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Episode Date: March 8, 2024

Join guest host Gardner Goldsmith (MRCTV.org and Liberty Conspiracy M-F at 6 pm on Rumble, Rokfin) as he guest-hosts for David and welcomesToby Leary, of Cape Gun Works in Hyannis Mass, to discuss the Supreme Court and the so-called "bump-stock ban", as he chats with writerJames Bovard about lost rights, the growth of DC, and Biden's State of the Union speech,Gerald Celente to discuss world economics, inflation, and the warmongers who often bandy about the word "freedom" as they force you to pay for their military conquests! Thank you for watching, please spread the word, and thank you to our guests!"Find out more about the show and where you can watch it at TheDavidKnightShow.comIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-showOr you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7Money is only what YOU hold: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silverFor 10% off Gerald Celente's prescient Trends Journal, go to TrendsJournal.com and enter the code KNIGHTBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-david-knight-show--2653468/support.

Music Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13 on this, the eighth day of March, year of our Lord, 2024. I'm Gardner Goldsmith filling in for David, and I welcome you to The David Knight Show. Thanks for being here. Today, we're going to be joined by three great guests to discuss big stories breaking in the news, and we're going to tear those stories apart and get great intellectual ammunition to take with us to fight for freedom and future generations.

Don't forget, you can find the David Knight Show at Rumble, at Rockfin, DLive, and of course, David Knight's Twitter slash X is at Libertitarian. And please visit the David Knight Show website. You can comment inside X if you're watching there. You can also do so on Rumble and in Rockfin, and we'll visit with the chatters over there. They are a great group of people. Thanks for joining us. Welcome, one and all. Well, thank you very much for your kind thoughts. A few of you knew I was going to be filling in for David today. I did my little streaming show last night.

It's called Liberty Conspiracy, and we do that every Monday through Friday at 6 p.m. And you can find that, of course, on Rockfin and Rumble. And you might know my work from MRCTV, the Media Research Center, Brent Bozell's group, which has been going for now 36 into its 37th year. And I want to acknowledge and thank all the fine folks at MRCTV for allowing me to do work for them, videos, writing on constitutional items, economic stories, and things like that. And I want to thank you for joining me. We're going to have a great day today.

On tap today, we'll be visited by the great James Bovard. His latest book, Last Rights, just came out about a month and a half ago. We'll talk to James Bovard about the state of the onion address. And then shortly after that, we'll be joined by Toby Leary, co-owner of Cape Gunworks in Hyannis, Massachusetts, very close to the Kennedy compound, but we've got to be very careful. And he'll be talking to us a little bit about the bump stock arguments in the Supreme Court, as well as some big things that have been happening. And he's been fighting so hard in the Massachusetts legislature. In fact, it's in the Gardner Hall. I didn't even know there was one, but it's my name goes back to the family that was around

Massachusetts way back in the old days. So it probably has some connection to my family. And I'm sorry about that, Toby. But he has fought so hard to try to stop the expansion of the government of Massachusetts and their attempts to throw darts at the second amendment. And we'll be joined by Gerald Salente in the 11 o'clock hour. Of course, Gerald Salente of Trends Journal, always terrific to talk to Gerald. And I always love it because I get to tap into that jazz vibe. So, one and all.

Remember, you can always donate at Rockman and Rumble. I welcome you to do so as we gather together. As I say on my program, we try to turn all their political frowns upside down. We try to put a smile on things while we derive long-lasting intellectual ammunition to defend freedom against those who would debase the currency that they force us to use and debase the very concept of rights. Once the concept of rights has been debased by the predators, all the rest follows. If they are unwilling to recognize your right to exist as a sovereign individual, only answerable to God and

the natural rights that God gave you and other people, if they are willing to invade those natural rights, whether it's to force you to use a certain currency or it's to force you to show a certain type of ID or to get rid of a firearm that you could use to defend yourself, well, that debasement comes from the debasement of rights right from the start. So let's find out what's on tap today on the program, one and all, The David Knight Show for 3-8-24. Of course, we'll go into our newsflash, a little abbreviated one from what I kind of do on my show. It's the Biden State of the Political Onion edition. Yes. We'll also

mention if we get the opportunity in the program, Sweden entering NATO. I might push that down a little bit as the U.S. secretly surprised Israel with arms and they want more weapons. And of course, wait till you see how Joe Biden started off his state of the onion address last night. It was a very nasty, smelly onion. Should have been thrown away a long time, that concept of the polis, the state imposing itself on us, just a gang of thieves and thugs. The Wall Street Journal confirmed yesterday that the Russian-Ukraine peace treaty was, I know, shocker. What? What are you talking about? Get out of here. Yes, it was hobbled by the Brits. Who would have thunk it that Boris Johnson could

have actually got something done, huh? Oh, geez. Yeah, pretty much everything he's done has been an absolute mess, and this was one of those things. And then we're going to be looking at Kathy Hochul breaching the Fourth Amendment in subways. I know it's a true shocker. And how that actually ties into things that people in some of the southern states like Arizona and New Mexico have been dealing with as they try to get to work with, of course, the immigrations and customs people pulling them over and making them engage in checks, stops, stop, you know, stop and show us your ID things that the American colonialists, they didn't exactly dig that and they lifted arms to oppose. Strange how times have changed, isn't it? Well, some people are opposing them and fighting for freedom. Thanks for doing so, everybody. Let's see what our first story is. It is, of course, the political state of the Union,

or as the Kinks might have said, perhaps a state of confusion I always loved the Kinks, and I gotta say, I'd love for those two brothers to get playing together again, but that's okay. They gave us some great music, and if you get a chance, I've mentioned to my audience, Ray Davies has a wonderful set of country songs, all admiring American freedom, actually. So check out Ray Davies. First off, a couple of blush stories here. You might have heard about this just before Joe Biden arrived at the State of the Union, as we can see here from Clarence Williams, not Clarence Williams III, who wrote this for the Washington Post. Pro-Palestinian protesters blocked roads near the Capitol. Then a young teenager, 18-year-old man, started to rev his engine at them, and of course, police got him out of the car and arrested him. And the Palestinians, no, they weren't calling for the end of the Jewish people, as so many of the deep state rhino people

try to depict folks who are just asking for the United States to stop sending weapons to the Israeli government. How about that? How about just a ceasefire? That would be an interesting thing to see. Well, they also could stop sending weapons and money and a lot of other things like advice, telemetry, satellite information to things like, oh, Ukraine. Even as NATO expands, if you didn't get to see this one, Antiwar noted that NATO has accepted Sweden. Sweden, which, of course, for decades was always the noncombatant. It was always the in-between neutral force during the Cold War. Well, now they've joined NATO because, of course, NATO was formed to stop the expansion of the Soviet Union. And then once the Soviet Union ended, well, you know what happened.

NATO kept expanding. Yes, of course. And the United States got involved in overthrowing the elected government of Ukraine in late December 2013 with the Maidan coup coming into 2014 with Victoria Nuland and Jeffrey Pyatt discussing the fact that they were going to work with the Nazis in the Slovita party, like Ole Tjani Bak. And yes, there are photographs of John McCain and Joe Biden meeting with Ole Tjani Bak, who is an overt Nazi. And there are photographs of other people like, let's see, Joe Biden, Amy Klobuchar, Chris Murphy, the senator from Connecticut, and Lindsey Graham, all hanging out with that wonderful guy. Awesome stuff, right? Well, now Sweden has joined the expanding NATO, which I hate to say it, but many of the people back when I was a big Cold Warrior told me, you know, NATO is really looking pretty aggressive here as the Soviet Union winds down. Well, they were right. They were absolutely right. And so what do we see

here? The final bit, as we prepare to look at the State of the Union address, is that Joe Biden got heckled right off the bat. It wasn't about the Palestinians. It wasn't about Gaza. It wasn't about Ukraine. It was about the pullout from Afghanistan. A man got up and said, remember Abbey Gate, U.S. Marines, a protester said, and there he is. And as they note here at USA Today, Abbey Gate is a reference to a 2021 suicide bombing during the evacuation of Afghanistan. The protester was handcuffed in that, you know, house of the people that he helped pay for, was handcuffed and arrested after being escorted out by security from the House gallery. I think the security was armed. I don't know.

But, you know, to me, that's sort of a bit of gun violence there. And, you know, Joe Biden, very keen on getting rid of guns, as he mentioned, in his State of the Onion. Let's see how everything started off with the State of the Union address as we head into it right now and check things out. This is Joe Biden getting lots and lots of applause, and then things didn't exactly go his way, even though he was speaking very rapidly. What's the difference between a service animal and an emotional...

There we go. They're giving us another one of these little things. There we go. Okay. Joe wasn't pleased, it looked like. Here's a joke. Good evening. Good evening. If I were smart, I'd go home now.

You remember, anybody remember how he talked about how he had a much higher IQ than somebody else when he was running for president? Well, he's much more humble now. Isn't that great? Now that he's president, you got it. Oh, what a guy. What a charmer, huh? Mr. Speaker, Madam Vice President, members of Congress, my fellow Americans, in January 1941, Franklin Roosevelt came to this chamber to speak to the nation, and he said, I address

you at a moment unprecedented in the history of the Union. Hitler was on the march. War was raging in Europe. President Roosevelt's purpose was to wake up Congress and alert the American people that this was no ordinary time. So immediately he opens, sort of equating these times to the post Pearl Harbor era. And of course, anybody who's aware of what Roosevelt did to set up Pearl Harbor is already hearing alarm bells because he's trying to make a reference to Ukraine as if the United States is in any danger because of Ukraine. But that's the way they're going to depict it. They're just carrying on the Russian meddling. Now it's Russian expansion. And if we don't watch it, Vladimir Putin will turn into a laser beam and cross the Atlantic Ocean. Freedom and democracy.

We're under assault in the world. This coming from the guy, of course, who mandated jabs on people to go across borders if they wanted to engage in trucking and carried on the ridiculous emergency order from Donald Trump of March of 2020 that set all the dominoes in motion for many corporations to mandate jabs, state governors to engage in their emergency lockdowns, completely contrary to half of the Bill of Rights. But, you know, I don't swear an oath to the Constitution. It's just him. So let's continue. Give him a little more time, shall we?

Tonight, I come to this same chamber to address the nation. Now it's we who face some unprecedented moment in the history of the Union. Notice how fast he's talking, too. That was weird. People are commenting on this. Like, what is in his system? Yes, my purpose tonight is to wake up the Congress and alert the American people

that this is no ordinary moment either. Not since President Lincoln and the Civil War have freedom and democracy been under assault at home as they are today. What makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack both at home as they are today. What makes our moment rare is that freedom and democracy are under attack both at home and overseas at the very same time. Now, I know what you're thinking. You're saying, wait a minute, when he's talking about freedom

and democracy, wasn't the United States government involved with the overthrow of the elected leadership of Ukraine. And that would then lead to the installation of a new president that was chosen by people who associated with, as I mentioned, Johnny Bach. When they got rid of Yanukovych and they brought in Yatsenyuk, was that the democracy that he's discussing? How about the fact that the leadership of Hamas is in Qatar, and I'm still not hearing Joe Biden, who says that Hamas is so terrible, right, of course, and that everything started on October 7th in Israel and had nothing to do with Palestinians being pushed back over and over again since 1947. You know,

that sort of thing. How about the fact that the United States ended up supporting Hamas and they're still not asking for extradition of the Hamas leaders from Qatar, you know, an ally of the United States? I don't know. It's something sort of rings hollow to me. What do you think? Drop your comments in Rock, Ben. Putin of Russia is on the march, invading Ukraine and sowing chaos throughout Europe and beyond. If anybody in this room thinks Putin will stop at Ukraine, I assure you he will not. Yes, I know. There must have been some sort of attack on Kamala Harris's seat. She was nodding. Of course, she's an expert on international relations and paramilitary

strategy and the history of Ukraine. She knows a lot about it. She obviously listened to the Tucker Carlson, Vladimir Putin interview where he engaged in that very good, very detailed and very true history of Ukraine and Russia. She obviously knows all about it. And, well, you know, she's just very excited about freedom for the people in Ukraine who haven't had an election. They have no freedom of religion. And for some strange reason, I didn't see Joe Biden bring up the name Gonzalo Lira while he was talking about this. You know, an American reporter who was killed, you know, for journalism in Ukraine. I didn't see that. But Kamala's got to applaud it. Isn't that great?

Yeah. But Ukraine. Ukraine can stop. Ukraine can stop Putin if we stand with Ukraine and provide the weapons that needs to defend itself. That is all. That is all Ukraine is asking. They're not asking for American soldiers. So let's get this straight. The State of the Union address

here in the United States, among all the many things that, all the canards that Joe Biden is going to push, and we'll talk with James Bovard about those things, regarding the economy, the gun violence somehow being under his control to be able to bring down when he so-called bans something that people on the black market will get.

And of course, by so-called banning it, he breaches our rights. He breaches the Second Amendment, all those things. Before he gets to any of that stuff, before he starts to pat himself on the back, you know, this man who's now so humble, who once said he had a much higher IQ than some guy who was in this man, this wonderful man. He is taking the United States and equating the future of the United States with the future of Ukraine. That's great. That's awesome. I'm sure a lot of patriotic people who are still alive from World War II and maybe they realize that Roosevelt was a slime ball as well. Maybe they're starting to see the similar patterns in honesty and, you know, the truthfulness of both of those men being highly questionable. The debasement of truth, you might say, as the state debases our rights. And of course, debases the very concept of United States sovereignty. Everything's got to be tied to all these other nation states. And of course, the military industrial complex where, yes, Nikki Haley seems to have done very well after connecting with the

military industrial complex and running for her presidential campaign. And she can keep any of the leftover money that she didn't spend in her campaign. That's awesome. He was well liked by the Democrats and even the Speaker of the House seems to go along with certain things that even though he might pose as a guy who is all in favor of America. Strangely enough, the Speaker of the House is very much in favor of handing more money to Ukraine and handing more money to Israel, as long as he gets some of the gravy that he wants. And if you've been following Thomas Massey, you'll see that there's a lot of different flavors to that gravy, like Lindsey Graham introducing a lot of pork barrel spending bills into his Senate side of things, which is interesting because, as I've mentioned, according to the Constitution, all spending bills are supposed to originate in

the House. So, of course, that's one of the big questions people have about the Obamacare issue. But we'll continue real quick. You got to hear this a little bit from our friend, our pal Amtrak Joe. In fact, there are no American soldiers in war in Ukraine, and I'm determined to keep it that way. Okay, so that's an outright lie. Of course, it can be parsed. There's no declaration of war. Of course, there hasn't been since World War II, which means that if any of you know soldiers or are soldiers who are being sent overseas, please tell them to stop because there's nothing constitutional in them going over there. In fact, there's really nothing constitutional to a standing army.

It's supposed to be the militia. We are the militia. Anyone of gun-bearing age is the militia based in our states, and they can be called up with a declaration of war, and we can answer or not answer based on our own decisions to go out in a declaration of war. He also is lying because we know, because he went and visited the 101st Airborne Division

two years ago almost in Poland and openly stated, well, you're going to find out when you go into Ukraine that a lot of these people, they're very proud. Well, some of you know that already. Some of you have been there. So he let the cat out of the bag that the 101st Airborne had members in it who already had been on the ground advising Ukrainians. And new information has come out, of course, about the CIA bases there.

We know that Victoria Nuland admitted to the fact that there were biological bases there. And if you go back in time, you'll see the articles of all about Richard Lugar and then Senator Barack Obama going to Ukraine with billions of dollars to start up biological and chemical weapons research facilities. And, of course, Victoria Nuland, when she answered Marco Rubio about it, he asked her, are there biological weapons laboratories in Ukraine? She says, well, there are biological research facilities. And we're trying to make sure that the Russians don't get their hands on the research materials as if there's just a bunch of pens left over. In fact, I should show you my David Knight pen that you can get at the David Knight, David Knight dot com store, David Knight show dot com. Check it out and check out the new hoodie. For some reason, they don't have these in Ukraine.

So that was an outright lie, as was much of what he had to say about the economy. And I would be interested to see how you feel. Are you does one get acclimated to being treated this way by the people who claim control and power over us? Is there a nascent growth of rebellious attitude from many Americans? Maybe you're meeting them in the stores or you have friends, you went to high school with them, you bump into them somewhere and say, hey, how you doing? Oh, I'm getting frustrated. You know, they got kids, maybe that sort of thing. And maybe they're adopting the philosophy that Thomas Jefferson espoused in so many great pieces of writing. But in particular, when he said, no man is born with a saddle on his back and no man is born with spurs to ride him. Let me know what you think in Rockfin and Rumble chat.

And I would love to see what you have to say. Rumble, of course, very good free speech platform. So check it out, y'all. And Rockfin, I want to welcome Dougalug. Thank you for being there. Yona, thank you for being there. And Jason Barker. Jason, one of the great heroes in allowing people. And by the way, David Knight is just taking some time off today and he's going to take some time off next week as well with Easter coming up and so on and it's such a great home of people. Brian Deb McCartney is there, and it's terrific to see you all.

Really appreciate it. And remember, if you want to contribute to the program, you can do so during the show today, and I'll feel like I did something. Yeah. And, oh, by the way, Yona is mentioning the rumors of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings. Just to let you know, I worked in a genetic research lab in college. My sister was in the lab. I was doing the data entry. So I got to read genetic trees very well, the protein bands when they did it through electrophoresis. And so when they came out with the rumors that Thomas Jefferson, they really pushed those rumors that originally were pushed by an opponent of Thomas Jefferson politically and someone that he hired who used to work for Jefferson and then really disliked Jefferson. I saw the protein bands that they claimed were from Jefferson and I realized, and this is just solid knowledge. There's no possible way that Thomas Jefferson fathered Sally Hemings kids. It was probably someone in Jefferson's family,

but they compared the, uh, the, the electrophoresis gels of genetics of Thomas Jefferson and genetics of Sally Hemings and where the line had to be. And it couldn't have been Jefferson because there were certain things that would have had to have been passed down and they weren't passed down. Also, just to let you know, later on, Reason Magazine published a study that was done by 12 scholars and geneticists and 11 of the 12 agreed that it wasn't Jefferson who fathered Sally Hemings' children. So I just wanted to mention that to you, Yona, if you want to check it out. You can probably still find the Reason Magazine coverage of that. It was many years ago. But strangely, of course, that information came out just at the time that the Bill Clinton,

Monica Lewinsky thing came around, as if you got to find some equivalency of all that. So I want to show you a couple other things that are happening with the Biden regime. First off, there's this. Biden renews vow to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. And this, you'll see the protest. If it comes forward for us here, let's get this rolling. There we go. Deserve the freedom to be safe. And America is safer today than when I took office.

Year before I took office, murder rates went up 30%. 30% they went up. The biggest increase in history. It was then, through my American Rescue Plan, which every American voted against, I'm mad at. I think he means every Republican voted against that. Well, at least they tried to do that, probably not for constitutional reasons, probably just for political posturing. But you can see the speaker shake his head there.

That's, I think, the only good thing I've seen him do in the past week because Biden was clearly lying. Violent crime rates have down in the United States. And of course, if you look at the history of England and Australia, when they imposed their big increased the first time. And the violent crime rate did not get back to its original normal levels from the 1990s. I think they imposed their first gun buyback in the late 1990s, maybe 1996 or 1999. That was after the Port Arthur massacre. And Harps would probably be able to speak more on that. But he being from Australia underneath the Southern Cross. It's quite interesting because violent crime did not go down, including gun crime, did not go down to its original pre-ban levels until after people started to purchase more weapons in the black market.

And then just about two years ago, the Australian government had to or they said they they had to, impose another gun, mandated gun buyback. Yeah. Now, in England, they pretty much restricted all gun purchases and they limited gun ownership to, you could own a.22 caliber gun, but it had to be at a hunting club. And now they're even trying to stop that. And it is quite amazing to me to see that people like Khan and others in the UK will not acknowledge that all of their attempts to equate to a safer society. And I brought this example up to people. I've said this before in my program. If you want an example of the behavior of criminals, John Lott has written a lot about this.

If they are aware that, and they've interviewed criminals about hot burglaries versus cold burglaries. Hot burglaries are when they don't case a house. Cold burglaries are when they case't case a house. Cold burglaries are when they case a house to make sure nobody's there. The hot burglary rate is much higher in the UK and in Australia per capita. They've interviewed people in prisons and it's in John Lott's first big book on guns, more guns, less crime. And they say, yeah, we case the place because we don't want to confront somebody who might be armed. Now, imagine this.

Imagine you're in a paintball competition. Someone bets you $10,000 that if you can enter one of three buildings and hit 20 people with a paintball pellet, those people, you'll get $10,000. You got to do it within 10 minutes or seven minutes. But if you get hit by somebody who has a paintball gun, you will lose $40,000. Building one, you know, you are assured that nobody in it has a paintball gun. Building two might have some people with paintball guns. You don't know. Building three, you are assured every person has a paintball gun. What is going to happen to your behavior? Which building will you choose? It's very clear. It's very clear. And so let's get more information about the amazing truth-telling of Joe Biden from a man who told us, watch out, everybody, because it looks like Joe Biden is going to be, of course, telling us a little bit we might not want to believe in the State of the Union. I do this on my program. I like to call it the mind meld. It's time for the mind meld, one and all. Our guest, James Bovard. I must try the Mind Meld with it.

Gamma Lose. Eternity ends. Our minds are merging, Doctor. Our minds are one. I feel what you feel. I know what you know. Yes, indeed. From my old days working at Star Trek Voyager, I now welcome our guest, James Bovard. James, welcome to the show. Thank you for being with us. You wrote a great piece that was published, and I got to discuss it on my show.

It was published on the 6th for the New York Post, entitled Joe Biden's State of the Union Shrinkflation Swindle. And you warned us that Joe might not exactly be playing honest with statistics or the reason for the economic problems we're having. And, of course, we'll be blaming businesses. We're just trying to cater to customers. Welcome to The David Knight Show, James. Thank you for being here. Thank you for that article and also your new book, which is phenomenal. I love it.

I really appreciate all that you've done. Really, really good. Last Rites. James Bovard, welcome to the show. Hey, Gardner. Thanks for having me back. Great to see you again. And it's good to both of us can take a victory lap for Biden's speech.

Yes. Tell us a little bit about what you saw. I was struck. In fact, I was bowled over, but not necessarily surprised if those two can come together, the Beatles would say, because he opened with, well, America's national security is dependent upon Ukraine. That was the first thing in the State of the Union for the United States speech. That was just stunning. Then there were the other accoutrements about how quickly he was speaking. Maybe he thought that if he spoke more rapidly, people wouldn't notice his falsehoods. Tell us your impressions, Jim.

Well, it was like the old Disney movie, Old Yeller, because he's there just kind of flapping away. And it was surprising to see that the entire White House in his reelection campaign has decided to go on a message of hatred. He was exaggerating so much the faults of people who did not support him. It reminded me of his speech near Valley Forge where he openly compared Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, which reminded me of his Philadelphia speech in September 2022, where it was practically like a Nuremberg rally with the bright red background. But there was a level of vitriol.

Historian Henry Adams 100 years ago said, politics has always been about the systematic organization of hatreds. Oh, wow. Great. And that was, you know, that's the line to understand Biden's speech and his entire message. And I mean, this is certainly not, Donald Trump is not innocent on this score as well. Trump has hit the vitriol so hard, but it's funny that you've got Biden claiming that the upcoming election will show the will of the people, but you've got two major candidates who are just doing so much demonizing and so many

falsehoods. But Biden was there, he's supposed to be the State of the Union, and instead it's the absolute evil of everyone who doesn't bow down to Joe Biden. You know, James, as I show off your excellent X feed, it's at Jim Bovard, at Jim Bovard. And you have all the books out there, Last Rites Most Prominent. I want to show that on the screen to everybody. Just phenomenal stuff, Jim. Oh, absolutely. What a great book.

And I love the fact that the look of it is so similar to Lost Rites. When did Lost Rites come out? Like 10 years ago? 10 years ago. Put a knife in my heart. No, it was 30 years ago. Holy smoke. Yeah, it was 30 years ago.

And that was back in the golden age of liberty. So I had some fun with the New York Post last weekend. On Saturday, I had a piece talking about Merle Haggard. And the song that he did is a free life over is the best of the free life behind us. And it's interesting to think when he's saying that is like, Hey, you know, things are gonna get a hell of a lot worse after that song came out. Oh yeah. You know, it's, it's always strange. You, you, you think to yourself, oh, it couldn't get any worse, you know, and it just

gets, it gets crazier because of course, you know, it's the nature of people involved with the state to try to find more areas where they can get the state involved in people's lives. It gives them power. And you mentioned, you know, that, that use of the lever of hatred would, do you think it would be fair, Jim, to, to say that they also lever fear and they're sort of stranded together in a Gordian knot in a way. They will portray the Russia-Ukraine conflict and they'll gin up fear. Well, the United States, we've got to defend, we've got to do this, we've got to do that. And in a way, it helps generate hatred against the thing that which we're supposed to fear. Yeah. Well, Biden last night was saying that it's perfectly clear that if Russia has not

stopped in Ukraine, then they'll go further and attack other nations. And it's like, well, do you have any evidence, sir? And the sad thing is, is about the only evidence, the only source of evidence that we had on government information, accurate government information on Ukraine, just pled guilty and go into prison for 16 years, that gentleman from the Massachusetts National Guard airman.

Yes. Who was. And he. Shared that information on his Discord. Yeah. And it's striking to see that the media that has basically, you know, the information which he disclosed, the official documents, show that most of the U.S. media has been shoveling official BS on Ukraine

for the last two years, ever since the start of the war. And yet there wasn't that much media rage at having been lied to and deceived. Instead, a lot of the media folks jumped on and said, well, that son of a gun violated government rules by disclosing this information. Yeah, fine. Throw him in prison and throw away the key.

It's sad. I mean, there was, you know, it's sad to see how far the nation has fallen since Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers 50 years, over 50 years ago. It's one, you know, Jim, obviously, you know, I've admired your work so long, but the way that you with such fluidity can mention these people because they really deserve to be brought in as we remember them and maybe gain some sustenance and energy from some of the things that they did that we admire, you know, in Ellsberg, 100%. And I'll bring up, as you discussed, this Air National Guardsman from Massachusetts. I mean, he lived like, you know, 45 minutes, an hour away from where I am in New Hampshire. It was all the news in Boston. Obviously, the New York Times somehow found out about it, released that information. And what is interesting is you're absolutely right. First, you have written on this numerous times, there's such a glut of stuff that the government produces that is so-called classified during a time of no declared war in any way whatsoever. And even when people issue FOIA requests, much of the stuff is redacted, whether it's FOIA requests to get information

about the mRNA jabs or it's FOIA requests about anything else, the government is still in control of what they're going to tell you. And one of the things that you just brought up to me, I would like to show this to you. You can listen to the audio, Jim. Marco Rubio literally admitting on Fox News Sunday that all along, all along, he knew. He knew all along that Ukraine was not going to be successful in its quixotic quest to battle Russia. After, of course, nine years of slaughter in the Donbass with, you know, Nazi Azov battalion related people that the United States seemed to have no problem with in any way whatsoever.

After Amy Klobuchar and others and Lindsey Graham met with Tianyi Bakov of the Slobodan party, the Nazi party there, and they helped cobble together that that uh that government under yatsenyuk in 2014 this is marco rubio actually openly admitting what that young man exposed but of course not acknowledging like well yeah you know yeah we should have told you from the start and we should remember as we hear this he voted every time there was the major final vote for more weapons and money to go to Ukraine, even though now he's admitting, well, you know, I knew all along that there was no possibility they could win. Let's check this out.

Sure to do that. Here's what I do know. There is no way that the Russian Federation takes Ukraine, all of Ukraine, half of Ukraine. And that was that was Putin's goal from the beginning, was to carve it up into at least half the country, including Kyiv. That's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. On the other side of it, we have the reality of it is that Ukraine is small compared to Russia in terms of size and its ability to bring scale, its ability to force conscript people. So neither kind. This is I'm just being honest. And in the past, I have tried not to talk about this publicly because I thought it undermined the leverage that Ukraine had.

But now it's the reality. Neither side is going to be able to achieve victory as defined in the most idealistic term. All right. So, Jim, you know, it's really amazing how many tens of thousands of people in Ukraine have had their homes destroyed. Men and women now have been pulled into that meat grinder. And now Joe Biden wants even more money to go to Ukraine, and he's going to find a way to use the so-called drawdown authority to pull more from the U.S. military banks and send it over to Ukraine. Even after we just found out, as antiwar.com reported and i'll show this uh to the audience antiwar.com reported that there were a hundred arms deals that were secretly done between the biden administration is in israel after october 7th they are reckless they have no

no compunction whatsoever they will lie to us they will lie through omission, as Marco Rubio did for months and years, actually, with Ukraine, and they don't care. Well, it was interesting seeing that clip from Marco Rubio. So the senator admitted that he made a lot of misleading statements, but it was okay because otherwise he was being careful not to undermine the leverage of a foreign government. Now, I don't recall the oath of office of a U.S. senator saying that they have a legal moral obligation to maintain the leverage of foreign governments. But that was what he was saying. That's somebody backing up outside the

office i'm thinking like the hell is this anyhow yeah oh my computer is dying uh but no so going back to rubio i mean it's it's it's good he's honest about his previous deceit uh can we trust him uh going forward yeah i don't think so uh I'm not sure. No, I won't make that crude joke. And it's only veracity. It's only honesty based on its situational ethics. It's pure situational ethics. For him, it doesn't matter. It's a consequentialist philosophy. There's no morality to it in any way whatsoever. Truth doesn't matter. It's whatever is convenient to get by with what you want at the time. Well, and part of what I was wondering,

watching the scene there in the Capitol last night, before and after Biden's speech, seeing all these folks, men and women out there, glad-handing each other and seeing a lot of those older, well-fed women wearing their white dresses. I was thinking, so Sandra, I don't recall seeing Sandra Menendez there. I assume he was there. He's been indicted for taking a lot of bribes from foreign lobbyists, activists.

But at least he appreciates the value of gold versus the U.S. monetary system. That's a good point. Yeah, there's gold bars. And so I was just, I was wondering there, I said, how many of the people in that room, how many of them deserve to be indicted on the same kind of federal charges that the Biden Justice Department and earlier Justice Departments used against American citizens? Because there are so many, you know, the members of Congress are practically exempt from federal law. I mean, a person has to be so brazen, a person has to be so damn greedy and stupid that they have gold bars and hundreds of thousands of dollars of cash laying around their house as the allegations are against Senator Menendez, because otherwise it's going to be like, well, it's important, whatever. But to see what the politicians as a

class get away with at the same time the government is persecuting private citizens for, I mean, don't give me this rule of law BS. Yeah. Yeah. So true. So true. And you know, you know, you know how I'm a volunteerist anarchist, obviously, James, and you know, a lot of the things, what's that? Uh, I was making a joke. I said, you are a moderate. I'm a moderate. Okay. Okay. Maybe you're not a moderate. Okay. I'm a moderate compared to you. How about that? That sounds great. And it is interesting because we often hear this, are we, which is, of course, the pronoun of forced inclusion, are we going to do this? Are we going to do this? We have to do

this. We must do this. America cares and so on and so forth. When the government institutes policies of forced inclusion, forcing people to pay for something, the we is a pronoun of aggressive inclusion. You have no choice. You're going to be included no matter what. You are part of the we, whether you want to be part of it or not. And it's the will of the people. Yeah. Yeah. This state of the union on a macro level exposes the absolute canard of the idea that there's any rule of anything for these people. Because if I don't want to be part of their union, can I say no? Of course not. They'll throw me in jail. I've got to keep paying or I've got to flee to some other place. I didn't see that I signed up for that. I never signed the constitution. And even if I had signed the constitution, these people are breaching it all the time. They're the ones who, you know, they

sign up to swear an oath to it and put their hands on the Bible, right? And so we look at things like all their ridiculous controls on light bulbs and their attempts to control ceiling fans and eliminate the internal combustion engine car and all these different things that they add and add and add, of course, because they make us fear what could be coming. They don't provide real evidence regarding the climate change, anthropogenic climate change, a boogeyman, uh, or whatever it might be regarding, uh, you know, car outputs from internal combustion engines got to do it for us. Then they have the audacity to say they're saving us money. Of course, in the free market, we have to decide when do we want to save money? How do we want to do it? And in what process? We have trade-offs. They don't allow that. So this inclusive we thing is perfect. And it just shows the lie because if it were a real union, I would have a choice, just like the South would have had a choice to be able to separate and say, no, thank you. I can't perpetuate my union with somebody

else. So how is it I get roped into all this stuff? I never said yes. Well, it's just good you're not bitter. That's classic. Hey, by the way, Jim, let's talk about the economy for a minute and the shrinkflation claims of Joe Biden. Right. So your piece that was published on the 6th, I have the New York Post version of this. Joe Biden's State of the Union shrinkflation swindle. And you bring up an excellent point, which is, of course, that since Biden took office, the purchasing power of the U.S. dollar has shrunk by 18%.

This is 18% according to the federal government. I mean, if the U.S. government was still using the same measures of inflation that were used in the 1970s, I guess it'd be, what, 25%, 28% decrease. It's a whole lot worse than what they admit. Yeah, and of course, part of the reason is because they exclude certain things from their cost-of-living indexes. And they also, you know, they do this all the time with things like the employment numbers. You know, they'll exclude some of these. Oh, my God, yeah, they had a hell of an adjustment this morning on that yeah well actually you know my goodness

they always do that and and we knew that you know after about the first week heading into the second week we start to get the inflation numbers and the employment numbers. And at first they always put out their rosy employment numbers and then they adjust them. And they will put out like Biden will claim, well, unemployment or inflation, inflation has gone down. So they're implying that prices are going down. But for example, there was a couple month period, not an entire period, but for a couple months last year, there was a slight change from, say, 3.5 percent inflation down to 3.25 percent inflation month on month. And then it went back up to 3.5, that sort of thing. So they claim that, well, inflation is going down. But year on year, inflation, that means it's gone up. Inflation has the prices of things have gone up. And of course, the inflation is really the inflation of the money that's money that's being invented out of nowhere. No wonder Bitcoin is doing so well. No wonder gold is on the rise. No wonder silver is on the rise. Because those things, you can't just invent them out of thin air. Yeah. I mean, there are so many different wrenches the government has thrown into the

nation's economic engine. But part of what struck me biden was doing his fingerprinting on the um shrinkflation on the decreased number of uh chips in a bag a snack bag of snack food but biden has given himself an absolute waiver for all the damage he's inflicted it's the same as what the feds did for pfizer and their COVID vaccines, an absolute waiver of liability for any damage. I mean, everything that Biden has done that screwed up the nation's productivity, investment, savings, you know, value of the dollar. It doesn't matter because Biden is taking a brave stand against decreasing the number of potato chips in the snack bag. You had a video. I'm going to show this on the screen. You had a video potato chips in the snack bag. You had a video. I'm going to show this on the screen.

You had a video and they showed the snack bag. You can sort of see it in the background on the screen there. It really is amazing, too, because they are always ready with the bad guy. As I mentioned, the boogeyman. And it's truly a sad thing to think that politicians come up with these things. And so often people just accept the idea of, well, there can be calls for, say, antitrust hearings on Chuck Schumer doesn't like the number of cereal boxes that are on the shelves. Or Bernie Sanders doesn't understand why there's more than only a couple brands of antiperspirant or deodorant. You know, I don't know whether he wore that when he was in Moscow celebrating the great economic wonders of Russia just before the collapse. Well, you know that in his face mask last night.

Oh, unbelievable. I'm curious about, oh, sorry, Jim, go ahead. Yeah. So I was going to say, thanks for, for pulling up the screen on the, uh, the shot there. The, the folks at the New York post made a video yesterday. They had me doing a spiel for the article and it's the first time I've been on the New York Post YouTube video channel. And they were very, very good at that. It was great. Yeah, the way they did inserts and Cookie Monster and so on. It was fun. It was fun.

And it was very deft on their part. And they dropped some of the things I said and kept others. And they had the, they had the funny thing about the, um, the, the, uh, Seinfeld shrinkage thing, which I suggested. Yeah. Yeah. And, uh, it's shrinkage, it's shrinkage. And it's like, you know, you know, but the real trouble with buying is the, the, uh, personally power of the dollars that I have have shrunk 18%. So I don't give a rat's patooey about potato chips, but hey, and I'm an independent contractor. I mean, there is a number of places that I write for

that have not adjusted their pay scales. I don't forget it, but it's like I don't, it's, you know, it's not like I'm a government worker that I snap my finger and say, give me my cola. There was 9% inflation in 2022, whatever. So give me that 9% raise. I'm an independent contractor. I don't have that leverage. Yeah. And it's very frustrating because, you know, I think you probably echo many of the conversations people have had with their friends and family members saying, look, you know, my capacity to expand my earnings can only expand a certain amount as I try to work harder, do more, you know, take on a second job or something like that.

But my costs are going up. So we've got to cut back. We've got to do this. We've got to do that. Yeah. You know, and it's it's really sad because, of course, there's so many rich experiences people could have or visits people could have with each other or just some of the more essential fundamentals of, well, you know, we're going to have to grandma's going to, you know, be have to go to a different facility we can't afford this facility over this facility or and you know this medicine and it's really it's a it's a real shame oh we can't get the medicine for the dog this time we're gonna have to do a fundraiser because we're out of money oh i don't have a job that sort of thing and the prices are just out of control

and i don't see that these people have anything other than a thirst for more control of our lives rather than freeing up the competitive market. Yeah, there was a great example. Back when inflation was at its peak, the Washington Post had a columnist that they ran a piece by. She was kind of poo-pooing concerns about inflation, and she was talking about things that people could do to save money on means such as stop eating meat. And she also talked about the cost of pet care. And she was kind of like, well, people can save money by just letting their pets die.

Oh, jeez. Oh, this is a great idea. This is something Biden should pick up in a speech. You know, you know, your dog has lived long enough, you know. Oh, man. Well, you know, Jim, it is very interesting because for a long time as they pushed for the Obamacare thing, we always heard them attacking insurance companies and saying, well, you're cherry picking people. But we know that in any centrally planned government run collectivist resource, you know, collectivized resource system, they are going to

pick and choose who gets the resources. And we're all going to be fighting over these things. You know, it is the tragedy of the commons. Everybody's going to want their piece that they can try to get to get the opportunity to get it. That's an interesting, that was what struck me as the theme of Biden's speech unspoken, but it's that people like him decide that people like Biden deserve to be in charge of who gets what. Yes, yes. It was like listening to the supreme soviet uh to a degree i mean or a six-hour castro speech yeah yeah but there was this it kept coming back that biden should be the one who uh um who has the power to say who gets the subsidized food gets their loans forgiven gets this gets that is allowed to have that to go there.

You know, and it seems as it was amusing that Biden was towards the end of the speech, he tried to portray himself as a champion of freedom. But but the only freedom that Biden recognizes is their freedom to terminate pregnancies. Ah, so sad. And of course, take my neighbor's money to help fund it. There you go. It's truly troubling. So what's next on your radar scope, James Bovard? I guess I'll probably keep working my ass off and throwing rocks at the government. So, you know, just wheeling and dealing and, you know, I've got some stories I'm working on and, uh, you know, there's, there were several fresh targets that popped up from the, um, buying spiel last night. So, you know, I'm just looking forward to, uh, try to keep having some fun.

Well, it's great. I've, I've got the, uh, Jim Bovard website right in front of us, your new book, Last Rites. Absolutely. The Death of American Liberty. And it's just excellent stuff. And of course, if people go over there, you always have your latest columns listed. And I highly recommend people watch that video that they put together from the New York Post. It is fantastic. And you are terrific on the screen, Jim. And it's so great to be able to see you talking like that because I miss you so much. You're such a good guy. And it's it's in fact, they're having another Liberty Forum here in New Hampshire coming up this coming week. Tulsi Gabbard is going to be there.

Glenn Jacobs is going to be there. Yeah. So I'm hoping to get on over there in Nashville, New Hampshire. And I wish you were there, man. That was great. Was that the year that Naomi Wolf was there as well? That was the year. Yes. Yes. Yes. That was in 2014. Yeah. She was nice. She wasn't as, as, as, uh, open to the larger scope of Liberty at that time, but she's really expanded a lot recently, especially, you, especially speaking about the jabs and the corruption there. And it's been nice to see people really standing up against a lot of the people who would try to connect them still to their old collectivist ways. And of course, you've always been an outstanding guy. And thank you so much. I hope people will check out that video at New York Post and we'll watch you as you continue to throw the bricks. Okay, Jim. Hey, thanks so much for having me on.

Thanks for your kind words. Oh, not a problem. And you just remember, we're all in this together, whether you want to be or not. Wink, wink. Have fun. All right, thanks. All right, James Bovard. Thank you, Jim.

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You're listening to The David Knight Show. All right, everyone. And boy, what a wonderful film, Last of the Mohicans. Michael Mann, just amazing, amazing photography. Great music. I had that soundtrack myself. I know David loves that soundtrack, and so do I. And I think, yes, I might have had a little crush on Madeline Stowe at the time as well.

She, boy, what a terrific actress. 12 Monkeys, just awesome. And she came back in the 12 Monkeys TV series too. So Last of the Mohicans, great work from David Knight putting that music together. And now let's talk about another man who does great work. He is the co-owner of Cape Gunworks in Hyannis, Massachusetts, the man who hosts Rapid Fire and the man who fills in for Grace Curley often and is featured every Tuesday at two in the afternoon on The Grace Curley Show, heard on many radio stations all around North America. He is Toby Leary talking to us. Toby, welcome to the program, The David Knight Show, as I get to fill in. And thanks for joining me on this platform as you work on your platform to inform people about their Second Amendment, the rights that are supposed to be protected by

the Second Amendment, and some of the big news that has been happening as various political forces try to attack it. Welcome, Toby. Thanks for being here, man. Hey, thanks for having me, Gard. I appreciate it. It's always great to be with you. And I appreciate the time that you give me and love talking about the Second Amendment. So easy.

It's too easy for me. Well, your knowledge is incredible. And you always have to update these things. Like I said, it blows my mind because you know about the materials, the guns, the history, the stuff in your store, the people you work with. But then you take calls on Tuesdays with Grace and people will give you these questions that I know. And you say, well, you know, and you almost always have a very good answer or a resource to which they can turn. And I want to use you as a resource in a way here today, Toby, because I wrote a little bit about the Supreme Court arguments on the bump stock ban, which I just, they blew me away. They were so ridiculous from Elena Kagan and even Brett

Kavanaugh didn't understand as they were looking at the 1934 Firearms Act to see whether or not the 1934 Firearms Act, which was a tax on machine guns and short-barreled shotguns and things like that, a few other things, whether that would apply to the executive order to categorize. So the debate was, well, can it be done through executive order or does it have to be done through other legislation? Can the ATF do it or does Congress have to do it? Neither of which would be constitutional. And then not even mentioning that the 1934 Firearms Act wasn't an outright ban. It was a tax. It was an excise tax, which is the only thing that's provided for by the Constitution. But then not even going deeper than that, which is if you actually take it logically, and this is my presupposition here, any requirement that the government tells you you must abide by this in

order to exercise your right is an infringement. So if they tell you you've got to pay a tax or you can't buy this thing, well, that's an infringement. I mean, it's a prima facie infringement. They're telling you you can only exercise your right based on the conditions we provide to you. What do you think of what you saw? And then feel free to comment on any of the things that I brought up about this amazingly fatuous line of argumentation from some of these Supreme Court justices. Yeah, I think your points are very perceptive, Gard. I think that ironically, the one right that is enumerated that says shall not be infringed is the one that gets infringements to a degree that we would not tolerate for any other right that is enumerated. We don't have a license for free speech, for choosing what church we want to go to. I hope I'm not giving them any ideas here.

Well, they already have the FCC for broadcast licensing. So let's stop it at that, right? Yeah, exactly. And so, but for an individual to participate and, you know, it's interesting because people think that a that some. Well, I shouldn't say people. I think they're more savvy to this than than those that become elected officials who become drunk with power. Think that they are the grantor of rights and they are not. That's really what our declaration acknowledges is the fact that these truths are self-evident. If you're paying attention, we understand these

don't come from man, you know, that all men are created equal and are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights. You can't take them away. You can't put conditions or liens on them. That's what inalienable means. But let's take them away. You can't put conditions or liens on them. That's what inalienable means. But let's get back to the subject matter at hand. The Supreme Court, I was a little disappointed in the direction this whole thing took. Maybe it's the direction it needed to go. But really, I thought the more important question was, do bureaucracies, unelected officials, not lawmakers, have the authority to change the rules as you go? And so if, you know, for two and a half administrations, we had bump stocks were legal. They came with an ATF letterhead that said, yep, this is not a machine gun.

Right. That is the way it was under the Bush administration. That's the way it was under the Obama administration and halfway through the Trump administration. It's an accessory. It was just an accessory. Yes. They acknowledged it doesn't change a thing to the firearm you put this stock on it helps you hold your finger straight and uh still while the recoil of the gun bounces back and forth against your trigger finger right all it does is makes you pull the trigger faster that's it it's one trigger pull one shot and right it just the it shows i think it's a mark of their dishonesty as they continue to try to fudge the lines for anybody who takes even a scintilla of a second to think um the fact that the bureaucracy um was it sorry i'm just having someone someone shut the door the shop's getting a little loud out there oh no problem you might you might have noticed the uh so you got the shots coming through that's great

because you're right there in the range and i'm showing shots right now of of of your uh your site i gotta get down to that range you probably saw that it was funny because i i clicked on some stuff and everything flashed up on me you might have seen my face like whoa you got a great site so yeah so the more dangerous part of the equation here that i didn't hear them discuss is whether or not these three-letter agencies, because this can be extrapolated, not just from the ATF. We've seen it happen with EPA. We've seen it happen with IRS. We've seen it happen with FBI. A lot of three-letter enforcement agencies have changed the way that they interpret things. And ironically, maybe the reason they didn't talk about that is because there's a case before the Supreme Court called Loper Bright. And it's basically a fishing company

who challenged Chevron deference, which is basically what has given the power to these bureaucracies to have broad interpretation of law that is passed by Congress. So Congress passes a law. It's kind of ambiguous. Then they turn to these three letter agencies and say, go enforce the law. And well, it doesn't say every scenario that I have to rule on because the Congress isn't that savvy or doesn't get that granular. So they've been given wide powers to enforce the law. And the Loper Bright case is really interesting because this is how far they will take it. They it was a fishing boat that the EPA said or whatever it was, the Department of Fisheries and Wildlife said, we need to know that you're not overfishing the stocks.

So we need to have an observer on board the boat. or observer, you know, you got to pay a salary, which means you can have one less fisherman on the boat because you're only limited to how many people you can have on the boat. And you also got to pay their per diem, you know, cost for the day and $800 or so. Yeah. Yeah. And so the, the fishing companies are like, what, you know, you gave us the regulation to follow. We're following it. It's up to you to go investigate if you think I'm breaking the law. But don't make me pay for my own investigation like that. was about those fish encounters. Because when I saw the piece and I proposed it, I saw it and thought, oh, this is some machine. And then I looked into it, and this is years ago. Then I looked into it, and that was just their first standard

that they had imposed on the fishermen, especially around New England. They were the ones who were protesting it very strongly, especially Massachusetts guys. And they were saying, look look you are telling us literally that we have to take a human being from the federal government and house him on our boat because sometimes these guys are out overnight doing fishing so this is like the housing of troops the quartering of troops or federal agents in your private property and they've got to give them a bunk with the fishermen

and they've got to now the next standard as you say the next standard that came out of that is they changed it to say well originally the u.s government would pay for those fish counters who literally are standing there counting the fish right as if the fishermen don't have an incentive not to overfish right if they would allow for private property claims over regions and where the fish swim, they could handle it much better. But the government is taking control, going back to this other Supreme Court, the Chevron case, where they say, well, we allow the agencies within certain parameters to imagine the scenarios under which they would be okay to operate based on the legislation passed by the Congress to create this bureaucracy like the EPA or the fisheries or whatever. And the ones that go a little too far, well, then we'll stop those. So this is a question. Is it a little too far to now make the fishermen pay for their own monitors

that come on there and tell them, no, you can't do this, for their own oppression? They're already paying taxes. Now they've got to pay more. And this is what is up in this case. And you know so much about these things that you've opened up a whole nother line has, you know, it's only tangentially connected to the the ATF and its regulatory claims to power and things like that and the bump stocks. But it's the same mindset. Right. And, you know, I say a lot. So back up a little bit. I was a little disheartened to hear that that isn't the direction that this took. It went more into the nuance of what a machine gun is, which is important because the Supreme Court, if they are able to like Kate, you mentioned Kagan. She she had a whole line of questioning and basically said, I am a textualist,

but the big but comes out and says, the end result is really, we got to use common sense. Whenever you hear common sense, it should set off alarm bells everywhere. But we got to look at the common sense of what the intent of the shooter is. And I'm like, wait a minute here. If you're looking at intent of the shooter, you got guys like Jerry Michalik that set world records for their how fast they can pull the trigger. The intent of him is to fire at a high rate of fire for world record reasons and for competition and for fun and everything else. So are we going to start regulating people's fingers? Are we going to ban are we going to ban rubber bands that might build up some trigger strength and make it so you can pull the trigger faster along those lines?

Guard, there's a guy. He's he's he's passed away now his name was bob munden look up his video sometime it's the fastest gun in the west or whatever he was a exhibition shooter but he could literally shoot a single action gun where you have to cock the hammer and then pull the trigger uh like the old western cowboys He could fire two shots that sounded like one. And if it wasn't for high speed cameras and super slow motion, you wouldn't believe it. So, you know, are we going to ban guys like Bob Munden from being able to do exhibition shooting

because the intent of the shooter is to shoot really, really, really fast? It doesn't make sense. I think if the Supreme Court is going to rule on a case based on intention instead of uh what the actual statute says we have a big problem this is a slippery slope where you could now say gun oil is a modification to a firearm that allows the shooter to shoot quicker because the bolt isn't all gummed up. You're able to, you know, lube it and get it to shoot faster. I mean, where does that end? That's a very, that's a very slow, you know, you're right. I mean, it could even go into the shape of the stocks, the type of barrel that you have,

so many different types of things that people get for their own comfort. They're, you know, government subjective. We will decide what is or is not too much of an improvement, you know, up to them. They could outright ban all sorts of things and it is it is amazing to me for these people to be even arguing about what type of firearm that they're told they're not supposed to touch uh they're going to touch you know they're they're already assuming what was supposed to be a negative they're assuming it as a positive as you said it is the most infringed upon and it is the most explicitly forbidden thing to infringe. The Second Amendment is very clear. The First Amendment delineates

Congress. Congress shall pass no law on religion or freedom of speech or of the press. There were religious codes on the books in states as much as I might not have wanted them. There were curfews in states. There were religious sponsored schools in states right up until the turn of the 19th into the 20th century. In fact, Maine has in its statutes that it can fund religious schools. New Hampshire in its constitution says New Hampshire state can give gifts to seminaries. So there's no separation on the state level or the local level on that level but the second amendment is very very clear there is it shall not be infringed by any level of the state of the polis because that is a threat to you

they are they are pointing government guns at you and you know i often argue anybody who says oh i'm opposed you're opposed to gun violence oh yes absolutely so then you want to disarm police Pointing government guns at you. And, you know, I often argue anybody who says, oh, I'm opposed. You're opposed to gun violence. Oh, yes, absolutely. So then you want to disarm police officers. You don't want an armed armed government. You oppose so-called gun gun confiscation or gun control laws. Oh, no, I'm in favor of gun control laws. Well, then you're in favor of threats of gun violence by the state.

That's very clear. I mean, it's it's absurd. That's the net result of gun control is you want it tipped to one side. You want to disarm populace and a armed government, which we have a rich history of where that all leads. And don't think we want to repeat that. But, you know, we talked earlier about licensure and guard. There was a Supreme court case in 1943 called murdoch

v pennsylvania and if you look it up the concurring opinion actually not even the concurring the majority opinion uh in the actual decision says that you can't tax, you can't sell a license, you can't issue a permit or charge a fee for the enjoyment of any federally protected constitutional right, period. So how is it that they can have that decision? Because it's interesting when I did an MRC TV video about the about the arguments and I shot I wrote it on Sunday and then I shot it on Monday and so they they put it out on the Supreme Court no I shot it on Tuesday and they just put it out day before yesterday and I went through some of these arguments you know the logical syllogism here is very clear that if the government is demanding from you an action on your part, otherwise you cannot exercise your right. That's an infringement. So if they're telling you, you have to cop up 10% of the cost of this thing

that you're buying to us, otherwise you're going to be breaking the law and we're going to point our government guns at you. In fact, we're already pointing our government guns at you to make you do this. Then that's an infringement. And so how does that comport? How do they continue to put these taxes on things? How do they, why is it that they allow for taxes on things like ammunition or things like that? You know, as a guy who deals with this at Cape Gunworks, what do you, I don't understand

how they can continue to do these sorts of things. And in Massachusetts, it's becoming even worse. They just keep pushing it. We'll talk about that. But on that tax level, I don't understand. How do they get away with this stuff? Well, they've got away with it for decades. That's how. And they've had lower court decisions like district court and circuit court of appeals have upheld the state laws that impose such nonsense. And it wasn't really until Heller started it all back in 2008. We just celebrated the 15th anniversary of the Heller decision. And in that decision, they defined what an arm was, which was defined based on the lexographers of the 18th century.

And it is any arm that is bearable and useful for offensive or defensive purposes. And that is in common and ordinary use. And so that is the definition of an arm. If you, uh, ban it, you're breaking your oath of office and you're, you're, uh, you're passing unconstitutional law. So that was what started it. The problem was the court didn't give a clear mandate to the inferior or lower courts about how to rule on this. So it was still the wild, wild west. There were very few pro second amendment rulings that challenged state and federal law after Heller. There was a couple wins along the way, but there were more defeats than

wins. Then came along the Bruin decision back in 2022, which acknowledged Heller as good law. It was the way that that decision was written. It was reaffirmed as good law and the basis of the Bruin decision. And basically, then the Bruin decision gave clear marching orders to the inferior courts and to the lower courts to basically rule on the text of the Second Amendment. If it isn't in the text, then the burden of proof shifts to the government to prove that there was a historical analog at the time of our ratification of the Second Amendment in 1791. And if they can't prove there was this vast history of the type of ban or the type of infringement that they are proposing or that they have passed, and it has to be contextually appropriate, it has to be the same type of law in the same type of vein of which it was originally written. And it can't

be one or two or three municipalities or cities or states that have passed this. It has to be a rich history, overwhelming support for that law that you're trying to propose or uphold. Right. That is what the text history and tradition means. That was put out in Heller first and now reaffirmed by Bruin. And now the courts have been told by the Supreme Court, this is the way that you must look at all Second Amendment related issues is first in the text. And then you can look to the historical analogs and traditions at the time of the ratification.

And if you can't find anything, guess what? It's unconstitutional. Right. And that's where all that. So the gun grabbers right now are in full bore linear panic mode. They know that their time is short and they have to just throw everything at it and hope it sticks. And that's what they're doing. You see states like New York, you see states like Massachusetts, where I'm from, where they're all just throwing it against the wall, hoping it sticks, knowing the sands of time on their gun control schemes is running out and they are eventually going to have to figure out how to deal with criminals and figure out how to deal with violent crime if they truly want to make our streets safer, which they don't. But if they did, that's the direction they would take instead of requiring lawful people to give up their arms. So the point I'm trying to make in all of this is there's been a little bit of a shift. So, you know, you asked how they've got away with it, because in places like Massachusetts, the district court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals is very anti-gun.

And most gun control challenges died at the district court level. Some got appealed to the first circuit where they died. And then when it went to the Supreme Court, it wasn't granted certiorari. So we had a case called Warman v. Healy, which was a challenge to our assault weapons ban that did make it all the way to the Supreme Court. And it wasn't granted cert. So the problem is hundreds of thousands of dollars and years and years and years and decades of time. Man hours were spent getting it there and then it wasn't granted a hearing. So that was pre Bruin. And, you know, I've heard arguments on that as to the pro-gun justices allowed it to die because they didn't think they had the votes, uh, prior to, um, the three new justices that

were, um, you know, appointed and affirmed, um, or nominated. They pulled a tactic to say, oh, we'll keep it out until maybe there's a change. And then maybe on appeal or there'll be a new version of a similar and we'll have a more conservative set of justices here. Very interesting. Yeah, Roberts is the swing voter right now. He doesn't, no one really knows where he's going. Even in this latest Cargill, the bump stock case, we don't really know where Roberts is going to come down.

And thank you. Neither do we. I was going to say, God bless, bless Mr. Cargill. You know, it's it's I mean, what's his name? Who's the guy from Texas who runs the runs that facility? It's not I can't remember his name. I've seen him on I've seen him on radio, too. And, you know, the courage of these people to spend this money, I was going to say, do

you think that in some cases, legislators or, you know, even some of these regulators, Toby, and, and your experience, let me show you the website, everybody. It's, uh, Cape gun works. If you're in Massachusetts, new England, check it out. Uh, it's very, very cool. And I'm showing right now your rapid fire program. Let's mention rapid fire. As you say, go live Tuesday with with Grace Curley on to a Tuesday. But you've got rapid fire your own show. Tell people about how they can find you.

Yeah, thank you, Gard. It's go to rapid fire radio dot US or Cape Gunworks and click on rapid fire and you can find our show we go live if you want to hear it live you can sign up to be notified whenever we go live just you just got to like and subscribe on social media and and hit the alert buttons and you'll be up up to date on that but we go live consistently every wednesday from 4 to 6 p.m it It is a live show. You can call in or interact with me on the chat and ask questions. We do Q&A. We also talk about all the news of the week and around the Second Amendment. And we archive the show. So if you go to YouTube or whatever platform you like, Rumble, we're all over Rumble, which is good.

Oh, yeah. And so they're great yeah they're awesome and uh we haven't been de-platformed from rumble yet but we've been put in time out by all the other typical big tech uh and right now our facebook account is completely down uh so it's it's amazing you know you i used to have get de-platformed for holding a gun and talking about it and now it gun and talking about it. And now it's just talking about it. You talk about guns, you get put in time.

Wow. It's unbelievable. Anyway. And there's so many people who are interested in getting these tips. It's just amazing to me. And, you know, oh, and it was Michael Cargill from Austin, Texas. Yeah, Michael Cargill. And let me ask you, Toby, do you think that some of these people do it just out of spite?

You know, we've got Trump. He responded with the bump stock thing because there was this fear generated and so on. He should not have done it. It was very, very clear. You know, some people think that maybe it was part of a larger plan to introduce even more government regulations on accessories and parts and things like that. You know, whether they want to ascribe those asinine motives of Trump or the darker motives of Trump, who knows? But either way, on the state legislative side, many of these

legislators must know that when they're proposing these new ideas, and we'll go through a couple of the things that you're battling in Massachusetts, they must know that under the Bruin standard, those aren't going to stick. And one of the things that you and I've discussed before is that under the Heller decision, one of the big problems there, and you and I have both spoken with Tony Heller about this, the problem has been that the Antonin Scalia decision had at the bottom of it, well, of course, we know that no rights are not unattenuable. No right is absolute, as he said. And there's actually audio of him saying that. And we found out that there was some wheeling and dealing there so he could get the vote on the Heller decision to say, okay, I will go with you, Antonin Scalia, if you add that line in

that no right is absolute. But that's the principle of rights. That's the point. They are supposed to be absolute against the state. The state is not supposed to touch our rights. That's the point. So that's why they're called rights. And it's amazing to see how with the Bruin standard, there is this extra bulwark. But it seems like these people are aware of this extra bulwark now, and they're just trying to take more of your time. In some cases, they're doing it, I think, just because they don't like you. Well, I think there's a little bit of a problem here with the Congress that makes law, whether it's a state legislature or the federal government. And that is, they don't understand constitutional limitations. That is something that they've really got way off track on.

Like I said, it's become drunk with power to the extent that they think everything is on the Federalist Papers, number 49, that this is where the whole concept of constitutional limitations takes place. And he explains that there are limits to the power of Congress. And in fact, the wording in this is so brilliantly written, I don't have it up on the screen, but he actually says that the Congress, the legislature comes from the blood of the people. It's the people that they live with, that they work with, that they farm with, that they do business with. Go to the state house or go to Capitol Hill and they are the gatekeeper of our rights. And now the flip, the script has flipped. The coin has been tossed to the other side where they think that they are

the grantor of rights, where the original intent of Congress was to maintain and, and defend our rights. And unfortunately now they see the, see the you know, like we can pick off little parts of it here and there. We can we can change the law. We can. So you bring up an excellent point guard about this. And what do they think? I was able to have a meeting at my shop with two state senators. And I did a big dog and pony show, told them about what gun owners go through, what hoops we have to jump through just to exercise our right to keep and bear arms in the state of Massachusetts. Then I finally said to them, I said, listen, if you could get the votes and you could pass a bill in the house on both sides, the reps and the senators

and say that we want to ban Catholics. If you had the votes, you had the numbers to pass it. Can you do that? And they both kind of looked at each other and said, no, we can't do that. So that is the first acknowledgement of constitutional limitations. Right. And I was trying to show them the parallel. And I said, look, you just acknowledged you don't have the constitutional authority to ban Catholics. But yet that's exactly what you're doing to guns. That's exactly what you're doing with the Second Amendment. And then they go, well, well, well, you know, and then start the whole no right is absolute. And we can walk and chew gum at the same time and all this stuff that you hear them spout off. I said, no, it is the same because we have been told that every gun infringement isn't a infringement on our constitutionally protected rights because you have other options. You just can't have that gun. You can have that gun. If you want a shotgun, if you want a bolt action rifle, if you want a non high capacity, semi-automatic rifle, you can have that. You know, you have choices. We're not restricting your right to keep in bear arms because you have other choices. Well, I want to be a Catholic or fill in the blank. And if you pass a law saying I can't,

guess what? You just acknowledged you can't do that. You're infringing on my right. And now that's exactly what you're doing to the second amendment. And you're saying it's not happening. You're saying you're not infringing upon my constitutionally protected rights. But, oh, you are. Yeah. And isn't it interesting? We're speaking with Toby Leary of Cape Gunworks, folks. And, of course, follow Toby at Cape Gunworks on it's this, I think the first sign of trouble is that they are going to lay down their definitions of words. You know, it's like that Lewis Carroll thing from Alice Through the Looking Glass where she meets Humpty Dumpty. And he is basically a cipher for a monarch. And she says, wow, you can make words mean so many different things.

In other words, you know, it's propaganda. And he says, oh, she goes, how do you do that? And he goes, well, it's no, essentially he says, it's no special skill. It just depends who's in control, you know? And so even when we look at things like the Bruin second tier standard, and you and I have discussed this a little bit before, that leaves ambiguity for the politicians to say, well, we will define what was common, right? Now, you could have enough pressure on people to say, look, you're being completely absurd and fatuous here. It's understandable what is common, but the very audacity, the usurpation of them to define for you the parameters under which they can attack you that's a problem you know you bring up a great point because the after heller the what makes it common and ordinary is the gun that the people want right it has nothing to do with what government's definition of common and ordinary is.

I mean, the Supreme Court did sort of define that in the Caetano case, another Massachusetts case that talked about stun guns. And they said there are 20,000 stun guns in common use in America. So therefore, they are in or they're in use or in common use in America. So therefore they are in, they're in use or they're owned in America. So therefore they are in common and ordinary use a number of say 20,000. So that was enough to meet the definition of common and ordinary use for the Supreme court. And you look at something like the AR 15,

which is the gun that everybody loves to hate. And there's roughly 30 to 40 million of them in use in America each and every day. And so I think that meets the 20,000 threshold. But the bottom line is, it is the gun that the people want. And guess what gun that is. It's the gun that causes tyrants to question whether they should overstep their roles and violate their oath of office. And that is the one that makes tyrants nervous. So therefore, they want to take it off the table.

Well, the problem is that's the whole point of the second amendment. It is the tyrant relief valve and you can't keep tyrants in check with your single shot shotguns. Although I bet you could, uh, if enough people owned and possessed them. But the point is it has to be equal to what government has. And if it isn't, then you're missing the point. So, so right. Yeah. And, you know, Toby, just to wrap it up, I want to ask you real quick.

But before I do that, ask you this question. I just want to mention some people might be familiar that in the 1990s, there was a new standard that was brought about in judicial, uh, tortious claim parlance called the Daubert hearing on class action suits. And it had to do with the introduction of, um, expert witnesses for scientific background on various products or something like that. Previously, all they had was the judge would just determine, do you have an expert witness with enough credentials that we will allow this person in to be a witness for the plaintiff's or the defense in a tortious claim hearing, a tortious liability suit? Then they changed it based on this Daubert, Judge Daubert, who came up with this new standard that the judge would not only determine whether the credentials were sufficient to allow this person into the court, which I think is already an arbitrary standard that is dependent on the judge, but also whether what the person was going to say was within, quote, the scientific consensus. And this goes to the common the common usage or the popular the popular thing or common use of the time sort of thing. That leaves massive amounts of wiggle room for any person within a courtroom or any legislator to say, well, we're saying this is common. We're saying this is uncommon. So something new under the Daubert hearing. So for example,

the Dow Corning silicone breast implant lawsuits that were coming around in the 1990s, they had information that silicone was an adjuvant that caused women problems like lupus, but it wasn't well known at the time. So it wasn't the scientific consensus. It was new science that was revealing truth, but it had not been established long enough. They would have allowed the judge to block all of that scientific information, including information that Dow Corning knew in the 60s that it was an adjuvant that caused autoimmune problems. So there's a great example of something new, which is totally viable and people should have the opportunity to find out about it in court or in the marketplace,

some new development of a firearm. Well, it's not in common use, so we can get rid of it. You know, these are always these areas where you say to yourself, why did you put that in there? Why don't you just go with shall not be infringed? It's a right. I recognize it, and we're done. We can go home and have lunch. You know, I don't get it. Tell us one real quick thing about what you're looking at in Massachusetts, Toby, because I know, you know, you're at you're at work right now. So thank you so much again for joining, you know, the David Knight show as I as I get to host it. Yeah, of course. Yeah. So right now in Massachusetts, we have two bills. Well, it's really one bill. It's the House Bill H4139, which passed last November. And then the Senate passed an amendment

to it called S2584. And both iterations of these have had multiple numbers it started life out as h house docket 4420 and there were signs everywhere you know stop hd 4420 and uh so it hasn't really morphed into the newest and latest number for signs and whatnot and for conversation purposes but the bottom line is um it's a really comprehensive omnibus gun control bill that will severely restrict the right to keep and bear arms further than it already is in the state of Massachusetts. And interestingly enough, it is not going to do a dang thing about putting violent criminals in jail for long periods of time. All it does is level the sights of government guns at peaceful citizens if they don't comply with the new laws that are completely and utterly unconstitutional should they pass. So the two versions that have passed are vastly different versions. The House has completely rejected the Senate's version. So therefore, they are going to come

together in a conference committee. And the conference committee has been seated. There are three senators and three reps that will now go behind closed doors and hash out the details of what the final version of the bill will be. There's no public input. There's no hearings. There's not even any other members of Congress that can go into these meetings. It is completely closed door and they will come out and emerge with a bill that'll get an up or down vote. And then it'll go to the desk of Maura Healey. Um, so, you know, our rights are under full attack right now. Um, and they don't acknowledge that these laws are unconstitutional. When I met with the senators that I met with, they think they're within their legal capacity or the oath of office to continue to further infringe peaceful,

lawful citizens' right to keep and bear arms. And I hope I gave them some food to think about, some things to think about. The good news is this is an election year. We have two massive issues that everybody has to campaign on. And one is them taking away our right to keep and bear arms by voting for this nonsense. And two is the illegal immigration crisis that is affecting just about every state in the union now, but it's really, it's costing Massachusetts billions of dollars. And, uh, uh, we are a right to shelter state and I'm not trying to go down a tangent on that. Uh, but on the other hand, those are the two big issues that if people want to get activated and call their Congressman and call their state senator and say, hey, I'm not going

to vote for you and I'll campaign against whoever primaries against you or I'll support whoever primaries against you. And then I'll ultimately campaign for the person that opposes you on the general election. That would be a great place to start because they're all nervous about getting their job back in November. So I think that gives us a little bit of meat on the bone to go after. And, you know, at the end of the day, they don't care about your rights guard. They care about getting reelected. So that's so true. Yeah, it's so true. And it's good that you, you good that you're out there in the media and you take this time. You've taken the time to talk to us. You speak with Grace and you take calls from people who are concerned about this. And if this legislation in Massachusetts does pass, then it would restrict a large number of guns that you could sell. Likely, you're still waiting for the committee to come out with its final version. Do you think, I know that earlier they had a portion of it that would have basically made it impossible for teenagers to train in firearms. Do you think that's going to be part of the fire final legislation as well? I don't know. It's really hard to say because the house

is pretty much digging their heels in and sticking you know they're they're saying our version is the version the senate tried to make it a little better if you will or at least acknowledged that this is ridiculous a lot of it is ridiculous and and tried to get at the the things that they actually want to pass, like the unfinished frame and receivers. They want to ban those and make it illegal for people who enjoy the hobby of building firearms in their home. They want to, they want to do away with that.

They want to, they want to further restrict semi-automatic rifles. So I think it's just a waste of breath to to sit here and postulate on what the heck they could come out with but whatever version of it is it's not going to be good and i'm really hoping that they just can't get along to the point where they run out of time you know july 31st is the end of the congressional session. However, they've seated the congressional committee here and it's the first week of March. So I highly doubt that they're going to run out of time. And, you know, if I can back up on this whole thing, the bill that was originally introduced in July, HD 4420 by Michael Day of Stoneham. He introduced a bill that was the wish list of the Giffords,

Everytown, Brady, Bloomberg, you know, mayors for whatever. It was a conglomerate wish list of, hey, if you make me a top 20 list of what you would like to see happen in as, as it pertains to gun control, um, send me the list along with your check for my reelection. And that is what I'm going to put in. And that is exactly what happened. Um, you know, there's a picture of Michael day arm and arm with Gabby Giffords, You know, I'm sure she was hand delivering the, the reelection check and, uh, uh, to his war chest and then hand delivered this pre-written bill. In my opinion, I don't have empirical evidence to this, but the only thing that leads me to believe that's the case is because when I called their offices and said, do you realize what's in this? They had no clue. They didn't know what was in it.

So I know they didn't write it. And I know it was the wish list of the anti-gun movement. And that's exactly what they've implemented. So if you want to see your rights eroded in an unconstitutional fashion, focus your sights on Massachusetts and what's going on. You can go to goal.org, G-O-A-L.O-R-G. They have done a full breakdown of it and my hat's off to them because I wouldn't have got through it the way they did. But they kind of bullet point all the major problems with these bills, uh, with this bill. So the good news is I have, I have a sneaky suspicion. We'll have a Supreme court ruling in June that'll affect a couple of

areas of this bill. So, uh, they might have to go back to the drawing board before it's even fully, um, you know, voted on and, and signed into law. Um, I hope they would do that, have the integrity to do that and not just pass it anyway and say, screw you guys, challenge it. But that's generally the MO. So my hopes aren't too high on that. But anyway, that's what we've been doing with shining the light of truth on the dirty dealings of our elected officials who think that our rights are something that they can take away, which they can't. And, you know, it's remarkable because they they force you and other people to have to expend so much time to try to battle these things. But in a way, you know, if we can look at the positive side of it, you are one of the best educated guys on this, on the, the courts, on the rulings, on the guns, the firearms, the history. And, uh, so in a way it's,

it's, it, you, you can find a positive in that you are educating people. You're, you're taking that time and getting the information out to the next generations, to people who maybe they'll come across your show, maybe they'll hear you on the radio and they'll get that knowledge that they didn't have before. So because of the friction that they cause you, you allow for the, you know, you radiate this heat of information out to people. You know, it might sound like a platitude, but, you know, I think it is admirable what you do. I appreciate that. And just in closing, you bring up a great point.

Without the infringement, we don't have the victory. So if it wasn't for District of Columbia banning handguns, we wouldn't have D.C DC versus Heller. If it wasn't for the state of New York making some May issue licensing scheme, we wouldn't have Bruin. And after the Bruin decision came down, I predicted exactly what's happening in Massachusetts. I said, it's going to get worse before it gets better. And that's, uh, I still feel that way. Well, Toby, thank you so much.

It's great to see you. I want to show the website one more time and show your smile and face there in front of the golden mic, the old, almost like the old EIB microphone. And I'm so mad at my producer for buying this microphone that way. I'm like, who do you think I am? I don't deserve a golden microphone. I've been at this for two years. I do a once a week podcast.

Anyway. It's good. You could go with copper rounds or lead, but I don't think that would work. It'd be too insulating. The gold all the way, man, all the way. It is classic. It's great stuff. And Toby, thanks again.

And I hope people check out Rapid Fire again. They can check out capegunworks.com to find out more and then follow you on Twitter. It's at Cape Gunworks, right, man? Yes, sir. Thank you very much, Gard. I appreciate your time. You are the man and again i hope i can get down there to see you very soon man i'm gonna be uh gonna be interested in maybe making a purchase but definitely going on to the onto the range and finding finding some

advice from you okay that'd be great come on down anytime all right thanks toby great we'll talk to you soon thank you for the time appreciate it boy toby leary good good man like him a lot and of course go to capegunworks.com everybody to find out what he does he is a decent decent man and if you get the opportunity check out his show i think you'll really enjoy what he does and you can find all the old versions of the show at the website. So definitely take the opportunity. You know, I want to show you a little something from the governor of New York before we bring in our next guest, Gerald Salonte, at 11 o'clock. And you'll see over on my Twitter feed that I made a comment about this. So here it is,

this from yesterday, and I discussed this on my program yesterday because it does have to do with safety, the state of New York trying to block people's ability to defend themselves, and what is called the tragedy of the commons, where the government claims control of something, in this case, the subway system in New York City, whether it's a public street or the subway system. This is a public place. People's tax money is used for it. They have the right to self-defense. And of course, Kathy Hochul has said she is declaring martial law by sending 1,000. This is Joe Haas dementia. No kidding.

That's his site. So he's saying she's declaring martial law. But essentially what she's doing is she is going to send 1,000 National Guardsmen to patrol the crime-ridden subway. So here's what she had to say. I've got a shorter clip of it, but I want to show you the full clip of this. National Guard to conduct point one, I'm redeploying nearly 1,000 members of the New York State Police, MTA Police, and MTA National

Guard to conduct bag checks in the city's busiest transits. They'll start seeing them at the tables, making sure that weapons are not being brought in, working in concert with our New York State Police, as well as our NYPD. Because no one heading to their job or to visit family or to go to a doctor appointment should worry that the person sitting next to them possesses a deadly weapon. Unless, of course, they are members of the organized government thuggish police force that is going to infringe on your rights. So I brought up a little something. People who are familiar with the problems of the central government running the so-called immigration system,

although the word immigration is not in the U.S. Constitution, especially if they live in New Mexico or Arizona, they might be familiar with these public places where their rights have been infringed, otherwise known as border checkpoints. Sir, I need you to answer my immigration question. I didn't go out of country sir under ina 287 yeah 83 and supreme court u.s versus martinez fuerte yeah this is an immigration checkpoint i didn't

go i didn't leave the country to establish if you're your citizens but i didn't leave the country i i know but this is an immigration checkpoint i need you to answer my immigration that's fine i need to be satisfied well thank youS. citizen? I'm just traveling on this road, so. It's a simple question, sir. I don't answer questions. Get on my bucket all year, sir. And, of course, they pull them aside. They pull people out of the cars.

And I read last night on my Liberty Conspiracy program, which, of course, you can listen to, watch Monday through Friday at 6 o'clock on Rumble, Rockfin, and on my Twitter feed, that is Xfeed, at Guard Goldsmith, I mentioned this from the Future Freedom Foundation's President Jacob Hornberger, the tyranny of domestic highway checkpoints. This is all based on a complete usurpation of your rights to be able to control your earnings. They will take your earnings, build roads, and say, see, we did this for you. You must conform to what we're telling you. The imposition of Kathy Hochul inside the subway system is no different than the folks at the TSA who are in your airports. They're supposed to be state or municipal airports. The federal government's not supposed to have anything to do with it. They started the FAA back in the 1920s as part of the United States postal system. They had lighted air routes before radar and they blocked off air routes to commercial flyers so that the U.S. Postal Service could fly. And they claimed that they

were similar to post roads, that the Constitution allows the federal government to create the post roads, right? Well, um, from there, of course, with different federal handouts to specially favored mayors or governors, people like Illinois governor or a Chicago mayor, they would start to hand out money for the building of airports. The FAA grew. And by the way, as I mentioned, if you want to see the vestige of the origins of the U.S. postal lighted air routes, postal routes, if you're flying over areas in the Southwest, you could see them going east, west, north, south, that sort of thing. So the pilots would follow those from there. They expanded. There's nothing in the constitution that truly allows in any pure reading of the interstate commerce clause, the politicians to say that because a plane flies over state borders, the government can regulate it. The interstate Commerce Clause was originally written in order to allow for some sort of remedy between state-on-state trade disputes. States with capital S's, the governments, not people putting things that they

want to sell over state borders for sale. But they have misconstrued it, of course, contrary to even what James Madison said. He said it was a remedial measure, not a priori measure, allowing the government or ex ante allowing the government to regulate anything that they want and tell people what they've got to do in order to engage in free commerce, freedom of association. There should be no TSA. It's a breach of the Fourth Amendment on a daily, regular basis. And Hochul's move in New York and the subway is the same thing. Now, some people might think it provides great security. This goes deeper into the philosophy, therefore, of the tragedy of the commons, because anything the government runs is going to pit people against each other, and it just causes dissension and fraying of people's nerves and argumentation. The government is not a positive.

It's not the great uniter. It's the great forcer. So I think that that's important to remember, especially when we look at the infringement of the Fourth Amendment in some of those states and the borders where even in the Constitution, the word immigration does not appear. As I've mentioned previously on David Knight's show here and on my program, and you can look it up, it was an 1875 Supreme Court ruling that basically created out of nowhere the congressional power to control immigration. Up to that point, it was a state issue. Thomas Jefferson mentioned it in the fourth Kentucky resolution and James Madison mentioned it in the Virginia resolves. It's very important that people keep this stuff in mind because if they call themselves, say, conservative constitutionalists, at least try to be consistent, at least have a conversation about these things

because your adoration of central command and control is not getting you what you want, either for so-called gun control or security in the subways or your roads or your ability to control the border. Look who's in charge of it now. Let's take the opportunity to hear a little bit from our next guest. I want to let you know a little bit more about the David Knight Show and where you can find it. And then we'll be right back with Gerald Salente on the David Knight Program. If you like the Eagles, the cars,

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And now let's hear from a wonderful man. He is Gerald Salente, and he is joining us from Kingston, New York. Gerald, welcome to The David Knight Show as I get to fill in. Thank you so much. Really appreciate you being here, of course, coming from the headquarters of the Trends Journal. Welcome to the show and happy Friday. Thank you. It's not a happy Friday. I'm so sad to see that.

You're not rolling in the splendor of the state of the onion address, or is it a little too stinky? You know, it's just a lot of more crap, you know. I'm so heartbroken to see the decline of this country. You know, I was just listening. You know, I'm a real jazz fan, you know, but, you know, going back from ragtime to swing to. Right.

I remember we got to talk a little bit about that because my dad, he brought me up with that, listening to Gene Krupa on the drums and great stuff. And, you know, and I'm listening to some, you know, Southern music, you know, the hillbilly music and stuff. And the spirit of America was so high. And everybody's having a good time and laughing, you know. Yeah, things were tough, but you went out and had a good time. laughing. You know, yeah, things were tough, but you went out and had a good time.

And now there's no good times. I'm up here in the Hudson Valley. How about Death Valley? There's no nightlife anymore. I mean, everything is a drag. It's such a beautiful area too. It could be so vibrant, but everybody's opportunities have been crushed through so many vectors.

It's ridiculous. Again, they've sucked the joy out of life. And you talked about the moronic speech yesterday. Of course, I didn't. Oh, he was on fire. A little goddamn clown, a little boy of nothing, a little jerk, one after another. I can't stand either of them. I want to make this really clear. You know, I'm a political atheist. I don't believe in the, quote, system. I was the assistant to the secretary of the New York State Senate. I ran major political campaigns in Westchester County, the richest county in America.

I designed and instructed American politics and campaign technology. How to run political campaigns. Taught it at St. John's University. I've been in the system. I got out. It was a freak show. Little boys and girls that bend over and suck up to get their way up. Little bunch of nobodies. And that's what this country's become.

I'm little Andy Cuomo. I'm a daddy's boy of nothing. Born on third base. Thought I hit a home run like little slimeball Georgie Bush. Little true dope up there in Canada. Shut down your business. Stand six feet apart. Only ten people

are allowed to come in your house. Heil Hitler. Yes, sir. And then they've got the audacity to talk about freedom. You know, Trudeau did it just again a couple times this week and Biden did it last night. Right off the bat, trying to

conflate the United States perpetuating that meat grinder in Ukraine to somehow, somehow, Gerald, freedom. Amazing. By the somehow, Gerald, freedom. Amazing. By the way, Gerald, I want to mention before we go on any further, I know that I mentioned about chatting for a half hour,

but if you can stay longer, I would love it, because I wasn't sure how long you want to go. I can only do a half hour. Okay. Sounds good. Sounds good. Let's discuss a couple of the things as we compare Joe Biden claiming the economy is doing great. And of course, violent crime is down completely contrary to reality.

Over at Trends Journal, I want to show some folks what you've got here. And you've got some very important things. For example, the trend about the EV. That is an excellent, excellent piece. And how soon until banks can offer crypto custody services to clients? Plus, of course, what you have, you have a very good piece about a couple of banks recently that are dealing with business properties and they are in a lot of trouble. So take your pick to tell us what you would like to really flag for people to watch. And they can find this at the Trends Journal. And of course, if they use David Knight code, David Knight show, they get 10% off if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, that's true. And it's again, it's only, of course, by $2.50 a week, a lousy cup of coffee. And again, look at our top trends. We're going to talk about it.

One of our top trends, this is going to be a golden year for gold. Oh, yeah. Guess what? As we go on the air now, gold is what? $2,175 an ounce. When we wrote this, it was about 1,900. Right. Yeah.

And what is another one we're going to talk about? When we wrote this, it was about 1900. Right. Yeah. And what was another one we're going to talk about? Banks go bust. When they locked down, and again, talking about crime and stupidity, all this money going into the military industrial complex, our country rotting in front of our eyes. The subways in New York is a night in Calcutta. A little clown girl playing a governor in New York.

Again, men, women, boys, girls, black, white, green, yellow, don't want to hear the crap. Good and bad comes in everything. This little jerk he got running this huckleberry. We're going to send National Guard to the to the subway system again putting things together the bank's going bust nobody talks about the reason why this crime went up was because of all the years of lockdowns and what we said when people lose everything and have nothing left to lose they lose it let's go back to the office building bust. Again, this is the data.

Your office vacancy rate in New York City, meaning nobody in the buildings, only about, it's 22.8%, 23%. 23% vacant. Your office occupancy rate in New York City, 23%. 23% vacant. Your office occupancy rate in New York City, 49.7%. Wait a minute. You mean only 49, 50% of the people are going back? That's right. And you got 23% of the buildings are vacant?

Yeah. How about all the businesses that used to depend on commuters? How the hell with them? Who cares who cares again now the office building bust which we warned back in may of 2020 in your trends journal we said there's going to be an office building bust that's going to bring down the banking system yeah screw you what are you talking about you don't know anything you're not on mainstream media anymore used to be on everybody. Oprah a couple of times. You used to be on CNN four times a month. I used to be on everybody. Good Morning America, The Today Show, on and on and on and on. We don't want you there because you speak the truth and you won't swallow the crap that they're putting out there. So let's go back to the banking system. Let's say I own, I have 10 stories in a building. My people don't want to come back to work anymore. After they're staying home week after week, month after month, year after year, they're saying to themselves, holy Christ, I'm getting up at five o'clock in the morning,

commuting an hour and a half. I'm not going to do that anymore. I can't believe I was destroying my life like this, sitting behind a car like this and bumping above the traffic okay i got to yeah listen stay home they're in cubicles anyway i'm the boss i don't see these people why do i need all this space right right now you're going to see default rates and you're seeing with this new york bank already and it's one after another they're about there are about according to the federal reserve about 80 no excuse me about 60 banks suffering

from strict defaults coming up oh boy they're hardly mentioning this at all you got to really really really do it again go to the wall i can't say the word but it's shi with a t in it journal because that's what it is now there's no data on on what what what hey what what was was the german uh uh uh manufacturing index when it came out yes oh you mean it was way down again or how about what no data anymore no yeah yeah That's a good point. You look at, Gerald, you've got a piece here that I flagged last night over dinner. I was looking at this and I just want to show it to people in the Trends Journal. This is the headline, Top Trend Office Building Bust from March 5th, Pension Fund Dumps Office. And this is a little bit of what you mentioned. This refers

to this. And this is the solid solidity of the information that you provide for people who really want facts on the ground that they can deal with and try to prepare and make some decisions about their money. As you say, the Wall Street Journal, it's so difficult to even look at it in many cases. Every once in a while, they'll have something, an editorial or something. But you say here, the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, CPIB, was one of the earliest pension funds to put money into commercial real estate, inspiring others around the world to do the same. Now, the board has sparked worries that other retirement systems will follow its lead in dumping its holdings in office buildings at deep discount prices. If that trend, if that becomes a trend, it will drive down property values across the sector even faster than they're falling currently. In one instance, the CPIB, Canadian Pension Plan

Investment Board, sold its interest in a New York City office development project for a dollar. Yes, a single dollar just to escape probable future losses. It sold its share to Boston Properties, another partner in the deal, which also agreed to assume the board's debt from the project. And there's so much more here, but there's something down a little further. You say, banks and investment funds around the world have thrown money into office blocks for decades. Now, many are conceding that a significant portion of those loans may fail, Fortune reported. More than $100 billion in commercial real estate loans are maturing this year, and $1.1 trillion worldwide will come due before 2028.

And then if you go to our economic update in this week's Trends Journal, we have, this is reported that, quote, the delinquency rate for office buildings in New York City has increased, you're ready, by more than 1 than 1000% from January, 2023 to January, 2024. According to data from CoStar, a thousand percent.

Hey, the Taylor Swift have sex last night. I mean, that's the kind of news that is news. That's so frivolous. Unbelievable. Wow. I mean, that's the kind of news that is news. That's so frivolous. Unbelievable. Wow.

Well, you know, Gerald, you've mentioned before your experience at 9-11, the things that people need in order to be prepared. One of the things before we get to the physical stuff is this information. And I know you've been making great strides, you know, every week or conversations with Judge Napolitano, and you've been on a lot of programs talking to a lot of people. Are you getting a sense, Gerald Salente, that you're getting more access to more people recently in a sort of this growing nascent expansion of the independent reporters and people doing podcasts and things like that? Yes and no. We're getting shadow banned on on YouTube. I get you see the hate mail I get and people contacting YouTube. They call me an anti-Semite and I hate Jewish people.

Yeah, because you see the cover of this week's Trends Journal. Yeah. Well, of course, if you're at all in favor of a ceasefire, then clearly you're anti-Semitic. I mean, don't people understand this? And my last name is Goldsmith. A lot of people think I'm Jewish. And I've mentioned this before on my own program, Gerald. I went to Boston University, right?

And just to let you know what this is like, my roommate for two years was one of the reporters. His name is Sean Naylor. He's one of the reporters who exposed that the CIA was spying on Julian Assange in the Ecuadorian embassy. So we've always been pretty pro-liberty guys. So I an English-Irish name. I often mention on St. Patrick's Day, I get in front of a mirror were other people who were very religiously inclined and so on. But the way that they would describe the Palestinian people, it blew me away. Then they were just like animals. I couldn't believe it. And if I had all criticized them, it was the gaslighting. It was the what are you, anti-Semitic? I thought you were Jewish. Like, what are you talking?

I'm talking about a political system of oppression that has been growing decade after decade, taking people's land. I thought that was bad when it was done to the Jews in Germany and Poland. What are you talking about? It's just insane. And it's this mindset on hyperdrive now. You can't say anything. It's nuts. Yeah. So so again you know i we say what we say when nobody we have no advertisements in the trends journal and again it's only like if you get it from uh the night it's only what about two dollars and fifty cents a week so anyway you ask yes i have a lot of but we're we're getting the hate mail that i'm getting. Again, I launched Occupy Peace over a decade ago. I'm not anti-American because I hate America's wars. I'm not anti-Jewish because I hate Israel's

genocide of the Palestinians. And if you look up the definition of genocide, it's exactly what they're doing. And isn't it amazing, Gerald, to see these transparent, these shallow bottom feeders in Washington, D.C. and others like Victoria Nuland, like people like Joe Biden or people like Amy Klobuchar or people like Lindsey Graham, on the one hand, claiming that they've got to support Israel. At the same time, every one of those people associated, and as I mentioned before earlier on the program, with Ole Tianyabok and the members of the Slovita Party in Ukraine as they overthrew the elected leader Yanukovych in late 2013, early 2014, and worked with Nazis to put in Yatsenyuk and worked with Ole Tanyabak and the Slovidov party,

and then allowed for the systematic destruction of tens of thousands of people in the Donbass region with those Nazi Azov battalion people. And they've got the fatuous gall to talk about how they support Jewish people while they're on the other hand, hanging out with Nazis in Ukraine. It's it, it's like, don't you,

do they ever think that people might notice this stuff? They don't care. Yeah. About people. But by the way, what you're saying, yeah, hardly anybody knows that here,

this is the cover of the Trends Journal going back to 2014. So how happy that guy is? It's about the United States overthrow of the democratically elected government of Viktor Yanukovych. There you go. Ms. Fatshabrut, what's her name

there? Janet Yellen. Yeah. Ukraine presented the perfect opportunity for washington to advance in such monarch agenda in a speech to the national press club last december which was 2013 assistant secretary of state victoria newland boasted that washington and invested five billion dollars in ngos non-governmental organizations in Ukraine. You ready? To quote, teach democracy. Stealing $5 billion of our money to give to the crime syndicates to overthrow this government.

Are you kidding me? To teach democracy? Yeah. Holy smoke. But that's what America does, don't you understand? We attack Vietnam. You know, Gerald. We attack Iraq. We attack Afghanistan to bring freedom and democracy.

Absolutely. Just unbelievable. It's unbelievable. And I got to tell you, we're marching off to bring democracy. Oh, it's unbelievable. It's it's you know, I was I was joking around. I was sitting around about the Barack Obama, Dick Lugar visit to Ukraine around 2005, 2006, when the bioweapons started with some billions that they provided over there, the bioweapons labs that Victoria Nuland admitted to Marco Rubio a couple of years ago. their research facilities and she used the term Ukrainians, but just ridiculous actually finally admitting it. I was joking around about, you know, Barack Obama at that time going in there and, you know, shaving off some money and giving those,

those guys like easy bake ovens for their, for their lab stuff to cook up some of these chemicals. But the thing that really got me was around 2013, I was reporting on this, this this this coup and a buddy of mine and i mentioned this on my show uh the the liberty conspiracy show that i do it uh in the evenings um a buddy of mine had worked for the obama administration under eric holder very briefly and he got out just before yeah and i had gone to school with this guy high school with this guy you know we went to punk rock clubs together and stuff like that he was more on the left-wing side And he got out just before. Yeah. And I had gone to school with this guy, high school with this guy.

You know, we went to punk rock clubs together and stuff like that. He was more on the left wing side. He got out before the Fast and Furious stuff blew up. And so I knew it was like, oh, you must have heard about that. He comes up to me December of 2013. He says, hey, guard, where are you getting your information? I'm listening to your podcast about Ukraine. We get that information. And I had been sort of tipped off to the United States trying to overthrow Syria and so on and so forth, you know, so I've been watching this. And then when the, when the Russians dropped their long-term debt, uh, debt holdings for the U S around 2008, 2009, I was like, that was when they started to try to show isolations and try to block Russian energy exports. It was very clear what they were doing. Right. And, uh, so I. So I said, well, I'm just getting my information and talking about Yanukovych, the false flag of

the snipers and stuff. And he said, well, you're right. And there's a lot more. And I said, oh, really? Like what? And this is December. They haven't even installed the new government there yet or anything like that. And he said, there's a lot more. And I was like, what? So then he paused. And I mentioned to my audience, I don't know whether he was just playing up the drama, but he said, you know, I think I better stop there. I have a daughter now.

So I said, all right, man, whatever you want to do, dude, whatever you want to do, but I'm going to keep reporting on this stuff. And he has decoupled from me. I haven't heard from him since a few months after that. So, again, you know, it's a it's a crime syndicate that people call the government. I mean, here we are. We got to a choice between Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. I mean, we got only two parties run the whole country. I mean, what's a joke? And look at these little boys that you mentioned, little Lindsey Graham, Rubio.

These little boys couldn't fight their way out of a paper bag. Anybody that wants to support a war overseas, go over there and fight. Send your wife, your kids, your transgenders, go over there and fight. Send your wife, your kids, your transgenders, go over there and fight. Send your money or shut your mouth. I want my money to stay in America. Occupy Peace, the movement that I launched, one of the major elements of the platform, close all the bases overseas. We've got over 800 in about 80, 90 countries. Secure the homeland with the troops. Put our money to rebuilding our rotted third world infrastructure. Anybody, you want to go to war, let the people vote. Those are the platforms. Again,

so going back to talking about the war, going back to the economy, with Biden, 63% of people's income, 38% is going into the cost for rentals, for rentals. Meanwhile, the bigs keep getting bigger, going back to immigration. They could stop it from coming in, very simple. They don't want it to. they need more cheap labor. Go to, go to, go to Walmart. I don't go to any of them. Go to, like go to home Depot because they need, you know, uh, hardware stuff. Uh, and again, they used to have, when I was a young guy, they had hardware stores, stationary stores, drug stores, grocery stores. You know, now, now it's stationary chains, drug chains, grocery chains, hardware chains. They're all chains. Go to any of them. Help wanted, help wanted, help wanted, because they pay the plantation

workers of slave landing and nothing. They want all the cheap labor they could get in this country. So going back to the reality, when Clinton ran for office, another slimeball murderous little clown, the backstage in the campaign, the slogan was, it's the economy, stupid. That's what the people care about the most. And going back to the clown Biden's speech last night, that's what they're going to keep most and going back to the clown biden's speech last night that's what they're going to keep doing so we let's go back gold prices are going way up as

we had forecast the reason they're going up to number one the lower interest rates go the deeper the dollar falls and the higher gold prices go because gold is dollar based. So as the dollar goes down, it's cheaper for other countries to buy gold. And by the way, China splurge on gold for 16 straight months. And they, when they,

the people's bank bought about almost 400 troy ounces of gold last month, 400,000. All right. Wow. And it's one bank after another the number of central banks buying combined total of around a thousand tons a year and this is according to rona the head of stonex financial limited so reason number two, World War III has begun. It's not going to become official until there's a major event that happens that when three people were killed three you know in on the jordan syrian border in america bombs away over syria and iraq so what's going to happen there's going to be a major false flag event or something that's going to make world war three official and they're going to do it in the middle east with the united states israel going after iran when that becomes that happens you're going to see oil prices spike to above $130 a barrel.

That's going to crash the equity markets and the global economy. Going back to gold. Those dominoes fall so easily. Yeah, and then going back to gold. Yes, focusing on that is so key. So you got the geopolitical and the real economic. We were talking about the banking banks go bust. The people are suffering now.

The street people on Main Street feel it. They don't. It doesn't become a reality until Wall Street goes down. Then the people feel it as the real pain. And again, you're looking now. The data just came out, the, um, you got the, uh, um, the unemployment rates, almost 4% now, actually it's much higher. Absolutely. Right. The official rate now is 3.9%. And again, you look at challenger and Gray came out with an article yesterday that the layoffs are the highest rate since 2000.

Here we go. I'm not making it up. Layoffs rise to the highest rate for any February. You ready? Since 2009. That's the height of the Great Recession. Wow. And again, weird forecast.

I took out the domain name, the Panic of 08 in 2007. So we're going to go to a... So going back to gold. Gold, number one, I'm very bullish on Bitcoin, not because I like it, hate it. It's because the people don't understand

what's going on. You have an inflation rate in Argentina, for example, about 250%. People can't buy gold. So what they're doing is they're watching their currency go down the crap at Turkey one after another with inflation in Turkey's wide about 68%. They're buying Bitcoin. They're buying like a tiny bit, a tiny bit, a tiny bit. So that's going to keep driving the prices up.

So I'm bullish on Bitcoin, gold and silver is a longer shot. And again, we don't give financial advice. We're saying what we what we see and why. And so that's how we see this this unfolding. Well, it's extremely important and people can see what has been happening to gold recently. It's the inevitable consequence of a central banking system that is funding a massively indebted nation state that continues to try to play on people's political funny bones and rub them, rub their backs and scratch their under their chins. It's got to stop. People need to recognize it or at least

prepare. And, you know, I really admire this cover. If I might again show it, Gerald, hate Israeli genocide. You're an anti-Semite because I agree with you. And I think that their target is Iran. They want to take out Iran and they also want to overthrow Assad in Syria as long as long as it takes them. They'll try to wipe him out. And I worry very, very greatly that the United States government and various NGOs might be working to try to bring in certain immigrant factions that they already know they've got here and will be ready to do something that will be depicted as anti-Semitic activities, like trying to take out a Jewish synagogue or something like that. I worry about that. Oh my God, a Jewish synagogue? You could blow up all the mosques you want in Gaza, but don't touch a synagogue. Yeah. Yeah. Unbelievable. And it just blows me away that at the same time that Joe Biden and his fatuous gang of creeps can sit there and say, well,

we need to make sure Israel has a right to exist. First of all, philosophically, no state has any stinking rights. They're states, they're abstract entities. They're not human beings. Second of all, if you want to send a check to Israel, Mr. Biden, you go ahead and abstract entities. They're not human beings. Second of all, if you want to send a check to Israel, Mr. Biden, you go ahead and do so. Leave my neighbor out of it. And I don't quite understand how it is they can talk about democracy and freedom and things like that as those poor people there have been told, oh, go to, say, Khan Yunus. And then they bomb Khan Yunus. Go to this hospital. It's unbelievable. Week after week, day after day, everything the Israeli government says has been shown to have been a lie or not substantiated with any real proof.

Stopping at that about a lie, about all the Jewish women that were raped by Hamas. Yes, exactly. Exactly. Max Blumenthal and Aaron Monte did a great job exposing that stuff. And Max Blumenthal, a Jewish guy. Why? Yeah, right. Right.

Oh, and Norman Finkelstein brings out the truth. Why that that anti-Semite? Oh, and Joe Biden says, I'm a Zionist. I'm not. Go over there. Go on. Oh, and Joe Biden says I'm a Zionist? I'm not a... Go over there. Oh, Joe Biden. Joe Biden's about three and a half years older than me. He got five draft deferments during the Vietnam War.

Five. A little fat mouth that loves war. Five draft deferments. Same with Trump. Trump got over $100 million from Sheldon Adelson and brags, I've done more for Israel than any other president. Oh, and I moved the embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. And I said to Israel, yeah, the land you stole from Syria and the Golan Heights, it's yours. Who the hell are these people representing? Oh, and Israel, how many times have I heard this one? Israel

has the right to defend themselves. Nobody else does. Nobody else does. Now, Israel has no right to exist. And here are the facts. And if anybody, anybody could deny these facts, let me know.

Here's your trends journal going back to 2006. Crusades 2000. You ready? Yeah. Regardless of what England's reasons or intentions were self-serving or otherwise, Crusades 2000 was set in motion by the 1917 Balfour Declaration

that laid the foundation for Israel, quote, his majesty's government. Wait, stop Quote, His Majesty's Government. Wait, stop. Wait. His Majesty's Government? Some murderous slimeball from the UK? Yeah, that's right. His Majesty's Government views with favor

the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people. Hey, wait a minute. Who the hell is he to say what should be going on in Palestine to say it's a national home for the Jewish people? Well, I guess he got the money from the Rothschild gang, didn't he? Oh, those are the facts. Yes.

Yeah. Go on. I hear it goes on. And will use its best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this objective. You stole the land from the Palestinians. You got the money from the Rothschild gang to do it. Yep. They're an occupying force. No occupying force has any right to claim that they are defending themselves. And of course, any of those soldiers on those grounds, if they're using

weapons, those weapons were gotten through taxation. I love this ridiculous canard that they try to sell people, that a nation state has a right to defend itself. Ergo, therefore, we are going to force you. You can't defend yourself against Joe Biden. You've got to cough up the money to blast apart more Palestinian people in Gaza. That's their logic. It's disgusting. And to show you the more disgusting, this is from our heads, not reported in one, not one major newspaper in America. This is the 6th. Who's that?

Wednesday. Israel approves construction of 3,476 housing units in West Bank settlements. You mean stolen land in violation of the Geneva Convention and Article 242 of the United Nations? They're not settlements. They're stolen land. But we'll call it settlements, just like we say Israel has the right to defend itself. And not reported at all. Israel could steal all the land that they want.

Oh, and you see the number that came out? About 30 of the Palestinians that they arrested recently died in jail. Yeah, and they don't call those hostages. They have held hundreds of people every year in Israel without trial, extrajudicial. Some of them teenage kids. And women. Yeah, and women. Absolutely.

And so if people were to use the logic that Israel can go in and wipe out civilians so they can get their hostages back. Well, the Palestinian and the Hamas authorities could use the same logic to say we can go into Israel because you every year have held hundreds of people without trial. You're holding them in a corral for God's sake. Yeah. This is, this is that little boy, Anthony Blinken. Oh,

this is right after this October 12th, a couple of days after Hamas attack, which I'm totally opposed to the Hamas attack quote, talking to Netanyahu. I come before you, not only as the United States Secretary of State, but also as a Jew. How about you come here as an American? I could care less what religion you believe in.

Unbelievable. Yeah. Unbelievable. And of course for him. How about coming to you as american just it's i can care less what religion you believe in but don't you tell me that you're the chosen people and god gave you this land shove it and they're sucking your lifeblood and and again i'll bring it back to Kingston. You know, I know it's a massive left wing enclave there. Some of these people accept their own domestication. It's just sad.

And, you know, I don't know what. Hopefully you'll stick around there. It's a beautiful area. And hopefully I'll be able to visit you again. You know, I got to go down there when David was speaking and so on and meet you. It was great. And I really hope that I get the opportunity to do that. I know you're planning something for the fall coming up, Gerald.

Yeah, we're going to have I may even have an earlier Occupy piece. We're going to try to do as many as we can. I got to run, but I want to read this quickly. Yeah, I'm an American. And I stand by what the founding fathers fought for. This is George Washington's farewell address. A real man that fought a real general, not like that little betrayed us guy that the betrayers,

it's not working for KKK. That not that guy who, who the troop surge in Afghanistan, not Lloyd Austin, not him. We couldn't fight his way out of a paper bag, all that weight. They don't make a paper bag big enough. This is a real man that fought George Washington quote.

It is our true policy. This is his farewell address to steer clear of permanent alliance with any portion of the foreign world, observe good faith and justice toward all nations cultivate peace and harmony with all the nation which indulges toward another an habitual hatred like we've been taught since i'm a kid hiding under a desk in case an atom bomb went off, hating Russia, the nation, which indulges toward an habitual hatred or an habitual fondness, like we love Israel is in some degree a slave.

It is a slave to its animosity or to its infection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and interests. A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the nation, favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no common interest exists, and the infusion into one the enmities of the other betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels of wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification. Right there, right there. And not one, not one of these slimeball politicians speak about or respect. Gerald, you say it beautifully, bring it into history.

And of course, Trent's Journal Journal the subhead for Trends Journal is history before it happens and you work so hard I'll let you get back to it Gerald and thank you for joining me as I filled in for David today it's always great to hear from you you are just such a great guy

and I hope I get to see you down there in Kingston again very very soon. People can check out trends journal. They can check out your show with judge Napolitano and how do they want to follow you? Follow you on Twitter slash X. Yeah.

Yeah. Gerald Salenti and same with trends journal, YouTube or trends journal. And thank you for what you're doing. The information and knowledge that you have is, you know, it's not many people saying you for what you're doing. The information and knowledge that you have is, you know, it's not many people saying and doing what you're doing. Of course,

David is. And a number of us. Thank you so much. I mean, you know, you know, the facts and information and that's all that counts. So the facts,

not what people believe in. I'm a, again, I'm a political atheist. You know, I just, I was doing a show and I, I pull this out over here.

Let me try to find it. Yeah, here. Love blooms on the campaign trail. That was my former wife. May she rest in peace. So when I say to you I was at the top in the political world, it's not a bunch of BS. The facts are there. And when I quit, nobody could believe I was quitting.

I said, I'm not going to do this. I'm not going to be a little slave to these clowns what a good move and that's all they are there it's a clown show it's a presidential reality show so thank you so much for what you're doing thanks gerald we'll talk to you again trends journal check it out everybody it's trendsjournalcom. Gerald Salente, you're not only a gentleman, you're a finely attired gentleman. Your sartorial taste is amazing. And so are your principles. Appreciate it very much, Gerald. Thanks so much.

Thank you very much. You got it. You got it. Gerald Salente, everybody. What a good guy. And, of course, Gerald, you can get the trends general for 10% off. If you use the code night from the David night show, Elvis,

the Beatles, and the sweet sounds of Motown, find them on the oldies channel at apsradio.com. Thank you. so oh You're listening to The David Knight Show. Oh, yes, indeed. Great stuff from The David Knight Show. What great music. And great comments from people also.

I want to turn to the Rumble chat. And thank you all. And also want to mention that those of you who have been watching over on Twitter slash X, I greatly appreciate it. I had an interesting comment in there from Paul, number of comments from Paul on Twitter slash X and Paul. Welcome. You said Gerald Salente is from Yonkers. Nuns almost beat him deaf when he was in elementary school. Yes, that's an amazing story. And he went to high school with Son of Sam. I didn't know that, not to be, you know, terrible stuff there, but be interesting to talk to him about that. And over in, let's see, over in Rockland, Little John is there. Carlos Rex is there as well. And thank you for the contribution. We have some contributions from Mark Crawford and appreciate that Mark.

And anybody wants to do the same, you can do that at Rockland or at rumble. Please feel free. And don't forget David Knight also has a subscribe star, which is really useful. And you can check him out over there. And Doug says, thank you, Gerald. And thank you, Doug. Appreciate it. And Carlos Rex has a wonderful statement here. The federal government is a neurotic is a neurotic is neurotic fascist psychopaths. Fascist psychopaths. Yep. Yep, absolutely. And, you know, it's interesting how they can, there are various ways that they can get people to accept psychopathic behavior, or I would definition, sociopathic. So there is a difference between the state and society. Society is the set of arrangements and traditions and developments that we put together through free association and voluntary contract and work with each other through our free will. That is society.

And philosophers through the ages have understood this. The state is that which is imposed on us. And when I say state, I mean in the generic normative sense, not in the state as in the state of New Hampshire or differentiating it from other states. I mean the state in the generic political sense. So the state is imposed on us. It is imposed on people. And the only way it can exist is through imposition. If it were all voluntary, then it would be free association and agreement of business contracts, something like that. So by definition, if the state is there in front of you, some form of coercion has taken place and more coercion will take place for it to continue to exist. So the state, by definition, must draw from society in order to exist. Therefore, everything the state does is a detriment to the decisions made within society, because not all of what you want to do in society can actually be allowed. And some of your earnings will be drawn from you to fund the state. So the state is parasitic off society and blocks society.

The state is sociopathic. It is pathological towards society. By definition, it's inarguable. It's just a simple logic syllogism. So logical syllogism. So I discussed this on Liberty Conspiracy. And if you want to watch, it's 6 p.m. Monday through Friday on Rumble and Rockfin. And we get into this. You know, I tried to put this sort of together as best as I can for students in charter school for a while.

I was a little too radical for them. But, you know, if I'm doing lectures or anything like that in front of students, I try to, you know, lay these things out with these parameters. And you can't escape these things. It's sort of like, you know, people are talking about Elon Musk and X and the fact that he might shadow ban or decrease the visibility of people who intentionally so-called misgender or don't use the pronouns that someone wants to use, someone wants them to use for them. Well, you know, look, there's reality. I had a student one time say, oh no, you can use they for a single person. So I said, okay, if you think you can use they for a single person, let me give you

a couple quick examples. In television, oftentimes they will use the garbage pronoun they for one person because they don't want to say whether it was a man or a woman. People often fall into that trap. They don't use proper grammar. They're not precise. They don't use their words properly. I understand sometimes in conversation, things slip by, you get accustomed to things, but it's good to stand up once in a while. It's good to try to maintain a standard, right? So I said, so for example, Channel 9, WMUR here in New Hampshire, it's the only ABC, only network affiliate. They might report, hypothetically, the Manchester police or

Goffstown police have apprehended the suspect, the suspect, in a series of arsons. They will be arraigned on Tuesday. Okay, so they don't want to say whether it's a man or woman. Rather than saying he or she, we don't know the identity of the person, they say they. Well, how many people were arrested? One. You got to have specifics. If you're a cop, and we've already seen this stuff, they're starting to do this now in California. Well, we got to describe somebody in very oblique terms. Well, that's going to make it a lot easier to find your suspect, isn't it, dunderhead? Right? I mean, come on.

Seriously, have some respect for yourself, for goodness sake. And then how about respect for others primarily? That would be nice. And then I said, look, to this student, I said, look, if you work in an emergency room, you don't use they for one person. And you want to know, is it male or female who's being brought in in the ambulance? You don't go to dispatch and hear they, because that means you're going to prepare more than one room for the incoming emergency. You want to know male or female, because that has an effect on your

choices of things for possible problems for a potential victim coming in in an emergency. There are variations. There are biological truths. We can't get around these things, right? So it's just absurd and it demeans oneself to not stand up for truth. And we're only here for a certain period of time. Why not stand for truth? That would be nice. I'll leave you with this. You know, we talked with Toby Leary about the bump stock story.

And I could give you the information from my MRCTV video recently, but I just want to reaffirm some of the information that being on the bump stock case in the Supreme Court. You can check it out. I'll show it again tonight on my Liberty Conspiracy show tonight. It's about, I think it's about 10 minutes long. So we might go over time on David's show today, but I want to just reiterate a couple of things that I mentioned so that you have the information in front of you and feel free if you want to drop comments into the of things that I mentioned so that you have the information in front of you. And and feel free if you want to drop comments into the chat. And again, feel free if you want to donate at Rumble or Rockfin to David's program. That would be great. Everything will go to David and Travis and the whole team.

David's not sick or anything like that. They're just taking some time off. And I will be here again on Thursday next week, as police squad would say, as of course, people take some time off for the holidays and things like that. So here is this story that I mentioned. U.S. has approved 100 arms deals for Israel since October 7th to support Gaza slaughter. They were secret arms deals. The Biden administration has secretly approved more than 100 separate foreign military sales to Israel since October 7th to support the mass killing of Palestinians in Gaza, the Washington Post reported Wednesday. So at least there is that use for the Washington Post. It's unclear how many of the sales are being funded by the U.S.,

but many could be as Israel receives $3.3 billion in annual foreign military financing. They could be a form of U.S. military aid that gives foreign governments money to purchase U.S. arms. Only two sales have been made public. Isn't this great? Yeah, it's land of the free. Yeah, self-governance. Yeah, you try to govern yourself sometimes see what happens uh say no i'd rather keep my money um only two sales have been made public one for 106 million dollars worth of 120 millimeter tank ammunition you know from these people who want to control guns as joe biden said he's gonna stop this there's large capacity firearms. Oh, really, Joe? Is that true?

What do you describe as large capacity? Where do you get the moral authority to do that? Even if you amended the Constitution, I didn't sign it. I'm not part of your deal. That's why I'm a voluntarist. I have rights. And just by people ganging up saying, oh, we can take your stuff or signing a piece of paper and saying, oh, we amended this thing. At least they could go with their promises to abide by the Constitution.

I don't promise that. But at least they could go with that. Personally, I'd prefer the Articles of Confederation or I'd rather have the Brehon Law System that was very close to an anarchic system or the Viking Goddard System, sort of a tribal sort of a thing. Only two sales have been made public, 106 million worth of 120 millimeter tank ammunition and one for 147.5 million in components needed to make 155 millimeter artillery shells. U.S. officials told the Post that there was no public debate for the other 100 deals because the dollar value fell under the threshold needed to inform Congress. Ah, you know, that's always good stuff. How about that declaration of war thing? Oh, no, we can use the term authorization to use military force. No, you can't.

But did you even bother doing that? No, we didn't do that either this time. Good, thanks. You want to use any other terms like Frisbee that's not in the Constitution? And here is this one from, of all things, Bloomberg, U.S. weighs tapping army funds for Ukraine as aid bill stalls. They would target roughly $200 million in, you got it, reserve funds. And Biden's $61 billion request remains tied up in Congress. So that was one of the reasons why Biden had invited

Vladimir Zelensky's wife to attend and also Navalny's wife to attend, but neither of them attended the State of the Onion last night, because it was part of his agenda, the agenda cooked up by other people like Blinken and others, to push more weapons to Ukraine. What I think is pretty darn cool is that Thomas Massey invited Julian Assange's brother to attend last night. And he sat in front of Joe Biden.

That's pretty cool. Just going to check my notes out Make sure that I covered everything that I was hoping to cover for you And I will welcome you if you are interested Join us tonight on Liberty Conspiracy And of course check out David's channel Every Monday through Friday starting at 9am On Rumble and Rockfin

DLive, you can get the audios, get the podcasts. A lot of great information coming from him. And it will help us fight people like her and people like him and her and him. Let's head over into the chat to round things off. And I want to welcome everybody once more. Thank you so much for being there, Harps. Remember also, if you go to DavidKnight.Gold, that will bring you to Wise Wolf Gold and Silver Exchange. with the Wolf Pack. It's a great idea that Tony Arterburn has started. Tony Arterburn of the Arterburn Radio and of course, America Unplugged of Paratrooper and Wise Wolf Gold and Silver

based in Missouri and Texas. I see Harps is there from Australia. Thanks, Harps. I was talking about the late 1990s, mid-1990s after the Port Arthur massacre, the Australian so-called gun buy and how violent crime actually didn't go down until years later. And yet people claim that it went down, which is completely counter to facts. And Doug says, happy Friday all. Thank you, guard.

Good show. Thank you. Thank you so much. You all really appreciate that. And Jason Barker, thank you for being there and doing what you do over at as well. And he says, it's not some other overreach of power indicative of the future of future totalitarianism. We already have that. Yeah. And I see that Dragon Grita is there. They have filled our country with enemies. And Bull Dag, D-A-A-G-G, says Trump left Assange hanging. Yes. And don't forget that officials during the Trump administration, Pompeo plotted to kill Assange. That would be Pompeo. I have video of Pompeo dancing with IDF soldiers while the IDF soldiers outside of their little dancing area in Israel

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