The David Knight Show - Fri 8Nov24 David Knight UNABRIDGED - A Leader of Covid Resistance Gets Elected; Tokenization, Outsourcing CBDC Tyranny

Episode Date: November 8, 2024

A leader of Covid resistance, gets elected; and a look back at Ebola 2014 vs Covid 2020Musk, the "King of Crony Capitalism" becomes USA President - what does he want?Tokenization - Outsourcing Tyranny to Create a De Facto CBDCEric Peters, EricPetersAutos.com, joins to talk Trump, Mobility, LibertyTOPICS BY TIMECODE(2:00) Beauty Salon owner who defied lockdown & exposed GOP hypocrisy ELECTED to State HouseCompare & contrast the lax reaction to Ebola in 2014 to Covid 2020 where the same local official later jailed her for remaining open — from trying to assuage fear to stoking fearState GOP bluffed with supposed "law" and betrayed the ConstitutionWhen the resistance of just a few people gained popular support, the same GOP leaders caved(47:55) News"Abolish Everything"TN ban on state property taxUpdate on Western NC — government vs volunteersAuto industry everywhere is being destroyed — look at NissanGlobal Harbinger: German government collapses as it won't reduce Welfare/Warfare (and Climate) stateChina's "tightening the tax noose" as economy declines is EXACTLY what the bi-partisan approach in the US will beThe nations committing generational suicide - here's the first ones to die…(1:17:09) Musk Bought Trump - What Does He Want?The "King of Crony Capitalism" becomes President of USAWhy did Musk switch from Trump critic to $130M supporterTrump goes from EV critic to "I'm for electric cars.  I have to be because Elon endorsed me.  So I have no choice"What specifically do we already know that Elon wants?How does Elon have the time to be one of the top 20 video gamers worldwide in Diablo? What does it tell us about his role in these companies?(1:41:54) The demonic cult of Transhumanists pushing AI vs God, and the wonder of the human brain that Google has studied for more than a decade and STILL doesn't fully understand(1:52:26) Tokenization - A De Facto CBDCWhat is tokenizationHow will blockchain be used for surveillance and control(2:01:56) INTERVIEW Eric Peters - Meet the New Boss, Has Trump Changed? Eric Peters, EricPetersAutos.comThe lesser of two evils…we'll seeDon't Deport…DefundHelmet Laws and why electric motorcycles won't be accepted even if mandated as Newsom has doneJeremy Clarkson and why today's faster, more reliable cars…are garbageIf you would like to support the show and our family please consider subscribing monthly here: SubscribeStar https://www.subscribestar.com/the-david-knight-show Or you can send a donation throughMail: David Knight POB 994 Kodak, TN 37764Zelle: @[e-mail] App at: $davidknightshowBTC to: bc1qkuec29hkuye4xse9unh7nptvu3y9qmv24vanh7 Money should have intrinsic value AND transactional privacy: Go to DavidKnight.gold for great deals on physical gold/silver For 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.

Happiness. We all know what it feels like, but sometimes it doesn't come easy. I'm Garvey Bailey, the host of Happy Enough, a new podcast from The Globe and Mail about our pursuit of happiness. We know people want to live more fulfilling and positive lives, but how do we actually do that? Is there a happiness code to crack? From our relationship with technology to whether money can really buy you happiness, we'll hear from both real people and experts to demystify this thing we're all searching for and hopefully find ways to be happy enough. You can find Happy Enough wherever you listen to podcasts. Using free speech to free minds. You're listening to The David Knight Show. As the clock strikes 13, it's Friday, the 8th of November, year of our Lord 2024.

Well, today we're going to be taking a look at tokenization. Is this the back door? The de facto CBDC? I think it is. And we'll see how it folds in with Elon Musk. And of course, Elon Musk is folding in with President Trump, the king of crony capitalism. He's now going to be the president of crony capitalism. We'll have Eric Peters on in the third hour. That was the first time Eric and I talked. We talked about Elon Musk and his crony capitalism. Looks like he's got a very effective strategy. But we're going to begin today with the election of a salon owner who stood against the lockdown. A very important story. And a story that shows how Fauci and all the rest of these people flipped their narrative

over about a five, six year period. Six years. We'll be right back. Well, I've talked to people who have stood against the lockdown tyranny four years ago. Time for us to remember that because as we look at the Maha people, Maha, I see that. I always think maybe you remember it, the movie Hawaii based on James Michener, a very anti-Christian movie, but had Max von Sydow as a missionary, Julie Andrews as his wife, and there was this big, fat Hawaiian queen. She'd go, Maha! That's what I think of when I see this laughable joke

of make America healthy again. I am so sick and tired of Maga, Maha, and all these variables. But, you know, it is the most important election of our lifetime. Let's not forget that. So we've got to take it seriously. Calm down. you know it is the most important election of our lifetime let's not forget that so uh we're gonna take it seriously calm down um but uh yeah um when we look at this and you look at the fact that robert redfield all it took was just this little bit of flattery from rfk to rfk jr and

rfk jr oh i talked a lot about robert redfield in my book i guess maybe i was wrong because he said some nice things about me then he's out there pushing bird flu so let's go back and take a look at um pandemic before we had covid and how people reacted to that ebola when ebola came to town and just to remind you, it was a situation where Obama was president, and it was 2014. And you had an illegal immigrant, I think he was illegal, but he was African, so he's an immigrant of color and he comes into the country with Ebola and the local official there in Dallas where he got sick did everything he could everything he could to assuage the fear of people that's not anything to worry about it's fine they had uh obama come down and fauci came down francis collins came down they did meetings that they televised they did press conferences it's fine it's okay it's okay uh the chief official there in county dallas county was a guy named Clay Jenkins. He's got the title of judge. That's what they call the

chief official in the county in Texas. I don't know why they do that. It's confusing because he's not a judge in a courtroom. And this story does have a judge in a courtroom as well. So, you've got two people, both of them with the title of judge, and they're doing completely different offices. Of course, in Tennessee, you have the chief official in the county is called the mayor of the county, which is not the same as the mayor of a city. You know, so the same type of thing is like we seem to not be able to come up with new words to describe them. I've got a lot of words to describe people like this, but we're not allowed to put those in as official titles. It gets you banned on social media if you use those kinds of words. So he was doing everything he can because you see, if Ebola comes into the country

with an illegal immigrant or a migrant, whether he's legal or illegal, a migrant of color. Wow, now this disease has got civil rights, and we need to treat it with kid gloves. And so here he is as Ebola is coming in, and we'll show you how his tune changed when it was COVID. 44 of the 48 people, they were original contacts for Eric Duncan, because they've now rolled off of our contact list and they're going to be rejoining society and it's an important moment for Dallas. We need to welcome these children back into school, these families back into the community and do what we're good at, which is treating other people the way we ourselves would want to be

treated. There's surprise and anguish in the U.S. after revelations that a hospital worker in Texas has caught the Ebola virus. Only days after Spain found itself in a similar situation, a worker who looked after a Liberian man who later died has also now tested positive. Officials in Dallas are defending their procedures, but can't yet explain how a new infection was possible in a hospital. We expected that something, that it was possible that a second person could contract the virus. Actually, a third person did in the hospital. Put into place and the hospital will discuss the way that the health care worker followed those contingency plans.

The hospital says it's still investigating. We're still confident that the precautions that we have in place will protect our health care workers. We don't. And then a second one got sick. So you have this very serious disease. Actually, he died. This is not like the COVID pandemic where nobody was dying. And we declared a global pandemic. I think, what was it, Gerald Slenty's thing, you know? Five people alleged to have died from COVID or something in China, you know. One and a half billion safe. It's not deadly.

But, you know, the Ebola stuff can be very serious. Whatever it is, you die bleeding out of every orifice. Just amazing. It's what Trump said about Megyn Kelly that one time. But she didn't have Ebola. So he did everything he could. I mean, he did everything but go in and lick the walls where this guy was living. 48 people we think have been in contact with him.

We watched him for a couple of days. But you don't have to worry about this, he said said at the time we got football games that are coming up we got houston and dallas playing a nfl game just go he said we got x number of hospitals and we got x number of doctors and nurses and medical staff in dallas we're fine you're fine don't worry about any of this stuff and so at the time uh fauci who was not that well known came to town federal health official that was him says mandatory quarantines are not helping the ebola fight whoa how's that mandatory quarantines didn't help did they have people wearing you know makeshift masks and you know bandanas and stuff like that did they have people walking, you know, makeshift masks and, you know, bandanas and stuff like that?

Did they have people walking in one direction in the grocery store and all this other kind of Simon Says nonsense? Fauci said that he doesn't recommend a 21-day quarantine for returning high-risk travelers, like those instituted this week in Illinois, New York, and New Jersey because they discourage volunteers. So we got, at the time, the controversy was that you had doctors and nurses who were medical staff that were treating, going to Africa, treating people in Africa that had this disease, and they were getting sick themselves. Some of them died. Some of them were being brought back to hospitals in the U.S. Happiness. We all know what it feels like. But sometimes it doesn't come easy.

I'm Garvey Bailey, the host of Happy Enough, a new podcast from The Globe and Mail about our pursuit of happiness. We know people want to live more fulfilling and positive lives. But how do we actually do that? Is there a happiness code to crack? From our relationship with technology to whether money can really buy you happiness, we'll hear from both real people and experts to demystify this thing we're all searching for and hopefully find ways to be happy enough. You can find Happy Enough wherever you listen to podcasts. And people are very concerned that this is going to spread somehow, that it was contagious.

Illinois, New York, New Jersey said, we're going to put people in quarantine. He says, well, no, if we do that, it's going to scare people and they won't go help people in Africa, said Fauci. So that's the most important thing. We want doctors to go to Africa. We want Africans to come to America. So let's not stop any travel at all.

He said that active self-monitoring can be as effective as quarantining. He said Ebola spread through direct contact with bodily fluids, which is exactly what medical staff are doing. That's why people said, well, if you're going there to help people medically, maybe we should have you in quarantine before you come back. But the person who was on the other side speaking out quite a bit was New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. He defended his state's quarantine policy following Fauci's criticism. He said he thinks that the CDC will eventually come around to our point of view. Yeah, they did. They locked everybody down, even when there wasn't a disease like this.

Christie has also been criticized by the ACLU, which remained completely and strangely silent as everything was being locked down in 2020. Isn't that interesting? ACLU, boy, you can never depend on them to defend liberty, ever, ever. They've always got a political agenda there. It's a very subversive organization. They won't, when we were working as a third party, they would never defend free speech, ballot access, debates, any of this kind of stuff. But they would defend nazis marching in

skokie illinois which is mostly jewish because they wanted a virtue signal about that and so here they are saying that christy should not be quarantining a nurse who tested negative for ebola they said serious constitutional concerns about the state abusing its powers. Well, I agree with that at the time, but then they completely forgot about it when COVID came around. You know, they were right then, and then when it went everywhere, they just ignored it. Christie said, I don't believe when you're dealing with something as serious as this that we can count on a voluntary system. If anything else else the government's job is to protect the safety and the health of our citizens but then when covid came this uh judge clay jenkins in

dallas and he's still judged there amazingly enough he is still judge republicans tried to get him out because of his heavy-handedness and i'm going to show you right now but when covid came to town instead of ebola coming to town, it was a different story. Dallas County Commissioner J.J. Koch filed a lawsuit and temporary restraining order against Judge Clay Jenkins. He also called for his removal from office. It comes almost a week after Koch was removed from a city council meeting for refusing to wear a mask at the request of Jenkins. In the lawsuit, Koch says Jenkins is issuing illegal orders and misusing the power of his position to prevent fellow commissioners from participating when he knows that his rules are illegal. Tonight,

Dallas County ready to enforce an executive order requiring non-essential businesses to close. They zeroed in on Hobby Lobby stores tonight, where Andrea Lucia, in fact, found sheriff's deputies delivering a warning directly. These stores' doors were scheduled to stay open late into the evening, that is, before law enforcement arrived with a letter from the county judge accusing it of operating against his orders. It warned the store to shut down or face legal action business at the hobby lobby on dallas's preston avenue halted abruptly i guess the manager came on the intercom and immediately told everyone to stop shopping put their items down and to leave the store immediately

libya van buren walked away from a full shopping cart can we at least check out can i buy one thing they're like nope can't buy anything just have to leave no she's not wearing a mask the reporter's not none of these cops are wearing a mask they're not six feet apart by name if you're still at hobby lobby um and you work at hobby lobby particularly you go ahead and lock up and leave as soon as possible why we were there just there just after... What law? Look at this. Nobody's wearing a mask. ...pulled up and posted the cease and desist letter at the door. A Hobby Lobby in Garland was still open when deputies arrived there, handed the letter to the manager, and watched to make sure it shut down.

Signs posted at the stores claim they are an essential business. They tried to comply with tyranny if they sell materials you can use to make your own masks as well as educational office and small business supplies but judge jenkins who issued the county's emergency order says there's no reason a craft store should be open he's decided to the businesses that are following this order why i tell you does that make your blood boil it should it's decided to the businesses that are following this order. Why does that make your blood boil? It should.

It's going to happen again. And it's going to happen because we're going to go to sleep. Trump's in charge. We've reached nirvana. America's been saved. We've got Trump and Musk. These billionaires are going to rob us blind, but we've been saved. Well, all that stuff was happening trump was showering money on the state governors he was showering money on the states and it was trickling down

not trickle down prosperity trickle down tyranny yeah the buck the orders began with trump and they they were implemented with all of that. And he released the money. Well, that makes my blood boil to see all that stuff. And you know that you can't comply with tyranny, right? Nobody ever complied their way out of tyranny. And put signs up. We are an essential business.

You know, people can use our craft stuff to make their own masks. Because what is a mask? We don't know what a mask is. We don't know what a woman is mask we don't know what a mask is we don't know what a woman is we don't know what a baby is we don't know what an abortion is we don't know anything anymore right that's where they want us what is a mask it could be anything i saw a picture that was put up but whitney webb got into a back and forth with burt weinstein you know because he's oh we got trump back it's like you pathetic you know she said essentially i'm paraphrasing but um uh he he pushes back on and she puts a picture up that he i should have put it in the deck here she puts a picture up

that he put up of himself where he's doing some interview and he's got like a red rider bb gun a special bandana mask you know it's going to protect you from the bad guys and the bad viruses that are out there and he's got goggles on and he's got the mask like up underneath the goggles the most ridiculous absurd thing i've ever seen in my life. This guy, some kind of a medical person or something like that? Walk away from people like that. As I said, if I go somewhere where there's a doctor or a nurse wearing a mask, I go the other direction. I don't want to have somebody that blazingly ignorant doing any medical stuff around me,

and I don't want to listen to Burt Weinstein if he's that stupid stupid that he would put that up that's even dumber than his political decision but uh when you look at what they were trying to do and think about that it's a pandemic this horrible pandemic where you can make your own mask there's no specifications on it what utter nonsense but it is infuriating and the point is is that this guy dallas jenkins when ebola was there and you had the guy who had it died he gave it to uh two hospital workers who were wearing protective clothing and all the rest of stuff somehow they got sick and they nearly died in the hospital fortunately they didn't but clay jenkins was telling it's all fine we can send the kids back to school.

You treat them like you would want to be treated yourself. And his dog, they said that they came to him. They said, well, you know, when this happened in Spain, the person that got sick and died had a dog. They put the dog down. Well, this is not Spain. I'm going to personally take care of that dog. And I'm personally driving this guy to the hospital and all the rest of this stuff. I mean, he did everything he could to assuage fear and then when covid came he did everything he could

to push fear irrational fear about everything and so it's kind of interesting going back to 2020 this article about what was happening one person defied him and she went to jail and i had a um uh an interview that i did with somebody who defied tim waltz in um minnesota and um he's already fading from memory tim kane tim waltz is it uh but uh and that's a good thing uh but um he locked uh up a shop on a restaurant owner a shop owner i forget what her business was now i had it up for quite some time pinned on twitter uh but she didn't get the national attention that shelly luther does that sound familiar had a salon there in dallas and that guy clay jenkins went to war against her after shirley luther was jailed for opening her salon in blatant defiance of emergency orders top texas republicans in all three branches of government

scrambled to ensure her release the article is how a dallas salon owner changed texas's reopening debate you see everybody was fed up with this. Everybody knew it was fiction and nonsense. But you got to have somebody who stands up and does something about it, right? And then in her particular case, there were other people who stood there with her. She wasn't just standing by herself. The lady who stood by herself and tried to organize things in Minnesota. And there were a couple hundred businesses in Minnesota that said, we're going to not do this. We're not going to shut down. It's like, all right, good.

We hang together. We can do this. And at the last minute, they all chickened out. And there was only about a handful of businesses that did it. And then the governor sent a threatening letter to them, or some official. And then everybody but the lady that i interviewed uh backed down she would not back down she stood alone now shelly luther was not standing alone for very long other people got involved and there had been some other salon salon owners in laredo uh hispanic salon owners then they did not get attention until she shelly

luther got large and with all of this stuff and then she made common cause with them as well by april 27th remember this all began the middle of, so we're now six weeks into it. When Governor Abbott announced that hair salons and barbershops would have to remain closed after six weeks, the Republican governor. Shelly Luther's salon, a la mode, is what she called it, salon a la mode, had long since opened for business. Her stylist trimmed and chatted, as Abbott said, that restaurants could partially reopen, but not salons, where he said the risk of spreading COVID-1984 was higher because of close quarters. He reminded the news cameras that violators faced a $1,000 fine and up to 180 days in jail, six months. Luther knew that she was operating in blatant defiance of emergency orders from the state and county. She had already torn up a cease and desist letter from local authorities winning loud cheers on stage at an open Texas rally in Frisco.

But when the governor's team reached out to her that week, it was not to demand that she close or to threaten the jail time that he had warned people about. Instead, his advisors sought her guidance. How could they open salons sooner? What safety measures did she recommend? And this is what we saw. The person who is the head of the CDC right now was the state public health director in North Carolina, appointed by that democrat

governor and she was laughing she said i don't know what to do i called up people my you know in other states and said are you gonna let them do this you're not okay well i won't let them do that either they're just making this stuff up obviously we all knew it and this is all political what does she know about medicine why would abbott call her what does abbott know about medicine what does shelly luther know about medicine but they know about medicine? Why would Abbott call her? What does Abbott know about medicine? What does Shelley Luther know about medicine? But they know about politics. Just over a week later, Abbott had done what Luther wanted,

allowing salons to reopen sooner than anticipated, and Luther was in jail. A Democrat judge in Dallas issued the sentence when she repeatedly refused to close her salon. Now, this is the judge who has a courtroom as opposed to the judge who has a county. Two offices, same title. She wasn't the first beautician to find herself in legal trouble for violating coronavirus orders. Two Laredo women, Anna Isabel Castro Garcia and Brenda Stephanie Mata, were arrested in mid-April for offering cosmetic services. This is a legacy of Donald Trump, and I will never support that man no matter what he does. I'll applaud if he does the right thing, but I will never forget what he brought to our country,

the precedent that he set. And I'm not just talking about gun control by executive order, or take the guns and do the due process later. I'm talking about everything that happened and the people that he killed with the ventilators, the remdesivir, the midazolam, and the money. He killed people with the money. He paid the hospitals to kill people and say it was COVID. Son of a gun. What a traitor he is to this country and the people who applaud that. Unlike those cases, Luther's arrest prompted widespread sustained outrage in the ideological right, and Abbott joined a cluster of GOP officials in all three branches of the

government clamoring for her release. After an emergency request from her prominent Republican attorneys, the Texas Supreme Court ordered it. She took it to the Supreme Court and won. She's become a cause celeb on the right and a persona non grata on the left, bolstered by half a million dollars in crowdfunded support and a new press team of prominent GOP consultants. In March, as the new coronavirus was just starting to cause widespread death, no, not widespread death. They even say in this article from the Texas Tribune, obviously not sympathetic to what she's doing. As the new coronavirus was just starting to cause widespread concern. Concern. We lock people down because of concern. Not because of death.

It was the medical orders, the financially incentivized medical mass murders, not even financially incentivized malpractice. It was murder. They knew what they were doing. I used to call it financially incentivized medical malpractice. We found out that they knew what they were doing. I used to call it financially incentivized medical malpractice. We found out that they knew what they were doing.

It was murder. But it was widespread concern. Widespread concern. The death came afterwards with the hospitals and the vaccines. She drove her boyfriend at that point in time from Dallas to Galveston to board a cruise. I have a real good friend who's a doctor, he told a local news station.

It's really nothing more than a severe cold. As panic ramped up to the end of the month, Luther was at first willing to tolerate the stay-at-home orders that shuttered businesses across the state, but by April, she had changed her mind, insisting that she had to reopen out of economic necessity.

Reopening my salon wasn't a political statement. It was a necessity for people that rely on it. Whatever her intentions as the Texas Tribune, she quickly made a splash in political circles. Her media appearances drew the attention of Rick Heyer, who, like Luther, was a member of the Open Texas Facebook group that had agitated for a faster, more complete reopening of Texas businesses. So that's one of the reasons why they started having enhanced censorship on social media, to shut down people from being able to organize through that. He offered to use the website to support Luther, writing that she was the group's first patriot cause, and he launched the crowdfunding page April the 23rd. On April the 24th, she opened her business to media maelstrom. Cameras,

customers waited outside, online donations poured in, and so did a letter from the Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins directing her to shutter her salon immediately luther ignored him and she asked if anybody could help custom print a t-shirt that said cease and desist jenkins abbott had warned that it could be dangerous to reopen salons but he also said that he wanted to do so as soon as possible luther was one of the salon owners his team reached out to that week and effort to gather information on how they might do so safely again she is an expert right medical expert this is a medical lockdown now it's political and about that same time actually it's a couple couple weeks before that that he got tired of people complaining about the arbitrary lockdown and these rules scott adams you know the guy who does that stupid column dilbert i could uh

if i want to be impolite i could give it a different name it sounds very much like that uh but uh scott adams uh put out he said it's getting harder and harder to tell the freedom lovers from sociopaths. Sociopaths. If you push back against this stuff, Scott Adams, big Trump supporter, always, yeah, built his brand, support Trump on Trump's coattails. If you are a freedom lover, you're a sociopath. You shut down and do what you're told, said Scott Adams. I replied. I said, it's getting harder and harder to help the pragmatists from totalitarians.

The group included several members of the Texas House who did not typically go either way to disagree with Abbott. State Representative James White, a Republican, said in all uppercase, enough. And then he said, you're the only one that can uppercase stop this. Enough, he said. Tweeted that at Abbott. Montgomery County Judge Mark Keogh, claiming Abbott's directions had been unclear, said that he would allow all businesses to reopen. Then the Attorney General, Ken Paxton, this guy who's such a hero to the MAGA crowd, he is a total fraud, folks. He's got a lot of shady stuff in his background. But, you know, it broke down into this, well, we've got the establishment Republicans out here, so he must be a good guy, Ken Paxton.

And he is an incredible demagogue. Not a Democrat, a demagogue. Ken Paxton quickly reiterated that Abbott had ordered salons to stay closed. A directive his office said was, quote, neither vague nor unenforceable. He was threatening people. The Republican Ken Paxton, the hero of the MAGA people. And they'll do it to you again, folks. These people will do it to you again. On May 5th, two Texas House Republicans visited a Houston-area barbershop, also in open defiance of emergency orders,

for illegal haircuts. One of them, Briscoe Cain, who is a member of Luther's legal team, called it, quote, an act of civil disobedience. Did you ever think that with all Republicans in charge, Republican president, Republican governor, Republican attorney general, all of them dearly loved by the MAGA cult, did you ever think that we would have to have a haircut as an act of civil disobedience?

And of course, it was happening in Michigan as well. There it was against Whitmer. Got more attention, right? So then she went to a judge with a courtroom. His name was Moyet, I think, the way he pronounced his name. He's got an accent mark over the E. He sentenced her to seven days in jail. But before doing so, he gave her an opportunity to apologize, telling her that if she pledged not to reopen her salon until emergency orders were lifted, he would consider levying only a fine and allowing her to avoid jail time. She said, I'm not going to shut the salon.

Defiant. By the end of the first week of May, Luther had retained two well-connected GOP lawyers. As the two attorneys fought for her release in court, ultimately appealing to the Texas Supreme Court, Republican officials issued an outpouring of support. Paxton has now changed at this point in just a week or so from saying that the letter, the governor's order is not unclear and it is not unenforceable. Now, Ken Paxton wrote an unusual direct appeal to the Dallas judge claiming that he had abused his discretion and he should immediately order Luther's release. You see, if you fight these people, they start to back down. They start to back down. And at this point in time, Ken Paxton and Greg Abbott had wet their fingers and stuck them in the wind to see which way the wind was blowing. And it really

wasn't too hard. They didn't even need to wet their finger. Then you had another one of these grifting glory hound Republicans. Lieutenant lieutenant governor dan patrick offered to pay her fine and to serve seven days of house arrest in place of her jail sentence yeah right okay i'll lock myself down great um abbott then joined the chorus more cautiously saying that he had he joined Paxton in, quote, disagreeing with the excessive action by the Dallas judge. He said there was already pressure building, and it was pressure that was building on Abbott. He told a radio interviewer that he would take longer for a potential pardon to go through in the state process

than it would for Luther to be able to legally open up. But he left open the possibility of a pardon somewhere down the road. You see what he's doing? He's trying to straddle the fence, placate everybody. Well, you know, yeah, would you pardon her? Well, I think about it, but that would take a long time for me to do that. Did it take a long time for him to put out an order telling everybody you can't open up? He just did it. Did it take a long time for him to put out an order telling everybody you can't open up? He just did it. Did it take a long time? No.

He just did it right away. It's just these people. I have no respect for these politicians. I don't care what party they're in. As outrage continued to mount, Abbott went on to Twitter and said, I'll make further announcements about this and related issues in the morning but the next day hours before he was due at the white house for an appearance with president trump abbott retroactively removed the enforcement mechanism from his executive orders decreasing that confined decreeing, that confinement was no longer a possible penalty for violating one of them. And then he says, well, now, if correctly applied, this should free Luther. We're not under a rule of law.

It's medical martial law. Well, yesterday you go to jail for this. But now today I'm going to do it because there's public pressure pushing back. And that's all it required, folks. When we stopped complying with this stuff, it all just kind of disappeared. Isn't that amazing? Mass noncompliance just made the virus go away. It just disappeared because it was all political in the first place.

Within hours, the point was moot. The all-Republican Texas Supreme Court ordered Luther's immediate release. Though they were all scrambling for cover. A reporter asked Deborah Birx, the White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator, Dr. Scarf, if she thought Texas' reopening plan was great, the phrase that Abbott had repeatedly attributed to her she said so we talked about you know not having them in the first opening wave because you can't really physically distance and we had that discussion and he agreed and so we've moved forward together they said well is texas a role model for everybody should everybody be doing this now you know because we got to know

we got to have a centralized approach. And she said, well, every state is different. Is it? Is the virus different in every state? I mean, do they have a Texas variant and a Washington State variant and a California and an Illinois and a Michigan variant? Do they have that? Is it different in every state?

No. What's different is the politics. And this was a pandemic of politics. There's never a pandemic of a virus. And this is why I say the people who are medical professionals are really slow, painfully slow to catch on to this stuff. Painfully slow. People who follow politics could see this from the very beginning. And the people that I all worked with could see it. And yet they lied to you about it. And I'll never forget that either.

They lied. They knew what was going on. They had watched this game, this flu vaccine game played annually. They knew about dark winter. They knew about event 201. They knew about all of those germ games in the middle and they still push this panic button on people and i'll never forget that um now out of jail luther is already leveraging her new celebrity status they said well she ran for office but didn't get elected she said at the time texans need to be treated as adults. She headlined a Laredo Freedom Rally, where she stood alongside the two Latino women who had hair or nail salons or something like that, and got arrested. One of them, Mata, said, I never expected to be in this situation.

Luther came on stage, high-heeled boots and a black face mask and hugged her that was a picture at the top of the article she said we're literally treated like criminals i know i wasn't doing anything wrong luther said don't ever apologize for working don't ever apologize and then she took her mask off to great applause. Well, in the aftermath of that, the Dallas News had an op-ed piece that attacked Shelley Luther and defended the judge who put her in jail. The judge who jailed Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther was upholding the rule of law. That's the title of the article. No, there was no law, Dallas News. It was medical martial law. And are we going to operate under a judge dread type of society?

I am the law. Remember that? Sylvester Stallone did it. I am the law. Remember that? Sylvester Stallone did it. I am the law. Whatever I say goes because I'm a judge. Well, we had a judge, Clay Jenkins, and then we had another judge who had a little courtroom and they were the law. Or was it Greg Abbott who was the law?

Or was it Ken Paxton who was the law? Or Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick? Who was the law? Was it the Supreme Court? All of these people, Republicans, except for Clay Jenkins and that judge. The two judges, different offices. Everybody else was all Republican, from Trump on down. And there was no rule of law.

That's the biggest issue. It was medical martial law. These orders were issued to protect all citizens from the hazards of a deadly virus. Prove it. You didn't care about a deadly disease. I don't know if it's a virus, whatever Ebola is. But they didn't care about that. And this is the kind of mental derangement that we have seen and will see with the climate nonsense. We got to have you do this because everybody's lives are in danger.

Well, I'll tell you, when we live under a dictatorship, everybody's lives are in danger. So where are we today? Well, on Tuesday, after running several times and losing shelly luther has now won salon owner jailed amid covid lockdown wins election shelly luther has achieved resounding victory in texas house district 62 captured over 75 percent of the vote decisively defeating the Democrat. And again, the name of her business was Salon a la mode. And when all this was happening, she put up a hashtag. Remember the a la mode. They knew how to market it, too.

Right. She had sought election in North Texas three times after an unsuccessful bid for the state senate in 2020 and a defeat in the 2022 republican primary for the house district 62 she made a comeback by defeating the incumbent in the march 5th primary paving her way to victory in the general election and so where does that leave us today well um when we look at what is coming we've already had robert redfield who is dearly beloved now by robert redford uh robert redford rfk jr robert kennedy uh he's dearly robert redfield is loved by Robert Kennedy because of a little bit of flattery. That's all it takes, evidently, for these narcissistic politicians. And look, Trump may be the most narcissistic politician we've had, but they are all narcissists. So why undetected

bird flu cases forced the CDC to alter testing guidelines. Is it going to be rinse and repeat now from Redfield? Is it going to be rinse and repeat for the Trump administration? The CDC unveiled updated recommendations yesterday after a new study of 115 dairy farm workers in Colorado and Michigan, which found that 7% of them appeared to have been infected with bird flu but only half of those workers recalled having symptoms we got 115 dairy farm workers that have bird flu but they don't even know uh how did they know they had it yeah the pcr nonsense if we don't debunk the PCR thing, folks, they will hector us forever. That's a key thing for people to understand the PCR. We've got to debunk the CO2, and we've got to debunk the PCR.

These are the tools of tyranny and of propaganda and of muddying the water, fear. So these people, none of them were sick. None of them were sick. They had a PCR test. A few of them, just a few, said, yeah, you got anything at all, anything? We got this positive PCR test. Can you think of anything that you're feeling that is unusual?

Well, I got a little bit of itchiness in my eyes, they're a little bit pink eye okay we'll call that bird flu no fever no respiratory illness but we'll call it bird flu pink eye pink eye one of the most common things perhaps even more common than the common cold or maybe you know if you're definitely if you're working on a dairy farm, working with animals, if you don't keep your hands clean, you rub your eyes, you're going to get it. I used to get it all the time when I was in elementary school. In Florida, we didn't have air conditioning

when I was going to school. But we certainly did have a lot of gnats with the open windows. And we got a lot of pink eye then. And so this is the pronouncement from the CDC's principal deputy director. Principal deputy director. What a bureaucracy they've got.

We in public health need to cast a wider net in terms of who is offered a test so that we can identify, treat and isolate those individuals. No, so we can pretend that there's a pandemic. Examples of high risk exposure include being splashed with raw milk from an infected cat. See, it always comes back to their agendas. We got to stop raw milk. You remember back in 2020, when according to NPR and the CDC, and I remember NPR published it many, many times, but it was coming from the CDC. The riskiest thing you could do was to attend church.

Remember that? That was the highest risk category. But, you know, now high risk category is raw milk. Kind of like they've got targeted things are coming after almost like that isn't it the less room we give this virus to run talking about bird flu now the fewer chances it has to cause harm or to change and the best way to limit the virus's room to run is to test identify treat and isolate as many cases as possible in humans so the cdc updated recommendations based in part on their study of 115 dairy workers in colorado and michigan blood tests found that eight workers had been infected with bird flu but only four of those

workers recalled having symptoms four out of 115 is that uh rare rare is that rare? Rare. Is that rare? Right? If they gave a vaccine to 115 people and they dropped dead, four of them dropped dead, I thought you'd say it's rare. Or if that's some other horrific lifelong condition, it's rare. I don't care about that. Right? But only four of these people even had symptoms. What was the symptoms? Oh, the symptoms were red and draining and itchy eyes pink eye they tested 115 people and blow blow it up by a trillion times because now they have made the pcr test even more absurdly uh cranked up and they identify this whatever it is bird flu and again i don't they don't have a virus this virus stuff folks is as stupid as the co2 stuff they don't have a virus they've got a computer model of some genetic strain that they're looking for and then they take a sample of people

and they blow it up by 100 by 1.1 trillion times and out of 115 people they get eight people got a match only four of them got pink eye so bird flu has spread rapidly across the u.s dairies this is coming from usa today by the way since being detected farm workers in multiple states have been infected. Absolutely, absolute liars. They're absolutely undeterred by reality. They'll even report at the end of the article what actually happened. Really, you know, 115 people tested.

Eight of them said positive. Only four of them had anything and it was just pink eye. But now they're back to the fear mode. They'll end it up on the fear mode. It spread rapidly across the world. And so then they finished the last sentence of the article. Milk is safe to drink once it's pasteurized. Stop raw milk.

We don't need to stop fentanyl. We need to stop raw milk we don't need to stop fentanyl we need to stop raw milk yeah well north american house hippo says my favorite walmart moment was walking in mask free the greeter was going to say something and i channeled my inner blues brothers and said don't you say a fornicating word. Yeah, I had that issue with a security guard at the bank. Wouldn't let me in. And I argued with him.

And I said, you don't believe it either. You don't even have your little cloth mask over your nose and he looked like this thing i knew we all knew there were cameras all over the place let's just mask up over his nose sheepishly it's like what a joke get me the manager i need to talk to somebody how to get my money out of this stupid place uh bloatin i knew it was nonsense from the get-go especially when melania was still getting her nails done long after lockdowns yeah her nails and whatever else i mean you know that's a walking plastic surgery factory uh amber gold thank you for the tip i appreciate that and bernie d says in the 90s dr p gilbert predicted a medical and pharmaceutical tyranny

i was young and thinking how can somebody force me to take medication? Well, now we know. Now we know, don't we? We'll be right back. Using free speech to free minds it's the david knight show yeah well this is uh from reason magazine so the next president should abolish everything they've just i like that i i hardly endorse that message. Let's just abolish everything. Let's just abolish the federal government in its entirety.

They have put out an abolish everything issue at Reason Magazine. They said pick at random. And this is a quote. This is a quote from Milton Friedman, who said this decades ago. He said, pick at random any three letters from the alphabet, put them in any order, and you'll have an acronym designating a federal agency that we can do without. I'd never seen that quote before.

That's one to remember. I love that. Yeah, any three letters, put them in random order, and you'll have a corresponding federal agency that we can do without, and which also he doesn't say, but it is not in the Constitution. Not a specific, doesn't have the authority to exist. Trillions in taxpayer dollars and decades, even centuries of meddling.

And these agencies have hampered economic growth. They have violated human rights. They have eroded civil liberties. And they have somehow managed to make air travel more frustrating, education more expensive, and drug enforcement more violent. Education is not just more expensive, it's now pubic education instead of public education. What follows is an idiosyncratic, non-exhaustive list of parts of government that we surely do without and we've left untouched some functions specifically mentioned in the constitution such as the postal service and we have confined our just to the federal level not to the state and local level they said uh even though we didn't

put it in there is no love lost for the consumer financial protection bureau but we ran out of pages they said so they got this long list alphabetically amtrak antitrust army borders dea department of education department of transportation epa fcc because you know we're not supposed to have a standing army we're supposed to have a militia right uh the fda the federal reserve the federal minimum wage the federal student loans fema foia ice irs income tax national park service nsa cia obamacare small business administration social security tsa bureau of alcohol and Firearms abolished them all. I heartily agree.

In Tennessee, a push to stop statewide property taxes before they start. And this is a good idea. And we're starting to see people get the idea that we're going to stop property taxes or they're going to use it to steal our homes. These carpetbaggers out of Dav davos the un and their puppets and the federal government senate joint resolution would prohibit the tennessee general assembly from levying authorizing or otherwise permitting a state tax on property this is coming from from Tennessee Star, by the way. It would specifically amend Article 2, Section 28 of the Tennessee Constitution, which currently authorizes taxation of all property according to its value by any taxing authority, including state, counties, and municipalities.

During the most recent legislative session, the resolution passed both the Tennessee Senate by a 26 to 6 vote and the House of Representatives by an 81 to 1 vote. Wasn't even close. So it looks like Tennessee will not be adding a property tax. Hopefully they're going to now to put it in the Constitution. They will have to put it on the ballot and it will be presented to voters in 2026 and hopefully the voter is not stupid enough to um to want to tax himself but every time i see a bond issue for uh schools it seems to always pass it's like if you put something out there and call it bondage i'm'm not voting for it, okay? It's just, I'm, again, bondage.

I don't like bondage to the state. And that's what this is. Bondage in order to pay for what now have become pubic schools. We haven't talked about this for a while. But when the devastation that happened in the recovery and the suffering that's going on in western North Carolina is really, everybody's moved on. It's past their attention span. Nobody's really talking about it anymore. Everybody's talking about, well, what did Trump have for lunch today? Well, he put in the first female White House chief of staff whoopty do and they're i mean top news everywhere fox news everybody virtue signal uh identity politics and all this stuff look i think

that she probably will be very good at her position she is a very sharp uh political consultant she was running his campaign has been involved in a lot of political campaigns. I don't like the people that she hangs out with. I think she's a Nikki Haley, Pompeo type of person. It's another indication of where he's going. But she was somebody who ran his campaign, did a good job. And she um really um there was a split between her and desantis so she really hates desantis people who are trying to float latipo as head of fda or hhs i forget which one they want to put him in as um that probably ain't going to happen uh probably not going to get friends of desantis put in with um uh this lady in charge

i can't remember what her married name is um she was pat sumrall's daughter which is kind of interesting always uh uh like listening to pat sumrall's voice he had a great voice he did a lot of commentary on a lot of different sports not just football uh but anyway you know she's she's there based on merit she's not a dei pick but the press is playing it that way playing it up as a dei pick and i'm not saying criticizing him for being dei i'm talking about the conservative and maga media are saying look look he pointed a woman don't you like him better now um so let's talk about what's happening in western north carolina i-40 connecting tennessee and north carolina is expected to be opening opening by new year's that's what they're saying

about 100 days after this happened since the hurricane that detects the tennessee department of transportation has worked to reopen their part of i-40 to re-establish connection for local traffic not sure what's happening in North Carolina. They said, however, the nine-mile stretch of the gorge connecting Tennessee and North Carolina remains closed. North Carolina Department of Transportation said it is still trying to stabilize the nine-mile stretch to open up enough space for vehicles to travel at 40 miles an hour in one lane in each direction. What a nightmare that must be to try to have to go through there. But again, it just completely wiped out the roadbeds that are there.

It's a temporary project to restore traffic expected to be completed by January the 1st, 2025. And so as that is happening, go back a couple of weeks now, about the middle of October. And of course, the government, state and federal, North Carolina, was AWOL. And then when they shut up, things got worse. And it wasn't just FEMA where things got worse. It was also some local officials. I'm in charge here, you know, that type of thing. And we've seen that. We saw that with a local sheriff who started confiscating supplies. You know, you can't put that here and that type of thing.

So bad people or the fire chief who told the volunteer helicopter guy, no, you can't. You brought this woman out. You can't go back and get her husband. You got to leave him there. Or'm gonna have you arrested uh anyway um so there were some coal miners uh that came in i think they're from west virginia i don't remember now and they took picture of themselves they brought in heavy equipment and other things like that they're rebuilding some roads there volunteer rebuilding the roads that's one of the things

some people say well the government what are we going to do if we don't have government who will build the roads who will maintain the roads and it's like sorry they're not building or maintaining the roads now and especially when something like this happens so these are volunteers who are coming in uh redoing the roadbed and working on that and then they had an official come over to them. Local official. Said, you've got to stop. Alright, so let me ask you this. So we have locals here. There is no accuser. Exactly. It's the government. Do you know

who invited us? We have friends that said that there is an event going on in Lake Lower and they said that they want us to be there. Are we allowed to go to that? Absolutely. The United States is in trouble. We're just listening. We're're all tired we're all exhausted like we don't want to piss you off it's like the government comes in a day late and a dollar short and starts waving clipboards around none of the people here care we don't care i can tell you what time i arrived on saturday

morning after it happened i can tell you i got over 100 trees down i got down and he's telling them they gotta leave they can't fix any more roads. Let us help you. We're here to help. That's why we're here. But listen, they said that they wouldn't get a road through there. People can't get to their houses. And I apologize for Custin in the next four or five years. They said they can't get DOT through there in the next nine years. And now we have people that are able to go to their homes.

And yet we're dealing, we're delegitimizing and undermining the credentials of the government. So now they're going to come here and try to make it seem like they have purpose. None of that is true. That is not true. That is not true. I just told you you can't do this, though. It's not because you're undermining my credentials. What we have here is a failure to communicate.

What do you think that's going to get you? If you go out there and build a road, what do you think that's going to get you? We go out there and build a road. What do you think that's going to happen to my job? If you go out there and build a road, somebody put this up and reply to it. Car versus a road. It shows a picture of a car. It's like a transparent picture. You see all the engine and the suspension, all the rest of the stuff.

It says one of the most complex machines in human history built by hundreds of companies, easy to repair in your own garage. Then underneath it, they show a straight, flat road, and they said, here's a flat thing that is far too complicated for anyone to try without the magic of government. Yeah, that's what we're really talking about. So, again, it's the people who are sticking around. The Mennonites, the Amish are there. They're building wooden shelters and everything. Elon Musk could bring in some of these things and put them up overnight. He's not going to do any of it. He's spending his money

buying the presidency. By the way, when we look at what's happening, and we'll be talking about this and many other issues when Eric Peters joins us. Nissan, another company that is being killed by the EV bug, the electronic virus they all caught. They're being spread around by the government with this dirty cash. They're spreading around this electronic virus to all the car companies to kill them it's just uh accelerating faster than they expected nissan is going to have to cut 9 000 jobs we've got volkswagen cutting jobs in germany all the rest of stuff and they said the ceo is um they're going to cut 9 000 jobs jobs, and the CEO has said he's going to reduce his pay by 50% as a company faces severe situation. CEO Makoto Uchida offered to immediately begin forfeiting half of his monthly compensation.

I'm like, well, that's nice. I looked at it, and it's like, I wonder if he'll be able to survive on that half of the compensation, because I imagine he's pretty highly compensated. And so I looked in the article. they didn't have anything about it so i started looking and all these articles everywhere saying the same thing he's going to cut half his pace he's going to go well what is his pay i need to know if this guy is going to be able to make it or not i you know i i'm worried about him i had to dig and i found some articles from about a year ago that at that time his pay was 4.4 million dollars a year he might be able to make it on 2.2 million

i don't know no word let's do what kind of austerity he's gonna have maybe have to sell a few of his villas or something somewhere uh and then the german government has just collapsed you know everybody's so excited oh it's happy days are here again and so is donald trump and we're so happy as eric and i were talking about yesterday um uh not eric uh tony uh tony arteman and i were talking about it said, everybody's real excited about the stock market. Crypto's gone straight up. Gold and silver retraced a little bit, you know, going back to the record highs of just a couple of months ago. You know, just under $2,700.

I mean, it was only a couple of months ago that it went down. And now I think it's up above $2,700 again. But fundamentally fundamentally nothing has changed and the problems are not just in america we have international problems the german government has collapsed so what happens next they're going to have to have an election they put together a three-way coalition and of course in every other country but america pretty much when they have they have they allow more than two parties. And then what happens is, it's very rare that a political party will get more than 50% of the vote.

So they have to create a coalition with other groups afterwards. And so that's the way Germany is set up. The coalition has now collapsed after three years following a lengthy dispute over how to stop a multi-billion euro hole in next year's budget, plunging Europe's largest economy into a period of considerable uncertainty. And it has a very, very big effect on the entire European economy. european economy germany does and germany is really uh you know britain is not in the eu anymore but britain is having to shut down all their manufacturing because of the price of energy and they're shutting down their coal plants and all the rest of the stuff and energy there is four to five times higher than is in the united states uh which is many multiples higher than it is that it costs in China. And so Germany is going right down that same path. Olaf Scholz of the SPD sacked his finance minister, Christian Linder, from the FDP.

He was the FDP leader on Wednesday night after months of disagreement over how to deal with the gaping hole in Germany's budget. Schultz wants to boost spending by taking on more debt, which is what they always do. Citing the impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Linder opposed this and insisted instead on an array of tax and spending cuts that the SPD and the Greens said were impossible to accept, as it would torpedo much of government's programs. At stake, and here's what they cannot do without, welfare payments, climate emergency measures, and support for Ukraine. It's what we've always called the warfare welfare state. No state no no we're not going to cut either one of those and now you've got the greens in there so now it's warfare welfare and climate those are non-negotiable and all three of those things are going to bankrupt us especially in combination

all the western countries not just germany all the western countries are going to be bankrupted by warfare welfare and climate and climate is an interesting combination of warfare and welfare. It's warfare against the people and welfare for the elites. It is a massive transfer of wealth. It is both warfare and welfare. Federal elections are scheduled for next autumn. They're likely to be shifted forward by about six months to March or to April. Schultz has tabled a vote of confidence for the 15th of January. So they wanted to move it even closer. They wanted to have an election in just a couple of months.

But he's pushing it off a little bit. And then in China, even China, especially China, is feeling the economic pressure, as I mentioned, because of their Potemkin economy, their Potemkin real estate build out, the bubble that they created with that, that a lot of billionaires and about a third of their billionaires are no longer billionaires. The Chinese tax noose is tightening. And this is something that is a harbinger of what's going to happen in America as well. And I think it'll likely happen under Trump.

As the rush to try and save its economy via stimulus continues. You think he'll do that? You think Trump will do stimulus and increase the deficit? Yeah, yeah. China is simultaneously looking to shake down its citizens for unpaid taxes. So first they give you a stimulus check, then they raise the deficit and raise your taxes.

This push for compliance may further impact investor confidence in China's economy, the world's second largest. Look, both Trump and Lala, neither one of them, and neither did Mike Johnson, the Republican Speaker of the House. They all signed on, just like Biden, and they're on to this idea that they're going to give $80 billion to the irs an agency that had a budget of 13 billion so that they had an entire budget of 13 and they're going to give them an increase of 80 billion so they can add artificial intelligence and 80 000 irs agents to harass our people and to eat out their substance as the declaration of independence complained about the british tyranny and why are they going to do that? Because with one hand, they give you a stimulus. With one hand, they give you a tax break, depending on what voter group

you are. And then with the other hand, they take everything away from you. As Gerald Ford said, the government that is big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take everything you've got. And they usually do it simultaneously or close to that. Recent tax demands have caused concern and even fear among wealthy individuals in cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, according to local tax advisor. He said some of them simply didn't know what to declare when they were asked to conduct self-inspections. Many didn't realize before that their overseas personal gains would be subjected to taxes in China. Does that sound familiar? We just had a Supreme Court case where they said, well, you have something and it's overseas and you haven't sold it,

but the paper value has gone up so we can tax you on that, right? Folks, it is a global conspiracy and the the same mentality that you see in germany warfare welfare climate uh the same uh predatory tax uh stuff that you see in china the same artificially inflated economy, all of that stuff is going to be coming here. It's the same everywhere. I talked about the company TSMC from Taiwan, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. And this factory, they're going to spend, well, it was like $12 billion of their money

to set up this factory town in Phoenix. I talked about it a little bit in terms of the smart thing, but also in terms of corporate culture. And, of course, they get a matching set of another $12 billion from Washington out of this CHIPS Act as they're trying to establish onshore semiconductor manufacturing that is now being done offshore, much of it in Taiwan. And one of the things that I thought was really striking about it, and I said, you know, look at the way they demand, the corporations demand more and more and more and more of your life and of your time. You don't have a life outside of the corporation. And that was what these Taiwanese engineers were trained.

You know, the Americans were complaining about it. They said, you know, these guys are just hanging around to look good. They don't have a life outside of the thing. I don't mind working, but for what? Why would I just hang around here all the time just to impress my bosses? And that's what they demand in that culture they said if a machine breaks down at midnight it'll be fixed by one o'clock and the entire in taiwan and the taiwanese engineer's wife will not have a problem with that

so the problem with you americans is you won't fix it until the morning when the guy comes to work we'll call the guy up in the middle of the night, get him out of bed, make him come down here, and then he can put in a full day's work as well. And look, I've been in that culture as well. I talked about that, working late at night at Texas Instruments, and I was the last one out of there. And I pull up, and there's this traffic light and you know and it's turning uh it's turning red still in yellow and i start to speed up to go through it and then i look and over to the right is a cop sitting at the traffic light and i know he's going to pull me over if i go through that yellow light so i put on brakes and i stopped and didn't skid or anything

like that and looked over at him and I grinned thought she had me the next morning I came in so that's late at night it was like 2 or 3 o'clock at night I'm working on the project I come in the next morning at 8 and he's waiting for me and he pulls

me over for changing lanes without using a turn signal you know that's um yeah gradually i learned about the whole system i was fit to be tied so with that in mind the 20 countries with the lowest fertility rates and guess what's up there at number one? Taiwan. The country, you know, again, TSMC, the biggest company in Taiwan, big semiconductor company. It's 30% of their stock market. They said it is the mountain that protects our country from Chinese invasion. Because if the Chinese invade and destroy, we'll set that down and all the semiconductors everywhere will be shut down.

And so they work their people like slaves. They don't have a life outside of that company environment. They have the lowest population. You need 2.1 children per couple, I guess. I don't think that. Oh, per woman. Per woman. Number of children per woman.

2.1. Okay. Taiwan the lowest tied with South Korea at 1.1 1.1. They need 2.1. They're dying. It's not just killing their lives. It's killing their entire country chasing money, you know, more productivity more more more more gotta have more chips yesterday i talked about it i said here's an alternative you know what people are starting

to figure out in america is you don't have to go to college you don't have to have this corporate career instead learn a skill learn a skill because if society collapses you got that skill but even if society doesn't collapse you got got some measure of independence because you got a skill. And you can become an entrepreneur. You can start a company because you got a skill. But it gives you independence and freedom and your life is not subsumed by your work. Yes, we all work, but it doesn't have to be subsumed by that uh shortly right after that 1.1 for taiwan then you got um uh you got singapore ukraine hong kong macau at 1.2 again you need 2.1 to maintain your population they're all dying ukraine is dying uh even if you don't send off all of your

even if you don't shanghai or press gang your young men and send them off to be cannon fodder for NATO and Lindsey Graham, you're still dying because you're not having families. That was one of the things the people in exile, the Israelites in exile in Babylon and Jeremiah, you know, that passage that everybody knows. I know the plans I have for you, plans to prosper, not to harm. First thing he says to them, he says, give your sons and daughters a marriage and have children. Build your homes, build your farms, and work for the peace of your country that you're in, because that will be your peace the first thing he tells them is you know have a life focus on your family that's the key thing and so you go through this and a lot

of a lot of countries are way way below 1.3 that you got Bosnia, British, Virgin Islands, Japan, Japan, Greece, Costa Rica, Bahamas, Belarus, and so forth. The global average is 2.3. But it's not happening in those countries. All those countries I just mentioned. Italy, Spain, Poland, Greece, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, they're allapan taiwan south korea they're all dying ukraine hong kong they're all dying they're not they've sacrificed their life to the corporation and i hope that makes them happy because it won't make them happy for long and and thank you very much for the tip

congrats on the new baby what is your grandpa name going to be uh prayers to the mama and daddy so happy everyone is doing well we went into one of the tourist shops and they had this and it was a local artist that had these clay cups that they did and they had every name that you can imagine for uh grandparents that were there we had a lot of fun looking at that and i said i like pappy um it always makes me laugh and you know if he calls me pappy i think that'll be funny uh so yeah we're gonna go with pappy i think i've got a cup i'll have to show it to you um and i know everybody will be making fun of it on here as well uh dialectical uh hegelian let's see dialectic is hegelian there we go in europe when the democrats lose they truly shut the government down something i wish the american democrats would do instead of threatening

to do yes i, I agree. Yeah, you always say you're going to shut the government down, but you never do. And the Republicans threaten to shut it down as well, but they never do either. We'll be right back. Thank you. You're listening to the david knight show welcome back uh yeah karen ran to get the uh the mug said pappy on it um i don't know how often i'll use that because it's pretty small but um yeah she said she was going to get lolly if i had chosen pop but um so i went with pappy she didn't get that yet uh let's talk a little bit about elon musk and we're going to talk about this when eric peters comes on musk is about to find out what 130 million dollars for trump gets him because you know one of the first times i talked to um

eric peters uh was when we talked about musk as the king of crony capitalism, how he became the richest man in the world. And there's probably no person on earth that's more politically astute than Elon Musk to profit like he has. And now he is proudly taking over the Oval Office, kitchen sink and all, as he put the meme out musk who's growing political apparatus has already proved his metal will gain more than just an ally in the white house trump has vowed to give him an official title cutting government spending how is that for irony no actually it's hypocrisy right we're going to take the guy the king ofony capitalism, and Trump is going to make him the guy in charge of cutting government spending. And the idiots in MAGA are going gaga over all of this stuff. Oh, this is great.

The guy who has become the world's richest man by grifting the government with crony capitalism. And he's going to be the person in charge of cutting spending. Yeah, I got a bridge I can sell you too he does as well with it the power to influence policy and federal agencies and to oversee the vast empire of companies trump said of musk he's a special guy he's a super genius if i were a rich, I would sit all day in the gate and I would talk and people would think I really knew because I was such a wealthy man, right? I'm filling on the roof. That's what Tevye says. Yeah.

And so, you know, hey, if you're rich, you're smart, right? Not necessarily. You just have lots of money. He says we have to protect our geniuses. We don't have that many of them. And we also don't have that many people who have a net worth of $256 billion who are giving me money. Tesla stocks are surging. The stocks soared as much as 15% in the U.S. trading as investors looked to cash in on trump's return to the white house musk also posted a chart

early wednesday morning that he said showed record usage of x his social media and he said let that sink in as he was posting that and then carrying a sink into the oval office a parody of what he did when he took over twitter and now he's taking over the White House. Musk spent more than $130 million on Trump and on down ballot Republicans in competitive House races. And again, to normalize this, since he has a net worth that is more than a million times what the average American's net worth is, it's like 1.3 million times. But since he has a net worth a million times more than the average American, that'd be like you or me spending $130, right?

To get all this. Musk voted in Texas and then he flew on his private jet to Florida to watch returns of Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago. His PAC posted a photo of him sitting shoulder to shoulder with Trump and Dana White, the chief executive officer of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. Well, OK, it's the Ultimate Fighting Championship. It's not professional wrestling, but, you know, McMahon is having some issues with sexual stuff. So as close as I can get to a professional wrestling i guess how appropriate and then um this is uh pennsylvania state director of the

early vote action says musk is new to politics but it means a lot for a billionaire and a tech mogul to go all in for president trump is musk new to politics no politics is how he made his money but this is what is um being sold to people you know babble and bees is okay he sacrificed 40 billion dollars to save our free speech he oversees an empire of six companies several of which are highly entangled in the u.S. federal government, SpaceX. Tesla is also looking to roll out autonomous robo-taxis, but there are tremendous regulatory hurdles for both Tesla's robo-taxis and for SpaceX. Nobody ever mentions, even though this guy made his fortune off of the CO2 fantasy and global warming, nobody ever mentions the emissions from his rockets.

Those rockets, the most powerful rockets that we've ever had, didn't have powerful rockets like this when we went to the moon. Isn't that amazing? Because when he lit this one up, I remember a year or two ago, he lit it up and it created this crater and blew rocks and concrete and everything miles away, blew it into some kind of a precious reserve. It's precious to them or whatever. But still, the debris that it hurled everywhere. He said, well, we've never had anything this powerful before.

How did we get to the moon? I just can't figure it out. Musk pitched a job for himself to cut government bureaucracy and waste, the ultimate hypocrite. He's going to be our cost cutter, said Trump. Musk has joked that he'll lead the Department of Government Efficiency, what he calls Doge, like his Doge coin musk has claimed that he could cut an unprecedented two trillion from the federal budget just by getting rid of his companies no i mean he didn't say that he hasn't said which agencies he will go after well i don't know what's the annual budget of the federal government i could cut almost all of them so could the people reason like i mentioned earlier.

He described a SpaceX rocket that sat on a launch pad for two months waiting for approval. He said, we could build a rocket faster than they could approve the paperwork. He says, I'm like Gulliver being tied down by a million little strings. He doesn't say I, but he said this, this is like Gulliver. But he's talking about himself. I'm Gulliver the Giant in a land of Lilliputians being tied down by a million little strings. And he says, it's not like any one string is the problem, but you got a million of them. He's already said that he'll try to use whatever power he gets to push for a federal approval process of fully autonomous vehicles for himself.

Current rules prevent manufacturers from putting more than a couple thousand cars on the road per year without steering wheels or other control. So he's going to flood our highways with cars under his control that don't have steering wheels or brakes. What could possibly go wrong? During his first term, Trump appointed Steve Mnuchin, former Goldman Sachs Group executive. But, of course, they don't mention the fact that he also put in from Goldman Cohn, who they wanted. Goldman wanted him in there so badly that they gave him his golden parachute of $250 million. And they changed their corporate rules so he could get it all in a lump sum to go be uh the chief of staff i think for uh trump uh musk's potential role of cutting government spending isn't expected to be a cabinet level position meaning that he wouldn't be required to step away from his ceo duties see unlike alex azar that trump brought

in to run hhs alex Azar was the CEO of Eli Lilly. He had to leave that corporate position at Big Pharma to take over the regulatory agency, to shut everything down, but to also play footsie with the pharmaceutical companies. But see, Elon Musk has got it even better. Elon Musk can stay, and it's not even a revolving door. He doesn't have to change buildings. He can just stay where he is, continue to make money, and then also exercise his own strings and levers of control. After the billionaire's endorsement in July, Trump changed his tune on electric vehicles.

He went from entirely railing against what he called, quote, Crooked Joe's insane electric vehicle mandate, unquote, to praising EVs at times. This is the genius of Elon Musk. He can see that Trump is doing well. And he can see that Trump is doing well by opposing EVs, where he makes a lot of money. So I will get behind him and I'll change him. Now, Trump says, I'm for electric cars.

I have to be, you know, because Elon endorsed me very strongly, Elon. So I have no choice, he said during an August rally. Trump has no principles. He's for sale to the highest bidder on each and every issue, folks. It doesn't matter whether it's the pharmaceutical companies buying him in the transition period in 2017, or if it's this.

On every issue, the man has no principles. It's just the love of money. It's just like his program. I said, I'd never seen his program. And I was curious one day, I thought, what was his theme song? I opened it up, and it was like, money, money, money, money. You probably all know it. I'd never seen it.

And it's just flaunting the wealth, as he does. When they did the movie which again i had not watched the apprentice movie talking about his apprenticeship under roy cohen um they they were talking about how they're going to set up the sets to film the movie and one person said make it look expensive and tasteless that's it expensive expensive and tasteless. That's it. Expensive, garish, tasteless. Like Trump, Musk is pushing conspiracy theories and talking about immigrants and how that's got to be controlled. And he's talking about it on X. This is from Yahoo.

They don't like that. But what I'm concerned about is that Trump has said, and I've played the clip for you. I don't have it in the thing today, but we're going to stop it, whether it's land, sea, or air, right? We're going to stop these people coming in, land, sea, or air. We're going to do it with biometrics and all the rest. You've got to be very careful. They've got the MAGA people so worked up and of course they would be concerned if it was Biden who was going to enact a biometric control system on us at the borders and internally right but when the Republicans do it it's okay right when DeSantis did it in Florida and said we're

going to now have mandatory e-verify you're going to have to mandatory get permission from the federal government to get a job and desantis and the republicans they're past that everybody just laid down that they wouldn't have done that if it had been democrats it would have been suspicious but when you have republicans doing that to people they just step aside and let it happen and like trump musk was also all about the mRNA vaccine, CureVac. He made a lot of money off of that. On EVs, Tesla has received billions from Biden's policies, which Trump has vowed to dismantle.

Another reason for him to back Trump, who is obviously going to win. I say obviously, but you could see Biden sinking. I think these people know uh far more than we do in the background not too long ago musk was calling for trump to quote hang up his hat and sail into the sunset then they started realizing wait a minute it looks like this guy is going to win and again he can read that better than pretty much anybody america pack he said is going to keep going after this election that was the thing that he set up to comply with the election laws you say dinesh d'Souza gave when the limit was twenty five hundred dollars he gave

twenty five thousand to a former friend they were in college together, who was running for office, and Obama put Dinesh D'Souza in jail. I mean, usually it's just a fine, but because of politics and the way the Democrats are now using lawfare against people, that was one of the early examples of it when they put Dinesh D'Souza in jail. Well, Elon Musk can set this up, and can give $130 million and he can be the sole donor of a political action committee. You see, the elites are the ones who are writing the rules. The elites are the ones who are hiring the army of lawyers to go through and make sure that

everything is in compliance. America PAC is going to keep going after this election, said Musk. And now he's got contact information on a lot of voters that he gave $47 to. They signed up and said, I agree with the First and Second Amendment. And here's my name and contact information. He gives them $47 and now they're on his list. Just like he can scan through and find the people on Twitter who like him and signlets to people who don't like him, like me and like Eric coming on.

So instead, what you see is this kind of a naive take from the Daily Skeptic headline, what Elon did to Twitter twitter he can now do to the deep state we see this from the daily skeptic we see it from babel and b i mean these people have been totally taken in by musk worship uh but not brian shulhavi at health impact news he said elon musk wants americans vote. He said, told Joe Rogan, vote like your life depends on it. He said, but it's actually his life that depends on it. Says prosperity, his money, which is his life.

And again, all these people, even the people who are hailing him as a hero, have got these pictures of him dressed up in his Baphomet outfit with his satanic upside down cross i mean nothing to see there right just move on well brian shalhavi says you know one of the things that was interesting that came out of this and i didn't see anybody else pick this up he said i've read in the in the past that Elon Musk loves to play the online game called Diablo. Spanish word, of course, it means devil.

And he says he sometimes plays it for many hours. However, Musk revealed that not only does he play this online game, but he told Joe Rogan that he is in the top 20 worldwide for the highest scores in this game. And there's only one other american in the top 20 of course what elon musk was saying in the clip i'm not going to play it but what elon musk was saying was that uh everybody else in the top 20 is asian so he's talking about uh you know futures in asia or whatever uh so 18 of the top 20 are asian and then you have Elon Musk and an American who are in the top 20. He says, I'm in the top 20 in the world in Diablo 4. I'm listed with my actual name on the list.

Joe Rogan said, so what's your handle there? You don't want to tell people. He goes, no, it's my actual name that's there. He says, there's only two Americans in the top 20. I'm one of them. If I play a video game on on extreme difficulty i have to concentrate fully on the game it kind of helps him to relax he said um so brian shalhavi says well you know i don't have any time for something like this but i know how popular online gaming has become in the

past few years worldwide as a matter of fact top gamers in the world earn millions of dollars in gaming show the chart that he put up there the 20 richest online gamers here's a guy pootie pie you know making over 60 million uh under him is richard ninja tyler blevins making 40 million michael shroud is making 20 million so forth, right? So these people are making lots of money playing video games. Brian Schilhavi says, well, I suspect this is not a hobby for most of these serious gamers who are making tens of millions of dollars. And a whole bunch of them, the one who is the 20 richest online gamers, the poorest one of them, is making over a million dollars a year. He says, it's basically a full-time job for these people, right?

They're out there competitively and they're making tens of millions of dollars. He says, at least for the slight few who are among the top players worldwide. So if somebody can claim that they're in the top 20 of a game that is being played by millions of online gamers worldwide, what does that say about the person and the amount of time that he spends online gaming? a game that is being played by millions of online gamers worldwide. What does that say about the person and the amount of time that he spends online gaming? He said, I would assume that pretty much everyone reading this article knows of people who are addicted to online gaming just as much as I know people who are addicted to gambling. What kind of people are they?

If you know them or you know of them, are they the type of people who are usually corporate CEOs? Or rich doctors? Or rich lawyers? I personally don't know any gamers who spend that much time online and who are also successful business owners or professionals because spending so much time online gaming to boast that you are in the top 20 worldwide of a game that is one of the most popular and has millions of people playing it, you wouldn't have enough time to run your business or to practice your profession successfully. So this begs a question that I've previously asked about Elon Musk.

Is he smart or is he just rich stupid? Well, you know, there is also, I'm surprised that Brian didn't put it in here, but there's also the thing where Satan, Diablo, says, worship me. I have all the kingdoms of the world. I can give you everything. Jesus didn't say, no, you can't. You're lying to me. He responded, he says, it's in my power to do that. He't say he didn't say no it's not your power to do that it is in satan's power to give that to whoever he

wishes maybe he gives it to people who wear baphomet costumes and upside down crosses uh he says i think the answer is clear now mus Musk did not invent the Tesla, but he bought it from the guys who did. And his SpaceX company has become rich on government contracts. And the evidence is that he has almost no hands-on management of SpaceX, but he is wealthy enough to buy people who are smart and who do all the work. While Musk may get credit for SpaceX's ambitious mission to make life multi-planetary, he says. SpaceX's org chart confirms something long understood by insiders of the $180 billion rocket startup. The president and chief operating officer, Gwen Shotwell, is the one who's running the show. Shotwell oversees

nearly every single team at SpaceX, which is around 13,000 employees at facilities spread across California, Texas, and Florida. Her 21 direct reports include executives running the satellites internet business Starlink, the Falcon rocket launch business, and the development of SpaceX's ambitious new rocket Starship. And that's according to an internal org chart. Among those direct reports to Shotwell is the top engineer, the chief financial officer, etc. Musk seems to have a lot of enemies on Wall Street. And they're probably also not happy about his desire to replace banks with companies like X, which Musk wants to turn into the largest payment and bank replacement app in the world.

Here's a reminder. would serve people's financial needs to such a degree that over time it would become I don't know maybe half of the global financial system well or some big number I'm not sure what the number is so pretty big so it would be by far the biggest sort of financial institution a bit like said not really in the way that people are used to thinking about banks. Just the most efficient database for the thing that is money. Like I said, least amount of fraud. Everything is real time. And if it involves money in any way, it can be dealt with seamlessly on one location. And you notice they said yes whatever

we're kind of using for money you know whatever that is and we're going to talk about that as well we're going to talk about tokenization and how that is i think the direction that they're going it's going to be the de facto central bank digital currency people are on to this game if you know biden does it with decrees and declarations and here's a all of government order for how we're going to roll this thing out people like biden people like elizabeth warren they're not as dangerous as people like trump and musk those guys will come after you in a very subtle way and as um soylent goy says magatards will cheer for digital id if trump sells it as a way to stop illegal immigration and election fraud and i'll also add another one the christians will jump

behind it if he uses it as a way to stop online porn for kids in australia they've just said we're going to make it illegal for kids to get onto social media before i think it's the age of 16 or something like that they want to be the parents they want to you know why can't parents do that you know i think it's a very bad idea for uh kids to be on social media especially the younger they are the worse idea it is but it's a bad idea even when you get older it's a it's a bad idea even when you get older. It's a bad idea to spend much time on social media. Really bad idea. But why can't we do that ourselves? Why do we need to have government do that?

Why can't parents do that? Well, you know, parents need to be able to say, I'm sorry, but you can't do that because that's against the law. The parents are so weak that they don't have any parental authority anymore. Oh, yeah, that is the case i think and uh so we get weaker and weaker but yeah you throw in the the uh porn stuff and the conservatives and the christian maga people jump on it yeah everybody's got to have an id to do everything gotta have an id to get online travel move anywhere um jason barker nights of the storm exactly david i've been pointing this out elon is not a genius except for grifting yeah he is a genius in terms of manipulating

politicians and we've just seen that he can he can understand who the people are that he needs to get behind to get what he wants he is a genius at that it's kind of like the the jeffrey epstein tapes that came out by the guy who wrote a book about trump and he interviewed jeffrey epstein before jeffrey epstein died we'll just say whatever happened or maybe disappeared well you know again a lot of people think he didn't die so before he he left us just do it inclusively there um he did an interview with us this guy right and they put the audio stuff up as a last minute dig at trump uh because he said uh certain things like he said trump is is he says he's not a businessman he doesn't know how to read a balance sheet so he's awful at all that. He says,

but he's a genius at one thing. He knows real estate and he knows where to find the value in real estate. And I think that's the case with Elon Musk. He's a genius at knowing who to find the people that he needs to manipulate. Again, Jason Barker, Knights of the Storm. You'll see him on Twitter as well as go to the nights i think it's the nights of the storm dot com but if you go there they've got a list of programs and they were nice enough to include me but a lot of programs like guard goldsmiths program liberty conspiracy and many many others um and um uh so a whole bunch of people that i think are honest and that they think are honest that tell you what they really think rather than trying to tell the room what the room wants to hear. It's a really important thing. Thank you very much for the tip, Doug.

I appreciate that. Well, just real quickly before we leave this AI thing, this from Expose News in the UK, exposenews.com. Those who push for a transhuman AI future are part of a clinically insane anti-life demonic cult. That's right. Now, one thing about that

is that the technocracy will put themselves out there as not being anti-life. They want you to have more kids that they can control. But it is a demonic cult. Julia Rose writes, to resist this enslavement, people must adopt a lifestyle that is the opposite of one that is dependent on digital technology. Starting by recognizing their reliance on it and taking steps to release themselves from its control. And, you know, just as I talked about yesterday, releasing yourself from the control of, I've got to go to college and I've got to get a job with a big corporation, that type of thing. I mean, it used to be you could get a job for IBM and that was a job for life or something.

Those days are long gone. That was really dying even when I was an engineer 45 years ago. But she says, tapping into this common sense and freeing oneself from the blind acceptance of the digital control system, because that's going to be another place that it inserts itself. The proponents of a transhumanist AI future

are clinically insane, anti-life, demon, a demonic cult. Do I still want to do business with them? And you know, when you look at ai it is the essence of satanic cult you know satan doesn't create he copies what god has created and that's exactly what it does he is the father of lies ai is designed to lie. AI is designed to surveil us and to pull out and amplify our faults to the people who want to rule over us as if they were God. One can only put an end to something by first recognizing its existence and one's reliance upon it. This is the first phase of release from slavery and in taking control of one's destiny. So what could such a diametrically opposite lifestyle to one of a toxic IT dependency be?

In practice, it could take many different forms. It could go many different directions. But it would all be about getting out of jail while one still can. That's one of the reasons why they call them cell phones. It's a way of keeping us in an open air wireless prison, if you will. It's going to be increasingly used for that. But what she does is she focuses on electricity being at the center of that. And I've said that for the longest time, that the electric grid and the reason they are

so manic to replace everything with all electric appliances, all electric heating and air conditioning. Everything has got to be electric. It's got to be battery operated. It can't have like a fuel cell that generates the electricity because you must be connected to the electric grid because the electric grid is going to be their control grid. And that's why they're so manic about it public transportation private cars cooking heat pumps home heating air conditioning metering systems telephone chargers all communication tools all household items street lights ventilation systems and on and on it's all going to be tied to the grid to monitor and to control you. And so when she talks about this,

she's very concerned about EMF, perhaps if there's nanoparticles or things like that in the vaccines or the chemtrails, it's going to be manipulating us. But where we part ways is where she says, we are on Earth,

but we are from the cosmos we're universal sparks of the supreme nucleus that brought all life into being now she's heading into this technocracy new age nonsense that alex does all the time alex jones you know and it is absolute nonsense it is antithetical to what we believe as Christians. And we don't come from the cosmos. We are divinely created. And so we don't ignore that. And here's an example of that. We have the human brain.

This is an interesting article. A decade ago, a small, unassuming brain sample arrived at Dr. Jeff Lichtman's lab at Harvard University. It measured less in size than a grain of rice. And yet, this one cubic millimeter of tissue contained 57,000 cells and 150 million synapses, each one a vital part of the brain's intricate communication system. You see, this thing, this part of brain tissue that is smaller than a grain of rice is more complicated and more interconnected than all these networks that they're talking about. Doesn't that say to you that it was created by God? That it was a created and designed thing?

It just didn't happen by random chance? It couldn't. And when you look at its design, it truly is amazing because you get this many synapses and transistors and things like that. You're going to have to have some heat issues with it. And yet, for the entire brain, not just for a little piece of it you're going to have to have some heat issues with it. And yet, for the entire brain, not just for a little piece of it that's smaller than a grain of rice,

all the calculations that are being done by our brain, it's not overheating. Isn't that interesting? After a decade of collaboration with Google scientists, a monumental data set of 1,400 terabytes has turned in the most detailed map of the human brain ever created. A terabyte is, for most people, gigantic, yet a fragment of a human brain. Just a minuscule, teeny-weeny little bit of human brain. Still thousands and thousands of terabytes, they said. The detailed 3D reconstruction reveals beautiful structures in the brain neurons forming dozens of connections pull up some of the pictures that they have there because

they've gone in look at that dozens of connections mirror image neutral pairs networks far more complex than expected see if they thought that this all just came together by random chance processes they wouldn't expect this kind of complexity just like they didn't expect the than expected. See, if they thought that this all just came together by random chance processes, they wouldn't expect this kind of complexity, just like they didn't expect the complexity of DNA. And they still don't understand it. They'll still come in and say, you know, most of the DNA is junk DNA. No, that means that you don't understand it.

These are some of the groundbreaking discoveries, they said. I remember the moment going into the map and looking at just one individual synapse from the woman's brain and then zooming out into these other millions of pixels. Said a senior scientist at Google. It felt sort of spiritual. Excitatory neurons, color-coded by size, with red being the largest and blue the smallest. Cell cores range from 15 to 30 micrometers. They said one unexpected discovery in the study was the presence of axon whorls, W-H-O-R-L-S. Tangled loops of blue axons, which typically transmit signals away from nerve cells.

These structures were rare in the sample, and sometimes they appear to be resting on yellow cells. Their purpose remains unclear. Well, again, we can see that we are all created. That's very clear. It's clear in creation. It's clear when we, the more we look and the more we know, the less excuse there is to deny that there is a creator. And yet when you see that there is a creator, like this brain, the purpose can still be

unclear. And so I think the purpose is clear when you read the Bible. I think the Bible has many proofs in it that whether you're talking about prophecy centuries ahead of time, that can be validated the age of the books as well as what exactly happened. When you talk about prophecy, when you talk about the internal consistency with it, and many other things, archaeology, all these other outside proofs, but clearly if you read it, I think, with an open mind, you will see that purpose that is there. We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. Thank you. Making sense common again. You're listening to The David Knight Show. Well, welcome back.

Magooin Fan says, David, I'm a chartered financial analyst, and I attended events concerning tokenization. Please post a segment about this so I can pass it along. We don't see the danger. Book smarts versus street smarts. Well, there happens to be an excellent article about tokenization on Wine Press News,

and it refers to Gerald Salenti's Trends Journal back in December of 2023. Saw this coming, and he's got one of the best explanations in Trends Journal I've seen anywhere. By the way, you can get 10% off of Trends Journal, Gerald Salenti's Trends Journal, with the code KNIGHT.

Just go to TrendsJournal.com. You can see samples of it there. Excellent stuff and relevant. It's not about Taylor Swift. It's about tokenization. And so Wine Press News comments and says, It may not get announced at mainstream or even alternative media coverage, but right now, world central banks, financial juggernauts,

fintech groups are rapidly developing a system by which literally everything will be converted into a unique digital record stored on a blockchain. This process is known as tokenization, where all things will be converted into a token, a piece of digital representation that's then bought, sold, and traded as a commodity. This system is needed to truly enable proper effectiveness for central bank digital currencies. Such a system would fully allow central banks and asset managers to know precisely what people possess at all times,

as all transactions and purchases would be completely tracked and mitigated in real time, and would thus fulfill the ominous statement by the World Economic Forum that you will own nothing but be happy. And so this is the type of this tokenization, I think. Maybe we should call it fiatization in a sense because they can take things that are worthless. I mean, look at the NFTs, right? Non-fungible tokens. And Trump is certainly on

board with that he's made a lot of money uh selling um you know some artwork to people uh inflated prices and saying it's unique you now own this type of thing and they can trace the ownership of it so they can authenticate it just in the same way that you would authenticate a signature on a but even more easily like you would authenticate a signature on a, but even more easily, like you would authenticate a signature on a baseball by a baseball player, something like that. But certainly they understand this. Think is all about that.

When we start to look at things like ETFs and stuff like that, we've looked at that in the past, and paper gold and paper silver. You've had derivatives like we kind of blew up the real estate market. You know, real estate derivatives are not real estate. Okay. Paper gold is not gold. Paper silver is not silver. But by putting things in a derivative status and what they're doing is they're kind of adding this blockchain aspect of it which is supposed to give it some authenticity and yet at the same time it's going to make it

very very traceable that's one of the things that steve vachinik was saying with the sting he said hey look we can you know we had blockchain watermark ballots so we can trace all these things there those guys have been plotting this kind of stuff for quite some time now of course that was a lie. They didn't have that. But that would be the way that you would track what people do, whether they're voting or doing something else. So in December 2023, Chen's journal warned, Envision for a moment a mechanism where every single conceivable asset, including life itself or life expectancy, which is also an asset, is reduced into a token.

Well, I'm here to reveal to you that this is exactly what is going to happen. The new tokenized system is going to represent, he says, pay attention to that word, represent, not just currency and other financial assets, such as real estate, but all assets, including you, your past, what you have done, even speculation on what you may do, including things like your life expectancy. Understand that the Internet of Things is also going to be the Internet of People because they see you as a thing that needs to be tracked and traced. What you earn, what you will potentially earn in the future, what you buy, what you may

buy, past illnesses, potential future illnesses, family history, what medications you take, what medications you will probably need in the future, your vax record, your DNA, etc. Which means that this new token-based system in its entirety will reduce, will represent everything to a digital tradable asset. Human life is going to become a tradable cross-border convertible asset along with every manner of its associated derivatives. Tokenization is simple and incredibly cost-effective. Tokenization eliminates the need for any asset to be converted into something else or transactions to take place anywhere in the world. This is the universal new world, one world system.

And when Elon Musk starts talking about, well, I can see that X is going to be some way that we have money, whatever money is, whatever they've tokenized and they want to be able to track and trace. He says, we could do that there. I could see it being half of the world's transactions. So again, what is a token? Well, Wine Press News says, according to the Bank of International Settlements, a relatively unknown entity referred to as the central banks of central banks, whose mission is to, quote, support central banks,

pursuit of monetary and financial stability through international cooperation, and to act as a bank for central banks. That's their definition. They define tokenization as, quote, the process of representing claims digitally on a programmable platform, unquote. Like X, you know, maybe. Or any of these.

Adding that a token can be seen as the next logical step in digital record keeping and asset transfer. A token is a digital asset that can be manipulated by a financial institution. A tokenized customer's deposit is subject to the rules defined by its issuer. For example, a token may be spent or exchanged only within the scope of a predefined set of rules. An asset, for example, a customer's bank deposit, may have rules that allow the money to be spent only on certain services or products. This is what we've talked about, the danger of central bank digital currency. Sorry, you've had too much meat.

I don't like it when people buy more than X amount of milk or whatever. I'm not going to approve that transaction. Block it. And they track everything that you have consumed. Further, a token stores all information about the underlying asset the previous owners the dates of purchase sale transaction dates etc and this data is all stored on the blockchain that is managed by a financial institution or maybe by elon musk's ex you know larry fink is all about tokenization and And Larry Fink says, this election doesn't change anything.

It doesn't change anything in terms of what he wants to do. Because he knows that this might actually be a faster path. You've got Trump, who has had experience with NFTs. You've got Musk, who certainly knows what this is all about. It's not going to change any of Larry Fink, BlackRock CEO. It's not going to change any of his plansink, BlackRock CEO. It's not going to change any of his plans because he's fully on board with tokenization. This is one of the reasons why, you know, before we, do we have Eric yet? Okay, good.

So before we go to Eric, this is one of the reasons why I want to get out of this system. I want to get out of digital. Tony Arterburn has set up DavidKnight.gold. You can start accumulating gold and silver on a regular basis. He's set up the Wolfpack so you can buy in. $50 is the lowest level. I don't know what the highest level is, but you can set up a savings program and gradually accumulate this, cost average it, and all the rest of this on a regular basis as kind of a wealth protection, but also to get out of the system. Like I was just talking about the other lady said, they want everything to be electric

so that we're trapped on their control grid. They want everything to be on a blockchain so they can see everything that we're doing. I don't want that. And so if you want freedom, you've got to start thinking about how you're going to actively get out of that system so that your cell phone doesn't become your gel cell and all the rest of this. And tokenization is a huge part of it. And we've got more that we could say about it, but we're not going to do that today. We're going to take a quick break, and we will be right back. In a world of deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

You're listening to the david knight show all right and joining us now is eric peters of ericpetersauto.com autos plural ericpetersautos.com and i want to get eric on because he's had he's posted several things about the election and of course also about cars i always love to talk about cars and transportation because that is a very important component today of freedom and that's what they want to take away from us good to have you on eric thanks thank you for joining us oh likewise thank you for having me i'm not sure whether to be relieved or nervous and i'd like to show the audience something uh in the of a historical remembrance. You guys remember this? This is Bushokio.

That's Bush what? Bushokio. Oh, Bushokio. I see the nose. I couldn't say it was straight on. I couldn't see it like a Pinocchio thing. Yeah. He's a real naval aviator.

But the reason that I wanted to bring him up, people might recall when conservatives, Republicans, not so much libertarians, but conservatives and Republicans were just ecstatic that George W. Bush beat Al Gore. You know, we had saved all the danger of Al Gore. And when he became the war president, he had something like a 90 plus percent approval rating and essentially was able to rule as a dictator. And he called himself essentially that I am the decider. Remember that? Yeah. We got into great trouble because of that. And then worse trouble followed on his heels, because I believe that it was on account of everything that George W. Bush did, that we ended up with Barack Obama, which in turn, gave us Trump and Biden and all the rest of it. So these things do have consequences. And I think it's important that

while you know, I'm very much relieved that the overt communists didn't win this particular selection i'm still kind of nervous uh about what the orange man might actually do once he's inaugurated two months from now oh yeah yeah i saw you know uh i've been talking about these uh pronouncements from a lot of christian leaders, well, you know, you just got to vote. There's no question about you. You can't vote for her. So you got to vote for him, that type of thing. And one guy has stood out and he has caught a lot of grief.

And he said this because you got the lesser two evils. He said the presidential election results having delivered us from one evil. God now tests us with another. Right. And I thought that was pretty good he's testing you to see because the price of liberty is eternal vigilance and the key thing about trump is that he puts people to sleep and he puts a pacifier in their mouth everybody in this club is afraid to speak out just like if you were at a drag queen uh festival uh you don't want to point out that

the lady up on stage or the man up on stage isn't wearing any clothes right because then everybody's going to hop on you you don't want to point out that the emperor is engaging in naked tyranny if you're part of the maga cult because then they're all going to hop on you as well absolutely a lot of people are rightly in my view concerned with regard to what might happen vis-a-vis israel and what's going on and you know i i share that concern but another concern that i have i think is more subtle or at least it hasn't been commented on very much that i'm aware of uh you know one of the planks i think that got trump elected was that he's going to promise to do something about this flood of uh illegal aliens migrants into the country well what exactly is he

going to do and what are people going to be willing to accept particularly on you know so to speak our side of the fence what if he institutes a uh a regime of your papers please you know and check on us you know and of course our side largely i think would probably go along with that because after all we got to get it under control you know we got to catch all these illegal aliens and do something about them but what may end up happening is something is done to us and i'm very much concerned about that oh i agree as well we were just talking about that earlier had a listener who pointed that out and i said yeah that's right be immigration and several of these voters voter fraud and that type of stuff but it'll also be you know a lot of people jump on and say well uh you know we got uh porn being given to kids so we need to have an id to get

on the internet and all this other kind of stuff right because they're already saying in australia that you gotta you can't use social media they're introducing a bill so you can't use social media if you're not 16 years old how they're going to know that well that means that everybody's got to register right that's obviously the situation so if you want government to fix everything like that you're going to have to give it total totalitarian power and that is a very dangerous thing. And I've played the clip of Trump saying we're going to stop them by the air, by the land, by the sea, you know, all the rest of this stuff. The technocracy would love to do this with IDs, digital IDs. And as you point out, your identity papers, please. Right.

The very the the hallmark of an occupied totalitarian government is to have to have identity papers to go everywhere, including internally. I don't think Trump is a stupid man. I think it's silly to suggest that he's stupid, but I do think that he can be thoughtless and reactionary and very glib sometimes in terms of the things that he advocates. You know, the classic one example of that might be, you know, do process later, take the guns now, things like that. Instead of stopping for a little bit to think about it before he shoots off at the mouth or acts. And I wish that he were a little bit more reflective and thoughtful. But we'll see. You know, the die has been cast, as Caesar said, before he crossed Rubicon.

And it's now essentially a fate, a complete. We're going to see what he does. And it's going to get very interesting, I think I think we crossed the Rubicon four years ago if that wasn't a Rubicon I don't know what is but you know this is people use the word consequential perhaps too often but I do think this is

a consequential election in that if he does not do anything I don't think it's going to wear well so he's probably going to wear well. So he's probably going to do something. And then the question becomes, okay, exactly what, and how is that going to affect America and Americans, you know, and it may affect America and Americans in a very negative manner that they're right now completely blissfully unaware of as they bask in the orange glow.

Yep. That's right. Well, I fully expect him to, to really energize the base and see them go absolutely crazy if he de-escalates or ends this Ukraine war, right? This is wearing on. Everybody is sick of that as well, sick of the money. Zelensky's become this comic little clown that's grifting everybody. So he could end that, but I think at the the same time what he would do is escalate the war with iran because you got lindsey graham and all these

other people lindsey graham was saying yeah they got this man i forget what he was it's like they got 17 trillion dollars worth of um resources and ukraine we don't want russia getting all that we want it for ourselves you know i mean this is like neocolonialism it's crazy and he's actually saying this kind of stuff it's apocalyptic and dangerous probably this goes back a few weeks before the election but scott ritter you know the un uh the inspector of weapons of mass destruction who i take as a very credible person published an interesting article about what appears to have been an underground nuclear test in iraq you know there was seismic evidence that something happened out there that wasn't an earthquake.

It's not yet been verified, but the possibility that they have acquired a nuclear weapons capability is something that really ought to be thought about. You know, if Trump decides to lob bombs on them, they might just lob back a different kind of bomb and start something altogether horrible. You know, that could be absolutely cataclysm for all of us. And I pray that that saner calmer heads prevail over this thing well i think that uh you know certainly they would have to do something uh asymmetric they would not be able to launch a transcontinental ballistic at

the united states and hit us uh what they would wind up doing maybe smuggling something um you know across the open border and then that would be the excuse to clamp everything down. And now everybody is clamoring for complete biometric control and ID and all that, because we don't want to have another one of these attacks. So yeah, I think something like that easily could happen. But you talk about how Trump can change. Earlier in the program, as I was talking about Elon Musk, and of course, I said, you're going

to be coming on, and I said, the first time I talked to you, we talked about Elon Musk as the king of crony capitalism. That was your article at the time. Now, I guess he's going to be the president of crony capitalism. And it's just amazing to me to see this guy who's become the world's richest man put out as somebody who is going to make government, eliminate government waste. He is government waste. I wonder whether Trump, now that Elon Musk is apparently his best friend, is going to do anything to end this pushing of the electric vehicles that have madek is a billionaire is because he's managed to leverage these zero emissions requirements and these carbon credits uh into this vast empire that's funded his electric car grift now you know one thing i would like to see trump do and i hope that he does do this

is tackles the issue of the the permanent bureaucracy the regulatory state which is serving now as a de facto legislature, they'll issue a regulation, and the regulation has to be complied with. So it has the force of law, and yet it's not a law. And it's not constitutional. The Constitution says that Congress must write the laws. Congress has abrogated that and has given it over to this unelected regulatory apparat for a number of reasons. One, they're lazy. But two, I think more importantly, they do not want to be held accountable. You know, congressmen can say, well, it's not my fault. It's the bureaucracy. You know, the reason that, you know, you have to spend a fortune to get your home's air conditioner replaced now.

It's not because of me. You know, these bureaucrats do it. These awful bureaucrats. And of course, you can't vote the bureaucrats out. So they're utterly unaccountable once they get in there. So, you know, Trump has a constitutional argument, first of all, and he even has a juridical one in regard to the Chevron decision, which says that, you know, the Supreme Court ruled that these bureaucrats can't just summarily issue decrees like that, that have the force of law. And then there's just the moral argument is wrong. You know, who are these people? Why do they get to run a shot over our lives? So I hope he'll do that. Unfortunately, I don't think he'll do that. Everything that he has said thus far indicates that he's not so much opposed to regulations. He's just opposed to the way the regulations

have been used by the other side. So in that sense, he's sort of a typical Republican in that he's not opposed to big government. He just wants big government to be used in the way that he'd like the government to be used. Oh, I agree. I agree. And, you know, if we go back and we look, and I've talked about this many times, you've got civil asset forfeiture, for example, right? People have their property stolen, as you well know, you know, in the name of the war on drugs. They steal people's property. They call it asset forfeiture. It's theft. And they don't find you guilty first. They don't even charge you with a crime. They charge the property with a crime. So it's the U.S. government versus $9,000 cash,

or the U.S. government versus Learjet serial number, such and such. And they say that they don't have to follow the Constitution because they say that rules are different. And so they not only have to find, they don't have to find you guilty. You don't have a presumption of innocence. They don't have to have an indictment, a trial, a finding of guilt. And they are also not required to obey the prohibition against excessive fines and punishment because they say it's a rule, not a law. So if it was done by Congress, it'd be a law and they'd have to follow the Constitution. But if they create this as a rule, not a law. So if it was done by Congress, it'd be a law and they'd have to follow the Constitution. But if they create this as a rule, none of the Constitution applies. That's one of the most amazing things. And both Republicans and Democrats go along with it because you pointed

out if things go wrong, they don't want the responsibility for it. And they can always, if things go wrong, they can always blame it on that regulatory agency. And they can come in and rescue everybody and look like the good guys by putting the regulatory agency back in its place. And so it allows an implausible deniability from all this stuff. They love to abdicate their authority over to it. And I'll give you an example of Trump doing this in his first term. The Dreamer thing, right? The idea that you had DACaca the deferred action on childhood arrivals that was an executive order from the obama administration it wasn't a law coming from

congress and so they just put this thing out as an executive order now trump comes along and he says well um i um uh i'm going to change that i'm going to get rid of that. But I've got to ask permission from the Supreme Court to do that. It's like, how do you have to ask them permission to as for an executive order from the previous president? You can just do it. But he played that game. And then the Supreme Court came back and said, no, you can't do it. And so he said, OK, I can't do it. And so it allows these guys to escape from their campaign promises and all the rest of the stuff.

And that whole regulatory rule regime is awful. And we saw it in spades when all the pandemic stuff came, didn't we? Yeah, it's as greasy as it is tyrannical. They call it an administrative procedure, and it goes all the way down in a number of states to traffic infractions. It used to be that you'd actually have a day in court. If a cop pulled you over for something speeding whatever it might be uh you had a legal right uh to your day in court and to present your case to a judge and even a jury if you wanted to in some cases uh well what they did was to make it into an administrative matter and

in some cases handed over into a private company uh to deal with and you had the only thing that you were allowed to do was to submit in writing, not in person, your supposed explanation and or excuse or defense or whatever it was. And that was totally performa. You're going to pay regardless. And if you didn't pay, then they'd go after you with the credit card, credit bureaus and slam your credit if you didn't hand over the money. And it's a really subtle thing. And it's just sort of leeched out and pervaded the whole system. And I do think the one positive thing I think we can take away from this election, I do think there is an awakening going on. I think by and large, a lot of people are beginning to realize the maliciousness that

just saturates the system now and how the deck is stacked. And granted, you know, Trump has leveraged and used that, but that doesn't mean it's not real. And that doesn't mean that it is going to be sated by non-action. I think people are going to demand that things get better. And that is something that makes me feel good about the election results. Well, I think, you know, when we're talking about the red light cameras and speed cameras and things like that, where you've got a corporation that is accusing you of something and you don't have

a right to confront your accuser sometimes that's been overturned in texas and i don't know how it is in virginia i don't know how it is in tennessee either but in texas it was in the state constitution that if you got a speeding ticket you could demand a jury trial. And I've used that demand for a couple of tickets that I got in Texas to basically negotiate away the ticket and to make it disappear because they don't want to do a jury trial. So it's a great negotiating tool. I didn't have the time where I could go do it. I've gone to travel to some speed trap town in East Texas

and fight this thing in a small hit. But I hung tough on it and made the thing go away. But that's a key thing. And you can put that in. My point is, is that you can put that in at a state level, local level, things like that to stop red light cameras, to stop speed cameras, to have a day in court. Those are the types of things that you can do at the local level that Trump isn't necessarily going to do anything for you or the Congress. We need to start redirecting, I think, everybody's focus back to the local level. I think that's where it's really important. Oh, I agree. But at the same time, there is absolutely now a mandate. And it's not just Trump's. It operates in the House and the Senate. The Republicans have been handed this victory.

And I think one of the things that they will hold their feet to the fire to with regard to these regulations and the regulatory apparatus that going forward, if we're going to even have to have these things, that they'd be subjected to a cost benefit analysis minimally with public hearings before they are enacted and imposed on people. So you don't have some bureaucrat in the EPA or or the d.o.t who just summarily decrease something that's going to end up costing everybody who buys a car another 500 bucks up front and god knows how much money down the road when the thing fails on the basis of some speculative hypothesized game that is literally like contemplating how many angels can dance on the head of a pin you got to show that there's going to be a meaningful and justifiable benefit before that regulation is imposed on people i think that's an extremely reasonable

and fair position to take oh i agree i think the problem that we face you and i is that there's not any corresponding organization for cars like there is for guns right you've got the nra you've got gun owners of america and a lot of others. National Association for Gun Rights. There's several of them that are out there. And and they're all focused on a single issue. And you can say the same thing about the pro-life issue or whatever. And there's other ones that are out there as well. You could look at on the left side, you could look at marijuana prohibition and stuff. Normal and a bunch of others who are successful in nullifying the U.N.

I've talked about this this week. You know, even though you had you had in three conservative states, Florida, North and South Dakota, you had an issue on the ballot to legalize recreational use of marijuana, not just medical marijuana, because medical marijuana is now nullified by two-thirds of the states, actually more than that. And so if that had passed in those states, you would have had more than half of the states would have nullified even recreational use of marijuana. And yet, according to the War on Drugs, it is a Schedule I drug.

My point being is that if we do things at the state level, we can nullify this tyranny. And if we start to, and I think really the only way that we ever make any traction is if we've got an organization that is a single-issue organization that's going to push on that single issue because the politicians are this grocery cart full of garbage. And some of the stuff in there is good and some of the stuff in there is bad. Most of it's bad, but you can't really get anything done. Instead, if you focus on a specific issue and you attack it at the state level, that's what we're missing.

Maybe that's what you should do. You should start an organization that's going to fight against car regulations. Well, actually, there is such an organization. It already exists. Yeah. And I'm affiliated with it. It's the National Motorist Association. Yes, I've interviewed them.

It's been a while, but yeah. And I think they advertise on your website. They do, and a lot of people are not aware of the existence of the NMA, but the NMA played a critical role back in the 90s in securing the repeal of what was called the NMSL, the National Maximum Speed Limit Law, which plagued the country for 20 years, from 74 up to about 94, which required a 55-mile-an-hour speed limit on the highways. You remember it. I remember it. A lot of people were— A Republican president.

Yeah, I mean, it was miserable. It was absolutely miserable. It made driving anywhere just such a hassle and an expense. You know, millions of people were mulcted of millions of dollars for driving at speeds that were legal and so presumably safe before drive 55 came along anyway and animated did yeoman's work uh lobbying congress you know i was involved in that when i was at the washington times back at the nine in the 90s uh to get rid of the nmsl and they're really a fantastic organization uh lobbying specifically on these issues that affect motorists, driving, your freedom to buy the kind of car that you want, and so on. So if people are interested in that, I recommend they check out the site. It's motorists.org.

Good people. I've known them personally. I've worked with them for 30 years. Good. Yes. And that is the key thing. You have to have those kinds of single issue organizations. And for the most part, most of these things have to be done at the local level. You know, for example, the 55 mile an hour speed limit that could have been nullified at the local level. It's good to repeal it nationally. Okay. I'm not saying it's not a bad thing, but I'm saying that individual states could have refused to do that. They would have lost highway funds. They were being blackmailed by money. And that's what we've got to get people to understand is how the federal government gets around the Constitution, gets around the 10th Amendment specifically by handing out money.

That's what people can't understand about what Trump did in 2020. But it's the same thing that Nixon did with a 55 mile an hour speed limit. If you do this 55 mile an hour speed limit, I'll give you money. And so everybody gets upset with the state government or the local law enforcement or the highway patrol or whatever, who is enforcing it,

but it's also being driven by federal money. Well, it's even worse than that because first they extract the money from the states. Yeah. They take the money and then they say, well, the feds say, well, we'll give you some of it back, provided you do what we want you to do. And it really, it's paralyzing. So I think you're going to have to go one step farther back and somehow perhaps just stop giving them money.

That day has got to come. We've got to stand up to that and resurrect the principle that if it's not yours, you don't have a right to it, from the individual all the way on up. As Tom Sowell once said, what exactly is a fair share of somebody else's money that you didn't work for? That's absolutely right. Yeah, well, it's kind of interesting when we look at Musk. He's going to be able to exert the kind of control that all these different industries dream of, and yet he doesn't even have to take a cabinet position with Trump. He can stay as CEO.

Earlier in the program, Eric, I talked about the fact that the two of them were throwing shade at each other earlier this year. Trump was talking about EVs and Biden and about Tesla and everything in a derogatory way. Musk was saying that Trump just needs to, you know, put on a cowboy hat or whatever and ride off into the sunset. But then when Musk started, Musk perceptively realized that everything was turning in Trump's direction and started channeling money to him. Then it became a love fest. And in August, Trump said, well, I have to like EVs because Elon gave me a lot of money. I mean, he just says the quiet part out loud.

You know, it's interesting about Musk. You're absolutely right. He's cunning. He knows where his secrets lie. And I think it's important to judge him according to actions and not what he says. And I'll give you two specific examples, one of which I know you're aware of. You know, at first, when the thug government in Brazil ordered him to suppress the posts of some politicians and people in the country that the ruling junta did not like, initially, Elon publicly opposed that. But when he counted the shekels

and realized he was potentially going to lose a lot of money if the thugs in Brazil shut down X in Brazil, he kowtowed and caved. So if he kowtowed and caved to the thugs in Brazil, what makes anybody think that he's not going to do the same here? And he already is. As you know and I know, X suppresses speech by suppressing reach. You know, unless you pay Musk an ongoing fee to be verified each and every month, and in addition to that, don't post anything wrong-thinkful, your post gets sent to the timeout room. It's very clever. It's not that you can't post.

Sure, you can post. The problem is half the time nobody sees what you posted, which has the same effect as that. It didn't even change anything for me when I paid the eight bucks. It's like it's still I'm not saying the stuff that he wants to hear. But you're absolutely right. He literally bowed and scraped to Theory Breton, the guy from the EU, saying, well, we got this DSA thing that's going to come in here,

and you're going to have to obey that, right? Oh, yes, yes, I'll do that. Yes, yes. And then what happened was that um theory breton i call him conspiracy theory um conspiracy theory uh tried to uh censor speech about the within the election and in america and that was a bridge too far for him he jumped the shark at that point and they kicked him out but it wasn wasn't like Elon Musk resisted this. And yet what you see is all these people who, it's the same people who support Trump that support Musk. So if any governor goes to Davos, like Brian Kemp or like

Glenn Youngkin or whatever, or anybody else, they rightfully are suspicious of that. And yet when Trump goes there and he does it just a couple of weeks before he locks the world down, they're not, they make excuses for it. And they talk about how, look it, he told them, told them off. And he told them, you know, that we're not going to be a part of this. And he stood up to these people. And so they see the same thing, as you point out. They trumpet the fact that Musk is there pushing back against Brazil, but then all of the conservative and alternative media is silent when he caves into them and does exactly what he wants. There's this bizarre wheeling around, and it occurs on both sides of the same coin.

You know, you've got, if you went back, what, a year or two ago, Musk was the hero of the left. He was the darling of the same point you know you've got uh if you went back what a year or two ago uh musk was the hero of the left he was the darling of the left you know and then when he started to kind of come around to the trumpian point of view all of a sudden the left hates him and uh now the right loves him and nothing has really changed he's the same guy and he's playing them both you know and it just astounds me that that people on both sides don't see that yes oh yeah it's absolutely true um let's talk a little bit about um well you mentioned uh the internal passport regime that's one of the things i'm very concerned about uh and and i really liked what you just put up yesterday

don't deport defund and tell people about that yeah essentially you know there are all these calls now that trump has been elected okay we're going to have these deportations we're going to round up all these people who came into the country illegally which has a very strong superficial appeal because so many people are so tired citizens i mean of having to pay taxes that go to finance things like hotel rooms in new york city and uh debit cards that are filled up with thousands of dollars of the money that they had to work for people are understandably uh outraged about that um so clearly something does have to be done but i think the most effective thing that could be done to deal with the problem of the people who are already here

as well as the people who might come here is simply to make it unlawful for any public official to dispense or disburse any public money any taxpayer money that will go to benefit anybody who isn't an american citizen it's entirely reasonable you know if i travel to mexico i don't have a right to to the benefits that are afforded to mexican citizens because i'm not mexican i agree you know i i didn't know the system i'm not supposed to be in that country. I agree. I've said for the longest time, I said the issue is the welfare magnet. And we've got such a big magnet that we're pulling people around the wall, over the wall, under the wall, through the wall. If you've got a big enough welfare magnet, you're going to get people to come in and they're going

to do it. Even if you set up some kind of a slave id system that you know trump has talked about doing even if you set up some kind of a horrendous internal biometric id system you're still going to get people to come in if the if the financial rewards are enough and these financial rewards are unbelievable we have provided for these people in poor countries this is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and And if we don't stop that, that's the essence of it. And that's the one thing that they could stop very easily, but they won't do it. I absolutely agree with you. Defund it. You don't have to worry about deporting these people. Just defund it. And there's a humane aspect of it, too, I think. You know, if you say, look, if you're willing to work and you're willing to provide for your family and meet your needs and so on,

I don't really have an issue with that myself. If somebody wants to get up on a roof and hammer shingles all day long and earn money, that's cool. I'm okay with that. That's a positive contribution to our society. You know, I don't have any desire to have a guy who's up on the roof putting shingles down, rounded up and and thrown back across the border so you know you can put into some detention uh a camp or something a concentration camp the optics i don't think he'll ever do that uh because i think the optics on it are so bad and and in his second term i think he's going to want uh to be remembered in a in a fond and positive way so i don't think they will do that.

But I also don't think that they'll stop the welfare stuff either. And that would be the obvious thing. As you point out, people who want to come across and work, hard workers, I'm fine with that. Yeah, there's competition with people who are here and depressing wages. But maybe what you do is something else. Maybe you organize. Maybe you learn Spanish and you organize these people and you've got your company and you know whatever there's a lot of different ways that we could go with that but um you know as long as they're working i don't have that much of a problem with

it as but what i have a problem with is the welfare thing that you're pointing out it's bad enough to take money from a citizen and give it to another one but it's even worse when you give it to somebody's not a citizen yeah i mean interestingly you know trump made great inroads with uh hispanic people in this election yes i mean because they also are tired of this yes you know so it's it's it's not about being mean to people which is the way it's framed and portrayed by the left it's about not being mean to americans you know constantly saddling them with bills for other people literally literally a limitless number of them. You know, nobody's ever said, OK, we're going to have a maximum of, let's say, five million people coming into the country every year. It's literally limitless, you know, according to these open borders people, which is a recipe for national suicide culturally and economically. Oh, I agree. I've said for the longest time that we're not going to have an American dream of owning a home,

which we pretty much don't have now because of regulatory costs and everything we're not going to have that as long as we've got the dreamers because they can come here and get a free education and many other benefits and they will continue to keep coming and it'll be funded with property taxes so you're not going to be able to afford a home or you're not going to be able to afford much of a rental place either because the property taxes are embedded in that. People just don't seem to think about the real cost of this stuff. I would pay money to keep my kids out of the government schools. But they're coming for financial reasons.

That, I think, is you get to the root of it and pull it out of the ground and destroy it. And you're right. This whole idea of having government schools, parents ought to be the that are uh responsible directly and and that's not a burden that's a good thing because you have control over your kids education if you're hiring a tutor or a teacher you're the one who's paying the bill and if you discover that the person that you hired to teach your kids is incompetent uh or in any other way somebody that you don't want to be teaching your kids you can fire them what happens when the kid is in the government school how much power do you have over what your kid is being taught and by whom and the answer is absolutely none you're paying through the nose and property tax and your kids aren't even being educated that's right and in new jersey they

just came up with a law that you know anybody else would go to jail but um if you show obscene material to a minor that's fine as long as you're a teacher, right? Here's some obscene. If I hire a tutor and the tutor is showing obscene material to my child and saying, don't tell your parents, that person is going to go to jail or worse if you catch them. But, you know, with the government schools, it's OK. That's why I talked about this earlier this week. I said I'm going to call them from here on out. Instead of public schools, I'm going to call them pubic schools because it seems to be all that they're interested in. They're not interested in reading, writing, and arithmetic. They're interested in sexualization of children. And that's really what they have focused on. It's insane that we have to pay for this as well it's not insane from their point of view you know by stupidizing kids by rendering them

cognitive cripples making them illiterate and innumerate and then also uh warping them with all of this depraved stuff what do you end up with well you end up with these screeching emotionally incontinent blue-haired people who are exactly what lennon referred to when he when he called them useful idiots yeah that's right they're useful because they are very vulnerable. You know, they're not able to think clearly. They feel and they react and they erupt and they stamp their feet. And they're exactly the kind of fodder that you need if you want to create an authoritarian police state. Yeah, that's right.

Yeah, you have a good article about the roots of Marxism, the neighborliness of communists. And you've got all these different planks of the Karl Marx, the different goals that he wanted to have. You know, of course, one of them was compulsory state education paid for by taxes and that type of thing. But all these different things that are part of it, that is what they have been able to impose upon us. I've talked to Xi Van Fleet, who grew up in China.

She knows what a struggle session is. She says all of this stuff about anti-racism and all the rest of the stuff, she said that's just a struggle session with a different name, all this woke stuff. It's the same tactics that they've been using for the longest time and the same goals that they have been using for the longest time. Well, they've gotten a little bit more clever, though. If you read Marx and even if you read Lenin, they were rather honest and open about what they intended to do. Lenin spoke of imposing terror and using terror to foment his political ends. And Marx was very direct.

If you read the Communist Manifesto and read the planks of the Communist Manifesto, and it's appalling to anybody who's not out of their minds when they hear and read this stuff. So they don't generally talk about that stuff anymore. They put it in this sort of sitting around the campfire holding hands, kumbaya kind of language. You know, or neighborly. Waltz used that in the campaign. Neighborly. I mean, it's an inversion of reality, and it's a psychological technique.

You know, they want you to think of it in terms of, yeah, I'm just going to go over to my neighbor's house and ask him whether I can borrow something, you know, but you're not being asked. You're having a bayonet shoved in your back and you're being made to hand it over. And it's not even your neighbor per se who's doing it. It's some government thug. You know, that's the kind of neighborliness that they mean. And it's so much of this verbiage. They won't just say, hand over your money. They'll say, we're asking you to pay your fair share. There's no asking.

If you can't say no without repercussions, you're not being asked. You're being told. That's right. That's right. And that's one of the things that we see. You know, you talk about how they used to be more upfront about it. And it was really Antonio Gramsci, the founder of the Italian Communist Party, who said, yeah, we don't want to be upfront about this.

We don't want to have a violent revolution. Let's do it by marching through the institutions. And that was where Pete Boudigie's dad spent his entire career as a college professor at Notre Dame studying the life work of Antonio Gramsci in order to march through the institutions. And then he sends Pete Buttigieg to Harvard where he studied under a guy who loved the Italian communists so much, Sacco and Vanzetti, that he changed his name to Sack Van Berkovich.

And everything that he wrote was saying America based on the principles of the pilgrims and puritanism and that's the problem for all of the you know everything that we have in society is all based on that and we've got to eliminate that and that's really where all of the democrats are coming from now by taking over the institutions very subtly and they have taken them all over and so that's why I think you know if you don't realize that the institutions have been taken over, like the schools especially, that is the most obvious case. The schools, the media, entertainment, we don't realize that those things have been taken over. You know, voting for a president in Washington is completely meaningless.

Yep. Yep. They did it piece by piece. And they began with the government school system. You know, the Franklin School going all the way back to the 20s and the 30s. And infiltrating that had consequences because what they did was they were able to mold the minds of the next generation. And those people ended up going into the corporations and into the media and into law. And it propagates. And that's why now all of a sudden we find ourselves dealing with a company like Anheuser-Busch, you know, having Dylan Mulvaney as their mascot. How did that happen?

Such a thing would have been inconceivable 30 years ago, because the people who are running a major corporation like that, they would have regarded that as sick and alien, you know, whatever their greed headed interests, they wouldn't have done that. But now this rising generation of woke people, you know, with elon musk about a lot of things but he refers to this woke mind virus and he's absolutely correct and it's sort of the latest strain or variant of marxism that's it's just the same thing repackaged yeah well of course the people who are taking over the corporations and everything have been trained in all this in the schools but they're also having a lot of economic pressure put on them by blackrock

and these other corporations to do that very thing and if they're publicly traded corporations they have a great deal of leverage over them if you do what they you know if they like your company uh you can it's basically a license to print money uh but if they don't like your company they can pretty much drive you out of business and so they're more beholden to uh the black rocks than they are to the customers and and so everything is turned upside down with this stuff this this esg stuff that almost nobody knew about until about a year or so ago uh it is what drove akio toyota uh out of the uh the leadership role at toyota notwithstanding that he is the grandson of the founder of the company, because the people on the board wield that kind of power and that they were very interested in pushing this ESG agenda, you know, in the case of Toyota, particularly with regard

to this electric vehicle thing. Accio Toyota was opposed to it. You know, he was one of the few big wig people within the car business who said more than a year ago this is a bad idea this is going to cause massive dislocation even bankruptcy across the industry you know this is not going to work well we shouldn't do this you know and having the audacity to say that and for not toying line and going along he was summarily removed and they installed a more pliable person in his place and of course toyota has understood that um you know, that this is unworkable. It's an unworkable solution. And so they put their engineers into, oh, let's try something else.

Maybe we try fuel cells or something. It's like, no, no, it's got to be tied to the electric grid because that's going to be our control grid. No other solutions are going to be allowed. That's a real tell, just like the vaccine thing was. Well, we got a problem here. Okay, I'll believe your problem. I believe that we've got some kind of mysterious COVID virus out there. But how about if we try this or try that? No, no, you can't try that. You're only going to have this solution. And that's it. That's another tell that it's not a real problem. You know, it's really sad to me as somebody who has a great

emotional attachment to cars and loves the industry to see the damage that has been caused, particularly to Toyota. You know, Toyota has had, and deservedly so, a reputation for building outstanding vehicles for years and outstandingly durable and long-lived engines for years. That's been shattered just recently they had to recall more than 100 000 of their new turbo hybrid v6 engines that have replaced the v8 uh in in the toyota tundra pickup uh because the thing had a catastrophic problem that resulted in catastrophic failure so can you imagine what that has done to toyota's reputation imagine if you bought a brand new 60 000 tund Tundra, brand new. And within a month, the engine, total failure. And you have to have the engine replaced. You know, it's egregious.

Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And they're having problems with the new Tacoma. You know, the Tacoma was one of the best vehicles in that class of vehicle, midsize pickup truck. They got rid of the V6, this bulletproof, you know, that's a 300,000 mile engine. They got rid of it in favor of a turbo hybrid four-cylinder engine and they're having all sorts of problems with the things now yeah yeah there's no market demand for this the market didn't say we don't want to v6 we don't want to v8 we crave

uh tiny turbocharged four-cylinder engines with hybrid systems attached to them there's absolutely nothing driving this other than the pressure to comply with the regulatory regime. That's right. And this has been building for a very long time. You go back and you look at the Toyota Hilux. It was legendary. You've got Top Gear guys, the little Toyota Hilux that they tried everything they could to kill it, and they couldn't kill it. Finally, I think they put it in salt water and left it or something like that and then they hung it from the ceiling of the of the set there but it was

legendary in terms of its ability to keep going but because it had i think it was it was a diesel engine or something like that they wouldn't let that come into the u.s because of the epa the epa yes and now uh this year 2024 toyota brought out a a stripped down version of the hylux called the champ and it has a gas engine and it doesn't pollute nothing's polluted since the 90s if you This year, 2024, Toyota brought out a stripped-down version of the Hilux called the Champ. And it has a gas engine, and it doesn't pollute. Nothing's polluted since the 90s, if you want to get into that topic. But we can't have it. And guess how much a Hilux costs in other markets?

$13,000 to start. What? That's crazy. Yeah, I mean, if people are interested, I've got a couple of articles on the site about that. Yeah, it's designed to be configurable. It's basically the cab, and then the back where the bed would be is whatever you want it to be. Toyota has partnered with a number of aftermarket suppliers. So if you want to make it into a jitney bus, if you want to make it into a food truck,

or if you just want a conventional bed on the back of it, well, you can specify what you want. It's got all the pre-drilled attachment points. It's modular. So it's designed to be able to do all of those different things really easily and really inexpensively. The point is, it's a $13,000 truck. You know, if you looked at the price of a new truck in this country, what we're allowed

to buy, I mean, the least expensive of them are $30,000 and up. Yes. And it's not just the cars. It's the homes. It's the appliances. It's everything that we've got and they are trying to strangle us with every one of these things. I was talking about the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation, TSMC, that's got this big thing that they're bringing into Phoenix, this big factory town that they're bringing in. One of the things they were talking about was the fact that housing in the United States is four to five times the cost of housing in Taiwan.

Why is that? They don't have nice houses there? Well, actually, they do. It's just arbitrary regulations on about everything that raises the cost, and they're doing that to everything that we have to make us artificially poor, to rob us. And they're specifically targeting the rising generation of young people. I came across something that was astounding. I don't know whether you saw this,

but guess what the average age of a first-time homebuyer is in the United States as of 2024? Oh, yeah, I saw that. It was, what, 50-something or something like that? 54. Yeah. I know. The people who are past the age at which most people start raising families. And what are you supposed to do if you're 24, 25, you know, and you want to

get your first house? It's impossible. The average cost of a new single family house in this country, I think, is about $420,000, which means you've got to come up with 10% cash on that. I mean, how many people in their 20s are ever going to be able to do that? So what they're doing, and I think this is part of the maliciousness that I'd like to talk about don't like to talk about it but it's a it's an important thing to talk about is to alienate the young to antagonize and annoy the young

and make them feel that they haven't got a shot they haven't got a chance there's no hope that the government will help you we've got the answer you know Harris did this during the campaign she she tried to bribe young people and say well we'll give you $25,000 in assistance, you know, to get your first home. Well, what would really help, one thing that would help is getting rid of these zoning requirements. You know, in most places in this country, you can't put up a modest size single family home anymore that would be affordable to a first time buyer. You have to put up some gigantic McMansion because the zoning laws specify that the house that you put here has to be essentially similar to the one that's next door and the one that's on the other side.

That's why you see all these cookie cutter neighborhoods with all essentially the same houses everywhere. Yeah. And it goes to the appliances. Look at all the appliances. Oh, you can't have a gas appliance. You can't have this or that. You got to have this electric appliance. And we're going to dictate H and everything that you can have and how it's going to operate. And of course, we've seen this type of thing as well

in the UK. I remember a few years ago, they were talking about how the prices of houses had rapidly gone up very quickly in the UK and priced younger people out of the market completely. And now it's come here. And what typically happens is they kind of use the UK as a test bed. And then it goes from the UK, it goes to California, and then it goes to the rest of America. And so that's really kind of what we're seeing with a lot of this stuff now. They've run this game. They know how to manipulate it so we can't afford anything.

Electricity costs in the UK right now are four to five times the cost of electricity in america and we're about to have an explosion and all that as they're going to build these offshore windmill farms off uh off the coast of long island they're going to the profits that these european companies that are making this wind farm are going to make their profits are going to be somewhere in 50 per megawatt to make, their profits are going to be somewhere in $50 per megawatt hour wholesale. Their profits are going to be something like $50. But the entire cost today off of the existing power structure is in the 30s. And so just their profits alone are going to be that much.

It's going to be four or five times the cost of what people on Long Island are paying right now for electricity, if not more. And so this is the way that we're going to require that you do this. And by the way, speaking of California, you just put up an article about helmet laws. But did you see, and I want to talk about that, but did you see that Newsom has now put up a requirement for electric bikes they're going to have to have like 50 by 2030 or something like that motorcycles you mean yeah yeah motorcycles yeah they're gonna have to have electric motorcycles and it's got to be like 50 by such and such a date and then after that it's going to be eventually it's got to be 100 electric motorcycles

that will get absolutely nowhere and the reason for that is it's one thing to try to push that on car buyers because a lot of car buyers are they view the car as a necessary appliance you know they're not necessarily enthusiast people like you and i are who have an emotional attachment to driving and to cars they just want to get from a to b so you might be able assuming cost isn't an issue to persuade them to drive an electric car maybe people who ride motorcycles and i'm one want to ride a motorcycle uh they don't want to ride something that looks like a motorcycle but isn't one you know and that's what we're talking about here something that doesn't have an engine that doesn't have a transmission because it's electric you know it's just a direct drive so you don't check anything just sit on this thing it's a

scooter it's a fast scooter but that's what a scooter is. It's not going to work. They're not going to be able to sell that to people. Now, they can try to legislate old motorcycles off the road, and I have no doubt they're going to try to do that probably. And they'll do the same with cars, but they're never going to succeed. It's going to put companies like Harley-Davidson out of business, and Harley-Davidson is already almost out of business and Harley Davidson is already almost out of business precisely because they've got this German CEO who's a big time woke dei guy uh and who has completely alienated people from most people from wanting to buy a Harley Davidson motorcycle yeah oh yeah absolutely uh talk about the helmet laws a little bit because that's been uh you got an article that uh says

um why helmet laws are silly and tyrannical. Well, they're silly in the first place because they're arbitrary. You know, we're told, I'm told that I have to wear a helmet in order to be able to legally ride my motorcycle, but I'm able to wear flip-flops. I'm able to wear shorts and a t-shirt if I want to. So I guess my head will look good in my coffin. I mean, if the argument is that, you know, that the thing is about safety, well, it doesn't make any sense.

That's not really a rational position to take. And as far as the tyrannical stuff, I think it sort of explains itself. It's nobody else's business what risks I choose to assume. Of course, the predicate is this socialist argument that, well, if you get into an accident, society will be made to pay the cost but that presumes that society you know that we have this socialist system in which what i choose to do somehow imposes an obligation on you and other people to be responsible for it and that's outrageous you know if i choose to ride a motorcycle and flip-flops in a short and shorts and without a helmet and i wreck well that's on me you know morally and it should be legally it's nobody else's responsibility that i do those things just the same as look i choose to go to the gym and work out and run because i you know, morally, and it should be legally. It's nobody else's responsibility that I do those things. Just the same as, look, I choose to go to the gym and work out and run because I, you know,

I want to try to keep myself in good shape and not die prematurely. But I don't think people who are overweight and who don't exercise should be fined. I mean, we want to have cops walking down the street and if they notice you've got a big gut, they roll up to you and give you a ticket for, you know, imposing costs on society. You can make exactly the same argument. It could happen. You know, they've got religious police in Saudi Arabia and Iran, so we could have obesity police. Why not?

They'd be a source of revenue for them. You know, you point out if you question why we should have to have a license, ask yourself why George Washington did not need a license to operate his horse on the public right of way. And so, yeah, exactly. There's another argument that is interesting. And again, I speak as somebody who's been riding for decades, so I feel I have some standing to say this. And, you know, Dawn and I, when we go out riding,

oftentimes we do a freedom ride and we take our helmets off on the back roads. And I am always amazed by how much my peripheral vision increases when i don't have the stupid helmet on when i have a helmet on i'm sort of blinkered i can see what's ahead of me but in order to see what's on either side of me i have to rotate my head left or right in order to be able to see it whereas i can look straight ahead and have a panoramic view of the road ahead also Also, I can hear things much better because my ears aren't stuffed up by the helmet. And finally, unless you spend a lot of money on an extremely expensive, lightweight helmet, you know, your typical moderately priced helmet, which will cost about 150 bucks or so, you wear that thing for an hour and your neck will start to hurt

because believe it or not, that slight amount of weight that you have added to your head strains your neck. And when your neck is strained and your shoulders are stiff, you're not in as good a position to be a competent and safe rider because that's distracting, as you would be if you were in full command of all your senses. So you can make a very persuasive argument, in my view, that the actual effect of helmets is less safe than the hypothetical benefit of wearing the helmet. That's right. And I've known people, motorcycle riders, I'm not a motorcycle rider myself,

but who said that some of these helmets, they can add weight, and if you don't have something to keep it from going forward, it can snap your neck if you get into a bad accident, too. It can increase the chances of that happening. Sure. And, you know, at the end of the day, the thing I guess I object to the most is this obnoxious, busybody, condescending parent of adults. You know, I'm a grown man. I can make my own decisions. I don't need somebody else trying to hold my hand

like a good little boy or a bad little boy and telling me what I'm allowed to do and what I'm not allowed to do. We should be living in a free country where adults are free to make cost-benefit choices, risk-reward analysis, and be held accountable for that, absolutely, but be left free to make those decisions for themselves. Well, yeah, and we also had all the people out there demanding masks, and you remember what they said, and I just like, are you kidding me? That's your argument? Said, well, we can tell

you to wear a mask because we tell you to wear seatbelts and we tell you to wear motorcycle helmets and all the rest of the stuff. And I said, oh, okay. So my seatbelt protects you. My helmet protects you. That's why I have to wear it. What claim do you have on that? And, of course, my mask doesn't protect you either. If you've been told that, you've believed a lie here.

But that was a kind of insanity it's like well we can and it didn't have anything to do with whether any of the stuff was safe or affected they just had to do well i've got the authority to tell you that you got to wear a helmet i've got the authority to tell you got to wear a seat belt so i can tell you that you got to wear a mask but you know they actually did have a point in that if you accept the the idea the principle that it's legitimate for the government to tell you that you have to have a car with a seatbelt and then you have to wear a seatbelt, well, doesn't everything else follow? It has to be rejected at the root. It's not the government's

business to tell you that you have to buy a car with a seatbelt or wear one. And if you go down that road, then, well, yeah, the government doesn't have any business telling you you have to wear a mask or a helmet or get a jab from some pharmaceutical company either. Yeah. I remember my dad started talking about the license that George Washington didn't even have. My dad started driving a car when he was eight years old, because back then there weren't that many cars, and a lot of it was off-road stuff because they didn't have a lot of roads. And if you could find somebody that was willing to turn their car over to you that was the key thing right if they

could trust you with a car not to wreck it you could drive it and and in my generation I started driving motorboats because we lived in Florida I was driving motorboats when I was eight and then when we went to Virginia to cover a story at one one point we wanted to rent a boat so we could get a better angle of what we were shooting. And I was able to do it because of my age. They had a grandfather clause there. And this is actually even before I became a grandfather. But I was old enough they were calling me a grandfather uh because they knew that people our age had been driving boats for a long time and we're going to put up with this licensing stuff right so they put that requirement on the younger

people to get them in line but they say well if you're over a certain age uh you don't need to have a license to drive a boat it's crazy stuff well the really incredible thing is that it even doesn't even have anything to do with competence as far as driver's license. That's right. It's purely a government-issued ID, and it's another obedience training session. That's all it is. You know, a pilot, at least, who gets a license to fly a private airplane or a commercial airplane actually has to demonstrate that he's got the competence to fly the airplane. Nobody has to demonstrate any particular competence to get a driver's license.

So the whole thing is absurd. You're absolutely right. Talk about Clarkson, Jeremy Clarkson. You got an article there. He's had an interesting life after cars are no more interesting. So now he's doing pubs and he did a farm and all the rest of this stuff, right? But his comment about cars, what did he say? Well, he used an expletive, which we all know.

Yeah. He's right. You know, Clarkson is one of the old guys, the old guard guys, and, you know, I admired him when I was coming up, and also guys like Brock Yates, you might remember from the Cannonball Run days. Oh, yeah. Car and driver. And that was back in the days when car journalists actually liked cars.

It seems like most of the ones that are doing car journalism today actively dislike cars. You know, they cheerlead everything that makes cars unpleasant and unwanted by people who actually do like cars. You know, Clarkson was a gearhead and an enthusiast. And so that clicked and resonated with, you know, guys like me when I was coming up who loved cars. You know, what he meant by the expletive was that they're all just these homogenous appliances now that try to parent you, that try to data mine you, correct you. And anybody who enjoys driving will hate these things. And he's absolutely right. And, you know, me as an active journalist who reviews cars, you can't believe how difficult it is for me sometimes to sit down and come up with something

positive to say about these new cars or at least i should phrase it differently something different like what makes this appliance different than that appliance well let's see this appliance has a nine inch lcd touchscreen and this one over here has a 12 inch touchscreen that's right you said for the longest time it just turned into mobile cell phones that you're right inside of and Rowan Atkinson played Mr. Bean a lot of other things Blackadder he's he's an engineer by trade and became an actor but he's and he's got these very expensive cars and has had them for a long time. And years ago, he said, you don't really drive these cars, you manage them. And that's really one of the things that you're talking about. You go back in the article, you talk about when you're in high school and how the cars had their own idiosyncrasies, their own failures, leaking roofs and rusty floor pans and all the rest of the stuff but it was fun

and and i had the same kind of uh experience we all had that experience you know we could get a cheap car and it was a lot of fun uh even with all those flaws and gave it character yeah you know this brings up something i wrote about a few days ago uh you know volkswagen has acquired the rights to the scout name the old international scout remember that oh yeah and they're bringing they're bringing that thing back now as a as another battery-powered device that's exorbitantly expensive and yada yada yada but in researching the article i came across some interesting comments by the guy who's in charge of this operation uh and he he had the audacity i think to refer to this thing as a connection machine now there's nothing at all in this thing that connects you to anything except sensors and actuators you know they tried to make the interior look like the old

scout in that it has levers and so on but those levers don't connect to anything you know in the old international scout you had a mechanical lever that connected to the four-wheel drive and the transfer case and you know you maybe had to get out and manually lock that was connection rolling down the window that's physical, mechanical connection. Now you sit inside your rolling app and, you know, you tap a screen and you push a button and the computer then, you know, registers whatever the data input is. And then it decides to do something. It is the, it is the antithesis of being connected in my opinion.

Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You're wired and that's it. You know, it's all numbing. It's a real numbing experience. Absolutely is. Always great to talk to you. Thank you so yeah, yeah. You're wired, and that's it. You know, it's numbing. It's a real numbing experience. It absolutely is. Always great to talk to you.

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