command this because they represent the state. I am the state. And the people were seen as the civilians. That was why there was this distinction supposedly during war where only the knights who signed up to fight for the king and get paid by the king would be at,

Starting point is 01:24:19 at, uh, at, in threats and threatened during war. And civilians were supposed to be left alone. Uh, you know, women and children, that of thing, obviously didn't work out that way with pillaging often, but there was supposedly that chivalrous rules of war, which is why the term declaration of war is capitalized in the Constitution, because it's a term of art. Unfortunately, it's dark art. So Tolkien said, you know, at least if you've got a monarchy, you know who your enemy is. You're not sold this snake oil,

Starting point is 01:24:54 this canard that it's you. It's the royal we in democracy now. It's us. What if I don't want to be part of your we? And I'll give you a great example. F. Paul Wilson, a great libertarian writer, doctor, read his Repairman Jack novels. They're phenomenal. He's had stuff turned into movies. Really, really great stuff. So F. Paul Wilson and I,

Starting point is 01:25:18 and my friend Tom Montalioni, Tom was on the program last time I filled in for David, another great writer. We're all libertarians, and we would attend this thing called Camp Nikon, the Northeast Writers Convention in Rhode Island every summer. And they would have a little cookout, and a lot of people would be hanging around. And it's sort of dust towards darkness. So someone said to Paul, we have to provide healthcare for people. And so he just turns to this, who's this we? Because it's just assumed that if you want to be left alone, you're not part of their we, then somehow you're the bad guy. But they're the ones who are engaging in the activity, initiating the aggressive action of pulling you in with those arms of the royal we

Starting point is 01:26:11 now reconstituted in democracy. So there we are. It's the we. We can flush the entire Biden administration down the drain in the very near future. We can focus on what is good for Americans and we will place their needs first and foremost. What an idea, what a concept, making citizenship great again and making citizenship actually matter. So if he's going to say that American interests are going to be placed first, how is it squarable with Donaldald trump having dinner with benjamin netanyahu's wife and promising and not only that but what he did previously with israel how about that does that is that putting america first or is that putting AIPAC first and Sheldon Adelson's widow first? How about that? Right.

Starting point is 01:27:08 Again, let's start with this today. If you missed the Christmas wish from President-elect Donald Trump and soon to be First Lady Melania, I thought you should hear it. It's pretty special and it's quite different than what we've heard the last four years. Listen to this. The president and I want to wish every American a very Merry Christmas. During the sacred season, Christians celebrate the greatest miracle in human history. More than 2,000 years ago, God sent his only begotten son to be with us. An angel announced the birth of our Lord and Savior to humble shepherds. He said,

Starting point is 01:27:47 I bring you good news that will cause great joy for all of the people. Today in the town of David, a Savior has been born to you. He is the Messiah, the Lord. You will find a baby wrapped in clothes and lying in a manger. At Christmas, we thank God for sending us his son to bring peace to our souls and joy to the world. So, again, a quick addendum here. in Syria and worked with radical Islamic forces like Abu Muhammad al-Ghalani to send weapons around to run that third of Syria, which is larger than the area of Ukraine that the Russians have retaken. Why is it that that is acceptable for this supposed Christian? I don't know. I just throw that out there as a question. But to me, there's a bit of a discord between what he's saying and his actions. Why is it that he calls himself a

Starting point is 01:28:53 Christian and yet he engages in things like, oh, I don't know, claiming the power to be able to take my money to fund universities? I didn't know that that was Christian. During this wonderful time of year, we also give thanks for the brave and selfless Americans who keep us safe. We are forever grateful for the men and women of law enforcement. So again, we're just gonna to just finish off with this.

Starting point is 01:29:25 Let me ask you, as I mentioned before, law enforcement, brave law enforcement. Absolutely. I know a lot of cops are trying to do the right thing. Right. Are they first responders? Statistically, no. Are the soldiers and if you know anybody in the military, if you're in the military. How does it make you feel? And I've had conversations with guys at the airport who are in their fatigues. They're going to ship off. I've approached them and say, hey, I just got a question. I want to approach you kindly. If you don't want to answer it, it's fine. I'll just walk away. But I am curious because I know you swear an oath to the constitution and

Starting point is 01:30:00 you only follow constitutional orders, right? Yes. How do you feel that you're being deployed? As we heard Major General Ryder say, they're deployed. How can you be deployed if there's no declaration of war? And the answer is not, well, as some people might say, well, they've been doing it since World War II. That's not acceptable. You can't say, well, they've been doing it since World War II. That's not acceptable. You can't say, well, he's been beating his wife since they got married, so I guess it's okay. No, sorry, not working. Not a functional answer. The synapses aren't connecting on that. Doesn't work. You're deluding yourself. If you call yourself a constitutionalist if one is supposedly uh doing honor to the founders and again i don't accept that the founders can write

Starting point is 01:30:56 anything that has any authority over me i wasn't there it's that's just the fact of it. And the fact that I don't run away when agents of that entity that they created come after me, just again shows that I don't have to run away. I shouldn't have to run away. I should be a free person to be able to be left alone, regardless of whether people hold up a piece of paper and say, you know, some people wrote down that I can come after you now. They put some barriers in there. I don't even care about the barriers, but we've got authority over you. No, you don't have authority over me. I didn't give it to you. God didn't give it to you. Leave me alone. How about that? How is it that people in

Starting point is 01:31:41 the military can be seen by Donald Trump and others as being heroic and defending the United States when they're sitting in Syria and he left them there. I'm just wondering about that. What do you think? And I'm curious to get a lot of opinions. So drop your messages inside the chat here in the David Knight Show. And let's take the opportunity to give you something that think about a film that actually is based on a real person from the revolution. I haven't even seen this movie, but David, again, with his musical power, put something together to remind us of freedom. You're in The David Knight Show. Thank you. © transcriptF-WATCH TV 2021 Liberty, it's your move. And now, The David Knight Show. Well, here filling in for David Knight, I feel very delighted and honored to be with you, the audience, and hopefully doing a good job for David coming in from Liberty Conspiracy and MRCTV. And thinking about all of you in the audience out there on all the different platforms.

Starting point is 01:34:41 Again, don't forget you can donate to David today as we round off the month. That's a big, big deal. And I'll feel like I'm doing a good job for David as well. If you want to donate on Rockfin, on Rumble, anything like that, you can go to the website to find all those other areas. And I want to tell you about another website that you might want to check out often, every day. It is ericpetersautos.com. And if you go over there, you're going to see a really cool image of one of my favorite cars. But before we go to his website, I want to show you something from his X feed that I think you'll enjoy. Let me bring this onto the stage and then we'll welcome our guest, Eric Peters of Eric Peters Autos. He says, what is it with this adulation of more efficient government?

Starting point is 01:35:29 Isn't that like mending rather than ending? Exactly. Exactly. And this is one of the major problems I've had with Elon Musk and with Vivek Ramaswamy. It's all based on outcome. It's all based on not the philosophy of rights and at least what the standards are supposed to be based on their constitution. None of that is part of their calculus. If it's not in the constitution, they're not questioning whether it is or is not there.

Starting point is 01:36:02 They're questioning the efficiency of it. Well, if you can have a much more efficient guillotine and you're lopping the heads off French people who are innocent people, does that make it better? I don't think so. I don't think so. The ideas are pernicious at their outset And this is one of the reasons why I try to remind people That immigration is not in the U.S. Constitution As a federal issue It's a state issue So let's turn to Eric Peters now Who has a lot to tell us about Elon Musk

Starting point is 01:36:39 And many other things He's with us now on the David Knight Show Hello Eric and welcome And happy New Year early, and happy Christmas late. Good to see you. Likewise, Garth. I guess I'm filling in for me today. Yes. I'm glad you saw my little post on X, too, because it got under my skin, this business about making government more efficient.

Starting point is 01:37:02 And I got to thinking about how efficient the NKVD was in Soviet Russia. They were really good. If you want to read about how efficient government can be, I recommend reading Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago. They were efficient at organizing and rounding up people and shipping them off to internment camps. Absolutely. And it's interesting. I don't know if you know, Amity Shlaes, she had that book, The Forgotten Man. And in the opening of The Forgotten Man, she has all these FDR supporters, you know, the administrators in the FDR camp, how they're all admiring Stalin and how he's making the trains work on time. They're on a train. And I thought, yeah, you know, those trains where people froze to death. And I talked about that book called the long walk about those guys who were brought up to the Gulag and, uh, and they, they escaped and they walked like three and a half thousand miles to India. Not all of them survived.

Starting point is 01:37:54 And they described that how awful it was on those trains going those, I don't know how many miles and day after day in cold weather where they would make circles. They were most of them were naked. They would make circles because the exterior of the train car, the the interior near the walls of the exterior were so cold that they would take turns to try to get to the center of the car where body heat could keep them warmer. And sometimes guys would freeze to death on their feet inside the cars like penguins in antarctica yes yes absolutely and he said you wouldn't realize it until you've been you do your turn walk and you bump into somebody who was just standing there yeah and so that's that's government efficiency you're absolutely i'm so i thought i was all alone because everybody is applauding elon musk and i just thought know, this this is consequentialist thinking.

Starting point is 01:38:48 This has nothing to do with morality. You're just talking about how to make a better engine that can run over somebody. That's all. Yeah. And this is what's so frustrating to me about. And I'm just kind of being loose here with the terminology. But conservatives and Republicans, they agree with their putative opponents on the left. Fundamentally, it's not that they're opposed to government. What they're opposed to is what the left wants to do with government. They want to do something different with government. And they

Starting point is 01:39:14 wonder why we get more government all the time. You know, how do you how do you stop that without standing on the principle that no, this fundamentally is a long thing to do, that this is not the legitimate business of government, instead of saying, well, or rather than saying, we're going to make it more efficient. We're going to do a better job of the administrative state managing people's lives. Right, right. And I think it goes towards the classic, I think the most salient aspects of critics of Elon Musk might first be, Elon Musk talks about government efficiency and waste. He'll even quote some of the Austrian economists. He's posting things up there, not from an Austrian or a Chicago school, but he's posting things up on his X feed from

Starting point is 01:39:59 Milton Friedman. And that's all well and good. But there's a great example where Friedman was a monetarist, a Chicago school economist who didn't mind things like FDIC, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. He didn't have a problem with that. That's wildly unstable. It caused the 1990-1991 housing crisis where a bunch of people, because they increased the amount of money that they were allowing the FDIC to insure banks, the banks started to lend out even more money because they had a moral hazard that opened up. They could say, oh, we can just lend it out. We'll give the money away for cheap. We'll get it paid back. That's exactly what they did. People couldn't afford their homes, and we had a housing bust in 1990-, 1991. I worked at an auction firm after I got

Starting point is 01:40:45 out of college and showed those houses off. I was at the auctions for the houses and the condos that came as a direct result of that. And so Elon Musk coming around and doing this sort of thing, quoting people like Milton Friedman, that doesn't show that he's really, you know, Friedman was great and his son is even better, but Friedman did allow for the existence of government and a lot of things that first aren't even constitutional, right? And second, he would go with say vouchers for schools. Well, that's still government taking people's money. And maybe Friedman eventually got convinced that it might be a means to an end, but it then injects government into the money wherever it goes. And it starts to corrupt even private schools that

Starting point is 01:41:31 have to conform or charter schools that have to conform. So Musk, unfortunately, with this consequentialist outcome-based thing, I think some of the first things that people think of are, well, didn't you take money for your rockets? Aren't you doing government contracts? So he won't question the underlying assumptions that government should be doing X, Y, and Z that are nowhere near what the founders, at least what the founders had envisioned at all, at all, in any way. There's a disingenuous duality about Musk. You know, now he's talking about how he thinks the federal $7,500 tax kickback that has been used to help promote people buying electric vehicles should be ended. And that's all well and good. Now that he's established Tesla as the dominant player in

Starting point is 01:42:16 the field, he wants to take away that rent seeking advantage from his opponents. You know, this is my problem with the guy. You know, he doesn't have it both ways. You know, he's a businessman. He's a sharp businessman. And I think it's important to use that as the basis for your evaluating him. You know, I've written a number of articles about X and marveled at this idea that he's a free speech guy. He's not a free speech guy. He's a paid speech guy.

Starting point is 01:42:42 And he's also a speech suppressor guy. He's not a free speech guy. He's a paid speech guy. And he's also a speech suppressor guy. I point out one incontrovertible fact. In Brazil, when the government, the current government of Brazil demanded that he suppress the speech of certain political wrong thinkers, he initially opposed it. But then he realized he was going to lose money. And as a businessman, he didn't want to lose money. So he acceded to the demands made by the government of Brazil. And he's now suppressing speech in Brazil. So what does that tell you? You know, I go by what people do, not by what people say. So if you look at Musk's actions, you know, he's been a rent seeking grifter as regards electric vehicles. And this

Starting point is 01:43:21 free speech thing, well, it's paid speech. You pay him a fee to be allowed to post things on the platform so that people can see them. And even then, they're subject to his whims. Try and post something, for example, that's critical of the government of Israel and what the government of Israel is doing over there. And more than likely, that is going to be shunted off somewhere. And if you continue to do stuff like that, you'll find that you have been kicked off the platform entirely. Which is precisely the reason Eric Peters is our guest, folks. Eric, it's precisely the reason. And they explicitly said this was the reason in Congress for trying to knock out TikTok, right? And we've got the TikTok argument coming up to the Supreme Court., you know, very clear. It just, who can possibly think

Starting point is 01:44:05 that a bunch of politicians can tell business people, hey, and they constantly say, oh, it's the Chinese government and it's a security threat. Look, first of all, ByteDance is not owned by the Chinese government. You know, if you want to look at companies that are basically owned or run

Starting point is 01:44:24 or affiliated with certain governments, look at BlackRock, look at Lockheed Martin, look at BAE Systems. How about those? You know, how about some of these green corporations? How about Tesla for a while? You know, all these different things. So that whole that whole thing is just ridiculous. And then they don't even recognize the fact that what, what, you know, where's the balance of the problem here? Is it the Chinese possibly getting my social media, the Chinese government getting my social media accounts or my bank account, which is easily hacked by anybody who wants to hack this stuff. My social security number was stolen because they got in a blue cross, blue shield. The government lost tens of thousands of social security numbers just a few years ago. They admitted to that. The IRS. So who's a bigger threat either because of their accidental, their errors, or because they intentionally through the NSA collect our information? The Chinese or the US.

Starting point is 01:45:26 You know, as far as Musk goes, what I would like from the man is just some etymological honesty. You know, I have no problem with him using X to make money. I have no problem with him charging a fee to everybody every month in order to be able to use the service. But why doesn't he just come out and say, this is a fee for service platform. You pay in order to be able to post, you pay and if you don't pay people aren't going to see what you post because I'm in this to make money, I'm mining your data, I'm selling your data to advertisers, that's what I do. That's fine, I don't have an issue with that, but spare me the cant about free speech please. Yeah and I think part of it too is, you know, oh, sorry. Many times,

Starting point is 01:46:07 many times, Eric, I'll see, you know, Elon Musk posts some good stuff or he reposts some good things. You know, some things are, they're very valuable. And I always, I, I've never really expressed this, but I hesitate sometimes if it's a repost, I usually go to the original source and I won't post it from Elon Musk. I'll post go to the original source right and i won't post it from elon musk i'll post it from the original source rather than elon musk and sometimes musk has valuable comments he makes some good points you know and and so i i get frustrated because let me let me just post this because you've your article in fact let's go straight to this article right now from ericpetersautos.com you've got deconstructing elon i'm gonna delay any any further comment

Starting point is 01:46:52 because could you tell people a little bit of you've sort of touched on this but tell us a little bit more about what this piece is that you posted here this was just yesterday and it's just phenomenal if you could give people a quick thumbnail. Well, all I do basically is go through some of the talking points, you know, that we're supposed to accept that Elon Musk is some sort of a latter day Henry Ford, you know, an innovator in the free market who has produced this phenomenal product that is changing everything. And yeah, it is changing everything, but it's entirely artificial and it's the antithesis of everything that Henry Ford did. You know, Henry Ford came along and figured out a way to reduce the cost of a vehicle by simplifying it and mass producing it.

Starting point is 01:47:35 And Elon Musk has figured out a way to make vehicles more expensive through government grift and graft and, you know, fundamentally change the car business in that respect. And we've already talked about the free speech stuff. And then there's this other stuff, this, you know, he will on the one hand say that he's worried about AI and he's worried about what will happen with that. And yet he is perhaps the biggest pusher and promoter of AI and robotics. So what are you supposed to believe? As somebody who's really fascinated by, as I think you are as well, the National Socialist period in Germany, I think people who may not be very familiar with that era might not know about is that when Hitler was campaigning for Chancellor,

Starting point is 01:48:18 the very first time he was actually elected Chancellor by a plurality of the votes, he would travel by plane from one city to another city in Germany and give an entirely different speech depending on the audience. And he would say what they wanted to hear. And people heard what they wanted to hear, which I think is part of Trump's appeal too, frankly. And I know right now the Red Hat Brigades are probably getting very angry at me for saying that. But on a human level, it's understandable, particularly when you live in a chaotic environment and you're concerned and anxious and you hear a political leader or somebody like Musk, who's influential, say something that sort of aligns with, you know, what your concerns are. But then he acts differently. So he manages to get the support.

Starting point is 01:49:00 And then when he does something that ordinarily, if it had been done by, let's say, Joe Biden, people would have objected to it. The red hat people, the supporters will just kind of ignore it or rationalize it. Really good example being Trump's beautiful vaccines, which he can talk about. You know, if it were Biden saying that same thing, there would be these these these hue and cry of outrage about about that. But, you know, never mind. You know, he really didn't mean that. You know, and the same thing with, you know, what the red flag laws and the bump stocks and all this other stuff. And with Musk, you know, my God, two years ago, Musk was anathema to people on the Republican

Starting point is 01:49:34 and conservative side for all the reasons that I went through in the article, which haven't fundamentally changed. They're the same things now as they were back then. Musk favors a carbon tax. I can't think of nothing that potentially is more threatening to our way. Musk favors a carbon tax. I can't think of nothing that potentially is more threatening to our way of life than a carbon tax. Absolutely. This guy is one of the most ardent believers in the carbon tax. Yeah. And the other thing too, is when you talk about threatening to our way of life, in addition to that, there's the unsound predicate of it. The actually, you know, the lie at the heart of it, you know, the Solzhenitsyn, do not live by lies. The lie at the heart of it is that there's more evidence. And I wrote a piece about it talking about this recently because Joe

Starting point is 01:50:14 Biden, and in fact, I'd like to bring it up with you if I can, Eric, Joe Biden just engaged in more fascism. And I talk about fascism and how in class, one of the early things that I try to describe to students about the various forms of collectivism is fascism. And I discuss how it's crony capitalism, not real capitalism, otherwise known as mercantilism, as Adam Smith wrote in The Wealth of Nations in 1776. It's favoritism. And this is the sort of thing that we definitely see with people like elon musk and donald trump engages in this all the time and uh so joe biden is giving money to a coal plant in texas to have them switch out and become a solar farm electric provider in texas which already has shown major problems because they have been pushing away

Starting point is 01:51:06 from cheap, yes, petrochemicals. It's just so stupid. It's capitalism. And there's also overlap here with the, well, actually the National Socialists and the Soviet Communists both had five-year plans. They had industrial policy. Everything came from the top down. The government would decide what a given industry was going to do. It wasn't the top down. You know, the government would decide what a given industry was going to do. It wasn't the free market that decided it. The only real difference in, say, National Socialist Germany versus Soviet Russia was there was still this illegal fiction of private property in the sense that, you know, corporations were still nominally privately owned, but they were still directed by the state. And, you know, in the

Starting point is 01:51:44 Soviet system, you know, you did not have the fiction of private property. There was state property, and state property was owned by the party and the people who controlled the party. That was really the only difference between the two systems. Absolutely right. And it's interesting. I wrote about Antifa and how Antifa was supposedly anti-fascist, but they really were not anti-collectivist at all. And people just didn't want folks to know, evidently, that Antifa was started during Stalin's Soviet Union to try to infiltrate the National Socialists, to bring them over to the world socialist side. And it's all a battle between individual freedom and voluntary choice and expressing our values peacefully, hopefully in smaller communities where we have to show respect for each other versus the giant hegemony of the state. That's it. That's all there is. It's so simple. Christ experienced it. We're experiencing it. And we have these people who either are fraudulent or they have little facets of these things where either they're deluding themselves or they're somehow going along to get along. And even many of the supporters of these people do the same thing.

Starting point is 01:53:00 They'll shave off the areas where they don't. It's cognitive dissonance. I don't want to hear it. I don't want to hear it. And they go along. This is going to be my guy. He's the savior. He's fighting the other power block. But your power block as well should be questioned. And they don't do it. It's very frustrating. We all suffer from imperfect knowledge. We go through life trying to figure things out. And a lot of people are at a tremendous disadvantage because they've grown up in a culture and within a government school system that actively tries to cripple their cognitive capacity to prevent them from learning how to reason in the way that people back in the 18th century understood reason. And that's why, for example, you have the simplistic conception of what fascism is. You use that word, and generally speaking, the product of public

Starting point is 01:53:45 school will immediately think of stormtrooping, jackbooting, you know, whereas that's not the essence of fascism at all. You know, fascism is, and you can go to the Capitol and see it, in the embodiment of the fascis, which were the bundle carried by the Roman lictors, you know, that symbolized the merger of state and corporate power together. And if you want to know more about that, those who are listening, read Mussolini, who was at least sort of an intellectual and actually fleshed out some of this stuff. You know, absolutely. You know, and it's funny, I didn't even bring up the fascis. But you're just this is I want to if I can.

Starting point is 01:54:22 This is my the backside of MRC TV, because I got to show you this. It's uncanny that you're talking about this. So this is that new piece that I had released on the 26th yesterday for MRCTV, more federal fascism, feds pay Texas coal power plant. And you're nailing, I said early each semester in political economics class, I try to show students all the forms of pernicious statism, i.e. forced collectivism, and one of the most important is fascism. I focus on fascism because pop media and leftist anti-capitalists use the term to apply to any unwoke set of ideals. It's like you could have sat next to me while I was writing this and dictated it to me. It was amazing. It's excellent psychological propaganda in the sense that it negates any thoughtful looking into what the substance of fascism really is.

Starting point is 01:55:10 You shut it down by conjuring this image of goose stepping Nazis, you know, and that ends the discussion. Yes. Yes. And you add the accoutrements, all the decorative framing of it's for the nation. It's for our good. It's for the nation. It's for our good. It's for the culture. It's for this. It's for that. And if you can mix in, we've got to protect the culture from this or that. After the government, central planners have already screwed something up.

Starting point is 01:55:35 You've got a perfect mix. The government, you've got the perfect dialectic. You've got one side of the government that can screw something up. Then the other side can say, hey, if you rely on the government to fix what the government did, everything will be fine. Culture will be perfect again. And you get to more fascism. We've got to protect this business. We've got to stop this business. We've got to stop TikTok because there's that word China. So we've got to stop. I mean, it's crazy. Well, that's how the auto industry is in the state that it's in, particularly since 2008, 2009,

Starting point is 01:56:04 when GM and Ford basically went bankrupt at that time and were considered to be too big to fail, along with these big financial entities in New York. And instead of letting the market sort it out and perhaps salvage the elements of these companies that were viable and had some value, the government came in and decided, no, no, no, we can't allow that to happen. We're going to inject as many taxpayer dollars as it takes to kind of revive the corpse somehow, like Frankenstein on the table, and keep it going. And of course, at that time, then what happens is that these companies become beholden to the government. They become, in effect, part of the government. So that's why you have seen, in my own field, in General Motors and

Starting point is 01:56:45 Ford, and this is true of the industry generally, but really specifically with regard to them, not only not oppose the regulatory apparat much since 2008, 2009, and all these edicts that keep coming out of the DOT, NHTSA, and the EPA, but actively anticipating and working hand in glove with the government to come up with more and to charge us more for them. Well, it's just like you said about Musk, you know, now that he's had his company conform and they're set, he doesn't want the other ones to come in. So if they can put barriers up, barriers to entry up, obviously it's all rent seeking. And it's, you know, it comes again with those accoutrements of, well, we've got to protect this company, GM.

Starting point is 01:57:26 Perfect example. It's just an example. The 2008, you know, 17 billion dollars given to GM and they got a three year lift from their corporate taxes that they they had to pay. While Ford, which didn't take a bailout, had to pay its corporate taxes. And remember, Eric, for that period, GM finally started to show a profit, and it was the exact amount that they would have had to have paid for their corporate taxes. Remember that? Absolutely. That was amazing. It was like, oh, it's incredible.

Starting point is 01:57:58 And it all comes because of the example of protectionism. Well, and Frederick Bossier writes about this so much. If the politicians can institutionally get people to think that there has to be something that has to be kept going for Americana, American tradition, American strategic needs

Starting point is 01:58:19 or the national defense or whatever it might be, then they will pick and choose any industry that gives them the feedback to keep them in power and claim that they're part of what is so important and necessary for our future. It's the buggy whip manufacturers all over again. It's when the car gets introduced, we can't allow the buggy whip makers to go out of business. There's no demand for them anymore. It's decreased dramatically. Like GM. Maybe they've mismanaged their businesses because they've given such massive retirement

Starting point is 01:58:50 benefits to their unionized employees, which themselves have been given benefits because of the destructive attacks of politicians and the favoritism that they've given to unions. So the companies themselves can't compete against foreign companies or they move their manufacturing over to Korea or something like that to do it with less expense and less overhead, whether it's because of energy or the tariffs. And then they apply tariffs on us and we're screwed over even more. It's amazing to see how they can use these arguments to say, we're doing it for your

Starting point is 01:59:26 good. We're protecting GM and those jobs. Well, then why have any progress in business in any way whatsoever? Now with the GM thing to sort of finish off, of course, that got inflamed because of the bubble of all of the money that was poured out with the near 0% interest rates. And of course, the amount of money that went into the near 0% interest rates. And of course, the amount of money that went into the housing system, the banks started to collapse. And then they pumped even more money in with the American Recovery Act. And they claimed, as Judd Gregg did, the supposed conservative on Fox News, the night they had the initial vote for it and it failed. And then they went back the next couple of days and they did another vote in that fall of 2008. He said, this is about people's retirements we're talking about,

Starting point is 02:00:07 because they had to bail out the banks. I'm like, dude, do you understand that creating $17 trillion or $2 trillion is somehow maybe going to destroy people's buying power? Maybe their retirements aren't going to buy as much anymore. Why don't you stop? Let this bubble collapse. And they don't do it. They don't do it because they have all these things. They got to keep going. And finally, what is not seen are all the opportunities when they're supporting GM, keeping them going when they're not something that should be going, or they're sending money out to these green industries or again and i'll show i'll show this as an example they're sending one billion dollars to this texas company the texas tribune reports this a billion dollars to an electric

Starting point is 02:00:57 cooperative called the san miguel electric cooperative they were using coal that's reliable you can burn coal in the winter coal doesn't get destroyed by hail and instead they're going to take the subsidy they're taking the payoff and it's all part of the biden thing and they're saying it's going to support jobs but what is not seen are the jobs that won't be created because that money's been taken from people yeah and one of the more malevolent and ingenious aspects of this and its broad brush here is the way they have set us against each other such that we don't see who the common enemy is. So, you know, as regards GM, as regards to the finance institutions, you know, people in that segment are terrified, understandably, of losing their jobs and losing their pensions. So naturally they support the

Starting point is 02:01:43 bailouts, you know, and it's of a piece with Social Security. It's of the same thing, same cloth. You know, the people who have been fleeced their entire working lives to contribute to Social Security and who are now too old to work and who depend on Social Security, of course, they're going to fight tooth and nail to keep Social Security around. So, you know, we're battling and bickering with each other without seeing that we're being systematically inserved and impoverished by this entity that's called the government. You know, whereas, sure, you know, life is sometimes unfair. Sometimes, you know, things don't work out the way you want them to work out. But in the

Starting point is 02:02:20 long haul, you know, if things are allowed to correct themselves, when bad decisions have consequences, you know, we sort it out. We figure out what we did wrong and we do something different and better the next time. In the long run, things are better for everybody that way than rewarding failure. Yeah. Yeah. And, you know, it did. Frederick Bastia distilled it very well, obviously, you know, when he said a government is that great fiction by which everyone endeavors to live off of everyone else. And in order to smooth that over, you get the central bank connection or even government under Rome. Even if they didn't farm out their banking to a central bank, they were calling back the coins and shaving the coins of some of their silver and creating new coins to inflate the monetary system and claiming the old coins were still at the same weight. So it's a cipher to

Starting point is 02:03:08 what happens now when they create the money out of thin air and then buy the US bonds with it. But with Bastiat's dictum about government being that great fiction where everybody tries to live off of everyone else, the way they try to smooth that over is to fund all of the different things that they're trying to do to appeal to people by doing the central bank. And then in the background, what's actually happening the whole time is the monster of inflation

Starting point is 02:03:34 is eating away at everybody's livelihood, except the people who get the money right at the start, the connected people to the government. It's harming all of us. Even as they hand out all this candy to people, people don't even realize that they're getting fewer and fewer opportunities to eat the candy and the candy is worth less and less and less. Sure. It calls to mind two dictums. The first is that you can't cheat an honest man. And the second is that there's no such thing as a free lunch. And I think that that's a good

Starting point is 02:04:05 lesson to teach kids because it's a really wise lesson. And it's one that we as a culture have forgotten. People tend to believe that there is such a thing as a free lunch. And they tend to believe that, yeah, boy, this, and they know in their minds, okay, I'm being told something by a politician that this is going to benefit me somehow. But if they were honest and thought about it, that sounds snaky and sleazy. There's got to be something wrong with that. How is it that I'm going to get something that benefits me that isn't going to cost somebody else something, which is dishonest? So, you know, if you don't want to live honestly and you don't want to live by lying to yourself about where the source of your mana, your benefits come from,

Starting point is 02:04:43 you know, that's what you have to do. And if we did that, we did that once as a culture, once upon a time, it was shameful to be a parasite and, you know, to take money from other people by force. Now it's kind of like a belligerent entitlement. You know, you suggest to somebody that perhaps, hmm, government cheese should be just that, government cheese, not government sushi. And they, you know, they get very upset when you say that. That's absolutely right. It's a very strange thing.

Starting point is 02:05:12 You know, obviously, it makes me think about Alexei Detokhbil, who discussed how, you know, this is a very good system, but it will only survive until the point where people realize, as Basia said, that they can live off of other people by majority vote. And, you know, I brought up the point on liberty conspiracy before as, you know, as much as people admire the constitution as being a bulwark against that total control, really constitutional republics, you know, people will say, you know, we are not a democracy. Again, throwing that inclusive, you're in there as well, whether you want to be part of it or not. We are not a democracy, this anthropomorphizing of it. But also the idea that constitutionalism, as voted on by a bunch of other people, is anything other than just democracy a couple steps removed sure right so representative government is still in the end a group of people having a majority vote based on a group of people who had a majority vote to set up these people to do these majority votes so it's still you can't escape it this This is why the Prisoner, the TV series,

Starting point is 02:06:25 is so special to me. Yeah, in a metaphysical and adventurous and intellectual ways, it explores a lot of these questions. And, you know, I go back to Elon Musk, as you're talking about just dealing honestly with people. Let me show that again, if people will go to Eric Peter's autos, just round that off. And I want to talk about a couple of your other pieces and get your thoughts, Eric, I've saved a video segment of Donald Trump. If you don't mind, we'll do it. What's that? Absolutely. Let's do it. Okay, great. So the deconstructing Elon piece that you put out, I know you've been, you know, you've been watching Elon for quite a while and you mentioned,

Starting point is 02:07:04 you mentioned here that, where is it? I love this part. You say, yeah, Musk bought X and promised it would henceforth be a free speech venue. It is nothing of the kind. It is a for-profit operation that requires those who wish their speech, i.e. their post, to be seen, to pay in order for them to be seen, monthly, ongoing. It is only $8, say some apologists, but that is beside the point. The point being that having to pay for speech means it's not free. And if you do pay for your speech to be seen, it still isn't free because if you say certain verboten things, as you said, about certain verboten topics, then your speech will be suppressed, if not entirely erased.

Starting point is 02:07:48 Post something so-called anti-Semitic, that is, something critical but factual regarding the policies or actions of the government of Israel, no matter how heinous the policies or actions at issue, and see for yourself. Or post something critical of Musk himself. Now, I want to go back to your point about Brazil, because I have some friends who in Washington have been working with people from X. And they've been talking to me and I'm getting a sense. They're sort of, you know, behind the scenes sort of folks.

Starting point is 02:08:23 Occasionally they'll say something and I'll say, wait a minute. I get a sense that they think that Musk's long game is that he wants to introduce the X phone, have the payment system on the X phone. And they think for beneficial reasons, and it could, you know, you think about this, you could at first blush agree with them. One could, I say, to be fair, not you, but one could at first blush agree and say, okay, I see where you're coming from here. They'll say, yeah, see what he wants to do is he wants to get the X phone in everybody's hand. In fact, I've heard, they'll tell me, that Musk doesn't even care if people copy the technology as long as the user interface gets into their hands because it'll go up to Starlink. And he will be able to circumvent any on the ground government from blocking the transmission. And then there'll be free speech for everybody.

Starting point is 02:09:24 And I said, well, let me get this straight. So you don't think that government moves like that in Brazil have already shown us what will happen in the future. If, even if he gets that technology, even if they can't block it per se, you know, years down the line, they might try to block it somehow with signal jamming or whatever. But even if they can't block it, you don't think they'll block it through legal means? Like, I don't know. Let me know your thoughts because I can see that, you know. I'll start by saying that I'm a big fan of decentralization.

Starting point is 02:10:00 And then let me preface that remark by bringing up something that I know you'll be familiar with because you're a sci-fi guy like me. And you have probably read Philip Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, which is the basis for the Blade Runner movie. And they don't really get into this so much in the movie, but they do in the book, in the future, in this dystopian future that Dick laid out back in the 60s. This one gigantic corporation, the Tyrell Corporation, controlled everything. I mean, it had absolute control over everything. And that's the tendency that we're seeing, a centralization of everything. So Musk is a part of that. And Amazon is a part of that. And what's going to happen? We're going to get to the point where Musk controls all information propagation. And you buy everything from Amazon. And how is that going to,

Starting point is 02:10:46 how is that going to give us an alternative? If these, if these entities turn out to be evil, as Google used to like to say, well, what are we going to do? Because by that time, the gate's been locked and we're in the pen and there's almost nothing that we'll be able to do about it. I think people who believe in freedom and liberty should be focusing on decentralization, localityality you know figuring out ways to disconnect from all of this centralization centralization goes hand in hand hand in hand with authoritarianism and collectivism necessarily you know absolutely another way you cannot have authoritarianism and collectivism within a decentralized context and

Starting point is 02:11:21 that's what the you know originally the 13 colonies tried to establish that by having a decentralized form of government in which the 13 colonies became independent sovereign states. And it's why that they were referred to as plural in the original wordings, not the United States singular, you know, where they became administrative districts of the federal government, which is what they became after the Civil War. The idea was that if you lived in one state, say Virginia, and you didn't like what the government in Virginia was doing, well, you had the option to go to North Carolina, let's say, or another state where things were different and more to your liking. And that kept things in balance and in check because there were so many options and alternatives. And it's always a good thing to have alternatives and options, whether in politics or economics. And if you haven't got them, well,

Starting point is 02:12:08 then you've got no choice, right? Absolutely. And, you know, it's, I think if you look at the work of F.A. Hayek, you know, when he got the Nobel prize for the spheres of control and the information problem and so on, I was sort of brought up by a guy who had already read a lot of Hayek stuff. So I sort of just, you know, whether my dad taught me that, or I just sort of realized like the larger the area of control, the more people are hurt by the bad ideas, the less, you know, the less you have knowledge of the local issues and the less resolution you can get or satisfaction expression you can get because you've got to try to satisfy so many different groups right so many different people and that's that's one of the reasons why i really like that irish brehon law system the old clan system yeah i like that a lot and um uh it's it's

Starting point is 02:12:54 also interesting because um i think that when you see this they use again, these themes and flag waving and so on to sort of get everybody in a large landmass to connect to one or two things that they think are so great, even if they're fictions. You know, American traditionalism. Well, what does that mean in Hawaii versus Maine? You know, they're so different. They're quite different. And to be able to retain that authentic vibe is great. I love, you know, people having some different traditions and things like that. And again, you know, if we look at things like the U.S. government getting involved in natural disaster aid and things like that. Well, isn't it a bit of an affront to somebody who lives in Alaska to say, Hey, you're, you're not on Cape Cod, but you know, there was a storm on Cape Cod. Really? How bad was it? Well, we're going to tell you how bad it was. We'll define how bad it is.

Starting point is 02:13:56 We're going to call it an emergency. Yeah. But you know, I was thinking like maybe of putting an extension on my driveway because I got to rebuild that. No, no, no, no, no. We're going to take your money for Cape Cod. It's just, it just is ridiculous. You can't manage any of it. And always you got to rely on the central planners. You got to rely on the controllers.

Starting point is 02:14:17 And it's even worse. I'm glad you brought that up because apparently, you know, one Zelensky is worth how many millions of Americans? I mean, it's really, really a frontress, isn't it? Oh, geez. Just ask, ask Sebastian Gorka. What a just insufferable set of things that guy has to say almost every time he opens his mouth. These poor people who are still suffering right now in Western North Carolina, which isn't far from me at all, you know, I don't know, three hours down the road from where I live. People are getting $700, $750 checks, I think it is, from FEMA, which by the way, they have to pay back. It's a loan. It's not an aid as such. And meanwhile, this Zelensky cretin, who by the way, it gets my back up that they call this guy president. Oh, I know. He's a dictator. He

Starting point is 02:15:04 suspended elections. Yeah. He's a dictator. He suspended elections. Yeah. He's no different. He's like the Eastern European Idi Amin. If he were brought on the shelf, he's way past his date. He was supposed to be out of office a long time ago, right? These people, they tell us, you know, it's necessary, you know, because Putin bad. We have to support Ukraine because Ukraine is democratic.

Starting point is 02:15:22 No, it isn't. Right. I know. And he comes, he's, he's the, he's the offspring of the coup from late 2013 into 2014 of an illegitimate United States implanted NATO implanted government that was part of the expansion plans of NATO, part of the whole, uh, you know, uh, campaign for a new American century. And I won't even talk about Operation Timber Sycamore in Syria, all these things.

Starting point is 02:15:53 And people just go along with this stuff. And they say, it is amazing to me because it's just right in front of your face. And I know I told you, Eric, before, a friend of mine who worked for the Obama administration came up to me in December because I was reporting on Ukraine. And the overthrow there, the Maidan coup that was happening, he said, hey, where are you getting your information about Ukraine? And I was like, I'm just looking stuff up.

Starting point is 02:16:14 And he goes, well, you're right. There's a lot more. And obviously we found out much more, maybe not even all of it, you know. Going back to decentralization, you know, to juxtapose it against what's happening now with centralization, bring it down to the neighborhood level. You know, we hear oftentimes these statists talk about how it's our obligation to help other people, meaning the government's going to come in and it's going to take your money and then it's going to disperse that money according to its own whims to people you don't even know, perhaps in an

Starting point is 02:16:44 entirely different country. How about something like local? You know, if my neighbor down the road, who I know, falls on hard times, a tree falls on his house. I and some of my other neighbors, maybe we go over there with our chainsaws and we cut up the tree, we help the guy, you know, and if he needs a ride to get down to the doctor, we do it. I think I've frozen up. Oh, I think we froze up for a second there. We're back. I'm good. But anyway, so there's that human aspect of that relationship that's there that's voluntary and not exploitative in the sense that I know my neighbor personally.

Starting point is 02:17:19 I know what the problem is and if it should come to pass that that neighbor tends tries to abuse the help or the generosity of the neighbors because it's voluntarily voluntary you can withdraw your help right you don't have a situation that happens when you've got this this centralized so-called help where this permanent apparatus government entity simply comes in takes out how much money of yours that they want to take, and then decides how they're going to use it. Exactly. And puts you the bird along the way. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:17:51 You have no control over that. And so there's no accountability. There's no ability to prevent abuse. And it's very interesting because we're already seeing the conflict between the FEMA organizers, just like we saw with Katrina in New Orleans and so on. And, you know, in that case, Mayor Nagin was a complete basket case. But in this case, in places like North Carolina and others where local people are organized, people have drones, they have helicopters and they're being prevent, they're literally being prevented. You know, the same thing happened in New Orleans with Walmart and UPS tried to bring stuff in and they were they had roadblocks put up by fema they

Starting point is 02:18:29 couldn't even get in they had to sit in parking lots i mean just absurd because it's all a turf war and it's very important that the authority of the government never be challenged that's the key thing to understand they don't want people to realize, hey, we can handle this ourselves. We have the confidence, we have the capability to deal with the problem. What they want is sort of passive, supine, helpless people who sit with their hands folded in their lap. Help me, please save me. That's interesting, Eric. And if I can, I'd like to play this piece for you from Donald Trump, because that fits in with Donald Trump recently announced that he's going to pull out funding from the WHO. Right. That was his big thing over the past 36 hours or so. He said, can you stop funding? Now, he, you know, as I mentioned on Liberty Conspiracy last night, that's an easy one for him, essentially, because he already did that a while back. And then the Gates Foundation came in with, you know, billions and billions and filled that slot until Biden came back.

Starting point is 02:19:29 And then he refunded the WHO. But what's what is interesting is, as I listen to the details of what he said, and I didn't bring it up last night when I was streaming on the show. Trump doesn't say we're going to get out of that top-down thing, that worldwide thing, per se. And so I'd love to play this for you. There are a couple segments here that I'd love to play for you. This comes from that Real America's Voice thing that I was playing a little bit earlier to try to, you know, say like, hey, maybe take a step back from the idol worship here. But here is a little bit of what he had to say, and I'd love to get your thoughts on this.

Starting point is 02:20:09 It's a long list, but he's going to start with a big list of important items like this one. Listen, the United States will withdraw from the corrupt world health organization, which in light of its utter failure on COVID, they had a tremendous disaster on COVID, deserves to be completely abolished and replaced. Okay. So my first point is how can any self-respecting host hear Donald Trump say they screwed up on COVID? He's in the frame. He is responsible. He himself is responsible for doing that medical emergency in 2020 for bringing in burks and fauci for allowing these hospitals to get subsidized contrary to the constitution for the cares act the ppp act which just a few days ago they mentioned even more celebrities that got millions of dollars in the ppp stuff it doesn't matter what the outcome of it is the

Starting point is 02:21:03 precept of it is wrong. It's unconstitutional. And on the deeper baseline, it's immoral. And yet they're not questioning. And there's a little bit more, but I want to allow you to come in with what your thoughts are on this first part. I was going to say, I don't necessarily fault him for the initial declaration of the emergency. What I fault him for is that by the summer of 2020, it was apparent there was no need for an emergency anymore. And he did not rescind the emergency, which extended into the Biden regime. And not only that, he spent the remainder of that year standing like a spray tan wooden Indian while Fauci became the de facto president.

Starting point is 02:21:38 Somehow that's the fault of the WHO rather than, you know, the colossus orange man. It's astounding to me by the way to be good idolatry but you see they're going to build a statue to this man uh outside of the place in pennsylvania where the assassination took place assassination are you kidding me oh did wasn't there a time when you had to be dead before they would put up a statue to you the only instance i can think of statues being erected while people were living were in fascist Italy in Germany. Yeah, right, right. And it comes right back to Mussolini again. We're talking, this is amazing.

Starting point is 02:22:13 All right, so here's a little bit more. Eric Peters is our guest, folks. And I'll get ready to read some of your comments and quotes coming up on Rockfin. We can post them. The Russian team can post them over on X. Vladimir Putin just climbed off his bear, so everything's good. Here's a little bit more. Then I will work to forge a new coalition of nations that are strongly committed to protecting health while also upholding sovereignty and freedom. I want to thank you very much,

Starting point is 02:22:39 but I also want to say this. I could have renegotiated the deal. I could have gone into the World Health Organization for $25 million. Biden didn't take that deal. He's paying almost $500 million. They were so anxious to get the United States back after I terminated the agreement. They were so anxious to get it back that they offered me a deal, $25 million dollars and i said no i'll wait

Starting point is 02:23:07 could have gotten it for less but i didn't want less at that point we were paying almost 500 million could have done it for 25 to 30. biden took the 500 almost the 500 million dollar deal he knew he could have gotten back in for less so why why did he pay so much? But that's just one of many things that are wrong with our country. Okay. So there you go, Eric. It's a real mixed bag there. But on balance, really what he's talking about is he's not so upset about the WHO overall. If it could, again, be managed well, consequentialist, it's the expense of it.

Starting point is 02:23:46 We're going to have a different. Yeah. And he just he wants to replace the WHO. How about not have it? Where do you get the idea that the U.S. government is supposed to have anything to do with people's medical health? Stop it. It's become all encompassing.

Starting point is 02:24:02 And that's fundamentally the problem. You know, we've lost sight of the idea that if government has any legitimate role at all, at least as it was understood in the 18th century when the constitution was written and the articles of confederation were around, it is to provide a framework for the adjudication of civil laws and to deal with people who commit crimes and crimes were once upon a time defined as having caused harm to persons or property, meaning that there was a victim involved. And other than that, the government was supposed to not be involved. Oh, boy, to be free to organize their own lives and to interact with one another

Starting point is 02:24:36 consensually and voluntarily. And now we've gotten to the point where the state, the federal government, literally micromanages practically everything. I mean, it's going to get to the point where they're going to be federal regulations regarding what time you can get up in the morning to brush your teeth and how you must brush your teeth. And perhaps there's going to be a live stream camera, you know, in your bathroom to make sure you do it correctly. Well, you know, with the canard of public health, which of course is a canard, it's collectivist. It allows for the sacrifice of an individual for whatever the government defines as the best for the public health, the attack on people's rights and all these different types of things. We see that even in England, they were going to tell obese people, well, for voluntary surgeries, for

Starting point is 02:25:21 elective surgeries, like knee things, things like that, or smokers, you have to show us that you've quit smoking for X amount of time, or you have to lose this amount of weight. We're going to put other people ahead of you. This is exactly what they were doing in Canada. When I was in Canada, I was hanging out with the carpenters. They would say the government of the British Columbian governments literally said, because they were paying everybody's healthcare, they didn't say this, but this is the way that it worked because they had a government run public healthcare system. They were paying people's bills. So people were over utilizing things when they weren't husbanding their own resources, they were using somebody else's and they were going to the doctors more for stuff that they normally, if they were deciding for themselves, might not have done

Starting point is 02:26:02 it. They might've waited or done something else, gone naturopath, whatever. And then the doctors themselves were making good money from all these people were coming in. But the government was getting over. They were running out of money. So they put caps on what they would pay the doctors. Of course, that's always the way it goes. They put price caps in. And then the doctor said, hey, now we're not making what we think we deserve for our services. So we're going to

Starting point is 02:26:28 restrict the amount of time that we see the patients and we're going to increase the number of patients per day so we can make up for what we've been losing here because you put caps on all these services. So then they got more complaints from the customers, the patients who said, hey, I'm going into an office. I'm only in there for three minutes and then they're shuffling me out. What's going on? So then they come out with the government with the new bandaid over the injury they've already caused to say, well, now we're going to impose limits on the number of patients that doctors can see per day. And we're going to say what they have to see first and what takes precedence.

Starting point is 02:27:10 So one of the carpenters on the set said to me, he said, does that mean that they can tell us what we can get sick with on what days? And I said, essentially, that is what it tells you. That is what it says. One of the facets of this is one size fits all, which necessarily follows. You have an organization or an apparatus in order to try to cope with this. And again, assuming that you're even well-intended because you can't deal with individuals, you're dealing with collectives. So one size fits all. I read something really interesting on Lou Rockwell the other day. You may have seen it too. It was by a doctor, which I could remember the guy's name. And he talked about one of the problems with vaccines

Starting point is 02:27:47 in the context of government mandates and all of that, is that you don't have individualized treatments for particular people whose physiology, whose history may be different. You have a one size fits all shot that is injected into everybody and may have pernicious results in some people by dint of the fact that that particular person may have a different metabolism or history or something that if you took the time to deal with that person as an individual and tailor a treatment according to that particular person the outcome would have been positive rather than negative but we have to have this one size fits all everybody's the same you know so it's going to get to the point where just like you know in the movie depiction of orwell's 1984 everybody wears the party onesie you know the jumpsuit you're all

Starting point is 02:28:28 you know all fitting clothes you're wearing the same bad quality food uh you're driving your uh government motors approved uh vehicle that's the same as everybody else's vehicle you know it literally sucks the life out of life you you want just sameness, this brutalist, no latitude, no creativity. No, hey, let's try this. Let's do something differently. It all has to be the same. Isn't that interesting that you should, and I think you brought this up when you were chatting with David before about brutalist architecture and artwork. And, you know, the, it, that there's something very anti-human about it. Um, because, you know, humans tend to, uh, uh, be

Starting point is 02:29:17 attracted to things that have certain qualities to them. And, and you can see this, you can see it with babies. You can see it with animals. Animals are attracted to certain things. And the brutalist thing is almost anti-nature. It's very, very strange. I could never understand it. You look at the Boston City Hall building, which is one of the ugliest buildings ever created. That thing should have been torn down the minute they put it up, right? They should never have put it up. And that's a perfect example of how it's almost put up as an insult to people in a way. No, it's purposeful. I read a book once about Albert Speer, who was Hitler's architect, and describing what he was trying to accomplish building the new Reich Chancellery, which doesn't exist anymore in Berlin. And it was an example of the brutalist architecture you know the entrance to Hitler's office had doors

Starting point is 02:30:07 that were I think 14 or 15 feet high something like that you know that they were designed to be intimidating and to dehumanize to make feel small in the presence of omnipotent government you know as I'm as embodied by Hitler and the same with regard to these proletarian apartment buildings that you see in Eastern Europe and in Russia, remnants of the old Soviet Union. It's designed to make people feel small and helpless, to smash their individuality, to make them feel like just an atom, you know, part of some greater big collective, as opposed to an individual that

Starting point is 02:30:45 has some power. It reminds me of the Twilight Zone, the Obsolete Man with Burgess Meredith, when they open those big, tall doors. I wonder if Rod Serling, Rod Serling obviously was a big anti-Nazi guy, and understood quite well the problems of that. Of course, as I might have mentioned this to you, Eric, I think a lot of the people came out of World War II thought that the UN would be an answer to international conflicts and so on. So he actually wrote a script in favor of the UN one time. But I wonder what he would think today.

Starting point is 02:31:23 Let me ask you this before, I want to get one more thought on one more of your articles, Eric Peters, ericpetersautos.com, and I want to turn to some of the comments from people here. Let's see, we've got Inside Rockfin, let's see some of the folks who are in there, a lot of comments from people going back and forth. Tons of comments, actually. We've got Wes Robertson, communism. And let me see. IQ Microdot says, when most folks are so jammed up on religion, they cannot eat pluribus unum. I always look through lens of love, but I see mostly deranged GMO sheeple repeating senseless pap by rote. Well, you know, it's interesting because the religion of the state is what they try to use to replace, you know, individual connection

Starting point is 02:32:18 to God and neighbors. Let me see a couple other ones here over at rumble uh okay we've got uh uh don't frag me bro says is chatting with someone says first comes the kind tyranny with drugs to make us think we are happy then comes the boot on the neck well on the drug subject eric i'd love to get your thoughts on this because i got one final one on, of course, Donald Trump is going to save the world by essentially making Mexico more of a vassal state and using the word terrorism to describe drug dealers because terrorism is an easily malleable word. It can be turned into anything. So here we go. This is going to change everything. Look at this. When I am back in the White House, I will immediately end the Biden border nightmare that traffickers are using to exploit vulnerable women and children.

Starting point is 02:33:17 We will fully secure the border. I will wage war on the cartels just as I destroyed the ISIS caliphate, 100% gone, 100% destroyed. They'll come back now because we have a weak administration. I will use Title 42 to end- So let me just ask, is anybody aware that he sat in Syria and worked with ISIS splinter groups? Well, the thing that astounds me the most, you know, when he talks about this issue, as far as I know, for the most part, probably for ninety nine point nine percent, regardless of what you think about illegal drugs or street drugs, they use the term pusher. You know, people voluntarily buy these drugs. You know, the drug dealer has no power to make you take his drugs. Meanwhile, juxtapose that with the orange man who used the power of the federal government to coerce people to take these drugs. Who pushed drugs during the aftermath of the pandemic? Who actually pushed them? Employers, the military, you name it. People were presented

Starting point is 02:34:16 with the option, if you don't take these drugs, you're going to lose your job. You're going to get kicked out of the military. You're going to this, your kids can't go to school. That's pushing people. Again, I'm not, you know, I'm not advocating that people take fentanyl or any other street drug. I'm just saying that for the most part, these drugs are offered to people who choose to take them. They're not being pushed on anybody. Exactly. And, you know, I mentioned on Liberty Conspiracy last night, I was working on a novel and I found out that the DEA of the U.S. was working with the Sinaloa cartel because the Sinaloa, they said, okay, we'll give you an easy ride in the United States. We'll be hands-off for you in certain areas if you'll work in Mexico to keep crushing the smaller

Starting point is 02:35:01 guys and you'll remain dominant. They literally did this. The DEA of the United States, which of course is an unconstitutional agency. And no one seems to question these things anymore. They don't question the way the members of law enforcement against prohibition, former cops will show that even after all these decades of the so-called drug war, you know, treating it as if we ourselves are terrorists, right? Again, they use this term. Look at, I mentioned last night on the show, look at what the FBI did with those parents who were concerned about their schools. They sent, they contacted the National Association of School Boards and they said, hey, this is the Biden administration. Wink, wink. Why don't you write letters to us and say you're concerned about these dangerous parents coming in who are threatening LGBTQ or teachers?

Starting point is 02:35:55 And then we will set FBI agents on them. It's just absurd. They use this language to scare people. And the drugs are not something that are being forced on me the way most of US government policy is. Yeah. And it's also entirely arbitrary. I like the construction, the war on some drugs. I can't remember who came up with that, but it's apt, isn't it? Yeah. The so-called war on some drugs, alcohol is perfectly legal and I don't have a problem with people drinking beer or wine or liquor or whatever, but the point is there's just this bizarre incongruity. The cop who arrests you because you've got a bag of pot in your pocket goes home and drinks a six-pack of beer and probably beats his wife. It's all out of your head. Yeah. And that's one of the main problems that I have is, you know, it's that.

Starting point is 02:36:48 And as you say, the larger the system, the more easily these people, the easier the facility for them to be able to get away with wrongdoing. And this is exactly what we see with U.S. international relations, whether it's Ukraine and the bio labs, the corruption there with Hunter Biden, whether it's Syria and the money that's going over to them, all sorts of things, international black rock, the green stuff with the buyouts of these companies, and they steer people's behavior. It's just ridiculous. Let's end on this, however, because over on your website, Eric, you have something that I'm so happy about. I'm going to play the music. What's that? I'm going to play the music. Oh, well, I want to do.

Starting point is 02:37:33 This is the Rockford car. Yeah. The Firebird. So I don't have the theme for Rockford here, which is a great theme. At the Tonely, your name and message. I'll get back to you. Tell us about this piece. TV and movie cars are often remembered fondly and for longer than the actors who drove

Starting point is 02:37:52 them. You have Smokey and the Bandit in here. So tell us about this, The Rockford Files. Yeah, well, to set the stage back in the 70s, there was a TV show called The Rockford Files. You know, people who are under 30 today probably won't remember it. But it was about a kind of low-rent PI. He didn't have a lot of money. He lived in a trailer by the beach. So he couldn't afford a Trans Am, which was the top-of-the-line version of the Pontiac Firebird. So he drove what you see there, which was a base Firebird.

Starting point is 02:38:26 But the neat thing about the car, back in those days, you know, Pontiac offered you the option to select a la carte from the Trans Am's performance hardware. In other words, you could buy the base Firebird without all the cost padding extras, but you could pick the Trans Am's high-performance engine, the transmission, the heavy-duty suspension, and basically have a Trans Am that didn't look like one for a lot less money. And Ford did the same thing. You probably remember this, and then fast forward a little bit to the 80s and into the 90s with the Mustang LX5-0, which they took the base Mustang,

Starting point is 02:38:52 you know, which ordinarily was a kind of a secretary's car, a grocery getter car, came with a little four-cylinder engine. And they fitted it out with the Mustang GT's high-performance V8, same transmission, heavy-duty suspension,

Starting point is 02:39:04 and all of that, but for a lot less. But it didn't look like a Mustang GT. Unfortunately, you can't have that today anymore. You know, if you want to if you want the performance car, you have to buy the performance car, the top of the line model. And unfortunately, that's pushing, you know, particularly I feel bad for for people who are in their 20s today, you know, who'd like to have a fun car like that, but they can't come up with a $40,000 plus that it takes, you know, to buy a current Mustang GT because Ford won't sell them a decontented base Mustang with the GT's driveline for, you know, 10 grand less. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I, you know, to have many more options would be so much fun. And I love the idea. You have the embedded video of Jay Leno, who, by the way, I got to meet him after he did a show in Boston one time.

Starting point is 02:39:52 He was driving his mom's gigantic, I think it was like a Lincoln. And it was starting to snow. And I saw him after the show. I was walking along Commonwealth Avenue in Boston, and he was pulling out from one of the parking lots. He had done a show at BU. And it was at the time when he when he would take the questions of what's your beef, what's your beef? And he would start talking about something just riffing. It would go. He just was hilarious spontaneously.

Starting point is 02:40:19 And I see this big car pulling out and I see it's Jay. And he rolls down the window. I'm like, Hey Jay. And the snow's coming down. It's just the two of us is sort of getting his like nighttime. He goes, Hey, how you doing? I'm like, ah, it's nice to meet you, man. You were really, you were really funny, man. Really appreciated what you did. Uh, it was a great show. He goes, ah, thanks. It was like, you really do drive a big car. He goes, ah, it's my mom's. She lives in Andover. I'm just driving back. He goes, I hope I make it.

Starting point is 02:40:44 Her tires are really bald. So it was great. And I love the embedded stuff. And you talk about the Mustang GT in here. And I think it's really neat that people had these types of options. And in those days, as you say, teenagers could get the skills, they could work on these things and mess around with the cars. Yep. Yep. It's a shame that we've lost that. I hope that we can recover it. And by the way, as far as Jay goes, you know, I I've taken issue with him on a number of occasions for political points of view that he's he's he's taken. But he is a car guy. He does know his cars and he does a really good job of collecting and preserving pieces of history. And so I will commend him for doing that.

Starting point is 02:41:26 Yeah. That particular car in the video is actually one of the actual movie cars from Rockford Files. Oh, that's great. It's gorgeous. What a good, I wonder if that's the right license plate too. You know, I haven't had a chance to check it out, but it could be. And I don't know if I, I don't know if I, I don't know if I i don't know if i i don't know if i ever told you eric but you know the story about rockford did i ever tell you about where rockford came from

Starting point is 02:41:50 i don't know if i mentioned this to you like the the show yeah yeah like the how the character started oh yeah yeah okay so when i was a kid abc had a tv show Toma and it was on for one season. And I played the theme on, on Liberty conspiracy because the theme is great. And my brother, seven years, my elder, we had a reel to reel tape recorder and he would record television themes before the TV tunes. People had the CDs. He had them all on tape. We had everything John Williams had done, you know, time tunnel, uh, voice to the Bottom of the Sea, all that stuff. And he recorded the Rockford Files theme and all those things. But before he got to Rockford Files, a couple of years before that, there was a show called Toma and a great theme.

Starting point is 02:42:39 It was done by the guy who did the theme for Hill Street Blues and all those things. And and it was about a guy in New York who was a police officer, a real guy, sort of like the guy Al Pacino played in the movie. I can't remember. But he was like an undercover cop. And he actually was real. And he was known as a really good undercover cop, man of a thousand faces named David Toma. And there was a book called Toma. And it was his story about infiltrating the street gangs and all those things. And so ABC put the show on and David Toma was actually like an advisor

Starting point is 02:43:13 on the show. And the show was a hit. It was a, it was like in the top 10 and the lead actor who played David Toma was a guy named Michael or something. Musant Tony Musante. I think his name was. And so he, I guess, I, he, I guess he didn't realize when he signed the contract that it was supposed to be like, you come back next year if it's a hit. So at the end of the season, he's like, oh, that was fun. I don't want to do it anymore. You want to do something else?

Starting point is 02:43:44 They said, no, wait, wait. This is a hit show. What are you doing? How can you leave? He goes, I don't want to do it anymore. He didn't want to do it. So instead, what they did was they created essentially a Toma-like character in Beretta. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 02:44:02 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So I think maybe we spoke. So so that gave Robert Blake, you know, as sad as, you know, his story became later, it gave him a chance to have a second, you know, second role in life that he became a big hit. Beretta was huge. And curiously enough, for the second season of Toma, they already had a bunch of scripts ready and one of the writers was steven j cannell it was one of his early shows and he of course went

Starting point is 02:44:33 on to create the a team and you know uh magnum pi and all these different shows so cannell had written a character who was a private eye in New York named Jim Rockford. And Rockford was going to appear on Toma, but they never made the story. So he went to NBC, he expanded on the idea, and then he put Rockford on the beach in the little mobile home. And so if that guy, Tony Musante, had decided to do the second season of toma we never would have gotten rockford files beretta would never have been on and all these people who did all these other shows these actors james garner their trajectories on their professions would

Starting point is 02:45:18 have gone in completely different directions it's it's incredible to think of that calls to mind which i know you're going to love this because you and i are mind melding here and many people who aren't people like us don't know this but i know you do jeffrey hunter who was the original captain of the enterprise in yes and who decided that you know i don't know i've got better things to do than to be the captain of the enterprise and that's when they brought in william shatner and probably jeffrey hunter really regrets that he didn't yeah be the captain yeah and i gotta say i think i think that the the move you know the necessity to get someone new and bringing in william shatner having met william shatner personally the star trek owes so much to the energy you know as much as people

Starting point is 02:46:07 said it was difficult to work with him because he was always looking for the limelight or whatever whatever i don't think people understand unless like you know i've worked in star trek and i've met william shatner a couple times the energy that he provided and still provides in his what is he 90 now yeah it was and the. And the way that, yeah, he, he really did a lot for Star Trek and he still does. So that's interesting. I forgot about that. The chemistry between not just Shatner, but also Nimoy and DeForest Kelly and those guys, you know, I don't,

Starting point is 02:46:41 it was not something that was planned. It's just something that was happenstance, but in a really good way because it just created, as you say, that energy. So, yeah, I apologize. No, no, it can't be duplicated. It's an incredible thing. And it really is something to see, too. I don't know if you saw they did recently. recently they used ai and an actor to sort of be the basis for shatner and they had shatner coming from the last of the movies that generations thing where he was with captain picard and so on and that that was done by brandon braga and i was a little disappointed the way they they did that um but um they sort of have a nice final chapter for william shatner and Nimoy because Shatner was a little bit disappointed

Starting point is 02:47:26 and saddened, obviously, by the passing of Nimoy, but also the way that their relationship didn't quite end, I think, the way many people would hope that a relationship, if it's got to end as they all do, you would want it to end on a positive note. It ended up that Leonard Nimoy had stopped talking to William Shatner because there was a misunderstanding. Shatner was involved with the documentary on the captains of Star Trek or something, was on Star Trek. And the production team, I guess Shatner was involved with it. They had approached Nimoy to get some footage of Nimoy.

Starting point is 02:48:04 And Nimoy was busy or something and like he didn't reply or something they didn't get a reply from him so they they took some footage of nimoy from one of the star trek conventions and they didn't get nimoy's permission and they put it in this movie yeah and you know the other i just i guess the people making it they didn't think anything of it. They're just like, well, you know, we're running out of time. We've got this footage. You know, let's let's get Leonard and put him in. We'll make him part of it. But Leonard Nimoy, he was very upset, I guess.

Starting point is 02:48:37 And so Shatner tried to communicate with him and, you know, try to apologize and so on. And it just didn't go. But what's interesting is this new production from from star trek it's about a 10 minute thing uh you can find it on youtube it's got millions of views now and um it's essentially they used ai to take the character of captain kirk who's sort of stuck in this weird like eternal vortex thing where he can live forever it's like heaven it's this weird sort of pseudoscience equivalent of heaven, heaven. Uh, after he had been such a hero and his character dies at the end of the

Starting point is 02:49:12 generations movie, they have him emerge from this to be able to be there when Spock dies and hold his hand. And it's very interesting because he passes through seeing all these different characters like Robin Curtis, who played Savick in Star Trek two and three. She's there. She's a really nice actress, a really nice person. So she's in the film. So they brought all these people back and Leonard Nimoy's wife, and I think his son and Shatner were all involved in the production. So it shows that Shatner had a very he was able to have a good relationship with the family.

Starting point is 02:49:52 They don't have any problems with William Shatner. They've forgiven. And that itself is a nice to me in the end. You know, all of these theatrical things as I've gotten older, I don't know if you feel the same way or you probably were way ahead of me on this. But to me, it's just people taking a stage and I want to see them as people, you know, having worked on the sound stages and been there. And I was in the same sound stage where they shot Bonanza, you know, they're just people walking on the concrete. They're doing their work for their families. And that human touch, that touching way that those people can say, yes, that other stuff isn't important. It's the love that we have for each other. And it's great to see. It's a wonderful little thing that really

Starting point is 02:50:38 doesn't mean as much about the characters as it does about the people who are alive today. And it makes you think about your friends and maybe getting in touch with them. It's great. It does. Sure. You know, we're only here for a limited time. You know, let's not forget that and let's make the best of it.

Starting point is 02:50:53 Yeah. Yeah. Well, look, Eric, I better get going. And I appreciate you. You stayed extra here on the David Knight Show. And I hope, hopefully we'll drive people over. I hope they can go over to Eric Peters autos dot com. We're going to show the site again.

Starting point is 02:51:08 My computer's been going a little slow here occasionally. I noticed. But there you go. Rockford's car. By the way, I just want to mention to people who maybe aren't familiar with the site that unlike X, we don't charge anything for people to have full access. And for people who want to post whatever they'd like to post. And they can do it in either of two ways. There are comments following all the articles. And again, you don't have to pay any fee at all to say whatever you'd like, as long as you like.

Starting point is 02:51:34 And there's also a forum area, which is somewhat hard to find that if you keep scrolling down that you will see a little farther. If you continue scrolling down, there you go, the forum. And that's just sort of a free form conversation area that you can go to if you're interested in posting something about whatever you'd like to post. And it can be book length if you feel like it. So we just have that for people as an alternative to the speech suppression platform

Starting point is 02:52:00 that Elon Musk likes to call X. Oh, fantastic, Eric. Hey, by the way, Merry Christmas late and also Happy New Year. I'm probably just smiling, beaming too much here, but maybe that's been the thing

Starting point is 02:52:17 that slowed the computer down occasionally here, but just awesome to talk to you. And I want to say, obviously, you're one of the favorites who is on with David on his show. And I see Birdhouse Blues is there from the Southwest. And he says, I don't see any more sci-fi shows on regular TV. What a shame.

Starting point is 02:52:35 And Jason Barker is there from Knights of the Storm. And he says, Eric is on Rumble too. Libertarian car guy. Eric is on Rumble. Libertarian car guy. Boy, Eric, this is good. You got a lot of people who like you, man. Good stuff. I'm honored.

Starting point is 02:52:53 Thank you. Well, you'll have to send them their subsidies later, right? I don't have much to subsidize with. I got a lot of cats. That's it. Oh, man. Thank you, Eric. Great to talk to you, my friend.

Starting point is 02:53:09 I hope people will check you out. And remember, Libertarian Card G on X. That's it. Thank you, Gordon. All right. You got it. Thank you, Eric. Oh, terrific stuff.

Starting point is 02:53:18 Boy, thanks for your comments, everyone. Wonderful, wonderful stuff. I'm going to leave you with something that is a bit about warfare and it'll sort of round things off as we talk about Donald Trump. I often will play themes on the program. And for this one, I'm going to go with Edwin Starr, war. And then we're going to turn to some other good people that I really like, the folks at antiwar.com and Dave DeCamp. Awesome people. I'm friends with one of the folks, just disclosure, one of the folks at antiwar named Angela Keaton, but I just admire the work of the other people. I haven't met them directly, but here's a little something to get us into the final segment here on the program. What is it good for?

Starting point is 02:54:11 Absolutely nothing What is it good for? Absolutely nothing Say it again What is it good for? Absolutely nothing Say it again, yeah War means tears To thousands of mothers When their sons go to fight And lose their lives I said war Good God y'all

Starting point is 02:54:53 What is it good for What a voice Amazing Edwin Starr Was it Mary Ellen Moore Might have been Emmy Maybe someone else. Maybe Nancy Chambers, who mentioned that he passed away a number of years ago.

Starting point is 02:55:10 I believe he was 61 years of age. So rest in peace to him. And unfortunately, we just want to bring up something really, really stark, stark information from you can find anti-war news with Dave DeCamp Monday through Friday at about midnight each night into the morning. They release their videos. Dave is the editor at AntiWar.com. And I rely on them so much, especially recently. They've just been just so important for me to see. And so they have a report preceding. You can see the red here on the on the video where they're talking about four babies die of hypothermia in Gaza.

Starting point is 02:55:50 And he also discusses reports of starvation, famine inside Gaza with, of course, weapons that the United States could stop this in a few days. If they would just even stop giving them the repair materials that the IDF needs to continue their slaughter there. And regardless of how one feels about who should be there and who should not be there, how about not invading my home and taking my money or saying that the government can invade my home if I don't give them my money to pay for all this slaughter. But the next story is such a contrast. After he talks about the four babies dying of hypothermia, watch this. Gaza for IDF soldiers. Here Israel builds a beachside resort in Gaza for IDF soldiers. So these are that Israel builds a beachside resort in Gaza for IDF soldiers. Israel builds a beachside resort in Gaza, that's Palestine, for IDF soldiers. Right after he's discussing four children dying of hypothermia. This is it.

Starting point is 02:57:01 Israel builds a beachside resort in Gaza for IDF soldiers. So the Israeli military has built a beachside resort on the coast of the northern Gaza Strip, where IDF soldiers occupying the Palestinian territory can relax and take a break from waging a genocidal war. So according to the Israeli news site Ynet, the retreat, as they called it, was built alongside a water desalination plant that provides 60,000 liters of drinking water per day. At the resort, IDF soldiers can enjoy a cafe, hotel-style meals, massages, and hot showers, and they have access to mental health support and medical services. And yes, this is a picture of an IDF soldier using a cotton candy machine, making cotton candy at this beachside resort. And this is what the Ynet Israeli media called this, a beachside resort. So the chief warrant officer, the head of the food services for the IDF Southern Command,

Starting point is 02:58:04 told Ynet, quote, You know this is Gaza, right? Yet we've created a sense of home here with iced coffee, espresso, protein shakes, toast, shakshuka, fresh fruit, and even ice cream on warmer days, end quote. So in one part of Gaza, in most of Gazaaza you have these families living in tents babies dying of hypothermia people being bombed in their tents journalists doctors being killed and then in another part you have the soldiers that are committing those atrocities hanging out making cotton candy getting iced coffee uh men and then the the Ynet report said that the IDF has built similar refreshment centers elsewhere in Gaza, but they don't match the scope and quality of this one. The construction of such facilities is just the latest sign that Israel is planning for a long

Starting point is 02:58:59 term military occupation of Gaza and is not interested in a hostage deal with Hamas that would lead to a permanent ceasefire. Colonel Michael Azoulay, a logistics officer for the Southern Command said, quote, the facility's deployment reflects our readiness for prolonged operations, even if a ceasefire is reached in the context of a hostage exchange, end quote. So he's saying, even if there's a ceasefire, we're here. We're here for the long term. And then I mentioned in the article, all the places like the Netzerim Corridor, where they've demolished all the buildings and established military bases. They've also done that in the Philadelphia Corridor, along the entire border, Israel-Gaza border, which they call the buffer zone. Then the ethnic cleansing campaign, they're going to do similar things in those northern areas. And of course, this is all going to lead eventually to the establishment of Jewish settlements in Gaza.

Starting point is 02:59:55 That is clearly the game plan here. And I mean, just the contrast between what these Israeli soldiers are doing at this resort and what the Palestinians are facing. Just absolutely shameful that the U.S. government is supporting this funding and enabling all of this. Well, amazing work, amazing reporting from the whole anti-war team. And, you know, I don't know, they do a really, really yeoman's effort. They do a great job in maintaining, not an upbeat attitude,

Starting point is 03:00:37 but maintaining their standards, being calm and trying to report on things without having the tragedy just demoralize them and remove their energy and their capacity to continue in the face of adversity. And, you know, it makes me think back to the opening talking about It's a Wonderful Life and how important it is to be in touch with each other and to tell each other, you know, how much we appreciate them and to lend a hand once in a while. Or if maybe you're on your own, go down to a local shop and see somebody occasionally, you know, give a compliment on something, that sort of thing. And, you know, find some local people or send out a compliment if you're online real quick, that sort of thing. You know, that's a real benefit. And I know that Dave, Dave is aware of my compliments for his work over at, at Antwerp, because I know Angela has mentioned, Angela and I got to speak on the phone

Starting point is 03:01:37 about a month ago. But so I know that they know how many people appreciate them, but I want to thank you. And I want to thank David for amazing work, amazing work. Just, it just, it just puts a smile on your face thinking about how people can just be so great for each other. And again, I'll remind you, if you do want to donate, you can do, do so over at Rockfin or Rumble to the David Knight show. And you can go over to thedavidknightshow.com or davidknight.gold. Thedavidknightshow.com allows you to check out all the great items that are for sale over there,

Starting point is 03:02:12 including the new shirts. My blue MacGuffin shirt is on the way. I can't wait for that. And you can check out all the music that you can buy. That Christmas record is absolutely terrific. And I will see you tonight on Liberty Conspiracy at six o'clock. It's Friday. So on Fridays, I try to do what's called Fiction Friday, and we have a lot of fun with that. We'll cover a number of the stories like immigration and things

Starting point is 03:02:36 that will pop up on the news very soon and are almost always perennial. So thank you to everybody for being here. And again, anyone who had some comments, little John is in the house inside Rockfin. Thank you so much, little John. And Shea Bishop is there. I really appreciate it. And he says, U.S. stakeholders have too much invested in the build of build Gaza back back better smart city plans the canals pipelines disaster capitalism and i think that's sort of the way that they're looking at rockfin that's the way they've sold it to a lot of the corporations isn't it crazy i don't know it's just i don't understand it's just crazy oh hey birdhouse thank you he says thanks guard for being our substitute because i'm a substitute for another guy.

Starting point is 03:03:26 I didn't even shoot one spitball through my straw. Thank you. And Birdhouse, thank you with the hearts. Thank you. Raised by Gypsies, thank you all. Boy, what a terrific way to cap off Christmas. Thank you, everyone. And again, absolutely the best people around.

Starting point is 03:03:43 I got to get over to Tennessee to visit with everybody in the Knight family. And I hope that you will join me tonight on Liberty Conspiracy at 6. You can find the Liberty Conspiracy channel on Rumble. And my ex is at Guard Goldsmith. So I'll leave you with a little bit more from David to say farewell. And I hope that everyone has an absolutely splendiferous and awesome, awesome rest of the day. What shall we do? What shall we do? You know what?

Starting point is 03:04:16 Let's go a little bit more with. Oh, you know what I would love to do for David is to do, let's do a little bit more from, I want to go with that Peanuts Christmas again. We'll leave that and we'll say thank you again from the David Knight Show and me, Gardner Goldsmith. Have a great afternoon. Thank you. ¶¶ You're listening to The David Knight Show.

The David Knight Show - Fri 27Dec24 UNABRIDGED - Guest Host Gard Goldsmith

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